The concepts and relations between efficiency and effectiveness, Lean and sustainability in organisations. Introduction Efficiency and effectiveness are two important, basic parts of work organisation which have a different focus. Challenge is to handle both of them. The question is: Does every organisation concentrates on both concepts? Lean approach is commonly use in a long-term companies focusing on minimizing waste. Sustainability is very comprehensive, holistic and challenging. The aim
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After Lenin’s death, a power struggle ensued that resulted in a shift from collective leadership in the Soviet Union to Josef Stalin emerging and establishing his position as the individual leader of the state. To the majority of the Communist Party this was an improbable development as it was thought Trotsky would succeed Lenin. Trotsky had originally affirmed allegiance to the Mensheviks after the spilt of the social democrats in 1903, nevertheless the outbreak of revolution in 1917 witnessed Trotsky
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Administrative accountability There have been regular attempts at administrative reforms and innovation, both at the Centre and in the States, including starting new institutions and systems in India since 1947. Although the results have been strong on assurances and weak on performance. Thus the results have not been commensurate with our hopes and needs. Further, besides persistence of problems of administration with increasing severity, we have also witnessed in succeeding decades acceleration
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On the 1st February 2003, a critical systems failure on the space shuttle Columbia on its re-entry to the earth’s atmosphere. This caused the disintegration of the shuttle leading to the death of all seven crew members. 1. Describe NASA's apparent approach to risk management after Challenger but before Columbia. On January 28, 1986, the space shuttle Challenger broke apart in 76 seconds after launch, killing all of its 7 crew members. On the day of launch engineers were concerned that
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contract for a large municipal building, despite the contractors’ lack of experience. Or a grand extorted bribe might be having a high-level construction ministry official threaten to condemn the building unless a large bribe is paid. Each of these cases causes
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Verified Tuitor FIN 6644 GLOBAL BANKING CRISIS DR. KRISHNAN DANDAPANI 06 – 07 – 2011 GLOBAL BANKING CRISIS Identify the lessons learned from the prior global banking crisis? There were different reasons responsible for the Financial Banking Crisis pertaining to different countries. In Argentina for example, it was due to the fact that financial institutions were forced to rely heavily on Central Bank financial assistance when they encountered deposit withdrawals; In Asia, it began
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Before Ghosh joined Appex, the company was entrepreneurial, technology-driven, and loosely structured. The company was at its start-up stage, few business procedures had been defined as they were considered as unnecessary given the relatively small size of the company. As well people had particular expertise but everybody did anything because nobody had any sense of what their job description was. This is a very typical structure for those small companies in the starting up stage. Advantage is that
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Roman fell, it can be considered a partial continuation of Rome. The Byzantine Empire kept most of the characteristics of the Roman Empire’s government with some slight modifications. It had a system of aristocracy (few people hold power) and bureaucracy (state officials that make important decisions, they aren’t elected). At the head of the government was the Emperor, just like in the Roman Empire, and beneath him were a multitude of officials and court officers. They helped the emperor administrate
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Background: In 1979 the Sandinistas seized power through a revolution in Nicaragua. With the fear of spearing socialism in Latin America, the Reagan Administration back contras who sought to overthrow the regime. Power also changed in 1979 Iran when a radical Islamic movement overthrew the US backed government. Iran-Contra Affair: The Iran-Contra Affair was one of the most complicated political scandals in US history. At the time, Iran had been in a lengthy war with Iraq and was in desperate need
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As per The Globe and Mail Published Friday, May 23, 2014 10:25AM EDT New chief executive officer of Rogers Communications Inc. As of December 2013 Guy Laurence CEO Resetting company’s management structure. Fix customer service issues **** poor customer service to be improved by unraveling a tangled mess of corporate structures and separating consumer concerns from business priorities. Reignite growth. Restructuring will make Rogers more agile (quote: Guy Laurence) High level executives
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