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International Journal of Business and Management January, 2010 Quality Improvement in a Global Competitive Marketplace- Success Story from Nigeria IRECHUKWU, Nkechi Eugenia Kigali Institute of Management P. O. Box 2895, Kigali, Rwanda Tel : 250-788-834-116 Abstract E-mail: iremikky@yahoo.com or irenkechi@yahoo.com In today’s global competitive marketplace, the demands of customers are increasing as they require improved quality products and services. This article puts forward a framework
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A Diversity Audit in Mental Health Setting TABLE OF CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Page 3 INTRODUCTION Page 4, 5 BACKGROUND Page 5, 6 LITERATURE REVIEW Page 6, 7, 8, 9 BENEFITS OF MANAGING DIVERSITY
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TQM Outcomes Advocates of TQM are not in complete agreement on the factors that reflect the adoption of a TQM orientation. However, customer satisfaction, continuous improvement, and teamwork frequently are cited as core factors for TQM (Dean & Bowen, 1994; Morrow, 1997). However, Reed and Lemak (1998) expanded this to include empowerment and statistical process control, at the same time recognizing continuous improvement as one of the central TQM doctrines. For employees, a significant aim
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A Diversity Audit in Mental Health Setting Chantell Douglas TABLE OF CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Page 3 INTRODUCTION Page 4, 5 BACKGROUND Page 5, 6 LITERATURE REVIEW Page 6, 7, 8, 9 BENEFITS
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By: Mr. Feyi Oluwaremi (B.Sc, MBA, FCA) Lecturer, Accounting Department Osun State University, Okuku Campus, Osun State. Nigeria, Africa CURRENT BANK CRISIS AND CBN’s INTERVENTIONS In June 2009, Nigerian Central Bank Governor Sanusi Lamido Sanusi took office. He certainly had an intuitive feeling about how deeply distressed his nation's banking sector was. Foreign risk management analysts had been issuing warnings about Nigerian banks and their toxic assets since
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1.0 Introduction to Performance Management The most common view of performance management is that creating a shared vision of the purpose and aims of the organisation. It is about helping the individual employees to understand and recognize their part in contributing to the organisation’s success and thereby managing and improving the performance of both the individuals and the organisation. People must be managed to deliver superior performance that is in alignment with the values of the
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Assessment of Pakistani Construction Industry – Current Performance and the Way Forward Rizwan U. Farooqui and Syed M. Ahmed Department of Construction Management, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, USA Sarosh H. Lodi, Professor and Chairman, Department of Civil Engineering, N.E.D. University of Engineering and Technology, Karachi, Pakistan The Pakistani Construction Industry has always been of economic and social significance to the country. In contrast to the prospective share
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Lesson 3: An introduction to data modeling 3.1 Introduction: The importance of conceptual models same: understand the problem before you start constructing a solution. There are two important things to keep in mind when learning about and doing data modeling: 1. Data modeling is first and foremost a tool for communication.Their is no single “right” model. Instead, a valuable model highlights tricky issues, allows users, designers, and implementors to discuss the issues using the same vocabulary
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© Academy of Management Journal 1996, Vol. 39, No. 3. 519-543. THE RESOURCE-BASED VIEW OF THE FIRM IN TWO ENVIRONMENTS: THE HOLLYWOOD FILM STUDIOS FROM 1936 TO 1965 DANNY MILLER Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales, Montreal, and Columbia University JAMAL SHAMSIE New York University This article continues to operationally define and test the resourcehased view of the firm in a study of the major U.S. film studios from 1936 to 1965. We found that property-hased resources in the form of exclusive
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