MCI Communications Corporation FOUNDED: 1968 Contact Information: HEADQUARTERS: 1801 Pennsylvania Ave. Washington, DC 20006 PHONE: (202)872-1600 FAX: (202)887-3140 URL: http://www.mci.com OVERVIEW MCI is the second-largest long-distance provider in the United States after AT&T. It is a leader and innovator in the telecommunications industry. MCI was instrumental in forging an opening in that industry for companies to compete with AT&T. It continued in the late 1990s to lead all
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Officer. 1.3 The two major uses of managerial accounting information are (1) information for managerial decision making (for example, make-or-buy decisions, store closure decisions, capital investment decisions), and (2) information for managerial control and performance evaluation (for example, budgeting, comparing actual performance with norms or standards). The first use, which is the focus of Part II of this book, usually requires special purpose reports that estimate how revenues, costs, and
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Organizational Behavior An Evidence-Based Approach Twelfth Edition Fred Luthans George Holmes Distinguished Professor of Management, University of Nebraska Me Graw Hill Boston Burr Ridge, IL Dubuque, IA Madison, Wl New York San Francisco St. Louis Bangkok Bogota Caracas Kuala Lumpur Lisbon London Madrid Mexico City Milan Montreal New Delhi Santiago Seoul Singapore Sydney Taipei Toronto Contents About the Author Preface v PART ONE ENVIRONMENTAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT Evidence-Based Consulting
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CHAPTER 11 - LEADERSHIP AND TRUST LEARNING OUTCOMES After reading this chapter, students should be able to: 1. Define the term “leader” and explain the difference between managers and leaders. 2. Summarize the conclusions of trait theories of leadership. 3. Describe the Fiedler contingency model. 4. Summarize the path-goal model of leadership. 5. Explain situational leadership. 6. Identify the qualities that characterize charismatic leaders. 7. Describe the skills that visionary leaders
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Fighting the Social Media Wildfire: How Crisis Communication Must Adapt to Prevent from Fanning the Flames (Under the direction of Dr. Lois Boynton) When a nine-month correspondence seeking reparations for musical instruments damaged by United Airlines employees stalemated, Canadian musician Dave Carroll took action online. Utilizing the video-sharing Web site YouTube, Carroll narrated his ordeal went viral generating a torrent of negative YouTube comments about United, commentary from the mainstream
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satisfaction in the airline industry: A comparative study of Malaysia Airlines and Air Asia Kee Mun, Wong* and Ghazali, Musa Faculty of Business and Accountancy, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Accepted 23 March, 2011 Brand is crucial in differentiating the superiority of products or services over others. This is an exploratory study examining the differences in brand satisfaction between Malaysian Airlines (full service airlines) and Air Asia (low cost airlines) in Malaysia.
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Orchid International College Sinamangal, Kathmandu Sub: ITC 220 Web Technology Lab Sheet Submitted by: Name: Bikram Khyaju Roll No:5 Submitted to: Ravi Kr.Sing College: Orchid International College HTML PROJECT TITLE: WEL-COME TO BHAKTAPUR Index.html <html> <head> <title>homepage</title> </head> <body bgcolor="#f2d3a2"> <image style="float:right" src="images/ORCHID LOGO.jpg" width="10%" height="10%"> <center> <font color="blue"
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Organizational Behavior An Evidence-Based Approach Twelfth Edition Fred Luthans George Holmes Distinguished Professor of Management, University of Nebraska Me Graw Hill Boston Burr Ridge, IL Dubuque, IA Madison, Wl New York San Francisco St. Louis Bangkok Bogota Caracas Kuala Lumpur Lisbon London Madrid Mexico City Milan Montreal New Delhi Santiago Seoul Singapore Sydney Taipei Toronto Contents About the Author Preface v PART ONE ENVIRONMENTAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT Evidence-Based
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Achieving and Maintaining Strategic Competitiveness in the 21st Century: The Role of Strategic Leadership Author(s): R. Duane Ireland and Michael A. Hitt Source: The Academy of Management Executive (1993-2005), Vol. 19, No. 4, Classic Articles from AME (Nov., 2005), pp. 63-77 Published by: Academy of Management Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4166206 Accessed: 10-05-2015 07:37 UTC REFERENCES Linked references are available on JSTOR for this article: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4166206
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ideas to previously established practices. To generate discussion of the current relevance of students’ understanding management history. Design/methodology/approach – A review of representative classic theorists with an eye toward matching their behavior to that of current newsmakers. This is presented in a model to insure that like areas are compared. Findings – The past is in the present. Although we may live in the day of “enlightened” “collaborative” management; there are still successful
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