This essay critically examines leadership style and change management strategy in relation to a particular change in clinical practice. The change made in practice was a move from open access at well baby clinic to an appointment system. The effectiveness of the leader will be demonstrated by focusing on the change process, applying leadership theory to the change and its implementation in practice. This essay also identifies implications for practice and developmental needs for the author, the team
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fianagemenr conrrol is a critical function o In Aplil 2005, employees at the 75-year-old California-based not-for'-proirt Gemological Institute of America (GIA), the world's largest grader of diamonds, were accused of accepting bribes fi'om large diamond dealers to inflate diarnond grades. Large diamond can lead to large financial losses, r'eputation damage, and possibly even to organizational failure. Here are some recent examples: IYlfaitures dealers rvouid submit proportionally high
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inefficiencies of - Chaebol system of management, possible clash of its cargo business with its own shipping company, limited focus on the domestic market and growing competition from LCCs. How would Korean Air manage growth as a family-owned conglomerate? The case offers enriching scope for analysing a family business’s turnaround strategies, with all the legacy costs involved. Pedagogical Objectives • To discuss the (operational) dynamics of Korean Chaebols - their influence/ effects on the country’s industrial
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treaty practice – custom – general principles of law – judicial decisions and writings of publicists – ‘hard law’ and ‘soft law’. 8 states What is a State? – rights of States – self-determination – creation and recognition of new States – case studies. AUTHOR NOTE: Jane Stratton currently leads corporate social responsibility programs in a leading Sydney law firm, teaches law students at a Sydney university and independently, undertakes community development projects in Western Sydney
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Subir Bhowmick waited outside the office of R.K. Krishna Kumar, managing director and head of the Taj Hotel Group. Bhowmick wanted to ask Krishna Kumar to reexamine what the company was trying to accomplish by assigning a particular manager to run the Taj Kumarakom, a smaller property in a highly competitive market. Since assuming management responsibility for the Taj Group in 1997, Krishna Kumar had introduced many changes, the most conspicuous being a new performance management system that
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Outline The overall objective of this research paper is to identify and address those aspects of alcoholism, which contribute to it as a medical disease. True, alcoholism has many ramifications for society as well as the economy, but the focus of this paper shall be, for the most part, on the medical aspects. In the way of background, alcoholism refers to the drinking of alcoholic beverages to such a degree that major aspects of the individual’s life -such as work, school, family relationships or
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ASA University Review, Vol. 4 No. 1, January–June, 2010 Measuring Service Quality: A Comparative Analysis Between Standard Chartered Bank and Dhaka Bank Mohd. Takdir Hossan* Abstract This study compares the quality of services provided by Standard Chartered Bank and Dhaka Bank Ltd in Bangladesh. The premise of the paper is that the quality of bank’s services would be contingent on the incentive structure under which these institutions operate. Since banks are not subsidized and depend on income
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The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State
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VOLUME EDITOR S. WALLER is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Montana State University Bozeman. Her areas of research are philosophy of neurology, philosophy of cognitive ethology (especially dolphins, wolves, and coyotes), and philosophy of mind, specifically the parts of the mind we disavow. SERIES EDITOR FRITZ ALLHOFF is an Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department at Western Michigan University, as well as a Senior Research Fellow at the Australian National University’s Centre
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