Human Resource Management Review 18 (2008) 87–99 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Human Resource Management Review j o u r n a l h o m e p a g e : w w w. e l s ev i e r. c o m / l o c a t e / h u m r e s Job analysis for a changing workplace Parbudyal Singh ⁎,1 School of Administrative Studies, York University, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M3J 1P3 a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Job analysis sits at the heart of all human resource practices, making
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Chapter 1 Introduction to Strategy * Strategy: Theory of how to gain competitive advantages. (How competition is going to evolve, and how that evolution can be exploited for competitive advantage.) Based on knowledge of the marketplace and based on the firm’s capabilities and resources. a) Being different from your rivals b) Creating value while containing costs c) Deciding what to do and what NOT to do d) Combining activities to land in a unique market position
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Time-and-motion studies - work tasks are broken down into simple movements. Scientific management, a movement started by Taylor, was a method of using scientific principlesto improve the efficiency and productivity of jobs. Drawbacks of Taylor’s philosophy: - Complex jobs, demanding sophisticated skills. - Fewer and fewer people are engaged in physical labor. - For some jobs there is no “one best method”. The Great Depression Years and World War II. Studies at the Western Electric Company in
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Gujarat Technological University MBA Semester - IV Syllabus for MBA Programme effective from the Academic Year 2009-10 onwards The course curriculum and syllabus for MBA of Gujarat Technological University are devised considering the norms of AICTE/UGC. While preparing the syllabus, the syllabi of different national level universities/institutions have been taken into account. This syllabus has endeavoured to strike a balance between theory and practice and classic and contemporary concepts. The
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Q.1) Explain briefly features of an IDEAL management control system? Management control is a process of assuming that resources are obtained and used effectively and efficiently in the accomplishment of the organization’s objectives. It is a fundamental necessity for the success of a business and hence from time to time the current performance of the various operations is compared to a predetermined standard or ideal performance and in case of variance remedial measures are adopted to confirm
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GODDY OSA1 & IDOWU OLUWAFEMI AMOS2 1,2 Department of Sociology, Nigeria Police Academy, Wudil, Kano, Nigeria ABSTRACT The need for this study arose from the acknowledgement of organizational commitment on employee productivity as the most critical in all organizational analyses, and the determinant often found between goals of the organizational all the needs of employee within it, therefore, necessary to empirically study how the impact of organizational commitment on employee are coping
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P RO D U K T I O N This article was originally printed in The International Journal of Logistics volume 14, number 2, copyright 2003. Distributed by Emerald. Reprinted with permission. The manufacturing flow management process Manufacturing flow management is the supply chain management process that includes all activities necessary to move products through the plants and to obtain, implement, and manage manufacturing flexibility in the supply chain. Manufacturing flexibility reflects the
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Accordingly, it opens up opportunities, which can favour business activities as well as challenges created by intensive competitions in new business environment. One of the issues that are the most concern is how the entrepreneur pursues the appropriate strategies to lead the organizations to overcome these challenges and create great competitive advantages. Particularly, Vietnam Dairy Joint Stock Company (officially called Vinamilk) and Hoang Anh Gia Lai Group (HAGL Group) are typical examples of successful
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The Uses and Abuses of Agency Theory in Business Ethics The spectacular corporate scandals and bankruptcies of the past decade have served as a powerful reminder of the risks that are involved in the ownership of enterprise. Unlike other patrons of the firm, owners are residual claimants on its earnings.1 As a result, they have no explicit contract to protect their interests, but rely instead upon formal control of the decision-making apparatus of the firm in order to ensure that their interests
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Business Management HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT www.iibmindia.in Subject: HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT Credits: 4 SYLLABUS Introduction to Human Resource Management Introduction: Nature, Philosophy, Need, Objectives and Evolution of Human Resources Management; HRM Functions; HRD Concept; HRD Strategy; HR Responsibilities; Environmental Factors of HRM: Environmental Factors, Challenges to HRM. Concepts and Process of Human Resource Planning Human Resource Planning: Importance, Process, Barriers;
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