Online 10 (3) 2013 (http://www.thescipub.com/ajas.toc) RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT PRACTICES AND CONTRACTORS COMPETITIVENESS 1 Faihan Alotaibi, 1Rushami Zien Yusoff and 2Rabiul Islam School of Business Management, School of Economics, Finance and Banking, College of Business, University Utara Malaysia, 06010, Kedah, Malaysia 2 1 Received 2013-04-05, Revised 2013-04-15; Accepted 2013-04-17 ABSTRACT Total quality management is basically about continuous organizational success
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2013, 3, 229-236 http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/ajibm.2013.32028 Published Online April 2013 (http://www.scirp.org/journal/ajibm) 229 Organizational Structure: Influencing Factors and Impact on a Firm Quangyen Tran1,2, Yezhuang Tian1 School of Management, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China; 2National Economics University, Hanoi, Vietnam. Email: yentq@neu.edu.vn Received November 3rd, 2012; revised December 17th, 2012; accepted January 18th, 2013 Copyright © 2013 Quangyen Tran, Yezhuang
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organizing and leading. These functions can be affected by the internal and external factors n a business environment. The external forces that affect the functions of a business include sociological, political, economical and technological (Montana & Charnov, 2000) External factors: Sociological: Includes; the demographic status and trends, work ethics and personal values, and general cultures. (pg, 566.) This factors influences differently on how management accomplishes its jobs. The social environment
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Plan, Part II: SWOTT Analysis Rich Bucceri BUS 475 May 28, 2012 Sarita Wesley Intro Utilizing SWOTT analysis for the Bucceri Insurance and Financial Services organization this paper will discuss internal and external factors to identify the right steps for the business to take to help be successful. SWOTT analysis will help guide upper management decide on what steps the business should take. Through a thorough SWOTT analysis we will look at the external and internal
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International Journal of Business and Social Science Vol. 2 No. 16; September 2011 GRADUATES’ CHARACTERISTICS AND UNEMPLOYMENT: A STUDY AMONG MALAYSIAN GRADUATES Associate Professor Dr. Noor Azina Ismail Department of Applied Statistics Faculty of Economics and Administration University of Malaya 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia E-mail: nazina@um.edu.my, Phone: +603 79673638 Abstract The main objective of this paper is to investigate the effects of graduates’ characteristics on the chance of being employed
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that can, with good chance, effectively lead to the commercialization of the new prod-uct or service in the marketplace with a sustainable competitive advantage. ■ C H A P T E R 1 Economic Growth and the Technology Entrepreneur There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction. John F. Kennedy |||||What drives
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technique-Varimax Rotated Factor Analysis. The study has found that the size of debt market of Bangladesh is very low as compared to other SAARC Countries; has huge growth potentiality; and identified important impediments to the growth and development of Bond Market in Bangladesh such as risk and return factor, liquidity and government policy factor, issue management factor, investment policy factor, macro economic and regulatory factor, and market & issue related factor. The study has suggested
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Republic of the Philippines UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHEASTERN PHILIPPINES COLLEGE OF GOVERNANCE AND BUSINESS B.O. Obrero, Davao City EXPLORATORY FACTOR ANALYSIS ON GANGSTERISM _________________________ In Partial Fulfilment of the Requirement for the Subject Data Analysis for Administrators _________________________ SHERWIN S. FORTUGALIZA September 2015 A total of two hundred sixty three (263) secondary students of Davao City National High
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the key trends likely to affect Elecdyne over the next 5 years (these can be different / additional to those identified by the futurologist) • Economic crisis: Even if Japan is not affected like Europe, the government had launch a stimulative policy in order to improve the current situation. Many Japanese companies are impacted by this general economic conditions. • Sustainability: Companies such as Elecdyne have to take care of the public opinion about ecology which is requiring more and more
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percent was used to generate heat (“Coal” 18). West Virginia mines a large portion of the countries coal every year and in order to keep up the high demand, most of the state workforce is employed by the coalmines. The West Virginia coalmines are the economic backbone for the state. There are a couple of key elements that make the coal mines so prosperous. First, West Virginia is sitting on billions of mineable tons of coal (“Coal” 18). Next, only a rudimentary amount of education is required to work
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