OCTOBER 29, 2002 DOROTHY LEONARD DAVID KIRON Managing Knowledge and Learning at NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) Downsizing at NASA over the last decade through attrition and buyouts has resulted in an imbalance in NASA’s skill mix.1 — The President’s Management Agenda, Fiscal Year 2002 By the end of this decade, many of the most experienced scientists and engineers at NASA and JPL are going to retire. If we don’t have systems in place to retain more of what they know, our institution
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Contents INTRODUCTION .......................................................................................................................... 2 Control environment and control activities..................................................................................... 3 Framework for Strategic Human Resources Management ............................................................. 3 Regulatory and Compliance ..............................................................................
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was not what Parliament had in mind when the Income Tax Act 1952 was passed. The statute was badly worded. The blame for this must lie with the parliamentary draftsmen. At the same time, however, it must be realised that they have a near impossible task. Skilled lawyers though these draftsmen are, they cannot possibly foresee every interpretation of the statutes they prepare. Once the statute has become law, every lawyer in the land might be looking for an interpretation which would suit his or her
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Main Street Recreation Center Charity Dinner Jones & Associates, Ltd. The scope statement is an agreement among the project team, the project sponsor and key stakeholders. It represents a common understanding of the project for the purpose of facilitating communication among the stakeholders and for setting authorities and limits for the project manager and team. The scope statement includes relating the project to business objectives, and defining the boundaries of the project in multiple
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A PROJECT ON “BRAND LG” [pic] Presented By: Gurjit Singh – 3022 Heman Makwana – 3023 G. Kalaiarasan – 3025 Kalpana Patel – 3026 Acknowledgement We would like to thank Prof Sohan Mahanty for providing us with such an important and challenging opportunity of preparing a project report on Branding which has enabled us to learn a lot about the Branding strategies, LG’s product innovations and marketing tactics for the Indian market. It is a matter of great pleasure
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approach to defining, organizing, planning, monitoring, and controlling projects. Project is an interrelated set of tasks Define and org projects: scope, manager/team [fsd/tsd], org structure [func, pure, matrix] Project planning [5 steps]: wbs, n/w, schedule, cost-time trade-offs, risks Scheduling: [----, -, |], path [sequence], ES [max EF], LF [min LS], gantt chart [proj. schedule, Est. St and finish and precedence relations] Cost-time trade-offs: finish early [more workers] but costs inc, indirect
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News Corporation is the world’s second largest media conglomerate founded by Chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch. The company conducts business worldwide with operations primarily in the United States, the United Kingdom, Continental Europe, Australia, Asia and Latin America. News Corp has operations in eight industry segments which are filmed entertainment, television, cable network programming, direct broadcast satellite television, integrated marketing services, newspapers and information services
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Economic Analysis Good management consists primarily of making wise decisions; wise decisions in turn involve making a choice between alternatives. Engineering considerations determine the possibility of a project being carried out and point out the alternative ways in which the project could be handled. Economic considerations also largely determine a project's desirability and dictate how it should be carried out. A feasibility study determines either which or the whether of the proposed project:
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Table of Contents Acknowledgement 2 Table of Contents 3 Executive Summary 4 HR Scorecard – The Birth 5 HR Scorecard 6 Indicators of HR Scorecard 8 Balanced Scorecard 10 Relation between HR Scorecard & Balance Scorecard 11 Designing HR Scorecard 12 The Implementation 14 Sample HR Scorecard 15 Primary Research Industry Example: The Taj Group 16 Industry Example: NTPC 17 Pros & Cons 18 Conclusion 19 References 20 Executive Summary This project is based
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Leader style approach: Technosoft Russia Global Co. – HQ in USA * European HQ – Amsterdam – Europe / Africa / Middle East * East European HQ – Vienna – Poland / Czech Rep. / Hungary / etc. * 1993 – opened rep office in St. Petersburg - Ukraine / Byelorussia / Kazakhstan * Did well * By 2002 – 80 staff (35% temporary employees) * Responsible for business development in Russia / Ukraine / Byelorussia / Kazakhstan Products * Software / hardware for business
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