The significance and future of scientific management 1. Introduction More than a hundred years from the first publication of “ the principles of scientific management” by Frederick W. Taylor, the founder of scientific management, came into the public (Evans and Holmes, 2013). According to Hales (2013), scientific management was defined as a broader adaptation and extension of Taylor’s principles publicized by his followers. These Principles could be described into mainly three parts. Firstly, there
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implementation of strategic management on farm firms. The aim of strategic management in agriculture, formulation and implementation of the long-term farm strategy and the functioning of research, consultancy and learning are the key issues addressed in the article Correspondent author: Mogens Lund, Danish Research Institute of Food Economics, Rolighedsvej 25, 1958 Frederiksberg (Copenhagen), Denmark. Email: mogens@foi.dk JEL Classification codes: Q12 & Q16 Keywords: Strategic management, farm firms, strategy
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Journal of Financial Economics 61 (2001) 000-000 The theory and practice of corporate finance: Evidence from the field John R. Grahama, Campbell R. Harveya,b,* aFuqua School of Business, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA bNational Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA 02912, USA (Received 2 August 1999; final version received 10 December 1999) Abstract We survey 392 CFOs about the cost of capital
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LIR 858 Alsadeg 1 Hussain Alsadeg Labor Relations Practice in Business and Employee Involvement The Industrial Relations approach to managing the employee/employer relationship has been losing the battle against the Personnel Management school practices. Most integral to the recent personnel management approaches is Employee Involvement. “Fifty-two percent of employees in the Workplace Representation and Participation Survey reported that some form of employee participation program operates
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Californiaat Irvine Accounting for accounting demands renewed attention to the knowledge practices of the accounting profession and anthropological analysis. Using data and theory from Islamic accountancy in Indonesia and the global network of Islamic financial engineers, this article challenges work on accounting's rhetorical functions by attending to the inherent reflexivity of accounting practice and the practice of accounting for accounting. Such a move is necessary because critical accounting
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Ph.D. Research Proposal Area of Research: Human Resources GREEN HUMAN RESOURCEMANAGEMENT PRACTICES IN ANKLESHWAR CHEMICAL FACTORIES Table of Contents Page No. CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION………………………………………………..03 1.1 What is Green?............................................................................................. .04 1.2 What is Green HRM?.................................................................................. .04 1.3 Why HR?............................
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Content 1.0 Introduction 3 2.0 Theories on leadership and motivation 3 2.1 leadership 3 2.2 motivation 4 3.0 analyzing the virgin case 4 4.0 conclusion 4 Reference 5 1.0 Introduction There are several praenomen will affect on individual perform when they were in the work. And in this paper I will focus on leadership and motivation. Moreover, personal perform in the workplace will be affect on leadership and motivation which
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THE IMPACT OF PENSION SECTOR REFORMS ON THE FINANCIAL VIABILITY OF PENSION PLANS IN KENYA By Akwimbi Ambaka William March 12, 2011 Department of Business Administration, School of Business, University of Nairobi, Kenya Electronic copy available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1784297 TABLE OF CONTENTS Declaration List of Tables List of Figures Appendices Abbreviation CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION 1.0. 1.1. 1.2. 1.3. 1.4. 1.5. 1.6. Background of the Study The Conceptual Basis of Social Security
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University of Wollongong Research Online Faculty of Business - Accounting & Finance Working Papers 2006 Faculty of Business The Critique of Accounting Theory M. Gaffikin University of Wollongong, gaffikin@uow.edu.au Publication Details This working paper was originally published as Gaffikin, M, The Critique of Accounting Theory, Accounting & Finance Working Paper 06/25, School of Accounting & Finance, University of Wollongong, 2006. Research Online is the open access institutional
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