[pic] Management Accounting and Decisions 3 (P13414) MODULE OUTLINE Semester 1 Year 2013/2014 Teaching Staff: |Staff |Room |Telephone |Email | |Andrew Edwards |AB479 |88180513 |andrew.edwards@nottingham.edu.cn | |Anna Du |AB482 |88182467
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Studies Center of Nursing CONTEMPORARY THEORIES OF LEADERSHIP There has been much research compiled that compares the differences of the classic theories of leadership and management versus contemporary style of leadership and management. Both styles have been found to have their unique advantages, depending on the type of organization the theories are being utilized in. In this paper, I will be discussing the key variables needed in a leadership theory to effectively lead and manage others. I
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Agency Theory: A brief Review by N. Waweru The agency theory assumes that there exists a contractual relationship between members of a firm. It recognises the existence of two groups of people; principals or superiors and agents or subordinates. The principals will delegate decision making authority to the agents and expect them to perform certain functions in return for a reward. Both the principals and the agents are assumed to be rational economic persons motivated solely by self-interest but
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research advancements in supply chain risk management Ou Tang a,c, S. Nurmaya Musa a,b,n a Department of Management and Engineering, Link¨ping University, SE-581 83 Link¨ping, Sweden o o Department of Engineering Design and Manufacture, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia c School of Economics & Management, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, PR China b a r t i c l e in fo Available online 3 July 2010 Keywords: Supply chain Risk management Citation/co-citation analysis abstract
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Jamaliand Mirshak (2007), the fundamental idea of CSR is that business organizations would have an obligation to fulfil the needs of various organizational stakeholders (Waddock, Bodwell, & Graves, 2002) Corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices or initiatives have been performed by many corporations, particularly as a large number of researchers have demonstrated the benefits of being socially responsible (Berens, van Riel, & van Bruggen, 2005; Luo & Bhattacharya, 2006; Nan & Heo, 2007;
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been defined in various ways. According to one commonly accepted definition. "Accounting is the art of recording, classifying and summarising in a significant manner and in terms of money, transactions and events which are; in part at least, of financial character and interpreting the results thereof'. Another definition which is less restrictive interprets accounting as "The process of identifying, measuring and communicating economic information to permit informed judgements and decisions by the
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SCHOOL OF ACCOUNTANCY COLLEGE OF BUSINESS BKAM3033 ADVANCED MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING SECOND SEMESTER 2014/2015 (A142) GROUP E GROUP PROJECT TITLE: HUMAN RESOURCE ACTIVITIES IN UNIUTAMA PROPERTY SDN BHD (UPSB) PREPARED FOR: DR HASNAN AHMED PREPARED BY: NAME | MATRIC NO. | MOHAMAD AMIRUL BIN AHMAD ROSLAN | 222191 | SUBITHA VELAYUTHAM | 225322 | LEONG CHAI HUA | 226152 | YEOH CHOOI CHYI | 226156 | POOGANESWARY KESAVAN | 226298 | SUBMISSION DATE: 5TH MAY
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INTRODUCTION TO ETHICS WHAT IS ETHICS Ethics is a major branch of philosophy, encompassing right conduct and good life. It is significantly broader than the common conception of analyzing right and wrong. A central aspect of ethics is "the good life", the life worth living or life that is simply satisfying, which is held by many philosophers to be more important than moral conduct. Simply put, ethics involves learning what is right or wrong, and then doing the right thing -- but "the right thing"
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Int. J. Financial Services Management, Vol. 3, No. 1, 2008 111 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1011 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 2011 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 30 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 40 1 2 3 4 5 6 711 8 65 Restoring reputation and repairing legitimacy: a case study of impression management in response to a major risk event at Allied Irish Banks plc Philip Linsley* The York Management School, University of York, Heslington, York, YO10 5DD, UK E-mail: pl521@york.ac.uk *Corresponding author Peter Kajüter University of Münster
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“Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.” The management role is ‘getting things done by other people’ (Parker Follet, 1941) So management can be described as ‘the process of optimizing human, material and financial contributions or the achievement of organizational goals’. (Pearce and Robinson, 1989) At first glance a manager’s role is to organise, supervise and control people so that there is a productive outcome to work. The managers role
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