SPOTLIGHT ON HBR AT 90 Spotlight About the Spotlight Artist Each month we illustrate our Spotlight package with a series of works from an accomplished artist. We hope that the lively and cerebral creations of these photographers, painters, and installation artists will infuse our pages with additional energy and intelligence to amplify what are often complex and abstract concepts. This month we showcase the “rayographs” of Man Ray, the modernist giant. Born in Philadelphia
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The concepts and relations between efficiency and effectiveness, Lean and sustainability in organisations. Introduction Efficiency and effectiveness are two important, basic parts of work organisation which have a different focus. Challenge is to handle both of them. The question is: Does every organisation concentrates on both concepts? Lean approach is commonly use in a long-term companies focusing on minimizing waste. Sustainability is very comprehensive, holistic and challenging. The aim
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strict and accurate function to serve men. In fact, these methods of working seem so commonplace and so logical to a citizen of the modern world that it is almost impossible to accept that they were revolutionary only 100 years ago by Frederick Winslow Taylor. Taylor began his research to insure that factual scientific knowledge would replace the traditional principle of management known as “rules of thumb” as it was believed to be inefficient in labor productivity. Scientific management was created
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People management could be defined as a concept that relies on change and flexibility over periods of time. Nowadays in this fast-moving world where new technologies and innovations lay in the foreground of the business, management improvements are inevitable – ‘The nature of work and industrial organisation is truly changing with unnerving speed’ ( Kumar,1991,p201, Bradley, 1999). This perception has been a subject of many discussions and analyses and is still very relevant and popular among the
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Management is studied in business academics since earlier times and it is considered as an integral part to understand business operations. People have been changing and redesigning organizations for centuries. Though the 20th century is noticeable in history as an 'Era of scientific management', still it does not indicate that management tactics were not used in yester years. Many studies indicated that Management theory evolved with "scientific" and "bureaucratic" management that used measurement
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Greek bakers in the Italian Bakery, Boston Rodney Everts | From apprentice - master baker - foreman, with 20 years of struggle. Was forced on the old management as part of a racial-equality ruling; endured the daily coldness of the old Greeks, but made his way up through sheer determination and merit. | The change of management was a release; the new national company was less racist in character, and welcomed the technological changes in the bakery | Welcomed most
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Greek bakers in the Italian Bakery, Boston Rodney Everts | From apprentice - master baker - foreman, with 20 years of struggle. Was forced on the old management as part of a racial-equality ruling; endured the daily coldness of the old Greeks, but made his way up through sheer determination and merit. | The change of management was a release; the new national company was less racist in character, and welcomed the technological changes in the bakery | Welcomed most
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1. Audit, bersama dengan kontrol internal dan evaluasi, terdiri dari proses dan mekanisme yang dirancang untuk memastikan bahwa perencanaan, penganggaran dan penggunaan sumber daya publik sudah sesuai dengan hukum suatu negara, sesuai dengan tujuan yang telah ditetapkan oleh parlemen dan pemerintah dan berhubungan dengan prakteknya di dunia nyata. Tanpa mekanisme ini, ada resiko besar bahwa keputusan kebijakan akan didasarkan pada informasi yang cacat, sumber daya akan menjadi salah kelola, dan bahwa
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James Geren PHI 460: Leadership Priorities and Practices Elements of Organizational Management Ann Kitchen June 21, 2010 Elements of Management Organizational management has many different aspects that need to be discussed when trying to understand its complexity. It does not justify the concept of organizational management if you do not include the many different characteristics that make up the whole picture. In this paper I will try to shed some
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A Gestão: Conceito, Funções, níveis ✓ Gestor: ALGUÉM QUE TRABALHE COM E ATRAVÉS DE OUTRAS PESSOAS, COORDENANDO AS SUAS ACTIVIDADES COM VISTA AO CUMPRIMENTO DE OBJECTIVOS ORGANIZACIONAIS. Níveis de Gestão: ( Níveis verticais de Gestão / Níveis do Gestor [pic] Gestor de topo: é responsável pelo conjunto de organização, definindo os objectivos que afectam o conjunto de organização. A este gestor corresponde o nível institucional, onde a gestão se caracteriza fundamentalmente
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