APPROACHES TO MANAGEMENT Dr.M. Thenmozhi Professor Department of Management Studies Indian Institute of Technology Madras Chennai 600 036 E-mail: mtm@iitm.ac.in APPROACHES TO MANAGEMENT 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) 6) 7) 8) 9) Empirical Approach Human Behaviour Approach Social System Approach Decision Theory Approach Mathematical Approach Socio-Technical Systems Approach Systems Approach Contingency Approach Operational Approach REASONS & PROBLEMS 1) Semantic problems in management literature. 2)
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AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY-BANGLADESH Operations Management ------------------------------------------------- Course Outline Course Code : BBA-3115 Credit Hours : 3 Pre–requisite Course : MAT-2103 Semester : Spring 2013-14 Lecturer : Ziarat H. Khan, Assistant Professor – Faculty of Business Administration Section : C & E Course Objective : This course addresses the management of operations in manufacturing and service organizations. Diverse activities, such as determining
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D GE · r & Fr a nci s G ro Risk factors in enterprise-wide/ERP projects M ARY SUM NER School of Business, Southern Illinois University, Campus Box 1106, Edwardsville, IL 62026, USA The purpose of this study was to identify the risk factors in implementing traditional management information systems projects, describe the risk factors associated with enterprise-wide/ERP (enterprise resource planning) projects and identify the risk factors in ERP projects which are unique to these projects
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University of Lund, Sweden Abstract This article examines ways of constructing research questions from existing literature, which are likely to promote the development of interesting and influential theories. We review 52 articles in organization studies and develop a typology of how researchers construct their research questions from existing literature.The most common way across paradigmatic camps is to spot various ‘gaps’ in the literature and, based on that, to formulate specific research questions
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Shelby County Clinic: A Case Study Rebecca manages a Shelby County clinic in Memphis, Tennessee. The clinic serves the local Medicaid population. The clinic’s budget was cut by 15%. Rebecca must determine what clinical services can be eliminated or introduced to best address the healthcare needs of the patients. In order to make the best decision for the clinic and the patients, Rebecca will use the Informed Decisions Toolbox (IDT) (Arroyo et al, 2007). Following is a case study of Rebecca’s decision
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9690010114 Yogendera sharma CONTRIBUTED PAPERS A41, Thursday, December 28, 4:00-5:30 P.M. Session: Case Studies - I Session Chair: Prashant Kulkarni Institute of Finance and International Ma 418 Global Marketing and Challenges for Future: Franchising in Banks K. Ravichandran, Gandhigram Rural University, drkravichandran@yahoo.co.in R. Muruganandham, Sudharsana Raamanujan, R, P. Nandakumar, M. Sasi Siddharth Thiagarajar College of Engineering, vr_muruganandham@hotmail
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Institute for IT, is to enable the information society. We promote wider social and economic progress through the advancement of information technology science and practice. We bring together industry, academics, practitioners and government to share knowledge, promote new thinking, inform the design of new curricula, shape public policy and inform the public. Our vision is to be a world-class organisation for IT. Our 70,000 strong membership includes practitioners, businesses, academics and students in
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Professor – Interdisciplinary Design Programme and Industrial Management Engineering Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur 208016, India Email: jayanta@iitk.ac.in jayanta.chatterjee@gmail.com Phone: 91-512-2597858, 91-512-2597376 (O) Mobile: +91-9648117755 Jayanta Chatterjee “To learn, research, teach and consult in my competence areas, to evolve as a person and share my ken to make a difference through creative Innovation” Core Competence • • Research Interest • • Innovation in socio-technical
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HR587 Weeks 3 and 5 Assignments * Write a 2-3 page analysis on the change management concept as it applies to an organization or a case study of choice from the text. * Use the numbered items for each assignment as main headings. The lettered items may be used as subheadings. This approach will help insure assignment criteria are included. Week 3 Assignment: Images Paper The Images paper focuses on the six different images of managing change. These images of change represent
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of data mining techniques for detection of asset misappropriation, starting from unsupervised data. In this study, procurement fraud stands as an example of asset misappropriation. Data are provided by an international service-sector company. After mapping out the purchasing process, ’hot spots’ are identified, resulting in a series of known frauds and unknown frauds as object of the study. 1 Introduction Fraud is a million dollar business and it is increasing every year. ”45% of companies
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