(Edvinsson & Malone, 1997), where tacit knowledge residing within workers is the chief asset of the organization, it has become imperative to retain KWs and ensure their continued commitment to the organization. Davenport et al. (2002) observe that companies cannot risk alienating the KW. However, there has been little attention directed at alienation of KWs in contemporary management research, even though Drucker hinted at their potential alienation very early on, as the opening quote suggests. Alienation
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www.hbr.org We all have the capacity to inspire and empower others. But we must first be willing to devote ourselves to our personal growth and development as leaders. Discovering Your Authentic Leadership by Bill George, Peter Sims, Andrew N. McLean, and Diana Mayer Reprint R0702H We all have the capacity to inspire and empower others. But we must first be willing to devote ourselves to our personal growth and development as leaders. Discovering Your Authentic Leadership by Bill
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employees and treat them like your family. This is the crux of your whole operation." "'When we had six or seven Hot Shoppes, I'd drive to every one of them every day, sometimes twice a day. Every time I visited, I'd find something was wrong: the root beer was flat or wasn't cold; the lights hadn't been turned on at night; or the barbeque machine wasn't clean. There were just a lot of things our management didn't do or didn't see. So I decided then that if we were going to have a lot of places, we had
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Challenges in Human Resource Development Practitioner Preparation Organisational learning and skill formation initiatives are increasingly being seen as contributing to the achievement of organisational competitiveness in the contemporary economy. As a result, the development of employees has become a more prominent organisational practice. Since Human Resource Development (HRD) practitioners are primarily responsible for employee development there is a need for them to become more highly skilled
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loyalty basis, while marketing strategies and mixes must be shaped accordingly. INTRODUCTION The success of a firm depends largely on its capability to attract consumers towards its brands. In particular, it is critical for the survival of a company to retain its current customers, and to make them loyal to the brand. Brand loyal consumers reduce the marketing costs of the firm as the costs of attracting a new customer have been found to be about six times higher than the costs of retaining
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Seventh-Day Adventist sanitarium Dr. Kellogg ran in Battle Creek, Michigan. 3 W.K. went on to invent the corn flake and to found the Kellogg Company, still the number one producer of ready-to-eat cereals in the world a hundred years later. Also in 1894, Henry D. Perky, founder of Perky's Shredded Wheat Company, promoted his cereal at the 1894 World's Fair in Boston with the claim that, "From the most abject physical wreck, I have succeeded, by the use of naturally organized 1 James B. Treece, “The
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Outline The overall objective of this research paper is to identify and address those aspects of alcoholism, which contribute to it as a medical disease. True, alcoholism has many ramifications for society as well as the economy, but the focus of this paper shall be, for the most part, on the medical aspects. In the way of background, alcoholism refers to the drinking of alcoholic beverages to such a degree that major aspects of the individual’s life -such as work, school, family relationships or
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analysts demanded increasingly strong corporate financial performance to support rising corporate stock prices. At the same time, the gargantuan compensation packages (including stock options) of the top executives running these companies became inextricably linked to their companies’ stock prices. In 1990, average CEO pay at major corporations was 107 times the pay of the average worker. By 2004, CEO pay had risen to 431 times the pay of the average employee. (If the pay of average workers in the United
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the world better, the attention to it pays to the community and the environment, innovation and the one and only “Starbucks Experience”. Starbucks puts coffee business in primary place, its core competiveness is its culture and values. Since the company locates the business in inspiring human’s spiritual beauty, it is necessary for their marketing means to come from the mental and psychological level. One innovative side of this article is that in addition to using the most basic marketing theory
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Module B Transportation and Assignment Solution Methods B-1 B-2 Module B Transportation and Assignment Solution Methods Solution of the Transportation Model The following example was used in Chapter 6 of the text to demonstrate the formulation of the transportation model. Wheat is harvested in the Midwest and stored in grain elevators in three different cities—Kansas City, Omaha, and Des Moines. These grain elevators supply three flour mills, located in Chicago, St. Louis,
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