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Operations Management and IT, TQM, and JIT Effects

* Manufacturing flexibility is essential (Green and Inman, 2000). * Customers define quality (Green and Inman, 2000). * Team effor...

Quality Costs

so as to enable production and service at the most economical levels which allow full customer satisfaction" (Feigenbaum, 1999). ...

Value of Leadership

century, and now in the early twenty-first, there is a tendency to treat human resources as more valuable than ever before. Each a...

Approaches to Conflict Management

mind. Your opponent might change your mind. More important, if your opponent had used Rogerian persuasion on you to enlist your ...

Kentucky Fried Chicken and Quality Management

from the drive-through window (DTW) operation. In the DTW, it seemed as though service was hugely slow. Adding to that, t...

Reviewing an Article on Managing Across Cultures

the author says little and claims that there is no direct literature to report. Of course, this is not unusual because sometimes s...

Theories Useful in Assessing the Motivation to Hedge

Hedging is a form of risk management, the writer looks at a number of different theoretical ideas which may be used to assess why ...

MANAGEMENT COMPARISONS: CLASSICAL AND CONTINGENCY THEORIES

(in other words, "my way or the highway") with little input from subordinates. Division of labor is also a part of this particular...

TRADITIONAL HR VERSUS STRATEGIC PARNTER: COMPARING AND CONTRASTING

Catbert is dubbed as the "evil HR director" whose sole mission in life is to create more pressure for and to rain havoc on helples...

Just in Time Inventory Management at NUMMI

they are expected to tell NUMMI at an early stage if there is a production problem (Adler et al, 1997). NUMMI will even send out a...

Why a Change May Fail

refers to this as unfreezing as it is aimed at unfreezing the attitudes of the employees and prepares them for change (Huczynski a...

Health Care Management Models

there is a pressing need to "make clinical goals specific, roles explicit, [and] processes clear" (Phillips, 2005). For instance, ...

Operations Management: The International Issues

be considered, in at least some capacity, they are not the focus) (Prasad & Babbar, 2000). By way of contrast, more contemporary o...

Business Plan for a New Ethnic Restaurant

themselves can be communicated and embodied within the organizational culture. However, it is also an organization where there are...

A STUDY OF CLASSICAL AND CONTINGENCY MANAGEMENT THEORIES

organization being vertical, or hierarchical. Decisions are made by executives, while employees comply with those decisions, under...

Perodua SCM

of the firm. Schechter and Sander (2002) extend a well used business analogy which has been utilized by authors such as Mi...

Large Event Risk Management

dependent upon the abilities of those who undertake it to overcome any obstacles found along the way. In a sense, this is obvious,...

Cost Management to Reduce the Cost of Oxygen Supply for Hospital

a change within a health organization to reduce the costs associated with the provision of an essential resource; oxygen, without ...

Implementing Performance Management

process needs to be identified which incorporates individual as well as group and organisational performance management. 2. Perf...

Diversity Management - Theory and Practice

Konrad (et al., 2005), argue workforce diversity is a recognition of differences within the employee base, some of which may be vi...

The Relevance of Maintenance and Management of Facilities in Strategizing

The value and influence of maintenance and the management of facilities is often overlooked when examining the way that strategizi...

Project Management and the Influence of Organizational Politics

definition of organizational politics. The concept of politics is present in all aspects of everyday life, Aristotle argued that t...

WISDOM MANAGEMENT, KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT AND DIFFERENCES

In recent decades, much has been made about the learning organization, knowledge workers and the importance of knowledge managemen...

The Strategic Use of Human Resources

in order to ensure that they have the resources needed in the way that they undertake workforce planning (Hansen, 2008). These are...

Implementing Performance Management within an Organization

definition is given in Dransfield (2000), which states that performance management "is a process which is designed to improve orga...

Project Management Articles

gives a basis for communication, but then there are also issues such as the difficulty in saying no for the Indian culture, even i...

Questions About Project Management Articles

all can be outlined and appreciated. For example, if this is a project for a new supermarket it may include all elements from the ...

CHANGE MANAEMENT MODELS - CONTRASTING AND COMPARING

Andersons nine phases: preparing to lead the change; creating vision, commitment and capacity; assessing the situation to determin...

Operations of Major Airline

37th consecutive year of profitability (Southwest Airlines, Fact Sheet, 2010). Meanwhile, other airlines are struggling. Net incom...

Managing Large Beverage Firm

This paper discusses several related topics. The first is the difference between leadership and management and includes a report o...