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GOVERNMENTAL ACCOUNTING STANDARDS BOARD AND ITS IMPACT

The roots of the GASB were actually launched in 1906 as the National Association of Comptrollers and Accounting Officers (Foltin, ...

Does An Effective Learning And Development Strategy Enables Organizations To Compete More Effectively?

order to asses show firms can use learning to create and maintain competitive advantages it is first necessary to look at the conc...

Organizational Size, Structure, Control

the type of control executives and managers will have on the organization. The corporate culture is everything the organization ...

Managing Resources; Recruitment and Selection Strategies

is an attractive model due to this apparent lack of conflict, and the way in which HRM is placed in the centre, rather than at the...

Communication in Organizations

The control and approach to the formal communication will also impact on the culture and the way informal communication take place...

The McKinsey 7 S's Framework and Harvard Model of HRM

issues within an organization (Rasiel and Frigam 2001). The 7 factors identified are shared values, strategy, structure, systems, ...

The International Tanker Owners Pollution Federation

The main task of the organization was the administering TOVALOP. This was a hit system of compensation that was visualized in 1968...

Organizational Communication - Case Study

to familiarity. This is not necessarily true all the time and it is not necessarily true when the message is sent in written form....

Sexual Harassment Case - Co-Workers

be defined as a sexual act and it made Peggy uncomfortable. According to the law, it is up to Peggy to do certain things before s...

Forecasting for On Your Mark

forecasting the next quarters GDP or likely movement in consumer prices. Simpler techniques are sufficient for On Your Marks need...

Business Performance Assessment Models

is a similar approach adopted by the balanced scorecard, the balanced scorecard tends to focus on shareholders and internal stakeh...

Do Humans Manage Information Systems or are Information Systems Managing Humans?

dependent on their computers could not work. Information systems manage us, not the other way around. Information systems affec...

The Debt Structure of Walgreens

having such impressive amounts of cash to use at its discretion is that it is building its store-a-day on revenues of current oper...

Assessment of the USPS Strategic Plan

In 2008 the United States Postal Service released a new strategic plan with the vision of creating an organization that would be a...

Change at the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) in Nigeria

likely to face many more changes in the future. In order to ensure that changes in the future managed so that efficiency is create...

Wal-Mart : Organizational Behavior

are" (MMR, 2005, p. 40). This is one of the controls the company uses with their top managers to constantly improve. It is essent...

Risk Management Function in Corporate and Military Settings

Management 18 Lessons From Dow Chemical 22 Method of Analysis 23 Modeling Security Risk 24 Results of Analysis 26 Conclusion and R...

Organizational Information Systems

Originally seeking to be a virtual company carrying no inventory of its own (Gruppo, 2000), Amazon abandoned that plan shortly aft...

Leadership In Organizations

cohesive, productive team; instead, this leader allows each person to do what he or she sees fit even if it falls outside the scop...

International Save The Children Alliance

Executive Directors of a number of national Save the Children organizations across the world (International Save the Children Alli...

The National Center for the Preservation of Democracy

the blog sites of Volpac, a conservative political action committee chaired by Senate majority leader Bill Frist. One of the curr...

The Public Sector: Balanced Scorecard

a decision the author notes as being perilous to both profits and employee productivity, a coupling he deems inextricable intertwi...

High Performance Work Systems

the organizations income and employee pay. Research on these companies is very positive. Results that have been observed include...

Planned Change With Specific Outcomes

who had a strong corporate culture grew at a rate of 6.3 percent compared to a negative growth factor of -7.8 percent for companie...

Management and Communication at the American Red Cross

decried the lack of any kind of "paper trail" documenting the events and situations leading to Ms. Evans departure, asking that th...

Utilizing Electronic Patient Records Systems

pilot studies 1. Introduction The potential benefits of technology in the health industry are enormous. In the past the use ...

Enterprise Risk Management in the Military

Every organization faces risks every day. This paper discusses risk management for private businesses and for the U.S. Marine Corp...

Managing Change and the Potential Use of Trialectrics

Trialectrics have been proposed as a model that can help adjust the way change management is undertake, by focusing on active-attr...

Managing in a Crisis

will also help to create a culture in which appropriate responses may emerge timely. Where there are highly prescriptive model is ...

Implementing and Managing Innovation

paper is to examine some of the relevant theories concerning these issues, consider the way they may apply in real life situations...