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Our Fondness for the Civil War

the Civil War. Those that supported the Civil War justified it on a number of grounds. Many even did so in religious terms, hai...

Augustine Wept for Dido

text. Augustine is explaining that he was more emotionally in tune with Greek classic literature than he was with his own spirit...

Response To Doubling Armed Robbery Sentence

as an emergency measure, inasmuch as the problem with prison overcrowding has already reached epidemic proportions. Two of the mo...

Overturning Duverger’s Law

districts). There are several problems created by this "winner-take-all" method of voting, which are reflected in Duvergers formu...

The Issue of Motivation in the Fire Service

(Thatcher, 2002). It has been argued that the good will of the fire-fighters is used and abused in the way that some disputes have...

Why Odysseus Argued For Ajax

himself to the public, a duality of moral reasoning that influences his self-serving ways. Of the many reasons attributed to why ...

The Use of Sex in Marketing

message, the way it is deconstructed and the impact on the purchase decision needs to be considered. The use of a single advertis...

British Literature Before the 19th Century

story of the knights of the Round Table and their search for the Holy Grail. A modern quest story is J.R.R. Tolkiens Lord of the R...

Following the Rules

people. But this has to be done with care: "Creative rule breaking is what separates the good from the really good, the mundane fr...

The Civil War

fought to keep independence on the other. The American Civil War, from the perspective of the North and President Lincoln, was f...

Branding as a Strategy to Support High Prices

company Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp (Zielaznicki, 2001). Aaker and Lane (1990), sees a brand as a mental box, which can be desc...

Should Man's Maximum Life Span Be Revealed?

knowledge is not necessarily a dangerous commodity; rather, it is the extent to which man uses that knowledge to alter the natural...

Total Quality Management

talking about a systemic approach to total transformation leading to continually improving quality. While we cannot outline the 1...

Critical Success Factors to the Implementation of Six Sigma

There are commonalities within all models which include winning the employees over with communication convince them of why the cha...

Total Quality Management - Three Cases

basis for their own self-assessments that are prepared for the Inspector General each year (International Public Management Networ...

Anne Bradstreet/Rhetoric, Themes & Style

Secondly, as to themes, Bradstreet grounded her religious inspiration not only in Puritan orthodoxy but also in the wonders and be...

The Role of Leadership in TQM Implementation; A Research Proposal

* What is the role of leadership in the successful implementation in TQM practices? In order to undertake this a number of s...

The Role of Leadership in TQM Implementation; A Research Proposal

TQM practices? In order to undertake this a number of sub-questions can be used to guide the research. These include * Does...

Improvement-Based Performance Measurement

mission and goals of the organization. One of the tools used in the effort to have all aspects aligned is the Balanced Scorecard...

The Huffman Trucking Company

companies need to be able to provide their customers with real-time data on where any given shipment is at any given time. And, be...

TQM - Boeing, Starbucks, Libraries

was involved, including hundreds of suppliers and continued improvement in managing a diverse workforce; finding and using the bes...

Managerial Development

In five pages the TQM management strategy is applied to a scenario for transforming doctors into managers with a community hospita...

Management Practices in Nursing Homes

In twenty pages this research paper discusses management practices as they pertain to nursing homes in a consideration of ideologi...

Flexible Firms and Human Resources Management

In nine pages this research paper examines the concept of a flexible firm and discusses the importance of TQM or total quality man...

Xerox, Corning, and Total Quality Management

Xerox and Corning are examined from a TQM perspective in a paper consisting of ten pages. Twelve sources are cited in the bibliog...

Consumer Behavior Changes and Marketing Implications

In thirty three pages consumer behavior since the 1920s is examined along with the implications changes had upon marketing with Wo...

Total Quality Management and the Contemporary School of Management

In six pages this paper discusses how TQM evolved and the assumptions that formed the contemporary management school with movement...

Manufacturing and Total Quality Management

speed at which they worked (Systma). The first published work dedicated to the continuous improvement of statistical process cont...

Middle Managers and TQM Implementation Implications

either business type or size. Future research could be limited to a particular SIC code for intra-industry comparisons between fi...

The Utilization of Total Quality Management

Problems sometimes crop up in the implementation of TQM and this paper focuses on those issues. The barriers that confront the pro...