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Organizations around the world has been realizing the cultural diversity within organization is not a negative aspect, rather can facilitate organizational stalk for glory (Papers4you.com, 2006). However it is not an easy task to manage employees with different cultural backgrounds. Nevertheless...

• Date Added: 7/10/2006
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Organizations around the world have claimed that they are 'innovative' businesses as they are creative (Papers4you.com, 2006). However to gain a competitive edge, it is imperative to realize that innovation always implies one step ahead of creativity where later is only an essential component of...

• Date Added: 7/10/2006
• Views: 440

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During the last century the concept of business went through major changes in terms of the company ownership (Papers4you.com, 2006). Nowadays, fierce competition is no longer only in the access to market, but also in what regards to business ownership. Most of times, deals involving mergers and...

• Date Added: 7/10/2006
• Views: 278

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It has been becoming a common practice in organizations to produce high productive results through ensuring effective teamwork (Papers4you.com, 2006). Many experts have argued that teamwork is really an effective tool in organizations where work is highly interconnected and demands up to date...

• Date Added: 7/10/2006
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The word 'entrepreneur' was derived from French words 'entre', which stands for 'between' and 'prendre', which means 'to take'. The word was originally tagged to people who take on risk between the buyers and sellers or start a new venture (Barringer and 'Ireland, 2006). However, in the...

• Date Added: 7/10/2006
• Views: 352

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An expatriate, on international business travel most of the times, arrives on the British Air Way's flight, rents a Toyota at Hertz, drives down-town to Hilton hotels and reaches the room, flips on to Sony TV and catches the glimpse of the same flashing signs of 'Coca-Cola' and 'BMW' etc. Then...

• Date Added: 7/10/2006
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The study of business ethics and its implications for different stakeholders have seen tremendous growth in the past few decades. There has also been a rise in the use and development of codes of ethics and announcements for ethical practices by many firms; however companies are still criticized...

• Date Added: 7/10/2006
• Views: 357

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Many factors such as globalization, technological advances, deregulation, privatization, mergers or acquisitions coupled with a movement of labor-intensive projects to less expensive locations and changing customer demands are forcing organizations to constantly review their purpose, vision and...

• Date Added: 7/10/2006
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Performance appraisal is one of the popular concepts among the multinational and local companies. The concept has been defined by DeVries et al., (1981) as the process which allows firms to measure and consequently evaluate an employee's achievements and behavior over a certain period of time. The...

• Date Added: 7/10/2006
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In the contemporary business world only thing that seems to be constant is change and the nature of the competition is such that companies need to leverage on the way they manage change to gain a competitive advantage. Moreover, the types of changes the companies experience vary in nature as well,...

• Date Added: 7/10/2006
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There are many different and competing definitions of "corporate culture" in the organizational theory literature. On one end of the spectrum culture is simply defined as the patterns of behavior within the organization (Smircich, 1983). On the other end, some theorists have defined organizational...

• Date Added: 7/10/2006
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Knowledge is a philosophical concept defined by Plato as a belief supported by an account or an explanation (Blair, 2002). Under the context of knowledge-view of an organization, the definition suggests that knowledge comes from firm's increased ability to make use and sense of available...

• Date Added: 7/10/2006
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Corporate strategy is supposed to be the means by which an organisation achieves and sustains success. Yet, it rarely rises to that level, despite an abundance of corporate strategy theory and significant research from many organisations over the past few decades. The changes over the years are...

• Date Added: 7/10/2006
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With heightened competition, market concentration and regulation, British Telecom (BT) has employed a number of tactics to maintain profitability, market share and overall financial performance. As leaders of info-communications and worldwide ventures, BT have been contracting part of their...

• Date Added: 7/10/2006
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The principles of effective project management are potentially applicable to any project type across different industries. It has been established that the basis of these principles have been designed so as to accommodate variety of tasks and industries but still fine tuning is required during the...

• Date Added: 7/10/2006
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This article will provide brief overview about the concept and definition of leadership, set of competencies required and choices of power available for leaders through which they can work for organizational benefits.

There is no second thought about the fact that like in normal social...

• Date Added: 7/10/2006
• Views: 337

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This article will provide brief overview about definition, conceptual views as well as possible environmental actions related to the notion of business's social responsibility. Example will be cited to highlight successful facilitation of a socially responsible business.

With ever...

• Date Added: 7/10/2006
• Views: 310

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The integral role played by the telephone as a business communication tool accounts for the growing importance of answering service businesses. All businesses, whether a physician's private practice, a small construction company, or a conglomerate, rely on the telephone as one of the fastest and...

• Date Added: 5/13/2006
• Views: 573

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A telephone directory that normally contains residential landline numbers is also known as white pages. This kind of phone directory is referred to as white pages to distinguish it against its counterpart, the yellow pages, which is on the other hand for the commercial or business phone number...

• Date Added: 7/29/2008
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Reading the morning paper just got a 21st century upgrade. The New York Times is now among the first newspapers to release an E-Paper format to subscribers. Soon subscribers will be synchronizing the latest copy of the NY Times and many other major papers from around the world to e-reader devices...

• Date Added: 5/1/2006
• Views: 425