Art and Science Management is both art and science. It is the art of making people more effective than they would have been without you. The science is in how you do that. There are four basic pillars: plan, organize, direct, and monitor. Make Them More Effective Four workers can make 6 units in an eight-hour shift without a manager. If I hire you to manage them and they still make 6 units a day, what is the benefit to my business of having hired you? On the other hand, if they now make 8 units
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Organization as machine – this imagery from our industrial past continues to cast a long shadow over the way we think about management today. It isn’t the only deeply-held and rarely examined notion that affects how organizations are run. Managers still assume that stability is the normal state of affairs and change is the unusual state (a point I particularly challenge in The End of Competitive Advantage). Organizations still emphasize exploitation of existing advantages, driving a short-term orientation
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Eye on Asia Can soaring population give India an edge over China? Posted by: Bruce Einhorn on September 19, 2006 India’s population is exploding and is likely to surpass China as the world’s biggest within a few decades. In a country where more than 25% of the people live in poverty, is that a good thing? One of the top executives at India’s premier pharma company seems to think so. Last week Brian Tempest, the former CEO and current “chief mentor” at Ranbaxy Laboratories, told an industry gathering
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AN ANALYSIS OF THE RECRUITMENT METHODOLOGY OF SALES OFFICERS IN A PRIVATE BANK (A CASE STUDY OF A PVT LTD YESBANK) BY KINSHUK DE CONTENTS Chapter 1. INTRODUCTION 1.1 AIM 1.2 BACKGROUND 1.3 INDIA’S BANKING SCENE 1.6 EMERGENCE OF PRIVATE SECTOR BANKS 1.7 NATURE OF PROBLEM 1.8 JUSTIFICATION 1.9 ATTRITION 2. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 2.1 AIM 2.2 OBJECTIVE
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Executive summary | | | This paper presents a description of the hawala (also referred to as hundi) alternative remittance system. Hawala is an ancient system originating in South Asia; today it is used around the world to conduct legitimate remittances. Like any other remittance system, hawala can, and does, play a role in money laundering. In addition to serving as a 'tutorial' on hawala transaction, this paper will also discuss the way in which hawala is used to facilitate money laundering
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GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND DIPLOMACY STUDENT GUIDELINE NOTES GLOBAL POLITICAL ECONOMY MODULE Paste the notes here… Political economy originally was the term for studying production, buying and selling, and their relations with law, custom, and government. Political economy originated in moral philosophy (e.g. Adam Smith was Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Glasgow), it developed in the 18th century as the study of the economies of states
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INDIAN HOTELS INDUSTRY Consumer confidence low; revival contingent on global environment QUARTERLY REVIEW March 2012 ICRA expects the Indian Hotels industry to finish 2011-12 on a weaker note with subdued pricing power eroding margins. Although some revival in operational metrics was witnessed during late 2010-11, the industry continued to lack the pricing power to drive out of its current stagnancy. Globally weak macroeconomic scenario, the European sovereign debt crisis, geo-political turmoil
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IN FILM INDUSTRY 2013 A RESEARCH PROJECT ON COMPETITION CONCERNS IN FILM INDUSTRY UNDER THE GUIDANCE OF DR. K.D. SINGH DEPUTY DIRECTOR (LAW) COMPETITION COMMISSION OF INDIA BY TULIKA SINGH, VTH YEAR STUDENT OF B.A. L.L.B. (HONS.) AT CHANAKYA NATIONAL LAW UNIVERSITY, PATNA COMPETITION COMMISSION OF INDIA Page 1 DISCLAIMER COMPETITION CONCERNS IN FILM INDUSTRY 2013 This project report has been prepared by the author as an intern under the Internship Programme of the Competition
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Leadership and Culture in India : The GLOBE Research Project1 Jagdeep S. Chhokar2 India is a country of great diversity. There are substantial regional, linguistic, cultural, and religious variations across the country. Given the wide range of variation, it should be impossible to generalize about the society, organizations, and leaders in India, as also about organizational and leadership practices in Indian organizations. There is however hope because in spite of the fact that the languages of
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February 2009 Managing Separatist Insurgencies Insights from Northeastern India Walter C. Ladwig III Predoctoral Fellow Miller Center of Public Affairs University of Virginia A paper prepared for International Studies Association Annual Conference 16-18 February 2009 New York ***Note: This paper is a provisional study of India’s attempts to manage separatist insurgency movements in the Northeast, consequently it provides only a preliminary analysis of the counterinsurgency campaigns
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