Leadership & Organizational Behaviour: you will have to learn about this subject. Example, you might have a CEO who has a misogynistic head engineer, or staff who are envious of the salaries of others. When shareholders visit, the CEO might screw up by allowing those visitors to roam around the company offices to discover the lousy situation for themselves. Did the CEO create his own lack of empowerment? How can one be a leader and manage with inspiration and structure? Did the CEO deluge upper management with information in order to cover herself? Most people are skeptical of whether it is possible to teach leadership. There are all kinds of ways to reward. At a plating company you could reward highly-productive employees with extra time-off and turn a blind eye to their intimidating and casual racism. This action might help keep wages lower and secure the loyalty of workers who might otherwise have left. Ethics is ever present. Wall Street perks, for example, having a free cab ride home was something that investment bankers took even if they didn’t need the perk. Those who didn’t, hated the free cab ride perk as they didn’t need it; the psychological satisfaction of employees is important. The idea of people as an individual is not useful to most business thinkers, they want militants so understanding them might seem less salient.
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Lessons from a Masters In Business Administration: Ranking Industries
Ranking Industries: in your MBA program, you might be expected to look at a list of twelve industries, from a basic chemical company and a grocery chain to an airline and a retail bank, and then compare it with a list of unlabeled balance sheet percentages and ratios. The assignments then asks you to match the industry to the correct set of numbers.
Q: How are ratios, and percentages related to a given business model?
Companies that have inventory are always trying to balance the cost of storage with supply. You might want to buy large quantities but not so much that you cannot house them. If the ratio is 1 to 1, then the inventory is equal to how much it sells. In a grocery chain you would expect a high ratio as inventory is replenished on a daily basis. In jewelry, you would expect a ratio might be below one, as each item is held for a long time before it finds a buyer. A company with many fixed assets such as a store + factory would likely have more debt than say a deal a day site whose main assets were people. Banks don’t like lending to law firms, or deal a day sites because they can walk out the door, and leave at anytime.
[This is a synopsis of several books on the MBA experience including What They Teach You At Harvard Business School by P.D. Broughton]
Death Counts in World War II
How the war was lost & won. Although, he lumps the colonies with Britain & leads with his local audience, this presentation is quite impressive. It’s is obvious that this form of visualisation is powerful, useful and likely to scale as more designers become familiar with the technology.
Origins of Multiculturalism: Canadian Case Study
Origins of Multiculturalism: An Analysis of the Historical Emergence of the Canadian Multiculturalism Policy of 1971.
Official multiculturalism was a watershed in Canadian identity that originated as a consequence of the changes of the 1960s. In order to appreciate the historic shift towards multiculturalism policy, this article will achieve the following objectives. First, it will critique the political motivations and philosophical narrow-mindedness of the B&B Commission’s organizers. Second, this article will examine the Third Force’s[1] fight for recognition led by Senator Paul Yuzyk and other political activists. Thirdly, it will address the political controversy created by Prime Minister Trudeau’s 1971 House of Commons speech. Finally, the article will argue that despite the devotion of the Third Force advocates, multiculturalism policy had little to do with their efforts, concluding that this now fundamental policy for Canadian identity was actually a pragmatic and convenient compromise.
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