A managers role

The list of skills and qualities that a manager must possess to succeed is long and not exhaustive. Different managers have different skill sets and are better equipped at dealing with different types of problems. This then means that a manager cannot have skills that encompass everything that is needed for a company to succeed, … Read more

Professional civility in management

Employed in an organization in the capacity of a manager, I would exemplify and impart the importance of practicing and maintaining civility as a preventative technique to managing emotion in the workplace. Human beings are very emotional creatures and thus in a corporate/business environment, emotional labor conveys a heavy burden on the human mindset, manifesting … Read more

Leadership communication (Dissertation Proposal)

1 Chapter One: Introduction Leadership invariably occurs within the context of a group (Thomas et., al, 2013). They also noted, leadership is a relational property of groups; leaders can’t exist without a group of followers and followers can’t exist without leaders (Thomas et., al, 2013). Furthermore, raison d’être of leadership is the management and accomplishment … Read more

Public relations

Public relations is a distinctive management function which helps establish and maintain mutual lines of communication, understanding, acceptance and cooperation between an organization and its publics; involves the management of problems or issues; help management to keep informed on and responsive to public opinion; defines and emphasizes the responsibility of management to serve the public … Read more

Total safety management

ABSTRACT: Keywords: total safety management, traditional method, OSHA, safety training, safe environment, reliability, NSC, government laws and enforcement, TQM, safety committee, safety experts. INTRODUCTION: In an organization motivating the organizational members to safety system is the prime objective to be achieved. There are many sophisticated technologies are highly standardized in terms of safety rules and … Read more

Public Relations and Crisis Management in Tertiary Institutions

The philosophy of public relations places much emphasis on the need for two- way communication in the management of crisis in organizations .Experts have agreed that many forms of misunderstanding and difficulties that lead to conflict in organizations spring from poor or lack of communication, and managements and authorities are constantly encouraged to give information … Read more

Internal and external factors that can affect the supply chain management

1. INTRODUCTION 1.1. Overview In this time of globalization, supply chain management plays an essential role in defining and identifying the factors of the success of an organization. Supply chain management manages the movement of raw materials in an organization and coversthe supply side in order to cope up with the challenging environment by maximizing … Read more

Cultism in tertiary institution

ABSTRACT Over the years, institutions of higher learning have come under intense pressure as cultism, which as brewed internal wrangling; frequent students’ unrest and industrial disharmony now characterize the higher education system. In spite of concerted efforts by government and institutional heads to arrest the drift engendered by these undesirable factors, not much success has … Read more

Organisational Behaviour

For the purpose of this essay, I have named the organization I work for as XYZ Nigeria Limited. Please note that SCM means Supply Chain Management. Every reference to dollars is United States dollars (USD) SECTION 1: CASE STUDY ORGANISATION I work for XYZ Nigeria Limited with head office in Lagos, Nigeria. It is a … Read more

Logistics survey

SURVEY RESULTS AND DISCUSSION 5.1 Introduction This section presents the questionnaire results. A respondent profile is analysed, followed by descriptive results that sum up respondents’ answers to the questions used in the analysis. It also represent some trends like the extent of usage of 3PL services, the reasons of outsourcing or not outsourcing, the most … Read more

Differences between leaders and managers

The success of every organization that exists these days relies upon practicality of its managers and creativity of its leaders. Gaining knowledge about the difference between “Management” and “Leadership” will help to gain better understanding about the difference between a manager and a leader. The differences between management and leadership are, perhaps, one of the … Read more

Mass production of goods and work flow

Once parts have been grouped into part families by parts classification and coding or production flow analysis, the next problem would be determining how to arrange the machines in the shop. Facility layout, also known as plant layout, refers to the physical arrangement of production facilities. It is the configuration of departments, work centres, and … Read more

Alternative management accounting (AMAR)

In this paper, the emergence of alternative management accounting (AMAR) will be discussed followed by the contributions it has brought to the field of knowledge. After which, reasons why alternative management accounting research’s tools and techniques has not successfully displaced the use of traditional accounting research’s and techniques in organizations will be discussed. The importance … Read more

QRM: Improving flow time, work in process and throughput.

Companies with high product variety are faced with finding the right material control policy which is a challenge in the workshop. Under such circumstances, Kanban or generic CONWIP system do not help to meet the company’s needs. There is another way known as to use the Paired-cell Overlapping Loops of Cards with Authorization(POLCA) method. POLCA … Read more