‘Performance management’

Performance management has been one of the most praised, most criticised and most debated management practices for decades’ (Hutchinson, 2013). Critically analyse the reasons for this situation, and make recommendations as to how the practice of performance management can be improved. In the past decades, performance management is one of the most admired, censured and … Read more

Managing efficiency of production

It’s important for companies to manage the efficiency of their production. Making a product as fast and as cheap as possible without negatively affecting the quality of the products, is the objective of every company. But focusing too narrowly on it can prevent the company from adapting effectively to change. Take for example, General Motors’ … Read more

Gainful employment

Gainful employment as the name implies is the employment situation where the employee receives consistent work and payment from the employer. In psychology, gainful employment is a positive psychology concept that explores the benefits of work and employment. Gainful employment is work characterized by the following nine benefits: 1. Variety in duties performed ‘if the … Read more

Asset management

Asset is any information, gadget, or other segment of the environment that backings data related activities. Assets all around join hardware (e.g. servers and switches), programming (e.g. mission basic applications and emotionally supportive networks) what’s more, and mystery information. Assets should be protected from unlawful access, utilization, spill, change, ruin, and/or wrongdoing, bringing about misfortune … Read more

Ikea strategic management

Strategic management is devoted to an entire business as a whole. For example when a company wants to start a business, they will first have to know what the business aims to achieve in terms of its objectives and the various methods they will use in order to achieve these objectives. Des et al (2005) … Read more

Knowledge management in organisations

According to Bollinger (1997), ‘Knowledge is a resource that is valuable to an organization’s ability to innovate and compete. It exists within the individual employees, and also in a composite sense within the organization. According to the resource’based view of the firm (RBV), strategic assets are the critical determinants of an organization’s ability to maintain … Read more

Motivation

Motivation has different types of theories. Two theories of motivation are explained in this paper, Aldefer’s ERG theory and Goal-setting theory both are associated with Tata steel knowledge management program case study with suggestions for getting better outcomes by using motivation. “Motivation is the force that energizes ,directs and sustains behavior” [Armstrong 2012].Motivation is the … Read more

The New Way of Working

The New Way of Working has been implemented by several companies since the 80’s and 90’s. The employees and the managers of these companies had no permanent workspace and implemented flexible working and teleworking in their way of working (Van Tongeren, 2009). Bill Gates introduced the term ‘The New World of Work’ in an executive … Read more

The Ethical Considerations Organisations Should Consider When Expanding

Business ethics is ultimately for a better life, and is the application of ethical values to business behaviour. Ethics is about values and analysing behaviours as being acceptable or inappropriate. Human activity itself can cause business problems, ethical people do what they believe is the right thing to do. It will be impossible to address … Read more

Talent management

One of the initial issues highlighted within talent management literature is the distinct absence of a generally accepted definition. David G collings and Kamel Mellahi (Startegic Talent management: A Review and Research Agenda) and M.Dhanabhakyam and K.Kokilambal (A Study on Existing Talent Management Practices And Its Benefits Across Industries) in their research highlighted that there … Read more

APG

Lean, Six Sigma and Kaizen methods are now widely used within APG. Managers and employers have been pursuing many improvement goals and were very motivated to reach them. The improvements, however, are mainly focused on the performance of the departments where the manager and employees are responsible. This leads to sub ‘ optimization, meaning that … Read more

Prioritising Critical Successful Factors of Knowledge Management in Insurance Companies

Abstract This article attempts to investigate the ‘Road Map’ of critical successful factors (CSFs) of knowledge management in Iranian insurance companies. In this study, we aim to identify the CSFs of knowledge management (KM) used in Iranian insurance companies and rank them to allocate limited available resources, such as time, budget and human resources, in … Read more

Inter stage integrated management

Abstract The city of Dammam in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is among the driest places on the planet with high temperatures where the conservation of potable water is a very challenging task. The effectiveness of a management approach in potable water conservation can be achieved with the implementation of the inter-stage integrated management approach. … Read more