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What And Why To Outsource
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A 3 page paper that discusses some of the activities a company might outsource and why and which activities a company should not outsource. The writer comments on the financial benefits and legal considerations. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: PGoutsy9.rtf

What Are The Differences Between Managers And Leaders?
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This 4 page paper looks at the differences between managers and leaders, looking at issues such as personality characteristics, mental attitudes, behavior and impact on others. The bibliography cites 8 sources.
Filename: TEledmanag.rtf

What Can Be Learned from Jack Welch
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This 6 page paper looks at Welch's autobiographical account of his conquest of GE. How he rose to the top and what management techniques he used are discussed. How Welch's ideas can be applied to other corporations is also explored. Welch is compared with Wal Mart's CEO H. Lee Scott, Jr. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: SA329JW .rtf

What Can Voluntary Youth And Community Workers, As Educational Managers Learn From Commercial Management Practise?
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This 6 page paper considers what lessons, concepts and tools can be transferred from the business environment to help with management and operations in the voluntary sector. The paper focuses on issues such as people and resource management. The bibliography cites 15 sources.
Filename: TEvolcommer.rtf

What Creates The Successful Leader?
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An 8 page paper presenting one example each of both the successful and the unsuccessful leader, with the question of whether each would be equally successful or unsuccessful under any circumstances and in any given time in history. The example of the successful is Herb Kelleher, CEO of Southwest Airlines. The unsuccessful channel is filled by William Casey, former director of the CIA Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: Suleader.wps

What Does Research On Knowledge Workers Offer to Our Understanding of Cultural Control?
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This 14 page paper considers how an understanding of the way knowledge workers are controlled can tell us about the cultural norms for control. The paper looks at what is meant by knowledge; tacit and explicit knowledge, the development and management of network organisations, control and flexibility in a dynamic environment and issues such as emotional labour. The bibliography cites 13 sources.
Filename: TEknowcontrol.rtf

What Is Management
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A 16 page paper. Definitions of management are offered and contemporary models of management are explained. This is followed by a discussion of the four categories of management functions and the skills needed for effective management practices. Organization design is explained in terms of the mechanistic and organic perspectives, which are also compared in terms of the characteristics of each and the management style that is more often practiced in each type of organizational design. The impact of information technology is explained and discussed as are the major categories of employee motivation strategies. The paper ends with a discussion of the content. While most of the content is applicable to management in general, specific data and discussions focus on business practices in New Zealand, for example, statistical data on the proportion of firms using information technology. Data included. 1 Table included. Bibliography lists 28 sources.
Filename: PGnzmgt.rtf

What Is Needed For High Employee Performance
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A 6 page paper that responds to the question: Are salary and good working conditions sufficient for staff to work well? The writer begins by saying – that depends on the definition of 'good working conditions.' The writer then briefly reminds the reader of the results of Mayo's early Hawthorne studies and comments that was a long time ago and workers today need more than basic survival. This leads to a brief overview of Herzberg's theory and Maslow's hierarchy of needs. The writer then discusses empowerment as a condition of a good working environment, supporting this with ideas from Corsun and Enz and Deming. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
Filename: PGemp7.rtf

Wheatley/Leadership & the New Science
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A 5 page book review that discusses Margaret Wheatley's Leadership and the New Science, which addresses the revolutionary nature of the latest scientific discoveries coming from the realms of quantum physics, self-organizing systems, and chaos theory. The writer summarizes the main points of the book, which include: how Newtonian physics affected the modern business world; the fundamental principles of the new science; and how this information is already affecting how we view organizational structure. No additional sources cited.
Filename: khlenwsc.rtf

Which Have Been More Influential in the West - Japanese Management As A Philosophy Or Set Of Discrete Practices?
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Japanese management practices, such as TQM, have become very popular in the west. This 11 page paper considers the transfer of the Japanese practices in terms of its’ influence on western management and work organisation and discusses whether Japanese management has been more influential as a philosophy or as a set of discrete practices. The bibliography cites 15 sources.
Filename: TEinfJapan.rtf