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A Scenario in Automotive Manufacturing
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A 4 page suggestion for implementing plant closures, reorganization, and outsourcing as a means of reducing costs and maximizing productivity capabilities. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: PPbusautomng.rtf

A Shortage of Skilled White Collar Workers: The Importance of In-House Training
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A 6 page discussion of the correlation between the changing workplace and the shortage of skilled white-collar workers. Asserts that this shortage is not solely attributable to the educational system and that companies must take employee training into their own hands. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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A Team That Wasn't/Failure of Teamwork
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A 3 page essay that offers a reaction to the essay "The Team That Wasn't" by Suzy Wetlaufer. This essay offers a detailed business scenario that describes how a team of department manages for the FireArt Company are failing at their task to reorient their business strategically, largely due to the efforts of one brilliant manager, Randy, to derail the efforts of the outside expert, Eric, who was brought in from New York by the CEO. After describing this business scenario, Wetlaufer offers the reactions of seven business management experts on how the situation should be handled. The writer then discusses these opinion and which one is the best solution. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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A Training Plan
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This 12 page paper considers the case of a company with a training need. The paper considers how the need should be identified and how the training may then be designed in compliance with generally accepted training and behaviour models. The company used is a Hong Kong finance house with a call handling centre, however, the methods could be applied to any training scenario. The bibliography cites 12 sources.
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A Virtual Team at T.A. Stearns (2)
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A 3 page paper discussing process and quality improvement among T.A. Stearns’ offsite programmers and what the company should do about it. A member of a group of four programmers has developed a technique that increased the group’s efficiency to the point of needing only three programmers, rather than four. The paper recommends that Stearns move the developer of the technique to subsequent groups to seek out similar efficiency-enhancing measures, allowing Stearns to benefit from the original group’s gain in productivity without penalizing the developer of the method allowing the group’s improvement in productivity and quality. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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A-B-Zee HRM Recruitment Case Study
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This 10 page paper looks at a case study supplied by the student concerning a company recruiting staff. A-B-Zee, is recruiting for two new stores it is opening. One area has a surplus of labour, the other has a labour shortage. The paper answers specific questions regarding the way in which the recruitment process relates to the company strategy, ways of improving recruitment in a market where there is a shortage of labour, the balance of power between applicants and the employer in an area where there is a shortage of labour, strategies to help retain employees, approaches which will reduce costs of application processing and the benefit of using a telephone hotline as part of the recruitment process. The bibliography cites 10 sources.
Filename: TEABzee.rtf

Absenteeism in the Workplace
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This 5 page paper provides an overview of the problem of absenteeism in the workplace. This paper considers specific methods for reducing absenteeism. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: MHAbsen4.rtf

Accountability in Nursing: The Interrelationships of the Hierarchical Structure
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A 4 page discussion of accountability in nursing. Contends that accountability is an integral component of all aspects of nursing. The nurse is, of course, above all accountable for the well-being of his or her patient but, with recent pressure from state legislators and higher education coordinating agencies, accountability is becoming a greater and greater emphasis of all aspects of nursing. In the case of student nurses, and indeed all levels of nurses, this accountability is channeled through a chain of command, a chain of accountability which can extend both upwards (through the institutional hierarchy), downwards (to the patient) and even sideways (to colleagues and other professionals) dependent on the organizational structure. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: PPnrsAcc.rtf

Accountancy, Decision Making, Marketing, Motivation – Tutorial
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This 62 page paper incorporates 5 essays addressing different topics within the general headings in the title. Essay #1 begins with a scenario and then discusses quantitative methods for forecasting, specifically explaining the time-series decomposition model. The essay does not include actual calculations but describes this model. Essay #2 focuses on strategic marketing management and includes discussions of developing brand loyalty and brand equity and marketing and advertising to gain market share. This essay also includes a discussion of the importance of global branding. Essay #3 is about managing people and organizations and includes discussions and explanations of several theories of motivation, including a discussion of theories of motivation for today's knowledge workers. Essay #4 discusses accountancy for managers and includes explanations of the absorption costing approach, marginal costing and activity based costing. The last essay is about strategic decision making and competitor analysis. It discusses economies of scale, economies of scope, marginal costing, price elasticity of demand. This final section also includes a comprehensive discussion of Porter's structure -> conduct -> performance paradigm and resource-based approaches to strategy. Numerous examples are incorporated in each section. 4 Illustrations are included. Tutorial comments are incorporated throughout the text. Bibliography lists 44 sources.
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ACCOUNTING CASE STUDY
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This 5-page paper examines accounting and financial aspects a potential job applicant needs to examine before accepting a job. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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