Kaizen: The key to Japan's competitive success
Thesis - 9 pages - Management
The term "Kaizen" is a combination of two Japanese words "Kai" meaning "change" and "zen" meaning "good," and evolves from the ancient Japanese philosophy of actions that lead to sustainable benefits for the society as a whole rather than one particular individual, or actions that benefit...
A comparative study of working conditions in Ireland and France in 2008
Worksheets - 3 pages - Human resources
The purpose of this report is to analyze the differences and similarities between France and Ireland with respect to working conditions. While both countries have a common policy to protect employees, they also have different ways to maintain and ensure those standards through legislation....
Role Analysis: our link to our day to day life
Essay - 6 pages - Sociology & social sciences
The roles that a person plays in circles in society, in a family, in the workplace, or even while driving on the road are linked to each other and can have positive or adverse affects on each other. One situation or role where a person is encouraged behave in a negative manner can alter or...
Critically discuss the relation between emotional intelligence and employee performance
Essay - 6 pages - Services marketing
Nowadays, Emotional Intelligence (EI) is given due attention at our workplace in almost each organization. As one concept in the theory of organizational behavior, EI is proven by researchers associated with individual's career development in a way that it can influence employees' job...
The status quo of discrimination - Willing workers in unwilling circumstances
Essay - 5 pages - Sociology & social sciences
The idea of equality has been the dream of the hopeful but the reality is only a glimpse of the ideal. Since the Holocaust in World War II, there has been an international recognition for equality as outlined by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. However, the idea of equality has eluded...
Waste management in hospital settings
Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies
Waste management is a vital factor in reducing environmental pollution. Workplaces such as hospitals mainly produce both hazardous, infectious and toxic wastes and also non-toxic waste materials. Safe, environmentally-friendly disposal of such waste is important to ensure that both...
Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street by Karen Ho - Understanding of Ho critique of investment banking
Case study - 2 pages - Business strategy
Financial disintegration whether the internet bubble, the junk of bond markets, or the heightened leverage on housing market, there are in most cases explained as inevitable implications of market cycles. In other words, this means that what goes up must always come down in the long run. In Ho'...
Analyzing the strategies of a transnational company in a host country- Case of Toyota Motor Corporation
Thesis - 10 pages - Management
To further illustrate the key points of international business management, this paper aims to demonstrate how to prepare the situational analysis for a transnational company by establishing Toyota Motor Corporation's business in United States, one of its host-country nations, as an example....
Management report - Trade union recognition
Essay - 7 pages - Civil law
This report considers and advises on the legal and practical implications for the Company Board of Directors (“the Board”) of the invitation for voluntary recognition as a Trade Union (“TU”). The relevant law applicable to TU recognition is the Trade Union and Labour...
Telecommuting: The future of work
Thesis - 9 pages - Management
Telecommuting is synonymous with the Work-from-Home concept, wherein the employee, instead of physically commuting between home and the workplace rather works from home and connects with the office via channels of communication such as telephone, internet, Voice over IP, videoconferencing,...
Discuss the job performance model and compare and contrast Maslow's and McClelland's need theories
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
As discussed in the text, the job performance model of motivation was proposed by the Organizational Behavior researcher Terence Mitchell. This model starts off with “individual inputs and job context are the two key categories of factors that influence motivation.” (Kinicki & Kreitner,...
A research study on absenteeism of employees in an organization
Thesis - 20 pages - Human resources
According to Picoars and Payers ‘unexpected absence disturbs the efficiency of the group as the jobs are inter-connected, if one single man remains absent without prior notice the whole operation process is distributed. This absenteeism results in production losses because, due to...
The role played by salary and by non-financial incentives in promoting motivation in middle managers
Essay - 5 pages - Management
The job of a manager is to help employees perform in the workplace and he must make sure that things are done through employees. A good manager is able to motivate his team. The topic of motivation is not easy to understand and it is important to understand human nature itself. Human...
Presentation of McDonald's strategies in France
Case study - 9 pages - Services marketing
In more than half a century of existence, this leader of American fast food has made a global mark and became the largest fast food chain, serving 46 million customers a day. It is a multinational company with over 30,000 franchisees in 121 countries, which recorded a turnover of $20.46 billion...
Communicating in a Field Research
Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies
There are various personality traits dominant in individuals in the society. On of the most common traits in technical roles is that of introversion. This trait is common in most workplaces and it negatively impacts verbal communication tendencies among employees. Depending on an...
Analysis of team charter
Essay - 2 pages - Business strategy
Groupthink is essential to productivity in the workplace. By implementing workgroups or a team building conducive atmosphere, the simple brainstorming one person would do on his own can blossom into new, innovative ideas that can be achieved only by working together. When a team is first...
Geography, Demography, Social Issues, Education and Culture in the United States of America
Course material - 20 pages - Sociology & social sciences
(...) One of the characteristics of US climatic conditions is the constant fear of violent climatic happening such as hurricanes (in the Southeast, particularly during the fall), violent wind storms known as "tornadoes" (the Midwest), or flooding due to heavy rainfall and storms in the eastern...
The AEG Factory in Berlin: Designed by Peter Behrens
Tutorials/exercises - 2 pages - Architecture
Throughout the latter half of the 18th and through the 19th century, architecture remained stagnant in design and innovation. There were many great buildings designed during the time, but they all were stuck in the past, usually echoing the Gothic and Greek structures of old. It wasn't until...
The Current Status of Women in Algeria
Essay - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Women in the Untied States enjoy a high standard of living that is often unparalleled in the developing world. Although Western women still face challenges when it comes to gender roles and their position in the workplace, the rights that have been granted to women are among the most...
How Great Managers Motivate Their Employees (2019) - Human Resources tasks
Tutorials/exercises - 1 pages - Human resources
Dealing with Human Resources is an estimated tricky mission. Nevertheless, this article gives some interesting clue about how to help motivate employees in the workplace. To me, the first valuable piece of advice is to be made "actively" available to them in one way or another. I think...
From HR to e-HR
Case study - 7 pages - Human resources
The last few years have been marked by the massive daily use of new technologies. They have become indispensable in the lives of individuals, especially in the workplace, where these techniques have grown. Indeed, this technology supports the exercise of many functions like human resources...
Gender wage gap : Why is it that the median male wage earner earns 20% more than the median female worker?
Essay - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The wage gap between men and women is a widely recognized concern in today's society. In this paper I will try to address the main reason for this difference. Why is it that the median male wage earner earns 20% more than the median female worker? While there are many suggestions out there for...
Work Motivation: Review of the literature
Tutorials/exercises - 19 pages - Management
Work motivation has been an important component of industrial and organizational psychology since the 1930s (Donovan, 2001:55) and continues to play an important role in organizational research (Büssing, 2001:372). The amount of research on motivation has varied through time. During the 1930s and...
Does Maslow's hierarchy of needs apply to all cultures?
Case study - 4 pages - Human resources
Motivating employees is one of the primary responsibilities of a manager in any organization. It is critical in the management practice to understand what motivates people. Motivation is defined as “a psychological process through which unsatisfied wants or needs lead to drives that are...
Trade Unions in the United-States
Essay - 2 pages - Labor law
The twentieth century witnessed major evolutions in the American workplace, from mass production, to automation, and all the way to the digital economy we know now. Workers' lives have evolved similarly, mostly gaining from the benefits during the century. American workers mostly have...
Business Research Method: Study on Organizations in Dubai Media City (DMC) and Dubai Internet City (DIC)
Thesis - 7 pages - Management
Teleworking has lately obtained a substantial allowance of vigilance both in the academia and expert world, as one of the amazing alterations in enterprise practices (Morgan, 2004). In the last couple of years, we have seen an expanding interest in the notion of teleworking, especially in Europe...
Eight conditions to become a good manager/coach
Case study - 3 pages - Management
Although workplaces and management styles have changed dramatically in recent decades, the old attitudes of command and control management are still dominant in many companies. This management approach means that managers must tell employees exactly what to do, when to do and how to do the...
Organizational behavior - Payment as motivation
Essay - 3 pages - Business strategy
Motivation, which can be defined as a psychological feature that drives an individual to act toward desirous goals, is a major topic of organizational behavior. With the increasing importance of work efficiency, more managers start to realize the existing issue of employee motivation. According...
Information systems management: Employment laws
Case study - 4 pages - Management
Making slave trade illegal, in the R v Knowles, ex parte Somersett, in 1772 and the subsequent abolition of slave trade through the Slavery Abolition Act 1833, acted as impetus to the death of serfdom, which stressed on employee subordination (Summers, 1969). This lend to a new era of employee...
Gelato's compliance with Civil Rights Act of 1964
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
In Heartland Corners, 75 per cent of the white population has completed high school compared to 25 per cent of the other minority groups. How is the information important in considering whether Gelato is in compliance with the Civil Rights Act of 1964? Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964...
