All about Management
Managing projects within time, cost, and performance is easy to say than to do. The project management environment is extremely turbulent, and is composed of numerous meetings, report writing, conflict resolution, continuous planning and re-planning, communications with the customer, and crisis management. Ideally, the effective project manager is a manger, …
10 February 2012
Project Management
The principles of controls for health risks are the same as those for safety. However, the nature of health risks can make the link between work activities and employee ill health less obvious than in the case of injury from an accident. Unlike safety risks, which can lead to immediate …
24 December 2011
Health & Safety
One of the most practical and widely implemented applications of artificial intelligence in business is the development of expert system and other knowledge based information system. A knowledge based information system (KBIS) adds a knowledge base to the major components found in other types of computer based information systems. An …
20 December 2011
Management Information Systems
Measurement
In research context “measurement is assigning numbers to empirical events according to a set of rules”. Measurement is a three step process,
Selecting observable empirical events.
Using numbers or symbols to represent aspects of events.
Applying a rule to develop a connection between observation and symbols.
Sources of Measurement differences
the research study should be …
1 December 2011
Business Research
Sampling: is meant to select a part of elements in population, and conclusions obtain may be about the entire population.
Probability Sampling: probability sampling is based on concept of random selection, a controlled procedure that assures that each population element is given a known non zero chance of selection.
Complex Probability Sampling: …
25 November 2011
Business Research
The control of risk is essential to secure and maintain a healthy and safe workplace which complies with the relevant legal requirement. When assessing the adequacy of existing controls or introducing new controls, a hierarchy of risk controls should be considered, which is as follow.
Elimination or Substitution
Changing work methods /patterns
Reduced …
25 November 2011
Health & Safety
Organizational behavior is a behavioral science that is built upon contributions from a number of behavioral disciplines. The dominant areas are psychology, sociology, social psychology, anthropology, and political science. As we shall learn, psychology’s contributions have been mainly at the micro level of analysis; the other four disciplines have contributed …
22 November 2011
Organizational Behavior
While making a decision, manager or researcher has to compare two or more possible alternatives available to them. Therefore one must have to evaluate and estimate the expected outcomes of each possibility. When there is to select one among the choices, a better approach is to assess the outcomes of …
18 November 2011
Business Research
Total Quality Management (TQM) emphasizes the continuous improvement of product and processes to ensure long term customer satisfaction. Its a problem solving focus encourages employees empowerment by using the job related ingenuity & expertise of the workforce. Cross functional teams develop solutions to complex problems often shortening the time taken …
31 October 2011
Human Resource Management,Total Quality Management
Organizational behavior is the area of study that investigates the impact that individuals, groups and structure have on behavior within organization for the purpose of applying such knowledge toward improving an organization’s effectiveness.
An organization is a collection of people who work together to achieve a wide variety of goals, both …
26 October 2011
Organizational Behavior