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... further complicating the ability to predict In the desire to increase predictability, considerable attention has therefore been paid to defining, understandingandmanaging uncertainty Many philosophers, ... undertaken in order to achieve objectives of some sort, including personal and informal objectives (for example to be happy and healthy), project objectives (including delivering on time and within budget) ... granularity to the discussion without shedding significant additional light on the underlying influences It is, however, important in the context of understandingandmanaging risk attitudes to distinguish...
... back to a floating loan using a derivative, such as an interest rate swap Investors can invest in fixed rate assets or alternatively invest in floating rate assets and fix the rate using an interest ... of borrowing covenants borrowing margins due to deterioration in financial ratios (initially) NPV (net worth) due to a higher discount rate being applied to fixed interest loans and associated ... associated with understandingandmanaging interest rate risk It is intended to familiarise users with the key concepts This may necessitate users making further enquiries to more fully understand these...
... editing and posting all content, ask the engineering department to handle gathering metrics on user response, and share all information by email www.awarenessnetworks.com Steps to Building andManaging ... your brand, andto begin to look for ways to join the conversation in a useful way Social marketing software can be useful in this regard, as it allows for keyword searching, comment tracking and ... 6 Steps to Building andManaging a Successful Social Media Marketing Team Steps to Building andManaging a Successful Social Media Marketing Team So you’ve decided it’s time to get serious...
... riding school), originating in the Latin word for hand, manus So, to manufacture something means, literally, to make things by hand, andin the 19th century workers were employed by manufactories ... empowerment and performance Leading andmanaging teams Doing it differently? The emergence of women leaders Managing power, politics and conflict Leading organizational and cultural change Innovation and ... leisure interests include alpine skiing, mountain biking, scuba diving, white-water rafting and, occasionally, bungee jumping x Acknowledgments I’d like first to express my gratitude to all those...
... and age discrimination; ‘toxic’ behaviour; bullying; coping with continual change and new technologies; downsizing and mergers; job moves and relocations; increasing job insecurity; and growing ... Honesty and integrity Competence and Forward- looking/ visionary Inspiring/motivational Honesty and integrity Competent and Creates direction/vision Honesty and integrity Competent and Brave and decisive ... leading to increasing job insecurity, and the phasing out of the old commitment to ‘jobs for life’ in almost all organizations • Labour market restructuring and deregulation, and reforms to industrial...
... upbringing Signs of lying include leaning forward, touching or rubbing the nose, lack of direct eye contact (in most, but not all cultures), eyes dropping down to the left and right, rubbing ... repeated in many different circumstances on a continuing basis They were used in staff training workshops, recalled during management meetings and retirement parties, and were incorporated into reminiscences ... of lying According to the psychologist who analysed the videotapes of Bill ‘Teflon’ Clinton’s evidence in the Monica Lewinsky hearings during 1998, there are 22 of these Interestingly, Clinton...
... effective and ineffective work teams To outline practical strategies for creating and leading work-teams To offer practical suggestions for organizing andmanaging team meetings Introduction: teams in ... growing and most profitable business in the world during the 1990s, and corruption and fraud continue to be widespread in most countries andin many business organizations (see Chapter 12) And ... enable employees to grow and explore, to solve problems, to make discoveries, to innovate andto reach ever-higher personal goals and performance targets Inject some fun into work, and provide an...
... engineers (and other minorities) joining the company, established and created a female Chair in Engineering at Melbourne University in March 1999, and introduced a company-wide initiative to ... successful (male) innovators and inventors are already in touch with ‘female intuition’ For more information on this, please refer to Chapter It is also interesting to note that intuition became ... getting the vote, then being ‘allowed’ to stand for political office (and later on becoming ministers); becoming doctors (and after that hurdle was overcome, becoming surgeons); being admitted to...
... organizational development is now the name of the game As Martin Bollinger, managing director of Booz, Allen and Hamilton, observed in 1998, ‘It is difficult to think of a company being able to maintain ... ‘putting Machiavelli back into business’ These include Grifin‘s Machiavelli on Management: Playing and Winning the Corporate Power Game, McAlpine’s The New Machiavelli: The Art of Politics in Business, ... way of turning passive ‘workers’ into self -managing employees, and enabling them to exercise power, choice and discretion in the things they If leaders and managers have a more negative and cynical...
... in business According to many commentators, efficient internal systems and processes have become merely a prerequisite for being in business, and non-linear innovative thinking is fast becoming ... Drucker, 1985) The role of innovation in organizations Innovation comes from the Latin innovare, meaning to ‘change into something new’ Innovation and innovate have been in use since the 347 348 MAXIMUM ... skill The main differences between linear/sequential thinking and lateral thinking are summarized in Table 9.1 Table 9.1 Linear and lateral thinking Linear/sequential thinker Lateral thinker Can...
... decade and people listen to incoming calls simply by inserting their fingertips into their ears and speaking into collarmounted microphones Computing and communications devices are also woven into ... only continue to accelerate the pace of change in organizations, they will soon begin to more ‘thinking’ andmanaging for us In the near future, our grandchildren may be able to download information ... (McLean and Elkind, 2003: 381–4) Andersen Australia was also involved in auditing the bankrupt insurance companies HIH and UMP, which resulted in criminal charges being laid against several Andersen...
... having a clear sense of direction and personal values; understanding power and how to use it; building alliances and networking (with both men and women); always being well-prepared and keeping ... leading andmanaging others will become ingrained in time if you make use of them at work In the final analysis, this approach will always be far more effective and long-lasting than being ‘trained’, ... meetings; dealing assertively with discrimination or harassment; balancing work and family life; maintaining a sense of humour and staying healthy The evidence presented in that chapter also indicates...
... distinguished by the intrinsic rate at which they tend to pass from floral induction to heading This tendency is referred to as earliness per se [3] In Arabidopsis, the genetic factors underpinning ... phytochromes regulate a variety of developmental processes, and are thought to be involved in signaling, probably through the possession of a kinase domain residing within their C-terminal domain ... their relationship to each other in circadian cycling In crown tissue, transcript of TaLHY increased in abundance and then declined; conversely, that of TaTOC1 declined and later increased The profile...
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... used to contribute toenergy conservation in office buildings Energy savings due daylight integration will not only result in a lower lighting energy, but additionally in a reduced cooling energy ... reduction in lighting energy is obtained for the window with the higher light transmittance On the other hand, the reduction in total energy which includes the cooling energy is found to be greatly influenced ... reductions in lighting energy is achieved for all glazing types with a dramatic reduction in the lighting energy consumption when the window area is increased from 0% to 5% Further increase in window’s...
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... e-Brand: Implications for e-Brand Extensions JongWon Park, Hyan-Jung Lee, and Hyung-Il Lee 379 Finding the Best Ways to Combine Online and Offline Shopping Features Awn M Levin, Irwin P Levin, and ... Advertising, Journal of Interactive Marketing, andin the impending books Advances in Electronic Marketing and Marketing Communication: Emerging Trends and Developments, among others Before joining ... Lynch, and Srini S Srinivasan 167 195 PART III: CUSTOMIZATION 10 Online Product Customization: Factors Investigating the Product and Process Janis J Crow and James Shanteau 207 Marketing to Individual...
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