Professional Life - Cycle - Different Phases of Your Professional Life

Broadly speaking, our life can be divided into two parts: 1) Personal, Private or Family Life and 2) Career or Professional Life

4 Ways To Make This Year Your Most Profitable Ever

Every business wants to be more profitable so here are 4 ways to make this year your most profitable yet.

MARS Model of Individual Behavior and Results

In order for organizations to reap the benefits of positive employee behavior, managers of all levels should implement a proven model of behavior analysis. The MARS model by McShane and Von Glinow identifies how a better understanding of Motivation, Ability, Role perception and Situational factors impact employee performance.

All about Auto Shipping

Auto shipping is a process of shipping your auto from a dealer's lot or from any other location that connects consumer, shipping dealers and auto shipping companies in the most efficient possible way.

The Multiple Lessons of the Hawthorne Experiments

The experiments conducted at Western Electric's Hawthorne Works between 1924 and 1932 established the importance of human and social factors in productivity. Three quarters of a century later, we're still following lines of inquiry these studies opened up.

How to Remove Opposition from Your Organization

An insecure manager will sometimes try to eliminate his/her staffs even though the latter can be very competent, talented or even loyal employees. It does not matter whether you are really against the manager; as long as the manager thinks you are, and then you are out.

Trickery Used in Consulting to Puff up Resumes - Beware

So often consultants will claim to have worked with 20, 50, 100 or even more Fortune 1000 companies and you will see this listed as a fact on their websites or they will tell you this when trying to sell you as a client. Of course if you ask them to name the companies, instead they send you a list of 5 contacts or references? Really, five now, personal friends or actual clients?

Grow Your Subordinate's Competence by Being Less Tolerant

When does your consideration for a subordinate or colleague's feelings, as a trade-off for being honest about their poor performance or behaviour become counter productive?

Somebody - Somewhere - Save Our Business!

It may seem like the drama is unfolding from afar but it is crucial that all staff have a role to play in the creation and development of emergency plans.

The Winning - Customer-Focused Team

Set high expectations to ensure high performance. Taking care of your internal customers, the staff puts them in a frame of mind to take care of the external customers, and the results are more sales and higher profits.

Document Management Systems and Benefits - An Applied Example

An overhead view of accounting processes and the application of document management technologies to improve those processes.

Documentation and Audit problem Case Study - How to Overcome in TQM Impelmentation Project Part 8b

This TQM article is a case study on problems associated with Documentation and Audit in the CONTROL Phase of the D.I.A.C. Improvement Methodology. The article provides some real life examples on how they were overcome by the team leader.

How to Effectively Carry Out the Managerial Function of Directing

Directing is one of the functions of management. It is the heart of the managerial process. Managers of organizations should learn how to carry out this function effectively.

Opening a Dollar Store - Keeping Up With Marketplace Changes

Many new entrepreneurs who are examining the options regarding starting a business find it challenging to determine the exact market and the right business within that market. Once that decision is made there are challenges ahead. Few realize that identifying the right market is really just the beginning! They think that they will be opening a dollar store and that no further market data and knowledge will be required after that decision is made.