-
Sustainable Development Three Examples
1,392 wordsCan Natural Step promote sustainability in Organisations? There are three examples where companies have used The Natural Step and the outcomes prove whether it promotes sustainability. The examples shown are Stena Metall AB, an industrial recycling, trading and shipping company. The second example is Scandic Hotels and example three is Interface, a manufacturer of commercial floor covering. The Natural Step is a non- profit environmental education organisation with sight of the socially and ecol...
Free research essays on topics related to: three examples, sustainable development, international standards, internet companies, human activities -
Marketing Management Strategy Of An Sme
2,639 wordsInvestigating and Measuring the Effect Of The Firms Recent Implementation of a Marketing Management Strategy And Relating The Concepts and Thinking Behind This Orientation to Theory. Applying Marketing Management Theory To Produce Recommendations For Future Business Success and Development. "Marketing ideas have made singularly little penetration into the centres of influence of the construction industry. To some extent this follows from the character of the industry as an agglomeration of servi...
Free research essays on topics related to: factors affecting, opportunities and threats, mission statement, profit margin, range of services -
Marx And Engels Communist League
1,906 wordsHow can a book written in one historical epoch have a meaning for another? If the author has tried to answer the questions posed by the way of life of the people around him, what can these answers mean for those living under changed conditions and facing quite different questions? [ 1 ] In the case of Karl Marx, we have yet another barrier to penetrate. At the end of the twentieth century, when we pick up a text like the Manifesto, we already have in our minds what everybody knows about it. Befo...
Free research essays on topics related to: social relations, marx and engels, working class, class struggle, communist league -
Style Of Management High Level
1,396 wordsManagement is a broad subject and time has been spent to analyse it. The study of organisations and their management, therefore, has to proceed on a broad front. No single approach provides all answers. It is the comparative study of the different approaches, which will yield benefits to the manager. A central part of the study of the organisation and management is the development of management thinking and what may be termed management theory. The application of theory brings about change in ac...
Free research essays on topics related to: high level, r 1, case study, style of management, management style -
Printed Journal Arrives Sara Scholarly Articles Subscribe
946 wordsSubscribe/Unsubscribe by: Current Alerts | by Subject | by Title Thank you very much for using SARA - Scholarly Articles Research Alerting. This service is complimentary and we hope it will prove of value to you by alerting you to relevant articles before they arrive in your library. There is no need to surf the net - we " ll send the information to you. When messages are sent they will include the contents page for each journal you have subscribed to individually. The pages will not be merged. ...
Free research essays on topics related to: subscribe, relevant, community service, sara, alerts -
Power The Federal Government And Union Movement
2,743 wordsWhen discussing power and its implications, one must take into account several key things: who the proponents are, what positions they hold, and what they have to gain from exercising power. Generally, it is obvious when power is employed, it is one group contesting the other, and an outcome is achieved by the exercise of power, usually by the group in the strongest position. However, often, relations become distorted when institutionalised power is at play, and likewise with people power groups...
Free research essays on topics related to: industrial action, relations act, industrial relations, employers and employees, union movement -
The Role And Functions Of New Zealand Government
1,706 wordsThe New Zealand Government has made significant changes to the economy throughout the last 15 years. The operation and organisation of business activity in New Zealand has been affected by this changing economy. All aspects of the New Zealand Government have been altered. The reason for this change was to improve the performance by being more efficient. The key reforms are privatisation and corporati sation of State Owned Enterprises (SOEs) and restructuring government agencies. The most signifi...
Free research essays on topics related to: labour party, chief executive, relations act, percentage points, economic reform -
Td Tr Tr Td Td Td
2,114 words... ns, more frequently male, are trained by a: medical culture which emphasises and highlights the health problems of women, thereby constituting women as patients... womens disorders are characteristically conceived to be psychogenic in character relating to womens neurotic behaviour (Turner, 1995). As women have a longer life expectancy than men (Mulkay, 1993) they often outlive their partners thus are statistically more likely to require more medical support in later life. Thus women are inc...
Free research essays on topics related to: td td, palliative care, voluntary euthanasia, terminally ill, td tr tr td -
Australian Council Of Trade Unions
1,629 wordsResearch the history, structure and activities of the Australian Council of Trade Unions as Australias peak union body. How is this body responding to the issues of declining membership and other changes in the workplace which have occurred within the last 10 years?
Introduction The Australian Council of Trade Unions or ACTU is Australias dominant association and governing body of the trade union movement in Australia. It is the only peak council and national centre which represen...
Free research essays on topics related to: union membership, trade union movement, private sector, trade unions, collar workers -
Public Sector Central Government
1,236 wordsOrganisations in the public sector are more and more turning to information technology (IT) in order to comply with the central governments that modernise government agenda. However, there is a need in ensuring that the implementation of main IT systems in not regarded as the end but the means to the end of attaining major improvements of performance. This article suggests that though IT can be an agent for change as it gives opportunities to do things in different way, some business processes r...
Free research essays on topics related to: business process, business objectives, information technology, central government, public sector -
Blue Collar Workers American Psychological Association
1,866 words1. Introduction Stress is a very complex phenomenon. It is very much a personal condition and individuals vary in their ability to cope with different forms and levels of stress. In fact we all need some level of stress, as stimulus, to get going and live (Green 1993). However, higher levels of stress can greatly affect individual and organisational performance. It is not a stress-free environment that organisations and individuals need to aim for at work but a stress-controlled one, which is be...
Free research essays on topics related to: blue collar workers, american psychological association, root causes, reduce stress, stress at work -
Managing Foreign Currency Risk In Business
1,682 words... of inter subsidiary accounts receivable Invoice exports in local currency and imports in foreign currency It should be kept in mind though, that if a devaluation of the dollar is unlikely, such hedging methods are inefficient and costly, but if a devaluation is expected then the cost of using those techniques the cost of hedging rises to reflect the anticipated devaluation. Alternatives, such as pricing decisions, currency collars, risk sharing, or options, are not useful since Universal Cir...
Free research essays on topics related to: cash flows, foreign currency, foreign investment, order to protect, foreign exchange -
Human Resource Manager Human Resources Department
2,647 words... tor to consider when filling a vacancy is the method of application the business should use. A business may prefer applications in writing or answers to questions, which they have produced. There are three different methods a business could use: & # 61607; Application Form - an application form is a document, which is, contains questions designed by the company, which the applicant must complete. The results are then analysed by the company to decide upon which applicants are suitable in...
Free research essays on topics related to: human resource manager, human resources department, relations act, discrimination act, race relations -
Human Resource Department Human Resources Department
2,576 words... etc. The coach provides the individual with constant feedback on their performance and how they are progressing. AMA use both mentoring and coaching as forms of training staff to perform different tasks, for example, a direct mail worker being trained to be a telephone operator. Apprenticeships An apprenticeship is where an individual is trained by working with a skilled craftsperson. This method of training has however decreased in popularity over the past number of years. AMA doesn't use a...
Free research essays on topics related to: theory suggests, human resources department, training and development, human resource department, performance appraisal -
Strategic Human Resource Human Resource Management
1,545 words... survey shows that far from seeing flexible working as burdensome, the vast majority of employers already recognise the compelling business case in favour of flexible working. "Yet in too many organisations flexible working arrangements are informal and patchwork. Firms practising flexible working should do so in the open, through formal policies which clearly explain their stance on flexibility. This will make the change to flexible working easier for employers and help to manage some of the...
Free research essays on topics related to: 21 st century, mary ann, hr strategy, strategic human resource, human resource management -
Values And Beliefs Group Of People
1,998 wordsAn Exercise in Ethnography I chose a student union meeting for my exercise in ethnography. I got interested in leadership that how the students learn to be leaders. I visited two meeting sessions to collect the information necessary to make the ethnographic analysis. I found out that the essence of the leadership lies primarily in the vision, beliefs and high expectations of the young leadership organization. All these aspects I will discuss later in my paper. As a guide line for my research, I ...
Free research essays on topics related to: shared values, transformational leadership, group of people, values and beliefs, shared vision -
Low Interest Rates Collective Bargaining
2,534 wordsCollective Bargaining: A Great Social Invention? = Theres strength in numbers This is a clich? , or could even be called a proverb that most of us have heard at some stage in our lives. It also lies at the heart of collective bargaining, and it provides a reasonable, although simplistic reason for the use of collective bargaining, and also gives us an indication of where and for whom it is most useful. Collective bargaining's origins lie in one of mans primary instincts; defence. In an industria...
Free research essays on topics related to: capitalist society, trade unions, social welfare, collective bargaining, low interest rates -
Peter The Great Country In The World
3,166 wordsWhen the Soviet Union fell in 1991, due to many pressures both internal and external, the ex-soviet satellites were given their independence, much to Russias dismay. A new trend towards sovereignty made it difficult for the largest country in the world to deny its former members the right to separate. However, even with the creation of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Russia is still heavily involved with the matters of its former soviet members. This then leaves the question, are t...
Free research essays on topics related to: soviet union, peter the great, country in the world, one of the reasons, boris yeltsin -
Intergovernmental Ism European Integration
1,736 wordsDiscuss the respective contribution of neo-functionalism and intergovernmental ism to an understanding of the dynamic forces of European integration. Throughout History, several ideas have been presented with regards to creating European political and economic integration From Sully, in the late 17 th Century, proposing a 66 member senate inclusive of and representing 15 States to Count Coudenhove-Kalergi s recent idea of a pan-Europa in the 1930 s. The two recent notions of neo-functionalism an...
Free research essays on topics related to: european integration, political scientists, european union, intergovernmental ism, political institutions -
North Atlantic Treaty Central And Eastern Europe
1,712 wordsThe North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, or NATO was set up in 1946 and, until 1990, primarily concentrated on European defence against the Warsaw Pact countries. However, since the collapse of the Soviet Union, NATO has lost its principle protagonist. So it must be asked, can there really be, as the US Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright said, a new NATO for a new century. Indeed, she said, at the Brookings Institution, that since the end of the Cold War Alliance leaders [have been] confronte...
Free research essays on topics related to: warsaw pact, secretary of state, north atlantic treaty, central and eastern europe, end of the cold war
Customer center
