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  • Effective Operational Systems

    Effective Operational Systems

    Effective Operational Systems The Beer Game With most aspects of life it is frequently the failures, as opposed to successes, from which we learn the most indelible lessons. With this approach in mind, The Beer Game to a large extent serves as the very antithesis of a properly functioning supply chain. In other words, the exercise demonstrates how NOT to manage a logistic operation. Hopefully, an examination of the pitfalls and shortcomings of a worst

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    Submitted: January 19, 2010 By: Venidikt
  • Literature Review: Atheism & Performance

    Literature Review: Atheism & Performance

    Because our society is mostly Christian, most of the entertainment industry caters to that idea. Theatre has made references to Christianity throughout centuries; however no one has performed atheism. To prove this notion, it is important to prove Christianity in theatre really exists to begin with. In "The Laughing Dead and the Lively (or was it lovely?) Virgin," the authors trace the relationships between theatre, ritual, circus and Christianity (Bosque 1). It examines the New

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    Submitted: January 19, 2010 By: Fatih
  • Performance-Enhancing Drugs in Sports

    Performance-Enhancing Drugs in Sports

    Performance-Enhancing Drugs in Sports Every four years athletes from all over the world participate in the most globally known sporting event, namely the Olympics. The modern Olympic Games began in 1896 with the purpose of promoting peace and understanding among the world’s nations. It can be said that the event is the world's largest exhibition of athletic skills and competitive spirit. This competitive spirit has been endangered by the introduction of performance-enhancing drugs in the

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    Essay Length: 1,586 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: January 20, 2010 By: Mike
  • Marks & Spencer Case:operational Strategy and Location

    Marks & Spencer Case:operational Strategy and Location

    MARKS & SPENCER CASE:OPERATIONAL STRATEGY AND LOCATION) Introduction In this essay type assignment we are going to look at the various strategies that are undertaken by the organization for improving the services and the quality of product. We are going to throw light on the operating strategies of the organization with special reference to location.We are going to consider the entire example in reference to Marks and Spencer.We will also relate the various aspects of

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    Submitted: January 20, 2010 By: July
  • Simultaneous Measurement of Radon and Thoron Exhalation Rate from Soil and Building Materials

    Simultaneous Measurement of Radon and Thoron Exhalation Rate from Soil and Building Materials

    Simultaneous measurement of radon and thoron exhalation rate from soil and building materials C. Cosma, O. Cozar , T. Jurcut, C. Baciu , I. Pop Babes-Bolyai University, Physics Department, 3400-Cluj-Napoca, Romania University of Oradea, Sciences Department, 3700, Oradea, Romania Babes-Bolyai University, Geology Department, 3400-Cluj-Napoca, Romania Technical University, Physics Department, 3400, Cluj-Napoca, Romania Our paper presents two methods for simultaneous measurement of radon and thoron exhalation from soil and building materials: (1)-charcoal adsorption, respectively (2)-Lucas cell

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    Submitted: January 21, 2010 By: Yan
  • Measurement Strategy

    Measurement Strategy

    Measurement Strategy Blockbuster faces many new external challenges and opportunities with new competition, increased technological growth, and entering in new major markets. Blockbuster is constantly implementing new strategies and plans that will help boost them past any competitors by always changing the way they do things. The company is also looking for new ways to change or update their current technologies to help support the ever growing needs of society such as DVD, reservations, home

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    Submitted: January 21, 2010 By: Jessica
  • Macroeconomic Impact on Business Operations

    Macroeconomic Impact on Business Operations

    Running head: MACROECONOMIC IMPACT ON BUSINESS OPERATIONS Macroeconomic Impact on Business Operations Tourea B. Robinson University of Phoenix MBA/501 Kenneth Smith November 26, 2006 Macroeconomic Impact on Business Operations This paper will discuss the objective of monetary policy and its influence on the performance of the economy as it relates to such factors as inflation, economic output, and employment. Monetary policy affects all kinds of economic and financial decisions people make in this country, whether

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    Essay Length: 445 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: January 21, 2010 By: Mike
  • Operational Management

    Operational Management

    Introduction Operations management are existed in every organization. The four cases given have some similarities and differences in operations management. Understanding the transformation process model of each case is the first step to analyse cases. It shows that all operations are input-transformation-output processes. It means that operations would input the transformed and transforming resources at first. After the transformation process, the transformed resources will be transformed as products or service to satisfy customers’ needs. The

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    Submitted: January 21, 2010 By: Vika
  • Measuring Brain Activity

    Measuring Brain Activity

    Measuring Brain Activity Most of the noninvasive imaging methods estimate brain activity by changes in blood flow, oxygen consumption, glucose utilization, etc. Discuss the potential problems with using this type of indirect measure. The brain is the control center of the human body. It sends and receives millions of signals every second, day and night, in the form of hormones, nerve impulses, and chemical messengers. This exchange of information makes us move, eat, sleep, and

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    Essay Length: 551 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: January 21, 2010 By: David
  • Samsung Electronics Company: Global Marketing Operations

    Samsung Electronics Company: Global Marketing Operations

    Samsung Electronics Company: Global Marketing Operations 1. What are the ingredients of SEC's corporate turnaround strategy? Samsung Electronics Company originally started as a product-driven company that focused on manufacturing commodity products at lower costs than its competitors. It was established as a top OEM supplier and highly efficient manufacturer of value brands. The “new management initiative” launched by Chairman Kun Hee Lee in 1993 aimed to change SEC’s direction of growth: once costs were under

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    Submitted: January 21, 2010 By: Fonta
  • Operations Management and Ethics

    Operations Management and Ethics

    Operations Management and Ethics Zeivier Reyes Operations Management and Ethics Operations Management is a competitive strategy that optimizes design, operation, and improvement of decisions made about facilities, inventories, capacity, performance, quality control, purchasing, and so forth(Russell, & Taylor, 2003). Operations management is about the way organizations produce goods and services. The function itself can engage up to 80 per cent of an organization’s resources, including labor, equipment and capital needs. In an era where

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    Essay Length: 1,116 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: January 23, 2010 By: Mike
  • Myers-Briggs - Managing Individual Performance

    Myers-Briggs - Managing Individual Performance

    Managing Individual Performance The steps a team leader takes to select workable teammates for a project can be challenging and frustrating task. The concepts of team building have been evaluated for many years by psychologists, psychoanalysts and researchers such as Carl Gustav Jung, Abraham Maslow, mother and daughter Katherine Briggs and Isabel Myers-Briggs. The simulation is based on research performed by Myers-Briggs, Abraham Maslow and Carl Jung which deals with organizational structure and individual team

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    Essay Length: 1,181 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: January 24, 2010 By: Victor
  • High Performance Teams

    High Performance Teams

    High Performance Teams Whether through sports, business, or family, nearly everyone has at one time or another has been part of a team. Teams are every where and if one plans on succeeding in business in today’s workforce, they need to get used to it as it appears that teams are here to stay. Not every team though is productive. Very often teams end up performing poorly or result in internal conflict that gets out

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    Submitted: January 24, 2010 By: Andrew
  • Operations Management Principles Ip 2

    Operations Management Principles Ip 2

    This was an A paper The objective of the report is to develop a forecast given the actual quantities for 23 periods (Refer Table I). Table I ЁC Actual Quantities for Periods 1 to 23 Period Actual Quantity 1 429 2 222 3 276 4 167 5 266 6 305 7 430 8 415 9 388 10 368 11 220 12 457 13 267 14 277 15 242 16 590 17 147 18 566 19

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    Submitted: January 24, 2010 By: Fatih
  • Drama in Performance Is Not a Literary Text but Action in Time and Space

    Drama in Performance Is Not a Literary Text but Action in Time and Space

    TOPIC: “DRAMA IN PERFORMANCE IS NOT A LITERARY TEXT BUT ACTION IN TIME AND SPACE” With Reference to your self-revised drama, consider its form and style and discuss non-verbal aspects of production and performance. In your answer discuss aspects such as physicality and space, music, costume, lighting and design, casting choices and use of performance space. A recent drama studies task was to produce a self-devised drama as a class. The final product as well

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    Submitted: January 25, 2010 By: Vika
  • Why Measuring Consumer Behavior Is Important

    Why Measuring Consumer Behavior Is Important

    Why Measuring Consumer Behavior is Important Feb. 24, 2005 Ryan Brophy Management 480 (408) 390-0941 Introduction Insight into consumer decision-making and buyer behavior is at the heart of the marketing concept (Arndt 1968). To date, researchers in the field have had little success in developing substantial scientific theory to describe stable laws in marketing. Most of the progress over the past few centuries has focused on understanding and identifying observable similarities consumers share. Michael

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    Submitted: January 26, 2010 By: Anna
  • Sports Psychology: A Relationship Between Mental Training and Sport Performance

    Sports Psychology: A Relationship Between Mental Training and Sport Performance

    Sports Psychology: A Relationship Between Mental Training and Sport Performance James Dodson (1995) quotes Dr. Richard Coop, and says that he refers to sports psychology as “just mere helping people to clear away the mental clutter that keeps them from achieving their best” (p. 1). Dodson admits that as a golfer he has tried to break eighty strokes in golf, but did not succeed until he got help from a well-known sports psychologist. Before meeting

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    Submitted: January 26, 2010 By: Tommy
  • How Employees Can Be Motivated to Higher Levels of Performance by Better Compensation Packages

    How Employees Can Be Motivated to Higher Levels of Performance by Better Compensation Packages

    According to history, the notion of compensation for work pre-dates to sometime between 10,000 BC and 1,000 BC during the Neolithic Revolution (Wikipedia). Back then, salt was used as payment till around 560 BC when coins came into circulation and money was invented (Wikipeida). Money became widely used as the payment for labour. To date, money is still the main medium of exchange between employer and employee. In today’s highly competitive market, organisations are often

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    Submitted: January 27, 2010 By: regina
  • The Performance of Performance Appraisal

    The Performance of Performance Appraisal

    The Performance Of Performance Appraisal Sanjeev Kumar Saxena - Jodhpur Today, most of organisations attempt to develop the outlook and performance of its employees by using multiple and complex training and educational programmes. In comparison to this, several academician's, researches and professionals hold that the personality of employees is generally developed when they learn several dimensions of job while working. Similarly, it is also believed that proper development of the personality of an employee by

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    Submitted: January 27, 2010 By: Anna
  • Performance Drus in Sports

    Performance Drus in Sports

    When you think way back to the time of the first couple of Olympics, you think of men who were chiseled because of the life they lived. Now, skip a few hundred years to today’s Olympic game’s and you see chiseled athletes who are that way because they have work an enormous amount of hours to make their body a well oiled machine. That body is sculpted for that particular reason. With today’s technology athletes

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    Submitted: January 28, 2010 By: Mike
  • Performance Enhancement Research Paper

    Performance Enhancement Research Paper

    Performance Enhancement Research Paper Androstenedione – it was a perfectly legal nutritional substance that was easily accessed in a health food store, but is now banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency and classified as an anabolic/androgenic substance. What does it do, and why would someone use it? This supplement was made famous after Mark McGuire of the St. Louis Cardinals’ admitted to using it. It is now illegal to use androstenedione, as well as any

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    Submitted: January 28, 2010 By: Mike
  • Operations Management Assignment

    Operations Management Assignment

    Running Head: OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT ASSIGNMENT Operations Management Assignment University of Phoenix MBA 502 Operations Management Assignment In every business there comes a time when a company must make a decision that will ultimately change the way its operations are managed. Kudler Fine Foods is currently in contract negotiations with local growers of organic produce. Operational changes will need to made in order for the company to evolve into a more natural food source for its

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    Submitted: January 29, 2010 By: Victor
  • Performance-Enhancing Drugs in Sports

    Performance-Enhancing Drugs in Sports

    Performance-Enhancing Drugs in Sports There are many reasons athletes take performance-enhancing drugs. One might wonder though, why people would take them when there are so many more reasons why they should not. Performance-enhancing drugs are also referred to as anabolic steroids (Steroid Pros and Cons, 2005). “Anabolic steroids, also called steroids, ‘roids, sauce or juice, are synthetic male hormones” (Steroids, Sports, and Athletic Performance, n.d.,). Taking performance-enhancing drugs affects not only the athlete, but all

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    Submitted: January 29, 2010 By: Kevin
  • Operations Management

    Operations Management

    Operations Management In any business whether it is large or small, a car company or a hospital there must be some type of organization that keeps the business going. Obviously without organization there would be chaos all over. Operations Management is a big part keeping things organized and flowing correctly. Operation Management is the management of that part of an organization that is responsible for producing good and/or services, according to William J. Stevenson.(Chapter 1)

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    Submitted: January 31, 2010 By: Janna
  • Discuss the Key Issues Concerning the Effectiveness and Likely Consequences of a Shrm Approach, Including the Potential Performance Benefits and How Organisational Performance Can Be Improved Through the Shrm Approach

    Discuss the Key Issues Concerning the Effectiveness and Likely Consequences of a Shrm Approach, Including the Potential Performance Benefits and How Organisational Performance Can Be Improved Through the Shrm Approach

    Introduction There has been much debate on the term strategic human resource management (SHRM) and until now, there is no fixed definition for SHRM. According to Wright and McMahan (1992), SHRM can be defined as “the pattern of planned HR deployments and activities intended to enable a firm to achieve its goals”. Similarly, Wright and Snell (1991) regard SHRM as “organisational systems designed to achieve sustainable competitive advantage through people”. Ulrich and Lake (1991) on

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    Submitted: January 31, 2010 By: Top

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