He leads a group of people from different disciplines such as architect, engineer, quantity surveyor, contractor, sub-contractors and others. ... Besides that, it has became customary for someone with technical skills in one of the construction and building disciplines to be appointed as project manager (Abdul Samad, 1999). ... The soft skills have been neglected and compromised at the expense of technical discipline specialty." ... Before that, an understanding about project manager's role, duty and responsibility in project is needed. 1.3 RATIONAL In Malaysia, project man...

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Accounting emerged as a discipline in the early 18th century, but their underlying purpose was not for internal uses but it was created so that stakeholders could gauge the value of their investment in the firms that put out these financial statements. ... Interestingly, even though the exact origin of management accounting is not precisely identifiable, the discipline matured rapidly, and most management accounting techniques in use today was already developed by the mid 1920s. ... Without a means to address capital investment, the nascent discipline of management accounting clearly neede...

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Introduction Due to their nature, virtual teams are subject to some specific conflicts that require constructive resolution for the virtual team to be effective. Several issues that could potentially create conflicts on a virtual team will be examined, as will some resources for avoiding these conf...

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The LMRA defines "supervisor" as "any individual having authority, in the interest of the employer, to hire, transfer, suspend, lay off, recall, promote, discharge, assign, reward, or discipline other employees, or responsibly to direct them, or to adjust their grievances, or effectively to recommend such action, if in connection with the foregoing the exercise of such authority is not of a merely routine or clerical nature, but requires the use of independent judgment" (NLRB.org). ...

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Kahn's study started with the work of Goffman (1961), as well as looking across disciplines such as psychology (Freud 1922), sociology (Merton 1957) and group theorists (Slater 1966, Smith & Berg 1987) who all documented the natural resistance of an individual, concerning becoming members of on-going groups and systems. ...

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Leadership Styles of EYDS Leaders of today have many different styles of managing and leading people. Is there one right way to lead people? The answer is no. There are many ways to lead people effectively while maintaining a productive and loyal work force. Executive Youth Daycare Service is dedicated to providing the highest quality daycare while incorporating a leadership style that is suitable and effective. ...

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MY ten important things Introduction There were a number of concepts discussed throughout the course of Principles of HRM that resonated with the author. There are a multitude of reasons that caused that resonance and include factors such as prior ignorance; recognition of importance to The company; acceptance that the mining industry still has a long way to go and new ideas for discussion and implementation. The mining industry is a highly cyclical industry marked by a boom and bust' cycle. This places enormous pressure on mining companies to attract and retain good people when times...

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Executive Summary Giovanni Pizzeria is experiencing many managerial and employee related problems as a result of an ineffective working environment. The key problem of this company is related to its organizational culture. It has a very weak organizational culture in that it lacks strict supervision for staff and lacks an effective management system. Additionally, the company has a very fragile recruitment and a selection process for employees. It further offers no training for managers, employees and has no systematic criterion for selection of staff. ...

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INTRODUCTION The Statement of the Problem The purpose of this research was to evaluate the effectiveness of the Army's "Risk Management- program as it pertains to accident prevention at 2nd Aviation. A risk exposure is the possibility of loss or injury because of some peril or cause of a loss. ...

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Logistics is a complex discipline: getting the right balance between ways of buying, moving and storing goods involves juggling a lot of balls at once. ... The place of the logistics discipline in business depends on the answer to these questions. ...

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1a. Discuss Zaleznik's basic premises and set forth the criteria he presents which distinguish a manager from a leader. In "Managers and Leaders: Are They Different?" Abraham Zaleznik presents five main characteristics that distinguish a manager from a leader. Zaleznik discusses the process of seeing a difference in a manager's and a leader's personality as a determinant of their leadership style. ...

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What is Human Resources Management The focus of human resource management (HRM) is to manage people within the employer-employee relationship (Stone, 1995). However, such a broad definition is unable to distinguish HRM from its" predecessor" - Personnel Management. Some say that HRM "involves the p...

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