What Motivates You! There was a time where employees were known as just another input into the production of goods and services. What possibly changed the way of thinking about employees was research‚ referred to as the Hawthorne Studies‚ conducted by Elton Mayo. This study found employees are not motivated solely by money and employee behavior is linked to their attitudes (Dickson‚ 1973). Why is motivation so important in the work force and what should be done? Motivated employees
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– Strategic context of Project Management Final Exam Date Submitted: 10th December 2012 Course leaders: Prof. Vasileios Paliktzoglou and Mr Alin Stefaniu Table of Content Risk Management……….………………………………………………...…….…….3 * Case study analysis……………………………………………………….…....3 * Risk Management planning………………………………………………..….4 * Risk identification.……………………………………………………….…..…4 * Qualitative Risk Analysis…………………………………………………...….4 * Quantitative Risk Analysis………………………………………………
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TO O L S F O R M A I N S T R E A M I N G D I S A S T E R R I S K R E D U C T I O N Construction Design‚ Building Standards and Site Selection G u i d a n c e N o t e 12 Tools for Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Reduction is a series of 14 guidance notes for use by development organisations in adapting programming‚ project appraisal and evaluation tools to mainstream disaster risk reduction into their development work in hazard-prone countries. The series is also of relevance to stakeholders involved
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SYNOPSIS [pic] A Project Report on “Credit Risk Management in Kotak Mahindra” SUBMITTED TO SUBMITTED BY Jaya Sree CONTENTS 1. Introduction. 2. Objectives. 3. Limitations. 4. Methodology. 5. Reference Introduction of the Topic: CREDIT: The word ‘credit’ comes from the Latin word ‘credere’‚ meaning ‘trust’. When sellers transfer his wealth to a buyer who has agreed to pay later‚ there is a clear implication of trust that the payment will
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International Risk Paper Organizations encounter financial risks in business everyday‚ especially when looking at capital budgeting. An organization can use capital budgeting techniques like; cost of capital‚ Net Present Value‚ and Internal rate of Return to value the amount of risk the organization is willing to take. When an organization decides to venture into the international arena different risks need to be analyzed. Some of the main International investment concerns are Exchange Rate Risk‚ Political
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SAFETY‚ RISK‚ RELIABILITY - TRENDS IN ENGINEERING MALTA 2001 Risk Assessment and Risk Communication in Civil Engineering Ton VROUWENVELDER Professor TNO/TU Delft Delft‚ The Netherlands Roger LOVEGROVE Mathematician BRE Watford‚ UK Gerard CANISIUS Civl Engineer BRE Watford‚ UK Milan HOLICKY Civil Engineer Klockner Institute Prague‚ Czech Rep. Peter TANNER Civil Engineer CSIC Madrid‚ Spain Summary This paper summarises parts of a study carried out by Working Group WG32 of CIB into presently
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from San Francisco’s Health Care Security Ordinance July 6‚ 2011 Carrie H. Colla*‚ William H. Dow †‚ Arindrajit Dube‡ Abstract: A key issue surrounding employer benefit mandates is the incidence on workers through wages and employment. In this paper‚ we address this question using a pay-or-play policy implemented in San Francisco in 2008 that requires employers to either provide health benefits or contribute to a public option health plan. We estimate the impact on employment and earnings for the private
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International Journal of Project Management 29 (2011) 751 – 763 www.elsevier.com/locate/ijproman Risk ranking and analysis in target cost contracts: Empirical evidence from the construction industry Daniel W.M. Chan a ‚ Albert P.C. Chan a ‚ Patrick T.I. Lam a ‚ John F.Y. Yeung b ‚ Joseph H.L. Chan a‚⁎ a Department of Building and Real Estate‚ The Hong Kong Polytechnic University‚ Hung Hom‚ Kowloon‚ Hong Kong‚ China b College of International Education‚ School of Continuing Education
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Automotive Supply chains risks and mitigation strategies The auto industry has been a global business for a long time. This year has made it clear just how much a problem in just one of those regions‚ however‚ can affect everyone in the product chain (Miel‚ 2011)… Lall (2009) classified supply chains risk into different types depending on their origins. These include demand risk‚ internal risk‚ and external environment risk. External Environment These risk elements are external to and uncontrollable
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Can you say what your strategy is? - David J. Collis and Michael G. Rukstad The authors emphasize on the importance of having a short (35 words max) company strategy‚ and communicating it to the employees. This is important to direct the companies operations in a coherent manner. The company and its employees need to know where the road is going. A strategy is not about your values of your mission‚ but simply about what your competitive game will be: what are you doing differently to your competitors
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