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Description Enterprise transformation is often triggered by financial performance deficiencies, i.e., anticipated or experienced transitions from superior performance to inferior performance. These deficiencies are due to a lack, or a loss, of competitive advantage. Transitioning back to...

Description The Environmental Protection and Growth Management (EPGM) Department is comprised of seven (7) divisions, which directly impact the quality of life for Broward County residents. Our divisions include: Animal Care and Adoption, Emergency Management, Environmental Licensing and...

Description Tractor Supply Company case introduces students to a unique retailing story. By recognizing a target market with unique needs, TSC repositioned its traditional tractorparts business into a specialty retailer serving a variety of needs for consumers entertaining their interests in...

Description Organizational performance is one of the most important constructs in management research. We review the contexts that frame organizational performance as a dependent variable with specific emphasis on how it is operationalized and measured. doc_137778781.pdf

Description The purpose of this paper is to review and discuss public performance management in general and performance appraisal and pay for performance specifically. Performance is a topic that is a popular catch-cry and performance management has become a new organizational ideology. Under...

Description In the hotel industry customer and service orientation is paramount. Therefore, measuring performance contributes to generate transparency and supports directing employee behaviour to implement the hotel's objectives. Hereby, especially non-financial performance measures broken down...

Description This report is designed for business and technical managers who oversee or participate in a performance management initiative and want to learn how to create effective key performance indicators. The report examines the methods and techniques organizations can use to transform...

Description Performance management systems, which typically include performance appraisal and employee development, are the "Achilles' heel" of human resources management. They suffer flaws in many organizations, with employees and managers regularly bemoaning their ineffectiveness. E F F E C T...

Description Retail industry being transformed by a range of forces - including globalisation and new forms of competition; growth of online sales and changing consumer preferences. The industry provides many workers with their first employment opportunity, often on a flexible basis, and develops...

Description The travelling salesman problem (TSP) asks the following question: Given a list of cities and the distances between each pair of cities, what is the shortest possible route that visits each city exactly once and returns to the origin city? It is an NP-hard problem in combinatorial...

Description The traveling salesman problem (TSP) were studied in the 18th century by a mathematician from Ireland named Sir William Rowam Hamilton and by the British mathematician named Thomas Penyngton Kirkman. Detailed discussion about the work of Hamilton & Kirkman can be seen from the book...

Description As is well-known, there is no polynomial time approximation algorithm for the traveling salesman problem, with bounded ratio, unless P = NP. Consequently, the same holds for the general prize collecting traveling salesman problem. However, one sub-class of the traveling salesman...

Description The objective of pharmaceutical marketing is to make profits through satisfying customer needs and wants. Hence, the marketers have to understand the real needs, wants, belief and attitude of customers towards products and services. 163 CHAPTER – VI MANAGEMENT AND TRAINING OF SALES...

Description India is a country where the average selling of life insurance policies is still lower than many western and asian countries, with the second largest population in world the Indian insurance market is looking very prospective to many multinational and Indian insurance companies for...

Description Six Stages to the Consumer Buying Decision Process (For complex decisions). Actual purchasing is only one stage of the process. Not all decision processes lead to a purchase. All consumer decisions do not always include all 6 stages, determined by the degree of complexity. A...

Description Online shopping is a growing phenomenon worldwide and with increase in internet penetration India too is witnessing a surge in online shopping. Consumer buying behaviour is a widely researched area but online buying behaviour is a relatively new field of study. Marketers are trying...

Description Consumer Behavior may be defined as "the interplay of forces that takes place during a consumption process, within a consumers" self and his environment. The communication takes place between three elements viz. knowledge, discrimination and behavior; it persists through pre-purchase...

Description Study Paper on Identifying Key Factors Affecting Purchase Decision of Residential Apartments Real estate prices in The City Beautiful' Chandigarh have been shooting up to the extent that it is near impossible for salaried class to buy a home in Chandigarh. Major reasons for such...

Description A supply chain is a system of organizations, people, activities, information, and resources involved in moving a product or service from supplier to customer. Supply chain activities involve the transformation of natural resources, raw materials, and components into a finished...

Description The Supply Chain Craft Brewery Field Study is a winter term program designed specifically for Supply Chain Management students interested in the Supply Chain processes associated with the rapidly evolving U.S. brewing industry. Supply Chain Brewing Industry Field Study The Supply...