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Description Human Resource Management (HRM) is the organizational function that deals with issues relating to people such as compensation, hiring, performance management, safety, benefits, employees motivation, communication, administration and training. Global Journal of Finance and...

Description We are witnessing a change in the nature of jobs. Muscle jobs are disappearing, finger and brain jobs are growing or, to put it more formally, labor-based industries have been displaced by skill-based industries and these in turn will have to be replaced by knowledge-based...

Description HRM Study on Three-Stage Process and Influencing Organisational Factors - Strategic Human Resource Management A three-stage model for the process of strategic human resource management is developed in this paper. The three stages cover strategy formulation, implementation and...

Description The pressures on traditional IR models are not all due to globalization, as we shall see, but many of the changes taking place can be traced to globalization. it is not always easy to disentangle the causes and effects of globalization. INTERNATIONAL LABOUR ORGANISATION ACT/EMP...

Description 50 years since the airline industry began to teach the rest of the world how to conduct business electronically, much has changed within and across airline distribution. Although airlines don't fly the same planes in 2012 that they did in the 1950s, 1960s, or 1970s, parts of the...

Description Over the last two decades, rising internet and mobile phone penetration has changed the way we communicate and do business. E-commerce is relatively a novel concept. It is, at present, heavily leaning on the internet and mobile phone revolution to fundamentally alter the way...

Description This paper examines the effect of the advent and diffusion of e-commerce on supply-side industry structure. We specify a general industry model involving consumers with differing search costs buying products from heterogeneous producers. We interpret e-commerce as a reduction in...

Description Airlines were the earliest practitioners of e-commerce and airline ticket sales now consist the largest portion of all product sales made online. That is because online sales bring greater benefits to airlines than to any other industry. Yet, the Internet brings blessings to the...

Description In the last few years, the way businesses deal with their waste has moved up the agenda. There has been a growing recognition that businesses, in both the commercial and industrial sector and the construction, demolition and excavation industries, need to be more aware of the...

Description Hazardous waste is waste that poses substantial or potential threats to public health or the environment. In the United States, the treatment, storage, and disposal of hazardous waste is regulated under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). Hazardous wastes are defined...

Description Environmental pollution is the major problem associated with rapid industrialization, urbanization and rise in living standards of people. Efforts has to be made for controlling pollution arising out of the disposal of wastes by conversion of these unwanted wastes into utilizable raw...

Description Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) play a critical role in a nation's economy. The US Small Business Administration (2010) estimates SMEs represent 99.7 % of all employer firms, employ about 50% of the private sector workforce, and pay more than 45% of total private payroll in...

Description White Paper Study on Problems in Financing and Managing Small-Scale Enterprises in Bangledesh Sometimes called a small business, a small-scale enterprise is a business that employs a small number of workers and does not have a high volume of sales. Such enterprises are generally...

Description Poverty is becoming an obvious phenomenon worldwide and in line with Ikoni, poverty is noticeable in all parts of the world but the extent, severity and characteristics of poverty may differ within and across countries. Ajala and Fakoye in Ogbuabor, Malaolu and Elias confirmed that...

Description Organizations typically strive to attain some long-term goal (vision) with a defined purpose (mission) following a general plan. Strategic planning is the process of defining/formulating such a general plan for an organization encapsulating its intentions and actions, encompassing a...

Description It is odd in some ways to be comparing Amazon and eBay. To most people, Amazon is a retailer selling products to consumers and eBay is an auction house where consumers congregate to sell to one another. However, a keen analysis reveals that these two companies are direct competitors...

Description Online social shopping is a new business model emerging in E-Commerce world and becoming quite popular in recent years. Online social-shopping website is where people can recommend their favorite products for others to discover and purchase online. Online social shopping combines...

Description South Africa has entered the era of industry transformation charters that have to be harmonised with the Department of Trade and Industry's broad-based black economic empowerment (B-BBEE) scorecard and codes of good practice. In these charters, targets are set with regard to...

Description Growing political and academic interest in entrepreneurship and business demography, and particularly the role and value of new businesses in national economies, is prompting various research projects on these topics. One of the main issues faced by researchers and policy makers is...

Description Peak cane prices, high interest costs, low sugar realisations, low ethanol prices, low yielding cane, global turmoil, controlled sector, export quota and industry cyclicality. The year 2011-12 was possibly the most challenging year for India’s sugar industry. And yet, Dhampur...