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Individual at work: Physical Characteristics, skills and Personality
(2010-06-29)
Organisations in their collective sense are composed of individual human beings.
These individuals act out their working lives within the framework of an organizational
structure and in the context of particular ...
Production operations management in small firm clusters: An alternative view from the Zimbabwean experience
(University of Zimbabwe Faculty of Commerce, 2014-06)
In Zimbabwe, like in most countries, there is a significant number of small manufacturing firms operating in "clusters" or industrial districts located in the vicinity of major towns and cities. It has been suggested that ...
Groups and Group Behaviour
(2010)
Groups and teams are a major feature of organisational life. The work organisation and its sub-units are made of, are groups of people. Most activities of the organisation require at least some degree of co-ordination ...
Collective bargaining
(PeCOP, 2009)
Collective bargaining is concerned with the relations between employers acting through their management representatives and organized labour. It is concerned not only with the negotiation of a formal labour agreement but ...
Strategic human resource management
(UZ Publications, 2010)
This book is intended both to be descriptive of Strategic Human Resource Management (SHRM) and its key constituent ideas and to be analytical of the approach and its ideas. It is intended that the reader leaves the volume ...
Corporate Diversification Strategies
(2010-06)
Attention shifts from formulating strategy for a single-business enterprise to formulating strategy for a diversified enterprise. Because a diversified firm is a collection of individual businesses but corporate strategy ...
Foreign Trade
(2010-06)
The importance of foreign trade in general and exporting in particular to a country’s economy cannot be over emphasised. It is through exporting that a country earns foreign exchange to buy essential products it does not ...
Gathering information for Marketing Decision-Making
(2010-06)
Marketing research is concerned with developing and analyzing the “facts” that help marketing managers do a better job of planning, executing and controlling. Marketing research is much more than a bundle of techniques or ...
Marketing Role in Society
(2010-06)
One reason for studying marketing is that, as consumers, a large share of purchasing dollar goes for marketing activities. Professor Reavis Cox (1995) estimated that 41.7 of this dollar is consumed by distribution activities. ...
Spurring workers' perfomance at work-place through job designing.
(PeCOP, 2009)
Overtime, some jobs become routine and less challenging, resulting in the demotivation of the job-holders. Effort should be made to make work more reading or satisfying by adding more meaningful tasks to a worker’s job. ...