Latest Management Articles
How to Choose the Right Management Consultant?
By: Editor-123 | 10/10/2008
Often managers face difficulties while selecting services of the right consultant for their respective needs. Choosing the best help from an outsider is a complex process, which requires special skills to ensure the end results. In this article, we'll discuss the main criterion to select a consultant for a growing company.
Should You Conduct Paid Surveys?
By: Ryan J Bell | 10/10/2008
Organizations that conduct surveys can benefit from the valuable information they provide. They can offer unique insight into customer perceptions, market opinions, employee morale, and daily operational issues. Aside from the proper design and execution of a survey, one of the main challenges is getting people to participate. Over the...
Why is it Generating Passive Income is Easy?
By: Trisha Rich | 08/10/2008
Generate passive income and work with your home based business using the advantage of world wide web technology.
Freeze Drying Services: Restoring Your Archives
By: Ben Anton | 08/10/2008
Museums, libraries and other organizations have the important and vital job of preserving historical archives and books for future generations. The best way for institutions like these to prevent document and archive loss is to implement storage techniques that will protect valuable articles against such catastrophes as flood or mold...
No One Wants to Hear They Have an Ugly Baby
By: TLS | 08/10/2008
It’s time to admit you have an, “Ugly Baby!” Or, in distribution terminology, “Admit your warehouse is in shambles!” If your warehouse has returns that sit around for days without being processed, “Your warehouse is in shambles.” If your warehouse has receiving that does not get received for days, then once it is received it sits again before it is put away, “Your warehouse is in shambles!”
Business Plans For Tough Times-5 Keys to Success
By: Maryann Shank | 08/10/2008
Do existing businesses need money? Probably.
Is this a time to start a business? Maybe.
In either case, the business plan you write today will be different than the one you wrote five years ago. Five years ago money was available. It is still there, but it is a lot harder to...
Service, Thy Name is Customer
By: Richard Laermer | 08/10/2008
Hello to you, the service person.
Yes, sure, we are all about service. It’s a funny word that has had more than a few crazy meanings. When someone says “I’m servicing” another, I immediately think something dirty.
Sorry, Big Doesn't Get the Job Done
By: Richard Laermer | 08/10/2008
The CEO of a fast-growing Web company recently asked me why he should hire RLM PR, an 18-person firm, instead of a so-called name firm. Having been in a self-owned service business for 17 years, I was confused by this query. What's a name? Never one to say "no" to a challenge, I am herewith answering him in public.
More from Dr. Rami Schayek
Performance Measurement, the Importance of Multidimensional Structure
By: Dr. Rami Schayek | 29/09/2008 | Management
Evaluate the need for constructing a multidimensional structure of business performance in order to achieve the best possible results when conducting performance measurement.
Performance Measurement, Difficulties in Measuring Small Business Performance
By: Dr. Rami Schayek | 31/08/2008 | Small Business
Trying to measure performance, in general, is a difficult task for scholars; the difficulties intensify when the subject is the measurement of small business performance. In this article an overview of the major obstacles for measuring small business performance is presented.
Performance Measurement, Operational and Financial Performance
By: Dr. Rami Schayek | 26/06/2008 | Management
Empirically, most strategy research studies employ the construct of business performance to examine a variety of strategy content and process issues. This second article in the series concerns the use of financial and operational performance.
Performance Measurement, Organization Theory
By: Dr. Rami Schayek | 12/06/2008 | Management
Murphy et al., (1996) argue that in organization theory, three fundamental theoretical approaches to measuring organizational effectiveness have evolved: goal-based approach, systems approach and multiple constituency approach.
Characteristics of Small Business Definition
By: Dr. Rami Schayek | 29/05/2008 | Small Business
The article objective is to suggest some guidelines that can help reduce the level of ambiguity regarding the definition of small business. The method to reach that objective is through an analysis and characterization of five significant parameters that have been used by different scholars to define small business.
The Ambiguity of Small Business Definition
By: Dr. Rami Schayek | 26/05/2008 | Small Business
A literature review of 23 papers revealed an inconsistency regarding both characterization and definition of small business
Defining Firm Level Entrepreneurship
By: Dr. Rami Schayek | 06/05/2008 | Entrepreneurship
Establishing a common base for defining firm level entrepreneurship
What is Market Orientation, and Does it Help My Small Business Performance?
By: Dr. Rami Schayek | 22/04/2008 | Small Business
Market orientation is one of the most important activities that you should embrace into your small business day to day operation in order to improve its performance. Learn, what is market orientation? And how can you determine whether you’re implementing market orientation philosophy in your small business?
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