Improvement Book Reviews Samples For Students

This paper has analyzed the problem of what impact does leadership have on quality. The scope of this work involves the specific work in the book called Leadership for quality by an author Juran J.M. It has reviewed various concepts by the author.

The approach to this problem has involved analyzing three functions of businesses, planning control and improvement in quality. Also, an analysis has been made in the work force part in order to get an idea of the factors that will lead to their improvement in quality.

The results in this analysis are that quality can be ...

Strategic Study: A Goal, the Process of Ongoing Improvement

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The following study relates to the concepts which have been introduced with respect to business management, establishment and improvement. The paper is a significant book review which consists of the student’s co-relations with the theories which have been discussed in the book. Within these four pages of the examination we shall be analyzing the ideologies of successfully becoming an entrepreneur where training, production and statistical establishment can be induced within a young business related mind. While discussing the field of supply chain and operation management, we can understand just how well the student can initiate similar processes to inculcate ...

Introduction

“International financial stability” was written by Roger w. Ferguson, Philipp Hartmann, Fabio Panetta and Richard Portes and published in the year 2007.The book provides an all inclusive perspective of financial stability in the consideration of great structural changes in the global financial system in the course of the last ten years. It is not an account of the events that occurred recently but it instead gives an analysis of “secular phenomenon” in a view point informed by “frontier academic research”. This report is going to look at the main issues raised by the authors in the book in relation to ...

Book Review

Franklin’s Autobiography was written at four different times and was left unfinished at his death. In fact, he said before his death that he did not want it to be published, but in fact he had sent copies of it to many friends and, within a month of his death, some parts of it were published in America and in 1791 Part One was published in a French translation. When we consider why Franklin wrote his autobiography, it seems that there was no coherent overall plan, and that in the four sections he had a slightly different purpose in each. The ...

Introduction

Using Evidence of Student Learning to Improve Higher Education, written by accomplished and known scholars, highlights the fact that students can acquire effective and useful learning only when educational institutions across the United States focus on transferring knowledge to students, rather than administer instruction with the sole objective of complying with state and donor funding regulations (Kuh et al., 2014). To this end, this paper focuses on the pivotal role of teachers in ensuring that their students are actively engaged in the pursuit of real knowledge that will help them in their career and future studies, as opposed to ...

Book review

Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement. Eliyahu M. Goldratt and Jeff Cox

Great Barrington: North River Press, 2004, 3-rd edition, 389 pages.

The literature of modernity presents new way of thinking and genres. The importance of specific knowledge within the fundamental sphere of business management is crucial. That is why a kind of prose such as production novel occurs. The production novel is a literary work where all the action is described on the background of some of the production process; all the characters in one way or another are involved in it. The solution of production problems creates some moral conflicts that characters should solve. Thus the reader ...

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Introduction. How to Win Friends and Influence People, by Dale Carnegie, is a book that has really stood the test of time. Initially written in the year 1936, the revised edition that is under review here is from 1981, copyrighted by Donna Carnegie (Mrs. Dale Carnegie). The book belongs to the genre of Self Improvement and talks about the basic principles that need to be followed to understand people that we deal with in our daily lives and excel in winning them. It is a book that educates people on becoming ...

Introduction

Dambisa Moyo is a Zambian innate with a Doctorate from Oxford University as well as a degree from the Harvard University. Moyo Dambisa has demonstrated her diligence working at the Goldman Sachs and the World Bank. Dambisa Moyo wrote her first book, the Dead Aid which is a controversial exploration of aid projects in the African Continent. The book by Moyo has received lots of praises from Kofi Annan. Kofi Quotes that the book is the best description of a fascinating case for a new strategy in Africa. She emphasizes that the time for Africa is here. Moyo further ...

This acclaimed book by Steven Shaer significantly takes an in depth look through the various effective ways and methods of employee improvement. It also gives a step by step approach to managing and evaluating employee performance. If the performance of the employees cannot be improved, the author simply recommends firing them. It brings out the challenge of managers and their specific role in highlighting underperforming employees to ensuring they are productive to the organization. Finally, the book discusses several management theories and their application to human resource management within an organization.
When evaluating employee performance it is very essential ...

The book “Professional Creativity” written by Eugene K. Von Fange is about creativity. The author of the book writes about the contribution of creativity in person’s professional life. He explains a logical view of creativeness and its effective use in aptitudes, planning and resources. By reading the book, the reader gets an understanding that how creativity helps in accomplishing goals successfully. Also, the deep study will let the reader know how to choose the path that will guide him towards creativity. The author of this book share his experience of professional use of creativity in the daily life to ...

Introduction

How Paris became Paris: The invention of Modern City is a book by DeJean Joan gives an account of events of the development of the city of Paris with regards to its architectural structures. The book is full of explanations on the characteristics of modern urban center and how its buildings and structure came to be what the world is witnessing right now. The author begins the book by focusing on two French kings; King Henry IV and King Louis XIV who were alive more than two centuries before Haussmann Baron, a public worker who led the widespread renovation of buildings ...

“Abolishing Performance Appraisals" Book Review

"Abolishing Performance Appraisals" by Tom Coens and Mary Jenkins is both a challenging and thought-provoking book focusing on one of the premises of Human Resources Management. The effectiveness of performance appraisals is brought into question with the authors terming it as a “tool of patriarchy” at the workplace. The book shows why performance appraisal, as a practice in management, should be done away with and provide the steps on what can be done instead. It also cites several detailed case studies of firms or corporations that have effectively abolished the employee performance appraisal in their operations. The book is tailored for all ...

Overview of the National Banking Sectors in North Africa

Banking regulations on the acceptable standards have become a central point of discussion in most developed nations especially due to the recent financial crisis. A program or scheme that enforces the channeling of resources into more investments would boost the financial stability of the economies of most developing nations. A study of the regulations in the banking industry on the economic growth can reveal a lot concerning the economic growth in some specific South Mediterranean countries (Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco and Egypt). The banking efficiency and its proximity to internationally acceptable standards are measured using convergence methodologies such as β-convergence, Meta Frontier ...

Introduction

Casino Capitalism is a vivid description of the international financial markets, their behavior, and the economic strength they yield to various entities. The book goes on to describe the advantages of international financial markets and some of the evils associated with the same. The author, Susan Strange was a former student of the British international relations studies; she is mostly renowned for her contributions to the creation of the international political economy. Apart from her major publication of the Casino Capitalism in 1986, she also published other books, namely: States and Markets (1988), The Retreat of the State (1996) ...

Van Lier’s ecological approach examines the learning process holistically by looking at the behavior of teachers and learners. The author places emphasis on the interaction between the two as way of enhancing the use of language. This approach explores the interaction in social, physical and symbolic level. The Ecology and Semiotics of the Language Learning by Van Lier offers a detailed overview of the ecology of the learning of language. It encompasses various concepts such as semiotics, self, emergence and pragmatic effects of an ecological view regarding the use of language in the classroom. Also, Van Lier’s ...

Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. By Benjamin Franklin. Ed. Frank Woodworth Pine.( Garden City, N.Y.: Garden City Pub. Co. , 1916.) 343 pp. Reviewed by

Benjamin Franklin is one of America’s greatest statesmen and was born in Boston in the year 1706 as the 15th of 17 children, and the youngest of his father’s sons. Franklin was born to Josiah Franklin, a candle, and soap maker who had immigrated to the United States from Northamptonshire in England (2). The young Benjamin disliked his father’s profession highly and did not want to follow his example. Hence, Franklin went to ...

Business Culture Inside and Out

Book Review: Reflective Reaction on the Compare and Contrast of Readings
Introduction
Business is business, the new world tends to define business as something that is rather considered more as an institution that tends to bring better culture and better opportunities to members of the society. However, when it comes to the actual value of business, the industry of commerce defines business as a machine that brings in the different resources altogether to create a system that tends to manipulate operations for the sake of earning more money and gaining more profit from whatever could be gained from what ...

Section I: Selection of Business

Economics is a social science concerned with decision making along with money making. Macroeconomics is concerned with the general problems of the whole economy as inflation, unemployment and growth. To start any business, the tools of economics are very important. I had chalked out a few prospective business plans for starting my own commercial activity. There was a lot of dilemma in the beginning, the plans were so many but the feasibility had to be worked out. I arrived at two options first, to open a café and second to open a fitness studio. Both the café and fitness were in great demand. Since ...

“The Depression Cure: The 6-Step Program to Beat Depression without Drugs” by Ilardi (2009) is a self-help book for people who suffer from depression that helps them make lifestyle changes associated with improvements in depression scores. The book is divided into three sections, which include understanding depression, therapeutic lifestyle change, and making the change. In understanding depression, the author begins with describing a case study of a patient he had personally treated for depression. Of course, it is noted that names throughout the books were changed to protect the patient-therapist privacy while allowing the author to build trust and expertise by writing ...

Introduction

The ability to convey information through exchange of messages or thoughts is enhanced by a good understanding of English grammar. Writing as a medium of communication is complement to the spoken language or speech. Writing is basically a powerful tool for studying since it plays critical role in education. Among the benefits of writing include generating new ideas, helping us to both absorb and master fresh information, and discover what we know. A number of English textbooks have in one way or another improved the use of English grammar in both writing and speaking among many students. One of these books is “ ...

Introduction

This book brings about the history of the deaf people in the United States in the nineteenth century and the developments that it underwent in recognition of the importance of language as a mode of communication in a way that is not only understood by the English speakers but one that also cuts across the broader spectrum of communication development and its impact both social and more fundamentally the work environment. Though little according to the book is known about the non white deaf people in the United States, a major irony is drawn from this since this was a time after colonization ...