Employment Literature Reviews Samples For Students

A job is generally defined as a piece of work or labor, especially if it a specific task handled by an individual as part of a routine in ones occupation, for an agreed price. A good job is in many ways described depending on one’s own background, economists for example define good jobs as those, which pay a reasonable minimum and include pension benefits as well as healthcare.
In today’s world, altering of the good and bad jobs picture occurs in three ways. Firstly, the business press, including other scholars, has opposed the notion known to many that a good job ...

Introduction

Industrial/Organizational psychology is an applied science dealing with psychology of ‘people at work’. (Kalat 2002). The workplace dynamics comprise of both tangible and non-tangible elements, both of which impact on employee satisfaction. Satisfied employees tend to be more committed and enthusiastic about their work. Moreover, employee satisfaction and dedication is contingent on a number of closely related variables such as, employee engagement, empowerment, the perceived (organizational) support structures as well as the organization’s commitment to employee welfare. Employees feel empowered when they have more opportunities for interacting with colleagues, a certain level of decision making authority and are accorded a fair ...

The changes that have been witnessed in climate that have been influenced by global warming have prompted the need to try and seek for alternative sources of energy. Spain like many other developing and already established nations has taken the intuitive to try and put their resources into investing on green energy. Through this intuitive, there have been creation of industrial plants that are aimed at ensuring that there are enough resources put into green power production. There have been the establishments of areas that have been set aside for the production of energy through, wind, hydroelectric power, and ...

Literature Review

Introduction
A perfect place which is made to have the significance of employees particularly, in which the employees that would get the things in the right manner is known as an Organization (Aswathappa, 2002). Apart from this particular definition, there is yet another important definition related with the organizations, which is that organization is a core place wherein lots of employees work together which are bifurcated into different departments in particular is known as an Organization (Aswathappa, 2009).
There are numerous departments that collectively make and transform such strategies from which they can execute the things in the ...

LITERATURE REVIEW: VIRGIN ATLANTIC AND EMPLOYEE MOTIVATIONS WITHIN THE AVIATION INDUSTRY

Virgin Atlantic is one of the largest names in the aviation industry in Europe. Although the company began as a rather small, localised group, it quickly grew into a group that has become one of the powerhouses of British airlines. This discussion will center around the details of the company; it will also investigate the literature surrounding the question of how employer and management attitudes affect staff and employee motivation in the aviation industry and beyond into other industries.
Virgin Atlantic is a British airline which was established in June 22, 1984. Leadership is a significant skill that can increase the survival ...

Introduction

Staff turnover is vital for a hospitality organization, especially when the organizations aim at a high-quality service. The focus of the hospitality business must be to provide outstanding service that will give a memorable experience to the guests. For offering such experience, trained and happy people are required. A high rate of employee turnover has negative and immediate effect on the organization.Hospitality industry is a labor intensive industry, requiring a variety of skills, knowledge and attitudes, and levels of competency. The labor turnover rate in the hospitality industry is observed as higher than other segments. Many positions are available in the hospitality organizations ranging ...

1. Introduction
The banking industry is one of the most important and crucial industries in any economy as they perform many vital financial functions associated with the development of the nation’s economy (Scott, 2007). The utility provided by banks to the customers determines the popularity of the bank in the market and likewise also has an impact on the competitive position of the bank in a particular market.
As banks are a part of the service industry, the competency of a given banks is largely dependent on the human resources employed in the organisation. This document analyses the aspect ...

Literature review

There has been research regarding the efforts of recruiting new police officers into service. There are various efforts that have been undertaken by different police departments in order to enhance the recruitment efforts. Having this knowledge will help understand what works and what does not work in the process. Information from this literature review will help San Jose department come up with their own framework for recruiting new police officers. There have been police recruitment issues and problems across the United States due to economical and social issues and challenges. The United States is faced with exodus of police ...

A scholarship presents nurses with the opportunity to observe, analyze, and synthesize practice knowledge as well as to test theories and procedures learned. A Scholarship leads to a new understanding of nursing phenomena. One of the roles of a DNP-prepared nurse is practice-enquiry, which is an exercise that seeks to identify practice challenges experienced by practicing nurses with the intention of deriving solutions (Pape & Robert 43). In practice-enquiry, the nurse has the role of evaluating practice evidence with the intention of identifying the challenges that exist (Pape & Robert 43). For instance, an investigating a health organization's mentorship program can help in the ...

The scope of scripts in Bedford Anthology of World Literature

The Bedford Anthology of World Literature presents literature that nature the reader to associate with the literatures and culture from various civilizations. Initially, Fyodor Dostoevsky focuses on various factors that affected the Russian artists attempting to address the issues from a literature point of view. He felt that Russia stood out as the mainstream of political and economic activities in Europe and deserved westernization treatment. Matsuo Basho shows mastery of the poetic rules through the narrow road, which shows his major travels, addressed through the routes that he used across Europe. Ramprasad Sen writes a religious recapture of India, narrating different ...

Introduction

Employee engagement can be defined in various ways. However, it can be generally referred to as the ability and willingness of employees to help the organization in which they are employed achieve its objectives. This is achieved by the employees providing their services in a discretional way and in sustainable circumstances. Employee engagement entails two main aspects; psychological and HR practice. The psychological aspect involves the kind of job one is doing, the resources at the employee’s disposal and the experience one goes through during the engagement. Furthermore, the ability of the organization to empower its employees and its ...

2. Literature review
The phrase Quality of work life (QWL) according to Stephen and Dhanapal (2011); Bagtasos (2011), originates back in 19th century labor conference at Arden House, Columbia University. Stephen and Dhanapal states that people use the term to refer to the well-being of organization employees. Nevertheless, Normala (2010) uses business perspective to define QWL as employee satisfaction and their work related behaviors. Stephen and Dhanapal indicates that QWL also affects employees in the way they response to their work in terms of job performance, job effort, organization identification, job involvement, job satisfaction, personal alienation, intention to ...

Introduction

This review intends to discuss the literature on Disclaimers in the context of HR Communications. Disclaimers are statements which appear in a document, action or in a communication in order to specify in advance the limits of legal possibilities, ownership, effects or reactions of these documents and actions and communications. Often the disclaimers are used as a tool to avoid predicted damages caused by possible legal actions. However, the legal validity of disclaimers in general is loose and is often dependent on the interpretation by the jurisdiction varying from case to case.
Disclaimers in the context of Human Resource Management include ...

The Equity theory was first developed by John Stacey Adams. Equity theory attempts to draw a relation between the pay of an employee to his input and eventual output at workplace. On the surface, equity theory advances the notion that the higher one is paid, the more input he should put and hence the more of the organizational output ought to be credited to him. However, the complexity of reward management system in various organizations makes the assumption flawed in some instances. This paper discusses equity theory, examines its modern day applications and critically reviews its place in management of ...

Arguably, every individual and item has its own unique way of existence, whereby they perform their duties based on strong integration and bond to them. In this case, everything has some weakness that is understood at an individual level. When the integrative force and bonds are disrupted, the entire performance level will reduce. In an organization, departments co-exist dependency, and each department comprises diverse individuals. In the article, it is hypothesized that training and feedback in an organization improve the level of performance in various organizations. Hence, in order to bring out the impact advanced factors should be put into ...

Psychological contract’: An Introduction

In 1960 Argyris gave the concept of the ‘psychological contract’. However, this concept got remarkable popularity amongst various researchers relating to organizational management. During the 1990’s the global economy witnessed an economic recession that caused major restructuring, mergers and acquisition in various organizations. Such changes also led to a new approach towards the organizations, employers and the workers. The concept of the psychological contract assisted in explaining these changes and, the renewed focus amongst employees and employers (Van den Brande, 1999).

The early definitions of psychological contract created expectations from the both the individual and the organizations. In 1989 ...

Introduction4

Employee engagement .4
Importance of employee engagement.6
Leadership ...9

Leadership types9

Participative (Democratic) leadership type9
Transformational and Transactional leadership types10
Authoritarian (Dictatorial) leadership type..11

Situational leadership type, Organic leadership type 12

The relationship between employee engagement and leadership13
Summary15
References..16
Literature Review
Introduction
Organizational leadership effectiveness is one of the most significant aspects of the fast growing organizations experiencing competitiveness regarding employee engagement. In the governmental sector, leadership remains the major determinant of employee engagement (Catteeuw, Flynn & Vonderhorst, 2007). One of the most common leadership styles used in governmental sector is the traditional leadership, which enforces the effective concepts of authority and power (Germano, 2010). Nonetheless, the leadership ...

Literature Review

Introduction
Employee turnover can be defined as the rotation of individuals around the labor market, between jobs, organizations, and careers. Besides, it is the amount of movement of workers in and out of a company, normally occur in terms of the employee turnover rate (Ronra & Chaisawat, 2010). Employees may involuntarily leave the company as a result of discharge or layoff, or voluntarily because of retirement or resignation. In most cases, voluntary turnover takes place when a worker feels dissatisfaction with his current job and has attractive alternatives in other companies.
Employee turnover and retention have always been key issues ...

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Introduction
Organizational stress, commonly known as work stress, is one of the top reasons for stress among people. In a survey conducted by Pleiter, it was found that 64% of the stress can be attributed to financial problems and 60% of the stress can be attributed to organizational issues or work related stress (Pleiter, 2015). Organizational stress and its impact on employee productivity and organization’s profitability has been a topic of research for many decades. Causes of ...

Chapter 2: Literature review

Introduction
This chapter presents the literature review appraisal that exists and is linked to work contentment and inspiration subjects and how these issues are closely related to industrial performance. The chapter discusses the concept of motivation, job satisfaction, and project management and employee satisfaction. Organizational performance as well as its continuity largely depends on critical assets, employees and the managers' capabilities to create and sustain motivating environments of the employees and other human assets. The primary challenge that managers are faced with today is keeping their human capital such as the employees satisfied and motivated. Therefore, all managers must ...

Literature Review

Overview
The research question is essential for any study; as it will enable the researcher to focus on a particular subject to do research. The research question for this study is the effect of direct communication between the CEO and the employees when it comes to Job satisfaction. The question allows the researcher to focus on the concept of job satisfaction, internal communication the roles of both the CEO and the employees, and the factors that influence communication enhancement.
Internal communication is the frequency of interaction between the upper level of management and the lower level of management (Bloom, ...

Literature Review

Abstract
Nowadays attracting and retaining professional and skilled staff has become a challenge for many companies. Many organizations experience significant turnover that adds complications to their business activity. Providing employees with the rewards of different kinds helps companies to deal with this problem, assists with retaining talent, and reduces expenses for hiring. The rewards offered by the organizations can be of different kinds and serve various goals. Rewards can be financial and non-financial, extrinsic and intrinsic. Management of these rewards differs from company to company and is usually designed to serve the certain goals of the organizations. One more ...

Abstract

The main core of this work keenly and thoroughly addresses the issue of E-recruitment, which currently has replaced the physical recruitment. Top level management despite its act of embracing change and its prevailing aspects has really faced great challenge, thereby becoming to some bothersome due to managing complexities. Apart from the efficient operations made easier through E-recruitment and minimization of costs contrary to the past, where colossal sums of money went into maintaining and sustaining recruitment exercise, the problems affecting it have to be well handled if the business world is at any cost to benefit from it. The ...

Literature Review

Nowadays social media is becoming more and more important either for individuals or for businesses worldwide. It plays a significant role in the life of almost every person. Therefore it is natural that it attracts much attention of the researchers, especially those trying to study its influence upon the business activity of the companies. This Literature Review is an attempt to research the effects of social media on employment in the UK.

Social Media in the World

According to Diercksen et al. (2013), websites of social media may be considered to be a huge resource to the world of business. Employees that use social ...

Literature Review

LITERATURE REVIEW
INTRODUCTION
Literature review involves a review of the secondary research literature to strengthen the theoretical concepts related to research and the insights provided by past researchers in the area. This section provides a detailed view of existing research literature on the topics related to the perceptions of employees on informal training practices and its possible impact on the job satisfaction. The literature review chapter develops the assessment of the information and research-based literature that was developed in the past that will guide the development of the research literature in the future. The section also provides a reference to ...

Research Objectives

The principal objectives of this research project are to:
Find the source of the problem that discourages employees from staying within the organization
Determining the different issues faced by employees that are leading to the high turnover observed at the organization
Data collection plan
In order to address the research objectives outlined above, a mixed methodology will be employed. This implies that both primary and secondary data will be collected in order to address this objectives.

Exit interviews:

The first source of primary data for the research will be exist interviews. Exit interviews will provide both qualitative and ...

I. Introduction
Many employee studies revealed that training and development have a considerable impact in improving job satisfaction and employee retention. Thus, training and development is important in the hospitality industry, not only as a means avoid the high cost associated with employee turnover, but also to reduce the time spent in hiring and training new staffs. A better understanding of the significance of training may lead to the implementation of high quality training in hospitality industries. This paper aims to analyze the staff and management view of training for employees’ satisfaction and motivation in Ritz Carlton Seoul, Korea.
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Labor Market

Labor market is a form of the economy that functions through demand and the supply of labor. Labor demand is the companies demand; labor and supply focus on the supply of the labor workers. The bargaining power is likely to have high influence on both supply and demand. Majority of the nation is aware that the labor market institutions that have equalizing effects tend to encounter challenges (Peitchinis, 2005). Policy change is required in relation to equality since it ensures that the status quo focuses on both national and international change. Labor market comprises of employees searching for work, employers ...

E-Recruitment refers to the situation where a firm posts job vacancies on an online platform so as to attract competent recruits, who then submit their resumes electromechanically. E-Human Resource Management is a modern system that characterizes the workplace with more innovative technologies (Dhamija, 2012). The technological advancements have enabled the automation of Human Resources procedures and processes through a database. Thus, this article focuses on addressing various innovations like the introduction of Virtual Human Resource and Human Resource Management System. The article is relevant to the modern day workplace since every firm strives to have an efficient technological system, ...

Literature Review

Prevalence of Absent Fathers
In the United States, the number of absentee fathers has been increasing. Whether this trend is due to factors such as work, divorce, out-of-wedlock births, never-married mothers, incarceration, or new family dynamics like changing gender roles in the family, it is known that fatherless children experience much high risk factors than their peers. According to the National Center for Fathering (2016), in the United States there are an estimated 24.7 million children living without their biological fathers. In the 1960’s only 5.3% of children were born out-of-wedlock, in 2010 that percent has risen to ...

U.S. GAAP versus IFRS.

ABSTRACT

There are notable differences between the International Accounting Standard Boards and the Financial Accounting Standard Boards models of accounting for income tax. Efforts to harmonize the two standards through the Exposure Draft were dropped in 2009 and have not been reviewed thereafter. In 2012, SEC staff provided a final IFRS framework that outlined its efforts and findings but did not provide any conclusions or recommendations for any actions. The difference between IFRS and US GAAP remain significantly felt in many areas and are of major interests to users of financial statements. The main areas of comparison ...

Introduction

Professional setting: Nursing manager
A nurse manager has the responsibility of the clinical and administrative functions of a nursing unit. In my case, I am in charge of the intensive care unit section. There are many challenges that face the sector in specific and the nursing industry in general. The most acute case in this sector is the shortage of nurses.
This paper will provide a literature review on the subject through research by use of peer review journals. It will also use bibliographic databases to prove its facts. The concepts of search include the acute and growing nursing ...

Included in this review of literature are the main concepts being studied for this research. These are the concepts of “personality” and “work performance,” its theoretical introduction, the relationship between these two main variables. This review shall outline the definition of these two important concepts and the major trends in interpreting their relationships. It shall also point out the alternative explanations of their relationships and how it can be resolved.
According to Phares & Chaplin (1997), personality traits are major constructs in the field of psychology. These have been defined in various respects. Personality traits are described to be ...

Article Reviews

Strategic HRM Practices and Their Impact on Company Performance in Chinese Enterprises
Summary

In the article Strategic HRM practices and their impact on company performance in Chinese enterprises, Akhtar, Ding, & Ge (2008) “examined the factorial validity of strategic human resource management practices and their effects on company performance” (Akhtar et al., p. 15) by sampling 465 Chinese organizations. They conducted a study using the best practices approach in order to determine the influence of HRM practices on company performance “in the context of Chinese enterprises using a large sample” (Akhtar et al., p. 16). The best practices approach included “internal ...

Qualitative Research about the Effects of Organizational Structure on Employee Attitudes and Behaviors

According to Rogelberg, organizational structure is the grouping of people and the activities of different departments to enhance decision-making, coordination of communication channels and supervision of activities that are done (2007).
In essence, employees are an essential resource for any functional organization unit, and the outcome of any activity they carry out is influenced by their attitudes and behaviors (Bowles & Cooper, 2009). Employees in an organization can be affected by a certain object that triggers either positive or negative attitude towards it, for instance, an employee can have negative or positive feeling towards the job he/she has within the ...

Psychology's Role in the Workplace: Promoting Well-Being and Raising Awareness

Any psychologically healthy business should foster its employees into the well-being while boosting organizational performance and productivity. Psychologically healthy and balanced workplace practices may be grouped into several categories: employee engagement, work-life balance, staff growth and improvement, health and basic safety, and employee recognition.
You should note that there is no basic approach to creating an emotionally healthy workplace. Accomplishment of this goal is based, in part, in addressing the problems unique to the organization and drawing awareness to programs and insurance policies to meet their employee’s needs. One problem in the workplace is stress. This may ...

Business Process Management

Abstract
The literature review on the topic of enterprise resource planning (ERP) of business process management (BPM) as part of information systems (IS) strategies in South African businesses covers both scholarly and professional management discussions about outsource administration of IT systems operations. The rise of outsource IT in the business sector is predicted to realign business and trade into the future. The trend in emergent market outsource IS data management in and by South African firms is fast becoming a lead topic in a nation formerly characterised as an industrial economy with developing country challenges.
The enactment of South ...

Recruitment and Selection Issues

Human resource planning is an essential but a complex task which encompasses predicting and formulating plans for selection and recruitment process. Planning entails the determination of the right kinds and numbers of personnel required by the organization in a given time. Additionally, planning involves performing a critical analysis of the human resource needs of a firm under the required conditions in a way that the selection and recruitment will benefit the organization (Francis and Joy 2012 p 69). However, due to the complexity of the planning role, there are various selection and recruitment issues that may arise.
The selection ...

Introduction to the literature review

Working mothers have called for UAE companies to be more flexible. They want companies to establish flexitime, a system that allocates the number of hours a woman would work in a week. For a long period, Emirati mothers have always dedicated their child-rearing duties to their nannies. The flexitime is said to help women balance between home and work responsibilities. In situations where women are expected to work for longer hours, they are constrained to perform domestic roles. According to Khoori (2015), the new system guarantees job satisfaction and improved productivity in the workplace. There are numerous uncertainties associated ...

Introduction

Canada is a developed country whose economy resembles that of the United States of America. Canada is a high-technology industrial economy, generating trillions of dollars in annual revenues. The country’s living standards and economic systems are very similar to the US, having economic sectors that complement its manufacturing, mining and service industries .
Canada, along with the United States and Mexico, signed the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in 1994 which opened trade and economic integration among the three participating countries . Ever since the NAFTA happened, Canada experienced a very dramatic increase in trade with the United States. This increased ...

[Title of Institution]
Derby, M. (2014, July 3). Robust June Hiring Moves Forward Likely Fed Rate Hike, J.P. Morgan Says . Retrieved July 4, 2014, from The Wall Street Journal Website: http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2014/07/03/robust-june-hiring-moves-forward-likely-fed-rate-hike-j-p-morgan-says/?mod=WSJ_hp_LEFTTopStories
Summarize the article: The article spoke about the strong employment rate that seems to favor the second half of 2014 in the US. This was something that was not expected by the Feds. Thus, they have projected interest rate to be closer to zero to compensate for the declining economy and help somehow raise expenditure by encouraging consumers to borrow from the bank. However, in the wake ...

Literature Review

Technology

Introduction

Effat University located in Jeddah in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) is in need of a Health Clinic Web Page. The correct management application will enhance the usefulness of the health clinic for the students as well as its staff. The use of digital technology in a health clinic has particular characteristics that may not be as important in other environments. The purpose for this web development is to add a management application for one employee and a nurse and it is a management application. Therefore a web based application will be developed using Oracle. The purpose of this literature review is to ...

Workplace behaviour is a common topic of modern psychological studies behaviour within an organisation is an important aspect of human psychological functioning. Work psychology is mainly concerned with several relationships, but the main issues are the relationship between the individual and the individual’s work and the relationships among the members of an organisation (J. Arnold et al., 2005). Other areas of interest for work psychology are personnel selection, education, performance appraisals, organisational development, personal development, workplace safety, and motivation (J. Arnold et al., 2005). Despite the amount of different factors that define workplace behaviour, knowing leadership skills, employee motivation ...

Introduction

Practically every aspect of business has undergone a massive transformation over the past two decades as globalization and modernization fueled by technological advancement have engulfed the business landscape. As a result, significant change has been witnessed in a variety of business related areas that range from business operations and information technology, to strategic competitive positioning and human resource management. Regardless of the area of business in question, it is the leadership that has come to play an integral role in the change and innovation process, which has enabled the business landscape as a whole to transform into the highly efficient, modernized and high-tech ...

Abstract

Established in the year 1976, Acer is currently one among the top three most renowned PC brands in the international scene. Over the last four decades of the company’s existence, remarkable changes have taken place. Managing such change has posed quite a challenge for both the management and the other stakeholders – both external and internal. This paper is based on a critical review of change management in Acer; the Taiwan based PC Company that has emerged as one of the legendary organizations as far as strong management is, in the east. The first part of the paper is the introduction, which ...

Acknowledgement

Chapter 1
Introduction
Statement of Problem
Statement of Purpose
Research Questions
Significance of the Study
Definition of Terms:
Chapter 11
History of pay inequality
Chapter 111
Laws
Chapter 1V
Women in leadership roles
Chapter V
Research Methodology
Conclusion

Bibliography

Abstract
Gender Differences as a Predictor of Salaries in Leadership Roles.
Salaries have increased drastically in the past 50 years but still there is a salary disparity between men and women. In today’s workplace, leadership roles are very competitive. Applicants must have many qualifications to be considered for leadership positions. Workforce found that women needed a Ph.D. to equal the ...

Interpersonal and Organizational Communication

Abstract
Communication represents a significant component of institutions. Effective communication is mandatory for a particular business to meet its objectives. Communications among the employees as well as other stakeholders keep the business on track. It is essential for the management of an institution to be aware of the barriers to effective interpersonal as well as institutional communication. Besides, the managers must also understand the various communication modes that are appropriate to the business entity. Effective communication is a crucial ingredient in the success of a business entity. Therefore, a proper understanding of institutional and interpersonal communication is necessary.
Keywords: ...

The article, “The Effect of Training and Development on Employee Attitude as it Relates to Training and Work Proficiency” by Debra L. Truitt looks into the impact that development efforts directed towards workers have to organizations. The study is built on the realization that an informational gap exists in the concept of employee development in small and mid-sized companies (Truitt, 2011). The study seeks to find out whether there is a relationship between employee training and the development of positive attitudes to training and proficiency in a given job.
The study takes an experimental approach since it involves the ...

Human resource management (HRM) is tasked with the challenging undertaking of hiring and assigning individuals to roles that they can perform efficiently. In this context, having high knowledge on the effective strategies and policies for recruiting and training employees becomes mandatory. This is practical with the recruitment and management of expatriate managers due to the sophisticated nature of their work. Recruitment entails searching and getting potential job candidates in adequate numbers and quality to appoint the most suitable individuals to fill the desired positions. The selection includes the procedure for collecting information to inform the decision of deciding the ...

A CASE STUDY OF SODEXO

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
This research evaluates the management styles at Sodexo and the impact that such style shave on Personnel motivation. Sodexo is a popular international company whose services fall under the hospitality and catering sector. A total population of 25 respondents will be targeted in this study excluding any person in management with a 100% response rate. Questionnaires will be used to acquire information from the target participants. The study offers valuable insight into the wide array of management styles and the impact such management styles would have on employees’ motivation. The study’s result should indicate that for ...

Retaining Careers Contribute to Child Well-Being and Future

Introduction
The purpose of this literature review is to assess various researches into the positive impacts of being a working mother, and to assess whether or not working mothers have positive impacts on their children’s well-being and future when compared to stay-at-home mothers. Evidence suggests that working mothers can serve as good role models and caregivers for their children in comparison to mothers who stay-at-home with their children (Figes 1) (Heinrich 122) (Sherman 1). The labor participation rate of mothers with underage children was almost 70 percent in 2013 (“Latest Annual Data”). These statistics suggest the importance and ...

Abstract

Tuberculosis (TB) is a contagious disease and the number of cases is increasing worldwide among the public. Each year worldwide, over More than 12 million people are diagnosed with TB and over 4000,000 people die due to the disease. The large population and poor standards of living can have a major impact on TB epidemics. Can there be a new alternative to traditional use of drugs for treatment of tuberculosis? Most of the drugs approved by the FDA have no lasting effect on patients with tuberculosis, since the strains of bacteria have acquired resistance leading to a state of Multi-drug resistance. An ...

1. How Saudi Women Deal with the Challenges
In their enthusiasm to succeed as entrepreneurs, Saudi women are resisting the challenges and cultural barriers strategically. Since socializing between men and women after business hours is not permitted in Saudi Arabia, some women are taking a strategic approach to overcome the barrier. For example, Lamia Boutaleb who is a cofounder of Capital Trust, an investment bank based in Casablanca, tried to schedule appointments with her male business counterparts during working hours so that she can exchange information as information is instrumental to success in investment banking and can establish networks without ...

Summary

Saudi Arabian economy is over-dependent on oil reserve and petroleum based revenues. Recently the Saudi government has recognized the importance of developing other industrial sectors and small and medium size businesses for the country's economic growth. The development of entrepreneurial sector would remain incomplete unless men and women join hands to contribute to the growth of the country's economy. Almost half of the population in Saudi Arabia is women and therefore, the government in recent times has undertaken a lot of positive measures in support of Saudi women's entrepreneurial endeavors. This paper has discussed upon the role of Saudi businesswomen ...

Summary

Saudi Arabian economy is over-dependent on oil reserve and petroleum based revenues. Recently the Saudi government has recognized the importance of developing other industrial sectors and small and medium size businesses for the country's economic growth. The development of entrepreneurial sector would remain incomplete unless men and women join hands to contribute to the growth of the country's economy. Almost half of the population in Saudi Arabia is women and therefore, the government in recent times has undertaken a lot of positive measures in support of Saudi women's entrepreneurial endeavors. This paper has discussed upon the role of Saudi businesswomen ...

Introduction

The Australian construction industry has been for the past few years encountered many challenges starting from the economic restrictions construction industry. Many construction companies that aim at flourishing in this industry have claimed to encounter a similar problem through inefficiency. Inefficiency has been noted in all areas of the company’s activities that vary from inefficiency in business processes, supply chain, communication channels. All these forms of inefficiency incur huge costs on the Australian construction companies. Achieving efficiency remains one of the major goals of the Australian companies in that the most efficient companies receive huge benefits. Efficiency within a company ...

TITTLE; Deep insights into how managers deal with cross cultural issues in a multinational company. DHL being the multinational company focused on.
- Introduction
- Importance of considweragtion of culture
- Issues in organizations due to cultural differences
- Cultural practices in other multinational organizations:
- Cultural discrimination in organizations:
- Measures taken by managers to solve cultural issues:
- Methods used for employees:
- DHL cultural strategy:
- Conclusion:
- References

Introduction:

Multinational organizations often employ people from various countries across the globe and are often in search of top ...

Summary

This paper extracted evidences from Liu et al.’s The value of human resource mangement for organizational performance (2007), Chen’s Evaluation of Human Resources using Development Performance Management: a study among schools in Taiwan (2011), Hameed and Waheed’s Employee development and its effects on employee performance: a conceptual framework (2011), Shah et al.’s The impact of human resource dimensons on organizational performance from an international perspective (2011) and Tiraieyari et al’s A. Relationship between human development competncies and work performance (2011). Evidences were selectively extracted from these journals to serve as backup to the arguments in this ...

Types of Social Challenges Faced By Indian Students in Melbourne Tertiary Universities

Overview of existing research
Whereas there have been worrying acts of hostility, Australia is commonly considered an excellent practice country in its international student experiences, migration policies, and assimilation of people from diverse backgrounds. Despite a normally upbeat track record, room and chance for improvement are always there, as recent shortcomings in the experiences of international students in Australia indicate.
Recently, foreign students living in Australia have been physically attacked and in fact murdered. Victimization is a shameful and painful experience and must not be condoned in any institutional arrangement or public policy, yet, it still happens even in ...

Information Technology

The case can be summarised as an initiative by Intel to allow its employees to bring their own devices to work. The devices will be allowed to access the company’s information and data and thus lead to security issues within the organisation. This idea is fuelled by the fact that employees were already bringing their own devices to work and using them during office hours. The chief information officer is faced with various dilemmas in the implementation of this proposal. The issues that arise might be beneficial or detrimental to the organization while employee privacy will come at ...