Contemplating Supply Chain Changes
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A 3 page paper discussing the need to carefully assess the results of changes in the supply chain before making those changes. Any significant change in the supply chain has the ability to affect more than only a single point on it. Before making any changes, managers must ensure that they identify all of those points, making changes only after analyzing all of the possible resulting effects. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Continuous and Discontinuous Change
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An 11 page paper which examines the benefits and dangers of continuous and discontinuous change. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Continuous Improvement in TQM
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A 5 page paper discussing continuous improvement as the most essential ingredient of Total Quality Management (TQM). The organization has the ability and the means to greatly improve processes and customer satisfaction by providing superlative customer service and asking the customer how the business could be improved. Customers' needs continually change; dedication to meeting those needs requires that those supplying customers change as well. This atmosphere creates an environment in which continuous improvement is indeed the single essential ingredient of TQM. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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Contributors To Early Management Thought
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A 15 page paper comprised of two major topics: management theory and ethical corporate culture. The longer section explains and discusses the contributions of five specific early management theorists: Robert Owen who worked to reform factories and schooling in the early 1800s based on treating the employee fairly; Henry R. Towne, who is recently being given credit to his contributions to scientific management theory prior to Taylor's work and who established the first professional organization for engineers; Sun Tzu whose principles outlined in The Art of War have been correlated with management and organizational theory; Henry L. Gantt who made four major contributions including the Gantt Chart; and Hugo Munsterberg, who is called the father of industrial psychology. The second section discusses the importance of developing an ethical corporate culture. Bibliography lists 12 sources.
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Control Mechanisms used by the US Naval Hospital in Guam
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This 4 page paper looks at the US Naval Hospital in Guam. How has the hospital gone through change? What control mechanisms are used? This case study is analyzed in respect to those questions. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Core Competencies And Strategic Planning
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This 14 page paper begins with an outline of some of the approaches used for strategy planning. Next, the writer explains the larger category of resource-based approaches to strategy development, then narrows the discussion to core competencies – who introduced the concept, what they are, how they are developed, and how they are used in the competitive environment. Examples of companies who have used their core competencies to gain a stronghold in the market are offered. a 10-step outline for developing strategy based on core competencies is also provided. Advantages and disadvantages of using this approach are explained. The final discussion involves honing skills for this approach, going from core competencies to core products and some of the problems or challenges surrounding the core competencies approach to strategy planning. Bibliography lists 12 sources.
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Corporate Culture at Ace Hardware Stores
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This 4 page paper examines the corporate culture at Ace Hardware Stores. Competitors Lowe's and Home Depot are mentioned. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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