Middle adulthood begins at the age of 40 – 60. This is a time when you can”t believe where the time went. It seems like just yesterday you were graduating from college, got married, and had children. Your children are now approaching young adulthood, pushing you into the next stage of life, middle adulthood. You look in the mirror and all the signs of middle […]

A manager may need to take on various styles of management with respect to the many variables that may affect a company’s day to day activity. Some of these variables may be the manager’s role in the organization, his ability to lead as well as the ability of his subordinates to work efficiently and effectively. The most common manner in which to distinguish which style […]

Project management in the recent years has assumed an increased degree of complexity that have a direct impact on its outcome. The project management concept focuses primarily on the optimal use of resources available to meet the defined goals and objectives. The process of globalization of economies have resulted in an increasingly competitive and changing work environment led by advances in technology and evolving market […]

IHRM Case Study 1 1. Consider the three candidates in Exhibit A below. It forced to make a decision tomorrow, which candidate should Alistair choose for the job? What major factors should determinate his choice? Trianon is an Anglo-French avionics company, headquarter is in Marseille. Alistair was hire as Director of Personnel Development European Division, and he has to recruit a Quality Compliance Manager for […]

Business is said to consist of four elements: Principles, Models, Rules and Behaviours, the first constrains the company scope, the third the procedures, both being static elements. The interplay (feedback) between changing models and behaviours however is what drives innovation – the exploration of adjacent new possibilities. This is a step at a time mode of innovation, yet rules actually prevent these improvements which, it […]

The central theme to Bharati Mukherjee’s fictional story “The Management of Grief”, based on real-life events, is that of being both a part of something tangible and in an ethereal and cultural sense apart from it.  There are several binary focus points of this piece and all put the work into the context of opposing sides. There is life versus death, new versus old world, […]

Introduction Employees in an organization have the potential of making it to succeed or to break it. This applies to all organizations however small or big it is. This is relevant for both contracted and temporary workers. Amongst the most challenging tasks of a manager in an organization, is ensuring that the employees therein are always motivated. Management in organizations has to consider the role […]

1 INTRODUCTION Technology has come a long way in the past 10 to 15 years and we now have access to information at virtually any time, or place we wish. Organisations today rely heavily on technology and without it, would likely struggle to survive. Technology has enabled us to better service the needs of consumers in the ever-changing market. 2 ADVANTAGES The obvious advantage with […]

The 802.11 protocol is defined for a wireless LAN (Local Area Network) and is based on a cellular architecture in which the network is divided into cells where each cell (called a Basic Service Cell (BSS)) is controlled by a base station called an Access Point (AP). The basic access mechanism implemented in the protocol is a Carrier Sence Multiple Access with Collision Avoidance (CSMA/CA). […]

Cost variances ay be either positive or negative figures. Negative figures happen if you spend more on a project than you allowed in your budget. Positive figures result If you spend less on a project than the budget predicted. Negative cost variance figures are almost always a bad thing for a business, as companies cannot always guarantee they can come up with the funds to […]