Case Study on Entrepreneurship: Larry Page

Business Analysis

The Boundaryless Career: Modern Contemperory Perspective on Career

Human Resource Management

Concepts of Throughput Accounting and Theory of Constraints

Financial Management

Kaizen – Understanding the Japanese Business Philosophy of Continuous Improvement

Operations Management

Role of Leaders in Shaping Organizational Culture

Management Principles

Uses of Performance Appraisal

Performance Appraisal (PA) can be described as a formal process of assessment and evaluation of the employees on an individual as well as group level. The word “formal” is crucial, as it is important that the managers or supervisors review the worker or individual on a periodic basis. Even though,  performance appraisal is only an element of performance management, it is very crucial for the success of performance management as it directly relates to the strategic plan set by the organisation. It is critical to evaluate team performance in many organisations where teams exist but  performance appraisal in most companies concentrates on individuals. As emphasized, achievements, objectives and strategic plans set for development can be examined and evaluated by an effective  performance appraisal system. Although  performance appraisal is somewhat considered as negative, unpopular and managers try to avoid the efficiency it provides. Not many Employers like conducting  performance appraisal and Continue reading

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An Overview of Internet of Things (IoT)

In the 80s and 90s from the last century the world lived in age of personal computing and this computing extended to around 20 years. The internet of things term was named in that name in 1999 by Kevin Ashton, and he was the first person who used internet of things term. Internet in the beginning were used for specific people who are work in companies or banks, not any one can use the internet because it will cost him a lot of money. Since then the internet evolution every year and take a big step forward until it became a revolution in the communication. Also with the evolution of experts and screens roaming mobility moved to an age where the form of the emergence of the phone in Early 2007 launch of the new time of technology and the new age of computing. From that time until now days almost Continue reading

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Consequences of Stress

As is pointed out in the introducing comments on stress, stress is not automatically bad for individual employees or their organizational performance. It is the dysfunctional aspects of the high level of stress that should be and are a major concern for contemporary society in general and for effective human resource management in particular. Distress experienced by individuals has negative consequences for them, their families and for the organizations they serve. The consequences of stress can be studied under three general categories : Consequences for the Individual Stress shows itself in a number of ways. An individual who is experiencing stress may develop the following symptoms : 1. Physiological Symptoms. In the initial stages, the major concern of stress was directed at physiological symptoms. The reason was that this topic was researched by specialists in the health and medical sciences. According to the researchers high degrees of stress are typically Continue reading

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Case Study on Corporate Governance: UTI Scam

Of all the recent encounters of the Indian public with the much-celebrated forces of the market, the Unit Trust’s US-64 debacle is the worst. Its gravity far exceeds the stock market downswing of the mid-1990s, which wiped out Rs. 20,000 crores in savings. The debacle is part of the economic slowdown which has eliminated one million jobs and also burst the information technology (IT) bubble. This has tragically led to suicides by investors. And then suspension of trading in US-64made the hapless investors more dejected at the sinking of this “super-safe” public sector instrument that had delivered a regular return since 1964. There is a larger lesson in the US-64 debacle for policies towards public savings and public sector undertakings (PSUs). The US-64 crisis is rooted in plain mismanagement. US-64 was launched as a steady income fund. Logically, it should have invested in debt, especially low-risk fixed-income government bonds. Instead, Continue reading

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Case Study: How Netflix Took Down Blockbuster

Blockbuster and Netflix are two big business within the domestic videocassette rent payment market place that skilled very much distinctive products. Netflix extremely multiplied its firm estimate even as Blockbuster dropped its leading market position and fallen into bankruptcy. Back to the late 20th century, whilst Netflix was just a small newly established business, Blockbuster ruled the video cassette rental business with over 9,000 shops all around the world. With the emergence of DVDs as the brand new video medium, Blockbuster be able to get special deals with massive Hollywood studios to rent new DVD releases after cinema showings ended. At that point in time, nearly every family had a videocassette recorder (VCR) for the reason of video watching, and Blockbuster rental shops were people’s familiar starting point for film selections. Technology and innovation performed a significant task inside the improvement of the apprehensive business. Today’s dynamic domain is completely Continue reading

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Debt Equity Ratio

Meaning of Debt Equity Ratio Capitalization of a company consists of funds raised by issuing various types of securities, i.e., ordinary shares, preference shares, debentures etc. To decide as to the ratio of various types of securities to total capitalization is a very difficult task but the decision in this important for the business to decide as to the ratio of ownership capital to the creditorship capital or loan capital. The ratio of borrowed capital to the owned capital may be called debt equity ratio. In other words, debt equity ratio is the ratio between borrowed capital on the one hand and owned capital on the other. Debt equity ratio is positively correlated with the capital gearing. If capital gearing in a company is high, debt equity ratio would also be high or vice versa. For example, if the total capital of Rs. 1,00,000 in a company consists of Rs. Continue reading

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