Participative Management – Workers Participation in Management

Human Resource Management

Case Study on Entrepreneurship: Larry Page

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The Boundaryless Career: Modern Contemperory Perspective on Career

Human Resource Management

How to Meet Costa Rica’s 2026 VASP Requirements Without Expanding Headcount

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Concepts of Throughput Accounting and Theory of Constraints

Financial Management

Career Development – Meaning, Definition and Stages

The concept of career development is of growing concern to organizations since it matches the needs of a business with the career goals of employees. Formulating a career development plan can help employees to do their jobs more efficiently. Additionally, these plans can be beneficial for employees who might want to move up in a company or look for other jobs in the future. Today, challenging organizations have developed new concerns for the career development of their employees. They put greater emphasis on ‘career’ with coherent induction, training and development, increased job security by the accrual of experience and qualifications valued in the labor market. Since a high majority of workers change their careers at midlife, it becomes evident that career development programs are needed throughout the life cycle. Other major reasons for this concern are: The growth and productivity of organizations depend on the effectiveness of employee performance. A Continue reading

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Entities which can register as FII’s in India

Entities who propose to invest their proprietary funds or on behalf of “broad based” funds (fund having more than twenty investors with no single investor holding more than 10 per cent of the shares or units of the fund) or of foreign corporate and individuals and belong to any of the under given categories can be registered for Foreign Institutional Investors (FII’s). Pension Funds Mutual Funds Investment Trust Insurance or reinsurance companies Endowment Funds University Funds Foundations or Charitable Trusts or Charitable Societies who propose to invest on their own behalf Asset Management Companies Nominee Companies Institutional Portfolio Managers Trustees Power of Attorney Holders Banks Foreign Government Agency Foreign Central Bank International or Multilateral Organization or an Agency thereof Some of the above mentioned types are described below: Pension funds: A pension fund is a pool of assets that form an independent legal entity that are bought with the contributions Continue reading

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The Role of Intelligence in Strategy Formulation

Strategic management is that ideas and injunctions that enable the organization achieve its objective or long-term target to perform a better performance. The purpose of strategic management is to seek the opportunities for better future of the organization. Generally, good strategic management practices can improve the organization performance and achieve the organization target objectives. The strategies on an organization are made by the management itself to ensure the successful of the organization. The strategic management process consists of three stages which are strategy formulation, strategy implementation and strategy evaluation. Strategy formulation want to ensure that the organization achieve the objectives that they have been made. Strategy formulation includes the decision on what business to conduct, how to allocate the resources, and whether want the business join or enter to international market. Besides, strategy formulation phase includes developing a vision and mission, identifying an organization external opportunities and threats, determining internal Continue reading

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Competition in Shipping Industry

Shipping is a competitive industry. The demand for shipping services is a derived  one. Shipping services do not have alternative applications. So amongst ship owners  competition arises to corner the existing traffic. The causes for the competition are  as follows: Freedom of use of a certain highways:  The permanent way of ocean being a gift of  nature, which is free. It is open to all persons and countries of the world without  acquiring any rights to float the ships and steamers. Except for some restrictions  in coastal waters of the countries, the ship are free to move anywhere on the sea  and it invites international competitors. Small investment: Shipping requires small investment to start the sailings. The  capital investment in construction of permanent way, signals, bridges, tunnels,  culverts and platforms etc is not there in purchasing a steamer or a ship. The  facilities of loading, unloading and  harboring  are maintained Continue reading

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Traders Oriented Promotion Methods in Retail

With the intention to get the best cooperation from the distribution channel members the companies are using different promotional methods. These methods directed at traders are called traders oriented promotional method. The traders provide the important link between the marketers and the customers. The traders may include dealers, wholesalers and retailers. The company cannot take chance to miss them.  Traders oriented promotional methods are applied to strengthen the team work among all concerned parties of sales. Some of the methods for motivation of traders are following; Point of purchase display: This method is targeted at dealers or traders. It means the display facilities are provided by the manufacturers to the traders for display at their showrooms or shops. The types of products sold out at the outlet are displayed at the points. This gives the clear idea to the buyers that the particular type of products are sold at the Continue reading

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Benefits of Securitization

Securitization, also known as asset-backed securitization or structured financing, has been defined as a financing instrument whereby a company transfers rights in current or future receivables or other financial assets to an entity that serves as a “special purpose vehicle” (SPV), which in turn issues securities to capital market investors and uses the proceeds from the issue to pay for the financial assets. The source of the receivables could be any right of payment or asset that generates an income with a stable cash flow. The existing or future receivables could be the income generated, among others things by residential or commercial loans, credit card receivables, automobile loans, student loans, royalties on intellectual property, tax receivables or any other income source that is regular and predictable. Read More: The Concept of Securitization Securitization can also be considered a form of arbitrage between a less-efficient traditional debt market and a more-efficient Continue reading

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