General Business Articles

The Importance of Corporate Governance in Business

Corporate Governance can be defined as the organizational structure of a company. It encompasses the overall processes, operations and policies by which a company is controlled and functions. Corporate governance is most often viewed as both the structure and the relationships which determine corporate direction and performance.

Within the governing body of a corporation there are various stakeholders. Stakeholders are individuals which are of great importance to the company because they contribute directly or indirectly to its economic activity. Stakeholders retain different degrees of importance within an organization depending on their title or function which are some of the following: shareholders, the board of directors, employees, customers, creditors and suppliers.… Read the rest

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Importance of Management Skills in Small Business

For a Small Business to grow, expands and flourish the management team needs to follow basic, yet profound skill sets to achieve success of the business. If these management skills are not taken seriously enough the end result will quickly become failure of the business. There are three key management skills that small business managers need to follow for success these are; Technical skills, Human skills and Conceptual skills. Then there are specialized skills that are imperative for small business success to occur these include; Planning, Organizing, Directing and Controlling. Small Business owners might not obtain these skills because of not having the opportunities to learn these skill sets through the use of courses or university education.… Read the rest

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The Other Side of Entrepreneurship

People who have opposite opinions against entrepreneurship point out ten potential risks. First is management mistake that is the primary cause of business failure. Sometimes the owner of a small business lacks the leadership ability, sound judgment, and knowledge necessary to make the business work. Second is lack of business experience which indicates that most entrepreneurs tend to be beginners to be easy to make management mistakes in their own businesses.

Third one is poor financial control. Effective managers realize that any successful business venture requires proper financial control. Business success also requires having a sufficient amount of capital on hand at start-up.… Read the rest

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Are Entrepreneurs Made or Born?

Since the late 18th century, business has constituted a main composition of the modern society. As the success of Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Warren Buffet, many people start their own business in chase of profit. There are entrepreneurs growing everyday while some others bankrupting. You may think that entrepreneurs are born successful, and they owned an enormous business. However, entrepreneur is not defined as the one who has made their business tremendous, but the one who starts his own company and employs himself. Therefore, anyone can become an entrepreneur if he or she starts his or her own business and works for himself or herself.… Read the rest

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Risk Management Within an Organization

Risk management is a identification process of upcoming threats and danger to an organization. In an organization risk can enter through many ways, it can come from project failure, financial market, an accident in organisation such as flood, earthquake, cyclone, power failure, public health and safety and legal risk etc. Risk can be low to medium, or medium to high. It is difficult to say that an organisation can solve all the upcoming risks to the organisation like earthquake, we can just assume that earthquake can damage the business, but we cannot say how much, but there are some alternatives of upcoming threats like in power failure we can use generator to keep running the business.… Read the rest

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Major Drawbacks of Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurs are persons who are creative and imaginative in finding ways and add them to their own wealth, power and prestige. Entrepreneurs innovate and introduce new quality of good which consumers are not familiar yet. Besides, they often launch new method of production and new market which have not been tested and existed before yet. Moreover, they also bring new source of supply of raw material or half manufactured goods. Likewise, they create monopoly position which is the carrying out of the new organisation of any industry.

It is important to differentiate between two primary types of entrepreneurs to understand how economic development occurs.… Read the rest

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