Introduction The words "leader" and "leadership" are often used wrongly to describe people who are actually managing. These people may be highly skilled, good at their jobs, and valuable to their organizations - but that just makes them excellent managers, not leaders. Leadership can be...
Risk mitigation is a salient issue in risk management. With the ever-changing technology, treats and breaches are unavoidable especially when there is vulnerability. There are various risk mitigating techniques. This paper reviews various literatures and evaluates two basic approaches to mitigating information risks, specifically in...
The Rickshaw boy was novel and written by Lao She, the main character was Xiangzi. He was an orphan farmer who worked for rickshaw puller in Beijing. He was optimistic and with the hope of his life, his dream is having his own rickshaw. Made-to-order...
Introduction Business ethics, usually implemented through corporate social responsibility (CSR), is crucial in ensuring the long-term success of organizations. While it is possible to attract customers in the short run through fraudulent marketing strategies, retaining them using the same tactics is impossible. Once customers learn...
Introduction Corruption is a phenomenon that the entire world is dealing with today, be it a third-world country or a super power, each stands impartial at the hands of corruption. However, it is only during the recent years that corruption has been brought under limelight...
Emotional intelligence or EI is the ability to understand and manage your own feelings of love, hate, fear, etc., and those of the people around you. People with a high degree of emotionalintelligence know what they’re feeling, what their feelings of love, hate, fear, etc....
Management Management is the jogging of an organization or a enterprise or an institution correctly with a purpose to reap a particular project. It is the ability of using the assets, manpower and price range correctly to achieve a specific challenge with most output. Made-to-order...
Rising Sun Airlines has discovered significant setbacks in preparing their airplanes efficiently to maintain brief turn times. During the turn times the crew is required to clean, inspect, restock and refuel the planes. An increase demand for air travel and complex schedules has lead to...
The guest lectures started with a discussion on why management fall in a crisis. Bosse Carlsson and Annelie Nordström using examples from their professional background through an interactive presentation. They both are expert on their field, so highlighted uncertainty, risk, collective stress, crisis, and normal...
Introduction Before studying motivational theories in management, we should first understand what does motivation mean. In simple words, motivation refers to why people act the way they do. It is the reason of people’s desires, actions and needs. Motivation comes from within an individual but...
Radio has been around for over a century, and even with the rise of digital media, it is still a powerful medium. Radio advertisements provide businesses an affordable mean to establish brand recognition to a target market. Additionally, advertisers use radio advertisement which incorporates to...
Bill Gore is an intelligent business man that found W. L. Gore and Associates. He has found his own ways to make companies work. Gore has found distinct features of organization and management, there are advantages and disadvantages to the techniques he has found, and...
Introduction Mr. Ghosn, at 64 years of age, has bagged plenty of achievements in his pocket to boast. Having saved Japan’s second largest automaker from the brink of doom in 1999, he has become somewhat of a cultural icon and a hero to the Japanese...
Sri Lim Goh Tong is an amazing entrepreneur who was born on 28 February 1918 in Fujian, China. At age of 16, he had to leave school and breadwinner for his family. As China’s situation was unstable, he decided to come to Malaysia (Malaya at...
Home Depot employees and shareholders may not have been a fan of Bob Nardelli’s leadership style, but his single frame behavioural approach to leadership was one of the main factors for turning the company into an “earnings juggernaut”. Nardelli took on a structural approach when...
The new-found success at Disney Co. is mainly attributable to the change of leadership from a structural style in Eisner to a combination of Human resources and symbolic styles in Iger. Although Eisner saw much success with Disney during his 20-year tenure, his style of...
Fraud comes in many different shapes and sizes. Fraud affects everyone regardless of their skin color or the language that they speak. There are several types of fraud in international trade. Criminals can tap into your business bank account, hack your website, make phone calls,...
Introduction Robert A. ‘Bob’ Hoover was born on January 24, 1922, in Nashville, Tennessee. This man would grow up to be a war hero and a legendary aviator. Bob Hoover was one of the bravest leaders that would take part in the evolution of advanced...
“Leadership” for most people, has a positive meaning, yet there are negative aspects to leaders, as well. Recognizing the reality of bad and destructive leadership is essential in promoting good and ethical leadership. Metaphorically, leaders are separated into “light” and “shadow. ” There is a...