Avoiding Electronic Taylorism
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A 5 page paper discussing two issues of false economy in employee productivity. The paper discusses two vignettes in which workers' performance is tracked electronically but fails to be able to account for all of the duties included in workers' jobs. This amounts to "electronic Taylorism," and is as unworkable as pure Taylorism was a century ago. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: KSmgmtElecTaylor.rtf

B.R. Richardson Timber Culture and Innovations
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10 pages. Like many timber companies, the B.R. Richardson Timber Products Company has ignored innovative management trends that have emerged over the last decade and is now finding itself caught in the trap that comes from not taking advantage of new efficiency systems. By having waited, several cracks in the structure have been identified within the organizational structure as a whole and it is having a negative impact on operations. The structure is weak due to many factors from lack of technology integration to inability to establish teamwork within the organization, which would allow the introduction of new ideas and innovations on a consistent basis for the continual improvement of operations. 9 References. jvBRRich.rtf
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B2B Process Integration
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A 7 page paper answering several questions about business-to-business (B2B) process integration. B2B process integration is an outgrowth of total quality management and the advent of just-in-time inventory management designed to decrease inventory levels while increasing internal efficiency. It began with the need to share information and over the past two decades has progressed to sharing processes as well. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
Filename: KSmgmtB2BprInt.rtf

Balanced Score Cards and Profit and Not-for-Profit Organizations
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This 10 page report discusses the management tool of the balanced scorecard. The concept of the “Balanced Scorecard”(BSC) has become one of the hot topics in management today – and with good reason. A properly designed and implemented Balanced Scorecard program can be a powerful tool for sharing a common vision throughout an organization and coordinating the activity aimed at achieving it. It can offer a remarkably coherent view of an organization. The word “balanced” is part of the title to indicate that the focus of such a management process and evaluation is on the entire organization, instead of the operational results and/or products it is delivering. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: BWscorcd.wps

Balancing Employee Layoffs and a Company’s Future
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This 14 page paper explores a case study involving NDR, a manufacturing firm that is being forced by difficult times to lay off employees. The author discusses the various options that are available in terms of the human resources plan, new hires, and the layoffs themselves. Bibliography lists 20 sources.
Filename: PPbusLayoffs.rtf

Baldridge Assessment Project.
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(5 pp). The Baldrige Award's strategy is to create an evolving body of knowledge in the United States by encouraging the learning and sharing of competitive knowledge. The Baldrige Award application provides a broad framework for implementing a quality program and establishes benchmarks suitable for monitoring and measuring quality progress.
Filename: BBbaldrg.doc

BARRIERS TO IMPLEMENTATION OF QUALITY INITIATIVES
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This 3-page paper discusses barriers to implementation of quality initiatives and total quality management. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: MTtqmimp.rtf

Basic Management Functions in the School System with the Context of Bolman and Deal’s Organizational Frames
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This is a 10 page paper discussing the primary management practices within the school system in the context of Bolman and Deal’s four organizational frames. Bolman and Deal’s text “Reframing Organizations” (2003) deals with the concepts of frames within the workplace which employs the “usable knowledge” available from a management perspective and also addresses the failures within organizations “due to lack of imagination”. Organizations are broken into the four conceptual “frames” of structural, human resources, political and symbolic which account for the various aspects of planning, staffing, organizing, directing and controlling within any organization. The management functions within school systems can also work within these frames as they include all of the same vital components which must be managed and maintained as within corporations. A study published by Souchet (2001) is used to show the management practices within the school system in regards to the role of a principal within a small urban setting in the Mid-Western United States. The school principal within the school setting is “also known as the middle manager and the site administrator” in organizational terms and is considered as the major managerial influence within the school as he or she must determine “whether the education is effective or ineffective, whether morale is high or low, whether the school climate is positive or negative; whether personnel are satisfied or dissatisfied; whether students achieve or don’t achieve; whether parents and the public are cooperative or uncooperative; and whether there is effective or ineffective management and leadership”. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: TJmanpr1.rtf

Bayer Group
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This 6 page paper begins with a brief overview of the company that developed aspirin in 1899. Selected financial data are presented. The essay then discusses the company's supply chain management, which is different for each subgroup and in each country. Global initiatives are reported. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
Filename: PGbayer.rtf

Bentley Data Flow Chart
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This 4 page paper is a data flow chart that shows data flow and processes for a fictitious company of Bentley, looking t where the data goes and how the processes all link together. The bibliography cites 1 source.
Filename: TEopflow.rtf