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Describe a typical project scenario that uses borrowed resources. Describe where they are borrowed from and how the project manager can assert some control over them.

Functions of management

While we study controlling last, it doesn’t occur last. In real life, the four functions are not separate, individual steps, but are interwoven seamlessly into managerial decision making and action. Planning includes setting goals. Those goals become the performance that we measure in the controlling function. What do we want to achieve with this organization […]

Functions of management

Controlling is one of the four functions of management equally important as planning, organizing, and influencing even though our book really devotes little time and attention to it. Most management books do the same thing. I don’t get it personally because I think it is such an important function and without it whatever managers do […]

Employment laws

Explain how equal employment laws apply to personnel recruiting activities.

Change management

Assume you are the supervisor of a product development team that designs cell phone applications for your company’s newest cell phone. Unfortunately, this model has not been performing well in the market and your company has decided to discontinue production. Your team is being asked to discontinue their current operations and move to the design […]

Global Staffing

Every company finds it challenging to recruit and select top executives for an international location. The nationals of the host country will be aware of the local laws and customs and may accept a lower wage as well, but may not be familiar with the company’s culture and policies. The company’s employees, on the other […]

Gene One’s change initiative

Assess Gene One’s change initiative identifying one strength and one area of concern. Of the current staff, identify one change leader and one resister; be specific and support your analyses with examples

Organizational change

Discuss how effectively resistance was managed during an organizational change that you have experienced (or with which you are familiar).

Organizational change

Identify and discuss one approach to implementing change; supporting your description with a specific example.

Project management

Describe three ways to manage resources in integrated project management. Comment on the importance of the project management system in the process of assigning resources to a particular project or task, and how the attributes of a project team are important in these assignments.

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