Their aim is to advance from the enormous French institution to a real company, to progress from a simple train business to a competitive service provider During the last decade social climate was tense due to :  considerable number of strikes  lack of social dialogue between unions and the directorship  lack of customer-orientation In 1997 the situation became unbearable for both sides, customers and workers. ... The SNCF employees extensively expressed their views in favour of a different type of management that would allow all persons to exercise their res...

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CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 GENERAL Pinto (1994) described project manager is truly the heart and soul of a project. Project managers are expected to successfully bring their projects to fruition (achieved pre-determined quality) while keeping a tight rein on budgets (costs) and schedules (time). In order to fulfill the requirement of time, cost and quality, a project manager needs to acquire a set of skills to help him to manage the project and solve variety of problems during the implementation of project. These skills can be divided into two categories, which are hard s...

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In the case of private-sector companies, the mission of the operations function is usually expressed in terms of profits, growth and competitiveness in public and voluntary organisations, it is often expressed in terms of providing value for money, (Barnett H (1996). ... Also it aims to send zero waste to landfill by 2010. To fulfil this aims and strategy operations managers are trying to make successful in every steps of the business of the ASDA Company, ( Naylor J (1996). 1.2 Evaluate the success of existing operation management process in meeting an organization's overall st...

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In the attempt to answer this valid question, this paper will aim to review previous literature in regards to the way in which men and women differ in their approach to management and leadership; to analyze and depict the research methods used in each of the experiments; and finally, to clarify the implications of the results of these studies. ... Both expressed the notions of planning, designing, monitoring and implementing organizational objectives (Robbins & Langton, 2001). ... These questionnaires aimed to explore the two leadership dimensions of s...

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The dissertation aims to measure engagement and look at the aspects where management interventions can be implemented to increase the overall level of employee engagement. ... Employee engagement is defined by Kahn as "the harnessing of organisational members' selves to their work roles; in engagement, people employ and express themselves physically, cognitively and emotionally during role performances" (Kahn, W.A. 1990). ... In engagement, people employ and express themselves physically, cognitively and emotionally during role performances ". ...

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Interventions are aimed at helping the group become better able to use its own resources to identify and solve interpersonal problems and devise more effective ways of working. ... With these interventions Emma improved the following practices for integrating employees into organizations. 3.1.1 Goal Setting As a first step, Emma gathered the right people around her to establish cohesive team and developed a new vision and figure out which way to go, what products to use, her followers to achieve a shared vision and appeal them to transform their better self in such a way the leaders and foll...

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Abstract Management accounting has been defined as the process of identifying, measuring, accumulating, analyzing, preparing, interpreting and communicating information that helps managers fulfill organizational objectives its not just about money. It's about control. This paper will give the historical view of management accounting. Traditionally, management accountants' principal cost control technique was variance analysis, which is a systematic approach to the comparison of the actual and budgeted costs of the raw materials and labor used during a production period. While some f...

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At the same time, another subsidiary of Dimerco Company which named Dimerco Zhongjing Int'l Express Co., Ltd was given the AAA classification by CIFA (DIMERCO, n.d). ... Dimerco fully understands that it is great challenge to preserve the environment without sacrificing its own market share and have therefore assured that they would proceed with this policy with the aim of preserving both, the environment and their market (DIMERCO, n.d). ...

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