No matter what your management style, participatory, directing or teamwork, four broad management functions are demanded of you. As a manager, your primary tasks involve managing people who are ...

Human resources functions are significantly different from HR practices. Functions are comprised of transactional activities that can be handled in-house or easily outsourced. Practices are part ...

When I ask leaders and teams to concisely summarize their company’s management approach, the pause I get hangs in the air like a frisbee tossed on a windy day. No one seems to know which direction the ...

It’s been years since I’ve been in a college classroom. Still, I vividly recall an undergraduate Principles of Management course at Southeast Missouri State University, where I first encountered the ...

For new supervisors or managers, the standard PLOC (planning, leading, organizing, controlling) framework is still useful in preparing for their new role. Of these four basic functions however, ...

Equipment management is a complex and difficult task that affects almost every aspect of a company’s operations. The skills required vary from the master mechanic to the finance specialist and ...

LONDON/NEW YORK(Thomson Reuters Regulatory Intelligence) - This is the first of two articles looking at policy management. It focuses on basic policy management principles, while the second will look ...

Equipment management is a complex and difficult task that affects almost every aspect of a company’s operations. The skills required vary from the master mechanic to the finance specialist, and ...

Human resource management is a very important function of management in an organization, in order to enable effective recruitment and retainment of the employees. Over the past couple of years, there ...

IN his paper, "The Nature of Management", based on an address to the London and District Society of Chartered Accountants, and now issued as "Occasional papers No.2" by the British Institute of ...