a process through which a new employee is integrated into an organization, learning about its corporate culture, policies and procedures, and the specific practicalities of...
This paper presents an overview of the orientation process, and a checklist that one can use when orienting new staff. As one reads the paper, he should keep in mind that orientation is also important for existing employees if a) they have never received proper orientation or b) there have...
Most of us remember our first day at school when we felt unsure of ourselves and of the “rules.” Although we are now adults working in “grown up” professional environments, many of the same emotions resurface when we enter a new role or organization.In order to help new employees overcome...
This paper on the Business Model has sought to reorient the very nature of the approach to be taken in bringing those living in the rural areas of developing countries, connectivity that serves their local needs as well as communication needs for linking them to the rest of the world....
The debate around cultural policies has always tended to polarize towards two extremes: democratisation of culture versus cultural democracy. This study focused on different marketing orientations in contemporary art public funded institutions and tried to set these choices into a cultural policy framework. The investigation has originated from a case-study...
This paper investigates several issues regarding the nature, domain, conceptual foundations, and practical challenges of knowledge management and organizational learning. The paper first identifies and contrasts two fundamental philosophical orientations to knowledge management - the personal knowledge orientation and the organizational knowledge orientation - and illustrates the distinctive kinds of...
Many people suffer with speech anxiety because they equate being up on a stage with giving a performance. If you feel this way, altering your perception of public speaking may help. By simply changing your mind and viewing the purpose in delivering your talk in a different light, you may...
This paper tests the robustness of market orientation (viz., customer and competitor orientations) of the hotel industry across different global market conditions. The empirical results from the global hotel industry indicate that customer orientation works better in economically developed markets, those with closer socio-cultural distances, good local business conditions, and...
The purpose of this study is to systematically examine the advantages and disadvantages of different types of family businesses operating in Europe. For this, it makes a distinction between a firm's family and business orientation. The two dimensions are used to develop a space of family businesses that include 'Houses...
Establishing image context is the major difficulty of performing laparoscopic ultrasound. The standard techniques used by trans-abdominal ultrasonographers to understand image orientation are difficult to apply with laparoscopic instruments. In this paper, they describe a navigation system that displays the position and orientation of laparoscopic ultrasound images to the operating...
The impact of voxel geometry on the blood oxygenation level-dependent BOLD signal detectability in the presence of field in-homogeneity is assessed and a quantitative approach to selecting appropriate voxel geometry is developed in this report. Application of the developed technique to BOLD sensitivity improvement of the human amygdala is presented....
This study shows how 15 organizations in the United States, Canada, and Europe, achieved considerable performance improvements and gained access to new competitive opportunities by making the monumental shift required by process-centering. Process-centering is the shift from a vertical orientation with distinct functional areas - such as marketing and manufacturing...
New York State has enacted the Sexual Orientation Non-Discrimination Act, or SONDA. The act, amends the New York State Human Rights Law to prohibit discrimination based on actual or perceived sexual orientation in the areas of employment, housing, public accommodations, education and credit. The civil rights laws of New York...
This article is about employee orientation. It emphasizes that orientation is also important for existing employees if a) they have never received proper orientation or b) there have been many changes in the organization and it's purpose and function. Various aspects of orientation have been discussed in this article. Refer...
There is an inclination for corporate orientations, generally delivered by an organization's Human Resources department, to focus on completing required paperwork and distributing benefits information. While certainly important, meetings of this nature tend to be boring and demotivating. Employers, instead, should seize this opportunity to celebrate the arrival of their...
This presentation provides eight Traits of effective leaders. High energy level and stress tolerance, self-confidence, strong internal “locus of control” orientation, personal integrity, emotional maturity, socialized power motivation, moderately high achievement orientation, balanced need for affiliation. It also provides guidelines that are recommended for a leader to do an honest...
A sale is the activity that drives an organization. It is the revenue generating activity. The nurturing and development of an efficient salesforce is imperative for realizing the sales volume. Today’s dynamic business environment has seen a lateral shift in the orientation of the sales management function in organizations. From...
Agency theory is used to develop an approach toward organizational control that elaborates upon the construct underlying strategic human resource management. Additionally, firm risk is examined as a moderator to determine how control orientation affects firm performance. A sample of initial public offering firms is studied, and both short and...
The article states the dichotomy between a value investing orientation and growth investing two fundamental investment paradigms. The differences between growth and value can be significant. The study provided in the paper compares the performance of the two investing styles in the mutual fund world over the past eight years...
Constant change is rampant in the business world today. To deal with the same, organizations, the world over are gearing up towards acquiring a knowledge-based orientation. Such an orientation helps the organization in proactively managing the effect of any change in its environment. The paper discusses the basic principles of...
