Employee Retention

Mathis & Jackson (2007) mentioned that a number of the agencies characteristics influence law enforcement in their decisions to stay with or leave their employers. They thus said it is important for companies to have a positive culture and distinctive culture, effective management and recognizable job security Mathis & Jackson (2007). According to Mathis & Jackson (2007) culture within an enforcement agency is very significant because it represents a pattern of shared values and beliefs of a workforce. In law enforcement agencies executives should build a truth telling culture and ...

Emotional IQ

Leadership is definitely a complex notion that involves many aspects with many applications and details. Although this notion has appeared quite a long time ago still there is no exact definition of it. Leadership requires personal approach and it is impossible to become a really good leader just based on the well-known rules and without uniqueness. It is important to remain authentic in every sphere, though the world often makes us less unique and often alike. Leadership has definitely become an integral part of the society and its gradual development. Every day we are surrounded by numerous ...

Effective MIS Applications

Inventory Management Information System In nutshell, different organizations employ different management information systems which are based on the kind of operations that they undertake. It is, however, very difficult to have a single system operating in a company that has diverse operations. The system that the company has in place allows also electronic data interchange, which enables that the data that are transmitted through it to be delivered in an ordinary and globally understandable message format. It, thus, adds flexibility of the company and order placement by customers, while the ma ...

Global House Prices

Before I read the article “Global House Prices”, I had always assumed that the house prices in the whole world have always been on the rise. The housing prices have been on the rise for the last few years falling only a few times. These effects have been observed since the financial crises engulfed majority of the countries in the world. The housing prices in Hong Kong have jumped most as compared to other countries. The government of Hong Kong had to intervene in order to mitigate the escalating prices in the prices of house. On the other hand, the highest fall in house prices has been exper ...

Evidence-Based Practice

The biggest barrier to the implementation of evidence-based practice is organizational. A culture not supportive of research translates into organizational processes, systems, and practices, which do not accommodate to its utilization. As a result, there would be no job roles relating to research, and thereby, no need for personnel with research skills. Practice will not integrate research as a component, and nurses will not be encouraged to undergo further education and training. Staff will not be given power to initiate practice changes based on their application of research evidence. They w ...

Eton Collection Group

Executive Summary This report explores and analyses the strategic choices that are available and their related implementation issues that are open to Eton Collection Group which is one of the Chain Boutique Hotels in UK. Eton Collection was found in 1998 and is a group of seven luxury boutique and town house hotels, that majorly specializes in the four and five star sector in London, Edinburgh and Leeds.(Business traveler 2011: Eton Collection Chic 2011). All are found in prime city-centre locations. Eton collection has managed to be competitive in the market amid the stiff challenge from the ...

Militancy Movement

The American civil rights movement dates back in the 19th century. However, it gained momentum in the 60’s and was dubbed the militancy movement. This was due to the vigor it received from the masses amid opposition from the government and a majority of the citizens. The core mandate for this movement was to champion for equality of the African Americans in the United States. In their agenda they championed for education for all without discrimination, social segregation, and voting rights. Although the civil rights movement started way back in the 19th, there was little progress in the refor ...

Global Energy Industry

The recent events, associated with the environmental and energy changes bring about numerous negative economic externalities which keep raising the public's attention to the problems of sufficient availability of natural resources for the people's economic activities. It is clear that economic activities of people are highly dependent on the available natural resources. It is explained by the fact that a vast majority of economic activities use natural resources as a source of energy to maintain their life and expand output production. Until recently, availability and quality of natural resour ...

Managerial Accounting

The assignment requires appraisal of a project involving production of plugs. The specific requirements are computation of the net profit value (NPV), Internal Rate of Return (IRR), Profitability Index (PI) and an opinion whether the project should be undertaken or not. Here below are the responses. In computing the Net Present Value, all the incomes accruing to the project for the five years are considered. They are discounted at the rate of the costs of funds, which is given at 10.8% per year. To get the periodic amount earned per year, the difference between the sale price and the cost of ...

Market Economy

A concept of a free market economy, described by a number of theorists, including Adam Smith and David Ricardo, is a hypothetical state of the national economy or the type of economic system where supply and demand are the only forces to set and regulate prices for goods and services on all national markets. However, in each modern national economy, there are such market forms as monopoly and oligopoly that downgrade a level of competition on the market and can not be ruled by the market forces only. Oligopoly refers to a number of companies (sellers), which dominate specific market or industr ...