research looks at the General Motors Company and what led to company failure and filing of bankruptcy in 2009. The American automotive industry was poorly managed for years and was almost eliminated when the economy crashed in 2008. Without the help of the U.S. government‚ General Motors and Chrysler would not have been able to survive. How did GM‚ as the number one auto manufacturer and seller‚ go from being at the top to almost ceasing to exist? This kind of financial mess usually takes years of poor
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required to decrease the Absenteeism. 4. To study‚ Employees working conditions. 5. To identify factors that motivates the Employees ‚which minimise Absenteeism H.R. institute of higher education‚ Hassan 1 * 2. Employees Absenteeism SCOPE OF THE STUDY: The development of any organization depends on the regularity of employees. The study is conducted to know the various levels and reasons for absence of employees in an organization. By looking it‚ one can adopt corrective measures to decrease irregularities
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“Byronic hero“ and his evolution within the Victorian literature Lord Byron is one of the most famous and influential writers of the Romantic period and literature overall‚ which is largely due to his evermore interesting type of hero. Inspired by Milton ’s Satan‚ Byron took over the figure of heroic character and perfected it in his poem Childe Harold into a figure which has thereafter become known as the “Byronic hero“. Many critics agree that Byron ’s inspiration for this character lies largely
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"Due diligence" is a somewhat technical phrase used to describe a range of assignments‚ legal obligations‚ reports and investigations which take place in business‚ manufacturing and law. Its most frequently heard version is the one pertaining to business‚ where "duediligence" refers to the steps taken by venture capitalists before investing a round of capital in a startup‚ the ongoing investigation as to how the funds are being distributed‚ or the precautionary steps taken by a larger company in
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Text Version A Handbook for Measuring Employee Performance ALIGNING EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE PLANS WITH ORGANIZATIONAL GOALS Workforce Compensation and Performance Service Performance Management and Incentive Awards Division s PMD–013 s September 2001 table of contents FOREWORD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 contents CHAPTER 1 PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT: BACKGROUND AND CONTEXT
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Fall In Love With Your Company Just imagine that your employees choose to give their incentive bonus back to the company to help pay down the corporate debt‚ or show up at 6 a.m. Sunday morning for a nonmandatory quarterly meeting. Even more than that‚ how awed you are to see off-duty salaried employees wash and clean the company’s facilities. Getting Employees To Fall In Love With Your Company written by Jim Harris is definitely a book that helps you to turn your company into the type of place
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EMPLOYEE EMPOWERMENT INTRODUCTION Employee empowerment is a term used to express the ways in which non-managerial staff can make autonomous decisions without consulting a boss/manager. These self-willed decisions can be small or large depending upon the degree of power with which the company wishes to invest employees. Employee empowerment can begin with training and converting a whole company to an empowerment model. Conversely it may merely mean giving employees the ability to make some decisions
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An assessment of the long term financial health of the firm is an important task for outsiders like chartered accountants‚ creditors‚ borrowers‚ banks‚ financial institutions‚ public and shareholders considering the extension of credit and for insiders in their formulation of strategy. History abounds with examples of firms that embarked upon properly ambitious programs and subsequently discovered that their portfolio of programs could not be financed on acceptable terms. The outcome frequently was
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Explain why market prices are useful to a financial manager. A market price is the current price at which an asset or service can be bought or sold. (investopedia.com). Market prices are very useful to a financial manager. It helps with financial planning and it reflects the value of the assets based on GAAP (which refers to the Generally Accepted Accounting Principles). GAAP is just a set of guidelines that must be followed when it comes to any type of financial practice. Market price is also a crucial
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Chapter 16: Capital Structure: Basic Concepts 16.1 a. Since Alpha Corporation is an all-equity firm‚ its value is equal to the market value of its outstanding shares. Alpha has 5‚000 shares of common stock outstanding‚ worth $20 per share. Therefore‚ the value of Alpha Corporation is $100‚000 (= 5‚000 shares * $20 per share). b. Modigliani-Miller Proposition I states that in the absence of taxes‚ the value of a levered firm equals the value of an otherwise identical unlevered
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