MEANING OF THE WORD ENTREPRENEURSHIP & ENTREPRENEUR The word Entrepreneurship is derived from the French verb “ENTERPRENDRE” and it literally means “between taker “or “go between”. According to Oxford Dictionary‚ Entrepreneur can be defined as “one who undertakes an enterprise‚ especially a contractor – acting as intermediary between capital and labour” EVOLUTION OF THE CONCEPT OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP Earliest Period An early example of the earliest definition of an entrepreneur as a go between is Marco
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Steve Jobs‚ an American businessman‚ was one of the most successful individuals of all the time. Jobs co-founded Apple in 1976 and he was best known as the chief executive officer (CEO) of Apple Inc. Steve Jobs dropped out of college and he became successful despite not having and education. In Steve Jobs’ Commencement Address to Stanford University‚ he reveals that it is important to find what you love to do and to spend your life enjoying every moment you live. Although is it profound to pursue
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“I want to put a ding in the universe.” -Steve Jobs. This was the mentality of Steve Jobs‚ an entrepreneur‚ industrial designer‚ and the co-founder of Apple. Jobs worked for the majority of his life to create and push along the evolution of communication through technology by creating various devices and programs. One person that he embodies and was inspired by is Thomas Edison. Edison‚ who lived during the Industrial Revolution‚ also had many technological achievements‚ one being the phonograph
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objectives that the employee and supervisor agreed to at the beginning of the appraisal period. As work has become more team oriented‚ performance appraisals now measure how a team of workers perform rather than just how an individual performs his job. Performance evaluations are useful in giving employers information on the performance of their workers and recognize gaps for training. They are also an important tool for giving employees feedback on areas of growth‚ and communicate what the employer
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Effects of Motivation on Employees’ Job Performance in an Organization The primary objective of this paper is to describe‚ analyze and evaluate the effects of motivation on employees job performance in an organization. Furthermore‚ this aims to give insight to employees and administration who are working within an organization. The importance of motivation and how it affects an organization’s performance in it’s entirety‚ will be the best deciding measure between good and bad motivational
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Since the end of the 20th century we can observe the increasing complexity and internationalization of the competition and the common shift form manual to knowledge work. The new “knowledge economy” has most generally been defined in terms of technology and knowledge-based industries reflecting R&D (Research and Development) intensity‚ high ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) usage‚ and the deployment of large numbers of graduates and professional and associate professional workers –
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Academic Year 2012‐2013 CEMS BLOCK SEMINAR: Take‐home examination Corporate Entrepreneurship Pauline GELDOF – CEMS Master 2 Introduction In today’s global economy‚ Corporate Entrepreneurship defined by Damanpour (1991) as the generation‚ development‚ and implementation of new ideas and behaviors by a company has become the only real source of competitive advantage for established organizations. Indeed‚ operating within an increasingly
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Rose Spiegel Rationale 5.7.13 Everyone describes social entrepreneurship differently. While many have been able to describe the traits and features of a social entrepreneur there doesn’t seem at all to be a consensus about the definition of what constitutes the field of social entrepreneurship. Susan Davis and David Bornstein in their book‚ Social Entrepreneurship: What Everyone Needs to Know define social entrepreneurship as “a process by which citizens build or transform institutions to advance
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women choose the option of starting & managing their own business that can impede women’s success in the corporate world. Women entrepreneurship need to be studied separately for two main reasons. the first reason is that women’s entrepreneurship has been recognised during the last decade as an untapped source of economic growth. Women entrepreneurs create new jobs for themselves & others by being different also provide society with different solution to management ‚ organization & business problem
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