Personnel Management Research in Agribusiness Vera Bitsch Department of Agricultural‚ Food‚ and Resource Economics Michigan State University‚ 306 Agriculture Hall‚ East Lansing‚ Michigan‚ 48824 Tel: +517-353-9192‚ Fax: +517-432-1800‚ bitsch@msu.edu Paper presented at the 19th Annual World Forum and Symposium of the International Food and Agribusiness Management Association‚ Budapest‚ Hungary‚ June 20-23‚ 2009 Acknowledgements This study was supported by the USDA Cooperative State Research
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Profitability is a measure of the efficiency of a business to use its resources. It is measured by the return on the capital resources it uses which means the combination of debt and equity. This is given by the ratio return on capital employed (ROCE)‚ return on investment or accounting rate of return. This tells investors how successful the business is by analyzing the profitability. The higher ROCE‚ the more liable it is to carry a high return to the investors resulting in higher dividends
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Healthcare Personnel Shortage Julienne Auguste HCS/427 HR PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES IN HEALTH CARE DEIDRA JOHNSON February 20‚ 2011 The medical-surgical unit of ABC hospital is a 52 bed unit divided into three nursing stations. The unit provides care for medical/surgical adult and geriatric patients on various stages of recuperation from diagnostic‚ therapeutic and surgical interventions. Staffing levels are based on accurate calculation of the volume of patients occupying a
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& Traditional PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT Definition Personnel Management - Personnel Management is thus basically an administrative record-keeping function‚ at the operational level. Personnel Management attempts to maintain fair terms and conditions of employment‚ while at the same time‚ efficiently managing personnel activities for individual departments etc. It is assumed that the outcomes from providing justice and achieving efficiency in the management of personnel activities will result
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Introduction For an organisation‚ motivation tends to add on the productivity and performance of employees. It is the motivation of employees that enable them to put in their maximum efforts for the purpose of achieving their organizational objectives. Motivated employees give their best performances for the tasks that are allocated to them. For the purpose of inducing motivation among employees proper planning is done (Lauby 2005). With the help of this planning‚ strategies of motivation are implemented
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WHY MOST POLICIES DON’T WORK IN AFRICA Ever since Africa became a continent‚ most of her problems have been policy and policy management. First‚ it was the colonial policy makers who introduced the Indirect Rule system (as was the case of British colonial Administration) and the assimilation policy system (as was the case of the French colonial Administration).The Colonial masters adopted these policies largely
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ORGANIZATION GROUP FLOW In an organization‚ communication flows in 5 main directions- 1. Downward 2. Upward 3. Lateral 4. Diagonal 5. External 6. Laissez-faire 1. Downward Flow of Communication: Communication that flows from a higher level in an organization to a lower level is a downward communication. In other words‚ communication from superiors to subordinates in a chain of command is a downward communication. This communication flow is used by the managers to
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Chris Winters 04/11/14 Period: 4 1999: AP Question #1 Nearly everything in life eventually comes to and end. Seamus Heaney depicts this advancement of time in "Blackberry Picking" by combining both pleasing and harsh words to describe the blackberries at the time they ere picked and at a later date. The poem begins with a straightforward description of the act of the blackberries maturing. "Late August‚ given heavy rain and sun/ For a full week‚ the blackberries would ripen"
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In Adopt Health Inc. we believe that administrating a successful firm requires an understanding of how to attend consumers‚ irrespective of very challenging situations. While some business proprietors like to believe in that they can speedily come up with the contingency plan to work through a calamity‚ our company spend time making strategies for proceedings they hope will never occur. Actually‚ the ability of our organization to make progress from a disaster is directly connected to the amount
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When bullying is suspected or alleged it is important to follow your work place settings policies and procedures to ensure you correctly support the child/young person and their families. Children have the right to know they are protected by law and there is also support available for parents/carers whose child/young person is the victim of bullying. If I had a disclosure made to me regarding any form of bullying I would initially make it clear to the individual that I was there to support them
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