Business management

Some claim that management should exist only to support employees' efforts to be fully productive members of the organization - therefore, any form of control is completely ..... to management and employees, says Carter McNamara of Authenticity Consulting, LLC.

Estienne de Beer, author of Boosting Your Career, warns that sooner or later you will report to a micromanager who ..... controls and manipulates you to the point of desperation.

If you get frustrated and tell the boss to back ....., you get accused of having a bad attitude and not being a team player.

Munro reminds us that it is now established by the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (CLS) that coastal states have property rights to the fishery resources contained within their Exclusive Economic Zones extending 200 ..... miles offshore.

Systems theory has brought about a significant change, or ..... shift, in the way management studies and approaches organizations.

The main ..... behind this theory is the underlying notion of small occurrences significantly affecting the outcomes of seemingly unrelated events.

The basic principle is that the market value of a company is driven by the expected future net income from sales of products and services and the ..... that top management's primary goal is to optimize the value of a company.

This simply is not true: anyone who experienced the barren shelves of Moscow's Soviet-era department stores, or is told by a ..... that there are no more coffee-lids, will attest to the obvious fact that inventory shortages are a major source of customer dissatisfaction, lost sales, and lost profit.

One modern approach is that the buyers work with their banking partners to decrease the cost of finance for their suppliers; they see these reductions as a ..... to suppliers for extending the terms of payment.

Managers are also supposed to ..... employees' performance and behavior while on the job.