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Globalization Globalization: Is it worth it' Given today’s economy does it make sense for a small company to go global' According to Charles Hill, author of International Business, he seems to think that it is a good thing along with many other businessmen, influential economists, and even politicians. Yet that is not the answer for every industry, take for example the family entertain

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Microsoft Problems Recently, Microsoft started having legal problems. It was one legal battle after another. It was taking too much time away from what Microsoft does best. Personally, I think it was starting to get to be ridiculous. The problems first started shortly after Microsoft released the Windows 98 Operating System. To help the look of Windows 98, Microsoft Internet Explorer was

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Monster.com Monster.Com vs JobSluth.com There is a lot of online recruitment services available that help organizations obtain qualified applicants. I have viewed many of these in the past and the two that seem to be the most user friendly are http://monster.com and http://jobsluth.com. They are large and seem to have the largest postings of jobs. They are similar but have many differenc

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Motivation How to attract and retain competent and talented individuals who can help the organization accomplish its mission and goals is very important. Motivation is the art of management, which is part of the study of organizational behavior (OB). Motivating and rewarding employees is one of the most important, and one of the most challenging, activities that managers perform. Effect

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Motivation In Employees Motivation What is motivation' Motivation is difficult to explain and even harder to “turn on” in people. Webster defines motivation as “an act or process of motivating; the condition of being motivated; a force, stimulus, or influence: incentive or drive” (“Motivation”). It is most often the job of the manager to use motivation to drive its employees to ac

Motivation Principals What motivates you' What motivates others' These are questions that have been researched and studied since the 1930s when Henry Murray proposed a list of needs thought to underlie goal-directed behavior (Kreitner 207). Motivation is the psychological processes that arouse and direct goal-directed behavior (Kreitner 205). Or in simpler term – what makes you do th

Motivational Skills Motivational Techniques There are people out there in the workforce that believe they are obligated to do their best at their job simply because that is what is expected from all of us as humans. On the other hand there are those out there that want to only do as much as they can get away with doing. No matter which one of these employees you are or are working wi

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Globalization And Wal-Mart Multicultural Globalization and Wal-Mart The company that we are researching is Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart has been in the process of going global and continues to do so, while it opens stores all over the world. Globalization is beneficial to Wal-Mart because it increases their profits and expands their marketplace. The theory that we are using is multi-cultural