Management

The Principles of Scientific Management

The Principles of Scientific Management Presentation The Principles of Scientific Management, written by the North American engineer Frederick W. Taylor in 1911, has an extreme relevance in management as a knowledge course. In fact, Taylor’s work had the merit of being the first to look at management as a separate activity and perfectly identifiable. In […]

The Third Wave (Book)

The Third Wave Presentation The Third Wave, written by the North American futurist Alvin Tofler in 1980, describes a new world order: post-industrial society, to which Tofler called the “Third Wave”, which emerges after the industrial society (the “Second Wave”), which had been preceded by the agriculture society (the “First Wave”). The great news of […]

Tofler, Alvin

Alvin Tofler Biography: Alvin Tofler is an important author, known as one of the greater futurists in the management area. Beyond the several…

Total Quality Management (TQM)

Total Quality Management Concept Total Quality Management (TQM), corresponds to a kind of management characterized by the permanent search to introduce gradual and continuous improvements in the already existent processes and procedures, looking always towards quality excellence. Generally, involves the participation of all organization members and it’s based on the assumption that the organization is […]

Traces Theory

Traces Theory Presentation: Traces theory is a leadership model (or perspective) according to which leadership is…

Trainee

Trainee Concept: The term Trainee designates, in the management scope, a kind of position inside and organizations’ hierarchic structure…

Training

Training Concept: The term Training means the acquisition of knowledge and skills resultant from training courses undertaken for this purpose…

Turnover

The English term turnover designates, in the human resources management context, the personnel rotation rate as to (…)

Unfair competition

Unfair competition is an illegal practice in the field of the intellectual property code (IPC) and other competition law.

Union (Trade Union)

Union (Trade Union) Concept Currently, and synthetically said, a union is a free association, stable and permanent of employees or workers belonging to a same career or related careers) or to a same activity sector, that gather for a defense of the correspondent professional interests, individual or collective, namely at the level of work conditions […]

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