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Author :: Justin Woolich  |
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| Article Title :: Key Employees can and will leave your Business, are you prepared? |
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| Very few businesses can claim to be prepared for the loss of key employees. Quite often it is an unexpected and unplanned for event that causes quite a bit of disruption to 'business as usual'.
It is quite a gut wrenching experience to see an employee you have worked with over a period of time leaving your business. Even if the parting of ways is on good terms with a period of handover, you just know that there is so much information walking out the door with your former employee and there is nothing you can do about it.
And this is only just the beginning...
While labouring through a period of being understaffed and overworked you are then faced with t (read full article) |
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Author :: James Warden |
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| Article Title :: Background Checks – Quintessential In Today’s World Of Employment |
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| A background check is essentially a verification procedure. It is a method of investigating the past of an individual and his achievements and failures for the purpose of recruitment. This helps the employer to judge the validity of information furnished by the prospective employee.
Any company must go through a proper and systematic background checking before making a hiring decision. Background checks have proved to be more beneficial and effective in comparison to personal interviews and information provided by resumes and Reference Letters.
Background checks are organized methods of investigation, where the company follows a particular course of action by cond (read full article) |
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| Category :: Management Articles |
Author :: Peter Peterka |
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| Article Title :: Design Of Experiments For Six Sigma |
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| One of the valuable tools in the Six Sigma toolbox is Design of Experiments. Design of Experiment (DOE) is a structured technique that helps to uncover relationships often hidden inside mountains of data. Within the structure of a Six Sigma project, Design of Experiments is a structured approach to identifying the factors within a process that contribute to particular effects, then creating meaningful tests that verify possible improvement ideas or theories.
Most of us are familiar with the concept of experimentation within the fields of science and medicine. Experiments can be designed and conducted for any process in any field not just testing physics equations or new drugs or (read full article) |
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| Category :: Management Articles |
Author :: Peter Peterka |
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| Article Title :: Six Sigma Tools |
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| Statistics are at the heart of Six SigmaÂ’s powerful methodology for quality improvement. It pays to get to know some of the most important of the Six Sigma statistical tools.
Control Charts
The control chart is the fundamental tool of statistical process control; a proven technique for improving productivity. It monitors the variation of key characteristics and indicates the range of variability that is built into a system. Control charts provide diagnostic information about process capability that can be used to analyze variation in process data to demonstrate whether a process is operating consistently. The bounds of the control chart are marked by upper and l (read full article) |
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| Category :: Management Articles |
Author :: Eric Garner |
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| Article Title :: Musketeer Management: All For One and One For All |
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| ThereÂ’s nothing like being in a great team. It is one of lifeÂ’s greatest highs and one of the real pleasures of going to work. Unfortunately, though, for many, it is a dream to be longed for rather than a daily reality. In teams that donÂ’t click, the experience is frustrating, painful, and stressful. And for the organization that allows such teams to exist, an unproductive waste of talent.
But all that can change.
With 7 simple acts of teamwork, teams can change from being the source of our greatest anguish into being the source of our greatest joy. HereÂ’s how.
1. Sharing. If you want to measure the strength of your team, do a sha (read full article) |
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| Category :: Management Articles |
Author :: Peter Peterka |
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| Article Title :: Six Sigma Deployment In Smaller Organizations |
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| Six Sigma is not just for large multinational corporations. While there are difficulties inherent in implementing Six Sigma in a small company rather than a large business they can be overcome. Six Sigma can work in any size business because the nature of Six Sigma is dependent upon characteristics inherent in any business, not on the size of a business. Smaller organizations frequently are short on resources and expertise in change initiatives. However, they also have more flexible process flows, a shorter decision-making chain, and higher visibility of senior management. Smaller organizations can actually effectively establish Six Sigma faster than large businesses if deployment scope is c (read full article) |
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| Category :: Management Articles |
Author :: rpreville |
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| Article Title :: Used electronic test equipment: WhatÂ’s the difference in used, refurbished, remarketed and rebui |
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| According to the research firm Frost & Sullivan, the estimated size of the North American used test and measurement equipment market was $446.4 million in 2004 and is estimated to grow to $654.5 million by 2011. For over 50 years, companies and governments have procured used test and measurement instruments in order to realize a number of benefits including the need to:
- reduce equipment acquisition costs,
- replace discontinued testing instruments,
- circumvent lengthy new product delivery times, and
- conform to legacy standards and specifications.
Although there are many considerations when purchasing used test and measurement instruments, th (read full article) |
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| Category :: Management Articles |
Author :: Stu McLaren |
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| Article Title :: 4 Tips To Ensure A Rewarding Experience When Hiring Others |
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| Hiring an employee can be a big step for many small business owners. It means the end of doing EVERYTHING yourself and passing off some of the work!
In order to make the experience rewarding for both you and your employees there are a few things that every boss and leader should doÂ…
1) Reward people for a job well done. Its frustrating working for someone who enjoys all the financial rewards of the efforts put forth by the entire team, especially if they don't recognize what everyone has accomplished and contributed.
It doesn't take much to acknowledge the effort of your staff. It makes a HUGE difference in the working atmosphere when you take a few (read full article) |
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| Category :: Management Articles |
Author :: Kevin |
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| Article Title :: Nine Ways to Get Your Productivity Up! |
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| WeÂ’ll all been there. Ballplayers call it a slump. Some call it a lull or a funk. These are the times when you donÂ’t seem to have as much energy or passion for your work. You canÂ’t seem to get as excited (or excited at all) about the tasks in front of you. You are less productive, and you donÂ’t feel as good about your work either. Beyond that, the quality of your work you are getting done may be slipping as well.
This situation can be caused by many things and it can affect both individuals and teams. Regardless of the reasons for the situation, there are specific, predictable ways to get past the funk. When you apply these suggestions (and some of them you can a (read full article) |
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| Category :: Management Articles |
Author :: Don |
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| Article Title :: Building a better Brick-and-Mortar with the Billion-dollar Web |
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| More than $117 billion passed hands from Internet shoppers to Internet vendors in 2004, according to the statistical research firm comScore. ThatÂ’s billion, with a B. Compared to the year before, the figure represents a whopping 24 percent increase in sales. Compared to the early 1990s, when the Web was a questionable commercial venture, todayÂ’s $117 billion is proof-positive that the Web is the full-fledged money-making machine. It seems to be a big enough pie that any merchant with a Web site can cut out his heaping slice.
Not so fast. As any merchant whoÂ’s tried to take a bite out of the Internet will tell you, turning a profit online is not as simple as throwing (read full article) |
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