My research was based around skilled Generation X employees and what they value in long-term employment relationships. Initially my research was looking at employee retention in organisations, I began an initial literature ...

Management and decision-making are functions that enable an organisation to perform effectively and efficiently. In addition, performance measures are the means for determining how effective and efficient the organisation ...

Organisations must generate synergies in their supply chain that result in sustainable competitive advantages. Supplier development is one strategy than can help businesses accomplish this. Literature on supplier development ...

With the growing use of multimedia such as images and videos in industries as well as in our daily life, image retrieval has become a vital technology for users to consume the valuable multimedia resources effectively and ...

Enterprise system (ES) is an information system that integrates all departments and functions across a company into a single computer system that can serve all those different departments' particular needs (Sutherland, ...

This thesis explores the conduct and outcomes of individual research projects where the focus of interest is the influence of administrative procedures on the research process. Data is from interviews with researchers and ...

In the pages that follow I have tried to make some initial steps towards an assessment of the relevance of the work of Michel Foucault for contemporary organisation studies: Following Edward Said, I have framed this question ...

Employer responses to a changing business environment usually involve measures to reduce labour costs. There are several models that an organisation may adopt to improve labour productivity. These include contracting out ...

Supplier Selection, both domestically and on a global scale, is a critical task for organisations looking to increase the value added to products through materials procured and its impact on an organisations competitiveness. ...

The concept of Total Quality has undergone intense debate over the last the decade. Several researchers have suggested the techniques associated with Total Quality, which have there origins in manufacturing are equally ...