Gross Earnings
The importance of maintaining accurate payroll records. It covers methods for calculating gross earnings, overtime earnings, and incentive pay methods such as commission and piecework pay.
Mathematics in the Business World
An introduction to the world of business math, rationale for studying the subject and an important look at the value of strong math skills.
Motivational Strategies
Although material rewards can motivate people, such rewards don't usually represent the strongest motivational force. Many companies have redesigned jobs to challenge their employees. A number of companies have also tapped new sources of employee mo...
Managers and Ethics
Some believe that managers need to be provided with a corporate code of ethics that might serve as a kind of road map in the face of difficult choices. But it would still be incumbent upon the manager to find out the facts in a given situation and t...
Management Style and Employee Morale
In any organization, the style of supervision can have a tremendous impact on morale. An autocratic, punitive management style tends to cause many employees to simply do what they're told, often with great resentment. A more participative management...
Managerial Skills and Functions
While there is a wide range of general skills required of nearly all managers, there are some differences in emphasis from one level of management to another, from supervisory or operating level managers up through senior, top level managers.
Managerial Challenges
Regardless of their level within an organization, managers virtually without exception find their jobs to be a uniquely challenging mix of the frustrating and the rewarding. Unlike the popular image of the manager as someone who spends his or her ti...
Marketing, Taxes, Employees and Ethics
This clip notes that one of the greatest challenges in operating a small business is maintaining one's ethical moorings while, at the same time, performing essential business functions, such as promoting, advertising, paying taxes and dealing with e...
Matching the Individual to the Organization
The first step for a prospective employee to take in assessing whether he or she is a good fit for an organization is understanding his or her own values. It's critical to choose a line of work and to find a company whose values are consistent with ...
Managing Change Case Study: Fluor Corporation, The
The Fluor Corporation was for years one of the largest engineering and construction companies in the world, employing close to forty thousand people. But by the mid 1980s, faced with crippling financial losses following the collapse of its engineeri...