This is a guest post from Bill Cumming, a real student of emergency management and the laws that have impacted it through the decades of its existence. I think he has hit the nail on the head in many ...

For a project to be successful, all levels of management, along with project team members, must have clearly defined objectives. According to Robert Youker, a consultant in project management, these ...

Max Weber’s management theory promotes a structured hierarchy, clear rules and impersonal relationships to increase efficiency and eliminate favoritism.

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Conventional hierarchical management systems have prevailed since 1954 when Peter Drucker introduced his famous book on The Practice of Management. Back then, it spelled out the fundamental basics of ...

Anyone who’s worked in a corporate environment is likely familiar with the following scenario: A bright, upstart young employee notices a process that could be improved. That employee comes up with a ...

Fish swim in water. Humans swim in hierarchy. Families, volunteer organizations, and workplaces have hierarchy. Like fish with water, we take it as a given. Oddly, the popular management literature ...

The last four decades have witnessed a significant change in organizational approach towards performance evaluation of their managers at all levels due to penetration of outside influence in the form ...

According to American psychologist Abraham Maslow, all humans have the same fundamental needs (food, clothing and shelter), and these needs must be met before an individual is motivated to look beyond ...

Food and shelter. Love and belonging. Delivering customer value through a robust portfolio of product offerings. Self-actualization may be the final frontier of behavioral motivation, but there’s more ...