You are CEO of a large company. At 8:30 this morning - the start of the workday - you have requested a meeting with your Director Human Resources in relation to the recent frequent violations of labor discipline done by his subordinates and himself.

You are manager of a small department.  It’s Tuesday and you are approached by your best employee with a request to allow her to take the next workday – off.  You ask her what she needs that day for.  She shares that she is going to an interview for a new job.

2008 crisis was particularly fierce in the automotive industry.  Sustainable sales increase was the primary task of every producer in this industry... The pricing policy of branded goods has always been a delicate and difficult task because...

U.S. manufacturers decision:
Two of “the three big”companies - General Motors, Ford and Chrysler - used the following technique:

In 1981 a Foundation decided to fight starvation in a poor African country on the east coast of the continent!  During the previous 3 years, on average 150 000 people per year died from starvation!  Due to the high level of corruption in that African country the Foundation decided to endow several ships of wheat weighted over 1 000 000 tones, instead of money.

Could you suggest what negative effect that donation might cause?

A friend of yours is the main organizer of 2009 best site contest.  Weeks in advance he announced the contest rules, participants selection criteria, the other two members of the jury (your friend is the third member of the jury) and the number of stages -3.  At the start of the competition, it became clear for everybody that your friend's brother was among the participants....