Thursday, September 29, 2011

What is Project?

Project
  • "A temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product or service." 
  • "A project is a specific, finite task to be accomplished within a given frame of time." 
  • "An individual or collaborative enterprise that is carefully planned and designed to achieve a particular aim" - Google.com
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Thursday, September 15, 2011

What is Project Management?

  • “Project management is the science and art of organizing the components of a project, whether the project is development of new product, the launch of a new service, a marketing campaign.”
  • “Project management is the discipline of planning, organizing, securing and managing resources to achieve specific goals.”

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Wednesday, September 14, 2011

What is Human Resource Management?

Here are some of the definitions of Human Resource Management opted out from some of the scholar's definitions. The definitions are written below: -
  • “Human Resource Management is the set of organizational activities directed at attracting, developing and maintaining an effective work force.” - Griffin.
  • “Human Resource Management is concerned with people dimension in management. It is a process consisting of acquisition, development, motivation and maintenance of human resource.” - Deconzo and S.P. Robbins.
  • “Human Resource Management can be defined as a process of accomplishing organizational objectives by acquiring, retaining, terminating, developing and properly using the human resource in an organization.”- Skinner and Evanecevich.
  • “Human Resource Management is the utilization of human resource available in order to effectively and efficiently achieve a set up goal” - Prof. Siraj Uddin
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Tuesday, September 13, 2011

What is Strategy?

Definition of Strategy

  • Strategy is the science and art of military command as applied to the overall planning and conduct of large scale business operations.
The American Heritage Dictionary. 
  • Strategy is a unified, comprehensive and integrated plan designed to ensure that the basic objectives of the enterprise are achieved.
William F. Glueck
  • Strategy is the formulation of organizational visions goals and objectives as well as action plans for achievement that explicitly recognize the competition and impact of outside environmental forces.”
William P. Anthony, Pamela L. Perrewe and K. Michael Keamar.


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