Individuals who want to start a career in business management need not worry about expensive university fees or tedious application processes to qualify as a business management student. Today, online business management programs like business management diploma and business management certificate are extremely fuss-free. Additionally, many employers all over the world already recognise the credibility of online education. They have accepted the fact that education methods are evolving along with technology, aside from the fact that business acumen and skills cannot be measured by certificates alone. Hence, if you want to take a business management diploma course, it is the best time to do so. Applying for business management programs online is easy. You can start by contacting the institution through email or phone call. Because everything can be done online or through correspondence, it is not necessary to only consider schools that are in your area or country. You can expect to receive a reply in 1-3 business days. Some school representatives may even call you to discuss your concerns further. Budding entrepreneurs and keen business managers alike can learn the ropes of successfully managing a business without emptying their savings. The fees are usually more affordable in online business management programs like business management diploma because the costs of operating a school building and maintaining facilities is not passed on to students. In as short as 24 weeks, you can complete a business management diploma (even quicker for a certificate program and longer for advanced business management diploma). Naturally, the lessons are concise and fast-paced. However, this doesn’t mean that quality education is compromised. More often, the course is rid of theories and more focused on training the student in performing actual business management tasks. Online business management programs are suitable for people are serious about getting good business education but don’t have enough resources to attend classes physically. Whether it is time or money you are short of, you will save both when you opt to take business management programs through online education. In fact, even those who have the time and financial means prefer this set-up because of convenience. Inquire about our comprehensive business management programs today! ICI.NET.AU is a leading institution offering business management diploma and other online courses.please visit here http://www.ici.net.au/
Month: March 2018
The Secret to Happy Retail Employees
Money Is No Longer Buying Happiness
Let’s face it. Today, building an effective team of retail employees is more challenging than ever. We all agree that the key to an effective retail operation are high performing and productive employees. Furthermore, in spite of a great location or a superior line of goods or services the behavior of every single team member well have a dramatic affect on the overall success of the operation. Every time the employee steps out onto the sales floor and interacts with a customer a change in brand equity is realized. In other words, the behavior and interaction of your employee with your customer will have an ongoing affect on brand identity and brand equity within the competitive marketplace.
Understandably great customer experiences create gains in brand equity while disappointing performance by your team members will create a deterioration in your brand equity. Exactly what is the secret to ensuring that each and every one-on-one customer experience in your store consistently increases brand equity in the eyes of the community? In other words, what makes a team member consistently delight and dazzle your customers so that long-term customer relationships with ongoing repeat business are realized?
The secret is a team of engaged employees. Why is employee engagement so critical in today’s retail landscape? In earlier times employee expectations were quite simple. Employees were happy to come to work and do as they’re told, collect their paycheck and go home at the end of the day. In contrast todays employee is far more sophisticated, educated and connected than ever before. Not surprisingly, the Internet has been instrumental in increasing knowledge levels and subsequently employee aspirations and expectations in the workplace. Unlike earlier times, countless surveys have demonstrated that compensation itself is not enough to satisfy employees over the long-term. In fact, in a ranking of 10 critical elements in one recent survey compensation for employees was rated 6/10!
Today, a retail employee is not just motivated by compensation. Above everything else there is a need to belong to the organization and have a sense of ownership. Ownership can be realized through employee empowerment. Trusting your employees and empowering them to make decisions close to the customer creates personal long-term relationships between your team members and your clients. Empowering your employees creates a climate of ownership and belonging for your team members and generates a great level of loyalty to the company.
Building a team of engaged employees that generates powerful long-term customer relationships takes a long time to build. However once realized the organization will enjoy greater productivity per individual employee, higher morale, lower internal and external theft rates and most importantly, lower employee turnover.
How does an organization that has traditionally operated through a regimented model began to create a more productive and loyal team of engaged employees?
1] Make sure that all employees are kept informed of new and relevant developments in the company. They should hear them first and they should hear them from their organization directly. There is nothing more demoralizing than hearing about new organizational developments last or hearing them from an outside source that was aware of the development before your team was.
2] Give staff increased responsibility and trust. Expand their decision-making powers even if you impose some limitations. Empower staff to make decisions close to the customer and give them the necessary support and Training to enable them to make good win-win decisions for all stakeholders.
3] Encourage staff to make decisions close to the customer and even when on occasion a bad decision is made, offer supportive training and refrain from chastising or punishing the employee.
4] Ensure that a structured process is in place to recognize exemplary customer service on a regular basis. Recognize and reward engaged employees who go above and beyond the call of duty to create a memorable customer experience. To keep momentum going, this strategy is most effective during weekly meetings where peer recognition is realized and small rewards are given to stellar employees. Rewards do not need to be extravagant. The recognition and appreciation is the key to effective leadership of engaged employees.
5] Create a formal and informal system that enables engaged employees to voice their opinions and help steer the future direction of the organization. Empower them to voice their opinions on a regular basis and contribute their ideas in a positive way that will make the company more effective and more efficient. Successfully implemented ideas also merit some form of recognition and a reward.
Building a team of engaged employees is the key to future survival and prosperity in every retail organization. Although this can be complex and protracted in time, the key to success is a change in leadership style that supports a greater level of empowerment, involvement and ownership of today’s retail employee. Start now and create the culture that generates higher morale, higher productivity and lower turnover. Rise above the competition in small steps today, and soar to being number one tomorrow!
Career prospects in business management
Managerial job is no easy task to perform. You should have proper vision and skills to manage any organization. There are some natural leaders who have better chances to make the most out of this profession. However, management can be taught in schools and thus several institutions are flooded with students who all are aspiring to make careers in business management. If you are one in the list, then you must be planning a lot of in terms of choosing a perfect management institute and a perfect course for you. But it will never be an easy task in India. Although there are so many management colleges in the country and some more are on the row to come soon, yet you can’t take all of them for granted when it comes to quality of education and other facilities. One thing is certain that there are no lacks of scopes in the field with so many small business houses and corporate organizations making their ventures in the country recently. There can be vacancies both in low level and in high level jobs. So, getting an entrance will never be a big issue for management graduates and post graduates. However, if you really want to use your degree in management as a ladder to climb on the corporate ladder then you must select one of quality management courses for you. There are so many things to consider for you. Firstly, know your own level of interest and choose courses according to that. You can get specialized training for a certain section of business and that actually is the need of the hour for you. If you are planning to enter into health industry, then relevant courses which focus mainly on health management can come handy for you. The course expenses, the placement facilities, the equipment and lab issues, the practical training and the teaching faculty are some very important things to check out for students who are planning for a business management course in India. Doing every selection right can pay dividends for you as well. Students can make things happen for them with methodical online and offline searches for a college in which they are planning to get admission.
Maintenance Management System in Hospital (Ultrasound & CT Scan Equipments)
BACKGROUND STUDIES /PROBLEM STATEMENT:
Recent maintenance practices in hospital (health care equipments and services) and use of computerized maintenance management system (CMMs) based hospital information maintenance management system (HIMMs) provide good practices during evaluating performance and effectiveness of equipments. But unfortunately, CMMs and maintenance activities i.e. Breakdown maintenance (BDM), planned preventive maintenance (PPM), productivity is not solve problems at all. Several reasons are: 1. CMMs not solve problems of repetitive failures, BDM , PPM for long term 2. CMMs also not predict life cycle and durability of equipments for long period For this reason, need of such system that can predict and resolve problems at all.
This research project is aimed to provide two ways to solve problems by using theoretically mathematical equations from literature review and modify equations for particular for repetitive failure, BDM, PPM and equipment productivity. Second way CMMs software is to design which is completely reliable; predictable critical factors for not only now, but also long term purpose. The results in terms of system assist facility managers or clinical engineers (biomedical engineers). Sustain life of equipments, easy to replacement and repaired etc.
OBJECTIVES OF RESEARCH PROJECT:
The objectives of the project are: 1) To evaluate maintenance management system in hospital (health care equipments and services) 2) To modify mathematical equations for measuring maintenance activities of ultrasound equipment and CT scan equipment
METHODOLOGY: Data Collection Strategy: Data collection strategy is obtained from visited and observation biomedical engineering department. Select two imaging equipments -ultrasound machine’ & -computed tomography machine’ from various hospitals like Hospital Serdang, Hospital Putrajaya etc., to collect equipments inventory data. Data collection strategy is focus equipment assets history. It includes planned preventive maintenance (PPM), Breakdown maintenance (BDM), Schedule work, work orders (w.o), action taken, vendor services, parts management, utilities, and reports. Data collection is need because: a) Calculate repetitive failures, BDM and PPM b) Measure Productivity and Equipment effectiveness c) Life and use of equipments for long term purpose Analysis of Data Collection: Analysis of the data depends upon asset history of particular equipments. Identify repetitive breakdowns, planned preventive and productivity performance in both medical equipments. The strategy for analyze data is to specified no. of failures, no. of breakdowns and no. of planned preventive for last three years. Analysis of data collection is required because: a) Interpret particular problems b) Apply modify equations to solve problems Mathematical Analysis In general, previous studies on maintenance management system provided mathematical formulas and equations not at all overcome problems of equipments. In medical equipments i.e. reliability equations and availability equations are not enough to measure maintenance performance of ultrasound and CT scan. Predicted Breakdowns
In this project, provide specific and modify equations which is use to solve medical equipments maintenenace problems. (Stephen, 2004) This equations are modified on the basis of productivity and reliability maintenance management.. Stephen defined equations: Breakdown (Excepted)= S (No. of Failures) * Frequency of Failure / Total No. of Failures, But modify equation will be: Breakdowns (predictable) = (a1+a2+a3—-an) * () / Tf Therefore a is no. of repetitive failures, an is nth term of failure which is expecting failure with time, is frequency of failure occurring in duration week, months, Tf is total no. of failures per years. Conclusion In the end, evaluating MMS in hospital is prime consideration for clinical engineers. This modify equations of equipments will improve maintenance practices overall and overcome failures, breakdowns. Successful in implementing and applying mathematical equations will definitely increases productivity and overall equipment effectiveness. Nonetheless, due to the necessity to ensure maintenance management system, figure 4.9 data analyzed and interpreted from maintenance part of the asset of equipments contains several factors that serve as the determinants to the success of maintenance practice for health care sectors. By using mathematical approaches and data analysis from maintenance part of the asset of equipments contains several factors that serve as the determinants to the success of effectiveness of equipment and best maintenance practice in health care industries.
RESULTS: 1. From above calculation, the result shows that repetitive failures, BDM, PPM always key parts and critical factors in maintenance practices.
2. Breakdowns maintenance in ultrasound much more and predictable during last three year so it would be a greater expensive alternatives if equipments not replaced on time. 3. CT scan has low rate of breakdowns maintenance during last three years so it would be predicted that less equipment expensive alternative so no need to replace equipment.
4. Medical Equipment’s productivity factor in ultrasound is 36 % in last three years due to more and more Break downs maintenance and Planned preventive maintenance occurred which is not good for productivity, life of equipment. Step should be taken in early stage of breakdowns. 5. Productivity factor in CT scan is 38 % previous three years, because of less BDM but more PPM. 6. Overall equipment effectiveness of Ultrasound is 38.90, it means equipment is in poor condition and unlimited break downs, more failures occurred. Require proper testing, calibrations, changeovers parts, adjustments. It will contribute to increase in effectiveness in rarely manner. 7. OEE of CT scan is 72 %, it is mean that equipment is in good condition because of breakdowns and failures are limited. In occasionally testing and commissioning, inspection is requiring. It will mostly increase effectiveness in rapid manner.
8. It will increase productivity & It will maintain overall equipment effectiveness.
9. Lastly, it will assist clinical engineers to make decision on need basis of particular equipment or replacement.
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Business University Scholarship
Scholarship is some kind of money given to students to help them achieve their education dreams. They are given to those students who apply and manage to be selected. With this kind of sponsorship, the students are able to go for higher studies. They are very good at making the cost of completing ones course lighter. They are available either as partial or full sponsorship. They are better of than loans because for the loans they accumulate an interest and will have to be paid once the student completes the course being taken. These monies for sponsorship does not have to be paid back. However on the other hand, they are not just given out like that there are some ‘strings attached’. The application process is thorough and those who do not meet the requirements are dropped.
World wide, Business University Scholarship are available for those tackling business related courses. They are available for both the continuing students and new comers. They are mostly available for all business departments. So it will really not matter which department is studying. There are similar to any other type of sponsorships and thus may be offered by universities, colleges, foundations, organizations, religious organizations, among others. They can be offered both internally and internally. Internal will be applicable just for the specific country while international is for all over the world. Thee business scholars program gives the students that much needed opportunity for hands on learning and skills gaining exposure. The students are able to do thorough networking with their peers, business leaders, faculty among other people that help them grow business wise. During their learning time, they are able to travel to various companies for field studies. During their schooling time, they will be able to gain essential business skills. They can also be offered internships to prepare them to face the future of the job market.
There are many opportunities for university scholarship available world wide. Those with an interest should always be on the look out so that not to miss an opportunity once it arises. One of the ways one can be on the look out is by using the internet. Conducting online searches, one will be able to discover hundreds of potential institutions offering these sponsorship programs world wide. The following tips can help you get a business University Scholarship easily:
Look through the scholarships available it is important that you familiarize yourself with the different business sponsorship programs available. Then check among them the ones that you are most likely to fit in.
List down the most probable list down the ones that might give you a chance, they might be based upon merit based, need based, or a combination of the two.
Know what is required before you kick-start the application make sure you know all the requirements and you have them ready with you.
Apply early once you are ready, make your application. Make sure you apply early and avoid late minute submissions.