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Employee versus independent contractor employment status

What do you believe are the benefits to being an employee of a company vs. A contractor? Which would you prefer to be? Why?

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Analysis of Michael Krause's "Sell or Sink" sales strategies

Michael Krause has written a new book that provides eight sales strategies that are supposed to help increase sales, engendered a more motivated sales staff, and help sustain both.

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Factors influencing China's rise to superpower status

In evaluating China's prospects for achieving superpower status, especially during this economic crisis, the first research question would take into consideration whether and to what degree the United States is in decline as a superpower, and if it is, then whether China is simply going to achieve…

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Leadership authority and trust in the corporate workplace

What are some guidelines for exercising authority? Reward Power? Coercive Power? As a result of the various financial scandals over the last decade, like Enron, Tyco, and WorldCom, leadership authority is under scrutiny.

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Fear of authority figures in East Asian versus Western cultures

Globalization is considered to be the phenomenon that owns a positive tendency to tame the behaviors of the individuals dwelling in all parts of the world in an accord of productivity and peace.

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Flexible work arrangements: balancing employee needs and employer productivity

Gone are the days of single-income households being the norm. The costs and other economics of today basically mandate that many families have both parents working and this leads to the need for day care, school transportation plans and other arrangements for things like doctor visits and school…

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Government procurement opportunities for small and disadvantaged businesses

The government procurement process is identified by purchase of goods and services that will be used in provision of public goods and services like transport, railway, education, health, defense etc.

~13 min read

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Edmund Phelps' tax credit plan and work incentives for the poor

Rewarding Work: How to Restore Participating and Self-Support to Free Enterprise (Harvard University Press, 197), economist Edmund Phelps offers this plan to help the working poor: apply tax credits for "qualified employers" or hire disadvantaged people for "eligible jobs." Evaluate this plan in…

~13 min read

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Evaluating the effectiveness of the DARE drug education program

The DARE program, whose short form is derived from "Drug Abuse Resistance Education," has developed so quickly, from the time since its commencement 18 years ago, that it is at the present being educated in 75% of school districts all over the country, as well as in 54 other countries.

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Masculine gender roles and their incompatibility with modern counseling needs

The past few years have seen significant advances in the field of counseling. Psychologists and psychiatrists have gained a better understanding of the human psyche. Based on their insights, they have been able to identify new problems and propose more effective methods of treatment.

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