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The purpose of the research is to gain an understanding of the theory, use, practice, and benefits of the father leadership in Singapore’s Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). By applying the focus group data collection techniques and interpretative analysis, the relevance and usefulness of the father leadership’s 5Cs approach is highlighted; the use and perceived value of that ‘all-in-the-family’ touches to ensure business success.

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Today’s business environment is very complex and dynamic. Businesses are increasingly affected by technological changes, evolution of management practices, societal changes, demands on the natural environment, and increasing competition. Dynamic leaders are needed to guide their corporations to respond proactively and effectively to manage change and business growth. Business leaders need to be innovators and strategic thinkers who are able to adapt and exploit opportunities in their changing environment. In this paper, we review the challenges that businesses are faced with and discuss how top management can respond to these challenges by planning and managing change.

This article discusses the importance of leadership and strategy in planning for the future. Planning for the future is not an easy task and requires visionary leadership to develop futuristic views. Leadership is essential to providing enabling conditions and appropriately allocating resources to anticipate and plan for the future. Corporations that understand their environment and react proactively have proven to be successful and continue to reap the benefits of better planning. Those that have failed to plan effectively have lost market share and competitive advantage and are either out of business or struggling to catch up with their competitors. This paper therefore discusses the importance of strategic planning and the role of top management to ensure effective planning and implementation. Planning for the future is the goal of any strategic plan and it is the key to the long-term survivability of firms.

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“Outsourcing” information technology (IT) services has become all the rage.  But as interest has grown in the globalized sourcing of everything from data and call center operations to software system development maintenance and support, so too have the options for distributed IT product and service delivery.  Emerging management approaches combine onsite, onshore, offshore and so-called “nearshore” solutions.  While India and China immediately spring to mind as places where outsourcing happens, Latin America and in particular Mexico are now determined to enter the global outsourcing market,  providing a nearshore option to interested U.S. enterprises.  This article will provide a simple tool for assessing the match between an offshore IT services offering and the needs of the enterprise.  The authors will then explore outsourcing options by focusing on two IT service providers — Choice Solutions, Ltd., (India), and Softtek Corporation (Mexico).  For each of these enterprises, the authors provide a brief client experience, focusing on the value-added of the offshore/nearshore relationship.  To conclude, the authors offer a process approach and a series of critical success factors in managing a typical IT outsourcing arrangement.

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Economic growth and a healthy environment are two things that virtually everybody would love to have. Both provide great utility to the recipients, in this case everybody. Unfortunately, there seems to be an intrinsic tradeoff between economic activity and environmental preservation. Industry and production use resources that deplete our environment and emit by-products that harm the environment. However this production also leads to economic growth that in turn leads to more available income for everybody. Every government in the world has adopted some sort of balance between environmental protection and economic activity. Free trade versus the environment has become a hot issue lately, especially in the face of our ever-globalizing world. Free trade will certainly lead to increased world income, but the environmental consequences may also be dire — so dire as to outweigh the gains from income. This paper explains the impacts of free trade on the environment, the environmentalist argument, the pros of free trade, and review some recent empirical research measuring the impacts of free trade on the environment.

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In recent years, sourcing and supply management has emerged as one of the greatest opportunity areas for retail business as well as for suppliers to leading retailers. At the same time, it is possibly also the one most prone to risk. This set of activities holds the key to improving service, product offer and overall profitability, and yet also provides some of the most difficult challenges of doing business globally. Certainly, a business needs to have winning products. Especially so with global companies who need to pick the best supply countries and the best suppliers to source from. Certainly negotiation and cost management are an important part in this context. But the only way to achieve these many "bests" is by ensuring that sourcing is well and truly integrated within a company’s overall business strategy, and that sourcing activities closely follow the direction set by overall business strategy. This paper attempts to identify sourcing strategies for global firms operating in the post WTO liberalized scenario to compete effectively.  The need for integrating sourcing options and aligning them with the overall business strategy with special reference to the textile industry has been brought forth.

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The Study analyses trade and investment relations of the BIMST-EC countries (which include Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Sri Lanka and Thailand), and highlights potential areas for enhancing bilateral trade and investment between India and BIMST-EC countries.

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Education systems worldwide have often been brought into the limelight by corporate and academic experts for not being to generate  “ market-ready “ , or “employable “ candidates to join the already growing work force . This fact must be , and surely is being highlighted in the case of India where 50% of the population is under the age of 20 —21  . Neither will current curriculum nor companies knock your door to to bring out the entrepreneurs in students. It is up to us — the academia and more importantly - students  to assess for the society and to realize what it is ,that is really the need of the hour in the years to come and generations to follow.

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Many organizations have adopted and readily accepted e-learning as a part of their training models. However, one topic that does not often come up in discussions is how to effectively market your distance education (DE) programs. Ever wonder why a distance educational program has had low enrollment and completion rates? This paper will address the importance of integrating marketing into your distance education initiatives. You will learn how strategic planning, designing/developing, promoting, implementing, and evaluating a marketing campaign for your DE programs can greatly influence participation and motivation in your programs. You will also see examples of effective and ineffective DE marketing campaigns, and will ultimately learn how to create a highly effective DE marketing strategy and campaign. With this goal in mind, you will not only learn how to create a winning DE marketing campaign, but also will learn how to evaluate and determine the return on investment (ROI). Evaluation and ROI are two crucial steps that should not be left behind with your DE marketing campaigns.

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This paper talks about the Exploring the Conceptual Frame Work of  Johari Window: Ingham and Luft's Johari Window Model - For Self-Awareness, Personal Development, Group Development and Understanding Relationships.