Case Study on Entrepreneurship: Larry Page

Business Analysis

The Boundaryless Career: Modern Contemperory Perspective on Career

Human Resource Management

Concepts of Throughput Accounting and Theory of Constraints

Financial Management

Kaizen – Understanding the Japanese Business Philosophy of Continuous Improvement

Operations Management

Role of Leaders in Shaping Organizational Culture

Management Principles

Models of Organizational Behaviour

The effect of an effective organizational behavior system is to produce motivation. Such motivation builds two way relationships. It means that management and employees are jointly benefited without manipulation of one party by the other. Each type of employee is in need of a particular climate. In order to build up a sound climate, executives must understand their people in the organization. The significant factor is that what motivates job performance in general and in building an overall climate conducive to motivation. The individual differences suggest that there can’t be any all purpose organizational climate. The following are the five  models of organizational behaviour based on which the organizational climate ought to be fixed. Important Models of Organizational Behaviour 1. Autocratic Model Deep rooted in history, this model claims ‘power’ as its managerial orientation. The people who are in command must have the power to demand. Authority is the only Continue reading

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Major Types of Risks in Project Management

Whenever a new projects starts, it start with risk and uncertainty levels which sometimes create deadlocks for project completion. Project risk management ensures if risks are evaluated and decreased as assessment carried, then it increased opportunities. This is for sure project management cannot eliminate all risk from the project but with good planning and statistics level of risk can be minimized, and which will acceptable for project making. Some of risk can be beyond the range of control which can affect the project length or budget, for that instance planning should carry out before those risk hit to project and prior to unwanted events occurring. Analysis and planning are the factor for key to success for project management. In the start of project major decision are carried out which impact on multiple stages for the project which base on incomplete information or inaccurate. To ensuring the best decision policy it Continue reading

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Case Study: Organizational Structure and Culture of Virgin Group

The Virgin Group is one of the most successful business empires today. This organization has established itself in diverse industries including mobile telephony, retail, music, financial services, travel, and many more. Virgin has ruled the British market and has expanded worldwide into other regions like North America, Asia, Africa and Australia. Starting out as a simple mail-order record retailer in 1970, Virgin has grown into one of the most successful business empires in the world. The Virgin Group has established more than 300 companies, employing around 50000 people in 30 countries. Its global revenues in 2009 exceeded US$18 billion. The majority of the Virgin Group’s success has been credited to the founder and CEO of Virgin, Richard Branson. Branson’s beliefs and philosophies are deeply rooted in the corporate culture of the Virgin Group. This has helped the Virgin Group to flourish in today’s competitive business world. History and Development of Continue reading

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The Concept of Dematerialisation of Securities

Origin of Dematerialisation in India The concept of demat was introduced in Indian capital market in 1996 with the setting up of NSDL. A depository holds securities in dematerialized form. It maintains ownership records of securities in a book entry form and also effects transfer of ownership through book entry. SEBI has introduced some degree of compulsion in trading and settlement of securities in demat form while the investors have a right to hold securities in either physical or demat form, SEBI has mandated compulsory trading and settlement of securities in select securities in dematerialized form. This was initially introduced for institutional investors and was later extended to all investors. Starting with 12 script on15th Jan 1998, all investors are required to mandatory trade in dematerialized form in respect of 2335 securities as at end-June 2001. By Nov, 2001. 3811 companies were under demit mode and the rest of the Continue reading

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SEBI (Stock brokers & Sub-brokers) Regulations, 1992

In terms of regulation 2(g), ‘small investor’ means any investor buying or selling securities on a cash transaction for a market value not exceeding rupees fifty thousand in aggregate on any day as shown in a contract note issued by the stock-broker. Registration of Stock Broker A stock broker applies in the prescribed format for grant of a certificate through the stock exchange or stock exchanges, as the case may be, of which he is admitted as a member (Regulation 3). The stock exchange forwards the application form to SEBI as early as possible as but not later than thirty days from the date of its receipt. SEBI takes into account for considering the grant of a certificate all matters relating to buying, selling, or dealing in securities and in particular the following, namely, whether the stock broker: (a) is eligible to be admitted as a member of a stock Continue reading

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Case Study: Warren Buffet’s Investment Style

Warren Buffett is the only billionaire in history to amass his fortune entirely through shrewd investing. He started investing with ten thousand dollars earned from a paper route and went on to become one of the wealthiest people in the world. Today his worth is staggering $30 billion. Warren Buffett was born on August 30, 1930 in Omaha, Nebraska. Since his early childhood, he has been fond of reading various kinds of investment books and The Wall Street Journal. He bought his first stock at age 11. He regretted later as he made delay in purchasing his first stock. At the age of 15, he had saved enough money to buy a 40 acre land from his father at Nebraska. By the age of 20, his fortune was estimated $9800 and it was about $68000 in inflated dollars at the end of 1999. Buffett completed his degree from University of Continue reading

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