What is CounterTrade?
Counter trade constitutes an estimated 5 to 30 percent of total world trade. Counter trade greatly proliferated in the 1980s. Perhaps, the single most important contributing factor is Least Developed...
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In today’s sophisticated world market, a product can move with any measure of success only if it is competitive enough in price and quality. Our export can be sustained and improved only be raising the...
View ArticleQuality Standards For Exports
In almost all the products, for which the pre-shipment inspection scheme has been introduced, great care has been taken to accept the buyer’s requirements, wherever known, as the basis of inspection....
View ArticleTrade Protectionism in International Business
Protectionism is the economic policy of restraining trade between nations, through methods such as high tariffs on imported goods, restrictive quotas, and anti-dumping laws in an attempt to protect...
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Importance of Change in an Organization
One can try to predict the future. However, predictions produce at best a blurred picture of what might be, not a blueprint of future events or circumstances. The effective and progressive management...
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Stimulating Forces for Organizational Change
What makes an organization to think about change? There are a number of specific, even obvious factors which will necessitate movement from the status quo. The most obvious of these relate to changes...
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Levels of Planned Organizational Change
A planned change is a change planned by the organisation, it does not happen by itself. It is affected by the organisation with the purpose of achieving something that might otherwise by unattainable...
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Change Agents in Organizational Change
Organizations and their managers must recognize that change, in itself, is not necessarily a problem. The problem often lies in an inability to effectively manage change : not only can the adopted...
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Unplanned Organizational Change
Not all the forces for organization change are the results of strategic planning. Indeed organizations often are responsive to unplanned organizational changes – especially those derived from the...
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Sources of Resistance to Change
The goal of planned organizational change is to find new or improved ways of using resources and capabilities in order to increase an organization’s ability to create value and improve returns to its...
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Overcoming Resistance to Change
In the previous post, we deal with the various sources of resistance to change. In this post we discusses strategies and tactics to overcome resistance to organizational change.Kotter and Schelsinger...
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Minimizing Resistance to Change through Discussions
When as many as possible of those people involved in a change understand as much as possible about it and its consequences, resistance is likely to be reduced. It is management’s job to develop this...
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Levels of Organizational Change Programs
The various levels of organizational change programs may be classified into individual level changes, group level changes and organisational level changes. Individual Level Change ProgramsIndividual...
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Forces for Organizational Change
Change is inevitable in the life of an individual or organisation. In today’s business world, most of the organisations are facing a dynamic and changing business environment. They should either change...
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Delegation – The future of People Management
Many managers or team leaders feel quite threatened by the whole concept of delegation – after all they may have taken some time to reach their current position, so why should they start to give their...
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Confidence and Success
Confidence is a funny thing – sometimes it’s difficult to imagine why someone doesn’t feel confident about their ability to handle a situation when we know they could easily do it.A key issue to...
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Introduction to Emotional Intelligence
Classic Intelligence and rational thinking have dominated Western Society for centuries. It was Freud who showed, through his analysis of the unconscious, that there is more to us than rational...
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Developing Self-Management Skills
Sometimes we believe our environment is responsible for our mood. For example, some people are troubled when it rains, and blame it for affecting their temper. Others have an early morning mood when...
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Dealing With Customer Complaints
The Customer is always right! There are occasions when the customer is right, however there are also times when the customer is not entirely right or when their behavior in making a complaint is such...
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Performance Under Stress Pressure
The difference between Pressure and StressIt is important to understand the difference between pressure and stress. When you are faced with a challenge you are confident you can meet, it is normal to...
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