Diversification Management Research Articles

Effective Factors of Diversified HR and Relationship Management: A Qualitative Case Study on TokyaTech, NY

This qualitative case study is specially drafted for the purpose of enhancing students’ exposure on diversified HR and relationship Management. Modern age is the age of Human Resources and Relationship Management in order to have a corporate success in today’s stiff competition. This case adopts an armchair case approach to discuss the required concept of HR & Management and apply on an imaginary company mentioned in this case. The proposed frameworks in this Case study are the primary sources of authors and properly aligned to apply on the company mentioned in this case. This case holds 100 percent primary source for the purpose of clarity on HR & Management diversity for Business graduates especially for HR & Management subjects. The practical implication of this approach is beneficial for Business students & Faculty to help students in understanding basic case approach and enhance the exposure to apply on any organization. This study covers the cultural and diversity issues around four sampled locations. The case proposes the solution with the help of descriptive models that are proposed to address the case situations in this paper.

Modelling the System of Diversified Inventory Management

The relevance of studying the models of diversified inventory management is caused, firstly, by the complexity and diversity of management process, and, secondly, by a large proportion of logistical costs in overall enterprise costs. The primary value of inventory management models is to increase the qualitative level of meeting various kinds of needs by material resources and improving the reliability of economic system performance. The article considers the process of modelling the system of diversified inventory management. A Special attention is paid to the mathematical forecasting model of implementing, determining the reorder level and order quantity. A feature of the present model is that it involves only the logic of the process, since the variety of control algorithms modifications may cause certain difficulties of creating a universal model. In the given model, a controllable parameter is the time required to dispose of the remainder of stock, which enables us to take into account, firstly, the forecast demand for resources, and, secondly, the restrictions on the production capacity. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n6s4p489

Edges within farmland: Management implications of taxon specific species richness correlates

In intensively farmed landscapes worldwide, edges separating fields from managed forests represent potential biodiversity reservoirs. We examine variables strongly associated with species richness of several taxa representing diverse ecological guilds – vascular plants, carabids, butterflies, birds and small mammals – inhabiting farmland-forest edges in South Bohemia, Czech Republic. Our main objective was to assess the edge characteristics that could be managed for enhancing species richness of the studied taxa. We found only weak between-taxon correlations and hence often taxon-specific responses to geography, vegetation, adjoining site management, and surrounding habitat diversity and edge density. Therefore, the environmental variables associated with species richness in one taxon are not influential in other taxa. Still, edge width, diversified management of adjoining farmland or forest patches, and surrounding landscape heterogeneity in taxon-specific distances contributed to the species richness of all studied groups, suggesting that these parameters should be targeted by managers in order to enhance farmland biodiversity.

The International Society of Biological and Environmental Repositories presents Abstracts from their Annual MeetingBridging the Canyon – Connecting Biobank Communities through Innovations in Global Health, Research and Environmental PreservationMay 5–9, 2015Phoenix, Arizona

The International Society of Biological and Environmental Repositories presents Abstracts from their Annual MeetingBridging the Canyon – Connecting Biobank Communities through Innovations in Global Health, Research and Environmental PreservationMay 5–9, 2015Phoenix, Arizona

Consultant's Perspective on the Evolution and Management of Glyphosate-Resistant Kochia (Kochia scoparia) in Western Kansas

Glyphosate is the leading herbicide used in glyphosate-resistant (GR) crops and no-till production systems. Evolved resistance to glyphosate in kochia was first reported in Kansas in 2007. Shortly thereafter, GR kochia became prevalent in western Kansas. An online survey of crop consultants was conducted in fall 2012 to gain their perspectives on evolving glyphosate resistance in kochia in western Kansas, to gather information on how grower weed management practices have changed from before to after occurrence of GR kochia, and to assess the effectiveness of management practices used during 2011 to 2012. Results of the survey indicated increasing infestation of kochia from prior to 2007 (present in 47% of fields) through 2012 (present in 70% of fields). It was estimated that greater than one-third of the cropland in western Kansas was thought to be infested with GR kochia by 2012. Growers increased glyphosate use rates from an average of 0.8 to 1.22 kg ae ha−1and application frequencies from 2.0 to 2.9 from the period before 2007 to 2012. The spread of GR kochia has resulted in changing weed management practices. During the survey period, growers reduced the exclusive use of glyphosate from 49 to 15% for GR crop fields and diversified weed management practices. Though other herbicides in addition to or in place of glyphosate were often applied prior to kochia emergence and were effective in more than half the fields, at least one-fourth of respondents reported inconsistent results with alternative kochia control practices other than tillage. These results are educational and helpful in developing both proactive and reactive tactics to manage GR kochia.

Managing the evolution of herbicide resistance.

BACKGROUNDUnderstanding and managing the evolutionary responses of pests and pathogens to control efforts is essential to human health and survival. Herbicide‐resistant (HR) weeds undermine agricultural sustainability, productivity and profitability, yet the epidemiology of resistance evolution – particularly at landscape scales – is poorly understood. We studied glyphosate resistance in a major agricultural weed, Amaranthus tuberculatus (common waterhemp), using landscape, weed and management data from 105 central Illinois grain farms, including over 500 site‐years of herbicide application records.RESULTSGlyphosate‐resistant (GR) A. tuberculatus occurrence was greatest in fields with frequent glyphosate applications, high annual rates of herbicide mechanism of action (MOA) turnover and few MOAs field−1 year−1. Combining herbicide MOAs at the time of application by herbicide mixing reduced the likelihood of GR A. tuberculatus.CONCLUSIONSThese findings illustrate the importance of examining large‐scale evolutionary processes at relevant spatial scales. Although measures such as herbicide mixing may delay GR or other HR weed traits, they are unlikely to prevent them. Long‐term weed management will require truly diversified management practices that minimize selection for herbicide resistance traits. © 2015 The Authors. Pest Management Science published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Society of Chemical Industry.

Investigation of health management needs after health examination

Objective To investigate the needs of health management after physical examination, differences in needs among different physical examination people, and methods of health management, in order to provide references of establishing health management service system and operation mode. Methods Nine hundred and eighty-six physical examination cases were randomized selected in December 2013. Self-designed questionnaire was used to conduct a survey, and then the results were analyzed statistically. Results The health management contents that people needed most was diagnosis and treatment for patients suspected, the proportion was 65. 9%, followed by explaining the disease and nursing knowledge, the establishment of electronic information file, regular follow-up, counseling, periodic review and guide self management, the respective rates were 61.0%, 59.0%, 58.0%, 57.8%, 54.0% and 52.0%. Health management requirements were related to age, occupation, cultural level, and per capita income. Management modes selected by health examination people were telephone follow-up, issuing brochures, and SMS remind. Conclusions Understanding of health management demand of the subject, and developing diversified and personalized management, can strengthen health promotion and disease management, so as to serve the physical examination population better. Key words: Physical examination; Health management; Health survey

지방의료원의 경영수익성과에 영향을 미치는 결정요인에 대한 연구

Abstract This study is investigates decisive factors impacting business profits of regional medical centers by utilizing their environmental characteristics to provide useful basic data to seek for a method to establish financial soundness and profitability. The research objects are medical treatment record and management indicators of 31 regional medical centers for the past three years from 2010 through 2012. The method of analysis are ANOVA and Multiple Regression Analysis. The results revealed the debt and management ratio in the profit rate of total medical liabilities and net worth, current balance in the medical profit on medical revenue, and hospital bed turnover rate, emergency hospitalization rate, rate of labor cost, and rate of material cost in the business profits as the decisive factors. It is recommended to identify financial feedback and establish diversified management strategies through accurate management analysis to secure financial soundness and profitability in medical centers.

Landscape management on post-exploitation land using the example of the Silesian region, Poland

Abstract More and more often, post-mining and post-exploitation areas, which have been heavily transformed by man’s economic activities, are no longer a danger to the environment, but they enhance the monotonous urban-industrial landscape of a particular region and are instead its identifying value. Activities regarding the planning of landscape development are very difficult. This paper emphasizes some of the problems that result from legal barriers with regard to the concept of the more diversified management of post-mining areas as substantial forms of the landscape. In the process of the complex shaping of the natural environment in reclamation actions regarding post-mining areas geographers, biologists and architects have a large role to play.. Due to the fact that landscape management falls within the scope of interest and competencies of many stakeholders, such as: government, regional and self-government institutions, nature, monument and state forest protection authorities as well as the scientific community from various disciplines, it is very difficult to reach a consensus in this matter and to develop uniform operating procedures. The landscape management problems on postindustrial areas have been illustrated through the example of the region of Silesia. The cultural landscape of the region has been intensively developed in the last thousand years, but signs of human impact are much older, dating back to the pre-historical and early Medieval periods. The Silesia region is currently undergoing a major spatial reconstruction.

Changes of the Ecological Conditions in the Báb Forest on the Basis of a Bioindication Method

AbstractThis work analyses the changes of ecological conditions in the Báb forest on the basis of a bioindication method. The comparison is made between the phytocenological records from the years 1968-1969 and 2013 where permanent research plots (PRPs) were established in the forest coppi-ce and on clearcuts. In 2013, the amount of photophilous and thermophilic species increased mainly on the clearcut PRP and the amount of suboceanic taxa on PRP in the forest coppice. Moreover, there is also an increase of taxa like nitrogen-rich posts. On the other hand, the share of fresh soils indicators and acidophilous species significantly decreased. The change in the ratio of the econumbers of the observed ecofactors between the records from 1968-1969 and 2013 is caused mainly by a diversified management. It is the formation of clearcuts due to which synanthropic, clearcut and invasive species occupy the free space. The given species are mainly thermophilic, photophilous representatives and representatives of nitrogen-rich soils and they have a significant influence on the change in the percentual ratios of the econumbers of the six observed ecofactors.

Changes in the Mountain Farming of France: An Analysis of the Relationship between Farm Management and Policy

The objective of this study is to clarify the changes of agriculture in mountainous regions under the Common Agricaltural Policy (CAP) by focusing on the relationship between farm management and agricultural policy in the mountainous regions of France. In particular, a composition of income from subsidies that accounted for the total agricultural income and an investigation on the perspectives of farm households were emphasized. Since the 1960s, structural policy has differentiated between dairy husbandry management and other Mezenc operations, decreased the agricultural population, increased the number of corporation management companies, and increased productivity by agricultural production engineering and the breed improvement of livestock and grain. Meanwhile, production control policy promoted management differentiation between dairy farmers of Mezenc and diversified management types by preferential measures for beef cattle and sheep. As for agricultural income, it was clarified that the dependence of beef cattle farmers and farmers of mixed sheep on subsidies was high because of payment for the number of livestock and because dairy farmers who could not receive payment connected directly to production were disadvantaged in receiving a subsidy. However, it was clarified that cross-compliance (environment compliance rules) for subsidy requirements increased the burden of farm households and, as a result, decreased the motivation for farming operations; hence, there exists a backlash against the system and the government.

Fostering Traditional Yucatec Maya Management of Natural Resources through Microcredits: A Community Case Study

In this research we show the way in which a small Yucatec Mayan community conducts a diversified management strategy of its natural resources, as well as how this strategy is supplemented and financed by microfinance. The local description of the ecological process of succession was used for describing the strategy of nature appropriation. Network analysis was used for studying how productive activities are correlated, depending on households having or not having microcredits. Results show that households carry out a diversified management strategy of natural resource in which 12 productive activities are implemented in 5 different land-use units. Study findings show that the network of productive activities of households with microfinance is more interconnected, and that 59% of the people are devoting their microcredits to finance traditional activities such as crop fields, beekeeping, or home gardens, which are the most socially, economically, and ecologically contextualized productive activities in the region.

Strategic challenges and issues for Chinese managers and management in the global economy: conclusions

The contributions to this symposium on ‘Demystifying Chinese Management’ have attempted to tackle new strategic issues and challenges vis-à-vis the newly diversified ownership and management system which has occurred since Deng's economic reforms. It is clear that when we try to ‘make sense’ of management in the People's Republic of China, we must take into account the degree to which Chinese management has become distinctive, with an adaptation of exogenous knowledge to local circumstances and a relative degree of ‘convergence’ involving a synthesis of ‘local’, ‘glocal’ and ‘global’ forms.

Study on Equipment Central Retirement and Disposal Benefits Evaluation Based on Value Engineering

Equipment retirement is one of critical links in for total life management, and is an important content. There are urgent problems that should be settled, how in the limited time to broaden the disposal channels and methods of retired equipment, dispose well the centrally retired equipment, fully act as value, and come true the best comprehensive benefits of politics, military affairs and economy. In the paper, with the rules of scientificalness, integrity, operability, qualitative and quantitative, it evaluates relative the ratio of effective and cost in accordance with the theory of value engineering, constructs the evaluation model of equipment retirement disposal benefits based on the Forced Decision Method of value engineering theory, sequences the disposal concept by calculating the value coefficients of every concept, thus it makes for producing the diversified scientific disposal management system of retired equipment, plays fully the value of retired equipment, and comes true the best comprehensive benefits of politics, military affairs and economy.

Study on construction of teaching quality management system in medical colleges under per-spective of teaching total quality management

According to the current problems in the management of teaching quality in colleges and universities and from the perspective of teaching total quality management, this paper discussed on the way to construct the diversified, whole and comprehensive teaching quality management system in which both on-campus and off-campus interest parties can participate in and its potential effect on the ba- sis of an empirical study. Key words: Teaching total quality management; Medical colleges; Teaching quality man-agement system

Transition to a water-cycle city: sociodemographic influences on Australian urban water practitioners' risk perceptions towards alternative water systems

Transition to a sustainable water future such as the water-cycle city will necessitate shared, diversified risk management, which acknowledges the subjective risk perceptions of all stakeholders, including water practitioners. Such risk perceptions might vary with personal and professional characteristics. This study explores the influence of these characteristics on Australian urban water practitioners' risk perceptions of four alternative water systems, varying in scale of operation and water source, i.e. seawater desalination, indirect potable reuse, sewer mining and stormwater harvesting systems. Analysis of sociodemographic and risk perception data (N = 620) collected from a national online survey revealed that risk perceptions can vary with age or number of years' experience, educational qualification, stakeholder group and area of work within the water sector, reflecting different communities of practice. To facilitate adoption of a suite of sustainable urban water systems, these different risk perceptions must be identified, acknowledged and managed. Targeted social learning through experimentation is a useful approach to achieve this.

Benefit Analysis of Knowledge Management System for Engineering Consulting Firms

AbstractEngineering consulting (EC) firms in the construction industry are knowledge-intensive and experience-based organizations. As the knowledge accumulated from previous experiences is the essential asset for wining and managing future projects, many EC firms have developed diversified knowledge management systems (KMSs) to accumulate and retain this essential knowledge. However, evaluation methods and results regarding the benefit analysis of KMSs are rarely found in literature. To evaluate the performances of KMSs, most previous studies have adopted qualitative approaches. This paper, on the other hand, presents a ratio-based approach for evaluating the benefits of KMSs. The proposed approach is tested using one of the KMSs from a study EC firm: the proposal preparation assistant (PPA) system. Based on a test of two real cases, this study found that a 48.7% time reduction in data collection and 25.3% staff-hour savings can be achieved when using the PPA system to prepare service proposal drafts. The...

循環型まちづくりにおける木質バイオマス利用と森林管理

Shiwa Town, in Iwate Prefecture, has been promoting recycling-oriented town development since 2000. This paper reviews the town's woody biomass utilization and forest management system and discusses the issue of developing sustainable forest management based on a sustainable woody biomass utilization system. Shiwa's experience reveals that forest management should be an important component of an overall local woody biomass utilization system. In addition, scale factors should be considered to allow diversified management and diversified management bodies that are appropriate at scales ranging from individuals to large enterprises. Third, local economic circulation (i.e., flows of cash or cash-equivalents within the community) should be managed to enhance sustainability. Finally, energy service companies (ESCO) will play a significant role in funding and coordinating the woody biomass utilization system.

Moths and management of a grassland reserve: regular mowing and temporary abandonment support different species

Although reserves of temperate seminatural grassland require management interventions to prevent succesional change, each intervention affects the populations of sensitive organisms, including insects. Therefore, it appears as a wise bet-hedging strategy to manage reserves in diverse and patchy manners. Using portable light traps, we surveyed the effects of two contrasting management options, mowing and temporary abandonment, applied in a humid grassland reserve in a submountain area of the Czech Republic. Besides of Macrolepidoptera, we also surveyed Microlepidoptera, small moths rarely considered in community studies. Numbers of individiuals and species were similar in the two treatments, but ordionation analyses showed that catches originating from these two treatments differed in species composition, management alone explaining ca 30 per cent of variation both for all moths and if split to Marcolepidoptera and Microlepidoptera. Whereas a majority of macrolepidopteran humid grassland specialists preferred unmown sections or displayed no association with management, microlepidopteran humid grassland specialists contained equal representation of species inclining towards mown and unmown sections. We thus revealed that even mown section may host valuable species; an observation which would not have been detected had we considered Macrolepidoptera only. Our results highlight the necessity of diversified management, including temporary abandonment, to conserve the biodiversity of grassland reserves and grasslands in general.

Insect community structure and insect biodiversity conservation in an Alpine wetland subjected to an intermediate diversified management regime

The paper deals with the structure of insect communities and insect biodiversity conservation in the Alpine wetland of Pian Gembro (Italy). For over a century, the wetland was subjected to diversified peat harvesting procedures, to agricultural exploitation and recently, to a superimposed diversified intermediate management regime (DIMR) aiming at plant species and plant diversity conservation. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate whether the DIMR is likewise effective for insect biodiversity conservation.Pitfall traps, sweep and collections of visually observed insects yielded 997 individuals representing 141 species from 11 insect families. The rank-frequency curve for bog insects was relatively steep indicating a low evenness due to the high abundance of low ranking species. The curve for insects collected in the surroundings was less steep pointing to a relatively high evenness due to a lower abundance of low ranking species. In both the bog and the surroundings the Shannon diversity index was generally highest at intermediate levels of disturbance. These results indicate that the DIMR strategies implemented for plant biodiversity conservation is also appropriate to conserve insect species biodiversity.