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  • International trade#New markets

    The Economic Challenges of Exporting and Expanding into New Markets

    In a recent discussion with a group of furniture manufacturers in Egypt, a question was raised that touches the nerve of the local economy: if product prices keep rising, why is the increase not reflected in workers’ wages? The answer is not simple, but it reveals a structural challenge that…

  • Management#Strategy

    Section Two: Defining the Vision and the Goal

    Diagnosing General Electric’s situation did not take Jack Welch long: he knew his organization’s problems well, had lived with them for years while working there and knew every detail of it, so the diagnosis was quick and accurate, and his vision of the organization’s future was just as clear.

  • Management#Management

    Case Study (3): Jack Welch’s Change Strategy at General Electric

    Welch spent about twenty years as chief executive of General Electric, and throughout them he never stopped, not for a moment, changing and transforming it, until continuous change became an integral part of this great economic institution. Welch waged an all-out war on bureaucracy, on the many…

  • Management#Management

    Job Frustration

    Job frustration is a psychological state that affects employees when they meet obstacles that keep them from fulfilling their career wishes and aspirations. It shows itself in several forms: a feeling of oppression and bouts of irritability, remarks that reveal a loss of hope in the future and in…

  • Management#Human resources

    A Tour of Google (Part Two)

    Google’s buildings and the services offered to employees: one of the things Google is known for is professional medical massage therapists who give massages to employees. Every building has a complete, fully equipped gym like any professional gym. And not only that: there are things like CrossFit…

  • Management#Leading companies

    A Tour of Google (Part One)

    The subject can be divided into two parts: one on general benefits, and one on the services found in every Google building. First, the benefits. Health insurance: in countries without free health insurance, such as the United States, Google gives employees comprehensive insurance for themselves…

  • Accounting#Management

    The Accounting System and Its Importance in Decision-Making

    The need for information keeps growing, as a means whose importance comes from how much it contributes to decision-making. The accounting system is one of the most important systems that produce information, helping to rationalize and support the economic decisions that affect societies’ resources…

  • Information systems#The internet

    The Information and Communication Technology Revolution

    There is no doubt that what occupies the world’s mind today is the tremendous development of the information and communication technology revolution, founded on the internet, which has become indispensable and through which geographical borders have disappeared from commercial transactions and…

  • Information systems#Knowledge management

    The Importance of Information in This Century

    In the last century there was no real interest in information: reliance on it was very limited, and it was not one of the important resources business organizations depended on. But given the enormous challenges and changes that organizations now face...

  • Economics#Economy

    Globalization and Its Impact on the World Economy

    Over the past millennium, successive developments and historic turning points had deep effects and brought radical changes to every aspect of human life, leading to the dawn of the age of globalization, which has made the whole world a small global village through the communications revolution and…

  • Information systems#Problem solving

    Mathematics and Human Knowledge

    Human knowledge has many varied and interconnected aspects, and one of its most important fields is mathematics, a sequential, integrated and unlimited science. It is an organized, sequential and precise science through which we arrive at explanations for all the problems we face...

  • Management#Work ethics

    Error Management and Organizational Behavior

    The question of “error management” has drawn attention among those working in the human, social and administrative sciences, through a gradual movement between disciplines; in the course of that movement it found its way into the behavioral sciences, in various forms of attention to error…