Corporate Articles

Business » Corporate | By Darren Craddock @ Monday, 12th November 2007 @ 12:29 AM

If you were like many people you hit an afternoon slump. Concentration wanes and productivity drops severely. For many people this is a significant told on their business productivity. There's a simple relatively easy way to avoid this energy drain. Try feeding your brain instead of your mouth. Coffee, sodas and energy drinks just don't have the same affect that super nutrition can give you. You want a very productive afternoon that doesn't dehydrate you or give you the jitters. <... more...

Business » Corporate | By Terry Cartwright @ Friday, 9th November 2007 @ 1:19 AM

Registration carries a number of substantial benefits to small and medium sized businesses effectively creating a new corporate body which is a distinct different business vehicle to the owners of the business. Shareholders who are protected from unlimited personal liabilities in the majority of circumstances and can carry significant tax advantages which vary from year to year. Incorporation does carry additional legal responsibilities to that of being self employed. Company formation re... more...

Business » Corporate | By Court Tuttle @ Tuesday, 16th October 2007 @ 2:54 PM

In today's society the world needs highly capable people who can do incredible things. There are many different kinds of institutions, but the need for people who are willing and qualified to lead and help others to accomplish important tasks is the same. Leadership requires so many different characteristics and qualities, but there are many character traits that most leaders in the world have in common. Among most companies, many business leaders need to hire someone to watch over... more...

Business » Corporate | By Abhishek Agarwal @ Friday, 12th October 2007 @ 10:35 PM

Trading activities in the UK has been success mainly due to the adoption of limited liability concept which is used for the formation of trading companies. This concept lets the trading expand by enabling the expanding of the credit, providing a reduced risk to the party inside the company at the same time. In other words we can say that the share holding parties are not held responsible for any company debts. Debtors are not allowed to make any claim regarding the shareholder's per... more...

Business » Corporate | By Abhishek Agarwal @ Friday, 12th October 2007 @ 1:55 PM

Big and small corporations often decide to move their headquarters or offshoots to different parts of the word. The corporations do it for many reasons and compulsions. One, for instance, could be that you are in country A. You produce something that is very famous in country B and has a high demand. It is expensive for you to produce that thing in country A and ship it to B. A cheaper prospect is that you produce the thing in country B by manufacturing it in B and reducing the cost of s... more...

Business » Corporate | By Aurora Brown @ Friday, 12th October 2007 @ 2:18 AM

Today many placement firms want to specialize in corporate staffing. And why not; it is one field where the returns are high and business is usually good. Companies are willing to pay big money to get the right employee because they don't want to waste time locating the employee themselves. Most then decide to outsource the screening work to corporate staffing firms. The two most common forms of corporate staffing are retained search and project based recruiting. In the case of retai... more...

Business » Corporate | By Hugh Roberts @ Thursday, 11th October 2007 @ 9:04 AM

In a 2006 survey by Management Today magazine, virtually all 97 per cent of those responding said that they regarded their place of work as a symbol of whether or not they were valued by their employer. Yet only 37 per cent thought that their offices had office design with people in mind, and no less a third said that they were too ashamed of their offices to bring back colleagues or clients. This is the kind of gap which should worry management and which, were it to occur in any other d... more...

Business » Corporate | By Anna Woodward @ Wednesday, 10th October 2007 @ 6:38 PM

The growth of the Web has given small and home businesses increasing importance in today's business world, to the point that a home business no longer necessarily equates to a small business. California is one of the most connected places in the world, with Los Angeles, San Francisco and San Jose being home to thousands of Internet and technology companies, large and small. While larger businesses typically own or lease dedicated corporate office space, smaller teams of profes... more...

Business » Corporate | By Hugh Roberts @ Wednesday, 5th September 2007 @ 9:19 PM

In a 2006 survey by Management Today magazine, virtually all 97 per cent of those responding said that they regarded their place of work as a symbol of whether or not they were valued by their employer. Yet only 37 per cent thought that their offices had office design with people in mind, and no less a third said that they were too ashamed of their offices to bring back colleagues or clients. This is the kind of gap which should worry management and which, were it to occur in any other d... more...

Business » Corporate | By Ingo Weigel @ Wednesday, 5th September 2007 @ 2:04 AM

One of the biggest problems in the business world is the inability to manage and control stress. Stress is most often associated with delivering on critical business objectives under time pressure, compounded by ambiguities in premises/goals and complex interpersonal dynamics. Any lack of inner confidence can cause even dispassionate, well-meaning disagreements on the purely professional plane to be experienced as a challenge to the ego or the self. When people are, for whatever reason, propelle... more...

Business » Corporate | By Josh Stone @ Monday, 3rd September 2007 @ 4:37 AM

If you are running a business, you are going to have employees at some point. How you handle these employees from performance reviews, to potential promotions to even helping keep your staff as happy and productive as possible is going to determine how overall happy your employees are and how high their productivity level is. Employees who feel valued are going to put more time and effort into their job than those who feel they are being taken advantage of. This is an obvious fact tha... more...

Business » Corporate | By Craig Chambers @ Monday, 27th August 2007 @ 2:14 AM

In today's growing world of multi-national and corporate business, there are more and more companies creating lucrative employee relocation programs and finding and convincing potential employees to consider relocating and joining their company. Companies that have a stable set of quality employees fear "head hunters" as they are sometimes called since this often means they are contacted by competitors and encouraged to leave on the basis of better pay or rewards at the new company... more...

Business » Corporate | By Shaun Parker @ Friday, 17th August 2007 @ 5:16 PM

For three years the High Street retailer Dixons have struggled with their online platform, they have repeatedly been let down by their web developers and their Internet experts. On more than one occasion this painful journey has seen their site suppressed in search engine listings with whole sections of their ecommerce platform dumped out of the active search results. Many search engine guidelines were breached and Spammy pages were sent into search engines such as Google to furthe... more...

Business » Corporate | By Rickie Smith @ Tuesday, 14th August 2007 @ 4:56 PM

The cost of employee relocation expenses can seem enormous, in particular when competing for top level executives. However, there are many ways of avoiding getting your company involved in a relocation package that will not recover in executive talent the amount expended. Technical employees are typically are not granted extravagant relocation packages, so there is usually very little that can be reasonably trimmed from such packages. To begin with, there are several real estate related... more...

Business » Corporate | By Terri Hunziker @ Monday, 13th August 2007 @ 2:21 PM

'Tis the season to be jolly and to attend the yearly corporate shindig -- the office Christmas party! The idea of the annual holiday event is rooted in corporate goodwill. A way to show appreciation to its employees for a year of hard work. This is all well and good but the reality is that most working stiffs view the office Christmas party as a corporate-like event that they, being mindful of their career, must attend. And then there's the inevitable visitation of the drunken lout who... more...

Business » Corporate | By Adrian Adams @ Friday, 3rd August 2007 @ 5:19 PM

Form and function are equally important when choosing office furniture. Given that you will most likely spend at least eight hours a day in the office, it is especially important that your office furniture should be visibly appealing as well as comfortable to use. Choosing the right office furniture could turn out to be a very complex task. You have to make best use of the space you have and within that you have to take into consideration the number of employees as well as the kind of bu... more...

Business » Corporate | By Shaun Parker @ Thursday, 2nd August 2007 @ 1:20 PM

We know that corporate entertainment is an effective tool for entertaining both your clients and your staff, but some people still have their doubts. So what can entertaining do for your company? Different clients entertain for different reasons, it could be a client hospitality event, a networking event, team building or a seemingly 'just for the hell of it' event, whatever your particular reason there is certainly ways of maximising the results! Knowing your audience is... more...

Business » Corporate | By Fazila Nurani @ Thursday, 2nd August 2007 @ 6:12 AM

Most organizations are dependent upon their information and business systems, leaving them exposed to critical loss in the aftermath of a security breach. Fortunately, by implementing an information security management system ("ISMS"), as outlined in the only internationally accepted standard/code to address information security, a business can significantly reduce the risk of a security breach. ISO/IEC 17799:2005 ("ISO 17799"), known as the Code of practice for informati... more...

Business » Corporate | By Wolfgang Jaegel @ Tuesday, 31st July 2007 @ 10:17 AM

Guangdong is perhaps China's leading provincial economy in many ways. It has the largest GDP among all provinces and municipalities, accounting for 11.7 per cent of the national total, and the highest industrial output value among all the provinces and municipalities, accounting for about 13 per cent of the national total. It also has the largest export value among all provinces and municipalities, accounting for 32.3 per cent of the national total and the largest retail sales value... more...

Business » Corporate | By Christine OKelly @ Saturday, 28th July 2007 @ 8:17 AM

Why do all large companies have an Employee Handbook? A legally sound, well crafted Employee Handbook can potentially save a company tens of thousands of dollars in legal costs while serving to relieve administrative confusion by clarifying key company policies. In this article, we'll take a look at the three main reasons successful companies today depend on their employee handbooks. To Define Company Policy Let's say you are on the witness stand; you are being sued b... more...