Pub Date : 2018-06-01DOI: 10.13189/UJM.2018.060603
Ibrahim Makina, Robert Keng’ara
The Kenyan sugar sector is characterized by a series of decline and collapse of state funded milling companies despite massive funding by Government of Kenya. This study sought to establish major causes of Nzoia Sugar Company milling cane below daily target of 7000 tonnes, how strategies are formulated, implemented, controlled, and causes of resistance to change. The study employed census approach with target population of 44 staff members due to convenience and sensitivity of the information in the sugar industry. The research design was descriptive. The data for the study was both primary and secondary. Structured and unstructured questionnaires were the main tools for collecting primary data. Data was analyzed using multiple correlation analysis and descriptive statistics. Data was presented through graphs, pie-charts, frequency tables and figures. The findings showed that most of the workers who resisted change were subordinates comprising 67.7% while managers who resisted comprised 6.5%. The correlation significance was 0.05. There was positive correlation between improvement in performance and implementation of the strategies of +0.363. There was a negative correlation between resistance to change and involvement in resistance to change of -0.33. The study recommends involvement of all stakeholders in strategy formulation implementation and control.
{"title":"Managing Strategic Change of an Organization's Performance: A Case Study of Nzoia Sugar Company, Kenya","authors":"Ibrahim Makina, Robert Keng’ara","doi":"10.13189/UJM.2018.060603","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13189/UJM.2018.060603","url":null,"abstract":"The Kenyan sugar sector is characterized by a series of decline and collapse of state funded milling companies despite massive funding by Government of Kenya. This study sought to establish major causes of Nzoia Sugar Company milling cane below daily target of 7000 tonnes, how strategies are formulated, implemented, controlled, and causes of resistance to change. The study employed census approach with target population of 44 staff members due to convenience and sensitivity of the information in the sugar industry. The research design was descriptive. The data for the study was both primary and secondary. Structured and unstructured questionnaires were the main tools for collecting primary data. Data was analyzed using multiple correlation analysis and descriptive statistics. Data was presented through graphs, pie-charts, frequency tables and figures. The findings showed that most of the workers who resisted change were subordinates comprising 67.7% while managers who resisted comprised 6.5%. The correlation significance was 0.05. There was positive correlation between improvement in performance and implementation of the strategies of +0.363. There was a negative correlation between resistance to change and involvement in resistance to change of -0.33. The study recommends involvement of all stakeholders in strategy formulation implementation and control.","PeriodicalId":211193,"journal":{"name":"Universal journal of management","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122521445","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-05-01DOI: 10.13189/UJM.2018.060504
Rhoda Saan, F. Enu-kwesi, Remy Faadiwie Nyewie
The literature generally indicates that succession in family businesses takes the form of transfer from one generation to another, but succession planning appears to be left to chance by many firms. This neglect of succession planning and the emotions generated by the process make owners ill-prepared for succession. The objective of this study was to explore the factors that influence succession planning in family-owned businesses and their importance in ensuring the continuity and prosperity of businesses in the Wa Municipality, Ghana. A random sample of 205 out of 440 family businesses was systematically drawn, and an interview schedule was used to collect data which were analysed using descriptive and inferential statistics. The findings indicate that higher level of education of founders and communication of the succession decision, comprising the transfer date, and post-succession roles to all key stakeholders affect the succession process and the success of the transfer. When the founder's level of education is relatively high, there is the likelihood of succession planning in the business, but trust seems to be limited with respect to female owners. It is therefore recommended that family-owned businesses in the municipality should be encouraged by supervisory or oversight agencies like the registrar general or National Board for Small Scale Industries to improve their educational level, build trust, and set dates for transfer of responsibilities, specify post-succession roles of incumbents and communicate the succession decision to all key stakeholders in order to improve the succession process and ensure the continuity of the businesses.
{"title":"Factors Influencing Succession Planning for Continuity of Family-owned Businesses in the Wa Municipality, Ghana","authors":"Rhoda Saan, F. Enu-kwesi, Remy Faadiwie Nyewie","doi":"10.13189/UJM.2018.060504","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13189/UJM.2018.060504","url":null,"abstract":"The literature generally indicates that succession in family businesses takes the form of transfer from one generation to another, but succession planning appears to be left to chance by many firms. This neglect of succession planning and the emotions generated by the process make owners ill-prepared for succession. The objective of this study was to explore the factors that influence succession planning in family-owned businesses and their importance in ensuring the continuity and prosperity of businesses in the Wa Municipality, Ghana. A random sample of 205 out of 440 family businesses was systematically drawn, and an interview schedule was used to collect data which were analysed using descriptive and inferential statistics. The findings indicate that higher level of education of founders and communication of the succession decision, comprising the transfer date, and post-succession roles to all key stakeholders affect the succession process and the success of the transfer. When the founder's level of education is relatively high, there is the likelihood of succession planning in the business, but trust seems to be limited with respect to female owners. It is therefore recommended that family-owned businesses in the municipality should be encouraged by supervisory or oversight agencies like the registrar general or National Board for Small Scale Industries to improve their educational level, build trust, and set dates for transfer of responsibilities, specify post-succession roles of incumbents and communicate the succession decision to all key stakeholders in order to improve the succession process and ensure the continuity of the businesses.","PeriodicalId":211193,"journal":{"name":"Universal journal of management","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129580781","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-05-01DOI: 10.13189/ujm.2018.060501
Shahad Alwathnani, Mostafa Abbas
Background and Aim: Presence of trainee doctors during consultation may create varying atmospheres during consultation. This study was conducted to assess the attitude of patients towards the presence of trainee doctors during consultation and identify factors related to patient satisfaction during consultation. Methods: We conducted a survey using a 37-item self-administered questionnaire on patients aged 18 to 64 years old who presented for consultation at three Primary Health Centers affiliated to Prince Sultan Military Medical City in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia between May and July 2017. Results: There were 417 respondents, 295 (70.7%) were males. There were 363 respondents (87.0%) who considered the trainee as a member of the medical team, 191 (45.8%) knew that they have the right to refuse examination by the trainee. There were 232 (55.6%) who were affected by the general appearance of the trainee, and 335 (80.3%) were affected by the manners of the trainees. There were 361 (86.6%) participants who preferred to be examined by a trainee in the presence of the treating physician. There were 302 (72.4%) participants who preferred that the trainee be of the same gender as them. There were 38 (9.1%) participants who claimed that they had a negative experience with a trainee. The older aged patients, males and the highly educated were more acceptable to the presence of trainees during consultation and examination. Conclusion: Presence of trainees and medical students during consultation and examination is now well-accepted by patients in Saudi Arabia. However, there still exists a significant amount of patients (particularly the female patients) who are reluctant to be examined by trainees and medical students, therefore requiring the presence and supervision of the attending physician in these instances.
{"title":"Patients' Attitudes toward Presence of Trainee Physicians during Consultation at PHCS Riyadh, Saudi Arabia","authors":"Shahad Alwathnani, Mostafa Abbas","doi":"10.13189/ujm.2018.060501","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13189/ujm.2018.060501","url":null,"abstract":"Background and Aim: Presence of trainee doctors during consultation may create varying atmospheres during consultation. This study was conducted to assess the attitude of patients towards the presence of trainee doctors during consultation and identify factors related to patient satisfaction during consultation. Methods: We conducted a survey using a 37-item self-administered questionnaire on patients aged 18 to 64 years old who presented for consultation at three Primary Health Centers affiliated to Prince Sultan Military Medical City in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia between May and July 2017. Results: There were 417 respondents, 295 (70.7%) were males. There were 363 respondents (87.0%) who considered the trainee as a member of the medical team, 191 (45.8%) knew that they have the right to refuse examination by the trainee. There were 232 (55.6%) who were affected by the general appearance of the trainee, and 335 (80.3%) were affected by the manners of the trainees. There were 361 (86.6%) participants who preferred to be examined by a trainee in the presence of the treating physician. There were 302 (72.4%) participants who preferred that the trainee be of the same gender as them. There were 38 (9.1%) participants who claimed that they had a negative experience with a trainee. The older aged patients, males and the highly educated were more acceptable to the presence of trainees during consultation and examination. Conclusion: Presence of trainees and medical students during consultation and examination is now well-accepted by patients in Saudi Arabia. However, there still exists a significant amount of patients (particularly the female patients) who are reluctant to be examined by trainees and medical students, therefore requiring the presence and supervision of the attending physician in these instances.","PeriodicalId":211193,"journal":{"name":"Universal journal of management","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130820884","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-05-01DOI: 10.13189/UJM.2018.060502
Kristina Mahareva
The research outlines the issue of specific regional service distribution in small countries' outbound tourism market, as ancillary non-aviation services on the global market of air-passenger transport services (as illustrated by the Latvian market data). The article provides the statistics of passenger flows at Riga airport, which allows evaluating the number of foreign airline passengers arriving in Latvia, considering them as potential consumers of ancillary services in the regional spheres of tourism, leisure, education, etc. The material puts forward the idea of regional service aggregation in the framework of the Next Distribution Capability model introduced by the International Air Transport Association, in cooperation with airline carriers, Global Distribution Systems and international travel associations. The regional aggregator's potential profit was also assessed; and a number of recommendations about its setup and functional structure, as a business company, were offered. PEST-analysis was conducted demonstrating how various factors influence the effectiveness indices for market launches of air-passenger transport services. The paper also emphasizes the expediency of engaging state administration and local government bodies in carrying out a project aimed at creating an aggregator for global distribution of regional services to enhance Latvia's upmarket image and its promotion abroad.
{"title":"Evaluating Possibilities of Regional Tourism Services in the Air-passenger Transport Global Market (A Case Study of Latvian Market)","authors":"Kristina Mahareva","doi":"10.13189/UJM.2018.060502","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13189/UJM.2018.060502","url":null,"abstract":"The research outlines the issue of specific regional service distribution in small countries' outbound tourism market, as ancillary non-aviation services on the global market of air-passenger transport services (as illustrated by the Latvian market data). The article provides the statistics of passenger flows at Riga airport, which allows evaluating the number of foreign airline passengers arriving in Latvia, considering them as potential consumers of ancillary services in the regional spheres of tourism, leisure, education, etc. The material puts forward the idea of regional service aggregation in the framework of the Next Distribution Capability model introduced by the International Air Transport Association, in cooperation with airline carriers, Global Distribution Systems and international travel associations. The regional aggregator's potential profit was also assessed; and a number of recommendations about its setup and functional structure, as a business company, were offered. PEST-analysis was conducted demonstrating how various factors influence the effectiveness indices for market launches of air-passenger transport services. The paper also emphasizes the expediency of engaging state administration and local government bodies in carrying out a project aimed at creating an aggregator for global distribution of regional services to enhance Latvia's upmarket image and its promotion abroad.","PeriodicalId":211193,"journal":{"name":"Universal journal of management","volume":"93 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116729621","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-05-01DOI: 10.13189/UJM.2018.060503
I. W. Pantiyasa, G. Pradana, O. Nale
A waterfall in the village of Senaru became an attractive tour that offers natural attraction of waterfall, and also unique and interesting artificial attraction. This fact can potentially attract visitors. But the data of tourists visitation in the last 5 (five) years had fluctuations. It is necessary to research on tourists' perception about waterfall in the village of Senaru. The purpose of this research is to know the tourists perception about attraction, amenities, accessibilities and ancillary. Respondents are visitors and about 60 visitors were chosen by random. This research uses questionnaire as instrument that consists of attraction, amenity, accessibilities and ancillary aspect. Data then analyze using descriptively. The results show that the perception of tourists are average of respondents having good perception on aspects of the attractions of comfort and hygiene, the diversity and security in tourism area, on aspects of accessibilities of road quality, affordability of public transportation and road directions, on aspects of amenities of parking security and capacity, lodging, the capacity of the place of worship, restaurant, gazebo, and on ancillary aspect of officers speed in ticket sales, officers ability and civility on handling of complaints and officers politeness in the area of a waterfall.
{"title":"Tourists Perception about Tourist Attraction of Waterfall in the Village of Senaru District of Bayan North Lombok","authors":"I. W. Pantiyasa, G. Pradana, O. Nale","doi":"10.13189/UJM.2018.060503","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13189/UJM.2018.060503","url":null,"abstract":"A waterfall in the village of Senaru became an attractive tour that offers natural attraction of waterfall, and also unique and interesting artificial attraction. This fact can potentially attract visitors. But the data of tourists visitation in the last 5 (five) years had fluctuations. It is necessary to research on tourists' perception about waterfall in the village of Senaru. The purpose of this research is to know the tourists perception about attraction, amenities, accessibilities and ancillary. Respondents are visitors and about 60 visitors were chosen by random. This research uses questionnaire as instrument that consists of attraction, amenity, accessibilities and ancillary aspect. Data then analyze using descriptively. The results show that the perception of tourists are average of respondents having good perception on aspects of the attractions of comfort and hygiene, the diversity and security in tourism area, on aspects of accessibilities of road quality, affordability of public transportation and road directions, on aspects of amenities of parking security and capacity, lodging, the capacity of the place of worship, restaurant, gazebo, and on ancillary aspect of officers speed in ticket sales, officers ability and civility on handling of complaints and officers politeness in the area of a waterfall.","PeriodicalId":211193,"journal":{"name":"Universal journal of management","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127522640","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-04-01DOI: 10.13189/ujm.2018.060404
M. Hirano
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) gave us great influence on our society/industries as a kind of paradigm shift in many aspects. For many rural regions in advanced countries, globalization accelerated by ICT advancement caused some negative influences in industries. Manufacturing industry and agriculture in those regions were damaged and stagnated by competing with low cost products/labor-force in merging countries. The stagnation of regional economy also promoted degradation of regional commerce and unemployment that caused depopulation and aging issues in regional community. However, on the other hand, ICT advancement also brought us new potential of regional industries through virtual clustering by networking. Many small enterprises can be virtually integrated through ICT networks and can be enhanced their power by virtual integration such as real industrial clustering. By joining in such clustering, many regional enterprises regained their power. And by restructuring regional industries with those enterprises, regional economy has been recovered in some cases. This study introduces some cases of virtual clustering in industries and some regions recovering their economy by restructuring regional industries. Their manners to restructure regional economy are very suggestive for regional societies to escape from undesirable negative circulation of de-industrialization/unemployment and to realize sustainable development.
{"title":"Restructuring Regional Economy Based on ICT Networks","authors":"M. Hirano","doi":"10.13189/ujm.2018.060404","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13189/ujm.2018.060404","url":null,"abstract":"Information and Communication Technology (ICT) gave us great influence on our society/industries as a kind of paradigm shift in many aspects. For many rural regions in advanced countries, globalization accelerated by ICT advancement caused some negative influences in industries. Manufacturing industry and agriculture in those regions were damaged and stagnated by competing with low cost products/labor-force in merging countries. The stagnation of regional economy also promoted degradation of regional commerce and unemployment that caused depopulation and aging issues in regional community. However, on the other hand, ICT advancement also brought us new potential of regional industries through virtual clustering by networking. Many small enterprises can be virtually integrated through ICT networks and can be enhanced their power by virtual integration such as real industrial clustering. By joining in such clustering, many regional enterprises regained their power. And by restructuring regional industries with those enterprises, regional economy has been recovered in some cases. This study introduces some cases of virtual clustering in industries and some regions recovering their economy by restructuring regional industries. Their manners to restructure regional economy are very suggestive for regional societies to escape from undesirable negative circulation of de-industrialization/unemployment and to realize sustainable development.","PeriodicalId":211193,"journal":{"name":"Universal journal of management","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129575755","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-04-01DOI: 10.13189/ujm.2018.060403
Hossein Hakimpoor, M. Khairabadi
The effect of information system on decision making is a central concern in the field of information system (IS). Information systems form the backbone of any business process integration and the main objective of information systems is helping decision makers by providing accurate and time based information helping them in making the right decisions in turbulent environment. The present study has been performed to examine the impact of using management information systems (MIS) and conceptual dimensions of information quality on the quality of managerial decisions in public organizations in Iran. Sample of the study was 250 of the managers from 17 public organizations that were chosen randomly and data was collected on 2015. Using artificial neural networks (ANN) analysis results show that MIS and conceptual dimensions of information quality have a positive effect on quality of managerial decisions and this effect is stronger when MIS and conceptual dimensions of information quality are merged.
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Pub Date : 2018-04-01DOI: 10.13189/UJM.2018.060401
B. Bulğurcu, Gulsun Nakiboglu
Outsourcing has become an increasingly popular means for businesses through which to improve their efficiency. Logistics outsourcing can be described as transferring some of the logistics functions to an external firm. This paper aims to identify the selection criteria that are used by logistics service providers in Turkey's cement sector in choosing the third-party service provider. By drawing on Chang's Extent Analysis on Fuzzy Analytical Hierarchy Process (FAHP), the present paper evaluates cost, service/operation quality, competencies, general attributes of firms and relational factors as the main criteria, and considers explanatory 29 sub-criteria. In doing so, a questionnaire which was prepared in the pairwise comparison model was used as a large sample to collect data from a total of 25 experts working in 14 cement companies. As a result, the analysis identifies service/operation quality as the most important one among the main criteria, and determines the service price as the most preferred criterion among the sub-criteria. The study and results both provides particular insight into a specific sector as it is based on the data collected from a large number of experts in one sector, and offers an opportunity for other sectors from the same point of view.
{"title":"An Extent Analysis of 3PL Provider Selection Criteria: Turkey Cement Sector","authors":"B. Bulğurcu, Gulsun Nakiboglu","doi":"10.13189/UJM.2018.060401","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13189/UJM.2018.060401","url":null,"abstract":"Outsourcing has become an increasingly popular means for businesses through which to improve their efficiency. Logistics outsourcing can be described as transferring some of the logistics functions to an external firm. This paper aims to identify the selection criteria that are used by logistics service providers in Turkey's cement sector in choosing the third-party service provider. By drawing on Chang's Extent Analysis on Fuzzy Analytical Hierarchy Process (FAHP), the present paper evaluates cost, service/operation quality, competencies, general attributes of firms and relational factors as the main criteria, and considers explanatory 29 sub-criteria. In doing so, a questionnaire which was prepared in the pairwise comparison model was used as a large sample to collect data from a total of 25 experts working in 14 cement companies. As a result, the analysis identifies service/operation quality as the most important one among the main criteria, and determines the service price as the most preferred criterion among the sub-criteria. The study and results both provides particular insight into a specific sector as it is based on the data collected from a large number of experts in one sector, and offers an opportunity for other sectors from the same point of view.","PeriodicalId":211193,"journal":{"name":"Universal journal of management","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125158159","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-04-01DOI: 10.13189/UJM.2018.060402
M. García, Carla Aceves Avila
The focus of this article is to examine how higher education institutions in Mexico are preparing for implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) agenda. Specifically, we have developed a case study of the University of Guadalajara (UdG), the second largest higher education institution in Mexico, by identifying its institutional sustainability programs as preconditions toward the achievement of SDGs. For this purpose, we first analyze the evolution of UdG's sustainability programs and their preliminary results, including participation in nationwide higher education sustainable development partnerships and consortiums. We then explore how these institutional programs might harmonize with the sustainable development goals and targets. Finally, and based on the main environmental issues faced by each region of the state of Jalisco, we propose a statewide SDG preliminary agenda that links UdG's outreach and research programs with sustainable development policies of local governments.
本文的重点是研究墨西哥的高等教育机构如何为实施可持续发展目标(SDG)议程做准备。具体而言，我们对墨西哥第二大高等教育机构瓜达拉哈拉大学(University of Guadalajara, UdG)进行了案例研究，将其机构可持续性项目确定为实现可持续发展目标的先决条件。为此，我们首先分析了UdG可持续发展计划的演变及其初步成果，包括参与全国性高等教育可持续发展伙伴关系和财团。然后，我们将探讨这些机构方案如何与可持续发展目标和指标相协调。最后，根据哈利斯科州各地区面临的主要环境问题，我们提出了一项全州范围的可持续发展目标初步议程，将可持续发展目标的推广和研究项目与地方政府的可持续发展政策联系起来。
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Pub Date : 2018-03-01DOI: 10.13189/UJM.2018.060303
Daniel F. Jennings, B. Nagarathnam, F. B. Lawrence
Wholesale Distribution in the United States is a $6 trillion dollar industry that includes 370,000 businesses that employ 6 million people. With evolving distribution business models, margin pressure, and an aging workforce, distributors are faced with a talent management crisis, especially with hiring, developing and retaining managers and developing a leadership pipeline. Traditionally, distributors promoted for their managerial and leadership positions based on tenure and prior job performance. With an increase in the need for business competitiveness, customer experience, value added services and innovative new solutions, distributors need to develop competency based mid-mangers who can effectively drive change and impact profitability.
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