Human Resources: Functions, Organization, and Best Practices
DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES
The human element is the differentiating factor of a business, the unique element of the organization. If a company is able to surround itself with a good team of professionals, it has a clear competitive advantage in the market. The human resources department should achieve these goals:
- Select and train the people the company needs.
- Provide workers with the necessary means to perform their work and define the most appropriate communication channels.
- Ensure that the worker
Business Accounting: Principles, Practices, and Financial Statements
Accounting and Accounting Information Systems in Business
Running a business is a complex task that requires relevant and timely information to make informed decisions. A crucial aspect of this information system is accounting.
What is Accounting?
Accounting systematically examines and records a company’s assets to understand its financial situation at any given moment.
Accounting Standardization
Given the vast and heterogeneous nature of business assets, standardized accounting rules are essential.
Read MoreEconomic and Fiscal Policies: Impact and Instruments
Economic Policies: Objectives, Instruments, and Types
Economic policies are forms of state intervention in the economy designed to achieve specific economic objectives.
Objectives or Purposes
- Sustainable Economic Growth: The state intervenes to increase the production of goods and services, sustaining it over time. A key objective is to improve the welfare of citizens.
- Full Employment: Achieving full employment is challenging. It is generally considered to exist when 98% of the working population is
Economic Agents and Business: Understanding the Market
**Economic Agents: Understanding Their Roles**
There are three types of economic agents:
- Consumers: Grouped in families or households, they decide which goods to consume to meet their needs.
- Companies: Make decisions on the production and distribution of goods in exchange for a benefit.
- The Public Sector: Formed by the government, it aims to maximize the welfare of society as a whole.
Economic Rationality
Economic rationality consists of choosing the option that provides the most utility or welfare among
Read MoreEngineering Economic Analysis: Key Components and Data
**1. Integrated Approach**
This integrated approach includes three basic components:
- Work Breakdown Structure (WBS). This is a technique to explicitly define, at different levels of detail, the elements of project work and their relationships (sometimes called a structure of work items).
- Structure of Costs and Revenues (Classification). Identification of categories and elements of costs and revenues to be estimated to produce cash flows.
- Estimation Techniques (Models). Chosen and used mathematical models
Understanding Different Market Structures and Their Impact
Market Structures and Their Characteristics
Market Performance and Market Classes
- Perfect Competition
- Imperfect Competition:
- Monopoly
- Oligopoly
- Monopolistic Competition
To understand these structures, the following characteristics are studied:
- The degree of concentration: This is the number of bidders in a market. The greater the number of bidders, the lower the concentration. (Example: mobile phone companies. The more concentrated the market, the fewer phone companies there will be, possibly only one or