Effective Communication Strategies in the Workplace
Types of Communication
1. Types of Communication
Upward Communication: This type of communication flows upward, originating from employees and reaching their directors. Through upward communication, companies learn about the problems, ideas, suggestions, or complaints from employees. This motivates and integrates employees, creating a good work environment. It is the least common type of communication in the workplace and is often facilitated through surveys, committees, and reports.
Downward Communication:
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ISO 9001: Quality Standards and Continuous Quality Management
ISO 9001 refers to quality standards and continuous quality management.
International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
The ISO is an international standardization organization that develops voluntary standards. Its mission is to oversee the development of international standards in manufacturing, commerce, and communication for all types of industries. It primarily focuses on standardizing product standards and ensuring security for
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What is ERP and Why is it Important?
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is a software system that integrates and manages core business activities, including accounting, procurement, project management, risk management, and supply chain operations. ERP connects various business processes, facilitating seamless data flow across departments and creating a single, centralized source of truth. A practical analogy highlights its importance: ERP is as indispensable to modern businesses as electricity is
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Self-Exploration
Self-exploration is a conscious effort to understand oneself, including one’s thoughts, emotions, values, and actions. It is a journey of self-awareness aimed at personal growth, clarity, and alignment with one’s purpose.
Concept
- Understanding the Self: Examining one’s beliefs, strengths, weaknesses, and motivations.
- Alignment: Ensuring that one’s thoughts, decisions, and actions resonate with their values and long-term goals.
- Self-Awareness: Recognizing one’s patterns, triggers,
ERP and CRM Systems: Understanding Their Functions and Importance
What is ERP?
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) refers to a type of software that organizations use to manage day-to-day business activities such as accounting, procurement, project management, risk management, compliance, and supply chain operations.
- ERP systems tie together a multitude of business processes and enable the flow of data between them.
- Collects an organization’s shared transactional data from multiple sources, eliminates data duplication, and provides data integrity with a single source
Information Systems & Technology: A Deep Dive
1. Data, Information, and Systems
What are they?
Data: Raw materials like symbols, numbers, words, and images used to produce information.
Information: Data within a context, giving it meaning.
System: The mechanism that generates information.
2. Information Systems
Definition
A set of interacting elements supporting business activities.
3. Computerized Information System Elements
- Hardware: Computers and peripherals.
- Human Resources: People using and feeding data into the system.
- Data/Information: Inputs for