Advances In Management

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Advances In Management






Vol. 10(1) January 2017

How to manage Difficult Employees

Toogood Travis, Spadorcia Sarah, Mishra Bharat and Mishra Jitendra

Managers will have to supervise individuals that are talented within a field but can be difficult to motivate. Based on the journal article, “How to Motivate Problem People” in the Harvard Business Review, review of literature has been conducted in attempts to assist managers in the motivational process and the actions that can be used to work with difficult employees. From the journal, there have been four case studies reviewed in attempts to reveal various types of difficult employees.

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Dynamic Fare Pricing – an Application for Public Transport in Kolkata

Ghosh Anupam, Mitra Dipa and Sarkar Amitava

A major component of operations cost of a bus is the cost of fuel. Any rise in fuel prices leads to a demand from the bus operators for increasing passenger fares. However, as a public good, it is necessary to price public transport in an objective manner so that the fare fixing mechanism becomes robust and answers most questions rather than leave them to assumptions. The purpose of this paper is to develop a bus fare pricing model that can be applied for fixing fares for public buses in Kolkata. The paper also illustrates how the model can be used to determine future bus fares in Kolkata.

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