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    of business administration is not as straightforward as one may perceive. While there is a specific process that business owners must undergo in order to start up their own company, there is no exact right or wrong method to create and sustain a successful business. It is ultimately up to us, as potential leaders of any organization or project, to utilize our own personal values in order to help shape a realistic vision that all of us can achieve together. Because business administration is a competitive

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    The study examines the moderating effect of CEO tenure and managerial experience on firm specific determinants of corporate cash holdings among private manufacturing firms in Kenya. The research employed the upper echelons theory to identify CEO characteristics that are linked to various organizational processes and outcomes such as cash holding. This survey-based study selected a sample of 156 private manufacturing firms from the firms registered with the KAM that are located in Nairobi and surrounding

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    When I came back home to California from my last trip to Vietnam, I felt different. In the sense that I was more confident about who I was being that my eczema was beginning to clear up. However, I was still having a hard time making friends and here is when the warning sign of insecurity prevailed. As I entered into junior high, I started to notice that many girls at this age tend to be very concerned with other people’s looks and their actions. With that in mind, I made the worst mistake trying

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    Administrative Assistant opportunity overview The duties for an assistant has greatly increased to include managing the functioning of the general office, such as dealing with property management, running errands, office supplies, and being the assigned assistant to multiple managers and/or executives. This came about with the economy putting the crunch on business and reducing staff, but to still get the same amount of work processed in a day. [2][3]I chose to go into the Administrative Assistant

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    Daphne Holman, Administrative Assistant Administrative Office Support Assistant Stacey Garner, HCS Regional Manager, Ronda Sims, HCS Assistant Regional Manager, & Anjail Salik HCS Assistant Regional Manager 8:00 a.m. - 5 p.m. (Monday - Friday) Local travel to Region 3 office locations for meetings on a quarterly basis Occasionally, I receive voicemails from outside consumers that require a return telephone call. I also handle call center telephone duties on the CISCO agent line. Some filing

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    I chose discussion question one to discuss, because I consider this is relevant in current society. What does an administrative assistant looks like? In my opinion, it depends on the type of industry an administrative assistant is in. In my career, a downtown business setting an administrative assistant must dress professionally; wearing suits or appropriate business dresses, no visual tattoos, piercings, hair and make-up must be conservative. In a warehouse or factory setting an administrative

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    tioned the matter outside of the fact that he needed to make more copies for the log book. On December 9, 2013. I received an email from Mr. Martinez and that he had gotten in contact with IT and had possession of the keys and log book. A couple of days later December 11, 2013, I got another email from Mr. Pete Martinez that included the administrative assistant of AME Sammy Sobah that the following content in his email needed to be passed along to all AME in house personnel making note of the

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    alluded to as an association or a game plan wherein an industry association concentrates on executing and creating plans that include the targets and goals of the organization. The general procedure required in such technique is termed as primary administration or strategic management and proceeds onward constantly, changing consistent with the development of hierarchical locations and goals (Schaefer, n.d.).The making of a game plan is atheory involving to build up exact movements even as empowering

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    Attached is a Request for Payroll Action for a 9 % salary increase for Administrative Assistant II Nancy Hammelsmith. This would increase her biweekly salary from $1461.35 to $1592.87 and her annual salary from $37,995.10 to $41,414.62. In 2010, Nancy was hired to function as the Administrative Assistant II for the Director of Auditing. The various duties for this position include coordinating correspondence; purchasing and travel requisitions for the Internal Audit Section; scheduling conferences

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    Not a Secretary Click, click, click, yawn. Being a secretary would be the most boring thing ever. I would have to sit in a “desk” and answer phone calls all day. Sitting at a computer unable to move around would drive me crazy. Being a secretary would be a poor career choice for me because I prefer physical work that requires me to move around and use my hands, I enjoy working outside and finding adventure in my daily life. I'm more of a bodily worker. I have to do hands-on things to stay concentrated

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