Overview

Corey Rudl was the founder and original owner of the Internet Marketing Center. He started by publishing his own book called Car Secrets Revealed. When a friend suggested he put it up on the Internet, he responded, ‘What’s the Internet?’

Eventually, through trial and error Rudl built his sales to phenomenal levels, and decided it was time to begin selling courses based on the techniques he had developed over the years. The Internet Marketing Center was born.

By the year 2005 it had grown to over $40 Million/year.

Over the past few years Rudl had taken on a friend as a sidekick, Derek Gehl, who had marketing experience of his own. The two worked side by side.

Then in June 2005, about the same time I was forming this website, a tragedy took place when Corey Rudl perished in a car accident. Derek Gehl soon took the helm and over the remainder of the year continued to grow the company to about $57 Million.

I’ve been fortunate to have developed a close working relationship with some of the staff, though I haven’t corresponded with Derek Gehl himself, and they have been so kind as to allow me to view nearly all the products in order to present my reviews to you.

Positive

According to Alexa, the Internet Marketing Center’s marketingtips.com comes in second only to Ken Evoy’s Sitesell.com among the big Internet marketing guru’s sites. That’s an amazing feat.

On videos, Derek Gehl certainly came off as the less slick speaker than his predecessor Corey Rudl, and was often interrupted and corrected by Corey Rudl. He never had quite the delivery Corey had. However, over time Gehl has come into his own as a powerful presenter in his own right.

The IMC’s strongest areas of teaching are

· Email marketing

· Automation of your business

· Aggressive testing

Email marketing is primary to Rudl’s methods. By ‘email marketing’ he isn’t talking about spamming, but mainly about building a huge email list via newsletter (ezine) offerings, and permission-based email advertising. However, in his earlier versions of his ‘Insider Secrets’ course he came under fire for showing readers how to spam. That has since been cleaned up.

Rudl’s emphasis on automation is a point well taken. He acknowledges that Internet marketing simply isn’t an area where you can work an hour or two a day and sit on the beach the rest of the time. He knows your time will be at a premium, and he encourages you to automate as many things as possible through autoresponder, automated shopping carts and auto e-delivery of products where possible. He provides an onslaught of software for this purpose – which may well be part of the reason for his emphasis on automation — to sell you his software.

Aggressive testing was at the heart of Rudl’s own success, and he makes no bones about telling you the importance of doing the same. While pretty much everybody tells you the importance of testing, Rudl made it the focus of everything. The biggest problem with the way most gurus tell you to test, is that they encourage you to try one thing (say a headline) for a time, then try another, and see if your bottom line changes. But there is an inherent flaw in this method, which Rudl recognized. Suppose between week 1 and week 2 a magazine article features my site or product (I should be so lucky). They are sending pre-filtered traffic to my website, and my conversion rate is likely to be better in week 2. My headline may actually be hurting me, not helping, for all I know.

Rudl’s answer to this was to use testing software that concurrently and randomly directs traffic to two different views of the site, and allows you to compare the conversion rate at the same span of time. That is much more scientific.

Unfortunately, the IMC has no products specifically devoted to teaching testing techniques nor any software for the purpose. This is a big gap in their offerings.

One last very positive note is the newsletter – particularly the earlier ones. Nearly all the teaching the company did was echoed in the newsletter. These days it is more a sales letter than an instruction letter, but the archives are still available on the site and are a good free education.

Negative:

Corey Rudl’s and now Derek Gehl’s back-end tactics have come under a lot of fire. No matter what you buy from him, at rather high prices no less, you’ll quickly learn it isn’t nearly enough. If you buy a course, you’ll be told you need several expensive software packages. If you buy software, you’ll need to upgrade to the pro edition. If you think he’s sending you everything you need to know in a course, you’ll soon learn you ‘need’ his course on the super secrets that he himself uses, which he claims no other marketers will tell you about. Back-ending is a valid methodology, and to be expected, but when you get the feeling that you were tricked into something you didn’t see coming, you feel duped. That doesn’t mean the products aren’t valuable – they are. But be prepared.

I strongly dislike trickery, and there are several examples of it on his website. For example, when you’re near the order link for a product, you might see an enticing line like ‘If and only if you buy by (some date) you’ll also receive (such-and-such)’. Guess what! The date will be today’s date, no matter when you go there. It’s inserted by a script. That, to me is dishonest. It’s simply not true, because if I go there tomorrow, I’ll still get the same offer.

The IMC’s materials are not particularly cheap. Of course, neither are the materials of lot’s of other marketers. As I said earlier, I’m not saying they aren’t worth it. If you spend just less than $200 for a huge course, and only use a couple of suggestions from it to garner and extra $2000 in sales, you’ve paid yourself back 10 times over. And likely it will be many, many times that again if you use the materials as you should.

There are lot’s of bonus freebies that come with Gehl’s products – that’s part of his typical method, and one he encourages you to emulate. But you quickly get the feeling that the quoted value is WAY over-inflated. It is, of course. The actual value of a product is what you could sell it for, and few if any of the prices he quotes would hold up to asking prices like those. Again, it doesn’t mean his products are bad. Just the feel of the tactic.

In general Gehl’s copy feels pushy and somehow you don’t get the trust factor you feel from some. He’s in it for the money and you definitely ‘feel’ the greed effect. That does hurt his credibility a bit. Once again, I’m not saying his products are worthless.

I’ve been a bit put off by his poor email support. Please see the details of it under the Support section below.

The software the IMC sells hard is largely produced by his company. But there are several very good competitive products that work just as well, or better, for less money and which have better support. I do not recommend most the software for the price you pay. One exception I might make is the BeBiz package, which I think has some value for the beginner.

A recent tactic is that nearly every purchase is designed to lead you into either an ongoing subscription or to the high-priced consultation packages. This is an unfortunate trend in the IMC’s lineup, in my opinion.

Affiliate Program

Derek Gehl’s commission rates are excellent and there are some who have made a lot of money on his affiliate program. However, there is some concern over the aggressiveness of the company itself in marketing products to the affiliate’s customers rather than giving subsequent sales to affiliates. There is no system in place to match returning customers to their previous affiliate sellers.

By contrast, for example, Ken Evoy’s affiliate program awards commissions on all futures sales back to the affiliate who sold the first product – no matter where they buy them. There is no such system with Rudl’s company. However, since the courses are so well respected and IMC’s quality is high, one would be proud to carry his line.

I have tested the affiliate program and found that about one out of every fifty customers I send to his site will purchase a product.

Site Popups

There is one consistent pop-up on the company’s site, and that is the newsletter sign-up form. I get a little tired of that thing dropping down in front of me every time I go from page to page.

Free Content

The newsletter is certainly the main freebie of value available at marketingtips.com. There is no repository of free ebooks that I’ve been able to find. However, if you look around the Web you will occasionally run into reprinted articles or other works by Rudl.

He also offers a lot of freebies along with purchases, but not by themselves that I’ve found. However – don’t miss the newsletter archives.

Money-Back Guarantee

All of Rudl’s materials have a money-back guarantee. There is usually a 30-day time limit, except the Insider Secrets course, which has a 1 year guarantee. I have not yet found a record of a complaint about the hard products. In general I think the name is valuable enough that they would try to protect it by honoring the guarantee.

However, I have heard a few complaints from my readers and from other sources about getting refund satisfaction from the mentoring program. Some who thought it was not the value they expected have found there are disclaimers to what is or isn’t refundable.

I have returned a product that I decided not to keep and it was promptly refunded. They were exceedingly nice about it and didn’t ask any questions. In fact I found them very pleasant to deal with.

The Better Business Bureau does say that one or more customers remain dissatisfied, even though the company made a reasonable effort to resolve the issue. At least it’s good to know they tried.

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‘The Bureau has processed customer complaints on this company in its three-year reporting period. Some of the complaints were resolved. However, for other complaint(s), the consumer remains dissatisfied despite the company’s reasonable effort to resolve the complaint(s).’

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Support

In general, I do not have nice things to say about email support at marketingtips.com. I wrote to them to ask about some missing newsletter archives.

Six days later I got a response saying ‘I’ll look into it and get back to you soon.’

Another 5 days and I wrote back asking, ‘what’s the status of this research.’

Another week later and finally I got a reply saying they weren’t available.

When I joined the affiliate program I didn’t get the introductory email. Days later I started to get the follow-up email, but still no information on my membership number, links, and such.

I wrote for help.

Granted it was on Saturday. No response. I wrote again on Monday. Tuesday arrives, still no response.

On Tuesday I called them. They asked, ‘What’s you’re email address?’ I gave the first four letters of my address and before I got any further, ‘Oh, yes. You wrote on Saturday,’ She said defensively.

‘Yes and also Monday!’ I replied.

‘I’ll get that letter out to you within four hours.’

By the end of the day – about 6 hours later I got an email saying ‘In order for me to access your account, I will need the email address the account is under. Unless you know your affiliate number.’

Sheesh, you knew it when I called you!!!!! But I sent a reply with the email address AND my membership number anyway.

Next day I get another email saying, ‘In order for me to delete your account, I will need the email address the account is under. Unless you know your affiliate number.’

Delete my account? All I want is my stinkin’ introductory email! I sent the email address and account number AGAIN! I finally had to call them.

Other times I’ve written about various products so I could review them properly. No reply days later.

I’m not alone in this problem. I’ve seen complaints on forums all over the Internet.

Folks – learn something here!! For such a pundit of auto responders, why doesn’t marketingtips.com use one for email support! Such a major company on Internet marketing surely ought to have a response ticketing system. It does not.

Over two years ago I was told there was a ticketing system to be implemented soon. It still doesn’t seem to be in place.

 

 

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What books centered around African Americans would you recommend – that don’t deal w/ civil rights or the hood

I’m tired of reading about how hard it was for us black folks in the south during the Jim Crowe era. I don’t wanna read any more about Ne Ne and Peanut’s struggle to get right and get out of the hood. And I don’t wanna read about Shaquan’s baby daddy…

what are some books dealing with succesful blacks, or any black for that matter that doesn’t revolve around the typical inner city “urban” theme?

Answer
If you like mysteries with African American heroes, try this site:

http://faculty.law.lsu.edu/ccorcos/lawhum/AFRICANAMERICANMYSTERYPAGE.htm

A quote from the site: “African-American characters, particularly protagonist/sleuths, are a relatively neglected group in terms of literary study. Yet, many novelists feature African-American characters. The issues that face African-American detectives and crime solvers are the same ones that face white sleuths; in addition, African-Americans in novels face the social problems that real life black folks face. Below is a short bibliography of novels featuring African-American heroes.”

There are many individuals on the market who assume that purchasing accessories and tires from websites is pretty strange. But after a little researches you may arrive at understand that the right spot to get tires for your car is online shop. In online stores, you will find large number of tires including normal tires to tubeless tires on your car. There are numerous vendors around online casually car tires. Some vital stuff are offered by such sites are search tools, test data, convenient shopping ads, videos, tires purchasing guide and several other things.

Moreover, these online stores also provides which you great shopping interface with the aid of which you will manage to search tires using the size, vehicle, logo and by considering other factors.

Because of every one of these factors internet retailers are believed as being the best position to buy tires for your car. But there are many people individuals who still don’t prefer to purchase from website since they are can not perform installation process by his or her. But now you don’t have to worry because now the web based store offers installer program through which the installation process are going to be accomplished. By simply entering the zipcode of your respective area you can find a specialist installer in your town.

Another to buy tires from online retailers is always that sometime these online stores offer car tires at discounted rates. In addition to this, they also don’t charge any shipping and handling charges. So, if you need to reduce your cost then you definitely should choose to purchase your car tires from online shops because they are the absolute right place to purchase tires.

To know more about Buy Tires Online, check this out www.buytiresonlineshop.com/.

where can i find economic tires online w/free shipping?

I live in florida,my car is 01 ford focus zx3,thank you

Answer
The house branded tire for Sears is the “Guardsman”built by Goodyear for Sears at a generic price.You can order and pay for them on-line and have them installed at your nearest Sears Auto Center.Or you can Google the brand you want and click the results.”Tire Rack” does pretty well also.

Southeast Asia is the main region of the natural rubber production in the world. Influenced by La Nina, the major producing countries of the natural rubber in Asia suffered from the flood. Meanwhile, there were robust demands in the natural rubber market of China and other countries. All these led to a 20% price increase of the natural rubber. In the first three quarters of 2010, the production of tires amounted to 582.55 million, with a 24% increase YOY. According to the statistics, the price of the natural rubber in recent two years has trebled. After a 65% price increase of the natural rubber in 2010, it is predicted that the cost of rubber products such as tires, gloves and condoms will increase further in the same year. The price of the synthetic rubber rises following the price increase of the natural rubber. As a result, the production cost of the rubber products increases drastically.

 

At present, because of the continuing price increase of the rubber, manufacturers of the rubber products raise their prices, or face the tremendous pressure of a fall in profits. Many large tire enterprises, including Bridgestone Corporation, Michelin Group, Goodyear and Continental, have raised their prices by 5% to 15% in 2010. Some enterprises have announced to carry out another round of price increase.

 

Since September 2010, the price of the natural rubber has kept rising. In the early November 2010, the price has reached nearly CNY 32,000 per ton, as the lead among the staple products. In addition to the supply-demand gap, the main reason of the drastically price rise of natural rubber on Chinese market recently is that a large amount of capital has been invested into the natural rubber market since September 2010 and the price has been raised artificially against the background of the urgent need. With the continuing price rise of natural rubber, raising the price of tires in the market is eagerly expected. Therefore, there is an increasing demand of taking delivery of the goods, and the production of the tire enterprises increases with low profits, which both lead to a further increase of the demand of the natural rubber. As a result, the price of natural rubber goes up.

 

In order to deal with the pressure caused by price rise of the natural rubber, many Chinese tire enterprises decide to relieve the strain raised by the rising price of the raw materials by increasing the tire prices. When the price of the natural rubber went up in April 2010, the Chinese government released 200,000 tons of the reserve rubber, so that the price was stabilized. Many tire enterprises in China have submitted their application for the release to the government, looking forward to the quick release of the reserve rubber from the government. According to the analysis of China Research and Intelligence, even if Chinese government can release the reserve rubber to the market, the effect is limited.

 

As the world economy begins to recover from the international financial crisis, the demand of the original gum of the American, Japanese, and Russian auto industry is increasing. Against the background, the global supply-demand pressure is artificially intensified.

 

Natural rubber is the main raw material of tire production, accounting for 50% of the production cost. Since 2010, due to a large increase of the production cost, the profits of Chinese rubber enterprises have dropped. Meanwhile, the development of the Chinese rubber industry is always bothered by China’s 20% increase of the import tax of the natural rubber. Currently, the annual production of made-in-China natural rubber is always around 600,000 tons. 70% of the domestic natural rubber market depends on the foreign markets. Influenced by the sustaining increase of the raw materials, Chinese tire enterprises will be forced to raise tire prices to avoid the loss.

 

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GoodYear tires?

do you agree or dis agree with tony stewart on the tire issue?

i agree with him i only use hoosier tires….!
true but on his radio show he did in fact appoligize but at plymouth speedway he was going off last weel about good year again! deep down inside tony hates good year!

i dont like them because they do not wear right, my treds do not last long, and i had more tires blow out on me than any hoosier tire would…..

Answer
Prior to the “modern” era in Nascar(PRE 1970′S) the drivers/teams had their choice of tire from Goodyear,Firestone,Hoosier.
Goodyear could beat the price on the others by volume they could supply.this was attractive to the various teams and owners so they could save money,so NASCAR decided Goodyear to be the official tire.
Over the years attempts have been made to get other tires back into cup,and they were successful in the 90′s.In 1994 the tire wars were such that the teams could choose between Goodyear and Hoosier.Both had fast compounds and both had the volume needed for speedweeks,but there were several tire failures during speedweeks,the worst was when Neil Bonnett was killed,he was on Hoosier tires and the tires failed at 200 MPH.Hoosier pulled all their tires and left the track.

If any other tire manufacturer has a tire that can compete with Goodyear and NASCAR approves it the theey are welcomed to bring them.But other that inquiries from Hoosier and Firestone nothing has been done other than NASCAR has ok’d the use of Hoosier tires for testing at tracks where Cup and Nationwide do not run.
It would be good to see some competition between the tire companies.

When it comes the time to replace the tires of your vehicle, the dimension of the tire is very important. If you ever change to a different size tire, you could damage your vehicle. Before to change the tire classifies according to size, makes some research to assure that it can be made without risk.

Most drivers won’t have need to change the dimension of the tire of their vehicle. The dimension of the tire of the reserve is what your vehicle has been conceived to use. These are some components of the vehicle affected while changing a dimension of the tire:

The speedometer and the odometer is calibrated based on the height of your tires. The biggest tires would make the read speedometer more slowly than real speed. The shorter tires would show a higher reading of the speedometer.

The newest vehicles have internal computers that low calculations on the height of the tire. The components, as Anti-lock Systems of the Braking, could miss with a dimension of the different tire.

The suspension of the reserve could have supplementary stress with a bigger tire, while resulting in faster port and failure. For substantial increases in height of the tire, you should improve suspension of the reserve.

In spite of these concerns, some circumstances require a change of the dimension of the tire. For someone to watch to modify transports them, the wheels are often the first place to begin. The wheels of the reserve are often plain and don’t attract a lot of attention. When people change the wheels of their vehicle, they improve to a bigger wheel of the reserve of the diameter. These people get a tire of the lower profile that is close to height of the tire of the reserve. Most professionals of the industry of the tire recommend none more that a 3% difference of the reserve height. Of course nearer is better.

There is sometimes the poor selection in the dimension of the tire of the reserve of a vehicle. With the measurements of the tire townships, every manufacturer of the adult’s tire offers at least several choices. Some measurements of the rare tire are only manufactured by some companies. If these few of choice of the tire don’t equal your climate and imperious style, you can have need to change measurements of the tire. You can often find a dimension of the similar tire with more of choice.

If you are anxious to change the tire classifies according to size, double check with some professionals of the industry of the tire. Your dealer of car will try to persuade you to change all specifications of the reserve presumably, but asks in any case. Contact some tire makes the shoppings, but mistrusts they can put the sale like the first priority. Another good place to ask for the advice is in the automotive forums. Find a good specific forum to your type of the vehicle and ask their opinion. You would be surprised easy how is him to find someone else that already tried a dimension of the tire. Be informed that people on the forums are not necessarily professionals of the industry.

You can make your own research and can try to use a calculator of the dimension of the tire characterized on several Web site cars. These calculators of the tire allow you to compare specifications of measurements of the different tire. They display the height of the tire, width, Rpms, difference of the speedometer and more. These tools are not exact like a dimension of the tire can vary a model of the tire slightly to another, but they are of very good tools. So use a calculator of the dimension of the tire like a general guide. Confirm your calculations then with a professional of the industry of the tire. You can also find the exact measured height of every model of the tire if you visit the Web site of the manufacturer of the tire.

When possible you should use the dimension of the tire of the reserve of your vehicle. Don’t change just because you find a good price in a different dimension. A lot of things in your vehicle have been conceived for the dimension of the tire of the reserve. If you must change measurements of the tire, assure yourselves the dimension is sure for your vehicle.

Vist Tire Reviews to find more information about Automotive Tires, SUV Tires, Truck Tires and so on.

Will switching my truck tires back to stock get me better gas mileage?

I bought a 2002 Dodge Dakota a couple of year ago used, and it came with nice tires and rims, Not sure what they are or anything, I just know that they are not stock. Someone was just telling my that switching them back to stock rims would save me like 6 miles a gallon. Not sure if this is true or why it would be.

Answer
This relates to how much power you have, what the truck is used for,type of driving, old tire size, current size and gear ratios. If you have a v8 you could get away with a taller tire effectively lowering the engine speed and increasing fuel economy. However too tall and you’ll labor the engine to get the thing moving and your engine speed will be to low to hold high gear on the highway making fuel economy worse that stock. Often a truck’s gear ratio is lower than desirable for better towing and hauling ability which leaves you a some room to put taller tires and improve empty economy without any adverse effects. With a smaller engine you have less power which means the gearing is much more critical for it to perform well in all aspects and tire size changes will make a much more noticeable negative difference. Wider tires are not helpful for economy. The best combination isn’t allways easy to calculate but the factory size is correct for using the truck for a truck; towing and hauling stuff. If you don’t haul much or very often I’d bet a slightly larger size is more economical.

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Does Mercedes Benz uses their own brand of tires?

Can you buy Mercedes Benz tires at Sears or Big O Tires?

Answer
JEEZE ! Car makers make CARS! Tire manufacturers manufacture tires! Do you think that restaurants make the plates that you eat off?!?! Continental and Bridgestone are some of the tires sold to MB to install on their new cars. NEVER take a Benz to SEARS!

Often when the player focuses on practice the practice is for about ten minutes whereas the player concentrates on what he is doing, and then spends about 60-minutes whacking balls.If the player is not hitting a large amount of balls, he will often take some breaks between a few shots. It is important for the player to stay focused on his actions. When the player feels frustrated or tired, often the player will take a break. Professional players practice their golf swing to improve their skills.

 

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Introduction

 

with the passage of time and with the development of industries, various organizations came to existence that satisfied the ever increasing society’s needs, and privatization started which meant private companies were responsible for same affairs and this has created many organizational problems the solution of which requires a global comprehensive and scientific view of management .

On the other hand, organizations need innovative managers who can utilize new managerial techniques compatible with their country’s culture and sincerely accept that human resources are their greatest capital, and can continue the growth and excellence of their organizations in spite of the difficulties and nard conditions that exist in today’s world.

A manager can coordinate different parts of an organization to achieve overall objectives and the organization strategy when coupled with the development of his managerial abilities is able to bring different aspects of his life under control and has gained self-innovative management, otherwise to expect correct and successful management actions would be a wrong expectation .

This view, perhaps, would take us beyond the importance of HRMD and enable us to take steps towards a better future and excellence of organizations in our societies.

 

 Managements Development in globalization

 

Today, in spite of the emergence of different managerial styles and the publication of different books and articles on this subject and also the impact of scientific management on industrial and post-industrial revolution, it is very common to see that managers of different sectors are the experts who are educated and experienced in one special technical filed but have no necessary knowledge on management science which causes duty overlapping and sometimes irrelevant activities and lack of specialization and chaos(Eghtedari,2003,13). This difficulty shows lack of right definition and correct identification of manager and management in the society.

According toVon Dran, ‘Seminars and workshops teaching these competencies will create employees a new appreciation for their own skills and those of their co-workers’ (Von Dran, 1988, 51). As new skills are learned, managers and staff will each be in a position to make decisions based on good judgment and the education that they have received whether it be in a formal institution or not (ibid.,25)

Of course in the meanwhile one should not forget the difference between education, training and development. In general, education is ‘mind preparation’ and is carried out remote from the actual work area, training is the systematic development of the attitude, knowledge, skill pattern required by a person to perform a given task or job adequately and development is ‘the growth of the individual in terms of ability, understanding and awareness’.

From time to time meet special needs arising from technical, legislative, and knowledge need changes. Meeting these needs is achieved via the ‘training loop’.(Sloman, 2003, 34)

Now we can understand the importance of management development concept in order to reach the pinnacle of organizational excellence and progression. Organization can move forward through this path to enhance productivity, profitability and even decrease employee turnover. Thus, considering what was said, we can define management development as:

Better business fit in terms of aims/objectives, values and ethics
Enhances career development strategies
Enhances co-operation and integration at planning/operational levels
Enhances decision making processes – making them more informed, such as forecasting, change management

For those who do not have basic knowledge of management or for personal and or political reason or occupational situation do not give importance to it, there hasn’t been any consideration for appropriate recognition of this science, definition, and the design of managerial procedures for different sectors and the study toward the development of this filed. Of course, considering the nature of the profession and  different management elements that affect it, the possibility of reaching specific  definition and appropriate recognition, and determination of the type and characteristics of activities and the extent of authority at different levels and to materialize and determine manager’s performance are not as easy as other professions.(Alvani,2005,15)

Now the discussion of management development perhaps is more involved in this type of difficulties. Thus, perhaps one can state the following comprehensive definition as:

‘Management development is the process of improving one or several aspects of an organization’s management which is intended to improve manager’s effectiveness through training and to enhance their required abilities and skills to play an effective role in the organization, therefore, training is the most important factor of management development, especially HRM.’

 

Human Resources, the fundamental necessities of organizational growth and excellence

 

The collection of scientific products shows that from the simplest tools to the most advanced and complex technologies are the products of innovation and creativity of the scholars who worked hard to create them based on their knowledge and whose knowledge and work experience greatly helped them promote human thought, thus, human resources are the main capital and assets of nations and they are referred to as main active factors and natural and material resources are considered more as subordinate factors, nevertheless, the role of human resources, not only at organizational level but generally from one small economic unit level to national level has extended(Ivancevich,1977,59). Managers and planners of the organizations that are well known for their long-term planning and being future oriented are well aware of the role of human resources in growth and development. Deep thinking managers know well that organization means a group of employees with different interests, thoughts, feelings, knowledge and physical conditions and without them the organization would not have a real existence. This organizational life continuity and its development depend on some contexts such as innovation, creativity and development and can lead to the increasing penetration of the organization into the society. Materialization of such conditions would depend on different factors the most important of which is human resources and its undeniable and special role, thus, if the best managerial strategy and newest technology are implemented in the organization but the organization does not have appropriate human resources strategy then it would never produce a desirable production at the output level.

Human resources are always highly regarded by critics and experts in this area. The importance of this issue originates from the fact that nowadays the role of intangible assets which are the results of an organization’s human resources efforts is undeniable in the improvement of overall organizational productivity. Experts have announced that from Microsoft’s $344 bullion worth of intangible and tangible assets $294 bullion is intangible assets.

Competitive edge or competitive advantage that is achieved through proper management of human resources undoubtedly is unique, thus, attempt should be made to prevent human resources units from being on the margin and positive attitude towards human resources should always be maintained by the executives of organizations and agencies, because quality improvement, organizational performance, profit enhancement and customer orientation are all considered to be the results of human resources management.

 

 

 

The necessity of training in human resources managements

 

With the emphasis on the fact that human resources management manages various human capitals in the organization. One can hope that new issues such as international human resources management, electronic human resources management enter the world of management literature by which a great breakthrough in the arena of organizational excellence will be offered (Dixon,1994,100). There also should be an emphasis on apt implementation of the four required skills for human resources managers and experts namely decision making skills, interpersonal skills, technical skills, and leadership skills (Feizi,2005,12). Meanwhile attention must be paid to the difference between talent and knowledge and skill. Talent is related to an individual and can be transferred from a situation to another situation while knowledge and skill are related to a situation and can be transferred from one person to another person, thus managers can select and employ talented people and enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of their training programs to reach the state of organizational excellence (Razani,2002,62) thus human resources development can be seen as an organizational attempt to reach:

1- Quality improvement

2- Key employee retention

3- Having the capability of facing (challenging) the global competition and social changes

4- Utilizing technological advancement

5- Changing work design

Human resources management development is referred to formal training work experiences, work relations, personal characteristics assessment, and capabilities that help employees prepare themselves for future and to take step towards their organization excellence.

Extensive training not only is vital in the organizational processes but also it is important for all of the employees of the organization and it should be noticed that fast technological changes and request for accessing to information would speed up this matter. Nevertheless scholars in the filed of human resources see training as the most important development tools. Considering different types of training methods, it can be briefly defined as: a programmed process for adjusting and improving the attitudes of trainee. It is knowledge or skill that is acquired through experience to attain effective performance in an activity or a part of an activity (Ibid,22). In this definition, the emphasis is on programmed process, effective performance and ultimately reaching organizational excellence.

In another definition, it has been stated that training requires time, deep learning, exercise and enforcement. In the deep learning method every training activity is measured only with the criterion that whether or not the training has achieved its desired result. At this point, some effective factors on training requirement should be stated.

Globalization
The need to have leadership
The increasing value of knowledge
Breath-taking competition in attracting and hunting talents
Emphasis on quality.
Changes in demography and multiplicity of work force
New technologies

Also factors such as performance management and performance assessment, motivation management, efficient management, Job satisfaction, and efficiency enhancement can be considered as some important resources development. Generally training can be considered as the most important and major indicator and tool of management development especially human resources management.

 

The requirements that have been addressed in management Development

 

Perhaps one of the reasons for precise planning in management development being required is the natures of manager’s work which is very complex and difficult and for this reason, generally, preparing and regulating job description forms are very difficult for the executives of organizations.

However, perhaps one can say that there isn’t any complete and comprehensive guideline for management and supervision development. Every organization has to design its own training courses for its managers and supervisors based on its own goals and internal and environmental problems, and determine its required sources and budget. Organizations that generally have regulated plans for training and management development use different techniques for their philosophy and attitudes toward the issue of human resources.

Figure1, shows some of the requirements for management development.

 

 Figure 1: The addressed requirements (needs) for management development

(Abtahi,, 2007,35)

 

Decision making skills can be developed through management games, examining administrative events and case studies.

Personal (individual) skills can be achieved through role creating behavioral models, sensitive training, reciprocal behaviors analysis, and perceptional structures. Job knowledge, which is one of managers’ fundamental needs, must be achieved through work experience master and apprentice and related studies.

Organizational knowledge can be achieved through job rotation and multisided management. The need for general knowledge can be met by special courses, private sessions and selected articles and finally special individual (personal) needs can be satisfied through using group and private programs.

 

 HRMD Paradigm in Organization Excellence

 

The ultimate objective of every human system is to move toward progression, evolution and excellence, and its evolution and excellence depend on its components development, growth, advancement and evolution. Through examination of conducted research, some factors can be identified. These factors can greatly help organization reach management development.

Now we try to briefly describe the factors through figure 2:

 

 

 

Figure 2: HRMD suggested Paradigm in Organization Excellence

 

1-                 Assessment centers: An assessment does not imply any specific physical location but it is a process based on which organizations are helped in making less erroneous and more valid decisions on employees’ selection, appointment, and promotion.

A center’s major objective is to measure the characteristics of the individual being assessed in verifying them with a set of required job related qualification. These qualifications indicate that which capabilities, abilities and attitudes are essential for succeeding in the job.

2- Attracting and nurturing intellects: Acting on attracting the intellects is one of the ways to achieve management development since in the future organizations learning and wisdom are the major pivot of production of goods and services and, generally, value added, organizations must emphasize on attracting distinguished and brilliant students and academic intellects, nurturing these people in the work environment and believing in their talents. 

3-     Preparing and educating future managers: In the complex unpredictable, and competitive business environment we can no longer appoint people to managerial jobs based on trial and error, instead we have to actively discover future talented managers and develop their capabilities through special educational programs and prepare them for managerial appointment. Preparing future managers is the most important alternatives of management and organization development. By this, objectives such as meritocracy motivation building for promotion, motivation building for retention of experts in organizations, creating healthy competitive environment at work are sought.

4-     employing pear with high degree: This can be summarized, that is to employ meritorious (highly qualified) people, and qualification criteria are: to have more knowledge, higher skills, more efficiency, more loyalty toward the system, more empathy compare to others, more compatibility with the organization environment and consistency with its objective, being group oriented.

5-      Management consulting: The complexity of organizations is affected by their variety and the number of internal components and environmental factors and on the other hand the speed of changes is the result of these factors. The more organizations rely on predetermined tools and procedures standards the more they have decisiveness and capability of management.

Organization unlike machines and mechanical systems have will and desire, to manage then requires knowledge conception and skill appropriate to their nature. We can not expect managers to have a huge collection of successful and unsuccessful managerial experience in their personal past life (Gummesson,1996,60). Professional consulting managements in industrial countries meet this need. They use the experience that different agencies have gained.

 

Conclusion and Recommendation

 

Management, in organization generally has two aspects, one aspect is related to the organization objectives and the other aspect that lead to the employees objectives, the tasks of planning, organizing, coordinating and control are the tasks that directly lead to the organization’s objectives and motivation and force collection that help people achieve their objectives. Thus, management improvement means to consider the manager’s tasks towards achieving organizations objectives.

Productive HR and capital resources are vitally important. HRMD in its different dimensions can directly be effective in a country’s growth and development as Japanese scholar MatsuShita, Says’ first create a human, the right goods are produced then’. However considering performance excellence models factors in accessing organizational excellence, some alternatives and recommendations are presented to improve and develop management and human resources management.

Renovation in management through formulation merit test in a comprehensive and applicable form for the present managers (presidents, supervisors, commanders) in written, scientific and oral form and distinguishing manager from non-manager.

Restoration systematic thought
Appointing managers based rules through implementation of rational process in selection (strategic selection) training, promotion and employing people for the management of different deportments.
If we are recognizing management as a specialty (expertise) then these should not be in-name-only managers for offices, departments, and organizations.
Determination of necessary standards and indicators for managers and tendering license and approvals to the holders of these standards.
Determination of a specific position for management among sciences, techniques, professions and arts. Considering that management possesses all these aspects.

Activate research unit in the management filed and developing research scholarship and respecting researchers’ rights.
Comprehension of the necessities of management development and feasibility study and serious avoidance from daily-based-life in management.
Analysis of the present structures of management at different levels through formation of analysis committees by top experts and analysts.
Selection manager auditor to audit present managers and continuously oversee managers activities in different time periods, their promotions or demotions.
Paying precise attention to the feedback issue in management such as suggestions, solutions, reactions etc.
Formulating a comprehensive body of managerial regulations.
Promotion at national level to help identify and improve attitudes on management.

Generally it can be stated that since proper management enhances the quality of administration of affairs, the country’s development path passes through proper management.

Clearly system enabling, if it is done through management tools and through management development and human resources management, is more sustainable and perhaps it done with less expenses and that the expectation of immediate result should not stop us from continuing.

In other words, the growth, improvement and development of indexes and parameters that are necessary for achievement of management development are preparers of organizational excellence and achievement of predetermined objectives. In the meanwhile, the introduction of performance excellence model can be at the top of management development programs, there should be a belief that the more we attempt to plan for the development of system components (including management), naturally the more we access to organizational excellence.    

 

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