BOLA "was" designed to:
		act as a business studies primer support distance learners support seminar preparation make lecture handouts redundant offer relevant WWW links target specialist study ....but it is old now in many areas and I am unlikely to update large chunks of it. However I have just added the resources for a Marketing course I was asked to teach recently. CJ

Skills for Study and Learning Research methods for business students Planning for a Business Start-up Forms of Business Business Analysis and Excellence Essentials of Marketing Prentice Hall's Kotler marketing resources for students MGraw Hill, Jobber & Fahy, Foundations of Marketing Systems Concepts & Business Power and Management The Managerial Problem Managerial roles, Fayol, Taylor, Mintzberg, Adair; motivation & performance, theorists: Maslow, McGregor (X/Y) etc, expectations of self & others in a managerially defined world. Organisational Structure/Culture What is organisational culture anyway? Weber's Bureaucratic Model. Bureaucracy and Power. McGregor - Theory X and Y. Mechanistic and organismic. Mintzberg - the structuring of organisations - simple , machine bureaucracy, divisionalized, professional and adhocracy. In Search of Excellence. Staff performance appraisal. Learning Company Operations Management - Study Materials for Operations strategy, capacity, scheduling, quality management, JIT, safety and business process re-engineering etc. See also Prentice Hall's resources for Operations Management (Slack) McGraw Hill Operations Management Super Site Human Resource Management Study Materials for Personnel policy and practice, job analysis, recruitment, training, staff appraisal, rewards, employee relations and employment law, health/safety etc. See also Beardwell and Holden and Torrington and Hall Business Ethics Greek perspectives, religion and conduct, Machiavelli, utilitarianism, duty, egoism and altruism, Adam Smith & the invisible hand, elements of a practical morality, justice and business, the learning company, virtue and downsizing, sustainable business. BOLA Cases Studies Excel Spreadsheet Models to Download Visitor/hits since Sept 1997 Gift Certificate © 2003 designed and written by Chris Jarvis