Am 1.1.2005 ging das "Vierte Gesetz für moderne Dienstleistungen am Arbeitsmarkt" (Hartz IV) in zwei Modellvarianten an den Start: Arbeitsgemeinschaften (ARGEn) mit gesplitteter Trägerschaft zwischen Kommunen und Bundesagentur für Arbeit und "Optionsmodell" mit kommunaler Alleinträgerschaft....

The paper focuses on meetings as an over-utilized, but often under-structured tool for managerial effectiveness and efficiency. The authors present four different meeting types, more precisely termed team facilitations, as commonly used in aviation by flight crews: Brainstorming, Briefing,...

A recurring problem in project management involves the allocation of scarce resources to the individual jobs comprising the project. In many situations such as audit scheduling, the resources correspond to individuals (skilled labour). This naturally leads to an assignment type project...