Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2013 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, Universidad de Oriente in Santiago de Cuba, language: English, abstract: The ability to influence and persuade others at work has become an increasingly important managerial skill to achieve work goals and objectives to drive businesses forward in today's demanding and competitive work environments.This paper investigates and provides a deeper understanding of what positive effects knowledge and application of the concepts of influencing amd persuasion can have on...

Doctoral Thesis / Dissertation from the year 2006 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, The Open University (Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom), 235 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The growing penetration of projects as a way of organising work in many organisations has created a shortcoming between what companies expect in terms of project delivery and the way in which their project managers execute projects. The constantly changing demands have created a need for project managers to manage the people in their...

Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2013 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: N/A, Universidad de Oriente in Santiago de Cuba (Faculty of Humanities), course: English Language, language: English, abstract: The ability to teach foreign languages effectively has become an increasingly important skill to develop and improve the language proficiency of students. Teachers need to develop and apply proactive and positive attitudes to foster new levels of foreign language learning within their students. Teaching, on its own, is not a panacea for...

Research Paper from the year 2014 in the subject Psychology - Social Psychology, Palacky University Olomouc (Economics), language: English, abstract: This research investigates and provides a deeper insight into what is meant by effective communication, then relates this to how young people in Cuba communicate today and how changes in technology have already affected the communication style of youngsters in this country. The results suggest that face to face communications are diminishing at the expense of digital communications such as SMS and Social Media.This could have adverse affects in...

Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2016 in the subject Psychology - Social Psychology, Universidad de Oriente in Santiago de Cuba, language: English, abstract: The ability to improve performance levels at work through the development of flow has the potential to become a new management skill for managers. The outcome of this research suggests that managers can achieve higher performance levels in each of their team members. It is a necessary condition that they, for example, lead them by example, allow people to act within their abilities, show them how to mask distractions and...