Unless there is open, two-way communication between you and your managers, it will be difficult for either party to know what they others expectations are.

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Codespear says the Michigan State Police will deploy its IP-based products for alert notifications and communication among state, county and municipal emergency managers and first responders.

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Rather than automate the year-end performance management process (which is widely hated and questionable in value), Work.com is designed to be used by employees, teams, and managers on a regular basis for goal setting, communication of goals, recognition, rewards, and yes, ultimately, performance appraisals.

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After all, it could be healthy for managers to be confronted with a map of their own communication islands and the embarrassingly large oceans of silence that sometimes separate them from their underlings.

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For the engineers, financial analysts, researchers, communication specialists, energy workers, project managers and the many more roles that together build a global company, what does BP emblemize in the recruitment marketplace?

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By adopting a people-centered goal, a people-centered role for managers, a people-centered coordination mechanism, people-centered values and people-centered communication the leaders of a firm can focus on the people who are its customers.

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Nextel phones, which consist mostly of a line of phones produced by Motorola (nyse: MOT - news - people ) under the iDen brand, are the phones of choice for messengers in New York City, construction workers, factory managers and others who are in constant communication with a select group of other people equipped with similar phones.

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