In any event, the government loses much of its management flexibility in the bargain.

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Her focus is finding the business benefits of flexibility and training both management and employees to deal with the cultural changes needed to make it work.

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The dispute centres on the management's desire to put more workers on temporary contracts, to give it the flexibility it says it needs to tackle multi-channel broadcasting, satellite radio and podcasting.

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The preservation of employment, for instance, impairs management flexibility to adjust inputs to changing market conditions, and its ability to explore new business opportunities.

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He said the concern is that once virtualization is in place, you need to adopt management tools, and the value proposition shifts from flexibility and automation, a company like VMware might not be as successful as it has previously been.

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The trade-off between flexibility and firmness has been a long-running subject of management discussion.

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Because you might encounter this prejudice when you pose flexibility to your own employer, the book provides practical guidance for transforming workplace structures, management styles, measures and rewards, and culture to actually realize those economic, environmental and health benefits.

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India is in "a sweet spot right now, " given where the yields are in the rest of the region and the flexibility the central bank has to cut, said Thomas Kemmsies, head of fixed income at Nomura Asset Management Deutschland KAG in Frankfurt.

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