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Whom does this apply: This article is based on research on both manufacturing and service industry and common organizational hierarchical  structure:

In this structure some of the most common scenarios most organizations face are:

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How to build KPI and Performance Appraisal for your company?

First, let us understand, what is KPI? KPI stands for 'Key Performance Indicators'. Depending on the type of your business, you will have to decide the key performance indicators. Through KPI, different organizations measure their performance and find out how successful they are in terms of meeting their goals.

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KPI, which in other words Key Performance Indicators are the necessary instrument to measure employee performance in any company. Here, to make it easier, I shall resort to 'call centers' as an example. This article is not meant to detail the KPI but an employee - employer behavioral explanation. A basic summary of this process is as follows:

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You may notice your manager suddenly become nice to you. What causes this behaviour? I am sure, once in a while, this happens to everyone who has a bad supervisor/ manager.

A lot of candidates poses differently interviews to be selected for the job. In reality they have different personality. While being productive and efficient is the primary goal, lot of the managers try to achieve this in a wrong way violating the company code of ethics or even human rights.

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A productive employee is the answer to the success of any business. Throughout my book Employee and the Employer, you will find multiple references about management weaknesses, but the ultimate objective of my articles are to show business, how we can perform better and turn around the economy through fair judgments and collective performances.

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How resolve a problem with library references in MS Access?

If your MS Access project is referring to a library that is missing, it can give you and generic error like Undefined function 'date' in expression though the problem may not have anything to do with date. If you remove any invalid references from your Access database then the problem gets solved.

To do that, open your MS Access Database or MS Access Project. Press <CTRL>+G to go to Code window. Then click on Tools and click on References. Look for any reference that is marked as missing. Now uncheck the missing reference and your problem will be solved.

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Behaviour: When you turn on you computer you get an error as IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL. If you restart the PC/ laptop goes through check disc and the error comes back as a loop again.

Solution: Most times if you simply change your power outlets, the problem gets resolved. Usually, it is caused by an unstable voltage and the power adapters being unable to balance it out.

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While using Apple iPhone with your vehicle's audio system, I have heard numerous complains. In fact, while trying solve them individually, I have noticed that pretty much all of them was more of a configuration issues than problem with iPhone. The majority of issue was the volume is too low while receiving or making phone calls. Some of the complains was low audio while playing music.

There are several things you should know while using you iPhone or any other phones with your vehicle's audio system and they are as follows:

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As a manager there would be times when one of your employees may act difficult, at least that’s how you will feel. Both a manager and employee of the team are employees of the same company and at the same time being a human, have different mind sets. When, you as a manager feel that one of your team member is difficult to manage, at the same time the concerned team member also feels that it is very difficult to work with you. A normal and popular approach among managers is to threat or discipline the employee to get things right when the manager is aggressive, or when the manager is of submissive characteristic, he/she tends to avoid the concerned employee as much as possible and take away the important deliverable and give it to some one else in the team if that is at all possible.

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If encounter problem as HP Laptop G60 left click, right click or touchpad not working then try the following solution:

Browse to the following location: C:\Program Files\Synaptics\SynTP and run InstNT.exe.

This should solve the problem.

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When you try to open Microsoft Outlook, you get the following error: "Cannot start Microsoft outlook. Cannot open the outlook window."

Try the following method:

Click on Start menu and then click on Run. Type the following command -> "Outlook.exe /resetnavpane". This should resolve the issue majority of the time.

In Vista, click on Start and paste the command above without apostrophe. Note that there is a space between 'Outlook.exe' and '/'.

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In Drupal each module exports its own stylesheet. Hence the more module you install the more stylesheets are created. Internet explorer cannot handle more than 30 stylesheets at a time. Ref. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/262161. Hence the view of a Drupal site with lots of modules often breaks down while loaded in Internet Explorer. This problem does not happen with Firefox. Another reason out of many to chose Firefox over Internet Explorer.

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When I go to Reporting Services Configuration in Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio, I get an error: "Provider Load Failure". A temporary solution I found at http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/sqlreportingservices/threa... is as follows:

Copy <C:\WINDOWS\system32\wbem\framedyn.dll> to <C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\90\Shared\> directory.

Though it temporarily resolved the issue, I could not start some basic SQL Server services under windows administration. Ultimately I had to reinstall Management Studio completely to have a smooth flow. I believe my initial setup somehow was not done right.

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I was honestly trying to stop using ODBC for its tremendously slow performance.

It was a real pain to begin with. I had Oracle 8 client on my PC but I could not connect to ORACLE 10g database we have. I also tried using 10g client but again I could not communicate with ORACLE 8 database. I found out ORACLE 10g client does not talk to ORACLE 8 database and ORACLE 8 client does not talk to 10g database. Finally, I was successful with 9i client to be able to connect to both ORACLE 8 and 10g databases.

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Following is SQL statement to find out MAX DATE out of many records of different days. This will show the most recent record. It works for both Date and DateTime field.

SELECT    MAX(<<Column/Field Name>>) AS DATE
FROM         <<Table Name'>>

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This error is caused by denominator being '0' and hence making the numerator undivisible Refer to this article on Microsoft support: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/182188

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When you run stored procedure or queries, you would notice a message on the status bar that shows the number of rows affected. In stored procedure if you set 'SET NOCOUNT ON' then it stops this message from showing and saves substantial amount of time for the run. Reference: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms189837.aspx

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When you try to INSERT values from one table to another table of same structure, you may see the following error in SQL Server 2005:

"Column name or number of supplied values does not match table definition" Majority of time this is due to a simple mistake of not having the same column name or column definition as the other table. Carefully check the table structure and the problem will be resolved. -->

MS Access forms automatically saves the data you enter. Therefore, if you want to take an extra step to secure your database from unwanted corruption then here is the code that you may try:

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Private Sub Form_BeforeUpdate(Cancel As Integer)

' This step is to confirm with user that this record is going to be modified

  Dim updRecord As Byte

  updRecord = MsgBox("Do you wish to change this record ?", vbOKCancel, "Record Modification")

  If updRecord = vbCancel Then

    Cancel = True

  End If

End Sub

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