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Daimler to join BMW and PSA engine alliance
PSA Peugeot-Citroen and BMW said last week that their deal will expand to produce 1 million engines for BMW and PSA in 2009 and the new Daimler AG could be looking to get in on the deal. Recent reports say that Daimler is looking to buy it way into the BMW/PSA alliance to produce engines for its small cars.
BMW and PSA began their collaboration in 2002 to build small gasoline engines. The 1.4 liter and 1.6 liter engines that are produces as a part of the alliance are currently used in BMW’s MINI Cooper cars and...
A fire department can be defined as a group of people that are organized in a manner intended to provide emergency and non-emergency services to protect lives and property and to render humanitarian services. These services are provided to citizens through fire companies, which can be described as a subdivision of the fire department. Company officers are the ones carrying the responsibility to direct the members of their companies (firefighters) in order to provide the highest level of service. They are the “link between the fire department administration and the firefighters of the department” (IFSTA, 1981, p. 2). The management of the fire department administration as well as the management of fire companies is based on the four functions of the management process: planning, organizing, leading, and controlling.
The planning function includes establishing goals, developing procedures, and predicting the organization’s future (Dessler, 2001, p.5). At the administration level, managers are referred as Chiefs. They are responsible for setting the department’s goals and objectives. Two years ago, upper management initiated a ...