Smart Business

This is a guide specially written for Singapore business people who wish to start and operate a child care center in Singapore. The Singapore government has initiated to have 200-day care centers to be built from 2013 to 2017 to enable women to work in Singapore. At the same time, the flow of household help could tail off as supplier countries like Indonesia, the Philippines experience a surge in economic activity and job creation. Locals need to get into this business with a mindset that the exhaustive operating and staffing conditions of MSFD are meant to lay out the rules for operators and their customers. Child care in this light is more than a convenience it has become an economic necessity if working women are to find their place in the world of work and in the professions. If you think there is money to be made in the child care business, this is the book for you.

Ninety percent of all new restaurants started by new business owners failed. Vincent Gabriel, a food and management consultant shows you how a restaurant can survive its first year, based on understanding the critical factors that will make your operation a success. The topics covered are: Food Business Models; Knowing Your Customer; Franchise As A Food Business Tomorrow; Menu Planning And Design; Viability Of Your Outlet; Decorating The Eatery; Selecting And Keeping Staff For The Eatery; Purchasing Effectively; Stocking Correctly.

I enjoyed my stint in teaching employment laws and HR practice and policy to groups of students from the Trade Unions, the HR departments of multi-national companies and the personnel department of small and medium sized organizations. I notice that there has been a lack of understanding of the trends in the development of the only one resource that Singapore has - human talent. This book helps people who want to deploy human talent so that the potential of individuals can be fully utilized. Success depends on: Knowing yourself and what you can do; Knowing the business environment in which you operate. The demand for the services of the employment agency is especially crucial in the next few years as the government undertakes a huge program of public housing, infrastructure development and the completion of Terminals 4 and 5 and the development of the former Paya Lebar Airport into other uses. In 2013 an innovative step was taken to bring in Sri Lankan and Filipino workers who had been laid off with the ending of the building boom in the Gulf States. The young people of Singapore expect their employment agency to place them in jobs that are challenging and yet at the same time good sources of income. Know what the main customer (the contractor/employer) and the secondary customer (the worker) want in the way the worker is deployed, the salary paid and the physical contribution made to the completed job that the ultimate customer pays for. Employment Agency continues to enjoy success. The book is based on an enlightened humane approach to human capital management that is at once fulfilling and at the same time able to achieve the organization's and society's aim for the individual.