Effective and Ineffective Managers in Personal Experience

Every organization seeks to have managers who can drive the organization towards the achievement of its objectives. They want managers who can successfully plan, organize, lead, and control the organization’s operations (Gitman et al., 2018). I have encountered a manager whom I consider an effective manager because of the way...

FASB and IFRS Standards Setting for 2021

Introduction FASB and IFRS are institutions that formulate financial reporting standards and frameworks. The FASB is recognized by many other similar US bodies and is the primary regulator that creates and annually optimizes financial reporting standards for US companies. IFRS is an international regulatory body that develops and updates reporting...

Absolut Vodka Brand and Advertising Agency

The cooperation with an advertising agency for Absolut Vodka is not as beneficial as the work with cultural insiders. It is explained by the global nature of the company’s activities and the need to find a unique perspective to promote their products in different places. From this point of view,...

Multi-Level Marketing: Amway Service Corporation

Multi-level marketing (MLM), also known as network marketing or pyramid selling refers, to a marketing method for retailing various products or services where the revenue of the company is obtained from non-salaried team members. The workforce is responsible for selling the firm’s products or services while the income for the...

A Caribbean Restaurant’s Marketing Plan

Restaurant Plans The business I would like to start is a restaurant that targets people from the Caribbean. To reach this target audience, it should focus on offering cuisine and atmosphere that are popular among this demographic. It should also focus on preferentially hiring staff who are themselves from the...

Real Options. Corporate Finance

Real options refer to the right of the company to perform a certain activity or action at predetermined costs for a specific period. However, It is not an obligation that the company must perform that particular task. With real options, companies can minimize risks associated with new ventures. They can...

Employee Turnover in Manufacturing

Employee turnover is an essential organizational phenomenon with significant implications for corporations, individuals, and society. Reducing unwanted turnover is the goal of every organization. High employee turnover in industrial organizations continues to be a concern for various organizations. It is because organizations spend significant resources to train and invest in...

Sustainable Supply Chain Management

The main criteria for the effectiveness of government procurement are the purchase price and the cost of subsequent ownership. The main task is to buy goods, works, or services of the required quality with minimum spending of budgetary funds. The activity, which consists in the implementation of procurement, is complex...

The Employee Experience at Southern Cross Healthcare Society

Introduction Southern Cross Healthcare Group is the largest non-public health care organization in New Zealand, offering a wide range of various health services to clients, including health, travel, and pet insurance, and private hospitals. It also provides multiple working opportunities for numerous employees. Being a world-known organization, Southern Cross Healthcare...

Ways of Managing Conflict

Introduction A new coworker, Mark, made an unfavorable first impression on an existing employer, John. The new coworker asked for assistance with a customer inquiry, but it was declined because of the tight schedule of John in the working area. Since then, Mark started feuding with John, who at a...

Aspects of Effective Collaboration and Teamwork

Effective collaboration is a balanced system, which can be compared to a body that functions correctly and independently to some extent. As a human organism, the external processes of any company reflect its internal well-being and a group is what represents it (Daft and Marcic). It is important to remember...

Stress at the Workplace and Strategies of Its Reduction

Job stress has become a growing concern among managers and supervisors in organizations. This is because of the adverse effects on both employees and the company. According to Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs and Herzberg’s Two-Factor Theory, stress at workplaces is an excellent de-motivator, and every employee reacts differently to work...

The Value of Logistics Functions

In logistics, both costs and value play a significant role in performance management. Managers should understand the total costs and the total value and the difference between them because it is one of the major business challenges (Ruffa, 2008). The value in logistics refers to the customer’s evaluation of the...

Combat to Corporate: Migrating from Military Leadership to Business

Military leadership and civilian business leadership rely on overlapping sets of leadership skills and personal traits. However, the extent of this overlap is currently uncertain, and veterans transitioning to business leadership positions may face challenges translating their existing skills to their new role. Although the primary topic of the research...

Case Study: Important Business and Managerial Problems

Introduction In the context of present-day developments, business owners should address a range of details concerning various fields in order to make their enterprise profitable and popular with customers. In addition, they are highly likely to encounter challenges, which are difficult to be found an appropriate solution. Therefore, the purpose...

Financial Performance: The Impact of Sustainability

Executive Summary The concept of sustainability in the present-day world is the defining factor for the financial success of companies in different countries. However, its practical implementation is complicated by the need to include a variety of spheres of influence and address all of the corresponding issues. In this way,...

Cowbell Brewing Company Case Study

Definition of Success Success is the creation of value – economic and social benefits and results to help individuals align with a set of values subscribed by the organization. Corporate success usually comes from a clear plan or strategy for carrying out a mission. But a process is not successful...

Procter & Gamble’s Febreze Product Technology

Procter and Gamble, also known as P&G, have been filling people’s homes with grooming, baby, health care, and cleaning products since the 1800s and continue to do so successfully. In 1998 P&G released one of their innovative products called Febreze.“Febreze has the technology to clean away bad odors at the...

Management: Communication and Organisational Structure

The domain of management may relate to any type of experiences, which are built on the basis of mutual interrelations between groups of individuals, who attain the goals of a specific organization (Boddy 2014). In fact, one can conclude that every human arrangement may be perceived as an organization, which...

Private Label Brands and Marketing Management

The business arena continues to get more competitive by the day. As a result, business organizations seek ways of using existing strategies to better their performance while at the same time devising new mechanisms to enhance their profitability. The emergence of private label brands is a case in point. Their...

Supply Chain Management. Evolution

Supply chain management (SCM) entails the planning and management of every activity involving sourcing and procurement, conversion and all logistics management activity (Rajeev et al. 299). SCM encompasses a broader scope within the organization, which also looks at the coordination and collaboration with other stakeholders within the supply chain (Rajeev...

“Leadership Characteristics and Digital TransFormation”: Article Critique

The first noticeable mistake is in the article’s abstract. While an abstract should contain all the significant points of the study, the authors did not mention their key findings in the abstract. Instead of clearly stating the findings or results, the authors noted that “the results represent an important step...

How Competitive Forces Shape Strategy

Introduction The approaches to the development and execution of strategic plans are closely examined by many business administrators and scholars. This paper is aimed at discussing the issues that should be considered by a person when implementing a strategy. In this context, this notion can be described as the identification...

Communicating in Teams and Organizations

Abstract Communication is an integral part of human life, including the field of business. Communication in an organization is an essential type of business relationship with other people, which performs several functions. In business communication, people use verbal and non-verbal means, which is also of great importance. Today, in the...

Product Design and Development

Introduction World is becoming complex though the technology has been keeping its effort continuously to make the life easier. People are now living in such an environment where everybody is busy to run the life in a higher status then the existing. In these busy days, the people have no...

Coca-Cola Branding, Mission, Vision and Values

Brands have risen to become a significant intangible asset of a firm. Product branding requires a firm to apply both art and science skillfully to build a strong valuable brand. A strong brand requires creative designing, careful planning and execution. Branding gives a quick identification to the product’s manufacturer (Kottler...

Bolman and Deal’s Four Frames of Leadership

It seems reasonable to state that all companies come to a period when their performance starts being insignificant. This may take place due to various reasons – starting from severe rivalry and ending with pressing governmental policies. However, there are a plethora of cases when the mentioned insignificant performance results...

Organizational Vision Statement in Walmart and Other Firms

A businesses’ vision statement defines its clear direction of future growth and competitiveness. It communicates companies’ goals as well as aspirations for development. A firm’s vision statement has a significant role since it keeps an organization on track and focused on goals. It guides operations and the way employees need...

The Creditworthiness of the Ace Company

Executive Summary Trends in Accounts Receivable Notably, Ace’s accounts receivable hiked by $100,000 from 2018 to the year 2019. The increase exemplifies that more customers are paying their balances. The Organization’s sales on credit accounts are the primary factor behind the increasing trend of accounts receivables, reflecting the Company’s receivable...

Tesla Inc.’s Stock Prices Analytics

Introduction For this week’s assignment, the stock prices of Tesla are reviewed using Yahoo’s Finance service. Tesla is a United States-based company that works in the industry of electric car manufacturing construction and is one of the companies owned by Elon Musk. Tesla is a great company, both because it...

Perspectives of the Interaction of Different Generations

The contemporary world is changing rapidly and it is essential to consider both the possible difficulties and perspectives of the interaction of different generations. This essay dwells upon the ways the four different generations (traditionalists, baby boomers, generation X, and Millennials) cooperate with each other. It is crucial to take...

Financial Management: Annual Savings for Retirement

Estimating future retirement needs Planning for future retirement needs should be done carefully. This can be attributed to the fact that retirement is an equally important aspect of the financial well-being of an individual just like investments and purchase of other assets. A challenge that most people face is coming...

Generational Differences in the Workplace

In the 21st century global business environment, the increasing rate of globalization has meant that people from different regions find themselves in totally new working environments. Diversity has been a major issue of concern for global business managers in the recent years. However, the article of interest highlights the effect...

United Airlines Marketing Channels: Pros and Cons

United Airlines Television Ads One of United Airlines’ traditional marketing channels for promoting environmental sustainability is television advertising. Environmental United Airlines TV ads are part of the United Eco-Skies program (“United Eco-Skies,” n.d.). The advantage of TV advertising is its broad audience reach. However, the lack of instant and direct...

Strategy for Searching Out Key Sources

As world experience shows, in the field of scientific and technical information, the main path of science runs primarily through scientific electronic libraries. Their purpose is to aggregate and organize access to modern knowledge represented by scientific publications. The criterion of a researcher’s information culture is the ability to adequately...

Workplace Environmental Conditions and Job Satisfaction

For an employee, it is essential to work in a safe and favorable workplace environment to demonstrate a significant performance. However, there might be an issue regarding the extent to which the process of improving these environmental conditions affects the employee’s job satisfaction and whether this affectation takes place at...

Report on company Pfizer, INC.

Introduction Aims of the Report The current paper contains an analysis of the recent major issue faced by Pfizer, Inc, and the way the company solved it. In addition to that, the report critically analyzes Pfizer’s problem-solving approach and suggests alternative approaches to the issue that will be outlined below....

Emotional Intelligence and Leadership Style

Introduction Leaders are vision careers. As heads of organizations, leaders are anticipated to have the ability to manage their emotions so that they (emotions) do not get out of control irrespective of the challenges that leaders go through while attempting to enhance compliance to their visions (Parker, & Sorensen, 2008,...

Choosing the Instrument of External Finance

Introduction There are several sources of external finance that are available to a company. A company can raise finance either through equity financing, bond financing, or bank finance. Each instrument of finance has its advantages and disadvantages. There are several things that the senior management must consider when choosing the...

Successful Business Performance: Key Factors

Nowadays, competition in the market is constantly growing, and therefore, companies need to pay attention to their business strategies and marketing plans. Proper presentation of products, the evaluation of customers’ buying behavior, and reducing costs while increasing income are only some of the factors that require careful consideration. In this...

New Marketing Realities and HTC

The Most Significant Prevailing Market Forces Currently, the most important market forces that may have a considerable effect on the company’s development are technology and globalization. According to Kotler and Keller (2016), these are two of the three major market forces that occupy the most prominent position in the modern...

“White Collar: The American Middle Classes” by C. Wright Mills

The topic for this week is dedicated to economics, workers’ alienation, and conformity. The first article I wish to summarize is “White Collar: The American Middle Classes,” written by Mills (1951). This article concerns the research that Mills (1951) conducted about the role of the middle class in American society...

Capital Budgeting of New Heritage Company

As can be seen from the described cases, New Heritage is continually developing new projects in various areas. This allows the company to develop, interest the audience, and attract new customers. These projects relate to different areas of the company’s activities, such as creating new lines of clothing or the...

Operations Management of a Care Facility for the Elderly

Introduction Any institution dealing with provision of care to dependent elderly persons should ensure that its strategies are broad enough to cover the wide range of needs of the elderly. In order to ensure quality service provisions in elderly care institutions for the aged, it is important for the management...

Consumer Complaining Behavior in the Service Industry

Complaints in general and consumers’ behavior about expressing their complaints are of vital importance to the improvement procedures aimed at performance excellence in the service industry. The article by Patwary and Hamimi (2016) provides an extensive overview of the key factors influencing consumer complaining behavior and the channels they use...

The Capital Structure Decision and the Cost of Capital

Introduction Firms aim at portraying a positive image through optimization of its capital structure which can be based on equity and debt proportions or total liabilities. The capital structure is crucial in enabling a firm to maximize its market value in totality. It stipulates the dividend policy which means that...

The Case of Nutrition Food Inc

Introduction Following a widespread claim of food poisoning in Southern California and Seattle, Nutritional Foods Inc, contracted me as a consultant. My role is to discuss “The case of the Nutritional Foods”. In the foregoing consultancy, I will give a brief breakdown of the case, underline facts, issues involved, ethical...

Sindle v. New York City Transit Authority Analysis

Introduction Justification defenses are commonly used in our courts by defense attorneys to justify the crime that was committed by their clients. Herring (2012) defines justification defenses as a situation where “The defendants admit they were responsible for their acts but claim that what they did was right (justified) under...

Sarbanes-Oxley Act in Accounting

Introduction With a chain of scandals hitting the American corporate world, its image in the public’s eye was greatly tainted. Accordingly, the government had to take a step that would restore the confidence and integrity and put corporate America back on track. The best approach was through stricter measures to...

Leadership: The Efficiency of the Company

Leadership is a crucial component that allows to effectively perform managing tasks and maximize the efficiency of the company, which consequently catalyzes the goal-achieving process. Most of the time, high-grade leadership is responsible for the organization’s internal and external success as it shapes the way staff works and performs. The...

Push-Pull Strategies in Promoting Products and Services

To promote their products or services, companies may choose between push and pull strategies. A push strategy concentrates promotional activities on distribution channels and encourages customers to buy products or services using incentives, such as discounts (Vieira et al., 2018). In a push strategy, the company first produces products and...

Woodworking Skills in and Personal and Academic Traits

All areas of a person’s activity are interconnected, influencing one another in a particular way. Each individual possesses a range of specific interests and hobbies that might not have an obvious relation to their primary sphere of studies. Nevertheless, extracurricular activities are capable of having a direct positive impact in...

New Product Development Process and Its Stages

The new product development (NPD) process is critical to the emergence of new companies and the growth of existing organizations. To rationalize this process and derive the highest possible benefit from it, businesses structure it into several discrete stages, such as idea generation, market analysis, product development, commercialization, and market...

Risk Management Technique: Risk Analysis and Evaluation

Introduction Environmental Factors that Cause Risk Business is a complicated phenomenon that is regulated by its own rules and laws. Accordingly, when business decisions are made, they are adjusted to the reality of the business environment and potential developments of the markets. Forecasting and prediction of future thus play an...

Supply Chain Logistics Assessment

Introduction This paper is an attempt to discuss the notions of trade-offs between working areas of logistics, the relationship between the selection of location networks and competitive advantage, and logistics value proposition within the broader framework of supply chain management. It starts by giving an idea of what supply chain...

Problem-Solving Processes Within the HBO Company

Organizational development (OD) aims to enhance the performance of organizations through the effective management of people and processes. The OD is a “long-term effort, led and supported by top management, to improve an organization’s visioning, empowerment, learning, and problem-solving processes, through an ongoing, collaborative management of organization culture” (Hodges, 2017,...

Maple Syrup Business: Challenges and Prospects

Maple syrup is a symbolic product of the northeastern territories of Northern America. During recent decades, maple syrup producers encountered an increasing number of challenges connected with climate change such as pests and diseases, a potential shift in the suitable habitat, and variations in timing. Nonetheless, in the United States...

The AICPA Code of Professional Conduct and PCQ

The AICPA Code of Professional Conduct determines the ethical principles that guide employees’ behavior and decision, especially Certified Public Accountants (CPA), to handle various issues via specific statements. The code sets standards for auditor objectivity, integrity, independence, liabilities to colleagues and clients and defines acts disreputable to the accounting profession....

DuPont Analysis of the Chinese Bank of Communications

Purpose of the Report The present report aims at applying DuPont analysis to evaluate the performance of the Chinese Bank of Communications (BoCom) against its competitor, China Merchants Bank (CMB). The assessment is based on financial performance during the past three years (2017-2019) of two companies. Background Information Bank of...

10-K Ford Motor Company Review

Introduction Modern public companies are expected to file Form 10-K annually in order to report the specifics of their financial performance. This report is usually rather comprehensive and detailed to reflect what financial goals were achieved by a company during a certain period of time (Epstein, 2014). The purpose of...

The Analytical method SWOT: Analysis

Abstract Currently, every manager has many analytical methods at hand to identify the advantages and drawbacks of an organization and explore opportunities for further development. However, due to relative simplicity and sufficient effectiveness, lately, a SWOT analysis has become one of the most frequently used approaches. The primary aim of...

Strategic Planning in Current Hospitality Industry

Tourism is one of the most significant pillars of economic growth in numerous international economies. The industry accounts for 20.8% of the international revenue and 21.7% of the total employment before the COVID-19 pandemic (Aladag et al., 2020). However, the world bank’s recent report revealed an alarming situation caused by...

Transformational Leadership Impact on the Team’s Performance

The styles that a leader adopts may significantly impact the team’s performance. Those are numerous, and one can select what suits them the most and guarantees improved results. One of the recent and promising leadership styles is transformational. It appears to address the challenges set by the 21st century and...

Financial Accounting Cycle Steps

The financial affairs of any enterprise require constant attention, accuracy, and reporting. The accounting cycle is the process of recording and analyzing a company’s financial transactions necessary for reporting, which is repeated every accounting period. The cycle helps to make it easier to control financial transactions and business activities for...

How to Prevent Employees From Leaving?

Each year a large number of employees are leaving companies for various reasons. Some managers use annual employee surveys and exit interviews to reduce the attrition rate. However, these methods have not proved to be effective in dealing with the problem as they do not give a real-time picture. This...

The Organizational Culture Assessment Instrument and the Clinical Inquiry

Assessing organizational culture is an essential step prior to the implementation of practice changes. In order to evaluate my organization, I selected the Organizational Culture Assessment Instrument (OCAI), which is a proven instrument of culture assessment (Cameron & Quinn, n.d.). The tool involves a set of statements designed to evaluate...

The Case of Takata a Japanese Car Parts Supplier

Case details This case revolves around Takata, a Japanese car parts supplier, and its former chief executive Shigehisa Takada. A crisis occurred due to the faulty airbags supplied by Takada’s company that could explode with more power than needed, hurting and even killing the people inside the car (Chen, 2019)....

Employee Turnover in Health Care

In general, employee turnover may be defined as the number of the organization’s members that leave it within a certain period. If a company has a high staff turnover rate, a substantial number of employees regularly quit their job. In turn, a low employee turnover rate implies the organization’s comparatively...

Managing and Appraising Employee Performance

It is impossible to make an organization function correctly if there is no list of the fundamental company values. In the period of the Talent Management changes (2003-2008), provided by the senior director of Maersk Group’s HR department and the head of HR, a significant meaning was attached to implementing...

Case Study of Columbia: HCA Hospital Business Ethics

Key Stakeholders R.E. Freeman in his book “A Stakeholder Approach”, defines a stakeholder as” a group engaged varied interests and participants, each of them may contribute and attain rewards as a result of activities of a company or business.” It is to be noted there is an interrelationship that is...

Accounting Risk and Uncertainty

Introduction In every organization there comes a time that not so easy decisions have to be made. It is at this time that the responsible people in that organization have to consider their steps carefully. Risks and uncertainty form the basis of either failure or success of every business. some...

Bayesian Data Analysis

Abstract As firms are increasingly focusing on core competencies, there has been a growing interest among organizations to outsource a broader gamut of logistics services. The logistics fraternity is evolving innovative models tailored to meet end customer solutions and adhere to channel wide requirements in the supply chain network. Conceptualizing...

Talent Turnover and Ethics: Case Study

The company’s problem in this particular scenario is twofold, as it combines business and ethical aspects simultaneously. From a business perspective, the company suffers from a high turnover rate, as its employees usually leave after six months to a year of employment. The main reason behind this tendency seems to...

Lincoln Electric: Business Expansion Concept

The concept of expansion has become the leitmotif for most companies’ business strategies in the modern economic setting. The rationale behind the focus on expansion is quite obvious since a larger organization with stronger links across the globe has greater chances of remaining sustainable and keeping its competitive advantage over...

The Spanish Fashion Industry: Business Model Innovation

Business model innovation is associated with the development of an essentially new approach to building business processes and commercializing a company’s products. Thus, in the context of this concept, a business model itself but not a “product or service becomes subject to innovation” (Spieth & Schneider, 2016, p. 672). Still,...

The Actual and Budgeted Food Costs

The first task of the new Director of Food and Beverage is to choose a concept for a new outlet: either a fast service restaurant or a French fine dining restaurant. Both ideas have certain advantages and disadvantages for the Marina Bay Sands resort. A fast-food cafe may be a...

Talent Turnover and Ethics in the Business

In the contemporary business world, companies are constantly trying to advance their operations and achieve important goals and objectives. However, while being focused on their successes, organizations should not forget about people who have a direct influence on them – employees. In order to provide the best outcomes, professionals should...

A Valid Contract: The Case Study of Rita

A contract is defined as an institution which guides the behavior and conduct of those who enter into it. It usually occurs when two or more people, organizations or even companies make an agreement that can be enforced through a court of law and penalties may follow if the guidelines...

Food Festival Event for Westboro Residents

Introduction Westboro is an area located on the west end of Ottawa, which local folk often calls Westboro Village. Located along the Ottawa River, the neighborhood formed in the nineteenth century and quickly became one of the most unique and diverse areas in Ontario. The Westboro community has undergone several...

Venus Mobile Inc.: Strategic Management Report

Introduction Strategic management plays a significant role in the success of business organisations, especially in attaining the set organisational goals and objectives. It is the most effective leadership and management tool that helps in navigating the contemporary business challenges. The business environment is increasingly becoming competitive, mainly due to the...

Workplace Psychology Theories: Human Relations

Introduction Organizational behavior is an important branch of science that explores people’s relationships in the workplace and can help leaders and employees organize the working process better. Several psychological theories discuss and explain organizational behavior. Note on Workplace Psychology Theories, an article by Karen MacMillan published in 2018, briefly overviews...

The Harvard University Strategic Analysis

Introduction and Factors and Forces that Affect Harvard’s Choice of Strategy Harvard University was founded in 1636 in the United States, making it the oldest higher education institution in the state. It is located in the cities of Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts. Each year this institution has an admission of...

Capturing and Using Organizational Knowledge

Today, knowledge has become a significant source of competitive advantage for organizations. As a result, businesses need to keep knowledge management human by putting people at the center of every stage and activity during this process. They should adopt a human-centered approach to ensure that the process of capturing and...

The Impact of Organizational Politics on Employees

Introduction Once in a while, employees working in an organization engage in workplace politics. In most cases, these occurrences arise when some employees tarnish their colleague’s reputations, hoping to receive favors from their seniors. Workplace politics refers to the act or process which encompasses human interactions with power and authority...

Transportation Forecasting: Strategic Planning

Summary Logistics is an important part of the everyday activity of the armed forces. The process of transportation that involves goods, equipment, and personnel might be expensive (Xiong et al., 2017). As a part of my education course, I have researched a paper on transportation forecasting by Xavier Smith, a...

Sales and Business Development

Creating adequate conditions for promoting innovative goods and services depends on numerous factors, including the geographic location of the region for sales, the indicators of consumer demand, brand value and other significant criteria. Today, even start-up companies can offer relevant propositions if the direction of activity is chosen correctly and...

The Effects of Micromanagement

Micromanagement is a highly inefficient workplace practice negatively correlated with the productivity and morale of an organization. The proposed research on the effects of micromanagement will help in growing the company by identifying the existing and potential issues with the style of organizational leadership and setting tools for prevention. Several...

Subaru Brand With Japanese Origins

Subaru is a brand with Japanese origins that has built its popularity in most developed countries of the world. Its history shows a clear interest in technology and innovative solutions complemented by high quality and reliability. Thus, the new project proposal will root itself in these ideas, targeting such populations...

Overseas Sweatshops in the Fashion Industry

Overseas sweatshops are a common practice for many companies and industries all over the globe. The production of clothes is one of the most significant sectors that employ foreign sweatshop labor (Stafford). This paper covers a brief history of the issue and reasons why fashion giants decided to move their...

Present-Day Entrepreneurs and Their Environment

Entrepreneurs drive the economy and foster further technological progress, thus increasing people’s quality of life. Although personal traits and skills, such as innovative thinking and willingness to take risks, are important factors contributing to entrepreneurial success, they are insufficient without external support. Only the combination of personal qualities, supportive government...

Business Structure for Pilates Studio Franchise

Starting a new business is a complicated process covering identification of the most appropriate legal structure; selection of the necessary business form requires balancing all strengths and weaknesses from a legal point of view in order to simplify further company activities. The idea to open a Pilates Studio franchise needs...

Transformational Leadership Style as the Most Effective One

Introduction In the sphere of leadership research, the styles of leadership occupy a key place. Style is defined as a set of attitudes and behaviors of a leader. Such a set influences the whole run of a company and, to a large extent, predetermines its success or failure. The number...

How Communication Affects Leaders in an Organization and Vice Versa

Conventional Approach The conventional approach is the old-school way of perceiving communications within the organization, where the company operates separately from the connections between the employees. Scholars refer to such a communicational model as the “informational view of communication,” which is centered around the transmission within the firm, while “ineffective...

Situational Leadership: Roles and Importance

Introduction Sometimes, managers may find that not all employees work equally well and hard. The reason is that various management schemes must be applied to them because each employee is at a different stage of development: both within the company and personally. The solution to this problem is the situational...

Project Review Barnes & Noble

Introduction It is evident that due to the fact that big online corporations like Amazon.com Inc took over the bookselling industry, it became even harder for bookstores to keep up. Barnes & Noble is one of these companies that flourished during the 1990s and 2000s; however, they almost fell out...

Employees Management: Influence Tactics

The most common tactics I use when dealing with my boss are consultation and rational persuasion. In my opinion, their use when communicating with superiors is understandable. Consulting allows me to learn new things and perform tasks in a way that meets the manager’s expectations. Rational persuasion helps in situations...

Mobile Commerce and Changing Customer Behavior

The 20th century has witnessed technological progress, which influenced almost all aspects of life. The shopping process and the relationship between customers and retailers are no exception. This paper aims to discuss the influence of online shopping on the crucial steps of the consumer decision-making process and review the pros...

Becoming a Leader: Exceptional Leader Qualities

Introduction Looking at prominent leaders that exist in this world, one might not notice that all of them differ from each other in regard to their characteristics and strategies. However, it is apparent that not any head of a company can achieve success. Therefore, there must be certain aspects of...

Leadership Theories and Questionnaires

Introduction Leadership theories are fundamental, as they help to understand patterns of interaction between the leader and the team. Besides, due to the existence of leadership models, the managers can better choose the leadership styles that correspond to the circumstances. Since leaders’ actions usually have a direct impact on the...

Apple: 10-K Report Analysis

Introduction The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is an independent agency of the federal government. It pursues many objectives, including protecting investors, maintaining efficient markets, promoting capital formation, and others. The SEC has multiple means to achieve its goals, and a 10K annual report is among them. Thus,...

Materialism in the Contemporary World

Introduction Materialism has a long history that began in the middle of the 19th century with the second industrial revolution and the advancement of electricity and the production of steel. Materialism implies a belief that industrially created goods, new technologies, and scientific developments underlie human happiness and are the key...

Needs Analysis Plan For Vendor Selection

The process of globalization has changed how both suppliers and vendors imagine successful manufacturing and business management in general. Nowadays, the existence and rapid expansion of the free market implies high competitiveness among business units in order to obtain the most cost-efficient and quality-assuring workers in the segment (Azadeh et...

Servant Leadership: Seven Distinct Characteristics

Introduction The core principle of servant leadership is based on the idea to serve other people and to focus on the well-being and growth of the leader’s followers. The preceptor who guided my job practicum experience at the New York Methodist Hospital embodied the key aspects of servant leadership. She...

The Home Depot Inc. and Subsidiaries

Introduction Home Depot Incorporated is an American retailer of products and services related to construction, home design and home improvement. The products offered by the company include hardware supplies, paint, plumbing materials, gardening tools, plants and home appliances. The company is the largest retailer of home improvement services in the...

Foundation of Army Leadership: Definition of Individual Leadership

The success of the army essentially depends on the extent to which fruitful army leadership is formed. A leader acts in the interests of ensuring the organization of joint, collective activities of people. Their main purpose is the most rapid and successful achievement of a common goal (Walker & Bonnot,...

Dove Advertising Campaign “Real Beauty”

Thanks to the development of the media and social networks, people think about what is happening in the media space and express their opinion about it. Discussion of a Facebook post, a tweet, or a video can be complex, or even aggressive because content creators have tackled a controversial topic....

The Strategic Planning in Business

Strategic planning determines the strategy or framework of actions. There are several ways to execute the dealings and strategies that preset the schema which allows for a more planned and exact plan of action. It sets the regulations with certain parameters and they are followed until the transaction is finished....

Omni-Channel Marketing: Overview and Analysis

There are many strategies to gain consumer attention and thereby increase business revenues. Corporations can choose from various ways to reach a customer, from street announcements to personalized online advertising. One of the latest trends that the company is following in communication with clients is omnichannel marketing. This paper aims...

Crisis Incidents That May Impact an Organization

Case Study: Capay Valley Naturals This company specializes in processing and distributing fruits around North Carolina, Florida, and Georgia. The company has a fleet of 45 trucks that distribute the products to different destinations the farthest of which is 14 hours away from the central hub. It outsources the services...

Leadership Philosophy: Understanding, Theories, and a Leadership Role Model

Introduction A leadership philosophy is a range of principles, beliefs, convictions, and mindsets, according to which a person decides what actions should be taken and what reactions and attitudes are appropriate in a particular situation. Leadership philosophy regards the existence of issues, mannerisms, goals, behavior in daily pursuits, and the...

Key Employee Benefits in the Healthcare Sector

Besides remuneration and health cover, firms can offer a wide variety of benefits depending on the sector, availability of resources, the needs of employees, and the creativity of the employer. These benefits include paid holidays, sponsored marriage anniversary or birthday parties, gym/club membership, tickets to special events, car grants, cash...

Time Management Skills in Leadership

Time Management Self-Assessment Implementation of time management finds manifests in various types of activity. For example, taking advantage of a learning time, finding strategies to learn better and faster, compiling a list of things to do, etc. All of these demonstrates that time management capabilities are well-developed and of a...

McGraw Hill Publisher: The International Marketing Analysis

Executive Summary McGraw Hill Publisher is one of the oldest publishing companies and has served many students world wide. This company has invested heavily in educational publishing and controls a significant world market share. The company has managed to capture local markets and ensure it has firm grounds on which...

International Logistics and SCM

Universally accepted criteria for assessing risks and vulnerability of infrastructural systems in terms of global logistics and Supply Chain Management (SCM) have not been specified so far (Mattsson & Jenelius, 2015; Kermanshah & Derrible, 2016). Therefore, an approach developed by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) was implemented to...

Offset Printing for Small and Large Production Runs

The importance of a product’s retail packaging in modern consumerist society is difficult to overestimate. The way that a product is completed from the place of fabrication to the storehouse and finally to the end-user is protected and accompanied by its retail packaging. The product handling without proper packaging could...

Marketing and Management Tools for Netflix

Marketing is a procedure that is used for identifying and looking forward to satisfaction of customer needs. It is a process that works within the set target, anticipated output and goals to be met. Competitor’s strategies are also analyzed and exceeded. It deals with provision of changing requirements and needs...

Music and Movie Industry Analysis

In the music and movie industry of the United States, the exploration of productivity exhibits significant fluctuations because it has increased and declined over time. Specifically, revenues from the music and movie industry increased exponentially from $2 billion in 1973 to $14.6 billion in 2000, and they dropped to $6.7...

Managerial Accounting Ethics Role

Managerial accounting aims to provide managers with measurement and interpretation of accounting information so they can make informed decisions to maintain and improve a companys performance. This occupation requires possession and development of several essential skills and qualifications. There are also certain ethical standards employees working in this sphere have...

Human Resource Selection: Interview Questions

Introduction The process of interviewing potential candidates is a significant part of Human Resource Selection. Interviews vary depending on specifics of the job, but their main purpose remains to evaluate applicants’ abilities according to the same criteria. For this objective it is important to prepare a set of question, the...

An Interest in Supply Chain Profession

Introduction I developed an interest in the supply chain profession when I was still in high school. My motivation was the many job advertisements seeking graduates in supply chain management. The global economy is still recovering from the recession, and unemployment rates are high in most industries. Many college graduates...

Leadership Theory: Personal Experiences

Leadership is one of the most important skills that every nurse should obtain. Nurses need to be able to adopt various leadership behaviors to be effective in their work. The purpose of this essay is to define my leadership role and assess how it is applied to the nursing practice....

International Business. Li & Fung Company’s Supply Chain

Analyzing the relationship between the international supply chain and the seven principles of supply chain management advocated by Li & Fug, it can be stated that the principles are mainly concerned with optimizing the suppliers’ part. The focus on the customers as one of the factors (Czinkota, Ronkainen and Moffett...

Consumer Buying Behaviour and Advertising in UK

For consumers to make a purchase, they go through a decision making process which requires them to recognise their needs followed by searching for information that will influence their purchase. They then go through the other available alternatives which are vital in the choice they will make and finally settle...

Management: Personal and Professional Development

Introduction Management is an important part of any business. Many success stories in the business world have been due to effective management practices. This paper is an analysis of the concept of management and how it relates to business. It embarks on a series of research questions into the most...

The Models to Manage Change in the Organization

Organizational change is an essential part of any company’s development. In the contemporary management theory, there are three primary models that can be utilized to manage change in the organization. Those are – Lewin’s stages of action research (five phases involved in action research), Lewin’s change management model (three-step model),...

Organizational Requirements for a Dynamic Work Environment

Introduction In a competitive and rapidly dynamic corporate world, it is important for an individual to diversify their areas of knowledge to become successful. Through experience and vacation jobs, I learnt that the business environment is ever changing. Therefore, organizations require an intellectual person who can quickly adjust to the...

Figgie International: Managing Organizational Change

Management initiative is the key determinant of any organization’s performance. It is important to note that the success of any company is directly proportional to its leaders’ focus and the commitment of its employees. This paper is a management consultancy report that analyzes the circumstances that led to the difficulties...

Persuasion in Business Communication

Communication is a process by which information is passed from a source to a receiver. This means that for communication to take place there has to be an expression of thoughts, opinions or transfer of information. This can take place through written or spoken word or through symbols and actions....

Contemporary Leadership: Transactional and Transformational

Having good leaders is an essential component of any company’s success. The leaders are those who set goals and empower the employees to perform well. Furthermore, the leader’s role goes beyond carrying out the managerial tasks. Rosenbach (10) argues that there is a significant difference between a good manager and...

Compensation and Reward Programs Analysis

Introduction Compensation and reward programs are seen as an integral part of business success. Carefully crafted reward and compensation programs go a long way among other things to motivate employees. When an employee is assured that the company has his/her best interest at heart they encouraged to go the extra...

Management. “Our Iceberg Is Melting” by Kotter

Introduction Following in the line of the innovative management and leadership book, Who Moved My Cheese? – Dr.Spenser Johnson, the work, Our Iceberg is Melting by Harvard Business School alumni and professor, Dr. John Kotter, is indeed a new vision to lead and shows innovative strategies of team spirit and...

Knowledge Sharing Description: Believers in Christ Church International

Many organizations around the world are shifting towards intelligent approaches to doing business. This follows the realization that knowledge is an important and invisible asset, which may be used, to achieve desired goals in an organization. The established Knowledge Management Systems (KMS) within an organization assist in key decision-making processes...

Human Resources Management: Job Analysis and Job Descriptions

Introduction The significance of job design is to develop jobs that fit effectively into the organizational workflow. The narrower focus of job analysis focuses on utilizing a formal system to collect data concerning what people do in their jobs and then use the collected data to generate job specifications as...

Business Communication Trends Paper

Introduction Every task in a professional environment requires effective communication, for its smooth execution. Lack of effective communication has caused embarrassments for big companies, for instance, NASA’s satellite which vanished on mars, a project that valued over 125 million dollars. This caused a big shame accompanied by huge losses in...

Should Marketers Test Advertising

Introduction Advertisers must evaluate alternative media and strategies using testing before an ad campaign be launched. The conceptual models that are useful in thinking about the optimal advertising strategies and budgets are the incremental matrix, the game-theory approach, and the payoff matrix. It should be noted that management does not...

Analysis of the Trend of Electronic Commerce

Outline This paper is an integration of the entire week’s activities. The paper briefly analyses the activities done in the week. Two topics were discussed in the week, namely the future trends of e-commerce and how to make an online business successful. And also the paper explains how these discussions...

The Role of Self-Evaluation for Management

In the article by Joe Light, Bosses Overestimate Their Managing Skills, one can learn surprising information. The thing is that according to the DDI survey twenty-two percent of managers “said they never questioned their ability to lead others in their first year as a manager” (Light, 2010). It means that...

Lakota Hill: Strategy Analysis

The case shows the introduction of an entrepreneurship venture in the specialty food industry. The new venture hatched by Laura Ryan was to set up a venture to sell fry bread powder in a sack. She sold the age old recipe to the locally and then to the supermarkets to...

Collaboration Between Business Strategy and IT Strategy

Introduction The current business environment needs an integrated-enterprise information system that would reduce the manufacturing costs, cut the product cycling time and enable varying companies to collaborate on the design of products and production processes. This paper looks at the collaboration between business strategies and the information strategies, the problems...

Employees’ Motivation: A Manager’s Challenge

Introduction The issue of motivating employees could be regarded as a strategy that calls for planning on a long-term basis. In addition, its impact ought to be felt by the entire work environment, with its implementation being accomplished continuously. For a long time now, management researchers and managers alike have...

Business Ethics in Illegal Immigrant Employment

In business activities, it is an unspoken fact that all the practices that are termed as illegal in the society turns out and has to be an unethical practice in business. However, there seems to be one illegal act that should be considered illegal in businesses but instead, businesses do...

Whole Foods: Economic Recession

Introduction Following the global economic recession of 2008, most of the companies worldwide are facing financial difficulties operating given the effects of the aforementioned crisis and Whole Foods Company is no exception. It is worth acknowledging and recognizing strategies that Whole Food Company’s management has so far adopted to enhance...

Alternative Energy Industry’s Profit Pools

Introduction A profit pool is the total profits earned within an industry by all players and it extends to all players in the value chain (Gadiesh and Gilbert, 1998). Therefore, for a company to have competitive edge in the alternative industry, they should use their capabilities to employ and manage...

Use of Derivatives in Risk Management

Derivatives and Risk Management in Corporate Finance In the corporate finance, there are two thematic structures to be presented in order to foster the understanding and application of management principles in the physical context. There is the use of the term derivative and the other one being risk management which...

Business Theories Analysis: Whittington’s Theory and Resource-Based View

Theoretic Basis Regardless of the fact that the strategic approaches towards business development presuppose the definite and clear realization of further development processes. This notion is confirmed in numerous research resources, however, the actual situation is far from forecasting in details the events that may come. A professional business leader...

The Competitive Advantage in the Aero-Engine and Global Retailing Markets

Introduction Competitive advantage refers to the ability of a company to make profits or returns more than the amount that it should make with regard to its capability and competencies that gives it an edge over its rivals (Kurtako, 2004, p.7). For a company to be said to have a...

Greenwashing in the Marketplace Today

Introduction Green products have invaded the market today that even flights are eco-friendly. According to Furlow, these multitudes of vague environmental claims are suspect of corporate dishonesty (Furlow, 2008). Flying has branded itself ‘green’ to emerge as the worst case of corporate dishonesty. In an effort to show ecological awareness,...

Capital Mortgage Insurance Corporation’s Negotiations

Introduction Sound organizational control and structural foundation paves the way for an organization to be run in a professional manner and effective business negotiation is an essential part of it as be viewed in the Capital Mortgage Insurance Corporation case study involving Randall and Dolan. However, the major learning curve...

Apollo Corporation: Case Study

Introduction The main purpose of this report is to analyze the conflict between the company Apollo Corporation and the labor union, and namely, unlawful termination of the employee, who was attempting to unionize the workers of the corporation. This issue can be interpreted from two perspectives, particularly, the employers and...

Southwest Airlines Company: Innovation and Marketing

Introduction Success in innovations only comes about as a result of keen examining of the needs of the consumer and coming up with a product that matches these needs in order to win a competitive advantage on the market (Midgley, 1977: 11). The Southwest Airlines Company is one of the...