Critical Challenges Facing the Automotive Industry

Stiff competition has forced automobile companies to come up with better strategies that will help them compete successfully. Bankruptcy and economic crisis has threatened the existence of automobile industry. In order to create synergy, firms are trying to expand their operations through mergers and acquisition. A perfect example is Fiat,...

BlackRock, Inc.: Company Stakeholder Responsibility

Introduction The performance of organizations exerts influences on local communities, customers, employees, investors, suppliers, public authorities, social agencies, and other stakeholders. Therefore, despite today’s toughening economic conditions, complex business environment, and orientation towards profit-making, corporations bear responsibility to all ranks of stakeholders. While defining its strategic priorities and planning business...

Diversification Initiatives of Alibaba Group

Diversification is the expansion of the product range and reorientation of sales markets, as well as the development of new types of production implemented to improve business efficiency, develop perspective areas, or prevent bankruptcy. It should be noted that diversification by its nature, can be related and unrelated. Related diversification...

Airline Fuel Hedging Programs

Summary Overview The three airline companies in the articles face challenges concerning the logistics of fuel; thus, they focus on the use of fuel hedging programs. It is documented that Southwest Airlines has been posting impressive results. Fuel contract issues made the firm record losses in its third and quarter...

SWOT Analysis Company Nurture Inc

Information about the Company Name of the company: Nurture Inc. Slogan: Healthy and tasty. The name of the company refers to nature and nutrition; moreover, “nurture” is about care, development, growth, and potential. Mission Statement: About 60% of a human’s body is liquid, about 70% of the Earth is covered...

Coaching Efficacy and Coaching Effectiveness

The study by Kavussanu Maria, Boardley Ian, Jutkiewicz, Natalia, Vincent Samantha and Ring Christopher addressed coaching efficiency and usefulness, and also examined the predictors and a comparison between the information on the trainers and the athletes. In the report, they addressed the concern on the increased research on the conceptual...

Diversity in the Workplace: Analysis and Evaluation

Abstract Over the past few years, the issue of diversity has gained considerable significance. According to recent researches, workplace diversity contributes to the improvement of the relationships between the staff, knowledge management, and, therefore, the production process. In the late XX century, workplaces became rather diverse all over the country....

Different Strategies of Celebrating Success

Introduction Currently, the business environment is characterized by a high level of dynamism. To succeed in the long term, it is paramount for organizations to have strong human capital. According to Homer and Griffin (2006, p.4), the importance of human resource management as a component of strategic management has increasingly...

Strategic Management: Literature Critique

Research question Although there is no section of the research that clearly defines the research question, readers can easily gather from the introduction that the study sought to gain an understanding of resource-performance in resource and capabilities and how this contributes to effective performance, in this case, sales and distribution....

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 Research Process for a Business Venture

After conducting a future outlook and Legal Concerns for my Urban-ware and clothing line business venture, the next thing that I will embark on is conducting marketing research for the venture. By this, I intend to look at find the best marketing strategies to use in marketing my products fully...

Work Experience of Leaders, Followers, and Teams

Introduction My experience as a follower came when working with Miwani distributors which a company responsible for distributing soft drinks. I happened to be one of those responsible of packing soft drinks and ensuring that stores were ever in good condition. In this position, I happen to experience numerous challenges...

Recommendations for Relaxing Travel Company

Background Relaxing travel is a travel agent that is based in the UK. The main area of business of this company is medium-priced charter flights and package holidays to resorts which are mostly in the Mediterranean coastal resorts. The products that this company offers include; charter flights which it leases...

“Toward an Integrated Model of Intrinsic Motivation & Career Self-Management” by Quigley

Introduction Intrinsic career self management is closely linked with motivation, inspiration, and the opportunity to communicate with other team members. The aim of this paper is to analyze the key elements of career motivation defined by Quigley and Tymon (2006), and analyze the effectiveness of these components from the perspective...

How to Proper Establishing Objectives

Introduction An objective is a goal that guides the efforts of an organization to reach its target. Objectives are set as an element of effective planning. They are used to determine whether an organization has met set standards. Objectives provide direction for various activities and influence human behavior towards attaining...

Employment Classification and Discrimination

Introduction The case represents a good example of complex relationships among employers and employees. It also helps understand the distinction between employee and independent contractor, as well as shed light upon certain ethical issues. In this report, it will be argued that Janice from the case needs to be qualified...

Following Toyota’s Standards: The Case of Nokia

In the world of business, companies need to choose appropriate plans to become successful in the market. Some of such strategies are connected with customer-oriented initiatives and waste elimination practices. Toyota is the company that first introduced the lean enterprise model and Toyota Production System, and it has already proven...

Kawneer Brand Company: Structure Analysis

Introduction Kawneer Brand is a reputable company in North America that manufactures architectural building products from aluminum. There are other companies involved in manufacturing the same products but Kawneer Brand has proved to be an icon in this industry. Some of the goods it manufactures include framing systems, curtain wall...

Situational Leadership Theory by Hersey and Blanchard

Weaknesses and Justification of Situational Leadership Hersey and Blanchard developed a theory that reflects how a leader should behave towards workers in relations to their different levels of maturity to the work. They argued that a high-maturity subordinate possesses both the confidence and ability to perform a task. Conversely, a...

Anglo-American and Primark Companies Critical Analysis

Introduction The need to ensure businesses compete and get profits makes them to establish policies and adopt measures that place them in better positions than their rivals. In addition, nations regulate business activities to ensure there is an equal playing ground for all investors and promote healthy competition. Investors must...

Supply Chain Management in the Business World

Supply chain management is one of the most important twentieth-century innovations in the business world. Practically, it is the managing of a “network of interconnected businesses involved in the ultimate provision of product and service packages required by end customers” (Cooper et al., 7). In other words, it takes care...

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...

The Nature of Leadership

Leadership is an interesting subject that excites so many people. When the term is mentioned, images of powerful individuals who head top Corporations in the world and army officials who have commanded victories in various big wars and politicians who shape nations come into our mind. We also think of...

Elemica as the Main Quotation of Chemical Products and Competition

The Main Goal of the Company Elemica main aim is to impact growth in the entire chemical industry in terms of the supply chain management and connectivity in terms of procedures and operations. It achieves this by providing web based orders hence chemical companies are able to purchase and sell...

Business Ethics: Career Ambition vs. Company Goals

The case study indicates that Linda Forbes is a self-driven, hardworking, and motivated person who seeks to achieve her professional and career goals. Forbes has managed to develop a conclusive study that explores the prospects of the autonomous transportation industry. The research director at HIG Capital LLC, Norman Driver, is...

Mountainside Industries Limited: Analysis and Recommendations

Introduction This is a report on what should be done to improve coordination among divisions in Mountainside Industries Limited. This follows a request made by Mrs. K. Hill who had realized that things were not going on well in the company. Decision-making processes are usually initiated and completed at the...

Coca-Cola Company: Code of Ethics

A code of conduct reflects a company’s core values, vision, and overall culture. The code of ethics creates expectations about the company’s work and general behavior. Gonzalez-Padron (2015) proposed that the code’s title might affect the reader’s attitude toward the content. For instance, including the word “values” in the title...

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...

Classroom Career: Occupational Interest Self-Assessment

Abstract Personality assessments like Holland Code Career Assessment and Type Coach Verifier are useful tools that can help a person to distinguish some important personality traits relevant to career choice. The scores shown in the test give useful insights and are similar to the personal opinion of the personality characteristics....

Southwest Airlines’ Services and Customers’ Satisfaction

Southwest Airlines is a company with a short history that began its operations approximately in the second half of the last century. At the beginning of the twentieth century, Southwest Airlines’ fleet grew from a couple of Boeings in Texas to a dozen planes that circulate between a thousand destinations....

Skype Limited Acquisition: Qik

Introduction One of the surprise acquisition announcements that was made and closed within a single month was the acquisition of Qik by Skype Limited (Venture Deal, 2011). The acquisition deal was announced at Consumer Electronics Show (CES) on 6 January, 2011 (Indvik, 2011). The acquisition was completed within a period...

Sustainable Business Design: Bicycle Parking System in New York

Introduction The modern world is widely discussing the environmental issues that uncontrolled human activities have led to during the last two centuries. Water and air pollution, soil damage, and melting of the Arctic ice are the most often cited effects of what is nowadays called technological progress. Drawing from this,...

EBay: Business Model and Planning

Introduction eBay is an e-commerce company that was re-launched in 1997 and turned out to be the largest and most popular interpersonal e-commerce company. The company went public in 1998 and its ensuing spectacular increase in its stock prices turned its top three managers into overnight billionaires. The company has...

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...

Impact of Acquisition: Amazon and Whole Foods

The world of business is competitive. Companies and their leaders take numerous steps that can fit their strategies, core values, and resources. As a rule, all steps of an acquisition process are time-consuming and require much work to be done (Abraham 2013; Pignataro 2015). Last year, Amazon shocked the world...

Eli Lilly and Company Versus Pfizer: Miscalculations Analysis

Introduction Eli Lilly and Company was one of the biggest pharmaceutical firms across the world in the 1980s and the early 1990s (Christensen, 2004). It controlled the largest market share in the sale of diabetes medication (insulin), supplying over 50% of the global insulin needs. Another company to be considered...

Partner Collaboration Barriers and Their Overcoming

Every partnership may or may not experience emergence of barriers that prevent organizations from collaborating with partners or receiving important grants. The barriers are a serious problem for business relationships as well as for the organizations’ clients. In this paper, the obstacles that may negatively influence Indian Creek Foundation will...

The Customer Service Perspective: The Starbucks Brand

Throughout the years, the Starbucks brand of coffee and sandwiches has become one of the most famous as well as one of the most loved brands in the world, especially so in the coffee industry. It has over this period moved beyond the walls of its existing stores in the...

Boeing: Corporate Management Planning

Introduction Sound management is crucial to the good performance and survival of all corporate entities of any size. It is even more important especially for companies that operate on a global scale (McDaniel & Gitman, 2008, p. 215). Management entails among other perspectives the coordination and allocation of the resources...

Challenges of Cloud Computing in Higher Education

Cloud computing is a model that permits suitable, on-demand admission to a shared pool of services, systems, and applications, which can be quickly provided (CDW-G 2011). It is applied in many areas such as businesses, healthcare facilities, state and federal governments and higher education. This paper will mainly deal with...

Evaluation and Control Procedures

Planning is a mental process that requires the use of intellectual faculties, foresight, and sound judgment. Strategic planning entails putting forward ideas that form a comprehensive and integrated plan that gives an advantage to the company against environmental challenges. The process of planning consists of various procedures. The first step...

Organizational Culture in the Army

The army is a large organization. It involves multiple units that have different tasks. For instance, there is a unit that is involved in the recruitment of soldiers. A second unit deals with the management of the training process. A third unit consists of deployed soldiers in different wars. The...

Sony Corporation: Technology Design

Introduction Structural and financial adjustments are vital tools for promoting performance in companies and giving them an upper hand while competing with others. This essay is an assessment of how Sony Corporation is designing its technology systems to meet the market demands and make profits as projected by the management....

Soft Drinks S.A. Project

Research Proposal The proposed research is focused on the investigation of the company Soft Drinks S.A and its failure to capture the expected market share by its new product. The need for the given research is justified by several factors. First of all, the inability of soft drinks to attract...

Part-Time Benefits: How It Works in Starbucks

Introduction Starbucks is a conglomeration of firms that specialize in the production of hot and cold beverages and a variety of snacks. It faces stiff competition from both fast-food restaurants and drinks companies like McDonald’s’ and PepsiCo respectively (Burks 20). Starbucks offers part-time benefits to its employees despite the reluctance...

Management of Change and Professional Safety – Article Critique

The given article reminds us that the management of change and risk management in organizations are interconnected. Many accidents, which entail significant human and material losses, are caused by the inability to recognize and manage changes correctly. It has repeatedly been confirmed in the course of investigations of the causes...

The Malaysian Church’s Budgetary Considerations

The Malaysian United Methodist Church maintains a budget to fulfill its objectives and goals (Tipton, 2007). The research focuses on church budget preparation. The research focuses on the researcher’s contribution to the success of the church budget. The church budget significantly contributes to the church goals and objectives of evangelizing...

Geringer and Herbert on Effectiveness of Joint Ventures

Introduction Since the advent of globalization, new forms and types of businesses have emerged across the world (Robson, Leonidou and Katsikeas, 2001; Gong, Shenkar, Luo and Nyaw, n.d). One of the popular forms of business that characterize society today is the Joint Ventures (JV), which is perceived to be more...

Leadership in Nonprofit Organizations

Leadership is essentially crucial in the growth of any organization whether it may be a big profit corporation or a non-profit organization. The development of leaders in the ranks of a company is important because leaders help achieve the goals of the company by exercising their powers and spears of...

Minimum Wages and Subsidies in Australia

Introduction In most countries around the globe, there is an established minimum wage and subsidies for the workers, which aim is raising the life quality of the population, reducing unemployment, and decreasing the income disparity. However, is such an instrument effective? Does it have negative side effects? This paper analyses...

Model Management of Organizational Change

Introduction Theoretically, the process of change in an organization begins with an awareness of the requirement for change. Organizational structural change is an economic process that involves changes in the functions or operations of an industry (Armstrong, 2006). It is the process of ensuring that an organization can develop and...

Information & Knowledge Assessment and Systems Design

Treatment of data, information, and knowledge Access to market information is often identified as one of the most crucial tasks of the marketing team, where the particular market needs that a company seeks to satisfy are identified and evaluated. The communication of the same information from the market to the...

Business Environment: Ways of Improving

The first thing to do is establish why specifically the company has been losing money. There are many reasons such as low quality products, low demand of the products in the market, outdated versions and also the high competition from the other corporations. Usually, people are ready to pay extra...

Global Marketing Strategy Development Benefits

Abstract This paper examines the various marketing strategies that are essential for success of any company within the global market. It begins by introducing the idea of the global markets, and then discusses the common factors that influence the channel structures involved in distribution of products. Then it looks at...

Wakegen Wire Company: Company Analysis

Introduction Any organization that engages in the trade of goods and services with its clients is referred to as a business organization (Sullivan et al, 14). In any business setup, reports are generated to show the performance in a given area. Different types of reports are created for different purposes....

Motivation Strategies and Approaches at Workplace

Abstract Employees require motivation at workplace. Motivation is a crucial factor of consideration that management teams are supposed to execute when managing employees. From this research study, the best motivation strategies have been identified and discussed in regards to two different types of employees working in the same organization. One...

The Need for an Automobile Industry Bailout Plan

Introduction The current global financial crisis has affected major parts of the economy from agriculture sector to the industrial sector. One industry that has been caught in this crisis is the Auto industry. It is amazing that that this crisis has not only caught up with America car makers but...

Leading System Change – Chaos

Introduction: From an Orderly System to Chaos and Back Since the dawn of time, the battle between Chaos and Order has been going on without a single break; at certain point Chaos has been in the winning position, and there have been the times when Order was going to take...

The Concept of Servant Leadership

Servant leadership, according to Christians, is a form of leadership that was exemplified by Jesus. However, servant leadership is a philosophical leadership theory pioneered by Robert Greenleaf in 1970. Servant leadership advocates for a leader to be a servant before leading others. A servant leader has empathy, care and is...

Loyalty Programs by Mimouni-Chaaban and Volle

“Perceived Benefits of loyalty programs: Scale development and implications for relational strategies,” by Aîda Mimouni-Chaaban and Pierre Volle is an informative article which provides information concerning the perceived benefits regarding loyalty programs. The article offers discussions regarding managerial and theoretical implications of the perceived benefits in relation to marketing strategies....

Strategic Planning for Collegiate Athletics

Yow (2000) states that planning in sports entails goal identification, analyzing one’s environment, and choosing actions that will assist the athletes in meeting their objectives. It must also involve giving feedback on results. These aspects are vital because the sports administrator, coach, or team leader will get successful results if...

Revenue Sources for Hope for New Life Ministries

Funding for Hope for New Life Funding for non-profit church ministries has remained a challenging concern for most church ministries. The Hope for New Life ministries has come a long way in their course for improved finance status of the ministry (New Hope Ministries, 2003). Although the ministry has made...

A Travel Agency’s Budget Elements

No one is likely to deny that traveling is rather popular nowadays. Any demand is acknowledged to create its supply, so there are many travel agencies, which results in a fierce competition in the segment. Therefore, being competitive happens to be a goal to attain. Although there are a plethora...

Kudler Fine Foods Company’s Strategic Plan

Introduction The expected expansions Kudler Fine Foods is currently evaluating some prospective commercial sites within Southern California in order to stimulate the projected expansion of its business lines. The region which has been earmarked for this purpose is anywhere within the Carlsbad area. Specifically, it is considering any spot located...

Effective Leadership in an Organization: Practices and Theories

Discussion of leadership issues from two articles According to transformational leadership theory by Warrilow (2009, para. 1-5), there are four vital components that are required for one to effectively manage changes within an organization. For effective changes in organizations, leaders need to spur consciousness within their subordinates so as they...

Leader Role in the Organizational Culture and Change

Introduction Corporate culture is defined as the collective behavior of individuals, who are part of a corporate organization, and the interpretations that the individuals attached to their behavior and actions (Alvesson, 2012). Organizational culture provides a platform on which employers and employees share mental assumptions and determine the right conduct...

Metric Systems for Measuring Leadership

The choice of a business leadership style is, perhaps, the most important step in defining the future of an organization (McLean-Cobban, 2013). While leadership is clearly only one of the elements that make a company work, it still predisposes the elements that create the environment for such phenomena as employees’...

Airgas Final Investigation Report: Case Study

The purpose of an investigation report is not only to examine the possible causes of an incident but also to make evident the potential solutions that will prevent further complications from happening. Following a set of established rules and standards, the authors of a report are capable of pinpointing the...

Ethical Corporate Strategy in Contemporary Business

Goatse Security firm possible objectives when they hacked into AT&T’s Website When Goatse security firm hacked AT&T website, their action was not malicious, the company did not intend to harm the image of AT&T. A member of Goatse security noted that, there was absolutely nothing wrong with their action. He...

UK Aerospace Industry: Key Policies

Introduction The aerospace industry of the UK is controlled in accordance with three policies that involve Inventory Location Management, as well as Cycle Count policies. These are regarded as the key factors of successful aerospace development, and the aim of the paper is to overview the entire sphere from the...

Hope for New Life Ministries’ Organizational Capacity

Introduction My role, activities and focus for improvement of the ministry As a leader in Hope for New Life Ministries, I will focus on a number of issues that will improve the organization’s performance. My analysis of the current state of the organization seeks to address leadership diversity and the...

Apple Incorporation: International Marketing

Introduction “Top bosses are often eager to try out the latest management theories and while they can be beneficial, often they become ‘flavor of the month’ and then thrown out of the window” (Daft, 2011).The key managerial functions however, remain defined and important regardless of how they are applied. The...

Yogurtland and Micromax: Marketing Strategy

Yogurtland strategy Yogurtland is a chain of cafes and restaurants where people can buy frozen yogurt. Yogurtland operates in the United States of America mostly; however, it has several international branches which are a part of global franchise. The major features of the brand are self-service and a big number...

The Practice of Supply Chain Management

The supply chain incorporates processes aimed at meeting customer requirements and demands. The activities are associated with the flow of goods and transformation from the raw materials stage to point of end-use. Additionally, it entails the flow of information and funds (Terry and Hau 43). The stages involved include the...

Performance Management and KPIs in a Management Measurement System

Introduction Performance management plays critical roles in solving problems experienced by organizations. This emanates from firms with meager acquaintance and visibility regarding business-level metrics applied in reporting (Fluss, 2005). In addition, such businesses face problems arising from legal compliance thus requiring agile standards within speedily transforming markets. The process enhances...

East Coast Lobster Case Analysis

This paper is a case study, aiming to describe how Atlantic Fisheries Marketing Board might successfully enter various European markets. It covers problems of corruption, market diversity and entry methods which are most likely to bring success. Interactions with Corrupt European Markets Interactions with corrupt governments can be detrimental to...

Harvey Industries: Key and Underlying Issues

Introduction A competent approach to workload planning and allocation of resources can have a significant role in the functioning of a particular company and its competitiveness in the market. The problems of Harvey Industries are caused mostly by the unreasonable allocation of resources and insufficiently rational measures used to determine...

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...

Oxfam Australia’s Definition of Corporate Responsibility

Dominant business practices have been interpreted as driven by greed and characterized by total disregard for other people’s welfare. Business decisions are based on and defined by their profitability. Corporate managers hold as their priority the maximization of profits, and total commitment to shareholder interests. Consequently, interest parties like consumers,...

Anheuser-Busch InBev: International Marketing for Success

Introduction According to Anderson (2010, p. 28), “internationalization is one of the most important and pervasive forces that reshape the competitiveness of business environments”. It has largely shifted the basis of competitiveness in companies and makes it necessary to understand global regions as one vast market (Forsgren, 1999). Internalization has...

Case Analysis of a Balanced Scorecard Approach

Introduction The balanced scorecard approach is one of the techniques utilized by businesses to evaluate their performance with reference to customer satisfaction and performance efficiency (Kaplan, 2005). There are four different perspectives used when referring to the balanced scorecard approach, these being the Customer perspective, financial perspective, internal business processes,...

Wal-Mart: Management Accounting Proposal

Introduction This would comprise a brief description of Walmart, the major US food chain conglomerate whose management accounting systems would be the main area of focus in this study. The Company whose management accounting information would be taken up for discussion is Wal-Mart. The reason for this is that this...

Business Ethics Concerns at an I-Factory

Goree (2007, p. 132) notes: “ethics refers to the morality of human conduct that can be evaluated in terms of either being good or bad, so if related in a business situation it will mean corporate ethics, which combines both applied and professional attributes that examines principles and moral problems...

Relaxing Travel Company Business Report

Introduction Relaxing Travel Company is facing serious challenges following the economic downturn in the UK. On top of this, there have been other factors that have posed a big challenge to the business operations of the company and they include; Regular customers create their packages using budget airlines and the...

Different Aspects of Utilitarianism

Introduction Utilitarianism refers to a theory, which teaches that the course of any action should be that which ensures pleasure, minimizes pain and maximizes the attainment of happiness (Bentham, 2009, p.54). It is a way of finding solutions to problems and ensuring that the solution reached at is best suited...

Business, Government, and Society: A Managerial Perspective

The third chapter of the book ‘Business, Government and Society’ is identified as ‘Business Power.’ The chapter uses a historical concept to establish the essence of business power in the society. In Particular, it narrates the basic history of one, James B. Duke. He was born on 23rd December, 1856....

Reflection Upon the Leadership Situation

Inasmuch as leadership is concerned, different people adapt to different approaches of leadership styles. Furthermore, different organizations require or rather adapt to certain leadership styles, which can best address or meet their needs and make them achieve their objectives. There exist various theories by various researchers that best explain the...

Nike+: Advice and Recommendations for Development

There are not so many companies that may be called undoubtedly known to everyone in the world. Nike hardly needs to be represented as since its very appearance this manufacturer has been pursuing an active policy of development and attracting new partners. A virtual platform for runners Nike+ offer the...

Innovation as a Contemporary Issue in Business

Introduction There are severs approaches that can be applied by manager in order to survive the economic hard times that have constantly characterized the new millennium. Change and innovation is now equated to the survival through turbulent times. When businesses attain a very strong economic advantage it means that they...

Financial Discourse Under Financial Crisis 2007-2008

Introduction This paper studies financial columnists’ writing under the 2007-08 economic crash from world-leader newspapers such as Wall-Street-Journal, National-Post, Globe-and-Mail, and New-York-Times and related materials from the point of view of genre analysis. Particularly, the studies will focus on writings (texts) produced by financial columnists in Globe-and-Mail, and New-York-Times from...

“The Leadership Factor” by John Kotter

In the article “The Leadership Factor”, John Kotter enumerates how modern firms develop practices to inculcate their leadership (Kotter, 1988). In doing so, Kotter explains why most of the big firms in the US do not have the leadership capacity that is required for a firm of their strength. Kotter...

Vodafone Company’s Strategic Analysis

Vodafone is an international telecommunications company that has its headquarters in Newbury, U.K. This company is the “world’s largest mobile telecommunications company measured by revenues and the world’s second-largest measured by subscribers (behind China Mobile), with around 332 million proportionate subscribers as of 30 September 2010” (SWOT Analysis on Vodafone,...

Lulu.com as a Management Information System

Summary Lulu.com, founded by Bob Young in 2002 in Triangle Research Park in North Carolina, is a very significant name in the Print on Demand industry (POD). The founder of Lulu.com wanted to expand the name of the company to make it something beyond a Print on Demand Company. He...

Green Product: Supply Chain Management

Introduction Supply chains can be considered as the blood vascular system of business. The focus on the supply chain can be seen in that a large portion of costs is associated with the effectiveness of the supply chain, not to mention another factor of competitiveness such as time reduction. In...

“From 0 to 60 to World Domination” by Jon Gertner

The article under consideration From 0 to 60 to World Domination by Jon Gertner deals with the history of Toyota’s development into one of the leaders of the American automobile market. The article depicts the main landmarks of the company’s development and voices the main principles and philosophy of Toyota....

Efficiency Improvement Tool of Work Effectiveness

Introduction Work effectiveness is often regarded as the crucial moment for assessing the business performance rates and principles. The calculation of throughput rate and efficiency is required for defining the most effective efficiency improvement tool. Therefore, the application process cycle calculations will be the basis of defining the effectiveness of...

Team Building for Seagate Morale-Athon Company

Introduction Team building is a very important organizational practice and behavior that is highly recommended for any organization seeking to boost its performance. The essence behind any team-building strategy is that when employees work or pull together towards achieving a common goal, it is more likely that the organization will...

Effective Organizational Development Strategies

Organizational development is one of the key areas in management. For managers who want to increase performance and efficiency of their companies, organizational development is essential and necessary time after time. In the scholarly literature you would find that different authors refer to organizational development as “a response to change,...

Competition Within Intermodal Transportation

Intermodal transportation refers to different modes of transport providing the same transport services. Intermodal transportation also refers to the use of coordinated transportation of freight on a single trip. Inland water, air, railroads, pipeline, trucking companies, and ocean carriers work together to move homogeneous units to offer improved services and...

Leadership and Emotional Intelligence in Business

Abstract Leaders need to have traits that are visionary and should be competent enough to attain the intended goals of the organization; meaning that the future of the organization lies squarely on the ideas generated by them. Such people should be inspired and possess the capability to explain it to...

Safety & Lean: One Manufacturer’s Lessons Learned and Best Practices

In their article, “Safety & Lean: One manufacturer’s lessons learned and best practices”, Hallowell, Veltri, and Johnson consider the issue of safe and lean manufacture. They also provide steps on how to make work environment safer and production more effective and efficient. The number of organizations that begin to implement...

Marketing Variables and Research for Auto Dealership

Competitors’ Strategies This is very crucial to the success of the auto dealership. It has to have competitor strategies for various activities. These include the types of products they intend to launch in the near future and their financial status. This information will help the company to plan for the...

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...

Employee Retention in Healthcare Call Center

In the article “Stressful Work, Citizenship Behavior and Intention to Leave the Organization in a High Turnover Environment: Examining the Mediating Role of Job Satisfaction” Paillé (2011) presents the notion that a high stress environment has a connection with increased employee churn rates within particular organizations. He argues that job...

Las Vegas Sands Corp.’s & MGM Las Vegas’ Culture Vision and Mission

Companies working in the hospitality industry face the need to develop their own vision of their mission, and to express it in their Vision and Mission Statements. The success of any particular company in this area depends on how wise and well-thought-of these statements along with their implementation to life...

Alcohol and Drug Abuse in the Workplace

Employees should have high concentration levels while in the workplace. Therefore, companies strive to reduce the distractions to employees. Reduction in distractions increases the productivity of the employees. In addition, it increases the safety levels of the workplace. Drug use is one of the major factors that reduces the concentration...

Commercial Project Management: The Project Heart of the City

Introduction Remarkably, Sheffield’s city center has been tremendously changed for the past several years. The attraction of foreign investors rose and the investment paid for itself. Speaking of the investments and profits, it is necessary to say that traveling and sightseeing are nowadays one of the most prestigious and profitable...

Ecolab Leadership Talent Pipeline

How it was instrumental The leadership talent pipeline as applied by Ecolab was instrumental in the company’s execution of its business strategy in a number of ways. First, the leadership talent pipeline enabled the company to identify the most important areas where personnel had to be trained in preparation for...

Public Relations in Organizations: Article Response

Introduction Hallahan, Holtzhausen, vanRuler, Vercic & Sriramesh (2007) explored the significance of strategic communication in fulfilling the mission of an organization. The authors indicated that communication directly affects all aspects of an organization including management, public relations, marketing, political communication, technical communication, and social marketing or information campaigns. Grunig (1990),...

Decisions of BP in 2010 Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

Introduction Good management is vital in any organization if it is to realize its set objectives. An ideal management system is characterized by good planning, organization, directing, staffing and controlling. If there is a failure in any of these components, an organization is bound to fail. This paper seeks to...

Wells Fargo Management Style

Wells Fargo management style is particularly a leadership system that is known to recognize self-drive, team play as well as great execution. Teamwork is very important in creating an environment of business success since it allows diversity of ideas. Wells Fargo believes in teamwork and self-motivation by all employees as...

Effective Communication in Business Administration

Introduction Communication in business has curved its own niche as an important tool used to drive the activities of a business. It is used to sell a product, publicize a business entity and pass information to both the internal and external elements of the business, among other uses. This report...

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...

Four Employees Stages in Career Development

Employees develop their knowledge, courage, and experiences through working within a profession. Essentially, the development of employees within their professions undergoes various forms of manipulations depending on the level of experiences. Researchers present four stages which employees undergo during their transformation in an organization (Noe, 2010). The four career stages...

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),...

Virgin Airlines: Introduction and Development of the Company

Virgin Atlantic is a British airline that is jointly owned by Richard Branson’s Virgin Group and Singapore Airlines. The control centre is in Crawley, West Sussex, in England. Randolph formed British Atlantic Airways once Laker Airways had collapsed in 1982. Field worked together with Alan Hellary a former chief pilot...

Work Structure Trade Shadow

Introduction LRH Products is planning to attend a major trade show event in Sacramento, CA. For attending this project, plan should be prepared. The project includes activities like updating the trade show display; re-stock the collaterals, giving new orders for the collaterals, transportation of the trade show materials, setting up...

Product, Branding, and Packaging Decisions

Summary The paper is focused on the concept of ultimate branding opportunity. In the first part, the complexity and types of products are discussed. Then, readers may learn information about the strategies that firms utilize to adjust their product lines with the purpose of responding to the changing market conditions....

Motivational Pros and Cons of Teams in Organization

Introduction Both group and individual motivation are concepts used by organizations to explain social dynamisms in an organization. In either case, motivation is the driving force that directs and maintains behavior on a particular path that its purposefully intended to draw specific results desired by the individual or the organization....

Competencies in Organizational Management of Health Program

Introduction Healthcare management is a dynamic profession in the United States considering that the field experiences new and demanding challenges each year. As a result, healthcare managers and leaders are under intense pressure to carry out a wide range of roles using limited resources (Garman et al., 2006, p. 360)....

Pizza: Marketing Communication and Strategy

Marketing Marketing by definition is the organizational activity that includes communicating and convincing potential and actual consumers of one’s goods to buy them, and finally delivering the goods to them. Various organizations and enterprises apply different marketing management strategies to help achieve its organizational goals and objectives. The very first...

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...

Role of Financial Institutions in Global Marketplace

The financial system is a multiple and complex concept. What makes it even more complicated is the fact that it should properly function worldwide. Since financial institutions provide the majority of financial services they are considered to be the core element of the global marketplace. The definition of financial institutions...

Factors Important For Looking for a New Job

Introduction Looking for a new job can be a difficult and frustrating task. One should pay attention to a lot of moments that influence the choice. Considering a new position is a time-consuming mission. Everyone must be sure that he or she has not wasted time for vain thinking. All...

Ma’s Family Restaurant: Analysis of Strengths and Weaknesses

Forty years ago, Ma started her restaurant on the route 7 in Millville, by the name of Ma’s Family Restaurant. Presently, the restaurant is run by her daughter, the general manager of the restaurant, Jane Stanley. The two sources of revenue for the restaurant are the dining room and the...

Renewable Energy Programs in Five Countries

Introduction Energy is one of the fundamental aspects of human life. Ranging from domestic to industrial use energy, it is in great demand. The unlimited demands for the energy has necessitated the innovative ideas to ensure that the supply is constant even in future. Several countries have devised mechanism to...

Mobile Commerce Adoption in Saudi Arabia

In the recent years, several developments have been experienced in the field of information and communication technology. One of the major developments has been in internet and web development field. Accordingly, the increasing mobile phones usage has opened up avenues for mobile commerce services across the globe in the recent...

Birch Point Lodge Firm’s Information System

Introduction A major step necessary for the initiation of IS development is in identifying the current needs of Birch Point Lodge (BPL). In that regard, a strategic problem analysis might be required, in which the needs and the objectives for the system will be established. The initiation of the project...

Stock Market: Fundamental and Technical Analysis

Introduction The economic recession of 2007 affected the operations of many companies and the interests of the public regarding investing in the stock market. The Federal Reserve of the United States adopted immediate measures to intervene and stop insolvency. However, the bond-buying program did swell not only the central bank’s...

Design for Testing and Specification Compliance

Abstract This paper discusses the design process of testing and specifications compliance. Testing and specifications compliance is an issue that any venture introducing a new product into the market has to observe. This paper investigates how these parameters and stipulations are designed. It also contains an outline of how entities...

How the Internet Reconditioned Business Thinking

Evolution of the internet The internet has first revolutionized our thinking and then has continued to force evolution upon us. The internet revolution came upon us very quickly. This speed was driven first through the development of computer languages: HyperText Markup Language (HTML), Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), Internet protocol suite...

Development of a Website for McDouglas Company

Introduction The project will involve development and finally hoisting of a website for McDouglas Company. Technological advance and enhanced professionalism allows static design and maintenance of websites. McDouglas website will not provide information about the company but will also act as its subsidiary marketing tool. It will provide updated information...

Military Leadership Characteristics in U.S.A

Effective military leadership depends on multiple performance capabilities of a person. One of the major characteristics that a military officer in the United States has is the ability to influence various people in various contexts (Ang & Chan, 2008). In the U.S. military, leaders in various categories influence others to...

Trader Joe’s Employees’ Emotions, Attitudes and Job Satisfaction

Introduction A business where there is a constant interaction between the customers and employees, the performance of the employees greatly influences a company’s general performance (Hoffman, & Bateson, 2010). Employee’s attitude towards their work influences how they perform. For example, the management should put more effort into ensuring that the...

When Outsourcing Goes Bad

Introduction The process of globalization has led to intensive networking of the globe. This has made it possible for shifting of capital as well as labour across boundaries to different regions around the earth. A very common practice which has emerged among the developed countries is the practice of outsourcing....

Organizational Policy Core Principles and Its Functions

From the learning course, I understand that business policy requires recognition and authority at the top decision-making level. Organizational programs must be carefully planned and based not merely on knowledge of internal corporate affairs, but also on knowledge of external environments. A homeostatic point of equilibrium between customer wants and...

An Organization’s Corporate Strategy

Introduction Comparative advantage is achieved when an organization has an edge over its competitors when attracting buyers. In business world, strategy is the creation of a unique and valuable position, where an organization can differentiate itself for the targeted customer and add value by an asset of activities different than...

Shinetsu Chemical Company: Organizational Culture

Introduction Organizational culture defines an institution, whether based on profit, the kind of products and /or services offered, their arrangement, goals, and employee behavior which sum up to create a feeling of culture in the organization. Most organizations in the world have different cultures, and this mostly depends on their...

Web Development Company: Organizational Processes

The organization which will be described in the context of this paper is a web development company. The services and the products typically provided by the company usually revolve around developing designing websites for customers and providing hosting and publishing services. The company consists of 3 office rooms in which...

Frontier Golf Simulator’s Market Analysis

Background Brian is a marketer and he is in charge of marketing and popularizing indoor golf simulators. The simulators are new trends that are currently emerging in the sport and their popularity is growing gradually. One of the main issues that pose a challenge to this new trend is 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...

Compensation and Benefits for Contingent Workers

The paper discusses the compensation and benefits issues associated with: Part-time workers For many years, there have been numerous benefit and compensation grievances that have been presented by part-time workers. Despite this group of workers being used by most of the employers, it has been identified that benefits given to...

S&P 1000 Company’s Competitive Advantage

Competition has gone global and the market and industry dynamics have necessitated the need for companies to make concerted efforts streamlined towards ensuring that high quality goods and services are offered in the market at competitive prices. The American business concept and model embraces the fact that improved marketing abilities...

Measuring Supply Chain Performance

Introduction According to Chopra, Sunil, and Meindl as cited in Hugos, “A supply chain is a network of facilities and distribution options that performs the functions of procurement of materials, the transformation of these materials into intermediate and finished products and the distribution of these finished products to the customers.”...

The Value of Diversity in a Workplace

Diversity is commonly defined as knowing, perceiving, tolerant, valuing, and celebrating variations between individuals with value to sexual category, rank, culture, age, bodily and intellectual capability, race, sexual orientation, religious practice, and civic support standing (Esty, et al., 1995). I write this piece principally to educate business owners and managers...

China’s International Entrepreneurship & Business

The nature of international entrepreneurship China represents a unique country geographically isolated from the rest of the world. Historically, it follows its own economic and political traditions and way of life. In response to the shifts in global production systems, China has amplified its search for policies that will secure...

Human Resource Management Aligned With Business Strategies

Introduction Ensuring the HR strategy is in alignment with the business strategy When formulating a strategic plan for businesses, managers or business owners sometimes leave out an essential aspect of these plans. Human resources are often not included during consultation in the planning process, but aligning HR with the business...

Media in Retail Business

Executive Summary The idea of interactive media is commonly applied in the marketing sector to arrest human intelligence through store imaging (Lievrouw and Livingstone 2002). Advertising products and services is a significant approach for businesses since it helps them create interest and awareness in what is being offered. According to...