Adapting Organizations to Today’s Markets

Today’s markets experience an accelerated pace of change which has brought about a shift in the nature of business organizations. Most firms have shunned the old hierarchical model, with its clean functional divisions and clear lines of authority, and adopted flatter, less bureaucratic structures. They encourage the concept of flexibility...

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...

Ethical & Organizational Climate at My Workplace

Introduction The paper shall look at the ethical climate within my current organization. Ethical climate has taken center stage in the corporate arena because it can be a source of competitive advantage, it makes the workplace environment more conducive for employees and the law requires that companies abide by certain...

Characteristics of a Learning Organization

Introduction A learning organization is a term used about a company that can transform its activities and mindsets as a result of experience. This enables them to retain the competitive advantage previously enjoyed. Organizational learning does not just entail individual learning; learning mainly occurs through the interaction of staff in...

Benefit Administration Strategies Definition

Introduction According to Becker & Gerhardt (1963), benefit administration strategies can be defined as the ways through which organizations can use to pay and reward their employee’s contributions to the organization’s success. These benefit administration strategies enable organizations to retain a superior workforce hence reducing high labor turnover. Sharing of...

Strategic Management: Definition and Value for Managers

Introduction Strategic management can be defined as either an art or science of business management strategy that helps to formulates, implement, and evaluate some specific decisions that prove very critical in reaching the organizational objectives (David, 2007). This definition, therefore, means that strategic management is a type of management inclined...

Industrial Relation and Employee Relations: Pay Offering

The way the relationship between and employer is structured you will find that at every one particular time there will be conflict. These conflicts arise from the fact that the employers will want some work done as a consideration of the pay he/ she is offering. On the other hand...

Moller Skycar’s Marketing Mix: Promotion

Promotion for Mollar Sky cars Promotion is an important component of the marketing strategy, specifically, so far it relates to the marketing mix. The marketing mix consists of 4 Ps and promotion is a very vital element, which can be considered second to the product. The elements of the promotion...

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...

Remuneration Issues in the Organization: CEO Compensation

The current economic crisis has brought numerous discrepancies in the way the world economies are run. Apart from exposing the weaknesses inherent in the systems issues of remuneration have hit the headlines hard. The financial institutions that triggered the credit crisis were the same firms offering some of the highest...

Kudler Fine Foods Company’s Environmental Scan

Introduction Efforts to survive and smoke away competition have compelled companies to analyze both internal and external environments that have the capacity to change the culture of an organization. Kudler fine foods has been left out of the bracket. This paper seeks at examining the both internal and external environments...

Pivotal Group and Sterling Chemicals, Inc.: Acquisition Strategy

Pivotal Group Acquisition Pivotal Group is an investment company based in Phoenix. The company deals in private equity and real estate investment portfolios. Some of the company’s major real estate investments are its hotels, which are in the category of luxury investments; office properties; and community development properties. For example,...

Organizational Design in the Hotels

Hotel Organization Structures In a limited-service hotel, the front desk department includes reservations, the front office, housekeeping, and telephone or PBX (Organizational Structure, pg 4). All the departments that exist operate under the general manager to achieve their responsibilities as part of the management of the business. In this type...

Innovation in Operation Management – Personal Experience

Introduction Most companies face challenges like deregulation, e-commerce exertion of pressures on the profits made by the company and also globalization. For companies to overcome these problems in their phases, they must put in place some innovative strategies like differentiating their products or services from those of the competition to...

Leadership Effectiveness and Communication Styles

Leadership is a complex phenomenon that can manifest in a variety of ways and manners. Leadership styles differ in accordance with the personalities and characters of people who apply and practice them. There exist several leadership theories that describe respective leadership styles used in practice. The purpose of this paper...

Job Analysis, Descriptions and Specifications

The greatest objective of any company department is to have its workers working at their optimal levels and working on their respective right tasks properly. This can only be guaranteed to an appreciable level when there is a comprehensive detailed job description for all the employees. Job descriptions serve the...

Alternative Energy Industry’s Competition Dynamics

Introduction There are many competitors in the Alternative Energy Industry; some of them include BP Alternative energy, Exxon, Mobil and Conoco Phillips. These competitors derive their energy from sources such as biofuel, sunlight, heat, wind, rain, tides and hydrogen. However it should be noted that competition in the industry is...

Country of Origin Effects on the Consumer Decisions

Introduction The consumer decisions into whether to buy or not to buy a certain product are influenced by the products’ Country of Origin (COO). Researches have been conducted relating to country image perceptions as well as perceptions of consumers in different countries on products made in different countries (Fan, 2008)....

Canada Entry Strategy Into a Chinese Foreign Market

Introduction Entering into foreign markets has numerous challenges for new firms. In this case, the organization is based in Canada and plans on exporting Canola oil to China. There are several challenges ahead for this organization; questions like ‘what kind of market will be pursued?’, ‘what marketing infrastructure should be...

Classic Airlines and Marketing

Introduction According to Belobaba (1999, p.14) a look at the airline industry shows that Classic airlines is the world’s fifth largest airline. It has been facing some problems because of the tough market conditions in the airline industry (Golbe, 1986, p.3). Marketing The company has a fleet of more than...

Urban Outfitters Continuing: Creating a Business

Introduction Starting up a business can be a daunting task involving numerous steps while setting up. Moreover, just as is the case with any upcoming venture, success cannot immediately be guaranteed thus an individual needs to have the skill and knowledge of how he/she can reduce tricky elements involved in...

PeopleSoft Software and HR.net Enterprise Software

Thesis Statement The Discussion on this paper generally focuses on Oracle’s PeopleSoft software and HR.net Enterprise HRIS software and all aspects that revolve around the two. Introduction The Human Resource Information System (HRIS) can be defined as an online solution meant to cater for the data entry, tracking, as well...

Decision Building in Paradise Business Scenario

Introduction Decision building in Paradise Business Scenario is very essentials to its success. It also plays a vital role in Radiology Imaging Industry with the intention of concerning various instruments and knowledge that will help to create the most appropriate resolution for the Paradise Business move; live in the Kava...

Four Stages of Marketing Internationalization

Introduction In the search for a greater and vast market, many companies globally decide to take their products to the international market. The need to reach out to the international market more often than not is faced with hitches and challenges one of which is the mode of entry into...

Global Business: Current Business Environment

Introduction The current business environment has become globally competitive forcing all the businesses that seek to survive an obligation to be strategic in management of their corporate affairs. Making huge sales and maximizing profits remains a high target for all companies regardless of whether they are operating domestically or globally....

Lesson and Recommendations After British Airways Strike

Introduction Profitability is possible if the management protects the Company’s brand image while maintaining a good relationship with the workers. British Airways suffered major losses from the wild cat strike due to poor leadership that embittered the workers. Their loyalty and service to the BA were down-graded and treated unfairly...

Personal Leadership Style: Supportive Style

Many people mix up the concepts of Leadership and Management with each other. Leadership and Management are not the same things. Leadership comes from within the person; whereas, management does not. Leadership is not just all about managing people, tasks, or resources; it is much more than that. A good...

Managing in a Multicultural Context

Introduction In today’s world, the workplace is the major meeting place of different people with different personalities, values, cultures, and generally different ways of life. Because of this situation, a workplace has different challenges that the company’s management must handle with caution to achieve a balanced ground and a suitable...

Governing Business Activity: Small and Big Firms Relationship

Introduction A small firm is a company that has less than 50 employees and having an annual turn over of 5.6 million Euros or less. A small firm is also characterized by current assets whose total is fixed on its balance sheet of 2.8 million Euros or less and usually...

JM Smuckers Company: Strategic Implementation

Executive Summary JM Smuckers is a public limited company which was established in 1897 within the United States Sauces and Condiments industry. The organization is keen on implementing a strategy that will help it increase revenue and expand its market. This strategy will include the introduction of such diverse consumer...

Web-Based Prototype of the E-Business Activity

The prototype of the e-business activity will be based on the principles of caring and communicating with customers via e-mail or any other electronic communication tool. The services and products, which are sold are associated with design, art, and hand-made exclusive postcards. The designed pictures, styles, or themes for the...

The Role of Environmental Management in Company

Caty behaved unethically because she decided to continue using the fertilizer said to contain environmentally unfriendly components so as to maintain the status quo in terms of finances. She made the decision based on the view that her annual bonus would decrease should the resort adjust to use the expensive...

Business Communication Trends in Organizations

The major goal of any form of business communication is to attain the various goals of any organization. The parties involved in business communications are both internal and external; with the external parties being referred to as external audiences and the internal parties being referred to as internal audiences. Internal...

Business Ethics of Concealing Facts in Report

The presented ethical issue revolves around Shari Lewis’s decision to edit a student’s report. This move has been made to conceal Laurentian Mining Limited’s capabilities and operations. The current situation indicates that the company has an ore body that is yet to be made public. Shari Lewis has removed the...

Decline in General Motors of 2007

Introduction The year 2007 to the present time has been a bad business period for most companies. In motor industry, General Motors have had a bad experience in most of their markets. The period, 2007 to the present time have seen General Motor sales decline consistently. General Motors internal production...

Gap Analysis: Global Communications

Situation Analysis Issue and Opportunity Identification The issues and the opportunities which are discussed in the table take their origin in the increase of the Global Communication market. It is necessary to emphasize that this market has reached the peak of its development and it is almost impossible to offer...

Computer Systems: Insourcing and Outsourcing

The purchase of a new software package is important to an organization for efficient operations. Such a decision should never be taken lightly and the organization should exhibit strong leadership skills and a clear understanding of the needs of the company or the organization. The new system should be able...

Economy Warm-up and Supply Chain

Introduction Supply chain management forms one of the most important components of the management of any one organization. However, just like any other part of organizational management, it is greatly faced with the risk of the changing business environment particularly the PESTEL environment. Specifically, the oscillations of the general economic...

Coffee Firm: Environmental and Social Issues

Introduction Environmental and social issues have become a major business challenge. Since there is interdependency between business and environment, it’s important that care is taken to determine the effect of the relationship. Business depends on the environment, i.e., drawing a large number of natural resources but putting back nothing. Some...

Level 5 Manufacturing: Pros and Cons of the Mode

Level 5 manufacturing entails the assembly of a desktop PC assembly, floppy disc, and fan. This mode has many disadvantages and disadvantages that are discussed here. First of all, the motherboard and chassis are built separately by contract manufacturers outside the United States. The chassis and motherboard are then separately...

Club IT: Modern Club Specifics

Introduction Any modern club, even without the consideration of specific services and specialized directions in club’s operations, represents a complex system of functional links. The congruence in the work of such links can be seen as directly related to the success of such venue’s existence. In that regard, gaining a...

Physical Privacy at Work: Discussion

Introduction Currently, a great number of the corporate society is undertaking drug test on their employees. In some industries drug testing is carried out as a pre-condition for employment consideration, while in others random drug test is carried out on employees to prove their innocence (Schramm, 2005). This practice has...

Zain Company: Marketing Strategy

Zain Company is the biggest telecommunication network in the company that has proved its success for nearly two decades of presence on the world arena. In the course of time, the network has managed to create the customer’s demand and keep a large market segment despite a vigorous competition perceived...

Project Team: Definition, Principles of Function and Possible Conflicts

Introduction Project team creation means forming a group of people or a group of teams working together to achieve a common goal. Many reputed organizations build a good project team. Every organization must be doing many projects like launching a new product, opening a new branch, opening a new company,...

Human Resource Management: Employee Performance Report

Vice President Marketing Zenon Marketing Subject: Employee Performance Report Sir, Please find attached the detailed report regarding the concerns related to one of our staff, Bill Smith. His performance and behavior have been recorded for the past seven months since he was employed. The concerns of the department make it...

Strategic Analysis of Google

An Introduction to Google Google was founded in 1998 by couple of students from Stanford University. Like many other businesses, a need of an efficient search engine was felt and there was a gap in the market which lead to the foundation of Google. Initially the company started as a...

Organizational Problems: Stress and Burnout of Employees

Stress and burnout are the major causes of employee-related problems in organizations. Stress is defined as happenings that cause anxiety, discomfort, and tension. Stress not only affects the performance of employees in the workplace but also affects their personal lives negatively. Stress responses refer to the physiological and behavioral effects...

Improving Workplace Learning for the Bank Tellers

Standard chartered bank is the bank that I have been working for the last two years. The bank is located in Kenya and offers a wide range of products and financial services to many customers both local and international. The services offered include international money transfers, Accounts, loans, foreign exchange,...

Compensation and Pay Plans Explained

Whatever the size or nature of the National Lewis and Clark Corporation, having a skilled and motivated team is very important for the future success of the company. Having and finding the right employees in this organization can lead to an enhancement of team work, lower worker turnover, and business...

Risk Management In Offshore Oil And Gas Production

Introduction The accidents which have happened in the past have necessitated safety and risk management systems in the offshore gas and oil industry. An example is the sinking of the drilling rig known as Ocean Ranger in Canada in the 1980s and the Piper Alpha fire explosion incidence. In order...

Acer Group’s R&D Strategy: The China Decision

Introduction Acer group R&D is a Chinese technological company that mainly deals in the manufacture and supply of electronic devices used in communication. The information and technology industry has been the world’s most growing industry considering the various developments that are being done in the field. Acer group was established...

Leadership and Management: Discrimination in the Workplace

Introduction On several occasions, leaders and managers have to deal with various challenges and opportunities in the workplace. Leaders who recognize opportunity in the challenges they face are more likely to be successfully and effective in diverse working environments. Widespread discrimination in the workplace is one of the challenges that...

The Ethical Issues of Western Bank and Trust and Bobby’s Bagels Managers

The ethical issues in business and accounting play a crucial role in the company’s developing and acquiring the status of the influential and reliable enterprise. In this paper I am going to examine ethical issues in two companies: Western Bank and Trust and Bobby’s Bagel. As far as the case...

What Qualities Should a Leader Have?

Outline This journal project discusses about different qualities of a leader like creativity, credibility, and the ability to handle conflicts in an organization. For the success of any organization it needs a good leadership. A good leader should have the ability to communicate with his followers and understand their feelings...

The Salaries of Different Jobs

Among the different jobs like accountant, financial analyst, product manager, and stockbroker, the product managers are paid more and the stockbrokers are paid less. These professionals get the expected salary. Basically, the salary for each job is based upon the employee’s performance, output, designation, etc. The product manager gets good...

Shin-Etsu Chemical Co: Company Analysis

Treating the organizational setting and its leadership challenges as a unidimensional system based on differing levels of hierarchical or functional responsibility does not reflect the divergence of leadership behaviors that exist or the skills needed to demonstrate potential for new environments. Cycle time, life stage, and cultural conditions warrant examining...

Business Leadership Communication: Effective Leadership Styles

Vince Lombardi states that “leaders aren’t born, they are made”, which makes it crucial for mangers to understand the importance of effective leadership in team building and communication. While it is an accepted fact that efficient leaders motivate their teams to deliver results, it is also extremely essential to understand...

Leader’s Ability and Skills

Introduction Leadership is the important factor of any leader or manager. The success and failure of an organization depends upon the leader’s ability and skills. Every leader has to manage and direct the people’s working schedule. A leader can motivate and evaluate his subordinates. He can find the major organizational...

Ways in Which Multinationals From Mainland China Have Imitated the Strategies and Operations of Japanese Companies

By the time globalization gained momentum, Japanese companies were the leading multinationals in industries, such as electronics, computers, automobiles, and others. This was as a result of competitive strategic operations they had implemented that enabled them to cut the cost of production and maximize their revenues. This enviable growth made...

Strategies for Managing the Virtual Organizations

Introduction A virtual organization can be defined as an organization with a collection of a number of organizations. These several organizations are bound by an agreement to become members of the virtual organization. These set of organizations are generally legally distinct entities and when under the umbrella of the virtual...

Bims Inc.: Case Study. Employee Motivation

Introduction When you carefully look on the questionnaire of the survey carried out by your company it’s pretty clear as to where the problem lies. It’s a clear case that the employees are lacking motivation, that is to say the morale of the employees is down. When you look at...

Expert Systems in Work Environment

Introduction An expert system is a computer program that is designed to help in solving problems using the knowledge of an expert in a given field. The program simulates the behavior and judgment of an individual or an organization using the expert knowledge and experience that is used in writing...

Ryanair and Monsanto: Case Study

Ryanair and Monsanto are two companies that face the issues of motivation and decrease in sales. A research on the issue of these two companies is given below. Ryanair Airlines Cultural Synergy Strategies used by Ryanair Ryanair is a frill airline company of Europe. At the initial stage Ryanair had...

Business Analysis and Decision Making in Company

Introduction A stakeholder of a product is any group or an individual who are affected by the activities or goals of the product either directly or indirectly. For the product to achieve its goals/objectives, it must have a good relationship with its stakeholders. This is because their interests to the...

KOLO: Reflective and Inquiry Project

The study under consideration aims at applying the reflective practice to a procurement management problem that KOLO, and the Australian-Polish joint venture is currently facing. The problem consists in changing the system of supply due to the rapid development of technologies which entailed a frequent use of Internet marketing and...

Is Wal-Mart One of the Most Aggressive Retailers?

Wal-Mart is one of the most aggressive retailers opening hundreds of new stores during 1990s. You, probably, do not know that Wal-Mart positions itself as a wholesaler, catering to the professional trade rather than as a retailer selling to final consumers. Do not sleep and be alive! Wal-Mart is a...

Organizational Diversity: Term Definition

Introduction This article by Jackson, et.al focuses on the term ‘diversity’, and the kinds of researches that have been carried out to see the effects of workplace diversity on teams and organizations. Diversity in this context has been used as a term that describes the personal attributes of people who...

How Tesco a Leading Food Retailer Globally

Introduction An organization is a unit with a set ideologies and practices that are geared towards producing practical results. These sets of ideologies and practices work through strategies that are aimed at helping the organization to achieve its visions and missions. Organizational performance is the measure of the successes and...

Customer Relationship Management: Business Relations

The world of high technologies and wider approaches and opportunities in comparison with previous times as many points to be admitted in the contemporary management buzz. This concerns the points of information provision for partners, suppliers, and customers, of course. This prospect underlines the fact of modern reality that information...

Red Bull Energy Drink: Marketing Plan Analysis

Executive summary The marketing plan entails an analysis of the competitive advantages of the major players in the soft drink industry. These include Coca-Cola Company, PepsiCo, and Gatorade Company. A comparison of the competitive advantage with Red Bull GmbH is conducted. The plan also includes an illustration of red bull...

John Mackey: Organizational Behavior

The emotional intelligence of Mackey Mackey’s behavior towards the employees customers and the stakeholders can depict the level of his emotional intelligence. On the part of employees, he presents himself to be in support of them yet he does not want them to be involved in trade unions because he...

What a Leader Needs?

Outline This is a Journal Project on Leadership focusing on the leadership traits and skills. Today, we are living in a world were fierce competition is the order of the day in business circles. In this situation, only leaders who are having good leadership traits and skills can survive. The...

Evaluating the Performance of a Job

Introduction To perform is a term used to refer to an act of carrying out a duty or procedure while to evaluate is a term used in reference to gauge how the duty or procedure was carried out. In essence, the performance precedes the evaluation. Most jobs have an evaluation...

Wendy’s: Analysis of Building Marketing

Wendy’s in an international fast food restaurant chain and claims to be much better than other fast food places. The commercial shows that even in the height of recession, Wendy’s provide 3 varieties of economical burgers at less than a $1 apiece. The commercial was created by Wendy’s for selected...

Managing Organizational Change and Organizational Development

Organizational change can be defined as the process of “Leading people on a different path than what they are accustomed to.” (Definition of organizational change 2009). It is essential to have changes in any organization, but it is more important to have a successful change. The change becomes successful when...

Pepsi: Principles of Supply Chain Management

Introduction To begin with, it should be stated that Supply Chain Management is one of the most crucial factors, required for successful business development. The fact is that these principles are generally intended for improving the cooperation practices with the suppliers and consumers of the company’s product or services. The...

The Effects of Affirmative Action in the Present Day

Introduction Today, the problem of affirmative action is neglected by many organizations and considered an old-fashioned issue. Modern companies prefer to introduce social corporate responsibility policies and ethical rules including equal opportunities and equal treatment norms. I am interested in the topic of affirmative action because of personal concerns and...

Solutions for Dysfunctional Companies

A dysfunctional company is a fast-growing company but its existence into the future is not guaranteed. It often develops bad politics internally, breakdown of communication, bad management, lack of commitment, and also there is no collaboration when working. There is low productivity and the company is often in crisis. What...

Marketing Tactics: Wal-Mart and Winco Food Companies

Introduction To begin with, it should be stated that the issues of branding are generally regarded as one of the most important and crucial issues of marketing and advertising, as the brand name and logo of any company are regarded to be the face of production or services, which the...

E-Tailing: Purpose and Characteristics

Introduction E-tailing refers to the commercial transacting of goods and services through the World Wide Web (www). In real terms, e-tailing could envisage transactions relating to B2B (business to business) and also B2C (business to consumers) transactions. The main question that confronts most people is whether internet business would displace,...

Masco Corporation: Internal Company Analysis

Abstract Many elements can influence the corporation’s conduct in the world of business nowadays, particularly when the matter relates to market forces and competitive advantage. This paper discusses the case study of Masco Corporation with in-depth recommendations. Conclusion is provided to summarize the paper’s details and a reference list is...

The Sales Training Program: Main Aspects

There are several reasons why the STP should not be stopped. The most important ones we have described in the powerpoint presentation. Here we will just summarize and make a short critique of them. This program has not only had positive financial benefits for the company but also positive psychological...

Southwest Airlines: The Company Analysis

Strategic Issue What is the issue? Southwest Airlines is the American airline company known as one of the most low-cost airlines in the country. It is the largest company in the United States which carries the biggest number of passengers per year domestically. “Southwest Airlines has been profitable every year...

Organizational Design Research Worksheet

The purpose of this research is to identify different organizational designs within different organizations. You will do this by looking at different company’s organizational designs and structures and how that design and structure helps the organization to achieve its business objectives. Instruction In the Response row, each team member must...

Data Collection Methods in Business Analysis

Data collection is a very important task for business starting a new venture or deciding to startup a new approach to its strategy. This paper will cover the methodologies that companies can use to collect data and where these tools will be ideally suited. Methods Data can be collected from...

Hazza Organization’s Ethical Climate

Hazza’s culture at work The major aspect of building an ethical organization is its ethical codes. It is expected from every members of the organization, Hazza, to show commitment towards these codes with the conduct of a professional. This is the fundamental issue for any machinery to perform properly with...

Design the Perfect Leadership Development Experience for Yourself

Hiring well-rounded outside consultant personalities and agencies for consultancy functions in leadership skills could provide a whiff of fresh air into the organization and also allow management leaders to think effectively, from a fresh perspective, which surprisingly, could also aid in solving current issues besieging leadership. This is because most...

My Career in Marketing Management

Introduction Marketing is a practice done by individuals, institutions, and managerial entrepreneurs to manufacture and correspond to buyers who might be customers or dealers. The whole process ensures organizations offer and takes commodities and services to and from their partners, clients, customers, or the whole society nationally and internationally. Marketing...

EBay on Communication and Media

Introduction E-Bay refers to a method of online auction and shopping where businesses and individuals can sell and buy goods from a website. This idea was first discovered in America by French-born Iranians in the early nineties. In the modern world of technology, e bay has contributed to the largest...

Karl-Erik Sveiby: KM Today and Tomorrow

Karl-Erik Sveiby is world-renowned as he is one of the founding fathers of Knowledge Management. With over 20 years of experience, he is credited with the development of most of the concepts associated with knowledge management today. According to Liebowitz, Knowledge Management (KM) is the systematic and explicit application of...

INTEC: Strategic Skills Analysis and Pay Equity

Relationships among KSAs (knowledge, skills, and abilities), job analysis, organizational strategy, and HR activities An organization will have a strategy in place to achieve its desired goals. Most organizations have the desire to expand their businesses such as in the company INTEC a subsidiary of a construction and engineering company...

Effective Leadership: Leadership Qualities

Outline This integration paper is a brief analysis of the topics discussed in the entire week activities. In the entire week, three related topics on leadership are discussed. It includes leadership traits, leadership and management and leadership requirements. The importance or value of these topics in my personal and professional...

Leadership Skills in Production of the Journal

Each of the following members of the leadership of the SMB has got a unique way of exercising their leadership skills lets evaluate each leader and the kind of traits they contain. The Faculty contains members that are in the category: Writing Director, Rep. Marketing/Com and Faculty-at-Large, they are elected...

Communication in Agilent Technologies While Layoffs

The way in which managers communicate change is very crucial to the success of a changed program in any organization. The communication style which the company decides to use should ensure that their staffs appropriately understand what will happen and why it should happen. They should also be in a...

J. M. Smucker Company: External Environment Analysis

Executive summary External environment analysis helps identify the opportunities and threats prevailing outside the organization. The company J. M. Smucker is headquartered in Ohio, in North America; it was established in 1897. It is a globally known company that manufactures and distributes food products mainly related to desert items, spreads...

IDC Top 10 Predictions

Forecast for the development of the market for the coming year is usually done “in the form of predictions about market processes.” (Rosenberg, 2007) Predictions for the functioning of different markets are, as a rule, made for the entrepreneurs to anticipate the possible decline or boost of the market. To...

ComInTec Case Analysis: International Staff Recruitment and Selection

Introduction The case of ComInTec demonstrates that multinational companies need effective selection and recruitment strategies based on cultural and cross-cultural principles. The process of international staff recruitment and selection can be described as something rather complex in its nature. Staff recruitment hampers people from integrating into the organization. The same...

Mandatory Job Drug Test Should Be Allowed

Statistics show that close to ten percent of employees in all organizations are drug users. Drugs pose a great threat to the professional productivity of addicted workers. Drug addiction leads to improper performance of the duties for which the employee is hired. By introducing drug tests before and during employment,...

Competition in the Australian Food Industry: Case Analysis

Industry Background The food industry in Australia is divided into several sectors among which the sphere of healthy food is the dominant one. The leaders of this market area are the international companies Weight Watchers and Paradise Food Industries (Weight Watchers Company, 2009; Paradise Food Industries, 2009). The products of...

Marketing Strategy for a Greeting Card Company

Executive Summary Shomai Cards is a greetings card company that also deals in minor gift items and operates from Japan. It is currently planning to reach foreign markets including the UK, the US, and South Africa. However, the focus of this study would concentrate on the domestic markets only. This...

Crone V. United Parcel Service, Inc. (UPS)

Crone Vs United Parcel Service, Inc. (UPS) is a case involving one of the workers, Sarah Crone, and the company with which she was working, UPS. She accused the Department Manager, Mr. Ray Whitaker of not promoting her for a managerial position while she deemed herself suitable for the position...

Design, Self, and Society: Concept of Advertising

The lifetime of the manufactures’ brand largely depends on the advertizing campaigns and the techniques applied in it. Certainly, most buyers are likely to purchase the product because of the famous brand but because of the product itself. Getting back to the nineteenth century, advertising industry was initially meant as...

Global Logistics and Risk Management in Organizations

Introduction Global logistics, as the name well suggests, is a short form of global supply chain, which allows companies to expand beyond their domestic markets. Often considered as an extension of the domestic supply chain, global logistics work in accordance to a certain set principles, which in turn, govern and...

Value Chain Management: Inventory Management

Introduction Today, business operations have become too complex. Everyday there are new changes in methods of operation and management. The interrelationship between competition, consumers and convergence in business has resulted to great challenges in business management across the world. The level of sensitivity of the economy to external environment together...

“Organizational Change as a Process of Death, Dying, and Rebirth” by Zell

In the article “Organizational Change as a Process of Death, Dying, and Rebirth” (2003) by Deone Zell, the author presents and discusses the results of a study on the resistance to organizational change in professional bureaucracies. The study was conducted in the physics department of a public research university, in...

Marketing a Whitewater Center

Today, everyone is busy with their day-to-day life. People always lookout for a change from their mechanical life. The importance of leisure and recreation comes here. People treat recreation as a part of their busy life. Depending on the income level, people decide the types of recreation they should go...

Project Scheduling Tools Review

Introduction Project scheduling is the process of identifying the various tasks in a project and organizing it in a sequential order in order to ensure timely completion of the particular project. Thus scheduling should be done with an aim to achieve the objective of the project. Since the scheduling helps...

Apple Incorporation: Business Strategy Analysis

Introduction Apple Inc. is a company that specialized in the production of high technology consumer electronics, computers, and software. Established in the United States in 1976 the company essentially increased its sales only during the last ten years. Among the products of the company, almost every consumer in the world...

Sustainability in International Business Operations

The aspect of sustainability is a major factor in determining the success of a business enterprise; it determines the ability of a business enterprise to develop intelligence measures which can be used in the analysis of opportunities and threats likely to affect the operations of the business. The aspects related...

Tetrad Effects of eBay

Introduction eBay has been one of the front runners when it comes to e-commerce and web-based businesses systems. The company launched itself in the 90s in the face of the dot com growth and the unique online auction-based business formula triggered the success of the company enabling it to survive...

Coca-Cola’s Marketing Strategy and Product Success

The Coca Cola Company has been in place since the 1800s. It has been one of the most dynamic and growing companies of the modern business world with a brand name that is highly valued and recognized in most parts of the globe. The Coca Cola Company sported a product...

Effective Public Relations in the Fashion Industry

Public relations play a crucial role in the modern world because they have a great impact on the perceptions and attitudes of potential buyers. Public relations perform the necessary functions of informing and persuading, which are both complementary and conflicting. Consumers want it to guide their consumption decisions in an...

Southern Comfort Company’s Promotion Strategies

Introduction The southern comfort company is a liquor company. As such, the company is restricted in the way it advertises its products. In T.V. advertisements, for example, the company and others like it are only allowed airtime at night hours to do their promotion. All these rules are founded on...

Procter & Gamble: Annual Report Analyzing

Introduction Procter & Gamble provides a wide array of personal products to customers by its focus on providing branded consumer goods. By selling its products in over 180 countries around the world via primarily many means like the mass merchandisers, grocery stores, membership club stores, drug stores and in high-frequency...

Buyer Behavior in the Wine Industry

The buyer behavior entails the processes through which buyers go through when purchasing and using goods and services. Buyer refers to consumers, agents, or dealers. The buyer’s both personal and psychological characteristics are among the major factors that influence consumer buying behavior. Some of the buyer’s personal characteristics include age,...

A Journal Project on Leadership

Outline This is a journal project on leadership focusing on the situation and its change, interaction by the leader with others, and behavior of the leaders, and the need for changing the behavior as and when required. To deal with different managerial situations where crucial decisions are required, the leaders...

Southwest Airlines’ and Semco’s Organisational Structures

This paper will deal with issues related to organisational structures using examples of two companies Southwest Airlines and Semco to identify what makes these companies different in their structure and how it contributes to their effectiveness and better performance. Southwest Airlines Southwest Airlines was established as a low cost airline...

Wal-Mart’s Potential for Investment and Profitability

Criteria The main purpose of this project is to analyze and identify Wal-Mart’s potential for investment and profitability. It has to be noted that when all other businesses were reeling under the weight of recession, it was, in reality, Wal-Mart, which could withstand economic fluctuations and emerge as a leader...

Reducing Cultural Blindness and Advantages of Cultural Diversity

The culture of a populace is a significant factor, which is always aimed at being kept alive, no matter where on the globe a person is located. With the world becoming a smaller place, it seems there are no cultures that are specifically pertaining to various localities, rather, every culture...

Sarbanes Oxley: Issues and Moral Dilemmas

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act, also known as Sarbox or SOX, is a mandatory US federal law that was passed in July 2002 to curtail rampant cases of corporate and accounting fraud. Before its introduction, high-level scandals and irregular dealings involving huge public organizations such as Enron, Peregrine Systems, Tyco, and WorldCom,...

Theorists with Similar Management Styles

Abstract This paper illustrates theorist that have the same management styles and that is Kurt Lewin and Peter Ferdinand Drucker, it also analysis their background and reflect how this backgrounds influenced on the management styles. Management refers to control, governing or supervising either individuals or properties and there are various...

Flexibility in the Interaction, Behavior, and Personality of the Leaders

Outline This is an essay on leadership focusing on the flexibility quality of the leaders. Whether the leaders can change their behavior, way of interaction, and their personality, are explained in this essay. The leaders have to deal with different situations. So they are supposed to be flexible enough to...

Human Resource Management: Interview With Job Analyst

Introduction: Job evaluation system is considered to be a systematic process aimed at identification of jobs roles and size within one organization for the purpose of internal relativities’ establishment and grading structures providing. It is important to stress that job evaluation is used for the purpose of regular raises, talented...

“The Microsoft Case: Antitrust, High Technology, and Consumer Welfare”

Analyzing cases of monopolization, the first company that comes to mind is Microsoft. The Microsoft case is unique in several aspects, the most important of which is making a precedent in issues of the high technology market. The book “The Microsoft case: antitrust, high technology, and consumer welfare” by William...

Media Utilization: Case of Eureka! Company

Mini Case 1 Given the company dealing with the telephone and Internet-based operations, Eureka!, the list of desired equipment for its new office cannot be limited by either analog or digital data transmission systems as computer and telephone operations demand both speed of activities and best possible technique of reducing...

The Organization of Petroleum Producing Countries Cartel

Outline This essay aims to explain the workings of the OPEC cartel and its activities in the past year. The essay first provides a basic definition of what a cartel is and then gives a short description of the constituent members of the OPEC cartel. The essay then explains the...

Woolworths, Australia: Organizational Change Management

Introduction Change is a human enterprise, the how and why of things consists of change in general. Change management is the set of procedures that are useful in the implementation of the valuable resources like the people, team and the organization to reap the fruits of success. The change process...

How Workers and Managers Can Reshape Organizational Culture

The formation and growth of companies around the globe mainly depend on organizational culture. Organizational culture is an asset to an organization. Much has been written about organizational culture in the past years. This interest had widely grown by acknowledgment of the fact that an organization’s culture could notably control...

Training Program Adopted by Hilton International

Introduction According Atkinson (2000, p.6), human resource management is “a distinctive approach to employment management which seeks to achieve competitive advantage through the strategic deployment of a highly committed and capable workforce, using an integrated array of cultural, structural and personal technique” The hospitality industry is one of the most...

Measurable Factors of Success of Ceo Jim Cantalupo

Leadership is an important factor that is essential to successful organizations. This is a case study of the turnaround of McDonald’s Corporation after Jim Cantalupo took charge as CEO. It will also provide a competency model for an ideal CEO candidate for the corporation. It will also look at the...

The Use of Human Resource Management Systems

Introduction The main function of human resource management or human resource management departments is administrative and usually common to all organizations. Institutions may be having formalized evaluation, selection, and pay role processes. Effective and efficient management of human capital has been the major topic of concern because it is the...

Organizational Behavior and Motivation Scheme of an Employee

The subject of the present study is the way organizational behavior is influenced by the issue of payment and what role payment plays in the whole motivation scheme of an employee. The question is discussed on the example of the company Norsk Petroleum that faced a problem of mass resignations....

Club IT Firm’s Strategy for Competitive Advantage

Introduction The managers and owners of Club IT, Lisa and Reuben have just renovated the interior of the nightclub. However, Lisa and Reuben have been faced with the challenge of managing the information of Club IT. As an intern at Club IT, I have been hired to implement the strategy...

The History of Six Sigma

History of the Six Sigma Six Sigma refers to a management system. The evolution of the Six sigma as a quality management system has its roots in the Europe’s eighteenth century industrial era. The normal curve metric, a concept put forward by Gauss formed the basis of the idea. The...

Business Markets and Consumer Markets

The business market consists of all the companies that purchase goods and services to reproduce them or generate other products or services that are sold, rented, or distributed to others. On the other hand, consumer markets are directed towards individuals and households. In light of this, business markets require separate...

The Role of Intel Networks in Development of the Indian IT Market

Introduction The world of business is currently greatly affected by the processes of globalization, trade liberalization, and integration of the countries’ markets. Drawing from this, business companies implementing the international developmental strategies at much larger scopes than it could be observed yet two decades ago. One of the tools in...

S.W.O.T. Analysis on Sainsbury

Introduction Sainsbury’s began in 1869 as a small diary shop by John James and his wife Mary Ann Sainsbury. Today, after Tesco and ASDA, Sainsbury’s is the third-largest name amongst the supermarket chains in the United Kingdom with its headquarter at Holborn (Wright, McCrea, and Sainsbury’s, 2007). This S.W.O.T. analysis...

Marketing Definitions and Examples of Experiences

Definitions of marketing Marketing can be defined as “the process via which a firm creates a value for its chosen customers. Value is created by meeting customer needs. Thus, a firm must define itself not by the products it sell, but by the customer benefit provided.” (Silk, 2006; p. 3)....

Marketing Segmentation and Positioning Report

Introduction Marketing communication strategies within various companies are generally regarded as the key of marketing success and communication with the target audience. The project proposal is aimed at analyzing the two companies with various specifications and approaches towards marketing positioning, nevertheless, they use similar principles of marketing communication. Proposal The...

Entrepreneurship Culture and Entrepreneurship Climate Analysis

Introduction Entrepreneurship climate largely determines how an organization is revitalized from time to time. New ideas need to be incorporated to the management of companies and organizations because the world is very dynamic. Entrepreneurship refers to the ability to organize, undertake and manage ventures that are productive by taking risks...

Australian Insurance Market Segment Analysis

Executive summary In the marketing of goods and services market segmentation is a useful tool that helps divide the market into different subsets. This in turn allows the service provider to identify one or more segments for the focus of the marketing effort to derive maximum benefit for the business....

TNT Express Company’s Supply Chain Management Components

As any company that operates in the sphere of transportation and logistics, TNT Express has to pay special attention to the development of supply chain management; in particular, its management has to concentrate on such aspects as planning and control, work processes, and organizational structure. It should also be taken...

Motivation at Norsk Petroleum

Introduction Norsk Petroleum, a leading gas, and petroleum company pay special attention to motivation and organizational culture, job satisfaction high productivity. The case suggests that some employees feel a lack of motivation and about work trying to find another occupation to develop their skills and improve their life. These problems...

Financial Performance Appraisal Ford Motor Company

Introduction Ford Motor Company is the fourth largest car and truck manufacturer in the world in terms of sales. Although the firm has had financial difficulties in the past, the management has implemented various strategies to ensure that the company stays afloat in the current difficult economic environment. Ford aims...

Pearl Oriental Innovations Ltd.: Marketing Plan

Terms of Reference The objective of the plan is to maximize the potential of current services on offer and to indicate the potential of the firm given its current budget constraints. Executive Summary The report realizes that Pearl Oriental Innovations Limited is faced with tough competition and tougher economic times...

Integration Paper on Leadership Requirements for MCDonald’s New CEO

This integration paper is a brief analysis of the activities done during the past week. Through this paper, I intend to provide an overview of the topics discussed in the past week in order to assess the usefulness of the study in personal and professional life. In the past week,...

Statement of Work as a Guideline

The statement of work functions as a guideline for contractors, suppliers, producers, etc to meet the requirements set by the consumer. These requirements include the scope and location of work, applicable standards, deliverable schedules, special requirements, and acceptance criteria. The statement of work is usually bound by a contract that...

New Product of Coca-Cola From the Strategic Management Point of View

Introduction Coca-Cola Company is a leading producer, distributor, and seller of non-alcoholic beverage concentrates and syrups globally. The success of Coca-Cola products is mainly derived from the high level of customer satisfaction. Coca-Cola Company satisfied their customer by creating brands they love. They introduced two new products in the market...

Live Music Pub: Company Analysis

Introduction Swansea city is located in the Wales in the UK. In the Wales, Swansea is the second largest city and offer many business opportunity for the potential business expansion. The location of Swansea offers wide range of opportunities for various type of businesses in Wales because for the past...

The Importance of Ethical Basis in Business Functioning

Every organization wishing to function properly and in coherence with public interests has to stipulate the set of corporate ethics and a fixed, transparent moral code. The importance of ethical basis in business functioning has been proved long ago and has shown its efficiency in implementation. However, there is always...