Research Methodology Philosophy in Strategic Management

The Research Philosophy Explaining the research philosophy helps in understanding the interrelationship amongst the key components of the research and makes room for improvement in the methodology. This also helps in recognizing different positions concerning the research methods and defending the position being adopted for a particular research study. It...

E-Commerce in Computer Science Area: Business Idea

Description of the business This proposal will discuss the setting up of an E-Commerce business that will essentially deal with the sale of electronic devices over the internet; such electronic devices include watches, cameras, phone and phone accessories and computer accessories. The site will thus be about the sale of...

Business Ethics That Are Used in Business Society

Introduction This business journal is one of the 40 journals that have been used in the Financial Times in assembling the business schools grading. It uses a variety of lines of attack and disciplinary perspectives that are used in business. These ethics have been researched on and proven to be...

Leader Development and Self-Management

The era that we are currently leaving in is one of unprecedented opportunities and in order to realize your goals in the professional career that you have chosen, then having ambitions in life and smarts will enable you to reach the highest goal that you have set for yourself in...

Generation Y and the Workplace

Individuals born after 1980 belong to generation Y, and having just entered the workforce are exceptionally motivated in surging ahead to achieve their career objectives. In being brought up by the career-minded baby boomers they have immense potential in adding value to their employers. They have the inherent knack of...

Joint Venture of Office Depot (U.S.) and DeoDeo (Japan)

One of the vivid examples of market entry failure is a joint venture of Office Depot (U.S.) and DeoDeo (Japan). The main causes of this failure were inability to differentiate from other products in the same industry and the lack of market research. Market failure was caused by complex political,...

Haier Group: Company Case

Introduction Most Americans pronounce it as “hair”, while others make it sound like “higher”. The latter is more like it, for Haier Global occupies a higher place in the world’s electronic and home appliances goods and products. This Chinese company with a global presence has a long history, from a...

Internet and the Radio Industry: Strategic Management

The Internet has revolutionized the way business is done all over the world. This is because it has enabled better and faster communication. The world has been reduced into a global village where a larger population can be reached in a very short period. Furthermore, the advent of Instant messaging,...

Targeting as One of the Marketing Principles

Introducing Targeting is one of the main marketing principles, which help companies to reach their audiences and increase sales. Targeting (ethnic) minorities is a sound business practice, which has nothing to do with exploitation, or unfair business practices. Targeting Effective marketing allows managers and marketing organizations to create effective and...

Management: Core Competencies of the Corporation

Introduction The most recognized definition for the term core competencies is based on the corporation’s intellectual capacity of how to generate merchandise or services conveyance and having the best ability in developing different appointed expertise in the whole process. Core merchandise is dependable to core competencies and is not considered...

Review of Employees’ Remunerations

Being one of the pioneers and the longest serving staff member of The Great International bank Limited, it has come to my realization that the financial wellbeing of the staff has been neglected for a long time. Based on the current economic hardships that have led to the high cost...

Princeton University: Sustainability Plan

Introduction Princeton University is an effervescent community of learning and education aimed at state’s service, particularly in the services of entire nations. And also it is a nondenominational, self-governing, co-educational organization that offers various lessons for both graduates and undergraduates in various areas. The impacts of human actions cause a...

Greenwashing in the Marketplace Today

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

Li Ning Marketing Management: Strengths, Weaknesses, and Opportunities

Strengths The strengths of Li Ning are strong brand image and expert system, excellent web-site and customer support. Resource-based philosophy and innovations create new opportunities for market development and brand recognition. Customers’ loyalty can be achieved through the people who are employed by Li Ning. Innovations in technology and freezing...

Theory and What Managers Do in Practice

Introduction There is a plethora of organizational theories and researches which have been and are still being conducted. An extensive number of academic research and theories are being published in peer-reviewed scholarly journals year after year. But there is evidence through these scholarly researches which shows that increasingly managers choose...

Values That the ISO9000 Can Bring to Riordan Manufacturing

Introduction ISO 9000 is the accepted system of standards that guarantee correspondence to the world standards and that regulate quality management. Originally, the correspondence to the ISO standards does not guarantee the high quality of the production, however, the adherence to the requirements of these systems of standard promotes the...

Palm Inc.’s System Feedback Loops

Introduction Organization and individuals need to invest in learning in order to run their operations effectively. Various approaches can be employed in learning, but one striking approach is the system thinking. The approach emphasizes on one to take a 360 degree approach in organization learning to understand how various parts...

Ethical Dilemma in the Workplace

Introduction An ethical dilemma refers to a complex situation characterized by a conflict in principles on which an individual or a community judges a behaviour or an action as right or wrong. When two moral principles that are used for making a decision conflict, a person is faced with the...

The Role of a Selection in Business

Selection in human resource management refers to the act of deciding in the right employees for the company. The main goal of this activity is to find the best available employees for the job on offer. It involves assessing the list of employees in order to find out the individuals...

Alameri Group’s Situational Leadership

Introduction Leadership is defined as the social process under which a person can utilize the support of others to achieve a common goal and forms one of the most relevant and important aspect of organizations. Leadership style refers to “the manner and approach in which directions, motivation, planning and implementation...

Customer Service in Rogers Wireless International

Abstract Rogers is a communication service provider that produces phones as well as other data devices. In my study of the services provided by Rogers wireless international, I looked at three of its customer care services and their impacts on the operations of the company. Three articles were studied which...

Global Codes of Conduct: Coca-cola, Bank of America, Sears

Introduction Global codes of conduct that are to be followed by companies are aimed at ensuring that acceptable trade practices are adopted. The international trade organizations emphasize practices that will not corrupt the norms of the people. Practices such as corruption are completely discouraged internationally. Employees are expected to treat...

Creative Decisions for Effective Change

Introduction Quality of decisions made is core to the success of any organization. For the success of everyday operations within organizations, there is a need for an effective decision making process. As organizations continue becoming complex, attainment of short-term as well as long-term objectives depend on the decisions made by...

The Selection Process: Recruiting New Employees

Choosing the right personnel is extremely vital for any organization. Each organization, however, has its own requirements as for the personnel’s education, experience, productivity, etc. This being the reason, when recruiting new employees, an organization is looking for definite qualities and characteristics in each of the applicants. This is called...

The Humanistic View of Business

In recent socio-economical context, the management theories are facing some never-seen-before challenges from different corners. Many factors are posing threats to the businesses, and the decision makers are forced to rethink about the business strategies for sustainability. Generally it is seen that the human mind is materialistic and they basically...

Ford Motor Company: International Finance Manager

Introduction The selected company is Ford Motor Company and the person is the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of this company in charge of management of international financial operations. As is well known, Ford Motors is a global automobile leader that sells its products in 6 continents. It has nearly 246,000...

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...

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...

Palm Inc.’s Strategic Company Analysis

Introduction Palm, Inc. is a pioneer in the provision of mobile and wireless Internet solutions and a leading provider of handheld computers, according to IDC (December 2000), It develops and markets smart phones. Some of the products offered by Palm, Inc. are the Pre and Pixi wireless devices. Both of...

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...

Motivation at Workplace: Achieving Organizational Goals

Introduction Leadership is a very important skill which is not possessed by all; hardly very few people are blessed with this skill. Being a leader is not easy; it poses many challenges and the person who overcomes these challenges make a successful leader. A leader instills confidence and provides motivation...

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...

Leadership in Organizational Behavior

Introduction Organizational Behavior (OB) is basically the study of how individuals and people groups act in a given organization. During the study, a system is established where both individuals and people groups are analyzed and classified according to their behavior. It starts with interpreting an individual’s behavior looks at h/her...

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...

Peter’s Pizza Restaurant: HRM Overview

Introduction A company requires both physical and human resources for its operations. The human resource is the greatest asset that an organization can have; without it no business transaction can take place. It ensures that the business is run in the right way, and thus determines the current as well...

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...

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...

Cross-Cultural Management in the Companies

Introduction These days due to the companies’ hiring foreign employees, the necessity of proper knowledge in cross-cultural management is ever more increasing. Cross-cultural management studies “potential value differences between people from diverse societies and can help them use reasonably accurate stereotypes to form their expectations to each other” (Tjosvold &...

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...

Quality Staffing for Success of Company

Introduction Production of high quality products is the aim of all companies that seek to satisfy their customers, putting in mind that the customers always pay attention to high quality products for purchase. Therefore, for any company to survive in the market, quality must be addressed sufficiently and adequately. Many...

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...

Starting a Personal Small Business

Introduction Small businesses have certainly started to play an important role in the growth and development of a lot of economies in the world today, and they are becoming increasingly popular. The reasons for this are not particularly hard to discern. More and more individuals are joining the small business...

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...

Sea Shepherd: A Non-Profit Organization

Abstract Public Relations is one of the most important functions in an organization as it provides a link between the company and the outsiders. Indeed, the mode and effectiveness of communication by the company to the external stakeholders may have significant impact on the image of the company either positively...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Dole, Chiquita and Del Monte: Corporate Statements

Introduction The banana plant is considered to be the largest herb in the world and it belongs to a family of plants called lily plants. The plant matures in a period of nine months and after that it’s able to produce fruits all year round. The fruit was introduced on...

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...

The Law Office of Jeter, Jackson, Guidry, and Boyer

The company’s central problem was connected with the rapid growth of facilities management needs, travel requirements, and employees number. The enterprise’s executives started a campaign aimed at management problem solutions through a major expansion in customer base and sales growth. It is necessary to underline the fact that strategies developed...

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...

Mediation and Advocacy to Resolve Conflicts

As conflicts are becoming an inevitable phenomenon in people’s life, their resolution is taking the forms, in which the disputes can be settled and managed in judicial way. In that regard, mediation as one of such Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR)methods, can be defined as a process in which people engaged...

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...

Marketing Project for the RedBull Energy Drink

Situational analysis Redbull is an energy drink which is produced by Red Bull GmbH which is a private limited company located in Australia. The firm was established in 1984 within the soft drink industry. The energy drink has managed to attain a significant market share of 46. 8% compared to...

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,...

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...

Planning and Implementing of Corporate Social Responsibility

Corporate social responsibility is a broad term which can be defined in several ways. A concise way of defining would therefore mean that it is the social responsibility which the organization exercises on the societies within which they exist. In other words, it is the responsibility linked with the employees,...

Are Brand Extensions Good or Bad?

The brand extension (also called brand stretching) refers to a marketing strategy used by firms with strong existing brands to extend to other products, leveraging on the strong brand name to capture the market. When customers feel satisfied with the quality of a certain brand and have sufficient loyalty towards...

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...

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...

Ethics Game Simulation in Business

According to Beauchamp, Norman & Denis (2003), Simulation by definition is the act of undertaking a Xerox of some condition of the issues or the processes that are mostly meant for the depiction of some particular traits of a chosen existing physical phenomenon. Simulation has for long been used in...

Effective Management Skills Lecture Reflection

Prior Knowledge and Learning Effective management is associated with the power to influence and persuade others to work towards common organizational goals in order to achieve the desired objectives through their input (Islam and Ismail, 2008). The art of influencing others to behave in ways that will be mutually beneficial...

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...

Marketing Research in Pricing Strategy

In the marketing field, marketing mix plays an important role. One of the four components of the marketing mix or 4Ps is the ‘price’ of the product. A change in price component may lead to a change in the other three components like product, place, and promotion. While developing a...

Changes as an Inevitable Part of Our Personal and Corporate Lives

Introduction Change is a way of life and forms an inevitable part of our personal and corporate lives. It is indeed almost impossible to live, or work, without some kind of change, either in ourselves, others, or the environment in which we work and live. However, it is seen that...

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,...

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...

Markstrat Simulation of Strategic Marketing

The simulation was a group activity and each of the team members was given their specific roles to play. The key roles that were related to the simulation were as follows: (1) team leader, (2) marketing coordinator, (3) R&D coordinator, (4) budget controller, and (5) inventory management. The simulation aimed...

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...

The Reverse Logistics in E-Commerce

Outline This essay describes the reverse logistics in e-commerce. The study deals with how reverse logistic and e-commerce relate and the importance of reverse logistic in the e-commerce sector. It also studies what type of industries will suffer more because of the reverse logistic. Because every industry is producing different...

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...

Starbucks: The Case Study

Outline This paper deals with the case study of Starbucks. Starbucks is facing keen competition from rival firms in the US coffee market. In this case study, various alternative strategies that can be adopted by Starbucks to regain its market position and profitability are discussed in order to provide recommendations...

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,...

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...

Flybe Airline Company: Online Business Strategy

Business description Flybe is a medium-sized airline based in the UK and operating in the European region. Rosedale Aviation Holdings Ltd is the largest shareholder with 69% of shares followed by staff’s 16% through an Employee Share Scheme and British Airways, the largest UK Airline owning 15% following the acquisition...