Systems Thinking In Organiztions

Introduction An organization system is a compilation of elements or units that are well incorporated to achieve a general aim. The system consists of entities that undertake a course of action to generate definite outcomes that collectively, result in the desired yield for the arrangement. Therefore, a system comprises numerous...

Gentiva Home Health Company Positive Ethical Behavior

Introduction The Gentiva Health Company has been the leading health care company in the United States and this has been attributed highly to its best-defined organizational policies. As America’s leader in the provision of home care health services, the company has been delivering an expansion of healthcare in homes for...

SABIC Brand Role and Its Reception in Australian Market

Purpose of the Proposed Research It is expected to give clear information on the possible reception of the SABIC brand in the Australian market and reveal the gap for entry and brand building for competitive advantage. Research question What role will SABIC brand play in the Australian market and what...

Assessment of Leadership Capabilities

Leadership skills are the skills demanded in any kind of position from any employee: “These skills include the knowledge of how to control the performance of one’s subordinates or partners, participate in decision making, and bear responsibility for them” (Northhouse, 2004). Accordingly, a leader is to be a person with...

Compensation/Management: Job Analysis, Employee Reaction

Job Analysis support in pay decisions Job analysis involves collecting information that describes the characteristics and requirements of a certain kind of job. This information may include the required skills, experience, personal behavior and specific duties to be performed among others. It is through the data collected during job analysis...

Decision Making in Paradise Two

Effective decision making and business prosperity interrelate to each other and reflect organization’s strategic plans and management systems. The case of Paradise vividly portrays that decision-making determines overall success of the organization and its development. Leadership style of the executive enables him to be accepted by others. Decision-making mechanisms adopted...

“Plan, Do, Study, Act Model to Improve an Orientation Program” Article Synthesis

This paper is a synthesis of the article, “Plan, Do, Study, Act Model to Improve an Orientation Program” that concerns the processes of employee orientation at work. Employee orientation is a process wherein the new employees at a workplace are taken “on board” and introduced to the various elements of...

Educational Training Program Proposal Report

Abstract The project is carried with the aim of identification of the factors that will improve the employment management system. It provides with ideas and solutions for the understanding of the employees’ needs and preferences who are learning online. In addition, the project presents the models of program development of...

Marketing Mix Products and Brand Strategies

In this research paper importance of branding will be discussed with regards to placing a product in the minds of the consumers. The paper will then delve into the relationship element of the brand with its users or consumers. Finally a comparison will be made between two brands of different...

Managing Diversity and Creating Equal Opportunity at Workplace

Introduction Despite the expanded role of women in the workplace over the last three decades, the proportion of women continues to decline at progressively higher levels in managerial hierarchies the higher the level in the organization, the fewer women are found. Understanding the work environment is crucial to understanding what...

The Most Critical Leadership Competencies

Making a good leader is the central goal of any working organization striving to create effective business staff headed by a qualified specialist. Leadership is considered to be one of the central skills helping any person to succeed in business and social activities; this quality makes anyone stand out from...

Managing Organizational Change at Du Pont

Introduction This case study takes up the matter of how the organizational development (OD) approach to changes is enforced in Du Pont. “Organisational Development is concerned about “measurement and identification of organizational factors that encourage and inhibit performance.” (Organisational development 2009). In the context of Du Pont, it is seen...

SABMiller on the South African Beer Market

SABMiller has saturated the South African beer market. It has to find a way to increase their revenue in the global market and so decided to raise capital through the London Stock Exchange. When they did not succeed in attracting investors, the company made the mistake of acquiring the second...

Environmental Trends in Microbrewing (Craft Beer)

Technological Trends The Micro Brewing and beer brewing industry has turned into a high technology industry and there are a number of factors that impact the industry. Beer Spoiling Bacteria Breweries across the world and across all types of beers are faced with the repetitive problem that beer can get...

Blue Star Inc.: The Legal and Ethical Environment of Business

Ethics and morality are philosophical concepts that are understood differently by different people. There are some rules in the society that are aimed to be the norms of the behavior. Business is the same world where norms of behavior also exist. The ethical code of behavior states some issues, according...

The Roles of Organization Design in Proper Business Management

Organization design is a process of creating roles and designing reporting relationships in an organization. It is a guided process that integrates people and technology within the organization management and is aimed at improving the collective responsibility in the handling of duties thus ensuring success in achieving set objectives (Roberts,...

Employee Motivation and Pay Plans

Introduction Employee motivation has been given considerable importance in contemporary organizations in order to keep high productivity. Employee’s remuneration package affects the employee motivation and subsequently job satisfaction. Job designing determines the mechanism of the flow of tasks in consideration of employee skills and ability. Specialized jobs require extensive research...

Professionalism in Planning and Code of Conduct

Introduction According to the November 2002 issue of Academy for emerging medicine on professionalism and code of conduct for physicians, professionalism is viewed as “the conduct, aims, or qualities that characterize or mark a profession or a professional person.” (p. 1). This definition enlightens us on the existence of a...

The Role of Integrated Marketing Communications Campaign

Integrated marketing Communication refers to a general approach to marketing. This is aimed at ensuring that there is uniformity of message with the corresponding use of media. It involves the use of online and offline marketing sources. Online marketing channels comprise websites, e-marketing, internet TV, and blogs. Offline channels include...

Importance of ‘Strategic Planning’ in the Marketing Process

Background Strategic planning is an important aspect of the process of marketing. It deals with the process of defining a strategy and making decisions regarding the allocation of resources for the particular strategy. Strategic planning can be defined as the “determination of the steps required to reach an objective of...

Toyota Boshoku: Human Resource Management

Introduction The company which has been selected for this paper is Toyota Boshoku. This paper is based on human resource management activities of the company. This paper is going to help with understanding the extent to which the Human Resource functions and the HR strategies, policies, and practices are integrated...

Ensuring Quality Management with Certifications

Abstract This paper outlines what certification is, what its perceived benefits to the employees are and why managements try and get their staff certified in the first place. It also provides some details of the commonly pursued certifications like the CMA, the CPA, CIA, etc and gives some information on...

Business Management and Leadership Qualities

Introduction Leadership can be described as the art of inspiring or moving people’s interests in performing a certain job with a common motive of achieving a set objective or goal. It’s concerned with the capability an individual has in influencing other people to commit their efforts in succeeding in a...

IT Goals for Supply Chain Management

Executive summary This paper will base its discussion on the importance and role played by the information technology sector using system integration in supply management to achieve its goal when supplying. This paper will look at the demerits and merits that are to be faced by a manufacturer as he...

ING Group’s Information Audit and Policy Development

Executive Summary This document gives a short summary of ING’s business and how this business is affected by the information that the company must process on a daily basis. The document further stresses the need for this information for the proper functioning of the company and need to have the...

Health, Fitness Organizations: Profit Center Programs

The paper explains briefly the evolution of health and fitness centers as profit centers. Based on some common definitions of profit centers, it also attempts to explain why such strategic business units need to be introduced in the health and fitness industry. It states the common perception that the industry...

Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Recruiting Challenges

Introduction Mass media is considered to be the most influential and opinion-construction issue in modern society. The development of the new technologies leads to the problem that two schools have collided in the battle, the old and the new one. Young editors and journalists were brought up on Internet education,...

Coca-Cola and Pepsi Companies: The Marketing Tricks and Advertisement Peculiarities

Introduction An attitude of public opinion towards brands subdues some marketing principles which are structurally divided into gradual succession of actions and representations which can make this or that product original. The paper is organized in terms of making the main purpose of it clearer in several paragraphs, so as...

Human Resource Tools to Impact Service Quality Perception

Introduction Nowadays academic environment is considered to be competitive enough, providing the students with a free choice under the influence of factors, developed by institutions in order to increase their perception of service quality. It should be noted that higher education institutions striving to gain competitive edge, work out creative...

Cause-Related Marketing: Definition and Benefits

Introduction Cause-related marketing involves marketing efforts that have social and charitable causes and which are not based on donations as do corporate philanthropy. The strategy, which builds on the blend of the hybrid between public relations and product advertising, can be used to achieve positive impacts on customers’ buying behavior,...

McDonalds’ Corporation’s System of Inquiry

Introduction Organizational decision-making is always a difficult task since the decisions made will affect to some extent the stakeholders, including the members of staff and the customers. There are some instances where the requirements of the customer may disagree with the organizational goals and mission. This implies that decisions need...

Leadership, Motivation, Work Satisfaction and Performance

Introduction Motivation, teamwork and performance are related to each other. The level of performance of a follower is mostly influenced by the amount of motivation he receives from his leader. The leader is responsible for evaluating the performance of the followers and making any suggestive comments, if required. Role of...

Personality and Leadership Assessments in Application

Introduction Before getting started, first of all, we have to define a leader. A leader is someone who can guide, has the ability to inspire others, and can lead over the people in a positive sense. The role of a leader is also based on his powerful personality. The personality...

Environmental Factors Affecting Global and Domestic Marketing Decisions

Introduction The article American Express Releases Annual Global Business Forecast presents the forecast for the global business travel industry (Americal Express, 2008). The article demonstrates that external factors like the global economic slowdown will adversely affect the business. The article discusses the effect of expected external environmental factor’s status in...

Microsoft Corporation: The Future Development Strategy

Clear Focus and Competitors Information Technology (IT) Industry is one of the fastest developing areas of human activity at the present time. The overall proliferation of technology and innovations in society have brought the IT sphere to the spotlight of social relations. Computers are used at every single job and...

The Relations Between Cross-Cultural and Human Resource

Culture cuts across diverse issues in a given society and what may be right with one society may be wrong in another. Different cultures value and uphold different tenets and beliefs thus bringing diversity amongst societies. Whether values and beliefs of an individual count or do not count in workplace,...

The Inventory Control Process: Online Factory Floor

Introduction Over the last decade, there has been increased advancement within the manufacturing industry. This is attributed to the incorporation of electronic commerce concepts such as electronic manufacturing. This has been integrated in the various processes of the firms for instance within the supply chain, production and inventory control. Only...

Employee Cross-Cultural Training Program

Introduction The current climate in the business environment has become so competitive that organizations are now competing at a global level. Local markets have also become so strained, forcing companies to move beyond borders to seek opportunities. To survive in the globally competitive market, the organization should be well endowed...

Information Systems vs Manual Systems

Introduction An information system at large is the system of data collection, data keeping, processes, people, and activities of an organization. In the management theory, Information system is an off-the-shelf software application that is specially designed for the streamlining and integration of various business processes. In simple words, the information...

Communication Effects on Leadership

Communication is the key to effective leadership. It is only through good communication skills that a leader is able to manage people without making them feel subdued. A good leader should be insistent but not obstinate, eloquent but not unsubstantiated, and persuasive but not coercive. Communication does not only have...

Employee Job Satisfaction and Its Facets

Introduction Employees play an integral role in the success of organizations. Organizational goals and objectives are achieved through the collaborative effort of employees. Road to organizational success is followed by the achievement level importance and effort put in by employees. In consideration of employee abilities, work is scattered over departments...

FruitRich Private Limited’s International Marketing

FruitRich Private Limited to be established in Australia is manufacturing natural fruit juices in different flavors. “FruitRich” juices are ultra-premium nutritious fruit juices, 100 percent natural sold in attractive 250 ML, 1Litre, 2 Litres, and 3 Litres pet bottle containers. The word “Fruit” in the brand name of the product...

Toyota Company’s Marketing Management

Introduction The Australian automotive industry is a small segment of global auto market with no players. There are four major foreign players Australian automotive industry with foreign giants. It has been regarded as an exposed industry due to the international competitive forces and the industry is a shrinking one. Toyota...

“Dunkin’ Donuts Is Ditching the Microwave” Article

Introduction This is an interesting article to analyze. We have the case of a company that wants to make a great change which will be accompanied by a considerable cost. Dunkin’ Donuts is managing to change its menu and as a result, the way to prepare the food. The company...

Integrated Marketing Communication Definition

This paper talks about integrated marketing communication by discussing the statement – ‘the realization of integrated marketing communications is unlikely ever to be achieved in an organization’. This paper elaborates on this statement while pondering over the on views of Olof Holm (2006). It starts off with a brief introduction...

Business-to-Business Service Retailer in Automotive Industry

Executive summary In the dynamic world of marketing, along with the selling of products, service marketing is also becoming a common scenario. This constitutes the necessity of advertisement and other sort of promotional tools with greater specialization and selling effort. Nowadays, all businesses in the world tend to spend a...

Global Benchmarking as Modern Economics Principle

The variety of the modern world requires improved approaches to the economical sphere. The scope of information does not allow finding the appropriate one without any analysis and evaluation of received data. Modern world in the world of competition and the work under improvement of any company facilities becomes the...

Fiat and General Motors’ Corporate-Level Strategy

Introduction The strategic problem discussed in the case of Fiat & General Motors Corporation refers to the considerations of the corporate-level strategy. The problem is such concerns the controversy surrounding the fulfillment of contractual obligations and rights of both sides to a large corporate alliance between Fiat and General Motors...

The Impact of the Culture and Communication in International Business

The impact of the culture For ICCTC, an international consulting company, it is important to recognize that international and national culture requires careful considerations and deep knowledge of values and traditions of people. The countries selected for expansion are Iran and Malaysia (Keegan and Green 1996). One widespread understanding, though,...

Conflict Resolution: A Constructive Approach

Introduction The case analysis suggests that in the workplace, conflicts are caused by misunderstanding and a low degree of participation in problem-solving. Clearly, if the parties can agree on mutual objectives then the problem is far easier to resolve than if they have conflicting objectless and personal agendas. A year...

Uncertain Business Environment: Managers’ Responsibility and Skills

In today’s society change is inevitable and must be viewed positively as a necessary transformation. Organizational changes or restructuring, for many people, may be a cause for anxiety and worry, fear about the unknown, uncertain future, new reporting relationships, and new challenges. However the issue we are faced with is...

Wal-Mart Business Strategy and Marketing Mix

Introduction A successful business organization will always invest heavily in marketing strategy in order to develop a marketing mix that yields the best results as well as making the organization earn a competitive advantage over its competitors. Marketing competition in the current business climate has advanced significantly such that a...

Saudi Basic Industries Corp.’s Marketing Plan

Saudi Basic Industries Corp (SABIC) is a manufacturing company with a diversified portfolio of products ranging from chemical and intermediates, fertilizers, industrial polymers, and metals (SABIC 2008). Under polymers and metals, the company has established the SABIC Innovative Plastic Film and Sheet business, where it manufactures corrugated iron sheets for...

Entrepreneurship and the Role of Innovation

Introduction Entrepreneurship is the art of pulling together resources and business acumen as a way of transforming innovations into economically viable goods. Entrepreneurship is all about performing realistic business analysis and making a series of sound decisions concerning the business. Mark Pale and Jim Mack came up with a unique...

Managing Organizational Change of Arthur Anderson

Introduction This essay shall be taking up the case study of Arthur Anderson, the accounting major, who was adversely affected due to fraudulent practices and the subsequent closure of Enron, the public energy company. Arthur Anderson was held guilty of corporate misfeasance and obstruction of justice and had to finally...

Philosophy in the Product Development Process

The analysis of the world philosophical approach props up against the rationale and grounding of a definite idea. In this respect the fundamentals of philosophy and its implementation in the world of business affairs are viable. The situation of today constitutes that there are more points on making achievements in...

Cisco Company’s Technological Change Management

Introduction Change Management is considered to be an integral component of IT Service Management. The fundamental purpose of Change Management with regards to this context is to make certain that standardized techniques and procedures are made use of for the competent and timely treatment of all changes to the controlled...

Informational Privacy in the Execution of Employment Contracts

Various companies need their new workers first to sign with them an agreement sooner than they commence the work. These may be important in the sense that they might act as a basis for ensuring a binding commitment from both parties. This commitment has legally binding and is therefore recognized...

Human Resources Defines a Company in Bad Times

Introduction Owing to varying educational backgrounds, experiences, and certifications, there is the need to check the quality of employees on a regular basis. Organizations usually want to draw a pool of workers who are best qualified for job descriptions. Additionally, Interactions between the top organs and workers are difficult because...

T-Shirt Manufacturing: 4 Important Factors

Introduction In accordance to Elliot, operation management is “in its essence, scientific management involves a complete revolution on the part of the working man engaged in any particular establishment or industry — a complete mental revolution on the part of these men as to their duties toward their work, toward...

Corporate Culture. Whistle-Blowing for Businesses

Introduction In recent years, there has been a resurgence of public attention to whistle-blowing. Several factors have contributed to this resurgence. Recent cases of whistle-blowing have been well-publicized, including three high-profile cases in 2001 involving Sherron Watkins of Enron, Coleen Rowley of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Cynthia Cooper...

Control and Monitoring Plan

The control and monitoring plan for achieving the financial and operational objectives must include the various measures that the company proposes to undertake. For starters, if the company is proposing a 1% increase in productivity every year over the next five years, it means that the company needs to invest...

Key Elements of Supply Chain Design

Abstract “The key challenge is to integrate supply chain capabilities to provide a seamless solution from potential design through to end delivery. End users are looking for a complete supply chain where there is single accountability and responsibility for delivery,” said O’Brien. Introduction To begin with, it should be stated...

Sloan and Harrison: The Associate Challenge

Introduction The problem at Sloan & Harrison law firm is the high turnover among its associates. This is due to dissatisfaction caused by issues such as lack of communication, work-life balance and mentorship. Analysis The mood at the firm among the associates has changed over the last few years and...

IKEA Supply Chain Analysis

The performance of every business company that deals with the production of goods from raw materials is greatly dependant upon the supply chain, i. e. the cycle of getting the raw materials, their processing, and production of goods, storage, and distribution of the latter. IKEA, as one of the world’s...

HRM Strategies and Psychological Atmosphere of the Team

Background of the Study The background of the selected topic is the necessity of keeping the morale level high, otherwise, the productivity of the team will be low. It is often stated that the required measure is within the authorities of the Human Resource Management team. Originally, the HRM rules...

Leadership in Business: The Main Aspects

The business world is very much different today than it was a few decades ago. Technology and globalization has made it more exciting and also very difficult to establish a company and sustain its profitability. The same thing can be said with an existing organization that may have had great...

CVS Caremark Company’s Motivational Problems

Introduction Motivational problems at work places are a great hindrance to performance and creativity. Motivation can be termed as a strong desire or urge that drives, maintains and invigorates a person to keep on going towards achieving his/her goals or targets. There are different things that motivate people, and vary...

Domino Hotel Incorporated’s Knowledge Management

Introduction The gain in prominence of knowledge management across the diverse sectors of the economy has been tremendous (Ponzi & Koenig 2002), and the hospitality industry is no exception. Different authors have diverse views on what exactly should make up knowledge management (Stewart 1997; Ruggles 1998; Wilson 2002). For example...

A Ranch in Hawaii: Four Functions of Management

Each organization is presupposed with a complex of values that should be supported for the genuine outline of it as well as for the organization’s prestige. In this respect, the world of management has many constituents which are significant for the right and effective functioning of an organization. With the...

Economics for Management. The Prisoner’s Dilemma

A prisoners’ Dilemma is a situation where the parties involved are engaged in a non-cooperative game. As there is no negotiation and cooperation between the parties involved, the best option for the parties is to adopt a maximin strategy where they will be able to maximize their minimum gain. The...

Motivation as a Means of Productivity Increase

Background of the Study It has been noted by scholars long ago that some organizations succeed while others do not, and numerous opinions connect this success to the ways in which the successful organizations motivate their employees to work more effectively and with greater commitment to the organization’s goals and...

Logistical Problems Faced by Qatar Cement Factories

Background According to Christopher (2005) logistics is the process of strategically managing the procurement, movement and storage of materials, parts and finished inventory in order to achieve efficiency when it comes to the fulfilment of orders. This means that the company will be able to make a profit but at...

Political, Economic, Sociological, Technological, Legal, Environmental Analysis

There are a great number of factors, which can neither be controlled not influenced by a business, but they are of great importance for it, especially in cases which concern business planning or product development. This is why it is necessary to be aware of them, and PESTLE analysis makes...

Cereals Company’s Marketing Theory and Practice

This is an organization which manufactures Cereals in Melbourne, Australia. The company’s name is “G’Day flakes”. This particular company is thinking of developing products which must be suitable for the current Australian market. For this reason they decided to understand certain macro-economic factors which may influence their market and the...

Supervalu Retail Chain of Stores’ Market Analysis

Introduction SuperValue retail chain of groceries has been in operation for 135 years offering a wide range of products that include grocery, Pharmacy and supply chain operations across the country. It operates approximately 2500 stores and about 2500 affiliated retail shops through the company’s supply chain operations. Currently the chain...

McDonald’s Restaurants’ Marketing Strategy

Introduction McDonald’s is considered as the world’s largest chain of fast food chain and the organization is considered as a multinational and it serves more than 47 million customers daily. The structure of the organization is quite huge and that is the reason why the organization focuses a lot on...

Starbucks Coffee Company’s Analysis

Starbucks coffee company is an international based coffeehouse chain that purchases and roasts finest coffee beans. The processed beans are being sold all over the world in the form of dip-brewed coffees and espressos. Starbucks Coffee Company was founded in 1997 and became the world’s leading brand of specialty coffee....

Internal Communication Process in Organization

Communication climate in the organization The communication climate in Katz day care centre is effective and ideal for smooth functioning of the organization. The organizer of the child care centre is considering creation of better communication environment as an essential factor for the growth of the day care business by...

Construction Companies and Ethics

The construction industry experiences many challenges. Some of these challenges include bid shopping, reverse auctions, false claims, threats as well as employee misappropriation. The construction professionals feel that the industry is ruined by an increase in unethical behavior. The role of construction ethics is to ensure that ethical practices and...

Going International With Malaysian Made PROTON Cars

Introduction With the advent of technological advances in the field of communications and transportation the processes of carrying out business over a vast geographic spread has been made possible. This has led to businesses going international with their products and offerings. This trend intensified to such an extent during the...

Good Time Management and Delegation Skills

According to Estes (2003: 1), time management refers to the act of making an arrangement, carrying out organization, making a schedule, and making a budget for one’s time to make a generation of work that is more effective and productive. This act is of great importance not only to business...

Evaluation of a Workplace Learning Environment

Introduction A career in Banking provides a good environment, for workplace learning. Bank Tellers have an opportunity to exploit their potentials and gain much from workplace learning. An evaluation of the environment in which Bank Tellers work is necessary to provide justification that indeed effective workplace learning can occur in...

Outsourcing in the UK: Influence and Impact

Introduction In this era of globalisation, outsourcing is a common business practice resorted to by different countries. The quantum of outsourcing has greatly increased in the recent years. UK and USA are the two countries which outsource vast amount of business. Information technology is the most commonly outsourced industry. It...

Spotless Cleaning Services Company’s Strategic Analysis

Introduction The company chosen for the SWOT analysis is Spotless Cleaning Services and the four factors that are selected are listed below. For each of the factor, the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats are analyzed. The overall objective is to ensure that an analysis is done of the company’s competencies...

International Business. Saudi Basic Industries Company

Introduction International business relations are characterized by the complexity of processes and phenomena that determine the market shares of various companies in the respective market segments. The market of petrochemicals also displays this complexity, and Saudi Basic Industries Company (SABIC), experienced this in its business activities. Dumping was the controversial...

Improving Decision Making and Customer Service

Introduction Decision making and customer service are interrelated issues based on organization’s strategic plans and management systems. The case of the King County Library System vividly portrays that decision-making determines overall success of the organization and its development. Also, leadership style of Bill Ptacek enables him to be accepted by...

General Motors Analysis: The Need to Restructure GM

Background and History General Motors (GM), a US-based automobile manufacturing company, was founded in 1908 and since that time bases its headquarters in Detroit, Michigan, USA. During its history that counts for over a hundred years of development and business activities, GM has managed to create branches located in 34...

200230 Business Project: Critical Incident Analysis

­­­Critical Incident Causes Founded in 1976, SABIC Company is now one of the world’s leaders in the area of petrochemicals manufacturing. SABIC is owned by the Saudi Arabian government that owns over 70% of its shares, while the remaining 30% have private Saudi Arabian and foreign investors (SABIC, 2009a). SABIC...

Diversity Training Program. Diversity Management

The success of an organization depends on among other factors, the ability to manage the diverse cultural backgrounds in the organizations towards the attainment of the common organizational goal. According to Schauber (n.d), “an effective, culturally diverse organization is one whose culture is inclusive of all of the varying groups...

Problem Solution: Global Communications

Introduction Global Communications is under the pressure of financial and organizational problems faced in the telecommunication industry. The basic objective of the company is the profits and revenues increase. The paper lies in the analysis of tribulations and trials confronting by Global Communications; the development of a growth strategic plan...

Diversity Management in Canon

The fact is that the diversity management by Canon Company is regarded to be among the best practices within the large scale corporations in the world. Originally, this company cares for its workers, and the principles of HR diversity management entail a number of issues, such as: Work-life balance The...

The Optimal Choice of Entry Mode in Business

Abstract To discuss the statement “the optimal choice of entry mode depends on the firm’s strategy”, this paper would consider the relationship between International strategies and entry strategy, and the meaning of international strategy, and foreign market entry strategies etc. This essay would also evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of...

Leadership and its Role in the Organizational Behavior

Leadership is considered to be one of the crucial parts of the successful development of any company. The necessity of the leader in the company is dictated by the core roles and aims of the leader: to inspire, to be the innovator, to be based on the perspective view of...

Bias Elimination in the Workplace

Introduction Managers and leaders should recognize not only the individual diversity but also cultural diversity in the work place. In an organization different sections and groups may have different cultures with different values and priorities. Today, the societies we live in have become multicultural due to the increasing cross- boarder...

Marketing Plan: Innovative Type of Software Product

Introduction First, it should be stated that the software-marketing sector is regarded as very specific, and, it has its particularities associated with the issues of pricing, distribution and promotion. This paper aims to create a marketing plan for the innovative type of software product, which would clarify the potential segment...

Employee Benefits as a Company Policy

Introduction It is vital for great and influential company to present the points on strategic evaluation of employees’ benefits and their further going up the career ladder. The point is that many even global corporations lost their bygone positions among the closest competitors due to a lack of professional liability...

Kudler Fine Foods Stores’ Strategic Analysis

Introduction To begin with, it is necessary to mention that any organization should have its principal goal, clearly stated mission, values and goals, which are planned to be achieved. The fact is that, the clearness of the goals defines the strategy for achieving the goal, and defines the process of...

Good Mark Precision Industrial Company’s Organizational Structure

Introduction An organizational structure is a model under which hierarchical units pool resources and contribute in an institute and they do so to achieve a common goal to contribute and serve a regular aim. Organizations can be said to be clustered entities with a modification outlook. There are many approaches...

Organizational Behavior Trends and Decision-Making

Introduction Decision making in modern organizations should be based on moral and ethical principles followed by employees and management staff. The ethics itself is based on the principle of “the standard of care”. It means that all decisions and problem-solving approaches should be based on detailed analysis of consequences and...

Non-Profit Marketing Research Proposal

Introduction Many of the difficulties with “regular” training approaches arise from too little attention on the one hand or excessive administrative trappings on the other. In regard to what has to be learned, the insufficient effort leaves the definition largely up to the employee to discover in a hit-and-miss fashion...

Executive Compensation Trends Analysis

Executive compensation has been an issue of great academic as well as management interest for the last three decades. The base salaries of executives have risen by 4.7 percent from 2007 to 2008 apart from an increase of stock options from 47 percent to 58 percent in 2008 and a...

Monaco and Macau Gaming Sectors and Other Business Activities

Abstract Casino gaming is a form of entertainment activity that requires one to pay to secure a chance to win money. Monaco and Macau regions are known to be engaged casino gaming activities since there is inadequate space for agricultural and industrial output for its citizens. Macao with its biggest...

Leading a Virtuous-Spiral Organization

Outline This essay discusses brand leadership. The importance of brand leadership and how to develop brand leadership are mentioned in this essay. It also discusses the leading brand which I wish to develop in the future. Introduction Leadership is very good quality. A good leader has his leadership style. Like...

E&M Greenfield Pty Ltd.: Information Systems in Context

This is a business report which deals with the applications of information systems in the decision-making process of business organizations in order to get competency and business growth in the industry. This case study deals with a clothing manufacturing company located in Sydney. The company selected for the study is...

Corporate “Moral Responsibilities” – Myth or Reality?

In recent years, it became a “statement of good fashion”, on the part of many economists and political observers, to suggest that Western companies, operating in Third World countries, should adjust their business strategy to the illusive notion of “moral responsibleness”, the actual subtleties of which cannot be defined even...

Personal Introspective Journal on Leadership

In this era of globalization and tight competition the role of a good leader is inevitable for the development of any nation. This is a journal project which integrates the ideas of the journal projects of all the weeks. That is the journal project from week 1 to week 7....

Transferring Anticipatory Logistics to Business World

The Concept of Anticipatory Logistics and Its Origins In “Anticipatory Logistics: The Army’s Answer to Supply Chain Management.” Lenzini (2002) reports how the Army has commenced field trials of this approach to supply chain management. The experiments involve varying mixes of information technology and procedures that will optimize maintenance schedules...

IKEA Company’s Supply Chain Management

Introduction IKEA is a private organization known all around the world. This organization is a home products retailer that was first to use flat-pack design furniture. Its primary business consists in selling this furniture, as well as accessories and kitchen and bathroom items. IKEA was founded in Sweden in 1943...

Google Inc.’s Compensation and Benefit Systems

Google Inc. Google Inc is a renowned company which is known worldwide for its products and services that it provides through the internet. The company is an American entity based in Mountain View in California, boasting a unique and innovative head office. Google Inc was initiated by Larry Page and...

Rock of Ages Company’s Value Chain Analysis

Summary Strategic planning and management have become a very critical aspect of the success of businesses and developments in the past three decades. From 1980s consumers around the globe have become more informed and continuously demanded more in terms of quality and price (Howe, 2006). Again the globalization and high...

PIE Analysis of Cereal Industry

Factors Affecting PIE Value Creation Factors Industry Demand There are more than 100 brands of cereals in the U.S. Because of the proliferation of brands, the top ten account for 27.4 of total sales. Cereal producers market to both children and adults via the media and the use of coupons....

Apple Inc. as an Innovative Firm

Since the beginning of the 20th century, innovation determines business opportunities, brand uniqueness, and company image. Innovation is nothing more than the act of introducing newness into a process or product. It involves an idea, its implementation, the actual production of the innovation, and its acceptance by the market. Essentially,...

Marketing Theory With a Strategic Orientation

Introduction In the marketing world today, the area of contemporary marketing has become so broad that we have arrived at the accurate point in time to be familiar with the things which are related to the important writings so that the applied choice model in marketing can be applied to...

Business Ethics in Real Estate

Introduction Business ethics still remains one of the most important areas in business practice influenced by internal and external factor, cultural and social changes. Real estate industry represents a diverse market in terms of human resources and services provided. One strong and persistent pull of foreign workers to the United...

S&W and Makatume: Strategic Issues and Case Analysis

Take the perspective of S&W’s Director of Strategic Planning to develop a full SWOT analysis of S&W, identifying and explaining at least five factors for each category (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats) and propose a complete strategy (implementation, ramification, and evaluation) which addresses one of S&W’s weaknesses and what you...

Information Systems in the Business Decisions

Executive Summary This business report relates to the information system applications in the business decision-making process. The business report is designed as a case study of an organization. The business organization selected for the study is Elkat International Food Services Pty Ltd, which is a Frozen Food retailer in NSW,...

Cultural Influences and Managing Organization Change and Development

Introduction Current essay deals with analysis of the process of organizational change in the context of its individual experience. The basic problems and issues which are posed in this context are what actions were realized by organizational management, whether their scope and effectiveness were sufficient and what alternative steps could...

Franchising and Service Delivery Systems

This week has been very rewarding for me in the sense that I have been able to learn about something which I have always been interested about. This is the concept of franchising and the importance of service delivery systems in franchising. I know that franchising is an extremely powerful...

Family-Operated Business in Hong Kong

Introduction It can be said that many of the large corporations of today have been started in a small way by individuals and their families. Due to hard work and vision, they have now grown to the status and size that one sees today. There are still many family owned...

Marketing Research for Hobbs in Birmingham

Background Hobbs is a store that sells clothes and accessories and it primarily targets wealthy people. The marketing strategy that the firm wants to start for the year 2009 is aimed at raising the footfall. From the analysis from Mosaic, it is clear that Birmingham is a place that has...

An Insecure Open and an Overly Secure Environment in E-Commerce

It is not unusual today for the users of the internet to experience having their private information hacked into, by a third party (Drumheller, 2008). This could either be a systems cracker, or a hacker. Owing to the escalation in these kinds of privacy invasions, there is a need therefore...

Managing the Services Industries

Introduction Each and every industry whether it is service or manufacturing industry operates its business in an environment which comprises of different issues or factors such as the physical environment, tradition and socialization, technology, politics, economics, and social factors. Each type factors have significant impact on almost every aspect of...

Toledo Specialty Glass Problems: Solar Sandwich Project

Abstract This paper examines the problems of Toledo Specialty Glass concerning the Solar Sandwich Project. It analyzes the problem, then proposes solutions supported by business management and innovation theory. The major problems looked at include team making, synergy, motivation, and behavior modification. Introduction Kiernan cites James Brian Quinn in his...

Supranational Model in Human Resource in Asian and Middle Eastern Countries

Summary To trading within nations of one country to another is really complicated for different cultural aspects, economic positions, language and many more. For this reason, it is quite difficult to build IHRM in international concepts. Managers and human resource professionals have to have the knowledge and ability to build...

Accident and Emergency Clinic Department: Management Accounting Analysis

Executive Summary This is a financial report represented for Accident and Emergency clinic department. The report is prepared mainly to be used by the directors of the accident and emergency clinic and is focus on the financial records available as closing of 30th June, 2008. For the preparation of this...

Formulation and Implementation of Organizational Strategy

Introduction Strategy is a long-term plan whose aim is to ensure that the organization achieves its objectives. The major objectives of a business are to offer high-quality services and goods to the customers, make profit and grow. (Peter and meshalam 2006) Strategic plan tries to relate the business with environmental...

Competitive Advantages for Yahoo

Introduction Yahoo is an internet services provider in the global community; it has grown for a period of time now as a portal company. The company has had its share of challenges and success just like any other company in the market. The company has a huge market share and...

Love and fear of the Modern Boss

The article poses the age old question as to which is a more apt leadership style: autocratic or a more benevolent and democratic approach. Snook demonstrates the different leadership styles from a historical perspective. He states that in the 1950s the leadership style was more autocratic with reward and punishment...

Dividend Policy in Business

Rights issues Selling of ordinary shares to the existing shareholders of the company to raise capital is called right issues. The law necessitates that the new ordinary shares must be first issued to the existing shareholders on a pro rata basis. Shareholders through a special resolution can forfeit this pre-emptive...

Austin Reed Group Plc: Understanding the Environment

Austin Reed Group clothing company has been operating successfully in the past years; this is attributed to the well-set standards by the west. Due to this success, the company wants to venture into more International markets like Asia and Africa to seek more opportunities to market and offer its products...

Financial Decision Making for Managers

Introduction Business ethics are standards that are applied to examine certain behaviors in the business processes of corporations. Companies are held accountable if they do no follow ethical guidelines in terms of societal welfare, environmental benefits, and other ethical values. The companies that do not have any sense of responsibility...

Published Profit and Loss and Cash Flow Statements

Introduction According to the American Accounting Association (AAA) it states that accounting refers to the process of identifying, measuring and communicating the economic information so that it can allow the making of informed decisions and judgment that they can be used by the users of the accounting information. The accounting...

Ethical Decisions in Business: Affirmative Action

Introduction The process of making an ethical decision in business often can be regarded as the problem of moral choice. In that sense, business ethics can be referred to as having moral standards as their basis. The issue of ethical decisions in business, however, is more complicated and requires considering...

Coca-Cola Light: Public Relations and Marketing

Introduction Public relations (PR) is one of the tools used by marketers to inform potential consumers about a product and its characteristics. The communications process is concerned with the dissemination of stimuli and their perception, impact, use, and effectiveness. Coca-Cola Light is a sugar-free, low caloricity beverage. For this product,...

Managing Risk: Risks Faced by Multinational Companies

Multinational Companies are the companies that manage the production establishment or delivery services in at least two or more countries. They have a budget that exceeds more than those of other countries and have a powerful influence on international relations and the local economies. They have branches in many countries...

Management Education Is the Key to Successful Career

Introduction Effective and qualitative education is a core of any profession as it gives future private and public employees a chance to master knowledge and skills crucial for effective performance. Management education is important because it supplies future managers and administrators with knowledge and innovative ideas, practical examples and analytical...

General Motors Company’s General Management

Introduction At the time of writing this research essay on 12/12/2008, a proposal of $14 billion bail-out packages for the automobile industry in the U.S.A failed to get its approval from Senate. This has raised fears of imminent auto industry collapse and job losses in the U.S.A. The bail-out plan...

Corporate Social Responsibilities of a Company In India

Introduction This report contains the major corporate social responsibility and environmental issues that the company will encounter when it relocates to India, a developing country. With the changing times, there is a lot of pressure that mounts on companies from the stakeholders i.e. the employees, customers, governments, the communities, and...

Thai-Lay Fashion Co., Ltd Company Strategy

Executive Summary Thai-lay fashion Co. Ltd. is a garment manufacturing company in London. It is engaged in production of garments from 100% organically grown cotton. For exploiting the increasing demand trend of organic cotton garments among the consumer segments in UK, the company aims to follow appropriate marketing and financial...

Leadership and Gender Relations Analysis

Leadership and gender have been seen as opposite issues for a long period of time. A leader’s opportunities to change or enlarge the unit’s domain can also be constrained by prevailing attitudes toward possible new outputs and by the attitudes of subordinates to any changes in the kind of work...

Ocean Transport Capitalizing Interest Costs

SFAS 34 Capitalization of Interest Cost SFAS 34 Capitalization of Interest Cost was enforced in Oct 1979 and laid out standards for capitalization of interest cost as a part of the historical cost of acquiring certain assets. The interest cost that may be material and eligible for capitalization includes the...

Total Quality Management Tools in the Organization

Outline Term Assignment Section I This paper is about the application of Total Quality Management Tools in an organization to help solve a quality issue. The organization chosen is called ‘Dinner Diner’ which is a local restaurant serving local and international cuisine to its customers for over 10 years. Through...

The Most Pressing Issue of Leadership Today

There are innumerable issues and challenges that confront the leaders of today, each of which is engrossing and highly intimidating. Empowerment of work forces, cultural and ethnic diversity, demands of the labor unions are some but of all these issues the most pressing one is the integrity of the leaders...

Shomei Cards Company’s Competitive Advantage

Introduction All organizations within an industry strive to achieve their goals and objective through setting up strategies that are cost effective so as to run their operations effectively. It is therefore important for management of organizations to ensure that they study the environment in which they are conducting their businesses...

Effective Leadership Skills in Practice

It is a common belief that leadership is important for organizations and societies to function. Leadership is an overall activity that is visible in people and even animals. Whereas it is easy to identify leadership in a situation, it is difficult to define it precisely (Avery, p.4). There is no...

Service Delivery System and Successful Franchise

Introduction The concept of franchising is definitely not a new one and can be traced back to the early days of governmental licensing and even the method used by the clergy for the expansion of churches. Modern concepts of franchising emerged in the United States in diverse business areas as...

Thai Lay Fashion Company: Business Plan

Introduction The creation of a new business venture involves different stages. All of these stages constitute a cycle of growth in the total lifecycle of the new venture. Business ventures are always built with long-term objectives. Different levels of business operations are required for achieving the long-term objectives. Suitable business...

Personal Touch Product: Target Audience & Competition

Introduction The product that we propose for marketing and for this project is a unique hair styling solution. Time has become a constraint in every day life. Our busy schedules do not allow us to attend to our personal needs, like getting a haircut. And when we do get time...