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Quality System establishment for a Manufacturing Organization Quality refers to the delivery of projects and products that meet the expectations of all the stakeholders. A project that may meet all the specifications of the client, but may overrun the project or batch schedule hence can not be terminated as a...
Introduction The Report by Equal Opportunities Commission UK, after a study of the number of women in top executive positions has observed that for women to take the position of directors of FTSE 100 companies, just in the same number as men directors, it may take about 60 years. The...
Introduction The main idea of the paper is to identify the major reasons for the success of Exxon Mobil in then world market and trace the major processes that took place in the company’s finance over the past years (Exxon Corporation, 2007). To start with, Exxon Mobil is the largest...
Statement of the problem The financial performance of National Electric Corporation had fallen short of prediction for all the quarters of 1992 as well as for the whole of the year. This was despite the fact that revenues had increased when compared to the previous year. The problem was even...
Introduction Social responsibility is about how business aligns their values and behavior with the expectations and needs of stakeholders and not just customers and investors but also employees, suppliers and communities and other special groups and society as a whole. CSR describes a company’s commitment to be accountable to its...
The topic selected here for the research is how Coca-Cola Company overcame the public criticism and business conflict with its main competitor Pepsi in respect of promotion of the so-called “Coca-Cola Stuff”.” The paper will examine the efficiency and the very essence of the new marketing strategy by one of...
Introduction This cased study intends at sifting out and discussing the qualities of leadership in organizing and managing the disarrayed relations in the hospital service providers in California State from 1985 to 1996. C. Duane Dauner on his assumption of charge as the President of California Healthcare Association organized all...
Introduction Clive Peeters Ltd of Australia is one of the leading retail chains in the country dealing in a variety of electronic and white-goods. The Company deals over 140 brands with nearly 20,000 different products. Their products include computers and electronics, home entertainment, household appliances like refrigerators, washing machines and...
Size A fortune 500 company has been in activity for 500 years in the western world having a tiny fraction of human civilization time span. They have been producing material wealth with immense success and are the major vehicle for the sustenance of world population that is exploding because of...
Being able to get the right direction and getting other people to follow one towards attaining a common objective, instilling a sense of responsibility in them, and obligating them to what they do, is called leadership. (Business Dictionary,2008) It can also be viewed as a vibrant correlation founded on shared...
Introduction This paper seeks to evaluate the performance measurements of Exxon Mobil Corporation using its financial statements for the years 2005, 2006, and 2007. Financial analysis will be conducted to extract relevant ratios from the company’s financial statements for purposes of making this paper. Analysis and Discussion The extracted ratios...
Recommendations The procurement authority should adapt fixed-price lump-sum contracts where cost over-runs are met solely by the contractor in case of any. Introducing this new direction in the procurement and bidding world will be fundamental to protecting taxpayers from such risks. Armstrong and Sambamurthy (2006) assert that risk-sharing between the...
Introduction Social responsibility refers to the ethical theory that a business entity, whether governmental or individual, is responsible to society. The responsibility of an organization can be positive or negative. Positive responsibility means that the organization is under obligation to act while negative means that the organization has the responsibility...
Introduction In the conditions of a sharp aggravation of competition and the diminution of the influence on its outcome by the price factors, the position of the separate companies mostly depends on the efficiency and the quality of their personnel’s work. Modern management should consider comprehensively the essential growth of...
Introduction The financial performance ratios look at how well a company has been able to turn its assets into revenues as well as how efficiently a company converts its sales into cash. (Investopedia) The purpose of calculating and analyzing these ratios is to have an insight into the company’s financial...
Introduction Spirited Company Pty Ltd is a startup company located in Minneapolis that offers game and consulting services. The company has a dynamic management team that will be responsible for overseeing its daily operations. Furthermore, a team-oriented and client-focused staff of three, that is, two computer programmers and a part-time...
Introduction Employee motivation in business and industries is vital for best performance and achieving objectives. However, it is an aspect often overlooked or reliant upon outdated and traditional methods of motivation which have little consideration for social psychology, or the type of work performed. Different industries and sectors require different...
Introduction At the beginning of the 21st century, the traditional male breadwinner model has changed towards greater participation of women in the labor force and new policies introduced by Australian companies to support families. In effect, even under the most generous provision, available only to a small proportion of the...
Introduction Young workers are more vulnerable to exploitation as compared to old workers. This exploitation is base on payment and working conditions among other workplace issues. Many employees intentionally abuse the young worker’s rights, and subsequently expose them to brutal exploitation. Main text Employers have power over their employees, whether...
Introduction Performance measurement is vital in all organizations because the organizations need to verify the validity of the selection methods; they also need to do performance measurement in order to improve productivity of the organization. As much as this may seem an important and key aspect of management, still it...
Working capital management is often adopted as a strategic managerial accounting function. The main objective of working capital management is to maintain efficient levels of the two components of working capital – current assets and current liabilities – concerning each other. By efficiently managing its working capital the firm would...
Introduction Performance appraisal serves the purpose of having a deeper look into the performance delivered and efforts applied by the employee. It provides an opportunity for the management to review the performances of the workforce and reward the deserving ones while providing opportunities for improvement. Though there are several performance...
Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks These jobs are three of the most important in the company. Any company of whatever industry always fills these positions as soon as the company operations have started. It is revealed that these positions are offered in many different ways like temporary, contractual, or full-time....
Introduction More and more people are earning their livelihood by working staying at home. Work-at-home manufacturing is flourishing with a miscellaneous huge of profits earning chances. Workers from back-office data entry to supervision staff are able to achieve part or all of their works at home. The telecommuting alternative is...
Early in June, Nike released its empowering advertisement ahead of the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2019 hosted in France. The ad features the biggest names of the tournament, including Sam Kerr, an Australian association football player, and Andressa Alves, a Brazilian footballer. The young star of the given commercial is...
Introduction In the modern world, it is very popular to be involved in business activity. While social and mass media proclaim new business trends, business conferences, meetings, and workshops are held by various companies in different parts of the world. The words as “businessman” or “businesswoman” become more and more...
Introduction It is not easy to find a person without a smartphone in 2019. However, just a few decades ago, this was hardly the case: most of the world used wired phones. When precisely the change came around is difficult to say. IBM introduced the first device characterized as a...
Introduction: Customer service philosophies Retail merchandise involves the sale of goods from a fixed location or by post for direct consumption by the buyer. Retail industry has brought in unique changes in the whole process of production, distribution and consumption of consumer goods all over the world. In the nine...
Introduction Mergers and acquisitions are common types of strategic alliances aimed to improve strategic position of the company and its competitiveness. The article”Factors affecting the role of HR managers in international mergers and acquisitions” by Antila and Kakkonen vividly portrays the role and importance of human resource management in international...
Introduction The main competitors of Nine West are Etienne Aigner, Inc. Brown Shoe Company, Inc.; Kenneth Cole Productions, Inc.; Candies, Inc.; Maxwell Shoe Company Inc. Thus, the paper will be centered only on three of them which have an impact on the company’s sales and market position. Brown Shoe Company...
Introduction Nintendo financial statements are lacking corporate social responsibility, which is important in the modern corporate world. This information is vital for the current corporate world Social responsibility. Take two interactive software as a section of social responsibility. Corporate social responsibility is described below. Social responsibility concerning the management of...
Executives use many strategies to achieve competitive advantage. Some of the strategies include Cost leadership, Differentiation, Innovation, Growth and alliance strategies. Business managers use investments in Information technology to directly support a firm’s competitive advantage. Information technology can be used to achieve competitive advantage by developing inter enterprise information systems,...
Introduction This letter addresses one of the crucial concerns that real estate organizations face in the global market. As a developing company, this firm needs to consider the issue of data management in the real estate setting to develop a competitive advantage. Because of the challenges that the processing of...
Communication is the exchange of messages between people for the purpose of achieving common meanings. In their work, managers use two major types of communication, verbal and nonverbal. Verbal communication is the written or oral use of words to communicate. While written communication occurs through a variety of means, such...
In many ways, as members of management, we find we must conform to rules typically referred to as policies, procedures, and/or simple acts of kindness (courtesies). We assume this responsibility as the governing body for the hundreds of guests that we welcome through our doors every day of the year....
The overall market position Ryanair LTD is one of the most competitive companies, offering the cheapest flights within Europe. Offering more than 500 destinations, the company’s strong side is providing the possibility to travel freely for the middle-class population, and people below the middle-class level. In the confirmation of these...
On the way to organizational development, the introduction of relevant changes in the workflow and control over their implementation are integral components. In the healthcare sector, the principle of transition to new strategies based on previously supported methods is the practice that also requires detailed planning and monitoring. The concept...
Abstract The dissertation is aimed at examining different logistics employed by the Dell from time to time. In this regard the paper looks at the role and importance of logistics for the companies and also studies the trends of logistics in the business community. The study is conducted by employing...
Abstract Information management plays a critical role in modern business as it provides opportunities for better cooperation with customers and analysis. For this reason, managers’ top priority is the creation of effective systems that will be able to consider all existing factors. In this regard, the presented paper is devoted...
The manner in which a specific cost reacts to changes in the levels of activity can be described as ‘cost behavior’. It is possible that the cost may remain the same or may change in direct proportion to a change in the level of activity. Managerial decisions on creating a...
Statement of the problem The cement industry is rapidly consolidating and stiff competition is prevalent among the top five key players who are fighting for scarce acquisition targets and CEMEX executives should look for ways of accelerating the company grow to new and higher levels. Statement of the argument As...
Executive Summary FDI investment in the automobile industry is a looming trend due to the increasing cost of production in developed countries. So, we target emerging economies that provide new markets of opportunity as well as incredibly lower production costs. For the research of our car company, we chose two...
Rhetoric is used throughout the advertisement series for the Apple computers that first started coming out about a year ago. The first commercial features two men standing in an empty white room. There are no other colors, no walls, and no distractions from these two guys. One introduces himself as...
Introduction Market analysis is a prerequisite for any company or business that considers entering into a new market segment. Market analysis can reveal the market share, market trends, segmentation of services and products, market size, market growth, just to mention but a few. The analysis is important because it gives...
Despite coming from an engineering background, I’ve always had a strong inclination towards sales and marketing. This has effectively led me to a career as a sales engineer. After having significant exposure to the consumer durables industry, in the realm of engineering and sales support roles, I have experienced the...
Personal and impersonal communication has a great impact on the brand and influences consumers in different ways: it shapes their tastes and views, knowledge about the product and its perception (Lance and Woll, p. 34). The main paid impersonal communication tools used by Nine west are billboards, radio and television...
Current research deals with analysis of HR practices and procedures that are the most appropriate for the retention of labor force. Changing market relations which can be described as a result of globalization process and flexible labor regulation and market impose new challenges to HR specialists which are to elaborate...
The fitness club industry is a thriving trade that according to research produced over $10.6 billion last year and is unsurprising to carry on its current trend. The opening Courts is conservatively projecting a $65,000+ net profit in its first year of the process with this number growing to over...
Introduction The manufacturing industry is considered very important in the global economy at large. It faces stiff competition and has therefore undergone tremendous changes in preparation for the competition. New technologies have been developed giving rise to new products and designs. New processes and systems of manufacturing have also contributed...
Case Scenario Being a manager I feel that the Motivational Potential of DHC’s family-friendly compensation program should be applied to each store for the growth of its business. Even before advertising or closing the majority of their store brands to think on running Target, the previous Dayton-Hudson Corporation unspoken that...
Introduction The organization chosen is Macy’s departmental stores. The company was founded in the year 1858 by Rowland Hussey Macy in Massachusetts. It has seven divisions in forty five states within the country except five. It provides a wide range of retail products that include cosmetics, furniture, clothing, jewelry and...
Introduction This part begins with a set of fundamental ethical principles that have found general international acceptance. Next is a brief list of general principles of informatics ethics that follow from these fundamental ethical principles when these are applied to the electronic gathering, processing, storing, communicating, using, manipulating and accessing...
Introduction This paper shows the basics of a victorious counterinsurgency strategy by applying a method recognized as systems thinking. The basics of good strategic thought lie together in recognizing the mass significant interactions flanked by dissimilar players, how they authority each other in unforeseen ways, and how to gauge progress...
Purpose and Scope The purpose of this study is to have a broad look at the consumer behavior while analyzing the buyer psyche and the basis behind their decisions. The study also tries to focus on the different stages of decision making before buying a product. The broad objective of...
Effective working with teams has proved to be the key factor for success in modern high-tech entrepreneurial organizations. Working in teams enhances individual performance, individual satisfaction and results in the accomplishment of both long term and short term organizational goals and visions. Thus, effective utilization of the individual human resources...
Introduction The organization recognizes, employs and supports dual-career couples, especially those who show commitment to the growth and success of the company. Definition: Dual career couples Dual-career couples refers to couples whose both parties are professionals and desire to work while they have family needs that require them to be...
Leadership may be naturally something born in a person, or it may be developed as one grows up. Leaders have got a distinguishing characteristic that makes them successful in their work. Otherwise, they greatly fail the organization. I do choose bush w. George as a leader because he on examining...
Introduction Home depot is seen as the world’s largest home improvement retailer which has many branches in China and France and two leading French retailers. It caters to construction and building maintenance. Having over forty thousand different kinds of materials for building and improved home supplies and also garden products....
At the beginning of the 21st century, leadership still remains a complex issue involving administration, management, directing, and control mechanisms. In the business sphere, leading is the most basic of activity because it determines objectives and purposes. The unique abilities of a leader may take a person to the top...
Introduction Marketing management nowadays is an integral part of a successful business. Any company which aims to succeed within the range of services it represents is obliged to abide by all the necessary rules of marketing management. Marketing management is a business authority focused on the empirical submission of marketing...
Overview The following paper shows a critical analysis of theories and practices of the compatibilities within diversity, equality and HRM. In an era of international networking and mobility, the social and cultural composition of communities in which people live and work is becoming increasingly diverse. (Kram et al., 1996, 108-136)...
Introduction Ethics is not something novel for people in business. Nevertheless, until recently, accountability for setting standards for the manner of business and certifying that economic wealth was impartially shared was assumed by governments acting individually or collectively through international institutions. This distribution of responsibilities, however, is speedily changing under...
Consumer behavior is one of the most important subjects, especially in the field of marketing. It mainly deals with the study of how people choose to buy a certain product, what, when, and why they buy. In fact, it is a multidisciplinary subject that blends elements from psychology, sociology, socio-psychology,...
Introduction The Gross Domestic Product of a nation is the total value of the goods manufactured and services provided in the nation. As shown in Figure 1, the Real Gross Domestic Product differs from the Nominal Gross Domestic Product, in that the former quantifies the total value in relation to...
Introduction As the question of legitimacy in the rights and use of intellectual property rights continues to hit the entertainment industry, there is however a lack of comprehensive supportive data on the same. Every aspect of excessive use of these rights by the consumers in the entertainment industry remains unknown....
Introduction The ability to timely solve problems arising at different stages of work is a valuable quality that is particularly relevant in a competitive business environment. As a result of the implementation of the necessary steps and improvement mechanisms, heads of organizations can achieve not only a transition to sustainable...
Project management change is the comprehensive policy that helps in planning capabilities that speed up the implementation of changes in business in order to reduce risks and disruptions ( www.remedy.com). The process maintains the views of all associated requests and service requirements showing the full business context of change operations...
Introduction The selected article states that artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the technologies that introduce radical changes in the functioning of contemporary society. It provides computers with an opportunity to make choices, decisions, predictions, and adapt to any situation by analyzing data and acting most effectively. For this reason,...
Article Summary The use of managerial accounting opens vast opportunities to organizations regarding their decision-making, which includes investment options, and management of financial assets as a whole. In their article, Butler and Ghosh study the factors that define the efficacy of managerial accounting on the business performance of an organization...
Introduction Absenteeism and lateness are wide-spread and yet significant issues in any professional sphere. However, such problems acquire more importance when they occur in the healthcare field, where the value of time is determined by the urgency of patients’ needs. In general, poor discipline in a medical department might be...
Introduction Due to the rapid development of advanced technologies and modern production in enterprises, new issues, regarding environment and society appeared. In most cases, high-technology production is accompanied by massive air and water pollutions, which appears to be extremely detrimental to the environment and the population’s health. As employees present...
Introduction Divestment is the practice used to minimize unnecessary losses related to subsidiary assets and prevent detrimental effects on core businesses. As it follows from the case of Target, the company failed to stand out from its competitors when serving customers in Canada and had to give up its subsidiary...
The article tilted Dow Chem to Turn Pune Unit into R&D Hub provided by the India Supply Chain Council reports about “Dow Chemicals plans to develop its Pune unit into a global research and development centre.” (India Supply Chain Council) The would-be center will focus on a wide range of...
Looking at Joe’s Redhots’ turnover, we can deduce that the firm is strong and has potential for further growth. The risk in extending loan to the firm is minimal considering the tools the firm has been using. The repayment method will need to be decided and the rate of return...
Introduction The U.S. commercial airline industry and the brand positioning efforts associated with it present an interesting topic that has not been researched extensively. This essay analyses three commercial airline brands, such as American Airlines, Alaska Airlines, and United Airlines. The brands are studied with reference to market positioning decisions,...
Sugar is one of the most basic commodities used in every household around the globe. Moreover, the widespread consumption of fast food and sugar-rich products, including chocolate and sugary drinks, has pushed the demand for sugar higher over the past decades. Hence, the sugar trading industry is believed to be...
Introduction Phillips Financial Services is a fast-growing consulting company that currently employees fifty people of diverse backgrounds and cultures. The main issue of this business is the need to structure and formalize the operational activities to ensure that new staff members can be successfully integrated into the work environment. Based...
Analysis of The All Geeks’ Competitors One of the most significant local competitors of The All Geeks is the Warehouse. The company can be considered one of the largest retailers in New Zealand; its products are presented under different brand names. This year, the company launched its sixth brand, TheMarket,...
Introduction As an Emergency Department manager of a small community hospital, it is critical to understand that the budgeting process had to be conducted carefully and thoroughly. The main reason is the fact that small towns usually get a limited amount of funding or revenue, which is why the Emergency...
Introduction Corporate social responsibility, as well as environment-consciousness, have been buzzwords for many business organizations and for consumers for a long time now. As issues on the well-being of all parties involved in the product cycle, from manufacturing, delivery to consumption, and even post-consumption, become an integrated part of the...
Miller Brewery Co is the second-largest beer company in the US, located in Milwaukee. The company was founded in 1855. In a century, the company was merged by W.R. Grace and Co. And in 1969, it was acquired by Phillip Morris. The next changes took place in 2002 when Phillip...
The case study in question provides an example of a situation in which a person is promoted to a supervisory position and put in charge of a group of colleagues. Julie has been working as a nurse for eight years, and now the woman is appointed nurse manager. The woman...
Introduction Technology provides the management with an option to change their businesses processes in order to improve on efficiency and quality. But it’s only half of the effort that will have things done in a better, faster and easier way. Its maximum benefits are felt when business processes are improved....
Introduction Culture can be looked at as a pattern, or general ways of doing things in a community, society, or organization. It consists of fundamental values that people in the organization learned as they solved their problems of external and internal integration. These values worked well enough to be considered...
Introduction What really can be given to a well-off client to show that you recognize and appreciate their business? You might think of filling their hotel suite with caviar or the best champagne as a welcome gift but again if that is what they wanted, they would have ordered it...
History Portfolio Leisure Ltd is a private company, established in 1996, to run a hotel and leisure center which was converted from a manor house by Carapace Petroleum plc. The house has been modified by providing a lot of facilities that match the requirements of a leisure center. It includes...
Introduction High employee turnover or attrition rate in any organization is a problem area for its management and one of its main aims will be to keep this at the level at least with industry standards. This paper deals with the high employee turnover found in the hospitality industry and...
Introduction This paper is about the recent news article that appeared in Fox Business, titled ‘Mitsubishi Motors announces Production, Sales and Export Figures for January 2008 (dated February 26th, 2008). The news article gives detailed figures for the company’s performance for January 2008. Figures include its global production, domestic and...
Recruitment, as a human resource management function, is one of the activities that impact most critically on the performance of an organization. Recruitment is the process of finding and attracting capable applicants for employment to form a pool of job seekers from whom the right people for the right job...
Project Introduction and Objectives Orpic is one of the largest organizations in the Sultanate of Oman and one of the fastest growing oil and petroleum companies. Partly, its success is explained by its strategic location on the axis of GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council), Asia, and Africa. Political and economic stability...
Purpose The Café Bar is committed to offering and preserving a secure and prolific work atmosphere, liberated from the unfavorable consequences of drugs and alcohol. As such employees who report to work having used or whilst weakened by drugs or alcohol can be a security risk to themselves and others,...
Introduction In the past two decades Kenya had experienced under development, hopelessness, poverty had increased unemployment had become rampant, insecurity almost in most homesteads, hunger among the poor, health condition of the people had declined, corruption and bad governance had become entrenched as the people. The oppression of the people...
Introduction Principles of Organizational Behaviour 4e: Glossary by Oxford University Press suggests the following definition of professionalism: Professionalism is the process by which given occupations become professions, in the sense of attaining professional status (Oxford University Press 2005). Kultgen (1988) in the research titled Ethics and Professionalism claims that “Professionalism...
“Culture: the way we do things around here” (Deal & Kennedy, 2003, p. 501).” Much of the current strategic management writing and that of the recent past has been preoccupied with a focus on corporate culture. The discussion not only centres on the question of whether corporate culture affects organisational...
Introduction The Missouri minimum wage was rated at $6.50 per hour with effect from January 1, 2007. This wage is seen to have lost much of its effectiveness because its real purchasing power has extremely fallen to low levels over the interviewing years. Main text During the last nine years...
Executive Summary The automobile industry has faced many transformations for the last fifty years and this transformation has led to the change of supply chain used. This evolution has produced stylish and expensive motor vehicles like the sedan. One of the characteristic of sedan is the ability of transformations and...
Statement of the Problem Pittsburg wishes to carry out the business expansion, and they have targeted Ted’s Hot Dog Restaurant as one of the investments. Currently, the company is the market leader in New York, and Ted’s Hot Dog Restaurant is a restaurant in and around the Buffalo area of...
Abstract Recently, the managing board of Acme-Antiroadrunner Inc. discovered that three of its employees were using marijuana recreationally and were present in the workplace while under the influence. They work for different branches of the company in states with varying freedoms of cannabis use. The following paper contains an overview...
Introduction After nearly two decades as CEO and chairman of the board, Michael Eisner faced an internal corporate challenge. This work is aimed at researching organizational governance conflicts, disagreements in the highest echelons of power of Walt Disney, and leadership qualities. Also, the history of the conflict is closely connected...
Introduction The most important concern with linking computers together is this increases the information system’s vulnerability to data security risks. Because of this vulnerability, computer bugs, DoS attacks, and intrusion in data systems are commonplace (Agrafiotis, Nurse, Goldsmith, Creese, & Upton, 2018). The public now knows conscious of computer security...
There is a variety of industries involved in the distribution of consumer goods that are purchased by end customers. The brewery industry is among multiple markets that sell ready-to-drink products. Nowadays, beer is one of the most popular beverages in the world, and its production continues to increase, especially in...
Introduction Entering a foreign market provides several advantages for a business, such as mitigating the impact of volatility in the home state and increasing the demand for products. One path of growth for a company is entering new markets, which provides access to more consumer opportunities in regards to sales...
Introduction In business, it is vital to change and adapt to innovation, and it is also crucial to be able to adequately assess the potential of these changes when developing a strategic plan for a firm. SWOT analysis is among the commonly used techniques in business that allow one to...
Introduction Sky Clear Airline is a company specialising in commercial aviation. The organisation operates in local and international markets. This essay will present the analysis of Sky Clear Airline using the Balanced Scorecard tool, McKinsey 7, SWOT analysis and PESTLE analysis. In addition, the paper will address the issues of...
Introduction Business ethics is fundamental to management as it affects organizational culture and long-term success. Ethical decision-making is also essential for organizations to maintain the transparency and trust of their clients. Still, in making ethical decisions, managers must consider the consequences of various actions and alternatives. In the case provided,...
The 21st century is the age of high technology and rapid development. The world is changing, and transformations affect all areas of society. Someone seeks to keep up with innovations, someone, on the contrary, adheres to a conservative position. The problem of “fathers and children” has existed in the world...
Introduction The article being reviewed is Strategic Shared Leadership and Organizational Dynamic Capabilities by Christos N. Pitelis and Joachim D. Wagner. It was published in volume 30 of The Leadership Quarterly journal in 2019. Its purpose is to analyze literature and concepts regarding strategic decision-making in the context of shared...
Constant focus on exploring new opportunities and bringing something new to different levels of society are the core characteristics of every entrepreneurship. Today, numerous businesses exist in various industries around the globe, and the presence of social enterprises plays a significant role in multiple fields. According to Thomson and Doherty,...
Introduction Effective organisational activities involve the coordinated work of all stakeholders, including both managers and employees. Achieving success is impossible if individual team members are not willing to take responsibility for their immediate duties and diligently carry out the tasks assigned to them. In order to assess the relevance of...
Introduction to the Problem Within the sphere of operations management, paying attention to transformational processes within organisations is considered fundamental. Operations management represents a set of actions ranging from planning to supervising in order to make adjustments leading to the higher profitability of organisations (Galloway, Rowbotham & Azhashemi 2012). Transformation...
Critical Reflection Introduction The social economy develops as a response to societal issues that cannot be addressed through traditional businesses and approaches. This paper reflects on the purpose of social enterprises, more specifically focusing on co-operatives and mutuals and their validity and capability to generate profits for the owners. The...
One may not always pause and pay attention to the way in which smoking has been and is being portrayed. Tobacco advertisements are hidden in plain sight, which may create an illusion that no promotions are occurring at all, with tobacco use integrated into a storyline as a valuable plot...
Technological advances, changes in legal systems, and demand for personalized care pose new challenges for financial management in the healthcare industry. Planning and budgeting, monitoring, and evaluation are critical processes in the financial management cycle. Understanding these processes is a foundation for building an organization’s strategy. In this essay, I...
Supply chain management requires continuous improvement and monitoring of the quality of resources and operations within production. However, failures or miscommunication between a supplier and a client occur sometimes and cause an interruption in processes. A crisis simulation case shows the situation with a company that sells building materials to...
Introduction The total quality or the so-called total quality management is a methodology whose goal is to achieve the organizational effectiveness of the work team. Pillars of total quality are the three underlying principles of customer focus, continuous improvement, and teamwork. Understanding, applying, and following these three aspects allow the...
Contemporary organisations face a large number of issues connected to globalisation and the need to develop leadership skills that will allow responding to the challenge. Unfortunately, many practices, approaches, tools, and competencies that were appropriate several decades ago no longer help leaders achieve success. This paper aims to outline the...
The Appendix presents the staffing plan and individuals responsible for each aspect of this project in the form of the Roles and Responsibilities Matrix (RAM). Several criteria can be applied to choose the appropriate candidate for the role of information technology professional because prior experience mentoring or coaching teams is...
Introduction A strong competitive advantage is an absolute must in an environment filled with a plethora of companies and where the production costs are comparatively cheap. Madécasse has been long known for its locally produced chocolate of the finest quality, yet the firm may have stumbled upon a problem. Due...
Introduction The ability to reduce the time required to explain a task to an employee and track its completion can significantly affect the efficiency of the company and improve the bottom line. This project aims to improve the current practices used in the company and implement a new approach to...
Organisational culture is crucial to the success of any company since it shapes employees’ attitudes and behaviours, as well as organisational values and internal processes. However, corporate culture does not exist in a vacuum; it is influenced by the external context of the organisation, including the local culture. HSBC Holdings...
Introduction Carillion plc was a large construction company in the United Kingdom that conducted activities in various locations around the world. Throughout the early 2010s, it grew via a series of acquisitions and public projects. However, concern over impairment losses emerged in 2016, which the company initially dismissed. Auditors that...
The development of information technology has prompted significant changes in the way people live in work. In particular, the Internet provided opportunities for people to communicate and collaborate across borders, thus forming the basis of virtual teams. The use of virtual teams offers many benefits to businesses since it allows...
Abstract Dubailand is one of the mega that Dubai Holding has ever taken over the past decade. Initiated in 2003, it faced financial constraints that forced the company to halt operations in 2008. The company has sourced the needed funding and the project is currently underway. The study focused on...
Introduction Each successful organization considers its achievements as a result conducting coherent and prepared steps. It recognizes a developed and appropriate plan as a foundation of all business affairs. Planning might be defined as an assessment of an organization’s goals in terms of what resources are required and whether they...
Introduction The main purpose of a supplier evaluation process is to find the inefficiencies and optimize these weak points. Production processes in various fields of economic activity acquire more complex forms, lose their integrity from the regional to the global level, are formed by new factors that have a significant...
Executive Summary In a modern globalised environment, businesses encounter a variety of cultures which can create challenges for their operations. Cultural competency and ethical leadership serve as critical elements for the growth and success of a company. This report examines a case study from a perspective of culture, particularly its...
Introduction Modern business players are aware of the potential benefits of cooperating with one another, as well as of pitfalls that such collaboration may hide. To avoid emergency situations and lead one’s organisation effectively, company owners exploit strategic planning, project management, and risk management on a daily basis. Each of...
Introduction Family Hui Hawaii (FHH) is a nonprofit organization located in Oahu that aims to prevent child abuse and neglect by engaging parents and caregivers of young children in parenting support groups. The vision of the organization is that “every family is equipped with the knowledge and support systems needed...
Time pressure and the increased number of responsibilities and issues to control may cause a serious reduction in the quality of the end product. Therefore, for a project to be successfully implemented, the introduction of task management software is essential. However, the designated change is fraught with multiple issues in...
Expediency of Transition to Logistics Outsourcing in the Manufacturing Industry Today, many enterprises involved in the manufacturing industry transfer the authority to perform their key logistics functions to outsourcing firms. According to Cortinhal, Lopes, and Melo (2015), this trend is due to the fact that such companies are ready to...
Introduction Total quality management (TQM) is a structural approach to organizational management. Among the key aspects that TQM is thought to positively impact are identifying, reducing, and eliminating errors in manufacturing, facilitating supply chain management, and increasing customer satisfaction. The philosophy of work within the TQM framework is based on...
Introduction Stimulating employees to work effectively with the necessary level of dedication is one of the most significant areas of activity for managers whose business is based on using the workforce. Implementing the necessary strategies to increase motivation, creating sustainable systems of control over diligence, and similar organizational tasks form...
Summary As a method of managing expenses within an organization, the activity-based costing (ABC) approach has warranted the status of a popular tool for managing accounting issues by transforming indirect costs into direct ones. In their study, Esmalifalak, Albin, and Behzadpoor (2015) scrutinize how the sources of uncertainty associated with...
Introduction Control and risk frameworks enable entities to evaluate risks to ensure that their process is conducted effectively and efficiently. The Committee of Sponsoring Organizations (COSO) framework was founded in 1985 to back the National Committee on Fraudulent Fraud Reporting (D’Aquila, 2013). It was later updated in 2013. The framework...
A well-constructed and carefully laid out budget is an essential part of any project since it helps to allocate the key resources and costs in an orderly fashion. Thus, key risks can be avoided or balanced out with the help of appropriate techniques (Hilton, 2016). As a former teacher at...
Introduction Only You is a mobile app that allows its users to have quick access to the digital copies of their clothes from a mobile device. The central idea of the application is that it lets the user scan or enter barcodes of the clothes and store them in a...
Introduction Sephora is one of the most prominent companies in the beauty industry. Just like other market players that focus on creating a positive brand image, Sephora designs and implements a range of efforts that help explain the positive outcomes of purchasing from the brand to the target customers. This...
Market Definition The Community Health Program (CHP) of the American Heart Association and hypertension (AHA) is designed to enter Phoenix, AZ, healthcare market. The market consists of six segments: health care providers, health care insurers, ancillary providers, educational institutions, research institutions, and non-government organizations (NGOs). As AHA is an NGO,...
Introduction The population of the elderly people in the United Kingdom and many other developed countries in Europe and North America has been in a consistent rise over the past decades. Improved healthcare systems, technological development among other human development index factors have extended life expectancy in these countries (Goodwin...
Introduction The circular economy is a theoretical concept that aims at creating an industrial system. Businesses are becoming increasingly aware of the benefits of this concept and see it as a mechanism for generating competitive advantage. This article’s main idea is to address the implications of the supply chain in...
Introduction In large companies, it often happens that it is necessary to make emergency marketing decisions, and for this purpose, project teams gather. Evaluating the performance of the project team is a critical factor in determining whether it is possible to solve the assigned tasks. Formed teams go through several...
The article “The CPA’s role in forming benefit corporations” by Benson, Thomas, and Burton revolves around the benefit corporations and the role CPA plays in their formation and further evolution. Social benefit enterprises can be considered an essential feature of the modern business world as they are focused on the...
The present-day business environment is highly volatile, and the trends and factors that constantly emerge at both national and international levels can substantially affect companies’ economies and performance. Thus, evaluation and prediction of environmental changes and timely response to them in a way that prevents loss and maximises opportunities to...
Nowadays, many people make purchases through the Internet, and according to Chen et al. (2018), nearly 15% of online shoppers are subscribed to receive certain products regularly. The subscription e-commerce market “has grown by more than 100 percent a year over the past five years” and allowed retailers generate billions...
Summary Creating a new product that is expected to fascinate customers in the food industry is both exciting and challenging. Numerous opportunities for combining existing flavors and creating new ones, as well as exploring different cuisines, are barely possible to embrace, yet the competition and restrictions that product development in...
The Small Business Administration (SBA) is a principal federal agency involved in import and export promotion. The four primary activities are undertaken by the organization that aims to promote small business exports consist of outreach, counseling, and training, trade leads, and financing. However, this paper seeks to evaluate the small...
Introduction In light of unsatisfactory performance in GrowCo’s design engineering department, the company approved a short-term incentive compensation plan. The plan is aimed at improving engineers’ performance by rewarding them with an annual pay bonus based on three key factors: unexcused absences, adherence to schedule deadlines, and drawing quality. This...
Introduction Marketing analysis of any company’s performance allows for a comprehensive and broad understanding of its primary field of work, advantages, and strategies. Some large profit-oriented corporations employ extensive marketing plans within which their tactics for the exploitation of the target market are demonstrated. Nike Inc., as one of the...
Introduction The articles that will be discovered in this paper mainly cover the topic of training and development of staff in healthcare establishments. Each material has its methods of research, objectives, focus, and peculiarities. Nevertheless, given the fact that the scholar works deal with a similar topic and provide interdependent...
Training and development are vital in the modern world when the market has become competitive. As such, I need to equip my team of managers traveling to Poland with the necessary skills so that they handle their operations in the foreign location successfully. Before visiting any new field, individuals must...
