An Assessment of Statefarm’s’ Labor Market

Introduction This paper presents a detailed assessment of the labor market from which the Statefarm Insurance Company draws its employees. The report looks at the size and demographics of the labor market as well as the specific career qualifications of the employees. The report also assesses the level and appropriateness...

Moller Skycar’s Marketing Mix: Promotion

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

Palm Inc.’s Strategic Company Analysis

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

Remuneration Issues in the Organization: CEO Compensation

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

Kudler Fine Foods Company’s Environmental Scan

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

Pivotal Group and Sterling Chemicals, Inc.: Acquisition Strategy

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

Organizational Design in the Hotels

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

Innovation in Operation Management – Personal Experience

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

General Electric’s Global Research

Introduction “Imagination at work” (General Electric, 2010, para. 3) is the slogan for General Electric’s research and development arm, GE Research. The company has lived up to this phrase if the number of innovations and patents coming from it are anything to go by. Edison, one of the company’s researchers,...

Alternative Energy Industry’s Competition Dynamics

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

“Determined To Take Charge” by Brae Canlen: The Lowe’s Home Improvement Store Chain

Introduction In April 2008, when residential mortgages had already essentially dried up and the collapse of the housing market raised the curtain on the current recession, Brae Callen assessed the prospects at the Lowe’s home improvement store chain with this piece in the trade periodical, Home Channel News. The title,...

The Leak of Customer Data at Bookmart

Current Situation Internet is one of the main sources of information in the modern world. Still, there are a great many different problems that occur with the easy accessibility of the information. Information protection, in general, is considered to be one of the main problems of the modern world. The...

Country of Origin Effects on the Consumer Decisions

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

Canada Entry Strategy Into a Chinese Foreign Market

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

Classic Airlines and Marketing

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

Urban Outfitters Continuing: Creating a Business

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

PeopleSoft Software and HR.net Enterprise Software

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

Decision Building in Paradise Business Scenario

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

Key Concepts Of Compensation And Benefit 401k Plan

401k plan is an employee retirement scheme sponsored by employers and is also known as the defined contribution retirement scheme provided under section 401k of the Internal Revenue Code. This paper looks at the advantages of the 401k plan to employees, effective presentation and orientation to new employees, and the...

Lesson and Recommendations After British Airways Strike

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

Job Analysis and its Purposes

According to the Conspiracy Doctrine, trade unions were associated with illegal conspired groups that should be therefore removed and subjected to punishment. As it could be seen, the trade unions were hampered and oppressed purposefully by the companies that were striving to increase their capital and power. Another legal instrument...

Personal Leadership Style: Supportive Style

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

Managing in a Multicultural Context

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

Governing Business Activity: Small and Big Firms Relationship

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

JM Smuckers Company: Strategic Implementation

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

Cross-Cultural Management in the Companies

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

Web-Based Prototype of the E-Business Activity

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

The Role of Environmental Management in Company

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

Quality Staffing for Success of Company

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

Entrepreneurship: The Dale Gray Story

Even though most people dream about setting-up and running their own business at one point in their lives, not so many of them actually get to accomplish this dream. For most people with these dreams, the development sale and eventual use of a certain product or service that is to...

Job Description for Project Manager

Every team needs a good leader. The reason is not to grant an individual with superiority and authority but to have someone who the team can report to, complain to and get motivation from. Such a leader needs to have the skills and intelligence to handle such a task. In...

Gap Analysis: Global Communications

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

Computer Systems: Insourcing and Outsourcing

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

Economy Warm-up and Supply Chain

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

Interaction of Legality and Morals in Business

Introduction What is the correlation between legal regulatory norms and the norms of morals? Under the term legal regulatory norms, it is understood as the obligatory, and formally defined rule of behavior established or authorized and protected by the state. Morals – a major social institution is one of the...

Western Culture, on the Case of Wal-Mart

Over time it has been evidenced that western companies impose their corporate culture on the environments and individuals, within foreign locations where these companies are located; despite the cultural differences that should be put into consideration to allow for the thrive of the host country’s corporate culture. The case of...

Seeds of Innovation – Change Strategies

There are many efforts that are aimed at creating change in the management of an organization. Most of these efforts use any of the three change strategies which are programmatic, continuous and emergent. Each of the aforementioned change strategies can employ the tools that are used in project management although...

Phoria Pictures: Independent Film Company Brand Identity

Identity Who (Company Background) The company described in this paper is titled Phoria Pictures. It is an independent company dealing in the multimedia area. The specific focus points for Phoria Pictures include the production and distribution of feature length films (movies ranging from 40 to 90 minutes in duration) and...

The Rising Cost of Retaining Employees

Hiring and retaining a good employee is one thing that for many years has left many companies in a dilemma. Usually, an employee works hard to ensure that they retain that dream job. However, this trend is fast-changing, and today it’s companies that are on the receiving end when it...

Physical Privacy at Work: Discussion

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

Project Team: Definition, Principles of Function and Possible Conflicts

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

Organizational Problems: Stress and Burnout of Employees

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

Improving Workplace Learning for the Bank Tellers

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

Compensation and Pay Plans Explained

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

Risk Management In Offshore Oil And Gas Production

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

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

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

Leadership and Management: Discrimination in the Workplace

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

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

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

The Cruiser Thorr Simulation

Brand Image Analysis In a situation where sales of the flagship Cruiser Thorr have declined owing to the aging of the key “Baby Boomer” demographic and the reportedly low disposable income of young adults today, Thorr Motorcycles needs a vigorous new marketing plan. For the incoming Marketing Manager, a new...

Elias Group: Team Functioning Supportive Environment Profile

Introduction The Elias Group workplace profile is a simple, nearly virtual workplace system and structure. A proposal workplace model that can facilitate learning, consistent innovation and creativity within The Elias Group work-groups is ideal to increase the organizations growth. The proposal workplace can be based on improved virtual ‘workplace’ platforms....

Shin-Etsu Chemical Co: Company Analysis

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

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

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

Business Leadership Communication: Effective Leadership Styles

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

Leader’s Ability and Skills

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

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

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

Expert Systems in Work Environment

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

Ryanair and Monsanto: Case Study

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

The Florida Citrus Industry: Overview

Firms in Competitive Market The Florida Citrus Industry is one of the best industries that provide juices and other products in United States. Its major product is the citrus juice. It promotes its products and educates people that a diet without some juice is not healthy. The company produces 100%...

Organization Member Analysis: The Chair of the Student Media Executive Board

The University represents a unique organization which specific educational tasks and goals. In this environment, a good manager should possess the ability to communicate his thoughts and ideas in a clear way and get feedback, which shows that the workers have a proper understanding of what they are expected to...

KOLO: Reflective and Inquiry Project

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

Is Wal-Mart One of the Most Aggressive Retailers?

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

Job Analysis in Employees Management

Introduction Job analysis is the use of various techniques to determine the requirements of a job so as to specify it. Specification helps in determining the minimum requirements of the job holder like academic qualifications and the basic skills he should posses. Job analysis also entails coming up with a...

Organizational Diversity: Term Definition

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

How Tesco a Leading Food Retailer Globally

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

Mediation and Advocacy to Resolve Conflicts

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

Customer Relationship Management: Business Relations

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

John Mackey: Organizational Behavior

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

What a Leader Needs?

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

Management Skills Development in Volunteers

Observations are useful aspects of any research study which involves investigation of issues through naturalistic inquiries into participants’ behavior, actions, decisions, interactions, and events resulting from these (Jorgensen). In this observatory paper activities of a peer group comprised of volunteers from the classroom are studied to identify different issues that...

Managing Organizational Change and Organizational Development

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

The Effects of Affirmative Action in the Present Day

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

Solutions for Dysfunctional Companies

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

Marketing Tactics: Wal-Mart and Winco Food Companies

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

The Sales Training Program: Main Aspects

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

Southwest Airlines: The Company Analysis

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

Organizational Design Research Worksheet

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

Data Collection Methods in Business Analysis

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

Planned Giving Program: The Key Elements

Introduction A planned giving program is one where a donor can decide to leave money, assets or any other form of property to a non-profit organization in the event of his/her death. Basically, it is therefore a system through which all the benefits that a donor has acquired throughout his/her...

Hazza Organization’s Ethical Climate

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

Design the Perfect Leadership Development Experience for Yourself

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

EBay on Communication and Media

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

Organizational Development and the Management Process

Introduction Certainly, each organization strives to improve its effectiveness and structure. Such field of academic study as organizational development is connected with industrial processes, business strategies, human communication, and psychological issues. Regarding this, there arise many definitions of this term where one serves as a conceptual boundary for another. Still,...

INTEC: Strategic Skills Analysis and Pay Equity

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

Ethics Game Simulation in Business

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

The Gap Analysis on Riordan Inc.

Introduction Riordan is a multinational company with its operations based in plastic based product manufacturing and has earnings of $46 million. The company’s main products include plastic injections and others include plastic bottles, medical stents, plastic parts, etc. it is headquartered in the United States and has opened a subsidiary...

Effective Leadership: Leadership Qualities

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

Leadership Skills in Production of the Journal

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

Aspects of Supply Chain Management

Introduction Supply chain management is the administration of a group constituting interconnected businesses with the major aim of improving product and service delivery. This management entails the handling of raw materials; overseeing the production process and transportation of the finished goods to the market. This work process between the three...

Communication in Agilent Technologies While Layoffs

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

The Project Management Process Definition

“PM is a business process of the project-oriented company. The PM process starts with the project assignment and ends with the project approval. It consists of the sub-processes project start, project coordination, project controlling, project discontinuity management and project close-down.” (Glossary of terms for the project oriented society: Project Management,...

IDC Top 10 Predictions

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

ComInTec Case Analysis: International Staff Recruitment and Selection

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

Mandatory Job Drug Test Should Be Allowed

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

Marketing Strategy for a Greeting Card Company

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

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

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

Ethics in Marketing: Price Dynamics

The play out of forces of demand and supply are critical in the determination of prices for both goods as well as services. The price of labor services in a country is largely dependent on the ability of the local populace to provide adequate labor and more importantly the demands...

The Washington State University Vancouver: Organization Member Analysis

The Washington State University Vancouver is the educational establishment that values the rights of human beings and does everything to protect them. The Student Media Board of the University is charged with the protection tasks, and the two positions in this board are of prominent importance. These are the Chair...

Design, Self, and Society: Concept of Advertising

Introduction Thesis: In his “Captains of Consciousness: Advertising and the Social Roots of the Consumer Culture” Stuart Ewen expresses an idea that advertising was quite effective at the turn of the twentieth century due to presenting the products as enhancing the self in a social setting. This cannot be agreed...

Human Resource Practices and the Managerial Activities in the HRM

The article is found to be a good one as it covers in-depth analysis of the human resource practices and the current trends. The different human resource aspects include job design, specifications, knowledge process sharing, outsourcing, recruitment and training etc. The article finds an overall picture of current events in...

Principles of Population Health

Population health outlines the prevention of illness and injuries within definite communities (Certificate II in Population Health, p. 5). In this prospect, the theme of protection and safety of human beings should be taken into account by the officials in the form of a governmental program. It is necessary for...

Case Study Analysis Using Hempstead and Others

The case of DPW vividly portrays that effective operations management and performance controls are the main tools which help administration to ensure effective resource use. Traditional performance management mechanisms are based on the assumption that jobs and the organizational situation are relatively constant and stable, allowing for formalization of practices...

Project Scheduling Tools Review

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

Sustainability in International Business Operations

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

Tetrad Effects of eBay

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

Yumi Company’s Fashion Marketing

Introduction The fashion market is regarded to be one of the most changing markets in the world, as the tendencies and trends change every season. On the one hand it provides the essential dynamics for the development of this business sector, thus, only companies with high competitive capacity may survive...

Southern Comfort Company’s Promotion Strategies

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

Buyer Behavior in the Wine Industry

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

A Journal Project on Leadership

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

Wal-Mart’s Potential for Investment and Profitability

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

“On-Line Live Support”: Role in Company’s Success

Introduction To begin with, a variety of methods and tactics for successful decision-making in business considers the implementation of new technologies, techniques, and ideas, of course. A diversity of services in the company presupposes a streamlined business with prospects on a good work of all departments in a company. A...

Flybe Airline Company: Online Business Strategy

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

Sarbanes Oxley: Issues and Moral Dilemmas

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

Theorists with Similar Management Styles

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

Ethics and Diversity in the Workplace and Management

Introduction The United Nations General Assembly has declared the new millennia and this century to be the century where diversity should be celebrated. As in many other fields of life, even in business diversity has become part of its routine. Globalization along with the triumph of free trade and capitalistic...

Human Resource Management: Interview With Job Analyst

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

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

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

Media Utilization: Case of Eureka! Company

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

The Organization of Petroleum Producing Countries Cartel

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

How Workers and Managers Can Reshape Organizational Culture

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

Ethics In The Business Globalization

Nowadays business is one of the most important spheres of our life. Many people are involved in this field of our life, and they all belong to different nations. Each nation has its own traditions and culture. Therefore, there exist many differences among representatives of different countries. That is not...

The Use of Human Resource Management Systems

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

Organizational Behavior and Motivation Scheme of an Employee

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

Club IT Firm’s Strategy for Competitive Advantage

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

The History of Six Sigma

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

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

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

Factors Requiring Market Research

Market research involves identifying or analyzing opportunities that are available in the marketing environment. According to Kotler (2003), this research is performed in a view to identify customer’s needs and taste which forms a foundation for the production of an optimum marketing mix. Since markets constantly change towards maturity, research...

Marketing Definitions and Examples of Experiences

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

Marketing Segmentation and Positioning Report

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

Australian Insurance Market Segment Analysis

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

Risk and Safety Management in Project Development

Introduction The work of any business or non-profit organization in the world is set up in order to achieve the established goals (Wang, 2000). Some organizations and enterprises are aimed at making profit of their activities that include sales, promotion, distribution, etc (Wang, 2000). Others, like for instance the governmental...

Leadership vs Management: The Crucial Parts of Modern Companies

Management and leadership are two crucial parts of modern companies. The modern economy depends upon and is influenced by effective management solutions and leadership strategies. Management and leadership are concerned with setting goals, establishing policies and programs, and implementing business action for the entire firm. Management is defined as administrative...

Integration Paper on Leadership Requirements for MCDonald’s New CEO

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

Statement of Work as a Guideline

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

Acuscan Company’s Conflict About the New Product

The company AcuScan is on the way to launch a new innovative product into the market; the company is developing iScanner, which is considered to be the security scanner used in airports throughout the country. The demand for the product is extremely high and its claims about 40% of the...

Karl-Erik Sveiby: What Makes Me Passionate

The article under consideration in this discussion is an interview of Karl-Erik Sveiby, a Professor of Knowledge Management at the Hanken Business School in Helsinki, Finland by Alex Bennet. He is repeatedly portrayed as one of the founders of the concept of Knowledge Management has opened up different avenues in...

Live Music Pub: Company Analysis

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

The Importance of Ethical Basis in Business Functioning

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

“Double Helix” by Nancy Parker: Character Analysis

Introduction In her absorbing novel Double Helix, Nancy Parker raises several questions that are extremely vital in present-day society. How will humankind behave if a panacea for all diseases is found? Who will deserve it and who is going to judge about it? The author makes the reader look through...

Customer Segmentation in a Changing Business Environment

Within a modern competitive business environment, it appears essential to position the company’s product so as to attract as many customers as possible. For this purpose, market analysts investigate the existing arena trying to define specific target groups at which the product should be aimed. One of the specific areas...

Starbuck’s International Operations: Case Study

SWOT shows that Starbuck successfully identifies the main advantages and threats of correct market position and company’s operations. The strengths of Starbuck are its strong brand image and expert system, excellent website, and customer support. Resource-based philosophy and innovations create new opportunities for market development and brand recognition. Customers’ loyalty...

‘Cost of Quality’ Implementation in Outsourced Customer Service

The ‘Cost of Quality’ Approach For the uninitiated, ‘cost of quality’ provokes the naïve notion that the phrase stands wholly and solely for what it takes to make a good quality product. But this cost is already known. Part of this is the item ‘Cost of Goods Sold’ or ‘Cost...

The Extreme Job Firefighter Jim Blaesy

Introduction From this case study relating to a full time firefighter engaged in the Fire Department of Rochester, New York, Jim Blaesi, 28 years, who is also the owner of an automobile garage in the inner city, it is apparent that he is putting his time and contacts to good...

Toward a Theory of International New Ventures

Introduction The modern world is characterized by the comprehensive and overall process of globalization that has managed to penetrate all the spheres of human lives, and business is not an exception (Shenkar and Luo, 2008, p. 187). The understanding of the fact that the globalization is the major feature of...

Chief Executive Officer’s Leadership Qualities

American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T) has been created in 1885 in the United States of America. For a long time, the company has been a monopolist of the local and long-haul telecommunications in the country. However, closer to the 1990s AT&T has been forced to focus on the long-haul telecommunications...

Resolving Business Conflicts: Negotiation Strategies

Introduction Negotiation is bargain or discussion about particular deal or issue to be resolved. Two or more parties are involved in negotiations. It’s an exchange of series of ideas and offers between two (or more) people or groups (Kumar, 2005). Different types of negotiation strategies are employed for different problems...

Glass Ceiling Barriers for Women in the Workplace

Introduction In the past decades, women have come from far since they have flown alone across the oceans, have been offered the mandate to vote, moreover, they have been nominated or elected as ministers and congress. Regardless of all these achievements or accomplishments, they have not yet obtained the acknowledgement...

Human Relations Issues at the Boston Consulting Group

The Boston Consulting Group is one of the fastest-growing companies for the past five years. It was ranked 3rd at the Fortune’s magazine top 100 companies in the United States. But, according to the same magazine, it is also in a very comfortable positioning on the international scene as well...

How Charlotte Beers Can Provide the Best Stewardship for the Ogilvy Brand?

Introduction The issue in analyzing particular case studies or stories of business success is that they can be suited to any purpose or aspect, such as marketing strategies, leadership, creativity, HR management, etc. Faults and achievements can be interpreted to point to specific aspects as the basis of success or...

Procurement Management and Choice of Suppliers

Introduction Procurement management and selection of suppliers have a great impact on the performance and outcomes of every project. The Achieving Excellence in Construction Procurement Guide published by the Office of Government Commerce (OGC), 2007) showed that the primary consideration in the procurement of construction projects is the need to...

Business: Dealing With Competition

Introdcution With Taziclor as the only available product in the market, Aveta was able to enjoy a monopolistic position. There could be no close substitute to the product, as Aveta was holding the patent for Taziclor. Since Aveta was the sole supplier in the market the demand curve specific for...