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Discuss the rational decision-making model. Would this be an effective/realistic model to use in your current organization? Describe how you may use it while mitigating its weaknesses. In an organization, decision-making is an important aspect. All the people in an organization at different levels are constantly making decisions. Decision-making is...
Introduction As a crucial driver of Australia’s economic activities, there are over 200,000 businesses in the building and construction industry, and these offers employment to 700,000 Australians; which is close to 7.5 percent of the country’s workforce. In addition, the industry contributes to a 5.5 percent of the nation’s GDP,...
After taking the different quizzes concerning leadership qualities and abilities, it is necessary to compare the findings in the two assessment tools provided with those quizzes. This enables one to identify the areas of his or her leadership strength. Therefore, one may propose how to develop or improve them. Also,...
Abstract This paper is about the managing diversity in a work environment. This paper will critically examine the challenges and choices HR Managers now face in regard to managing diversity in an organization. Diversity can be defined as the difference that exists between the people like the different countries they...
What is Strategic Management. Tthe strategic management process in a company Strategic management is the so-called art of planning business at the highest level and to the greatest extent. In other words, it involves the establishment of the company’s short- and long-term goals, means of their achievement, analysis of market...
Introduction As professional people increasingly under public scrutiny, accountants find themselves exposed to complex ethical issues. There are many ethical issues with which accountants struggle and points to ethical systems as tools that can be used to solve ethical dilemmas. By understanding the rational methods by which ethical issues may...
Introduction Hong Kong Ocean Park is the biggest park of attractions and entertainment in southeastern Asia. Being marine-themed, the park‘s average attendance is approximately 4 million per year. Several factors promoted to the process of the park’s redevelopment, such as the close competition by Hong Kong’s Disney Land and Asia’s...
Stephen Brown’s criticism of marketers that undertake excessive researching/ surfeit consumer servicing Myth Number 1 If manufacturers and marketers were only concerned about what the consumer felt about their products, services or utilities, they would end up churning out modified or improved models of their existing products, “that already exists”...
According to David Kollat and Ronald Willett, (1969), Impulsive purchasing is considered to be very important for marketers, in that there is immense dependence on the practice in terms of the propensity of consumers to make purchase decisions at the point of sale due to motivation arising out of efforts...
Introduction Implementation of information systems is influenced by strategic goals and aims of the company, demands of the internal and external environment. The impact perspective argues that information systems have a major influence on the shape of organizations and the nature of managerial work. From this perspective, information systems will...
Introduction The organization is structured according to functional areas instead of product lines. The functional structure groups specialize in similar skills in separate units. This structure is best used when creating specific, uniform products. A functional structure is well suited to organizations that have a single or dominant core product...
The greatest want of any organization or corporate body is to ensure that it meets its objectives and maximize all the available opportunities. This is only possible if the management is able to monitor the performance of the entity with comparison to the predetermined standards and take the necessary action...
Application form While working on the hypothesis “people think diet coke is healthy, however the ingredients in it are harmful”, it was difficult to acquire information about the topic. However, with use of proper methodology it would be possible to gather relevant details and data. One of the primary ways...
Executive Summary Oriental Organic Garments is the name of the proposed retail unit that will deal in T-Shirts for men and women made out of 100% organically grown cotton. The company has an excellent supplier from Hong Kong and is confident that the products can be competitively marketed in a...
Introduction The Hawthorn experiments marked a new direction in research of motivation and productivity. More than half a century has passed, and productivity remains a concern of management. Labor conflict continues wherever bosses are not fair or considerate of worker’s needs. Design of work tasks continues to be studied, systems...
This is a case whereby Nike as company was sued by Kasky a civil rights activists for its public relations campaigns. This is a case whereby in 1998, Mark Kasky filed a lawsuit against Nike company in California state court. Nike is the biggest producer of sportswear world wide. It...
Introduction Big Beans has entered into their transactions of stated sales. These transactions involve the accounting recognition of sales revenue. The accounting treatments of these three transactions have been reviewed in this write up taking into consideration the available Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP). Sales with immediate delivery Scenario: Immediately...
Retirees are always attracted to Nevada because of the various amenities that it offers to them. These amenities include parks such as the Big Bend Park for recreational purposes, convenient swimming pools that serve children, houses to rent, facilities for picnics, and mild waters. Nevada’s ample sunshine also attracts most...
Introduction Team learning is the art of providing answers to businesses problems through open questioning and seeking solutions to these questions that need to be addressed. Team members may, while working, find the necessity to solve issues and venture into the process of seeking solutions. Thus, it is important to...
Introduction This paper considers how organizational structure impacts the ethical conduct and moral judgment of people working in an organization. It has been established beyond reasonable doubt that there does exist, organizationally speaking, a nexus between organizational design, morally acceptable behavior, and the development of moral reasoning and in helping...
Introduction This essay aims at closely looking at the article by Prusak and his vision of the tool of “knowledge management”, the present influence of the tool today, the future perspectives and development. Prusak made a research, devoted to KM, his article aims at putting the term “KM” into the...
Introduction With frequent power cuts in states such as California and increasing gasoline prices there is an increased demand for energy. The federal government under President George W. Bush has put forth the strategy of increasing the energy supply by tapping the oil supply at the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge...
Introduction A broad concept that determines the interaction between an employer and its employees pertains to Industrial Relations. Relatively, it comprises the areas among employees, trade unions, employers, and specifically those which arise within the individual employees and their employer in the workplace (Kehoe and Maurice, 2005). The two cases...
Aurora International Trading – Background Aurora International Trading is a UK-based company. The company contracts the design and manufacturing of plastic goods to the Chinese company ‘Shenzhen Happy Star Industrial Plastics Limited’.This Company is based in the Guangdong province of the Peoples Republic of China. Although the production is monitored...
Introduction Decision-making may be defined as the act of selection between two or more option, the result of which is not perfectly known, with the intention of solving a problem. The success or failure of a business relies on the value of decisions made or not made. Decision makers are...
‘Shomei Cards’ was established by a young couple back in 1980, and enjoys the third position of greeting card companies in the USA. Since the past two years, the company’s position has been shrinking, and its major competitors, Hercules and Atlas Cards are ranking highest with the top two positions...
Introduction Organizational culture is the one that determines the behavior of the organization as a whole since the kind of values and mentality that the people running the system have in mind are dependent on the organizational culture. New employees that have different mindsets from that f the culture are...
Introduction Whether you are starting a new business or launching a new product, conducting a marketing analysis is the first step in determining if there is a need or audience for your idea. Knowing the market’s needs and how it is currently serviced provides you with key information that is...
The intention of this three year action plan is to craft a spotlight on developing management skills. My strengths and weaknesses as well as the challenges and needs to overcome my weaknesses and improving upon some areas will form the backbone of this three year plan. This plan avows that...
Job design can be defined as the specification of the contents, methods, and relationships of jobs in order to satisfy technological and organizational requirements as well as the social and personal requirements of the job holder. It aims to satisfy the requirements of the organization for productivity, operational deficiency, and...
Introduction Thai-Lay Fashion Company is a well established garment manufacturing company in Hong-Kong. In order to compete with the continuously changing business environment of garment manufacturing, and to sustain its market share, it needs to develop a modified marketing plan considering the financial and economic conditions in the environment. “In...
Introduction DRC, or the Democratic Republic of Congo, is the third-largest nation in the continent of Africa. Its name Congo denotes “hunter’ as it was termed by an ethnic group in Congo River Basin. The nation is widely affiliated with Southern Africa as a member of the Southern African Development...
Introduction The purpose of this study is to bring to light the mechanism of an economy and banking system. The study focuses on subprime crisis that has hit the US in the last two years. The study throws some light on the adverse effects of the crisis on the US...
Executive Summary A multinational company is a company that is engaged in producing and selling goods or services in more than one country. It is a company that has headquarters in one country and operations in one or more countries. The main objective of MNC is to maximize shareholder wealth....
Introduction A Contract is a legal binding obligation created under an agreement between two or more persons that is enforceable by law. A contract is made valid by the following factors: there must be an offer and an acceptance, there must be an intention to create legal relations, the contract...
Summary This article details the severity of the financial crisis that the international community in general and the US and Europe in particular are going through. The present crisis is being termed by analysts as the worst ever in more than three-quarters of a century. Now the authorities are on...
In the world today, it has been noted that organizations can achieve their goals and objectives by properly managing their employees and ensuring that they work as a team since, without them, no operations can take place effectively. Teamwork refers to the ability of people in a group to work...
Outsourcing is a process whereby a third-party company is hired to do some work for an organization and work that would have otherwise been done within. It is a strategic decision that engages the management in weighing between the likely costs and loss of service or product control. Over the...
SEIKO, the world’s leading watch manufacturer is one of the subsidiaries of Seiko Holding Corporation. SEIKO Watch Corporation became an independent company in the year 2001 to be able to offer better products to consumers around the world. The company introduced an innovative product in early 2008, Seiko Premier Kinetic...
Determining What Consumers Want Plumbing the human mind has to be the final frontier in marketing, as in many other social sciences. For the tool that yields unvarying insight into what human beings really want under all circumstances just does not exist yet. This is a challenge that renders long...
In this session it is proposed to take up the aspects of managing people with regard to social skills and expertise necessary in order to take optimum use of people skills. There are several aspects of man management and they relate to the following: Motivation Achievement Recognition Responsibility Advancement Motivation...
Over the last 25 years, the main changes in patterns of work in UK took place in structure and composition of the working relationships. The main changes in structure are flexible schedule and shift work, increased number of part time employees and telecommuting work. The main changes in composition of...
Executive Summary Leadership and worker motivation are two important factors in the survival and growth of any organization. A study with regard to how motivation can be improved in the Thai Lay Fashion Company has been conducted here. The organization is a successful garment manufacturer based in Hong Kong with...
Introduction Organizations believe that adoption of a new technology or an external source of technology will help improve the technical processes as well as the manual undertakings in the business. Appropriation of an external technology by the organizationtherefore is a process which the managers should be very keen with so...
Introduction Current research provides a comprehensive analysis of the current state of Boston, Massachusetts business environment and the ways of its future revitalization, development and enhancement. There is no denying the importance of the fact that the successful development of business environment in urban areas is premised on municipal authorities’...
Introduction There is a well known cliché among business circles that an organization is only good as its employees. This suggests that the success of an enterprise depends not only on the quality of the product or service it delivers, but also on the quality and commitment on the part...
Introduction Performance management is assessing the process of achieving goals and objectives to unsure that it is successful through communication and taking the right action. There are functions for evaluating how equipments behave so that effective work is done through proper performing systems and altering the systems that do not...
Article “Increase Profitability by Boosting Your Investment in Continuous Improvement” by Gregory Jerralds is devoted to the importance of employee development. Jerralds has over 20 years of experience in leadership and he argues that increasing employee spending is the most effective strategy to reduce operating costs. Despite the personal tone...
The chosen company is Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and an appraisal of its financial performance based on Income Statement and Balance Sheet has been made in this write-up using four different methods. As per Stephan Gilman(2007, page 9)1, “A complete grasp of the situation of a business is obtained by the...
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...
Statement of the Problem Komatsu Ltd. is a multinational company in Japan that specializes in manufacturing heavy construction equipment. Company revenues reached 989 billion yen in 1993 and target revenue of on trillion through aggressive expansion plans. The major areas in which the company operates are construction equipment, industrial machinery...
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 This paper to offer a strategic recommendation based on findings from a case involving two divisions as viewed using a BCG matrix where the electric division can be located at the upper right quadrant of the matrix while the appliance division is on the lower left hand of the...
Introduction Quality as a means of creating and sustaining a competitive advantage has been widely adopted by both manufacturing and non-manufacturing organizations. This strategic stance has been fuelled by the growing attention to strategic quality arising from the international successes of Japanese and other South Eastern Asian countries. Poka Yoke...
Introduction Outsourcing entails constricting through erstwhile establishments to carry out business dealings that are deemed “non-core” as well as “non-revenue” producing in the direction of the business dealing. Establishments utilise “outsourcing” facilities on behalf of tasks, for instance “payroll”, invoicing and so on. While these practices may perhaps be achieved...
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...
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...
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...
Organization’s Mission and Vision To promote and provide increased public awareness through transparency, education, and knowledge. The community sensitization and engagement will create advocacy and solicit the society’s aid for the needs of wounded soldiers. The vision of the organization is yielding faithful contributions and support for our most impacted...
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 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 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...
The term ‘downsizing’ refers to the reduction of the workforce through either voluntary or involuntary means or a combination of both. Before the early 1980s, organizations were forced to reduce their workforce whenever they experienced stress and not much thought was given to it. In recent years, however, there has...
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: 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...
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,...
In the modern economy, brands play the role of global communicators between sellers, products, and buyers. Branding embodies a special technology to create consumer-based and trust-based symbolic associations and informal connections that expand relationship marketing capabilities. With the help of brands, manufacturers not only inform consumers about the key values...
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...
Short-Term Ratios The analysis of short-term ratios (Table 1) shows that the company can settle its short-term liabilities using the current assets and quick assets, but not in utilizing cash and its equivalents. Although the current ratio fluctuates, it increased from 1.5 times in 2015 to 2.49 times in 2018...
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...
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...
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 (see appendix 1),...
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 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...
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...
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,...
Environmental Analysis It is well accepted that the advertising industry is a necessity to our society. The industry’s capacity to advance and to bring advertising at viable prices is a fundamental requirement for all. Elementary modifications in innate, financial, communal, and political areas, changing stakeholder outlooks, and all-embracing technological improvements...
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 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...
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 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...
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,...
Introduction According to Liebler and McConell, a committee is a group of people within a company or an organization that functions collectively in an organized manner. A committee is not only an informal discussion group but an entity that performs a certain administrative activity. In healthcare, committees have recently become...
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...
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...
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 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 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...
Introduction Market orientation is defined as the implementation of the marketing concept. This implies to be more than just customer oriented. It requires that there is full support from the organization for it to be fully implemented in the long-term and may in some instances result in a complete organization...
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...
Mike bike advanced (MB-A) is a stimulating system business that entirely deals with computers. It can also act as an interactive tool that can be used in learning business subjects. Its practical decisions are based on real-world modeling. MB-A is a bicycle-making industry in Evehwon which manufactures real cool and...
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...
Global or multinational companies appoint external auditing teams to review their financial disclosures and statements. The external auditing team requires to have sufficient knowledge of the client’s industry to understand its opportunities and threats in the market. Another main requirement is that the staff of the external auditing team should...
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 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 report aims at assessing the efficiency of an aluminium production plant utilising provided historical data for 2018 year. The dataset consists of a random sample of pots from four sections of the aluminium production plant from the previous year. The present report contains a statistical analysis of provided...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Globalisation made the world shrink as the distance (both geographic and cultural) between people is decreasing due to the development of technology. Multinationals serve as one of the instruments of globalisation as they often shape the economic, social, and political landscape of countries to a certain or significant extent (Cohen...
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...
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...
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...
Introduction Goodwill Industries International Inc. often referred to as Goodwill, is a US-based nonprofit 501 organization. Goodwill helps individuals who struggle with obtaining a job and handling employment by providing job training and employment placement services. Goodwill frequently launches community-based programs and initiatives and hire veterans and job seekers with...
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 COSCO Group’s planned investment of approximately USD 1 billion in a large Greek port, Piraeus, serves the company’s strategic goals. Through this initiative, the enterprise will obtain a chance to facilitate access to European markets and, thus, increase the volume of exports to the region (Paris, 2019). To understand...
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...
The management of corporate financial assets and especially the assessment of changes in costs per a specific volume of a product is an important step in increasing the corporate profit margins. Therefore, tools for analyzing the current situation and locating possible scenarios for the development of the present cost-related situation...
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...
The food production industry is undergoing substantial changes due to the development of technology, as well as the shift in political, social, and cultural domains. Modern hectic life makes packaged food popular among diverse groups, including students, young working adults, childless couples, and families (Casini, Contini, Romano, & Scozzafava, 2015)....
Introduction Companies that want to do business internationally should be aware of different entry modes that are appropriate for new markets. The best choice will be informed by specific factors, including the organization’s financial strength, intended objectives, available time, and the regulations and policies implemented in the identified country. Some...
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...
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,...
