Leadership in Cross-Cultural Context

Introduction The evolvement of the global market has ignited a stiff competition among all players in the market as more organizations seek to operate internationally to maximize profitability. However, such endeavors are limited by diversity in cultures as evident in the international market. Therefore, global leaders have to adopt leadership...

Enhancing Communication Dynamics Between Employers, Employees, and Clients

Introduction Communication is an important aspect of business today. Managers and employees have to choose the appropriate communication technique to use to ensure their messages are delivered and understood according to their purpose. The following discussion analyzes various scenarios in business communication to determine the appropriate communication method to use....

Cost Accounting Systems: Enhancing Information Gathering Techniques

How do these information-gathering programs help the hotels become more competitive? What is the strategic role of these programs? Information is one of the most influential tools of the modern world. It helps to acquire a significant competitive advantage and win the rivalry. A company that possesses critical data related...

PharmaCARE: Product Safety & Intellectual Property

Introduction Pharmaceutical organizations have a legal and ethical obligation to manufacture and sell products, which cannot damage the health of people. This role calls for compliance with regulations on product safety and intellectual property. Fully aware of these requirements, PharmaCARE developed AD23, a diabetes drug, through its team of pharmacist....

Corporate Governance and Sustainability Reporting: Aligning Ethics with Business Practices

Why companies undertake sustainability reporting Companies undertake sustainability reporting in order to earn trust from the public and stakeholders. Sustainability reporting can also be used to manage the lost reputation of a firm. Managers, team leaders and employees in an organization can only be made accountable when sustainability reporting is...

Business Negotiation Group Assignment

Having examined the situation thoroughly and analyzed the position of Rose at FML and my own position at NEL, I concluded that Rose has the following types of power over me: legitimate power – authority to demand obedience (Cellich, 2012. p. 81). Since she is a manager at FML, she...

Enhancing Customer Service in CompleteCare Department: Best Practices and Strategies

Background/Problem Statement In a contemporary society that is marked by rapidly emerging and growing business, the customers’ opinions have become a center-stage in determining the quality of services a business provides. Globalization does not make things easy, and as business firms aim to outperform each other, the effectiveness of the...

Leadership Style and Motivation in Health Care

Introduction There are two major factors that influence an individual performance within any given setting and these are leadership in place and individual motivation (McCutcheon 2004). There are also theories that try to explain what motivates people to perform better and what contributes to their behavioral changes. Motivation refers to...

The Situational Leadership Model

Situational leadership is one of the most commonly used leadership models in the contemporary world. Its history is rather short; however, its impact and effectiveness boost its popularity among some of the best business leaders today. As business environments became more intense and densely populated, business leaders started to experience...

Poverty in Developing Countries: US Firms’ Ethical Obligations

Ethical obligation for companies to ensure that all workers receive what is considered a living wage in the United States Individuals living in poverty in the developing countries are many and multinational organizations from the United States have been accused of underpaying them given the fact that people are desperate...

The Importance of Leadership: Types, Styles, and Their Impact on Organizations

Importance of a leader Some people should make some serious decisions and rule our world and, at the same time, some people accept these decisions, hoping that they will result in some benefits for them. It should be said that not always leaders, who are responsible for some important decisions,...

King Company’s Expansion and Its Impact on the Quincy Labor Market

The expansion of The King Company in the United States depends on building new facilities in appropriate communities where the percentage of the skilled workers is rather high. If managers of The King Company are oriented to decreasing the costs associated with training of employees and focused on increasing the...

Delta Airline’s Change Program and Resistance

Introduction Change is a common feature in organizations. The capacity to handle such changes is the core competence of success in organizations (Weick & Quinn, 1999, p. 362). Over the last two decades, the main drivers of organizational changes have been technological advancements, stiff competition, and fluctuations in the global...

Ensuring Product Quality at Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation: Standards and Practices

Incorporating an array of tools that allow evaluating the product from several aspects is essential in assuring quality at the Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation. Since not only customer satisfaction but also the lives of end-users hinges on the efficacy of enhancing and supervising the process of QA, it is imperative to...

General Motors Company’s Operations Improvement

Introduction General Motors (GM) specializing in manufacturing automobiles has always been a symbol of American culture and a representation of the high level of competitiveness of the United States in the global economy. It was founded in 1908. Its plants located in more than 30 countries all over the globe...

Four Key Lessons for Today’s Managers: Insights for Effective Leadership

Introduction Any organization is a complex mechanism, which consists out of multiple levels of subordination and departments while aiming at the achievement of the common goal related to the optimization of its processes and maximization of profits (Harvey 2015). Senior managers tend to take responsibility for the company’s course of...

Small Business Organization’s Structure

Introduction Organizational structure is an important determinant of the organization’s performance. Depending on the size, scope, and character of the operations, the structure can improve or disrupt the product’s quality. The following paper analyzes the organizational structure of a small business organization. Chart Description The chart used for the paper...

Online Courses for Employee Development: Enhancing Skills and Knowledge

Can you come up with a great idea of improving the employees’ training that would be effective and exciting at the same time? In my opinion, there is nothing better for the achievement of this purpose than engaging people in an online course. Modern technologies pervade every sphere of people’s...

The Whole Foods Market Concept

The concept of Whole Foods Market appeared in the 1980s. It became the major movement across the United States and the key provider of healthy and natural food (Baldwin 169). Whole Foods Market stores can be located in 41 states, and their follower base on Twitter is around 4 million....

Keystone Pipeline: Analyzing Economic and Environmental Impacts Between U.S. and Canada

Overview of the project The Keystone pipeline project is a petroleum pipeline system linking the Canadian Crude oil to the U.S refineries, especially in the Gulf Coast. Canada is renowned for its massive crude oil reserves. The pipeline runs from Western Canada to the US Gulf Coast. Besides transporting artificial...

Social Networks in Companies: HR Practices and Challenges

Introduction The modern era of social networking has transformed the manner in which many people share information. Social networks have revolutionised both the external and internal aspects of many organisations. Social networking has also transformed the nature of communication in many firms (Wang & Kobsa, 2013). This discussion therefore identifies...

Disciplinary Action Plan for Customer Service Improvement

One of the customer service representatives (CSRs) at a small start-up company has developed a problem manifested in late arrivals at the workplace and the lack of understanding of the company’s recently launched products. The hiring manager appreciates the work of the CSR and would like to avoid dismissal. The...

Google’s Values, Image, Organizational Structure

Company values Google’s value system is multifaceted. Among the elements in the company’s value system are leadership, integrity, passion, quality, diversity and objectivity. These elements are not explicitly stated in the company’s website but are highlighted in a section titled ‘ten things we know to be true’. Leadership-Google founders Larry...

Learning Disabilities in Organizations

There exist many issues that an organization may experience due to wrong decisions or poor company culture. Such organizations fall under certain system archetypes that outline the issues the company faces and the reasons for these problems. Additionally, these organizations may experience “learning disabilities” that prevent them from becoming learning...

Mastering the Art of Mapping Processes for Enhanced Business Efficiency

High-Level Process Map A High-Level Process Map (HLPM) includes all processes at the core of the organization. In other words, the term “high-level” refers to the scope of the map and the number of aspects that it embraces. HLPM offers a plethora of options for a brief overview of the...

Improving Entrepreneurship Operations: Company X’s Challenges

Improving the quality of the entrepreneurship’s operations is a challenging task, as the example of Company X shows. Though promoting innovation and following a customer-focused approach, the firm is facing issues due to the problems in its procurement process, therefore, causing its customers to feel frustrated over the inconsistent services....

Employee Recruitment and Selection at Dragonfly Solutions

Introduction Employee recruitment refers to the process of identifying people who can work for an organisation. The process begins with the stage of identifying an organisation’s employee needs. Employee selection refers to the choosing of individuals suitable to fill a position from a list of several applicants. The process of...

Spa-Like Amenities in Healthcare: Increasing Market Share Through Patient Comfort

Increasing market share through innovation and the introduction of better and more diverse services is one of the keys toward becoming a more efficient company and improving the quality of the services provided to the target denizens of the population. The identified strategy is especially important for entrepreneurship aiming at...

Wal-Mart Stores: Development History

Business development and its main markers and determinants are very important for the contemporary business makers and practitioners. The successes and failures of the world’s largest businesses are used as the sources of knowledge for the future generations. Reviewing the paths and strategies of the most successful and unsuccessful companies...

Future Influences of Big Data on Global Supply Chain Management

Abstract The main focus of the report was to determine the influence of big data on the global supply chain in the future. The report examined literature and undertook a SWOT analysis on the use of big data in the global supply chain. Essentially, the findings indicate that the strengths...

Center Parcs Company: Customer Relationships Management

As it might be clear from the title, the main focus of Customer Relationships Management is customers and their relationships with the company, as well as the influence of those relationships on the company’s sales and revenue. CRM is based on three pillars: getting new customers, fixing the leaky bucket,...

Alternative Fuels and Personnel in Automobile Industry

This paper is aimed to consider two important issues connected with the automobile industry. The first is fuel alternatives. The other is the staff and potential productivity. The paper will speculate on how these issues might influence the company’s policies and strategies. Besides, it is going to provide examples of...

Bidco Oil Refineries Ltd.’s Foreign Market Entry

Introduction BIDCO Oil Refineries limited is a large manufacturing firm which deals with the production of a range of consumer products. The products include soaps, vegetable oils, margarines, fats and protein concentrates. The firm is based in Kenya but has expanded and has branches in the East African region. The...

IES Lean Systems Ltd: Innovations in the Food Industry’s Lean Production

The phenomenon of lean thinking, which is typically rendered as the introduction of sustainable principles for the use of the resources at the company’s disposal, is an essential element of the 21st-century economy. Allowing one to reduce waste significantly and, therefore, promote sustainability in the design of the company’s operations...

Effective Leadership, Decision Making, and Self-Managed Teams

Introduction According to the current corporate world, leadership has been seen as one’s capabilities of getting others to follow him/her willingly. Leaders ought to have a very clear vision, clear destination as well as a very firm clutch of success image. Such a person should have the capability of communicating...

Carrying Cost of Inventory

Introduction When one compiles a list of assets or any form of items for formal purposes then he is said to be making an inventory. It involves various activities which include: recording of items, time and costs involved, the management of these items, forecasting the profitability, and physical inventory. This...

Operational Analysis of eBags: Supply Chain Optimization and Competitive Strategy

Comparing the Supply Chain Strategies: Drop-Ship and Private Label Models The application of the direct-from-manufacturer model allowed for a more efficient analysis of the customer feedback: “the drop-ship model was not a large departure for the major luggage providers, and it gave them more immediate feedback from the customers than...

Demographic Characteristics Affect Employee Performance and Satisfaction

Demographic characteristics affect employee performance and satisfaction both positively and negatively. They create the first impression of an employee to his or her colleagues. Being a victim of demographic discrimination is not a good feeling. I happened to have colleagues who were way too younger than me, hence got discriminated...

Fulchester University: Labour Turnover Analysis

Introduction Human resource capital plays an integral role in an organization. According to Shaikh (2007), employees are the greatest asset that an organization uses to effect changes in an organization. A motivated workforce plays a critical role in enhancing the competitiveness of a business or organization (Ntshangase & Parumasur, 2013)....

Decision-Making in Crisis: Alternatives for Quality Control

Introduction The process of high-quality decision making is dependent on heuristic since it provides assumptions, integration of options, and rational control. Decision environment often experience dynamics and swings which create short and long term effect on chances of survival for two alternatives to solve a problem (Fitzgerald 24). This paper...

Short Hand Graphic Design Company’s Profile

Introduction Short Hand Graphic Design is a UK start-up small business in the sphere of graphic design based on using advanced information technologies. The sphere of graphic design is an actively developing market that is attractive for not only newcomers but also for customers who purchase graphic design services and...

Target Hires Apple Executive: Supply Chain and Inventory

The Target Hires Supply Chain Executive From Apple article by Loretta Chao enlightens the issue concerning the appointment of Benjamin Cook as a Target Corporation senior vice president. It is expected that the former Apple executive will manage the company enhancing the supply chain processes and inventory management of the...

Ethical Considerations in Hiring Hackers: Analyzing Issues and Solutions

Introduction We are faced with ethical issues in our interactions as human beings. Ethics can loosely be defined as a system of moral principles by which social conduct is judged as either “right” or “wrong”. As relates to business, ethics are moral principles which prescribe legitimate behavior in varied business...

Staffing System and Retention Management

The factors to address in developing a report on the effectiveness of a staffing process for entry-level jobs are staffing system, recruiting, selection, final match and retention, each of these factors needs to be evaluated in terms of its cost, timeliness, outcomes and reaction (Heneman, Judge and Kammeyer-Mueller 652). Staffing...

Social Responsibility of Management

Key characteristics of for-profit firms which create possible tensions between important stakeholder groups As stated by Milton Friedman, businesses are primarily profit driven and, as such, seek to maximize profits and reduce costs in any way that they can. Barriers to doing so come in the form of laws that...

Organizational Culture and Leadership: Impact on Innovation and Global Operations

Abstract The existing concepts have proposed that organizational culture influences the capacity of a corporation to function in the global markets. In fact, most organizations have been unable to serve clients adequately based on the prevailing culture that inhibits the propensity of the workforce to generate and effectively use new...

Executing Control Over Essential Processes Post-QA Changes

Introduction The process of executing control over the essential processes in the organization after the crucial changes of its QA Department is made will be required to maintain high-quality rates. Particularly, it will be necessary to make sure that the significance of customer satisfaction should be acknowledged by every single...

Walmart’s Impact: Corporate Citizenship in Economic and Social Spheres

Modern age can be characterized by a great number of different complicated issues which make the life of common people much more difficult. The worlds financial crisis, unemployment, and high level of poverty lead to an increase in the level of stress, which, in turn, leads to the worsening of...

Corporate Responsibility in a Globalized World: Balancing Ethics and Profits

Introduction Globalization is defined as the increasing movement of products, services, and capital across national borders. Owing to the rapid technological development and a significant decline in communicational costs, larger corporations have found it efficient to move working assets abroad. With the rise of globalization, companies around the world have...

Seven Habits Profile for Leadership Style Evaluation

Executive summary The Seven Habits Profile is used to evaluate the people’s leadership styles and skills. Therefore, the tool is a practical way of assessing an individual’s strengths and weaknesses as a leader. Different people possess varying traits that are reflected in their leadership skills. At the same time, each...

Henderson Printing Company: Effective Management

Introduction The existing compensation system at Henderson Printing seems to be working properly, as all employees know how to maximize their annual bonuses. Even though it is not described in the company’s statute, the system is helpful for improving overall employee performance and increasing productivity because people know that their...

Aviation Company’s Poor Quality Costs

Defining the costs of poor quality for an aviation company, one must admit that the risks are far too high. Seeing that the quality of an aircraft or certain devices used by the pilots defines the safety of the flight and the landing, it can be assumed that poor rates...

Six Sigma Mapping Tool: Enhancing Product Promotion Strategies

Searching for the marketing strategies that can be deemed as efficient and, therefore, incorporated into the product promotion process is an integral part of delivering services to the target customers. Therefore, it is desirable to rationalize the procedure so that it could deliver the best results possible within a comparatively...

Unions in Modern Society: Their Role, Operations, and Impact on Workers

Summary of Labor Relations Principles Workers’ unions refer to groups of employees who are united by a common purpose of negotiating for better working conditions with employers. Unions emerged in the 1800s, with the primary objective of fighting oppression in the workplace (Compa, 2014). In the recent past, such unions...

Comprehensive Security Risk Assessment for Global Finance Inc: Insights and Findings

Executive Summary Global Finance Inc. (throughout the case study it will be abbreviated as GFI) is a large multinational company that functions on the territory of North America and provides its clients with numerous financial products and services. The ultimate goal of GFI is to become profitable and expand its...

Glamour Banquet Hall’s Business Plan

History and background information Business name The business will be called Glamour Banquet Hall, Inc. registered in the State of New York. General description of the business Glamour Banquet will be a freestanding facility business providing space and party related services. Justification for business choice Rising demand for free-stand banquet...

Integration of Enterprise Resource Planning Systems: Benefits and Challenges

Abstract ERP Systems are critical components in the attempt to create a competitive advantage for a particular Higher Education Institution or HEI. However, it is a costly endeavor. It is therefore important to look into a successful implementation project within an HEI setting for the purpose of developing a similar...

Safaricom Company’s Structure and Performance

Introduction The success of an industry relies on the strategies formulated and developed to reach the customers within the component organizations. Services or goods are prepared or manufactured and supplied to customers through distribution channels. A business must spy its directions in a strategic way to ensure that all organizations...

Innovative Recruitment Techniques and the Impact on Equal Employment Opportunities

Equal employment opportunity Equal employment opportunity refers to the approach used to ensure fairness and impartiality in their employment and recruitment practices (Byars & Rue, 2010). This term was first coined by President Lyndon Johnson during the signing of the executive order that prohibited employers from discrimination against employees based...

Comparing Employee Benefits and Compensation: Key Insights for Organizations

Employee compensation and benefits are sub-disciplines in human resources. Though closely related, compensation refers to monetary payments such as tips and wages while benefits are forms of value, other than monetary payments that an employee receives for contributing to an organization’s success or operation (DeCenzo & Holoviak, 2009). Employee benefits...

Innovations in Research and Development at Castrol Company

Importance of R&D in Businesses The business environment continues to witness numerous changes that affect the way organisations operate. In the wake of the inevitable wave of globalisation, changing consumer demographic factors, and technological advancement, it has become vital for firms to commit resources to proactive Research & Development (R&D)...

Barclays Bank’s Innovative Managerial Practices

For the analysis of the entrepreneurship’s encouragement in Barclays Bank’s structure, one is to determine the meaning of the relevant concept. One of the most vivid examples of Barclays’s encouragement of entrepreneurship processes is the LifeSkills program designed for providing young people with access to the data necessary for becoming...

Defining Corporate Social Responsibility: Vision, Values, and Ethical Practices

When identifying the principles, which the phenomenon of the corporate citizenship is based on, one must admit that values and vision not only constitute an impressive part thereof, but also serve as the foundation for the corporate citizenship. Presupposing that each and every member of the staff should be committed...

Development of Problem-Solving and Communication Expertise: Key Strategies for Success

Introduction The functions of managers involve a number of very demanding tasks under a given organisational setting. The basic functions of these administrators include planning, organising, controlling, leading, and staffing as far as their business firm is concerned. In essence, managers are expected to make human resource more productive. Consequently,...

Current Relevance of Six Sigma: Transforming Business Processes and Quality Management

Increasing the quality of a company’s performance and improving the outcomes of organizational projects is an essential step toward progress. Therefore, it is crucial that a proper quality management framework should be adopted by the members of an organization or the leaders of a specific project. The Six Sigma concept,...

Integrating Deming’s Quality Principles at Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation

Promoting improved performance standards in the quality assurance department of a manufacturing company is a challenging task since the behavioral patterns are rather rigid. However, in companies such as the Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation, where the performance standards define the levels of customer safety, is a necessity. Although Deming’s principles described...

Assessing Today’s Talent Management Challenges and Emerging Trends

The current discussion of talent management is based on the idea that the research on the problem lacks a clear definition of the term, as well as the variety of perspectives to apply in order to guarantee the complex and systematic approach to discussing the issue (Collings & Mellahi, 2009)....

Learning Customers’ Opinions: Key to Product Success

Learning the customers’ opinions is, perhaps, the most essential step toward creating the product that will become a success in the target market. No matter how sophisticated a marketing strategy might be, the clients are unlikely to be interested in the product that does not meet their demands or standards....

Business and Marketing Strategies for Quiet Cafe: Analysis and Recommendations

Vision and Opportunity Goals, Purpose, and Mission After leaving the university, I’d like to create a business project that would be sustainable, correspond to the demand on the market, and, most importantly, coincide with my philosophy of not bothering anyone unless it is necessary. While many business models of our...

Walmart Company’s Supply Chain and Logistics

The distribution and logistics practices adopted by Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart’s supply chain contribution to its competitive advantage Wal-Mart’s success is attributable to its focus on solid supply chain, which has given its management a competitive advantage over other companies in the retail industry. For example, Wal-Mart’s logistic structure is among the...

Leadership and Quality Management for Organizational Success

Introduction Creating the environment, in which the improvement of product quality becomes a possibility, requires a substantive amount of effort. In their study, Foster, Howard, and Shaninon (2002) make it quite clear that the variables are tightly connected to each other in a case. Particularly, by linking the strong leadership...

QR Codes as a Physical Marketing Technology

Introduction A quick response (QR) code is a type of a two-dimensional barcode that relies on a visual representation of data. While the core concept is not new, the effectiveness of its current iteration combined with the mass adoption of mobile devices with web connectivity raised the usability of the...

Six Sigma Framework: Overcoming Organizational Challenges

Promoting a change in an organization is a task that is fraught with numerous challenges. While providing a plethora of tools for making improvements in the designated setting, the Six Sigma framework needs support, which slight changes in the organizational environment and the overall course of the firm’s operations can...

Industrial Products Plant’s Quality Assurance

Abstract Hank Kolb is a director–quality assurance at the industrial products plant. He was hired to help the organization but soon realized that the personnel do not believe the quality to be really important for the organization, as they never treat it seriously. Still, Hank wants a challenge, which requires...

Fair Trade: Ethics in the UK Garment Industry

Introduction A report on the sweatshops of the UK apparel companies operating their (or vendor’s) plants in Asia reported in 1998, “workers in Bangladesh are forced to work 13-hour shifts, with no time off, for as little as 60 pence a day” (BBC News, 13 November 1998). Almost a decade...

Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.’s Safety Policies

The case study by Quelch and Rodriguez (2016) provides the reader with an overview of the Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) aspects of Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. policies. In the context of the meeting discussed, the issue of positioning and differentiating is raised. Mainly, the CEO and the senior vice...

Facilitating Organizational Change: Strategy and Training Plan

Background Promoting change in the context of an organization requires substantial resources due to the need to address the emergent problems and keep the system viable (Pyzdek & Keller, 2014a). As the previous cause-and-effect analysis has shown, Company X is suffering from the lack of motivation among the employees and...

Kaizen in Business: A Commitment to Continuous Quality Improvement

Project Idea There are a lot of businesses in India that have to encounter problems connected with insufficient production volumes and poor quality of the final product. The project at hand has the ultimate objective to investigate how the implementation of the Kaizen approach to quality improvement in the selected...

Evaluating Berkshire Hathaway’s Service Guarantee: Insights and Current Issues

Berkshire Hathaway has been known for quite long as the provider of insurance services. Having grown to the size of a multinational conglomerate, it has managed to retain its quality standards and is currently topping the list of the most successful financial service organizations. However, because of the quality statement...

Evaluating the Effectiveness of Employee Compensation Programs in Organizations

Introduction The dramatic change in the workforce structure in corporations has ushered changes in organizational culture and the human resource system. Increase in nonstandard employees such as temporary, part-time, short-term, independent contractors, freelancers, and contingent workers have enhanced the need for different organizational policy. The literature on nonstandard employment relations...

Broadway Café: M-Coupons Usage

Introduction The need for direct and targeted market communications has led to the increasing use of mobile phones to relay marketing messages. Due to its personal nature, the mobile phone provides an effective way of reaching customers (Dickinger & Kleijnen, 2008). The most common means of mobile marketing involves the...

Comprehensive IT Trainer Job Description: Skills & Testing

Abstract The organization requires an IT trainer. The position demands flexibility since the occupant is expected to performance IT training duties. The organization uses personality and psychological testing to predict job performance, job related behaviors, and reactions as guides to hiring and staffing. This job requires cognitive testing through the...

BSC vs COBIT: IT Governance and Strategic Alignment Models

Information technology plays a strategic role in corporate decisions. IT governance aims to align the IT processes with a firm’s business strategies, leverage on technology infrastructure, and control IT-related risks and costs (Jairak & Praneetpolgrang, 2013). Different models exist for IT management, e.g., COBIT, which supports business-IT alignment. A generic...

The Communication Problems with the Email

Identify the communication problems with the email Communication is a sensitive issue because when one is saying or writing anything, the expectation is that the recipient will understand everything. It involves two or more parties but the basic ones are the sender and the receiver (Stuart, Sarow, & Stuart, 2007)....

Options Consulting Solutions Company’s Performance Management

Options Consulting Solutions is a recruiting firm headquartered in Toronto, Ontario. The firm was started more than two decades ago. The start was small but to-date, OCS has grown into a full-service recruitment establishment providing the clients with qualified personnel candidates (OCS n.pag.). Performance management purpose Judging by the interview,...

Wells Fargo: Analyzing Work Processes and Key Employees’ Contributions

Introduction Wells Fargo is a successful organization in the Banking and Finance industry (Our strategy, 2016). However, specific issues such as competition and consolidation in the industry will definitely affect its performance in the future. In order to be prepared against these possibilities, the company should implement new work processes...

Change and Conflict Theories in Healthcare Leadership

Lewin’s Three-Step Change Theory Kurt Lewis examined behavior as an intricate balance of forces that work in opposite directions. Such driving forces encourage change because they push the organization’s workers in the needed direction. However, restraining forces curtail change since they push workers in opposing directions. Lewin states that the...

Chevrolet Equinox: Advertising and Sales Promotion

When one looks at the number of sales a company makes, one determines the stability and profitability of the enterprise. In order to realize positive results a business must invest in intensive marketing techniques. Advertising and sales promotions make up the means and ways to achieve the desired outcomes. The...

Transform Business with Leadership Communication Strategies

Effective leadership communication is essential for productive business operations. A great number of organizations and projects failed due to poor leadership and team communication. On the other hand, effective communication can be of great benefit to the firm and its employees. I would like to propose an implementation of effective...

Job Satisfaction: Leadership, HR Policies & Culture

Literature Review Job satisfaction is determined by a number of factors such as leadership or management styles, human resource policies and organisation’s culture. Job satisfaction is the extent at which employees feel contented with the roles they play at workplace. It can also be defined as the feeling of personal...

Kodak Company Corporate, Business and Functional Strategies

Eastman Kodak is struggling severe competition and the company has to come up with effective solutions to regain its status of the leader in the industry. It is necessary to note that the strategies Kodak is using are connected with the company’s vision and mission. The company’s vision involves improvement...

Exploring Diversity Training Approaches in the United States: Strategies and Effectiveness

Approaches to Diversity Training The majority of companies in the United States and abroad are diverse in terms of the workforce’s characteristics. On the one hand, this feature is often beneficial for companies because of opening new ways to decision making and problem-solving in the firm (Carr-Ruffino, 2012, p. 24)....

Macy’s Corporation: Strategic Insights and Business Operations

Executive Summary In this case study, Macy’s, Inc. is chosen for the analysis. Its long history, a variety of approaches to cooperate with different stakeholders, and opportunities offered to customers and employees serve as the main reason for why this company is used in the analysis. Macy’s representatives have already...

Living Arts Centre: Strengths, Weaknesses, and Opportunities

The Business The particular company discussed in the paper is the Living Arts Centre (LAC) which is a charitable organization operating in Canada. LAC exists for almost twenty years and provides businesspeople, instructors, and people of art with an opportunity to give open lessons and hold meetings (“History and Mission”...

US Car Manufacturing: International Promotion Mix

Introduction The car manufacturing industry in the United States of America is quite competitive as the business environment in the country has transformed significantly. For foreign car manufacturing company to thrive in the United States market, a lot of marketing strategy considerations ought to be made particularly regarding the marketing...

Leadership Lessons from “Engaging Others”: Effective Team Management

Introduction Healthcare facilities and business organizations should be managed by individuals who possess adequate leadership skills. Such managers should liaise with their subordinates, influence their behaviors, offer timely updates, and communicate with them effectively. Competent leaders will engage their followers, identify and tackle their problems, and empower them to deliver...

Walmart’s Unethical Employee Management Practices

Walmart is the company that took the dominant position in the market. The strategy of the business to provide the customers with the American products for the lowest price seems to be essential to the company’s success. There is hardly an organization in the world that does not face challenges,...

Advantages of the Dell 13 Mobile Workstation for Professionals on the Go

DELL is a recognized producer of informational technology. It is a large international corporation which strives to employ innovation as the major strategy to maintain its leading position in the market. The company was launched in 1984 by Michael Dell whose “game-changing vision” contributed to the progress of the industry...

Volvo Company’ Branding Strategy in Saudi Arabia

PESTEL framework for Volvo The following is a political, economic, social, technological, environmental, and a legal framework analysis of Volvo in Saudi Arabia. It presents an overview of the external business environment that the Volvo brand faces presently and in the immediate future. The report focuses on Volvo’s business area...

Understanding Organizational Boundaries and Their Impact on Management

There are several organizational boundaries that exist within any entity and they are key elements of management. These boundaries mostly exist in respect to employee groupings and basic personnel management (Aarons, Ehrhart, & Hurlburt, 2015). An environment in which boundaries occur is juxtaposed by a ‘boundary-less’ environment whereby horizontal or...

Logistics Performance Index: Insights from the World Bank’s Assessment

The World Bank’s Logistics Performance Index The World Bank’s Logistics Performance Index (LPI) is constructed to assist countries in determining the key challenges and opportunities in logistics. It is an interactive benchmarking tool, which can be deployed for improving performance because it provides insight into the trade logistics environment in...

Insights into the Practices and Challenges of the Forestry Industry in Tasmania

Executive summary The Tasmanian forestry industry is shifting towards efficiency in processing timber. The effectiveness of subsidies or tariffs depends on the elasticity of supply and demand. Low elasticity of supply will make both policies ineffective. The high elasticity of supply becomes effective even when the demand in the local...

The Balance Between Deregulation and Employee Security in the U.S. Labor Market

Introduction The current paper pertains to the issues that exist in the modern labor market, in particular, to the problems related to labor market deregulation and workers’ social security in the USA’s labor market. Three articles from reputable media sources are summarized. After that, a critical discussion of these articles...

ABASCO Company’s Recruitment and Implementation Plan

Executive Summary In the 21st century, competition in all segments of the economy has increased drastically. Any organisation that does not adopt the best industry practices risks being phased out of the market. Organisations need to be in the front position in recognising their respective industry trends, adopting the best...

Quality Management Approaches at Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation

Introduction At the Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation, quality assurance (QA) and the related procedures are taken with great seriousness to reduce the risk of an accident to a minimum (Kubiak & Benbow, 2009b). Although not all elements of the iSix Sigma framework are currently introduced in the organization, the existing quality...

The Wiggles: Analyzing Their Expansion into International Markets

Introduction The Wiggles company, a company that specializes in childhood entertainment has had great success both in their home and foreign markets. The company is located in Australia. It was founded by two musicians from the Cockroaches, a Sydney rock band. The group started to perform at children’s functions by...

Medical Device Industry’s Investment Attractiveness

Many important modern concerns could be related to the sphere of business which continues its rapid growth and remains one of the most significant forces of modern society. The sphere of business attracts people who want to realize their potential and improve the financial state. It results in the involvement...

Evaluating Human Resource Strategies: Metrics for Workforce Effectiveness

Strategic Human Resource Management and Competitive Strategy The performance of the human resources departments can be evaluated using the way the department involves and engages workers in understanding and implementing various aims of an organization. Rather than just handle administrative tasks for employees, effective HR management calls for leadership practice...

AOL Introduces Unified Login for E-Commerce Services

AOL has made the first step towards e-commerce. The company provides a useful service to its clients. The customers get the summary of their bills and are able to access a number of websites using only one passwords and ID (Haag & Cummings, 2008). Admittedly, customers will appreciate these options,...

Ice-Fili Company’s Brand

Introduction A medium-sized Russian ice-cream producer, Ice-Fili, is still a middle store. The company is dominating the Russian top ice-cream production. However, according to Bernard Koopmans’s market share targets, the company does not have a stable dominating market share. The company only boasts of 4.3% market share which is very...

New Strategies of Employee Training

Executive Summary This study seeks to evaluate the organizational training program in order to identify the various weaknesses that should be eliminated in line with the achievement of the institutional objectives. It reviews relevant literature concerning the leadership and management orientations when training employees. In addition, the research explores the...

The Impact of Workplace Diversity on Business Improvement Strategies

Introduction Diversity in an organization is a required condition for efficient development within the industry, referring to global trends. Nowadays, diversity in the workplace is defined as respect for people’s differences, focusing on their age, gender, race, culture, or religion, among other characteristics. In this context, the inclusion can be...

Socialization of People with Disabilities in the Workplace

Executive Summary Organizations have varying perceptions of disability in the workplace. The study discussed in this paper was undertaken in 15 organizations with a view of investigating their views on people with disabilities. It was undertaken in employment sectors that included education, production, companies, local governments, and small and medium...

Entrepreneurial Leadership: Strategies and Challenges

There is a new definition to entrepreneurial leaderships in today’s dynamic markets. Dynamic markets are characterized by a high pace and direction of change that continually accelerates every now and then (Tarabishy, 2002, P. 14). This therefore calls for entrepreneurial leadership for success. In addition, Case, Kouzes and Drucker all...

Cisco Company’s Internet Practices and Market Share

B2B is a business terminology that refers to a commerce transaction that exists between a business and a business such as between a manufacturer and a wholesaler or a wholesaler and retailer. In such an environment, the twist that the new technology of e-commerce and the social media introduces requires...

Addressing Operational Crisis at ABC Day Care: Theory & Solutions

The Case ABC Day Care center is an institution that supports and offers day care services for 30 young adults between the ages of 16 and 25 years. This institution has been operating for five years now and deals with individuals who are suffering from sexual health, substance abuse, mental...

In-Depth Analysis of Hanbo Enterprise Company: Financial and Operational Insights

Introduction SWOT analysis of a company basically means the evaluation of the Strength, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats of the company. The analysis can determine the area where the company has strengths to deal with competition in the specific industry where the company conducts its business. It also offers the idea...

The Relationship Between Vacation Time and Employee Burnout: Insights and Recommendations

Determining the Employee Burnout Of course, the vice-president should remember that employee burnout can be caused by the lack of vacation time. Still, it is also critical to pay attention to such factors as the frequency of working long hours, amount of appreciation and recognition, employee satisfaction, monotonous activities, challenge...

Encouraging Independence: Employee Leadership and Decision-Making Tactics

Employees in Charge: Tendency to Encourage Independence The environment of Operation Management (OM) has changed significantly over the past few years. New trends have redesigned the subject matter to the point where OM gained an entirely new meaning, implying not only the control over the corporate processes but also the...

Stress Level and Work in Team

Stress at the workplace is one of the most significant problems observed in management. It is necessary to focus on a variety of strategies, such as the promotion of teamwork to address the problem. To discuss differences in stress levels and effects of teamwork on performance, it is necessary to...

BMW Group’s Logical, Creative, Innovative Activities

There is no use denying the fact that coherent society can be characterized by a great development of different ways of thinking, approaches and attitudes to the same issue. Being the age of tolerance and democracy, modern epoch allows people outline their ideas and create some new methods which increase...

Six Sigma Methodology: Enhancing Process Capability for Operational Excellence

What is the need for both the process capability index and the process capability ratio? Controlling the manufacturing process is a challenging task that requires using a range of resources that an organization has at its disposal. More importantly, it is crucial to make sure that the essential processes are...

Auto Car Companies Industry in China

With the ever-growing and stable development of China’s economy, the Chinese domestic auto industry has become one of the most vibrant sectors of China’s economy. Over the recent past, this industry has come up with new automobile brands that have made China to be ranked one of the leading automakers...

Comparative Analysis of Leadership and Entrepreneurship: Success Factors and Models

Introduction The scholars in the leadership field are very much familiar with the complicated and problematic course which this field has followed. According to Hunt and Dodge (2000), despite these obstacles, at the present, there is the consideration of leadership as being a “mature field” because of the developments that...

Eastman Kodak Company Rise and Fall

Key Objectives for Eastman Kodak Develop the company into a viable business in the field of photography Focus on lean operations wherein fewer people are needed to perform operational tasks Penetrate new markets where there are fewer competitors Expand the company’s product line to encompass new trends in technology development...

Challenges in Leadership at Western State University

Abstract In large organizations that include several different departments and work based on the decentralized model of leadership with a complex hierarchy, it is critical that all the branches and services work in cooperation. The disruption of the systems and operations in one part of such an organization is likely...

Product Portfolio Management for Marketing

Introduction In the modern business world, people have to deal with several tasks and duties to achieve their goals, comprehend their abilities, and investigate outside sources and competitors. Any ordinary business model includes such processes as the selection of customers, the definition of products and services, the creation of values,...

Ethical Oil: Comparing Canada’s Oil Sands to Nigeria’s Crude

Introduction Oil is the most important energy source in the world and it sustains modern life as we know it. Maugeri (2006) declares that it is the most vital resource of our time and it provides the energy needed to run industries and power homes. For this reason, nations that...

Valentino: Master Couture Exhibition Promotion Mix

Executive Summary Picking the right marketing manner is not an easy task, especially in the realm of haute couture, and it gets even more complicated as the person at the helm decides to set an exhibition, since the latter is considered a completely different promotion method. However, the above-mentioned does...

The Use of Motivation and Inspiration in Business

Introduction Organizations deliver services to their customers via employees. For customers to be contented with the offered services, employee motivation towards the fulfillment of a firm’s goals aims, and objectives is incredibly important. Organizations that seek to improve employee impetus focus on fulfilling the workers’ needs. They also concentrate on...

Dorchester Inc.’s Stock Swap Option: Financial Implications and Strategy

Introduction Businesses can combine financially in several ways. For instance, businesses of equal sizes can merge their operations and become one large entity or one entity can acquire another company. In the case of acquisition, the acquiring company needs to pay for the entity being acquired. There are several ways...

Just-in-Time Inventory Systems: Streamlining Operations for Improved Efficiency

Just-in-time inventory models relate to the system of inventory management aimed at offering the inventory readily available in order to meet the demand of potential customers. However, just-in-time models are aimed at reducing the excess of the extra products that pile up without bringing any earning. Therefore, just-in-time systems provide...

International Medical Care Logistics in the Middle East: Key Challenges and Solutions

Introduction Logistics is defined as the integrated analysis and active management of an enterprise’s entire supply chain (Coyle, Gibson & Bardi 2008). According to Coyle et al. (2008), the success of contemporary business organisations is increasingly pegged on the effective management of international logistics networks. The increase in low-cost sourcing...

The Role of Trade Union Congress in Mobilizing Labor Movements in the UK

Introduction Trades Union Congress is a Britain’s federation of trade unions that is made up of 58 affiliate unions in Wales and England (Lecture Notes Week 2). Founded in 1868, this union brought together all other trade unions in this country that represented employees in various sectors of the economy....

Microsoft Company’s Marketing Ethics

Running an ethical business requires an explicit act of giving back to the community and embracing responsible citizenship behavior. At Microsoft, that advice translates to moving beyond the development of own products and services, and actually enhancing the responsibility, commitment through a network of partners like businesses, nonprofits and governments....

Evaluating King Company’s Management Training Program for Improved Performance

One major reason for training employees is to ensure longevity and attainment of future goals. For the employees, training is a platform that encourages them to become productive in the workplace. It is also a platform for solving various employee problems and attaining departmental and organizational goals. In the King’s...

Bancolombia, Conavi, Corfinsura Merger’s Cultural Issues

Problem Statement With the merger of Bancolombia, Bancolombia, Conavi, and Corfinsura, the new bank that was in place has a challenge in the area of human resource (Caijao 2). According to Caijao, employees that would continue to work with the new bank lacked determination with the three companies having a...

Analyzing Good Mark Company’s Position in the Manufacturing Industry

Introduction This paper provides a strategic analysis of the manufacturing industry. To concretize the analysis, Good Mark, a manufacturing company in Hong Kong is used. The strategic assessment looks into the manufacturing industry trends based on a PESTEL Model. It further analyses the strategic groups in the manufacturing industry using...

Unleashing the Power of Emotional Intelligence in Primal Leadership

The book Primal leadership: Unleashing the power of emotional intelligence by Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis, and Annie McKee explores the role of emotions in leadership practices and suggests a framework for applying the obtained knowledge in the field of professional use. According to the authors, leadership is based mostly on...

Management Strategy: Understanding Causal Chains for Better Decision-Making

Introduction Using the balanced scorecard, it is possible for management executives to create a continuous process of implementing strategy in their everyday operations in such a way that there is a perfect integration between the strategies and the operations (Silverthorne, 2008). This should involve regular strategy meetings for senior management,...

Corporate Social Responsibility in the Saudi Arabia Kingdom

Introduction The role of corporate social responsibility (CSR) has been increasing continuously in the business concept within the last years. According to Bueble (1), the prominence of CSR in recent years is “shown by the fact that 90% of the fortune 500 companies have explicit CSR initiatives today and an...

Managing Employees in Hospitality Organizations: Strategies and Challenges

Introduction This research paper will endeavor to discuss the history, career information, and positive and negative aspects of being an employee of various multinational organizations. This will cover mainly five hospitality organizations, namely Hilton Hotels & Resorts, Serena Group of Hotels, Stratosphere Las Vegas, Marriot Hotels, and Sheraton Hotels. The...

Hollywood Film Industry’ Success Factors

Blue Ocean Thinking Framework Hollywood Film Industry is one of the leading world movie producers that has been in existence since the twentieth century. Over the recent past, the industry has experienced the challenges associated with technological advancements that have reduced its purchases and sales volume. Critical success factors refer...

HazMat Emergency Response: Standards & Procedures

HazMat emergency response includes the procedures and regulations that are aimed at the treatment of those who were exposed to contamination with the hazardous materials. The emergency standards, such as HazWOPER, are necessary at the workplaces in the industrial or chemical organizations where employees face significant risks of being exposed...

Causes and Recommendations Arising from the Penn State University Scandal

Abstract The Penn State university scandal was all about lack of ethics in the management of organizational affairs. Several counts of child abuse were leveled against Jerry Sandusky. Through his charity organization, the culprit had a long list of victims whom he abused on a regular basis. Personnel deployed at...

Can Effective Business Leadership Be Learned?

Introduction The question of whether effective business leadership can be learned remains a contested debate. Many individuals believe that business leaders are born. While this might be somewhat true, it is imperative to understand that effective business leadership can be learned. Many people fail to lead due to the perception...

Wal-Mart Stores Learning and Growth Perspective

Introduction Employee satisfaction, retention and productivity can be assessed quantitatively by the use of a Growth Metric which is used in the Balanced Scorecard (BSC) framework. Such a metric targets the learning and growth perspective of BSC that is and remains “the foundation for all strategy” (Chen & Miles, 2000,...

Harrah’s Entertainment Company Database Strategy

Importance of Integrating Databases Located at Each Casino Harrah’s Entertainment Inc. has integrated its databases in various locations to help it conduct business and customer-relationship-management activities more efficiently. For instance, the integration of the databases has allowed Harrah’s to carry out its Total RewardsTM effectively, by allowing it to track...