Global Outsourcing: Comparing Practices in China and India

When it comes to defining the benefits of outsourcing from countries like India and China, one must admit that a comparatively low cost is the most obvious benefit. Indeed, a closer look at the specified countries will reveal that the cost of the services, which the labor force from the...

Stakeholder Analysis Theory: Allegiance Air Company’ Case

Brief overview of the theory In this research, stakeholder analysis theory was used to identify the parties that are likely to lose, gain or be affected in a given manner as a result of the outcomes of an action, a process or a program at Allegiance Air. This theory identifies...

Decision-Making in Leadership: The Dynamics of Self-Managed Teams

Introduction Leadership style, the decision-making process, and self-managed teams collectively add up to the canvas making up organizations behaviour (Daft, 2007). The environment in which organizations operate is dynamic and presents a variety of threats and opportunities for the organization existence (Busemeyer & Townsend, 1993). An analysis of the efficacy...

Amazon’s Expansion: From U.S. Success to European Market Challenges

Amazon.com was founded in 1995 and by the end of the 1990s managed to take over the customer market in the United States and achieve fantastic success. Initially focused on selling books, Amazon functioned following its primary purpose to transform the experience of purchasing books into an easier and more...

Break-Even Analysis: Transforming Losses into Profit Strategies

Introduction Break-even analysis is a managerial economic tool that is used to ascertain the number of units that generate revenue and covers the cost of production. This tool also helps to ascertain the level of sales that will generate a desired level of profit. This economical tool is often used...

Benefits of RFID Technology in Company Efficiency

The functioning of the modern market is conditioned by technologies that introduce several new possibilities and increase the efficiency of various companies. The blistering scientific development gave rise to several issues related to the reconsideration of the existing approaches and implementation of the newest devices to achieve the best results....

Cultural Intelligence Development: Essential for Success in International Business

The world has become an open village. Such globalization has made it possible to sojourn to different parts of the world, meeting different types of people who have very different practices, which of course seem strange. Despite these differences people need not only to enhance communication between them, but also...

Envisioning Diversity in Organizations: Its Importance and Benefits

Abstract The current paper discusses the peculiarities of envisioning diversity and its understanding as an adaptive challenge. Many organizations try to consider different aspects to create appropriate working conditions, offer the best services, and demonstrate successful results. However, these companies cannot solve diversity-related problems in time and face several challenges....

Innovation’s Role in Boosting Export Success in Competitive Markets

Introduction The approaches behind a company’s competitiveness and global triumph have at all times attracted the focus of a huge set of business and economics studies. In this regard, the innovation endeavors of a company might represent the major course stimulating the organization’s venture in foreign markets. The comprehension of...

Natural American Spirit and Got Milk? Ads: Cultural Impact and Analysis

Riders Jeans Advertisement Riders Jeans advertisement does not include much text, which makes a potential customer see the main phrase immediately even if one did not want to read it. That is why, looking at this advertisement, it is impossible not to notice the emphasis that is made on the...

Autocratic, Consultative, Group-Based Leadership

Autocratic leaders use readily available information to make decisions without involving other people. In certain cases, leaders utilize the limited input provided by team members but do not involve them in decision-making. The little input involves the supply of information that could help the leader in making decisions. Two classes...

Amazon Company: Transportation and Logistics Department

Abstract Amazon is one of the leading online retailers in the global market. The company sells various products and sends them to different parts of the world. The network of cargo and fulfillment facilities in the USA is substantial, which has enabled the company to introduce the prime delivery service...

Change Management Strategies at CSX and Company X: Comparative Review

Introduction Whenever carrying out the changes that affect the very foundation of a company and trigger further alterations in its basic processes, one must make sure that the newly designed framework allows for perfect coordination of all processes involved. Therefore, it is imperative to create not only an elaborate quality...

Role of Segmentation in Enhancing Customer Relationship Management Strategies

Customer segmentation is an important part of the business activity in general and a highly effective customer relationship management practice. The information obtained through segmentation allows personalizing goods and services offered by the company and thus ensure its relevance to the customers. Its advantages are best described through its three...

Dell’s Twitter Strategy: Tracking the Impact of Word-of-Mouse in Marketing

Abstract Dell is one of the biggest companies in the technology industry. It manufactures computers and computer accessories, as well as other technology related products. There has been a lot of news trending through various social media sites about the organization, its products, its business, sales, advertisement, and image, among...

Change Management in Occupational Safety: Strategies for Success

You are an engineer with authority over human resources and an employee comes to you and says, “I want to tell you something about someone, but you can’t tell anybody.” He then reveals that someone pushed another employee in the company kitchen. What action do you take? According to Bertocci...

Enron Company History, Management, and Financial Scandals

Introduction Enron Company got involved in several financial scandals between the years 2001 and 2002. The most interesting part of the scandal, however, was the persistent denial by the top managers of the company of their knowledge on the same. The managers vehemently denied knowledge of the mischievous financial activities...

Analyzing Unemployment Trends and Labor Market Dynamics in Australia

The Labor Market In the labor market there exist forces of supply and demand of labor. The labor markets are where employers get labor while the employees get wages for jobs done. A demand labor curve displays the number of laborers who will give their services at the different wage...

Comparing Order Processing Systems: Beachbeat vs. Jelly Belly Companies

Creating the order processing (OP) and fulfillment approach that meets the customers’ needs is a crucial choice that will take a company one step closer to becoming a success in the target market. However, while being seemingly different, the OP tools used by different companies are most likely to lead...

Understanding Lean Concepts: Insights from Toyota’s Approach to Efficiency

Literature review A Definition of Lean Concept The lean concept is an idea that aims at maximizing the customer value while at the same time minimizing waste. In other words, lean entails the creation of more value for the customer while using as few resources as possible. Therefore, an organization...

Public Library: Bureaucracy and Lack Motivation

The interview with this acquisition librarian increases my awareness of the functioning of public libraries. This person explained to me the key challenges faced by such organizations; moreover, she identified their weaknesses which prevent them from attracting new readers and from becoming more prosperous. In particular, she believes that these...

Business Strategies of Ritz-Carlton and Room Mate Restaurant Chains

Evaluation The Ritz Carlton is a competitive hotel based on the fundamental keys it takes to make sure every customer is contented. The hotel is also a risk taker for example, during the opening of the Ritz Carlton Boston it decided to design the chairs in the Winston Churchill’s room...

Marketing Contemporary Events: Insights from a Topping Out Ceremony

Introduction The success of any given event depends on the planning behind it. Strategic planning is needed at all times. Management bodies of such events find it essential to rely on fundamental theories and various best practices to enhance the experience derived from such undertakings. A number of foundations act...

Nintendo and Sony Companies’ Financial Strategies

In order to predict the company’s financial performance and profitability during the next several years, it is important to focus on financial forecasting and develop pro-forma statements (Hillier, Clacher, Ross, Westerfield, & Jordan, 2014; Piper, 2010). The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how pro-forma financial statements are used...

Auto Spare Parts Distributor Network Optimization

Introduction The ASP spare parts distribution strategy has inventory and customer service level problems that James Bond wants to solve using two alternative sets of methods, which include centralized and decentralized distribution strategies. There is need to do an inventory planning to achieve the economies of scale in response to...

The Essential Role of Soft Skills in Enhancing Employee Performance

Nowadays, employers value employees who have additional skills and knowledge that cannot be adopted through academic education. These extra abilities are often called soft skills, and many kinds of soft skills are distinguished: critical thinking, creativity, problem-resolving, time management, self-organization, responsibility, etiquette, etc. Overall, it is possible to divide soft...

Evaluating the Business Model of The Desert World Company

Introduction This proposal presents the Desert World as a proposed provider of unique desert life experiences. The Desert World project would offer state-of-the-art facilities for the hot weather of Dubai through developing a huge ski centre, which would be close to the Dubai Shopping Mall. The closeness of the project...

Examining Theories and Approaches in Global Consumer Culture

Introduction Culture is defined as the total behavioral traits learned, manifested and shared among members of a society. Consumer culture in the past used to vary widely in the entire world and that called for diversity in marketing strategies and advertisement for every region. This seems to be changing. Hollensen...

Leadership Dynamics in Capital Veterinarian Clinics: Challenges and Strategies

Leadership is important in any organization because the effectiveness of leadership influences all processes, relations, and operations in a company (McCleskey, 2014; Schaubroeck et al., 2012). It is important to focus on examining the aspects of leadership in the Capital Veterinarian Clinic (CVC) because there are several issues that can...

Ethical Issues in Pharmacare: A Comprehensive Research Paper on Company Practices

Introduction PharmaCARE is a drug manufacturing company situated in New Jersey, but it has a production plant in Colberia. The company is surrounded by numerous ethical issues. In Colberia, the company has employed natives who work for as low as $1 per day. Critics allege that the company has caused...

Financial Analysis of General Mills and Meiji Holdings Companies: Comparative Review

Balance sheets Components of stockholders When financial analysts are assessing the performance of a business establishment, they evaluate stockholders’ equity, which is used to reflect the extent to which a firm earns money for its shareholders (Mongiello, 2009). General Mills is exemplified by the following elements of stockholders’ equity: common...

Diversity in Workplace Communication

International organizations comprise of people drawn from different races, ethnicities, and religions (Harvey & Allard, 2008). The differences constitute to workplace diversity. The perception that dictates how one views a particular group has a far-reaching consequence in a diverse organization. In order to reduce this effect, companies have to address...

Processing and Information Systems Role in Supply Chain

Introduction With complexity in the nature of the environment in which business activities operate, it has become a necessity to integrate various aspects of technology in the operations with the main aim of attaining efficiency, effectiveness and economy as well as being at per with the competitive business world. Information...

The Sustainable Supply Chains Concept

What is a Sustainable Supply Chain? Sustainability refers to the utilization of resources and the production of goods/services in a manner which takes into consideration not only the impact of a company on the environment but also its ability to ensure that the resources it utilizes are sourced in a...

Bally Total Fitness: Promotion Strategy

One of the strategies was to see members attending the training/fitness lessons for more than 100 times a year.There were growing desire by the Americans to join health clubs in the country. There are many factors, which have gone to contribute to the need by people to join the fitness...

Singhania and Partners’ Human Resource Strategy

Evaluation of the Singhania and Partners Strategy Singhania and Partners have a strong sense of context in their business strategy. The company is on the forefront of planning for change and adapting to it. Cases in point include opening a New York office to take care of the influx of...

Techno Company’s Corporate Social Responsibility

Introduction In the modern business world, CSR and PR concepts have become popular notions with respect to how companies relate with the society in which they operate. These concepts are closely linked because they deal with the public domain that influences their prosperity. Public Relations (PR) refers to ways through...

Asian Automakers Targeting Gen Y: Strategy, Innovations, and Limitations

Explain the strategy behind Asian automakers targeting Gen Y The business world is full of competition and the automotive business is not an exception. Gen Y could be defined as the segment of the United States population that was born towards the end of the 20th century (between the years...

The Importance of Organizational Vision for Staff Engagement and Performance

The concept of vision is rarely taken for granted; nowadays, it is among the top priorities of any company to come up with a unique mission and vision statements in order to get any credibility among the target customers. Usually identified as the manifestation of the company’s goals and aspirations,...

Navigating Compensation Strategies: Controlling Benefits and Costs Effectively

Introduction The system of healthcare in the United States is characterized by complexity and diversity. Private and public medical institutions offer medical services to individuals covered by individual-based, government-financed, and employment-based insurance. More recently, however, the discussions started on the issue of rising healthcare costs, which prompted many individuals to...

Situational Analysis of Just Train Kids: Key Observations and Findings

Situational/Competitive Analysis of the Company Situational analysis is fundamental to the success of every business. It is a step in the marketing plan, which helps to cement relations with customers that will last. When it comes to Just Train Kids Company, a situational analysis will come in handy since the...

Implementing Enterprise Resource Planning Systems: Key Strategies for Success

Introduction The move by the organization to streamline its operations by embracing technology is in the right direction. In the current business world, it is a cardinal sin to stick within the traditional way of doing business. Contrary to the modern, effective techniques of optimizing operations and decision-making, traditional methods...

The Padding That Hurt: Ethical Challenges in Human Resource Management

The case scenario The padding that hurt does appear to contain a number of ethical issues, which call to be resolved in one way or another. The main of them can be outlined as follows. Should Sue Davenport (Human Resources Director) persist with insisting that Dan Murphy (Senior Vice-President) must...

The Impact of Outsourcing Jobs and Services on the Economy

Introduction Outsourcing is the process through which one business contracts with another business to offer services that can be undertaken by employees in-house. Normally, the outsourced tasks could be executed by the business itself. However, there are advantages that outsourcing can bring to a company (Heric & Singh, 2010). The...

Indiana State Overview: Population, Economy, and Workforce Development

Introduction According to Matt (2012), Indiana is one of the states in the U.S., established in 1816. The state covers 94,321square kilometers. It borders Michigan to the north, Ohio to the east, and Illinois to the west. Indiana ranks position 15 of the most populated states in the United States....

Digital Sports Wear Collections’ Store

Abstract Traditionally, the buying and selling of products and services has always occurred either through a face to face transaction, a letter of intent or even a simple phone call where a person places an order and pays upon delivery. Yet due advances in technology where the scale and scope...

Business Strategy and Resource-Based View Theory

Introduction The activities of various firms and businesses translate to a myriad of environmental issues. The responsibility of companies and businesses towards the environment is continually emphasized through care for the natural environment (Gomes, Scherer, Gonçalves, Neto & Kruglianskas 2013). As a result, many firms are taking up environmental sustainability...

The Prestige Company: Reward and Motivation

Introduction Human Resource Management [HRM] has undergone extensive changes over the past decades. Salvendy (2001) emphasises that developing economies of scale and leveraging on technology were considered as conventional sources of competitive advantage. However, changes in the contemporary business environment have reduced the competitiveness of conventional sources of competitive advantage....

Implementation Steps for Amazon’s Cargo Facilities: Operational Insights and Challenges

Introduction Thesis Amazon should establish cargo facilities in Beijing, New Delhi, and Munich and introduce the prime delivery service in these regions, which will require a sound strategy with the focus on effective information systems (IS), human resource management (health risks) and urban pressures in the areas discussed. Changes in...

Packaging in Marketing, Food Safety, Environment

The issue of sustainability has become a major concern of businesses and consumers over the last decade. The awareness about the sociological, institutional, and economic aspects of the country’s environmental impact is a part of today’s political agenda. A broad range of measures must be taken to ensure that businesses...

Key Business Ethical Standards and Their Implementation Processes

Standards and Procedures Ethical behavior is very important in ensuring that Company X is successful in its normal operations. In this section of the ethics program, it is important to understand some of the applicable standards and procedures that define how individual employee should behave. This section would identify some...

Enhancing Cybersecurity in ICT-Driven Supply Chains

Abstract This paper indicates that the use of modern technologies in supply chain can result in preparedness against various risks. However, ICT supply chains are promote to cyber risks that can disorient the business model of the affected company. The discussion encourages companies to form Supply Chain Risk Councils (SCRCs)...

Corporate Social Responsibility in Thai Listed Companies

Abstract The correlational study made use of a quantitative research design to evaluate the perceptions of employees towards CSR programs in Thailand. A descriptive survey approach was utilized in this particular research. The study had been informed by several intricate factors; key among them the fact that ethical concern and...

Analyzing Total Rewards Programs at Charlie’s Spot Out Company

Introduction A presented case enlightens a situation with a changed reward strategy at Charlie’s Spot-Out Company. William, a parts washer, was working relatively slow, especially in low periods when there was a relatively small amount of work. Therefore, Charlie implemented a new reward incentive paying per item washed instead of...

Women’s Role in Human Resource Management: Suitability and Leadership

Introduction Research writing in management is important. It is essential to master the methods and skills of doing research. In the essay, there are two parts, with the first part being an analysis of research in one of the major management sectors. In this first part, I analyze one of...

Strategies in Manufacturing and Service Operations

Introduction Manufacturing and service systems have similarities and differences. To some extent, many organizations mix manufacturing and service operations to meet customer interest, attract new consumers and succeed in the fulfillment of their economic mission and other objectives. For instance, nowadays, an increasing number of manufacturing enterprises recognize the significance...

Electronic Commerce Definition and Usage

Introduction Electronic Commerce popularly known as e-commerce refers to commercial transactions performed online via electronic means. They involve the use of computers and the internet to serve business entities and customers (Qin, 2009, p. 7). E-commerce has grown tremendously over the years due to the widespread usage of the internet....

Leadership: Challenges, Change and Responsibility

Introduction Leadership can be described as the art of motivating people to achieve a common goal or the process of social influence to enlist the support of others to achieve a desired goal (Bowerman and Van wart 2011, p.72). In today’s world, businesses face numerous challenges from different areas. Change...

Leadership Role in Shaping Organizational Culture

Abstract The culture of an organization can determine the positive or negative development in the organization. Leadership promotes ethics and determines how culture is formed and maintained in an organization. Personal characteristics of leaders also play a significant role in organizational culture. Good leaders ought to have flexibility and adaptability...

Easycut Salon Marketing Planning

Introduction Easycut hair salon has just been opened in a small country town. In order for the owner to realize the full potential of her business, a marketing plan will be required. The plan will detail the steps that are to be followed if the business is to be successful....

Analysis of Lamprell and NOV in the Middle East Oil Industry

This paper aims to thoroughly discuss and analyze 2 of the Middle East’s biggest players in the oil and gas industry. Lamprell and National Oilwell Verco’s operations will be one of the main topics together with the challenges both companies face in the ever-changing marketplace. Another topic that will be...

Supply Chain Management and Logistics Comparison

Differences between supply chain management and logistics Marketing is one of the most significant functions in any business organization. Marketing has a significant impact on the success of a business (Horch, 2009). Marketing involves a number of activities. Among the activities are the supply chain management (SCM) and logistics. The...

Disney’s CFO Drives Corporate Sustainability Practices

Summary The article “Disney and Other Companies, CFOs Help Drive Sustainability” delves into the subject of corporate sustainability practices and how they are increasingly becoming intertwined with new operational initiatives in creating a means by which factories and supply chains operate in a sustainable manner. Jay Rasulo, the chief financial...

Chevron Company Ethical Analysis

Introduction Business ethics is an aspect for consideration when determining the level of business success. Businesses implement codes of ethics in order to promote honesty, integrity, and organizational success (Lawrence & Weber, 2014). Despite the existence of codes of ethics, many businesses fail due to unethical business practices that violate...

Green Supply Chain Management: Practices and Benefits

The 3Ps of GSCM The company managers face a number of encounters in administering profitable and competitive corporations while trying to embrace the comprehensive ethical and social tasks. Such encounters appear in the overall banner of Corporate Social Responsibility. In fact, the CSR needs the corporations to assimilate the ecological,...

Jack Welch’s Leadership Style in General Electric Company

One of the outstanding functions of a leader is to create a vision for his or her organization. It is necessary to have a vision in order to ensure an organization realizes its goals. Every individual in an organization can create “a concrete mechanism for examining and verifying the successful...

Product-Harm Crisis Management and Strategies

Introduction Customers and consumers are constantly being bombarded by the media and other avenues with information pertaining to products existent in the market. This form of publicity may be catalyzed by a variety of events which may provide positive or negative publicity to the product or brand. Product harm crisis...

Managing Change in an Organization

Introduction Change is intertwined into professional and personal components of lives. It has the ability to steadily occur within the environment mankind dwells in and even beyond. This reflective treatise attempts to explicitly review the successful and unsuccessful organizational changes in relation to models and philosophies of change management. Besides,...

Arconas: Leading Canadian Export Corporation in Airport Furniture

Company Introduction: General Profile In this paper, the analysis of the Canadian export corporation, which is called Arconas, is sustained. The official Internet page, which contains the detailed overview of the company operations, is the following link www.arconas.com. The business direction, which is embraced by Arconas, concerns the production of...

Crisis Management Defined: Its Relation to Business Strategy and Operations

In the context of product recalls, crisis management can be defined as the systematic attempt often initiated by the management of the organization to avoid organizational crises or to manage those crisis events that do occur using various crisis management strategies classified into four main categories, namely denial, involuntary recall,...

The Role of Apologies in Business: Their Use and Meaning in Professional Contexts

Article Critique The article Apologies, Their Use and Meaning: A Course Module by Friedman and Friedman focuses on the apologies as the essential elements, which have to be included in the course material. I find this approach interesting, as the authors focus on the remarkable and curious aspects of this...

Challenges of Cost Reduction in Suffolk County Council

Background Public sector organisations adopt change to ensure that service delivery to their clients is done at a reduced cost. Zhou and Tse (2006) assert that profit-making organisations, which are reluctant to embrace change, risk losing their competitive edge. Hence, they fail to realise the needs of their clients. In...

Dell Company History and Environment Analysis

History of the company Dell is a Multinational Corporation which is headquartered in the United States of America. The company deals with computer technology devices where it designs, manufactures and distributes personal computers and other complimentary products and services. The company was formed in 1984 by Michael Dell and was...

Intercultural Business Communication in Japan

Executive Summary This report delves into the extensive differences between the U.S. and Japan and attempts to explain the inherent difficulties most Americans would experience in attempting to setup a new business in Japan. Through this report, readers will be able to develop a better understanding of the strangeness of...

Tallest Skyscraper in Rio: Global Collaboration and Cultural Challenges

Introduction Our construction company has been tasked with the responsibility of constructing the tallest skyscraper in the globe to be based in Rio de Janeiro. Dubai will finance the project, China will provide the raw materials, and management of the project shall be from the United States. On the other...

Building and Managing Collaborative Teams: Challenges and Solutions

The process of building and managing collaborative teams is often difficult because of the necessity to apply the persons’ skills and goals to complete the collective task. To understand the factors which can lead to building ineffective teams, it is necessary to focus on the discussion of the case “Two...

Microsoft Company Employment Discrimination

Summary of the Main Issue The Microsoft Corporation is a well-known tech company that hires employees from different parts of the world and provides the best ideas in the constantly changing technological world. However, despite its current success, the company faces a number of cases of employment discrimination. For example,...

Decision-Making in Organizational Growth: Key Strategies and Best Practices

Growth in terms of revenue and earnings is the priority of every investor. In most companies, rapid developments lead to decreased performance in stock (Jones 201). Growth and death are not found in every organization. However, it is important to note that stagnation does not necessarily translate to death. Growth...

Trends and Challenges in the U.S. Logistics and Transportation Industry

The Specifications of the American Economy The United States of America represents the most dominant world economy level, which may be justified by the high development of the US infrastructure as well as efficient international marketing. Thus, the American dollar became the most usable world transaction currency. It characterizes the...

Importance of Web Pages for Business Firms: Enhancing Visibility and Engagement

Businesses use few funds advertising over the internet through websites as compared to other forms of advertisements thereby making website adverts economical for corporations. The content of the advert is also accessible for a longer period and can be viewed by a bigger audience can be reached within the shortest...

Effective Intercultural Business Communication Strategies in China

Executive Summary This report delves into the extensive differences between the U.S. and China and attempts to explain the inherent difficulties most Americans would experience in attempting to setup a new business in China. Through this report, readers will be able to develop a better understanding of the strangeness of...

Prius Electronics Marketing Plan

Executive Summary The need for a geographical business growth informs the adoption of a market dominance strategy by Prius Electronics. The transition in the management of this family-owned enterprise has necessitated the deepening of its hold on the high-end market. The approach relies on the spending power of the said...

Wheatgrass Company’s Business Plan

Introduction: Implementing a Socially Responsible Marketing Plan A wheatgrass business represents a profitable venture that includes a variety of farming activities. The industry of wheatgrass cultivation, however, produces a wide range of environmental concerns. Therefore, it is crucial to developing a socially responsible marketing plan for the wheatgrass production launching....

Exploring the Advantages of Business Information Systems in Management Practices

In the present-day world, nearly all business theorists seem to have agreed upon the fact that the right use of information that the entrepreneur in question has at his/her disposal makes a pivoting point in the development of private entrepreneurship. However, the so-called informational systems need a very delicate treatment....

Effective Operations Management Strategies for Oasis Company

Purpose The Oasis Company created by a friend of mine has been in business for quite a while (since the 1990s), although it has never gained a large recognition. Belonging to the pleiad of the UAE small businesses, the entrepreneurship has never grown to the nationwide level, not to mention...

SMART Corporation’s Organisational Analysis

SMART Corporation’s original structure SMART Corporation is one of the leading public transport companies in Singapore. The firm has registered massive success over the past decade through its unique management strategies. The structural frame is one of the four distinctive lenses from which a person can view a firm based...

HMV’s Potential Expansion Into Saudi Arabia’s Music Market

Introduction HMV or ‘His Master’s Voice’ as it is commonly known, is a British company engaged in the entertainment (music and movies) business. The company was started by Sir Edward Elgar in 1921 when the first HMV store was started at 363, Oxford Street, London (BBC News 2013). The logo...

The Rationalisation Concept in the Work Process

When considering how human beings can get more out of work and life, it is important to consider the concept of rationalisation. Rationalisation as a concept has been defined by Max Weber a leading authority on issues of economy, employment, work, and capitalism. Rationalisation is a concept that applies to...

Xerox Company Business Marketing

Reading summary Xerox was once a well-performing company in the marketplace. The company went through a difficult financial time before the end of the 1990s. It plunged into bankruptcy. To begin with, the Securities and Exchange Commission investigated the accounting practices of the company (Grewal & Levy, 2012). Several cost-cutting...

How Businesses Wanted to Advertise Their Products for Competitive Edge

Critical success factors, resources and capabilities There are several concepts that are useful for explaining the ways in which companies can gain a competitive advantage over other enterprises. At first, one should mention critical success factors. They can be defined as the essential elements or prerequisites that are vital to...

Customer Service Representative Job

There are two major ways to approach a job: task- and worker-oriented. The first method implies the focus on tasks completed and tools used, whereas the second method concentrates on features a worker has to have to complete the job effectively. It is important to employ a combination of these...

Should Employers Ask for Social Media Passwords? Ethical Considerations

“In probably 99% of such cases… my answer would be ‘No, I will not share my password’… That said, my response… was from the perspective of the business owner.” (Edmond par. 3-4). Introduction Not very recently, perhaps just a few years ago, there came to existence a certain peculiar practice...

International Company Strategy: Enhancing Web Reservations for Global Reach

Introduction The rapid growth of Web Reservations International (WRI) can be viewed as an example of how technologies can transform a certain area of economic activities. In this case, one should speak about the budget youth and independent travel market which passes through the period of rapid development (Savills World...

Hardees Restaurant’ Commercial Marketing

Companies use critical and creative advertisements to influence the perception of the targeted clients through consistency in appeal to emotion, credibility, and logic. Primarily, the Hardees Restaurant has creatively used the element of sex appeal to advertising its Buffalo blue cheese burger through a renowned celebrity. Through the use of...

Cultural Intelligence in the Global Economy: Understanding Its Importance and Application

Introduction There are four characteristics that are in demand within a technology oriented enterprise, namely: high market responsiveness, fast developments, low cost, and finally high levels of creativity, innovation and efficiency. What must be understood though is that such characteristics are dependent upon the type of technical teams that are...

Walt Disney Parks and Resorts: Industry and Strategic Insights

As an object of my future economic research, I have chosen Walt Disney Parks and Resorts Worldwide, Inc. (WDP&R). It is a subsidiary company of a larger corporation, The Walt Disney Company. Type of Industry Walt Disney Parks and Resorts operates in the amusement park industry and is closely connected...

Blackberry Company’s Marketing Challenges

Introduction The contemporary world is dominated by technological innovations, which have led to introduction of sophisticated electronic goods. At present, many individuals are seeking technological solutions to their social and economic challenges. For example, there is a high demand for reliable and cheap communication systems. Indeed, many companies and individuals...

Essential Pricing Concepts in Marketing: Strategies and Implementation

The only element within the marketing mix that does not generate cost is pricing. The latter generates revenue. Since the generations of revenue and profit maximization are the key goals of any business establishment, it is important to devise the most effective pricing strategies (Grewal & Levy, 2012). There are...

Organizational Culture: Defining Best Practices and Key Concepts

Observables artifacts, espoused values, and basic assumptions for the firms General electric is a company that is focused on the management of time. Time management is applied at different levels starting with an individual employee who should be at the right place at the right time. Through the management of...

TOC vs. Six Sigma: Diverse Approaches to Modern Management Theories

Maintaining high-quality standards is a challenging yet essential goal to pursue for every company operating in the global economy realm. With the advance of the production technologies, the quality standards have been upgraded, as well; therefore, the need to incorporate an all-embracive approach for quality management emerged. At present, the...

Improving Team Dynamics: Creativity, Sharing, and Equality in Small Groups

Introduction It is imperative to note that the understanding of the concepts related to small groups is vital for every professional in this area. Such knowledge can be utilized to improve team dynamics and the efficiency of operations. It is important to note that a broad range of theories and...

HPCL Indian Oil Company: Overcoming Challenges

Identifying the problems that a company may face in the environment of the global economy is essential for developing a sustainable approach and becoming successful in the target market. The specified task is especially complicated for Indian organizations, which have to manage a variety of unique obstacles that the Indian...

Secret Acres: A Serious Business Model for Selling Comics Successfully

Achieving popularity among readers is not an easy task for publishers. Avelino and Matthews managed to found a unique comic book and graphic novel publisher Secret Acres. Analyzing the possible methods of increasing the demand for the production of Secret Acres and considering the effectiveness of using distribution through e-readers...

Organizational Structure’s and Culture Relationship

Creating and Managing Organizational Culture Organizational culture and structure are in tight connection. These two aspects of the organization tend to impact each other quite a lot. In the contemporary business world, the management system and structure of a company determine the inner relationships, communication, attitudes, and general atmosphere. Organizational...

Evaluating Bids: Albatross, Dilbert, Matt Building, Weldon, Con-Con, and Vesna

General Issues The phenomenon of a competitive bid is quite common in the global market as well as in local ones. Typically defined as the situation, in which the issuer chooses from a range of bids submitted by the companies applying for a deal (Harding, 2015), the specified phenomenon allows...

Management Control System Design

Management control system refers to the initiatives launched and implemented to ensure that human resources produce the best outcome for any given organization (Merchant 2012). Operational and Strategic Activities of Macquarie University Macquarie University operation and strategy can be evaluated by examining the motivation of the employees, the culture, training...

Insurance Management Strategies for Burglary and Thrift Exposure: Analyzing Risks

Locating a shop in a high crime rates area is a rather risky decision, On the one hand, the competition rates are going to be rather low, which will allow for impressive sales benefit and future expansion. On the other hand, the unceasing threat coming from the local criminals should...

Building and Leveraging Power in BrandMaker: Strategies for Corporate Success

What are the key challenges to be addressed by CEO Tom Morris and his management team at BrandMaker? There are quite several challenges facing the operations of BrandMaker. Some of these challenges are emanating from the internal operations of the company, although most of them are external. It is vital...

Understanding Mechanistic vs. Organic Structures in Local Banking and Sony’s Strategy

Typical local business in my community The typical local business which I have identified in my community is banking. The political environment under which the bank operates is very stable with minimal political risks. In 2008, the world underwent a global recession, which was the biggest since the great depression...

Bureaucracy in Next Value Line and Southwest Companies: Implications for Management

Bureaucracy is a form of “organizational structure,” which helps to organize people working in large companies (Jones 137). It is necessary to add that the system is quite effective as a specific structure is formed, and employees know their responsibilities. However, bureaucracy can also lead to numerous issues in an...

Workplace Death and Injuries

As the powers of the federal and state governments overlap (Nelson, 2000, p.225), the preemption issue is regarded as one of the most important and debatable ones. Deborah Ballam investigated the history of attitudes to preemption in the United States and The Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA) and its...

Staffing Challenges at Black Coalition for AIDS Prevention: Issues and Solutions

Founded in 1987, the Black Coalition for AIDS Prevention (Black CAP) is a non-profit community-based that relies on volunteers to achieve its strategic objectives (Black Coalition for AIDS Prevention 2014). The Black CAP is a community-driven organisation whose mission is to “reduce the spread of HIV infection within Toronto’s Black...

Transportation Cost in the Supply Chain

Introduction All organizations source various materials from different places. Therefore, they establish a department that does supply chain and logistics management. An effective logistics network management ensures that the controlling systems reduce various costs that are associated with supplies. Thus, products and services are availed whenever they are required in...

Transport and Logistics in the USA

Abstract The paper reports on findings of the following research questions. How do threats to the economy like terrorism and financial crisis affect growth and development of the transport and logistics sector? How does the transport and logistics sector management help in correcting negative economic growth? What are the main...

The Role of Social Media as a Tool in Modern Marketing Strategies

Introduction Over the past few years, many companies have adopted social media as a platform for online marketing. Companies utilize social media platforms for product promotion, reputation management and profile development. This has made social media an important component of any company’s marketing strategy (Groeger, 2011). Organizations use social media...

Optimizing Email Marketing: Key Strategies for Success

Email marketing, ubiquitous for everything from businesses, to charities, to political advocacy groups, has powerful potential to build customer or audience awareness and loyalty. However, there are some distressingly common errors, in using this tool, all of which are largely preventable. Are you segmenting your email list? Email, unlike many...

Ethical Considerations in ExtremeNet’s Business Practices with Allen Lopez

The ethical theory promotes the application of moral practices in every business process. The ethical theory supports different concepts such as “corporate social responsibility, fair remuneration, and equality” (Walker & Deaval, 2012, p. 17). Spaho (2013) believes strongly that “moral standards should be taken seriously in every business organization” (p....

Diverse Perspectives on Leadership: Essential Traits for Success

Abstract Leadership is a multi-disciplinary concept that requires a person to make sacrifices to attain the desired results. A leader’s ability to influence and inspire people working under him determines the level of success he is likely to attain in an organization. It is important for a leader to understand...

Northwestel Inc.: Performance Review and Strategic Analysis

Performance Analysis SWOT Analysis Strengths The only company in the northwest territories. First company in the northern region. Positive reputation. Strong domestic marketing. Can fix costs in the market. Weaknesses Poor management. Less focus on customer satisfaction. Unorganized. Harsh weather conditions. Remote areas (Hard to reach most areas). Opportunities Very...

Tastes and Preferences: Procter & Gamble’s Strategy in China

Tastes and preferences are among the main determinants of consumption trends in any region. Tastes and preferences of consumers highly determine the marketing strategies that can be used by any given company. Procter and Gamble, after research hing consumer habits of China, has realized that Chinese people have variant tastes...

Coffee Connection and Starbucks Companies: Competitors Analysis

Introduction The success of every business depends on its ability to generate profits and, equally importantly, continuously grow and expand its operations. Coffee Connection, a small enterprise located in the Midwest, is rather well-positioned to create value both for its customers and its stakeholders. Nevertheless, there are always opportunities for...

Enhancing Employee Performance Through Effective Motivation Strategies

Introduction Motivation refers to the internal and external factors that encourage an employee to perform assigned tasks or achieve set goals and objectives (Robbins & Jugde, 2015). Both the conscious and the unconscious factors interact to form motivation. Such factors include need intensity, goal reward value, employee expectations, as well...

Management Analysis and Decision-Making: Strategies for Success

The firm is carrying out the process of downsizing. Downsizing involves the reduction of the labour force. This process may involve temporary suspension or conclusive termination of an employment contract for business and strategic reasons (Cummings and Worley, 2014, p. 359). The management prefers downsizing as one of the turn-around...

Operations Manager Key Responsibilities

The significance of the role of an Operational Manager (OM) is truly ample; creating premises for the efficient completion of the key objectives and smooth running of all operations, the specified member of an organization certainly is to be appreciated. To identify the key tasks that an OM must accomplish...

PharmaCare: Ethical Issues in the Pharmaceutical Industry

Introduction Life, health, and medicine are intertwined, and the pharmaceutical industry has played a leading role to confirm this assertion. The pharmaceutical industry has supplied drugs that have saved millions of people, cured various chronic ailments such as cancer, and helped in controlling diseases such as HIV/AIDS. However, the industry...

Six Essential Factors: Key Components for Success in Various Fields

Assessing the success of logistics operations carried out by an organization in the environment of a global economy is a challenging task, primarily, because of the number of factors to be taken into account. Apart from being divided into inbound and outbound, the logistics processes occurring in an organization include...

Strategies for Returning to Work: Role of Job Site Analysis (JSA)

Summary The article under discussion is devoted to the analysis of the strategies aimed at assisting clients in returning to work. According to the article, Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) has formulated a series of offers that are intended to help clients in rehabilitative care to return previous place work...

Human Resource Management: Skills and Requirements

Being an efficient human resource manager is not an easy task, given the fact that a true HR specialist must not only make choices regarding candidates employment and responsibilities distribution, but also concerning the strategies for employees’ skills training, as well as possible strategies of shaping organizational behavior (York 308)....

Evaluating Leadership Theories Through Andes Survivors’ Actions

The model of leadership that is described in the story about Andes survivors raises numerous controversies. Specifically, the propriety of corpse consummation, as well as unequal distribution of supplies between the members of the expedition, is often questioned. The modern leadership theories can verify the survivors’ actions, according to particular...

Disney World Company Interests

Introduction Corporate social responsibility is becoming increasingly important in the modern society where companies are under pressure to give back to the society. According to Soule (2010), companies get all they need from the society in terms of customers, employees, security, and research services among others. It is only fair...

Effective Management of Information Systems: Best Practices for Data Governance

Living in the XXI century means being a member of the information society. The latter, in its turn, entails the necessity to acquire skills for the efficient use of modern information systems. Seeing how the skills above are important even for an individual, in the context of entrepreneurial operations, information...

Keys to Effective Team Leadership: Strategies for Success in Management

Although the importance of teamwork has been well documented in management literature, many organizations are yet to achieve the positive outcomes associated with it due to their incapacity to form and foster effective teams (Crother-Laurin, 2006; Jasawalla & Sashittal, 2000). In this paper, I aim to not only analyze the...

Delta Airlines Company’s Change Diagnosing

Company’s background Delta Airlines Inc. is one of the oldest operating airlines in America. The corporation’s history indicates that it was established in the year 1924 in Macon, Georgia (Jones, 2013). Currently, the company is one of the fastest growing global airlines. Recent data indicate that the airline is a...

Matte Company Strategic Supply Chain Management

Introduction and Company Background Though often underrated, the toy industry has been striving in the global economy environment surprisingly well, and Mattel, Inc. is a graphic example of the phenomenon under analysis. Founded in 1945 by Harold Mattson and Elliot Hardner (Mattel history 2015), the organisation has grown into a...

Quality Assurance Representative Position: Responsibilities and Required Skills

Quality is one of the most important characteristics of a product, as well as the performance of the staff. No matter how well known a company is and what incredibly expensive source materials it may use to develop its product, once the quality of the goods is deplorable, a firm...

Banner Healthcare: Expanding Health Services Nationwide

Strategic planning to enable Banner Healthcare to serve citizens in the next decade Banner Healthcare is a health care facility in the United States of America. It is located in Phoenix, Arizona and operates over 25 hospitals across the country. It also operates several specialized facilities in the U.S. Banner...

Ethical Frameworks in Practice: Applications and Case Studies

In the recent past, ethical lapses in the practice of business, ranging from Enron to the Lehman Brothers debacles, have once again refocused the attention of scholars and practitioners to a contemplation of ethics and the moral dilemmas employees face in the context of modern capitalism (Fang, 2006). Scholars have...

Insights from Operations and Supply Chain Management Course

While being a seemingly simple concept, the phenomenon of operations management implies that a range of complex tasks including the internal (teamwork, production, etc.) and the external (outbound logistics customer relationships, etc.) ones should be carried out. The course, therefore, has served as a real eye-opener in terms of what...

Company X Redesigns Information Management for Global Success

To be represented in the global market and attain impressive success, a company needs to make sure that the quality of its services is top-notch. However, when growing increasingly large and entering a big number of markets, an organization may lose the track of some of its vital processes. To...

Change Management and Management of Organizational Behavior

Introduction Organizational changes and behavioral patterns are important aspects of management. Though crucial, change management is an important aspect of business administration that does not always require the implementation of stringent management policies. Change and desirable organizational behavior do not always manifest themselves in people’s behavioral changes. Instead, the ability...

Apple Stores Analysis

Hardly there is a person nowadays who would argue the unprecedented success of the Apple Company considered one of the most revolutionary in the world of computers. The bitten apple for a long time has been a synonym for impeccable design and quality. Apple products have become a cult for...

Managing Radical Innovation: Strategies for Success

Introduction In his article titled “How to Manage Radical Innovation,” Robert Stringer focuses on identifying factors that hinder radical innovation in large organizations, issues that make small companies become a major source of the most radical innovations, and the actions to be done to stimulate and manage innovation in large...

The Six Sigma Framework: Essential Belts for Quality Management

Quality management remains one of the crucial aspects of any company’s operations. Because of the need to comply with the increasingly high demands of the target clientele, companies have to incorporate intricate quality management approaches into their framework, and Six Sigma is one of them. Although meeting the standards of...

Managing Organizational Changes at Mitra Organizations: Effective Strategies

Introducing changes to an organization is always a challenging task. Even in case the smallest details have to be altered, the entire system has to be shaped so that the alterations in question could lead to an improvement instead of harming the firm. The situation in Mittra’s organization, the case...

Agility Principles at HP: Enhancing Innovation and Operational Efficiency

Being efficient in the global economy environment is an extraordinarily complicated task, mostly because of the difficulties related to the design and development of a global supply chain. Presupposing that the essential transactions should occur within a comparatively short amount of time and at impressive distances from the company’s headquarters,...

Applying Negotiation and Conflict Resolution Knowledge

Six Characteristics First of all, any negotiation situation has two or more sides involved. Second, needs and desires of the parties may not match at all or the sides may pursue absolutely opposite final goals (Introduction to Negotiation, 2010). Third, negotiations may happen voluntarily which means that the parties are...

Cost of Quality in Laboratory Management

Developing an elaborate cost management strategy is an essential requirement of any project, as it allows identifying possible issues in resource allocation and prevents the organization from losing significant amounts of money. However, even once a seemingly impeccable cost strategy is created, one must take the possibility of extra expenses...