Daimler Chrysler: Lessons in post-merger integration
Essay - 19 pages - Management
Professor Herbert Paul and student Myriam Tamim prepared this case, solely to provide material for class discussion. The authors do not intend to illustrate either the effective or ineffective handling of a management situation. The case was compiled from public sources. Abstract: The merger of...
The corporate culture
Essay - 9 pages - Management
Today, companies need to create and develop their corporate culture to transmit an image and identity. It permits to build a stimulant and attractive environment in the company and the employees feel the affiliation to a group. In this way, firms are more effective, productive, efficient and...
How can organizations tackle environmental constraints to reach an eco-efficient supply chain?
Essay - 10 pages - Management
For many years, being ecologically and environmentally friendly was not a concern for companies; they mostly focused on costs no matter how harmful their practices and processes might be for the environment. However, today, environmental issues are growing and becoming a real threat....
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR): A multi-lateral approach to the subject
Essay - 13 pages - Management
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has been a highly debated topic during the last recent years in most developed and developing countries. We can today distinguish among three main general views on the role that CSR could play in shaping companies' policies. The first view on CSR, which has...
Risk management: Risk analysis of the company Gaudin Systemes
Essay - 10 pages - Management
I have decided to focus my risk analysis on the company Gaudin Systèmes. The core of this analysis is to launch a new line of production in a foreign country, in Algeria. The best thing to do is to analyze the risk of failure in order to sue it. Moreover, the field of this activity is very risky...
Knowledge management according to Castells
Essay - 4 pages - Management
In this report you will find things that I learned about Manuel Castells. First I would like to introduce this author. I think it is important to know who he is. After that it should be easy to understand his thought about knowledge. Manuel Castells was born in Spain in 1942. At school, he...
Working time management
Essay - 12 pages - Management
The evolution of the working time is seen as a key indicator of the improvement of living and working conditions. Although the quantity is easy to calculate, we mustn't forget that time management depend on personal factors like the speed at work, the difficulty of achieving the tasks and the...
Learning and innovation: What is a learning organization?
Essay - 5 pages - Management
In this report I will try to explain what I know and understand about this topic: learning organization. After research about this subject, I am going to show you my personal idea with some examples from my work experience. I planned to start this essay by a definition of the learning...
Supply chain security in the United States
Essay - 10 pages - Management
A global supply chain links the United States and the rest of the world. Across the time, the focus has been put on reducing the costs of transport, and therefore resulted in a decrease of the ship crew, customs duty and requirements. However, Sept 11 posed a clear threat on global exchange, and...
Organizational behavior and change management at engineering contracting company LLC
Essay - 13 pages - Management
This report discusses the organisational behaviour and change management issues of Engineering Contracting Company LLC (ECC); a Dubai based civil works Construction Company. It is a large company with a good success record and handsome profits. The report undertakes the analysis of the...
Motivation in work management
Essay - 4 pages - Management
In 1966, Leavitt said: “Motivation is so much in the spotlight these days that some of us have come to believe motivation is management.” This quotation proves that motivation has been a very important notion and has been taken into account by firms for a long time. What does motivation...
How culture affects the style of management in Mexico?
Essay - 11 pages - Management
How to deal with our new intercultural world? Is it possible to act in the same way with everybody? Should we try to adapt to each country to be successful? What would it involve for companies if it's not done? All these questions are current issues in the globalisation world. To do business with...
What is the role of the Mission in strategic management?
Essay - 5 pages - Management
In the business world, one that is becoming evermore difficult to be competitive, organisations strive to find other ways of gaining a competitive advantage over one another. Organisations need to think about processes that allow them to find back a correct level of competitiveness amongst the...
Cross-cultural management
Essay - 8 pages - Management
In times of Globalization the role of foreign countries is more and more increasing. To be more competitive in the global market it is necessary to research international markets i.e. in order to increase growth opportunities, to reduce costs for production and distribution or to find new sales...
Emotional intelligence and leadership
Essay - 5 pages - Management
For a very long time, in common sense, the only intelligence was measured by the intelligence quotient. Indeed, in each company, intellectual intelligence took precedence over the other kinds of intelligence. People who showed their emotions were seen as weak persons. This period is completed. A...
Discuss the link between procurement, sourcing, suppliers, and production strategies in supply chains
Essay - 8 pages - Management
The mission of supply chain management is to have processes integrated between the functions of the firm. Consequently, procurement, production, distribution, and marketing are members of a network. The vision of the supply chain management is to deliver value to customers. Moreover, the...
Political governance and corporate governance
Essay - 15 pages - Management
The 20th century was viewed as the age of management; the early 21st century is predicted to be more focused on governance. There is a distinction between politics and governance, where the former is regarded as cooperation between people with different points of view in order to improve the...
Taylor and scientific management
Essay - 10 pages - Management
Even if Taylor's main researches date from the end of the XIXth century, these still exert an important influence on nowadays' industries, such as the car industry. Indeed, Taylor's works remain an important basis in the organizational structure of many fields of activities. Obviously, many...
Management of a terroir company: The example of the Burgundian cheese producer Berthaut
Essay - 15 pages - Management
The Fromagerie Berthaut is one of the four AOC Epoisses producers. It is located in Côte d'Or, in Burgundy. Since 1956, this cheese dairy has produced the “Epoisses”, a terroir soft dough cheese made with raw milk. Over the last ten years, the company's sales have regularly increased in...
A number of assumptions are typically made on preferences to give so-called "well-behaved indifference curves"
Essay - 5 pages - Management
The consumer choice theory aims, among other things, at modeling preferences that will guide the consumer in his choices. To do this, an assumption will be made: the consumer is able to rank any two consumption bundles as to their desirability, that is, the consumer is aware of his own tastes and...
An analysis of the structure of the canadian retail industry - published: 15/01/2009
Essay - 9 pages - Management
A common theme of the Canadian retail industry is that it is evolving at a rapid pace. External factors, such as the growth in the relative purchasing power of the Canadian dollar; increasing competition from discount rivals such as Wal-Mart; shifting consumer trends; and the emergence of the...
Impacts of RFID on the supply chain
Essay - 6 pages - Management
RFID (Radio Frequency Identification Technologies) has become very popular and is considered as a major advanced in supply chain management. In fact, RFID is the fastest growing segment of the automatic data capture and identification market. RFID is a technique for electronic labeling and...
"Corporate virtue" strategies are more likely to cause "good governance" than stricter "compliance and control" regimes
Essay - 4 pages - Management
What is “good corporate governance”? And how an enterprise can achieve to have it? A number of writers and researchers gave their contribution to this subject. Nevertheless, some disagreements and conflicting points of view appeared among them. Indeed, some suggested that corporate...
Strategic management: Apple
Essay - 6 pages - Management
Apple was created by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak in the Jobs family garage, California. They launched the Apple II in 1977, their first big success: the computer which has created the personal computing market. Then in 1980, the firm was introduced to the stock exchange. The Macintosh was...
Evolution of success in the Japanese automotive industry
Essay - 8 pages - Management
“The work of helping Toyota grow and of helping Toyota's people realize their ambitions has for me been a kind of mission. Yet I also realize that a corporation is just one part of society, that Japan is just one society in the world, and that the pursuit of only Toyota's interests would be...
Communication in management
Essay - 9 pages - Management
The main goal in any business is to first learn how to make a profit, then finding out how to maximize earnings. When speaking in terms of profit maximization, the output of the firm must also be at its highest point. Generally when output is at its highest point, it's because workers are doing...
Athletic management: Athletic Director interview
Essay - 5 pages - Management
The job of a Parks and Recreation Director for a specific community has many different aspects, the most important being incredibly versatile and able to handle many distinctive tasks. This position performs a variety of tasks that include, but are not limited to, general recreation programming,...
Corporate responsibility in the Automotive Industry
Essay - 4 pages - Management
Organizations work for the consumers and claim that they are the ones who make it possible for the generation of goods and social benefits. On the other hand consumers are of the opinion that organizations exist because of consumer endorsement. Organizations would not be possible had it not been...
Key cases of corporate ethics in the workplace
Essay - 7 pages - Management
Organizational leadership requires an understanding of organizational goals, the ability to reach these goals without violating the law or ethical standards, and the ability to communicate these goals to employees and the public. The issue of diversity is also important as it relates to ethics...
Organizational Culture
Essay - 5 pages - Management
Organization in general exists because of its people and their interactions. These interactions are based on set of rules that social in nature and tend to influence the employees in their performance of organization related activities. Scholars assert that people with their sets of values...
