Textbooks say that banks transform risks: What are the risks involved? and how are they transformed?
Essay - 4 pages - Finance
Financial crisis may be very damaging for the whole society, as bank failures can either lead to runs or to panic. Bank runs occurs when problems at a bank undermine depositors' confidence. The depositors' reaction is to rush to withdraw their money since they know that the bank's...
What is High Performance Measurement? Should every organisation adopt this system? If not, what kind of organisations should adopt it if they wish to improve their performance? Explain how it should help them
Essay - 6 pages - Human resources
The evolution from the notion of Manpower Management to the concept of Strategic Human Resources Management has made it fashionable to say in organisations that people are the greatest asset. But it can be hypocrite to make such a hollow statement, given the lack of tool to measure accurately the...
Case study of General Electric
Essay - 4 pages - Business strategy
Jack Welch was the CEO of General Electric (GE) from 1981 until 2001. He is regarded as one of the most successful CEOs of the 20th century. This essay intends to analyze Jack Welch's two-decade leadership by answering the question of what made him the "Manager of the Century" and GE the...
Effect of psychological contract forms on employee attitudes toward Affirmative Action
Essay - 71 pages - Human resources
Psychological contracts are individual beliefs in reciprocal obligations between employees and employers. In a sample of 1377 South African white collar-employees, this study examined the effects of Affirmative Action on psychological contract attributes and how these changes influence employees'...
Brand analysis and recommendation: Carlton Draught
Essay - 5 pages - Business strategy
The survey we made about Carlton Draught showed us the positive and negative points of its brand image in customers' minds. In order to improve the brand image we will proceed in three parts. First, in the brand analysis we will analyse all the aspects of the marketing mix (product, price,...
Green or environmental logistics
Essay - 5 pages - Logistics
For a number of years, environmental issues have been a growing concerns in society, particularly in the business practices. Under influences of lobby, customers or stakeholders, the idea of sustainable development and of ecological respect has become more popular. Thus, as many other activities...
What does 'MNE'S need to be both "global" and "local"?' mean
Essay - 9 pages - Business strategy
Since the rise of liberalisation with the opening of markets in the mid 1980's, the business world has entered the era of globalisation where companies have dramatically expanded their business abroad. Indeed, the abolition of barriers of entry was one of significant opportunities for...
The New organisation of Auchan France
Thesis - 8 pages - Management
Most of the biggest French firms are doing new organisations in order to save operating cost. It is directly linked with the fact that the growth of yearly turnover is very low (less than 2%). Indeed, there is a structural decline of the purchasing power. The companies have to find solutions to...
Futures and options: working
Thesis - 4 pages - Finance
Since the 1970's, the trade of derivative securities has over expanded and has characterised most of the transactions in the world financial marketplaces. However, derivatives do not constitute a new notion in the financial world, since they first appeared in the 17th century, with the trade of...
Heinz case
Thesis - 5 pages - Business strategy
Heinz is one of the most profitable companies operating in the food processing industry. This essay will try to describe the industry and environment of this company. Then, we will see how the competitive advantage has been developed within this industry. By reading the Vision of the firm, we...
Strategy Analysis on the gambling industry with the example of MGM Mirage
Thesis - 64 pages - Business strategy
We selected the gambling industry as a group because we thought it would be interesting, challenging and because the industry has recently felt a new impulse with the internet. The gambling industry is not one of the most recent industries though, and to understand it fully we decided to analyse...
Business report: Nikon
Thesis - 7 pages - Business strategy
Advertising and co., our agency is pleased to present the business report of the advertising campaign we want to implement throughout this closing date April 2006-March 2007 for the camera Coolpix on behalf the Japanese company Nikon. After understanding the target consumers' motives and the...
Compare and contrast the main claims of Goal Setting and Expectancy Theories with regard to Employee Performance Appraisal. What are the implications for the design of employee appraisal systems?
Essay - 8 pages - Human resources
The history of performance appraisal in the literature is quite recent. Its roots in the early 20th century can be traced to Taylor's pioneering time and motion studies, which interestingly also sets the beginning of the goal-setting theory. But this may not be very helpful, for the same can...
How to evaluate the performance of the human resource department?
Thesis - 4 pages - Human resources
It is important for companies to evaluate the quality and performance of their different departments (Baruch, 1997). Evaluating the human resource department (HRD) is even more important due to its many links with and influences on other items -for example, with increased productivity (Fox et al,...
Work Motivation: Review of the literature
Tutorials/exercises - 19 pages - Management
Work motivation has been an important component of industrial and organizational psychology since the 1930s (Donovan, 2001:55) and continues to play an important role in organizational research (Büssing, 2001:372). The amount of research on motivation has varied through time. During the 1930s and...
Accounting report to the board of direction
Essay - 3 pages - Finance
Today our company is using a cost-plus pricing approach to price its product. In fact this method used to price our products can be inadequate in certain cases for our firm. In the usual course this method is used in a monopoly situation. Today, we have to try to notify if our company has a...
Leadership : Review of the literature
Essay - 19 pages - Human resources
Research on leadership has been part of organisation behaviour for the last one hundred years and is seen as one of social science's most researched subject (Antonakis, Cianciolo and Sternberg, 2003:5). It is believed that in 1896, the Library of congress in the USA had no book on leadership but...
How strategy and network changes are linked?
Thesis - 11 pages - Business strategy
This paper focuses on the relation between the network changes and the strategy of an organization. It also provides a description of the links between those two concepts. The network change is an essential part of the understanding of industrial network. Its importance is related to the fact...
Heineken in Russia
Case study - 9 pages - Business strategy
Heineken is the first European Brewer and one of the first brewers in the world. Also, to give a better idea of the situation of the company, let's state some figures. In 2005, net profit was 761 million , with sales above 10 billion and a total beer volume of almost 120 million...
The 'true and fair view' in financial reporting
Thesis - 4 pages - Finance
Originally, one major concept was stressed in the United Kingdom: the true and fair view' in financial reporting. This concept was so popular that it even overrode the little regulation that existed then. In recent years, the increase in accounting regulation started to put in jeopardy the...
Management - Contingency theories of leadership
Thesis - 4 pages - Human resources
Contingency theories of leadership were intended to resolve the problems of Trait and Behavioural theories. To what extent have they achieved? According to the dictionary, leadership is « the process whereby one person influences the thoughts and behaviour of others »; it thus appears to be a key...
Discuss the role of classification, measurement and inscription in techniques of recruitment and selection
Thesis - 4 pages - Management
Recruitment and selection in organizations have not always played a significant role. Indeed, some firms had no Human resources department twenty years ago. This fad for human resources management depends on many factors, either external ones or internal ones. Mr Beaumont in 1993 tried to...
Dell's case: the build-to-order business model
Tutorials/exercises - 5 pages - Business strategy
Michael Dell founded the company in 1984 while he was at the University of Texas at Austin. He began by selling improvements of IBM-compatible PCs and started to sell his own brand of PCs one year later (the Turbo). The concept was very simple: from the beginning Dell's business model was based...
Actimel Advertising and Media's
Market study - 8 pages - Business strategy
Nowadays, working on a discipline like advertising is not an easy task to achieve. Advertisers have to be more and more attentive to the competition which is very large, even in the business to business market. They have to do the difference, in a world where advertising bludgeoning is on every...
The battle over leadership in the sport industry: Adidas vs. Nike
Essay - 3 pages - Business strategy
According to public opinion, sport is undoubtedly related to pleasure, relaxation and physical activity. However the reality is in fact poles apart from this simplistic landscape and sport is above all a colossal industry, which represents a billion-dollar market. The recent acquisition of Reebok...
Nokia's corporate communications
Essay - 6 pages - Business strategy
Until the 1980s, Nokia was a Finnish company, in the 1980s Nokia was a Nordic company and in the beginning of 1990s an European company. Now, we are a global company, declared Jorma Ollila, President and Chief Executive officer of Nokia, in 1997. Through this declaration, she emphasised...
Danone global strategy
Thesis - 11 pages - Business strategy
Danone is one of the world leaders in the food industry. The group focuses on three worldwide business lines: Fresh Diary Products, Beverages, and Biscuit & Cereal Products. Its turnover in 2005 was 13.02 billion Euros. We have chosen this group because Danone seems to be a very dynamic firm. In...
Airline companies strategy and Open Skies Agreement
Thesis - 7 pages - Business strategy
From Icarus to Airbus 380, the dream of the flying man seems to be universal. During the 20th century this dream was becoming real through the development of the plane and airline companies which manage it. The rising need to travel has obliged the authorities to regulate this market...
L'Oréal management profile
Thesis - 6 pages - Management
L'Oreal is a French company, worldwide leader in cosmetics, based in Paris. The company was founded in 1907, since then, experience and knowledge in the making and the selling of cosmetics have enriched and passed on from generation to generation. L'Oreal is a very big company which owns...
Leading as if your life depended on it
Book review - 11 pages - Human resources
In Extremis Leadership: Leading As If Your Life Depended On It, by author Thomas A. Kolditz, is the kind of book, and contains the kind of concepts, that every serious leader should read. It does an excellent job of detailing the personal growth and commitment to the truth that is necessary for...