Johnson & Johnson and ethical practices
Case study - 2 pages - Business strategy
Missions and values of an organization are meant to direct the business communication process during a time of crisis. If an organization's customers were valued and made a top priority and regarded profits were placed second this would assist and direct the communication process in event of a...
Job redesign and motivation workplace assessment
Case study - 3 pages - Business strategy
As companies strive to turn profits in today's tight economy, managers are faced with tasks such as setting goals, performance evaluations, and rewards with regard to employee productivity and performance. These tasks require managers to use skills to increase productivity over and above...
Organizational behavior
Case study - 3 pages - Business strategy
Leaders are individuals who possess qualities that can guide, influence, inspire, and encourage individuals to perform tasks. To have the abilities to lead individuals in a way that makes him or her feel worthy about themselves and the job he or she has done is a quality that most admire. Leaders...
Communication skill assessment
Case study - 2 pages - Business strategy
Developing skills for effective communication will assist an individual in personal as well as professional affairs in that it allows individuals the opportunity to work together in a more efficient manner. This would bring value in terms of personal and professional relationships and fulfillment...
Wal-Mart leadership communication
Case study - 3 pages - Business strategy
The concept of leadership is a continual shifting and embryonic process in this globalized society. There are many books that illustrate the characteristics and attributes of leadership and among those attributes communication takes a front seat. Effective communication is an element that is a...
Marketing analysis of Helena Rubinstein
Case study - 14 pages - Business strategy
L'Oreal is the leader of cosmetics in the World with a turnover of 19 496 million of euros in 2010. L'Oreal has four-divisions/ branch: Active cosmetics, Professional products, consumer products and Luxury products. We have decided to study a brand of Luxury branch of L'Oreal: Helena...
Microsoft Corporation (MSFT)
Case study - 3 pages - Business strategy
In nineteen seventy-five, one nineteen-year-old computer whiz found a business partner and began a dream: to not only instigate the popularity and usefulness of the software industry, but to continuously revolutionize the area worldwide with groundbreaking technologies. With sales topping out at...
Venture in international markets - Picard in Brazil
Case study - 40 pages - Business strategy
Picard is a French frozen food retailer focusing in its own brand product lines. Currently, Picard has over 800 stores in metropolitan France and has a market share of approximately 20% in the frozen food market. The retailerĀ“s overall strategy is characterized as a premium proposition with a...
Global strategy and policy: Hershey's case study
Case study - 25 pages - Business strategy
The Hershey Company, the largest [North American] producer of quality chocolate and sugar confectionary products, as of December 2007, had approximately 11,000 full-time employees and almost 1,800 part-time employees worldwide. Today, their company boasts of approximately 13,000...
Henry Gantt and his three theories
Case study - 4 pages - Business strategy
Henry Gantt, the celebrated mechanical engineer and management expert, not only developed the project management tools - Gantt chart, but also advocated the interpersonal theory as a pioneer. In addition, he designed "task and bonus" system in his later years, which have made a great influence on...
The personal computer industry - a marketing perspective
Case study - 14 pages - Business strategy
Personal Computers, meaning a machine to be used by only one person, have thrived for decades. The historic systems were built with a magnetic drum memory and gave the person complete control on the machine's registers and its various modes of operation. Many were only intended to be operated as...
The social process of joining an organization
Case study - 3 pages - Business strategy
The standard perception of The social process of joining an organization' studies the behavior of an individual, the relationship within groups, how the public develops and interacts. Moreover, how these relations can change their behavior within a business. Frederick Taylor (1911) believed...
Timber use in the 21st century
Case study - 5 pages - Business strategy
The Use of Timber resources traces back to the era of early man, where they used wood to make fire. Since then, timber has become one of the important resources for development. Trees can be categorized into two types; hardwoods and softwoods. Due two the different characteristics of these trees,...
Individual research applications: HRM
Case study - 2 pages - Business strategy
Research is a method used to gather and study information about a specific subject and data collection of information on the past and present or primary and secondary data. The purpose of these findings is to assist an organization in setting goals and making strategic decisions to remain...
The formula one constructor
Case study - 7 pages - Business strategy
The Formula One constructors generally function at the peak of resource utilization and, therefore, manage resources very efficiently. Hence, almost every resource that becomes a capability for competitive advantage is converted into a competency for competitive advantage. Internal strategic...
An analysis of both micro and macro environments of Russia, Sweden and Spain in order to evaluate the potential to internationalize a DVD player product
Case study - 7 pages - Business strategy
This report will analyze the micro and macro environments of Russia, Sweden and Spain in order to evaluate the potential to internationalize in each country. Pennine Electronics is a small to medium size enterprise based in the UK and consists of 150 employees. Its incentive to internationally...
Is pop music decided by its audience taste and the artist's talent or is it dictated by the producer who sells it?
Case study - 1 pages - Business strategy
Before the 90's, the success of pop songs was because of the artist's talent and the diversity and the complexity of the music structures. Music was a way of expressing something and the aim was to be the voice of people. According to The Rolling Stone magazine and its ranking of the 500 Greatest...
Tobacco: industry, market, society chronology
Case study - 4 pages - Business strategy
Nowadays, the most commonly-spread form is the filter-tipped cigarette; big companies like Philip Morris use machines which can produce thousands of cigarettes a minute; the cigarette becomes omnipresent during the 20th century: from the middle-class person to the worker, from the student to the...
Hotel occupancy in India
Case study - 3 pages - Business strategy
Tourism in India contributes to around 6.23 percent of India's GDP (Sanjeev, Kanika & Rumki, 163-173).Yearly, India receives over 6million tourists, ranking India as the largest source of foreign tourists to the United Arab Emirates. In 2011, foreign tourist arrivals in India totaled to 6.29...
Dawanda website analysis
Case study - 28 pages - Business strategy
The online objectives of Dawanda.fr are to provide a website by which any designer can offer its products. Each designer can open its own shop. It represents an intermediary between designers and customers who are looking for unique and original products. The main objective of Dawanda is to make...
General Electric
Case study - 3 pages - Business strategy
General Electric has been building market share based on a brand name that is associated with the company. This brand name has become so popular that it can be found on in most households. As the world's largest company, General Electric achieved consistent growth in sales. General Electric...
Business plan of eco Stargleam
Business plan - 30 pages - Business strategy
LED is the abbreviation for 'Light Emitting Diode'. A diode is a small, plastic coated device, which carries inside a semiconductor and upon an application of an electric current, emits light of a predetermined color. This tone depends on the material of which it is made of. Until...
Purchasing and supply chain: BIC Company
Case study - 10 pages - Business strategy
The group's history began in 1945 BIC while Marcel Bich and Edouard Buffard mount a factory spare part for pens in Clichy. In 1950, BIC Cristal pen is launched: it went on to sell hundreds of billions of copies. BIC is expanding internationally in 1950 (Italy, Brazil, United Kingdom, United...
Tesco: Homeplus subway virtual store
Case study - 8 pages - Business strategy
The service that we have chosen is the Tesco's HomePlus Subway Virtual Store. This concept appeared first in the subway of Seoul, in South Korea, in September 2010 . It was developed by Tesco, a distribution group mainly based in the United-Kingdom, Ireland and Asia . The principle of this...
3M Corporation management of its accounting and financial information
Case study - 1 pages - Business strategy
For any organization to achieve tremendous growth and maintain competitive advantage it has to effectively manage its financial and accounting information. 3M management policies, of its account remain envy of many cooperates, it's upon this concept that the paper seeks to identify the...
How information systems act as agents of change
Case study - 7 pages - Business strategy
In many organizations, employee- employer relationships are critical components which ought to be natured and subsequently stressed. Indeed a wide body of knowledge point to the fact that such a cordial relationship is not only a boon to the employer but also to the employee. In this case the...
Conflict management: Case study
Case study - 2 pages - Business strategy
Workplace, conflicts is a concept, which an organization can't afford to ignore or disassociate with, they are common and often will keep on recurring if strategic and result oriented measures are not adopted. Though such conflict have been accentuated as having both positive and negative...
Volkswagen of America
Case study - 7 pages - Business strategy
When Ferdinand Porsche designed the first Volkswagen during the 1930s, he most likely could not imagine what major impact that simple drawing would have on what one calls today the great German Auto-Industry. First, targeting the mass market, Volkswagen's intention was to provide...
Creating and measuring shareholder value in British corporations
Case study - 15 pages - Business strategy
The shareholder value in business industry is the most commonly used term in present age. The wildfire of equity culture is quickly spreading from United States to the whole world business industry and it has been grasped as critical today as it was in the last few decades. In United Kingdom the...
SWOT analysis - Haier group
Case study - 9 pages - Business strategy
In the contemporary competitive business environment, the ability of any business to survive and maximize its productivity, is defined by among others; its ability to adopt strategies aimed at maintain competitive advantage. Importantly it's critical for an organisation to ensure the consumers...