Recruitment and selection procedure: A look at the Infosys BPO
Dissertation - 56 pages - Human resources
Human Resource Management (HRM) is a management function that helps manager's recruit, select, train and develops members for an organization. According to Edward Flippo: “Personal Management is the planning, organizing, directing and controlling of the procurement, development,...
How to set up a plant: The best layout plans
Thesis - 17 pages - Business strategy
Plant layout is very essential and needs consideration and attention from the very beginning so as to avoid subsequent problems. Though one can think of several layouts but the best one is obviously the one, which is both very systematic and cheap. It is arrangement of machines, scientific use of...
Bush's preventive war: Doctrine of mass confusion (Broadening or contortion of the concept of pre-emptive self-defense?)
Thesis - 23 pages - Political science
The debate triggered by the new Bush Doctrine of pre-emptive action lies in the amalgamation between pre-emptive (i.e. anticipatory) and preventive self-defense. While the former finds legal and political basis, the latter is, so far, hardly distinguished from outright aggression. The Bush...
Dynamics and characteristics of language evolution
Thesis - 2 pages - Linguistics
The development of language was both supported by and supplementary to the evolution of “fully modern” human intelligence. Lingual evolution can be divided into its anatomical and social developments, so that there is a distinction between language as an anatomical capacity, and...
Sports sponsorship and indicators for measuring efficiency
Case study - 5 pages - Sports
Since the late 1990s, companies multiply communication activities to stand out from their competitors. Today, companies have many tools to achieve their goals, and many of them have taken a liking to sports sponsorship. 4 billion euros, the amount invested in France in 2006 on the sports...
Repositioning juico: Helping recovery in hospitals
Case study - 3 pages - Business strategy
The Juico Company aims to adopt the blue ocean strategy by pursuing differentiation in the new hospitals market segment. The private hospitals will form a new demand for the juice, which will enhance the patient's health. The strategy will create great value for the Juico Company, the hospitals,...
CFSP (Common Foreign and Security Policy) and Non Proliferation
Essay - 12 pages - European union
Since the end of the Cold War, the nature and origins of threats on Europe have changed. This evolution of repartition of powers in the world led some countries to develop their defence and military capabilities, whether it concerns missiles, biological or chemical weapons, or the ultimate...
Fast Cash Commissions
Essay - 2 pages - Business strategy
Earning money through the internet is always a popular choice, especially for those who are continuously connected with the internet. There are ample ways to learn and earn money through internet sites; “Fast Cash Commissions” is one of them. This is an online internet marketing...
Fram communication network
Case study - 10 pages - Management
In the present hard competitive business environment, companies need to be increasingly flexible in order to react quickly to external threats. New technologies, such as Intranet networks development, propose new kind of organizations which answer this need perfectly. Intranet can be defined as a...
The relevance of Michael Porter's 5 forces model to modern day business
Essay - 9 pages - Services marketing
In 1979, a new model was developed for the industry analysis and for the business strategy development: Porter's 5 Forces model. This framework is named after its creator Michael Porter who is a university professor specialized in strategy at Harvard Business School. The model was published for...
The modern portfolio theory
Essay - 7 pages - Services marketing
The aim of the Modern Portfolio Theory is to provide to a portfolio owner the tools necessary to implement an efficient and sustainable strategy focusing on minimizing the risk. According to this theory, risk is supposed to be reduced through the choice of a diversified portfolio. In fact,...
Mega-Sport Events: Impact on Women Opportunities in Sponsorship and Their Brand Image
Dissertation - 34 pages - Sport marketing
"Sport has the power to change the world," declared Nelson Mandela in his famous speech at the first Laureus World Sports Awards in Monaco in 2000. According to research done by A.T. Kearney, the global sports market is worth somewhere between $480 billion to $620 billion. Over and above the huge...
Competency mapping in an organization
Dissertation - 43 pages - Human resources
Today organizations are all talking in terms of competence. Gone are the days when people used to talk in terms of skill sets, which would make their organizations competitive. There has been a shift in the focus of the organizations. Now they believe in excelling and not competing. It is better...
Music, emotion and Zipf's law
Essay - 59 pages - Linguistics
The hypothesis of Zipf concerning a universal Principle of Least Effort, manifesting itself in Zipf 's law and modeled by Ferrer i Cancho and Sol´e in a signal-object reference matrix, gave rise to the idea that maybe the elements in music that elicit our emotional responses...
Measurement of pain
Thesis - 9 pages - Medical studies
The pain often makes the patient unfit physically and emotionally by both cluttering and subvert the behavior of the sore subject. The pain prevents you from thinking coherently and induces the patient to seek treatment or relief.According to a reliable model, the pain consists of four...
A high level language abstraction for reconfigurable computing
Thesis - 7 pages - Computer science
The gain of SVC depends upon the type of reactive power load for optimum performance. As the load and input wind power conditions are variable, the gain setting of SVC needs to be adjusted or tuned. In this paper, an ANN based approach has been used to tune the gain parameters of the SVC...
Marketing strategies adopted by organic cosmetic brands
Case study - 45 pages - Services marketing
This document delves into the marketing strategies adopted by the organic cosmetics industry; the eco-friendly nature of these products facilitates the ethical image of the brands, complemented by an effective marketing communication. A growing industry, the resounding success of bio-cosmetics...
Marketing and the promotion of Bordeaux Wines in France and abroad
Thesis - 60 pages - Services marketing
In the past few years, there has been a new phenomenon known as the "French Wine Crisis". This industry of French wine previously known as unique and untouchable is nowadays confronted by an international competition that was able to adapt its products and features to a new kind of consumer and...
A market research on the internet
Market study - 16 pages - Economy general
'Market research is the identification, collection, analysis and exploitation of data and information relating to a marketing problem to provide information to make better decisions'. Market investigation has also been defined in a report of 'The Definition Committee in the American...
Sustainable development and tourism - Example of Accor
Dissertation - 40 pages - Management
For a few years already, we have attended a real awakening of the individuals, companies and public authorities on the need for acting for a sustainable development of planet. Within the framework of our study we will be able to be interested in a sector touched particularly by this topic:...
Indicators to measure image: Sponsorship for sports
Case study - 5 pages - Sports
Sponsor of the image measurement indicators are essential to business. A sponsorship deal is in place to naturally enhance the brand image and thus favorably influence the audience. To be effective, sponsorship should produce a positive image and brand quality. Image Measurement Indicators will...
Social media as an agent of psychological warfare in the overthrow of Gadhafi's Libya
Case study - 34 pages - Political science
On December 17, 2010 a Tunisian vegetable seller set himself on fire in a crowded marketplace to protest the lack of employment opportunities in his country. Less than a year later three North African governments had been overthrown and the Middle East was set ablaze in a string of revolts....
Digital Marketing
Market study - 10 pages - Services marketing
Nowadays, companies have to be at the reach all the time for customer satisfaction. Therefore they practise marketing in the way that they can realize good sales of their goods or services and so to secure the loyalty of the customers on a market that is increasingly competitive. The major part...
Organizational effectiveness paper
Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies
Selection tools are used by employers to determine if a potential new hire is the right person for the job. Selection tools in essence separate the good from the bad. Selection tools weed out potential employees that have great strengths and will become assets to the...
Leeds Metropolitan University: business strategy
Case study - 20 pages - Services marketing
According to the strategic review undertaken on October 2011, report discovered the opportunity and Threats for Rezidor as Figure 1 shows, not all the facts on the O/T have been stressed under the current strategic plans of company. Rezidor's vision ‘Yes I can' has clearly set the target for...
Applications of Statistics in the Medical Area
Presentation - 49 pages - Medical studies
The sound practice of medicine requires the ability to use scientific evidence that is based on data and is published in the peer-reviewed medical literature. In this literature, investigators publish their findings using descriptive statistics to summarize data and inferential statistics to test...
"Homer Loves Odysseus; Virgil Loves Aeneas - but Aeneas Doesn't Love Dido"
Essay - 2 pages - Literature
Influence comes in many forms - religion, music, books, and authors. By experiencing different people's views, we gain a sense of understanding the world through their eyes. We take cues from others, how they think, act and do in the world, and internalize their beliefs. The religious zealot...
Competition Law
Market study - 4 pages - Other law subjects
The area of EC Competition Law has experienced major structural and substantial changes over the past two decades. The last decade of reforms of EC Competition Law is often cited as the « modernisation process » . Since competition rules always apply to a « market », this notion have been at the...
Research on Whether Fingerprint Detection Technology Can Benefit by Use of Micro-X-Ray Fluorescence Techniques
Tutorials/exercises - 10 pages - Criminal law
Fingerprint identification is one of the most common and often used forensic tools worldwide. It has been used globally by government agencies for the past 100 years, outperforming DNA and all other systems combined to identify and catch criminals. Even so, there are limitations...
Google case study
Essay - 6 pages - Business strategy
Nowadays, Google is considered more as a daily useful tool than a large worldwide company. This Google website is so essential for all the IT users that we have the tendency to forget the men, the women and the know-how behind this wonderful and rapid search tool. But behind this...
