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16 Feb 2011
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Strategic Management of General Motors

Essay - 3 pages - Management

What are the general environmental factors that have an impact on General Motors? General Motors (GM) has experienced very hard times since 2000, just as much as any other company in the car industry. That is why GM had to reduce its hourly workers, which means that 35,000 jobs were eliminated....

16 Feb 2011
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The role of ethics in the company (2006)

Essay - 62 pages - Management

The place of ethics in the company raises many questions: What areas are covered by corporate ethics? Is it an element of corporate reputation for external use? Does it create a new social climate within the company? However, a major problem has been presented from the beginning of this work. It...

16 Feb 2011
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Strategic management of De Beers

Essay - 18 pages - Management

In 1888, De Beers Mine appeared following the emergence of global monopoly of De Beers over 90% of the prevailing world market for rough diamonds for over a century. In 1933, Ernest Oppenheimer founded the Diamond Corporation Ltd., which includes most of South African producers and the Central...

16 Feb 2011
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Pettigrew and operational changes

Essay - 4 pages - Management

Most large companies currently operate in rapidly changing environments. This observation led organizations to examine the levers that could speed up or slow down the deployment speed of change within it. We'll see which are the concepts of Andrew Pettigrew in the field of business change....

06 Feb 2011
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Tata Motors: Current and new business strategies

Essay - 11 pages - Management

With USD 8.8 billion revenues in 2007-08, Tata Motors is the largest Indian automobile company; it holds a very good place on the Indian market because it is the leader in commercial vehicles and among the top three in passenger vehicles. The company is also the world's fourth largest truck...

27 Jan 2011
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Execution of a public relation plan for Adidas

Essay - 4 pages - Management

The company, ComCom is an agency of council in communication which was established in 1992 and worked mainly with famous brands of sports. The work consisted of developing the public image of what is being chosen and to create a relationship of trust, of regard and adhesion on the behalf of this...

27 Jan 2011
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Advertising campaigns geared towards Seniors

Essay - 6 pages - Management

Declining fertility, increased life expectancy and later arrival of the first generation of baby boomers are all factors that combine to explain the aging of the French population. The number of seniors in the French population should reach 35% in 2010 when it was only 27% in 1980. One French...

11 Jan 2011
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The truth behind surveillance monitoring: An employee perspective

Essay - 3 pages - Management

Imagine that your employer is watching you eight hours a day and constantly checking ‘What you are doing?' throughout the day. Does your boss have the right to do so? Or do you have privacy rights? Through modern technology and advancement in the field of surveillance monitoring, it is...

22 Nov 2010
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Quality Control in Michelin

Essay - 10 pages - Management

As part of my internship for my 1st year Master of Project Management, I worked for the French Manufacturer of Tyres, Michelin. During this internship, I developed solutions to reduce waste materials in a sector of workshops and procedures of production of machines. The missions...

06 Oct 2010
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Change management: The difficulties in applying change processes

Essay - 8 pages - Management

When a company witnesses an important growth or change period, the entrepreneur and the executives needs to manage the changes and adapt the organization to its new expectations. They have to adapt the company to the new demand and ensure this expansion without damaging their global service and...

29 Sep 2010
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Conference and Exhibition Management in Berlin

Essay - 11 pages - Management

Conferences and related events are developing sectors which represent a significant part of the tourism industry. Generally, the type of venue can be divided in six parts, (BACD, 2006): •Hotels (53%) •Unusual venues (19%) •Conference / training centres (10%) •Multi-purpose...

29 Sep 2010
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The role of conceptual models in strategic management

Essay - 7 pages - Management

Since many decades the corporate world has experienced significant changes. In order to remain competitive, companies must adapt themselves to the new changes. Strategic management is one of key success for competitiveness. To achieve the company's goals, strategic management models have been...

29 Sep 2010
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Risk Management

Essay - 8 pages - Management

The risk management process is definitely marked by several steps that have to be respected in order to avoid financial risk exposure. It actually starts with the establishment of the context for strategic, organizational as well as risk management criterion according to each evaluated risk. The...

29 Sep 2010
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Public Relations

Essay - 4 pages - Management

The term 'public relations' is recognized and widely used by many people. However, it is often misused and misunderstood. It is sometimes confused with press release and publicity. A career in public relations is wrongly perceived as the perfect job for people who enjoy parties and...

29 Sep 2010
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The public relations department & its functions

Essay - 3 pages - Management

The public relations (PR) department is a unit in the firm that manages items such as publicity and other communications with all of the groups who make contact with the company. Some marketing experts argue that public relations should be part of the marketing department, just as advertising,...

29 Sep 2010
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Are traditional boundaries between the public and private sectors now irrelevant?

Essay - 6 pages - Management

Modern ideas about governance in the public sector reflects the fact that the traditional boundaries between the public and private sectors are now irrelevant'. According to Rhodes, the traditional and hierarchical central government is no longer relevant in a context of international and...

29 Sep 2010
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The decision-making process for the outsourcing of services

Essay - 5 pages - Management

In modern times, outsourcing of services has become an entire dimension in business strategy. It has become international and global. While it is growing extensively, the nature and the focus of outsourcing is slowly evolving. And as it often happens with new concepts, outsourcing tends to become...

29 Sep 2010
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Teleworking: benefits and drawbacks

Essay - 3 pages - Management

The world is looking for innovation, notably in the organization of work. Teleworking aka telecommuting, which associates data-processing, telecommunication and new organization of work, was an important innovation in the eighties. Working remotely means working from a distance through the use of...

29 Sep 2010
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Business Ethics - The Niger Delta

Essay - 7 pages - Management

This report is going to talk about the case of the Niger Delta and its intrinsic oil exploitation as well as gas flaring, which cause damages to the local population and impacts the environment. Moreover, the Nigerian government mismanages its revenues in wasting the gas flared that could be an...

29 Sep 2010
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The role played by salary and by non-financial incentives in promoting motivation in middle managers

Essay - 5 pages - Management

The job of a manager is to help employees perform in the workplace and he must make sure that things are done through employees. A good manager is able to motivate his team. The topic of motivation is not easy to understand and it is important to understand human nature itself. Human nature is...

29 Sep 2010
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Operation Management

Essay - 5 pages - Management

According to me, Operation management seems to be a complex and wide subject. Nonetheless, it is precise and very useful. Anyway, it has endured many changes during the past centuries. Operation management concerns every part of the consumption society. It is the link between all the different...

29 Sep 2010
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How to negotiate with French companies?

Essay - 4 pages - Management

French people often seem unnervingly cool and worldly, sometimes even aloof, especially to Britons and Americans. This is not surprising as they are great thinkers, and they value intelligence and eloquence. Philosophy is part of a French child's education. Logical thinking and a passion for...

29 Sep 2010
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Consultant-client relationship and the consequences of the role change during the consulting process

Essay - 10 pages - Management

The client-consultant relationship is usually treated as central to the nature of a management consultancy work. Though it is true that consultants need to have a clear conceptual picture of their definition of consultation, and they need to understand how the operational model they choose helps...

29 Sep 2010
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The application of the flexible production system to high-tech industries and services

Essay - 5 pages - Management

More than 20 years ago, Toyota revolutionized the production methods in the car industry due to its flexible production system called Toyota Production System. Originally called 'Just in Time Production', this system was built on the approach created by Sakichi & Kiichiro Toyoda and...

29 Sep 2010
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Business research and professional development

Essay - 7 pages - Management

Is knowledge management a key factor in performance and sustainability in the management of organizations in the modern times global competitive market place? What are the issues of this concept and what does it provide organizations? How do managers perceive knowledge management? The objectives...

29 Sep 2010
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Cross-Cultural Management - Culture Portrayed in Popular Media: Bend It Like Beckham

Essay - 5 pages - Management

The movie shows us two major cultures; on the one hand, the Indian culture and on the other hand the British culture. We also see a little of the Irish culture portray itself through the coach. Even though the coach is Irish and the soccer team goes to Germany, these two different cultures are...

29 Sep 2010
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Supply chain management assignment

Essay - 8 pages - Management

Identifying order winners and order qualifiers is a way to better integrate a company in its market allowing full potential and optimization of the way a product is built and delivered. In the case of Manufacturer of seats, we can see, as order winners, the quality and security the seats offer,...

29 Sep 2010
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"Cracking the weasel code of politicians"- Newspeak as a form of political language manipulation

Essay - 59 pages - Management

In this thesis the phenomenon under examination is newspeak -a highly manipulative form of political language. The proposed research, conducted from the perspective of political language, attempts to account for mechanisms that govern the use of newspeak in Anglo-Saxon countries, including...

29 Sep 2010
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How do the French and Chinese negotiators process their thoughts in negotiation? Do different thought processes result in different opinions and solutions?

Essay - 13 pages - Management

In the context of globalization, models of businesses and management tend to be similar across the globe. Import-export is increasing everyday; for business purpose, people are flying from western to eastern countries and eastern to western countries all the time. However, some cross cultural...

29 Sep 2010
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Are we born with Charisma or can we learn it?

Essay - 15 pages - Management

For generations, the representation of the charisma concept has been characterized by leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr, Gandhi, John F Kennedy, or more recently Barrack Obama. Although these leaders engaged in completely different things in their life to be recognized as charismatic, they...