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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
"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...
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...
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...
Cross-cultural management: Female expatriates
Essay - 5 pages - Management
This essay analyzes the evolution of female expatriates in Western multinational corporations in the recent years and confronts the issues of gender stereotyping, discrimination and family responsibility. The small number of women on global assignments is disconcerting, given that the...
Managing international teams
Essay - 22 pages - Management
With an ongoing globalization of activities and companies, heterogeneity in companies' workforce has become a reality. Managing diversity has turned into a major challenge for companies' survival. As a matter of fact, large companies can no longer boast their national affiliation as the workplace...
