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12 Mar 2009
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Leadership: Toward a visionary approach

Thesis - 20 pages - Management

Leadership is an important part of the human condition. It has been an indispensable and necessary factor in defining civilization through the ages. To understand the past, one studies the leaders who have shaped history. The present is comprehended by looking backwards at great and small...

12 Mar 2009
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Risk management in a multinational corporation

Thesis - 18 pages - Management

MNCs are coming up in huge numbers nowadays. To earn the profits with minimal amount of risk has been a matter of concern for the investors. For this purpose management of risk is a very crucial factor. Pertaining to this context, this project has been undertaken with an objective to study the...

05 Mar 2009
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Management in Semco

Thesis - 6 pages - Management

Semco is one of the most interesting companies of the modern century, where there are no time clocks, job titles, security check and receptionists. It is one company where people unanimously decide who their bosses will be, their salary etc. Semco as argued by many management articles is an...

05 Mar 2009
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Study and analysis of the impact of implementing ERP solutions on large industries

Thesis - 38 pages - Management

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems are the most ambitious, sophisticated use of information technology (IT) by businesses to date. Managers must compare the massive investments of resources and time to be committed to an ERP implementation against the significant benefits that may be...

05 Mar 2009
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Interventions typically used to manage 'stress' at work and their effectiveness

Thesis - 10 pages - Management

In addition to defining a number of relevant terms (e.g., the notion of stress management and those of intervention-typicality, -goals and -effectiveness), Part 1 of this essay sets the ground for a discussion of the relative usefulness of typical interventions amidst the plethora of...

05 Mar 2009
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Identifying the role played by an organization's culture on the leadership in reinventing an organization: Case study on JC Penny Inc

Case study - 6 pages - Management

Strategy according to For de Wit and Meyer (1998), is an intelligent treatment of the subject, strategy is any course of action for achieving an organizations purpose. (Strategic management 2004 Palgrave McMillan, Colin White, pg 5). Strategy exists at a number of levels in an organisation. There...

05 Mar 2009
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Strategic decision making and its importance in the corporate world

Thesis - 9 pages - Management

According to Prasad (2001) every organization is involved in a complicated pattern of decisions from board of directors to specific decisions about the day to day processes. Some of these decisions have a long- term effect while others have only short- term effect. The emphasis of making these...

05 Mar 2009
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Customer relationship management's approach to create, adopt and redefine the marketing strategies

Thesis - 17 pages - Management

The intensity and the traffic in competition is on the rise ever since the idea of globalization was adopted. One cannot deny the fact that the ever changing customers attitude, behavior, shift in needs, tastes and other variants are making life more challenging for a marketing manager. In this...

26 Feb 2009
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Corporate compliance report: Sarbanes-Oxley and the COSO initiative

Thesis - 5 pages - Management

With recent incidents of fraud and inside trading, the business world has gained renewed interest and emphasis on corporate governance and regulatory compliance. Organizations have taken more serious measures to establish enterprise risk management plans to avert, identify, and manage risks and...

26 Feb 2009
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Global supply chain management control: Czech Republic

Thesis - 4 pages - Management

The elements of global supply chain management include manufacturing compatibility, manufacturing configuration, coordination and control, quality control, inventory management and the process of making or buying decisions. In this context, compatibility refers to the consistency between foreign...

26 Feb 2009
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Management and operations of Metro Cleaners Rubbish Collection Company

Thesis - 5 pages - Management

Metro Cleaners has been sanctioned to offer rubbish collection services under a new government initiative aimed at procurement of the most efficient and affordable rubbish collection services for Washington D.C. The management of the company is seeking to base the pursuit of its daily tasks and...

26 Feb 2009
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General ethical responsibilities in the field of the Caring Professions

Essay - 6 pages - Management

The responsibilities within helping relationships are to maintain the general trusts of their clients and patients, not only through care, but also through observing certain codes of practice to preserve their rights.These codes are referred to as ethical codes and they act as guidelines to shape...

26 Feb 2009
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The key international management issues of present day global business environment

Thesis - 6 pages - Management

The management of international organizations is definitely different from the management of domestic organizations because an ‘organizations conducting business across borders must deal with the complexities of three different types of environment: domestic environment, foreign environment...

05 Feb 2009
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From good to great: How to turn good managers into great leaders

Essay - 4 pages - Management

Unlike conventional beliefs, leadership today is no longer a "born with it" phenomenon. Instead management and leadership gurus believe there are natural leaders and there are leaders trained to take up their roles to lead organizations, institutions and enterprises without genetic intervention....

05 Feb 2009
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Project plan proposal

Essay - 10 pages - Management

Company ABC Inc. is the leading provider of quality and performance management. As a small company we are in the enviable position of catering primarily to the fortune 500. While we offer a variety of services to help enhance their sales and customer satisfaction performance, all of our service...

27 Jan 2009
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Guide to becoming a top supervisor

Essay - 4 pages - Management

Many people have the misconception a manager is only responsible for taking care of unhappy customers and watching over his or her team. While this fallacy is usually the thoughts of customers, employees can also hold similar ideas. Often employees feel management is an easy job where all that is...

21 Jan 2009
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The impact of internationalization strategy on management control system

Essay - 16 pages - Management

In an increasingly global economy, corporations need to develop more and more efficiency and reliable management control system (MCS) in their home countries, but also in their subsidiaries abroad. This study analyzes the effects of an internationalization strategy on the management control...

21 Jan 2009
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New public management, which way?

Essay - 3 pages - Management

Through a metaphorical use of language, this statement highlights the shift from the traditional model of public administration's model of bureaucracy (an organization typified by formal processes, standardization, and hierarchic procedures and written communication) to the New Public Management,...

21 Jan 2009
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Hedging international risk: Renault and risk management

Essay - 10 pages - Management

Renault is a French vehicle manufacturer producing cars, vans, buses, tractors, and trucks. The group is well known for its motor racing (through Renault Sport department), revolutionary designs (for example: Vel Satis, Avantime, Megane) and concepts (namely the Espace, the first monospace to be...

21 Jan 2009
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Organizational change and development

Essay - 7 pages - Management

Organizational change and development go hand in hand. Organizational occur as a result of an event, structural change, development of the business or simply there is a desire for change to meet the environment requirements. Organizational change initiatives are usually from within and companies...

21 Jan 2009
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Developments in management and organizational thinking

Essay - 4 pages - Management

In the era of the mass production from 1945 to 1980, companies were directed to produce identical products, with hierarchical structures, all in a stable environment. In the present “era of information”, companies must produce products with dynamic structures in a turbulent environment...

21 Jan 2009
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Changing organizational culture: A Case Study

Case study - 6 pages - Management

The leadership challenge to the organizational culture that is being examined is the transition from one store manager to another in a retail operation (bookstore) that is a store that is part of a larger corporate entity. A long-time leader of this particular store of the world's largest...

20 Jan 2009
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Sephora customer relationships management analysis

Essay - 10 pages - Management

The aim of this paper is to discover how Sephora has developed its power of attraction, the loyalty of its customers and prospects by setting up sophisticated and personalized customer communication strategies. Sephora is a division of Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton (LVMH), the world's leading...

20 Jan 2009
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Cultural differences in management

Essay - 31 pages - Management

As we have come to a world of economic globalization, more and more companies are working in an international approach. Globalization incites a multitude of situations and intercultural relations. The company is therefore faced with an assimilation of a lot of knowledge on the countries where it...

20 Jan 2009
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Strategy of cost leadership

Essay - 8 pages - Management

In a market where competition is at it's peak, companies perpetually seek to win over new customers, new markets and to generate strong profits. They have thus banked on a new strategy to be more competitive: cost leadership. The strategy of cost leadership aims at directing the objectives of...

20 Jan 2009
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Taylorism and the structural organization of Toyota

Essay - 11 pages - Management

Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856 - 1915) was an American engineer who used the scientific organization of work (OST), which is the basis of the industrial revolution of the 20th century. The principal idea is to break up the tasks, to time the movements of the workmen to improve quality, to reduce...

20 Jan 2009
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Corporate culture and intercultural management

Essay - 32 pages - Management

For companies, in a climate of increased international competition, it is important to anticipate the impact of culture on the economy. Indeed, cultures influence not only the individual behaviors but also and especially the designs of the company, the strategy, the right, finance and management....

20 Jan 2009
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Intercultural Management

Essay - 11 pages - Management

The globalization of markets, the internationalization of companies through operations of mergers, acquisitions, partnerships or alliances have created an economic landscape where the intercultural aspect has became a daily reality for many persons in charge. Companies are increasingly working...

20 Jan 2009
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Managing in a global context : How managers can overcome problems arising from cultural differences of employees?

Essay - 13 pages - Management

According to the United Nation Statistics in 2003, the globe constitutes of approximately 226 countries. All these nations have their own culture. this can be more or less similar from one country to another. However, it creates a multitude of differences between individuals that managers have to...

16 Jan 2009
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Corporate social responsibility: The example of Air France-KLM

Thesis - 8 pages - Management

This group was created in 2004 through the merger of Air France and KLM and is now the world leader in terms of international passenger traffic. In addition, the financial results have been improved considerably over the last few years. But how is the airline group actually dealing with its...