Management of change: Water births
Thesis - 6 pages - Management
This assignment will aim to discuss the implementation of water births as an area of change within the midwifery profession. The subject of water births as been chosen for this assignment, following discussion within local practice and the controversial views of birthing pools that midwives seem...
Critical evaluation concerning the belief that Japanese forms of operations management are inappropriate to Western organizations
Thesis - 5 pages - Management
I would like to start by pointing out that I strongly disagree with the statement above. In this essay, I am going to give evidence to support my view. I will define some major Japanese forms of operations management and discuss their advantages and disadvantages to organizations in order to give...
How relevant are Fayol's ideas on managing groups and individuals in today's business world?
Thesis - 5 pages - Management
Almost 90 years after Fayol published his most studied work, Administration Industrielle et Generale, the field of management appears to be undecided on its relevance. The great advances in all aspects of commercial enterprise, which have occurred since 1916, have taught us many things. Just how...
For what reasons might MNEs cooperate with each other? What barriers are there to successful cooperation?
Thesis - 5 pages - Management
‘In a complex, uncertain world filled with dangerous opponents, it is best not to go it alone', (Ohmae, 1989). As globalization leads the world forward, national boundaries diminish and competition increases from less industrialized nations it becomes more and more difficult for firms to...
Porter and Tapscott Polemics - Are there new business objectives and methods to achieve them?
Thesis - 6 pages - Management
The tremendous growth of the information and communications technologies (ICT) and its deep penetration in all areas of human activities, is profoundly reshaping the economic, societal and private life landscape of the world of today. The issue of the Internet was actually the core reason for a...
Conceptual framework of CRM in hotels
Thesis - 19 pages - Management
Until recent years, relationship management has been largely ignored by most industries outside the service sector. Classical marketing theory and practice has focused on customer acquisition rather than customer retention. However, due to the intrinsic nature of the service industry, customer...
An assessment of the importance of cultural diversity within global organizations
Thesis - 8 pages - Management
In order to counter the arguments put forward by Palich and Gomez-Mejia regarding cultural diversity it is important to define the main issues in the debate. In order to address the issues, it is essential to begin by defining what is meant by culture in this context. On establishing what is...
Are mergers and acquisitions the preferred option for businesses seeking rapid growth and success?
Thesis - 5 pages - Management
In today's complex and dynamic corporate world, there is a tremendous allure towards mergers and acquisitions. Companies, in the pursuit of rapid growth and gaining competitive advantage over the other market players, opt for mergers and acquisitions as a key to corporate success. In the...
Management by objectives
Thesis - 8 pages - Management
Management by Objectives or MBO is a widely embraced management concept that aims at articulating the company's goals into clear and measurable targets and breaking such targets into specific objectives for each individual in the company. Though MBO was initially a tool to facilitate performance...
Disintermediation: Elimination of intermediaries in the supply chain
Thesis - 7 pages - Management
The world today is witness to intelligent customers and consumers. People who no longer take the marketer's claim as sacrosanct and are thinking people. These are the new takers of products and services that today's business folk have to offer. For the action of consumption to be effective and...
Distribution structure of Nestle
Thesis - 10 pages - Management
Properly planed distribution is always the quintessential factor when a company needs to reach its customers in all parts of the world therefore this paper will take a look at how the company Nestle distributes its products and where all does it face challenges and, finally, how it can counter...
Overview of supply chain management
Thesis - 7 pages - Management
Supply chain management (SCM) refers to the management of activities that procure raw materials, transform those materials into intermediate goods and final products, and deliver the products through a distribution system to the end-user. There are numerous key factors that play an important role...
A detailed project on bakeries and associated products
Thesis - 40 pages - Management
The catering industry is a combination of production and service, which must be fully coordinated to attain degree of efficiency. While amicable relations in a factory are of no small importance, in the catering industry they are vital. The demands of the consumer are much more immediate and...
The A to Z of retail trade: Retail management
Thesis - 28 pages - Management
When man started to cultivate and harvest the land, he would occasionally find himself with a surplus of goods. Once the needs of his family and local community were met, he would attempt to trade his goods for different goods produced elsewhere. Thus markets were formed. These early efforts to...
A project on ERP implementation proposal for Implementation of SAP R/3
Thesis - 12 pages - Management
The company has decided to implement state-of-the-art integrated business solution SAP R/3 within the enterprise to meet their current needs in terms of information availability and functional integration. The company is now assessing various ERP consultants, for implementing SAP R/3 at various...
The importance of soft skills in the service sector: An analysis
Thesis - 6 pages - Management
Soft Skills are a set of skills that influence how we interact with each other. It includes such abilities as effective communication, creativity, analytical thinking, diplomacy, flexibility, change-readiness, and problem solving, leadership, team building, and listening skills. The goal of soft...
The role organizational culture plays in shaping the strategy of an organization: A look at the leader South West Airlines and Hewlett Packard
Thesis - 4 pages - Management
To analyze and answer the above question, the author of the assignment has divided the assignment into different sections. The first section will deal with the important role that a culture of an organization plays during strategy planning and execution stage. The second section will talk about...
Is Taylorism an outmoded form of technical control?
Thesis - 4 pages - Management
This discussion will attempt to address whether or not Taylorism can be considered an outmoded form of technical control. I will give a brief introduction to Taylorism, its objectives and methods, together with examples of it in action both today and historically. Having then presented the...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
