The World Trade Organization (WTO)
Essay - 8 pages - Economy general
The World Trade Organization (WTO) is a multilateral trading system; in other words, it is shaped by multilateral agreements between member states based on four principles. The first principle is transparency on trade exchanges and WTO decisions. Members have a transparency obligation such...
Why an information system or an information technology project could fail in an organization?
Essay - 9 pages - Business strategy
While the terms Information System and Information Technology are sometimes used interchangeably, they are two distinct concepts. The information system is an organized combination of several entities which stores, retrieves, transforms and disseminates information in an organization like...
The World Trade Organization (WTO) law and the environment
Essay - 9 pages - Political science
In 1979 the Brandt Commission recommended that an international trade organization incorporating both GATT and UNCTAD was the objective towards which the international community should work. This dream came true in January 1995 when the World Trade Organization (WTO) became the...
Revolution at Oticon A/S: The Spaghetti Organization
Case study - 17 pages - Human resources
Lars Kolind, who was recruited in order to assume the tough task of implementing a new management in Oticon, set a real revolution. He arrived in a crisis context so; his first task was to readjust the company to an acceptable financial situation. He achieved this quite shortly and everybody...
Revolution at Oticon : the spaghetti organization (1994)
Case study - 11 pages - Management
Oticon is a famous Danish manufacturer of high-quality hearing aids, which is based in Hellrup in Denmark. It is a niche company which was born in 1904. At that time hearing aids were not available in Denmark. Hans Demant decided to import hearing aids there as his wife was hard of hearing. The...
In any large organization, team work is the ultimate key to success
Essay - 1 pages - Management
Applied at workplaces, teamwork can be defined as a co-ordinated effort from a group of people acting together towards a specific business purpose. In large organizations, individuals play certain roles and carry out certain responsibilities, which are determined in advance. Each task is...
Auchan Group: An organizational study
Thesis - 5 pages - Business strategy
We chose to study the Auchan group, because we were interested to analyze the operation of a large French distribution group. Since the first store was opened in 1961, the group has become one of the top distribution groups in the world. The Auchan group belongs to the hypermarket industry and...
HRM systems and organization's performance - Case Siemens
Thesis - 7 pages - Human resources
Rather than playing a basic administrative role, HRM is becoming more and more a strategic partner responsible to increase the organization competitiveness. “Employees are valued assets of the company, that there should be interplay between a strategy for human resources and the main...
Marxism-Leninism: Historical forms of human community and the political organization of society
Thesis - 8 pages - Political science
The humble aim of this paper is to attempt to make an exposition of the Marxists-Leninist thoughts on the historical forms of human community and the political organization of the society. The necessity of attempting this exposition can never be looked down upon especially when we consider...
Organizations inter-cultural negotiation - Brazil, Sweden and Indonesia
Essay - 9 pages - Business strategy
Today we live in a world where there is increasing competition and market saturation. Indeed to remain competitive, the companies must adopt several strategies such as: internationalization and diversification. The internationalization consists in extending on overseas markets. That makes it...
British Petroleum - Transformational Leadership in a Transnational Organization
Case study - 10 pages - Management
The company BP, in the past named British Petroleum is a British company, of research, extraction and oil refining founded in 1909. After its merger with Amoco, Atlantic Richfield (Arco) and Burmah Castrol, it became the largest company of The United Kingdom and the third largest oil company in...
Organization development
Essay - 24 pages - Management
During the year 2006, around 28,000 mergers and takeovers have been registered. It is 9,000 more than in 2003, and reflects well the fact that to keep growing, companies need sometimes an external support. This phenomena concern all private and public companies, and is a major strategic point in...
The assessment of staff in an organization
Thesis - 5 pages - Human resources
In recent years, companies have realized the importance of staff because they represent the true wealth of the latter. Indeed, recruitment and more generally the management of human resources prove to be a major issue for businesses as it participates positively to the success of the company. It...
Behavior modification as the most important motivation factor in a bureaucratic organization
Thesis - 5 pages - Management
According to a Japanese proverb, “No man will find the best way to do a thing unless he loves doing it.” According to Herzberg, workers are motivated by two factors: those that give satisfaction and those that don't. The factors that satisfy include achievements, recognition,...
The need for customer relationship management (CRM) in an organization
Thesis - 8 pages - Management
The end of World War Two saw an industrial boom. Manufacturing companies focused on mass production of standardized goods, in order to meet the requirements of a society in its attempt to rebuild after the devastation caused by Two World Wars. The period between 1970 to 1990, was considered as...
International organizations and the protection of human rights
Thesis - 3 pages - International relations
This is the perception that certain behavior is required by law; a duty that is legally obliged. Customary law that is drawn from the practice of States accompanied by the opinion juris, is therefore a conviction that law requires the practice set. The performance of opinio juris would be in...
Business Research Method: Study on Organizations in Dubai Media City (DMC) and Dubai Internet City (DIC)
Thesis - 7 pages - Management
Teleworking has lately obtained a substantial allowance of vigilance both in the academia and expert world, as one of the amazing alterations in enterprise practices (Morgan, 2004). In the last couple of years, we have seen an expanding interest in the notion of teleworking, especially in Europe...
Establishment of an H&M store in Morocco: Inter-cultural variables and organization
Thesis - 16 pages - Management
Intercultural management aims to make us work and reflect on the well defined cultural differences between people involved in the inner workings of the enterprise. Indeed, the cultural differences encountered when setting up a company in a foreign country should not cause problems. On the...
Strategy and organization of the Ford group
Thesis - 14 pages - Business strategy
While developing a strategy, a company no longer considers each supplier, customer or competitor as enemies who will undermine its immediate benefits. Automakers around the world now share this vision, which is why they have completely changed the nature of their relationships with their...
Gibson, Ivancevich, Donnelly, and Konopaske - Organizations: Behavior, structure, process (chapter 11): A new leadership position
Thesis - 2 pages - Management
The profile prepared by Management Analysis Corporation is the first step in the process of finding a potentially successful of general managers, but it is not the only step. Actually, after MAC has understood very clearly the needs of Dancey Electronics, they could picture the perfect leader....
The notion that strategy is independent of the details of running an organization: The great fallacy of conventional management
Thesis - 8 pages - Services marketing
Defining strategy is a challenging thing to do but the characteristics of strategy can be summed up in the following definition, “A strategy is the set of actions through which an organisation, by accident or design, develops and uses them to deliver services or products in a way which its...
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...
Individual behavior in an organization
Essay - 11 pages - Human resources
Individual behavior is dependent upon whether a person is in a group or not. Individuals act differently in accordance with their situation. A group is composed of a minimum of two people. There are Two types of groups that have been identified by Stephen P. Robbin (1996) - a formal and an...
How can organizations tackle environmental constraints to reach an eco-efficient supply chain?
Essay - 10 pages - Management
For many years, being ecologically and environmentally friendly was not a concern for companies; they mostly focused on costs no matter how harmful their practices and processes might be for the environment. However, today, environmental issues are growing and becoming a real threat....
Learning and innovation: What is a learning organization?
Essay - 5 pages - Management
In this report I will try to explain what I know and understand about this topic: learning organization. After research about this subject, I am going to show you my personal idea with some examples from my work experience. I planned to start this essay by a definition of the learning...
From a new organization to sustainable development
Thesis - 9 pages - Business strategy
The aim of our proposal is to attract new customers and adapt C2D to the new market industry. C2D likes all companies in the world needs to adapt itself everyday to stay competitive in the actual market. The company image is important now more than ever and each company must find new markets to...
Organization of Lyon terminal inside the CNR (Compagnie Nationale du Rhône)
Thesis - 11 pages - Business strategy
The CNR or Compagnie Nationale du Rhône has several main activities: - First, it is an independent electricity producer. Thanks to its electric plants, the company produces around 16 billion kwh that have been sold directly to the European market since 2001. In order to do this, the CNR signed a...
A research study on performance management system in an organization
Thesis - 11 pages - Human resources
A company reviews the existing appraisal system of senior executive levels. The revised performance management system has components of performance planning, monitoring, review and development through involvement of the appraisee is being introduced. The focus of the performance management...
A research study on absenteeism of employees in an organization
Thesis - 20 pages - Human resources
According to Picoars and Payers ‘unexpected absence disturbs the efficiency of the group as the jobs are inter-connected, if one single man remains absent without prior notice the whole operation process is distributed. This absenteeism results in production losses because, due to...
Knowledge in organizations: What is a community of practice?
Thesis - 4 pages - Management
This report presents you the concept of a community of practice. Normally the term community of practice in reduced to CoP and this term was created by Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger in 1991. Now to understand this notion, we should understand the fathers of this notion. Jean Lave is a social...
