Understanding how keyman insurance works
Thesis - 25 pages - Finance
“Life insurance isn't meant for people who die. Life insurance is meant for people who live.” Who said this doesn't really matter, what matters is that there is an important lesson to learn from this. The basic tenet of life is to indemnify the survivors against financial loss. Keyman...
Effects of packaging and storage conditions on the freshness of leafy vegetables (Brassica rapa)
Case study - 6 pages - Biology
A wide range of fresh horticultural products contribute to a major component of the agricultural food produce available for consumption nowadays. But these products are highly perishable and if correct post-harvest measures are not employed, it could lead to drastic reduction in product quality,...
An overview of Coca-cola and its work process
Tutorials/exercises - 18 pages - Business strategy
The U.S. market for non-alcoholic beverages is valued at over $160 billion annually. Within this market, soft drinks account for roughly 59% of sales. Fruit juices account for a further 26% of the market, while hot drinks and bottled water account for 9% and 5%, respectively. The US Gross...
Work experience report : Philips
Essay - 45 pages - Services marketing
The foundations for what was to become one of the world's biggest electronics companies were laid in 1891 when Gerard Philips established a company in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, to manufacture incandescent lamps and other electrical products. The company initially concentrated on making...
Motivation in work management
Essay - 4 pages - Management
In 1966, Leavitt said: “Motivation is so much in the spotlight these days that some of us have come to believe motivation is management.” This quotation proves that motivation has been a very important notion and has been taken into account by firms for a long time. What does motivation...
The historical conditions for the emergence of youth in Italian society
Essay - 5 pages - Modern history
To analyze history is to delve into a world of a complex mixture of social, political, economic, and technological interaction. Indeed, it is these elements that define and furthermore provide some form of a substantive characterization of the civilizations and societal structures that have...
To what extent is competition between social groups a necessary condition for inter-group discrimination?
Thesis - 5 pages - Psychology
Discrimination is a highly contentious issue in our contemporary society, and is still not a thoroughly understood phenomenon, despite extensive and illuminating psychological research. The question acknowledges that there is a place for competition in the creation of inter-group discrimination,...
An essay outlining the autistic condition and discussing what it can teach us about consciousness
Essay - 4 pages - Psychology
Many philosophers (e.g. Chalmers, Dennett, Crick, Blackmore, Penrose) have entered onto the psychological field and become interested in consciousness. Hence thinkers like Chalmers et al are happy to be called philosophers of the mind. Thinkers such as these tend to focus on questions such as...
International Business Environment assignment: an analysis of the national business system and cultural conditions in China and assessment of how this will affect SuperSam
Dissertation - 24 pages - Services marketing
Choosing China as a host country for an International Business Environment assignment offers three advantages: first, since 1979, China has faced major economic and political changes. Second, it has been very successful in attracting foreign direct investment, i.e., in 1995, China was the second...
If you lack money do you also lack freedom? Please explain your position with reference to the works of at least two of the following: Berlin, Taylor, and MacCallum
Essay - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education
“Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.” (Edmund Burke). Defining justice and how achieve a just society depends on the conception we have of the notion of liberty and equality. These two elements are the core notions of political...
A God with Different Faces: Conditions for the Redemption of Everyman and for the Condemnation of Doctor Faustus
Tutorials/exercises - 4 pages - Literature
The themes of mankind's redemption from sin and his place in the afterlife are of central importance to the Middle English play Everyman and the Renaissance play Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe. Both Everyman and Doctor Faustus concentrate on the redemption of mankind, but because of the...
Essentials of People Practice
Course material - 13 pages - Human resources
The job description is a synonymous term for a comprehensive document outlining the purpose, scope of work, tasks, and responsibilities for a given role within the organization (Dingel and Maffet, 2020). It gives us a clear vision of job expectations for employees and employers and helps manage...
PESTEL Analysis - Shein
Case study - 6 pages - Fashion and ready to wear marketing
Global fast fashion market was supported by an increasing youth population's penchant for essential and affordable fast fashion clothing. The expansion of the fast fashion market, nonetheless, has gotten hampered by unsuitable working conditions and low living wages (Wang,...
Human Resources Management and Corporate Image - Hy Dairies Ltd
Case study - 2 pages - Human resources
Syd Gilman read the latest sales figures with a great deal of satisfaction. The vice-president of marketing at Hy Dairies Ltd., a large Canadian milk products manufacturer, was pleased to see that the marketing campaign to improve sagging sales of Hy's gourmet ice cream brand was...
Collaboration in Emergency Management
Essay - 2 pages - Management
Inclusion is one important element of the concept of collaboration in emergency management. Inclusion involves bringing together all relevant stakeholders directly or indirectly affected by the impacts of a disaster and making them part of the overall emergency management process. Thus, emergency...
A study on evolution, working and the current scenario of the commodity market in India
Tutorials/exercises - 41 pages - Finance
What is “Commodity”? - Any product that can be used for commerce or an article of commerce which is traded on an authorized commodity exchange is known as commodity. The article should be movable of value, something which is bought or sold and which is produced or used as the subject or...
How does LSD work?
Essay - 9 pages - Medical studies
LSD is a highly potent hallucinogen which can profoundly alter consciousness. The exact causal mechanism of this drug is unknown, but much information about its effects on the brain has accumulated over the past few decades. Understanding the causal mechanism behind its action may have positive...
Eight conditions to become a good manager/coach
Case study - 3 pages - Management
Although workplaces and management styles have changed dramatically in recent decades, the old attitudes of command and control management are still dominant in many companies. This management approach means that managers must tell employees exactly what to do, when to do and how to do the tasks....
Case study of AXA assistance: Using computers at work
Thesis - 4 pages - Business strategy
This document describes the computerization process of the insurance company AXA and its dependence on computers for its everyday activities. I will begin by giving a brief look into the company, the need for computers and provide an insight on their websites. This document will focus on AXA, a...
Conditions of the labor market that encourage foreign investments in Central and Eastern Europe
Thesis - 9 pages - International relations
Today, a well known economic phenomenon is that the foreign investments in the Central and Eastern Europe have been flooded, since 1989. Amongst many other economic data, we could include that in 2003, 29 billions dollars were invested by foreign companies. This figure is not easy to achieve,...
International business management
Tutorials/exercises - 2 pages - Business strategy
For the purpose of this comment, I picked different elements depending on my personal interests especially on management issues and how it is possible to bring people from different cultures, with different expectations and ways of communicating things to work together in the same project, with...
How Great Managers Motivate Their Employees (2019) - Human Resources tasks
Tutorials/exercises - 1 pages - Human resources
Dealing with Human Resources is an estimated tricky mission. Nevertheless, this article gives some interesting clue about how to help motivate employees in the workplace. To me, the first valuable piece of advice is to be made "actively" available to them in one way or another. I think that...
An Analysis of the Problem of Nurse Staffing
Essay - 2 pages - Medical care & personal assistance
The delivery of healthcare services is a very impactful and sensitive aspect of life. This is because rendering efficient healthcare services plays a significant role in improving people's way of living. However, several challenges are faced in the quest to attain quality healthcare. Nurse...
Organizational behavior - Payment as motivation
Essay - 3 pages - Business strategy
Motivation, which can be defined as a psychological feature that drives an individual to act toward desirous goals, is a major topic of organizational behavior. With the increasing importance of work efficiency, more managers start to realize the existing issue of employee motivation. According...
The work methodology of a water purification company
Thesis - 9 pages - Management
Water has been an essential “Spring of Life “throughout the ages and without the presence of water, it is very difficult to imagine the existence of the world. Ancient Indians Rsis (saints) have classified water as “Apsu” or “Apah” as one the “Pancha Maha...
Toxic Leadership and its Effects on Employee Retention in Project Management: A Literature Map
Litterature review - 3 pages - Management
Leadership is very key to the successful running of organizations in today's fast-evolving business world, more so in project management. Then comes toxic leadership, of which the results can be very serious, such as but not limited to decreased morale and organizational effectiveness,...
The European employment strategy
Dissertation - 7 pages - European union
Over the last ten years, employment has remained the top concern of Europeans, including new EU members. In fact, due to the lack of change in each national level, EU citizens have grown to trust the European Union more than their own governments to improve their country's employment...
An assessment of a nurse's work with an elderly person within the mental health environment
Thesis - 5 pages - Medical studies
This account will reflect on the skills of a nurse, observed at an older person functional mental health unit. It will focus on the organization of care, and skills used when dealing with a Multi Disciplinary Team. (MDT) It gives an understanding of the skills used to clearly establish and...
John Dollard and his work
Essay - 3 pages - Psychology
Freud's introduction of psychotherapy in the early twentieth century spawned significant interest in the study of psychology and the practice of counseling. Over the course of the last century, notable progress has been made toward understanding the human psyche, the process of human development,...
The Ecological Issues Related to Street Garbage in the Context of the French Strike
Presentation - 3 pages - Ecology & environment
In this presentation, I will discuss the ecological issues associated with street garbage. One of the main concerns is the accumulation of waste in the streets. Firstly, I selected this topic because it greatly impacted me, particularly during the garbage collectors' strike. This strike...
