This case study is focused on workforce turnover and performance at Buildup, a company that has recently been created as a merger of two companies from the UK and Qatar. The problem at hand is a complex one and incorporates diminished workforce well-being, a decrease in the agility of performance,...
Chick-Fill-A is a fast-food restaurant chain popular in the US for its chicken sandwiches. Being one of many fast-food providers, it faces great competition. However, its friendly atmosphere and excellent customer service secured a dominant position in the US market. Despite that, the brand is known for its controversial stance...
The external environment significantly affects the activities of any large company. Canadian Tire’s political influences include relationships with China and the countries where materials are sourced to manufacture goods. Political factors are closely related to economic ones. At the same time, at the state level, political factors such as pandemic...
This company’s production process of cookies is fast and straightforward due to the high level of automation. As soon as the management department places the orders, the required quantity of cookies is entered into a computer, which calculates the needed ingredients. All components are automatically delivered to the mixing machines...
The two cases that are to be analyzed in the further document concern the Nord Stream project and involve two parties. The first one is the Nord Stream stakeholders, the representative negotiator of which is Dirk von Ameln. The party is interested in building the pipeline as soon as possible...
Introduction Whole Foods is an American multinational supermarket chain headquartered in Austin, Texas. The company specializes in selling natural and organic foods and ensures its customers are provided with a wide variety of products. Due to its certification by USDA, the company is also referred to as America’s healthiest grocery...
Introduction The requirement for a high degree of flexibility for present-day businesses implies their capability to readjust to rapidly changing circumstances. This task is essential for remaining competitive in the global market, and the effectiveness of planning is significantly conditional upon the application of appropriate strategies and leadership. Therefore, introducing...
Examples of successful companies always inspire researchers who need to understand such popularity. In this regard, the world’s largest company, Starbucks Corporation, was chosen to analyze the strategy in the consumer market. Starbucks is the largest chain of coffee establishments globally, located in more than 65 countries. Every day, a...
To successfully overcome the emerging business challenges, the corporation executives must rely on an adequate analysis of the internal and external environment of the organization. Such evaluation could be especially beneficial for the Nokia corporation, allowing the executives to establish the potential outcomes of failing to provide 5G coverage for...
Share in the global market Diversity, equity, and inclusion have become central to the creation of a truly efficient working atmosphere that can encourage large groups of employees of completely different backgrounds to cooperate. The market is rapidly growing, with American companies accounting for almost half of the global market....
Introduction Nowadays, almost all companies utilize teams in the working process due to several associated benefits. Teams provide valuable contributions for the employers, such as building blocks for organizational structure, increasing productivity, reducing costs, and enhancing innovative potential (Bateman et al., 2020). As a result, working in teams and leading...
According to the data, we can conclude that the acquisition of ABC Company is likely to be a bad deal for the subsidiary. It is due to the leading financial indicators showing low revenue turnover, a high percentage of debt, low gross and net profit. Based on these metrics, ABC...
Introduction Southwest Airlines is an American low-cost carrier whose mission is to connect people to what matters to them through low-cost, friendly flights (Purpose, Vision, and The Southwest Way, n.d.). Their vision is to become the most efficient, profitable business while maintaining all of the original values (Purpose, Vision, and...
According to its main webpage, Domino’s pizza is an American multinational pizza company that started franchising in 1967. Presently, the company boasts of being the largest pizza company globally, with over 200 branches spread out worldwide. Upon a close look at its ‘Investors’ tab, the venture places little direct emphasis...
I am writing to inform you concerning the performance of TransGlobal Airlines and the development of the company. In the current business letter, I present the strategic objectives and key performance indicators for each of the following areas of improvement: finances, internal process, customer relationship management, and training. It is...
ABC Company Sales This company has relatively high net sales figures, which indicates its scale. Liquidity ratios are growing at a reasonably confident pace, indicating its ability to repay its short-term obligations. The activity ratios also show a slight increase, except for accounts payable turnover. Moreover, the average collection period...
Business Overview Starbucks Corporation is a marketer, retailer, and roaster specializing in coffee. The company has operations in over 80 markets across the world. It has more than 32000 licensed and company-operated stores. The company’s operating segments are divided into three: American, international, and channel development. The American segment includes...
YA.SI.GA.MO.MA.GE will focus on the provision of interior design and renovation services to homeowners around the country. At the same time, the company will specifically target two particular markets, which will be homeowners with existing property and homeowners whose property is only in construction. Essentially, YA.SI.GA.MO.MA.GE will mainly provide services...
PepsiCo Inc. is a global food and beverage corporation that produces and distributes its goods worldwide. “Frito-Lay, Gatorade, Pepsi-Cola, Quaker, Tropicana and SodaStream” are constituents of the food and beverages portfolio (“About the Company”). The company’s food products include snacks, cereal, dairy products, pasta, and rice. Carbonated beverages, juice drinks,...
Boeing is one of the most influential organizations in the aircraft industry and has been maintaining a competitive position for a long time. From the perspective of Porter’s five forces, Boeing also has a favorable standing. First, the aircraft industry has high requirements for new entrants, including capital necessity (potentially...
Introduction A blog is a website with information published consisting of discrete, provides brand information that answers customer questions, and helps to learn more about products and services. Blog brands have shifted their commerce from departing to entering marketing, intending to involve their customers further by designing value and adjoining...
The automotive industry has always been highly competitive, so manufacturers have always tried to maximize the cost-effectiveness of the operations, which is specifically relevant in supply chain management. Honda is one of the leaders among vehicle manufacturers operating across the globe. In the second part of the twentieth century, the...
When it comes to customer service, a conversation is hardly possible to end without mentioning Jeff Bezos, the CEO of Amazon. His leadership style is praised for being innovative and transformational, as well as criticized for fostering toxicity within the company (Noddy, 2019, para. 1). Both assessments apparently have the...
Technology has given the market an opportunity to look at itself from a new perspective, which resulted in the need to manifest a new approach. Langley et al. (2021, p. 853) states that “over the past five years, common day-to-day objects have evolved to embed new capabilities through technologies”. Still,...
The modern economic society is a rather complex environment, with rapidly developing global trade, and exponentially expanding markets for enterprises, their capital, as well as information, and technology. When it comes to business in the modern world, economic responsibility to society is still a critical factor in the successful development...
Introduction Walmart Inc., a major player in the retail industry, is always looking for opportunities to expand. However, this mindset puts significant pressure on top-level management. Philip Thomas, the Vice-President of Walmart’s Human Resources Department, is charged with the responsibility of drawing an organization-wide policy on employee sick leave. Due...
Annotated Bibliography Rolls, J. (2021). Self-Management: A 21st Century Panacea? Organization Development Journal, 67-80. This article evaluates all factors that influence leaders to adopt a self-management approach as a remedy to various challenges experienced by organizations. The author notes that the hierarchical organizational structure that traditionally dominated most businesses is...
Total Quality Management Total quality management (TQM) mainly describes a management tool for a customer-oriented institution that involves all workers in continuous improvement. In general, it utilizes data, strategy, and effective communications to integrate quality discipline into the activities and culture of an organization. TQM offers the quality assurance that...
Leadership is both the specific skill and mindset, enabling one to lead people to obtain goals. The mindset includes evaluating oneself and finding the leadership style that fits the most. Then, it should be practiced to see how it can solve people’s problems and how one can actually lead people...
Types of Employee Teams Teams are cross-functional, as they consist of specialists from different areas. These professionals work and communicate with each other to achieve specific goals. The described team management suggests that even though each team has one manager, these teams can sometimes be called self-managed or self-directed. Team...
Introduction Lululemon, an athletic wear brand aimed at people who live active lives, has significant roots in the yoga community. It is one of the few companies that sells clothing for this niche and was founded by Denis “Chip” Wilson in 1998. Lululemon’s objective was to promote a healthy and...
Major Facts Great Lake Pleasure Boats (GLPB) offered a contract worth $10,000,000 per year to CJ Industries (CJI). The contract will commence in nine months, requiring CJI to provide GLPB with engine components suitable for its luxury boats (Wisner, 2016). The contract’s importance for CJI cannot be overstated since interactions...
It seems that it has never been tougher to navigate a work-life than it currently is. The COVID-19 global pandemic has resulted in the extensive promotion of a so-called “stay at home” policy, which was bound to reduce the burden on national healthcare systems and the economy (Anderson, Heesterbeek, Klinkenberg,...
The goal of the Google Merchandise store is to tell the products listed on its website. Therefore, the most significant metrics would be conversion rate, transactions completed, and revenue earned from each channel or medium. The best performing mediums are organic searches, direct site visits, referrals, and Google’s cost-per-click (CPC)...
Operations management is one of the key areas in both small and large enterprises, which determines the success of a company to a considerable extent. Essentially, operations management constitutes the capacity of a business to efficiently convert its resources such as raw materials, employees, and production facilities into viable products...
The toxicity of tobacco products and their impact on individuals’ health has always been a salient topic of discussion. As an addictive substance that has been shown to cause numerous health problems, nicotine is considered a dangerous product. However, as multiple corporations are involved in the production and distribution of...
Selection in Human Resources is widely considered one of the most complex parts of the job. The necessity to be as objective and strategic as possible implies a sufficient degree of responsibility that is not easy to bear. Therefore, there have been multiple attempts recently to standardize the entire decision-making...
Introduction For a successful company to showcase its trajectory and give potential and existing investors an image of its performance, it needs to establish solid sales forecasts. Adidas America Inc is a sportswear and footwear manufacturer founded in 1949 and is based in Germany (Cadestin et al., 2021). In regards...
Introduction BERT is an analytical tool that helps investigate the context of user search requests. The method works on the principle of clarifying the content of a web document with a visitor’s query. In this case: the technique interacts with all the words used in the search command. In addition,...
Introduction Starting from the mid-1960s, the U.S. government implemented several important measures which helped the American rail freight industry recover from the crisis. As a result, the industry doubled the revenue ton-miles (RTM) between 1966 and 2008, despite the sharp reduction in track-miles, freight car fleets, and staff members (Martland,...
Many workers are convinced that after completing an entire course of vaccinations, they no longer need to wear masks in the workplace. However, others believe that complete vaccination does not guarantee the absolute protection and, therefore, requires continued wearing of masks. From my point of view, this position seems to...
Summary of The Article The article “Impact of Authoritative and Laissez-Faire Leadership on Thriving at Work: The Moderating Role of Conscientiousness” was selected to study this type of leadership. It examines the main differences between the authoritarian and most democratic approaches to leadership in an organization. This study shows that...
Effective teams meet the goals within a very short time and face few challenges compared to dysfunctional ones. I once worked in a team that was effective due to members’ cooperation, thus achieving the objectives set. The team’s task was to find ways to help attain employees’ welfare by introducing...
Introduction In the contemporary world, the role of a leader is considered to be vital. It is possible to notice that in the healthcare area, such factors as emotional intelligence and transformational leadership behaviors are essential for successfully managing organizations and nurses. This essay will examine formal leadership theories and...
Performance management has become an inseparable part of modern governmental activity. Government managers tend to collect performance information in order to improve governance. However, aspects that provoke the use of performance information are not studied sufficiently, and hence it may be necessary to determine the correlation between the use of...
The Budgeting Table Equipment Estimated Cost in USD Food Truck + Equipment & Wrap 93500 Website 1900 Permits and Licenses 500 Register / POS 1000 Facebook / Twitter 0 Initial Product Inventory 1800 Fire Extinguisher 400 Smallwares 2200 Misc. Expenses 2000 Paper Products 300 Uniforms / T-Shirts 280 Total 103880...
Employees are the greatest assets to any business firm as they bear the knowledge and practical skills necessary for its success. Nectar Restaurant is one of the most significant premises offering everyday meals and unmatched services. The waitress works harmoniously towards achieving the set goals of the restaurant and producing...
Introduction. Background Date: October 2010 Sephora, a cosmetics retailer, found in 1969 as a single perfume shop, in 1999 expanded to an online multi-brand store. Situation: requesting additional funding for the new online marketing strategy Decision leader: Julia Bornstein, (senior Vice President, Sephora Direct) Decision Dilemma for Leader in Case...
To help a product gain traction in the target market setting, one must deploy a proper marketing strategy and create a sustainable marketing mix framework. Thus, a competitive advantage of the product will become more obvious. There is a distinctive connection between the marketing mix and a marketing strategy; namely,...
Blue Ocean Company Blue Ocean Company is a technology company offering a wide range of commodities to customers. Blue Ocean Company needs to find strategies to govern and help them retain its market position and remain afloat in the industry. Given the data collected in the report, the market forecast...
Case 13.3 from Northouse’s Leadership: Theory and Practice (2021) describes a scenario about David Jones, a manager in a large printing company. Jones contacts a professional employer organization (PEO) in preparation to buy or start a new company. Since his quota estimation requests to the PEO were preliminary, the organization...
Direct marketing is the act of carrying out a business of selling of a new produce, or a company’s profile between two parties, rather than using a third party. The use of emails, brochures, magazines, and call are marketing channels that help clients understand the commodity’s purpose correctly. This type...
Walmart Inc. is a multinational retail corporation whose umbrella is a chain of classic hypermarkets, departmental, and grocery stores. The retail giant was established in 1962 and has grown to become the largest retailer globally. It serves over 260 million customers across the world in its 11,500 chain stores supplemented...
To be successful and efficient, the army should be organized around the strong principles that determine the way how roles are distributed among soldiers. The two most important roles, without which an effective army cannot exist, are followers and leaders. Although these groups have distinctive functions and objectives, these roles...
Walmart’s sales grew from $16 billion in 1987 to $165 billion in 1999. Walmart’s main competitive advantages during that period. Walmart is a multibillion-dollar retail conglomerate with operations in twenty-eight nations. From 1988 to 2016, Walmart maintained a competitive edge in its business by offering a wide variety of items...
Introduction For thousands of years, the Western White Pine has dominated vast tracts of land in the northern Rockies and other areas in Idaho. However, this tree species has been reducing over the last four decades, primarily due to the white pine blister and attack by the mountain pine beetle....
Considering the changes in the business environment and their pace, there is no doubt that making predictions is becoming harder and harder, as well as consulting companies. However, there are some tendencies, which are hard to resist. One of them is, for instance, globalization, which has been notable for decades...
John J. Zillmer is the CEO of Aramark organization, an American company dealing in food delivery, infrastructure, and clothing services to consumers in the school, medical, trade, disciplinary, and recreation sectors. This CEO’s role is to ensure that all the stakeholders and company operations are collaborating and working efficiently. As...
Human advancement into the digital era has brought many changes and consequent adjustments or all aspects of people’s lives, including human resources management. Recruiters nowadays are more likely to use the Internet and social media to seek employees rather than publish advertisements in morning newspapers or on the local radio....
The health financing model “performance-based remuneration” or Pay-for-Performance represents a relatively new system of remuneration for doctors or financing of medical organizations depending on their efficiency. The main idea lies in the presence of direct or indirect stimuli, which are achieved by funding based on the results of assessing the...
Chris Peterson is a former high school teacher who joined DSS Consulting after the successful implementation of technologies across schools. Formed in 1997, DSS aimed “to provide administrative support to small school districts” (Ancona & Caldwell, 2010, p. 1). However, due to management changes, new marketing strategies, and the diversity...
Introduction A personal leadership philosophy involves principles or beliefs that appraise information and respond to individuals and conditions. It enables people who hear it to understand the decision-making approach, priorities, values, and behaviors that one is expected to portray. Transformational leadership is one of the leadership philosophies that entails applying...
Similarities in Managing Versus Leading Leadership is the ability to encourage or guide people within an organization by inspiring and motivating members of a team. Management is the capability to govern and deal with people and developments and also ensure that employees meet their expectations and duties. Leading and managing...
Summary A leader must be able to adapt and implement change himself. The world is changing rapidly, and adaptability is key to successful competition. Change Is a Major Function of Leadership Adaptive leadership is the ability to unite a group of people to solve complex problems and come out with...
Comparing and Contrasting Zara and H&M Zara and H&M are clothes retailers that target a similar market both demographically and economically. The two target middle and high-class buyers distributed in urban and suburban areas. Zara and H&M enjoy broad market ranges in their respective countries, Spain and Sweden, respectively. Zara...
Organization Information Organization Kaiser Permanente was established in 1945 and is identified as a top provider of health care and non-profit health care plans in the United States. Currently, in eight states and in the Columbia district, the firm serves 12.5 million people. Stakeholders receive attention to their full health...
Economic entities should adapt quickly to the requirements of a permanently changing business environment to ensure sustainable survival and progressive growth in an unstable modern world. Adaptation is one of the fundamental properties of the existence and development of these sectors. The need to respond quickly to the dynamically changing...
The board of directors should have evaluated the director on the following competencies: accomplishing management objectives, program management, fiscal management, effectiveness in fundraising, board relations, public image, and external relations. The ex-director clearly failed to achieve management objectives in the described case and used fiscal management to his own advantage....
Summary The increasing level of competition ranging from market coverage to acquiring skilled personnel, is one of the critical factors the new companies entering the industry to offer commodities have to consider. The labor factor calls for special concern when it comes to how the upcoming firm should set the...
Introduction Warner Media is an American multinational media and entertainment corporation. AT&T holdings include Turner Broadcasting, Warner Bros, HBO, Discovery, and Cinemax, among others (“AT&T’s WarnerMedia and Discovery,” 2021). It employs over 25,000 workers and managers, and its total assets are valued at over 70 billion dollars (Sigismondi, 2019). As...
What is Optum360? Optum360 is a vendor that sits at the center of the health care financial exchange. They create a clear, aligned, financial ecosystem, and combine technology, methodology and expertise to help payers and providers collaborate. Their seamless, transparent revenue cycle capabilities strengthen and sustain the payer and provider...
Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC) is a groundbreaking company that considers innovation through the lens of sustainability. The firm has a formal innovation strategy, which is included in its 2025 business strategy (SABIC, 2019). According to SABIC (2019), the corporation aims to promote both product and process sustainability and develop...
At the beginning of 2017, Takata pleaded guilty to installing defective airbags and agreed to pay a fine of $ 1 billion in the United States. In total, US regulators have demanded the recall of more than 100 million cars (Paukner, 2020). The situation affected two dozen automakers, including the...
Introduction A group’s coordinated activity to attain a common objective or finish an assignment in the most efficient and effective manner is known as group work. This notion is observed in the context of a team, a collection of interdependent people who collaborate to achieve a shared aim. A basic...
Amazon is a conglomerate that offers e-commerce, digital streaming, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence services. The company started as an online retailer, and until today this direction is the main one for its business. It is noteworthy that the number of subscribers to the company’s delivery service exceeds 100 million...
Introduction Customer research is needed to determine what customers want from what they say. Small businesses need to conduct market research to study the marketplace and prospective customers using either formal or informal methods, depending on the organization. Understanding this is helpful to the business, and it is important to...
British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) was a British state-owned airline created in 1939. British European Airways (BEA) merged with BOAC to become British Airways (BA) on 1 April 1972. The forming of the BA was a direct result of recommendations of the 1969 Edwards Report. The BA change from 1980-to...
Management in organizations implies integrated approach and measures. For correct functioning, leadership, training, and promotion of ordinary personnel, motivation, efficient use of company resources, and other criteria, many concepts, skills, and qualifications from the management are required in the application. A good leader is not only a person in a...
Introduction Change is part of development, and no improvement is possible without updating the existing practices or replacing them with novelties. Challenges in addressing the risks and sustaining the motivation of the involved individuals can occur throughout the process. Practical support of the related operations can be achieved through change...
Effective project management is one of the most important aspects that enable an organization to achieve its goals. The main project organizational structures include functional project chains, pure project organization structures, and matrix project networks (CristĂłbal et al., 2018). The functional project structure is majorly utilized by entities that have...
Apple started off as an innovative company with new concepts and ideas. At the present moment, it is one of the most well-known corporations in the world. Based on the organization’s history, it is certain that the company has been through all stages. The introduction stage was exemplified by low...
Building an effective team is essential for healthcare facilities to support a quality improvement initiative that requires various activities and includes diverse responsibilities. The group must be capable of completing measuring tasks, timely addressing the issues, and maintaining the authority to make profound changes in an organization (Nash et al.,...
OZ Minerals Limited is the third largest Australian mining company and the second largest zinc producer globally. The company mines zinc, copper, lead, gold, and silver. It was founded in 2008 by merging the multinational companies Oxiana Limited and Zinifex Limited. According to the company’s management, the merger was carried...
Introduction Both companies present a unique case regarding their position on the market, primarily due to their sheer size. However, there are glaring differences in the structure of their markets that create varied obstacles for the companies to overcome. The fast-food market is more closely described by a monopolistic competition...
Introduction Walmart Inc. is an American multinational corporation, the largest company in the world by revenue, and the world’s biggest employer with more than two million people employed. Headquartered in Arkansas, Walmart Inc. operates hundreds of retail stores and hypermarkets in 24 countries under different names. Its extraordinary success in...
Importance of Staff Education and Training Educating and training staff in an organization is significant since it allows the employer to point out the skills and knowledge required of employees. Therefore, through training and education, it becomes possible for employees to gain new skills or acquire updates on those existing...
Introduction Recruitment is a crucial phase of the human resources (HR) hiring process and is necessary for the overall development of the organization. At present, there are various recruitment strategies, ranging from word-of-mouth advertising to digital solutions (The Pennsylvania State University, 2021). Evidently, each of the methods has its advantages...
It is not uncommon in the modern work environment to come across cases of employees who quit their jobs because of their bosses’ unbecoming characters and behaviors. Moreover, it is common for employees to receive promotions to managerial roles based solely on their tenure to the company even though they...
Introduction Demand forecasting is essential for any business as it allows for making informed financial decisions and managing risks. According to Taghipour (2020), forecasting techniques determine production needs, and the use of time series can help in identifying a seasonal component. In the given scenario, KTP company operating in the...
The dismissal of a talented employee is often a problem for an enterprise. Mass churn is a huge ordeal that not every company can withstand. The pandemic has become a kind of strength test for both workers and employers. It is this aspect that Polovin (2021) describes in his article,...
Google is one of the most innovative companies, which is also reflected in its human resource management policy. In particular, the company offers its employees various benefits and a fair compensation system. Google employees have access to both the traditional options in the form of insurance and paid leaves, but...
The Acquired-Needs Model in The Workplace David McClelland came up with the acquired needs theory that categorized employees into three groups based on their dominant motivations: achievement, power, and affiliation. Employees may have all three motivations in every workplace but present one as the dominant motivator (Khurana & Joshi, 2017)....
Introduction Management is a dynamic process through which companies design remains to facilitate organizational goals. Walmart is a multinational company that runs various grocery stores, hypermarkets, and other departments while utilizing the four managerial functions in its operations. The organization is successful in the retail industry through facilitating administrative functions...
Since Red Clay Renovations is currently promoting the «smart home» and «Internet of Things» technologies in residential buildings, information security is crucial for the company’s executives. Automatization and electrification of household processes require large amounts of information to be stored in databases. Therefore, the company possesses the clients’ personal information...
There are plenty of issues to discuss and points of view to consider when it comes to the work environment in the United States. One of such matters is the matter of a flexible work policy. Those who advocate for workplaces offering their employees flexibility in certain aspects talk about...
Introduction Ensuring the safety of company assets and creating a favorable corporate environment is largely achieved through an effective internal audit. In the near future, the preparation of an internal audit on the employee use of company-owned laptops will be completed. This process requires setting appropriate goals, involving stakeholders, planning...
Extrinsic motivation occurs when individuals engage in an action or event to receive compensation or escape consequences. Individuals will partake in action not because they deem it enjoyable or fulfilling but because they anticipate receiving an incentive in exchange or avoiding something undesirable. Intrinsic motivation occurs when individuals indulge in...
Staff motivation includes a set of incentives that determine the behavior of a particular individual. Therefore, this is a specific set of actions on the part of the manager aimed at improving the working capacity of employees and ways to attract qualified and talented specialists and retain them. Each employer...
Leadership is one of the essential human qualities, without which progress in any area would be impossible. However, although its essence does not change, the way leadership is realized changes with society. While many centuries ago, the strongest member of society was chosen as a leader, today, leaders are valued...
The article discusses the need to adjust the HR approach to workforce planning in dynamically changing and uncertain environments. Collins (2020) rightfully claims that just as a manager must notice business opportunities and strategically incorporate them into organizational vision, it is critical to meet global challenges by considering workforce planning...
Introduction TurboTax is the leading tax preparation software in the United States. However, to reach and maintain this position, the management and marketing team responsible for the product had to solve many problems. One of such issues included the question of customer retention, which existed due to the seasonality of...
Introduction Honda is a Japanese company mainly known for manufacturing cars and motorcycles, although it also provides a wide range of other products. The company professes adherence to the principles of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and has a written code of conduct that, among other things, stresses protection of the...
