Human Resources Management: Challenges and Controlling Mechanisms
Case study - 10 pages - Human resources
Organizational Psychology holds that successful organizations focus not only on market realities and sustainable competitive advantages, but also on their human capital, which they consider as their most vital asset. In a sense, facts and figures are the quantitative elements of a successful...
Sergio Rossi : challenges in the emerging market
Case study - 51 pages - Services marketing
The brand history: at the beginning : Sergio Rossi learned the art of shoe making by working beside his father. He established his own brand in the 50's at San Mauro Pascoli. He created shoes for urban and sophisticated customers. Demand increased during the 60's and 70's while Italy's quality...
What are the challenges facing the EU in its attempts to establish democratic institutional structures ?
Thesis - 7 pages - European law
“It is time to recognise that the Union has moved from a diplomatic to a democratic process, with policies that reach deep into national societies and daily life” . This statement by the European Commission subsumes ten years of political and academic on-going debate on the...
On the Map: Why the World Looks the Way It Does - Simon Garfield (2012) - «Maps began as a challenge of the imagination, and they still perform that role»
Text commentary - 2 pages - World geography
« That map was a marvel. (...) It was late '67 now, even the most detailed maps didn't reveal much anymore; reading them was like trying to read the faces of the Vietnamese, and that was like trying to read the wind », here is how Michael Herr in Dispatches published in 2009, perfectly...
Startups: The challenge of managing people
Case study - 6 pages - Management
The notion of leadership is important in the big well-known companies as well as the new-born ones. In this paper, we chose to focus on ‘leadership in startups' to explain the challenges they are facing and how those problems can be solved in this specific context. We will begin...
Levendary Café: The China Challenge - Christopher A. Bartlett and Arar Han (2013) - What changes should the new CEO make to manage the company's international operations better?
Case study - 2 pages - Business strategy
Despite the promising growth achieved by Levendary Café in China, under Louis Chen's management, within a year and a half of launching its operations in this fertile market (see appendix 1), the company is in crisis because of Chen's recent approaches, who rebelled against the decisions...
Challenge of the tribunal chairman in Forezienne SA v Shunxi Coal and Commodities Trading Company Inc
Case study - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
We should not challenge the chairman because a challenge now effectively constitutes a waiver of annulment and refusal of recognition and enforcement on the grounds of lack of independence of the chairman later on, should we lose the case. However, this is only to the extent that...
Does devolution constitute a challenge to the British political tradition?
Essay - 4 pages - Political science
In 1998, the New Labor government passed the Scotland Act, the Government of Wales Act and the Northern Ireland Act, enforcing devolution in the United Kingdom. In order to determine if devolution constitutes a challenge to the British political tradition, one needs to look at...
The tourism challenge in the region for Paris Giverny
Law case study - 6 pages - Luxury marketing
One of the main priorities for the new McArthurGlen Giverny Brand Village will be to attract national and pan-European tourists. This is why a marketing strategy must be deployed, focusing in particular on destination marketing. In different sectors, most companies recognize the importance of...
Environmental issues linked to North-South relations posing a challenge for Geopolitics
Internship report - 10 pages - Political science
Economic globalization, global media flows and the Internet seem to make our traditional conception of geopolitics, in terms of political geography and international relations, no longer appropriate. The deepening impacts of globalization, especially within North-South relations, have undeniably...
McDonald's: Strategic challenge and SWOT analysis
Internship report - 47 pages - Business strategy
In the 90s, the firm had to cope with a number of challenges: The microwave oven, increasing health consciousness and competition. In 1999, as Jack Greenberg took over the reins of the firm, the situation was complicated due to competition between fast-food giants. McDonald's timelines:...
The World Trade Organization (WTO) faces the challenge of sustainable development
Essay - 5 pages - Ecology & environment
The stakes by which the problems raise the concept of sustainable development, such as environmental protection and the fight against poverty, seems to represent an obstacle for further liberalization in trade as a factor in its favor. However, during the second half of the nineteenth century, it...
McDonald's: Strategic challenge and SWOT analysis
Thesis - 30 pages - Business strategy
In the 90s, the firm had to cope with a number of challenges: The microwave oven, increasing health consciousness and competition. In 1999, as Jack Greenberg took over the reins of the firm, the situation was complicated due to competition between fast-food giants. McDonald's timelines:...
Challenge of developing and maintaining authentic relationship
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
In the contemporary society, human beings have become so busy that they hardly have time for each other. The idea of an authentic relationship is of great concern to most families today. Learning to live with latest developments in the society is essential in developing healthy relationships...
Microfinance: the Challenge of Accessing Global Capital Markets
Essay - 9 pages - Finance
The main theme of this project is the facilitation and development of microfinance, which is the “provision of loans, savings, insurance, payments, and other basic financial services to low-income populations” . The project is dedicated to identifying and evaluating existing options for...
The challenge of modernity/post modernity in the sociology of religion
Essay - 9 pages - Sociology & social sciences
The rapid changes that took place in the last decades of the 20th century had a deep impact on the religious landscape as well. The new phenomena present a double challenge to the sociology of religion: on the one hand, it has to review, refine and reinterpret the classical statements in...
Conservative welfare states and the challenge of universal citizenship
Essay - 8 pages - Social, moral & civic education
When the newly unified Germany implemented in 1883 the first health insurance system, it paved the way for further moves towards extensive provision of public welfare for workers, but it also introduced a substantive change concerning the relationship between the state and the citizens. Basically...
The European citizenship: A transnational challenge
Essay - 5 pages - European union
A citizen is “by definition a citizen among citizens of a country among countries. His rights and duties must be defined and limited, not only by those of his fellow citizens, but also by the boundaries of a territory [...]”. Hannah Arendt asserted thus, in 1968, that the concept of...
In what way does Romanticism challenge the aesthetic values of Neoclassicism?
Essay - 4 pages - Arts and art history
At a time when the ideal of enlightment dominated in European cultural life, Rousseau was the only philosopher to enhance the significance of individual experiment and the need for nature in the education of young boys. Nature is elevated to a moral guide, a source of innocence and timeless...
Populism: a new challenge for the European democracies?
Dissertation - 19 pages - Political science
While Europe seemed affected by a sudden rise of populist leaders (Berlusconi in Italy, UKIP in Britain, Switzerland with Brocher, France with Le Pen and De Villiers), they were alarmed by this development. Should it be considered as an epiphenomenon of populism? The question is central to the...
Using technology to challenge the 'I, The Time, and the Theater' in Beckett's play 'Krapp's Last Tape'
Thesis - 6 pages - Film studies
There is little doubt that the cannon of Beckett's work is one of experimentation and investigation, with the author constantly exploring the boundaries of content and form, pushing the limits not only of theme and narrative, but also of the very mediums themselves that are in use in each...
Globalization in Russia: The challenge of the transition to the world economy
Essay - 12 pages - Economy general
Fifteen years ago, the Soviet Union was a socialist authoritative country, tightly isolated from capitalist countries. Nowadays, its direct heir, Russia, is one of the most quickly growing markets of the world, strongly open on the global economy. During the 1990s, Russia underwent an...
Challenge Day: A Transitory Charismatic Movement in the Milieu of Modern High School
Essay - 9 pages - Philosophy
Starting in the 1970s, activists, counselors, and state school boards across the country have taken measurements to quell violence in middle and high schools. The violence stems from the adolescent tendency for concentrated peer groups, which leads to gangs and inter-gang violence, especially...
Rural Educational Setting - The Implementation of Artificial Intelligence in Future
Dissertation - 7 pages - Educational studies
The emergence of AI in rural educational contexts represents a case in point, since the challenges of AI implementation are more pronounced in these settings. While AI has fantastic potential to transform the education process by providing individual experience, automating administrative...
Clean water resource challenge
Thesis - 4 pages - Ecology & environment
Water is the main source of life and covers three fourths of all the land on earth. There lives millions of plants and small animals in the oceans, from witch billions of people depend on fish. Some nations also get fresh water from ocean water, that?s why ocean pollution is a dangerous threat....
Insights and Strategies in Optimizing Organizational Management Dynamics
Case study - 6 pages - Management
Effective organizational management is critical in ensuring success in competitive business environments. This paper adopts three case studies critically analyzing their approach and concepts in organizational management. The three case studies presented above provide critical points in the...
KPIs in the media industry
Market study - 1 pages - Medias&communication marketing
Overall, the media industry is really unstable due to its fragile KPIs : it is constantly changing, evolving, and each industry has to adapt to its customers. That means that both challenges and opportunities are numerous, and can either lead to the failure of a company, or to its success,...
Working with Reluctant Clients
Presentation - 2 pages - Sociology & social sciences
I have mixed feelings about working with clients not interested in interacting with me as a future social worker. On the one hand, I am sympathetic and understanding. I understand that many clients who exhibit reticent behaviors are dealing with complex issues, trauma, or other challenges...
Police Administration and Management
Essay - 3 pages - Management
Understanding the complexities of group development is vital for organizations seeking to adopt highly dynamic and unified teams. The six distinctive stages outlined—orientation, conflict and challenge, cohesion, delusion, disillusion, and acceptance—shed light on the...
Sociological Aspects and Education
Essay - 5 pages - Educational studies
Today's contemporary teacher does far more than educate her students. She often finds herself playing nurse, psychologist, confidant and often, she might be the only one who ensures a child has a meal from one day to the other. It's overwhelming and does not stop when the 3 p.m. bell...
