Éthique des affaires - "Je n'ai jamais donné, reçu ou toléré l'usage d'une quelconque forme d'aide illégale"
Essay - 2 pages - Management
Many times in life one is faced with a moral dilemma. This decision is based on two options one must choose from. The first option is to fulfill one's moral duty. The second option is to fulfill one's desires. That is, one is based on what one ought to do and what one wants do. Unfortunately,...
Risk management - A study, financial, internal business, learning and customers
Essay - 12 pages - Management
This manual has for objective, to limit the risk in different areas of the company. Also, the other objective is to ensure that the right risk is taken and the unnecessary risk is mitigated. For each area treated, a risk committee was created in order to manage each project. This committee must...
Recommendations on employee involvement in Fiat in England
Internship report - 3 pages - Management
Three persons work everyday aiming to improve service and sales, to improve the dialog between financial divisions and car dealers and to gain the loyalty of customers if they buy another Fiat or another brand. Each goal or new mission is decided by the manager and employees are not involved in...
Public Relations
Essay - 4 pages - Management
The term 'public relations' is recognized and widely used by many people. However, it is often misused and misunderstood. It is sometimes confused with press release and publicity. A career in public relations is wrongly perceived as the perfect job for people who enjoy parties and...
GooglePlex
Case study - 1 pages - Management
Google is a company founded on September 27, 1998 in Silicon Valley, in California, by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Google's mission is 'to organize the information worldwide and make it universally accessible and useful'. The company has experienced phenomenal growth since its inception.
Demande de poste comme exécutif assistant
Sample letter - 1 pages - Management
Your advertisement in “The Time news” for the position as executive assistant sparked my interest. With four years of experience at Lambert Warner in a demanding, fast-paced multi-tasking office, I believe my qualification would match your requirements. In my current position, I am the...
The control employed by companies
Essay - 3 pages - Management
Entrepreneurship is an important value in our modern world. Indeed, each company has a goal and this goal is to maximize the profit of the company and to develop the company. In order to limit the loss of the employees productivity, companies have to control the work force and develop a control...
Different entrepreneur's competencies needed to start and perpetuate a business
Essay - 2 pages - Management
To be an entrepreneur is very difficult and we have to develop some competencies in order to succeed in the development and the economic increase of our company. We can ask ourselves, 'what are the core competencies I will need for myself if I was to go into business for myself as an...
Manager's responsibility of his mistakes
Essay - 2 pages - Management
It is clear that managers have great responsibilities and that they have to take up their responsibilities in certain cases. Responsibility is, maybe, one of the most important skills a good manager must have and must use in the management of his firm and employees. I will explain, using...
An integrated coordination model for a supply chain dealing with short life-cycle products operating under stock dependent demand
Thesis - 5 pages - Management
The market demand of any product is generally influenced by quality, warranty, service, advertisement and sales promotion. Apart from these factors, the amount of stock displayed will also significantly influence the sales at retail level. Though, many inventory models have been developed based...
The importance of management - the example of the hotel "La Source white" in Brides-les-Bains
Case study - 6 pages - Management
Didier X is the CEO of the company 'La source blanche'. This company was really close to going bankrupt before he arrived, in 2000. He decided to focus his decision around three mains points: to be more employee oriented, to pay more attention to the accounting and to develop the image of...
Strategic management of EDF - Electricité de France (in 2010)
Case study - 35 pages - Management
From production to distribution, Electricite de France (EDF) is one of the world's largest producers of electricity. Its story has naturally propelled the company as a leader on the French market through a monopoly related to nationalization. Indeed, the law of April 8, 1946 regarding the...
High Speed 1 - a Public Private Partnership success?
Case study - 6 pages - Management
The Channel Tunnel Railway Link (CTRL), now called High Speed 1, is the first high-speed railway constructed in the UK, significantly reducing the journey time from 3h to 2h15 for London-Paris Eurostar passengers and offering a potential for freight use. HS1 Ltd is the organization that owns the...
A Petrinet model of a short life cycle product supply chain and deduction of its reachability matrix by simulation
Thesis - 5 pages - Management
This paper focuses on the concept of short life cycle supply chain of products where the selling time of the product is short and fixed. Based on an object events table and dynamical events occurring table a composite model of short life cycle product is created. This model is then represented by...
Multi-criteria selection of allied transportation firm: An application in plastic industry
Thesis - 12 pages - Management
Transportation is a critical process in supply chains which includes receiving raw material from suppliers and sending products to customers. Companies usually face the problem of selecting the proper transportation contractor to transfer their raw material and finished goods. However, this...
Leveraging procurement operations of supply chain management
Thesis - 9 pages - Management
Researchers and practitioners increasingly view that the operations and procurement functions as intimately linked and as playing imperative roles in Supply Chain Management. Ultimately the performance of the operations management system measured in terms of cost, quality, delivery and...
Essay on business ethics
Essay - 4 pages - Management
The fair-trade is a social movement and a commercial partnership, which obeys to various social standards, economic and environmental standards aiming at improving the situation of the producers who adhere to it. The movement privileges the North-south trades, quite particularly in the food...
Goals and planning of Starbucks Coffee Company
Case study - 6 pages - Management
This paper examines strategic management, which includes business decisions and actions that define the organization's missions and objectives, determine the most effective utilization of organizational resources, select best ways of action to achieve its goals and missions, and seek to...
Managing risks in Airport transport industry
Essay - 5 pages - Management
A risk is the exposure to a potential danger, inherent in a situation or activity that may lead to negative consequences for the organization or the individual. Its impact may put into question the existence of the company, its resources, its products and services, and its clients. Risk is...
What does organisationnal DNA mean?
Essay - 2 pages - Management
The organizational DNA corresponds to the part of the organization that we can not see, which is below the surface, and is called the culture of the enterprise. To set up a framework for this word culture, we can define it as all the values of the organization, the beliefs, the unwritten rules....
Integrating supply chain management and strategic management: The basis for analysis of the grain industry
Thesis - 6 pages - Management
The observed corporate changes in many supply chains in Australia suggest that instability rather than stability is a consistent pattern in corporate supply chain relationships. This observation should not be surprising given the dynamic impacts of competitive strategy and has been extensively...
Conceptualization and operationalization of process management from multiple theoretical lens (A hybrid approach)
Thesis - 8 pages - Management
We cast doubt on the adequacy of current conceptualization and operationalization of process management (PM) based on quality management (QM), particularly when PM is considered as comprising of only control and incremental improvement practices. Furthermore, the dimensionality of PM is hitherto,...
Decision support for knowledge intensive business processes
Essay - 5 pages - Management
Strategy development, new product introduction, marketing research, and financial budgeting, are a few examples of Knowledge Intensive Business Processes (KIBPs). These processes tend to be complex and time consuming, requiring collaboration and the sharing of expertise within specific work...
Empirical study on effect of quality management on competitive performance in manufacturing companies: International perspective
Thesis - 11 pages - Management
This paper presents results of an empirical analysis on quality management and its impact on competitive performance. These results have been derived from the third round survey conducted during 2003 and 2004 under the framework of High Performance Manufacturing Project. After presenting a simple...
System development service quality: Measurement development and validation
Essay - 12 pages - Management
In recent years, IS researchers have become increasingly interested in service quality of information system functions. However, one area that receives little attention is the service quality of the information system development process. The current study attempts to fill this gap by developing...
Group key management on tree-based braid groups
Tutorials/exercises - 10 pages - Management
The characteristic of mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) build temporary dynamic network without any fixed infrastructure and limitation of power and computing capability present the challenge in secure communication. The existing key management protocols in wire network still do not suitable in...
An autonomous knowledge acquisition system toward the ubiquitous knowledge management
Tutorials/exercises - 13 pages - Management
Knowledge management (KM), which pursues dynamic knowledge creation and sharing within and among organizations, had been boomed since the end of the last century. However, because of some technical limitations as well as cultural barriers, the concept of KM has been getting buried alive,...
An empirical reflection on the needs for and consequences of operational and technical integration with ERP projects
Tutorials/exercises - 7 pages - Management
This research article is set against the background of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) as a solution to address operational and technical integration to support daily operations. It aims at characterizing ERP projects by their reasons for initiation in particular considering integration...
Study on the effects of the relationship between contingency variables and BSC system property variables on BSC system performance
Tutorials/exercises - 13 pages - Management
Compared to the functions provided by the BSC system, previous research studies on BSC system did not take into consideration the organizational environments or were unable to reflect its theoretical structure. In this study, the interaction between the relationship of contingency variables and...
An exploratory study on consumer psychological contracts
Thesis - 4 pages - Management
The concept of the psychological contract is widely applied in organizational research. This article explores the consumer psychological contract in marketing context. Some situations are designed in a questionnaire and the data are analyzed. The findings show that whether the consumer...
