Supply Chain Management: Its role in improving the value of the product or service to customers
Thesis - 6 pages - Management
With growing competition among companies in the different industries, an efficient operation is essential for firms to offer quality goods and services at competitive prices. This can be made possible through the adoption of appropriate production technology, having a customer-oriented...
Contribution of strategic management to organizational performance
Thesis - 8 pages - Management
Truly, business is a high-stakes game (Brandenburger & Nalebuff 1995, p. 57): the wrong strategic move could mean millions of dollars lost, or thousands of jobs jeopardized, or even the bankruptcy of a firm. Strategy setting, to be successful, must consider the organization as a whole and not as...
Leading and organizing high-performance teams: Luis Burgos
Thesis - 5 pages - Management
One of the reasons that teamwork is such a popular topic is because it is a crucial element of success. Another is that, while the issues stay the same (in many ways) the best practices and guiding principles are still under debate. Two topics that are personally important to me and are elements...
Issues of governance and management in formulating and implementing distribution strategies
Thesis - 8 pages - Management
We are living in a world more and more concerned with corporate governance and corporate social responsibility which is an off shoot of what has happened in the past - corporations filing for bankruptcy and seeking protection under Chapter 11 as a result of questionable corporate activities, some...
A study on various recruitment sources and their effectiveness
Thesis - 9 pages - Management
Recruitment is the process of soliciting, screening, and selecting qualified people for a job at an organization or firm, and therefore the process by which organizations fulfill their human resource requirements. Small and Medium scale industries are relatively small enterprises employing far...
Basic concepts of CRM
Thesis - 23 pages - Management
Customer Relationship Management (CRM) refers to the methodologies and tools that help businesses manage customer relationships in an organized way. CRM stands for Customer Relationship Management. It is a process or methodology used to learn more about customers' needs and behaviors in order...
Corporate gifting: An overview
Thesis - 7 pages - Management
The complexity of management decision-making has greatly increased during recent years throughout the world. This is especially true with respect to the marketing activity is located at the interface between the firm and every changing environment, dynamic factor such as rapidly changing...
Knowledge management in organizations
Thesis - 7 pages - Management
Knowledge management refers to the conscious, systematic, and organized activity of an enterprise in comprehensively gathering, organizing, analyzing, and sharing knowledge to further its goals. It comprises a range of practices that identifies, creates, represent, distribute, and enables...
A study on the balanced scorecard as an effective performance management system
Thesis - 9 pages - Management
The balanced scorecard is a strategic planning and management system used to align business activities to the vision and strategy of the organization. In other words, it translates the vague statements and undefined aspirations of a company's vision or mission statement into practical...
Operations and supply chain management: The case of Fermob, outdoor lounge - published: 18/05/2009
Thesis - 6 pages - Management
We chose to study the supply chain of Fermob whose headquarters and factory are located in Thoissey near Belleville in Ain (half an hour North from Lyon). Fermob's mission is to design and make outdoor furniture which decorates the garden in a relaxed and convivial way. Fermob furniture has an...
Cross cultural management (2006) - publié le 17/05/2009
Thesis - 7 pages - Management
Thanks to the new communication technologies of the 20th century, big firms have moved from local or national market to international markets. Most of the important national firms have perceived foreign markets as new opportunities to increase their turnover. A firm wants to launch its products...
Managing people in a cross-cultural context - published: 17/05/2009
Thesis - 7 pages - Management
My company, REN, is a small company headquartered in Copenhagen. It is a new Japanese owned event company. It employs 50 people. The company has experienced problems with team building during its previous events because of the multinational nature of the teams. The cultural factor had not been...
Knowledge management at Siemens Spain - publié le 17/05/2009
Thesis - 4 pages - Management
In this case of Siemens Spain, we can discover how a global company set up a knowledge management strategy to increase their benefits. This case is based on real information and explains how Siemens tried to find the best solution to share knowledge between all departments and also with all...
The features of management processes and structures in terms of Fordism and Taylorism: Why did these models come under pressure during the late 20th Century? Has there been a definitive break from them? - published: 17/05/2009
Thesis - 7 pages - Management
Between 1893 and 1911, F.W Taylor published a series of books about management that defines the basis of a new science: The scientific organization of work . On the one hand, he notes “the dawdling” of workers, who are at the same time influenced by their natural way to be lazy and the...
"In any larger business organization, team work is the ultimate key to success": Discuss this statement
Thesis - 2 pages - Management
Today, there are a variety of organizations and they evolve in a very competitive environment. The competition is played in every single field of the business: productivity, number of customers, human resources management, etc. One could argue that only the measurable factors are valuable....
Starbucks France governance: Competitive environment analysis - published: 17/05/2009
Thesis - 2 pages - Management
“Corporate governance is the set of processes, customs, policies, laws and institutions affecting the way a corporation is directed, administered or controlled.” It is made to control the decision-making power of executives so they do not have as a matter of priority their own...
Corporate governance and business ethics: Air France-KLM - published: 17/05/2009
Thesis - 8 pages - Management
Businesses have to publish their yearly Corporate Social Responsibility Report (CSRR) for their stakeholders. CSRR is “the business contribution to the sustainable development goals. Essentially it is about how business takes account of its economic, social and environmental impacts in the...
Politics in an enterprise - published: 17/05/2009
Thesis - 15 pages - Management
linked with scheming plots and conspiracies. Like in all organizations, irrespective of the size of the business or the kind of business conducted, one would always have to deal with organizational politics. Organizational politics are a primary component in contemporary business practices....
Acquisition of Puma by the PPR Group - publié le 17/05/2009
Thesis - 3 pages - Management
The merger acquisition process will have very few impacts for PPR. We decided to explain it in this way. We will attempt to explain PPR's acquisition in the following sequences. In the beginning, the company started a wood industry known as Gautier SA. Several years later in 1962, the company...
A study on competency mapping in the individual and organizational context
Thesis - 7 pages - Management
Competency is the collection of success factors necessary for achieving important results in a specific job or work role in a particular organization. Until a decade ago, a combination of knowledge, skills were the determining factors for the success of an individual in an organization. However,...
Industry Analysis: The Lincoln Electric case
Thesis - 8 pages - Management
The Lincoln Electric Company is a monument in its own right; the company started in 1895 and currently holds 40 percent of the U.S. welding market. Brothers John and James were Partners throughout most of the company's history. John designed and engineered while James managed operations....
Ethics: A study of moral issues - published: 16/05/2009
Thesis - 12 pages - Management
Nike exploited children to make their products: this is an unethical behavior. Nowadays, the business environment is extremely competitive and companies want to be more and more profitable. Employees in both small and large business can face difficult ethical dilemmas in South Africa as well as...
Rumors in Grundfos - published: 16/05/2009
Thesis - 8 pages - Management
Grundfos is a well-established company on both the Danish and the Global market. The Group is one of the world's leading pump manufacturers. According to one of the handed out fictive situation, there are rumors about the closing the financial department of the French subsidiary. The closing of...
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....
Organizations: Behavior, structure and process - Gibson, Ivancevich, Donnelly and Konopaske: Employment opportunities in multinational firms
Thesis - 2 pages - Management
According to the Exhibit 3 which deals with the question of Japanese expatriates and American in executive positions in Japanese firms in the United States, 69.4% of employees in a top executive echelon or in a middle management branch are Americans. For example, 76.5% of employees from the...
Is it time to move away from the UK/American pattern of ownership shares in companies? - published: 14/05/2009
Thesis - 5 pages - Management
United Kingdom and USA have a system where private shareholders have ownership of their companies. Lots of companies in these countries are quoted in stock market. The way they can finance their companies is by opening their capital to private investors. As USA has a great influence in the world,...
Implementation of an IT system: Knowledge management perspectives - published: 14/05/2009
Thesis - 6 pages - Management
Managing information and knowledge have become the core activity for a number of companies. As Florida (2002) describes in books, the rise of the creative class, companies are now learning organization that need to innovate and create knowledge. Due to globalization companies have to handle more...
Are customer's management softwares and quality customer service key elements to gain customer's satisfaction and build loyalty? - published: 13/05/2009
Thesis - 24 pages - Management
Nowadays, companies possess lot of tools in order to gain customer's satisfaction and build loyalty. They understood that they have to focus on customers in order to increase profit more than before. Indeed, by focusing on customer's satisfaction they build loyalty and a long-term relationship....
The importance of total quality management
Thesis - 22 pages - Management
Total Quality Management is a management approach that originated in the 1950's and has steadily become more popular since the early 1980's. Total Quality is a description of the culture, attitude and organization of a company that strives to provide customers with products and services...
A focus on Russia in terms of managerial practices versus France - publié le 12/05/2009
Thesis - 7 pages - Management
Russia represents a good economic potential, investors and firms that are more and more attracted by the country as well as hydrocarbons, which are the first factor of export of the country. For both exports and imports; economic, social political and business relationships between France and...
