A study on customer expectations on MFD's towards Xerox India Ltd
Case study - 34 pages - Business strategy
Xerox Corporation is the world's leading document management technology and services enterprise. XEROX INDIA LTD is the Indian subsidiary of Xerox Corporation. The US $15.7 billion, Fortune 500 global document management company was incorporated in 1983. Xerox India's strategic intent is...
Basic concepts of job satisfaction
Thesis - 5 pages - Human resources
Job satisfaction is a set of favorable or unfavorable feelings and emotions with which employees view their work. Job satisfaction is an effective attitude - a feeling of relative like or dislike toward something. The term job satisfaction not only covers the satisfaction derived from the job by...
Performance appraisal system in organizations
Thesis - 9 pages - Human resources
Appraisal of performance is widely used in society. Parents evaluate their children, teachers evaluate their students and employers evaluate their employees. However, formal evaluation of employees is believed to have been adopted for the first time during the First World War. At the instance of...
A study on the financial performance of the Hyderabad Stock Exchange
Case study - 29 pages - Finance
The Hyderabad Stock Exchange Ltd. established in 1943 was as a non-profit organization. It is now on its way to completing its 62nd year in the capital market; serving the cause of saving and investments. The Exchange made today occupies a prominent place in the regional stock exchange in India....
Concepts of job satisfaction
Thesis - 8 pages - Human resources
Job satisfaction refers to an individual's general attitude towards his or her job. A person with a high level of job satisfaction holds a positive attitude towards his job. While a person is who is dissatisfied with his assignments hold a negative attitude. Job satisfaction is linked to...
An overview of the organic semiconductor industry
Case study - 4 pages - Business strategy
In the late 1970s, three researchers published a groundbreaking paper on the discovery that certain classes of plastics were capable of being modified to enable them to function as a poorly conducting metal. So groundbreaking and significant was the discovery that in 2000 the Nobel Prize for...
Life insurance and brand equity
Thesis - 7 pages - Finance
"Insurance is a contract between two parties whereby one party called insurer undertakes an exchange for a fixed sum called premiums, to pay the other party called insured a fixed amount of money on the happening of a certain event." Insurance is a protection against financial loss arising in...
Customer satisfaction with regard to Xerox photocopier: Xerox India Limited
Case study - 36 pages - Management
The documentation industry is expanding at a rate of more than 20% and the world majors have recognized the Indian market as a lucrative area. They are present in India either through joint ventures or through 100 percent subsidiaries. The high import duties, which had tilted the balance in favor...
Culture and management
Essay - 7 pages - Human resources
Hofstede?s contribution concerning "Culture differences" is so important that his main theories must be presented in this essay. Geert Hofstede?s work resulted from a large scale research program (through questionnaires) involving 160 000 employees from the IBM Corporation in 40 countries. The...
Creating value on the Harley Davidson poss ride
Case study - 15 pages - Communication
From a branding point of view, we cannot overlook the fact that Harley Davidson is very powerful, since many customers find embodied in its cultural principles and values that resonate with their own needs and beliefs. These core values Harley Davidson relies on are: Freedom: the motorcycle is...
The consequences of the financial crisis on theory and practical aspects of asset management
Dissertation - 55 pages - Finance
2007 is going down in history with the subprime phenomenon which came as a surprise to all market observers. According to P. Artus, Director of the Economic Research at Natixis , the word subprime was mentioned in 6,000 articles in the international press in 2006, 32,000 during the first 6 months...
Eurotunnel
Case study - 9 pages - Business strategy
One of the most ambitious projects in the end of the 20th century was to create a tunnel undersea to connect France and the United Kingdom. In 1880, the construction began according to the scheme of Aimé Thomé de Gamond but the Great Depression halted the progress. Next, the project "Eurotunnel?...
Employee training and development
Thesis - 9 pages - Human resources
Human resource is the most important determinant of success, efficiency and effectiveness of an organization. Dynamic, component and motivated human resources build dynamic organization and enable an organization to achieve its goals. Therefore, to make human and non-human factors efficient and...
Employee welfare measures
Thesis - 7 pages - Human resources
“Welfare” is a broad concept referring to a state of living of an individual or group, in a desirable relationship with the total environment - ecological, economic and social. Labor welfare includes both the social and economic contents of welfare. Social welfare is primarily concerned...
Haribo: keeping competitive in the candy industry - publié le 17/03/2009
Case study - 16 pages - Business strategy
When we target the European audience, particularly the French one can commonly relate to them through a Haribo. Well the questions that now boil down is about knowing and tasting a Haribo sweet. A hypothesis is drawn with respect to the French in particular who are well versed with the taste of...
Dealer network: A brief study
Thesis - 3 pages - Business strategy
Dealers are essential part of the industry. He helps the products by familiarizing the goods to the customers, by distributing and thereby creating demand. He is the kingpin in the business world of manufacturer and distributor. Today he is the sales man who is responsible for us to have more...
Compared human resources management models: China and France
Case study - 6 pages - Human resources
This report is an analysis by comparison of two countries through their management of their Human Resources. Those two subjects of this essay are France and China. This choice is not just a coincidence but the result of my home country (France) and China where I have been for an internship two...
Cyrillus: innovation and competitiveness
Case study - 12 pages - Management
In the XIXth century, Roubaix became the world textiles capital. Its factories were the most modern in the world while its wool exchange was the most influential. Almost two hundred years later, one of the last and most famous wool factory of Roubaix closed in 2000. And yet, several textile...
Training and development
Thesis - 5 pages - Human resources
Organization and individual should develop and progress simultaneously for their survival and attainment of mutual goals. So, every modern management has to develop the organization through human resource development. Employee training is the important sub-system of human resource development....
Financial performance of APGENCO
Case study - 38 pages - Finance
In India to meet the growing demand for electricity and the shortage of resources, opened way for the private sector participation in power generation in the year 1991. Subsequently, globalization has brought seeping changes with mixed results across the globe. Further the electricity act 2003...
A study on working capital management
Thesis - 10 pages - Finance
Cash is the lifeline of a company, no matter how large or small the organization is. If this lifeline deteriorates so does the company's ability to fund operations, reinvest and meet capital requirements and payments. Understanding a company's cash flow health is essential to making...
Recruitment and selection process in an IT services organization
Thesis - 31 pages - Human resources
The software industry is in the midst of a quiet but dramatic revolution. The implication of this revolution increased innovation, new business models, technological discontinuities, and global capability shifts could be even more profound then the previous industry transaction. The software...
Employee satisfaction towards training programs in IT services
Thesis - 27 pages - Human resources
They build work environment for mid-sized companies for implementing the ERP and CRM solutions. They take over complexity of implementation and management providing them implementation process with defined service levels. Training is the most important job of HR development. No organization can...
Comparative analysis of mutual funds schemes of ICICI Prudential Mutual Funds
Case study - 29 pages - Finance
The mutual fund industry in India began with the setting up of the Unit Trust of India (UTI), in 1964, by the Government of India. Till the year 2000, UTI has grown to be a dominant player in the industry with assets of over Rs. 76,547 crores as of March 31, 2000. UTI is governed by a special...
The usefulness of an ethnographic approach to the international comparison of organizations (1996-1997) - Philippe d'Iribarne
Book review - 1 pages - Management
Philippe d'Iribarne (born 1937) is ethnologist and sociologist, graduated from the Grande Ecole of Science and Technology and from the Grande Ecole for political science. He is carrying out studies in the national centre for scientific research about the impact of culture on business and on...
Cultural Dimensions in People Management, The Socialization Perspective, Geert Hofstede
Book review - 1 pages - Management
Geert Hofstede (born 1928) is a Dutch writer on the interactions between national and organizational cultures. He wrote several books including Culture's Consequences and Cultures and Organizations, Software of the Mind. He has a Masters degree in Mechanical Engineering and a doctorate in...
Laughing and Having Fun in Business: Humor as a Tool for Enhancing Leadership
Dissertation - 35 pages - Management
The study was my eagerness for humor, fun and laughter in the day-to-day life. While finding out information on the relation between humor, the sense of humor and laughter and the corporate world, we found that this subject was more relevant than what many people could think. Actually, some...
How to do a successful relocation?
Essay - 15 pages - Business strategy
"The economic relocation is the activity transfer, funds, employees, in a foreign country which offer a competitive advantage.? (Wikipedia) We chose this definition because for us it takes the notions of: ? Transfer ( which includes the notion of moving from the domestic country to a foreign one)...
H&M: Corporate valuation
Case study - 6 pages - Audit
H&M is a leading European retailer offering « Fashion and Quality at the best Price ». It is the largest individual clothing brand in Europe, operating in 29 countries with 1,522 stores (of which only ten are franchised). H&M went public in 1974, is listed on the Stockholm Stock exchange, is...
Investment pattern of ICICI Prudential Life Insurance Company
Case study - 50 pages - Finance
Since the evolution of mankind, the need for biological and physical fulfillment has emerged. Over the long span of development of mankind there is a very high advancement in technological and industrial growth. In the beginning of 20th century, World has faced two major revolutionary wars World...
