Considering the business environment in Brazil, which are the main challenges for a Brazilian professional performing in other countries? Are such challenges similar for a foreign professional working in Brazil?
Case study - 2 pages - Management
Going abroad as a business woman involves dealing with new political, economical, and cultural dimensions. The political aspects could have a striking effect on one's daily life. For example, in Saudi Arabia it is forbidden for women to drive cars. If a businesswoman is used to driving herself...
Comparing the American concept of hostile work environment harassment with French "harcelement moral"
Case study - 11 pages - Social, moral & civic education
With the generalization of office work all through the second half of the 20th century, harassment in the workplace has become a critical issue. In France, for example, according to an Ipsos study, 30% of workers claim that they have been subject to moral harassment while 37% claim they have...
Environmental quality and concern in selected neighborhoods in Stockholm Municipality
Case study - 15 pages - Educational studies
Three different neighborhoods in Stockholm Municipality were chosen to compare whether lower income groups had less or more concern on the environment than high income neighborhoods. These districts were Ostermalm (High income), Hammarby Sjostad (Middle income) and Rinkeby (low income)....
Environmental sustainability of events
Tutorials/exercises - 7 pages - Educational studies
In this report the author aims to educate the readers regarding environmentally sustainable event management. The author believes that in today's trend it is very important not only for event managers but also people from all other sectors to think about our environment and how our day to...
Is the government doing enough to ensure that the environment is safe and healthy?
Essay - 4 pages - Ecology & environment
Governmental action on behalf of environmental problems has been a significant subject of subject of social and political commentators during recent decades. In light of new recent pressing concerns like Global warming and climate change, environmental issues have become a matter of public...
Cross-cultural training in highly diverse environments
Internship report - 2 pages - Human resources
In the early 60s, international assignment started to reach local business environments. In those times, employees were sent to foreign subsidiaries for almost three years; expatriates were in charge of command and control over local nationals. In order to adapt themselves, they were...
Should ecological security replace sustainable development as the organising principle of global environmental governance?
Thesis - 12 pages - Ecology & environment
In Our Common Future, the report of the World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED 1990, 87, 105), both phrases of sustainable development and environmental security marked their entry into the international debates and were highlighted as important notions of the future global...
The business environment of TUI: A case study
Case study - 6 pages - Management
The History of TUI is atypical. Since the mid-1990, TUI has reinvented itself. Historically, Preussag was a German company of smelting and mining industry (Viarlot, 2007 and TUI, 2010a). However, the profitability of this sector decreased and the competition from the emergent country started to...
SABMiller: Strategy behind the success in a hostile environment
Case study - 13 pages - Business strategy
There are very few South African companies that can boast of a history of 100 years. Despite this situation, SABMiller crossed the twentieth century in a country whose political system has a disastrous influence on the development of the local companies. The strategy carried out by SAB enabled...
The role of the new social networks in the protection of environment in California
Dissertation - 16 pages - Ecology & environment
Do the new social networks represent a lever of environment conservation and sustainable development?We know that social networks have witnessed an explosive growth since 2005. More and more companies are dealing directly with these websites which regroup sizable chunks of the population....
Cars and the environment in Britain
Thesis - 1 pages - Ecology & environment
Human beings always search for technical progress, the industrial revolution is a good example of this assertion but it is sometimes to the detriment of the nature. The invention of the car was decisive, thanks to it, time and space can be reduced but it has also some disastrous effects on the...
The role of HR managers in the context of changing external environmental factors
Thesis - 13 pages - Human resources
Over the last two decades, the work environment has improved in new techniques that no one expected, causing growth in innovation and globalization. The following era will witness superior changes, influencing all sides of the workstation, containing main variations for HR managers. To...
Green marketing, global warming, environment conscious
Dissertation - 50 pages - Services marketing
Green Marketing consists of all actions aimed at using the ecological positioning of a brand or product to increase sales and improve corporate image. Green Marketing may be based on the ecological characteristics of a product (raw green, recyclable or biodegradable etc), Green promotions (a tree...
Analysis of supply and environment for Renault
Case study - 8 pages - Business strategy
The Renault Automotive Group has more than 350 industrial and commercial sites in over 40 countries and 131,879 employees. In 2004, the Group achieved a turnover of 40.7 billion Euros, up 8.4%. The strategy of profitable growth is built on three pillars: competitiveness, innovation and...
Competitive Environment Analysis : Haagen- Dazs
Case study - 24 pages - Business strategy
Since it was created in the early 1920s, Häagen-Dazs has become a strong and powerful brand, and is well established in the ice cream market. The company has made quality and originality its motto. Its philosophy is also based on the same principles: 'Find the purest and the finest...
Environmental benchmarking survey of 4 European UPR units
Tutorials/exercises - 50 pages - Ecology & environment
Environmental benchmarking is today a growth area. Generally speaking, benchmarking involves the comparison, ranking or rating of different business processes, units or companies against standards. The aim is to identify ways of improving the performance of operations, systems and processes. The...
POLCA based lead time reduction in a job shop environment using simulated experiments
Thesis - 3 pages - Computer science
Quick Response Manufacturing is an emerging shop floor management technique best suited for high product mix and variable demand environments. Paired Cell Overlapping Loop of Cards with Authorization or POLCA is the material control system of Quick Response Manufacturing. Pull system have...
Supplier selection with social and environmental issues
Thesis - 10 pages - Management
Supplier selection is a multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) problem which is affected by several conventional conflicting factors such as quality, delivery, service and time. Recently government insists enterprises to take care of environmental regulation and social issues such as...
Public health and environment
Thesis - 6 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Public health and the environment seem related and the search for causes of diseases therefore takes place through the study of the characteristics of geographic settings. Of course, the geography of health has undergone a strong evolution in time. New horizons in the field were in the...
International Business Environment assignment: an analysis of the national business system and cultural conditions in China and assessment of how this will affect SuperSam - publié le 29/09/2010
Dissertation - 24 pages - Services marketing
Choosing China as a host country for an International Business Environment assignment offers three advantages: first, since 1979, China has faced major economic and political changes. Second, it has been very successful in attracting foreign direct investment, i.e., in 1995, China was the...
Global business environment - Danone in China and in India - publié le 29/09/2010
Case study - 5 pages - Services marketing
Today, many multinationals seek to expand their activities in the international market spurred by the growing trends of globalization. By investing substantially in foreign markets, they hope to establish themselves and gain market shares. This expansion of activities can only be undertaken...
Global business environment - Danone in China and in India
Case study - 5 pages - International marketing
Today, many multinationals seek to expand their activities in the international market spurred by the growing trends of globalization. By investing substantially in foreign markets, they hope to establish themselves and gain market shares. This expansion of activities can only be undertaken...
Buddhism and our environmental obligation
Essay - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Within our society, there are certain innate concepts that every individual is equipped with. Virtues, morals, or the concept of "right and wrong" are just a few examples of such ideals. To help make humanity a more positive atmosphere, there are a few models one should strive to accomplish in...
Green marketing - How to integrate environment inside companies? - publié le 29/09/2010
Dissertation - 81 pages - Ecology & environment
Sustainable development has become an established phenomenon. Society is becoming increasingly environmental conscious, this has even been used as an electoral argument. Environmental protection is due to a movement introduced jointly by the population at large and the NGOs through a governmental...
Heuristic algorithms for scheduling of a batch processor for the automobile gear manufacturing environment
Thesis - 18 pages - Mathematics
In this paper we develop a mathematical model and propose six heuristic algorithms for scheduling jobs with incompatible job families, on a singe batch processor (BP). The motivation for this paper comes from the heat treatment operation in gear manufacturing process used to manufacture...
The Impact of Environmental Issues on Toyota's Strategy - published: 29/09/2010
Essay - 17 pages - Services marketing
This thesis will seek to understand the controversial relationship between environmental factors and Toyota. Indeed, motor vehicle exhaust-emissions notably that of carbon monoxide pollution, is caused directly by the automobile industry. However, these negative impacts changed the position of...
The company Renault and the consideration of environmental issues in its production
Case study - 39 pages - Business strategy
Renault was founded by Louis Renault and his brothers in 1898. It is a familial and traditional company that made a name for itself through the years, different periods and centuries. Indeed, Renault's group went thought two wars and an economic crisis, and by always adapting its strategy and its...
The company Renault and the consideration of environmental issues in its production - publié le 29/09/2010
Case study - 39 pages - Business strategy
Renault was founded by Louis Renault and his brothers in 1898. It is a familial and traditional company that made a name for itself through the years, different periods and centuries. Indeed, Renault's group went thought two wars and an economic crisis, and by always adapting its strategy and its...
The World Trade Organization (WTO) law and the environment - publié le 29/09/2010
Essay - 9 pages - Political science
In 1979 the Brandt Commission recommended that an international trade organization incorporating both GATT and UNCTAD was the objective towards which the international community should work. This dream came true in January 1995 when the World Trade Organization (WTO) became the successor to GATT,...
Consumption and environmental degradation
Thesis - 5 pages - Ecology & environment
The world's consensus on the status of the environment is shifting now, more than ever, into one of concern. As the years have passed pass, especially throughout the last decade or two, we have all seen our environment continue to get more depleted. The earth is warming, the...
