Recruitment and selection process in an IT services organization
Dissertation - 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...
Why do individuals use complementary therapy for the maintenance of health?
Dissertation - 6 pages - Psychology
This research project is being conducted to formulate an answer or theory to the question, ‘why do individuals use complementary therapy for the maintenance of health?' Using a single case study a member of the ‘accessible population' shall be interviewed using the semi-structured...
An outline of qualitative methods of research
Dissertation - 14 pages - Educational studies
Some types of research do not involve numbers or analysis of past performance but, rather, finding out people's opinions, feelings, likes and dislikes, and the motivations behind their buying behavior - in other words, the psychology underlying buying decisions. Research into these areas is...
Does Marketing threaten children's education at primary school? - publié le 29/09/2010
Thesis - 60 pages - Services marketing
This project aims to identify the ethical problem of marketing by aiming at children, and will focus on children in primary school. This area has interested people since the last decade and the likes of psychologists, doctors, marketers have always tried to understand the power of brands on...
Case Study: Gazprom - publié le 29/09/2010
Case study - 14 pages - Business strategy
Gazprom believes that its people are the reason that the company is being so successful. “There would be no revenues without our people” as Anne Sheen, the Human Resources Manager said. There are already 80 people at the moment, from the two who started the company seven years ago, the...
Does cyber-bullying affect the wellbeing of teenagers?
Thesis - 21 pages - Design and digital creation
I chose the topic, "Does cyber-bullying affect the well being of teenagers?, because it was a topic that I was both interested in and wanted to learn more about. I researched the topic through the internet, various libraries and by undertaking various research methods which included surveys, a...
Does Marketing threaten children's education at primary school?
Thesis - 60 pages - Clients and users behaviour
This project aims to identify the ethical problem of marketing by aiming at children, and will focus on children in primary school. This area has interested people since the last decade and the likes of psychologists, doctors, marketers have always tried to understand the power of brands on...
How to attract, recruit and make loyal employees in the software firms? - publié le 08/05/2012
Case study - 60 pages - Human resources
Recruitment in a company is an obligated part when we are looking for a job. It is necessary to pass job interviews, and a selection is made before the interview in order to select the best candidate. Recruitment involves costs, but not just financial costs. We have the cost of...
The Cognitive Processes Involved in Second Language Pragmatic Performance among Chinese ESL Learners in Singapore
Thesis - 10 pages - Linguistics & languages
The present study tries to identify the cognitive processes accountable for the second language (L2) pragmatic performance by Chinese English as a Second Language (ESL) learners in Singapore. Consequently, this research intends to identify those particular cognitive processes involved in L2...
Could fair trade be part of the global market and how?
Thesis - 47 pages - Economy general
Could fair trade be a part of the global market? An explanation is given about the meaning of this new concept of international trade, its organization and the role of each actor. Then the review of the literature focuses and analyze the two important stakeholders, the consumers and the...
What are the most efficient media and related strategies used by companies to target children?
Thesis - 20 pages - Medias&communication marketing
This dissertation is about children and companies and as the title suggests it, we want to find out which the main media that companies use to target children are and what strategies they develop related to those media. The first part of this dissertation will be focused on a literature review in...
New British second homeowners in the French countryside: The Cathar country's case - publié le 16/01/2009
Case study - 24 pages - Journalism
The study examined the motivations of the British buying a second home in France and more particularly in the “Cathar Country”. The research then focused on their economic impacts on the region, and their integration in the local community. Antagonism of the British second homeowners...
Sampling methods - publié le 16/01/2009
Essay - 9 pages - Journalism
As time and resources available are limited, we cannot interview all members of a population. Therefore, researchers use sampling to obtain the information they need. They select a limited number of people (a sample) to represent the characteristics of a whole population. There are...
How to attract, recruit and make loyal employees in the software firms?
Case study - 60 pages - Human resources
Recruitment in a company is an obligated part when we are looking for a job. It is necessary to pass job interviews, and a selection is made before the interview in order to select the best candidate. Recruitment involves costs, but not just financial costs. We have the cost of...
Exploration of the life experiences and beliefs of a married couple in their sixties: Identities and factors in their identity formation
Case study - 7 pages - Psychology
This study used a semi structured interview on a married couple in their sixties in order to elicit information on the concept of identity. The data gathered was analyzed qualitatively using thematic analysis. Themes relating to identity were highlighted and explored using Erikson's and...
The software 'programming arena'
Thesis - 114 pages - Computer science
The Programming Arena is basically a distributed program which will be available on internet. It is the project which has been developed to help learners of different programming languages. It is a system which provides Free Tutorials of programming, Free Online Exam to test learner's skills,...
Parental discourses in sexual education
Dissertation - 19 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Teen pregnancy is a pressing crisis throughout the world, the United States, and Knox County. A gap in expectations between which topics parents should address and which schools should address may be partially to blame; while most parents believe that they should be the loudest voice in their...
The impact of internationalization strategy on management control system
Essay - 23 pages - Business strategy
In an increasingly global economy, corporations need to develop more and more an efficient and reliable management control system (MCS) in their home countries and also in their subsidiaries abroad. This study analyses the effects of an internationalization strategy on the management control...
The Use of Animal Imagery in Marketing Strategy
Dissertation - 53 pages - Marketing theories
Nowadays, the use of animal imagery is all around us. Every day we are exposed to animals that are used by advertisers to assist in promoting brands and products. They are used in a variety of ways, for example as advertisements, logos, brand names, mascots, and so on. The present study seeks to...
New British second homeowners in the French countryside: The Cathar country's case
Case study - 35 pages - Sociology & social sciences
The study examined the motivations of the British buying a second home in France and more particularly in the “Cathar Country”. The research then focused on their economic impacts on the region, and their integration in the local community. Antagonism of the British second homeowners...
How did HRM allow Alcatel to adapt to changes posed by the changing market?
Dissertation - 9 pages - Management
We were on the lookout for a company that was willing to provide us with the information for our investigation file. We had a consultant in our midst, who put us in contact with several companies like Bouygues, Dassault and Alcatel. We wrote several letters explaining the purpose of our approach...
Advantages of e-recruitment
Case study - 7 pages - Human resources
The online recruitment (or e-recruitment) is the process of matching people and appropriate job offers thanks to the internet tool. It is also the process to hire them using the internet. Usually and nowadays, the most common form of online recruitment is the ads of jobs that we can find on job...
Sampling methods
Essay - 10 pages - Sociology & social sciences
As time and resources available are limited, we cannot interview all members of a population. Therefore, researchers use sampling to obtain the information they need. They select a limited number of people (a sample) to represent the characteristics of a whole population. There are...
The impact of internationalization strategy on management control system - published: 21/01/2009
Essay - 16 pages - Management
In an increasingly global economy, corporations need to develop more and more efficiency and reliable management control system (MCS) in their home countries, but also in their subsidiaries abroad. This study analyzes the effects of an internationalization strategy on the management control...
Overall Qualitative Plan
Case study - 17 pages - Business strategy
Discovering the truth starts with quality interviews and a positive environment. The interviews were conducted at the office of the lead researcher Michael Curtis except for one exclusive interview completed through the Walden Portal. The debt level within America...
An investigation into the use of celebrities by companies - impact on brand image
Thesis - 27 pages - Brand management
Celebrity Marketing represents a marketing vehicle, which is nowadays frequent. This study explores different ways to use a celebrity, but especially the impact they have on the brand image. The celebrity endorsement is not without risk, and the case of negative match between brand and celebrity...
The Impact of Socioeconomic Factors on Racial Bias in the U.S. Courts System
Thesis - 13 pages - Law's history and philosophy
This research aims to discover the relationship between social and economic conditions involved in making racial bias more evident within the American court system. This theory relies heavily on the existing theory of social stratification—"winners' school" that emphasizes the role of...
Ashford bus 642 week 4 discussion 1
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
When it comes to conducting research, the party responsible for gathering the data has two options; they can either be passive and observe or actively communicate. As Cooper and Schindler (2011) stated, the researcher “…determines the appropriate data collection approach largely by...
Destination enterprise: Honda
Case study - 35 pages - Business strategy
Our group consists of 7 members with 5 different nationalities. The enterprise chosen for our study is Honda Brest. Progress on what will be the eventual report has been very slow due to issues within the group for the past few weeks but it is now on a rapid increase. Only 3 of the people in our...
Consultant-client relationship and the consequences of the role change during the consulting process
Essay - 10 pages - Management
The client-consultant relationship is usually treated as central to the nature of a management consultancy work. Though it is true that consultants need to have a clear conceptual picture of their definition of consultation, and they need to understand how the operational model they choose helps...
