A study on the production, package, distribution and merchandizing process in Himalaya International Pvt Ltd (Egypt) (Garment industry)
Essay - 30 pages - Business strategy
Himalaya is located in the heart of Egypt, the land of Pharaohs and Cleopatra in a public free zone of Nasr City. Himalaya International was born on June 1999, and Christened on 21st December 1999 with an authorized and paid up capital of US 2.00 $ million. The land of Pharaohs and Cleopatra is...
Theories of motivation : the role played by salary and by non-financial incentives in promoting motivation in middle managers
Essay - 9 pages - Human resources
Motivation is one of the main concerns for companies. Motivation can be defined as the factor that enables a human being to accomplish a given objective. Companies have to find a way to enhance the motivating factor to increase its managers and employees' motivation levels. First, the company...
Accor's Financial Analysis
Course material - 12 pages - Finance
Accor is the leader in the European hospitality industry. The main activities of Accor revolve around the hospitality business and services to corporations. The hospitality industry is divided into three categories namely Middle and high end hotels (Sofitel, Mercure, Novotel), Middle and low end...
Business ethics or ethics in business?
Essay - 4 pages - Management
Ethics is concerned with the code of values and principles that enable a person to choose between the right and the wrong and therefore select among alternative courses of action. The business world is also concerned about it. In the current scenario a large number of international, national and...
Advertising on the Super Bowl
Case study - 7 pages - Communication
The Super Bowl is one of the main event in the United States. The National Football League (NFL) final gathers millions of Americans on television. In view of the potential of this event, it is a good opportunity for firms to advertise to reach a large group of audience. Indeed, the Super Bowl is...
Google's development strategy
Case study - 6 pages - Business strategy
Google is one of the best examples of companies that have boomed owing to the eruption of the Internet at the beginning of the 21st century. The companies based their entire business model on the Internet and trust the growth potential of this emerging media. After a slump in the early...
The growing impact of operational risks and its application to banks
Course material - 70 pages - Finance
Since their implementation in the banks in January 2007, operational risks are considered a main point of the strategy of banks. Operational risks are defined as “the risk of loss resulting from inadequate or failed internal processes, people and systems, or from external events1.” The...
The determinants of commercial bank profitability in Sub-Saharan Africa
Thesis - 15 pages - Finance
Banks have high profits in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) in comparison to other regions. This paper wields a sample of 389 banks in 41 SSA countries to probe the determinants of bank profitability. It is found that apart from credit risk, higher returns on assets are linked with activity...
Business and society
Thesis - 2 pages - Business strategy
A partnership is a type of business in which partners share with each other the profits or losses of the business. In a partnership the owners share financial obligation and are tax individually. A corporation is a legal body separate from the people that own it. It may be owned by and individual...
Schneider presents the best manufacturing processes to satisfy customers' requirements
Internship report - 37 pages - Logistics
During the course of BA in business management (final year), we had to work in a foreign country. To improve my level of English, I took up an internship in Nu-Lec Industries, a company of Schneider Electric located in Brisbane in Australia. Schneider Electric is a worldwide company known to the...
Daimler-Benz and Chrysler merger
Case study - 6 pages - Management
In 1998 Daimler-Benz and Chrysler merged to become DaimlerChrysler, a leading carmaker group that was supposed to benefit from significant synergies between the two companies. Actually this industrial combination aimed at preserving, strengthening and expanding the different brands of the former...
The use of female managers in international assignments
Essay - 3 pages - Human resources
The last decade has seen an increasing focus on the gender of top executives and boards of directors of firms, and on the issues surrounding gender equality in management at all levels within organizations (Smith et al, 2006). Despite major changes in equal opportunities, legislation and...
Comparative human resource management: BHP Billiton expanding on Turkey
Case study - 11 pages - Human resources
The world market is becoming more integrated; borders are continually eliminated by the constant flow of information, human and financial resources. Globalization and the race for getting the larger market share is forcing companies to opt for new places to operate, cheaper resources, increased...
Overview of performance appraisal methods
Thesis - 5 pages - Human resources
Performance Appraisal is essential to understand and improve the employee's performance through HRD. In fact, Performance Appraisal is the basis for HRD. It was viewed that Performance Appraisal was useful to decide upon employee promotion/transfer, salary determination and the like. But the...
Introduction to wages and salary administration
Thesis - 11 pages - Human resources
Human resource is of paramount importance for the success of any organization. It is a source of strength and aid. Human resources are the wealth of an organization which can help it in achieving its goals. Human resources management is concerned with the human beings in an organization. It...
A brief introduction to recruitment and selection process
Thesis - 6 pages - Human resources
Recruitment is the process of attracting individuals on a timely basis in sufficient number and with appropriate qualifications and encouraging them to apply for jobs in an organization. In practice, recruitment is often very demanding and seldom so straight forward. Experts believe that...
Learning to learn may be the key to success
Thesis - 5 pages - Management
Most organization has a cussed attitude to work and learning - treating these as two different things. Work is something the organization pays for; learning is something you do on your own, or conferred as reward or recognition for past performance. As business cycles shorten, as product...
Management education in the LPG era
Thesis - 4 pages - Management
Management Education in began with the objective of developing certain abilities into people to manage the business affairs well. It started with the goal of providing the much needed professional managers in the wake of planned industrial development. Management Education has become very...
In the magic land of CRM in bank management: Needs and strategies for sublime customer satisfaction
Thesis - 8 pages - Business strategy
Irrespective of whether it is a public sector bank or a private sector bank; a regional rural bank or a foreign bank all banks commonly store details of tens of thousands of customers and prospects - both in a corporate database and in discrete documents on the desktops of individual bank...
Analytical review of the failings of Kmart
Presentation - 8 pages - Management
The first Kmart store was opened on March 1st, 1962 by Sebastian S. Kresge and the 'K' was named after himself, after which a total of eighteen stores were opened in the year 1962. In the late 1980s, the corporate offices shifted their attention to other companies it had acquired or...
Sponsorship: a new trend
Worksheets - 2 pages - Communication
To start with, it is wise to wonder what sponsorship is. There are two types of sponsorships. The first one is called philanthropic sponsorship or 'charitable contribution' and involves the provision of cash or other resources to a benefactor without any commercial benefit in exchange....
Employee Orientation
Worksheets - 1 pages - Human resources
The success and effectiveness of any organization depends on its employees performance and their ability to perform their job in the most professional way. To help employees reach their maximum potential, human resources development designs planned activities providing necessary skills required...
Small and Medium Enterprises in Morocco
Worksheets - 3 pages - Startup, entrepreneurship
The SME's represent more than 93% of the Moroccan enterprises. However, despite of their preponderance in the Moroccan economic context, they employ only 44% of the active population, represent only 38% of the national production and their contribution in the GDP is weak. The SME's are...
Understanding the organizational operations of forging industry
Thesis - 10 pages - Management
The forging industry forms an important part of the overall manufacturing activity in the country. Not many seem to know about it, but it influences people's lives everyday. The influence arises from the fact that many forged products have become almost indispensable in our daily lives. We will...
The working of an ayurvedic pharmacy
Thesis - 11 pages - Management
Ayurveda was predominant in Kerala and most of the other parts of India for a long period. But foreign invasion and the subsequent propagation of allopathic medicine made Ayurveda very weak in importance. But newly developed fear of the side effects and long term ill effects of allopathic...
The work methodology of a water purification company
Thesis - 9 pages - Management
Water has been an essential “Spring of Life “throughout the ages and without the presence of water, it is very difficult to imagine the existence of the world. Ancient Indians Rsis (saints) have classified water as “Apsu” or “Apah” as one the “Pancha Maha...
The penetration of Hutch (now Vodafone) in the Indian mobile market and research on the users
Tutorials/exercises - 42 pages - Business strategy
Hutchison Essar is a part of the internationally acclaimed Hutchison Whampoa group, a diversified, multinational conglomerate with its origins dating back to 1828 in Hong Kong. The parent company, Hutchison Whampoa Limited, is a part of the Li Ka-Shing group of companies. It is one of the...
The organizational structure and its functions
Thesis - 4 pages - Management
According to J. D. MOONEY, "Organization is a process of dividing and combining effort of working group of making such joint efforts more productive. Effective and fruitful organization allocates duties to the managerial staff. It adds certainly and promptness to the work to be done. It avoids...
The operational methods of Pepsi Co in India
Tutorials/exercises - 20 pages - Business strategy
A century ago, the world would have never expected that the syrup that cured the stomach disorders would quench the thirst of millions of people in the form of aerated beverages. The soft drinks, which we normally consume in our daily life today, were initially developed, as syrup for cure of...
The functional areas of Standard Chartered Bank in India
Case study - 17 pages - Management
Standard Chartered Bank (SCB) had acquired the interest of ANZ Banking Group in the ANZ Grind lays Asset Management Company Private Limited and ANZ Grind lays Trustee Company Private Limited and subsequently these entities were renamed as Standard Chartered Asset Management Company Private...
