Risk management in a merger/acquisition project
Dissertation - 8 pages - Management
The economic context has changed radically in the space of a few years, whether due to globalization or the technological innovations that have appeared and that now dominate the business world. More recently, the health crisis has impacted the entire economy and caused numerous malfunctions and...
Strategic Analysis of HR for Alcatel-Lucent: A merger facing HR & management culture issues
Dissertation - 11 pages - Human resources
In this document, we focus on the analysis of the human resources function of a huge company, which is unique because it is in the perspective of a merger between Alcatel and Lucent. We have first presented an overview of the merger to position the sector, and concluded this part with a SWOT...
Greenpeace: Anti-corporate watchdogs
Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Chuck Palahniuk's 1996 novella Fight Club narrates the experience of adult men disaffected by modern consumer culture who form underground boxing clubs before developing them into clandestine social terrorist groups aimed at destroying hyper-capitalist culture. Read as a critique...
International Leadership Portfolio
Market study - 6 pages - Management
International leadership is one of the most important aspects when it comes to leadership in organizations. International leadership involves navigating a landscape in which individuals from different cultural backgrounds and nationalities work together towards a common goal within an...
Analysis of corporate strategy of Google
Case study - 9 pages - Business strategy
The State of the overall market demand: The consumer is a connoisseur, as he turns to different search engines depending on the type of research he needs to do. For example, the engine "All the Web" has a specialized search option for MP3 files, images and video. The consumer will therefore...
History of Management Theory
Course material - 33 pages - Management
Taylorism has long suggested that man was just one tool among many. However, we live in an industrial society more committed to a service society where the rules are more subtle. It is no longer a tool that is put in the hands of a worker, it is individual support for the employee that is...
Coca Cola vs. Pepsi: Analysis and Comparison of Strategies - published: 27/09/2022
Case study - 13 pages - Business strategy
Without a doubt, the revenue of Coca-Cola has reflected considerable growth over the years, but when compared to PepsiCo, the revenue of PepsiCo appears to have doubled within the fiscal year of 2019. Between 2016 and 2019, when the revenue of PepsiCo increased steadily, the income of Coca-Cola...
How is a lack of a communication strategy detrimental to business development?
Dissertation - 9 pages - Communication
Communication occupies an increasingly important place in the business world, and for good reason, it has evolved a lot in the space of a few years. Whether internal or external, it is necessary for the development of groups, regardless of their sector of activity. The society in which companies...
Identifying the role played by an organization's culture on the leadership in reinventing an organization: Case study on JC Penny Inc
Case study - 6 pages - Management
Strategy according to For de Wit and Meyer (1998), is an intelligent treatment of the subject, strategy is any course of action for achieving an organizations purpose. (Strategic management 2004 Palgrave McMillan, Colin White, pg 5). Strategy exists at a number of levels in an organisation. There...
Migration
Course material - 9 pages - World geography
The Lewis model (and, generally, the dual-economy paradigm) implies a rural-urban migration (and full employment). At the same time, data (and casual observation) shows a large unemployed urban population in LDCs. In fact, urban populations often do much worse than the rural residents. Why, then,...
Contemporary Management
Tutorials/exercises - 5 pages - Management
In Westernized countries, and particularly in Europe, we are currently witnessing a demographic transition, particularly in the form of an aging population (Rudakova & al., 2023). Against this backdrop, the emergence of the silver economy demonstrates the stakes involved in this transition and...
Organizational Behavioural Management - Assistant project manager for the launch and management of a brick factory at LOME BETON
Internship report - 25 pages - Management
From February 28 to August 28, 2023, I was an intern at LOME BETON in Lomé, Togo. This internship, which I did as part of my third year at EM Lyon, enabled me to discover how a company works, develop my skills and refine my career plan. The company specializes in setting up construction projects...
Corporate training: A case study of McDonald's
Thesis - 5 pages - Business strategy
The burger chain McDonald's was aware of this term even before it made its appearance. "Education is rooted in our culture," says Sabine Gekiere, HR manager of McDonald's Belgium branch. "It is part of our DNA". Now that it is possible to enhance the internal training system in a...
A study on the White Goods Corporates
Tutorials/exercises - 35 pages - Business strategy
Nowadays, it is fashionable to use the word strategy. We hear people talk about defense strategies, business strategies for the game (be it cricket or chess), personal strategies, religious strategies and the like. The word strategy means several things to several people at different point of...
Key cases of corporate ethics in the workplace
Essay - 7 pages - Management
Organizational leadership requires an understanding of organizational goals, the ability to reach these goals without violating the law or ethical standards, and the ability to communicate these goals to employees and the public. The issue of diversity is also important as it relates to ethics...
Business issues in the US
Course material - 24 pages - Management
In the early 20th century when faced criticisms or a crisis large, corporations started to end their culture of secrecy and to promote the broadcasting of information towards the public. They relied on journalists, or the used posters, publicity bureaus and press agents to become experts...
Buddhism vs. superheroism: The risk of dualism in American culture
Thesis - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education
“Even though we say mind and body, they are actually two sides of one coin. This is the right understanding” (Suzuki 25). In this statement, Shunryu Suzuki, author of Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind, is essentially summing up the concept of dualism, that is, the idea of one entity having a...
Apple Inc's Ethical Philosophy
Case study - 4 pages - Business strategy
Apple Incorporation has been one of the most iconic business organizations linked to a charismatic, controversial but also founder, Steve Jobs. The current Chief Executive Officer of the company, Tim Cook, has to address issues and challenges faced by the corporation within a highly competitive...
Case Study - GoPro
Case study - 4 pages - Brand management
GoPro was founded in 2002 by Nick Woodman, a snowboarder, skier and motorsport enthusiast looking for a better way to film himself and his friends on the water. The idea, which started with a 35 mm camera and a wrist strap made from old diving suits and bits of plastic, grew into the...
The Ethical Finance Between Paradigm and Paradox
Dissertation - 84 pages - Finance
Linked with morals, with deontology and right, ethics is a reflection towards the research of the Good, a moving concept by essence. What deserves, nowadays, such an imminent questioning on ethics? Because of the increased pressure of the governments, increasing awareness of the organizations...
Entrepreneurial Skills and Business Management
Essay - 3 pages - Management
Entrepreneurial leadership involves the emphasis placed on the use of design thinking, corporate social responsibility and business ethics with an aim of providing suitable solutions to problems. Business ethics focuses on the creation of long term organizational cultures by...
Adaptation of a worker to the local problems: French in China
Case study - 10 pages - Human resources
Working abroad as part of an international assignment or other contract inevitably raises many challenges with regard to adaptability. One has to adapt to different cultures, ways of living and study the key points rigorously to live more comfortably in a host country. A host country...
Organizational development
Case study - 4 pages - Management
Organizational cultures can vary a lot from a company to another. As we have seen in class, they are influenced by many different factors like the cultural-background of the employees, the country in which the company is implanted in, the size of the company, the industry etc… This...
HRM in companies: Ryanair, IBM, Google, IKEA
Case study - 12 pages - Business strategy
The best-fit approach underlines the importance of assuring that HR strategies are performances. This takes into account, through the circumstances of the organization's culture, operational processes and external environment. Thanks to that, HR strategies consider two points, the...
Case study: Leadership and management of Starbucks
Case study - 11 pages - Management
Starbucks' CEO, Orin Smith, and the Board of directors play a central role in the organizational context of the company since they can arbitrate between the internal and external constraints and thus decide what organizational structures and policies have to be implemented. Mission and goals:...
What skills does it take to "manage" cross-cultural M&A?
Essay - 13 pages - Business strategy
Comment réussir des fusions-acquisitions "cross-culturelles"? Mergers and acquisitions continue apace in spite of an alarming failure rate and evidence that they rarely manage to benefit shareholders. Most completed takeovers damage one party: the company making the acquisition. Many studies...
The recruitment of the HDC firm
Case study - 2 pages - Human resources
Each document requested by HDC consultants is important because they will make it possible to verify any inconsistencies in the recruitment process, compliance with current standards, the quality of recruitment, the candidate selection process, they will also make it possible to find faults in...
Internationalization with a concrete example of the IKEA group
Case study - 70 pages - Finance
In specialty marketing and strategy management, in order to acquire the basic knowledge necessary for any manager, we studied the strategic concepts and phases of internationalization of a large group of Sweden: IKEA. Thus, by using personal research and theoretical concepts seen in class, we...
The globe and Mail, Canada's top employers raise the bar - Diane Jermyn (2018) - How Canadian employers work to make the lives of their employees better?
Law article commentary - 1 pages - Linguistics & languages
Employers are setting up programs to boost their employees' productivity from leadership training and formal mentoring to experiential initiatives. Personal development programs, which enable them to improve as individuals by developing good emotional intelligence, i.e. learning to manage...
Establishment of the Swedish organizational model in France
Thesis - 9 pages - Business strategy
IKEA, a growing multinational firm (present in 44 countries), is characterized in its presence abroad by a desire to maintain some organizational model to enhance one's home environment. With globalization and increasing competition, companies must renew their organization to become truly "human...
