Is Fair Trade a tool to appease the conscience or a political lever?
Thesis - 9 pages - Political science
Fair Trade is an approach based on precise criterion of sustainable development; relations of exchanges of long duration and direct relations removing the intermediaries. According to these criterions, the Fair Trade organizations of North thus begin to buy these products at a just price which...
Performance appraisal at an inflatables company
Dissertation - 44 pages - Management
Different terms are use to denote human resource management. They are labor management, labor administration, labor management relations, employee employer relations, industrial relations, personnel administration, personnel management, human asset management, human resource management and other....
Impact of Herberg and Maslow's theories in organizations
Tutorials/exercises - 49 pages - Finance
Among various behavioral theories generally believed and embraced by American business are those of Frederick Herzberg and Abraham Maslow. Herzberg, a psychologist, proposed a theory about job factors that motivate employees. Maslow, a behavioral scientist and contemporary of Herzberg's,...
Behavior modification as the most important motivation factor in a bureaucratic organization
Thesis - 5 pages - Management
According to a Japanese proverb, “No man will find the best way to do a thing unless he loves doing it.” According to Herzberg, workers are motivated by two factors: those that give satisfaction and those that don't. The factors that satisfy include achievements, recognition,...
Amazon.com: Case study
Thesis - 5 pages - Business strategy
Amazon.com (AMZN) does not publish a public or known official mission statement, yet the company's mission and goals can be revealed by examining the concepts of Jeff Bezos, Amazon's founder and CEO. Bezos has stated that the strategy at Amazon.com is to provide the customer with the best...
How are computers and the Internet changing the way in which modern businesses are organized ?
Dissertation - 93 pages - Economy general
In the same way that the Fordist system revolutionized the business world in its time (working conditions, productivity and competitiveness), the introduction of computers, and thereafter of the Internet, deeply modified the contemporary firms. Created, in the plainest and yet most...
Different strategies to secure employees' loyalty
Essay - 3 pages - Human resources
As an introduction to this subject, we can emphasize on idea of 'a job for a life'. It doesn't exist anymore in the modern days. In fact, securing employees loyalty is an essential priority of companies. It allows the company to be competitive. There are many means to secure the...
How to Maintain Inmate Security and Control in Correctional Facilities?
Essay - 4 pages - Management
'Prison overcrowding has become one of the major issues in our correctional facilities and criminal justice system. Overcrowding in the correctional facilities could lead to increased violence and the spread of many preventable illnesses due to unhygienic conditions, among other...
Nike case : hitting the wall
Case study - 3 pages - Business strategy
A firm's success depends on its social legitimacy. Usually, in the consumer's mind, the importance of a firm relies on what it can bring to the society. Therefore, for Nike, relocations basically mean that the company takes away jobs from US citizens. Moreover, Nike's labor scandals have...
Luxury and ethics
Essay - 1 pages - Services marketing
"The benefit is valid only if the means of obtaining it is ethical". The concept of luxury is the realization of unconscious desires of human characterized by a constant scarcity. (Larousse dictionary). Ethics is a result of all the actions for the point of view of the environment, that are...
Race and Minorities - Promising Practice
Thesis - 6 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The Urban Enterprise Center was created in 1995 to improve the social relations in Seattle after the celebrations dedicated to Martin Luther King two years prior where the offices of the Greater Seattle Chamber of Commerce were stormed and the local citizens made themselves heard. They made...
Nike: A case study (2006)
Essay - 10 pages - Business strategy
Nike is a brand of sportswear that originated in the United States and is now a globally recognized brand, probably the best known. The brand owes its success to Philip Knight and Bill Bowerman, co-founders of Nike; today, the brand is a multinational company with a turnover exceeding 10 billion...
Consensual relationship agreement
Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies
Workplace romances have been common in most business organizations. A survey conducted more than 15 years ago by FindLaw indicated that 80 percent of workers have either observed or got involved in a romantic relationship while working. Romantic relationships have been in increase even...
Ergonomics as a participative step
Case study - 8 pages - Management
Over the last twenty years, there has been a host of literature and several studies on participatory ergonomics. In our view, this situation stems from at least three reasons. There was a change in society and in organizations promoting participation. On the other hand, as was proven...
Financial analysis
Thesis - 30 pages - Finance
One of the most important techniques of financial analysis is a preparation of funds flow statement. It is the statement which portrays the changes in the financial position of an enterprise. Balance sheet and income statement do not present a comparative picture, even if placed side by side in...
The religion card
Thesis - 5 pages - Linguistics & languages
Marx's theory of the trajectory of the dialectic relationship between the bourgeoisie and proletariat argues that internal homogeneity within each class is a crucial prerequisite to class action/revolution. This is because internal homogeneity gives rise to class consciousness within each class;...
On Slavery - a history of slavery and antislavery
Case study - 3 pages - Medical studies
Slavery is forced labor. In some quarters, it is considered the biggest tragedy in the history of humankind. Slavery is perceived as degrading and robbing people of their dignity and right to freedom. However, despite the negativity associated with slavery, slavery is not necessarily a bad thing...
Why and how building multicultural team in a multinational company?
Dissertation - 30 pages - Management
Today, globalization has increasingly become a watchword by which companies swear by and they accordingly install subsidiaries on foreign markets and relocate resources. An important issue in this process is the question of intercultural management and human resources within the global...
Trichotillomania
Essay - 4 pages - Medical studies
Introduction Over the course of the last several years, medical professionals and psychologists have developed a wide range of new methods for categorizing and classifying disease and dysfunction. Among the most inched in classifications to be made in recent years has been the diagnosis of...
Lab Safety audit of A University Mechatronics Laboratory
Case study - 20 pages - Biology
Workplace safety inspection is important in maintaining safe working environment for students and staff in a laboratory. All students and staff are exposed to lots of possible incidents in the laboratory when rules and regulations are not followed. A workplace safety inspection or audit of...
Position Paper: PAWA
Case study - 4 pages - Psychology
When looking at PAWA, I've come to the conclusion that the legislation is a positive for the public and generates a public good. PAWA should be supported because it helps to keep workers in high risk situations safe, it helps to preserve the environment and keep it clean for the long term, it...
Glaxo Smithkline : inter-cultural overview
Case study - 10 pages - Management
In today's markets, international trends represent a large part of exchanges. In most cases, companies act on an international level: they try to sell their products all over the world in order to find new opportunity markets. They expect to find competition-advantaged resource providers on...
Active care rehabilitation for patients suffering from back pain
Essay - 2 pages - Medical studies
Active care rehabilitation is the use of different methods of treatments, mostly involving exercises, to facilitate the recovery from injury or a procedure to ensure that the patient regains the original or normal working of the different functional abilities as they did before the injury...
The future of financial centres in the European Union
Essay - 4 pages - Economy general
The working of European Union was expected to be similar to the United States of America. Theorists believed that Europe will have a financial hub similiar to the Wall Street in the United Sates and questioned the future of the European Union. Establishing inter-market deals among the...
Rational choice theory in sociology: A survey
Essay - 6 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Rational Choice (RC) is a proliferating research program in the social sciences. It is the dominant theoretical perspective in economics and an influential approach in political theory. In sociology, there are an increasing number of people working in this tradition, in particular among...
"Freakonomics" of Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner (2OO5)
Thesis - 13 pages - Economy general
Unlike the corporation that attempts to describe the living world as we would prefer, the economy seeks to describe the actual working based on incentive mechanisms. This field of study is not limited to businesses, unemployment and growth: it can provide an analytical model for virtually...
Customer relationship management in the pharmaceutical industry
Dissertation - 35 pages - Management
This document examines issues and approaches to various business strategies focused on different clients of French pharmaceutical laboratories. The idea was to reconcile two opposing stances: the industrial way of working opposed by a need to strengthen the image that the public has...
The anti-globalization: another logical organization of global space
Essay - 7 pages - International relations
The process of universalization is essential for all, whether it is appreciated or not, whether one thinks to be profited by it or as a victim of it. But the globalization of the economy is not enough to summarize the world of ours: however, other processes coexist thus making this issue more...
Effects of falling from a high altitude
Essay - 10 pages - Logistics
Falls from heights are a significant risk that should be taken seriously. Falls from height can have very different origins. It may be noted that the risk appears and evolves in time according to and depending on certain enabling conditions; it can range from simple in attention on the...
Hiring people with disabilities
Case study - 2 pages - Psychology
Disability is not inability. Disabled people have skills, ability and knowledge to carry out activities some of which average people do. With the advanced technology disabled people are now empowered more than ever. They can work in organizations if given a chance. Disability is a physical and...
