Research methods for managers - published: 29/09/2010
Worksheets - 12 pages - Management
Dr. Don Roberts, a research consultant, has received a government research grant to examine how aspects of a college student's experiences relate to his or her job performance. The research was also interested in the impact of gender on salary and promotions of the employee. This is why...
"Cracking the weasel code of politicians"- Newspeak as a form of political language manipulation - published: 29/09/2010
Essay - 59 pages - Management
In this thesis the phenomenon under examination is newspeak -a highly manipulative form of political language. The proposed research, conducted from the perspective of political language, attempts to account for mechanisms that govern the use of newspeak in Anglo-Saxon countries, including...
Daimler-Benz and Chrysler merger - publié le 29/09/2010
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...
International management: Grupo Bimbo - publié le 29/09/2010
Case study - 6 pages - Management
Since the end of the Second World War, the international exchanges took an increasing scale and continued to develop in all the domains: goods, capital, knowledge, technology and culture. All the continents became interdependent and the ecological problems which touch the whole planet contribute...
How do the French and Chinese negotiators process their thoughts in negotiation? Do different thought processes result in different opinions and solutions?
Essay - 13 pages - Management
In the context of globalization, models of businesses and management tend to be similar across the globe. Import-export is increasing everyday; for business purpose, people are flying from western to eastern countries and eastern to western countries all the time. However, some cross cultural...
Are we born with Charisma or can we learn it? - published: 29/09/2010
Essay - 15 pages - Management
For generations, the representation of the charisma concept has been characterized by leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr, Gandhi, John F Kennedy, or more recently Barrack Obama. Although these leaders engaged in completely different things in their life to be recognized as charismatic, they...
Intercultural management: case of Sony - publié le 29/09/2010
Case study - 7 pages - Management
Sony Corporation is one of the leaders and main manufacturers in several industries including communications, information technology, electronics, and entertainment. This Japanese company has faced a huge number of challenges since its foundation in 1946. Being a major actor in motion pictures,...
Intercultural management: An introduction to the Russian culture - publié le 29/09/2010
Case study - 7 pages - Management
Russia has inherited the powerful heavy industry of the USSR, especially steel mills, refineries and chemical plants. The sectors of weapons and the Aerospace are still well developed. Since the beginning of the 1990's, the planned economy turned to a market economy. The economic and...
Cross-cultural management: Female expatriates
Essay - 5 pages - Management
This essay analyzes the evolution of female expatriates in Western multinational corporations in the recent years and confronts the issues of gender stereotyping, discrimination and family responsibility. The small number of women on global assignments is disconcerting, given that the...
Crisis Management: a Report on Pfizer and the Trovan Crisis
Case study - 14 pages - Management
We decided to study the Trovan crisis that affected Pfizer as we found it particularly interesting. If one delves into the circumstances which contributed to provoke the Trovan crisis, it is indeed an intriguing story. We also thought that it would be quite enriching to analyze how a...
Cultural Profiles for Effective Workplace Communication in New Zealand
Case study - 6 pages - Management
Since time immemorial, human beings have been communicating through a multitude of channels, expressing themselves in different languages, sharing ideas and discovering faraway foreign cultures. However it seems that, despite all these new developments and technologies wherein, communication is...
Managing international teams - published: 29/09/2010
Essay - 22 pages - Management
With an ongoing globalization of activities and companies, heterogeneity in companies' workforce has become a reality. Managing diversity has turned into a major challenge for companies' survival. As a matter of fact, large companies can no longer boast their national affiliation as the workplace...
Supply chain management - publié le 29/09/2010
Dissertation - 26 pages - Management
Every organization with a service or manufacturing entity needs a robust supply chain management in order to gain and maintain a competitive advantage within supply chain alliances and partnerships. An independent firm on its own may not have all the resources to match its competitors. But by...
Strategic management: credit agricole - published: 29/09/2010
Case study - 10 pages - Management
Credit Agricole is the first bank group in France owning 28% of the household market. This group is also the first in Europe regarding revenues of retailing banks and the fourth group in the world concerning the equity level. Leader of the proximity banks in France with 39 local funds or region...
Dubai Land: would the pharaons have dared? - publié le 29/09/2010
Case study - 9 pages - Management
Dubai Land' is a huge entertainment and leisure complex, in terms of investment, size and attractions. More ambitious than any entertainment destination in the world, it intends to become one of the most visited places in Middle East and worldwide. The objective is clear, become a new leisure...
Management decision making: The Nestle Nespresso case - publié le 29/09/2010
Case study - 6 pages - Management
Nestle Nespresso is one of the fastest growing subsidiaries of the Nestlé group. The group includes many different brands producing coffee. Among them, there are two very profitable entities: Nespresso and Nescafé. Although they are not the same company, they are owned by the same group, and...
Intercultural management: BMW - publié le 29/09/2010
Case study - 11 pages - Management
In this document, I deal with companies' inter-cultural management processes for which cultural differences have been a barrier or source of competitive advantage, affecting their success in international business environment. In choosing the BMW Company, an international one, we will see that...
General Electric Medical Systems - publié le 29/09/2010
Case study - 6 pages - Management
General Electric Medical Systems (GEMS), became General Electric Healthcare (GE Healthcare) in 2004. It is the leader in the imaging equipment market. GE Healthcare is a subsidiary of the conglomerate General Electric, the second largest company in terms of market capitalization right behind...
West Indies yacht club resort - publié le 29/09/2010
Case study - 6 pages - Management
Since the beginning of globalization and the development of subsidiaries all over the World, the expatriate has become an element of security to protect the interests of the company abroad. However the expatriates are now facing several problems of adaptation with the external environment and the...
Intercultural management : Ikea case study - publié le 29/09/2010
Case study - 20 pages - Management
The main objective of this paper is to analyze the culture of a company and highlight how this culture could have a real impact on the smooth running of its international activities. In order to conduct such an analysis I have chosen an important company which caters into numerous international...
The American system of political communication - published: 29/09/2010
Essay - 3 pages - Management
The American system of political communication encompasses a broad range of mediums like the radio, newspapers, news magazines, network and cable television, and an increasing amount of independent Internet sources through the use of "blogs". The Politics of Illusion, network news overtakes all...
In any large organization, team work is the ultimate key to success - published: 29/09/2010
Essay - 1 pages - Management
Applied at workplaces, teamwork can be defined as a co-ordinated effort from a group of people acting together towards a specific business purpose. In large organizations, individuals play certain roles and carry out certain responsibilities, which are determined in advance. Each task is...
Wal Mart: Managing Globalization in 2007 - publié le 29/09/2010
Case study - 7 pages - Management
Wal Mart, an American public multinational corporation, is currently the largest retail chain in the world. The company was founded by Sam Walton in 1962, incorporated on October 31, 1969 With the creation of an International Division in 1993, Wal Mart realized that an expansion into foreign...
Intercultural management: Mc Donald's case - publié le 29/09/2010
Case study - 9 pages - Management
The McDonald's company is a multinational firm well known in the world. The main activity of the company is to sell food quickly, what we call fast food. Nowadays, it has more than 30,000 franchises under the McDonald's brand, located in more than 120 countries. Born in the United States...
Cross cultural management : negotiations for the joint venture - publié le 29/09/2010
Case study - 25 pages - Management
The global economic situation shows that companies haven't any evolution prospects as the market has reached its saturation level. To grapple with this grave impact, companies are obliged to adopt international strategies in order to remain competitive in their respective market zones. Many...
Advertising and communication - published: 29/09/2010
Case study - 10 pages - Management
In this assignment, we analyze the selection and launch a new product. The product that I have to launch is a new deodorant, produced especially for women who have a sensitive skin and after a depilation. This product is sold in some specific shops only. Few brands are producing this product,...
The usefulness of an ethnographic approach to the international comparison of organizations (1996-1997) - Philippe d'Iribarne - publié le 29/09/2010
Book review - 1 pages - Management
Philippe d'Iribarne (born 1937) is ethnologist and sociologist, graduated from the Grande Ecole of Science and Technology and from the Grande Ecole for political science. He is carrying out studies in the national centre for scientific research about the impact of culture on business and on...
Fram communication network - publié le 29/09/2010
Case study - 10 pages - Management
In the present hard competitive business environment, companies need to be increasingly flexible in order to react quickly to external threats. New technologies, such as Intranet networks development, propose new kind of organizations which answer this need perfectly. Intranet can be defined as a...
The Rubber Company : analysis of change process - publié le 29/09/2010
Case study - 8 pages - Management
"This document will study the difficulties in applying change processes and systems in the traditional life cycle of any given company and the creation of a successful change management roadmap, to be integrated into the diagnostic of any given company". Change process often needs to be initiated...
The future of the outsourcing - published: 29/09/2010
Essay - 6 pages - Management
In future, companies will continue to focus increasingly on their core business; even more in difficult economic situations like the present one. They will have to concentrate their efforts on areas of strength in order to gain competitive advantages. What is not in the core business of the...
