A study on the complementary use of EC and CLD in developing win-win solution for traditional manufacturing dilemma
Essay - 5 pages - Management
In decision making processes, it is important to fully understand the problematic situation as well as providing a solution. In order to address and fully understand problematic situations, this paper suggests a complementary method that demonstrates how the Evaporating Cloud (EC) Diagram in the...
A contextual framework for understanding power, politics, & performance dynamics in project management
Essay - 6 pages - Management
In the last two decades important gains have been made in our knowledge of project management. Much of this knowledge has focused on creating better tools to plan, execute, and control projects. There are, however, other important determinants of project success. Three areas which have received...
A revenue management model for make-to-order bidding
Essay - 9 pages - Management
This paper extends the single-period price and due date setting model for contingent Make-to-Order (MTO) firm into a finite-period stochastic system. Based on the revenue management framework (viewing every single available timeslot of production capacity as a perishable product), MTO firms can...
From habitual problems to a systematic approach for problem solving
Thesis - 7 pages - Management
The current presentation- the systematic approach for problem solving. Starting from identifying the habitual problems in an organization, this leads to the awareness to the areas of concern. Then, performance measure is assigned to monitor the habitual problems. It aims to be a tool to highlight...
The impact of power on relationship commitment in supply chains
Thesis - 11 pages - Management
While power-relationship commitment theory in relationship marketing area has been established well in the west literature, few studies examine the robustness of it in the Chinese context with a different culture. The generalization of power-relationship commitment theory in supply chain triple...
The relationships among information sharing, process integration and supply chain responsiveness
Thesis - 5 pages - Management
How to survive and develop in this hyper competitive environment has become a major concern for many companies. To deal with the increasing uncertainty, manufacturers need to respond the customer demands quickly. But manufacturers can not improve supply chain responsiveness by themselves, they...
The impact of alignment between supply chain strategy and is strategy on SCM performance
Thesis - 13 pages - Management
Supply chain (SC) strategy and information system (IS) strategy to implement Supply Chain Management (SCM) processes have been individually regarded as the vital and imperative ways to improve SCM performance. Yet what kinds of IS strategies to be implemented under what condition of manufacturing...
Knowledge bases for users' attitudes toward ERP systems
Thesis - 7 pages - Management
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems have gained much attention from both practitioners and researchers because they are generally regarded as tools to improve business efficiency and employee productivity. Previous surveys featured ERP software markets as high potential margin and intense...
Impact of leadership style on performance: A study of six sigma professionals in Thailand
Thesis - 8 pages - Management
Superior performance requires a fundamental paradigm shift in managerial approach and leadership style to address the impact of rapidly evolving technology accompanied by increasing competition and market globalization. Six Sigma is one of the quality and productivity improvement initiatives...
Transformational vs. transactional leadership: A path analysis of the direct selling industry in Thailand
Thesis - 8 pages - Management
As the direct selling industry becomes more competitive, many direct selling firms are trying to find ways to succeed. The “distributor” or salesperson lies at the heart of the direct selling business. If there is no distributor, there is no revenue. In this industry, the distributors...
The mediator effect of supply chain agility on firm performance
Thesis - 9 pages - Management
While it is generally acknowledged that an organization's supply chain agility is crucial to its competitive advantage, the impact of agility on firm performance has not been adequately researched. This research uses structural equation modeling to examine the effect of supply chain agility on...
Relationship between strategic planning and SME success: Empirical evidence from Thailand
Thesis - 7 pages - Management
The role of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) is becoming increasingly prominent throughout the world. Thailand is no exception. SMEs in Thailand represent over 90 percent of the total number of entrepreneurs in nearly all business sectors, and employ over 60 percent of the labor force....
Developing supply chain management focus through ISO 9000: An empirical assessment
Thesis - 14 pages - Management
The ISO 9000 quality management (QM) standard, a key approach to implementing QM in organizations, also has many supply chain management (SCM) concepts associated with it. In this paper, we assess the extent to which organizations can use the standard to develop a SCM focus. Specifically, we...
Intercultural Management : Cross Cultural Experience
Case study - 3 pages - Management
Interactions with people from different cultures present a special challenge for an international manager, since there is potential for distortion or misunderstanding in these interactions. The challenge is to correctly interpret the meaning of a person from a different culture. This study...
Egypt - Cross cultural research paper
Essay - 4 pages - Management
As the world becomes more interconnected, it is important to remember that managerial values are not the same everywhere. In the global market, multinational corporations may make costly decisions if they assume that their corporate policies will receive the same attention, understanding or...
"The Management of Organizational Justice" (Management de la justice), R. Cropanzano, D.E. Bowen et S.W. Gilliland (2007)
Book review - 2 pages - Management
Business organizations have to pay heed to justice because of the significant work-related consequences that have been linked to employees' perceptions of fairness within organizational contexts. Considered as a sustainable competitive advantage for organizations, especially in the context of...
Organizational development - publié le 23/03/2010
Essay - 7 pages - Management
This document deals with managing a team effectively and the various tasks of the members of the team. First of all, it is important to understand that a team needs to have a leader who has virtues and attributes which differ from the rest of the members. However, it does not necessarily mean...
Corporate diversity and management
Essay - 3 pages - Management
One of the main challenges companies have to face is with regard to the management of a multicultural workforce in the general context of increasing globalization. The potential benefits of such diversity, when properly used, have been widely recognized and numerous companies have tried or are...
Corporate communication and corporate governance
Course material - 8 pages - Management
As financial institutions play an important role in the economic activity, they assume central place in this context. The financial crisis has revealed different issues that have been hidden within our societies. Evidently, societies have underlined the practices of finance, and sometimes...
Can socially responsible firms increase their profits? - The case of 'The Body Shop'
Case study - 63 pages - Management
Corporate Social Responsibility is a topic of prime importance that has been doing the rounds for long. Since the 1960s, social responsibility has become an important argument not only for business but in the context of law, politics and economics. In fact, in the new context of globalization,...
Business process in Israel: a major issue for western managers
Market study - 2 pages - Management
This pre-assignment aims at studying how a simple example attempts to set up a partnership or a venture in a different country that could be jeopardized by a lot of cultural differences. We have chosen to take the case of Israel, which is very different from the standard western countries with...
Intercultural Management - example of the Intel companyin China
Case study - 10 pages - Management
A culture must have several characteristics: it must be adaptive, transgenerational, symbolic, shared, learned, and patterned. Culture influences relationships and interactions between people. Thus, each culture has specific habits and behaviors. In consequence, the interaction between two...
Business Ethics - A study on the tobacco industries in the United States and France
Case study - 8 pages - Management
US President Barack Obama promised to reduce tobacco consumption of the youth. He explained that he too was in their situation, and wanted to reduce influence of tobacco companies on young people. In consequence, on April 2, 2009, the United States Congress has voted a law to put tobacco products...
Are traditional boundaries between the public and private sectors now irrelevant?
Essay - 6 pages - Management
Modern ideas about governance in the public sector reflects the fact that the traditional boundaries between the public and private sectors are now irrelevant'. According to Rhodes, the traditional and hierarchical central government is no longer relevant in a context of international and...
The decision-making process for the outsourcing of services
Essay - 5 pages - Management
In modern times, outsourcing of services has become an entire dimension in business strategy. It has become international and global. While it is growing iextensively, the nature and the focus of outsourcing is slowly evolving. And as it often happens with new concepts, outsourcing tends to...
Introduction to Management and Organization: a good manager will always be a good leader
Essay - 4 pages - Management
Katz and Kahn believed that leadership is commonly viewed as "the attribute of a position, as the characteristic of a person and as a character of behavior. Moreover, leadership is a relational concept implying two terms: the influencing agent and the persons influenced. Leadership conceived as...
Natoora, flowers yoghurts
Case study - 4 pages - Management
With the Stage Gate Model of Innovation we can develop our product step by step and when a step is over we can still come back to it if we see that it does not work; for example if we see that customers don't like a flavor we can stop its production and produce another flavor. Moreover it is...
Organizational behavior - publié le 28/02/2010
Course material - 4 pages - Management
Organizations are always in interaction with their environments. Organizations depend on the components of the environment which is why they are open systems. An organization is a dynamic system which takes action on different variants of the environment. The organization is like a circle. It...
Pfizer corporate culture
Case study - 11 pages - Management
Pfizer is an American pharmaceutical corporation. In 2006, it was the leader in its sector at a worldwide level with a turnover of 48,371 billion dollars and 106 000 employees in the entire world. Pfizer is also the first investor in private biomedical research undertaken in order to invent,...
Teleworking: benefits and drawbacks
Essay - 3 pages - Management
The world is looking for innovation, notably in the organization of work. Teleworking aka telecommuting, which associates data-processing, telecommunication and new organization of work, was an important innovation in the eighties. Working remotely means working from a distance through the use of...
