Strategic Human Resource Management - Southwest Airlines
Case study - 4 pages - Human resources
"Human Resource Management (HRM) is a strategic approach to managing employment relations which emphasize that leveraging people's capabilities is critical to achieving competitive advantage, this being achieved through a distinctive set of integrated employment policies, programs and...
Digital society
Course material - 33 pages - Sociology & social sciences
ICT is a major technological change whose effects have only begun to be measured for about ten years. Beyond the appearance of new activities related to ICT, such as start-ups, online shops for example, digital technologies have considerably facilitated the production and exchange of information....
Job redesign and motivation workplace assessment
Case study - 3 pages - Business strategy
As companies strive to turn profits in today's tight economy, managers are faced with tasks such as setting goals, performance evaluations, and rewards with regard to employee productivity and performance. These tasks require managers to use skills to increase productivity over...
The sector of Communication and Information Technologies (TIC)
Market study - 4 pages - Services marketing
The new economy has invited a new industry that is effervescent, and the industries of information and communications technology (ICT) include information technology, electronics and telecommunication. It also indicates a new way of understanding the economy as a whole. Indeed, the deployment of...
Global consequences of Chinese growth: Impact on the world economy
Thesis - 25 pages - Economy general
Over the past decade, the People's Republic of China has been pursuing an average annual growth of 9%. It has now become the 4th largest world power after the United States, Japan and Germany, but ahead of France and the United Kingdom. However, China currently accounts for only 5% of global...
Why Employers should Make Employees Happier?
Case study - 11 pages - Human resources
Over the years, corporate leaders have embraced change in their operations approach to generate the strategic fit with the dynamic environment. This is in a bid to accomplish their corporate goals of maximizing shareholder wealth while minimizing the cost incurred. While all profit-oriented...
Leading and managing remotely
Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies
Management of human resources is a very dynamic concept whose excision requires a delicate touch. Human resource refers to the mass of staff within an organization. It is from the synergistic effect of these members that the organization is able to formulate a vision, develop strategies and...
A study on the significance of information technology in various fields
Thesis - 15 pages - Computer science
The outcome of the integration of computer and telecommunications technology is today called as Information Technology which is popularly known as Info Tech. Businesses use IT in many different ways. Some IT applications automate a variety of basic business activities, from production control...
A comprehensive model for IS development: Information processing perspective
Thesis - 7 pages - Computer science
In order to develop IS (information systems) effectively, this study proposed a comprehensive model that delineates the relationships among contingency configurations of design variables, risk management, and software development success. Specifically, this paper examined the fit between...
Engstrom auto mirror plant: motivating in good times and bad
Case study - 5 pages - Management
We all know that human resources management implies a lot of fundamentals for an organization. Human resources must understand the implications of globalization, technology changes, workforce diversity, changing skills requirements, the contingent workforce, decentralized worksites and also...
Novartis
Case study - 7 pages - Human resources
We learnt several things concerning the management used by the company, especially in the Human Resources Field, all thanks to the study of Global Talent Management at Novartis, published by the Harvard Business School in 2008. Along the study we are going to asses the way Novartis'...
The pharmaceutical industry
Market study - 34 pages - Business strategy
The pharmaceutical industry is an economic sector that is very rich and active, consisting mainly of research, manufacture and marketing of medicines. Its success is illustrated by the fact that it is one of the most profitable industries in the world. Some of the best pharmaceutical and biotech...
The division of labor and the extension of markets according to Adam Smith
Thesis - 7 pages - Economy general
Adam Smith was the founder of political economy and with his book 'Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations' in 1776, he laid the foundations of liberal school. Moreover, Adam Smith was strongly influenced by French encyclopedists such as Diderot and D'Alembert and...
Conflict management: Case study
Case study - 2 pages - Business strategy
Workplace, conflicts is a concept, which an organization can't afford to ignore or disassociate with, they are common and often will keep on recurring if strategic and result oriented measures are not adopted. Though such conflict have been accentuated as having both positive and negative...
Case Club Med: recruitment
Case study - 8 pages - Human resources
Though Club Med, the inventor of the holiday clubs, remains the leading brand in the world in terms of reputation in the tourism sector, several factors have nevertheless tarnished its image since the late 90s. In 1997, the Trigano family was ousted from the company by shareholders and in 2000,...
The growth of organic products in the United States and in China
Market study - 8 pages - Services marketing
An organic product is a product of organic farming, i.e. it claims the total non-use of chemicals. It must contain at least 95% ingredients from an organic production method by implementing agricultural practices and friendly livestock and natural balance of environment and animal welfare. In...
Leadership and performance in the workplace
Case study - 2 pages - Psychology
In order for Woody's Veneer Factory to improve the development of performance and diversity of employees in the factory, the I/O psychologist will need to develop a high-performance team that will focus on collecting ideas, knowledge, and experience from other individuals that will increase...
Research to prove the effects of Stress to Blood Pressure
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
Stress refers to the physical response of one's body because of physical or psychological pressure, which normally leaves an individual upset, and might make them feel threatened (Bailey 54). Stress is an appropriate way of the body to react to real or imagined danger in a process known as...
How and to what extent the new economic geography explains industry specialization patterns in Europe?
Case study - 8 pages - Geography
The discipline of economic geography is concerned with the impact of the geophysical, social, and political environments on political activities (Hodder & Lee, 1974). It addresses the influence of location, distribution, and spatial organization of economic activities on productivity....
Performance Management
Essay - 3 pages - Management
In the world's most competitive markets today, organizations have discovered that it is how well human resource management is organized that brings differences in terms of total turnover. Human resource issues such as staffing, compensation and training are ignored particularly by managers...
Digital Workplace Transformation: Reinventing Communication - Penny Swift (2023) - Organizational Communication in the News
Book review - 4 pages - Medias&communication marketing
In today's dynamic environment, digitization has emerged as the basis of business transactions across the globe. The essay will further explore the dimensions underpinning the move towards digital transformation, their importance, and soft changes in culture that need to be adjusted to pave...
Toyota case
Essay - 4 pages - Business strategy
The success of Toyota is incredible today, and the company is showing astonishing financial results when most of Japanese companies are in the doldrums. It is the biggest of the heavyweight competitor in the car industry. General Motors and Ford, whose market shares are falling in favor of...
Foliage feeders in temperate and boreal forests
Essay - 7 pages - Biology
Insect consumers of tree foliage comprise one of the most abundant and diverse feeding guilds in forest ecosystems. Known as folivores, this guild is integral to the structure and functioning of forests. Folivores in?uence vital ecosystem processes in forests, including nutrient turnover,...
Cost-efficient Business Management
Essay - 5 pages - Management
Cost-efficient business management is on the tip of the mind for many business owners across the world. It does not matter whether the business in question is a corporation employing several thousand team members or a start-up in a local community with just a few over the counter employees;...
Employee Motivation - All About Analytics
Case study - 4 pages - Management
Cultural diversity in the workplace is not just a trendy topic; it is a fact that organizations have to face in order to remain competitive in the global market. Like many organizations, All About Analytics acknowledges that the correct way of managing diversity can lead to high levels of...
Taylorism and the structural organization of Toyota
Essay - 11 pages - Management
Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856 - 1915) was an American engineer who used the scientific organization of work (OST), which is the basis of the industrial revolution of the 20th century. The principal idea is to break up the tasks, to time the movements of the workmen to improve quality, to reduce...
Work Life Balance in Remote Working
Dissertation - 3 pages - Management
For years, the employee's work life and life at home were shared by working away from home office. Thus, the beginning of remote working was a sign of revolutionization in the classical work-life balance paradigm, opening opportunities and difficulties for individuals and the organization...
Rural Educational Setting - The Implementation of Artificial Intelligence in Future
Dissertation - 7 pages - Educational studies
The emergence of AI in rural educational contexts represents a case in point, since the challenges of AI implementation are more pronounced in these settings. While AI has fantastic potential to transform the education process by providing individual experience, automating administrative tasks,...
The implementation of information technology towards agricultural development: New initiatives and strategies
Case study - 6 pages - Economy general
After the initiation of liberalization reforms of 1990's, rise of new economy stocks or sunshine sector in the Indian economy great changes had taken place throughout the nation. The entry of corporate in areas of public sector dominance, competition between private players, access to newer...
An analysis and study on stress management and its implementation
Thesis - 20 pages - Management
Only recently has stress been seen as a contributory factor to the productivity and health costs of companies and countries. As studies of stress-related illnesses and deaths show, stress imposes a high cost on individual health and well-being as well as organizational productivity....
