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Papers On Business - Management
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A Comparison Of Market Strategy, Logistics, Distribution Channels Of Fedex Corporation With Its’ Main Competitors In The US
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This 10 page paper looks at the way Fedex operates and compares the strategy, logistics and distribution of the company to its competitors in order to assess the company and the way it competes. The bibliography cites 8 sources.
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A Comparison of Mergers
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10 pages. With the number of companies both large and small that are undergoing mergers it is easy to know that some of these mergers will be major success stories and some will not. This paper deals with both successful and unsuccessful mergers as well as some of the reasoning behind what should be considered before undertaking a merger. The banking industry is one industry that sees mergers taking place frequently. This paper includes financial information and trend analysis in examining a merger. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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A COMPARISON OF PERFORMANCE MEASURES
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This 3-page paper provides a comparison of three performance measures: input measures, output measures and outcome measures. The paper also discusses the need for performance measures. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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A Comparison of Two Books on Non-Profit Leadership
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This 6 page paper compares and contrasts the following books: Grassroots and Nonprofit Leadership: A Guide for Organizations in Changing Times and The Leader of the Future: New Visions, Strategies and Practices for the Next Era. No additional sources listed.
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A Compensation and Rewards Program Proposal for a Small Business
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This 11 page paper focuses on a hypothetical firm with about 40 employees. The firm is described and after a review of literature, a precise schedule of compensation and rewards is devised. The proposal includes specific grade levels and job titles. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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A Comprehensive Business Analysis of Microsoft Corporation
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This 15 page paper provides an overview of the company, its history and its marketing strategy. The recent anti-trust lawsuit is discussed as are financials for a ten year period. Also included is a SWOT analysis, the use of Porter's Five Forces model and analyses with the use of other tools. Recommendations are made. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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A Consultant's Duties and Project Risk
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A 7 page paper discussing these issues in the
context of a large organization's desire to implement a customer service center. In today's
business environment, it is often necessary for organizations to have access to specialized
techniques they cannot justify maintaining in-house. The use of a consultant is a workable
and common alternative, but not all consultants are as qualified as they would have clients
believe, and not all organizations intend to truly purchase consultant's labor but merely wish
to gain free ideas for their own use. Each needs to protect themselves from loss of revenue.
The consultant needs to present himself as a professional worthy of fee payment; the client
needs to gain benefit. Bibliography lists 13 sources.
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A Consultant's Tools And Resources
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A 4 page paper that discusses several tools/resources a project consultant could use: the concept of a Partnership Constitution; a customer relationship management application; pre-planning and problem identification; involving the consultee in all steps of the process; and the consultant's own authenticity. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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A Contemporary Definition of a Good Manager
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This is an 8 page paper discussing the definition of a good manager. The need for good management is essential in employee production. It has been found that over 35% of employees leave their positions if they feel they do not have a “good” manager. While management skills used to be based on the “hard” skills such as education, organizational skills and experience, recently it has been found that “soft” management skills are what are needed to be considered within the definition of a good manager. Good managers today not only need the basic hard skills which relate to education and organization but also need open and ongoing communication practices with their employees. Overall, these communication skills include goal and priority setting, praising good work, integrity, sincerity, mentoring, and delegating responsibility to employees among other practices found to create higher morale, and better productivity and retention within the business environment.
Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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A Corporate Finance Director and Taxes
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This 5 page report
discusses the role of the finance director in a corporation and
some of the necessary concerns he or she must deal with,
especially in relationship to taxation. This paper is based on an
interview with a woman who serves as the finance director of a
national retail corporation. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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A CRANBERRY CASE STUDY
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This 6 page case study examines a logistics problem with the National Cranberry Cooperative, and discusses whether the coop should authorize expenditures on new equipment in order to improve efficiency. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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A Critical Analysis of Daniel Bell's Concept of Post-Industrial Society
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This 12 page paper examines the concept of post-industrial society put forward by Daniel Bell in his book The Coming of Post-Industrial Society: A Venture in Social Forecasting. The paper analysis this to determine if Bell's vision has been correct or if there have been divergences. The bibliography cites 13 sources.
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A Critical Analysis of Eric Schlosser's “Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal”
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A 9 page overview of Schlosser's examination of
the fast food industry. The author provides a general overview of Schlosser's premises and reviews Chapter 2 of the book in considerable detail. No additional sources are listed.
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A Critical Analysis of Zuriff’s Article “Inventing Racism”
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This is a 6 page article discussing the arguments presented in G.E. Zuriff’s article “Inventing Racism” (2002). Using the questioning techniques provided by Browne and Keeley (2001) several issues of reasoning, ambiguity, validity and statistical evidence are discussed.
Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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A Critique of Senge on Learning and Leadership
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This 8 page paper looks at an article written by Peter Senge; ”The Leader’s New Work: Building Learning Organization” and the ideas in it concerning leadership and building a learning organization. The paper consider the strengths and weakness of his ideas and looks to other theories to find any support or contradictions and examines the role of leadership and how this fits with modern concepts of leadership. The bibliography cites 10 sources.
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A Definition of Knowledge Management
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This 10 page paper creates a working definition for KM. Several other definitions are discussed. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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A Degradation of Business Ethics: The Balance Between Corporate Profitability and Human Welfare
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An 8 page annotated bibliography. Brief
descriptions of the content of articles, books, and web sites relating to the degradation of business ethics that is exemplified by aggressive
advertising campaigns and changes in internal management structure the corporate sense of professionalism. Bibliography lists 15 sources.
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A Demonstration of Mintzberg's Organizational Structure Model
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This 8 page paper considers the way in which organisation structures will be influenced, using the theories of Mintzberg. These include examination of machine bureaucracies, professional organization, entrepreneurial start up's and adhocracies. The writer then applies these models to a real company in order to demonstrate its practical application. The bibliography cites 5 sources.
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A Difficult Decision
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This 3 page paper looks at a case provided by the student, where a bank has an unfriendly uninvited media company turn up at a publicity event and has to decide whether or not to let them in. The paper outlines situations, identified the problems and the desired outcome and then considers potential actions. The bibliography cites 2 sources.
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A Dilbert’s Recipe to Change
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This 10 page paper looks at the perception of change within an organisation from the perspective of a Dilbert cartoon and considers how to develop a recipe for successful change using these perceptions and organisational change principles. The paper develops an ABC approach with accompanying rules all based on acknowledged theory, using theorists such as Scott Adams, author of the Dilbert series as well as Lewin, Senge, Margerison and Smith, and Dervitsiotis. The bibliography cites 10 sources.
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A Disadvantaged Workforce
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This 3 page paper discusses the problems faced by workers with language barriers and lack of skills. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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A DISCUSSION OF GLOBALIZATION AND FREE TRADE
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This 7-page paper provides an overview of the argument that globlization could end up interfering with national goals and objectives, and can undermine democracy or other developmental goals. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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A DISCUSSION OF ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR TERMS
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This 3-page paper discusses drawbacks to organizational terms problem-solving, cross-functional, self-management and virtual. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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A Dissertation Plan and Statistics Questions
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This 12 page paper is written in two parts. The first part is a proposal for a dissertation or project examining how implementation of e-Commerce for Singapore Stockbroking Firms could take place. The proposal includes a literature review and a methodology as well as an outline of why this is a valuable subject. The second part of the paper answers specific questions regarding the use of statistics and statistical testing methods. The bibliography cites 7 sources.
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A Dissertation Proposal; How Should Companies Compete to Maximize their Returns from the Internet?
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E-commerce is an important element of many businesses. This 7 page paper is a proposal for the development of an e-commerce model that can set out the requirments for a business to be successful in e-commerce. A literature review is undertaken and then a methodology is outlined which includes primary and secondary research. The bibliography cites 5 sources.
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A DIVERSITY ANALYSIS OF SAFEWAY
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This 3-page paper provides an overview of Safeway (grocery stores) diversity program. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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A FAILURE OF PROJECT SCOPE: VISTA AND GEOPLEX
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This 5-page paper examines the concept of a project scope, and defines where Microsoft's Vista and AT&T's Geoplex failed in its project scope endeavors. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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A Feasibility Study into Opening an Amusement Centre
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This 18 page paper is a feasibility study into opening an amusement arcade. The writer looks at writing and using a questionnaire to ascertain what the potential customers want, and if there is a gap in the market. A proposal is developed using the 4 P’s, and the wider environment is examined with the use of a PEST analysis. The financial viability is laid out, including a break even analysis. The bibliography cites 9 sources.
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A Firm with a Madrid Office
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This 3 page paper looks at a firm with an office in Madrid; Cambridge University Press. The paper is written in three part, the first gives some background to the role and culture of the Madrid office, the second looks at the way interview questions may be asked if applying to the company and the third part of the paper considers the way a resume may be written specifically for the employer,. The bibliography cites 3 sources.
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A Good Administrator
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7 pages. This excellent description of what makes a good administrator also proves that one must be a good politician as well. One of the examples used in this paper is that of James E. Webb, director of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration who fulfills this description well. The rationale behind being a good administrator is more than just being a leader of people, as this paper will point out. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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A Good Customer Service Model
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This 3 page paper looks at prevention, appraisal, and external failure of cost and quality practices as applied to customer service processes. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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A Guide to Recruitment and Selection
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This 10 page paper gives a simple guide to a step by step process that can be used for efficient recruitment and selection. The guide then explains why this process was selected and justifies the use of the model considering all the factors involved. The bibliography cites 10 sources.
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A Guide to Training
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This 11 page paper gives an outline regarding the way training may be undertaken. The paper starts with an outline of how to prepare and undertake training. The second part of the paper looks at the underlying theory, such as Kolbs learning cycle and the need to win over the commitment of those being trained. The bibliography cites 11 sources.
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A Hard Landing for the US Economy; Economic Impacts
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This 26 page paper considers the way in which it was considered in 2000 that the US economy may develop. The paper considers the different indicates and what they meant, how they may be interpreted and why they may indicate a soft or a hard landing. The writer then considers the impact that this may have on another nations, such as Taiwan, and then how it may impact on a domestic company with operations overseas. The writer looks at D-Link and considers how this company may plan in the event of the US suffering a hard landing and a potential recession in order to survive and take advantage of adverse economic conditions. The bibliography cites 20 sources.
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A History and Analysis of Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream
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This is a 5 page paper which discusses the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) regarding Ben and Jerry’s Homemade Inc. Their deep commitment to social and environmental issues on a local and global scale has increased their popularity and their profits. Inversely, their involvement in controversial issues has also led to a negative response in some opposing groups.
Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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A HUMAN RESOURCES PLAN FOR CUDDLE BEAR ENTERPRISES
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This 7-page paper provides an example of a human resources plan for fictitious Cuddle Bear Enterprises. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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A Hypothetical Situation Regarding Support or Opposition of the Impending War by Corporate America
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This 6 page paper uses the firm Ben & Jerry's as the case study. Should the CEO of this firm support or oppose the war in Iraq or remain neutral? A hypothetical situation is provided that forces him to make the choice. Several considerations are made inclusive of a look at opinion polls, nations the firm does business in and the history and culture of the company. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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A Joint Venture Between Levi and Nike?
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This 5 page paper considers a hypothetical proposal for a joint line of sportswear between Levi Strauss and Nike. The writer considers the advantages and disadvantages of such a collaboration. The bibliography cites 5 sources.
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A Large, 'Old Technology' Company: Recommended Corporate Culture Changes To Encourage Innovation
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9 pages in length. Maintaining a successful presence amidst an ever-changing business landscape means adapting to those changes; by standing firm in the 'tried and true' approach without implementing new concepts and technology, a company's corporate culture becomes stale and out of touch with contemporary commerce. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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A Leader In Education
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This 8 page paper provides an overview of an interview with a diversity educator and the application of her experiences to how her ethnicity, gender and religion impact her roles. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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