Essays and Research Papers on Management & Business

An 8 page paper discussing PBS' courtship of corporate sponsors and individual contributors. Public broadcasting is not unique to the US; several European countries and Australia also support similar services but the US version is the only one not totally supported by the government. The paper discusses aspects of PBS' marketing and why sponsorship ...

This 7 page report discusses the importance of organizational planning in increasing overall productivity. Productivity management not only aims to increase efficiency and effectiveness of a company to obtain higher output from the same physical inputs but it also intends to improve the operations of a business enterprise to satisfy end users' short and long term expectations and ...

This 5 page paper uses a thesis provided by a student which says that demonstrated loyalty is necessary in order to gain the trust of both superiors and subordinates. Loyalty in today's changing business world is also a part of the discussion. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

This 9 page paper considers the fact that memory benefits from a distinctive process and that memory also benefits from an organizational process. These facts are well established and perfectly consistent with our intuitions, but on close inspection, these facts appear paradoxical. Distinctive processing refers to the encoding of similarities among events. Distinctiveness ...

A 7 page paper discussing a case in which the St. John district of Canada's Coast Guard has been faced with the necessity of implementing budget cuts. Morale is low in all ranks; discipline is lax. Crews are not required to maintain even minimum discipline and there is little regard for distinctions between private ...

This 8 page paper considers aspect of the economic environment which can impact on the competitive nature of businesses. Productivity, wages and exchange rates are examined for their possible effect. To illustrate this the example of the United Kingdom is used. The bibliography cites 6 sources.

This 12 page paper considers the role of organisational change. The influences on change and the processes are involved. Commentators such as Lewin and Senge are considered and case studies are used to illustrate the points made. The paper includes one diagram and the bibliography cites 12 sources.

This 20 page paper discusses civil engineering construction companies in Saudi Arabia and the United Kingdom. A brief introduction is provide describing the kinds of work accomplished by companies in this industry. Two companies are then discussed: the Al-Khodari Group in Saudi Arabia and the Alfred McAlpine Plant business in the United Kingdom. How ...

A 10 page paper. The banking industry has changed dramatically over the past two to three decades. Deregulation has allowed commercial banks to merge creating mammoth size financial institutions. The Internet and electronic banking is just another aspect of the industry that promises to make these huge banks even bigger - if they take the ...

A 10 page paper evaluating Steinway's management, marketing, product and potential for expansion into Asia. Steinway & Sons is a company approaching the anniversary of its second century of operation. From the beginning, Steinway pianos have been positioned - and received - as the pinnacle of piano quality and art. In this day ...

This 8 page paper considers the internal strengths and weaknesses of the well known international sportswear company Reebok. The success of it diversification's and financial weaknesses are all discussed along with the reorganisation plans international sales trends. The bibliography cites 4 sources.

This 16 page paper considers briefly the origins of Ford and then looks to the 1990s and the strategic way in which it has developed. This includes acquisitions, collaborations, the use of the Internet and the search for a competitive advantage. The paper assesses its current position and make recommendations for the future. The bibliography ...

A 10 page paper discussing the fiscal mess that the leadership of CEO Martin Grass created for the nation's second-largest drug chain in the last half of the 1990s. The paper identifies problems in the areas of management, marketing, finance and manufacturing, offering solutions to those problems. Includes one chart. Bibliography lists ...

A 5 page paper discussing factors and processes involved in making decisions that will support overall strategic planning. Strategy addresses what will be done; tactical planning addresses how to accomplish what has already been decided. Organizations devote excessive time to planning and often use outdated information on which to base their decisions. Top-performing companies ...

This 18 page paper examines a hypothetical case where Total Quality Management is to be introduced in an effort of adding value to stakeholder with in the company. The paper considers who the relevant stakeholders are, and the way in which the organisation can add value and cut costs at the same time. The paper ...

An 8 page paper discussing the financial side of the manner in which the company met the onset of the 1990s. At a time that restructuring was king and re-engineering was the buzzword of all America's behemoth organizations, Johnson & Johnson was doing more than just talking about it. Between the years of 1989 ...

The Moral Choice; This 12 page paper considers the role of corporate governance and the different approaches which organisations can adopt. It examines the definition of shareholder wealth maximisation and the contrasting view of corporate wealth maximisation and compares the two schools of thought. The ethical and moral stances may be very different, but in ...

A 5 page paper that examines the revolution of innovation and change that economist Tom Peters has sparked under the traditional world of business management and training and how his system of utter chaos and irrationality has taken root and spread worldwide. A brief background of Peters' life before becoming the "guru of gurus" ...

This 5 page paper considers the position of Johnson and Johnson between 1989 and 1993 when they attempted to bring changes in on their management, purchasing and payment systems. The paper cites the amount of change and flaws in the systems introduced as causing the confusion and delaying the payment of invoices to the extent ...

A 9 page paper discussing this old giant's current focus on the future. Shell oil is a company that is very nearly 200 years old and already has seen industry-changing and industry-creating changes in technology and petroleum use in its long history. At the beginning of the 21st century, it faces yet another change, one ...

This 20 page report discusses restaurant franchising and giving an overview of what restaurant franchising is, what it involves, and what it requires. Franchising is successful because of such things as shared and cooperative advertising costs and beneficial economies of scale achieved through increased purchasing power. The franchisee purchases the right to run a business (the franchise fee) which the ...

A 9 page paper discussing Saks' need to enhance customer service. In all the verbiage surrounding Saks' new directions and experiments with new formats, there is not a hint that Saks has become any more committed to providing higher levels of customer service. A vice president discusses inventories, controls and the pursuit of private ...

A 5 page paper discussing ways that the concepts of leadership and management are changing. New theories of leadership have not added significantly to our understanding of effective leadership in organizations, and largely because even new theories are based on old models, yet organizations of the world even now are evolving into entities that ...

An 8 page paper discussing the changes that have taken place in the US and Japanese auto industry as it relates to the US market since 1985. The period has seen significant implementation of Total Quality Management, including the launch of GM's Saturn Division for the purpose of fully implementing the philosophies of TQM ...

A 5 page paper discussing the case of a fictitious company in dire need of redesign of its budgetary process. Drake is a multi-site manufacturer, and management is pleased with the performance of all but one of the plants. That plant consistently operates over budget and under the strain of having been under ...