Essays and Research Papers on Management & Business

Three problems and their interventions are proposed, supported with rationale and solutions are proposed. Problems are: employee pride and accountability (Vogel model), security background check implementation, and Sarbanes-Oxley act implementation. Bibliography lists 3 sources. jvOrgInt.rtf

A 29 page paper discussing marketing challenges faced by these two fast-food competitors. McDonald’s is the unmistakable leader in the $145 billion fast-food industry, but number three Wendy’s is poised in 2004 to overtake Burger King in long-standing second place. The changes at McDonald’s during 2003 and throughout the first half of 2004 ...

A 6 page paper critically analyzing the benefits of training workers in an industry where turnover is high and workers are likely not to remain with the employer long term. The paper uses the example of Pal’s Sudden Service, a fast-food restaurant winner of the Baldrige award. Bibliography lists 7 sources.

A 12 page paper discussing ways that globalization has contributed to increased attention to corporate governance and corporate social responsibility. There are indications that attention to longevity is changing in today’s business environment. Further, organizations also are more attuned to corporate responsibility. The purpose here is to examine and assess some of ...

This 10 page paper considers the statement that benefits of budgetary control are outweighed by the de-motivating effects of the budget on the staff of the organization. The paper considers the role and manifestation of budgetary controls and how they interact with motivation theory. The paper utilizes the models of economic man and social ...

A 10 page paper discussing General Electric’s past and future. GE is worthy of designation as a visionary company, even though it has had periods of bureaucratic myopia in the past. The purpose here is to assess the qualities contributing to GE’s great growth throughout the 1990s under Jack Welch and to make ...

A 4 page paper discussing ethical standards at the world’s largest company. The presence of a Wal-Mart does wreak havoc on local retail operations, but Wal-Mart deserves only a portion of the blame. When local merchants compete effectively, then they gain opportunity to prosper in Wal-Mart’s shadow. Wal-Mart does have a responsibility ...

A 3 page paper discussing Wal-Mart’s success in directing energy to the task at hand, rather. Much of Wal-Mart’s conflict management is based on path-goal theory, which relates managers to workers in a variety of ways. Mostly, however, Wal-Mart seeks to avoid conflict by ensuring that all who need to know something are ...

This 14 page paper considers how a security manager may protect a company from suffering fraud. The paper outlines different types of fraud and considers both external frauds, such as credit card fraud, as well as internal fraud, as recently suffered by VISA. The paper looks at the different threats and the tools or procedures ...

A 14 page paper. For the last three decades there have been intermittent attempts at marketing campaigns that emphasize the environmental safety of products. Concern for the environment has become a common and popular theme among consumers in many regions of this world. This essay explains green marketing, the principles of green marketing, the past ...

A 12 page paper. The introduction explains organizational culture and its importance. The writer then reports and explains Handy's four typologies for organization culture. The next section explains and discusses McGregor's Theory X and Theory Y. Two companies, British Airways and Southwest Airlines, are then analyzed in terms of Handy's four typologies and McGregor's theories. ...

This 3 page paper provides an overview on supervisory techniques. What it takes to be a good supervisor is the focus of this paper. It is suggested that aside from technique, leadership and employee development is important. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

A 2.5 page paper. The terms multinational and transnational are defined and some of the challenges in moving from a multinational to a transnational corporation are discussed. The major types of strategic alliances are defined and the advantages and disadvantages of each are reported. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

This 16 page paper examines strategic alliances, what they are, how they occur, their different forms and why they are used. The paper considers the advantages and disadvantages of strategic alliances and the factors which may indicate success or failure. Numerous studies are references ands many real life examples are used to illustrate the points ...

A 3 page paper discussing the method by which this company, a startup paper manufacturer, adopted and implemented the team structure in production. The initial goal was to develop fully self-directed work teams, and management believed that it would take between five and eight years to reach that point of development. Workers, however, ...

This 3 page paper looks at a case study and evaluates the difficulties and positive aspects of going from an ordinary environment to one that embraces teams. The example takes place in the financial sector but concepts may be applied to any business environment. Bibliography lists 1 source.

A 16 page paper that responds to specific issues/questions. The first section reports a real experience as a team member and includes a discussion of the group's purpose, norms, group development process, and role sharing. The second section responds to the most important lessons learned in the class and explaining these to a high level ...

A 10 page paper discussing Hamel and Prahalad’s 1989 article in the Harvard Business Review, then assessing Southwest Airlines, Nike and Dell Computer for evidence of exercising strategic intent as defined by Hamel and Prahalad (1989). Though these companies do not exhibit strategic intent to equal degrees, each has distinguished itself from its competitors ...

A 4 page paper discussing many of the differences in the US Airways of 2000 and that of the regional leader that emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in 2003. US Airways’ new regional strategy enables it to focus on sound, solid operations that can lead to growth in the more definite terms of ...

This 8 page paper addresses the full public relations strategy, including promotional give aways, advertising, demographics, sample press releases, and dealing with the media. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

A 3 page paper that responds to specific student-generated questions about UPS. Topics includes: core competencies, the causes for the use of technology in the company, how their Web page illustrates their business directives, how technology impacts the package delivery industry, and how maintaining customer data impacts the future of the company. Bibliography lists 6 ...

A 15 page paper discussing the state of the global wine industry; the benefits of training employees; and current changes in wine consumption in Singapore to assess the likely outcome of training wait staff in their employers’ wine selections. There appears to be a wealth of opportunity to increase wine sales in Singapore’s restaurants, ...

This 15 page paper discusses the facets of an organizational culture which ensure its security and stability in the business world. Specific topics include human resources, leadership, and internal structure. Bibliography lists 15 sources.

This 3 page paper looks at how relationship marketing may be used in tourism, focusing on the use to market countries as destinations using the examples of Egypt and Dubai. The advantages and disadvantages as well as application are included. The bibliography cites 6 sources.

An 8 page paper. GM ended production of the Pontiac Trans Am with the 2002 model. After almost 30 years, GM will bring the Pontiac GTO back to the American roads with the 2004 model year. The new GTO will be built at GM's Australian subsidiary, Holden. This essay first provides a short introduction to ...