Essays and Research Papers on Management

This is an 8 page paper discussing violence in the workplace. Throughout the United States, it has been estimated that each week, there is on average 20 homicides which occur within the workplace and over 18,000 instances of nonfatal violence within the workplace. Obviously, with these high numbers, workplace violence and its prevention and response ...

This 6 page paper looks at Welch's autobiographical account of his conquest of GE. How he rose to the top and what management techniques he used are discussed. How Welch's ideas can be applied to other corporations is also explored. Welch is compared with Wal Mart's CEO H. Lee Scott, Jr. Bibliography ...

This 4 page report discusses the 1991 addition to the "One Minute Manager" series. This book offer readers an analogy that is remarkably appropriate for the over-worked managers in every type of profit and non-profit organization. The analogy is that when a manager takes on a problem that does not truly "belong" to him or her, the result is ...

This 3 page report discusses what John C. Maxwell has to say in his short (96 page) book on leadership in the workplace. Bibliography lists only the primary source.

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 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 ...

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 ...

This 10 page paper demonstrates the relationships between an organization's culture and its implementation of security measures. Both physical security issues as well as IT security are discussed. Privacy is looked at and specific industries where culture clashes are prevalent are highlighted. Bibliography lists 10 sources.

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 6 page research paper that discusses a personal model of transformational leadership formulated by a student, but influenced by the literature on this topic. Experts consulted include Joseph Rost, Bernard Bass, Edgar Schein and Stephen Covey. Bibliography lists 7 sources.

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 11 page paper looks at management styles and leadership qualities. The importance of leadership in today's business world is discussed, mostly with help from British management journals. Theories are discussed. Bibliography lists 10 sources.

This is an 8 page paper discussing corporate social responsibility in public relations. Within the corporate sector, corporate social responsibility (CSR) has become one of the major principles promoted within recent years in the business plan to achieve business success. Terry Slavin in his article “Canny companies come clean” reported that corporate reporting has entered ...

This 9 page paper provides an evaluation of the MLQ. Additionally, leadership theory is discussed in depth. Bibliography lists 7 sources.

This is a 7 page paper discussing various factors in the downfall of the Enron Corporation. The collapse of the Enron Corporation led to the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history and to thousands of the company’s employees losing their savings which was tied into the company’s stock. Before the bankruptcy however, Enron was considered one ...

This 5 page paper looks at the impact of organizational climate in respect to how it affects productivity and morale. Several examples are provided. Bibliography lists 10 sources.

A 3 page paper discussing the influence of scientific management on today’s organizations. McDonald’s uses time studies to determine the length of time needed to complete each step of making a burger, but other organizations use Taylor’s management principles to spur the organization on to greater efficiency and productivity in all aspects of their ...

This 13 page report discusses the fact that the ways in which an organization and its leaders perceive the various risks it faces cannot help but have an impact on how that organization focuses on security issues. There are important elements of fundamental strategic planning processes that should be a part of the effort in order to assure that ...

This 12-page paper analyzes a student's leadership qualities by presenting theories of leadership and organizational management. Then this tutorial takes the student through 12 self-assessment points, and based on leadership style and the self-assessment, determines future goals. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

This 3 page paper reviews two internet articles which look at change in two organizations; Praxair Distribution, Inc and Xerox. The paper summarizes the articles and how change occurred and looks at the emphasis of each article. The bibliography cites 2 sources.

This is a 5 page paper discussing the reasons why firms plunge into e-commerce without consideration for the return in their investment. From some perspectives, it would seem that many firms “plunge” into e-commerce without assessing the return on their investment. This “plunge” however has become a necessary process for all businesses due to the ...

This 6 page paper explains what is meant by just in time (JIT)inventory control. The paper is presented as an explanation to a small shop keeper who has found out a new large supermarket will be opening up nearby. The large supermarket is able to offer lower process and have the same size tock room ...

This 13 page paper is an examination of the driving forces of globalization. This paper explores these factors in terms of how managers must operate differently in a global economy. Bibliography lists 8 sources.

This is an 8 page paper discussing the Microsoft Corporation in relation to four of Morgan’s organizational metaphors. The multi-billion dollar Microsoft Corporation reflects many of the organizational metaphors as outlined by Gareth Morgan in his 1986 text “Images of Organization”. Four of Morgan’s metaphors (organization as culture, machine, organism and brain) are used in ...