Essays and Research Papers on Management

When the above motto is the passion of the CEO and all of top management, Harris (1992) states that customer service is guaranteed to be king throughout the organization. Customer service management is the most important tool for maintaining a competitive edge in business today because customers select when, where and with whom they will ...

A personal experience with internship that explores the intern's placement and responsibilties in terms of academic business concepts such as company motto, strategic plan, and other issues. Discussed are these plus the following: customer service, quality, safety, human resources, co-worker and management relationships, lessons learned, and an overall assessment of the experience. 0 biblioigraphical sources. ...

A 16 page paper. As companies face a more competitive global marketplace and as changes occur so quickly, companies have searched for new organizational structures and operational practices to maintain a competitive advantage. One of the models found to be effective is teamwork. This essay begins with a general introduction to teamwork and then discusses ...

Properly budgeting capital expenditures and investment can result in good cash flow, which translates to company expansion. Increases in factory production or service features can increase market diversity that make a company better positioned to expand both internationally and in its current market. Subjects covered include the process, characteristics such as evaluation methods (NPV, IRR, ...

When Sam Walton started Wal-Mart and up through his death in 1992, his employees were happy. They felt part of Sam’s team, despite low wages, but most of this was due to Sam’s treatment of employees, which was exceptional for its time. Little personal touches once defined the psychological contract between Wal-Mart and its employees. ...

This 24 page paper is a reflective learning document that considers many of the theories that were used in the preparation of a business studies project. The paper includes theories on learning, including Lewin and Kolb, communication theory as well as how positioning in a competitive environment can be determined and the use of game ...

A 4 page review of the article by Eric M. Olson, Orville C. Walker, Jr. and Robert W. Ruekert. Design, development, and marketing are all critical factors in company profitability. As independent as these factors may seem, they are really quite interconnected. They explore the effectiveness of the teamwork concept in the ...

This 10 page paper offers a sample contingency plan and vulernabilities plan for the ficticious company called, Miracle Films. Recovery of systems, off site storage of data, and business continuity plan is discussed, exampled, outlined and analyzed. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

This 5 page paper examines Vermont Teddy Inc., founder of the Bear-Gram. The paper looks at the economic, political, legal, technological and socio-cultural influences and how the company had responded to these influences. The bibliography cites 5 sources.

A 5 page paper which presents a chapter summary of the text. No additional sources are used.

This 7 page paper considers how, in a fast changing global business environment, inter-organizational relationships are the key to the survival and growth of a firm. This is approached with the use of different theories, such as Porters value chain, Hannan and Freeman's population ecology and the lessons gained from Japanese keiretsu. Points raised ...

This 14 page paper look at the different considerations that should be made when undertaking the creation of a presentation. This includes the different ways of creating meaning, the tools of presentation, including the use of PowerPoint, and the way in which information will be attended by those attending the presentation. The bibliography cites 6 ...

Reliability and validity, two crucial dimensions of empirical measurement, enable researchers to say that whatever they are measuring can be relied upon to be dependable, and that whatever is measured is being measured accurately. Reliability can be proved, while validity must be inferred and can never be perfectly verified. Yet, despite this probability, credible and ...

This 8-page paper discusses privacy issues in terms of employee monitoring in the workplace. Topics considered include if such monitoring is morally and ethically wrong, and why employers justify it. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

This 3-page paper discusses how a company with a flat organizational structure can best prepare its employees and management for the decision-making processes. Bibliography lists 1 source.

This 23 page paper looks at the way in which commodity sales may be undertaken profitably. The paper starts by defining the term commodity, looks at the development of the commodity markets and the drivers, and then considers different strategies which can be applied to the market to create profitable sales. The bibliography cites 34 ...

This 6 page paper considers the competitive position and strategy of Harley Davidson. The paper is written in four parts, the first looks at the current position and strategy, the second examines the potential future threats using Porters five forces model. The third part considers the resources and advantages of Harley Davidson compared to their ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...