Essays and Research Papers on Management

This 9 page paper answers questions from a student regarding marketing a PDA to businesses. The paper looks at how the market may be segmented, how marketing strategy may be formulated, the influences on the purchase decision and a brief outline of a marketing campaign. The bibliography cites 4 sources.

This 7 page paper explores why Baker Hughes is successful. The writer approaches the question by describing the company's core values, corporate culture, and focus on integrity and ethical conduct. The essay also describes the company's change to an e-supply chain system. Bibliography lists 8 sources. Bibliography lists 8 sources.

A 6 page paper addressing the difficulty of motivating individuals. When we speak of “motivating the workforce,” rarely does that phrase invoke images of individual workers, all of whom have their own personal stories and all of whom have specific goals. Instead, the “workforce” becomes a nameless, faceless aggregation of individuals who have ...

A 9 page research paper that examines biases in business decision-making, looking at both positive and negative effects. The writer particularly focuses on how a bias toward optimism can cause managers to underestimate costs and problems. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

A 5 page paper. The writer discusses the four major functions of a manager, including the skills needed for each function and then explains why they are important. The last part of the paper discusses how the student can gain the skills identified. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

This 10 page paper discusses those characteristics inherent in successful leaders based on the theories of Lussier and Achua. Personal account exampled utilizing Lussier Achua theories. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

This 16 page paper discusses the question, are leaders born or made? The paper defines the role of a leader and then considers different theoretical opinions on what makes a leader, personality traits and characteristics or learned practices, and then looks at the measures taken by different companies to identify and train or guide their ...

This 3 page paper outlines the acquisition of Rover by BMW, why they made the acquisition and why it went wrong. The paper starts by considering the position of BMW within the automotive market, explains why the acquisition offered so many opportunities, why they were not realised and the strategy that BMW followed after accepting ...

This 16 page paper considers how a research project should be undertaken, The example used is a hotel where there been a drop in the occupancy. The paper defines the goals of the research, shows what type research will be undertaken and how the results will be analysed and presented. The paper also includes a ...

18 pages in length. The writer addresses the eight points of a productivity audit: policy, leadership, objectives, inputs, performance, technology, work procedures and staff. Bibliography lists 19 sources.

This 4 page paper explored the way in which formulation and implementation of strategy has been seen by different strategy models. The paper demonstrates how the strategy process initially separated these two aspects strategy were separated and with newer models and the evolution of strategic thought, they are coming together in a merged holistic manner. ...

A 10 page paper that begins by explaining what organization culture is, how it is defined and described. Handy and Harrison's typology of corporate culture is outlined and explained. How the organizational culture effects the change process is discussed. Finally, implications for leaders are discussed. Bibliography lists 10 sources.

A 3 page paper that looks at how this airline maintains a competitive advantage in an industry where more companies are losing revenue instead of increasing it. The writer comments on expanding into new markets as well as expanding in the core business, technology, and values. Bibliography lists 8 sources.

This 7 page paper provides an overview of the elementse that impact decision making in the organizational setting. This paper considers the factors that influence the rational decion-making capabilities of the individual and deter individuals from successful decision-making in a group. Bibliographyl lists 6 sources.

A 3 page paper discussing management’s influence on the emergence of leading economies. Managerial enterprise has directly contributed to the success of the world’s leading economies, particularly where ever-increasing size has been a matter of fact. It is a model that can be applied to differing national circumstances, but it also needs to ...

This 5 page paper considers the theoretical differences between formulation and implementation of strategy. The paper looks at the traditional separation, typified by the classical linear approach, and the more modern adaptive models, as seen in emergent strategies and argues that these may be complimentary approaches as well as conflicting approaches. The bibliography cites 9 ...

This 12 page paper discusses some of the many comments Drucker has made about nonprofit organizations. With more than 80 million volunteers, nonprofits represent the largest employer in the country, albeit unpaid workers. It was nonprofits that implemented new management theories in the past and Drucker believes they will do so in the future. Nonprofits ...

This 3 page paper discusses the utilization of critical thinking skills in the office and industrial setting. Examples given. Bibliography lists 0 sources.

This 6 page paper looks at the competitive advantages that American Airlines gained from their SABRE system. The paper starts by considering the implementing and advantages such as cost advantage and differentiation though first mover advantage and the different uses of the technology. The system was also one that allowed American Airlines to dominate ...

A 5 page book review that profiles Taylor Cox's text Creating a Multicultural Organization (Jossey-Bass, 2001) is a comprehensive guide to business leaders and professionals who are interested in maximizing the human potential of their workforce. The foreword for this text sums up the general thrust of the book by saying that it ...

This 12 page paper considers a company in crisis and how theories of change explain how changes occurred. The company chosen is Marks and Spencer, who lost sight of the market they were selling to, and had to make several changes before they managed to reverse the decline. The bibliography cites 8 sources.

This 9 page paper considers whether or traditional strategies such as differentiation are obsolete when trading on the internet. The value of a strategy on the world wide web is discussed with revenue to a number of successful and unsuccessful companies. The paper shows how and why strategy is even more important in this ...

A 5 page paper that presents a continuation of PGturpj.rtf where an initial plan was presented for a private company to establish a tutoring program for a neighboring school. This essay includes a work breakdown of 10 primary tasks with the optimistic time, most likely and pessimistic times presented along with the weighted activity time. ...

This 14 page paper considers how an understanding of the way knowledge workers are controlled can tell us about the cultural norms for control. The paper looks at what is meant by knowledge; tacit and explicit knowledge, the development and management of network organisations, control and flexibility in a dynamic environment and issues such ...

A 9 page paper. The question is the impact of the Internet on consumer electronics stores. To discuss the topic, the essay discusses what was happening in 1994 and 1995 in this retail sector, the challenges, the substitutes and the threats to small electronics stores. The essay then discusses the most recent holiday data regarding ...