Essays and Research Papers on Management

This 5 page paper discusses some of the functions of public relations, including community relations, publicity, media relations and social responsibility. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

This 5 page paper looks at the case study of Duke Children’s Hospital (DCH), considering how and why they introduced the balanced scorecard (BSC) and the results. The implementation is examined from the perceptive of change management. The bibliography cites 5 sources.

For any company to be successful the firm needs to identify its’ key success factors and develop strategies to ensure that it satisfies the key success factors. This 6 page paper considers how this occurs in a single company. Using the example of a fast food chain; McDonalds, the will known hamburger chain, the internal ...

A 14 page paper. Following an introduction, the writer discusses organizational leadership in terms of organizational effectiveness and uses Porter's generic strategies to gain a competitive advantage as a strategy. How these strategies apply to Wal-Mart are discussed next. For example, Wal-Mart uses cost leadership. The writer also comments on Wal-Mart's key performance indicators. 1 ...

A 14 page paper with headings and subheadings. The Introduction discusses productivity management, including Keane's six principles; Measuring productivity discusses five factors and includes comments on Business Process Reengineering; explanation of the Functions of management; the Benefits of productivity on five different levels; and suggestions for improving productivity. Bibliography lists 8 sources.

This 14 page paper examines Apple; founded by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, looking at h they lost their competitive advantage and the way in which they struggled to regain it, only appearing to have a sustainable success based on differentiation when Steve Jobs returns to the company after many years of absence and the ...

This 8 page paper looks at how multi-national corporations may use collaborations of co-operative strategies and the ways in which these might lead to competitive advantages. Different potential strategies are discussed and examples are used to assess if short and long term competitive advantages can be archived with these arrangements. The bibliography cites 10 ...

An 8 page paper that begins with an explanation of what corporate entrepreneurship is. The major part of the paper reports examples of corporate entrepreneurship in four companies. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

This 23 page paper examines a small UK company. Hotel Chocolat; a purveyor of highly differentiated, quality chocolate. The paper looks at the background fo the company, analyses the strengths and weaknesses of the company and then discussed the marketing and the importance of the internet in the general and marketing strategy. The paper ...

20 pages in length. Teachers are much less inclined to have a high turnover rate when they have been given the opportunity to be part of the overall teaching program rather than a collection of drones forced to comply with one person's stringent vision. Bibliography lists 16 sources.

4 pages in length. One of the major themes in Blanchard's (2006) book entitled Leading at a Higher Level is how leadership simply cannot be construed as a one-person job, especially when it comes to decision-making; rather, the author is quick to note how the process of making decisions is not the sole responsibility ...

This 8 page essay explains each Force in Porter's Five Force Analysis process. It then explains each of the categories and supporting factors found in Porter's generic value chain analysis process. The writer uses Wal-Mart as an excellent example in the retail industry of how information technology can be used to create value as ...

This 5-page paper is an examination of Starbucks and its employee policies. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

A 20 page paper. Once known for its excellent service, customers have been leaving AT&T in droves for years. Also, over the years, tens of thousands of employees have lost their jobs. This essay provides an overview of what has been happening at the company and comments on employee morale and job satisfaction. The writer ...

This 5 page paper discusses different aspects of a personal vision of leadership. These include leadership styles, how the student sees God using leadership skills, challenges as a leader and compensating for those. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

This 6 page paper looks at the use of metrics, considering why they are important in a firm, how they can be set up and used and the value that they create, including measurements for information technology (IT) systems. The bibliography cites 5 sources.

This 12 page paper looks at Total Quality Management (TQM) and Business Process Reengineering (BPR) and the way in which their introduction necessitates change. The paper starts by briefly examining TQM and BPR and then looks at the way in which the changes can be planned and managed with the use of ‘change models’. ...

A 3 page paper that discusses a possible evaluation tool to determine the degree of learning and provides suggestions for reinforcing that learning. The writer comments briefly on the disciplines contributing to organizational behavior. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

This 8 page paper provides an overview of methods for identifying and managing workplace conflict. This paper considers both the positive and negative aspects of conflict. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

This 4 page paper considers the quote All managers have strategy-executing responsibility in their areas of authority, and all employees are participants in the strategy execution process" and looks at a different range of organizational structures to assess which is likely to be the most supportive of this approach. The bibliography cites 3 sources.

This 5 page paper comments on the impact of e-business on the entertainment industry, retaining, supply chain management, project management and manufacturing. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

A 12 page research paper that explores the topic of customer satisfaction and how it is related to both profitability and product/service quality. This relationship reveals why customer satisfaction has taken center-stage in the new economic paradigm. No longer is customer satisfaction a cursory consideration to profitability. Customer satisfaction, in many ways, is profitability. Bibliography ...

This 4 page paper defines some of the common terms used to describe organizational behavior, and how they might apply to Target Corporation. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

This 4 page paper looks at the McDonald's corporation and some of its events. How it might finance changes in the future is discussed. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

A 6 page paper that discusses the strengths, such as brand equity, and weaknesses, such as not responding to trends in a timely manner of McDonald's. Data about McDonald's and the industry, e.g., competitors is reported. Bibliography lists 7 sources.