...05/28/13 Beijing EAPS Consulting, Inc. Co-Conducting a Project Plan The case starts off with Mr. Zheng, the chief executive officer (CEO) of Beijing EAPS Consulting, Inc., overhearing a conversation between two of his employees. Mr. Yang, the training department manager and Ms. Song, the project manager were not in sync on their current roles and how they are able to relay information to the other. A project manager is a single person tasked or has the responsibility to plan, direct, and integrate the work efforts of his or her staff to achieve the project goals. Project managers may administratively report to functional or departmental managers or program managers with respect to their projects or those who act as subcontractors to program managers; report to program managers while managing resources from functional groups; or report directly to the executive management. The project manager is the person responsible for ensuring that the project team completes the project. The project manager develops the project plan with the team and manages the team’s performance of project tasks. It is also the responsibility of the project manager to secure acceptance and approval of deliverables from the Project Sponsor and Stakeholders. The project manager is responsible for communication, including status reporting, risk management, escalation of issues that cannot be resolved in the team, and in general, making sure the project is delivered in budget, on schedule, and within...
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...services to employees who are experiencing personal problems that may interfere with work performance has helped establish Beijing EAPS Consulting, Inc., into their market in 2001(Jiao Li , 2011, p 50). Since then, the company has grown from six original employees to twenty employees in six years (Jiao Li, 2011, p 50). Beijing EAPS Consulting delivers a variety of options to their customers that are covered through their health insurance coverage (Jiao Li, 2011, p 50). Due to the growth of their work force, the company has had to undergo major reorganization within its management levels and employee structure (Jiao Li, 2011, p 52). In addition to management reorganization, the company has also changed its focus from research to more business practices and making their name known throughout their market (Jiao Li, 2011, p 51). Currently, where employees previously had one manager to report to, there are situations where there are two or more managers, depending on which project they are working on (Jiao Li, 2011, p 53). This has caused confusion as to which manager holds priority and how to manage tasks given to them by both (Jiao Li, 2011, p 53). As a result, projects are not progressing as efficiently as they should be and there is discord among both managers and employees (Jiao Li, 2011, p 53). This paper will take an in depth look at Beijing EAPS Consulting, Inc. and examine the consequences of co-conducting project plans, as well as the points of views from department and...
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...Running Head: BEIJING EAPS CONSULTING, INC. Beijing EAPS Consulting, Inc Assignment #3 Staryer University Date: 12/20/12 Running Head: BEIJING EAPS CONSULTING, INC. 1. Discuss the implications of co-conducting a project plan from the project and department managers’ points of view. After studying the case study, it is clear that both project managers and functional departments are positioned as the same level of Beijing EAPs Consulting (BEC) hierarchy. The main organizational of this structure reflects that they concentrated on planning, managing, and marketing each project. Both sections have its own project department including department A and B. This indicates that each project department has the authority to determine which duty should be assigned to proceed in the project cycle. On the other hand, the project managers believed that their authority had potential to identify orders and directions to the departmental subordinates. Neither subordinates nor the managers were familiar with the new structure because both had already been adjusted to the old function of BEC. Mr. Zheng had to change the BEC’s strategy because the new vision of organization mainly focused on business practices and the market’s potential profit sources. Due to the result of increased business demands, he changed the structure of the organization in order to enhance the efficiency of BEC’s human resources. BEC also faced with another issue which came from the project management...
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...Assignment 3: Beijing EAPS Consulting, Inc. The case study, “Beijing EAPS Consulting, Inc.” in the Custom Book, (2011), examines the project management structure of the Beijing EAPS Consulting (BEC) company. This case study also addresses about project plan itself and how the co-workers are struggling with this communication between both mangers. This project plan has demonstrated many strengths and weakness. The one thing that the project plan needs put into action are safeguards to insure that the project is completed on time. BEC has taken on the matrix organizational structure. This type of structure combines functional and divisional organization structure styles. There are advantages and disadvantages in utilizing this type of organizational structure. Advantages include resource utilization, specialization, cross functional areas, communication and flexibility. Resource utilization allows for the project departmental managers to focus on their strengths. Also, it allows for the managers to all the workers to specialize in an area of important for that project. In turn, it uses people across the company who specialize in a field that relates to the project at hand. This matrix structure permits cross departmental communication and flexibility to work on different projects across the company structure.( Guzman, 2012) However, with advantages come disadvantage with this type of matrix organizational structure. This structure increases complexity within...
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...A case study of organizational structure at Beijing EAPS Consulting, Inc. 1. Discuss the implications of co-conducting a project plan from the project and department managers’ points of view. Beijing EAPS Consulting Inc. (BEC) is a growing consulting company that specializes in providing psychological assistance to employees of BECs client firms. BEC started with six employees in 2001 and has increased to 20 employees in six years short years. When the company first started it was managed by the two co-founders working out of the same single office. In the beginning there was no clear company structure, no clearly identified departments. Projects where assigned to employees based on schedules and skills. In 2006, BEC started hiring new employees and set up new departments. The new company structure included a marketing department, a consulting department, a training department, a research and development (R&D) department, an administration department and two project departments A and B (PDA and PDB). Exhibit 1 illustrates BEC project structure after 2006. Note that the two organizations responsible for projects are listed as separate departments under different management. This type of organization structure is known as functional. Exhibit 2 list the responsibilities of both Project Departments as having the same overall responsibilities with regards to their projects. Difficulties may arise because the project managers fall under different...
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...Beijing EAPS Consulting Inc. Founded in 2001, Beijing EAPS Consulting, Inc (BEC) started with only 6 employees. Today, the company is the largest and the first Employee Assistance Program (EAP) provider in Mainland China, dedicating in improving employees’ psychological capital, relieving personal distress, helping organizations to foster a workforce with Health, Happiness, and High Performance, and enhancing organizational competitiveness and harmony by providing EAP services (“Research Initiatives,” n.d.). Companies (such as Lenovo, China Development Bank, Guangdoing Mobile, Siemens, Samsung, IBM, etc.) came to BEC to provide their employees with psychological assistance benefits in order to reduce stress, to improve employees’ relationships, to improve the work environment, and to increase job satisfaction for all employees. Because of BEC rapid growth in business and profit, it was primarily due to the company had adopted a new project management system. This approach utilizes project managers to organize with employees across different functional departments. As a result, most employees worked on multiple projects and reported to both the department and project managers. This became an issue among employees because of conflict among the managers with task assignments. Employees at times must prioritize their tasks themselves which could result in a task not getting done on time for one of the managers. Another issue within the BEC Company is collaboration between...
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...Nicholas Simmons Beijing EAPS Consulting, Inc BUS518 5/13/2012 A project involves a set of interrelated tasks with a single, definable purpose, end-item, or result, usually over a fixed period, with a cost, schedule and performance requirement (Nicolas, 2004). Every project takes on its own identity, even though the end products can similar. For example, the process of constructing a house may seem routine, however, there will always be something that changes in regards to client specifications, land profile, local utility locations, material specifications, and material prices. Due to the complexity of some projects and the possibility of handling several projects at the same time, managers are often faced with the task of putting together and managing temporary organizations while taking into consideration all uncertainties that may come their way, a new form of project organization have evolved (Nicolas, 2004). Project Management, can be known as, “the application of knowledge, skills and techniques to execute projects effectively and efficiently. It’s a strategic competency for groups and organizations, enabling them to tie project results to business goals” (Project Management Institute, 2011). The three key features that distinguish the modern project management from the earlier forms of management are: the project manager, the project team, and the project management system (Nicolas, 2004). A Project Manager is a single person tasked or has the responsibility to...
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...expect that midsize and small companies will follow. For hosting countries, attracting offshore activities is an important manner of boosting its economy, attracting know-how and building skills. As a result, countries are continuously trying to entice companies to offshore production to their premises. LOCATION ATTRACTIVENESS | | PEOPLE ATTRACTIVENESS | | INFRASTRUCTURE | HIGH | QUALITY OF POEPLE | MEDIUM | COUNTRY RISK | MEDIUM | COST OF HIRING PEOPLE | MEDIUM | TIME ZONE ATTRACTIVENESS | HIGH | TYPE OF SKILLS | LOW | | | ENGLISH PROFICIENCY | MEDIUM | TOTAL | HIGH | | LOW | Global Services Location Index The ‘Global Services Location Index’ (GSLI) 2014 by A.T. Kearney is the sixth edition of the report in which the consulting firm examines the offshoring landscape in 51* countries around the globe, and ranks the top destinations for global offshoring. To come to this ranking, three main categories were researched; financial attractiveness, people skills and availability, and business environment. The weight given to these metrics is based on their importance to the location decision. ‘Financial factors’ constitute for 40% of the published index. ‘People skills and availability’ and ‘business environment’ both account for 30% of the total weight. CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF BRAZIL FOR OUTSOURCING Trends in Brazil that support sourcing. In 2009 Population – 193.7 million (fifth largest in the world) GDP – US$1574 billion (eighth largest in the world) GDP...
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...JOCM 11,4 282 Foreign companies and Chinese workers: employee motivation in the People’s Republic of China Terence Jackson Centre for Cross Cultural Management Research, EAP European School of Management, Oxford, UK and Mette Bak BASF, Shanghai, China Introduction: the challenge of motivating Chinese employees At the end of 1978, during its “third plenum”, the Chinese Communist Part Central Committee gave economic reform top-level priority. Following the Second Session of the Fifth National People’s Congress on 1 July 1979, foreigners were permitted by law “to establish equity joint ventures together with Chinese companies, enterprises or other economic organizations … within the territory of the People’s Republic of China, on the principle of equity and mutual benefit” (PRC, 1987). Since the beginning of these economic reforms in 1979 the Chinese economy has exploded, with an average annual growth rate in GNP of 10 per cent over the last decade, with the attainment of 20 per cent in the coastal areas designated “special economic zones” (EIU, 1994). Foreign direct investment more than doubled between 1987 and 1990 (Kelley and Shenkar, 1993), despite a slow-down after the Tiananmen Square incident, with an estimate of more than 150,000 joint ventures in China. Much of this investment comes from Hong Kong (68.2 per cent in 1992) and other countries of Eastern Asia, with European countries, and even the USA (with 4.6 per cent in 1992) badly represented. Despite this...
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...Enriching Life Through Communication Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd. Corporate Sustainability Report 2011 Report Profile Reporting Period: January 1 to December 31, 2011 Date of Most Recent Previous Report: June 2011 Reporting Cycle: Annual Defining Report Content Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) principles such as materiality, stakeholder inclusiveness, sustainability context, and completeness, were used in this report to analyze key sustainability-related issues in business operations and identify major stakeholders. Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as “the company” or “Huawei”) hired a third-party organization to survey stakeholders and collect information on stakeholder expectations and requirements. Huawei’s CSR Committee studied, assessed, and selected the key items and indicators disclosed in this report. The performance indicators and management approaches discussed in this report cover all entities that Huawei either has control of or a significant influence over in terms of financial and operational policies and measures. These same performance indicators and management approaches are also consistent with the scope of Huawei’s annual financial report. Report Assurance Method Core indicators and additional indicators from the GRI G3.0 Guidelines were applied to compile the report and the application level is B+. To ensure the reliability, fairness, and transparency of this report, Huawei engaged TÜV Rheinland to verify...
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...说明 1. 本资料来源于英文版《How to get into the top MBA programs》,作者为Don Martin. 2. 第一部分为115份真实的ESSAY, 分别来自于17个不同背景的申请人. 3. 第二部分为对21个常见ESSAY问题的分析,包括问题的关键,常见错误,正确的回答方式. 个人认为这一部分比真实的ESSAY更重要. 4. 由于文件采用扫描和文字识别方法输入, 可能存在一些错误. 5. 此文件仅供CHASEDREAM网友参考使用, 请尊重原书版权, 切勿用于商业用途. Xiearmyxiearmy 零四岁末于美国穷乡僻壤 Chapter I Application Essay Examples INTRODUCTION This appendix contains 115 actual essays written, by 17 different applicants, for leading MBA programs. They address dozens of different essay topics. The applicants and their essays have been selected to give you the widest possible range of materials from which to profit. The first four applicants all applied to the University of Chicago. They were chosen by Chicago’s admissions director, Don Martin, according to my desire that they be from four very different people and of average quality for those admitted. In other words, these essays will show you exactly what you are competing against. They are of perfectly acceptable quality, but they should not discourage you. If you follow the lessons of this book you should be able to surpass each of these efforts. The second set of three applicants—Melissa, Doreen, and Carol—is taken from Columbia University’s files. Columbia’s admissions director, Linda Meehan, was asked to supply several applications, again from people of widely differing backgrounds, but this time of superior quality. I think that this group’s applications...
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...INSIDE Wipro in Brief Customer Focus Financial Highlights Chairman's Letter to the Stakeholders CEO's Letter to the Stakeholders CFO's Letter to the Stakeholders Board of Directors Sustainability Highlights 2012-13 Management Discussion & Analysis Directors Report Corporate Governance Report Business Responsibility Report Standalone Financial Statements Consolidated Financial Statements Consolidated Financial Statements under IFRS Glossary 2 4 8 10 12 14 16 22 24 41 55 85 106 147 183 231 This Annual Report is printed on 100% recycled paper as certified by the UK-based National Association of Paper Merchants (NAPM) and France - based Association des Producteurs et des Utilisateurs des papiers et cartons Recycles (APUR). Certain statements in this annual report concerning our future growth prospects are forward-looking statements, which involve a number of risks, and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in such forward-looking statements. The risks and uncertainties relating to these statements include, but are not limited to, risks and uncertainties regarding fluctuations in our earnings, revenue and profits, our ability to generate and manage growth, intense competition in IT services, our ability to maintain our cost advantage, wage increases in India, our ability to attract and retain highly skilled professionals, time and cost overruns on fixed-price, fixed-time frame contracts, client concentration, restrictions on immigration...
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...2013 Citizenship & Sustainability Report Contents Dr. Dalene von Delft recovered from multi-drug resistant tuberculosis. Early access to a Johnson & Johnson medicine added to her treatment helped. Inspired by her experience, Dalene founded TB Proof, dedicated to raising awareness of TB among health care workers. Read more at 2013annualreport.jnj.com/stories/ New-Hope-for-MDR-TB-Patients CONTENTS CHAI R MAN’S LETTE R S UCCE SS E S & CHALLE NG E S Advancing Human Health & Well-Being Leading a Dynamic & Growing Business Responsibly Safeguarding the Planet H EALTHY FUTU R E S 2015 GOALS & PROG R E SS U.N. G LOBAL COM PACT DATA S U M MARY G R I I N DEX 2 Letter from Our Chairman & CEO 52 Labor Practices & Workforce Guide to the Icons 4 Successes & Challenges 55 Employee Retention, Development & Recruitment 9 Organizational Profile 58 Compensation 10 Report Profile 58 Diversity & Inclusion The icons below help to communicate the scope and boundary for each topic covered in our report. They represent the audience and locations throughout the world impacted by our business segments or enterprise. 11 Citizenship & Sustainability 59 Political Contributions, Public Policy & Lobbying Citizenship & Sustainability Strategy Our Strategic Framework 62 Intellectual Property 13 Our Citizenship & Sustainability Materiality Assessment Process ...
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...The economic benefits of environmental policy A project under the Framework contract for economic analysis ENV.G.1/FRA/2006/0073 - 2nd FINAL REPORT November 2009 Matt Raymenta, Elke Pirgmaierb, Griet De Ceusterc, Friedrich Hinterbergerb, Onno Kuikd, Henry Leveson Gowera, Christine Polzinb, Adarsh Varmaa a b c d GHK Sustainable Europe Research Institute (SERI) Transport & Mobility Leuven VU University Amsterdam, Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM) Institute for Environmental Studies Vrije Universiteit De Boelelaan 1087 1081 HV AMSTERDAM The Netherlands Tel. ++31-20-5989 555 Fax. ++31-20-5989 553 E-mail: info@ivm.falw.vu.nl Internet: http://www.vu.nl/ivm vrije Universiteit amsterdam Contents Executive Summary 1. 2. 3. 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 4. 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 5. 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 6. 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 7. 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 8. 8.1 Introduction Environmental Policy and the Economy Environmental Policies and Productivity Description and background Policy instruments Review of evidence from the wider literature Evidence from examples and case studies Scale of economic benefits to date and assessment of the further potential Beneficiaries and timescale Environmental Policies and Innovation Description and background Policy instruments Review of evidence Examples and case studies Scale of economic benefits Beneficiaries and timescale Environmental Policies and Employment Description and background Policy instruments Review of evidence from...
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