...Companies Responsbilities Introduction Company responsibility is a process which aims to embrace responsibility for the company's actions and encourage a positive impact through its activities on the environment, consumers, employees, communities, stakeholders and all other members of the public sphere who may also be considered as stakeholders. It is defined as a form of corporate self-regulation which is integrated into a business model. Company responsibilities functions as a built-in, self-regulating mechanism whereby a business monitors and ensures its active compliance with the spirit of the law, ethical standards, and international norms. The term "corporate social responsibility" came into common use in the late 1960s and when many multinational corporations formed the term stakeholder, and organization's activities had a major impact on the stakeholders. There has been different views towards company responsiblities wherein Proponents argue that corporations make more long term profits by operating with a perspective, while critics argue that CSR distracts from the economic role of businesses. Others argue that it is an attempt to pre-empt the role of governments as a watchdog over powerful multinational corporations. CSR is titled to aid an organization's mission as well as a guide to what the company stands for and will uphold to its consumers. There are different approaches towards social responsiblities, they are broadly clasified into two, the primary...
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...Beauty Segment l This segment includes cosmetics, fragrances, hair care, and skin care products Beauty Segment l l Beauty accounts for approximately 34% of P&G’s product portfolio. 24% of Net Sales & Net Earnings – Head & Shoulders, Olay, and Pantene are some of the biggest brands within this segment. Strength – Hair Care l Strong focus on research&developement - promote innovation and bring new products to the Highly recognizable brand-building - shape brand-inspired, benifit-driven brands. market quicker l l Great product availability - products are sold at practically all domestic retailer chain and drug stores. l Large scale production. Weakness- Hair Care l l l l Losing market share rapidly Women oriented products Limited diversity products (Women oriented products ) Limited functions (less choices for customers) Opportunities- Hair Care Hair and Beauty products for men l Online social networks and internet marketing techniques l Try to pursue growth overseas l Expand brands for hair care products( cut off some other less profitable brands in the beauty segment. - objective is to invest 20 most profitable innovations l Threats- Hair Care l Greatest threat to P&G’s Beauty Segment is the Threat of Rivalry – Unilever, L’Oreal l l Mature Market Competitors have more diversified products optional l boost volume sales growth Price increases help to drive...
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...International assignments are often the key in developing good managerial teams in the new foreign subsidiary as expatriates can transfer their knowledge on how the company operates overall. In some MNE’s it is considered necessary for the senior managers to spend some time abroad to build the experience of running the company internationally so they can use that knowledge to fulfil the top corporative posts. The costs of sending expatriates abroad is high, in addition to paying expatriates salary organisations have to pay the cost of relocating the person and his/her family, pay for the house, give living allowances, special family benefits etc. Often organisations pay for the locating a job for the spouse and even pay them salary till they find a job, this is known as ‘trailing spouse’ benefits. The research show that many international assignments had failed. Traditionally a failed assignment is when the expatriate come back home before he/she is scheduled to do so. However a ‘failed’ assignment can also be defined in terms of poor quality performance & not meeting the expectations of their supervisors. Research done by Black & Gregerson (1999) show that 10%-20% of expatriates returned home before the scheduled to do so. 30% of expatriates fail to meet the expectations of their supriviours and 25% soon left their jobs after returning home. Why did so many assignments failed? The three main reseasons for the international assignemnts failer is the expatriates...
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...diversified international life insurance companies across the globe. The acquisition accelerates MetLife’s global growth strategy. Upon acquisition, MetLife, which is already the largest life insurer in the United States and Mexico, became a leading competitor in Japan, the world’s second-largest life insurance market. The transaction materially advanced MetLife’s position in Europe. It also moves MetLife into a top five market position in many high growth emerging markets in Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Latin America. MetLife Alico, has been operating in Bangladesh with their insurance services since 1952. Throughout the history, it has continuously sought to nurture talent, respect local cultures and promote the diversity that characterizes the Bangladeshi society. It has grown by understanding the needs at the heart of the community and by tailoring our extensive product offering to the unique needs of individuals, families and businesses of all sizes. Established in the erstwhile East Pakistan in 1952, it was the first and so far is the only international company to be granted a license to offer life and accident insurance...
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...CSR Within Starbucks [pic] Written By: Ashley Benton Charles Yeung Karin Sigl Krishna Oedjaghir Virginie Laroque Hong Kong Baptist University Cross-cultural and Comparative Management BUS 3690 Prof. Anne Marie Francesco 1 Introduction "The future belongs to those who understand that doing more with less is compassionate, prosperous, and enduring, and thus more intelligent, even competitive." Paul Hawken In a world, where more and more interest in performance in sustainability, in moral defensibleness, in the operational activities of companies is developed, there takes place a change from the only profit-oriented firm to a more environmentally oriented, pro bono targeted firm. This change can be seen all over the world and it has generated the term Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). CSR is the activity of companies in matter of the environmental, the social and operational responsibilities. While achieving high profits might have been the only interest some years ago, the demand by share- and stakeholders for a good CSR-performance is now gradually increasing. In that matter, stakeholders could be (Ballou et al., 2006): ● Financial stakeholders as shareholders, banking institutions, employees, ● · Supply chain stakeholders as customers, direct suppliers, alliance partners, ● · Regulatory stakeholders as the FDA, Environmental Protection Agency, accounting standard setters, ● · Political stakeholders as federal, state and...
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...Marketing Management Study Program : Management Assignment Title : Group Project Group Members : Anton Kokabri Caroline Natalia Chandra Leonardi Sutopo Selly Sherly Warren Class : Prince Edward Island Lecturer : Sir Hendra Submission Date : 13 November 2009 Business Marketing Plan Executive Summary Overview T-Quila is an upscale clothing shop that will open in July next year. T-Quila, which means "Tequila" or "kind of wine”, defines the shop and its essence of inclusion. We choose the name to suppose that our products will make the customers to be addicted to our products and keep on buying them. T-Quila's clothing selections are couple T-shirt, Family T-shirt, Siblings T-Shirt, Female Tees and D.I.Y T-shirt that will satisfy Medan people’s demand in a unique and well-designed T-Shirt. T-Quila is a group-owned business currently organized as a Partnership. Clothing for Everyone T-Quila will provide T-Shirt that is wearable in any kind of occasions and stretch in the special design. T-shirt is never out-of-date while other fashion stuff is not up-to-date anymore. From century to century, T-shirt has always been the most favorable items to wear by most people. In addition to that, we provide T-shirt with unique design and in various types. T-Quila’s customer is people who want to be stylish with a minimum budget and become the one who is in the middle of the spotlight. They enjoy the T-shirt fashions and want a place where they can go...
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...Second Order Moment Approach to Real Options Analysis Submitted as a Component of Required Courses for the Award of Bachelor of Engineering (Civil) Honours School of Civil Engineering University of New South Wales Author: Ariel Hersh October 2010 Supervisor: Professor David G. Carmichael i ORIGINALITY STATEMENT ‘I hereby declare that this submission is my own work and to the best of my knowledge it contains no materials previously published or written by another person, or substantial proportions of material which have been accepted for the award of any other degree or diploma at UNSW or any other educational institution, except where due acknowledgement is made in the thesis. Any contribution made to the research by others, with whom I have worked at UNSW or elsewhere, is explicitly acknowledged in the thesis. I also declare that the intellectual content of this thesis is the product of my own work, except to the extent that assistance from others in the project's design and conception or in style, presentation and linguistic expression is acknowledged.’ Signed …………………………………………….............. Date …………………………………………….............. ii 1. ABSTRACT Real options analysis can be used by investors to determine the value of potential investments that offer an owner the right but not the obligation to exercise a strategic decision at a predetermined time and price. Tools which are popular for valuing financial ...
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...Glass Door Comments BlackBerry Reviews Updated Dec 11, 2013 All Employees Current Employees Only 3.4 796 reviews 57% of employees recommend this company to a friend 796 Employee Reviews Bottom of Form Review Highlights Pros: * "Great environment combined with a perfect work-life balance" in 49 reviews * "Great work environment/culture which makes it a fun place to work" in 45 reviews * "Good benefits; Good company to work for till profits started to slide off" in 36 reviews * "Lots of great people at the company, learned a lot and inspired my career in technology" in 33 reviews * "Good pay, great management, I felt like the work I was doing was important for the company" in 30 reviews Cons: * "No work life balance, limited career advancement, lack of good benefits of tech companies" in 20 reviews * "Senior management (C-Level) does no communicate down to employees well" in 27 reviews * "Poor management decision making processes - not innovative" in 18 reviews * "Upper management doesn't listen to people lower down that actually know what they're talking about" in 15 reviews * "Many bad/useless middle management built up over the years but the layoff did some clean up" in 13 reviews Reviews Dec 8, 2013 “Loved the company and the people.” Software Development Manager (Former Employee) Rolling Meadows, IL I worked at BlackBerry full-time for more than 5 years Pros – BlackBerry was a great...
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