...Charlette Jones April 24, 2014 U03a1 BUS3050 Case Study: I Thought I Gave Them Everything Case Summary In my analysis of the case of Henry Gonzales the manager of Quality Foods’; I found that the responsibility of Henry would be the process of achieving the objectives of the organization by using its available resources effectively. Evidently Henry has taken advantage of that as he has accomplished his top management position in the store—for his hard work—gaining the once unprofitable store—probability. While Henry thought he gave them everything; However, Henry intrapersonal communication-- has gotten the best of him. Henry doesn’t seem to be conscious and lack communication competency; for the simple fact he offers monetary as oppose to promotion or change, and he is lacking loyalty. Prime example: He emphasis financial rewards for hard work and monetary incentives for cutting company cost and again hard work (increased sales)…I worked in sales and it is hard work (it’s a numbers game and requires hard work and commitment)... If everyone is expected to work hard…..everyone should be entitled to opportunities for advancements, promotions, as well as pay raises and incentives—just as he did. Theories of Motivation In such a business the manager is responsible for many managerial task; However, as he grows and help the business grow; I would suggest that Henry delegate some of the tasks to the supervisors (giving them a sense of belonging—(promotions—to...
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...Case 1 : Long Hours, Hundreds of E-Mails, and No Sleep : Doe | Q1: Do you think only certain individuals are attracted to these types of jobs, or is it the characteristics of the jobs themselves that are satisfying? Case Overview - Gian Paolo Lombardo, during his vacation he spent most of the time in hotel room in California with his Blackberry, while his wife Ellen chatted with other guests. - Irene Tse heads the government bond-trading division about 10 years. She says she hasn’t slept through the night in years and often wakes up several times to check the global market status. She can count on the fingers of the hand the number of days in her career when she didn’t want to come to work. -Tony Kurz is a managing director at Capital Alliance Partners, and raises funds for real estate investments. He often flies to exotic locations to woo prospective clients. - David Clark is the vice president of global marketing for MTV. His job often travelling around and don’t have much time to spend with his family. Higher priority to professionalism than their life Jobs offer higher status in the society Employee find their jobs challenging Workaholic GROUP MEMBERS Q 2 : What characteristics of these jobs might contribute to increased levels of job satisfaction? Autonomy or independence Challenging and stimulating characteristics of the job Contribution of work to organization's goal Get benefits Work itself high pay, networking ...
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...Business Research Case Study QNT/565 April 1, 2013 Subas Nandy, Ph.D. Business Research Case Study The following business research case study is decision-making within the workplace of a new supervisor. Because of the closing of the workforce center that Frances Holden was working, she was relocated to the Northeast location where her El Paso area supervisor, Mano, resides. Frances could not relocate to the new yet until the expansion is completed. On February 22, 2013 Frances and her coworker, Jimmie, was relocated to the Northeast workforce center. The plan was for Frances to work at the center for two weeks, have her knee surgery, and by the time she return back to work she will be able to relocate to the new center with her supervisor and coworker. During her two weeks at the Northeast center, Frances noticed the change in operation and the unethical way the previous supervisor, Frank, was giving himself credit for clients he did not see. The work study staff was seeing the clients and providing them job referrals. Frances first day working, a work study gave her a piece of paper of what he did with a client such as job referrals. Frances politely inform the work study that she could not enter services into the computer if she did not see the client. Frances observed that Frank (he was the only one working at the center until more staff came onboard) did not start seeing clients until 9:00 a.m. and not after 4:00 p.m. The staff were taking anywhere between an hour to...
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...Written Assignment 4 In this case study, Raymond Smith purchases a new car from an unnamed dealer. When Mr. Smith purchased this car, he signed a contract that specifically limited liability for personal injuries as a result of defect in the car, and limiting the solution for any breach of warranty to repair or replace the defective part(s). Unfortunately, one month after purchasing the car Mr. Smith was seriously injured due to an accident in the car caused by a defect in the steering mechanism of the car. Following the crash, Mr. Smith decides that he would like to sue the dealer for breach of warranty; however the dealer defends this action by relying on the contract disclaimer. Despite having specific language in the contract which limits the dealers liability, [UCC 2-314(1), 2A-212(1)] explicitly shows that good may come with an implied warranty. In this instance, there is an implied warranty on the car that it must perform the normal actions of a new car. These actions may be proper steering, braking, etc. According to the UCC, “goods must be fit for the ordinary purpose for which they are used”. Mr. Smith purchased a car expecting it to be able to be used as a car normally does, in this case simply driving/steering. Due to the defect in the steering mechanism, the car was not fit for the ordinary purposes of which it would normally be used. Taking into account that Mr. Smith sustained serious injuries in this crash, it is safe to assume that the car had considerable...
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...Should Companies Embrace Social Business Managing Info Tech Across the Global Enterprise Shantel Watkins swatkins8512@monroecollege.edu Identify the management, organization, and technology factors responsible for slow adoption rates of internal corporate networks. While social media is becoming a platform for businesses and corporations to communicate with their consumers and employees within their organization it is the same medium which can damage and cause problems and confusion for the organization. According to Laudon (2014), the goal of social business is to deepen interactions with groups inside and outside the firm to expedite and enhance information sharing, innovation, and decision-making. Email and Instant Massaging, Wikis, forums and blogs are the most commonly used tools that organizations use for collaboration and social business. Moreover, companies also create their own internal corporate networks for collaboration and social business. However, the attempt at creating their own social platforms have proved unpromising results. According to the case, a majority of business technology professionals consider their own internal social networks to be merely average or below average, and the biggest reason they cite is low adoption rates on the part of employees. Organizations should overwhelm their employees with all these stressful tools and technologies that they will not end up using at the end of the day. This has resulted in half of the respondents...
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...Business studies - Just deserts Just Desserts LTD has grown rapidly recently, and Martha Barnes, who runs the business, is reluctant to delegate authority meaning the workforce is growing but their are not any new managers. This will create a flat organisational structure with wide spans of control for each manager. Therefore there will be a large workload for each person. It says that some of the managers are over-worked. If they won't delegate any authority they will need to recruit some new managers as over-worked will not be motivated and their output will not be as high as it could be. Martha is inflexible about training her current staff. This is likely to demotivate staff as they will be working with the company and not progressing. Demotivated staff are likely to have a negative effect on the effectiveness of the workforce instead of a positive one and this could in turn affect the whole business if she does not motivate the staff the quality of their output could drop and that would in turn affect the businesses name as they emphasise that they are good quality. Another thing is that Just Desserts is cash position has gotten worse not improved and instead of improving their current staff they are just going to get new staff so the staffs may start to worry about their job security. However this could be good because they can get new staff with skills that their staff currently don’t have. If they employ the right people as they seem to be adamant to do, they may...
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...prices. Wal-Mart also established through studies and research that China’s customers valued great customer satisfaction which in return they displayed their loyalty by coming back over and over. Therefore, making some consumers skeptical to shift to Wal-Mart. Sustainability means everything to customers in China because like mentioned before consumers are loyal to the companies in which they have previously interacted with. Consumers in China become return customers if you have to sustain the great service expected from the customers. China’s consumers are not to kind on change, but as long as you provide the best service possible over and over they will continue to comeback. 2. Wal-Mart also has to consider sustainability when deciding their vendors. In order for Wal-Mart to be as successful as they are, they have to have top of the line products from top of the line vendors. Therefore, reliability is a must. As mentioned in the case, there were complications between Wal-Mart and the vendors specifically when it came to the Return to Vendors Programs. There was no control over the time the vendors had to collect the products that were unusable or destroyed which was supposed to be no longer than 14-days, but was rarely followed. 3. The distribution system for the United States and China are very different. Almost all of the sales that Wal-Mart had for its stores in the US passed through distribution centers, but less than half was the case for its stores in China. This was happening...
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...Give Armor Cheat code: 362-555-0100 Gives Health, Armor And Ammo Cheat code: 482-555-0100 Lower Wanted Level Cheat code: 267-555-0100 Raise Wanted Level Cheat code: 267-555-0150 Weapon Package #1 Cheat code: 486-555-0150 Weapon Package #2 Cheat code: 486-555-0100 Original codes for Lost and the Damned Spawn a Cognoscenti Cheat code: 227-555-0142 Spawn a Comet Cheat code: 227-555-0175 Spawn a FIB Buffalo Cheat code: 227-555-0100 Spawn a Jetmax Cheat code: 938-555-0100 Spawn a Sanchez Cheat code: 625-555-0150 Spawn a Turismo Cheat code: 227-555-0147 Spawn an NRG-900 Cheat code: 625-555-0100 Spawn Annihilator Cheat code: 359-555-0100 Spawn Burrito Cheat code: 826-555-0150 Spawn Double T Cheat code: 245-555-0125 Spawn Hakuchou Cheat code: 245-555-0199 Spawn Hexer Cheat code: 245-555-0150 Spawn Innovation Cheat code: 245-555-0100 Spawn Slamvan Cheat code: 826-555-0100 Original codes for Ballad of Gay Tony Akuma (Bike) Cheat code: 625-555-0200 APC (Tank) Cheat code: 272-555-8265 Buzzard (Helicopter) Cheat code: 359-555-2899 Change Weather Cheat code: 468-555-0100 Floater (Boat) Cheat code: 938-555-0150 Health and Armour Cheat code: 362-555-0100 Health, Armor and Advanced Weapons Cheat code: 482-555-0100 Parachute Cheat code: 359-555-7272 Raise Wanted Level Cheat code: 267-555-0150 Remove Wanted Level Cheat code: 267-555-0100 Sniper Rifle Bullets Explode Cheat code: 486-555-2526 Spawn Annihilator Cheat code: 359-555-0100 ...
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...Write a Business Case Study A business case study confronts students with a real-life dilemma and engages all their abilities to solve its challenges. In presenting a specific business or policy situation—one that does not have an obvious solution—the case provides information for classroom discussion and other study. A good case study stimulates an educated conversation and the building of business knowledge. The best case studies are learning-centered, not instructor-centered. Details describing the differences between the two can be found in Exhibit 1. A student reading the case should be provided with the information needed to make good decisions about the case, or the ability to find the information if that is a learning objective. Information critical to solving the case should never be contained exclusively in the case’s teaching note, because doing so puts the instructor in the center of the learning, and leads to frustrated students. Cases should satisfy professors and students as well as the businesses, organizations, and people featured in the cases. Although these interests might appear in conflict, a case that is written with fairness and intelligence will ultimately receive the respect of all parties. The best cases have several structural characteristics in common including a protagonist, specific time frame, and use of past tense. An author who becomes experienced in case writing may deviate from this pattern, but doing so may result in an inferior case. The structure...
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...Diesel | Live, breathe and wear passionSearch The Times 100 - Business Case Studies Logo Home PageCase StudiesSTEMRevision TheoryTeaching ResourcesCompaniesCareersShopBlogLogin The Times 100 / Business Case Studies / By Industry / Fashion Business Case Studies by Industry - Fashion Below is a list of The Times 100 business case studies from companies within the Fashion sector of industry. Choose a case study from the lists alongside each company. By TopicBy EditionBy CompanyBy Industry The Times 100 fashion case studies asos.com Logo asos.com [+] The product life cycle and online fashion [+] Strategic growth in the fashion retail industry Ben Sherman Logo Ben Sherman — Using the marketing mix in the fashion industry This case study examines how Ben Sherman uses the marketing mix to help the business remain competitive and extend its market share and influence. — Edition 13 C&A Logo C&A [+] Creating value - brand management [+] Implementing Codes of Conduct Diesel Logo Diesel — Live, breathe and wear passion This case study looks at how Diesel promotes its products and the brand. — Edition 15 Dr Martens Logo Dr Martens [+] Building a fashionable brand image [+] Re-engineering a business process [+] Development of a brand through trade mark protection Levi's Logo Levi's — Reclaiming the identity of a brand This case study has shown how Levi’s has used effective brand management planning to reclaim the brand and to turn around the fortunes...
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...CRITICAL SUCCESS FACTORS FOR BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE SYSTEMS WILLIAM YEOH University of South Australia SA 5095 Australia ANDY KORONIOS University of South Australia SA 5095 Australia The implementation of a business intelligence (BI) system is a complex undertaking requiring considerable resources. Yet there is a limited authoritative set of critical success factors (CSFs) for management reference because the BI market has been driven mainly by the IT industry and vendors. This research seeks to bridge the gap that exists between academia and practitioners by investigating the CSFs influencing BI systems success. The study followed a two-stage qualitative approach. Firstly, the authors utilised the Delphi method to conduct three rounds of studies. The study develops a CSFs framework crucial for BI systems implementation. Next, the framework and the associated CSFs are delineated through a series of case studies. The empirical findings substantiate the construct and applicability of the framework. More significantly, the research further reveals that those organisations which address the CSFs from a business orientation approach will be more likely to achieve better results. Keywords: Business intelligence system, Critical success factors, Delphi method, Case study INTRODUCTION Recently Business Intelligence (BI) applications have been dominating the technology priority list of many CIOs [11, 12]. According to Reinschmidt and Francoise [22], a BI system is “an integrated set...
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...Barnes & Noble Vs. Amazon To attain a competitive advantage over Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble needs to develop a proper strategy and implement a successful marketing plan. SITUATION ANALYSIS Barnes & Noble first must consider the issues and problems facing their company, and then perform an opportunity analysis to determine their strengths and weaknesses in relation to their customers, competitors, and company capabilities. In regards to the main concerns of Barnes & Noble, the company needs to worry about the uncertainties associated with the expected rapid growth of the Internet, the changing profile of Internet users, increased competition and indeterminate future developments in electronic retailing from publishers, wholesalers, and retailers, and intense price competition. By 2000, more than 80 million users will be on the World Wide Web, with an increase in females and a broader spectrum of education levels and age, changing the market demographics. Additionally, some book publishers, namely Simon & Schuster and Bertelsmann, have expanded online, while the national leading wholesaler, Ingram, is developing a website where wholesalers could ship directly to consumers. In the meantime, small publishers and universities have started to publish directly on the Web, avoiding print versions completely and thereby challenging the posterity of conventional books. Within the Barnes & Noble Corporation, their smaller traditional bookstores such...
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...Jessica Turner has a master's degree in accounting and an undergrad degree in business. She established Turner Test Prep, a CPA exam review center, after being rejected by the Big Six accounting firms. She decided to bring the company into existence when she was searching for other employment options, and also because she had experience in the field when she worked at a review center's business office before taking up her master's degree. There, she inadvertently started teaching the math portion of the reviews, and received training in teaching. After passing the CPA exam on the first try herself, she decided that she would like to help those who want to take the CPA exam pass on their first try as well. And so she developed a business and marketing plan, convened with various professors to create a comprehensive curriculum, and opened her firm's doors. Instead of the normal review route of using books, software, or online courses, she provided a full service 6 week, 3-6 hours a day review regimen for her clients that include one hour live lectures from various professors, discussions about test taking skills and organizational skills to digest information faster, provided audiotapes that the clients can listen to at home or in their cars, executed timed mini tests as well as practice essay questions, one on one bi weekly client meeting to see how they've progressed and for them to ask questions, and a direct line to her via e mail for any queries the clients may have. She Even...
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...International Journal of Trade, Economics and Finance, Vol. 1, No. 1, June, 2010 2010-023X Information Technology roles in Accounting Tasks – A Multiple-case Study Maria do Céu Gaspar Alves Abstract—Nowadays the business world is changing at a faster and faster pace. The reasons given for this is globalization, highs information technology (IT) investments and the rapid pace of technological change. Organizations are responding in different ways and at different rates to the wide range of IT based opportunities and pressures. The purpose of this paper is to focus on the effects of IT related organizational changes on the management accounting function and to contribute to the body of knowledge about to what extent IT affects the ability to solve accounting tasks. The relationship between IT and accounting practices was investigated qualitatively using six case studies and we will measure the impact of IT on accountants’ tasks. The findings suggest a tendency for change and the decentralization of accounting tasks. Index Terms—Accounting, Accounting Information Systems, Financial Documents, Information Technology, Management Information System. I. INTRODUCTION Nowadays the business world is changing at a faster and faster pace. The reasons given for this is globalization, highs IT investments and the rapid pace of technological change in combination with escalating costs of research and development (Frishamar, 2002). The role of information technology...
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...Andrew Yard Case Study Analysis 1 Running Head: Andrew Yard Case Study Analysis The Andrew Yard Case Study Analysis (A-C) Harvard Business School Publication 9-911-028,029,030 MBA 612: Leadership I Northwood University DeVos Graduate School September 2014 Dr. Tara Peters Running Head: Andrew Yard Case Study Analysis 2 The Andrew Yard circumstance portrays a remuneration settlement from a worldwide HR executive, Joseph Rogers, alongside a hopeful, Andrew Yard, for a high-level executive position. He is highly qualified and experienced professional in retailing home goods and electronics. The negotiated 600K salary plus 75% bonus, and other benefits such as health insurance, a car allowance, stock options and housing were appealing but also too came with a price. Problem Statement: The problem becomes awkward once Andrew feels offended by Joseph while he is offered a monetary motivator to join the association more quickly than at first arranged. Hypothesis/Analysis: The Business Development team identified growth potential in retail business but the retail business was declining due to the absence of a good leader. Hypothesis 1: Ayoub Companies was missing out on growth opportunities in retail business. The COO was acting as an interim leader and he was under much burden. As an example in the Harvard Business case study states, his recent emails to the team showed that the retail business was a critical juncture: “We’re putting fires out daily...
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