...Standards and expectations for leaders in many organizations are different for women than men. Why does it seem so difficult for women to advance to high-level leadership positions and have the same opportunities as men? Why is it so uncommon for a woman to be CEO? Are women compensated equally for doing the same job as their male counterparts? If a woman is older than 40 does she have as many opportunities as men the same age? Is there still gender discrimination occurring in the workplace? These are all questions to ponder, even now in the year 2011. There is much information available on women leaders and the impact they are having on the top ‘Fortune’ 1000 companies. The information is varied and there are some mixed messages about whether women are treated equal to their male counterparts and making progress. It does seem that diversity in the workplace is becoming more the norm and creating a shift to allow women more opportunities to develop their leadership skills and to compete for higher-level positions. Historically male dominated industries such as Engineering and Information Technology seem to be seeing more women managers. I believe that corporations that have diversity have more innovation and are more efficient as a result, so they should be more profitable. One of the top leading non-profit organizations is Catalyst, it was established in 1962 by Felice Schwartz to promote diversity and inclusion for women in the workplace (Wikipedia). According to the...
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...Running head: XEROX COMPANY Xerox Company Human resource professionals can ensure that top organizational leaders encourage managers and employees to follow laws and guidelines in the following ways: Human Resources professionals should make sure top organizational leaders and management are aware of major laws such as the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Equal Pay Act and the Family and Medical Leave Act. HR should also encourage these organizational leaders to better understand the legal and safety issues associated with the company. In addition, technology plays a major role in Human resources. There are legal issues associated with email usage as well as internet use and organizational leaders need to be aware of these issues. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) requires employees to keep records of safety practices and incidents. Companies must have records of the information they provide to teach employees of possible health concern and dangers present in the work place. The HR professional should ensure that sexual harassment guidelines, laws and prevention methods are presented and understood by the organizational leaders. The Xerox Company is on the Fortune 500 global document management company that was founded in 1906. It launched an aggressive turnaround plan that returned the company to full-year profitability, along with decreasing debt, increasing cash, and continuing to invest...
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...of the two stocks I strongly believe that FIT will underperform the S&P 500 and CBG will outperform the S&P 500. I believe that CBG will outperform the S&P 500 in the coming fiscal year based on the firm’s strong background, prior history, and comparative advantage. I believe that FIT will underperform the S&P 500 in the coming fiscal year due to its recent stock decline, lack of innovation, and the credibility of its well-known competitors. CB Richard Ellis Group Inc., or simply CBRE, is a worldwide real estate services & investment firm that serves real estate owners, investors, and occupiers throughout the world. In short, CBRE offers strategic and execution advice for a multitude of real estate properties and investments. According to CBRE’s website, “CBRE consists of 70,000 professionals whom provide outcomes for clients in 60+ countries”, based off this information it is clear that CBRE is an enormous firm that is continually expanding and improving. According to CBRE’s official website it had substantial revenues of around $10.9 billion. Based on the company’s recent history it’s quite evident that CBRE is one of the most dominant firms in its field for numerous reasons. For one, its size, CBRE Group, Inc. is the world’s largest commercial and real estate services and investment firms. Not only is this firms size quite impressive but its history is as well. CBRE has been a part of the fortune 500 since 2008 and for the past 15 consecutive years has been voted industry’s...
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...Organizational Planning Mario S Surla MGT/521 April 9, 2014 Donald Ratliff Organizational Planning Wal-Mart is an American multinational retail corporation and the top retail store with the lowest prices in the world. It is the biggest private employer and the largest public corporation with over two million employees worldwide. There are approximately 245 million customers and members that visit Wal-Mart each week, globally. It has stores in 27 countries and sales in 2013 were $466 billion. Wal-Mart’s mission statement of having the lowest prices is consistent with controlling cost, innovation and continuous improvement (Fortune 500, 2014). One of the strategic plans of Wal-Mart is to bring back “Made in America” products (“Time”, 2014). One of the reasons for having low prices is because Wal-Mart’s global out-sourcing. Goods and products that are made and bought overseas are cheaper. However, higher and increasing shipping costs, high global oil prices and wages overseas, translated to costlier fuel for ships and airplanes. There are also supply interruptions overseas as the middle class is growing and local demands are increasing in developing countries. This prompted Wal-Mart to re-evaluate its sourcing ways on variety of products. As you know, Wal-Mart does not produce goods or products but this giant retailer is playing a part in the manufacturing rebound in the U.S. It promised to buy $50 billion of U.S. goods over the next 10 years...
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...University of Melbourne's management and marketing faculty describes Jobs as “one of the greatest business strategists of all times”. “There are a lot of people out there claiming to be futurists,” Dr Coker said. “Most of them are keynote speakers or public speakers - it is rare to have a futurist that demonstrated his ability to almost predict the future in a real live business setting.” But Jobs's rise to the top was hardly textbook perfect. A university dropout, he worked at Atari and travelled through India before seeing a commercial opportunity in the computer (the original Apple I) Wozniak had built to impress some friends. They started the company with an investment of $US1300 of their own money, making it into the Fortune 500 list by 1983. That year Jobs recruited former Pepsi executive John Sculley to take the chief executive position, only to be stripped of all his power by him in 1985. According to author Steven Levy, this was prompted by the Macintosh computer not selling as well as expected, as well as Jobs's demanding management style. As Harry McCracken writes in Time...
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...industry and helps ensure that every experience delivers on our value proposition. • Products or services, industry, and market position Products offered by ADP range from: Human Capital Management Payroll Services Talent Management Human Resources Management Benefits Administration Time and Attendance HR Business Process Outsourcing (HRBPO) Professional Employer Organization (PEO) Retirement Services Insurance Services Tax and Compliance Payment Solutions ADP serves about 620,000 organizations in more than 125 countries, including 425,000 small-business clients and 26,000 vehicle dealerships. Over 80 percent of FORTUNE 500 companies and more than 90 FORTUNE 100 companies use at least one of ADP's services. • Sources of information about the...
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...Technology Leader 2819 Admirals Walk Drive East Orange Park, FL. 32073 Telephone: 904-269-1336 Email:ctaylor108@capellauniversity.edu Instructor: Susan Duff Introduction Offshoring also known as offshoring outsourcing is a term which came to use more than a decade ago to describe a practice among companies located in the United States of contracting with companies outside of the US borders to perform services which could have been provided by in-house employees. In today’s globalized world outsourcings are used by companies as a means to lower labor cost and increase profits. This practice is not something new, before the internet and before business decided to globalize outsourcing for them was contacting a local temporary employment agency. Now in the 21st century a great majority of US companies has outsourced their call centers to India and other third world countries in an effort to reduce operation cost. The question is has offshoring improved customer service or hampered customer service. The biggest disadvantage with offshoring is loss of knowledge, cultural issues, potential security issues, language barrier, finding qualified personnel, local infrastructure, control and flexibility offered by local law and greater effort for knowledge transfer and process setup. Analysis India call centers help US companies cut overhead costs by decreasing the need for capital investment, availability of educated and skilled workforce. However what do these Fortune 500...
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...University of Phoenix Material Organizational Planning Worksheet Complete each section below. Be sure to cite your sources when necessary. Fortune 500 Company name |Microsoft | The company’s internal and external stakeholders |Internal stakeholder’s |External stakeholder’s | |Desire job security and compensations |Operating system that is easy to understand | |Employees across the departments |Hardware manufacturing partners and Investors | Company’s mission and vision Company’s mission |“ At Microsoft, our mission and values are to help people and businesses throughout the world realize their full potential” (Farfan, | |2015) | Company’s vision |“As a company, and as individuals, we value integrity, honesty, openness, personal excellence, constructive self-criticism, continual | |self-improvement, and mutual respect. We are committed to our customers and partners and have a passion for technology. We take on big | |challenges...
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...------------------------------------------------- Human Resource Strategy Analyzing Google and Protiviti May 18, 2015 Dr. Woodard Bus 508 May 18, 2015 Dr. Woodard Bus 508 When looking at two countries on the Fortune 100 list I choose the number one company and the number 100 company. Those two companies are Google and Protiviti, Inc. Both companies are doing very well and have similarities and differences. Upon dissecting the two companies and figuring out why they belong on the Fortune 100 list, I found the following. The number one best company to work for in the world is Google. Google offers a great deal of products and services that are very useful. Google has over 50 different products listed on their website. The products are categorized by web products, mobile products, business products, media, Geo, specialized search, home & office, social, and innovation. A lot of their products can be used on mobile devices by downloading them as applications. Some of the applications that are very popular that Google created is Google Maps, Gmail, Drive, Google Wallet, Google Translate, Calendar, and many others. One application that is really cool is Google Wallet. It is basically like a prepaid credit card that is monitored by Google’s bank. You are able to make purchases as if it was a regular card. You can send and receive money. This is a very helpful application/service especially for parents that are giving allowances to their kids, college student’s receiving...
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...Strategic Initiative Paper A major part of a company’s success is planning. A business needs effective strategic planning to remain competitive and grow financially. For a company to reach its full financial potential, a planning process must exist. Strategic planning serves as the roadmap for a company’s financial efficiency. Wal-Mart developed the strategic planning initiative of Every Day Low Price (EDLP), which prices it products at low, affordable prices. Wal-Mart’s strategic planning has made the store one of the best known organizations and industry leaders in low prices. The strategic planning initiative effects costs and the sales within the organization that can also create risks; however, if managed effectively can make the discount giant even more profitable. Strategic Planning Initiative, Financial Planning Wal-Mart has grown from modest beginnings to become one of the most recognizable store chains in the world by operating almost 11,000 stores in 27 countries with more than two million employees (Wal-Mart, 2012). With such a large, well-known organization the company strives to remain competitive within a global market. To succeed, the company used strategic planning to identify an aggressive strategy within their 2012 annual report. Wal-Mart management entitled the strategy“Delivering Everyday Low Price (EDLP). According to Wal-Mart’s 2012 annual report, the EDLP strategy represents an essential component of its message of delivering the lowest prices...
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...Walmart has grown not only nationally, but also has been growing internationally. Walmart’s globalization strategy always has not been planned very well. An example of this lack of planning was the time they first entered Asia. They did not know much about Asia, and they “did not factor in the broader ecosystem- how customers come and go,” choosing inconvenient locations for the customers (Mahajan-Bansal, 2009). However, as they have grown internationally, they have managed to learn as they go along, and make improvements. They have organized and become a leader in retail. As they have monitored their progress, they could see some of their mistakes and correct those mistakes, such as paying attention to the economy of the country they are operating in. “Walmart’s approach to technology innovation is to start with the customer and the business process — and then see how technology can help, said the retail giant's Chief Information Officer Rollin Ford” (Garry, 2010). One idea for planning the advancement of technology was to ask employees for their input. They were asking 2.1 million employees for suggestions on energy management, and saved over $1 million dollars (Garry, 2010). In June 2007, Walmart announced “a series of financial services to its customers, through Walmart Money Centers (check cashing, bill payments, and international money transfers). Also, Walmart will issue a Walmart MoneyCard, a prepaid Visa card, which will cost $8.95, for buying gas, and for shopping...
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...亚马逊 您好，大家好， 下面，由我来介绍一下美国亚马逊公司 亚马逊公司是一家财富500强公司，总部位于美国华盛顿州的西雅图。它创立于1995年，目前已成为全球商品品种最多的网上零售商和全球第3大互联网公司。亚马逊及其它销售商为客户提供数百万种独特的全新、翻新及二手商品，如图书、影视、音乐和游戏等等。 说到亚马逊，亚马逊书店最为出名，亚马逊可以提供的图书目录比全球任何一家书店的存书要多15倍以上。这里我们不得不提一下亚马逊的免费配送服务，到目前为止，亚马逊已经三次采取此种促销手段。前两次免费送货服务的门槛分别为99美元和49美元，2002年8月亚马逊又将免费送货的门槛降低一半，开始对购物总价超过25美元的顾客实行免费送货服务，奠定了此后迅速扩展的基础。 众所周知，好的配送服务离不开好的物流链，所以在电子商务中亚马逊将其国内的配送业务委托给美国邮政和UPS，将国际物流委托给国际海运公司等专业物流公司；当然还得归功于亚马逊完善的发货条款、灵活多样的送货方式及精确合理的收费标准（PPT展示图片）。 亚马逊书店成功还离不开它独特的营销方式，这个在亚马逊书店的网页中体现得最为充分。亚马逊书店在营销方面的投资也令人注目：亚马逊书店每收入1美元就要拿出24美分搞营销、拉顾客，而传统的零售商店则仅花4美分就够了。然而这种营销策略使得亚马逊迅速的打入市场，扭亏为盈（PPT展示实际具体数字）。 为了迎合市场，亚马逊做出一条重要的举措——折扣价格策略。所谓折扣策略是指企业为了刺激消费者增加购买，在商品原价格上给以一定的回扣。它通过扩大销量来弥补折扣费用和增加利润。亚马逊书店对大多数商品都给予了相当数量的回扣。例如，在音乐类商品中，书店承诺：对CD类给40%的折扣，其中包括对畅销CD的30%的回扣。”这举措更加的激起了消费者的购买欲望。 亚马逊的成功成就了今天的电商时代，也成就了亚马逊成为书店龙头老大的地位。当然亚马逊的成功并不只是我刚刚提到的这几点，他的成功之处还很多，这里我就不一一列举了，我们都有目共睹。 以上就是我展示的亚马逊公司所有类容，谢谢大家。 Amazon Hello, Hello, everyone, Now, let me introduce the American Amazon Amazon is a Fortune 500 company based in Seattle, Washington, USA. It was founded in 1995, it has now become the world's largest online retailer of varieties of goods and the world's third largest Internet company. Amazon and other sellers offer millions of unique new, refurbished and used items in categories such as books, movies, music and games. Speaking of Amazon, the most famous Amazon, Amazon can provide a catalog of books than any global deposit book bookstore to be more than 15 times. Here...
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...Company references Group 8: Rui Wang Chikun Zhang Qinwen Zhang Planning: For the Porter’s generic strategies, Wal-Mart is overall cost leadership strategy, because Wal-Mart’s mission is “Save money. Live better.” It always low prices, and using this strength to attract customers. Moreover, for the Miles and Snow’s strategy, Wal-Mart is the type of analyzer which incorporates elements of both the prospector and the defender, because Wal-Mart is not only defending its current market by lowering its cost, but it also seeks out the market opportunities that expand its scope of globalization. Wal-Mart has over 7100 stores worldwide and more than 4000 in America, so Wal-Mart is also a global strategy company. It views the world as a single marketplace and addresses the needs of the customers worldwide. Wal-Mart has proactive stance for the social responsibility. This company always does feedbacks to the society. In this article, Wal-Mart donates 4 million dollars to a city program that offers summer jobs to young people. This behavior helps finance 3400 jobs. CSR can also motivate employees and strengthen brands, while also providing benefits to society. References: “Always low prices”. The Economist, 29 Feb. 2008. http://www.economist.com/node/10727908 Javier, C. Hernandez. “As It Campaigns to Build in the City, Wal-Mart Donates $4 Million”. The New York Times, 05 July. 2011 http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/05/as-it-campaigns-to-build-in- the-city-wal-mart-donates-4-million/ ...
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...Xerox Case Study Diana M. Orlando Palm Beach State College Abstract This case study discusses how Xerox makes diversity, equal success. As one of the world’s leading organizations in copiers and ink, Xerox has committed their leadership team to empower their employees to work collectively in bringing new innovative ideas, different view and knowledge to their organization. By creating such a successful diversified organizational team, and along with its leadership, it has allowed Xerox to be known as one of the most admired organizations in the computer industry (Schermerhorn, J. R., 2012). Diversity and Inclusion of Xerox Diversity is an essential part of Xerox’s corporate culture. It offers an equal opportunity to all employees, and allows leadership to take full advantage of different thoughts, views, knowledge and perspectives, which has created a strong workforce and its ability to stay in the top of their league. By creating an equal opportunity-based environment where innovative creativity happens, Xerox has the power fulfill its company goals to succeed. Diversity has changed over that last few decades and Xerox is using diversity to the best of their ability. As a global organization, its diverse workforce is with no question, strong. The thought of hiring people of color in organizations years ago would never be, however their idealism is more about striving for the ability to have a different way of thinking than their competitors. It established...
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