...Clearwater Seafoods Clearwater Seafoods had distinguished itself in the seafood market by focusing on and maintaining a supreme product quality. Clearwater first came up with new technologies to help them harvest more efficiently, then they invented and patented technologies used to test, freeze, label and deliver products in a way none of their competitors were able to mimic. That gave Clearwater relative advantage by saving time and providing guaranteed fresh seafood, which is a hard task in their case because of long transportation hours needed to reach buyers. Moreover, their greatest challenge was that most of their work was Business-to-Business, which meant more time till products reached end users and lack of control over the quality of products delivered. Using the new technologies, i.e. harvest time stamps and labeling, end users were satisfied with the guaranteed freshness of the product they are buying, thus they were willing to pay a higher price for it. This way Clearwater guaranteed their customers to never be served other than what they ordered, avoiding what a study found is frequently happening in seafood restaurants (Johnson, 2013). Similar to any company, Clearwater was aiming to expand its operations and reach out to new customers. The management of Clearwater was able to get the company to its current position by targeting major markets with large seafood demand and studying them to find entry strategies. As a result Clearwater had entered the Chinese...
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...industry, is a major business entity with penchant for a rapidly changing environment. Dialysis is a medical treatment for individuals with limited or no kidney function and without this specialized therapy these unfortunate individuals would not survive. In dialysis, supply chain management is crucial from all aspects in providing comprehensive and adequate patient care. The constant changing needs of patients and the organizational environment can cause disruption in a well managed supply chain within a clinic's operation resulting in inadequate patient care. Lack of inventory, inadequate staffing, and poor supplier relationships can all contribute to compromised customer (patient) service. Identified Supply Chain Process In any organization the inventory control process is a very important part of the supply...
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...TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. INTRODUCTION……………………………………..2 2.VARIOUS PHASES IN THE EMPLOYMENT PROCESS WITHIN PERSONNEL PSYCHOLOGY USING THE OPEN SYSTEMS DIAGRAM AND LINKING IT TO IMPALA-PETROLEUM……………………………………………………2 2.1 Job analysis and evaluation……………………………………………….3 2.1.1 Workforce Planning……………………………………………………3 2.1.2 Recruitment Phase………………………………………………………4 2.1.3 Selection and Training……………………………………………………4 2.1.4 Performance Management……………………………………………….5 2.1.5 Organisational Exit………………………………………………………..5 3. THE ELEMENTS OF THE STRATEGIC WORKFORCE PLANNING PROCESS AND LINKING THE IMPACT OF THE THREE LEVELS OF BUSINESS PLANNING ON WORKFORCE PLANNING (REFERING TO IMPALA-PETROLEUM)…………6 4. BARRIERS TO IMPEMENTING AN EFECTIVE PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM IN IMPALA-PETROLEUM………………………………………………………….8 5. RELATE STRATEGIC HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT TO PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT AT IMPALA-PETROLEUM BY APPLYING A MODEL LINKING HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT TO PERFORMANCE……………10 5.1 Strategic human resource management………………………………………….10 5.1.1 Performance Management……………………………………………………..10 5.2 Theoretical and empirical problems in the linkage between human resources management and performance…………………………………………………….11 5.3 A conceptual model in managing performance………………………………12 5.4 Key propositions of the model…………………………………………………13 5.5 Performance management at IMPALA-PETROLEUM…………………….14 6. CONCLUSION…………………………………………………………………..15 7. REFERENCES…………………………………………………………………...
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...4 2.2 The Process of managing change 5 2.2.1 Force Field Analysis on Change 5 2.2.2 Lewin’s Change Model 6 3.0 Change Management 7 3.1 John Kotter: Leading Change in today’s business 7 Urgency growth 8 Build Guiding Team 8 Getting Right Vision 8 Communicating for buy-in 9 Empower Action 9 Creating Short-term wins 9 Don’t Let Up 9 Make Change Stick 10 4.0 Conclusion 11 References 12 1.0 Introduction 1.1 What is Change and Change Management The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking. “Albert Einstein”. Basically, definition of change is to make or create something different. Indeed, change happens to two reasons which are change for better or worse. Moreover, change means a movement from current state to a transition and a future state. In fact change happens all around the world such as in our community, work and at home. (Thomas G. Cumming, 2009) Figure 1: Change structure, Source: (Change Management Tuitorial , 2014) In fact, change happens everywhere even in companies therefore, all companies come up with change management in order to control changes which are internal and external. Basically, change management focused to provide a competitive advantage in order to allow companies to quick and effectively responds to change of market needs. (Green, 2012) Moreover, change management is the main strategy of an organised and structured process and set of...
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...Executive Summary This report contains the strategic audit of McDonald’s. The instruments use the external and internal aspects to analysis the opportunities, threats, strengths and weaknesses (SWOT analysis and SWOT matrix). Analysis of the company's position has been undertaken different technology models have also been applied in to undertake the analysis of the technology practices in the company. In the end suggestions and recommendations are presented in to improve the competitive position of the company. The analysis of external environment includes three threats and three opportunities. The opportunities included global expansion, the trend of healthier eating, and the growing market for coffee drinks. The three threats came from social activists, the large amount of competition, and the unhealthy food image in the eyes of the public. The analysis of internal environment includes three strengths, which are which are global expansion, specializing training and efficiency of the top management; two weaknesses which are exploited workers and damaging the environment. McDonald’s corporation had four strategies include expand the coffee market domestically, as well as internationally; develop more eco-friendly methods of operating; develop a method to choose where to locate new stores; expand the healthier food options on their menu. Introduction McDonald's Corporation is the world's largest chain of hamburger fast food restaurants, serving around 68 million customers...
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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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