Organizations such as BHP would operate a number of different performance appraisal methods. In order to ensure the success of the method implemented certain processes need to be in place. Outline the processes and documentation an organisation such as BHP would need to have in place to successfully implement performance management * Firstly, BHP would need to assess whether all positions within their organisation are documented and available in current and accurate position descriptions. *
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Group Assignment: BHP BILLITON International Business Theory & Practice (MGF 5966) Lecturer/Tutor Mr. Sharif Rasel Name & ID Junaidul Haque – 263 512 50 Dalaphone Phengrattanavong – 266 785 94 Girish Balar – 274 718 53 Maike Nan – 263 994 90 Due Date – Week 11 Introduction BHP Billiton, which is Broken Hill Proprietary Billiton, is an Anglo-Australian multinational mining and petroleum company. BHP started its operation in Melbourne in 1885 which is one of Australia’s
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Summary The world's biggest miner BHP Billiton (BHP) is cutting jobs at its coal mines after closing a loss-making mine thoroughly in Queensland early this year (Stewart 2012). BHP's job cuts is accompanied by other global mining companies such as Rio Tinto to confront a retrogressive market with falling industrial commodity prices and increasing costs. The future of Australia's mining boom which is largely dependent on Chinese demand for commodities driven by its economic growth is of particular
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mission of the organisations founders (Chatman, Jehn 1994). The case study on “BHP Billiton” is an example of how contemporary companies overcome challenges (Robbins, DeCenzo, Coulter and Woods 2012). BHP Billiton functions within the mining, metal, gas, steel and oil area. The current chief executive office is Marius Kloppers. The company employs approximately 100 000 people internationally. The BHP Billiton charter establishes the vision for
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| CASE 2 | Fortescue Metals Group: The new force in iron ore | ABC 9/12/2011 | Contents Introduction 1 Analyzing the external environment 1 Demographic 1 Economic 1 Socio-culture 2 Political-legal 2 Global 2 Technological 2 External environment conclusion 2 Industry analysis 3 Profit pool 3 Porter five forces 3 Threat of new entry 3 Bargaining power of suppliers 4 Bargaining power of buyers 4 Threat of substitute products 4 Rivalry among competing
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RESOURCING THE FUTURE WHO WE ARE About Us BHP Billiton is the world’ largest diversified natural resources company, with a network of 100,000 emploees and contractors in over 25 countries, and is involved in over 100 operations. Our organization is an Australian based company created through the dual listed companies merger of BHP Limited and Billiton Plc in 2001. We pursue a strategy of developing a diversified portfolio of quality ‘tier one assets’ including Steelmaking products, Nonferrous
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ONE of these topics. Choice 1 Topic: Accounting for intragroup transactions. During a financial year it is common for companies within the economic entity (group) to transact with each other. The following is an extract from Note 32 of the BHP Billiton Annual Report 2013. Transactions between each parent company and its subsidiaries … are eliminated on consolidation and are not disclosed in this note. Terms and conditions Sales to and purchases from related parties of goods and services are made
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| Revenue | Stock price | Website | 1 | Glencore Xtrata, 1974 | Ivan Glasenberg | headquartered in Switzerland | $200bn in 2013 | GLEN (LON) 325.75 GBX | www.glencore.com/ | 2 | BHP Billiton | Andrew Mackenzie | headquartered in Melbourne, Australia | $67.83bn, Dec 2013 | BHP Billiton Limited (ADR)NYSE: BHP | www.bhbbilliton.com | 3 | Rio Tinto, 1873 | Sam Walsh, Tom Albanese | headquarters in London | $54.6bn, Dec 2013 | RIO (LON) 3,082.42 GBX | www.riotinto.com | 4 | Vale, 1942 | Murilo
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The slowdown in China’s growth has had a rippling effect with consequences seen in the Australian Government, Domestic Firms and even Multinational Firms. Due to the slowdown, implications that have been placed on the Australian Government have been ones such as a need for the restructuring of certain policies to be able to handle the increased exposure to the volatility of the commodity market. The government should ensure appropriate policies are in place to facilitate the management of risk
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Tong Lu Qinghiu Li Shangde Chang There are three members in our group, and each person will be allocated different task to finish our assignment. In first stage, the collector will do research about BHP Billiton, relevant Australia export policy and the South Africa. Secondly, the group leader will select the useful information to decide export production, location and form of the expansion. Finally, all group members start to analyse and discuss some special strategies of expansion. Stage
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