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    Roles and Functions of Human Resource Department

    These roles come with certain positive and negative aspects. However, the negative aspects can be minimised by improvements to their roles and functions. These issues shall be examined in detail in the subsequent sections of the essay with reference to case examples of businesses in current operation. Positive aspects of Roles and Functions of the Human Resource Department Recruitment of Employees This is one of the most fundamental roles of the HR department. This is because this function ensures

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    Hul-Sdm Overview

    Group 3: Himanshu Kamat (22) Hitesh Mahansaria (24) Sahil Gupta (88) Prachi Bansal (84) Kuntal Panja (106) Overview of HUL Distribution Network Sales Force Management Incentives Financial Analysis     Maintaining Favorable trade relations Providing innovative incentives to retailers Organizing demand generation activities Logistic Support Evolution of Sales Force Salesman  Registered Wholesaler  A stock point for company’s products in that market    Products

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    Credit Risk

    Recognized S Ratings Organizations are credit rating services that meet certain criteria enabling them to register with the SEC. Eight firms qualified when the book was published; increased to 10 (as of Fall 2008). Page 4-25 managerial decision case. When businesses take measures to improve credit ratings, what are the potential costs? Evaluating Credit Risk -- the Five C’s Character Expected reaction when things get rough Capacity Ability to generate future cash flow for loan

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    Seven Eleven

    Sunil Chopra TEACHING NOTE: SEVEN-ELEVEN JAPAN CO. The goal of this case is to illustrate how a firm can be successful by structuring its supply chain to support its supply chain strategy. Once Seven-Eleven Japan decided to provide responsiveness by rapid replenishment, it then structured its facilities, inventory, information, and distribution to support this choice. The case also brings up the question of whether the same approach can work in the United States, especially given the greater

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    The Home Depot 2008 Annual Report Dear Shareholders: In 2008, our retail sales declined by 7.8 percent, with comp sales down 8.7 percent. Our adjusted earnings per share from continuing operations declined 22 percent. In ordinary times, these would be very disappointing results. But 2008 was not an ordinary year. Despite the difficult economic environment, we continued to improve our retail business, through investing in our associates and our stores, rebuilding our supply chain and

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    Forced Rankings

    thriving business leaders. Furthermore, the ability of a manager to develop and retain his/her talent is a direct reflection of his/her leadership skills. This paper will discuss the appraisal process utilized by the world's largest home-improvement retailer, The Home Depot concluding with recommendations for improvement. Commencing in 2004, the organization adopted a forced ranking performance appraisal system. Careful evaluation of this assessment process suggests that the compulsory classification

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    Seven Eleven Case Study

    temperature. This reduces the outbound transportation cost because of aggregation of deliveries across multiple suppliers. It also lowers the receiving cost. The information infrastructure is set up to allow store managers to place orders based on analysis of consumption data. The information infrastructure also facilitates the sorting of an order at the DC and receiving of the order at the store. The key point to emphasize here is that most decisions by 7-11 are structured to aggregate transportation

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    Case Analysis About Dabbawalla

    Case analysis about Dabbawalla Case summary: Dabbawalla is the name of a group of Indian entrepreneurs that deliver home-cooked food to Indian office- and factory workers in the city of Mumbai. By using the public transport, bicycle and handcarts they pick up dabbas (a kind of lunch box) in the office- and factory workers homes. They use codes on the lid and geographical depots to divide the lunch boxes in to different areas all over metropolitan Mumbai. After delivering the food they also provide

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    Jones Blair Case Analysis

    Jones Blair Case SWOT Analysis: Strengths • High quality products • High quality service with • Knowledgeable sales representatives that know customers personally • Mature market 1-2% sales growth long-term • Shelf goods 43% of total industry dollar sales • Specialty paint stores & lumberyards most frequently patronized • Distributes through 200 independent paint stores • Maintaining margins while increasing R&D, material, & labor costs • Market to major business/financial center (DFW)

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    Power of Duties

    Powers and Duties of Officers and Employees The procedure followed in the decision making process, including channels of supervision and accountability, the norms set for discharge of functions and the rules and regulations held under the control of the organization and used by its employees are detailed below. Shri Raji Philip Chairman-cum-Managing Director The Chairman and Managing Director is the Chief Executive of the Corporation and is responsible to the Board of Directors. He is responsible

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