THE APPLICATION OF CHANGE MANAGEMENT THEORY TO HR PORTAL IMPLEMENTATION IN SUBSIDIARIES OF MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS Cataldo Dino Ruta HR portals are complex information technology (IT) applications that can be accessed by all employees of a given organization. By placing more applications and information online, HR portals reduce the reliance employees have on HR personnel. Given this relational change, from human to computer, the HR portal implementation process must take into account the
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International Journal of Business and Social Science Vol. 3 No. 11; June 2012 Cross-Cultural Values Comparison between Chinese and Sub-Saharan Africans Jean Pierre MIAHOUAKANA MATONDO PhD Student in Business Administration Glorious Sun School of Business and Management, Donghua University 1882, Yan’an Road, Shanghai China Abstract With a Sino-African trade growing at 40% a year and a steadily growing economy above 5% in Africa are challenging Chinese companies and individual Chinese
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The current issue and full text archive of this journal is available at www.emeraldinsight.com/0265-1335.htm IMR 28,2 The role of context in assessing international marketing opportunities Susan P. Douglas and C. Samuel Craig Stern School of Business, New York University, New York, New York, USA Abstract Purpose – The choice of which country or countries to enter is a critical decision and needs to be made with considerable care and deliberation. Initial market entry decisions have typically
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changes that make everything is easy to use and continued make technology become usefully to people Kare-Silver (2001) has discovered there are convenience at heart of fundamentally which is can drives demand for the internet which is similar with the research been done by (Wolfbinger and Gilly, 2001) founded that the most important element that attributes of online shopping to consumer are accessibility and convenience. Consumers nowadays have higher intention to shop online because it helps them to save
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Table of Contents 1.0 Executive Summary 2 2.0 Situational Analysis 2 2.1 Spanish Business and Environment Analysis 2 2.1.1 Political-Legal Analysis 2 2.1.2 Business Etiquette Analysis 3 2.1.3 Economic Analysis 3 2.1.4 Socia-Cultural Analysis 4 2.2 Hofstede’s Typology Analysis 4 2.2.1 Power Distance 4 2.2.2 Individualism 4 2.2.3 Masculinity 5 2.2.4 Uncertainty Avoidance 5 2.3 Market Analysis 5 2.3.1 Market Demographics 5 2.3.2 Main Segments
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Cand.soc /MSc in social Science Leadership and Strategy in Service Management 03/05/2015 Stefano Di Nicola CPR 081190-3523 Tomás Vaz De Carvalho CPR 190491-4025 Leadership and strategic Management Mini-Project Why Starbucks failed in Israel? COPENHAGEN BUSINESS SCHOOL 2015 Program: Cand.soc Service Management N° of pages: 14 N° of characters: 30,946 Hand-in the 03/05/2015 1 Cand.soc /MSc in social Science Leadership and Strategy in Service Management 03/05/2015
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workforce, especially in a Swedish working environment. The lack of this type of research in a Swedish context creates a possible research gap and leads to this study in investigating the organizations in Västerbotten and their view and management of cultural diversity. Thus the research question: How do Swedish organizations view and manage cultural diversity? In order to gain insights in to this question, previous research has been investigated and some main theories have been selected. Through this
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Journal of Public Administration and Governance ISSN 2161-7104 2011, Vol. 1, No. 2 Training and Development Strategy and Its Role in Organizational Performance Abdus Sattar Niazi (Corresponding Author) MS Scholar, Iqra University Islamabad Campus, Pakistan Ph: +92 302 8500 777, Email: a.niazi55@hotmail.com Received: August 01, 2011 Accepted: August 11, 2011 DOI: 10.5296/jpag.v1i2.862 Abstract In the FMCG industry at global level, the business environment has changed with intense pressure on
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become critical success factors (CFSs) for multi-national corporations in their effort for global expansion. Thus in enhancing the success of managing international business (IB) managers must have knowledge of local cultures and political situations. Research on the impact of local culture and political stability on successful management of international business has become of interest only recently due to globalization process. The paper reviews several literatures that try to prove that knowledge of
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Discipline Christopher Ziebell ACCT530 Week 4 1/29/15 Discipline to me is a type of training in order to teach someone to follow the rules. I think it applies to all of us when it comes to the professional world. When someone gets hired at new company there is always some sort of discipline in the beginning. If someone has experience in the work that they are hired to do doesn’t mean that they don’t still need training on how the company operates. I have a perfect example of this when
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