providing students with all the resources required to succeed in their chosen qualification. CIPD offer bespoke textbook collections written by chief examiners and module authors to meet the needs of your students. To organise a collection specifically relevant for your students please email publishingmarketing@cipd.co.uk for more information. Introduction These three titles cover the content of the CIPD intermediate level core units in human resource management and development. The books are
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Canada, N6G 0N1; (t) 519.661.3208; (e) cases@ivey.ca; www.iveycases.com. Copyright © 2014, Richard Ivey School of Business Foundation INTRODUCTION Version: 2014-06-12 tC Jessica Grant was an analyst with BXE Capital (BXE), a money management firm based in Toronto. 2 It was February 28, 2014, and Grant was discussing her U.S. equity mandate with BXE’s vice president, Phillip Duchene. Both Grant and Duchene were trying to identify what changes, if any, they should make to BXE’s portfolio
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Samsung’s production cost advantages that brought this chaebol to where it is today, and how Samsung’s competitive advantage has translated to Samsung commanding a price premium in DRAMs in 2003 before providing recommendations to Samsung’s senior management to respond to the threat of large-scale Chinese entry into the industry in order to continue differentiating itself as a market leader over its competitors. QUESTION 1: WHAT ARE THE SOURCES OF SAMSUNG’S COST ADVANTAGES IN DRAMS IN 2003? Exhibit
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relationship with China and Taiwan 11 Future forecast 12 Opportunity 12 Risk 13 Recommendation 13 Social 14 Current Issue 14 Current social issues in Foxconn- Suicide Case 14 DISCUSSION ON LABOR, HUMAN RIGHTS AND OHS 15 Future Opportunity and Risk 18 Opportunity 18 Risk 18 Recommendation 18 Environment 19 Current issues 19 Future opportunities and Risks 19 Opportunity 19 Risks 23
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employs around 370,000 people. Samsung has previously been known for its position as a manufacturer of components such as lithium-ion batteries, semiconductors, chips, flash memory and hard drive devices for clients such as Apple, Sony, HTC and Nokia. In recent years, Samsung Electronics has expanded upon its manufacturing roots and diversified into consumer markets leading to an ever increasing portfolio of products and revenue stream. Fig. 1.1: Samsung Logo Samsung Electronics
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hotel in Bangalore, South India, it felt like summer. Horst Eberl sat contemplating the recommendations that he and his subdivisional co-head, Karl-Friedrich Hunke, would be preparing for the Siemens Information and Communications Networks (ICN) management board. Things were neat, tidy, and cool on this grassy side of the hotel. Just outside the main walls however lay the dust, pollution, and confusion of the Indian traffic. And if one took life in one’s hands by darting through the traffic, across
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present, the impact of Euro versus domestic businesses and joint ventures within Albanian market and the most evident barriers that domestic business has in order to act internationally. Introduction Change in Eastern Europe, in early 1990’s, came in with a new set of political and economical problems. In Albania, the collapse of communism and its agricultural closed economy left the place to the free market economy. The passage faced the institutional gaps as well as it found an unprepared
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Implementation of the Human Resource Development Strategy for South Africa ANDREW WILLIE BARTLETT 21936048 Mini-dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Master’s degree in Development and Management at the Potchefstroom campus of the NorthWest University SUPERVISOR: MS LUNI VERMEULEN 2011 i ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I wish to hereby express my sincere gratitude and appreciation towards the following persons for their support and assistance throughout
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International Management Project - Apple - Summary In a context of “fast growing technological market", what could be the futures perspectives of Apple over the strategic issues in order to maintain its competitive advantage? Introduction I – A Sociology of Steve Jobs A) Steve jobs: the perfect illustration of a charismatic authority B) Steve Jobs: does he really is an inventor? C) From death to succession II – How does Apple react about the uprising
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Takala TURUN YLIOPISTO UNIVERSITY OF TURKU Turku 2012 ISBN 978-951-29-5010-2 (PRINT) ISBN 978-951-29-5011-9 (PDF) ISSN 0082-6987 Painosalama Oy – Turku, Finland 2012 A note from the writer I was born in 1955 and am a professor of management and leadership at the University of Jyväskylä, with a solid academic track record. My main academic work has been research in the area of business ethics and corporate social responsibility (CSR). Based on my research I have written around a
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