Business Essays

The Royal Bank of Scotland fell prey to the changes taking place within the banking sector, and suffered immensely in the financial crisis of 2007-08. According to reports, the bank witnessed a massive fall in its stock prices during the year 2008 whereby 13% drop in its share price, leaving traders concerned about its liabilities and stability.

The conclusion states that greater percentage of companies today uses social media in undertaking various forms of corporate social relationships. The few group of enterprises who do not presently use any form of social media plan to do so in the nearest future. Among the small and medium scale enterprises that use social media, a lot of positive and diverse advantages have been recorded.

Consumer Behavior This document is concentrated on the consumer behavior topics. It briefly summarizes the impact of digital revolution of 1980s on the consumer behavior, how market segmentation is done for online consumers and the factors on which consumer motivation for high-tech products depend.

Xerox: repositioning and revival utilizing. Xerox was established as the Haloid Company and changed its name to Haloid Xerox in 1959 with the introduction of Xerox photocopiers. The pioneers of the photocopying technology their products were critically acclaimed and with continuous innovation and better copying solutions the company was able to establish itself as the market leader in the category.

I will use is social media as a communication medium for the recruitment effort. It is a common means that companies communicate with the public, and involves the use of web-based and itinerant technologies. It is also estimated that 1 out of 10 job seekers in the country has a profile on social media such as Facebook, tweeter, linked in. 

For some, leadership skills are inborn while for others it can be achieved through hard work and dedication. A proper guidance, encouragement and environment is necessary for developing a person’s leadership style. Different situation needs different leadership style; one cannot fit for all.

According to Kierkegaard, the proposed bond issue strategy has far-reaching implications to the global financial system including the U.S. economy. As asserted by the economists in the video discuss, any default experienced in the Greek domestic banking system is likely to be experienced in other countries like Spain, Portugal, and Ireland. 

Human resource, on the other hand, is the organizational department that is concerned with workers related issues like recruitment, their promotions, and retrenchments among other responsibilities (Taylor, 2009). Planning and better management of human resources is an issue that cannot be ignored in a country’s development strategies.

Harvey Industries is a large firm supplying various parts for many companies, especially car owners. It has met financial difficulties in recent years, which seem to come from poor methods of inventory control. Their current system consists of stock replenishment orders that are made by the purchasing manager.

The concepts can be applied to uplift the living standards of the community. I have realized that making choices can either be pessimistic or optimistic. Being a realist, the most crucial moment is the present; regardless of the dream I am aspiring to achieve in the future.

This concept is applied to marketing by Levitt, who claims that myopic marketers are unable to be proactive about their future plans and thus, fail to plan for it and miss opportunities along the way. This article would revolve around the importance of customer oriented approach that has been outlined in the essay by Levitt and as to how it applies to the real life situations even these days.

The author analyzes a lot of debate for a reason; there is no clear answer as to the manner of removing the negative characteristics, which make the workplace a sweatshop. He believes that customers are willing to pay for the name recognition. The most important factor is the costs they are willing to pay for the products from the sweatshops.

Nestle Corporation is a company that has been very successful in the marketplace for over 100 years due to its ability to adapt to market changes and implement first order and second order changes whenever necessary. Throughout its history Nestle has implemented changes to ensure the success of the company.

Strategic choices by TRADOC The TRADOC Strategic plan has three strategic choices which provide as organizing constructs for main objectives and tends to support the achievement of the strategic objectives and execution of mission and role of the Army trainer leading to change in the Army.

Deloitte is one of the most successful professional services’ firms in the world. The company consists of many independent firms that maintain their commercial presence in over 150 countries around the world. Deloitte offers its services across the categories of the audit, consulting, financial advisory, and tax.

Google is an organization made up of determined and smart people who learn via a thorough and wide Google experience. Even though Google is made up of people from dozens of different cultures and languages but the visions and goals of the company are persistent and are focused on the world-wide audience Google serves.

From the case study, it is recognized that the issue which Engenco, one of the leading players in the UK's energy industry faces is related to change management. The facet of change management incorporates a significant involvement of organizational leadership in order to ensure that the required activities are sustained in an efficient.

The author provides various tools that are integrated together to ensure that complaints of consumers are handled in the most efficient manner. These tools may include: automatic registration of complaints that are new, management of complains that have already occurred, escalating importance towards those complaints that have not yet been solved.

Over the years performance appraisal (PA) has come under scrutiny even while Pettijohn et al (2001) describe it as the ‘job managers love to hate’. Performance appraisal systems cannot be free from criticism. Performance appraisals have administrative and motivational purposes but the results of such appraisal have been disappointing (Caruth & Humphreys, 2008).

The report presents a brief idea regarding the linkage between the investment plan with other departments along with a milestone analysis and risk plan to justify the implementation benefits of the proposed initiative. Resource requirement and financial planning are presented through this report from a Human Resource Management perspective.

For this particular case, whereby an individual is interested in developing small control aircrafts to expand his/her business by competing for Department of Homeland Security contracts; there are numerous low-interest loan program that offer startup financing.

However, they are sometimes punished by the customers and regulators posing risk to the future of their business. The traditional view in the form of simple dichotomy to customer relationship between the need of customer for increased satisfaction and improved service levels and the competing need of business for improved efficiency and productivity is no longer valid.

 Kodak and Fujifilm are both competitors in the photography industry, and both have enjoyed a successful time in the business of everything related to photography. However, in recent years, Kodak has suffered a mighty blow to its successful, picture-perfect world, because of its failure to adhere to business strategies.

This exchange of credit facilities between the European Union members forms the main the bloodstream of the economy of European Union. Due to the sovereign debt crisis in the Euro-zone, the share of international debts of the economies of European Union started to increase thereby resulting in the fall of consumption demand and subsequent fall of GDP of the member countries.

The analysis of the company is done based on the Bowman’s Strategy Clock and the Ansoff Matrix. Bowman’s Strategy Clock is one of the most used models in the analysis of the position of a company, in comparison to the services of other players. It is an extension of the generic strategies of Porter, and deals with them in a lot of detail (Ansoff, 1984).

Use of Promissory Estoppel in Business Contracts This essay discusses the concept of promissory Estoppel. It discusses the section 90 and 139 of Restatement of Contracts which form the basis of the concept of Promissory Estoppel. It also discusses the evolution of Promissory Estoppel with judicial interpretations of the concept.

During the recruitment process, a series of important observation was made. Observation on Selection of the Labors: During the selection, many migrant workers had been considered for various posts in the organization whose qualifications, talent and prior knowledge would not be acknowledged outside the United States of India.

In previous decades Private sector focus more on organizational change but now awareness increased and public sector organization also move towards organizational change. Public sector also moves towards globalization and make cultural change in their organizations.

The EU is built with a series of treaties made with its different member states. Historically, the EU was formed to promote peace and economic prosperity especially in Europe after the occurrence of World War II. Since the beginning of the 1950s, the integration of Europe has significantly augmented to entail conducting various financial activities like developing a single market in which goods, capital and people moves freely, a common trade policy, an ordinary agriculture policy, environmental policy and common currency (Euro) which is being used by 17 member states (Archick, 2013).

Article Evaluation Essay Name Institution Introduction The article “Has Apple Lost its Cool to Samsung?” talks about the recent falling profits and stock prices of apple iphone in Comparison to the growth of Samsung Smartphone’s. According to this article, Samsung profits increased in the last quarter of the year 2012 by 76% percent which is quite commendable.

In most interviews, structured questions are used to guide the interviewer in his/her quest to extract useful information from the interviewee (Denscombe, 2007). This interview in particular focuses on professional experience as well as online education. The main objective is to find out the perception of people regarding their present jobs as well as any online courses they may have studied.

Many people and businesses have been trying to perfect globalization by bringing new approaches and enhancing the strong points in establishing better markets. Some of these approaches have been successful as they have been harvesting the positivity in globalization (Hopper 21). However, some other aspects that affect globalization are not easily controlled.

The recent market conditions are seemed to be unfavorable for accounting and bookkeeping service providers due to recession and increase in unemployment rate. However, in terms of long run perspective it can be argued that the business environment is favorable for bookkeeping and accounting firms due to the presence of large number of corporate sectors and rapid business development within the country.

This SOW also covers the details of the services to be provided by the Contractor. Background The Purchaser, that is, our company is a small consultancy firm that provides marketing and management solutions like outsourcing, corporate and professional trainings and workshops in the areas of education, small and medium businesses and sales.

Arzaq started out as a private company with a very limited scope, but in its attempt to respond to the growing needs of the market, has enlarged in size and scope of work. The company is now large enough to compete with any reputable company giving services in this area, and thus requires a proper human resource department (HRD).

United Parcel Service (UPS) was founded in the year 1907 in the United States as a messenger company (UPS, 2013). UPS is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. Mr. D. Scott Davis is the current Chief Executive officer of the company. Currently, the United Parcel Service (UPS) is the largest global package company and a reputable provider of specialized transportation and logistics services.

This is due to the fact that by cutting back on investment in training sales, the firm/entity is ultimately making a long-term decision that integration with the needs of the consumer is of secondary importance to deriving immediate gains. The manager ensures a situation in which relevant information is relayed directly to the individuals.

The respondents of the survey were divided on the basis of age, department, position and tenure of the employees working for the company. The age of the respondents were divided into three groups which were from 16-21, 22-49 & 50-65. The respondents belonged to three departments namely the Human resources department, IT department and Administration.

The fact that IT department acts as a service provider to other organizational departments makes it a complicated process. This is because some of the expenditures incurred by other departments do not reflect in the IT department’s expenditure plan. Even if they were to reflect, other services provided and directly paid by corresponding departments are rarely factored in.

Concisely, a strategic plan assists an organization to know what it has to do, who it is going to do it for, and finally how it is going to excel in its motives. In this case, the strategic plan that is developed is for the public health department of Lake County, Waukegan Illinois.

Company G is one such organization that has considered expanding the business geographically. With the introduction of ChargeOn, a special water-resistant charger that charges mobile phones and smartphones completely in 30 minutes, Company G aims to cater the needs of customers in the Canadian consumer electronics market.

a. Respect Respect is an effective communication skill aimed at avoiding and defusing tension and/or disputes that may exist. Whenever individuals feel that one respects their points of view and have listened to it, then to the vast majority of people it will not matter whether they still disagree with you or not, and they will be polite about it.

It operates its business in one of the world’s premier airport location i.e. Heathrow, which is renowned as an area with relatively high amount of point to point business. It has long been serving its customers by meeting their demands regarding travel and offering various comforts during the journey.

The financial crisis that engulfed the US economy along with the entire global economy has cast the significant impact on the state of the US healthcare system. According to some researchers, the US healthcare system had started experiencing a downfall almost a decade ago and is still considered to be running in a “broken” state.

According to the paper the issue of safety in restaurants is of significant concern because of the consequences associated with food handling business. The safety of the consumer is of paramount importance because putting the health of the consumers at risk is tantamount to killing the business and the economy at large. Previous studies have raised a lot of concern over the cases of increase in food borne diseases and the associated treatment cost.

In the case of Mountain West, Evelyn Gustafson is an experienced leader who has served for a long period at Mountain West business entity. She is a focused, reliable worker who has gone through all stages of management to get to her position in the organization.

He is an investor and business magnate from England and is known best as the founder of Virgin Group. Richard was born in the year 1950 in London. Currently, he is the fourth richest citizen of England according to Forbes 2012 billionaires list. During his schooldays, he was dyslexic and had faced difficulty in focusing on studies.

The above research question will be answered by means of applying positivist and interpretivist research designs. A comparison will be made in between both of the research designs, their applications and their essential methodologies. Addressing the research question is the primary focus of any research.

The brand name of Adidas Group is a combination of the name of the founder and the company name, and is structured in three main divisions, which entail the Adidas sport performance, heritage, and sport style. For years, Adidas Group maintains its trademark as the major producer of sport products such as shoes, apparel and accessories globally.

Causes and Effect of Road Accidents in UAE Name: Professor: Subject: Date: Causes and Effect of Road Accidents in UAE Road traffic accidents are the major and increasing public health problem in the Emirates. The discovery of oil has changed many aspects of life of people in United Arab Emirates.