Business Essays

I have also had many opportunities that gave me a chance to work with catering companies that specialized in retirement parties, weddings, and birthday parties. It is from this experience that I realized how much I enjoyed event planning. As part of my future goals, I plan to start my own event planning company that will involve planning and catering.

ATP will be providing a wide variety of tutoring services, ranging from mathematics and science to the humanities and psychology. Austin Tutoring Professionals’ success will be guided by staffing individuals well-versed in a broad set of curriculum-based knowledge at an affordable cost and through the provision of client-focused guarantees for improving their educational knowledge.

The strategy used takes advantage of the social, economic, political and technological advantages afforded to the company in Canada to ensure that hockey sticks produced by the company get a good market share in the sports industry. The strategy is divided into some sections: A, B, C, D, E, F, G. Through the sections listed above, a strategy based on internal communication. 

The bank consists of the executive management which includes John Stumpf, the CEO who is the president and chairman of the company, the senior executives, directors, legal advisors, human resource managers among the 270,000 team members (Chandler 2006). Its services also include consumer and commercial financing through more than 9000 stores, 12000 ATMs and the internet among others (Chandler 2006).

The financial sector is one such area. Despite the lack of an obligation guiding the issue of references in the UK, an employer is bound by law to act in a consistent manner as far as offering references are concerned. Selective provision of reference for former employees could contravene the Equality Act 2010 (the Act) if such an exercise amounts to discrimination.

The goal is to alter economic moods by changing prices and reaping of bloated profits. This document is fundamental in analyzing the lead actions by two tech stock companies courtesy of NYSE and NASDAQ. This documental is substantial to indicate the unethical acts directed by these companies with the intent to maximize profits and evaluate change of consumer practices.

Apart from use of various strategies to improve their offline retail environment, organizations that are geared towards attaining sustainable profits have turned to online marketing. One of the aspects that can be emulated by firms in order to increase the consumer’s use of online purchasing is broader selections.

Over the past few decades, researchers, as well as business managers, have realized that although organizations have increasingly amassed wealth and size, the perceived power assumed within these organizations has not seen a similar change. Scholars have tried to define power as “the capacity to produce intended effects, and in particular, the ability to influence the behavior of another person”.

When a business grows its services, the owner may wish to expand it in order to provide more services to their customers. They lay down strategies to market their business and also develop financial business plans that enable them to reach the goal of their business. The plan entails the financial strengths or weaknesses of the business and plans aimed at ensuring their growth.

The development of missions and objectives for organizations is done after the analysis of the existing business environment. Companies can analyze their own business environment using various strategic planning assessment tools that are in turn used in the development and formulation of vision, mission, objectives, and strategies for companies. 

Fashion is one industry where new products become outdated very soon. The essence of success in such industries is the ability to build an anti-luxury culture amidst low prices but high quality and cool featured accessories. The same philosophy was replicated by Toy Watch when it revolutionized the Swatch lead luxury watch market.

Rio Tinto Plc is a mining group dedicated to the exploration, mining, and processing of mineral resources. The company has over 138 years of experience in the mining industry. I was very attracted by the product portfolio of the company. Rio Tinto products include aluminum, borates, coal, copper, iron ore, titanium dioxide feedstock, diamonds, gold, and silver.

Management, which is embedded in all aspects of a business, is a dynamic process of achieving desired goals and objectives by making effective use of people and organizational resources. There are four functions of management, which include planning, organizing, leading, and controlling.

From the analysis of the company’s own strengths and weaknesses, as well as the opportunities and threats to the motorcycle industry at large and the heavy motorbike segment in particular, it has been suggested that the best way forward for Harley- Davidson at this juncture is to expand overseas in emerging economies like China and India.

Southwest Airlines is the largest air carrier in the US in terms of domestic traffic and has maintained profitability for the longest time in the highly volatile airline industry; a basis that informs its choice for this case study.

Plachy & Plachy (1998) further explains that methods of motivating employees are strongly pegged on how work or effort of employees is measured. Result Oriented Work Environment (ROWE) is one method of evaluating work of employees. According to Silzer & Dowell (2009) ROWE is a managerial concept where employee’s performance is judged by his/her output instead of duration he/she takes in an office.

It is evidently clear from the discussion that Latin American countries are high-context cultures, where most of the negotiations, understandings, and agreements happen on the basis of trust, relationships and social network unlike in the U.S where these activities are based on formal and coded agreements. 

The acquisition is the purchase of one company by another company. For successful acquisition deal, the company should take enough data about the market position and market performance of acquiring the company. 50% of acquisition deals are unsuccessful. Here we represent the two examples of successful acquisition deals.

Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don’t have for something they don’t need. Commercial advertising is a phenomenon closely associated with capitalist consumer culture. The ubiquitous ad space that engulfs urban human habitation has no parallels in terms of its reach and influence.Advertising performs a key role in industrial economies and its infiltration into both print and online formats is unlikely to abate.

Toyota Motor Corporation is a car manufacturing company from Toyota, Aichi, Japan. There are about 317,734 employees working at Toyota. It is considered to be one of the largest automobile manufacturing companies in the world and the ninth-largest company in terms of revenue generation (Yamasa Student Network, n.d.).

Most clients of the GBN are leading companies, governments, and nonprofit organizations that seek the services of the firm to help them deal with “critical long-term challenges”.

The global economic trend comes with its own risk factor whereby Timberland will not be in opposition to determining the general temperature of the world economy. In effect, it is important to have a resilient backup budget that will ensure that in an unlikely situation where the world economy melts down, the program of the company will not be affected.

This is because the production system was first invented and implemented in the Toyota Motor Company. After Toyota has been successful with the production system, many companies and factories became interested with the system which was then renamed Lean production system.

The employees must know that they must pass the examination, in two tries, to keep their jobs, which is an incentive for them to pass.  Beyond this, there should be some kind of reward system for employees who get every question correct, such as, perhaps, these employees may take an extra vacation day or perhaps would be granted a small bonus.

While on cannot fail to recognize that many of them work hard and influence the world a great deal, it does not justify the obscene paychecks they receive. This is worse when they get these amounts of money as product endorsements in which they do not have to do anything but smile for the camera, and their bank account is instantly awash with money.

Outsourcing as a business strategy gained so much popularity that led it to became the ideology of businesses in the early 1990s (Handfield, 2006). Businesses in order to get more competitive by reducing costs and increasing focus on core operations started to get their business functions (other than core) performed by outsiders.

The company recruits well-educated, trained and skilled personnel that work with the latest construction projects. Capstone construction is a service-oriented company that deals with servicing of constructions by training and assessing qualified personnel of buildings. The company also deals with ensuring that the person can provide renovation services.

Many organizations fail not because of the inability to address conflicts, but the inability of the people to come up with ways in which the conflicts could be easily solved (Griffin & Moorhead, 2010). A lot has been done in many organizations to prevent conflicts from occurring but these continuously develop and pose a threat to the success of the firm as well as its achievement of organizational objectives.

The food chain was started by friends with different high-technology backgrounds. They majored in advertising and the business became a major franchisee in the country. They opened their first fast food in Marlborough, Massachusetts. The partners utilized technology as their marketing platform and made their services easily available to customers.

The efforts of the sales force are of paramount and colossal importance because this factor eventually decides where the company stands in the economic and financial perspective. The sales force must be hired keeping in view the organizational needs and contextual backgrounds of the business in order to get the most out of it.

The market share of this organization in Britain has also been elevating significantly. Through his major role in Tesco, Sir Terry has spearheaded the development of the organization over time. His leadership has surfaced appropriate strategies for enhancing the scale and market share of the organization.

By considering the trend from the recession of 2008, it has been observed that UK has been experiencing major fluctuations in its manufacturing sector owing to its fiscal policy attention towards inflation rates rather than focusing on the long term risks of recession.

Case Summary: Diamond Wipes International Inc >Adjusting for Expansion The case study discusses the business trajectory of Diamond Wipes International. The company in 1995 had a napkin production of 4,000 wrap packages per day. The firm has now grown to produce 3 million daily units of napkins.

Within the past 15 to 20 years, the industry has seen an increase, and subsequent decline, in the use of terms such as “greentech” and/or “envirotech”.  These specific representations deal specifically with the means by which an industry or firm exhibits the final product to the consumer or the environment.

The company has attained brand identity by delivering excellent content, innovative products, and services. Some AOL brands include boot, Cambio, AOL answers, Engadget, games.com, AOL help, and kitchen daily. The organization has performed excellently in its social duties and culture. The chief executive officer is Tim Armstrong (AOL Inc, 2013).

The Foxconn Technology Group is headquartered in Taipei.  It was primarily a design manufacturer company whose clients include leading US, European and Japanese corporations, and other information technology processing companies. The main objective of the company is to assemble certain products for the iPod, iPad, Kindle, Play station, and iPhone.

Throughout the study, the author has mainly done the analysis part with the help of one-way ANOVA and T-test. ANOVA is an assortment of statistical tools that helps the reader to arrive at a certain inference. The inference is the process of obtaining rational conclusions from some assumed or known assertions.

The author states that the issue of sustainable development is of much concern today. Developed countries have carved an image of being champions of sustainability, blaming developing countries for environmental pollution menace. He noted that rapidly developing countries today are portrayed as being against sustainability.

Personality of a leader or manager has huge impact on organizational culture. Managers who have different background generally have different values, norms and attitudes. The essay will provide a real life situation that will demonstrate the impact of the personality of the leader or the manager had on organizational culture.

While other firms such as LG Company and Motorola threaten Apple, these threats pale insignificance compared to what Samsung portends. For every device Apple releases, Samsung seems to match with an equal or better product and it has thus effectively bulldozed Apple from the top of the smartphone industry.

There are different issues that contribute to the success or failure of business. The main part of this paper will evaluate the relationship between the two concepts as well as try to outline how they can lead to success of business. The last part of the report will sum up the main points discussed.

We can identify how effective the risk process was and what possible outcomes could happen and nothing could identify all this issues like scenario base evaluation, would be essential to complete the risk plan and look at all possible outcomes from both business or client aspect.

Wal-Mart maintains dual modes of entry for establishing an international presence. This multi-national retailer is currently the largest retailer in the world and much of this revenue growth stems from its strategic planning regarding its methodology for market entry. Wal-Mart conducts considerable market research before deciding on a foreign entry strategy.

Milton argued in this article that the sole purpose and core obligation of a business are to act in the shareholders best interest- i.e. to create shareholder value or in more blatant terms, to generate profit for them (Friedman, 1970). However, Wearden (2010) adds that there are many who argue against this.

This essay discusses that the authors proffered pertinent issues relative to evaluating the performance of participants in the construction industry in Hong Kong through the identification of nine performance criteria: (1) profit; (2) time; (3) no claims or contractual disputes; (4) job satisfaction; (5) quality; (6) safety; (7) environment.  

“The Geneva-based World Trade Organization helps establish trade rules in the global environment” (Ireland et al, 2008). The World Trade Organization (WTO) has several legal instruments that are under its control and jurisdiction. This enables it to regulate and monitor the trade activities of different businesses and entities that trade across borders and in several national jurisdictions.

The story of Steppenwolf could be considered one of the typical ‘rags to riches’ true to life experiences and has served and still does, as an encouragement not only to the entertainment and business industries but also to the whole world. Here is just one of the conventional success stories that survived amidst financial troubles.

The status of punitive damages as fair, effective, excessive, constitutional and generous is frequently challenged. The United States of America is one country in which punitive damages are given quite frequently and more freely. The punitive damages have made a significant contribution to the “litigation-happy” cultural perception of the civil suit.

This practice involves the responsibility of managing and administrating the process of converting the resources such as, material and labor, into finished products like goods and services to the customers. The association of operations management to senior management in business aspect can be compared to the relationship of line officers to the highest-level senior officers in military science (Operation Management).

The author states that there is a large amount of debate surrounding small businesses in America and what can be done to support and grow them in the current economic climate. Small businesses in America face many difficulties, but three that are documented in the current literature are financing, race, and having a solid business strategy.