Business Essays

The politicians who were starting to penetrate in the political stage were focusing on a single industry which was solely responsible for all the monetary profits; the heavy industries of China. The major focus of China prior to reform was to build heavy industries.

Why Shanghai Free trade zone is a threat to Hong Kong. Name: Instructor: Shanghai was China’s main financial hub before 1949. Foreign trade started in Shanghai in 1841, and it established itself into the most affluent financial centre in Asia by 1930. In the 1930s, Shanghai boosted of 33 foreign banks, 24 state banks, over 200 money lenders and other financial institutions (Knight & Ding, 2012).

The global microprocessor industry has evolved since the 1990s. The multibillion-dollar industry has entered every phase of a man’s life right from the cellphone to children toys. They have become so huge that even government policies and measures have been altered to accommodate the business of microprocessors.

Graduates always find the task of looking for jobs after graduation difficult. This is due to their lack of information about their fields. Graduates come out of various institutions with qualifications that cannot be matched. The only problem is they lack hands-on skills and the necessary background in their target fields. Applicants need to be well versed with details about the position for which they are applying.

The conclusion from this study states that Chiquita is a multinational corporation that has survived the harsh forces of an international market. In Columbia, the organization was confronted with a diverse terrorist culture that forced the organization to indulge in illegal business operation to protect its company.

Agencies like Children’s Bureau, United States Health and Human Services Department (2010) gives Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act which is also known as CAPTA as law by the Reauthorization Act of CAPTA in 2010. There in text format the Adoption Opportunities process and Infants Abandoned Assistance Act is available.

The country weathered the global financial recession, which had insignificant effects on Brazil economy; hence, it was one of the last to fall in to recession during 2008 and among the first to resume the growth in 2009. Germany has been considered the largest national economy in EU; in fact, it is ranked fourth largest nominal GDP worldwide and fifth GPD (PPP), during the year 2008.

For decades, India is viewed as an outstanding outsourcing destination where most countries are guaranteed a reduction in their cost base (Bhasin, 2010). This is because India has a large number of graduates who are fluent in English but their wage demands are lower, in comparison to, graduates from the western countries.

This is where the business ensures the needs and wants of the customers are satisfied without any jeopardy (Doole and Lowe, 2008). Apparently, marketing involves communication in the involved departments to improve the quality of the services and products.

Nike at first was known as Ribbon Sports. During its establishment, The Company’s main goal was to distribute low-cost and high-quality athletic shoes to consumers in America. Now, Nike not only manufactures and distributes athletic shoes, but it also produces sports pieces of equipment. As far as its footwear market is concerned, the company consists of 33% of the global market share.

It is evident from the study that the United Kingdom has also established a financial reporting review panel that has increased strict terms and threats for listed and large private firms in United Kingdom. However, certain issues that touch on commercial pressures have undermined these improvement practices in reliability and quality of financial reporting.

The paper gives detailed information about Company Details, its Organizational Structure, Product and Services, Business Strategy of the firm, Consumers, Key Performance and success factors. The SWOT analysis of the firm has been performed to find the internal and the external environmental situation of the company.

This study looks into consumer attitudes that can be considered both an impediment as well as an advantage in marketing. An attitude exists as an evaluation of certain concepts or objects concerning a subject and gives the contentment through articulation. The attitude towards a certain object or service may satisfy an individual drive and at the same time affect the buying actions of consumers.

In the study reference is made to the characteristics and the advantages of global strategy, as opposed to the local approach, aiming to understand the reasons for which a local approach would be preferred by firms operating globally, even if the cost involved may be higher, compared to the global strategy.

The reverberation of the recent economic recession is still observable in most countries across the world. The recession did not spare even the feared nations in the world such as the United Kingdom. Financial institutions became prey to the devastating effects of the recession leading to losing closure of investments and subsequent loss of a job.

Changes in social issues and patterns can affect the demand for a firm’s product and the availability and willingness of individuals to work. Social aspects have a deep influence since the emergence of social networking such as facebook and twitter has given particularly the young population with another medium to interact. 

It would be helpful if we define the term brand. The American Marketing Association defines ‘brand’ as “a name, term, design, symbol, or any other feature that identifies one seller's good or service as distinct from those of other sellers. A brand may identify one item, a family of items, or all items of that seller.”

A party had started in the bus when it had left Singapore, and continued despite the driver’s exhortation for the dancers to sit. The bus driver is responsible to take care of the passengers. Therefore, he should be attentive while driving. Moreover, he should also drive the bus within their speed limits to ensure the safety of the passengers.

For developing a comprehensive study on Saudi Stock Market various aspects have been explored with an evaluation of events in the market relative to events in the world. Upon analysis, it was explored that world oil prices have a direct impact on the TASI while internal country strength resists the impact of Asian crises on market.

It is evidently clear from the discussion that sustainability can be defined in different aspects which include political, economic, social, technological, legal and environmental concerns. Based on the definition presented by Summer sustainability is about trying to keep something ready in times of needs particularly in an uncertain future.

McDonald's is a leading food chain business worldwide; operating 32,000 global restaurants in more than 117 countries. McDonald's employs 1.7 million worldwide; franchises 75% of its business and manages the rest of restaurants. It offers the standard framework for its operation, uniform set of menus, universal pricing and restaurant façade.

The root of TQM originated in the 1920s, from Quality Control ideas in manufacturing, which were developed in various industries of Japan particularly the automobile industries in the late 1940 and 1950s. In addition, TQM resulted from the research and contributions of quality experts including W. Edwards Deming, Joseph Juran, and others.

Moral standards that are used by individuals to judge behavior is referred to as ethics, while behavior that businesses up holds in its daily its activities across the globe is what is referred to us business ethics. A specific business can have diverse ethics.

The author states that ethics basically refers to issues of right, wrong, fairness and justice and business ethics focuses on ethical issues that arise in the commercial realm. The concept of ethics is very important during the contemporary period in the operations of any given organization.

But an unethical way of behaviour is observed in the functioning of many firms and employees. Certain firms focus merely on the financial benefits and ignore the ethical side of the business. It is also true that the workers of many firms behave unethically and one could identify various reasons behind such actions.

In the current competitive global economic environment, companies have to apply every possible strategy that will enable them to maintain their profits at a good level. One of these strategies is outsourcing. This has emerged to be one of the fastest-growing business sectors in the world with countries like India leading in the business. 

Through Potential Appraisal, employee qualities that are inherent in an individual like leadership, communication skills, etch are identified so that it can be used to contribute to the organization’s bottom line. Whereas Performance Appraisal is the procedure or method used in evaluating the performance of a certain employee for a given period of what the employee has done or how productive he or she is.

By doing this the Wii effectively positioned its product where the competitive forces were weakest (Porter, 2008). Scott (2008) elaborates that whereas Sony and Microsoft were concentrated on differentiating their products in terms of providing cutting-edge game play to demanding customers, Wii focused on reaching new customers segments.

Why the gender wage gap persists in Australia?  Introduction “The gender pay gap is the best way to measure pay inequality between men and women”(Closing the Gender Pay Gap, 2008, p.13). Gender wage gap is a phenomenon in which males and females are getting different pay scales even though they perform similar duties.

The explosive growth of tablet computers and improvements in mobile phone technology has allowed the expansion in the way software and web 2.0 technologies can be used. It is important to understand that the trends are indicating that the firms will increasingly use the web2.0 technology for enterprise purposes. 

If found reasonable, the court would have to uphold the agency’s stand taken on the issue of law. The case involves the stipulation under the Clean Air Act that such of those States which have not complied with national ambient air quality standards prescribed by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) should have a program in place regulating stationary sources of air pollution.

The author of this paper states that some of Roche’s health endeavor is focused on diagnostics and discovery of drugs for cancer and transplantation. They have also concentrated their efforts on several sicknesses that are viral, and sicknesses of the autoimmune and the nervous system, among others.

This plan has the following outlay. Items to be procured, Expected Cost, Budget and Schedule Procurement Team Hierarchy Contract Type Vendor Selection Contract Closure Items to be procured, Expected Cost, Budget and Schedule After finalizing the make or buy decision, the following products have been finalized for procurement.

Small businesses are of the forms like sole proprietorships, partnership and even registered corporations which the underlying base characteristic being that they are privately owned, this means such businesses are solely under the ownership and control of private individuals (Hisrich, 2004).

The threats in the aviation environment such as competition from other major airlines caused the profitability of the airline to decline steadily. Because of the new management, which began with Jan Carlzon as the company’s CEO, there was complete company restructuring and thus the airline began to grow steadily through vertical integration with the hotel, reservation, credit card.

Henry Ford’s vision was to manufacture cars for the masses and hence he created Ford’s Motors in 1903, which did not just cater to the niche markets. His company became a success but his autocratic leadership style turned out to be very detrimental. What differentiates good leadership is the employee empowerment and freedom to bring in the ideas.

Why the market leaders of western origin have to be afraid of "newcomers" from emerging economies? Western countries are facing huge problems as result of the recent global financial crisis. At the same time emerging economies such as India, Brazil, China, Russia Korea etc are escaped from the recession problems up to certain extent.

The marketing process involves a practice of decision making that is fundamental to the success of any organization, small or large, profit or non-profit (Mullins & Walker, 2010). In this light and especially in the new economy, an organization must strive to have a digital presence and a physical presence too.

The SWOT analysis framework was built on the “assumption that an effective strategy derives from a sound fit between a firm’s internal resources (strengths and weaknesses) and its external situation”. Through this, it is implied that a good fit provides maximization of the strengths and opportunities of a business organization. 

The paper tells that the concept of business conceptualization is the most crucial step during the formation of a company. Every firm entering into the business arena should communicate its philosophies to the participants and stakeholders in the market. The act of conceptualizing an entity is essential in creating a link between the consumers’ ideas and those of the service or product providers.

Organizational communication refers to the channels and forms used for communication among members of organizations, like businesses and corporations. According to various studies done, there is a strong relationship between communication levels and job satisfaction, as well as performance in every organization.

Challenges in Apple Computer, Inc. began because of disagreements between Jobs and Sculley. This was because of the differences in the best direction to take the company. Consequently, competition and technological changes in the computer industry created major challenges for Apple. The technological changes proved to be a challenge to Apple as it struggled to produce standardized software in the market.

However since the inception of this Eurozone and when its policies and financial structure was designed, several economists and experts raised their voices against the potential issues that could be faced by the region in the future and circumstances certainly proved them to be right.

The study is a compendium of ‘how we are doing’, and outlines time series data on quality, customer provision, and retention and fiscal accountability. Moreover, the trend report examines both long term planning of organizational strategy in the three operational areas and extends to Harangue Ltd.'s future interests in building customer equity across the value chain.

Many critics of the company believe that the company exploits workers by breaking unions, paying a low wage, and providing few benefits. However, these critics are incorrect in their assessment because they ignore the satisfaction of the worker. Wal-Mart stores employees are remarkable motivated in their occupations.

The corporation, being the most popular affiliation in the field of electronics and communication has exhibited numerous restructuring initiatives of its general business prospects in the sense that it aims at fitting into the contemporary trends, such as digital economy among others.

The success of Apple under the leadership of Steve Jobs is evident. This success concentrates on the technological aspect of the corporation. In business, success requires that a company satisfies the stakeholders and remains socially conscience; this is true success. In view of the ethical issues above, Apple Inc. is still not successful.

Book Report/Review Table of Contents Analysis of the Book 3 Works Cited 7 Analysis of the Book In the present business and social environment, ‘how a nation fails’ is an area of utmost importance as well as interest. However the reasons for failure are different according to different authors.

It is operative on five continents and distributes its products under 80 brands in approximately 70 counties world wide. It is the biggest and the number one producer of chocolate in the United States (“Annual Report”, n.p.). PEST Analysis Political Factors Export import policies prevailing in a country, political stability, new legislations affecting the business.

Unlike traditional businesses, the e-businesses (B2C) offer a wide range of products to its customers. It not only allows them to pick up products already available over the internet but also allows them to design and specify their own product. This feature of the e-businesses has put up a lot of pressure on other businesses which are constantly trying to improve their customer base.