...What is your evaluation of the hiring process used by S.G.Cowen? S.G.Cowen uses the same pattern as the majority of Wall Street companies by making hiring decisions during the early winter and spring of each year so that the new associates can begin in the summer. Besides a full hiring process, the company selects some associates that already worked or are still working to S.G.Cowen utilising, therefore, internal sources of recruitment. First year associates selected internally can be analysts that after three years of collaboration (without attending a business school) are promoted or summer interns that attend a business school and are offered a full-time contract at the end of the internship. The hiring process of S.G.Cowen in terms of new outside associates (that had never worked for the company before) underlies on presentations made by bankers in “core business schools” (for example NYU or Cornell) to inform the students about their work environment and conditions. The aim of these presentations is to make sure that four questions are answered: “who are we, what do we do, what distinguish us from competitors and what are the next steps”. This ensures that everyone receives a clear, complete and similar message from all bankers. The next step is to focus on informational interviews to help them understand how students felt about working in a company like S.G.Cowen. These interviews are highly efficient because they work like a previous self-selection process. Only the most...
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...with a strong presence on both the East and West coasts. The Company serves the healthcare needs of its customers through its Rite Aid stores and online pharmacy, riteaid.com. Due to the breadth and scope of its businesses, the Company faces a wide range of competitive challenges including, but not limited to, other retail drugstore chains, supermarkets, convenience stores, pharmacy benefit managers and other mail order prescription providers, Internet pharmacies and ambulatory care health providers. A primary component of the Company's human resources strategy to ensure high caliber leadership is the identification, recruitment, development and placement of key management and business talent. The Rite Aid Board of Directors (the "Board") and executive management team believe that a crucial aspect of executing this strategy is a comprehensive, integrated and straightforward executive compensation platform that provides competitive and differentiated levels of pay based on corporate and individual performance while reinforcing the alignment of executive interests with those of stockholders. When a company is facing issues dealing with corporate compliance, implementing a system to deal with the compliance and corporate governance issues is the best opportunity for the company. The company should develop a process to analyze alternatives and integrate the appropriate opportunity into the company's system. The company will begin by developing an internal control and corporate...
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...Central Queensland University Australia | Challenges of an Australian HR manager may face in London | | Subject: HRM in the Global Environment HRMT20022 Subject: HRM in the Global Environment HRMT20022 Over the last few decades the number of expatriates is increasing worldwide. These men and women represent a very important asset for organisations which are developing new business across the world. These expatriates are generally sending abroad to develop strategies or resolve problems in the host country. Consequently, the organisation has to be informed of any issue that expatriates might face and affect the work abroad in terms of international human resource management (IHRM) and industrial relations (IR) issues. Deb (2009) define IHRM as ‘a strategic process of managing a global and diverse pool of talented people in such a way as to achieve aims and objectives of the organisation both at parent and subsidiary level successfully, follow ethical practices on human and business issues and be adaptable to local cultural norms and other human needs and aspirations’. And Dowling, Festing and Engle (2013, p.242) define IR as ‘The board field of study that looks at wider issues of work and employment’. The purposes of this essay are to identify and discuss the IR and HRM issues an expatriate from Melbourne could face while living and working in London. In relation to Industrial relations issues, the role of unions, employment contracts, regulations, visas, taxation...
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...Executive Summary Problem Jasmin Rawlinson director of marketing at Porsche Canada requires guidance on how alter Canadians perception and behavior to favor winter driving. In addition, she must decide which mediums to choose for her 2010 marketing campaign. Analysis Porsche is an established luxury car manufacturer, who has recently opened a Canadian office. Canadians affluent communities consider Porsches the most prestigious Cars. Porsche customers are high-income individuals. Alternatives Porsche can choose to abandon the marketing plan for winter equipment, and avoid possibly wasting money. Alternatively, if Porsche chooses to create a marketing campaign, it must be decided whether to target the mass-market, or a high-income audience. Criteria The marketing campaign must stay within the 500,000-dollar budget. Porsche must sell 5,773 units in order to break-even. Porsche advertisements must be consistent cross-country. Recommendation Porsche should create a marketing campaign targeting towards a high-income audience. This strategy aligns with Porsches existing marketing mix, and will generate the company additional revenues. Problem Jasmin Rawlinson, director of marketing at Porsche Canada, is creating her marketing plan for the year of 2010. She is faced with the task of marketing winter equipment to Canadian consumers who prefer to keep their Porsches indoors during winter. Jasmin knows from an engineering standpoint, that Porsche vehicles are suitable...
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...Christian Winter Faculty Mentor: Vijay Vaidyanathan, Department of Engineering Technology, College of Engineering Department: Department of Engineering Technology, College of Engineering, & Honors College According to the Goal 2 Bio: Christian Winter was born in Frankfurt–Oder, Germany, and moved to the United States in 2002. He is currently pursuing a Bachelor of Science degree in Electronics Engineering Technology at the University of North Texas in Denton. Winter is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) student branch at UNT, currently serving as the chairperson. He is also a member of the UNT Honors College, Tau Alpha Pi, Phi Kappa Phi, and the Golden Key International Honor Society. He was chosen for Who’s Who Among Students at American Colleges and Universities in 2004–2005. Winter received the Outstanding Electronics Engineering Student Award for the 2004–2005 academic year. On graduation, Winter plans to pursue a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering at the University of Texas at Dallas. He currently works as an engineering intern at Sanmina-SCI in Allen, Texas. According to the Goal 3 Abstract: Eliyahu Goldratt’s Theory of Constraints has helped companies around the world improve their profit margins by effectively managing business processes. Goldratt first introduced his theory in 1984 in the book, The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement. This essay summarizes Goldratt’s book and explains the business model he...
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...Christian Winter Faculty Mentor: Vijay Vaidyanathan, Department of Engineering Technology, College of Engineering Department: Department of Engineering Technology, College of Engineering, & Honors College According to the Goal 2 Bio: Christian Winter was born in Frankfurt–Oder, Germany, and moved to the United States in 2002. He is currently pursuing a Bachelor of Science degree in Electronics Engineering Technology at the University of North Texas in Denton. Winter is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) student branch at UNT, currently serving as the chairperson. He is also a member of the UNT Honors College, Tau Alpha Pi, Phi Kappa Phi, and the Golden Key International Honor Society. He was chosen for Who’s Who Among Students at American Colleges and Universities in 2004–2005. Winter received the Outstanding Electronics Engineering Student Award for the 2004–2005 academic year. On graduation, Winter plans to pursue a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering at the University of Texas at Dallas. He currently works as an engineering intern at Sanmina-SCI in Allen, Texas. According to the Goal 3 Abstract: Eliyahu Goldratt’s Theory of Constraints has helped companies around the world improve their profit margins by effectively managing business processes. Goldratt first introduced his theory in 1984 in the book, The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement. This essay summarizes Goldratt’s book and explains the business model he...
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...Int. J. Business Performance Management, Vol. 5, No. 1, 2003 1 Implementing performance measurement systems: a literature review Mike Bourne* and Andy Neely Centre for Business Performance, School of Management, Cranfield University, Cranfield, MK43 0AL, UK E-mail: m.bourne@cranfield.ac.uk *Corresponding author John Mills and Ken Platts Centre for Strategy and Performance, Institute for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge, Mill Lane, Cambridge, CB2 1RX, UK Abstract: Currently, there is a great interest in performance measurement with many companies attempting to implement the balanced scorecard. However, there is also evidence that many of these implementations are not successful. This paper reviews the different performance measurement system design processes published in the literature and creates a framework for comparing alternative approaches. The paper then proceeds to review the literature on performance measurement system implementations and concludes that the performance measurement literature is at the stage of identifying difficulties and pitfalls to be avoided based on practitioner experience with few published research studies. This paper is the first of two, the second going on to consider performance measurement implementation from the point of view of the change management literature. Keywords: Performance measurement; management process implementation. Reference to this paper should be made as follows: Bourne, M., Neely, A., Mills, J. and Platts...
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...Management: Policy and Practice (MGT 503) Semester: Winter Semester 2012 Part- I Class: MBA for Professionals I Sec B Course Instructor: Usamah Iyyaz Billah (email: usamahbillah@yahoo.com ) Class Day & Timings: Sunday: 12:45 PM - 02:45 PM + 3.00PM - 5.00PM SYLLABUS 1. Introduction to Case Study Method: The case study method is radically different from traditional teaching methods. Students will learn the basic rules of an Oral Case Analysis Presentations as well as how to prepare and present Written Analysis for comprehensive management cases. 2. Defining the Managers Terrain: What is a management function, roles and kills? Universality of Management. A brief History of Management. Organizational Culture and Environment. Classifying managers and nominal employees. How the work done by managers is important for the organizations and how difficult it is to be a good manager who carries Social Responsibility and Good Ethics. 3. Planning: Managers as Decision makes, Decision making Process. Classifying decisions and decision making conditions. Techniques for effective decision making. Foundation of Planning. Setting goals/objectives and developing plans. Strategic management and planning. 4. Organizing: Organizational structure and design. Functional, geographic, product, process, customer departmentalization. Chain of command and span of control. Decisions involved with designing the organization’s structure...
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...The company manufactures plastic mouldings and bins, enjoying a good reputation for its quality. In order to remain profitable and a leader position in the market, the company plans to take some radical changes in new technology, working practices and reorganization of the workforce. The strategic agenda for Walkers Engineering is to start pilot scheme from the manufacturing section with acute problems and then to transform organization-wide. In this assignment, based on the overall situation of Walkers Engineering, specific problems in the organization, especially from manufacturing department will be discussed, and realistic solutions affecting the company will be addressed in according to the practice and management knowledge. Meanwhile, the relevant implementation would be introduced for comparison provided this organization was operating in China. Main problems in Walker Engineering As many people have mentioned, nothing is perfect in the world and ‘there is always a room for improvement (Cheetham, 2009). As one of functional department full of shop floorers in Walker Engineering, manufacturing section is involved in producing bins and packing and dispatching them. It gets many problems indentified, which partly reflect the management situation in the organization. Johnston et al (1995, p.113) emphasize: For most organizations it is not the people in the computer department, or the payroll office, or the marketing department that 1 create the most problems, but...
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...TextTell Me a Good Story: Using Narrative Analysis to Examine Information Requirements Interviews during an ERP Implementation Rosío Alvarez University of Massachusetts, Boston Jacqueline Urla University of Massachusetts, Amherst Abstract This paper reports on a participant-observation study examining how clients use narratives to convey information during ERP requirements analysis interviews. Techniques drawn from narrative analysis are used to analyze the structure and content of different types of narratives clients tell during requirements analysis interviews. First, findings reveal that interviewees organized their experience, sought to persuade listeners, and conveyed information to analysts using “stories,” “habitual,” and “hypothetical” narratives. Client narratives provide a pragmatic view of the information system, offering insight into the ways the system is actually used and the habitual practices of the work environment. Second, narratives function to signal the embeddedness of the information system in its larger organizational and social context. While analysts may be inclined to dismiss narratives as messy or uncodeable data, the insights they provide merit attention. To the degree that narratives give insight into users’ perspectives on organizational issues, they provide knowledge that is essential to any information systems project. This is especially true for ERP projects that, unlike other systems projects, seek to integrate processes spanning the entire...
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...Pacific Northwest regions. ShopKo focuses on popular higher-margin categories such as casual apparel, health and beauty items, and housewares. Sales totaled $3.18 billion for the fiscal year ending in January 2005, and the company was recently acquired by a private company affiliate of Goldner, Hawn, & Morrison Inc. ShopKo has been an intensive user of applications to improve decision making about inventory levels, sales performance, store layout, and selection of merchandise. One of its most powerful tools has been a system to determine prices and timing of apparel markdowns. Traditionally companies that sell apparel have four product cycles a year, one for each of the seasons. However such companies now face serious competition from companies like Gap that now operate on rapidly changing product cycles, often bringing in new product lines every two to four weeks. One of the growing problems ShopKo had to address was what to do with the excess (or overstocked) merchandise when a cycle ends. At the end of a season (or cycle), companies have faced two problems. One is the need to empty its shelves in time for the arrival of the new cycle products (bathing suits do not sell well in the winter while fur coats are not in demand in the summer). The other problem is getting rid of the overstocked items at the highest possible price in an attempt to minimize losses in revenue. Traditionally the method ShopKo (and most other clothing retailers) used to determine clearance prices for...
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...025-1065 The firm’s operational capability and innovation: Comparative studies of innovative firms from the south of Brazil. PAULO ANTÔNIO ZAWISLAK Graduate Center on Business Administration Management School Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul Rua Washington Luiz, 855, Porto Alegre, RS, 90.010-000, Brazil paz@ea.ufrgs.br ANTÔNIO DOMINGOS PADULA Graduate Center on Business Administration Management School Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul Rua Washington Luiz, 855, Porto Alegre, RS, 90.010-000, Brazil apadula@ea.ufrgs.br LÁZARO SUMBA QUIMI Graduate Center on Business Administration Management School Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul Rua Washington Luiz, 855, Porto Alegre, RS, 90.010-000, Brazil lsumba@hotmail.com CAROLINE PRATES Graduate Center on Business Administration Management School Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul Rua Washington Luiz, 855, Porto Alegre, RS, 90.010-000, Brazil carol.prates@ibest.com.br POMS 23rd Annual Conference Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. April 20 to April 23, 2011 The firm’s operational capability and innovation: Comparative studies of innovative firms from the south of Brazil. Abstract: In emergent economies, firm’s innovation is often a survival issue. This research is focused on the operational capability concept and it is intended to explain, in a comprehensive way, how this capability matters and supports innovation. This paper analyzes firms, which working under standard technology...
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...coordination, however, is often very complex. For example, a typical manufacturer is required to track hundreds or thousands of raw materials, components, and subassemblies for effective production. In a similar way, a service provider must ensure the appropriate employees and range of necessary materials are available to fill the needs of multiple market segments, often on very short notice. Effective internal planning and control represents the fundamental “block and tackling” underlying an organization’s efficient and effective operations. Operations planning and control is the second of the foundational blocks that contribute to the management of broader operational systems (see Figure 3.1). Forecasting customer demand based on a wide range of business factors is one critical input. Planning for operations then must cover both the long-term planning horizon for overall capacity and process-related resources, such as facilities, equipment, and personnel, as well as detailed schedules to match these to customer needs. And once plans are in place, management must actively control the use of resources to meet customer demands and against budgets. In practice, planning and control is a multistage process, often with iteration to refine the development or acquisition of particular resources (see Figure 3.2) (Vollmann, Berry, & Whybark, 1992). Although long-term forecasts and plans can...
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...Student Plagiarism and Academic Misconduct Policy and understand its implications. I also declare, if this is a practical skills assessment, that a Client/Interviewee Consent Form has been read and signed by both parties, and where applicable parental consent has been obtained. Introduction This essay will look at Clothing Company Pty Ltd, an organisation that has undergone change since its inception. The culture of the organisation will be examined, as will the leadership style. This essay will also examine the relationship between motivation and performance with the Clothing Company (CC Inc.). This essay will examine how the management style impacts on an organisation undergoing change. CC Inc. was formed by 2 Australians in the 1970’s, both keen to earn a living while living at the beach (Waddell, Cummings, Worley (2007). Beginning as a home-based business, the pair designed and manufactured beach wear which suited their own requirement. Attracting attention from both Australia and overseas, the business grew to become a workable enterprise. By the mid 1970’s the founders sold licenses for the CC brand. By the late 1980’s the USA arm of the business had become dominant and CC Inc. was floated on the New...
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...managing, training and planning of the manufacturing technologies. However, in Kenya where SMIs appear slow to adopt AMTs, little work appears to have been done on the ability of SMIs to implement AMTs successfully. An exploratory survey of 60 SMIs suggest the need to rethink implementation of AMTs if they are to obtain strategic benefits of AMTs. In particular, they need to rethink their organic structure and understanding of the technologies, plan their level of skilled workers and engineers, and change their culture. Increasing their competitiveness and organizational flexibility requires a flexible structure, training of the workers to running multiple machines, stopping production when problem occurs, communicating organizational goals, and participating in idea generation and decision making. Further, SMIs need a higher understanding of these technologies to realize their potential. The results of this survey have implications for innovation research and stakeholders in governmental and non-governmental organizations seeking the successful implementation of AMTs within the SMI sector. Key words: AMT Implementation, SMIs, Kenya, Organizational Structure INTRODUCTION AND RESEARCH OBJECTIVE...
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