... Weaknesses……………….…………pag.9 Opportunities…………….…………pag.9 Threats………………………………pag.10 6. Suggestions……………………………………pag.10 7. Conclusion…………………………………….pag.11 8. Referencing list…………………………….….pag.12 1. Executive summary McCain Foods Limited is seen as a top leader in the food industry, with an extended production over six continents. To maintain the leadership, the company needs to be aware of the external environment changes. The changes can occur in different areas, such as social, political, legal, technological and economic. These factors are analyzed properly for a better understanding related to the McCain Company and their industry. (www.mccain.com) 2. Introduction McCain Foods limited is a company with over 50 years of experience, being founded by Harrison and Wallace McCain in 1957. Operates in 160 countries and has various types of products especially based on potatoes. (www.mccain.com) The information provided in the report will be extracted from reliable sources that will be referenced both in text and last page which will be dedicated for references. It will be firstly based on McCain Foods case study and Mintel...
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...general election campaign, or the phase of a political campaign aimed at winning election to office. Unlike the nomination campaign, where candidates must run against each other, during the general election campaign, candidates in partisan elections run against nominees from other political parties. All eligible voters, regardless of political party, have the opportunity to vote. For this reason, candidates are more likely to move their positions on political issues toward the ideological center. The length of the general election campaign varies from state to state. 3. Paid staff, political consultants, and volunteers work behind the scenes to support the candidate. Collectively, they plan strategy, conduct polls, write speeches, craft the campaign’s message, and design a communications plan to disseminate that message to the public. Others are responsible for organizing fundraising events, campaign rallies, and direct voter contacts. The size and nature of the staff varies depending on the type of race. The campaign manager runs nearly every campaign at the state and national...
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...1. How does McCain view her role as Human Resource Manager? 2. What is Harrison’s business strategy? 3. What is the structure and staffing of HR? 4. Analyse the data in Exhibit 1.5. What are its implications? 5. Given the organisation’s size and strategic goals, evaluate the development of the human resource function at Harrison Brothers. What problems do you see? How could its major human resource functions be improved? The Role of HR Manager The continuous and dynamic competition in the global business arena has been very stiff and complex. In this regard, the organization must be able to utilize a strategy and management system that will enhance the performance of the business so as to outgrow its rivals (Pearce & Robinson 2000; Thompson & Strickland 2003). One of the contemporary management concerns in the business world today is the concept of a good manager. What makes a good and functional manager? The job of every manager involves all the elements of what is known as the functions of management: planning, organizing, directing/leading, coordinating and controlling (Matthews and Scott 1995; Witzel 2003; Roney 2004). These functions are goal-directed, interrelated and interdependent with each other. They also are viewed as being critical and universal for all levels of managers, from supervisor to CEO in all types of organizations – business, government, educational, charitable, etc. – of any size. This is usually called the universality of management. The...
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...GAME CHANGE OBAMA AND THE CLINTONS, MCCAIN AND PALIN, AND THE RACE OF A LIFETIME JOHN HEILEMANN AND MARK HALPERIN FOR DIANA AND KAREN Contents Cover Title Page Prologue Part I Chapter One – Her Time Chapter Two – The Alternative Chapter Three – The Ground Beneath Her Feet Chapter Four – Getting to Yes Chapter Five – The Inevitables Chapter Six – Barack in a Box Chapter Seven – “They Looooove Me!” Chapter Eight – The Turning Point Chapter Nine – The Fun Part Chapter Ten – Two For the Price of One Chapter Eleven – Fear and Loathing in the Lizard’s Thicket Chapter Twelve – Pulling Away and Falling Apart Chapter Thirteen – Obama Agonistes Chapter Fourteen – The Bitter End Game Part II Chapter Fifteen – The Maverick and His Meltdown Chapter Sixteen – Running Unopposed Chapter Seventeen – Slipping Nooses, Slaying Demons Part III Chapter Eighteen – Paris and Berlin Chapter Nineteen – The Mile-High Club Chapter Twenty – Sarahcuda Chapter Twenty-One – September Surprise Chapter Twenty-Two – Seconds in Command Chapter Twenty-Three – The Finish Line Epilogue – Together at Last Index Author’s Notes About the Authors Copyright About the Publisher Prologue BARACK OBAMA JERKED BOLT upright in bed at three o’clock in the morning. Darkness enveloped his low-rent room at the Des Moines Hampton Inn; the airport across the street was quiet in the hours before dawn. It was very late December 2007, a few days ahead of the Iowa caucuses. Obama had been sprinting flat out...
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...history as the first African American to win the election against Republican candidate, John McCain, thus becoming the 44th president of the United States. Obama won by a margin of nearly 200 electoral votes and 8.5 million popular votes. Many factors contributed to his success, but a major one was the way Obama and his Chicago-based campaign team used social media and technology as an integral part of their campaign strategy, not only to raise money, but also more importantly, to develop a groundswell of empowered volunteers who felt that they could make a difference. Michael Malbin, executive director of the Campaign Finance Institute said: “No other candidate has ever integrated the full picture the way he [Obama] has, that‟s what‟s really new about his campaign.”1 Edelman Research analysts said that Obama won by “…converting everyday people into engaged and empowered volunteers, donors and advocates through social networks, e-mail advocacy, text messaging and online video. The campaign‟s proclivity to online advocacy is a major reason for his victory”2 (Exhibit 1). In terms of the numbers, externally, Obama‟s campaign was able to garner 5 million supporters on 15 different social networks ranging from Facebook to MySpace. By November 2008, Obama had approximately 2.5 million (some sources say as much as 3.2 million3) Facebook 1 2 Chris Lefkow, “Obama Has Huge Lead Over McCain—in Cyberspace,” Agence France Presse, October 5, 2008. Edelman Research, “The Social Pulpit,”...
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...Kenyan father, Obama grew up in Hawaii. Leaving the state to attend college, he earned degrees from Columbia University and Harvard Law School. Obama worked as a community organizer in Chicago, where he met and married Michelle LaVaughn Robinson in 1992. Their two daughters, Malia Ann and Natasha (Sasha) were born in 1998 and 2001, respectively. Obama was elected to the Illinois state senate in 1996 and served there for eight years. In 2004, he was elected by a record majority to the U.S. Senate from Illinois and, in February 2007, announced his candidacy for President. After winning a closely-fought contest against New York Senator and former First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton for the Democratic nomination, Obama handily defeated Senator John McCain of Arizona, the Republican nominee for President, in the general election. When President Obama took office, he faced very significant challenges. The economy was officially in a recession, and the outgoing administration of George W. Bush had begun to implement a controversial "bail-out" package to try to help struggling financial institutions. In foreign affairs, the United States still had troops deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan, and warfare had broken out between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip, illustrating the ongoing instability of the Middle East. During his first term, President Obama was able to work with Congress to improve the U.S. economy, pass health-care reform, and withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq. Still the President...
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...In today’s era of Youtube, the mass media plays an important role in covering facts and features of elections. Right from the campaigning to voting to election of a candidate, all news events are covered by the media. Politics is a tough and rough game and each country needs a democratic nominee who is willing to protect the country from all evils. The recent elections of 2008 were indeed the most historical presidential elections in the history of U.S. Illinois Senator Barack Obama became the 44th president of the United State. During the election, there was this first lady, named Hillary Rodham Clinton, who expressed her interest in the presidential election of 2008. Until then, in the history of presidential election in United State, none of the woman had ever won the major party nomination. Well-educated Hillary Clinton had a good experience of public service and managing the Oval office. She emerged as a dedicated and hard working lady from the American women’s perspective. The staff members and policy team of the campaign The initial team of her campaign was supported and run by a group of advisers and political operatives. Mark Penn, Penn, Schoen & Berland were considered as the stategic genius of Clinton’s campaign. The chief operating officer of the campaign was Evelyn S. Lieberman while Howard Wolfson was the spokesperson of the campaign. Many other well-known senior advisers and subject specialist formed the focus group of the campaign. Ann Lewis was campaign’s senior...
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...Running Head: TYLENOL MURDERS Johnson & Johnson: The Tylenol Crisis of 1982 Since 1887 Johnson and Johnson had been a respected member of the health care industry providing millions of customers with a diverse line of products from surgical dressings and band aids to baby powder. It had built its reputation on providing surgeons with sterile dressing to use after surgery because infection was a major cause of death after surgical procedures. The company was also a pioneer in the corporate idea of decentralizing the structure of their business so each set of products were directed by their own subsidiary and each had autonomy from the main corporate center. A family run, publicly traded business, the company had always had been aware of its responsibility towards the public and its employees as well as its shareholders. In 1959 Johnson and Johnson acquired McNeil laboratories, maker of the prescription-only drug Tylenol. By 1980, Tylenol was responsible for 37 percent of the pain reliever market and was responsible for 33 percent of the company’s profit growth (Tifft, Griggs, 1982). That type of share of the market illustrates the presence Tylenol had in the industry and there was no end in sight. On the morning of September 29th Mary Kellerman was seen by her parents as having flu symptoms so they gave her Extra Strength Tylenol to combat her fever. She became sick within hours and died later that day. On...
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...Licensed to: iChapters User Licensed to: iChapters User Human Resource Management Applications, 7th Edition Stella M. Nkomo, Myron D. Fottler, and R. Bruce McAfee VP/Editorial Director: Jack W. Calhoun Senior Acquisition Editor: Michele Rhoades Developmental Editor: Jennifer King Editorial Assistant: Ruth Belanger Marketing Manager: Clint Kernen Content Project Management: PreMediaGlobal Production Technology Analyst: Emily Gross Senior Manufacturing Buyer: Kevin Kluck Production House/Compositor: PreMediaGlobal Senior Art Director: Tippy Mcintosh Permissions Acquisition Manager/Photo: Deanna Ettinger Permissions Acquisition Manager/Text: Mardell Glinski Schultz Cover Designer: Stuart Kunkler, triartis communications Cover Image: Jacob Wackerhausen/iStock 2011, 2008, 2005 South-Western, Cengage Learning ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. No part of this work covered by the copyright herein may be reproduced, transmitted, stored, or used in any form or by any means graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including but not limited to photocopying, recording, scanning, digitizing, taping, Web distribution, information networks, or information storage and retrieval systems, except as permitted under Section 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act, without the prior written permission of the publisher. For product information and technology assistance, contact us at Cengage Learning Customer & Sales Support, 1-800-354-9706 For permission to use material from this text or product...
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...Contemporary Human Resource Management Summary This is a report regarding the human resource function of Harrison Brothers Company addressing the company’s CEO. In order to collect the needed information, interviews with the Human Resource, Store and Operations Manager were conducted. HR and store managers completed a questionnaire regarding their perceptions of the HR department’s responsibilities. There is a problem with high rates of turnovers and labor shortage. Issues with the employees’ training and development must also be dealt with. Recommendations for a more efficient recruitment and selection process as well as performance management and reward system are made in the report. The aspects of discipline and change management are also discussed. Finally, a new structure of the HR department and of the company in general is being proposed. TABLE OF CONTENTS Summary………………………………………………………………………………………......2 Contents…………………………………………………………………………………………...3 List of figures……………………………………………………………………………………...4 1. Labor shortage………………………………………………………………………………...5 2. Recruitment campaign………………………………………………………………………...5 3.1 Recruitment sources…………………………………………………………………….....5 3.2 Targeting a specific group through positive action………………………………………..6 3.3 Realistic job preview (RJP)…………………………………………………………….....6 3. Selection…………………………………………………………………………………….....6 4.4 The interviews……………………………………………………………………………..6 4.5 Personality and...
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...TEAM COMPOSITION: IMPACT OF HETEROGENEITY AND HOMOGENEITY INTRODUCTION A team is a group which has a common goal or common objective. Unlike groups, a team focuses on their collective outcome. Usually, teams have members with higher skills which help them in maximizing their strengths and minimizing their weaknesses accordingly. Every member in the team need to understand how to help other team members to build unity amongst them. Unity and understanding create a sense of responsibility among team members to participate and generate greater performance to attain their main objective. There are certain differences which arise due to instability in the team or its members. These instabilities can be referred to as ego, jealousy between the team members and differences due to incapability in work capacity etc. Team work effectiveness does not come automatically. Teams have to be set up correctly in order to determine the goals. Proper team member selection is very important so as to ensure every member is focused and dedicated towards their target. Hence, mutual commitment is required in order to achieve the objective by all members of a team. To get the work done by team members, team composition must be present. Team composition relates to the overall mixture of characteristics among the members in a team. They interact interdependently to achieve their main objective. To achieve a common goal, performance of every team member must be optimum. Team composition is combined with...
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...trees go against the trend. Ahorn will therefore take an advantage of this large demand for maple syrup by positioning itself in the higher end of the market where many consumers look for healthy and environment friendly products. Ahorn Maple Syrup can be consumed by people of all ages because the majority of people enjoy having pancakes for breakfast with a great tasting maple syrup. Our product offers not only a great taste, but also great quality and is a 100% organic product. Our company’s largest competitions in the maple syrup market are Aunt Jemima, Mrs. Butterworth, Eggo and other independent companies. However, Ahorn is one of the few syrups hat are organic and pure, which creates the product’s competitive advantage. Our marketing strategy is to provide a quality product that is organic and tastes pure. Ahorn will be advertised in 12 magazines of our target markets, on 162 domain sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace and be advertised in the pop-up ads as...
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...3PL Services in India: Challenges, Opportunities and Recommendations - A Study at IIFT Contents 3PL Services in India: Challenges, Opportunities and Recommendations - A Study at IIFT ..................................................................................................................................... 3 Methodology ....................................................................................................................... 3 Introduction ......................................................................................................................... 3 Discussion Point 1: Definition of 3PL and its Evolution.................................................... 3 Discussion Point 2: Elaboration of the reasons for choosing 3PL. What is meant by value added services? ................................................................................................................... 4 Discussion Point 3: What are the salient findings from the literature? ............................. 5 What is lean supply chain? ................................................................................................. 5 Discussion Point 4: Discuss the functions of 3PL. ............................................................. 6 What services are provided globally (reference to additional literature)? ........................ 6 An Overview of the Logistics Sector in India .................................................................... 7 Discussion point...
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...There are nearly seven thousand organizations represented in our nation’s capital. Interest groups are organizations that seek to influence decisions in government; they are sometime called lobbyists (Wilson, 2009 p. 142). Lobbyists acquired their name because they used to wait in the lobbies of the policy makers in order to catch them coming in and out of their offices. The rise of interest groups became more apparent due common interests amongst groups of citizens. Interest groups play an important role in today’s politics; the rise was attributed to the need to gain access to government in order to accomplish change. Many groups noticed a need to reach out to government officials in many notable matters in order to undertake the protection of the people. Interest groups, through the means of history have played an important role in the politics of the United States of America. Many interest groups are known to have made their mark in society by both striving and accomplishing change in policy. Interest groups have an interesting time line; I will lead you on the journey. During the first, preindustrial phase from the 1830s to 1870s, charitable organizations assisting the poor represented the dominant form of association. Membership in these organization consisted mostly of middle class citizens. Crossing class line, the second phase is attributed to the economic group such as trade unions and employer’s union in between the 1860’s and the early 1900’s. The third phase...
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...CHAPTER 1 The Accounting Environment: What Is Accounting and Why Is It Done? QUESTIONS Q1-1. A variety of answers are possible but the essential elements are the production and communication of information so that stakeholders can make decisions. Q1-2. Financial accounting is concerned with providing information to those outside an entity such as investors, lenders, and CRA. Managerial accounting provides information to those inside the entity such as managers and other decision makers. Table 1.3 provides differences: Table 1.3 DIFFERENCES BETWEEN FINANCIAL AND MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING | |Financial Accounting |Managerial Accounting | |Stakeholders |External to the entity. Includes investors, |Internal to the entity. Managers and other | | |lenders, taxation authorities (such as the |employees. | | |Canada Revenue Agency), competitors, and many | | | |others. These stakeholders usually don’t have | | | |direct access to information about the entity | | | ...
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