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    Alcoa Case 442

    Gilberto Garcia OMIS 442 Chapter 3: Alcoa Case 1. From a strategic management standpoint, why do you think that corporate management at Alcoa delayed taking action for five years as the plant continued to lose money and deteriorate in other operational measures? I think a lot of key things might have played a role with this decision. Corporate management wanted to see what could be done and introduced new management to the plant. There were a lot of issues to be resolved such as high rates

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    Workplace Safety at Alcoa

    Reaction Summary: Workplace Safety at Alcoa In your opinion, what will be the key challenge to Alcoa's strategic effort to meet its goal of improved safety performance? Explain. There are many obstacles in front of Alcoa in its improvements of Safety. First of all, aluminum operations throughout the US had high injury rates. Alcoa has no peer models in the industry to follow. If Alcoa wants to improve its safety rates, it has to make extra efforts all by itself, despite the fact that peer

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    Alcoa and Arcelor Mittal

    Security Analysis Alcoa and Arcelor Mittal Economic Analysis TheUnited States, despite its previous struggles, still finds itself as the most powerful economy in the world with a per capita GDP of $46,000. The United State’s is able to maintain its lead largely in part to the country’s market oriented economy. Currently, the President, in conjunction with government is attempting to bring the United States out of the contraction that plagued the economy for the past few years. The global

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    Financial Analysis of Alcoa Incorporated

    FINANCIAL ANALYSIS PROJECT ON ALCOA INCORPORATED Dr. Margaret Garcia Associate Professor of Finance Saint Francis University FINANCIAL ANALYSIS OF ALCOA INC. FINANCIAL ANALYSIS OF ALCOA INC. By Adedotun (Tosin) Adeluyi Senior, Accounting, Finance, and Management Information System Majors Saint Francis School of Business February 22, 2011 Current Events The history of Alcoa Incorporated can be traced back to Charles Martin Hall’s discovery of finding a feasible way of

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    Alcoa Chiropractic Case Study

    It's common for someone exceptionally skilled and passionate about his or her job to be characterized as, “They were born to do this kind of work.” In the case of Dr. Meghan Palmer, the newest staff member of Alcoa Chiropractic, it's also literally true. The daughter of a chiropractor, this Florida native was raised in Hancock County in upper East Tennessee, and is both the embodiment of a passionate healthcare professional and a life-long beneficiary of the medicine she now practices. “I was actually

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    Alcoa Ethical Climate Case Study

    Module 2 Case Study 1. Alcoa’s ethical work climate would be classified as benevolence. As shown time after time, Alcoa and its CEO, upper management, and employees, all care for their consumers and especially for each other. The strong moral to keep incident and injury rates low is a clear indication that Alcoa’s ethical work climate is benevolence. 2. Top management at Alcoa plays a key role at developing and maintaining its strong ethical culture. Management insures that employees are trained

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    Alcoa Began Under the Name of the Pittsburgh Reduction Company in 1888, Changing Its Name to the Aluminum Company of America (Alcoa) In1907

    Alcoa began under the name of the Pittsburgh Reduction Company in 1888, changing its name to the Aluminum Company of America (Alcoa) in1907. The company was originally founded on a $20,000 investment to capitalize on Charles Martin Hall’s invention to smelt bauxite ore into the metal known as aluminum. Within a few years, Alcoa had developed into a model of large-scale vertical integration with control over all the inputs to aluminum production. Since its inception, Alcoa has had a very strong

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    Diversity

    organization. This paper explains the background of Alcoa, their philosophy for managing diversity, and the steps they have taken to reach their goals of managing diversity within their workplace. Also if the steps they used were appropriate and if they will work for them in the future. AlCOA’S STRATEGIES FOR MANAGING DIVERSITY. Managing diversity can be accomplished in organizations if the correct approaches are utilized and followed up with. Alcoa is an organization that is dedicated to its strategies

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    Alcoa's Case

    as discussed in this chapter, was Alcoa’s approach more compliance or integrity? Alcoa since its inception had a very strong values and the people itself enforce these values, all the employees knew clearly that all the decisions should be done according to the Alcoa’s Core standards. Since my point of view the corporate culture sets the ethical work climate of the firm as principle (integrity approach) because Alcoa expected personal morality from their workers, the rules and procedures with to be

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    Od & Change

    November 2, 2015 Article: Alcoa will permanently close Massena East, end smelting at West plant and lay off up to 500 workers Source: http://www.watertowndailytimes.com/news05/alcoa-will-permanently-close-massena-east-end-smelting-at-west-plant-and-lay-off-up-to-500-workers-20151102 Published: November 2, 2015 Summary: MASSENA — The Corporation that has been associated to Massena for more than a century announced on Monday that it will not modernize the shuttered Alcoa East plant and will close

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