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Coal Mining Industry Report, 2008.
This paper examines the effects of the economy on the coal mining industry.
1,369 words (approx. 5.5 pages), 4 sources, APA, £ 32.95
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The paper discusses shifts and price elasticity of supply and demand, positive and negative externalities, wage inequality and monetary and fiscal policies and their impact on the coal mining industry. The paper predicts that coal production will likely rise while worker pay and employment in the coal mining industry will shrink in the next decade.
Outline:
Shifts and Price Elasticity of Supply and Demand
Positive and Negative Externalities
Wage Inequality
Monetary and Fiscal Policies
Summary and Conclusion
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"The coal mining industry in the United States is comprised of approximately 1,000 companies operating approximately 1,500 mines, with approximate combined annual revenue of $25 billion. Some of the larger producers are Peabody Energy, Arch Coal and Massey Energy. Over the past decade, the coal mining industry has become greatly consolidated and presently sixty-five percent of the market is owned by approximately ten companies with each company operating a single coalmine with the size of the mines varying a great deal. Larger operations produce over 1 million tons of coal annually. According to Hoover's website in the work entitled: "Industry Overview: Coal Mining" "Demand comes mainly from generators of electricity. Profitability depends on efficient operations, as the product is a commodity sold on the basis of price." (2008) "
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Corporate Governance, 2008.
A discussion of the two main forms of industrial finance and corporate governance.
1,056 words (approx. 4.2 pages), 4 sources, APA, £ 26.95
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The paper explains the differences btween the Anglo-American model and the non Anglo-American model of corporate governance. The paper first discusses the International Corporate Governance Network's series of principles that should be applied in global corporate governance. The paper then highlights the importance of corporate governance in general and of investor protection in particular. The paper reaches the conclusion that there is no singular corporate governance system that is suitable for every economy, company or situation, nevertheless, the healthiest corporate governance model is probably the bank-centered one, because of the financial advantages it provides.
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"When discussing the subject of industrial finance and corporate governance, one must focus the discussion around the core of the subject, which is related to the protection of shareholders and creditors by the legal system. Each country's financial system follows a different approach to the subject, approach that has its advantages and its disadvantages. Corporate governance, in general, has become more and more important, becoming an actual part of a company's management process. The importance of this matter is conferred by the fact that, if used in a suitable manner, corporate governance is able to solve problems regarding the financial, legal, and administrative systems (Sapovadia, 2003)."
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Marketing Communications and Sports, 2008.
This paper discusses the strategies of marketers who promote their brands by associations with professional athletes.
1,051 words (approx. 4.2 pages), 8 sources, APA, £ 25.95
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The paper explores how advertisers create marketing communications programs that capitalize on the unique strengths of professional sports. The paper looks at the specific marketing communications strategies that advertisers rely on to gain the return on investment (ROI) on their marketing investments.
Outline:
Introduction
Marketing Communications Strategy Formulation Begins With the Audience
Constructing Marketing Communications Strategies Capitalizing on Sports Marketing
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"Increasingly marketers are turning to professional sports to strengthen their brands by associating them with exceptional athletes, as is the case with Buick aligning itself with Tiger Woods on the PGA (Fitzgerald 2002) or Phil Mickelson with his Accenture-branded golf hat (Stogel, 2004). The same holds true for both commercially-oriented and consumer brands sponsoring NASCAR teams. Take for example the sponsorship of driver Tony Stewart by Home Depot over the last few years and the double-digit growth in ladder sales whenever he wins a race and climbs up a Home Depot ladder when he accepts the trophy to see everyone on the infield (Ferriss, 2005). Advertisers are seeing significant return on investment (ROI) from sponsorships in the NBA, major league baseball (MBL), the NHL in addition to NASCAR and the PGA."
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Micromanagement, 2008.
An exploration of the hypothesis that micromanagement causes employee stress.
1,546 words (approx. 6.2 pages), 6 sources, APA, £ 35.95
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The paper researches whether managers who express, or who are perceived to express micromanagement tendencies, create stress in the workplace for employees. The paper utilizes a blind survey where respondents were asked a series of questions regarding general feelings about management style and additional questions regarding their perceived stress levels. The paper proves that people who characterize supervisors as having micro-tendencies are much more likely to experience work stress and life stress. The paper includes a large amount of source material.
Outline:
Introduction
Methodology
Results
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"Micromanagement has become the new generation's most categorically leveled insult, with regard to complaints about management. Accusing a manger of being a micromanager is complicated and some argue that it is simply a result of employee resistance to training and supervision, yet others argue that a micro-manger is intolerable and ineffective, as he or she concentrates so much on the small details that they cannot see the big picture, not to mention that they tend to seriously stress out employees. (Small Business Resources.com, 2006, NP) Defining micro-management is not easy, as definitions vary and perception is often the defining characteristic. For the purposes of this work, a micro-manger is defined as an individual supervisor who is excessively concentrated on details, to the point that an individual feels as if they are not trusted and or respected and this increases the stress of their workplace and life."
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Online Grocery Shopping - FreshDirect, 2008.
An overview of Internet-based direct sales grocery marketer, FreshDirect.
1,348 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 6 sources, APA, £ 32.95
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This paper reviews FreshDirect, an Internet-based grocer that operates in the greater New York Metropolitan area. The author gives an overview of the company and does a SWOT analysis, identifying the strengths, weaknesses, threats and opportunities that FreshDirect faces. The paper also includes recommendations on how to overcome the weaknesses and threats they face.
Outline:
Company Overview/Key Strategic Issues
Analysis of Data
SWOT Analysis
Analysis of Key Strategic Issues
Recommendations
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"FreshDirect is an internet based direct sales grocery marketer that operates in the greater New York Metropolitan area. The retail grocery industry is the operating area but the company offers a remarkably unique model which offers more fresh food than prepackaged, and therefore serves a customer base who may do bulk shopping monthly but needs to supplement this weekly with fresh produce, meats and other perishable goods as well as at least a limited amount of prepackaged foods."
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Museum and Library Work, 2008.
This paper presents a contrast and comparison of the work in a museum and a library.
1,044 words (approx. 4.2 pages), 5 sources, APA, £ 25.95
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In this article, the writer compares and contrasts the work in a library versus the work in a museum. This paper demonstrates an understanding of the difference and similarities with an equivalent aspect of libraries and museums as well as an understanding of the differences and similarities with equivalent practices of librarianship. The writer maintains that while the function of the museum and library employee has been both historically and traditionally quite different, it is likely with the rapid development and deployment of computer technology and the demand for access to museum and library archives via the Internet that the functionality of the library and museum employee will become less differentiated in function.
Outline:
Objective
Introduction
Comparison of Functions: Museum Versus Library
The Museum
The Library
New Developments Mesh Functions of Museum and Library
Summary and Conclusion
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"As well, the museum curator must be able to work as a team with others to make choices about displays and exhibition as well as in developing guidebooks and information plagues. The museum curator's job includes a close working relationship with the Board of Trustees as well as the museum staff and must be capable of facilitating communication between these two groups. Museum curators are responsible for writing grants and initiating activities for fund-raising. For those who work in the museum as Archivists, job responsibilities include cataloguing, analyzing, exhibitions, and maintenance of objects of value and collections benefiting the public and researchers."
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"Taylorism" and "Fordism", 2008.
A discussion on whether "Taylorism" and "Fordism" have been replaced by "post-Fordism" as the means of organizing work in a capitalist society.
1,763 words (approx. 7.1 pages), 10 sources, APA, £ 40.95
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The paper asks whether we have, as a society, shifted from the mechanized, depersonalization of Fordian production to a more fluid society based upon craftsmanship. The paper notes that, although certain sectors of the technology and service sector may indeed show a change in the paradigm that has shaped American commercial life since the 20th century, Fordism still remains. According to this paper Fordism still remains at Wal-Mart, in the franchise industry, and certainly in the model of labor that characterizes the developing world. The paper analyzes the situation.
Outline:
Introduction
What is 'Fordism'?
What is Taylorism?
Define Post-Fordism
Are We Really in the Post-Fordism Age?
Does Fordism Still Exist? If so Where?
Do We Have Neo-Fordism?
Has Fordism and Taylorism been replaced?
If it Has, How Has it? If it Hasn't, How Much is it Left?
If it is a Combination of Both?
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"But management theorists Michael J. Piore and Charles Sabel have suggested that a new alternative to mass production is evolving. A modem version of craft production is seen as small firms equipped with computer technology can become more adaptable to corporate as well as to small-unit operation, in certain fields like consulting or the provision of special goods and services (Brody 1985, p.614). Even the intense specialization of labor at a large technical company like Google requires a kind of post-Fordian level of craftsmanship."
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Airstar, Inc., 2008.
A discussion of the threats facing Airstar, Inc. and how they can be addressed.
1,136 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 3 sources, APA, £ 28.95
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This paper discusses the factors that appear to be at the root of the Airstar company's problems. In particular, the paper explains that these factors are a lack of effective communication, the threat of the changing environment, the lack of coordination and how the current system at Airstar, Inc. is neither cooperative, nor goal directed. The paper then presents recommendations for addressing these problem relates the opinion that the company has the potential to revive itself with the recommended internal structural changes.
Outline:
Introduction
Issues
Recommendations
Conclusion
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"Having been in the industry for more than 20 years, Airstar's history is solid, and a large amount of its strength lies in the fact that it is well known in the market. Internally, a further strength lies in employee loyalty, with most managers having been part of the company for the majority of its lifetime. Concomitantly with changing top management, a problematic factor for Airstar is the rapidly changing industry. The same 20 years that serves as a strength in terms of customer and employee loyalty is also a threat in terms of newly arriving competition and a changing business environment. The problem appears to be that Roy Morgan has assumed that the business could continue as it had for the almost two decades prior to his appointment as president of Airstar."
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E-Commerce Business Strategy, 2008.
An analysis of the factors likely to affect the outcome of introducing electronic commerce at Blue Cut Fashion.
976 words (approx. 3.9 pages), 5 sources, APA, £ 24.95
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The paper discusses Blue Cut Fashion's proposed electronic commercialization of their products and offers recommendations for the implementation of the venture. The paper presents a SWOT analysis that reveals the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats which are likely to affect the outcome of launching the electronic commerce.
Outline:
Executive Summary
Recommendations
SWOT Analysis
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"The Blue Cut Fashion activates in the apparel industry and so far, they have implemented traditional strategies, based on traditional approaches to the market and the stakeholders. Recently however, the chains' chef executive officer, Mr James Frost, has decided to implement several changes meant to improve the quality and efficiency of the business process. These changes revolve around modifications in the approach to customers, products, suppliers, intermediaries, partners and sales. A major modification is prone to occur in the chain of distribution and it implies that the company will commence to distribute their products online, through internet based applications and electronic commerce."
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Change Management, 2008.
An exploration of three change management theories.
1,849 words (approx. 7.4 pages), 6 sources, APA, £ 42.95
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The paper explores three theories of change; John Adair's three circles model, Maslow's theory of staff motivation, the Blake and Mouton theory and Dr. Spencer Johnson's "Who Moved My Cheese?". The paper also looks at seven approaches to organizational change. The paper appends a vast amount of source material to the paper.
Outline:
Introduction
Literature Notes
Future Focus
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"While change has always constituted a concern issue in management, it currently constitutes a vital issue. "Change is a relatively recent management topic everywhere in the world.... The number of books and articles on change management has increased more than 100 times since the 1960s." As organizations try (and sometimes fail) and/or make costly and repeated mistakes to implement complex and organization-wide initiative, costs related to change failures reportedly rise. Repeated surveys routinely note change management to be at the top of the list of executive concerns."
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Windows Vista, 2008.
This paper discusses whether Windows Vista is a market failure or an industry trend sacrifice.
956 words (approx. 3.8 pages), 4 sources, APA, £ 23.95
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In this article, the writer notes that Windows Vista was toted by Microsoft in early market releases as a fundamentally different operating system (OS) that was user friendly and would assist the user in creating a system that did everything the modern Internet user could hope for. The writer discusses that heavy emphasis in the OS on graphic capabilities and speed that would be associated with game playing and improved high graphics surfing as well as high security, which has caused some problems, were and still are the marketing points of Vista. The writer maintains that Vista did not meet the sales expectations of Microsoft and it is likely that it never will. The writer concludes that the Microsoft Windows Vista could be easily equated to the Windows 2000 consumer response which was weak initially due to the inability of Microsoft to prove to consumers through marketing that there were any benefits to upgrading and therefore made the consumer deal with the exclusivity of PC purchases with preloaded Windows 2000 OS.
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"The trend has then become delayed replacement of OS until a time when the whole PC system can be replaced rather than upgraded. The sales associated with Vista preloaded systems show this trend as a viable marketing reality, and though Microsoft may not have anticipated the trend it is one they have developed and seen through the process of each marketing segment of a new OS and can be seen in the timeline of sales, above. Commentator Don Mart, in fact states that there has not been a significant OS In the Box release since Windows, when it was still feasible to simply upgrade an existing system. Marti implies that the trend is simply an evolution of a maturation of the PC market, not necessarily a failure in marketing of the Vista system. In the Box sales of XP have in fact outstripped sales of Vista, bay an alarming rate, which shows a belated immature response by those who do not have the cash to upgrade the entire system."
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Nestle Purina PetCare Company, 2008.
An outline of the environmental forces affecting the Nestle Purina PetCare Company.
1,215 words (approx. 4.9 pages), 3 sources, APA, £ 29.95
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The paper explores the controllable and uncontrollable features of the domestic, foreign and international environments that have influenced the activities at Purina, as well as the issues which influence the company's decision-making process and its globalization. The paper shows how the company's success is based on their adaptability to these forces.
Outline:
Executive Summary
Forces of the Environment
Domestic Environment
Foreign Environment
International Environment
Decision Making Core Complex
Seven Global Dimensions
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"Purina is headquartered in the United States, but operates throughout the globe in no less than thirty-eight countries. The company we know today resulted from a 2001 merger between Ralston Purina Company and a subsidy of Nestle. Nestle Purina PetCare Company, the resulting company, is not a publicly traded organization (Purina Website, 2008).
"The activities at Purina have been influences by a series of national and international forces and based on the company's adaptability to these forces, the successful outcome was retrieved. These forces include the controllable and uncontrollable features of the domestic, foreign and international environments, alongside with the issues which influence the decision making process and the globalization throughout seven dimensions."
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Managerial Decision Making, 2008.
A comparison of two articles regarding managerial decision making: Marylyn Gardner's "Making the Grade in Real Life" and Erna Szabo's "Meaning and Context of Participation in Five European Countries."
812 words (approx. 3.2 pages), 2 sources, APA, £ 20.95
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This paper reviews two articles that discuss managerial decision making. It discusses Marylyn Gardner's article, "Making the Grade in Real Life" and Erna Szabo's article, "Meaning and Context of Participation in Five European Countries." The paper discusses each article individually and then compares and contrasts the structure and content of the two articles. The paper also contains an abstract summary for each article.
Table of Contents:
Article 1: Summary of a Peer-Reviewed Journal from ProQuest
Article 2: Non-Peer-Reviewed Article from ProQuest
Comparison/ Contrast
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"The author is intensely self-conscious about the methodology deployed, the author's national background and demeanor during the interviews conducted for the article. Managers were interviewed, but before they were subjected to quantitatively analyzed tests which also required them to provide detailed written feedback. The value of mixing such qualitative and the quantitative approaches is reflected in the fact that the Czech managers spoke and rated employee participation in positive terms, but their seemingly positive attitude was undercut by their descriptions of quite autocratic managerial practices. The Czech's post-communist, Eastern European counterparts, the Poles, were more individualistic in their orientation, yet with what the author characterized as a historical respect for authority typical of former Eastern block nations, the Poles also strongly believed in a need to secure respect from authority figures and to achieve to meet standards set by the authority."
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"The Handbook of Organizational Justice", 2008.
A review of "The Handbook of Organizational Justice" by Gerald S. Greenberg and Jason Colquitt.
1,722 words (approx. 6.9 pages), 1 source, MLA, £ 39.95
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The paper relates that "The Handbook of Organizational Justice" strives to provide a more concrete definition of organizational justice for managers and management theorists alike. The paper summarizes the chapters and shows how the book underlines the contentious nature of core managerial concepts, without attempting to clarify them. The paper points out the book's weaknesses but adds that the book still functions as a useful introduction to organizational justice.
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"The editors of the Handbook of Organizational Justice, Gerald S. Greenberg & Jason Colquitt, are themselves leading writers in the field. They bring together the leading scholars of organizational theory to author self-enclosed chapters that examine major issues of concern, as well as target areas of future debate. They authors provide a framework and background, without striving to provide a coherent, linear point of view. To do so would be impossible in a handbook encompassing twenty chapters, an introduction and conclusion, almost all of which are authored by different scholars. The chapters are self-enclosed, to make it easier to target the reader or researcher's major area of interest."
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