Business Essays

The possibility of human resource issues is doubled as cross-cultural business ventures are getting popularised among people. In such a joint venture, it becomes necessary for the organization to involve teams from both countries of difference in culture, economy, and polity. These aspects will reflect throughout their organization's actions if they are not properly trained and managed.

Best Buy can start its Chile operation in its capital Santiago de Chile, which has an estimated population of more than 5.5 million, accounting for more than 30% of the country’s population (http://www.studentsoftheworld.info). This is the largest and most modern city. The other cities are Concepcion, Vina del Mar, and Valparaiso.

Employees are considered an asset, and the company attributes its success to its employees. The company has reaffirmed that it is committed to attracting, retaining, and developing high calibre staff at all levels. Investment in professional development allows the development of skill passed on to customers, as evidenced by the quality of work.

Despite the fact that heavy metals like mercury, lead, aluminum, and cadmium were relatively the cheapest raw material for Sony, yet due to its harmful effects on consumers, it has decided to reduce their amounts. UPS has redirected its energies towards adding environmentally friendly and cleaner trucks to its distribution chains replacing the traditional smoke-belching diesel trucks.

For any business to prosper, it needs to have a good customer relationship and try to maintain their products as a blemish as possible. Companies, which have faults in their products, should also come clean and take responsibility in case of problems. In addition, ethics plays a key role in any legal matter too.

The author thinks he has to learn more about the UK educational system and the examination requirements of each course. He thinks the way UK examinations are written is significantly different from what he has been doing in the past. He will have to get a good understanding of how questions are asked.

The way the business produces the products and the impact of the product on the environment affect the environment either positively or negatively. To answer the research question, there is the consideration of the actual meaning of corporate social responsibility which relates to understanding the impact of business on the wider world.

Globalization has been observed to minimize cultural differences among nations. The Islamic world is spread out to a large extent which mainly influences the business enterprises of western countries. The business enterprises of western countries are affected due to traditional business practices as well as ethics.   

This research aims at investigating the relationship between changes in oil prices and the market prices of stocks. The researcher follows a quantitative research approach in this regard and has considered four BRIC countries’ companions. The analysis of their stock prices with oil prices reveals that there exists a direct relationship between the two identified variables.

Cassell (1996) has argued that there is no commercial evidence are available regarding the role of diversity in terms of gender, nationality, race, physical ability to improving profit matrix for hotels. Murray (1997) has given the example of the UK hotel industry where managing diversity can give hotels cutting edge over their rivals.

The researcher also was able to improve their researching skills, which is important in academics as well as toward the receipt of the final degree. Research helps businesses build better strategies and also the student in giving more quality work that is supported by statistics. This was a very valuable study.    

Chocolate manufactures can add medicinal herbs to their chocolates to improve the health benefits of the consumer. The manufacturers should also focus on manufacturing chocolate energy bars to retain the health benefits and taste of the product. Since the demand for cocoa beans among consumers is high the chocolate manufacturers should focus on marketing chocolates with a high cocoa content.

For many years now, Transnational Corporations (TNCs), the Multinational corporations, and institutions which do work together with them have for many years been targeted for negative and anti-corporate campaigns mainly by the civil society actors which do includes the anti-corruption campaigners, anti-corporate campaigners, anti-globalist and anti-capitalists.

This part of the study would be subdivided into various segments, each part displaying some specific portion of the research methodology that has been implemented.  It refers to the study of assumptions related to the nature of the social reality, what are the units that constitute this reality, and how they interact with each other (Easterby-Smith, Thorpe, and Lowe).

The recent emergence of new and extremely powerful communication platforms in the form of social media that have the innate ability to reach an estimated well over 300 million consumers on Facebook alone, 75 million on Twitter, and  60 million users on LinkedIn. Social Media can be largely considered to be nothing short of a remarkable technological achievement (Stenzel, 2011, p. 315).

Numerous factors work together in order to direct the degree outcome of students. Hence, it will not be right to bluntly state that the degree outcome for students is a function of their intrinsic characteristics and learning abilities. It has been found by the researchers that to some extent, intrinsic characteristics and learning abilities influence degree outcomes of students.

Porter’s Five Forces Model is a tool that allows an organization to establish the best competitive position to work out the dynamics in a market. It originated out of Porter’s work on the competition at Harvard University. The five forces identified in Porter’s Five Forces Model include; new entrants, buyers, suppliers, substitutes, and existing competitors. 

In the recent past business, ethics have been affected by globalization. Globalization refers to the integration of people from various parts of the world. This has been enabled by the low transportation cost, low communication cost and availability of the internet. Many problems such as terrorism, unfair competition, diseases have been able to cross a country’s boundaries.

The method components, the key detection indicators (KPI) of fraud, and the KPI/activity matrix, the FMS component matrix were constructed from the information obtained from the literature interviews. In this study, there were statistics utilized and no control group was assigned to ensure the interviews were conducted properly

Branigan (2008) affirms that the cultures of an organization set the standards that determine the differences between making good and bad decisions and behavior. The public of today demands high transparency, up-to-date information, reliable market and financial data, and accountability from all the stakeholders in the business.

The bottled water industry in the United Kingdom remains under stringent watch after reports emerged indicating fraudulent activities in which the various bottled water brands sold tap water to unsuspecting customers. Nonetheless, the bottled water products continue attracting buyers remarkably, with sales increasing annually at a remarkable rate.

The World Expo 2020 that will be held in UAE dubbed “‘Connecting Minds, Creating the Future’” shall be a beacon of fair and equitable business dealing that will benefit not only UAE but also the world showcasing Emirati business excellence as well as the hospitality of Emiratis and the Arab people in general.

Necessity is the mother of invention and the Oakland Athletics were able to develop a new system of measurement to determine whether or not they could compete and be relevant within a realm of support that was dominated by high budget teams with high visibility, large ticket sales and televised games.

London is recognized as a welcoming city especially for students because the city has people belonging to entirely different backgrounds. For instance, more than 300 languages are spoken in London whereas students belong to over 200 different nationalities.  Apart from this the city also offers a safe, supportive and friendly environment to study.

This was an increase in mineral deposits compared with the prior estimates. Therefore, the updated Ore Reserve guesstimate for the Golpu deposit exhibits the potential and size of this land size of this. This report establishes that the Golpu project is a viable project and investors need to invest in it.

Different consumers have diverse motives when attending an event. Some attend for exploration, others excitement, and others for relaxation purposes (Pritchard & Stinson, 2013). A better understanding of the motives leads to an understanding of the extent of event satisfaction likely to be achieved after the event experience.

The cost of doing business in contemporary society has been hampered by numerous factors and chief among them is the negative impact of government regulations on businesses. Restaurants, just like other business entities, can be negatively impacted as a result of these regulations. Today’s restaurant operators are faced with a “barrage of oversight”.

The joint ventures and other alliances are usually coordinated through existing networking infrastructures with large corporations around the world and do not extend into other markets that attract creative talents from smaller companies to participate in such mutually-rewarding JVs and other alliance agreements.

Through the various estimates carried out in the different fields, the MNCs account for more than 25% of all production output and well above 30% of the world trading activities. Through their investment in the form of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), there are increased opportunities for economic growth of the states they operate. This also comes in the kind of exchange of technology, managerial expertise as well as provision of capital. 

Merifashion is a new start-up business in the fashion industry. The main company's goal is to be the leading company in the fashion industry in terms of the market share as well as the provision of high-quality products and services to its customers. However, lacks a well-established brand in the fashion industry.

The people who take high risk for establishing their business by taking financial and other types of risk in the hope of earning profit are known as entrepreneurs. They make their dream into practice by implementing various innovative strategies. In the modern world, they contribute a lot to the growth and development of different kinds of business

Gradually after long years of exploration and extraction of oil in different regions around the world, British Petroleum gained its fame and name in this oil and natural gas industry. After years of tedious oil exploration and practice, British Petroleum has gained enormous respect and credibility in its work standards.

Kokemuller (n.d.) argues that an MBA is a broad program, which emphasizes more on theoretical knowledge lieu of a practical application. She goes to state that, MBA students spend considerable time in classes discussing cases, concepts, and theories denying them the opportunity to practice newly acquired skills thoroughly. 

The importance of global leadership is to mold a leader who has the ability to influence people from different walks of life with different views, ideas, and cultural backgrounds. It, therefore, requires the leader to be flexible enough and adapt fast, have high levels of tolerance, and a global way of thinking. 

Wick maintained a reputation of an ethical standard that kept her ahead of others in the business. She believed in honesty and transparency. She was always forthright and candid. She always commits to excellence.  She respected others with their decisions of excellence. From the incidence of the pigs and other cruelly treated animals, she was a caring one.

In our finding the well or brands seem to attract more consumers as compared to other factors, this is in agreement with Charters & Pettigrew studies that consumers have difficulty in the evaluation of wines and thus the aspect of taste does not have much influence on the buying decision of a customer.

The finding above can be analyzed but generally from the research conducted the three aspects set as objectives for this research were considered highly by the respondents. All clients for both coffee houses were indeed happy with the service level. A record of above seventy-five percent was collected from each coffeehouse loyal consumers.

The research has offered me a scope to communicate with the managers of different organizations and gain knowledge about their success factors. It has developed my communication skills and as well as the analyzing skills to deal with complex data and derive conclusions. I had a scope to read a lot of journals that helped me.

The study demonstrated that the luxury cosmetic market in China has a high market potential to invest and gain higher returns. The Chinese market is strong and steadily growing and its GDP is expected to rise at an average rate of 7-8% in the next several years, therefore, the investment potential is high.

Construction Industry Institute study shows that 75 percent of contractors are experiencing labor shortages that cost them time and money. Home builders alone are reporting that it takes 3–6 weeks longer to build a house today than in 1998 because of the worker shortage. The shortage of skilled workers is threatening the quality of construction.

The analysis of the success of state-owned companies and private companies is very crucial in this paper. In the majority of cases, the private corporations met with success. Even in communist China, which liberalized its policies according to the changing needs, there are successful private companies that are formed by merging some state-owned companies.

Most of the businesses and companies in the United States of America proclaim to be equal opportunity employers – simply meaning that they would like to provide the same kind of opportunities to every capable employee and the company will not discriminate against any employee because of his\her race, ethnicity, cultural background or nationality.

This part of the thesis defines international contracts and provides an introduction to contracts in general. The focus of the research paper is considered along with the main problem and the contexts are also described in terms of whether the topic is researchable and if so what the different modes of research are and how the research agenda could be handled.

Realizing the start of Teeny-Beauty Salon has significant implications for staff training and recruitment. The service deliver in the established salon demands qualified and experienced hairdressers, massagers, and many other beauticians in providing quality service. Therefore, there is a need for recruitment of the top, cream professionals.

ERP adopters consistently achieve better performances across a wide variety of measures than non-adopters. Most of the results that come out from different companies have already proven beyond reasonable doubt that Implemented ERP solutions have significantly reduced the costs of business transactions.

This may also influence sales, just as Timberland whose shoe products indirectly influence the environment through the demand for livestock products whose food provision leads to deforestation. Each company needs to consider its own strategic approach depending on its business. This is unlike corporate philanthropy which is based on a one-size-fits-all approach which has recently been on increase.

The locals of the Emirates have the access to land for free and some of the projects which partner to provide affordable housing are Mohammed Bin Rashid Housing Establishment in Dubai which provides for housing finance and free land. In Abu Dhabi, Sheikh Zayed Housing Scheme is present and it gives grants and loans.

The company is based with its headquarters in Abu Dhabi, UAE, and has diversified operations in the field of communications. The main business units that are operated by the company include consultancy services, payment solutions, internet, and telecommunication services as well as cable television under few names.

The golden age of Go-Karts is estimated to be around 1956-1975, where its massive use was recorded. Art Ingels built the first go-Kart in 1956; America Company later became the first to manufacture Go-Karts, and McCulloch Company the first to make these engines. The simplest form of a Go-Kart is the Gravity racer, otherwise known as a soap-box cart.

Vodafone is a worldwide telecommunications corporation that is based in London and has several cataloged outlets in other major towns and cities, for instance, Newbury. It is ranked as the globe’s second principal mobile telecommunications corporation due to its enormous customer base and quarterly earnings.