Chart Case Studies Samples For Students

Q1: Current Organizational Chart

The analysis of the current organizational chart demonstrates direct report relationships between superior and subordinate person. McDonald´s operates basic organizational chart structure, reflecting lean hierarchical relationships within the company. Top position in the company is occupied by a Chief Executive Officer (CEO) with six direct reports, responsible for particular organizational areas in the company. Based on the chart it is possible to determine that the company´s management structure has the following divisions: 1) Operational Units- restaurant control, 2) council and secretariat, 3) Human Resource Management (HRM), 4) General Operations, 5) Financial Functions and Marketing. Lower organizational level, however, ...

Critical Reasoning: Leadership

1. Why do you think Antonio is feeling stressed?
Stress does not exist as an isolated event, but rather as a result of the interaction between the person and his environment. Antonio’s general source of stress could include: conflict with competing roles; complexity of the work; lack of control over work schedule, which prevents time for planning, and accomplishing the job, or developing professional relationships; value conflicts; and an excessive workload. More specifically, Antonio is feeling stressed because he is new at the job and he is already in danger of failing to meet two very important responsibilities ...

Management Case

The problem that has necessitated the analysis of data using control charts to determine whether the processes at the hotel are in control is the increasing number of complaints from the customers regarding the charges on their hotel bills (Reid and Nada 243). Some of the complaints included extra charges on the bill for services that were no rendered and meals that the customers did not order. Other complaints include the lack of charges on the hotel bill for services rendered and meals that were ordered. The need to sort the issues at the front desk caused delays for ...

McDonald’s product positioning is aligned around the company’s customer experience. The company’s global operations center on a strategy known as the “Plan to Win Strategy”. This strategy focuses on an exceptional customer experience that comprises of people, products, location, price, and promotion. At the core of McDonald’s operations, is the commitment to continually improve as well as enhance their customers’ experiences. The product positioning at McDonald’s is therefore first in their corporate strategy. This is because by focusing on superior customer experiences, the company endeavors to continually improve food quality as well as service, which ...

In any industry, the quality of goods and services, either received or produced, are always on top priority. These outputs are dependent on processes; they should be capable of operating with little variability to meet and maintain the standards set by the organization. A very powerful yet simple set of tools for assessing process quality is called the statistical process control (SPC), which comprises of seven basic quality tools, or the “magnificent seven.” These are the: (1) histogram or stem-and-leaf plot; (2) Check sheet; (3) Pareto chart; (4) Cause-and-effect diagram; (5) Defect concentration diagram; (6) Scatter diagrams; and (7) ...

Q. 1 Assess Mrs Daps’ medication chart. Discuss three (3) significant risks involved with Mrs Dap’ home and/or inpatient use of medicines.

Based on Mrs Dap’s medication chart, it shows that the patient is being administered with regular, variable dose and PRN medications. The patient requires several medications that are specific to her condition. However, the number of medications scheduled for Mrs Dap could potentially cause a medication interaction, even though each targets specific condition. For example, the patient is being administered with 10mg of Felodipine daily, which is a CCB type of medication. However, calcium channel blockers tend to ...

5 Question Based on Four case Studies
- For each case identify in chart form the key problems each individual is facing.
Figure 1: Chart showing problems experienced in Case Study A: Juliana
Figure 2: Chart showing problems experienced in Case Study B: Rosa
Figure 3: Chart showing problems experienced in Case Study C: Joanne
Figure 4: Chart showing problems experienced in Case Study D: Juliana
Figure 5: A combined chart for all the four case studies and their respective problems
- Assume that Richard decided to visit Juan in Nicaragua. What ...

Introduction

Management involves getting things done through other people in order to achieve desired organizational goals (Witzel 2004). Management is possible through performance of certain functions by managers. These functions include planning, controlling, leading, organizing and achieving. Whether in large or small organizations, these functions are essential for managers at all times because they assist in achievement of goals. However, managerial practices differ in small medium enterprises and large enterprises because of the size and complexity of the organizations. Managers in large firms perform functions of management differently from those in small medium enterprises. The leadership styles in these two ...

Question 1

Dittenhoefer Fine Company of China is competing on several dimensions. To begin with, the company will compete on customer service. Irrespective of how good the product is, the product may start to get bad reviews with bad customer service. If there is no improvement in the customer service, then the number of orders made may experience a sharp decline. The second quality dimension that the company can compete on is reliability. Prior to the introduction of the polymer coating machine, the company boasted of a good reliability record. However, a lot of reliability issues have been experienced over the ...

Abstract

In seeking success, Ford Motor Company entrusts the services of Alan Mulally, as the CEO. Having worked for Boeing, Mulally appears ready for this task as he embarks on undertaking a thorough research at Ford immediately he arrives, in order to study and formulate the best strategy for the company. As Ford Company is geared towards success, Mulally’s style of leadership is analyzed, as well as his personality dimension elements. The methods Mulally introduces at Ford are evaluated for effectiveness, while seeking for evidence of evidence based management at Ford. Furthermore, Mulally’s elements of communication openness are analyzed.

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Shareholder Report

Introduction
Citigroup, Inc. is a global financial services holding company providing products and services to the consumer banking sector. The financial institution is responsible for a portfolio of credit cards, corporate and investment banking, securities and other asset management. The foregoing is the shareholder report describing investment in Citigroup, Inc. shares, purchased 6 June, and sold 21 June 2013. The sum of USD $100,000 was invested in the company’s stock. The shareholder report takes into account portfolio factors affecting stock price*; including increase in net income and revenue expenses, as well as increase in net worth assets and ...

Introduction

The report is aimed to develop the plan for project management of developing upscaled and advanced annual report of Young at heart. It is a national non for profit medical research center that conducts researches on the diseases related to aging. The center, for now, develops simple and easy annual report in black and white color. As the center works as a nonprofit organization, therefore, it is very important for it to provide more accurate and clear reporting of where it utilizes the funds provided by thegovernment, corporation and foundations and other donors. Therefore, the director of the external ...

The program evaluation review technique (PERT) analyzes the project by showing a breakdown in a diagram form with the duration and all tasks involved in the project. PERT is more detailed than the critical path method (CPM) which has the sequence of events as they follow but have no detail on the timings of the specific events. The charts are very instrumental in projects management more so in time management. They keep track of time ensuring the project manager knows the urgency of every matter hence devise ways to counter being late in the project’s timing. This paper ...

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Businesses always take effective strategies in order to ascertain the growth of the company. Businesses are made to increase the financial belongings in particular and mitigate the inline expenses. Accounting and finance are two different things and provisions from the standpoint of an organization and the aspect of both of these things are important and significant from the standpoint of an entity .
Effectively managing and controlling the things are some of the important provisions from the standpoint of an entity. Therefore, operational department is one of the most integral and important departments from the ...

Use clear headings and titles and use spacing well..don’t give us huge unbroken blocks of text.
- Perform a five forces model of competition analysis on the Movie Rental Industry today
- For this industry (not Netflix as a company), rate the power of each force as strong (high), medium, or weak (low) Create one graph or chart that lists the name of each force and your rating.
Rivalry among competing firms – Strong; Bargaining power of buyers – Strong; Threat of new entrants – Moderate Strong; Bargaining power of suppliers – medium; threat of substitute products – medium;
- For each ...

Introduction

This is a calculation assignment, which is based on interpretation data given in other forms of presentations. There are many ways in, which the researchers wish to present their data collected from the field for faster communication of the message that is intended. Most of the statistical analysis of data features on the characteristics of data and how it varies from time to time depending on the variables that have been chosen. Data can be analyzed by drawing of graphs, charts, calculating using hypothesis tests and many more statistical techniques. In this calculation assignment, the major focus will be drawing ...

Introduction

The proposed force field analysis is crucial in analyzing the complex problems that occur in our community. This tool will be in a position to frame the problems in the meeting in terms of pressures or factors, which we believe will support status quo that is, the restraining forces together with those factors that will support the change in desired direction that is, driving forces. Therefore, this imperative tool for managing change will help in the identification of the factors, which we must address and monitor if the meeting desired change is going to be successful.

The problem

Our current problem is ...

Organization chart for the implementation of the project

Note: the chart is hierarchical in a nature, it starts from the top leadership to the junior employee in the hierarchy. Due to the repetitive and overlapping nature of some tasks, the same employee may be assigned two or more tasks. This is also in recognition of the multiskilling ability of employees especially in the new industrial development.

Flow organizational chart diagram:

Project Sponsor
(Genhardt)

Project Manager Project Analysts

(Myself) (Jenkins)
↓

Human Resource Representative Finance Coordinator Purchasing Representative

(Burrici) (Barnett) (Barnett)
↓
Database Admin Bus. Analysts Q.A. Manager Testing Coordinator Systems Engineering
(Jenkins) (Myself) (Marshall) (Anderson and Guerts) (Jenkins)

The roles of each position, a basic definition and utility of the position in the implementation of the plan.

Project Sponsor
He is the overall head of the project plan ...

Slide 1 - Utah Symphony and Utah Opera

Presenter notes: Introduce the subject of the presentation and what it aims to achieve at the end. Explain the scenario in which the merger is taking place as well as an overview of the opera and symphony.

Slide 2 – The Competing Values Framework

SPEAKER NOTES:
CLAN – This culture is focused on internal relationships and integration through collaboration. It relies on empowerment, communication and participation to achieve higher levels of commitment from internal resources and high morale among employees. The Utah Symphony shows several traits that belong within the clan culture, mainly because of Keith Lockhart’s style of leadership that emphasizes bonding with internal ...

1. PERT (Performance Evaluation and Review Technique) chart is a visual tool, which helps to create a formal project timeline. It lists all the necessary resources, sequences activities (vectors) and indicates milestones (nodes). Therefore, the chart gives a good overview of the project, allowing tracking the overall progress and meeting deadlines.

PERT chart also helps to identify the critical path of a project, the path, which determines the shortest time needed to complete the project. Whenever a deviation from the plan occurs, managers should pay most attention to the problems along the critical path. Once those activities are delayed, the whole project won’t ...

Human Resource Management

When it comes to Human Resource Management, things tend to get a tad bit trickier considering how the HR department’s entire job is to maintain the upkeep of the people to ensure the upkeep of the facility is being done. That being said, there are a few factors the HR department needs to consider before they can perfectly say that have done the best HR planning for the sports complex. For starters they need to make sure there are enough people doing the work and the maintenance of the facility is going as planned. Secondly, they need to ...

Q1. Prevention of Errors and Patient Management

Blood products are considered medications and thus should require the same level of precautionary measures as when a nurse administers a drug to a patient. Errors in blood product administration can be prevented by learning and adhering to applicable guidelines. According to the Australian and New Zealand Society of Blood Transfusion (ANZSBT, 2011), a checking procedure should be undertaken for blood products prior to transfusion. The nurse must check that the blood group as indicated on the product is compatible with the patient’s blood group as indicated on the laboratory compatibility label (ANZSBT, 2011).
In case there are ...

Introduction

The paper focuses on the project management problems that faced Rony’s project. The project was commissioned by The Custom Ronworking Company. The president of the company, Emelia Carpenters, contracted W.Easly Associates to conduct a post-project appraisal of Rony’s project. The project involved expansion of the company’s production facilities. The expansion included expanding the manufacturing and production residence. The plans were occasioned by a mini boom experienced in the commercial construction field in NSW, Rony’s hometown.
A decision was reached to go ahead with the expansion and Spencer Moneyworth, the vice president; Finance and Administrator were ...

Healthcare Case Studies

Q1:Answer1: The student must examine the living conditions of the patients as a priority. The vital stats of patient, as well as subjective and objective data of the patient, are necessary to analyze during the process. Depending on the condition of the heart patient he or she should be referred to the health care units or provided any home-based assist. For a heart patient, it is essential to observe the core measures including discharge statement, LVS (left Ventricular Systolic) evaluation, medication (angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitor, (ACEI) or angiotensin receptor blocker, (ARB)). Four core processes of patient care include analyzing ...

Simmons Japan Limited should venture in this deal since it would be beneficial to them. When there is a merger between two companies, the competitive advantage of these companies is increased so is the niche to which the companies can sell their product to the public. SJL taking the venture will mean that they will be making themselves a dominant player in the market thus the winning company in the long run. Additionally, there will be a possibility of the company making more deals with other companies a similar environment to see it become a single monopoly in the ...

Introduction

Two University of Rochester professors collaborated on a paper called “Self Determination Theory and the facilitation of intrinsic motivation, social development and wellbeing” that was published in the Journal of American Psychologist . This article focuses our thoughts on the wellbeing as contingent upon the successful proportion of three ingredients: Autonomy, Competence, and Relatedness. These three nutrients feed and develop our sense of self. The more accomplished individuals are increasing the ingredients that cause their lives to be successful in the eyes of others that are not as accomplished.
Contrast these two writers to David McClellan in 1961 who wrote ...

Introduction

Cyber Software, Inc. is a medium-size company that specializes in producing cyber protection software products. After a recent hacker attack the owner and CEO of the corporation Joseph Jackson felt a pressing need of changing the way the company is operating in order to help customers secure information with the help of innovative technological solutions.
The envisaged changes are going to be discussed in the following mini management plan. The plan starts with a brief analysis of the company’s management history followed by the development of new vision and mission statements, based on the new targets Cyber Software, ...

The Leadership Development Center is key to promoting the leadership skills for both mid-level managers and senior executive managers. It is true that most of the managers in an organization are in the middle level, implying that there is likely to be a higher number of mid-level managers who would wish to participate in training programs. However, the need for personal and career growth by those in the middle level of management creates the need for Leadership Development Center to improve on ways in which they can offer senior executives training programs such that the mid-level managers are prepared ...

Business Report based on Excel Sheet workings and calculations

For the application of this paper, it is required that a comparative study in different scenarios be conducted to understand the implications of economic models and pricing theories on two products – brand X and brand Y. The data for this paper has been collected from actual supermarkets and by using analytical techniques it would be seen how the marginal cost, revenue and other economic functions react when the market scenario changes. These two brands – X and Y, are available in two versions, one is the regular version and the second one is a light version or the lite version.
For ...

(Financial) Management Accounting Case Study
Every single organization of the world is now trying to flourish their growth comparatively better than that of their competitors (Bradtke, p.45). The thing that really matters for them to have the same comparative growth potential is the management of operational cost. Operational Cost, though a common thing for an organization, but emerged as a real gangrene if the proportion of the same would be on a higher node (Cokins, p.34).
Cost-Volume Benefits always bring positivity in the functions of the company, as it has the ability to manage the operational cost in such a manner ...

International Project Finance

Executive Summary
The project for mining in the hinterland of Peru Mountains is studied as a case in the paper. The Antamina projects as it is called is studied for numerous management aspects of Industry, Finance, Human resources and other international finance aspects. The financial aspect of project completion is an important part of overall banking regulations is determined. Also the design of workforce, stakeholder dialogue in irrefutable and complex circumstances indicates the strength of community and social impact of such projects. The investment commitment is a particular emphasis as also the promulgation of management think on how to cater ...

Theory of Constraints (TOC) is a popular management methodology developed in the 1980s, Eliyahu Goldratt, which is based on finding and managing key constraint system, which determines the success and effectiveness of the whole system. The main feature of the methodology is that making efforts over the management of a very small number of aspects of the system, an effect much greater than the result of simultaneous action on all or most of the problem areas of the system immediately.
The approach is based on the theory of constraints to identify this limitation and manage to increase the rate of ...

Company’s financial statements provide crucial details on different aspects on its operations. That includes information about its performance in terms of profitability, assets utilization and management efficiency, business liquidity as well ability to provide a suitable return for its stockholders. Thus, understanding the statements is crucial in all planning including operations, financial and marketing. In that respect, this analysis seeks to demonstrate how the statements can be used as a guide on marketing planning and general business management. To achieve that objective, the analysis uses the case of Abercrombie & Fitch and analyzes its financial statements for the year 2012 and ...

Introduction

Regardless of the type of organization, a veritable menagerie of processes must be completed in graceful precision to ensure the firm is able to maximize the efficiency of its value chain, and thusly, ensure maximization of its revenue generation activities. Importantly, there are a number of strategies that a firm can undertake to accomplish this efficiency in operations and revenue generations, yet the most basic and fundamental element of an organization to target for such achievements is through the firm’s process infrastructure. In particular, a firm generally facilitates operation through the development and implementation of specific processes, each with the goal of ...

Business Assessment- Case Study

INTRODUCTION
This case deals with the human resource aspect of Castle’s family restaurant. The family has eight restaurants in the northern California Region. These eight restaurants have around 300-340 employees. Most of the employees who work in these eight restaurants are hired on a part-time basis. Only 4 employees work on full time basis. Jay Morgan, who is the HR manager for Castle’s family restaurants, travels to each of these locations every week in order to handle functions such as scheduling, recruiting, hiring and answering queries for employees when needed. Apart from the HR functions, Jay Morgan ...

Question One

Based on the anthropometric indices provided, the weight status of the first client; Jacob would be considered normal weight. This can be determined through the calculation of the clients Body Mass Index. The calculation of Jacob’s Body Mass Index is shown below:

Weight: 140 pounds

Height: 5 Feet 3 Inches
The Body Mass Index is often calculated using the following formula:
Body Mass Index = Weight (in kilograms)/Height (in square metres)
Convert the anthropometric indices of the client to the required figures; weight to be in kilograms then height to be in metres.
1 pound is equal ...

CRITICAL EVALUATION OF THE KEY ISSUES

The role of human resource for the organization is to utilize the policies and procedures for aligning the workforce of the organization. The managers must understand the goals of the organization and then they must align the workforce accordingly. This requires that the managers analyse the ability and competence of the employees and create opportunities which motivate the employees. All this is associated to the performance outcomes of the individuals. If the workforce is motivated then the individual performance of the employees can be utilized (Watson, Maxwell, & Farquharson, 2006). This role of HR is shown in the chart below.
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Introduction

Sally Thomas is a twenty three years old mother and is comprehensively covered in this clinical scenario. The scenario covers aspects of her family history which are of essence to any medical decisions associated with any clinical procedure. The aspect of her past pregnancies will be comprehensively articulated in the case study. Her medical history will be analyzed and clinical solutions proposed for her problems. It is pertinent to note that the scenario will be comprehensive and will articulate each stage of the pregnancy. The scenario will be broken down into multiple sub section which includes the ante partum, fetal ...

Element of business

Introduction
Business functions and operations can be defined on a basis on relevant rationale within which an establishment is projected through specific operational models. In order to enhance business success, important attributes need to be out into consideration through major enhancement of integrating the required reasoning and well guided measures in the overall business structure. In this analysis, we discuss the ideal business elements and how they are relevant in a business and its overall performance levels.

Basic legal, social and economic environments

Basic Legal
For any organizations to function in a state it has to confine to the countries laws and regulations. For a multi-national company ...

Based on 2-20 year old male CDC growth chart, Jacob is considered obese. His height indicates he is at the 96th percentile and weight is at the 90th percentile. His BMI is at the 95th percentile (Kuczmarski et al, 2002).
Based on 2-20 year old female CDC growth chart, Mollie is considered to be of normal weight. Her height indicates that she is between the 60th percentile and weight is at the 45th percentile. Her BMI is at the 27th percentile (Kuczmarski et al, 2002).

The three common types of eating disorder includes Binge Eating disorder, Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia nervosa

Anorexia nervosa is one of the disorders of eating. It presents with considerable ...

The J. K. Roberts Company
- Discuss the case in terms of the attitudes and beliefs of the managers and workers. Pay particular attention to issues related to satisfaction and organizational commitment.
An individual's attitude is his unique way of feeling, behaving, looking at life and thinking. This phenomenon is very important in someone’s career and life in general. Beliefs, on the other hand helps the managers and workers to generate passion about their job. As such, it is important for workers and employers to believe in something. This is because, only strong and deep beliefs can ...

Background information

Dell is one of the leading IT companies that specializes in production and distribution of Dell model of computers, software, smartphones, printers and other electronic spare parts all over the world. The company was founded in 1984 by Michael Dell while he was still a student and the founder is still currently the chairman and the Chief Executive officer of the company whose headquarters are currently based in Austin, Texas. The company has a wide number of competitors in the IT such as Microsoft, IBM, Apple and HP which are currently the leading IT products and services providers in the global ...

Company’s Growth and History

Oman Air, the Sultanate of Oman’s flag carrier is based in Muscat. It mainly operates in the Seeb International Airport in Muscat. It operates international air services, scheduled domestic flights, charter work and local air taxi. Although it was founded in 1981, the company began operations in 1993. It started under the name Oman Aviation Services after a merger between Oman International Services and Gulf Air Light Aircraft. The company’s inaugural flight was from Muscat to Salalah with its international services starting in July of 1993.
The company is partially owned by the government with an initial ...

All countries face a considerable number of difficulties. These include the provision of adequate education, good health, advancement opportunities, employment, adequate housing, sufficient income, a sense of security as a nation, and a sense of personal security (Sadowsky, 1996). However, most of the poor people in the world are living in third world countries where access to resources is limited (Haji, 2005). Because of this, the third world countries face many problems in various economic sectors, with healthcare and education being the two most affected sectors (Haji, 2005).

Most development organizations have focused on infrastructural projects, the increase of clinics and health workers, ...

This piece of paper reports an analysis of a research carried out by Jared Wadley in October, 1, 2008. The research was carried out to investigate the effects of gun shows that were becoming so rampant not only in the USA but also globally. The research involved the sampling of the population samples that were used to represent various parts of America.
The hypotheses of the study were 1. Do gun shows lead to increase in the number of the gun related homicides? 2. Do gun shows lead to increase in suicidal cases in USA? 3. Do stringent regulations ...

Introduction

Family business ownership is a common scenario in many of the largest publicly listed firms. In a family business, one or more members within the management team are drawn from the owning family which often precipitates in several challenges. The issue of business ethics is one of the major challenges faced by family businesses yet it is a key factor in determining the performance and success in any business. The other challenges in a family owned business enterprise include conflict of interest between the family members, lack of accountability, abuse of office and authority among other challenges.
In this case study, Frank ...