Department Case Studies Samples For Students

Attribute Standard 1312 issued by the IIA indicates that Internal Audit Departments purporting to follow IIA Standards must have an external assessment “conducted at least once every five years by a qualified, independent reviewer or review team from outside the organization. Two such organizations include World Com and Fannie Mae. The two organizations were in the news owing to various reporting and internal audit practices that may have resulted in their collapse, as is the case of World Com or hefty financial losses for their shareholders and other stakeholders. Consequent to such observations, the objective of this paper is ...

Virtual City Police Department. Case Study

Nowadays the Virtual City Police Department face several significant problems. The point is that if the problems are not fixed, the Virtual City citizens will suffer because the level of crimes will increase. This report is aimed at outlining four major problems and finding solutions on them.
The main problem of the Virtual City Police Department is unqualified personnel. The point is that until the mid-1990s every person who had graduated from school and got a certificate could become a police officer in the Virtual City Police Department. However, in the 1990s the situation has changed a bit: college education became a ...

Introduction

Enhancing the shareholder’s equity is one of the most effective activity of an organization for which the organizations stride for. According to majority of consensus, increasing the shareholder’s equity is the most important and critical things from the viewpoint of an organization as it is something from which positive impact would have been reflected over the bottom line of the organizations. Success story of an organization could not be derailed from any standpoint, as it something from which different aspects of an entity would be decided.
The essence of structure is an important thing from the ...

The human resource department mostly determines the success of an organization. It simply means that the human resource image plays an important role in how the organization's operations are perceived by both the investor and the stakeholder of the organization. According to the research finding of international accounting along with the consulting firm, they clear highlighted the human resource technique being adopted by most of the successful business entities. The research reveals that the effectiveness of a human resource department is measured by the overall function in relation to the bottom line contribution (Hailey, 2005). These factors in place mean ...

Wedow versus City of Kansas City, Missouri

This case, which involves Ms. Wedow, who was chief battalion’s officer with Fire Department in Kansas City, was filed in 2006. This is because the reference jurisdiction, which attempts to determine if the plaintiff was treated differently by the Kansas City Fire Department due to her sex orientation where he was supposed to be given appropriate protective clothing and infrastructure, was submitted in 2005. This is clearly shown by the submission reference number concerning the case, which is," Sallis v. Univ. of Minn., 408 F.3d 470, 476 (8th Cir.2005).” This jurisdiction needs that the plaintiff meets the threshold ...

Introduction

An estimated 100,000 people reside in Deesville City with a mayor-council government. Providing assistance to the City Manager is the main highlight for this case study, as an intern to the local government office. This internship is part of the requirements for completing the Public Administration Program at Gill University. In this scenario, Deesville’s local administration faces an assortment of issues, majority of which relate to human resources and its administration and includes problems on budget management. In detail, the human resources and its administration concerns are currently taking place in three agencies or offices—the Police Department, ...

Disney is one of the largest and leading media entertainment conglomerates in the globe, both in terms of diversity and revenue generation (Collis, 2009). The company is known for four of its operational divisions such as Disney studios, Disney consumer products, Disney parks and resorts, and Disney consumer products and media networks (Hollis, and Ehrbar, 2006). Therefore, the brand drives Disney’s business and based on its reputation, any item sold under the Disney brand is sure to become succeed and generate revenue for the company (Collis, 2009). These has enabled Disney to continue providing exciting programs and products ...

The department of homeland security is a cabinet department created in the year 2002 after the terrorist attack on 11/11/2001, with the main function of safeguarding the united state of America from any future attacks, manmade accidents and natural catastrophes (Homeland ,N.p). It is different from the department of defense as it aims to protect civilians in and outside the American territory while the department of defense deals with military actions abroad (Homeland N.p).
The reasons for the formation of homeland security was to prevent terrorist attack in united state of America territory, reduces American vulnerability to terrorism, and ...

Introduction

The service that police agencies towards a community cannot be belittled. However, the effectiveness of an agency while dealing with various responsibilities from the management to operational level depends on various aspects. The operations command of a police department is usually perceived, rightly so, as the most important. However, it is important to note from the outset that most operational work is usually performed without the watchful eyes of the administrators. As such, effective work depends on the motivational levels and professionalism of the officers.
- How the history of the agency has contributed most of the issues that have ...

Overview

I have been appointed in the position of the city manager of Gill Ville, a city with a population of about 200000 people. There are several issues to be addressed within the city departments. The citizens are aware of unethical behaviors in the management of the city, and they have lost their trust and support for the Mayor and the local government. My job is to get the city back on its track and satisfy the expectation of the citizens.
There are several issues to be addressed within the departments to improve on service delivery to the citizens. The main ...

Overview

I have been appointed in the position of the city manager of Gill Ville, a city with a population of about 200000 people. There are several issues to be addressed within the city departments. The citizens are aware of unethical behaviors in the management of the city and they have lost their trust and support for the Mayor and the local government. My job is to get the city back on its tack and satisfy the expectation of the citizens.
There are several issues to be addressed within the departments to improve on service delivery to the citizens. The main ...

Introduction

This case study is devoted to the analysis of the current position of the Capital One Bank. The Bank has recently faced problems connected with mortgage process flow caused by inefficient internal communication. The Bank even stopped taking applications because of negative impact on customers.
A detailed implementation plan will be developed to resolve the issues the Bank faced. The improvement of the processes will include several operations management techniques. The resources needed for implementation of the plan will be identified on the basement of analysis of actual data. Short-term and long-term implications of the operations techniques will ...

Meeting Agenda for HR manager

In the first meeting with the staff, Jill can consider the following as the agenda for the meeting:
- Official introduction to the staff
- Organizational culture and structure
- Internal Communication within the Department
- Challenges Facing The Employees
- A.O.B
- Closing Remarks

The importance of the agenda items

i. Official introduction to the staff
As Jill sets out to assume a managerial position in the HR department, it is important to quickly develop an understanding on her area of operations. The manager needs to know her team, and they as well need to know the manager. ...

Criminal Law

Sergeant Robert Gray is the head of the New York Police Department. Under his supervision is a new public safety officer name Melissa Black and one of the veteran field training officers named Jake White. Since Melissa was a new recruit and was on her probationary period, she was assigned by her supervisor Sergeant Gray to FTO Jake White. Melissa is single and in her late 20s. She was young and a very attractive officer. On the other hand, Jake is married was his late 30s, the best FTO in the department. Jake also has the reputation of being a womanizer in his ...

Ricci v. DeStefano, 557 U.S. 557 (2009) was a controversial case that was decided by the United States Supreme court. The case concerned racial discrimination practices by New Haven, Connecticut’s fire department. The department had eighteen employees where seventeen were white, while there was only one Hispanic. The company in 2003 had seven openings for captain and eight positions for lieutenant. The department administered civil service examinations to fill the positions. The test consisted of two segments where one was oral and the other was written. The New Haven Department of Human Resources issued and RFP for the exams ...

Question 1: Discuss the implications of co-conducting a project plan from the project and department managers’ points of view.

Beijing EAPS Consulting Inc. (BEC) is a consulting company specializing in the provision of psychological support to personnel of BECs customer companies. BEC began with six staff in 2001 and has grown to 20 staff in 6 short years. The company started with two co-founders managing the company from a single office, shared between them. At the start of the venture, a definite company structure with identified departments did not exist. At the time, employees were assigned projects based on skills and company schedules.
In 2006, Beijing EAPS Consulting started setting up new departments and contracting new employees. The company structure ...

Bad Image Radiology Department

Step I: Summary of the case

Notably, many hospitals find themselves in the middle of court cases and trials with very little knowledge of the events that led to the scenario. This case is a good example. It presents the origin of the problem, the personnel that were involved and the events that led to the problems presented. It is about MacMillan hospital and the problems that generated from the department of medical imaging. The department had contracted its services to Good View Company and the major shareholder was Goodview (Darr, 2001, p. 322). He started neglecting his work and ...

The probation department is a critical constituent of the criminal justice system. Probation officers have a fundamental obligation to the system and society at large to ensure that they facilitate the administration of justice in a fair, just and objective manner. They attain this essential duty mainly by preparation of presentence investigation report, which gets then submitted to the court of law. The report should be based on the defendant's character, criminal history, background, his family life and any other relevant facts that the officer may deem fit to aid in the administration of justice. The report will then be used by ...

The university is in to contract with Tenex Company where the company supplies the University with stock tab paper. When they entered into the contract, the company was to supply stock tab paper on a fixed price basis. Now that the prices for the stock tab paper have gone up, Tenex approaches the University's purchasing department so that they can go to a guaranteed margin approach as opposed to what they had agreed earlier, fixed price. The university's purchasing department responds to the Company (supplier) reminding them that the case would have been different had the prices gone down. ...

Every business venture aims at achieving its business objectives. This is vital in the business’s survival and prosperity in its business environment. When a business seems not to be performing as much as it may have intended, there is need for the business to evaluate its processes to determine where the problem is. In view of this, Kahuna Cleaning Supply has realized that it is not performing as much as it would want to. This paper seeks to develop a fact-finding plan for Kahuna Cleaning Supply (Whitten & Bentley).

Fact-finding plan

In order to determine and analyze why Kahuna Cleaning Supply has not ...

Problem Outline

Cox’s Container Company (CCC) is a medium size manufacturing company that produces both large and small containers. In the last few years, the company’s profitability has gone down due to increased competition from similar companies that have reduced CCC profit margins.
CCC needs to change its culture and structure if it is to remain profitable and therein lays the problem. The employees are not willing to implement the new changes and thus they are not cooperating. The new management team has not introduced the changes well since it has not consulted any of the employees. There has ...

Management finance

Part A:

According to the case, Charles Ltd. Department, because of the implementation of the new budget system is faced with the increased workload. This is because the system is effective, the department's power to enact budget Charles Co. said their goal is to estimate and predict facts (Fabozzi and Peterson Drake, 2009, pp.15-25). These must be analyzed by the selected company's management to ensure that they can achieve a reasonable and reflect reliable data. This concept would increase work that was previously absent in the departments.
In many cases, this requires expert who is an estimate of the ...

Widget Wonders is a worldwide leader in widgets. Worldwide leader is building a state-of-the-art facility to manufacture and distribute the next generation of widgets. Widget Wonders is going to create a manufacturing and distribution center in the United States. A few departments were created, having its personal task and aims to achieve. Departments are going to have limited personnel, consisting of well-quailified specialists. This is the list of the departments: Sale, Manufacturing, Inventory Control, Research and development, MIS. Widget Wonders utilizes new technology in their operations while keeping an eye on the budget. The widget industry is very competitive, and company assets ...

Introduction

Information technology in a company enhances the effectiveness of the delivery of service and products (Bynum, 2008). Alcan Company deals with the mining, manufacturing and packaging bauxite and alumina. The company had stayed for a period of one year without a corporate leader in the IT section. After a series of pressures in its operations, the company settled for an IT manager and the position was awarded to Robert Ouellette in 2006. He identified that the company used a decentralized IT infrastructure system that was inhibiting the performance of the company and increasing the company’s expenditure cost. There was need to upgrade the ...

Introduction

TSU has managed to build a business name in the industry in the past few years and has managed to maintain the name and increase the turnover due to the collective duty of each employee in the workplace. Hence, the success of the firm relies on the activities and actions of the employees as well as how they handle their duties and responsibility and ability to work together as a team. Despite the success of the firm, there exist potential areas that the employees can work together and steal from their employers. These are the areas that fraud could ...

Introduction:

In this paper were will be covering our analysis of the BoldFlash: Cross-Functional Challenges in the Mobile Division case, written by Michael Beer and Rachel Shelton. The analysis will cover the history of the company, symptoms and problems, alternatives, and our recommendations. The given case expounds over the situation when Roger Cahill – Vice President of BoldFlash Mobile Division came across the situation where BoldFlash is struggling to adjust to a progressing and challenging marketplace. In the case study, there are four departments (marketing, sales, manufacturing, and product development) within a division that refused to work collaboratively. As a result, ...

Part 1

Milton manufacturing is facing a number of issues that include:
Inaccurate costing of tables and chairs, there is an equal allocation of overheads to chairs and tables resulting in the chairs being allocated more than a fair share of the overheads while the tables under absorb overheads.
Resistance to change, Mr. Smith is reluctant to change the costing techniques arguing that they have traditionally allocated overheads to tables and chairs equally.
The organization has a closed climate where employees are not able to freely communicate. For instance, Mr. Smith tends to dominate the meeting and members are afraid of ...

Introduction

TerraCog is an extremely successful high-tech firm. It is a private firm that develops Global Positioning System (GPS) and similar goods for consumer markets. Recently, the company has been caught unprepared by a competitor who has developed a product that employs novel use of satellite imagery. When the company thoughts of developing a competing product, named Aerial, the costs involved for the project threaten the fall of the project. None of the main managers is equally prepared to take the blame, anger, and bewilderment for the failure. After consistent disagreements between the leaders of the firm, the blames follows Emma Richardson, who was ...

Abstract

The Census Bureau of the United States is one of the key Federal Agencies that enhance activities of the government. The Census Bureau is mandated to perform different roles, mainly focusing on the collection of information used by development stakeholders including the government to formulate appropriate policies. The data collected by the Census Bureau also provides an overview of the overall development status of the United States. For instance, it depicts overall economic performance of the entire country or particular social challenges experienced by communities across the country. The roles of census bureau agencies have been appreciated by several ...

There are steps that are involved in developing an Entity Relationship Model. The first step is to identify the entities that will be used in the model. The entities are the objects that will be defined and have the relationships in the data model developed. The next step would be to define the relationships that exist between the entities that have been defined. The relationships will define the direction in which the relationship between the entities will take. They will guide in the creation of the database. The third step would be entering the attributes. Attributes are the characteristics ...

NAMEPROFFESORCOURSEDATERiordan Manufacturing , the international plastics manufacturer, employs about 550 people with planned annual earnings of $ 46 billion . Riordan Industries, a Fortune 1000 enterprise with revenues in excess of $ 1 billion , own the manufacturing company .
Riordan 's manufacture is separated into the following three groups : plastic beverage containers ( Albany , Georgia) ; norm prepared plastic parts in Pontiac , Michigan , and plastic fan parts made ​​in Hangzhou , China .
With the goods being produced at the different floras , Riordan 's major clienteles are motorized parts producers , aircraft builders , the United States Department of Defense , beverage bottlers and creators , and machine constructers .
...

Executive Summary

Wei Corporation a booming company in the technology sector has been experiencing steady growth and progress, in terms of overall sales, profits, and revenues. This information could be best evidenced by the growth of company’s employee population to over 3,000 employees. A steady growth and improvement has also been identified on Wei Corporation’s independent, corporate, and industrial client base. In fact, its supplier base could reach as far as overseas.

Now, according to predictions, Wei Corporation will continue to benefit from rapid growth and expansion in the coming years and that’s actually why the members of ...

HRM practices and business strategy

There is a close link between a company’s business strategy and its human resource practices. This is because they both affect organizational development and the business environment. It is important for any company to align its human resource management practices to its business strategy because only then will employees work effectively to achieve the company’s objectives. In human resource, individuals are managed and considered to be important strategic resources that can be used by the firm to gain competitive advantage through improved performances. Therefore, the manner in which human resources are managed must correspond with the company’s business ...

1. What do you recommend that leadership at Crystal Motors do to enhance teamwork in the service department?

The leadership of Crystal Motors must be clear about their goals and their expectations with regards to their department. They must articulate their objectives and how each of their department will contribute to make this goal a reality. The leadership has to be engaged with the development and better performance of the Service Department. It shall ensure that the members of the service team receive appropriate training in all aspects of their optimum work performance and teamwork.

Aside from support and supervision, ...

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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 ...

Introduction

On the evening of February 23, 1991, the Philadelphia Fire Department received a call reporting a fire on the 22nd floor of the One Meridian Plaza. The fire department responded immediately but were faced with various challenges that made the fire unmanageable. The fire lasted for nineteen hours and spread to eight floors above the 22nd floor in the 38 story building. Firefighters were able to contain the fire when it spread to the 30th floor. The incident led to three casualties, all firefighters from the local Philadelphia Fire Department, and injuries to 24 others. For this task, we are supposed ...

This paper will examine the case study ‘The Ethical Chocolate Company’ whose Managing Director is Mr. Graham. The paper will seek to reveal the essential areas that Mr. Graham should focus on. It will also recommend measures that he can implement to ameliorate the company. The paper will comprehensively analyze the ideal leadership style for the company, the motivation and job designs that the management should adopt, and how to deal with stress at the work place.
First, it is vital to underscore the significance of competent and capable leadership at workplace. From the case study, it is ...

Do you think Jill Thompson’s proposal to decentralize the rules and procedures of Bosco Plastics will work?

I would not agree with certainty that the proposal by Thompson to decentralize the rules and procedures at Bosco Plastics would work because this could lead to other problems; but I would agree that it is the most logical and appropriate means of correcting the problems mentioned in the case. The existing rules may prove appropriate for some departments within the organisation. However, some of the rules may not suite some other departments, specifically manufacturing and other functions, especially those that require collaborative efforts of multiple individuals scheduled business hours to ensure that a complete team participates throughout a work shift. ...

Introduction

The thing that categorize among a powerful and weak company is their strategies and complying behavior with the regulations and regulatory authorities. Apart from the general operations, organizations have to consider a strong behavior with their accounting department as well. Accounting department is known as an important department with its core adherence with the productivity of a corporation, and it is usually addresses the day to day transactions of a company (Leung, Coram & Cooper, 2007).
In the current economic scenarios, there are certain restrictions and suggestions that are essential for the accounting department of a company, but still there are bulk of examples can ...

The goal of writing this paper is to be able to give out information in regards to the United States Department of Labor (DOL) website. Also, this Website conveys the most current rules and federal participation concerning everything about the benefits of employees. Additionally, this report gives a description of the features of this whole website and the explains the way each feature is able to be utilized to look at the benefits of the employee. And in detail putting the emphasis on the way the benefits are able to agree with every one of federal laws. What is more ...

What was Joanna Reed’s diagnosis of the situation in the donor services department?

Employee commitment and relation is wanting in the donor services department. There is no coordination between them, as regards the conflicts they have among themselves. Dedication and loyalty to the department also lacks.

What should she recommend to Sam Wilson?

One recommendation is for Sam to hire another person to head the donor’s department as Jose seems to be so much concerned with the community issues. Secondly, there is need for policies that govern employee relationship and communication in the department, in bid to avoid personal problems influencing how employees relate.

Describe the managerial styles of Sam, Jose and Elena. What is the impact of their styles?

Sam and Jose have an almost similar managerial style. They are the type that ...

‘Fashion and quality at the best price’ is the motto on which H&M bases its business concept. H&M had humble beginnings over sixty years ago in Vasteras, Sweden. It is now a highly successful, contemporary fashion group with a global reach. H&M’s Annual Report for FY 2013 reported 3,132 department stores worldwide; H&M department stores are now in 53 countries.

Outward processing trade (OPT) agreements work well for many segments of the textile production and marketing sectors. OPT is better than free trade regulations for H&M when using production facilities in countries in closer proximity to ...

Introduction

Every department of an organization strives hard for the sharing of their contribution in the economic prosperity of the company and the presence of every department is essential for an entity. Among numerous departments, usually found in an organization, the name of Operational Department is one of them. Operational Department is one of the most important departments from the viewpoint of an organization and no organization could be in the sake of economic prosperity without having an effective Operational Department in particular .
Operational Department is a department which usually looks over the transparent move in the actions and behaviors ...

Introduction

The article concerns the hurdles that Cody Fixer, who is hired as the new director for quality assurance department at his new workplace Greasex Line. Cody is not well conversant with the activities of the company and needs to consult his subordinates on various issues. The problems in the company dawn on him after his return from an interesting seminar for quality managers in manufacturing companies. He had inadequate time to learn the system so that he could he easily identify with the problems. He relies on his immediate subordinate Mark Hamler, who is the quality control manager. Mark ...

Introduction

Quality assurance is of utmost importance in the health care sector. The main reason is that this sector deals directly with saving human life. As such, there is adamant pressure that the services that are offered are quality to the extent that they can safeguard human life. As such, hospitals are among the primary facilities that are vital in this sector. Therefore, the report shall evaluate quality assurance as applied by Valley General Hospital, Monroe, Washington.
Quality department is tasked with the responsibility to ensure that the hospital conforms to the best quality expectation. As such, the firm ...

Inequity

Comparison often gives rise to inequity perception or feeling within employees. This is quite similar to the case at Plantir, where the management observed dissatisfaction and lack of motivation in the employees which eventually resulted in the retirement of Colin (production manager). Although, the company was able to gain its desired objectives (i.e. increase in the level of sales and the generation of cash) but the obsession to increase sales and profit to reduce cash pressures led to the dissatisfaction of several employees, even including the production manager. The sales team was awarded with lucrative bonuses and rewards, whereas ...

Introduction

Insurgence is defined as the armed rebellion towards a constituted authority. The people who practice insurgence use terrorism while others use the guerrilla warfare as an instrument to fight. There have been some cases where some countries such as Philippines that practised insurgence which was not violent. There are different types of insurgence that is practiced by different countries especially when there is violence. The main purpose for the insurgence is in countries that have problems in religion, ethnic, political and economic. The other instances are when a particular group or people in a country are dissatisfied with the ruling power. There ...

Introduction

Hiring professional and skilled employees is the key objective of the Human Resource Management (HRM) department. For the purposes of the realization of this strategic objective, the HR manager is obliged to pursue equality in provision of working opportunities for all employees regardless race, sex, nationality or any other supplementary factor giving ground for unequal attitude. In this particular situation, the managers of the company request the Human Resource Department to resolve issue pertaining to division of quotas between ground crew and other employees. With that, the attention of the managers is focused on the age of the employees ...

Integrated Marketing Communication Plan

Integrated Marketing Communication Plan

Integrated Marketing Plan

Objective:
The product should perform at a very fast speed. As an emergency power source, users do not have to wait long hours before enjoying the service support that ConsoGo can offer (Blakeman, 2014). For instance;

It powers a computer for 30 minutes.

It powers a mobile phone for 45 minutes.
It powers a PDA for 90 minutes.
It uses the sun and other electric lights to power up.
It only takes a few minutes to charge.
It can provide power to other devices while charging.
It has a six sided universal adapter hence increasing the number of gadgets it can service.
...

The Project

The Alaskan Way Viaduct Replacement Program makes use of project planning as a tool in project management through the use schedules. The project’s schedule indicates that it is to be led by the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) in partnership with the Federal Highway Administration and various administrative organs in King County. The project schedule indicates that Washington State is responsible for the funding of thirty-one of the projects envisaged under the program. It also identifies the scope of works to be undertaken from the inception of the project in 2007 to date as illustrated by the ...

A database is a saving bank that is used to store data or information which is crucial in organizations daily activities and for record purposes. It allows users to store data in a precise organized manner, once the data has been stored; it is easy to retrieve the information using certain criteria. The manner in which information is stored in any database determines how easy it is to get the information searched, based on several criteria. It makes it easy to add information to the database, remove and modify and at the same time sort or filter.

Entities relate with each ...

Question 1:

Strategic
- Meeting external equipment supplier
- Final daily check on the productivity performance at the plant
- Meetings with all managers, supervisors, and department supervisors
- Discussion with production operatives

Design

- Request and meeting with the marketing director for discussion on product trials
- Tour of the factory with plant engineers
- Meeting with technical representative of F-robot

Planning and control

- Checking productivity report from previous day
- Checking quality report for the past week
- Checking deliveries done
- Checking the finished product for variations
- Writing monthly reports ...

Widget Wonders is a worldwide leader in widgets. Worldwide leader is building a state-of-the-art facility to manufacture and distribute the next generation of widgets. Widget Wonders is going to create a manufacturing and distribution center in the United States. A few departments were created, having its personal task and aims to achieve. Departments are going to have limited personnel, consisting of well-quailified specialists. This is the list of the departments: Sale, Manufacturing, Inventory Control, Research and development, MIS. Widget Wonders utilizes new technology in their operations while keeping an eye on the budget. The widget industry is very competitive, and company assets ...

Having graduated from Queens University with a degree in economics and history and having to obtain a Masters in broadcasting journalism, Adam Kaminsky was in a position to make the solution required. Through his advanced knowledge in journalism, he could use the magazine advertisements. This is because he would be in a situation where he could control the marketing environment since he had advanced knowledge in this marketing field. The magazine advertisement would be a possible solution in essence that the magazine recommended is accessed by people in senior positions who may provide a chance to expand the business since they are well connected.
...

Part 1: Profile of USAID

USAID is an acronym that stands for United States Agency for International Development. It is a non-profit organization that carries out interventions in hard hit areas, primarily in third world developing countries. It is a federal agency of the government of the United States of America primarily tasked with delivering civilian foreign aid.
- Areas of Interest
USAID has interest in many areas around the globe. Firstly, it is important to identify the areas of operational interest for the organization. USAID seeks to help overseas people who are struggling to live a better life, live in the reins of democracy ...

The use of force is Prerogative of law enforcement officials. Sometimes using force becomes necessary but it should not be exercised unnecessarily or exceed the limit. Authorities, in no case, should exercise excessive force and doing so is a criminal offence. Law enforcement authorities though do not hesitate from using excessive force and the same was evident from the incidents that took place in Los Angeles County where numerous prisoners were beaten severely by deputy of sheriff department.
Videos show how inmates were screaming while and after beaten up by deputy of sheriff department and his men. They were ...

Norge Portugal is an international Norwegian company set up in Lisbon, Portugal in 2001 (McGuire 123). The company deals in selling, maintenance and repair of refined equipment for textile industries. The company is well renowned for ‘total service’ to its customers, where they focus on satisfying the customer in an aim of achieving customer loyalty. Despite starting operations almost a decade ago, the firm retains a remarkably small customer base and is smaller compared to other company bases in different countries. However, the company remains profitable mainly because of favourable reputation amongst customers.
Norge Portugal, has four key areas that ...

Balanced Scorecard Implementation

Introduction
Rainbow Lighting Ltd manufactures light bulbs for both wholesale and retail sale. Since being acquired by the German company Eindnacht GmbH, issues of quality, profitability, customer perception and staff morale have come to light. Costs have also been incurred through the need to recall a faulty item in recent times. Rainbow Lighting Ltd has identified a number of areas that require improvement and has been given two years by its parent company to reach new benchmarks, to avoid operations being entirely transferred to Germany. Rainbow Lighting’s Managing Director has suggested the use of a Balanced Scorecard (BSC) in the ...

Outputs at the Different Levels of the Company

Introduction
The aim of the current case study is to evaluate organizational performance from the Congruence Model for Organization Analysis perspective. The paper represents an attempt to trace organizational performance from three different perspectives: individual, group, and system. Also, the paper is targeted to analyze the level of interaction between three organizational levels and evaluate the overall performance.
1. Congruence Model for Organizational Analysis
1.1 Description of Nadler-Trushman Congruence Model
One of the approaches to the organizational overall performance was developed by Nadler and Trushman in 1977. The model consists of three components: inputs, transformation ...

Introduction

Change is inevitable not only in business but also in everyday life. This is because developments and better ways of doing things are always being formulated and hence the need for change from current ways of doing things. In business change is a significant tool to ensure that an organization does not become irrelevant in the market nor does it lose its competitive advantage (Creasey & Hiatt, 2003, p. 42).

Change Requirements at the International Hotel Group

As the Senior Human Resource Manager at the International Hotel Group I have identified several change needs in the organization after consultation with relevant staff from the human resource team. ...