Membership Case Studies Samples For Students

Factual Background

The Respondent in this matter, Abel and his friends were indicted with bank robbery in the District Court, with his cohorts pleading guilty to the charge as framed. The respondent however, denied the offence and the matter went for trial whereby one of the cohorts named Ehle agreed to testify against him. The respondent then made known to the court of his intention to discredit the testimony by Ehle by calling a witness named Mills who would testify to the effect that Ehle had admitted to him that he intended to implicate the respondent so as to obtain favorable treatment ...

Weight Watchers is an international company that assists its members with losing weight by creating a healthy eating plan that can be coupled with motivational and accessibility tools. These factors encourage positive lifestyle changes in order to help members lose the weight and keep it off. Additional success tools for members are available online or in-person to create a healthy eating plan, imagine resourceful ways to become more active in everyday life, provide assistance with making healthy eating choices at the grocery store or when eating out, and provide in-person or online support, encouragement, and motivation from a registered ...

In this case, a neo-Nazi group, the Springfield unit of the National Socialist Movement, had adopted a section of highway outside the Springfield city limits. The Missouri state Department of Transportation, however, has no way to deny the group’s application. There is a legal precedent due to a prior case involving the State of Missouri attempting to deny a Ku Klux Klan chapter from adopting a highway which went to the United States Supreme Court in which the court upheld the KKK’s right to clean up the highway.
This came down to a first amendment issue. The court had found that a state could ...

Labor unions are the legally accepted representatives of the workers in most organizations in the United States. Currently, the activities of labor unions are centered on the collective bargaining over working conditions, wages and benefits for the members and also representing members in cases of disputes with the management for violations in provisions of contracts. Other larger unions engage in the electioneering and in lobbying activities and the federal and state levels. In the year 2010, the proportion of workers that belonged to unions in the United States was 11%. In the private sector, union membership has fallen to ...

Introduction

This paper addresses the major steps that Caring Angle Hospital can implement to realize its goals. Also, it recommends one strategy that the heath care provider can adopt to obtain a large market share. Finally, it examines value-added services will strengthen its value proposition.

Major steps for Caring Angle Hospital

Improve the quality of care
Improving the quality of care is important since it will prevent patients from hopping from hospital to another. Caring Angle Hospital can employ various strategies to enhance the quality of their services. The hospital administration should consider managing the process of care rather than focusing on controlling on the physicians. ...

In the year 1986, Ms. Hillary Clinton was appointed as a lawyer to the Wal-Mart board. The board consisted of 15 members. She worked for the corporation for 6 years. Ms. Clinton declined to talk about her Board membership at Wal-Mart posing questions as to whether it will impact negatively, or positively in her quest for the white house.
Her board membership is likely to impact negatively on her race to the White house. During her campaign for the Democratic ticket for the presidency in 2008 elections, her post at Wal-Mart was rarely discussed. She herself avoided the topic ...

Abstract

Massive increase in social inequalities in the United States of America, coupled with growing inequalities in wealth and income, have both refocused and drawn attention on social classes as a main determinant of population. Daily analysis through the use of consistent and coherent determinations of socioeconomic position in the United States of America surveillance and research however remains seldom. Certainly, social class exists in the United States of America today although it has consistently remained to be a controversial concept with multiple competing definitions. This paper identifies the determinants of social status as well as class in the United States of ...

Introduction

A national organization operating in the United States has offices in all four time zones in the country. The organization wishes to complete an important and confidential project within the next three and a half months. The completion of the project will require the formation of a virtual team comprising of mostly senior managers and directors from all major business departments of the organization. For the project to be a success, a team charter needs to be created to direct the different team members on what is required of them. Also, since the team members will be working from ...

The relation between unions and Management has been the subject of many studies and researches primarily because of the controversial nature of interaction between the two. Union management relations have never been very cordial and the two have often been entangled in fierce conflicts understandably because of a conflict of interests. However the situation has changed considerably following interventions from Government bodies regarding fair wages, improved working conditions and other welfare policies. In spite of an effort to improve labor management relations, there are cases where dissatisfied workers resort to unionizing to force management to accept their demands. The ...

The macro environment analysis of Costco Warehouse Corporation is given below

Political
Costco has its stores in different regions of the US. The operations are not limited to the US only, and the company has its operations foreign countries as well. The political scenarios differ greatly depending upon the geographical boundaries. However, the company has well stated industrial policy, technological policy and fiscal policy in compliance with the rules of the States and the regulations of the United States political parties. The political rules of US are majorly considered in internal policy formation. Due to this fact, the company has to face turbulent situations in some native countries due to ...

The place of ethics in business cannot be overlooked. Indeed, it is said that energy and intellect without ethics is destructive. In the modern industrial times where competition has tremendously increased and an increased technology application, the place of ethics in business needs to be reinforced and guarded jealously.

Competitive data refers to the information that is legally and ethically collected concerning the competitor’s position in relation to the capabilities, vulnerabilities, intentions, strengths and threats, among others. This information is useful for the organisation in the strategic planning and policy formulation. However, it should be noted that competitive ...

1. Porter's Five Forces analysis: the book publishing industry.
The largest book publishers are Global companies from many nations. Below is a snapshot of the twelve largest book companies in the world ("World's 60 Largest Book Publishing Companies"). Random House is number five on the list.
All of the large firms face similar challenges and opportunities. The Porter’s Five Forces Analysis for Book Publishers is below.
2. What are the merits to consolidation in book publishing? How large or small are these benefits?
Jeremy Greenfield of Forbes magazine writes that book publishers thought that their ...

Re: How to increase membership, community participation, and revenue

Recommendations:
Short term (immediately to one month)
- Investigate hiring a marketing consultant to develop a Marketing Plan.
- Clear any unused equipment such as the Bingo Machine from the public spaces.
- Contact the Charity Casino of Thunder Bay, Royal Canadian Legion, Fraternal Order of Eagles and the Elks regarding joint events at the large LOWB Family Centre.
- Contact the former Knights of Columbus to see if they would like to use the hall for meeting and partner with the LOWB on events such as the Fish Fry.

Medium term (one month to three months)

- Create an Internet presence including a ...

External analysis of online matchmaking industry

Online matchmaking industry is one of the most controversial issues that most people do not seem to agree on. This may be due to the fact that like many applications that continue evolving with new ICT, it is very new especially to the old generation. This has opened a whole new idea of a third party in a relationship. Recently though, this activity has become acceptable even to the older generation since it has opened new opportunities of finding love. However, when people hear of matchmaking services, they tend to confuse the term with online medium-term relationship sites. Despite the similarity in ...

The following paper details the excellent market strategies used by Zipcar to excel in the field of car sharing services. It basically talks about the companies target plan and how by targeting the young generation, the company moves towards the path to success.

A car sharing company serving almost about 6, 73000 members in Europe and North America, Zipcar works on a simple membership concept. It has 9000 vehicles in all operating in these two countries. By the year 2011, the service witnessed a growth of 25% ultimately increasing the revenues by 30 percent from the previous years figures . No doubt, ...

Issue 1 - Ethics and Legal Environment 2

Issue 2 - Organizational Environment 4
Issue 3 - Critical Thinking 7
Issue 4 – Business Associations and Torts 8

Issue 1 - Ethics and Legal Environment

As an agent of her employer, Monique has legal obligations of obedience, loyalty, accounting and performance to her principal. The duty of loyalty involves a fiduciary obligation where the agent is required to serve one principal at a time and shun from conflicts of interest, inform the principal about any material information, and keeping away from actions that would adversely affect the interest of the principal (Hartigan, 2014:272). Additionally, Monique has the duty of obedience towards her principal. The obligation ...

With more than 500 stores in at least 37 states and eight countries, Costco has continued to dominate the retail industry in America. Northouse (2015) noted that Costco’s competitive advantage in US retail industry can be explained by three key performance determinants in the flexible leadership theory: efficiency, adaptation, as well as human capital. In light of the company’s success in the retail industry, this paper provides a discussion on three key determinants in the flexible leadership theory and give an explanation of how the company can offer higher compensation to its workforce and still show success ...

Introduction

The quest to promote ideal working conditions for employees has been ongoing in the UK and the world at large for over centuries. While it remains to be seen whether a universally satisfying working conditions can be reached that wholesomely settles the long-raging battle between management and the worker’s union, several companies have continued to exercise colloquial and outmoded management practices on the employees and even attempted to bar them from seeking for their rights. There is a growing trend of many organizations’ management attempting to abuse the employees in a bid to maximize the output. All over ...

Mike Davis has an experience of more than seven years in the field outdoor sporting goods; he has worked on the famous stores. Mike did not have any degree as he did not complete his higher education, but he attended some courses related to management from a local community college. Because of his knowledge and his efforts, he became able to secure the entry-level management position. Mike was an enthusiastic person despite enjoying his job he was used to seek for new opportunities. Mike has a dream that he could open his personal store where he can enjoy the ...

Question 1

MABA is an acronym for Market Attractiveness, Business Assessment. The elements of Market Attractiveness include the total volume and volume growth in hectoliters of the international premium larger segment, the geographic and cultural distance between the market and the company’s home base in Netherlands.
The four elements that Grolsch use to measure distance are; differences in languages, non-membership vs. membership of the European Union, and the landed costs of transportation as well as the differences in Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita. MABA framework utilizes the four components in making key decisions that communicate whether a market is ...

Discussion Board

Chapter 4
The BCOS factors are comprehensive, but I think they encourage paternalistic thinking on the part of the marketers, which may alienate the audience. The audience’s perception of the costs, benefits, others and self-efficacy potential varies according to highly personal factors that often come into play at the market segmentation/product positioning/targeting stages (e.g. socialization, culture, and values). Effectively, I believe more concern for cognitive/affective dimensions of how the audience conceptualizes the BCOS factors for greater effectiveness in creating “mutually beneficial want-satisfying products”. I recently read about the Chinese dog meat festival, which has cultural and other ...

Introduction

The National Trust is a legal registered charity with over four million members. It is an organization known to welcome over nineteen million visitors to its special places and properties, which are open to each individual who is interested. However, there are observable internal and external issues which affect the operation of the National Trust.

The National Trust has achieved in making people within the community achieve a certain level of financial stability. There are business opportunities within the National Trust of which members can easily benefit from. The major shortfall that arises is that the Trust relies on other organizations ...

Activision and Vivendi Games company will combine their sales into a merger regarding a lately developed, subsidiary of Activision and Vivendi Games. Due to this alliance, Vivendi Games, one mother partnership of Blizzard Production and Sierra, will convert too fully of Activision. Vivendi will receive around 295.3 million lately issued dividends of Activision general property. Concurrently including the Alliance, Vivendi will buy around 62.9 million lately issued stock ownership of Activision general assets at a price of $27.50 for individual share at a cost of around $1.7 billion. Appearing in an entire Vivendi control pale in Activision Blizzard around 52% of total controlled ...

Marketing

Payless ShoeSource
Re : In order to revamp the corporate image of Payless ShoeSource by expanding the designer collection to increase company sales through lesser cost

Recommendations:

Short term (immediately to one month)
- The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) should meet immediately with the marketing group in order to come up with a strategy to make Payless ShoeSource a world-renowned brand of trendy and hip shoes for a reasonable price.
- The CEO must assess the current performance of the company in terms of marketing strategy and sales report of other shoe companies in order to improve the performance of ...

- America’s social capital reserve has continually been eroded.
- The erosion of America’s social capital is a matter of urgency and concern, and it does matter to the general society at large.
- Despite the detrimental effects that the erosion of social capital in America has brought, there still exist ways that can result in the replenishment of social capital.
In measuring the level of civic engagement in America, Dr. Putnam uses some variables that he believes can help in the explanation of the malady – erosion of social capital. Some of these variables that ...

There are several issues that American Express faces in regard to the advertisement of the credit card. The American Express is concerned in capturing the attention of current and potential customers. It has engaged in the advertisement of the services especially on the advantages of using credit cards. The organization has sought celebrities to be in the front lines from different dimensions (Palan, Morrow and Trapp 57). This tends to attract the potential customers to join the company’s services that are offered through the use of credit cards. The other issue regards the increased competition from other companies ...

Abstract

Following is a question and answer article discussing the influential leadership of Ursula Burns and how she manages a multinational corporation Xerox. Her inspirations and her way of working are described in the answers to the questions that follow.

Q. In your opinion is Ursula Burns more of a charismatic leader, transformational leader, or both?

A. Ursula Burns, CEO Xerox, is listed as the 14th most powerful woman in the Forbes survey for 2013 and also the first African American CEO. In the Forbes profile dedicated to Ms. Burns, Forbes describes how Ursula Burns has acted as a transforming figure for Xerox’s image from a mere photocopier and carbon copy solutions company to a brand in documentation and IT ...

Introduction

As the field of information technology continues to grow, the ability of any company is based on its correctness in using the most current developments. Thus, to get a competent company that is being contracted by setae corporations is a credit on its ability to offer the above. One such company has been XBRL a free information sharing company which has been used by among other the United states federal deposit insurance corporations, (http://www.xbrl.org/). The company has been able to incorporate essential data in its website that is vital and needed by the state corporations, the multinational companies and other stakeholders in ...

Introduction

Communication is very fundamental to human life owing to the fact that it helps people establish relationships, express themselves, interact with other people and the world, accomplish tasks as individuals and as a team and also helps people manage others and lead an organization. This paper seeks to explore Managerial communication in a business membership organization The Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE). It explores the different ways of managerial communication like: verbal and non verbal which includes: gestures, written, body language amongst others. Managerial communication is an essential function which enhances smooth communication between managers and also with employees and ...

Various Issues Relating to the Corporations Act and their Effects on Directors and their Duties

The directors are required by the Corporations Act 2001 not to do anything that requires disclosure to investors. If they fail to do so they are held liable by Sec 45 of the Corporations Act that stipulates the governance of a small proprietary company. According to Peter the constitution of Kandy K restricts the directors to facilitating a loan of not more than one million dollars unless the members pass the resolution in a general meeting as was the case in Howard v Patent Ivory Manufacturing Co (1888) where the decision by the directors to borrow over the stipulated limit was nullified. ...

Introduction

Private clubs are essential components of the society since they provide a basis for creating social bonding amongst the society members. The Private Farming Wood Swim and Tennis Club is an example of such a club. The management of such clubs should be effective in meeting the expectations of the members. This gives the implication that the Human Resource departments in such clubs are some of the most important in the management of the clubs. Strategic management is hence crucial in managing these clubs to counter human errors that are quite common in the management of any club or organization. A ...

The latest annual report for the Amazon.com, Inc. was released on 14^th December, 2010 and covers 2009 financial year. The year officially ended or dates 31^st December 2009. The report is titled ‘2009 Annual Report’ and begins with a brief statement addressed to its shareholders. Like the last thirteen annual reports since the year 1997, the report contains a brief statement as a letter directed to the firm’s shareowners which bears a signature of the firm’s founder: Jeffrey P. Bezos. The statement also shows an executive post of Chief Executive Officer (C.E.O) being held by ...