Aligned Reports Samples For Students

Audience

This paper is directed to the academic audience. It will benefit the academic community associated with the organizational function of human resource management. Specifically, the report would be presented to my tutor. This is done in partial fulfillment of my academic goals. Nevertheless, the information provided in the report has utmost significance to practitioners in the field of human resource management.

Summary

This report focuses on the issue of leadership and management performance in organizations. It begins with the definition of terms that commonly occur within the context of human resource management. It then proceeds to give a brief introduction ...

Corporate Re-Branding: Is Cultural Alignment the Weakest Link?

Gotsi, Andriopoulos, and Wilson (2008) conducted a study to examine the relationship between cultural alignment and the new corporate values that were introduced after a corporate rebranding was implemented.

The study was conducted by using the case study method. The authors focused on the results or effects of a corporate rebranding initiative implemented by a telecommunication company where they aimed to determine the employees’ perception of how well the current attitudes and behaviors in the company were reflected in the new corporate brand values; whether this perception varied among subgroups within the company; and whether the employees believed that the behaviors and attitudes ...

In this report, personal assessment and experience about the Yoga practices are discussed. It illustrates about different Yoga practices postures, poses and breathing exercise. The report is structured in a way that it provides a brief introduction to Hatha Yoga and the movements involved in this yoga. Furthermore, the report provides a discussion of the way this type of yoga can be promoted.

Introduction to Hatha Yoga

Hatha Yoga is a different type of yoga that involves different physical techniques and yoga that are influenced by Hindu tradition gods namely “Shiva”. It involves different physical exercises and positions that stimulate functioning and improved ...

InSTITUION name

Executive Summary
Strategic management is a continuous process. No firm can survive on just a single, static strategy. Strategy needs to evolve to reflect the dynamic environment within which a firm operates. The process of strategic management involves three broad stages: strategy formulation, strategy implementation, and strategy evaluation. Strategic or situation analysis is required to form strategies that can successfully be implemented to achieve organizational goals. Strategy formulation or planning stage follows next and identifies the current position and sets a desired position; a position that the firm wants to achieve in the future. A famous case is that of AirAsia, an airline ...

HR CULTURE-CROSS HR STRATEGIES

Hofstede came up with the cultural dimensions which are still being practiced today as a pre-requisite to the understanding of the concept of cross cultural communication. These dimensions are also said to have a strong influence on the values of members of a society and also on how these values link to the behavior. Cultural dimensions give insight into how organizations and businesses would make policies for a specific location. The six dimensions of culture include power distance, individualism, masculinity, uncertainty avoidance, long term orientation and indulgence (Hofstede, 1984; Hofstede, Hofstede, and Minkov, 1991). Before actually relating these dimensions ...

Development of Performance and Reward Management system in Nokia

Performance and Reward Management are very critical functions of Human Resource Management especially in Multinational firms which employ a diverse workforce. The performance Management and Reward management systems in these organizations have to address country specific issues to make them more effective. Well formulated policies for performance and Reward Management achieve important HRM objectives such as motivation, employee satisfaction and loyalty and low employee turnover. However changing workplace environment and external factors necessitate that these policies are reviewed and reformulated regularly to keep them aligned with organizational strategies as well as external environment. Due to the global implications of ...

Interview Plan

Assignment # 2
Introduction
The Wilson Brothers Limited (an international company of manufacturing prepared food) advertised its job vacancy for Administrative Assistant with the Major purpose of developing reports and collecting information to provide support to the unit staff and Divisional Manager. The company published or posted its job ad on LinkedIn and the leading professional social media platforms and received job applications on email address. The ad was posted to receive applications from the external candidates. Now, the report is going to provide the interview plan for the job applicants, selection methods using selection requirement and criteria and hiring ...

Introduction

Costa Coffee is a multinational coffee company, founded in 1971 and headquartered in Dunstable, Bedfordshire. Founded by Costa family, the company started as a wholesale operation, working with specialist Italian Coffee shops. In 1995, the organization was acquired by Whitbread, who adopted very aggressive growth strategy, expanding the physical operation of Costa Coffee to over 2,800 shops across 30 countries. With over 1700 stores in the United Kingdom account for a major part of the total revenue of the company. Costa Coffee employs over 45,000 people and serves 25 million customers annually.
Costa Coffee operations are complex, ...

Wave and Wind Power Generation

Wind Physics Basics
Wind is atmospheric air which is in motion
Energy Source
The earth surface absorbs solar radiation differently. Some parts absorb more radiation than other. This creates pressure zones. As a result of pressure, air moves from high-pressure zones to low-pressure zones. This causes atmospheric air motion known as wind. Wind is a renewable source of energy. It is constantly available free of charge (Bhattacharyya, 2011).

Spatial scales

Atmospheric air motion can be categorized depending in terms of spatial scale. Four spatial scales identified include planetary scale, synoptic scale, mesoscale, and microscale. There are various types of spatial scales ...

Introduction

Business operating in the global business environment recognizes that the human resource management plays a significant role in enhancing and company's strategy. In the contemporary world, the performance management has become one of the essential and necessary components of the human resources management in the workplace. According to Jiang et al. (2012), the performance management is the HR policies and practices that lead to a particular type or level of performance and the management of the individual employees. For the National Australia Bank Group (NAB) to remain competitive in the banking industry, it has to formulate and implement various ...

Management in Creative and Cultural Organizations

[TUTOR’S NAME]
1.0 Executive Summary
Creativity and culture have long been regarded the lifeblood of organizational success but today diverse practices have changed the global business environment. Apple Company is an American cosmopolitan corporation that designs as well as manufactures consumer electronics, personal computers and computer software. The cultural and creative way of management of the organization is a superb idea to push the world forward. Apple Inc relies on diverse backgrounds and perspectives to spark innovation by choosing partners who make diversity a priority and creating opportunities for the next generation. Apple has constantly been different regarding ...

Introduction

The human resources department is one of the most important departments in an organization. Whether in a manufacturing or a service firm, the HRM department is mandated with the responsibility of creating and developing human capital, which is essential in achieving the organizational goals. Essentially, it is instrumental in ensuring that the efforts of the individual members of the organization are aligned to the overall objectives and goals of the organization. Organizations have become dynamic and this has created a need for well selected and trained employees. Organizations are learning of the importance of aligning the human resource management ...

Google as a company is believed to have done so much in a bid to offer innovative and differentiated products. The products or rather the brands by Google are unique to themselves, and this makes it easy to identify the products by. The brands of Google are unique. It is said that Google as a company has succeeded in positioning its brands. Some of the brands of Google include Gmail that enables people to communicate via email. They also have Google Talk, an application that gives the users the ability to connect with one another and ...

The report concentrates on the beliefs of the Dogon people which still manage to baffle researches all around the world. It appears that the Dogon people had considerable knowledge about a certain star that cannot be seen with a human eye under any circumstances unless specific equipment such as telescopes are involved. The way through which the tribe acquired such specific knowledge of the star and the immediate bodies that surround it remains open to the discussion. The tribe could have acquired the knowledge either by themselves or have claimed some information from another civilization. The phenomenon of travelling myths is ...

Executive Summary

The strategic perspective of an organization, and the direction in which it moves helps determine the strategic position of the organization, as well as its market competitiveness, survival and growth. In the case of TESCO, being a multinational retailer, its performance and branding are closely associated (Hammond, 2008). Apart from providing consumers with a wide range of products under one roof and becoming a one stop shop for all domestic needs of the consumers, TESCO also is actively a part of several community programs and social development. Moreover, leadership in terms of quality and customer retention has been attained by the organization effectively.
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An ‘English as a Second Language’ Collection for

Brisbane City Council Library Services
Collection Development for Library Services and Course Number
3. Initial ESL Collection Development
The “Success in Reading English: An ‘English as a Second Language’ Collection for Brisbane City Council Library Services (BCCLS)” is our group proposed library collection project. As part of the detailed overview and discussion of the library and information services, the context in which we anchor our initial ESL collection development is at the city of Brisbane Queensland, primarily; and secondarily, the online community. Brisbane, as Australia’s largest local government, has to serve its more than two million ...

Workforce Planning in the Australian Retail Industry

Socio-Economic Profile
With a strong economic development, Australia reached an average economic growth of 3.5% each year for 20 years, remaining strong and keeping its inflation under control during the economic recession (Index Mundi, Australia, 2013).
The country’s natural resources attracted many investors over the years and being an open market let to attracting high foreign investments, stimulating its economic growth, making it more flexible and dynamic (Index Mundi, Australia, 2013).
Regarding the country’s social profile, its early population was composed of British and Irish citizens; after the World War II Australia initiated an aggressive campaign of ...

Executive Summary

Global entertainment industry is presented by various sectors that, among others, include gambling industry. Increasingly complex global market environment outlines numerous challenges for the companies that operate in gambling segment. Evolution of regulatory profiles in European countries, strict governmental regulations and regional limitations in the United States; economic turbulence; volatile consumer confidence; and increasing public interest in CSR policies of the industry players shape the future of this economic segment. Hard Rock Hotel&Casino (HRH) is one of core businesses of the Hard Rock Corporation with yet, relatively small scale and scope of operations. This document provides an extensive analysis ...

The first principle that BUPA must adopt is that it must understand true costs. This company will make this achievement by using the standard cost component. This tool should be applied in budget preparation, pricing reporting and performance based incentive plans (Elliott, 2004). This is based on the increase in utility costs, which has decreased the operating surplus. In 2012, the operating surplus was £ 38,364,000. This was a decline from £ 54,202,000 in the previous year (Bupa Care Homes (CFG) plc, 2012). Understanding true costs will ensure that BUPA improves its costing control system. In this case, ...

Marketing Management

Executive Summary
The battle between gadget suppliers has now moved in the living room, for capturing the viewers on providing a new television experience, through customized products that integrate customized cable TV, online chat, playing video games, using computer, and other smartphone related applications, etc. This trend, initiated by Apple Inc. has rapidly evolve, with many other strong competitors entering this market, challenging Apple to continue to innovate, while also adjusting its segmentation, positioning, targeted population and its marketing mix to gain more market share and continue to dominate this market domain.
Vodafone entered the telecom market quite recently ...

- are not likely to reach their full potential in the workplace and thus productivity suffers (Tierney, 2013).
- Nurturing Innovation:
- Shortcomings- Providing the right platform for innovation can be a challenging task for the department.
- Advantages- If steps are undertaken to foster innovation then it can bring fruitful results for the department as the employees can come up with new and innovative ways to conduct existing jobs (Scott, 2013).
- Justification
KAUH is the first educational hospital in Saudi Arabia; it originally opened in 1955 and became a teaching hospital in 1975. The ...

Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies

Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
This is a report paper about the book written by James Collins and Jerry Porras entitled Built to Last. James Collins is a professor at the School of Business of Stanford University. He also engages in management research and teaches corporate leadership among executives like the Girl Scouts of America, the Marines, and John Hopkins Medical School. Collins is also the author of three other books namely Great by Choice, Good to Great, and How the Mighty Fall. Meanwhile, Jerry Porras is also a professor of organizational behavior behavior at the School of ...

Introduction

The purpose of this lab experiment is to investigate the laws of reflection and refraction. Determine the relationship between: distance of an object in front and the distance of the image behind, the angle of incidence and the angle of reflection of different light rays.

Θ1 = Θ2The angle of incidence equals the angle of refraction.
n = c / v The index of refraction, the speed is faster in a vacuum than in a material. n1 sin Θ1 = n2 sin Θ2The rays of light bend when either entering or leaving through water and traveling through the air. When light/rays pass through ...

1 Introduction 4
1.2 E-Service Usability. 5
2 Optimizing the user Experience 5
2.1 Reduce the user workload 5
2.2 Design for Working Memory Limitations 5
2.3 Warning of Time out Session 5
2.4 Format Information for Reading and Printing 5
2.5 Provide Printing option 6
3 Navigation 6
3.1 Provide feedback on user’s location 6
4 Ease of Use 7
4.1 Design, Structure & Navigation should be consistent 7
4.1.2 Use Descriptive Tab Labels 7
4.1.3 Use Site Map 7
4.1.4 Use “Glosses” to ...

HR Transformation Case Study

Flextronics is a US$33 electronic manufacturing services giant or EMS that offers manufacturing and services to large electronic brands in the world. Some of their notable clients are Dell, Hawlett-Packard, Cisco Systems, Xerox and many more (Humpries and Wilson, 2009, p.169). The company builds electromechanical components, complete systems for networking and communication, circuit boards and subsystems. Despite having impressive portfolio, in 2001 the company is facing challenges caused by the dot.com and telecom crash resulting to major industry stagnation. Flextronics had to close down facilities, restructuring and cutting overhead cost while trying hard to retain their position in the ...

Executive Summary

McDonald’s, with its huge customer base and steadily increasing revenue, has proved the excellence of it operations management. Operations management can be defined as a long term strategy that shapes a company’s operations in such a way that it is aligned to organisational goals, market requirements and available resources. The objective of this paper is to delve through the effective operations management strategies of McDonald’s that have significantly contributed to its huge success. It studies the various the components of operations management and how effectively it has been utilised in McDonald’s.
The corporation is the leader in ...