Essays on Bendick

Strategy Overview

Marriott is one of the largest hotel chains in the world, operating over 4,500 properties across 87 countries. The portfolio of the company includes over 16 brands, offering lodging and accommodation solutions for business, leisure and luxury market segments. The financial year 2015 indicated a strong financial position and the growth potential of the company with the total revenue declared for the period of USD 14 billion and over 10,000 new rooms opened during the same financial year. The company pursues an aggressive global growth strategy with the focus on luxury and middle-class leisure segment accommodation (Marriott, ...

Is Translating a Global Business?

Globalization, international business expansion and mobility of individuals across international borders outline the profile of the contemporary business environment and create numerous opportunities on the market. At the same time, this process of dilution of the international borders makes companies, employees, and consumers significantly more demanding and ambitious. It is difficult to argue that a company in a modern business world has much wider choice and options in terms of business model and the strategy. This is determined by a better access to technology, access to companies to specific skills and expertise, which professionals across the borders can provide ...

Diversity Management in Contemporary Organization

The contemporary business environment is a complex mechanism of relationships on organizational, group and individual levels, where the trend of internationalization and blurring business and economic boundaries between the countries places more emphasis on adaptability and unique competitive advantage, based on intangible assets. For many companies, growth and profitability mean organic and inorganic expansion to foreign markets and, thus, there is an increasing concern about diversity and management of cross-cultural differences within and outside of the companies. The reality of such retail giants as Tesco, Walmart, Starbucks Coffee Company and many others demonstrates that in order to build on ...

Corporate culture has evolved over the years, many companies in the past discriminated women in managerial positions. Although many strides have been taken to improve on this many companies still suffer from this. One company that will be my main focus is Wal-Mart’s who have been taken to court because of this type of discrimination. In Wal-Mart women face many challenges, especially when been promoted into the managerial positions in the company. In Wal-Mart it is said that men are paid better than women. When looked into it was discovered that men’s wages were much better even ...