Recognise the changing nature of the role and use of job descriptions and person specifications when using job design strategy.

Within your current or previous organization, identify and discuss any form of bias and provide what you think could be a remedy.

The following data resulted from a study taken on a horizontal milling machine:

Pieces produced per cycle: 8.

Average measured cycle time: 8.36 minutes.

Average measured effort time per cycle: 4.62 minutes.

Average rapid traverse time: 0.08 minutes.

Average cutting time power feed: 3.66 minutes.

Performance rating: 115 percent.

Allowance (machine time): 10 percent.

Allowance (manual time): 15 percent.

The operator works on the job a full eight-hour day and produces 380 pieces. How many standard hours does the operator earn? What is her efficiency for the eight-hour day?

An analyst has estimated that there will be an 84% learning curve for an assembly operation. The first assembly takes 48 minutes and the standard time is set at 6 minutes. a. How long will it take the operator to reach the standard time? b. Unfortunately, the operator falls ill after the first week on the new assembly operation and returns after one week. What will be the estimated time for the operator to reach standard time now?

Covid-19 lockdown: Indian rice exports suspended on supply chain disruption
Reuters

Last updated on April 6, 2020 at 07.21 am
Indian rice traders have stopped signing new export contracts amid the nationwide lockdown to curb the spread of coronavirus, as labour shortages and logistics disruptions have hampered the delivery of even existing contracts, industry officials said.
The halt in exports from the world's biggest exporter is allowing rival countries such as Thailand to raise shipments in the short term and lift global prices, forcing millions of poor consumers in Africa to pay higher prices.

"Shipments have stalled as transport has become very difficult because of the lockdown. Drivers are not coming and labour is not available at mills and ports," said B.V. Krishna Rao, president of the Rice Exporters Association (REA).

Indian traders have stopped offering quotes to overseas buyers as they are not sure when they would be able to ship their cargoes, four top exporters told Reuters.

India's export volumes have fallen by four to five times, said Prem Garg, chairman of the Lal Mahal Group, which exports rice to more than 44 countries.

India will gradually pull out of a three-week lockdown in phases, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said.

About 400,000 tonnes of non-basmati rice and 100,000 tonnes of basmati rice, meant for March-April delivery, are either stuck at ports or in the pipeline due to the lockdown, exporters said.

New Delhi mainly exports non-basmati rice to Bangladesh, Nepal, Benin and Senegal, and premium basmati rice to Iran, Saudi Arabia and Iraq.

As Cambodia, Vietnam and Myanmar curbed their rice exports, demand for Indian rice surged, but traders are not signing new contracts, said Nitin Gupta, vice president of trader Olam India's rice business.

Thailand, the only key exporter to offer rice currently, has seen its export prices soared to their highest in seven years this week.

Before the lockdown, India was offering 5% broken parboiled variety   at around $365 per tonne free-on-board basis. Thailand is now been offering the same grade at around $540 per tonne.

"After the lockdown, there will be a huge demand for Indian rice, as India is in a sweet spot in terms of offering competitive prices," said Olam's Gupta.

Since India has vast surplus stocks, it could start cashing in on demand once labour shortages ease, said REA's Rao.

India's rice exports in 2019 fell 18.1% from a year earlier to 9.87 million tonnes, the lowest in eight years, as demand moderated from key Asian and African buyers.

India is likely to produce 117.47 million tonnes of rice in 2019/20 against an annual consumption of about 100 million tonnes, with state inventories at 31 million tonnes. If the lockdown is extended, or the pandemic spreads among key buying nations, denting demand, India's rice industry could suffer major losses, said large exporter Vijay Sethia.

Question 5:

While using real data, discuss what factors can explain why India exports two different of rice to two different market?

1. Explain Strategic Management as defined by Mathur and Kenyon (2001)
2. Briefly explained how it can impact on performance whilst at the same time be helpful for the leaders to gain better performance. Use an example of your own to illustrate your answer.

A private lab introduced a generic medicinal product to reduce or eliminate coughs and cols. Explain how the Porter’s five forces model to can be used to analyse the firm’s competitive position.

Write about Kit Kat

Word count 1000-1500 words and reference

0. Questions:

   1. Media Strategy: Identify the Brand’s media strategy differentiating between Paid, Own and Earned media.

   2. Media Reach and Frequency: Explain how your Brand intends to optimize its Media Reach.

   3. Media Coverage: Explain the geographic coverage used by your Brand.

   4. Media Efficiency: Based on your research of the Brand, do you think they are achieving an efficient CPM/GRP outcome?

   5. Reputation Management: Perform secondary research online to identify positive and negative reputation issues that your brand may have.

Covid-19 lockdown: Indian rice exports suspended on supply chain disruption
Reuters

Last updated on April 6, 2020 at 07.21 am
Indian rice traders have stopped signing new export contracts amid the nationwide lockdown to curb the spread of coronavirus, as labour shortages and logistics disruptions have hampered the delivery of even existing contracts, industry officials said.
The halt in exports from the world's biggest exporter is allowing rival countries such as Thailand to raise shipments in the short term and lift global prices, forcing millions of poor consumers in Africa to pay higher prices.

"Shipments have stalled as transport has become very difficult because of the lockdown. Drivers are not coming and labour is not available at mills and ports," said B.V. Krishna Rao, president of the Rice Exporters Association (REA).

Indian traders have stopped offering quotes to overseas buyers as they are not sure when they would be able to ship their cargoes, four top exporters told Reuters.

India's export volumes have fallen by four to five times, said Prem Garg, chairman of the Lal Mahal Group, which exports rice to more than 44 countries.

India will gradually pull out of a three-week lockdown in phases, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said.

About 400,000 tonnes of non-basmati rice and 100,000 tonnes of basmati rice, meant for March-April delivery, are either stuck at ports or in the pipeline due to the lockdown, exporters said.

New Delhi mainly exports non-basmati rice to Bangladesh, Nepal, Benin and Senegal, and premium basmati rice to Iran, Saudi Arabia and Iraq.

As Cambodia, Vietnam and Myanmar curbed their rice exports, demand for Indian rice surged, but traders are not signing new contracts, said Nitin Gupta, vice president of trader Olam India's rice business.

Thailand, the only key exporter to offer rice currently, has seen its export prices soared to their highest in seven years this week.

Before the lockdown, India was offering 5% broken parboiled variety at around $365 per tonne free-on-board basis. Thailand is now been offering the same grade at around $540 per tonne.

"After the lockdown, there will be a huge demand for Indian rice, as India is in a sweet spot in terms of offering competitive prices," said Olam's Gupta.

Since India has vast surplus stocks, it could start cashing in on demand once labour shortages ease, said REA's Rao.

India's rice exports in 2019 fell 18.1% from a year earlier to 9.87 million tonnes, the lowest in eight years, as demand moderated from key Asian and African buyers.

India is likely to produce 117.47 million tonnes of rice in 2019/20 against an annual consumption of about 100 million tonnes, with state inventories at 31 million tonnes. If the lockdown is extended, or the pandemic spreads among key buying nations, denting demand, India's rice industry could suffer major losses, said large exporter Vijay Sethia.

Question 2:

What types of international business risks, you could imply from your reading of this article; discuss them?

Question :3
How companies can deal with these risks now and in future?

Define sustainable marketing and discuss its social criticism.

I am about to start my undergraduate thesis, I need an interesting topic related to Marketing and internet. Describe how the content and abstract would be. And how will be the research method to accomplish? and some recommendations if it is possible

Hilton Hotel Vs Mariott Hotel

Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc. (Hilton), a global class hotel operating out of 113 countries and
territories as of 2018, had a portfolio of 16 world class brands consisting of 5,000 properties. The
debate continues on whether Hilton can survive and thrive in the new age of travel and the
growing trend of e-commerce in the world. Hilton was able to differentiate itself from other
global hotels because of its unique employee centric HR practices like their recruitment, on
boarding, and training processes.
The leadership at Hilton believed in attracting, hiring, and retaining employees. This made
business sense because these employees would service their guests better. Over the years, the
company created a culture of high engagement of employees who went out of their way to
delight customers. Hilton employed a truly diverse workforce across a variety of positions in its
hierarchical structure ranging from valet to cleaning personnel, restaurant servers, concierge
providers, and managers which were recruited using global recruiters who were able to recruit a
large number of talented employees. The management kept its focus on the human aspect in
order to become profitable. The hotel was successful because it gave each its employee a special
work culture about caring for each other. The management felt that its continued focus on HR
policies and practices had acted as a competitive advantage for them...
Marriott, a hospitality giant, had a huge association with social media which generated a huge
response from its followers. Using a team structure and empowered self-managed teams,
Marriott was able to respond to global changes and to increase its flexibility by attracting on line
customers.

The Facebook page of Marriott attracted 1,874,121 likes and 4,041,532 visits while its Twitter
account was followed by 171,842 people as on March 2015. Its major move into gamification
came when it introduced a game on Facebook in 2011 for recruiting people, a game called ‘My
Marriott Hotel' as part of its recruitment gamification strategy on its Facebook jobs and careers
page. Mariott had earlier released a game named ‘Xplor' which gave players a virtual experience
of touring five gateway cities and solving challenges which led to their earning rewards that
could be redeemed against their stay in Marriott hotels. The company also tried its hand at
different apps like ‘Red Coat Direct', ‘Workspace on Demand', and ‘The Perfect Travel
Companion' in order to provide fast and convenient services at the customer's fingertips. Players
were then directed to Marriott's official recruiting page where they could submit their resumes
for a suitable position.

1-What HR Practice helped Hilton Hotel overcome the Globalization challenge?
2- How is Hilton hotel differentiating itself globally?
3-In your opinion, which hotel is applying a prospector strategy and why?
4-Clearly identify the recruitment sources used by Hilton hotel and Marriott hotel and why in
your opinion they are using them?

1. Discuss the benefits and disadvantages of using a 3rd party to sell your product versus a company’s own sales force.

Covid-19 lockdown: Indian rice exports suspended on supply chain disruption
Reuters

Last updated on April 6, 2020 at 07.21 am
Indian rice traders have stopped signing new export contracts amid the nationwide lockdown to curb the spread of coronavirus, as labour shortages and logistics disruptions have hampered the delivery of even existing contracts, industry officials said.
The halt in exports from the world's biggest exporter is allowing rival countries such as Thailand to raise shipments in the short term and lift global prices, forcing millions of poor consumers in Africa to pay higher prices.

"Shipments have stalled as transport has become very difficult because of the lockdown. Drivers are not coming and labour is not available at mills and ports," said B.V. Krishna Rao, president of the Rice Exporters Association (REA).

Indian traders have stopped offering quotes to overseas buyers as they are not sure when they would be able to ship their cargoes, four top exporters told Reuters.

India's export volumes have fallen by four to five times, said Prem Garg, chairman of the Lal Mahal Group, which exports rice to more than 44 countries.

India will gradually pull out of a three-week lockdown in phases, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said.

About 400,000 tonnes of non-basmati rice and 100,000 tonnes of basmati rice, meant for March-April delivery, are either stuck at ports or in the pipeline due to the lockdown, exporters said.

New Delhi mainly exports non-basmati rice to Bangladesh, Nepal, Benin and Senegal, and premium basmati rice to Iran, Saudi Arabia and Iraq.

As Cambodia, Vietnam and Myanmar curbed their rice exports, demand for Indian rice surged, but traders are not signing new contracts, said Nitin Gupta, vice president of trader Olam India's rice business.

Thailand, the only key exporter to offer rice currently, has seen its export prices soared to their highest in seven years this week.

Before the lockdown, India was offering 5% broken parboiled variety   at around $365 per tonne free-on-board basis. Thailand is now been offering the same grade at around $540 per tonne.

"After the lockdown, there will be a huge demand for Indian rice, as India is in a sweet spot in terms of offering competitive prices," said Olam's Gupta.

Since India has vast surplus stocks, it could start cashing in on demand once labour shortages ease, said REA's Rao.

India's rice exports in 2019 fell 18.1% from a year earlier to 9.87 million tonnes, the lowest in eight years, as demand moderated from key Asian and African buyers.

India is likely to produce 117.47 million tonnes of rice in 2019/20 against an annual consumption of about 100 million tonnes, with state inventories at 31 million tonnes. If the lockdown is extended, or the pandemic spreads among key buying nations, denting demand, India's rice industry could suffer major losses, said large exporter Vijay Sethia.

Question 1 :
What types of international business risks, you could imply from your reading of this article; discuss them?

How might the plan be adapted for the three different audiences? Or do you believe that it is better to simply have one business plan that serves all audiences?