1. Types of Company training?

2. What is career planning all about?

3. Which are the main components of an employee's job satisfaction?

After graduating with a degree in International Business in his home city (Calgary), George found a job in a Canadian subsidiary of a Swedish multinational that has many subsidiaries around the world.

In this case, George could be considered as

In Ch. 16, we explore the idea of strong and weak cultures. Do we want a strong culture in business? Why or why not?

Eric received an email from Amazon Customer Service that said "Thank you for contacting us." But Eric did not contact them. Instead, an attacker had contacted them and pretended to be Eric. When Amazon Customer Service asked the attacker to identify himself all he had to do was give Eric’s name, email address, and mailing address—which the attacker got from Whois, which contains Eric’s registration information for his website. However, Eric knew to protect his actual mailing address so the registration information on Whois was actually a hotel close to Eric’s house. Because the information matched what was on file, Customer Service told the attacker the mailing address of Eric’s order, which was his real home address. Eric contacted Amazon, found out these details, and told them not to release any of his information to anyone who contacted Customer Service, to which Amazon agreed. Fast forward two months. Eric again received another "Thank you for contacting us" email. After contacting Amazon again, he found that this time the attacker had tried to get the last four digits of Eric’s credit card number on file through more social engineering tricks.

Fortunately, this time Amazon did not surrender that specific piece of information (although they had ignored his previous instruction not to give out any information). Had they provided the credit card number the attacker would have had enough information to pass the "I’m-the-real- Eric" test on almost any of Eric’s online accounts (using his name, email address, mailing address, and last four digits of his credit card) and trick their Customer Service into resetting Eric’s password. This would then allow the attacker to get into Eric’s online accounts and purchase a virtually unlimited number of items charged to Eric’s credit card. What went wrong? Should the first Amazon Customer Service representative have been reprimanded? What policies should Amazon have had in place to prevent this? What technologies should there be in place to prevent this? As a customer, what should you do to protect your online accounts?

Write a one-page paper on your analysis.

Read the following scenario and answer the question in 5–10 sentences.

You are a real estate broker and the owner of a real estate investment company. Due to a deal that went wrong, you were sued and are now facing a personal money judgment. The amount of the judgment is so large that you will never be able to pay it off. Bankruptcy is looking like your best option. You review your current books and find several open escrow accounts pending to close anywhere from next week to six months from now. How will your potential earnings being held in the escrow accounts be included in your bankruptcy filing?

Topic 1: Gift-giving in the United Arab Emirates

Introduce the topic in general terms and give the reader an incentive to read more. Try to attract attention to why this topic is important for the reader.

200 words

1. Courtney Newell, manager of the Silver Park Hotel, is considering how to restructure the front desk to improve guest service during the peak check-in hours of 3:00 to 5:00 p.m.  At present, the hotel has 5 clerks on duty each with a separate waiting line.

Courtney is considering two plans for reducing the guest’s waiting time. The first proposal would be to implement a single waiting line in which guests would be served by whichever of the 5 clerks becomes available first.  Observations of arrivals during the peak check-in time show that a guest arrives on average every 40 seconds.  It takes an average of 3 minutes for the front-desk clerk to register each guest.

The second proposal would designate one employee as a “quick-service” clerk for guests registering under corporate accounts, a market segment that comprises about 30% of Silver Park’s guests.  Since these guests would be pre-registered, it would take an average of only 0.5 minutes for the front-desk clerk to register them.  Under this plan, the non-corporate guests would form a single line and proceed to the first available of the 4 remaining clerks.  The average time for registering a non-corporate guest is 3.4 minutes.

Which proposal should Courtney implement?  Provide appropriate quantitative evidence to support your recommendation.

GLOBAL MACROTRENDS AND THEIR IMPACT ON SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT

How does shaping demand differ from anticipating demand? Who can shape demand, and how is it accomplished?

(3-4 paragraphs please) (4-5 sentences each)

what are some barriers to advancement opportunities for women and minorities in many organizations

The topic for the paper I need assistance on is the long term effects of the coronavirus on business and society.

A large number of businesses have closed, unemployment claims have risen to an all-time high, the US stock markets have tumbled in a manner not seen since the great depression, and all this is happening just a few months after we saw the economy achieve a series of all-time low unemployment records for different groups along with all-time high stock market averages.

With all these things in mind, my assignment is to select an industry that is of interest to you and then write a short essay on the changes that you believe will take place in that industry, its firms, the operating procedures of firms and possibly also in available jobs and job requirements. I was thinking small restaurant business industry,

I need assistance with this 500-word essay. Thank you!

What are the examples of project failures in the world? Why the projects fail?

What conflict may arise in the project?

PLEASE READ AND ANSWER

CASE #3 TATA'S TIME(STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT IN ACTION SIXTH EDITION)

It holds the number 6 spot on the list of the world's most admired companies in the steel industry. The Tata Group, based in Mumbai, India, is the largest conglomerate in that country. Its lat­est revenues are estimated at $67.4 billion, of which 61 percent is from business outside India. Tata has more than 100 operating companies in seven main business groups doing business in 80 countries: chemicals, information systems and communications, consumer products, energy, engineering, materials, and services. Its two largest businesses are Tata Steel and Tata Motors. Its Tata Tea, which owns the valued Tetley brand, also is one of the larg­est tea producers in the world. Ratan Tata, Tata Group's chairper­ son, has forged a strategy that encompasses the globe. In 1999, he issued a "clarion call to push outside India with acquisitions and exports." One of the company's executive directors recalled, "We didn't know what to expect, to be honest."

Today, Tata controls many businesses ranging from Eight O'clock Coffee Co. in the United Sates to the Taj Group of hotels, which took over management of the landmark Pierre Hotel on Central Park in New York City. Tata made its boldest global strategic push, however, in October 2006 when Tata Steel formally proposed buying British steelmaker Corus Group PLC for about $8 billion USD. Corus, which was formed by a merger of British Steel and Hoogovens, was three times the size of Tata Steel. The buyout offer soon turned into a bidding war when Tata Group discovered another company, Companhia Siderùrgica, Nacional of Brazil (CSN), was also preparing a bid and therefore upped its opening offer to $9.2 billion; CSN then raised the stakes by offering to pay $9.6 billion. A Tata Group spokesman said that the company's attempt to acquire Corus was "based on a compelling strategic rationale." Ratan Tata explained further by saying, "The revised terms deliver substantial additional value to Corus shareholders." The increased takeover bid did not impress investors as the company's share price fell 6 percent after the news was announced. Analysts and investors both "expressed concern that Tata is overpricing Corus, whose operating costs are among the highest of any steel maker—something that would affect its profitability and its plans to expand in India." However, Ratan Tata knew that the acquisition could catapult Tata Steel from its mid-50s ranking in the global steel list to the sixth-largest industry competitor. He said, "Analysts were taking a short-term, harsh view of the deal. Hopefully, the market will look back and say it was the right move." By the end of JanuaQi 2007, the U.K. Takeover Panel called an auction in order to end the bidding war and "presided over the contest that started on Tuesday, January 30." The "contest" continued for several hours until CSN pulled out. Tata Steel won its coveted prize for $12.2 billion—a 22 percent premium over what it had originally offered. That acquisition represented the latest consolidation in the global steel industry. The combined Tata-Corus can produce 25 million tons of steel a year. The deal also represented the largest foreign acquisition by an Indian company and made the diversified Tata Group the largest company in India.

In 2008, Tata made an even bigger global splash, at least in terms of recognized consumer brand names. It acquired the Land Rover and Jaguar brands from Ford for an estimated $2.3 billion.

Tata's leaders believe the group "can survive on the world stage only by being both too big to beat and too good to fail." In December 2012, when Chairman Ratan Tata steps down, Cyrus Mistry will take over as chairman of Tata Group and he "faces the daunting challenge of steering a giant, increasingly multinational conglomerate of more than 100 companies through economic headwinds at home and abroad."

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS

4. Do some research on the Tata Group [wvvw.tata.com]. What is its purpose? How would its core values Influence strategic choices? Does its international strategy approach seem to be working?

5. Do you think an international conglomerate would be more difficult or less difficult to strategically manage than a more focused company? Discuss.

6. What Implications does the statement about "surviving on the world stage" have for the future strategies pursued by the Tata Group?

THANK YOU!

Using Coca-Cola Company as your model, prepare a global marketing strategy for another soft drink bottling company of your choice to compete and win against Coke.

Support your arguments with at least four (4) scholarly research journal articles, cited in correct APA format style.

Take an example of one leader in the world (corporate or otherwise) that played a key role in managing a change effort. Explain in detail How did the leader play his / her role in the different phases of the change project? Use the discussion and learning from the course to answer this question thoughtfully and completely.

Note: The answer should be minimum of 15 lines.