Departmental Case Studies Samples For Students

The blue spider project presents a scenario where no formal project management processes is in place. The project systems and procedures are poorly defined. In essence, the whole project management process is not clear and is generally characterized with project creep, existence of culture where blame is the order of the day, fighting between project managers and departments, and revitalization of leadership. It is evident that the project lacks clear communication lines as well as cost, poor utility, quality and problems of scheduling. There are communication problems between the functional departments. For instance, there is existence of communication breakdown between ...

Abstract

JC Penney is one of the largest retail stores in the world. It has a century long history of success. JC Penney has seen many big changes over the last 100 years in its product portfolio. However, the last effort to change it brand image went horribly wrong. It lost almost 33% of its customer base within a year, biggest in the history of retail industry. However, it has now realized that it needs to stick to its tried and tested brand image and also the operational tactics that have succeeded for the last 4 decades. Once those are in place, ...

Question 1

One of the causes of lack of effective management is that my age is an issue to some of the members of the management team. Additionally, they feel that I do not have the experience that is required for such a position. Additionally, they feel that they have already developed a comfortable working and communication relationship with their line managers, which makes them handle their duties well since they feel that their issues are directly heard at the headquarters. They seem to think that reporting through me may be inefficient and that their issues that they raise may be neglected. Furthermore, ...

Introduction:

Most organizations are divided into various departments, which have some, role to play towards the achievement of organizational goals and objectives. This, therefore, means that different departments in an organization have to work in partnership with each other for an organization to function efficiently. Many organizations also find themselves in situations where they are required to rely on the services or actions of other organizations in order to achieve some goals or objectives. However, face a lot of challenges when trying to achieve efficient interrelations. In most cases, the main cause of these challenges arises from their lack of a liaison ...

CHAPTER 17 CASE STUDY

The project team could use one laboratory manager (LM), two Health Information Management (HIM) officers, and one administrative support (AS) representative. Others include one Nurse Practitioner (NP), one Family Practice Physician (FPP), and one Physician Assistant (PA).

The departmental areas represented here include the clinical department, administrative support, health records, and laboratory.

The NP and FPP should satisfy all the academic qualifications required for their position. Thus, they should specialize in a relevant area such as family and primary care. This position requires NPs and FPPs with adequate critical thinking skills. They should have good communication skills and a passion for informatics. The idea behind such skills is the inclusion of a professional that ...

Beginning the Process of Job Redesign

I would begin by initiating an inquiry with all departmental heads. I would plan a retreat with all departmental heads to come up with a strategic plan on how to redesign the job. This is essentially a consultative approach that I believe will enable me to come up with a strategic approach that will be successful. Having noted that this model has often failed, the initial steps of this process would also include studying why this model has failed in order to avoid mistakes already made that have prevented the success of this approach. Failure to do this will result to another failed ...

Introduction

This case study focuses on the opening of new Dunkin Donut locations. Dunkin Donuts is an international donut and coffee house company with headquarters at Canton, Massachusetts. The company belongs to the food and beverage industry. The company offers baked foods such as donuts and bagels; iced beverages; hot beverages; soft drinks and frozen beverages (Rangaswamy, 2012). The management of Dunkin Donuts franchise intends to open five new stores in two years’ time. This case study presents the job design (Franchise manager, baker, accounting manager and coffee maker); organizational design; recruitment and selection procedures and the training and performance ...

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Leadership Style

The former Vice President Evelyn Gustafson had adopted a democratic style of leadership. She believed in a participating style of management and during her service tenure made several efforts to facilitate her subordinates. Her inclination was more towards female staff of the office because she herself has made progress from a lower position and reached at the apex of the organization. The democratic style of leadership has several advantages and in the modern business environment organisations tend to focus on participative style of management because it ensures goal congruence and enhances employee productivity. The consultative style of leadership provide ...

As the president of the company, the two major problems that I think are facing the company is inflexibility or rigidity in responding to market concentration issues and getting the right leadership which will propel the company based on the current business environmental conditions.

Analysis

As a matter of fact, economic factors play a crucial role in influencing effective demand for goods which is required for the production of such goods, more especially in the recent times. Regrettably, such factors are usually not within the control of our company and their impacts on marketing mix and performance of this company can be ...

Vision of a Model Research Center

Rachel’s style of leadership in ICCR is definitely a transformational one given that the research center was her idea and all other employees seem to be following her vision. One of the assumptions of this kind of leadership is that it believes that people tend to follow those who inspire them. This is evidenced in Rachel’s leadership as she even has women in her organization looking up to her as a role model. Rachel is also a transformational leader as can be seen by the fact that she believes in injecting energy and enthusiasm into ICCR; this is why she ...

Current Challenges

JC Penney is a mid-size departmental store operator that is struggling with a myriad of challenges, among them, a tough operating environment, reduced sales and financial challenges. The retail has seen increased competition with the rise of e-commerce and companies like Amazon and E-Bay. In the last ten years, for instance, JC Penney stock has lost 86% of its value, from a high of $83.43 in March 2007 to a low of $7.70 in May 2016. In May 2016, the company announced a drop in sales in the first quarter, 2016. However, the company cut down on losses, from ...

EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT

Introduction
The concept of employee engagement entails a workplace approach aimed at ensuring that employees not only remain committed to their organization’s mission, vision, and goal statements but are motivated enough to contribute significantly to organizational success (Suck et al., 2011). In the field of healthcare, employee engagement is most critical when seeking to achieve the ultimate patient experience and as well achieve the organization’s goal of providing quality, safe, evidence-based, and affordable health care (Milkovich, 2013). Therefore, this report reflects on the concept of employee engagement and how effectively it has been applied at the Florida ...

Management

Management

Introduction

Management is a key function of an organization that should be approached carefully. The case study presents the prevailing conditions within a company known as AbeBooks. There has been high employee turnover within the marketing team. Essentially, increased employee turnover implies that that is a prevailing problem that needs to be addressed in order to avoid adverse effectives of this problem. A thorough review of the case and identification of the root causes of the problem is necessary to ensure that a resolution is achieved as promptly as possible . This report addresses the prevailing issues within the company in order to provide ...

Introduction

Juintex fruits and Beverage Ltd is a company registered under the small and medium-sized Act in my country. The core objective of the company is to produce a cocktail of fruit juice from a variety of fruits in the world and also engage in marketing and distribution of fruits to the local and international consumer network. The management therefore needs to strategize on establishing a strong local market share before extending its products and services to the international market.

Structure of the company

The company will be structured into four main intra coordinating units to ensure cost-effectiveness measures are taken. The units are; the executive, Quality assessment unit, ...

Introduction

In the current world Technology has become one of the most inevitable and paramount tool in the running of day-to-day operations of business. Technology has evolved immensely to accommodate all aspects of life. Most governments in the developed countries have sensitized its citizens to adopt modern methods of technology to enhance efficiency in their places of work and reduce costs, which results from asymmetric information. For instance in our organization the management invested in internet connection which has facilitated simultaneous sharing of information across all levels of job specialization. Further, a special task force was formulated to spearhead the fast ...

Introduction

In modern management due increased competition, the pressure for efficiency and reliability has occasioned the need for organizational changes. Most of the changes are aimed at facilitating operations on a new paradigm that promises to provide efficiency and reliability. Key in this approach is the application of information technology. In the health sector, the application and functionality of the electronic health record (EHR) systems has increased. It is on this premise that the Happy Trials Health Center has committed to developing an organizational culture that is quality driven and patient oriented. This decision calls for implementation of the electronic health ...

Analysis

The chief executive officer of the company is Gill Reihana who is also the owner of the business. When he started the business, he wanted to maintain a relaxed working environment where creativity was cultivated. He employed young individuals based on how they understood his vision. This created an informal setting, which brought problems especially in the accounts department. To counter this, he employed a more professional staff with experience.

The CEO still maintained the relaxed atmosphere allowing junior staff to attend senior management meetings and encouraging sharing of information within the organisation. The senior management have different personalities and approaches ...

Human Resource Management

When it comes to Human Resource Management, things tend to get a tad bit trickier considering how the HR department’s entire job is to maintain the upkeep of the people to ensure the upkeep of the facility is being done. That being said, there are a few factors the HR department needs to consider before they can perfectly say that have done the best HR planning for the sports complex. For starters they need to make sure there are enough people doing the work and the maintenance of the facility is going as planned. Secondly, they need to ...

Introduction:

In this paper were will be covering our analysis of the BoldFlash: Cross-Functional Challenges in the Mobile Division case, written by Michael Beer and Rachel Shelton. The analysis will cover the history of the company, symptoms and problems, alternatives, and our recommendations. The given case expounds over the situation when Roger Cahill – Vice President of BoldFlash Mobile Division came across the situation where BoldFlash is struggling to adjust to a progressing and challenging marketplace. In the case study, there are four departments (marketing, sales, manufacturing, and product development) within a division that refused to work collaboratively. As a result, ...

Dat

Analyst Report: NordStorm
About the company and overview
Founded in the year 1901, Nordstorm is a fashion retailer and one of the top rated operators in the departmental store industry. The company has successfully enhanced its brand equity by developing differentiated curated products, increasing storing count and targeting niche customer base. Most recently, the company is in news for investing in omni-channel capabilities as part of which, a heavy expenditure is made on store improvement, expansion and improvement of IT infrastructure.

Competitive Advantage

a) Investment in technology
Nordstrom thrives of providing fabulous shopping experience to its customers and this has remained ...

This is an interesting case where The Candelstik company of Canada wants to strike a deal with a departmental store chain in Mexico for supply of their goods. The problem with the deal is there is a cultural difference in both the companies as they are from different counties. Even the economies are different as Canada is a developed economy whereas Mexico is a developing economy. Both the team wants the best deal for their respective companies.

In the case discussed the problems faced is to understand the cultural difference. The major difference in culture between developed economies and developing economies. Usually the ...

Business

Govindarajan and Trimble (2010), in their article ‘Apple Beats Microsoft at Change Management’, assert the importance of innovation in the growth of organizations. The article outlines common mistakes that corporations make with regards to implementing innovations and managing change. It asserts that the main reasons why corporations fail at innovation include failures at imagination and failures to execute. It further explains that the former is hardly applicable for many organizations because they have an abundance of brilliant minds to generate new ideas. According to them, failures to execute are the major reason since these organizations have intense internecine warfare ...

How do you respond to each of these perspectives?

Steve is the founder of CH but does not clearly understand the value of a mentoring program in the company. Being the founder of the company, Steve should be among the top people who should attend training and development programs. Steve is concerned with strategic growth of the organization, a position that requires frequent training and development career talks. By signing off to the program, Steve gets a chance to receive skills of how to develop new strategic growth plans different from those of competing companies. In addition, the mentoring program will enable Steve explore more into the business ventures by encouraging ...

Statement of Problem

The business organization whose analysis is presented in this case is Destin Brass Products Company that is involved in the production and sale of pumps. It is noticeable that there is stiff competition from the organization’s rivals who have been continually reducing prices on pumps therefore affecting the profitability of Destin Brass Products, as affirmed by Roland Giuidry, the President of the company. The organization does not have any unique design advantage as compared to its competitors in the industry and has forced the organization to also cut price so as to compete effectively with them (Crosson & ...

Introduction

Management involves getting things done through other people in order to achieve desired organizational goals (Witzel 2004). Management is possible through performance of certain functions by managers. These functions include planning, controlling, leading, organizing and achieving. Whether in large or small organizations, these functions are essential for managers at all times because they assist in achievement of goals. However, managerial practices differ in small medium enterprises and large enterprises because of the size and complexity of the organizations. Managers in large firms perform functions of management differently from those in small medium enterprises. The leadership styles in these two ...

Introduction

Family business ownership is a common scenario in many of the largest publicly listed firms. In a family business, one or more members within the management team are drawn from the owning family which often precipitates in several challenges. The issue of business ethics is one of the major challenges faced by family businesses yet it is a key factor in determining the performance and success in any business. The other challenges in a family owned business enterprise include conflict of interest between the family members, lack of accountability, abuse of office and authority among other challenges.
In this case study, Frank ...