Management Case Studies Samples For Students

Introduction

Health Care Management affects more than a billion people every day all around the world. Therefore, it is very important to understand how the health units function. The evaluation of the health units is based on mainly three factors-Efficiency, Effectiveness and Equity. A look at the efficiency of Hospital operations will bring to the front the factors that cause a Hospital to fail in providing proper care to its patients. Once the Hospital analyses where it is going wrong, it can adopt some best practices to improve upon its services.

Causal Factors for Health Care Management

Health Care Management is a highly competitive field, and Continue reading...

Written Strategic Audit

(For The Recalcitrant Director at Byte Products, Inc. Case)
I. Current Situation
- Current Performance
Byte has been a market leader for the past 6 years with steady annual income of 12% and a total turnover of about $265 million. Byte also has a market share of 32 percent. However, upsurge in demand has attracted entry of new firms placing its market leadership in jeopardy.

B. Strategic Posture

- Mission
- Objective
- Strategies
- Increase production capacity by constructing a new production plant that will significantly increase output in the long run.
- Maintain its market leader position and forestall additional Continue reading...

Management

Business Process Outsourcing has become a common trend among business operators at present. Considering the rate of work that is needed to be completed to host internationally renowned organizations, it has become essential for growing companies to get workers from off-shore borders. This would specifically allow them to work fully with lower costs of expenses considered. Notably though, along with such ease comes several problems that could include offshore operations or human resource management confusions. To make sure the strategies work, it is important that the administrators make use of the most comprehensive procedures available to resolve issues.
One Continue reading...

Low education level is always a challenge to Human Resource managers since managers would like to assume that the employees they hire are creative enough to handle the tasks which they give them. However, employees with low level of education will have low confidence levels with their skills. The employees will always see the other employees as threats to their existence. Employees with low level of education will always be withdrawn from the rest of the employees as they will feel out of place in an organization. As a result of this withdrawal, the employees will be less productive Continue reading...

Chip Mazey is a vice president of the group. During a meeting with him, in a working situation or social meeting, I would pinpoint a number of issues that we feel the officer needs to work on. A particular aspect that the manager needs to work on would be on how he relates with his employees. Respect for employees is a trait that is missing in Chip’s style of administration. Chip's style of administration started right after he was promoted to the vice president's position and his ego took a grip on him. The manager is so full Continue reading...

Cathay Pacific Airline Limited, which was established in 1946, is a profitable airline that has its operations globally. The company has received many awards due to its efficiency in its operations. Nonetheless, the airline has experienced some challenges in its supply chain, particularly in maintenance, services as well as repairs. Therefore, to permit firm’s maintenance, it needs a sophisticated spare parts management process in its supply chain management (Chopra & Meindl, 2013).
- What are some particular supply chain management issues for spare parts operations that Robert (manager of inventory operations) and Paul (manager of procurement of aircraft components Continue reading...

Part I

Answer 1
It is a static budget in since the planner had already set the expenses together with the expected revenues. The fees each student was to pay had already been determined and accounted for. Each student was required to pay, the estimated grants to expect and the expenses that would go to salaries, purchase of equipment and other miscellaneous expenses.

Answer 2

The total revenues for the 120 students less grants was 802,567-(50,000+10,000+5,000+10,000) =727,000. Total revenue per student727,000/120=6058.3333. The total revenue less grants for the 100 students was: 681, Continue reading...

Management Information systems

Management Information Systems

Cisco “WAAS is a technology developed by Cisco Systems that optimizes the performance of any TCP- based application operating in a wide area network environment while preserving and strengthening branch security” (Laudon). According to the Cisco WAAS sales support webpage, 80% of Fortune 100 companies have purchased WAAS.

Importance of Monsanto Connection portal

It is important to Monsanto that employees worldwide are able to use their Monsanto Connection portal with ease because Monsanto tries to ensure that it is located near its customers, many of whom are in rural areas. Furthermore, a lot of their research is conducted in tropical zones Continue reading...

Evaluate the implementation of the Denver International Airport Baggage Handling System.

The initial system was technologically advanced and would see Denver Airport become a world leader in baggage handling; however, the system that was implemented was mostly manual and a shadow of the original. The initial design had the aim of integrating concourse A, B and C into a single system but what was implemented could only support outbound flights on the united concourse only. The system was aimed at automating baggage handling in the entire airport but what was implemented was a small portion and system used more was a manual tug and trolley system. The Baggage handling system Continue reading...

How does Alfresco support a mobile business environment?

Ans. The features which are offered by Alfresco support present business environment. Now

It is no longer required to carry presentation files inside drives instead it can be stored in a

Centralized location and can be accessed from anywhere through the Internet. Moreover,
Alfresco Offers scalability, security, control at a much reduced cost when compared to the
Other cloud Solution providers. The ability to share, comprehend, learn new things were no
There Previously. As it is an open source solution every year license renewal is also not much
Of a Problem.
Why is Alfresco superior to email for supporting collaboration?
Ans. With conventional email system there is always a problem to share and send big files as
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1. According to Maslow’s hierarchy, which basic need does the Patagonia culture meet? What would it be like to work at Patagonia? What’s your assessment of the company’s work environment?
The culture at Patagonia has fulfilled the employee’s physiological, safety, and belongingness needs (Educational Psychology Interactive). As the employees are able to afford a better than basic lifestyle it suggests that physiological needs are met. The company provides its employees with job security as the turnover rate is well below the industry average in the retail sector. This indicates that the company can retain its Continue reading...

Mercy Cancer Centre is a premier community cancer treatment centre located in the ghetto of a major city. It caters for treatment and management of cancer cases for the members of the public at no cost. Hundreds of underprivileged members of the community and others from outside the locality are undergoing treatment at the centre. A number of these patients visit the centre on appointment with doctors while 30 terminally-ill people are admitted at the facility.
Mercy Cancer Centre depends entirely on well-wishers for all its financial needs. Samantha Peters, the founder, also doubles up as the executive director. Continue reading...

Management Case Study – Somebody has to be let go

Introduction
Having Health Systems (HS) or Health Service Organizations (HSOs) as clients can be tough and challenging. Often, a manager is left with the responsibility of redesigning the organization of the consulting firm based on the demands of the HS and HSO clients. Ever-changing rules and regulations such as the newly ratified Affordable Care Act (ACA) has required HSs and HSOs to have to adapt, and in turn, affect the flow of operations and the stability of consulting firms. Another common result of common changes in the HS and HSO industry would be the reduction in reimbursements as a Continue reading...

Introduction

Citrix Systems Inc. is a world market leader in networking, virtualization, and creation of cloud computing infrastructure that enables businesses and individuals to work efficiently. The company has been in operation since 1989 and has excelled in creating technology solutions that help to build, manage, and secure virtual and mobile workspaces. The company creates mobile and computer applications, networks, and data services that can be used on any device, network, or cloud.
Over twenty-five years, Citrix has actively pursued a vision of enabling consumers of information technology to live and work in a way that suits their specific needs. Continue reading...

Introduction

Silver Ship Company designs and constructs marine equipment for different companies in the marine industry. The company also repairs marine equipment including boats for other companies in the industry. This paper focuses on the company`s strategy within the workboat and military boat industry. The paper highlights a brief history of the company, the executive summary, and recommendations in the long and short terms for the company.

Brief History

In 1985, Mike McCarthy started the Silver Ships Inc after he ended his career in the fishing industry. The fishing industry offered him a chance not only to develop a successful career Continue reading...

Business- Development Strategies and the role of a Business Strategist

Q1: In order to understand the performance of an organization for which a computer based system is being designed, an analyst must • Look at only current business and document flow in the group • Converse with the top level and middle level executives only • Interview clerks, line managers and top and middle level managers who will enter data and make use of the system • Only clerical and middle level staff who carry a rich experience in the business and will be users of the system 
Q2: Information requirements of an organization can be determined by • Interviewing managers and users and Continue reading...

- Hardware specification for server and client’s compatibility
The hardware requirements specification for server and client’s compatibility will involve network adaptor which consists of hardware and software that allows communication between interface and physical network as well as operating system to communicate with the interface. PCMI card, USB or Serial devices are some of the hardware choices. The firmware and operating system driver will be needed to run card and enhance communication with the device respectively.(Wepman,2014).For 100 clients(fewer than 250 users) in this case,1 single core CPU(2.13 GHz),2Gb of RAM Continue reading...

“Human Resource”

Patagonia is one of the most attractive companies for employees to work with. The organization offers a lot to the employees, and the management has created such a working environment that every individual would love to work at Patagonia (Outside, 2011). The working environment of the company motivates the individuals to perform well. The company encourages employees to celebrate, and this helps in enhancing the motivation level of the employees.
The management encourages the participation and appreciates the efforts of the employees. Patagonia offers a complete lifestyle to the employees so that they can enjoy their work and their Continue reading...

- Individuals are important at NASA because they are the driving force. They are an important recourse because they design, build, modify, test, maintain spacecrafts and fly the spacecrafts.
- Lessons learned program involves the use of information and knowledge gained from previous projects to prevent making the same mistakes again. Also involves considering great aspects that can be used for future projects. It promotes better project management because it helps mitigate risks and also increase efficiency.
- Individual accountability in managing risks is important at NASA because it allows individuals to do their best at the part or Continue reading...

Part A

Description of the Situation
Faslane started performing poorly due to leadership and structural loopholes that allowed the management and outsiders to interact in unprofessional ways and develop rifts. The employees could not share ideas due to fear of leakages and disputes from the political class. This threatened market position for Faslane; thus, the need for change and new management arose within Faslane. Howie and Craig undertook massive changes within the institution. They aimed at extending the management levels of the institution to involve other people within the system and developing quality market relations. This paper analyzes the concepts and Continue reading...

Annotated outline for the next steps (Stage 5)

Now that Myra has approved the proposal to develop the system that has been presented, it is time to get the project manager who will manage the entire project. There is also a need to have resources assigned that will help undertake the project. There are steps which have been outlined in the presentations but they are not detailed and guiding enough. This paper will focus on the steps that will be undertaken in the project in order to go on with the development of the project to completion.

The next step for customer relationship management system

- PROPOSED TECHNOLOGY SOLUTION
- Develop a computer kiosk that Continue reading...

PART-1

Activity Based Costing:
Activity Based Costing is one of the most widely used inventory classification models otherwise known as “Always Better Control”. As per ABC categorization, things are categorized on the basis of their consumption value in a year. It recognizes the activities and distributes the cost associated with each resources and activity on the basis of the actual consumption by the products and services. Thus, ABC is a technique to quantitatively measure the performance and cost related to the activities, resources and cost objects. ABC incarcerates organizational cost for the different factors of production and other administrative expenses, Continue reading...

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 Continue reading...

Employee performance is an area, which requires adequate management. Management can enhance employee performance through training and motivation. Similarly, employee performance can be monitored through assessment. This exception report describes a situation in which the performance of some employees, to whom additional duties were delegated, surpassed management’s exceptions. Managing this situation is useful for the firm in several ways. One is that it will foster innovation among the identified employees through motivation and empowerment. Secondly, it will facilitate employee-rewarding process; the employees who have surpassed the management’s expectations will be presented with commendations for providing additional services Continue reading...

The purpose of creating a database that can maintain records of patients in any given area is so that one can find out which vaccines have been administered to the people and which vaccines still need to be given. One needs to remember that this is a particular schedule which needs to be adhered to in relation to administration of vaccines for children, as well as adults. (Missouri Community Guide State Team Final Report, 2011)
This would be an excellent initiative which would help regularize the administration of vaccines and also help curtail the spread of controllable diseases. However Continue reading...

Recently, BlackBerry had been infested by myriad of problems and managerial muddle. In fact, it was on the verge of losing its big title. It’s not until their realization of what they would lose that they considered a change in the management structure. Thorsten Heins who had been BlackBerry’s interim CEO stepped down after the foiled sale and was replace by John Chen; who has taken a new dimension and implemented policies towards the company’s success. There were many setbacks that even saw resignation of co-CEOs Mike and Lazaridis Jim Balsillie. Their resignation clearly showed faux Continue reading...

The project was to test the salinity of the water in the hotwell. On checking the salinity meter, the readings were unexpectedly high at 500ppm from the normal 0.5 to 2ppm. One possible explanation would be the failure of the meter. The problem that the team faced is that the engineer that had left did not leave any indication of the meter being faulty. This led to the team having to inspect the hotwell to find out what could have caused the problem.
On inspecting the hotwell, there was thick formation of dark sludge, which showed that the water Continue reading...

Introduction

The Krona Community Hospital, founded in 1977, is a 60-bed, acute care facility, which is situated in Banconota County. The facility presently offers a full range of care services and maintains a staff of around 400 workers, 100 physicians and specialists and several volunteers. Nouveau Health, which is a private, non-profit health care chain, has acquired the management of the Krona Hospital. The new facility will have 74 acute beds, which are entirely private, four observation rooms, a 24-hour emergency center, four surgical operating rooms, intensive care unit, and maternity department that will have one C-section room. In addition, Continue reading...

- When implementing ERP, one factor that should be considered is the scope with which it will cover. NOVA Company failed to recognize this and installed the whole system which covered everything. Defining the scope will help to understand the system and the way the business operations will be affected.
- Change management is an important aspect when implementing ERP. The resistance to implementation of SAP in NOVA during the first implementation caused it to fail. This is because people felt there would be no addition of value to the implementation.
- There is also a need to provide Continue reading...

Asthma is a chronic airway disease that is difficult to manage because of numerous risk factors and complicated by poor self-management. This is a case study of acute severe asthma triggered by viral respiratory infection and exercise in an Aboriginal female with chronic asthma. The discussion will include the diagnostic tests, patient assessment, care and interventions, medications, and nursing care performed or should have been performed. The expected outcomes will also be described.

An arterial blood gas (ABG) analysis was performed showing respiratory acidosis and mild hypoxaemia. Above normal PaCO2 and below normal pH meant the lungs could not Continue reading...

Introduction

Global business environment is placing more and more pressure on the organizational ability to address diversity in the company. The reality shows that cultural, racial and social diversity along with geographical disperse of the companies creates new and, yet, not fully explored field in Human Resource Management (HRM), Leadership and Management studies. Modern considerations on the selection and recruitment processes that call for specific cross-cultural management capabilities outline the direction in which leadership and management practices have been and will continue to evolve in the near future (Sims, 2007). Team work and leadership practices in this field are one Continue reading...

Management and Leadership Development

Introduction
Competitions among organizations are tight these days. The success or failure of the company’s market edge in the industry largely depends on the effectiveness of their respective management teams. Management effectiveness includes, but is not limited to, creativeness and the ability to think outside of the box. Resourcefulness and strategic skills are essential in determining ways to outsmart the competitors in today’s global industry. In this paper, readers would get to learn about the techniques and strategies to manage global organizations effectively. Readers will learn the competitors’ edge over one company in relation to management and Continue reading...

Internal environmental analysis

Overview of Sara Lee’s market performance and developments
Every business is driven by key objectives that it uses to evaluate the extent to which it has progressed since its inception. These key factors are Market share, profitability and value of a share. Sara Lee Corporation‘s management used these key indicators to assess its progress until they resolved to strategize its business segments to manageable sectors. (Thompson & Gamble,2010). 
Sara Lee has extended its growth over the last 70 years through acquisition of different enterprises to increase its pool of risk and projected revenue basket. Appointment of Brenda Continue reading...

Lindblom is not too pessimistic regarding the ability of the administrators to make profound ‘big’ choices that will change or reshape their external environments. Lindblom considers the administrators too afraid of making choices to the extent that they find every approach that is meant to alter their external environments insecure. This means that Lindblom considers the administrators as a hindrance to the sustainable growth of public institutions. He further considers public administrators to be incredibly limited in their scope because of the political environment that exists in both private and public administration (Stillman, 2009, p. ). Lindblom suggests that the Continue reading...

Problem Outline

Cox’s Container Company (CCC) is a medium size manufacturing company that produces both large and small containers. In the last few years, the company’s profitability has gone down due to increased competition from similar companies that have reduced CCC profit margins.
CCC needs to change its culture and structure if it is to remain profitable and therein lays the problem. The employees are not willing to implement the new changes and thus they are not cooperating. The new management team has not introduced the changes well since it has not consulted any of the employees. There has Continue reading...

Introduction:

Any business organization or industry needs an operations manager in order to run their daily operations smoothly. The operations manager for the B.B beverage company has a vital role to play. Lacking of this services, the company might not realize the standard or target results desired due to departmental confusion and uncoordinated flow of activities. The operations manager of the B.B beverage Company also has to attain some threshold requirements in order to be absorbed into the company and deliver services effectively. This position needs a personality that will keenly look at the team management roles and deliver effectively Continue reading...

Problem identified

Working in teams is an extremely important concept and requirement that can contribute to organizational development and in this case, there is lack of team work which can lead to problems in the organization (Avolio, et.al., 2009). Lack of team work can result in lack of leadership and direction for teams. The idea of team dialogue is to hunt for the best possible way and id that is the right things to do. Team dialogues tend to create a large knowledge pool due to which the dialogue and the individual participants benefit. Tiam has been presenting himself as an Continue reading...

Jane is the case management coordinator for a large public teaching hospital, and she is responsible for all case management and discharge planning for admitted patients and directs activities through a number of case managers and social workers. Therefore, in order for Jane to assist her case managers better coordinate the work of the different professional, she needs to come up with strategies that favor them this entails use of strategies like the democratic leadership, team work and the strategy of communication. Democratic leadership strategy will ensure that each member is able to contribute to the running of the Continue reading...

DILEMMA AT DEVIL’S DEN

Devils Den faces a dilemma. Susan is a finance major who works part-time at Devil’s Den, a snack bar, managed under a contract with the College Food Services (CFS). The snack bar runs two shifts; the morning shift is managed and controlled by full-time employees, while the night shift is run by students, who work under the supervision of another student, who holds the position of manager. There are approx. 30 student employees and 6 student mangers employed by CFS to supervise Devil’s Den. Student managers are previous employees chosen by other student managers, have no formal Continue reading...

Introduction

Over the years, Coca Cola has formulated a business model that has enabled it to remain amongst the most successful corporations within the beverage industry. The organization has been the global leader in the industry based on its competitive strategies that enhance the achievement of a competitive advantage. The focus of this paper is to analyze the new vending machine so as to ascertain its suitability. It will also provide recommendations of some of the possible solutions to the various problems associated with the new vending machine.

Problem Statement

The Coca Cola Company is perceived to be a corporation whose success Continue reading...