Singapore Case Studies Samples For Students

International arbitration allows international business persons from different legal backgrounds to amicably solve their grievances. Parties to a contractual agreement or in an international relationship seek an impartial party who carries out the adjudicatory process. The resolution by the arbitrators is usually binding and carries a provision of arbitration in future contractual disputes. International Arbitration has over the last half century gained popularity because of the expeditious nature of the method. Businesses and international traders prefer international arbitration to the domestic legal process. A dispute would usually be handled under the judicial system under which the dispute occurred. Resolving the dispute ...

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- Both Delta Air Lines and Singapore Airlines use straight line method of depreciation. The formula for calculating annual straight line depreciation is

Asset value-Residual valueLife of asset (in years)

In our case we start with the asset value of $ 100 for all cases.
- For Delta Air Lines, we have three cases –
Prior to July 1, 1986, the residual value was 10% of asset value and asset life was 10 years. Hence, annual depreciation was 100 – 1010 = $9.
After April 1, 1993, the residual value was 5% of asset value and asset life was 20 ...

Brand positioning is the marketing activity of identifying a gap or opportunity, and developing a solution based on research, supporting data and segmentation. Positioning relates to strategizing in the tactical or developmental phases of carrying out an objective in attaining the organization’s goals; such as an increase in sales volume, brand recognition or target reach in advertising.
Singapore Airlines is the flag carrier in Singapore. Operating from Changi airport, it has a strong presence in South and East Asia and the Kangaroo route markets. It’s amongst the top 15 carriers in terms of passenger revenues and 10 for a number of ...

UNIQLO Marketing Research

As one of the most lucrative industries globally, fashion has attracted many companies. One such companies include UNIQLO a Japanese company located in Yamaguchi. The company offers different types of cloth brands to local Japanese people, the Asian region and other consumers globally. Singapore is one of the biggest markets for fashion wear with many companies in operation and new ones seeking on entry strategies. Considering the strategic importance of the country to UNIQLO, it is essential for the company to conduct a marketing research to establish what influences consumers decisions to purchase different fashion brands. According to Shen ( ...

Singapore International Airlines: Strategy with a Smile

Airline industry is considered global because it is characterized by the movement of services between countries, i.e. international trade, the existence of international organizations (ICAO, IATA, etc.), the availability of the natural resource potential in the countries and highly skilled workforce. In general, driving forces of globalization include a new round of scientific and technical progress; the activities of transnational corporations that operate globally and spread around the world uniform business standards; expansion of the Internet as global communications, business and entertainment environments; the activities of international economic organizations; and expansion and aggravation of global problems, forcing humanity to ...

Internationalization from Singapore to China

Introduction
Tesla is a company specializing in the manufacture of fully electric vehicles (or commonly known as EVs). Since 2004, the company has been able to shape its vision with the creative mind of entrepreneur Elon Musk. Musk is also a founder of two well-known companies such as Zip2 and Paypal, along with other business ventures. Musk is known to be a risk-taker, a quality which has served well for his success and for Tesla.
In 2008, the U.S. automotive industry has been experiencing problems in connection with electric vehicles. Its major setbacks were the occurring economic crisis, the ...

Q1 (a) Cash Flow Statement for the period 1 Jan 2015 to 31 December 2015

The missing/modified figures (as shown in yellow in the cash flow statement) are calculated as follows:
Employment income,
Keaton,
Given,
Gross Salary and Bonus= $120,000.00

Alyssa,

Given total salary and bonus=$64,800

Half paid in Aus and half in Singapore,

Thus her Salary and bonus paid in Singapore=$32,400

Employer’s CPF contribution,

Keaton- 37 % of 120,000=$44400
Alyssa- 20% of $32,400=$6480

Dividend and rental income

Dividend – Keaton-No dividend in 2015
Alyssa, $689 in 2015
Rental income
Keaton and Alyssa combined rental income for property in Singapore registered under joint tenancy agreement is $3,050 per month or $36600 for the year.

The portion of CPF and cash used for the housing installment is as mentioned below.

Total housing installment =$4099

Keaton:

Total monthly income=$10, ...

UAE Specific Trade Agreements

The UAE has become a very ineresting trading zone in the world. In order to ensure that there is peaceful and fair business practices, the UAE has employed the use of Trade agreements. The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) is the first one. Its main goal was to build on achievements made as well as make stronger the ties among its participant countries which further sort to harmonize their economic, financial, monetary policies, their commercial and industrial legislation and custom laws (Dubaided, 2016). It is applicable to the following trade zones; Bahrain; Kuwait; Oman; Qatar; Saudi Arabia; UAE.
Greater Arab ...

Asia pacific company, just like any corporate body, at the time is facing financial constraints. The economic times are hectic and therefore the company management has to ensure that the depreciating economy does not take a toll on the operations of the company. Therefore, to come up with a quick solution, the top management under the company COO holds a meeting. The meeting settles on having the company employees’ salaries being cut by 10% and get the company to improve sales by 10%. The global management committee therefore left the announcements of the new developments to John Saxon who ...

Introduction 3

Gillick Competency Principle 4
Roles and responsibilities of nurses 5
Conclusion 8

References: 10

Ethical and Legal issue
This case study focuses on a minor girl who does not want her parents to know that she is pregnant. She is contemplating terminating the pregnancy via an abortion without consulting or seeking the consent of her parents.
According to the 2010 Health Practitioner Regulation National Law (WA) Bill, a minor is a person aged less than 18 years. The client in question, Chin Lee, is a minor because she is only 15 years old. In Western Australia, minors are governed by separate ...

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The case ‘Managing Dynamic’s New Melbourne Team’ is all about understanding team development, team roles, task interdependence, groups dynamics, team effectiveness, and potential issues among team members that may arise with the passage of time. The case exhibits an example of a London-based global media agency named Dynamic, which is operating across all the major geographical locations including Europe, United States, and Asia Pacific. While perpetually expanding to Asia Pacific regions such as Singapore, India, Japan, and Taiwan; it has now chosen Shanghai as its new corporate destiny. With the aim of Chinese expansion, the ...

Introduction

The low cost carriers (LCCs) have been enjoying very fast growth in the past several years. Airlines like Ryan Air, Southwest, Lion Air and Asia have become dominant forces in their respective regions. Opportunities for growth and expansion abound especially in the light of changing consumer preferences and habits stemming from the global financial crisis. To take advantage of emerging opportunities, Air Asia needs to go public and raise funds for expansion. While its business model has so far been very successful, certain aspects of it operations and business model need to be modified for it to be able ...

Leadership and power are two factors that have brought about a lot of interesting debates, and confusion for many years. Many take power as a capacity to lead, but people that have leadership knowledge uses power as a function for leadership. Leaders have the ability to influence their followers depending on the leadership method they adopt (Hersey, Blanchard & Johnson, 2000). From the case study, Ho Ching is described as an influential leader since she assisted the Asian based company Temasek, and other Singapore’s leading companies. Ho was a Prime Minister’s wife, but she was naturally a leader and never used the ...

Overview of the Case Study

Over the years, the Singapore government had been operating on a two airline policy that had promoted efficient interaction between the government-owned Singapore airline, and its national competitor, Silvertail Airlines. For about 10 years, the duopoly worked so well until 1990 when other competitors joined the airline industry, following the airline deregulation policies adopted by the government. Consequently, the share price of Silvertail Airline Company started changing due to the friendly services such as low cost charges offered by its major competitors. This wind of change prompted a transformation in the company’s board of directors, which was replaced ...

Introduction

This paper aims at developing an employee communication plan for Consolidated Electricals based on its case study.
Employee communications plan objective
The aim of Consolidated Electricals (CE) is to deliver an employee communication plan that offers explicit, illuminating and engaging bidirectional communications. Additionally, the communication framework is intended to improve the communication between the employees and D. Emmett Shane the company’s CEO. Also, Mishra (2014) insists that internal communication helps to create transparency between the employees and management.

Employee communications plan goals and strategies

First, CE strategy will simplify the communication between the workers and Shane. Importantly, most of the employees except a few ...

Tourists Relationship with Food and Drinks

Introduction
According to Dale (2006, p.2), tourism involves activities of people travelling to take vacationsin places that are outside their typical environments. These vacations do not exceed one consecutive year. Tourism is driven by several factors such as leisure, business, or any other purpose (Dale, 2006 p.2). The definition indicates that tourists move away from their usual homes to a destination where food, drinks, and culture are different.Food and culture are strongly linked. Food choices reflect the identity of the eater (Hurh and Kim, 1998 p.72). Human beings tend to adhere to taking familiar foods and drinks because of ...

Now that Joan has to rise to the helm of the family company, she has to prepare for the task that lay ahead of her. Although the company has been running for quite some time, it still requires to be revamped in order to be on a profit-making trend. For a period of time, the sales of the company have stagnated while the cost of production has risen. This implies that there are mishaps in the company which needs addressing. Addressing the problems in the company will not only require a fresh blood and management, but also administration skills ...

Video Game Violence and its effects on children

Abstract
This was a single subject case study to evaluate the effects of video games on children. In this study, a case of 14- year- old boy was evaluated to check whether the problems he faced were the result of long- term exposure to video games. The 14- year- old boy was administered with sedatives and anticoagulants to treat deep vein thrombosis. He underwent FMRI scans, cognitive inhibition- counting test and emotional interference tests designed to see his brain activity and response to different stimulus. The FMRI scans and the results of the tests were recorded and compared with the ...

Introduction

Economics is one of those fields that have its own importance and significance in a broad nutshell. When it comes to businesses all over the world, then the name of economics is the most vital one. There are numerous things and economic indicators that have been found in the countries on that the entire productivity of an organization is dependant.
Economic indicators like low unemployment rate, high Gross Domestic Product (GDP), Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), and others are important from the viewpoint of a country in particular. Economic growth and development are some of the major things from the standpoint ...

Business

1. What are the underlying forces that led to K&S’s desire to make changes to its current supply chain network?
Cheap labor and raw materials were the defining forces that led to K&S’s move to Singapore. Even though Israel site held 50% of the worldwide market share of bonding tools, the shift in the electronic manufacturing industry to Asia and other Pacific Rim countries meant that K&S would enhance their business and profitability of they also moved a part of their operations to that region. There is a definite shift in the way businesses are conducted by Small ...

Medical technology has increased rapidly in the past few decades and it is now a challenge for the human beings to understand and evaluate it realistically. Medicalization is to understand and treat a medical problem or a disorder, and it follows a theory that some miracles happen because of the medicine. Elizabeth Grosz in her article “Intolerable Ambiguity: Freaks as/at the Limit” refers Siamese twins as freaks who are sufferers of social ostracism. Medicalization is clearly depicted in the article with an example of Siamese twins, who were examined by various doctors to separate them, and finally they decided not to separate them ...

The industry has also embarked in massive airline partnerships in their sale of tickets to enable easier provision of services to over wide distances as they collaborate with various other airlines to cover more travelling distances. This makes it easier for the constantly increasing number of travelers to have their needs catered for.
Since the airline’s image had taken a beating due to the culture prevailing in the organization, particularly among pilots, the carrier decided to go in for a revamp of its HR policies, according to experts. As a first step, the airline brought about a change in management. Chen ...

Introduction

The case study is of a minor young girl who does not want her parents to know that she has become pregnant. She is considering an abortion and has already decided that whatever be her medical condition, she would provide consent on her own without any consultation with her parents.
According to the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law (WA) Bill 2010, a minor is a person who is less than 18 years. The client in question, Chin Lee is a minor since she is only 15 years old. However, there are separate rules and regulations for minors living in Western Australia. In ...

Employees are a fundamental asset to any organization. Good working relationships among staff working on a project ensure that the project’s goals are achieved in a timely and cost-effective manner. The poor working relationships between Germans and French working in the development of Airbus A380 for Singapore Airlines led to massive over- runs and losses for the company.

Airbus delayed the delivery of A380-the world’s biggest passenger jet to Singapore Airlines by two years and incurred a cost-overrun of $6.8 billion above the set budget (Mickeals, 2007). This situation created havoc at Airbus. The problems facing Airbus emanated from communication breakdown ...

Terra Firma Company has continually been dependent on information technology to carry out its business operation. The information system being used by the company has however continually a number of disruptions and network crash regarding the system inefficiencies and failure. The Company seeks to undertake further investments on information technology to ensure smooth company operation through incorporation of new information systems. The transition from the old to new information system includes the incorporation of Customer Relationship Management and Remote Permanent Technical Support systems. The transition plan outlines steps of implementation, strategy identification and establishment of a time line for the relevant ...

Abstract
Shelter is one of the basic human necessities. Provision of decent-quality and affordable housing is one challenge that various authorities have been faced with, and Sheffield is not left behind. Though she has surpassed her average annual housing needs, Sheffield is still struggling to mitigate housing problems. This research project reviews the use of Geographic Information System (GIS) in Sheffield’s housing and how education level affects the adoption of GIS in affordable housing initiatives. In order to achieve this objective, the current state of Sheffield’s housing is exhaustively considered. Using the boundary data from EDINA ...

Summary

There is a rapid change in the telecommunications world brought about by new technologies like broadband and wireless Internet access that make possible video telephone connections and high speed data transmission. The demand for telephone call increases and various countries are taking advantage of the market opportunities. The end result is the globalization of the telecommunication industry as alliances and joint venture partnerships are formed. France Telecom, Deutsche Telekom, and Sprint created Global One to bring international telecommunications services to multinational companies. This was however marked by some limitations in the initial stage including high start-up costs and language barriers. ...

Check Your Understanding

1. Branding is endowing products and services with the power of a brand.
2.Brand elements are those trademarked devices that serve to identify and differentiate the brand.
3.Positioning is the act of designing the company's offering and image to occupy a distinctive place in the mind of the target market.
4. In a growth-slump-maturity pattern of the product life cycle, sales grow rapidly when the product is first introduced and then fall to a "petrified" level.
5. Firms that serve small markets not being served by larger firms are known as market nichers.
6. A flank attack can ...