Regard Reports Samples For Students

BUSINESS MANAGEMENT AND DECISION-MAKING PROCESS: CAIFU

Executive Summary
Caifu, in an effort to maintain its growth and sustainability, looks to invest its money in a credible organization that has a sound management system and trustworthy leadership. Currently, the companies at its disposition include H&M and Next. Prior to committing any initial capital outlays to one of these companies there is a need for a very thorough analysis in relation to what choice would be lucrative to Caifu especially in the long run. As an employee affiliated to Caifu and its interests, I have been asked to come up with a management report to forward to ...

Letter of Transmittal

Richard Albert Sylvester
Management Consultant
Lamplighters Corporation
Ottawa K I P 5B5
Phone: 613-563-1509
www.lamplightres.ca
The Right Honorable Justin P.J. Trudeau

Office of the Prime Minister

80 Wellington Street

Ottawa, ON K1A 0A2

RE: Project Suitability Report on the Proposed Trans Mountain Expansion Pipeline Project
Dear Right Honorable Prime Minister,
It is with great pleasure and honor that I submit this report on the suitability of the proposed Trans Mountain Expansion pipeline project.
The Trans Mountain Expansion pipeline project proposal by Kinder Morgan aims at increasing the current capacity of the existing Trans Mountain oil pipeline. Currently, the existing infrastructure has a capacity of 300,000 barrels per ...

Introduction

Digital archiving and preservation ensures that digital content remains in a format that is usable and accessible both in the present period and in the future. In the context of an organization, digital preservation is a process that involves planning, resourcing, and actual archiving using relevant technologies and applications. In the case of an institutional repository as this university, it is necessary to have policies and regulations that would guide the digital archiving and preservation program. Such policies would serve as a guide for the program while setting out its objectives. It is therefore necessary to have an evaluation ...

Event Legacy -Contemporary Issues in Event Management

Introduction
The event industry has undergone a tremendous transformation where it has shifted from its traditional nature to being embraced by both professionals and entrepreneurs. The increase in mega international events, such as the FIFA world cup and the Olympics, has attracted different stakeholders, including event managers and other parties, to make such occasions a success. The growth of the industry has also been accompanied by an increase in the size and range of the audience. As a result, event managers are often faced with serious challenges, such as the need to leave a legacy and positively impact the ...

Food Safety codes of practice

The British Retail Consortium (BRC) is the main retailers’ trading body In the UK. BRC protects all traders irrespective of their business size. The scheme covers standards for food safety, storage and distribution, packaging and packaging materials and consumer products (Sansawat and Muliyil, 2012). The ISO EN NSAI 22000:2005 certificate owned by the Foundation for Food Safety Certification, the FSSC combines the ISO 22000 Food Safety Management Standard and Pre-Requisite Program (PRP) requirements along with some other requirements. A wide range of manufacturing companies can apply these ISO 2200 standards (Sansawat and Muliyil, 2012). The standards also cover food ...

Introduction

The advancement in computing technologies has been accompanied by increased exposure of the users to ethical violations including software threats, immorality, legal issues, confidentiality, and trust. The use of computers affects people’s decisions as well as how they make them. Computers persuade, facilitate, and enable various human cognitive processes, attitudes or processes while inhibiting and discouraging others. For example, while performing an internet search, internet search engines usually prioritize and provide information in a given order. As such, they influence what internet users see. These technological artifacts become “active mediators” because they shape people’s actions and perceptions, ...

Leader and Management Development

Introduction
Leadership forms the backbone of any organization. This is because it entails offering direction, creating a sense of purpose and defining a strategic plan for the organization. Such aspects of leadership are important in ensuring the success of an organization in the long run (Yukl, 2013). For the leadership functions mentioned above to be successfully implemented, it is critical that the individuals in leadership positions show responsibility in their day-to-day undertakings. It therefore implies that leadership development has become a primary aspect of the overall management function. Leadership development is anchored on the character and behavior of the ...

BOP Assignment

A firm’s internal and external environment affects its performance in the market. It is worth noting that there are several tools of analysis used to determine the manner in which a given organization performs in its environment. Business operations take place within an environment. The environment factors are classified into internal and external factors depending on the type and ability of the firm to control. In this case, BHS is an example of an enterprise that was bought by an investor and merged into his wider business. After a while, it was on the verge of collapse, and ...

Purpose

The objective was to remove all doubts about the treatment of multiple sclerosis not being able to work for both men and women, whose domiciles are different. Comparisons for the treatment being given in two countries were to be made, with the aim of finding the similarities of drugs used, which work and which ones do not, as well as the differences between those regimens used. Through the differences, similarities, advantages and disadvantages uncovered from drugs obtained from two countries, the project sought to give male patients suffering from multiple sclerosis the ability to make sound and informed decisions ...

Executive Summary

International growth of a company is strictly defined by the expertise of its managers in training and developing human resources abroad that can work with the organizational structure of the parent company. But training employees abroad is considerably a demanding task. This is especially because of the cross-cultural differences that will hinder most of the usual training and incentive programs that are based out of the ethics of parent corporation. It is essential that the parent corporation understand the cultural practices as well as sensitivities of the target country before venturing into business with it. This is where the ...

Executive Summary

This paper is a market entry analysis report about Arla Foods, a global dairy giant that seeks to enter the newly opened markets of Cuba. It commences by analysing the internal systems and processes of Arla Foods. The analysis identifies that Arla Foods has a strong financial position and it is owned by dairy farmers who have a strong focus on innovative products. The products are in three classes –basic, enhanced and organic. The basic is extremely cheap and might be ideal for poorer countries around the world due to the fact that it is cheap and can be ...

Introduction

MTV (Music Television) is one of the world’s most popular cable music TV channels. The network of MTV sister channels embraces a broad range of music styles, ranging from heavy metal and rap music to country and jazz. Over the period from its launching in 1981 to the mid-1990s the MTV has continuously evolved as a highly successful music, entertainment and cultural project.
Expanding to Arab market was a strategically important step for MTV due to the size of the market (22 countries), its demographics (considerable number of young people), as well as the lack of ‘windows’ to ...

Introduction about the Company

Honeywell is one of the globally leading US-based conglomerates, with earning revenue of $23.65 billion, as per 2001 available figures. It has numerous products, used in multiple areas of different industry segments and production facilities in all corners of the world. Aerospace is Honeywell’s leading industry segment where its experience of the line benefits the customers all around the world. Otherwise, Honeywell’s technology product range is quite varied. It is a leader in the manufacturing of technology products. Customers around the globe depend on Honeywell for its aerospace control technologies used in towers, houses and industry; automotive ...

1.0 Introduction
Panda is one of the most famous and successful restaurants in the US preparing and selling Chinese food. Indeed, the ultimate success of this company is an indication that there are several aspects that gears its breakthrough. A close and critical analysis conducted in regard to the business shows that some of the components studied in class have been applied in the company as discussed in section 2.0 and 3.0.
2.0 Components in Class Readings Used by Panda Express
2.1 Social Media Use
During the class readings, the essence of social media and how it affects customer ...

1.0 International Trade and Legal Issues
International trade can be described as a combination of activities conducted by either individual, corporate entities, or the government in pursuit to exchange goods and services with other countries internationally or across territories. However, for this trade to be conducted smoothly, states put in place regulatory rules and legal directives that help to control such engagements. These regulations are determined by the type of commodity to control and the nature of procedures followed in the entire business process. Importantly, these rules help the government to either prevent the entry of illegal and counterfeit ...

The Name of the University

The City
Abstract
Today, the family is one of the issues that is widely discussed among the society and sociologists, as it is the phenomenon that is very hard to define in the modern day society.
The purpose of this report is to provide the critical view on contemporary issues of the family that include, first of all, the status of traditional family types like the nuclear and extended families, and, secondly, to understand the concept of family diversity in the British society. Another purpose of this paper is to identify factors and changes that contribute or influence family ...

Vision

Our vision is to create the most compliant green car rental company in Saudi Arabia in the 21st century.
Mission
Our mission is to offer our customers the most affordable green car. Customer satisfaction is an important part, to utilize available resources to make our customers satisfied with the service they receive.

Values

Our value is to make our customers satisfied with the green car rental service we will be offering in Saudi Arabia. Our core values are honesty, integrity, transparency, respect for diversity, and care for social, economy, and the environment.

Stakeholder Relations Management Guidelines

Investigations by Liu et al. (2014) suggest the ...

Introduction

This paper entails a comprehensive response to five main questions that revolve around the responsible management of a business entity from a leadership perspective. In this regard, the responses that will be alluded to in this paper comprise of different aspects of the management of a business entity more so in relation to the leadership and management of the human capital working within an organization.
This paper will also evaluate the nature of the relationships between employees within an organization and how the management can mitigate conflicts and leverage on these relationships so as to ensure that they result ...

Part Four – Anthropology.

1. Man’s Creation.
a. Preliminary Considerations.
i. The fundamental difference between humans and angels, as Shedd states, is that “God created man male and female.” This implies that man is “incomplete if in isolation from one another.” However, angels are “sexless” which means that although they have been created with “reasonable and immortal souls” like man, they are not man or woman and are therefore, infinitely more complete than man.
1. This means that we must live at one with our alter-gender counterparts and consider each other equally as important. We are only whole humans ...

Summary of Introduction

Summary of Introduction
The Education framework provided by Baccalaureate Education for Professional Nursing prepares nurses for the professional task ahead. Its essentials’ endorsement by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing has led to changes in the health care delivery system (AACN, 1998). Nursing can cause changes to the delivery of health care services. According to Nelson, Batalden, & Godfrey (2007), a change in healthcare services is essential in enhancing the health care results. However, there is a shortage of nurses in the U.S that is expected to rise, due to the increased demand of distinctive nursing services. Therefore, nursing ...

Introduction

The term ‘social robot’ has become popular in the modern world and is almost being integrated into the modern day cultural constructs as usual. Lamers & Verbeek (2010) maintain that social technology is meant to invoke emotional attributes and to engage the human mind in a way that exceeds what is physical. Lamers & Verbeek (2010) argue that a robot is man’s effort at recreating his own self and it is with this semblance that the conceptualization of human-robot interaction has been captured. Dating back from the 18th century, inventors and scientists alike have been making numerous attempts at making ...

Background3

External Environment....4

Political Factors.4

Economic Factors..5
Social Factors....6

Technological Factors6

Internal Environment6
Critical Evaluation.7
Dutch Model Problem Solving 8
Goal-Setting Theory in the Retraining Program..11

Implementing the Retraining Program.12

Consultancy Role.13
Conclusion13
Reference List..15
Hai Di Lao Hot Pot Strategy
Background
Hai Di Lao Hot Pot is a chain of restaurants established in Cihina in 1994 and is now spread across China, South Korea, Singapore and the USA (Haidilao 2016). As the name suggests, its specialty is the Chinese Sichuan hot pot, a dish in which the ingredients are assembled together and are cooked in a hot pot at the table of the diner. The humble beginnings, ...

Discussion of Banyan Tree Green Homes Program

Banyan Tree Green Homes Program 3
Introduction 3
Concepts and Theories of Sustainability 3
Analysis of Banyan Tree Green Homes Program 5
Sustainability Motivations 6
Sustainable Business Practices 7
Benefits of Adopting Sustainable Business Practices 8
Challenges Facing Sustainable Business Practices 9
Recommendations 10
Conclusion 10

References 12

Banyan Tree Green Homes Program
Introduction
The hospitality industry is an important part of social, economic and environmental development given its role in leisure services and tourism throughout the world. Given the rapid changes observed in the industry, it is important to understand the potential threats that the various activities undertaken in hospitality ...

Issues

The Corporation is an investigative report about the wrongdoings of corporations. The issue is about all the evil that corporations do. Corporations are responsible for many problems in the world including poverty and the exploitation of people, toxic chemicals and wastes, genetic manipulated organisms, warped consumer mentality, among other things. Some of the products they produce do not serve society any good but mainly to earn corporations huge profits. Corporations—large, multinational corporations in particular—exist to earn profits for themselves.

Portrayal of Corporations

The documentary portrays corporations mainly as evil. Although the documentary is truthful and the evidences it presents can ...

Introduction

Brands have existed since ancient times, as evidenced by the fact that individuals have always used unique marks to distinguish their products from those produced by other individuals. However, the main reason for branding in ancient times was to prevent the theft of property. Despite the origins of branding, its main purpose shifted to enhancing the visibility of products as humans engaged in increased commercial activity with each other (Hampf and Lindberg-Repo, 2011, p. 1). Consequently, the concept of brand development arose. Brand development refers to the efforts taken to increase the success of a brand in the market ...

Compare and Contrast the Operational Strategies of Apple and Samsung: Growth and Integration Strategies

Introduction
Apple and Samsung are the leading companies in mobile technology across the globe. Apple is an American multinational while Samsung is a South-Korean multinational. However, the two companies have a global presence with market command across various countries. According to Dringoli, the massive presence of these companies across different global markets results from their operational strategies, which make them market giants, despite the stiff competition present in the telecommunications market (32). The following paper compares and contrasts the growth and integration strategies that Apple and Samsung employ in an effort to remain market leaders across the globe.

Apple ...

McDonalds has come to create a network in both Italy and Russia. Italy seems to have better balance of payment and government balance indices, interest rate, trade policy instruments and not needing to lose over currency rates while dealing with Eurozone importers, and even unemployment and GDP growth rates. However, unemployment and the lack of growth indicating poor economic performance and social welfare situation may advantage the brand in Russia through better low-cost labor availability and consumer reorientation on less expensive restaurant offerings. Overall, neither of the country is the ideal market for the brand, yet both have their ...

Introduction

McDonalds is one of the largest fast food chains in the world and in the world. The company was founded in 1940 in San Bernardino, California by Maurice and Richard McDonald. The company which served about 68 million people daily, was renamed McDonald Corporation when it changed ownership to Ray Croc in 1955. McDonalds runs approximately 32,000 restaurants in 117 countries and has 1.5 million employees many of whom work for the franchisees (Downie, 2015). 75% of the restaurants are run by franchisees and besides obtaining revenues from sales, the company obtains massive profits from royalties, rents and ...

Space/ Scale/ Territory

Millennium Park is a 24.5-acre park that has several venues for performance, art, architecture, sculpture, and landscape architecture. It is located centrally in Chicago’s central business district and the lakefront. The Millennium Park emerged from a dilapidated ground-level parking space and rail yard into perhaps what may be regarded as the world’s biggest “green roof,” spanning two multi-level parking spaces with a total of over 4,000 cars and one commuter rail line. In Millennium Park, space is created in various ways. For example, there is the illusion of space created through structures and activities that allow ...

Introduction

Natural resources for decades have always provided many nations with the affluent source of wealth that helps in building their economy. As such, many of the countries that majorly depend on the natural resources such as copper, oil, gold and uranium often embark on intensive mining practices to ensure their natural reserves are productive and can offer sustainability to their economies. Due to their dependency on these resources, the countries often have structures and laws that govern how they handle the resources in every stage to ensure maximization. It is important to highlight that the resources are most often ...

Introduction

The paper will review contemporary management practice involving a case study of one UK’s power and energy Services Company named Energy Co. One topic from HRO 383 curriculum that is related to the contents of the case is the company structure. The thing that relates this topic to the content of the case is the company’s leadership hierarchy that the case discusses. Therefore, the mentioned issue of staff resistance towards change results from the way the leadership of this company approaches the change process. The case study indicated the Energy Co. has been through a process of ...

Introduction

Planning is a time-consuming and tedious process that is still important in the business world. Almost all of the successful businesses in the world have managed to stay on top of their game by engaging in structured and careful planning processes. Drafting a well though-out plan reduces the likelihood of making mistakes that are potentially costly. The aviation industry, just like any other business entity, thrives through informed decision making that is executed in the form of plans. Planning for the future provides a platform for the people involved to educate themselves on the strengths and weaknesses of each ...

Mahathir bin Mohamad is a Malaysian politician, born December 20, 1925, in Alor Setar, the state capital of Kedah, north west. Mahathir was the fourth Malaysian Prime Minister from 1981 to 2003. Mahathir was the youngest of ten children of a professor of Indian origin and a Malay mother. He began a career doctor before entering politics in 1964. Climbing the ladder quickly, he became Prime Minister in July 1981 and quickly gained a reputation as a maverick. Mahathir bin Muhamad was educated in Alor Setar and the King Edward VII Medical College in Singapore. He joined the administration ...

Analysis of Multinational Companies

Analysis of Multinational Enterprise
The spread of the globalization across the world facilitates the process of the foundation of new firms and business units in different regions. With that, some companies prefer to have the supply chains approximately in every country regardless the fact that the headquarter of the company is locate din one jurisdiction. Among diversified nature of the business units, today are quite popular the multinational companies due to their competitive advantages in the market. The experts in the business environment define the multinational company as the enterprises that has the production facilities and other relevant assets ...

Abstract

This research paper is aimed at proposing or recommending different strategies using which staff members of an office could stay fit and healthy at work. It is suggested that all staff members should walk briskly and take staircases instead of elevators or lifts. However, one’s safety is important in this regard, therefore, while taking staircases one should avoid running. Similarly, instead of ordering lunch to the office, staff members may go outside in groups and visit nearby food courts to know each other. Instead of giving phone calls, staff members should visit each other workstations. It is also ...

Executive Summary 3

The Concept of Social Media Marketing (SMM) – An Introduction 4
A brief introduction of Gordmans Stores Incorporated and the manner in which its vision and mission statement has influenced its digital marketing strategy and decision-making 4

Three Key Recommendations on How Gordmans Stores Incorporated could Apply Digital Marketing Strategies and Benefit from this Concept 5

Recommended Strategy Number 1 - Social Media Marketing Approaches 5
The Passive Approach 5
The Active Approach 6
Recommended Strategy Number 2 – Reach Unique Target Market for B2B Connections 6
Recommended Strategy Number 3 – Interact Actively with Visitors and Customers to get Personal 7
Conclusion 8

References 9

Executive Summary
This paper is aimed at making simple, concise and relevant strategic recommendations using which Gordmans ...

Industry Analysis-Tesla Motors Company

Industry Analysis-Tesla Motors Company

Overview

The automobile industry is a very cyclical business. It is closely tied to the economical prices and cycles as well as other key macro factors. In comparison to the traditional segment, the alternative fuel segment has benefited heavily from the increasing prices of oil (Hoffmann & Coste-Manière, 2012). They are highly dependent on the technological or the political environment regarding supporting different government innovations and initiatives that can drive the prices of vehicles down. After almost a century of fueling vehicles using diesel and gasoline, the automobile industry is in a sharp transition towards obtaining ...

Introduction

Domestic violence is one of the most alarming subjects on the United States legal and policymaking agendas. Legally, it is defined as any form of physical or psychological violence expressed by a partner in an intimate relationship towards other partner or a family member. Thus, although the scope of this definition is somewhat volatile across the different states, a common approach taken by the courts that the violence is ‘domestic’ if is directed against a family member, a spouse or cohabitant, or other person, who permanently reside with the assailant. The overwhelming majority of domestic violence cases has substantially ...

Leadership in nursing has many facets, and can incorporate establishing a clear objective or target, organizing nursing activities effectively and providing motivation for others to achieve the organizational goals (Porter-O’Grady, 2003). On a daily basis, leadership in nursing could also require a senior nurse to coordinate the activities of the nurses on staff, as well as any support staff. The operation and efficiency of any hospital can depend on how effective it senior nurses are at managing shifts, employee morale and a host of problems and issues that can crop up on a regular basis. Thus, the management ...

Improve Bus Tracking System

Improve Bus Tracking System
The objective of this given memo is to describe the purpose of employing a tracking system in transportation to avoid sector to avoid passengers getting stranded in bus stops, get cold in ice winter-stricken station lobbies without hopes of boarding a bus in the next free minutes. The attached is the methods that prove the effectiveness of an improved bus tracking system – the global positioning system (GPS) service.
The methods for testing the service are discussed as well. How an improved bus tracking system, modern technology enables passengers to track their bus and know their ...

Introduction

Leadership is an important factor in the development of a business enterprise. Leadership becomes even more important when the business experiences growth. The growth of a business enterprise results in new and different dynamics. It is imperative that the business leader also grows in terms of philosophy and skills in order to lead the business under the new dynamics. Burke, Clarke, Barrow and Molian (2008) argue from a different perspective. They hold that during the growth of a business entity, a leader has two roles to play. Firstly, the leader needs to articulate the vision and direction of the ...

1.1 Introduction
Construction forms are necessary since they provide a detailed history of the construction process from the planning stage up to the completion stage. The contents of these documents highlight the decisions and activities that together comprised the construction process. Therefore, when properly prepared, these documents provide an accurate history of construction projects. In essence therefore, construction documents facilitate monitoring and evaluation of construction projects. In addition, they can be used as evidence when disputes and litigations arise (Hyland, 2005, p.68).
2.1 Application for payment
2.1.1 Explanation of the Form
Once in the construction phase, ...