Toys Reports Samples For Students

Report on Lego’s Strategic Risk Management

Lego is among the most reputable toy manufacturing companies globally. Ole Kirk Christiansen started Lego in the mid-20th century. It deals in wooden toys, plastic toys, board games, blocks and theme parks. Moreover, the company has a reputable risk management strategy.
Lego’s risk management director says to achieve a renowned risk management status; he enjoyed complete support from the company’s management in terms of tools and processes. Lego approaches to risk management employ a triple effort targeting three things. On definition, Lego has a process based on scenarios that they project risks and formulate counter-management processes based on extrapolations.
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Introduction

Mattel Toy Company was established in 1945 by Elliot Handler and Harold Matson and had its headquarters in El Segundo, California. Mattel Company is a distinguished global leader in the manufacture, design, and marketing of a variety of toy products. The Toy Company’s products are organized into three distinct business groups. Namely: the Mattel boys and girls brands, the Fisher- price brands and the American girl brands. The Mattel boys and girls brand comprises of Barbie dolls and accessories, Polly pocket, Batman, Superman and the hot wheels. In addition, the Fisher-price brand also consists of the little people, power wheels ...

Executive Summary

The research project is about investigating the best educative Toy for the Ages 1-3. It is sponsored by Martin Chuo. The committee under its implementation is Mississauga Education Committee. Mississauga day care is an institution that deals with children under the age of three years. However, the children must be more than one year. The head of the institution brought on board the position that, the best toys to be investigated. The reason behind his directive was the fact that he purposed to impact substantively on children that were brought to his institution. The drive behind the research followed ...

Introduction

Manasseh, a 2 year 2 months old child with an approximate weight of 25 pounds and an average height of 36 inches, looked shy and reserved at the daycare centre. This was evident from the hesitation he showed in mingling with other children. Despite this behavior, Manasseh was quite enthusiastic about exploring his surrounding as he was frequently seen wandering around at a slow pace. Such an actively developing response is usual for a 2 year old kid regardless of his limited social interest in fostering play or contact with other children.

Physical Development

Gross Motor Skills
Although Manasseh was able to walk ...

I used to think that an adult shop is a haven for sexually promiscuous people and sex-starved perverts. Being raised in a family with strong Christian values, the idea of going to such place would be a big shame. My friend Patty has visited these shops more than once and talked about her experience. Her story was quite intriguing and to my surprise, I became so curios of what’s lurking inside these scary shops. When she suggested that I should go with her on her next visit, I decided to go and check it out. Walking into the shop, I felt so ...

MEMO

The manager of the Quality Assurance Department has brought to my attention a fault in one of our toys. A routine test revealed traces of lead in the whistles, which are part of the elementary package, destined for shipment at the end of the week. This is an issue of considerable concern because of the potential risks it presents to our target users and the cost implications of altering the shipment plans.

The memo from the Quality assurance manager revealed that there were traces of lead in the metallic whistles, which were above the allowable levels in the USA for ...

Report

It has been more that fifty years since Barbie was created and over that time she has become one of the most top selling toys worldwide (Griffin). And nobody could have predicted the success a simple plastic doll has achieved. At this point you can hardly find a person who has never heard of Barbie. The doll is known and sold worldwide and that makes her probably one of the most popular trends of all time. It was the first doll with an adult body. And it is her body image that has been causing a great number of contradictions and debates. ...

INDIVIDUAL REPORT ON ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS OF A BRAND

Individual Report on Environmental Analysis of a Brand
Introduction
Hamleys has been in existence for over two centuries, and the company prides itself on the fact that it has stood the test of time. The future of Hamleys looks bright only if the company addresses the business analysis aspect. Business analysis is a valuable tool in assessing any given business type. The results obtained at the end of a given analysis are useful in determining a lot of information that are necessary for the business. Some of the emerging topics addressed by business analysis with regards to the outcome ...

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Executive Summary
Websites play a major role of providing information about individuals, business, non-profit organizations, and governments. A website is the easiest way that people, businesses, governments, and non-profit organizations use to post their information to attract customers. Additionally, people, businesses, governments, and non-profit organizations use websites as advertising platforms to showcase their products to their potential clients. Most people access websites by connecting them to an internet source. In general, websites serve different purposes namely entertainment, information, and educational purposes. The huge amounts of data available and the various applications of websites make them important instruments in different ...

Introduction

Ethics are very vital to the smooth running and maintenance of a great image of a company to the customers and other stakeholders. This means that ethics have to be incorporated into the culture and running of an organization so as to improve the relationship between various interested parties in the company. The involvement of ethics, therefore, guarantees the connection of the employees to each other, the company to the customers and the larger society. This means that the absence or a lapse in the ethics of the organization can lead chaos in the general running of the organization.
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Research paper: Communication, Gender, Race and Ethnicity: Managing Diversity in Contemporary Organizations

Introduction
Communication is an integral part of any organization. The need to pass clear and concise information between people is imperative as it allows individuals to coordinate and work together effectively for the benefit of the organization. An organization with an evident that observes the various aspects of communication will without a doubt be successful in its endeavors while that which ignores the elements of organizational communication is bound to fail. Organizational communication in the simplest form is defined by first understanding the meanings of the terms organization and the term communication. The term organization refers to persons who ...

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Hamleys, a flagship store located in London, is the personification of success when looking at business. The company is named after its originator, William Hamley, who in 1760 founded a toy shop. Over its long history, Hamleys has changed ownership a number of times due to innumerable of reasons, the very latest being by a toy retailer located in France. This paper will analyze the change in business environment for Hamleys in the last decade using the three sigma theory of business models. Special attention will be given to human resource development and management as well as the financial function at Hamleys. Finally, ...

Introduction

Lego is an international toy brand, having selling points all across the globe, in almost 12 dozen states of the world. The brand is known for the plastic building blocks which are used for making toys of the desired shape and form
Lego is an international, company with head office in Bullind, Denmark. The company started in the early 1930’s and has been making progress by leaps and bounds since then. Currently, according to a global survey held in 2012, Lego is the world’s third largest toy selling company. Lego has been making the environment friendly toys ...

Introduction

Every sphere of the corporate world has seen the integration through Merger and Acquisition. Merger and Acquisition (M&A) usually take place when two or more corporate entities join together their operations, either in part or full. The factors which play a large role behind such an activity include the relative size of the participating companies, their collective share in the market of operation, the ownership and control of individual partner after the combining of the business.

Merger and Acquisitions in Entertainment and Media Industry

As already mentioned before, Merger and Acquisition, are widely occurring phenomenon, encompassing every sphere of corporate activity. Thus, the field of Media and entertainment ...

Introduction

The strategy is the purpose and direction an organization takes to get to its future and achieve long-term goals. It involves motivating trustees in the organization to engage meaningfully with the external environment. The organization, thus, matches its diverse capabilities with the needs of the stakeholders. An organization and in this case the MacDonald has a strategy that determines how the business relates to the outside world. It also determines how the organization will take every opportunity to innovate, improvise as well as make improvements. MacDonald should have a strategy that concentrates on priorities, making sure that the organization’ ...

The holiday plays a role in the process of socialization of the person, the perception of his role and relationship to social groups. With its emotional background, entertainment, unconventionality, often accompanied by joy and abundance, ability to use various benefits that are unavailable in ordinary time, gifts and entertainment and deviations from the usual rules restricting the behavior of people, holiday for many centuries attracts children and young people, deeply etching into their memory. It is a very important reason to identify oneself with other people – in the days of the feast, young people, often more clearly than in ...

Introduction

Henrik Ibsen is a 19th Century Norwegian playwright. He has been referred to many as the “Father of Modern Drama”. This is mostly because his dramatic plays comprised of several religious, historical and political messages which have had some application or another for an extended period of time. There is an apparent trend by Ibsen to include prose writing into most of his plays while keeping to the main focus of his story. This is the same with Shakespeare. Ibsen incorporates psychological as well as social issues into his works by centering his plays on realistic contemporary problems, themes and ...

The kindergarten school under observation is the Millikin elementary school that was located in Santa Clara in the state of California. The school was a host to children between the kindergartens to 5th grades. The overall school population is 372, which is inclusive of teachers. The kindergarten section has only 20 students and registers the lowest number in the school. The Kindergarten section is assigned four teachers, which is the highest represented number that is allocated to every grade. The children range are aged between four and five, but have three two boys who five and a half. Most of the ...

Introduction

The birth of a child in a family brings a new ray of hope and happiness. The new member brings a lot of anxiety along with the added responsibilities. The responsibilities in upbringing a child must be dealt with great delicacy and care. To raise an infant and make him capable to be a school going person is the responsibility of the parents. To understand the emotions, expressions, and feelings of such small child is a challenging job. Parents need to learn the language of signs and implement their learning in order to meet the needs of their infants.

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There are many such infants raising centers ...

The Lego Company is said to have started by the Kristiansen family in 1932. Centered on the philosophy that in order to enrich children's lives, Lego is a brand that evokes expression of creativity while simultaneously stimulating the imagination at each and every possibility. According to Lego, the products "are based on this philosophy of learning and development through play" (1). The company is committed and dedicated to creating products that are of high quality and this aspect is something that has allowed them to remain viable in the eyes of consumers for more than 80 years. The idea ...

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Traditional responses of corporate strategy, hierarchical structures and control systems are among the major factors that inhibit the flexibility of a company, its ability to take up new opportunities and thrive in the ever changing external relationships. Mainly, these factors are caused by organizational similarity. Organizations need to be legitimate. Most of their behavioral and structural aspects are targeted towards environmental acceptance rather than internal organization similarity. Hence, most organizations tend to be similar, adopting traditional business practices. The success of companies is mainly determined by their flexibility to changing needs, new opportunities and the ability to create new ...

- Educational Purposes
Rubik’s cube has a magnificent shape that makes it possible to view its six sides in a simple rotation. It is very simple to use, just like a dice. The cube has different colors that make it interesting to use by students. In the field of Education, this cube serves various objectives. On e of such objectives was to establish the risk factors of school leaving. It was also meant to enhance reflection, ease class discussions and find solutions. Lastly, it was meant catch the students’ attention and help them share ideas (Rose, 2010).

Rubik’s Cube in Primary Schools

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- Educational Purposes
Rubik’s cube has a magnificent shape that makes it possible to view its six sides in a simple rotation. It is very simple to use, just like a dice. The cube has different colors that make it interesting to use by students. In the field of Education, this cube serves various objectives. On e of such objectives was to establish the risk factors of school leaving. It was also meant to enhance reflection, ease class discussions and find solutions. Lastly, it was meant catch the students’ attention and help them share ideas (Rose, 2010).

Rubik’s Cube in Primary Schools

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Children at different ages make decisions based on their level of reasoning as influenced by their level of mental development and culture. For instance, children in their early childhood reason differently from those in their middle childhood according to Berk (2014). Many theories have been developed to explain how children are bound to reason at different levels of development. One such theory is the Kohlberg’s moral development theory. According to Kohlberg, there are three levels of moral development each subdivided into two stages.
The Kohlberg’s theory will be used to discuss the decision that Jane in ...

Business Report on Amazon

Introduction
Amazon is one of the most renowned and distinguished online retailer. It is an American run e-commerce firm. They have their headquarter in Seattle, Washington. It is known as the leading company which is operating electronically through the internet. Since more than ten years, they have managed to sustain their position. They have been comparatively unaffected by the changes in the external environment.
Initially Amazon was an online website which was involved in selling books online. Later, when they started being successful, they diversified their operations to sell videos, mp3 songs, video games, apparel, jewelry, packaged ...

INTRODUCTION:

As the technology is changing and developing more and more, the way of doing businesses is altering. Particularly with regards to the internet age, companies now can be benefited from low cost and high speed technology without time and place restrictions. E-business is known to be as the process of sending and receiving information or data through the internet facility whilst receiving orders, placing orders and communicating with the company’s staff (Andreu et al., 2010). Internet is now served as an essential business tool in order to perform efficiently and competitively worldwide. This report has discussed the current ...

Abstract

The field of psychology continues to offer several means of measuring empathy different from the traditionally known empathy measurement styles. Empathy has a relationship with age and autistic spectrum trait of an individual. The research aimed at determining the different AQ scores for adults between 19 and 70 years of age. In addition, the relationship between age and AQ and empathy measurement was investigated. The research used mixed methodology research design where interviews, questionnaires, and surveys were conducted. In addition, the Adult Autism Spectrum Quotient (AQ) was used to test autistic like-traits among participants. The research results indicated that the ...

Overview of McDonald’s

McDonald is the largest chain of fast food restaurant in the world operating in more than 119 countries. McDonald has over 33,000 restaurants across the world. McDonald originally served hamburgers, milkshakes, French fries and cheeseburgers. However, over the years McDonald’s corporation has added other products to its menu including but not limited to; salads, chicken, fish, breakfast sandwiches, McCafe, beverages and desserts. All this are served either as dine-in setting or as drive through services.
McDonald’s corporation also offers a range of services to its consumers. Their services include free Wi-Fi for their customers at no ...

INTRODUCTION

Children clothing is a profitable business across the UK. This business has observed an increase in volume sales, as market has grown around 7.7% in last two years (Cuthbertson, 2012). The basic reasons for the industry boom for children’s wear were better availability and lower prices of the apparels. Large retailers have seen to be much dominating this category, and these retailers have forced this industry to become much competitive in nature.
Managing the retail store is an art and the management needs to consider different aspects (Gilbert, 1999). Retail stores provide better and more effective touch points. ...

2 girls and 4 boys were observed at a day care centre on a Tuesday morning. These kids fell in the age range of 18 months to 6 years. They were also accompanied by two nannies that were not only looking after them, but were also providing food and supervising some games. The room was filled by 6 children along with different toys like cars, dolls, doll houses, tent, blocks, clay, gun, doctor sets and other items. Children were seen moving and jumping from one corner to the other. However, there was a boy of about 2 years of age, who was ...

This is a book report on Lunch Money written by Andrew Clement, illustrated by Brian Selznick Simon and Schuster. The book is about a sixth grader who is obsessed with making money. The main character in the book is twelve-year-old boy who realizes that school is s good place to make money. He has made money mowing lawns, washing cars and even loaning money to his brother and charging interest (Clement 12). By the end of fifth grade, he discovers that he has saved $5,000 in his bank account. He soon realizes that students have extra money for lunch and ...

Advertising is used as a means to publicize a particular product or service to its target market. Companies often vie to produce the most creative, lucrative, and efficient advertisements in their respective industries. However, in the high demand for such advertisements, certain campaigns tend to neglect their responsibility of proper advertising. Various forms of deceptive advertising are seen almost everywhere and the most notorious will be tackled later on. To be specific, any form of advertisement that lures consumers to purchase a product or service due to a misunderstanding may be ...

Hastings Entertainment, Inc. was formed in the year 1968. The company is in retailing of multimedia entertainment products. Hastings is currently operating around 146 superstores across the America. The company is also operating one concept store in Texas and e-commerce website to sell its products online. The reason for short listing this company is that this stock is old, under evaluated and performing good in the industry.

Overview of the Company

a) State of Incorporation – the Hastings entertainment was incorporated in Texas.
b) Price/ Equity Ratio – 0.20.
c) Market Capitalization – 16.89 million as on 30th April 2012.
d) Ticker Symbol – HAST
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