Essays on Chief Executive

The growth of Amazon to a global retail company is basically due in part to the management practices by its Chief Executive Office and how such practices affect the planning, control, and management of a company. Most CEOs embrace unique Organizational structures towards the operations of their companies. The organizational structure of a company is important since it outlines how various activities such as supervision, work coordination, and allocation are handled by an organization to achieve the set aims and goals. A good organizational structure creates opportunities for business growth. The Chief Executive Officer(CEO) of a company has ...

The President,

United States of America. Introduction The concept of corporate ethics is widely accepted today. In order to stabilize the growth and development of the overall U.S economy, industries regardless of their nature or size must be instructed to follow certain ethical guidelines. In the current corporate environment, it is advisable for the U.S government to introduce three key changes to its corporate governance framework. First, there should be a single body or statutory regime to deal with corporate governance affairs in the country. Second, corporate ethics is essential to distinguish the roles of chairman and chief executive officer in ...

Literature Review

Overview The research question is essential for any study; as it will enable the researcher to focus on a particular subject to do research. The research question for this study is the effect of direct communication between the CEO and the employees when it comes to Job satisfaction. The question allows the researcher to focus on the concept of job satisfaction, internal communication the roles of both the CEO and the employees, and the factors that influence communication enhancement. Internal communication is the frequency of interaction between the upper level of management and the lower level of management (Bloom, ...

Background

The Chinese market is characterized by a population, which is vibrant and large enough to facilitate and ensure the growth of businesses in China. The coffee consumption market is one, which has been on an increasing trajectory in terms of increase in the number of consumers for the product. The culture of the consumption of the product was increased by the presence of Starbucks a western franchise that delivers coffee in various parts of the world, and which has been the highest force of competition for Maan Coffee franchise. However, the greatest problem affecting the business entity associated with ...

Answer 1) the reason why Europe and France are considered such important markets for Netflix is because they represent a large proportion of the population that has access to broadband services. Compared to the United States, which only has 88 million families that have access to broadband services, Western Europe has a total of 134 million broadband houses. Secondly, the US market has become highly saturated while the market in Europe for online video streaming services is still in the growing phase. Therefore in order to cover its rising expenditures, it is important for Netflix to be able to ...

With today’s high demand for information and technology, there is no doubt that businesses offering related services are highly valued. The information and technology industry is a booming field that provides more opportunities for employment and professional growth. One of the companies that serve within this field is Accenture. Accenture defines itself as “a global professional services company” which “provides consulting services in digital, technology and operation” (“Accenture Success,” n.d.). Before adopting the name Accenture in 2001, the company was known as Andersen Consulting, the business and technology division side of an accounting company called Arthur Andersen. Currently, ...

I was a team leader during my internship at the Wall Street Trading. The manager selected me to be in charge of all interns. I was tasked with providing direction to the team. Additionally, I organized meetings for all interns in Wall Street. My motivation stems from knowing whatever it takes to be successful. The supervisors, as well as chief executive officers, recognized my leadership abilities. My immediate supervisor requested that I should be given full authority over interns. He convinced the CEO of my suitability as a team leader. I became fully in-charge of interns. The additional responsibilities ...

Introduction

The present report comprises of three sections. The first section discusses the recent trends in the business environment, which call for the attention of the Board of Directors as well as the Chief Executive Officer. The next section discusses Porter’s generic strategies including overall cost leadership, product differentiation, and focus strategies and demonstrates the way their implementation will help Partical, Inc. stay ahead of the competition in the global environment. The last section discusses and evaluates both the value chain analysis and Porter’s Five Forces, and indicates how the firms can gain competitive advantage through their effective ...

Completion Date

SABIC Corporate Film: A Critical Response I. INTRODUCTION SABIC, started over 30 years ago, has grown into a global company of combined vision (SABIC, 2016a; "Corporate Profile," n.d.). While innovation remains critical to sustain SABIC's business well into future, environment stewardship is at heart of company's business activities (SABIC, 2016a). Interpreted into core values, SABIC can be said to inspire, engage, create and deliver (SABIC, 2013). From a technological intervention perspective, SABIC has five innovation hubs ("Facts and Figures," n.d.). From an innovation perspective, SABIC is engaged with numerous partners in urban planning to deliver innovative solutions (SABIC, 2016b; ...

Human Resource Management (HRM) refers to the practices and knowledge within an organization that is concerned with the organization’s primary responsibility and employment relations (Redman, & Wilkinson, 2009). As such, it is a discipline that is guided by numerous models that include Guest, Harvard, Warwick, Storey, and Fombrun models. The Guest model developed by David Guest contends that the HR manager is initially presented with specific strategies which then create a need for certain practices within the organization in order to achieve the desired outcome. It bears six aspects that include HRM strategy and practices as well as behavior, ...

National Bank of Canada

National Bank of Canada is among the largest commercial banks in Canada, with its headquarters located in Montreal, Canada. The bank’s history dates back in 1859 when francophone businesspersons founded it (Cheffins, 1998). The bank has approximately 452 branches located in most of the Canadian provinces and approximately 2.4 million clients. The bank also has partnerships, subsidiaries and representative offices in other countries through which it serves both Canadian and non-Canadian customers. The bank has a public company ownership structure and its shares trade in Toronto stock market. This paper discusses in details the organizational structure, managerial practices, ...

Biography

Enterprenuershipa nd management has been my core of interest from a tender age. I adopted this from my family members who had ventued into enterpreneurship. Consequently, I decided to follow their footsteps. I was born in Australia back in the year 1965, on the 18th day of September. With the fact the entrepreneurship and business were the major backgrounds for my family, I graduated from Ruff's university in 1985, attaining a first class, which opened my doors towards getting a scholarship. I had to follow the same roots. Being the third born of my family, I decided to be ...

Internal Analysis of Encana

Internal Analysis of Encana

Introduction

The oil and gas industry in North America is currently experiencing challenges and transition stage. The increasing need for the environment-friendly and sustainable forms of energy is affecting the industry negatively as more governments and companies are encouraged to use energy with no or low carbon emission. More companies are now developing solar and wind energy and create vehicles that can rely on electricity rather than oil. Such growing trend in the energy sector resulted to lower demand of oil and gas particularly in the North America. Many oil and gas producing countries and companies ...

Business Class Capstone Project

Introduction In this paper, I will describe and discuss the application of statistical techniques learned in class to a real-world problem. According to the instructions of the assignment, I am a chief analyst for a medium-sized company. I decided that my company is a medium sized diamond store. An executive gave me a data set of diamond sales and asked me to explore this data. The executive wants to know how this data can be used to improve the business. The data will be analyzed by the means of various statistical tools. I will start with the descriptive statistics ...

Biography

I can describe myself as a highly accomplished entrepreneur. I have gained a great deal of experience in business startup, growth, as well as, exit. So far, I have been a Chief Executive Officer in three companies and my role in contributing to their success cannot go unrecognized. I started my career by establishing my biotechnology company, Volentix Pharmaceuticals. Starting this company was stimulating, exciting, and frightening at the same time. Nonetheless, this company did not operate for a long time due to some difficulties and hardships, but I did not lose hope. I learned a lot from this ...

FINAL SALES CALL PRESENTATION

FINAL SALES CALL PRESENTATION a. The considered company is Forester Financial Services. The company offers insurance products for individuals and companies. Specifically for the final sales call presentation, the considered product is the Key Person Insurance Product with a minimum value of 100,000 dollars. The required prospects call is people with a high profile in the company and with more than 35 years old. That is because of the value of the insurance product and the person maturity at that age (Brookins, 2015). b.

■ There are multiple offers on insurance products in the industry ■ The return on sales ( ...

Introduction

The policy making and its environment issue are central to the governance process especially in the interactional affinity between the ruler and the ruled. Therefore it has attracted the attention of the scholars as well as the practitioners within the scholarship and world of political science, administration, among other policy sciences (Anderson, 2015). However, there has been tremendous maturation in policy making and its environment over the years. The policy makers and the society have been analyzed within different polities in the global political community. This research examines the concept of public policy controversy by incorporating the role of ...

Introduction . 2

Analysis .. 3 1) Structural Characteristics . 4 2) American Apparel mission statement 5 3) Organizational Structure .. 6 4) Porter’s Competitive Strategy . 7 5) The External Environment 8 6) Stages in the lifecycle, size, and control system .. 9

Recommendations and implementation plans 11

References . 12

1.Executive summary The issue that the American Apparel’s organization is facing is that they have a very unique strategy to run the business more effectively than its competitors; unfortunately, this strategy did not meet the external environment needs. Therefore, they had to lay off hundreds of workers and retooling its production process in ...

Individual Paper

Apple –FBI Battle over San Bernardino Terror Attack Investigation Executive Summary This report is about the battle between Apple Company’s iPhone and FBI’s demand from apple to develop a new software, which will help FBI to get the data contained in the phone of a terrorist, Syed Farook, who shot and killed 14 people in San Bernardino and left behind his iPhone. The phone’s iCloud was changed shortly after the attack, and FBI believes that such latest communication might help them get to know the terrorist’s plan. FBI went to court to be given orders ...

Introduction

Change management is a term that has several definitions; the term does not contain any definite explanation. According to some authors, change management is a technique for facilitating the implementation of complicated processes in a very organized way that leads organizations towards the contribution into the organization. ElMaraghy (2011), in his book, defined change management as a redesigning of the structure of procedure with the aim of coping up with internal and external organizational changes. It is a process of constantly renewing the structure, direction, and capabilities of organization with the purpose of serving the ever-changing needs of internal ...

Leadership Ethical Analysis

Introduction Analysis of leadership and leadership styles of different leaders have been a common phenomenon, but in current arena, ethical leadership has gained the spotlight of professionals and researchers. Good leadership style is the one that encourages ethical behavior. Ethics are important in practicing good values at the workplace and for serving the society with maximum utility and benefits. Businesses are run with the aim of benefiting the organization that comes at the expense of the health of society often. The aim of the leader is to maximize the benefit of organizations and without having ethical characteristics, leaders maintain ...

Introduction

Sean P-diddy Combs is well known as Puff Daddy and P.Diddy in the music industry. He is a hip-hop legend with exclusive love and talent for music. He has accrued extensive success in the music industry following his passion and hard work. Over time, he developed interest in fashion after being a model consultant for certain fashion companies for a long time. His passion in fashion grew pushing him to start his clothing lines Sean John and ‘Sean by Sean Combs”. Also, he has a movie production company and two restaurants in the United States. As the founder of ...

Business Report

The A2 Milk Company Statement of Academic Honesty This assessment has been written by me and represents my own work. This work has not been previously submitted. All sourced information has been appropriately acknowledged and ARA referenced. I permit this assessment to be copied for academic processes (such as moderation). I have retained a copy of this assessment electronically.

Part 1 – Introduction

1.1 What is the name of the Entities Reporting (Quote the page number from the Annual Report)

Answer:

The name of the entity reporting is company FMC. It is created for the purpose of part 7 of the Financial Markets Conduct ...

Research Plan

Research Question The research question to be answered in the research project is how language is used in the construction of workplace culture.

Research Site

The research site where the collection of data will be performed is The Brumbies. This is a local company that has operations running over a decade. It specializes in the production, processing and sale of horticultural products.

Ethical Issues

There is a desire to acquire in-depth information to answer the research question satisfactorily. The use of covert research enables the researcher to collect this information uninhibited by the distrust of the subjects and the partial disclosure of information. ...

Introduction

Definition Change is necessary for the survival of any organization. As time passes, technology advances, peoples’ attitudes and values change, laws and political control change, and there is the need for an organization to keep up with these changes as well. Change management is the way people deal with these changes. In an organization, change management includes the definition of the new norms, talking to the stakeholders about the design of specific changes, and planning and implementing the transition to a new business process or organizational structure (Xiongwei, 2009). Even though it is necessary for organizations to improve some ...

Budget Development Project

The great depression in 1929 led to the emergence of organization some of which are meant to make profits while other run as non-profits (Penner, 2013). Indeed, these organizations are required to budget for their expenses in light of their operations. A budget refers to the overall estimation of how an organization, institution, individual or government aims to spend the resources for a specific period. These resources may include money, inventory, labour among other factors of production . Normally, top-level managers including CEOs do the formulation of a budget. However, there can be involvement of subordinate staff in decision-making. In ...

A case study is viewed as a research methodology or basic strategy that has been scrutinized in the past as lacking rigor as well as objectivity when compared with other research methods. But there are certain times that a case study can be a useful tool for the preliminary part of the research. It is in these times that the case study can be viewed as an important marketing staple that can be used for many varied reasons (Rowley, 2002). As an example, a business can use a case study to demonstrate how their product or service has been ...

Introduction

A family business is a profit-making entity that entails the significant roles of decision making, ownership, and leadership of the business being undertaken by several generations of a family. For a firm to be considered as a family business, the multigenerational element, and the unique family is fundamental (Carlock, Kets de Vries, and Florent-Treacy 12). Family businesses vary from size to industry; there are corner shops with a history of family ownership and leadership and similarly publicly listed multinationals, which share a similar foundation (Carlock, Kets de Vries, and Forest-Treacy 17). Internationally, there are numerous examples of family-owned businesses; ...

Lately, Microsoft board of directors has experienced various oppositions from dissenting ideas on the strategies used by the management to run the company. In August 2013, Steve Ballmer who was the chief executive officer of the company announced his intentions of stepping down and in February 2014 Satya Nadella took over as the chief executive officer. However, the efforts of Ballmer towards saving the company have not been successful as it is clear that Satya took over a company that is stumbling ("Should Apple Buy Microsoft?"). For instance, some products such as Microsoft Surface, Windows Phone, Windows 8, and ...

Integrative Research Project

Abstract This research project aims to establish how the organization can increase its competitive advantage by requiring supply chain vendors to meet ENOC’s standards. A qualitative research methodology was used, and the research design is to carry out semi-structured interviews over the telephone. The semi-structured interview allowed interviewees to expand on their thoughts and experiences while the researcher guides the conversation to say on the topic. Interviews were performed over the telephone with employees at ENOC and employs with ENOC’s supply chain vendors to collect data. The data analysis was carried out by evaluating the results of ...

Business Perspectives

Business Perspectives

Management Summary

La Brea Pharmacy is managed by one owner. This owner will provide funding from his own savings: cover the start-up expenses and provide the financial ground for the first six months of facility’s operation. The company plans to start as a single outlet and later expand the business by opening new outlets in other areas. Highly qualified employees willsupport the prosperity of the company.

La Brea Pharmacy is a sole proprietorship.At first, the owner will have full control of the business management. Financing business through personal savings will make a powerful incentive for its quick promotion. ...

The Health of the Family Business

Introduction JCDecaux Group is a multinational company based in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Paris in France. The company was established in 1964 by Jean-Francois Decaux to offer bus stop advertising systems, billboards, public bicycle rental services, and street furniture (Jcdecaux.com, 2016). Currently, the company is the best outdoor advertising company in the world with annual revenues of more than 2.8 billion Euros. Its commitment is to deliver quality outdoor advertising services to its clients as well as providing first class public services to its customers around the world. The JCDecaux Group core values are innovation, quality, design, sustainable development and trustworthiness in ...

Executive Summary

Family businesses have been making vital contributions to the British economy and the forecast indicates even more in the coming years. A typical family business in UK, Associated British Foods plc, has been performing consistently well for over 100 years. The company has built up portfolios in Sugar, Agriculture, Retail, Grocery and Ingredients segments and owns many of the most famous food brands. Starting with bakery products, the company has diversified into the other segments mostly by prudent acquisitions. The models generally used for analysing family businesses, namely the three circle model, the 12S model and the business canvas ...

Introduction

Different organizations have different ways of carrying out their activities. The different ways are influenced by the organization missions, the management, the environment the organization is in among others (Kettner, 2013). The following essay conducts an assessment of the organization The Mission Continues. The assessment includes; organizational marketing strategies, management, and structure, organizational policies, regulations to which the organization adheres, the leadership within the organization, how the organization handles change, their use of volunteers, funding streams and their fundraising strategies.

About the organization

The Mission Continues is an organization that was started to deal with post 9/11 era veterans. The organization assists ...

In 1997, Hong Kong experienced “the Handover.” According to the Basic Law, it became a Special Administrative Region of China with a high autonomy degree in every issue except international and military affairs. However, the misunderstanding of the “one country, two systems” principle and Beijing desire to intervene into Hong Kong policies that became especially crucial last years fueled tensions between Hong Kong and China. The aim of this paper is to analyze and evaluate the issue of Hong Kong-China relations through the theoretical framework of pluralism. For a start, it is necessary to give a brief overview of ...

Hilton Worldwide is a public company that started its operations in 1919. The company falls under the hospitality industry. Conrad Hilton founded the organization that currently operates in more than four thousand locations that are spread in over one hundred countries. The company has thirteen brands and Christopher J Nassetta manages them (Jones, Hillier, and Comfort, 33). This paper establishes and discusses how Nassetta started its operations in the hotel industry as well as his first leadership position. Chris Nassetta became the president and chief executive officer of Hilton Worldwide Holdings in October 2007 (Ferguson, 50). He still holds ...

Question One

The sales of the Lego’s movie themed products keyed to popular film franchises, such as Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, and Spiderman are performing well according to the company’s main shareholder and the Chief Executive Officer Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen who has served the company from 1979 to 2004 (Lego). The increased sales can be attributed to the increased number of alliances with Walt Disney Company and Lucas Films, which is the creator of the popular Star Wars Series. According to my opinion, I think this was the right strategy for the company to adopt considering the ...

Executive Summary

Jack Welch is one of the formidable American chief executives of all times. Staying at the helm of General Electric for more than twenty years, he managed to increase total value of the company on 4,000%, eradicate corporate bureaucracy and create a completely new business philosophy of the corporation. This research analyzes the core elements of his leadership style. In particular, it speaks about the methods, which Jack Welch used for transforming the company and the challenges, which he faced in this endeavor. The case study specifically focuses on analyzing re-structuring of the top-management of GE, his approach ...

Company Structure

It is the limited liability company based in Switzerland but operates globally in the manufacturing of baby foods, beverages, cereal, frozen foods, nutrition products, ice cream, confections, water and pet foods. A board of directors manages it with Peter Brabeck as the current chairperson who was promoted from being the former Chief Executive Officer. The Executive Board, who are fourteen in number, manages the day-to-day operation of the business. They are designated board members handle the business at a global level that is the company has divided the business to operate from different geographical zones.

The Mission Statement

“Good food, Good life,” ...

SWOT Analysis report on McDonald

Introduction The objective of this report is to present the SWOT analysis of an organization based on personal experience and find out the strengths and weaknesses of the leader of the organization. For the attainment of this objective and fulfilling the requirement of the personal experience, McDonald’s has been considered for the assignment. The paper has been segmented into three chief sections. Section A contains the information regarding the business, leadership practices of a leader, and effects of leadership on culture. Section B, presents the key strengths, weaknesses, threats, and opportunities for the firm. However, the segment evaluates ...

SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS ARTICLE

The strategy, as well as, governance at the Yahoo Inc. was an important concept that assisted in revamping the performance of the entity. This was in the face of the challenges that it was going through at the time that encompassed firing of the chief executive office and the consequent appointment of an unnamed one, lagging prices of its stocks, bitter memories regarding the failed deal with Microsoft and with all these information being available in the public domain. Therefore, the following article will present a summary and analysis of the article ‘Strategy and governance at Yahoo! Inc. (G. ...

Succession Planning in Organizations

Appointive posts in organizations always have a set time limit under which an executive officer or director serves. An organization can have a compulsory retirement age of 60 years for Chief executive officer (CEO) and other senior management officials. When these people are approaching this age limit, an organization began a roll out program to start looking for CEO five years before the current officer leaves the office. In this case, when the current CEO reaches 55 years, the company will be on the lookout who will be the successor. Succession planning is highly practiced in organizations for the ...

Introduction

In his case, Ferrell (2012) discusses Enron Corporation from when it was formed, when it collapsed and all that followed after its collapse. Enron Corporation is an American company headquartered in Houston, Texas. This company was formed in the year 1985 through the merging of two gas pipeline companies. Enron Corporation deals in products and services such as natural gas, and also electric power generation and distribution. However, in the year 2001 when Ken Lay was the Chief executive officer and at his time of his stepping down, Enron was faced with financial problems which eventually led to its ...

L Brands: Corporate Governance L Brands: Corporate Governance

Overview

L Brands is a world-renowned lingerie, personal care and beauty products company ("About Us," n.d.). Offering flagship brands including, primarily, Victoria's Secret, PINK, Bath & Body Works, La Senza and Henri Bendel, L Brands has U.S., Canada and U.K. as focal operation markets and extends her global presence in around 700 locations by franchised partnerships ("About Us"). The company's central message is personal branding and sexy lifestyle. The business lines, functions and activities, based on brand offerings of L Brands, are reported by specific corporate governance structure and mechanisms detailed below.

The ...

Abstract

The quality of financial reporting by various companies affects the economy of the country in more ways than one. Apart from the economy of the country, the quality of audit and financial reporting affects the operation of the company as well. Effective disclosure and transparent finical reporting provide a necessary condition to maintain and assure the confidence of the stakeholders. This study seeks to investigate the relationship that exists between the type of corporate governance and the quality of audit among listed companies in Australia's Petroleum and Mining industry. It presents a review of previous and existing literature concerning ...

Introduction.

According to Means, R. (2004), Section 1983 was meant to create a right to sue anybody who took away another person's constitutional rights. The ordinary and universal rights that can attract a lawsuit include first amendment issues like freedom of speech, association, and worship. It is, therefore, important for police to understand the Section 1983 since it has become their suing point. Due to the effects and cost association of section 1983 Liability Lawsuits arising out of violations of these rights, the paper seeks to put more light on training of police as regards: how much training is enough, ...

In the United Kingdom, there are Listing Rules that require all companies with a premium listing of equity shares to abide by the Code; failure to which they must give shareholders a reasonable explanation as to why they did not comply. This principle is commonly referred to as, comply or explain. The United Kingdom Governance Code contains broad principles and provisions that are more specific and its effective for it covers issues such as risk management, remuneration, role of board of directors and relations with shareholders (Rafael 3). Duties of directors are covered in Chapter 2 of the Company's ...

Analysis of Mark Parker's Career

Ups In 2006, Mark Parker became the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Nike, Inc. and since then Nike's annual revenue increased up to 60 percent. In addition, Nike's profit of 57 percent is another visible achievement of Parker. Parker became a prime wheel that helped the Nike, Inc. to double its market cap. Moreover, Parker has embraced innovation as well as prioritizing designs, which became the success of Nike. He is one of three-person design collaboration, alongside Japanese style-maker Hiroshi Fujiwara, designer Tinker Hatfield, and Nike spokes-icon Michael Jordan to form HTM team, which acts as Nike's core Research ...

Q1: The Public Authority of Civil Aviation (PACA) of Oman is the government institution that is the responsible for the air commercial and private air transport of the Oman Sultanate. The PACA does not have any responsibility for the military air transport which is the responsibility of the Ministry of Defense and the Military Forces of Oman . The PACA has created thanks to a Royal Decree of the Sultanate since 2013 with the intention to regulate all the civil aviation activities of the country and be aligned with the security and control requirements of the most important aviation and ...

Hong Kong Special Administrative Region is governed by a top leader so called the Chief Executive. The position was created to replace the governor of the British Council regime back in 1970. The person in that position was tasked with the responsibility of representing the people of Hong Kong and to be answerable to the central government that was based in Beijing. His task, however, was not based on being answerable to the people of Hong Kong, he was only to serve them and represent their interests to the central government. After a local electoral process, the Chief Executive ...

Management

1. Lou Gerstner Earliest days at IBM In his work, Watkins (2013) explains how one can make a change within a short period of both getting enrolled in a new job, being promoted and even being sent out for an international assignment. This work goes hand in hand with our discussion of the day involving the successful story of the former IBM chief executive officer Lou Gerstner. It was on the 1st of April 1993 when Lou Gerstner took over as IBM Chief Executive Officer. This change of leadership was brought about by the poor performance of IBM in ...

Gary Kelly is the chairperson of the board, the chief executive officer (CEO) and the president of Southwest Airlines Company, which is the largest low-cost carrier in the world. He has been the chairperson of the company since 2005 with its headquarters based in Dallas Texas. Since the start of the business, Gary has shown tremendous performance and has since moved his way up through various positions including principal accounting officer, finance vice president, executive vice president of finance and finally made the CEO. As the chief executive officer of his company, Gary has exhibited a unique leadership style ...