Essays on General Motors.

The lack of interest in General Motors, Chrysler, and Ford (Big Three) in performing on the small cars market through innovative and competitive new products led them to losing market share, registering lower sales, losing their leading spots and facing bankruptcy (Bennett, 2013). Because of their lack of competitive edge in the small cars market, the Big Three were overpassed in North America sales by the Japanese competitors (Bennett, 2013). Another causes that produced the general effect of the decreasing sales figures in all three companies on the United States territory mostly was the advancement of the financial crisis ...

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Executive Summary Tesla has put its share in the automotive market as one of the leading providers of innovative electric vehicles. This marketing plan is made in order to add electric motorcycles to the product list of Tesla. The company has the commitment to offer affordable electric vehicles to the public, and it makes the company able to move towards the advancement of the vehicles and reduction in their prices. The company has potential to compete at the level of electric and hybrid vehicles. This marketing plan includes different findings, which allow Tesla to find new target ...

General Motors TOWS Analysis Matrix 4 The General Motors SOSTAC Marketing Planning Framework 5 Objectives: Where the organization wants to be 5 Mission Statement 5 Vision Statement 6 SMART Objectives 6 Specific 6 Measurable 6 Attainable 6 Realistic 6 Timely 7 Strategy: How Do GM get There 7 SAFe Framework 7 Market Positioning 8 Porter’s Five Forces Analysis 8 International entry choices strategy 9 Ansoff’s Matrix 9 Tactics: How exactly do we get there? 10 Marketing mix 7 P’ ...

The success of most businesses is dependent on the type of business ethics and codes of working that they adhere to. The morals and ethics that are upheld by a company or business form a foundation that can be emulated by the employees to ensure a purposeful and productive experience. The focus of this paper is to compare the codes of ethics at Harley-Davidson and General Motors.

Following a comparative and deeper analysis of the two major automobile companies, a number of similarities and differences can be found in their codes of ethics. One common denominator for the two companies is that they ...

Oldsmobile was an American automobile brand that was being produced by General Motors. It had been in existence for 107 years before it collapsed, during that period, it produced 35.2 million cars, some of which were being built at its factory in Lansing, Michigan. The company had produced many brands of vehicles which were very competitive. The Oldsmobile company closed in 2004 and hinted at the consolidation of GM brands of vehicles. General Motor was running the advertisement and distribution of the Oldsmobile vehicles. Following many years of success, Oldsmobile sales quickly dropped from the late 1980s to early ...

This paper discusses in detail a proposed change is company’s capital structure from 0 debt to 25% of the market value of the current Equity. The plan is to issue bonds for $ 3 375 000 at 9% interest and use the raised funds to repurchase 125 000 outstanding shares at the current market value of $ 27. This move will bring the total equity down from 10 000 000 to 6 625 000 and will increase the cost of equity from 11 to 13%. This will also bring our debt to equity ratio from 0 to 0.51. This level of ...

Roger and Me is a documentary film, chronicles of the efforts of General Motors, one of the world’s largest corporation. Michael Moore makes the social catastrophe, happened in his native city Flint (Michigan) as the theme of his first documentary. This catastrophe happened after the General Motors’ direction decided to close all their enterprises, situated in that city. The entire film Michael Moor chases Roger Smith, the head of this corporation to tell him about the consequences of this decision that led to absolute unemployment. It is hard to imagine, but over 30 thousand of people (from the 150.000 ...

The strategic management process involves definition and implementation of the organizational strategy. It helps different levels’ managers make strategic choices that thus enabling organizations achieve its objectives. There are five steps in the strategic management process, which include goal-setting, analysis, formulation of a strategy, implementation of the strategy, and strategy monitoring. The goal-setting stage involves defining the objectives of the organization. The organization has then to identify the strategies to use to accomplish these objectives. Applying the concept of division of labor and specialization is the best way for achieving the set goals, which involves work allocation according to ...

After the slump in domestic car sales in the past decade, General Motors, like other has worked to identify methods to return to the top of the car manufacturing sector. Examining the manufacturing process to decrease maximize General Motor’s return on investment and using outsourcing to decrease labor costs are two ways that the car manufacturer is focusing on to increase flexible resources for further development. In order to accomplish this, the leaders of the company are focusing on Process Strategy and Location Strategy. Where previously, GM followed the industry in regards to process strategy which tolerated ...

“We have created a great money making machine and it is now out of control” (Bakan, 2005). Bakan was referring to corporations when he said this in his book. Corporations have had adverse effects on our environment and various other sectors of the social life. Bakan talks of the history of the complications and problems that develop from excess corporate power, defines some of its consequences, and suggests ways of bringing corporations back in line with decency. The corporation is a film by Joel Bakan which expresses corporations in a negative light. The corporation sheds light on the development of a corporation ...

The General Motors Co. adds about 971000 cars to the switch recall of its global ignition. The vehicles of GMC linked to deaths are about 1.6 million. The expansion of the switch recall of the ignition includes the models of cars like Chevrolet HHR, Pontiac Solstice, Pontiac G5 and Chevrolet Cobalt. These models were made between 2008 and 2011.Most of the old-fashioned cars which dated back to the year 2003 were recalled on February, for instance, the Saturn Ion. The new models of cars of GMC were designed and equipped with the replacement of the switches. Some of the ...

Managers are accountable for the performance of any given company. They are the overseers of the capital of the shareholders. They have been given the mandate to invest this capital at satisfactory rates of return so as to increase the value of the shareholders. The recent past global financial crisis put to test managers in various companies with regard to the responsibility of maximizing the value of the shareholders. General Motors managers are a perfect example in this particular case. The managers of the Company failed to fulfilled their responsibility of maximizing the value of the shareholders. It can ...

A Response On the “My Years with General Motors” And “The Toyota Way” General Motors (GM) is a company with a history of more than one hundred years. The company has witnessed two world wars and the most prosperous period of auto industry in the United States. It had once become the world’s largest auto corporation through engaging in numerous mergers, acquisitions and many other ways. Its development is the greatest history of the American automobile industry. However, in the 2003, Toyota with 8.13 billion dollar profit seized the GM's first throne (Liker, 2004, p. 4). Furthermore, GM faced a ...

The current state of American federalism can be said to be cooperative in nature. To this end, the national, state and local governments cooperate in delivering their mandates to the people. While each government level has clear functions, they all cooperate in implementing mutually agreed goals such as medical care, employee compensation and benefits and infrastructure. The central government funds state programs that seek to achieve a common goal. Nonetheless, each of the governments is autonomous in their own jurisdictions, such that local, state and federal governments do not have to report to each other. To this end, while the ...

One Campaign is a global organization whose mission is to alleviate “extreme poverty and preventable diseases, particularly in Africa” (One Campaign, 2013). The organization encourages the values of advocacy, and speaking out to make the leaders create proactive policies and programs that save lives, put young people into schools and better the livelihood of their communities. One Campaign has been in existence since 2004 following the merger of 11 organizations, and some of the major activities they have carried out include enabling more than 6.2 million people from Africa to access Aids medication. The organization’s funding does not come ...

The automobile industry is one of the largest job creators in the US. Most automakers are headquartered in Detroit, Michigan and they employ hundreds of thousands of workers. The ongoing recession has dented the prospects of the automakers like Ford and General Motors who have seen their sales dip and their volumes hit by the crisis. Indeed, the situation is so severe that GM had to be bailed out by the government. In this context, the history of the automakers like Ford and GM offers insights into how they work and how they intend to perform in the future. ...

General Motors (GM) is an American multinational corporation that deals with automotives. The corporation seeks labour services from the United Auto Workers (UAW). Consequently, the two companies get into agreements at various times to discuss the labour terms. Lately, General Motors and the United Auto Workers had to bargain on fresh labour terms to protect the GM Company from becoming insolvent.

The negotiation most probably entailed attempts by the General Motors to convince the United Auto workers on the need to make a few adjustments on their initial agreement. The company most likely complained on the high costs of labour ...

Business institutions are faced with numerous institutional issues and General Motors Company has had its share of institutional issues. This essay will cover General Motors issues regarding the company shares and their related information. The essay will be based on the following questions to the HR:- - Do general motors trade in shares? - When general motors public offering took place? - Where has General Motors listed its shares? - Does the company pay dividends to share holders? - Who is the transfer agent for general motors? - Does General Motors issue certificates ...

This method of marketing aims at managing the perception of the public towards the new car model which is yet to be introduced and it is basically done by the publicists who positively influence people’s mind. The GM has successfully used this method to make people aware of the future car models in the market. For instance, the GM uses publicists to demonstrate on how the Hy-Wire is driven and its efficiency in terms of its usage. The publicists reported that the car uses hydrogen power to run as well as driven-by-wire systems and thus electronically controlled. In ...

General Motors was the biggest company in the auto industry for most part of the twentieth century. The company was not only a leader in innovations, but it also helped in defining the new breed of bureaucratic, massive multinational corporations that shaped the post-war economy. GM was the largest car maker from 1931 to 2008 before Toyota surpassed it. But things are different now, in the fall of 2008, despite its efforts to cutback of operation cost; GM succumbed to bankruptcy forcing it to turn to federal government for financial assistance in order to stay afloat (Woodhill, 2012). The company ...

General Motors is one of the companies with great sustainability efforts currently being performed to reduce the environmental impacts of its vehicles and facilities. The company actively focuses on energy efficiency, resource preservation, waste reduction, and in building more fuel efficient vehicles. The company’s efforts are aimed at reducing dependence on fossil fuels (petroleum) and reducing the emissions. GM is one of the leaders in the manufacturing sector that uses renewable energy. It currently house solar power to a tune of 30 megawatts and plans to double it by 2015. As the company makes great strides in building ...

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When the US economy crashed in 2008, General Motors was also in the brink of bankruptcy despite of their efforts to cutback on operational cost for two years. The company was granted with a $9 Billion aid by the Federal government in December of 2008 to keep them afloat. In July 10 of the following year General Motors sold most of its assets and was forced to file bankruptcy. It was by that time the biggest collapse by a corporation in history. After the biggest crash came their biggest come back in a decade. In February 2011 General Motors ...

Introduction In his book “The World is Flat” Thomas Friedman addressed issues of contemporary global business environment and its latest changes over the past thirty years. The author analyzed the history of global business development applying the term “flat” to the world as a space for business operating and the term “flattener” for the factors influencing global business changes (Friedman, 2005). The current paper is devoted to the critical analysis of three chapters of the book. Three factors making impact on business development are reviewed using material from the second chapter of the book. An analysis of practical ...