Essays on General Motors

Introduction

Chrysler Group LLC is one of the largest automobile manufacturing companies in the world. Along with General Motors and Ford Motor Company, these three companies are known as the “big three” in the US market. Chrysler is headquartered in Auburn Hills, Michigan. Currently, Chrysler is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Italian Automaker, Fiat S.P.A. The flagship brands of Chrysler are Chrysler 200 and 300, Dodge, Ram and Jeep. The journey of Chrysler was not always smooth. Upon its establishment in 1925, it soon became one of the most popular car brands in USA. From 1930s till late 1950s, Continue reading...

Conflicts are a natural part of the collective human experience. Wherever there is the involvement of choices, conflicts are bound to happen. In the current competitive world, opinion and views are highly divided and hence conflicts are inevitable (Deutsch & Coleman, 2000). In our efforts to work cooperatively and collaboratively with one another, we often have differing opinions about how best to accomplish our common goals. Conflicts in the workplace are common and they occur as result of varying personalities and perspectives. Employer and employee conflicts are the most common types of conflicts in the workplace. Conflicts most of the Continue reading...

Introduction

Accounting and finance are two different fields from each other as both of these things require having quantitative data to analyze the things in an effective and well organized manner. Organizations are made to increase the financial belongings with the help of effective accumulation and articulation of data with its utilization at different places and sections in particular. The main perspective of this assignment is to analyze the effectiveness of quantitative data to manage an organization with effectiveness. It is advised to select an organization and the organization which has been selected for the same analysis is General Motors. Continue reading...

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 Continue reading...

Introduction

The automobile industry in the US is one of the largest in the world. The history of the automobile industry dates back to the 1890’s. Since its start it has undergone massive evolution to become the largest in the world. This is attributed to the large size of market available domestically. It is also successful due to the use of mass production. Until 1980, the U.S. was the largest producer of automobiles. It was dethroned by Japan in 1980. This was followed by the subsequent overtaking by the Chinese automobile industry in 2008 though this is greatly attributed Continue reading...

Advantages and Disadvantage for Business of Entering into Strategic Alliance

In the current environment, generating sustainable value for clients and shareholders entails creating effective strategic alliances. Strategic alliances are vital building blocks for businesses to attain strong and successful market presence. Strategic alliances are nowadays a reality of life for business, an essential piece of present operations as well as future plan. However, there is always a negative side of everything and joining strategic alliances can also have its disadvantages. There are so many advantages and disadvantages of having a business join a strategic alliance (Monk, Mather, & Hackett, 1992).
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Cummins Inc. is a corporation that manufactures, designs, and distributes engines, filtrations and power generation products. It is also known to service engines and related equipments which include controls, air handling, fuel systems, emission control and electrical power general systems. On the other hand, Duramax diesel engine was created when Isuzu teamed up with General Motors back in 1988. In 2000, about 1.5 million duramax engines had been built (Cummins.com). Duramax is an engine with a first high- pressure common rail and direct-injection power plant. The creation of Duramax was an improvement of General Motors’ previous indirect-injection diesel.
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Toyota Motor Company (TMC) Vs General Motors (GM) Business Strategies: An Introduction

With the advent of the worldwide economic slump, the automobile sales dropped sharply, causing automobile manufacturers a lot of financial strain. All automobile companies have been much impacted, with the major companies reporting major losses in the last few years. This impacts all the automobile manufacturers comprising of the automobile giants like the General Motors (GM) as well as Toyota Motor Company (TMC).
Comparing both the companies i.e. GM and Toyota, it is noted that they lost considerable sales working independently and had to modify themselves in line with these unanticipated conditions. Particularly, the General Motor’s liquidity dropped Continue reading...

General Motor’s Chevrolet Volt

Product description and usage
General Motors Corporation is a United States-based company that designs, manufactures and sell cars, trucks and automobile parts in the global economy with operations in almost every country. It has been in operation for the past 100 years having manufactured close to 450 million vehicles. Chevrolet is one of GM’s main products that is extensively used for transportation in the US. Chevrolet is easily identifiable among competing brands due to its distinctive bowtie emblem. Chevrolet Volt is a hybrid vehicle that runs on both electric and gasoline power. Currently, it is rated as the Continue reading...

Introduction:

Toyota Motor Corporation is a Japanese multinational automotive manufacturer with headquarters in Aichi, Japan. Toyota was the largest automobile manufacturer in the world in the year 2012, with 333,498 employees. Toyota produces more than 10 million vehicles every year and is the only manufacturer in the world to do so. In July 2012, Toyota manufactured its 200th million vehicle. Toyota produces a diverse range of automobiles catering to different sectors of the automobile industry. Toyota manufacturers vehicles under five different sub-brands including Toyota, Lexus (luxury oriented brand catering primarily to the US luxury car market), Scion (youth brand Continue reading...

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- Corporate Strategy: Business Diversification
Ford's Mission is One Ford - One Team, One Plan and One Goal. The organization is into related diversification since it is manufacturing different light commercial vehicles and cars for the people. However, they have been focusing more upon technology and quality parameters so as to sustain in the given increasing competition in the entire industry. The segment includes three car categories, which are the Sedans, SUVs, and the Hatchbacks. The target population for this organization includes young executives, businessmen, and small families.
There are different brands available of ford, and as per the Continue reading...

Industry Analysis

There are 13 automotive multinationals in the United States, which produce around 6 million vehicles annually. In global market, China tops the list of countries by crossing 13.8 million units in the year 2009 leaving North America behind. The changing rules, regulations, and laws related to the automotive industry have modified the working of the industry. New products are being introduced due the laws on emission of gases.
Technology has advanced and so has the consumer demand regarding automobiles as the industry has witnessed an overall growth in the demand of advanced automobiles. The industry has become the largest Continue reading...

Introduction

General Motor Company got created on 16th September 1908 in flint, Michigan. It was formed as a holding company of the McLaughlin car company in Canada Limited and the Buick initially led by William C. Durant. In the earlier 19s, there were the fewer vehicles than 8000 and were horse driven/drawn. These cars got manufactured by the Durant Company. General Motors co-founder Charles Stewart Mott Carriage Company changed its name to Buick before General Motors creation. The Cadillac, Elmore, and Oakland brought into the company by Durant in 1909. Sadly In 1910 Durant lost control over the General Motors Continue reading...

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General Motors Company deals with automotive, in most cases, vehicles. The management was aware of the problems with the ignition switch which could force cars to shut suddenly down, disabling their steering. In practice, this could bring about an action on strict liability against the company by the consumers. According to the law, the producer incurs strict liability whenever there arise safety ramifications which the producer is aware of. In this case, it is apparent that General Motors is aware of the defects and the harm they could cause to the consumers of Continue reading...

Abstract

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 Continue reading...

Introduction

Automotive industry plays a key role in the development and engineering in general and transport engineering in particular. Automotive industry world is capacious and very important sector of the world economy and international business, it's not only the cars, but also a variety of goods on car servicing, as well as, to a large extent, the market for the production and sale of spare parts. Car Market has a number of related markets and industries from the most closely adjacent (market parts and blocks of cars and the oil industry) to the less obvious (roads, production of accessories for Continue reading...

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According to the core definition of Hyper Efficiency, is all about being efficient than the normal terms of an organization. It is one of the most important operational strategies and aspect that relates to an organization as far as brining economic efficiency is concerned. The entire analysis depends upon the four examples of cost efficiency which has been applied over the Ford Motor Company. The entire analysis and application of these hyper efficient behavior shows that the productivity and level of efficacy of the company will certainly increase the level of efficacy in a positive manner. Operational assets, mitigation Continue reading...

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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 Continue reading...

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 Continue reading...

Question 1

Gross domestic product (GDP) is a phrase or term that is often used in economics. It essentially refers to the market value of the total final goods, product or services that are produced in a certain nation within a given period of time (Bouman n.p). A final good generally refers to an item that is sold to the final user. This is the usually the final consumer, but it can also refer to firm making investment, government or even a foreign entity. A good is generally classed as a final good when it has reached the ultimate or final Continue reading...

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.
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2006 GM Annual Report
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ExxonMobil Corp 2008 Annual Report

http://thomson.mobular.net/thomson/7/2946/3929/

ExxonMobil Corp 2012 Annual Report

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Sherwin Williams 2010 Annual Report

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IBM 2010 Annual Report

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Marathon Oil 2010 Annual Report

http://www.marathonoil.com/Investor_Center/Annual_Review/Annual_Reports/

Qualcomm 2010 Annual Report

http://investor.qualcomm.com/secfiling.cfm?filingID=950123-10-100207

Monster Beverage Company 2010 Annual Report

http://investors.monsterbevcorp.com/sec.cfm?DocType=Annual&Year=&FormatFilter=

General Electric 2010 Annual Report

http://www.ge.com/ar2010/downloads.html

Tempur Sealy 2010 Annual Report

http://investor.tempursealy.com/annuals.cfm

Hormel Foods 2010 Annual Report

http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=71258&p=irol-reportsAnnual

Procter and Gamble 2010 Annual Report

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- INTRODUCTION:
Kiichiro Toyoda founded Toyota Company in Japan in the year 1937. The Company is now a leader in automobile manufacturing in the industry world. It is in fact the largest manufacturer of vehicles in the world, with its operations functional in all parts of the world. The reach of Toyota products is existent in across 170 countries and is served by a dedicated global staff of over 300,000 employees worldwide. With the success of the first environment friendly vehicles like Prius and Hybrid Camry in the automobile industry, it has also established itself as a pioneer Continue reading...

The existence of General Motors in the automobiles industry has been characterized by a positive slope in the returns and profits reported in the financial statements of the company. The company has consistently appeared in the Fortunes Magazine of the best 500 companies internationally ranking at the top ten. In 2012, the company ranked at number five with this rank moving downwards to number seven both in 2013 and 2014. In 2013, the company was able to a depressing decrease in profits by 32.7% compared to 2012 under the control of Daniel Akerson as the Chief Executive Officer. These Continue reading...

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Bavarian Motor Works (BMW)
BMW advertises its products through E-marketing. It uses the internet for most of the advertisements because a research indicated that 85 percent of its consumers access the internet. The company’s website uses the space for pictures of the company’s cars, pricing and corporate details of the company (The New York times index, 2013, p. 2).

Amazon.com- Books and Digital Entertainment

Amazon.com is an online retailer of books and other digital entertainment materials. Amazon advertises its products through the internet. It devotes its spaces on online social sites like Facebook and other internet websites to promote its products (Economist & Continue reading...

General Motors acquired the Packard Company to provide a differentiation to its products. Packard Electric became one of the major divisions of the General Motors (GM). It is responsible for all the cabling and electrical wiring for all GM automobiles. In the 1990, under the leadership of Chief Engineer, David Schramm, the division came up with a new method for moving the wires and cables through the firewall between the passenger compartments and the engine. RIM (Reaction Injection Molded) grommet, the new technology, received a lot of support from the product development group since it was easier and simpler Continue reading...

Organization structure refers to the way in which all the employees of the organization are arranges in a specific structural way. Some of the employees will be the board members, some of them will be placed at the senior management level positions, some of them will be the middle-level managers, and finally the rest will be the ones that will work actually at the ground levels. The positions of these employees are so designed with a view to delegate the tasks as per the requirements of the objectives for the organization as well as to work in a collaborative Continue reading...

Corporate Social Responsibility in Business

Introduction
This paper seeks to critically analyze the role that corporate social responsibility plays in a business entity`s pursuit of its over-riding objective, which is to maximize profits and increase shareholders` wealth. The paper seeks to draw the relationship between effective corporate social responsibility strategies of a business as a key ingredient in its accomplishment of the profit-maximization objective in the modern-day business environment. The paper will analyze whether the Milton Friedman`s assertion that businesses should only be interested in seeking profits and operating within the rules is true, or whether the integration of comprehensive social responsibility Continue reading...

United States v. General Motors Corp. et al.
384 US 127
- Appeal From the United States District Court For the Southern District of California. No. 46

Argued December 9, 1965

Decided April 28 1966
The General Motors, the manufacturer of the Chevrolet Brand of cars and trucks, along with three associations of car dealers, holding franchise for selling the car in Los Angeles, California, had been convicted by the court for ‘participating’ in a ‘conspiracy’ to restrict sales of the new Chevrolets through ‘discount houses’ or ‘referral services’ in violation of section 1 of the Sherman Act. In 1960, the General Motors Continue reading...

Comparative Study of Toyota and GM Strategies:

Over the recent years, more efforts have been concentrated on strategic management in business which is justifiably so since global corporate managers have become aware of the necessity to apply and adhere to critical business and corporate level strategies, and concepts that could make or break the companies they run. A critical analysis of the international strategies and internal business environments of both GM and Toyota will help in completing this study and even determining which company has a relatively better strategy (Roll, 2014).

Internal business environment comparison:

Toyota’s internal environment:
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Article Review

Summary of modern organization theory
Modern organization theories are based on the fact that any organization is adaptive and dynamic to changes in the working environment. Customer sentiment, competition, technology, market diversity are some of the issues that coarse change in any organization. These modern theories are adaptive, multi-motivated, multi-disciplinary, dynamic, and descriptive, among other characteristics (FAO Corporate Document Repository 2013). Modern theories include systems approach theory, contingency or situational approach, and socio-technical approach theory.

Systems approach theory

Ludwig von Bertalanffy, William Ross Ashby among others founded the theory from the 1940’s to the 1970’s. it view an organization as Continue reading...

Modern Organization Theory

Summary of modern organization theory
Modern organization theories are based on the fact that any organization is adaptive and dynamic to changes in the working environment. Customer sentiment, competition, technology, market diversity are some of the issues that coarse change in any organization. These modern theories are adaptive, multi-motivated, multi-disciplinary, dynamic, and descriptive, among other characteristics (FAO Corporate Document Repository 2013). Modern theories include systems approach theory, contingency or situational approach, and socio-technical approach theory.
The systems approach theory pictures an organization as an open and organic system that has several subdivisions that make up the whole structure. The Continue reading...

Experts Say Fixing GM’s Flawed Culture Is Barra’s Main Task

Corporate governance has received great mention in the American financial literature especially after the collapse of Enron soon followed by the global financial meltdown. The companies in the United States have since taken the heat and have had to follow the laws and generally acceptable principles. In that context, the substantial Sarbanes Oxley Act read together with stringent corporate governance practices continue to inform policy and management of businesses both of private and public subscription. The key spirit has been the provision of investor confidence in the financial sector with the aim of growing the economy and encouraging American Continue reading...

Introduction

“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 Continue reading...

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Contributions of GM and UAW to Saturn failure
Saturn was developed by General Motors and United Auto Workers partnership. Its main role was to distribute small cars that would compete with other US imports. The company was expected to be a new division for GM. There was total and acknowledgeable success of the company until it decided to operate by its own. The company was to be built under a fully integrated labor management partnership which was embedded on marketing, sales, operations, dealership management, product development and customer relations that were meant to produce better cars. The survival of Continue reading...

Introduction

The Ford Motors Company is a global company having 100 plants located in 38 countries with 15,800 dealer network in 200 markets. The company’s net income is US $ 20.21 billion and total assets are valued at US $ 178.35 billion both as of 2011. This paper is a business case study of Ford Motor Company (Ford). Ford’s Model A car was the first to be produced on mass scale and sold in the U.S. in 1903. The other two to follow suit were General Motors and Chrysler Motor Company in the early 1900s. Ford was founded by Continue reading...

Over the last few years, the world has gone through tremendous changes and particularly in the field of trade. This has been brought about by fast growing globalization due to the rapid increase in integration (from an economic perspective) as well as the degree of integration through investment flow and international trade. Globalization in this case refers to the concept, state or phenomenon or growth in interdependency, in national economies leading to growth in global markets. This includes both global completion and production. For instance, in the automotive industry, General Motors have accelerated over the past two decades due Continue reading...

Introduction

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 Continue reading...

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.
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General Motors Company, is a multinational holding company based in in Detroit, Michigan. The company through its subsidiaries designs, manufactures, markets and distributes vehicles, offer financial services and sells vehicle parts. The company is among the largest auto makers in the United States. In June 2009, failed to secure government loans following a recession in 2008 and 2009 and it’s got into financial problems. It filed for bankruptcy forcing the federal government to aid it in its financial difficulties. The federal government gave General Motors billions of dollars to keep it afloat. The company has been in conflict Continue reading...