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  • Concept Review Video

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    Watch the “Concept Review Video: Working Capital Management” video located in theWileyPLUS Assignment: Week 3 Videos Activity.

    Discuss strategies these business owners used to manage their working capital.

    Write a 350-700 word summary of your discussion.

     

  • Your Business Structure

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     Business Structures

    Watch the “Your Business Structure” and “Corporate Business Structures” videos on the Electronics Reserve Readings page.

    Identify the different business structures.

    Write a 350 to 700 word explanation of how each business structure might and might not be advantageous.

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  • Unfair Dismissal: Cases

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    Unfair Dismissal: Cases

    The impact of job satisfaction and employee turnover affects the overall performance of an organisation. In the contemporary business environment unfair dismissal claims have been an issue since ages. This issue not only harms an organisation’s reputation but also hampers employee motivation. This assignment describes dismissals and the situations where a dismissal is considered to be an unfair dismissal. It reviews different views of different authors and different theories related to dismissals such as the psychological contract and organisational justice theory. Further it discusses major issue for the future such as outsourcing, technological developments, voluntary exit, involuntary exit, organisational restructuring and motivated exit. This assignment has shown various organisational examples (denoted by Ex) for better understanding about the topic.

    Table of Contents:

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    • Introduction 1
      • Dismissal 1
      • Unfair Dismissal 1
        • Types of Unfair Dismissals                                                                2
          • Wrongful Dismissal 2
          • Constructive Dismissal                                                          2
          • Automatically Unfair Dismissal 2
        • Detailed discussion about the grounds for fair & unfair dismissal 3
        • Constituents of unfair dismissal 6
      • Consequences of unfair dismissal                                                            7
        • Impact on Psychological Contract 7
        • Economical Impact 7
        • Impact on Organisation Environment                                                             8
      • Major Issues of the Future 9
        • Recent trends in termination              9
        • Technological Development            10
        • Organisational Restructuring            10
        • Outsourcing                                                                                               10
        • Collective Bargaining                                                                                   11
      • Conclusion            11
      • Recommendation            12
      • List of References            13
      • Bibliography            18

    List of Figures:

    Fig.1 Grounds for Fair Dismissal                                                                                                3

    Fig.2 The Psychological Contract                                                                                                7

    Fig.3 Organisational Justice Model                                                                                 8

    Fig.4 The Dismissal Decision Model                                                                               12

  • Different schools of thought on Strategy

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    Different schools of thought on Strategy

    The purpose of this assignment is to learn about strategy, strategic management, the levels of strategy and the considerations that should be made before crafting the perfect strategy. In order to learn about these topics, various perceptions of authors such as Richard Whittington and Henry Mintzberg has been analyzed critically in order to check its synchronization with contemporary strategic issues. This assignment includes comparisons between the ten schools of strategic formulation recommended by Mintzberg which consist of three prescriptive and seven descriptive schools. Four perspectives towards strategy suggested by Richard Whittington is also included in this assignments. Analysis has shown that review of these topics is necessary in order to craft a perfect strategy as diverse ideas might emerge from the employees of an organisation, and one of them could be the one that would completely change the future of the company and take it to a very high level.

    Table of Contents

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    1.0 Introduction                                                                                                                      1

    2.0 Discussion and comparison of Mintzberg’s ten schools of strategy formulation           2

    3.0 Whittington’s perspectives of strategy                                                                            7

    4.0 Conclusion                                                                                                                                    8

    5.0 List of references                                                                                                              9

    6.0 Bibliography                                                                                                                      10

    List of Tables:

    Table: 1) Comparison Chart of the ten schools of thought                                                   6

    Table:2) The classification of the Ten schools of Mintzberg under

    Whittington’s Strategic Perspectives                                                                     8

  • Comparison of strategy between Nike and Adidas

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    Comparison of strategy between Nike and Adidas

    The purpose of this assignment is to learn about strategy and strategic management by comparing the strategies of two companies from the same industry. The strategies of Nike and Adidas have been compared from the textile industry. Nike and Adidas both specialize in footwear, apparel and accessories and their competition is intense as Nike is the market leader and Adidas is the market challenger. The topics in this assignment cover critical incidents of both Nike and Adidas that occurred in the past and the comparison between both their strategies as well their future plans. This assignment shows us the influence the strategy has on the success or failure of companies and how companies craft sustainable strategies that help them to retain their position in the market.

    Table of Contents

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    1.0 Introduction                                                                                                                      1

    2.0 Literature review                                                                                                             1

    3.0 Backgrounds of Nike and Adidas                                                                                     2

    3.1 Company overview of Nike                                                                                                          2

    3.2 Company overview of Adidas                                                                                          2         

    4.0 Critical Incidents that occurred in the past                                                                     3

    4.1 Critical incidents that affected Nike                                                                                3

    4.2 Critical incidents that affected Adidas                                                                             5

    5.0 Comparison of the strategies of the companies                                                               8

    5.1 Strategies of Nike                                                                                                             8

    5.2 Strategies of Adidas                                                                                                         9

    5.3 Comparison of the strategies of Nike and Adidas                                                                       11

    6.0 Future plans of Nike and Adidas                                                                                      13

    7.0 Conclusion                                                                                                                                    14

    8.0 List of references                                                                                                              14

    9.0 Bibliography                                                                                                                     17

  • Impact of internal environment on international marketing research plan

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    Impact of internal environment on international marketing research plan

    This assignment is about the impact of international environment on the marketing research plan. The external environment, such as marketing environment, economic environment, political environment, technological environment and socio-cultural environment, varies from country to country. These factors affect the marketing research plan compelling it to customize according to the need of the foreign country. Japan has been chosen to illustrate the differences in the marketing research plan, more accurately. This assignment also includes the changes required in the marketing research methodology, due to the external environmental factors, while conducting marketing research in Japan.

    Table of Contents

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    1.0 Introduction                                                                                                                                               1

    2.0 International Marketing Research                                                                                                    1

    3.0 The Difference between domestic & international Marketing Research                        3

    3.1 Economic Environment                                                                                                                          3

    3.2 Political and Legal Environment                                                                                                        4

    3.3 Market Environment                                                                                                                              4

    3.4 Technological Environment                                                                                                                 4

    3.5 Socio-cultural Environment                                                                                                                 4

    4.0 The impact of international environment on the Marketing research plan                    5

    5.0 Conclusion                                                                                                                                                  6

    6.0 Bibliography                                                                                                                                               7

  • Collective Bargaining and it’s impact on Management

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    Cases: Collective Bargaining and it’s impact on Management

    One of the most crucial factors which enhance the sustainability of an organisation is its human resources. Employee productivity affects the overall performance of an organisation. In order to enhance the job security, employees form unions who collective negotiate issues such as wages and working conditions with the employers. This report is about the impact of collective bargaining on the strength of management authority. The content in this report cover various topics such as the types of bargaining issues and benefits and pitfalls of collective bargaining. Thorough literature review has been done in order to reach a firm justification of position. The literatures covered in this report are perceptions of various authors about the role of trade unions, the role of the management and the two faces of unionism mentioned by Freeman and Medoff (1984). This report ends with a strong justification of position and a conclusion. This report also includes various organisational examples in order to provide a transparent view towards the topic.

    Table of Contents:

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    • Introduction 1
      • Collective Bargaining 1
      • Collective Bargaining Issues 2
      • Types of Collective Bargaining                                                             3
      • Benefits of Collective Bargaining 4
      • Pitfalls of Collective Bargaining 5
    • Literature Review                                                                                    7         
      • Role of trade unions 7
      • Trade unions and the role of management              8
      • The two faces of Unionism              9        
    • Collective Bargaining and Organisational Strategy                                                     10
    • Collective Bargaining and the strength of management (Justification of Position)            11
    • Conclusion            12
    • Recommendation                       12
    • List of References            13
    • Bibliography            17
    • Appendices       22 – 29      
  • Franchising McDonalds in Japan

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    Franchising McDonalds in Japan

    The purpose of this assignment is to learn about franchising, which the most popular market entry strategy in contemporary business. This report includes the advantages and problems that organisations face while franchising and the report reflects on the pros and cons from the perception of both the franchisor and the franchisee. This report also focuses on the McDonald’s franchises in Japan and how they have been successfully dominating the Japanese market and earning more revenues for McDonald’s.

    Table of Contents

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    1.0 Introduction                                                                                                                                               1

    2.0 The Concept of Franchising                                                                                                                  1

    2.1 Advantages of franchising from the point of view of the franchisor                                  2

    2.2 Advantages of franchising from the point of view of the franchisee                                 3

    2.3 Problems from the point of view of the franchisor                                                                   5

    2.4 Problems from the point of view of the franchisee                                                                  6

    3.0 Conclusion                                                                                                                                                  6

    4.0 List of references                                                                                                                                     7

    5.0 Bibliography                                                                                                                                               8

  • Financial Ratio Analysis of Marico Limited

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    The report at hand manifests an in-depth analysis of the financial statements of Marico Bangladesh Limited. Marico Bangladesh Limited is a company that caters to the fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) segment of the market of Bangladesh. The company produces products such as hair oil, edible oil and soaps. The purpose of this report was to scrutinize the financial statements of the company and justify whether profitability is sufficient enough to determine the performance of a company. This report comprises of a literature review which projects the perceptions of different authors about the different ratios used to analyse the financial statements followed by the analysis of the financial statements using financial ratios and ends with a brief conclusion and recommendation.

     

    Table of Contents

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    • Introduction               1

    1.1Background of the company                                                                                               1

    1.2 Rationale of the study                                                                                                        2

    2.0 Literature Review                                                                                                                           3

    2.1 Financial Statement (Ratio) Analysis                                                                                 3

    2.1.1 Liquidity Ratio                                                                                                                4

    2.1.2 Asset Management Ratio                                                                                                 5

    2.1.3 Debt Management Ratio                                                                                                  7

    2.1.4 Profitability Ratio                                                                                                            8

    2.1.5 Market Value Ratio                                                                                                         9

    3.0 Data Analysis                                                                                                                    10

    3.1 Financial Statement (Ratio) Analysis of Marico Bangladesh Limited                             10

    3.1.1 Liquidity Ratios                                                                                                             10

    3.1.2 Asset Management Ratios                                                                                             13

    3.1.3 Debt-Management Ratio                                                                                               16

    3.1.4 Profitability Ratios                                                                                                         17

    3.1.5 Market Value Ratios                                                                                                      22

    4.0 Conclusion                                                                                                                        23

    5.0 Recommendation                                                                                                              24

    6.0 List of References                                                                                                             25

    7.0 Bibliography                                                                                                                     26

    Appendix                                                                                                                                27