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  • HR Practice analysis of Marks & Spencer, Selfridges & Co., Primark and Sainsbury’s

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    The term paper examines HR practices of four top Uk based retailers which are also operating in other countries. These retailers are Marks & Spencer, Selfridges & Co., Primark, and Sainsbury’s.

    Paper contents are shown in this table:

    Topic Page
    Definition of Human Resource Management 1
    1. HR Practice of Marks & Spencer’s 2
    1.1 HRM Management in 21st Century: Challenges for the

    Future

    		 3
    1.2 The Impact of Information Technology on HR Management

    in M & S: (Opportunities and Challenges)

    		 4
    1.3 Recruitment & Selection Process of Marks and Spencer 5
    1.4 Performance & Reward System 5-6
    1.5 Career Development & Training & Development Program in

    M&S

    		 6-7
    1.6 Financial Budget of HR in M & S 7-9
    1.7 Health and Safety Issues in M & S and HR Ethics 9
    1.8 Recommendation 10
    2. HR Practices of Selfridges & Co 11
    2.1 HRM Management in 21st Century: Challenges for the

    Future

    		 12
    2.2. The Impact of Information Technology on HR

    Management: (Opportunities and Challenges)

    		 13
    2.3. Recruitment & Selection Process of Selfridges 13-14
    2.4 Performance & Reward System 14
    2.5 Career Development & Training & Development Program in

    Selfridges

    		 14-15
    2.6 Financial Budget of HR in Selfridges 15-17
    2.7 Health and Safety Issues in Selfridges and HR Ethics 17-18
    2.8 Recommendation 18
    3. HR Practices of Primark 19
    3.1 HR Management in the 21st Century: Challenges for the

    Future

    		 20
    3.2 The Impact of Information Technology on HR

    Management: Opportunities and Challenges

    		 20
    3.3 Recruitment & Selection Process 21
    3.4 Performance & Reward Systems 21-22
    3.5 Career Development and Training & Development Program 22
    3.6 Financial Budget of HR [Salary + Bonus +Increments +

    others]

    		 23-25
    3.7 Health & Safety Issues and HR Ethics 26
    3.8 Recommendation 26
    4. HR Practice of Sainsbury’s 27
    4.1 HR management in the 21st century: challenges for the

    future

    		 28
    4.2 The Impact of Information Technology at Sainsbury HRM:

    opportunities and challenges

    		 29
    4.3 Recruitment and selection 29-30
    4.4 Performance & Reward Systems 30
    4.5 Career Development and Training & Development Program 31
    4.6 Financial budget of HR (salary + bonus + increments +

    others)

    		 32-34
    4.7 Health and safety issues and HR ethics 35
    4.8 Recommendation 35
    Comparison & Contrast of HR Practices of M&S, Selfridges,

    Primark and Sainsbury’s (a)+(b)+(c)+(d)

    		 36-38
    Conclusion 39
    References 40-41
    Report BlogSpot print sample 42
    Report Academia print sample 43

    43 pages

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  • Assignment 1: Yahoo and Amazon: Building a Competitive Advantage

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    Review Case 21 “How Amazon.com became the leading online retailer by 2011”, and Case 23 “Is Yahoo!’s business model working in 2011?” located in the textbook to complete this assignment.

    Write a paper in which you:

    1. Describe, in brief, the histories of both of Amazon.com and Yahoo.com, and determine the core business of each.
    2. Determine the key strategic differences that have impacted the relative success of both Amazon.com and Yahoo.com. Provide two (2) specific examples of such strategic differences to support the response.
    3. Compare and contrast the approach to strategic planning that each company has pursued in order to achieve a competitive advantage. Focus specifically on both intended and emergent strategies.
    4. Analyze the manner in which each company’s distinctive competencies help to shape the strategies that each company pursues. Provide a rationale to support the response.
    5. Recommend one (1) functional level strategy for each company which prescribes the essential ways in which each may achieve superior efficiency, quality, innovation, and customer responsiveness. Provide a rationale to support the response.
    6. Use at least three (3) quality references. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.

    Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

    • Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
    • Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

    The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

    • Analyze the role of a company mission, vision, and objectives and the impact to business strategy.
    • Describe strategic planning techniques used to formulate alternative strategies designed to achieve stated business goals.
    • Analyze the external and internal environment for opportunities, threats, strengths, and weaknesses that impact the firm’s competitiveness.
    • Use technology and information resources to research issues in strategic management.
    • Write clearly and concisely about strategic management using proper writing mechanics.

    10 Pages, APA, 19 References

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  • Business-Level and Corporate-Level Strategies: General Motors (GM)

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    Choose an industry you have not yet written about in this course, and one publicly traded corporation within that industry. Research the company on its own Website, the public filings on the Securities and Exchange Commission EDGAR database (http://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml), in the University’s online databases, and any other sources you can find. The annual report will often provide insights that can help address some of these questions.
    Write a six to eight (6-8) page paper in which you:
    1- Analyse the business-level strategies for the corporation you chose to determine the business-level strategy you think is most important to the long-term success of the firm and whether or not you judge this to be a good choice. Justify your opinion.
    2- Analyse the corporate-level strategies for the corporation you chose to determine the corporate-level strategy you think is most important to the long-term success of the firm and whether or not you judge this to be a good choice. Justify your opinion
    3 – Analyze the competitive environment to determine the corporation’s most significant competitor. Compare their strategies at each level and evaluate which company you think is most likely to be successful in the long term. Justify your choice.
    4- Determine whether your choice from Question 3 would differ in slow-cycle and fast-cycle markets.
    5- Use at least five (5) quality references. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not quality as academic resources.
    Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:
     Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
     Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required page length.
     Watch this 15 minute video on APA style: . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzcBiY2BGQA
    The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:
     Identify various levels and types of strategy in a firm.
     Use technology and information resources to research issues in business administration.
     Write clearly and concisely about business administration using proper writing mechanics.
    8 Pages, APA, 10 References
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  • Contemporary Business: Corporate Responsibility and Marketing Strategies – Apple Inc.

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    Use the Internet to research the Apple Corporation, its current position and reputation regarding ethical and social responsibility, and the strategies that it currently employs to market its products.

    Write a six to eight page paper in which you:

    1. Examine Apple’s current position on the company’s ethical and social responsibilities, and determine whether or not the company has met these responsibilities. Provide two (2) examples that support your position.
    2. Determine the impact that the publication of ethics and social responsibilities violations made by Apple’s suppliers has had on Apple’s reputation. Support your response with examples of the impact in question.
    3. Suggest two (2) methods that Apple can utilize to ensure that its suppliers adhere to wage and benefits standards going forward. Justify your response.
    4. Determine whether or not you believe that Apple’s customers would be willing to pay more for its products if Apple had to increase selling prices in order to provide better wages and benefits for suppliers’ workers. Provide a rationale for your position.
    5. Analyze Apple’s current overall marketing strategy. Recommend two (2) actions that Apple can take in order to improve its competitive advantage in the global marketplace. Support your response with examples of instances where your recommendations yielded the desired results.
    6. Use at least five (6) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia does not qualify as an academic resource.

    Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

    • Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
    • Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

    6 Pages, APA, 10 References

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  • Apple’s Corporation Ethical, Social Responsibly & Marketing Strategies

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    Assignment One: Apple Corporation- Ethical & Social Responsibly & Marketing Strategies

    Use the Internet to research the Apple Corporation, its current position and reputation regarding ethical and social responsibility, and the strategies that it currently employs to market its products.

    Write a six to eight page paper in which you:

    1. Examine Apple’s current position on the company’s ethical and social responsibilities, and determine whether or not the company has met these responsibilities. Provide two (2) examples that support your position.
    2. Determine the impact that the publication of ethics and social responsibilities violations made by Apple’s suppliers has had on Apple’s reputation. Support your response with examples of the impact in question.
    3. Suggest two (2) methods that Apple can utilize to ensure that its suppliers adhere to wage and benefits standards going forward. Justify your response.
    4. Determine whether or not you believe that Apple’s customers would be willing to pay more for its products if Apple had to increase selling prices in order to provide better wages and benefits for suppliers’ workers. Provide a rationale for your position.
    5. Analyze Apple’s current overall marketing strategy. Recommend two (2) actions that Apple can take in order to improve its competitive advantage in the global marketplace. Support your response with examples of instances where your recommendations yielded the desired results.
    6. Use at least five (6) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia does not qualify as an academic resource.

    Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

    • Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
    • Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

    7 Pages

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  • Bus 320 Quiz 3 White Version

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    True/False Questions: Circle the correct response. (2 points each)

     

    1. T F In theory, if two assets have the same expected cash flows they will always have the same price.
     

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    Using margin to buy stocks can negate the limited liability aspect of investing in corporations.
     

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    Management of a company generally prefers non-cumulative to cumulative share voting.
     

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    Since the returns of well-diversified portfolios move very much in line with the returns for all stocks in the market, portfolio betas are equal to the beta for the market which is 1.0.
     

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    People who employ technical analysis when investing do not believe that markets are weak-form efficient.
     

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    An investor is considering adding another investment to a portfolio. To achieve the maximum diversification benefits, the investor should add an investment that has a correlation coefficient with the existing portfolio closest to 0.
     

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    If investors expected inflation to increase in the future, and they also became less risk averse, the SML would shift up and the slope would increase.
     

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    Normally, the Security Market Line has an upward slope. However, at one of those unusual times when the yield curve on bonds is downward sloping, the SML will also have a downward slope.
     

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    An increase in the risk-free interest rate will increase a security’s beta.
     

    10.

    		  

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    Combining securities that are not perfectly positively correlated helps to reduce the risk of a portfolio.
     

    11.

    		  

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    The addition of foreign securities to the domestic portfolio opportunity set will likely shift the efficient frontier up and to the left.
     

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    If markets are strong-form efficient, the expected return on each stock will be the same as the return on the market.
     

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    Illiquid stocks tend to have wider spreads between the bid and ask price.
     

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    For dividend paying stocks, prices fall in predictable ways on the ex-dividend date.

     

     

     

    15. T F If a stock were to issue new stock (to raise money) this year it would be considered a secondary market transaction since the company already has stock outstanding.
     

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    All else equal (the expected return on the market and beta do not change), an

    increase in the risk free rate will increase a stock’s expected return.
     

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    Empirical evidence that markets are not strong form efficient would also be
          evidence that markets are not semi-strong form efficient.
     

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    A proxy fight typically refers to a competition to gain enough shareholder votes to determine who will serve on the board of directors.
     

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    A limit order to buy a security will transact at the current lowest ask price.
     

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    When a stock splits 2-for-1 the stock price falls and the expected return increases.

     

    Multiple Choice Questions: Circle the correct response. (4 points each)

    Scenario Dividend Stock Price
    Boom $4.00 $68
    Normal $3.00 $55
    Recession $1.00 $43

     
    1. 21. A stock currently sells for $50 and has the following potential payoffs (to be received one year from today). Each scenario is equally likely.

    What is the standard deviation for the stock?

    1. a)     5.23% b)   14.51% c) 16.08%
    1. d)   19.07%
    2. f)   22.86%
    a) $ 27.10
    b) $ 27.35
    c) $ 27.85
    d) $ 28.10
    e) $ 29.76
    f) $ 30.36

     
    1. 22. A company has a beta of 0.9 and the market risk premium is 5.4% percent. The risk-free rate is 3.2%. If an investor paid $26.00 for a share a year ago and they just received a dividend of $0.25 for the year, what would be a fair price for the share today?
    1. 23. Consider the following information:

    Price           E[R]         Beta

    Google

    $1,130.00

    8.4%         0.90

    Apple

    Yahoo

    $ 530.00

    $   38.00

    7.8%         0.80

    9.6%         1.10

    You have a portfolio of these 3 stocks and the beta is 1.0. If your $217,307.69 portfolio includes 50 shares of Google, how many shares of Yahoo do you own?

    1. a)       112
    1. b)       238 c)       915 d)     2,313 e)     2,839 f)   3,317
    a) 25%
    b) 35%
    c) 50%
    d) 65%
    e) 75%

     
    1. 24. Stocks A and B are perfectly negatively correlated. The expected return on A is 8% with a standard deviation of 12%. The expected return on B is 18% with a standard deviation of 36%. You’d like to combine these two stocks into a riskless portfolio. What fraction of the portfolio should be held in A?
    a) 0.6
    b) 0.8
    c) 1.2
    d) 1.5
    e) 1.6
    f) 1.8

     
    1. 25. You hold a diversified portfolio consisting of a $7,500 investment in each of 10 different stocks. The portfolio’s beta is 1.60. Now suppose you decide to sell one of those stocks in your portfolio for $7,500. If the sold stock had a beta of 1.80, and the proceeds are used to purchase a replacement stock, what does the beta of the replacement stock have to be for the new portfolio beta to be 1.50?
    1. 26. (24 points). As an analyst following WinConn, you’ve obtained the following information:

    × Dividends

    – You expect the company to pay its first dividend of $2.00 exactly 6 years from today.

    Dividends will then grow at 13% for 4 years (until 10 years from today). After this high growth phase, dividends will grow more slowly. Dividends will grow at 11% for one year (11 years from today), and then 9% for one year (12 years from today), and then grow at

    6% forever after that.

    × Market Conditions

    – You generally use CAPM to gage whether a stock is undervalued or overvalued. The return on 3-month Treasury securities (the risk-free rate) is 3%. The expected return on the S&P500 Index (a portfolio of 500 large stocks that you use to measure market returns) is 9%, and the standard deviation of S&P returns is 28%. You’ve estimated the standard deviation of WinConn’s returns to be 56%, and the correlation between WinConn and S&P is 0.80.

    1. a) What’s your estimate of the required rate of return for WinConn?
    2. b) What’s your estimate of the fair price today for one share of WinConn?
    3. c) How much would a share sell for 9 years from today?
    1. 27. (8 points). In your assessment, stock A has the following probability distribution of expected returns:
    Probability

    0.1

    		 Rate of Return

    -40%
    0.2 0
    0.4 10%
    0.2 30%
    0.1 40%

    The risk-free rate is 5.0% and the expected return on the market is 10.0%. If the standard deviation of the market is 18.0%, and the correlation of A with the market is 0.6, is the stock fairly valued?

    1. 28. (8 points). Complete the following table, indicating whether each of the following portfolios cannot lie on the efficient frontier:
        Standard Deviation Cannot lie on the Efficient
    Portfolio Expected Return Of Returns Frontier? Yes or No
    A 6% 11%  
    B 7% 11%  
    C 5% 10%  
    D 7% 12%  
    E 6% 10%  

     

    Consider a portfolio that has five securities. The financial manager is considering adding a sixth investment to the portfolio. Which of these candidates do you recommend, and why?

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  • Check Point: Business Models and Systems

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    Consider a local business whose services you frequently use. What are the main components of this company’s business model? Using Figure 1.2 on p. 11 of your text as a guide, describe the three components of the business system that comprise the local business you selected. Your response should be 200-300 words in length.

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  • Promotional and Advertising Strategies: Toyota and Ford

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    Assignment 3: Promotional and Advertising Strategies

    Select one (1) of the following categories of products to research: sports apparel, automobiles, home furnishings, or televisions. Use the Internet to research at least two (2) companies within the selected product category. Take note of the leading companies in this product group, as well as the types of marketing, pricing, and consumer-oriented promotional strategies that these leading companies within the product group use.

    Write a six to eight (6-8) page paper in which you:

    • Compare and contrast the promotional strategies used by two (2) different companies for a similar product within the category that you selected.
    • Recommend two (2) ways in which a company within the selected product group could use marketing information to differentiate itself in the marketplace to gain an advantage over its competitors. Provide a rationale to support your recommendations.
    • Propose two (2) uses for consumer-oriented promotions that could assist a company in both the short and long term for the product group that you selected. Provide a rationale for your response.
    • Analyze the strategic manner in which the leading company in this product group has made its pricing decisions by using one or more of the four (4) pricing objectives. Suggest two (2) actions that other companies within the same product group may take in order to differentiate themselves and gain a competitive advantage. Provide a rationale for your response.
    • Determine the most effective advertising medium for a company in the selected product category. Support your response with two (2) examples of the effectiveness of the chosen medium.
    • Use at least five (5) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia does not qualify as an academic resource.

    Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

    • Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
    • Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

    The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

    • Apply the core marketing concepts and marketing orientation to develop viable marketing strategies that fit a variety of market environments, domestic and international.
    • Analyze information technology applications and the application of decision support systems to gain a competitive advantage and more effectively control operations.
    • Use technology and information resources to research issues in contemporary business.
    • Write clearly and concisely about contemporary business using proper writing mechanics.

    7 Pages

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  • Assignment 2: Compensation Plan Outline (Cocacola)

    $25.00

    Using the same company you researched in Assignment 1, evaluate the company’s compensation plan to determine how it could be improved.
    Write a six to eight (6-8) page paper in which you:

    • Evaluate the existing compensation plan to determine if it is the most appropriate for your company. Explain your rationale.
    • Determine the most beneficial ratio of internally consistent and market consistent compensations systems for the company you selected.
    • Evaluate the current pay structure used by your company and assess the recognition of employee contributions.
    • Make two (2) recommendations for improving the effectiveness of the discretionary benefits provided by the company you selected.
    • Evaluate the types of employer-sponsored retirement plans and health insurance programs provided by the company you selected and compare them to that company’s major competitors.
    • Use at least three (3) quality references. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.

    Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

    • Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.

    7 Pages

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