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Procter and Gamble, a leading global company, specializes in consumer goods. Its global business services unit, established in July 1999, was aimed to move the company from “operating by regions to operating by-products” (Delong et al 4). Economic changes and strategic plans of P&G demand restructuring of this unit and new approaches to doing business on the global scale. Three alternatives involve: spin-off GBS as a separate independent entity, outsource all of GBS to one business and outsource GBS divisions separately. Critics admit that it is a mistake to consider the outsourcing and restructuring alternative in a vacuum. It is important to take into account the nature of business and the modern economic environment. To achieve the basic objective of making the company larger, more successful, and more profitable, many possible alternatives should be taken into account. The first approach is the most attractive for P&G but it is not a priority of the company. The separation will impact the service level and costs, delivery system, and logistics. Continuous value enhancement in a single product area is certainly laudable, but prudence dictates that other stakeholders’ needs (shareholders, employees, creditors, and suppliers, for instance) also be taken into consideration. Diversification is an important strategy in assuring that the needs of a variety of stakeholders are given careful enough attention to merit their strong approval. Moreover, expanding the product and market scope of the firm widens its spectrum of customers, providing even more opportunities for delivering value in completely novel ways. The separation of the unit will create additional problems for the company and its customers including increased competition and lower customer service. It is possible to say that the unit has the expertise to compete but it will require additional financing and support of the main units. The leader of the unit, Miek Power, has found that by reevaluating activities, improved efficiencies can be gained by outsourcing essential services (Campbell 54). The benefits of integrating resources through supply chain management help to produce total efficiency which translates to the creation of customer value. Properly planned and implemented, this type of approach can produce desirable results without losing competitive capabilities (Greaver 22). The second option is more advantageous for the company but less desirable for employees. Thus, this alternative is limited to broadening the product line, however, is erroneous. Many other business goals can be fulfilled by outsourcing. These include strengthening the company’s financial position, procuring the services of one or more key personnel or new executive talent, obtaining land, buildings, and equipment for expansion,
Summary ‘Natural Apex- Defining a National Energy Policy for the Next Decade’ is a book authored by Bruce E. Fleming; this book is Fleming’s effort to explain and make clear the imminent shortage of energy options in the future, and as the title suggests, goes further to propose the future energy options (Fleming). In recent years, in the face of global warming and its effects, there have been more debates on the adoption of ‘green’ energy alternatives. In this book Fleming joins this debate. He attempts to offer solution on the global need for alternative energy sources. First, he acknowledges the possibility that in a few years there’s likely to be a “disruptive shortage of natural resources” (Fleming), which are dwindling at a speed that the current efforts to secure them may not be possible. He explains the irony that the slow dwindling of natural resources is partly due to the effort by the world to adopt ‘green’ energy alternatives. For instance, with the decline of crude oil the world is considering biofuel as a replacement. But, the world may be reckless in its effort to make that transition as reflected in the call to clear the Amazon forest for the sake of growing crops that could be used as biofuel, when the air pollution resulting from clearing and burning would be worse than if the forest were not touched and people continued to use fossil fuels. It is Fleming’s wish in this book that people would understand and accept that natural resources and energy crisis is a possibility. Second, he explores the energy options with which to effectively respond to such a time when it comes. Finally, he hopes that his arguments in this book will be a good platform on which to “develop and coordinate a long-term national strategy for energy that bears a global perspective that is inclusive of viable and affordable alternatives” (Fleming). In this effort, Fleming makes a number of arguments. Fleming opens his argument by claiming that, unlike the gone quarter of a century when a country’s economic strength was judged relative to the amount of finished goods that it produced or the services it offered, a time is approaching when a country’s wealth will be judged based on how much access to and control of natural resources it has. Already, Fleming cites, China and India, two of the fastest growing economies which are facing the problem of limited natural resources. But in time, due to an increasingly “highly interrelated global economy” (Fleming), the problem will eventually come to affect all nations. What Fleming finds challenging in the effort to solve a global energy crisis, as predicted in this book is the present globalization and where it is likely to be headed, and the consequent closeness of nations, especially in relation to the magnitude of the crisis. Also, because of it, all nations may need to commit themselves and cooperate among themselves. Unfortunately this global solution is quite complex and might not be a smooth ride. This is especially since, while “meaningful cooperation” (
Employee selection procedure is a process through which the employer reviews a pool of applications for a given position and decides to hire one or more candidates and not to hire others. In other words, the selection process is the procedure through which the employer decides which candidate in the applicant pool possesses the best qualification to be successful in the job (Gitman and McDaniel 209). The traditional selection process involved a detailed job analysis of a given position and that leads to understanding the psychological attributes that are necessary in a candidate deemed fit for the position. Further, the selection process should also undergo a validation process that would allow for understanding the performative outcome of the candidate in terms of absenteeism and turnover. However, the contemporary procedure that is followed by recruiters today is described below:  1. Screening. The first process entailed in the section process is the initial screening process. This is done right after the candidate submits her application for the job. This initial screening process entails a brief interview, often over the phone to gauge the initial suitability of the candidate for the position. In this step, information regarding the candidate’s educational background, past experiences, and background are gathered.  2. Tests. Following the initial screening, the candidate may be asked to undertake a test to gauge her aptitude for the job. The tests usually entail understanding the candidate’s special job skills for example proficiency in English for a copywriting or technical writers’ job.  3. Interview. Interview is the process wherein the recruiter has an in-depth discussion with the candidate to understand the candidate’s psychological and experiential fit for the job. It is considered the most important selection step and is widely used in all forms of selection process. Interviews are generally conducted to understand the skills and abilities of the candidate, previous work experience, education, and career goals. This is a popular process of selection, and often at managerial or above levels a personal is interviewed by many people at the same or different times. During the interview, the candidate may be asked to analyze and interpret job related situations or problems or to demonstrate their specific skills directly related to the job. For example, in case of teacher’s recruitment at a management institute, candidates may be asked to demonstrate their class delivery skills. The interviews aim to understand the candidate’s communication skills and motivation.  4. Reference Checking. Background or reference checking is the process through which candidates’ credentials are checked. This is a process wherein the references of the candidates are checked. The recruiter speaks to the referrals, who are the candidate’s immediate supervisor and/or colleagues. The reference is done to understand the perception of superior and peer regarding the candidate’s perfor
There was a time when I participated in club meetings where everyone seemed to be reluctant about my ideas. I was criticized for practically anything I would say, and it significantly affected me on both emotional and creative levels. Nevertheless, I have always witnessed that the club’s advisor would never pay attention to those remarks. She remained calm and tried to investigate the situation to navigate the group through the conflict and make sure that there were no discontented club members left. This strategy seemed to work efficiently, as the group would subsequently move forward and forget about the prior conflicts to achieve shared objectives. When I started using this approach to resolving conflicts in my personal life, I found out that it could be one of the most efficient ways to help encounter participants to overcome their misunderstandings. Therefore, I am grateful to my former club advisor for being so patient and considerate. The leadership trait that I exhibit when I am using the same approach to conflict resolution nowadays is intelligence. The idea is that I synthesize all the available information to make the most reasonable decision and remain objective irrespective of who is involved in the encounter. Everything I learn about conflicts allows me to create a vision for those involved to help them alleviate the willingness to remain hostile. As for the respective behavioral dimension that best describes my approach to lollipop moments related to resolving conflicts, I would mention the concern for people. There is nothing more important than interpersonal relationships, so it is critical to make sure that individuals involved in the conflict are going to focus on each other’s points of view and become more empathetic toward each other. I will never give up on my lollipop moment because it is hard to resolve conflicts when both sides are motivated to criticize each other instead of providing support.
The competitive position of RAC Motoring Services in terms of its operations-based strengths or weaknesses The strengths of the RAC Motoring services includes being a trusted brand with a high market end, and visible, high-tech control centers. Also, it uses highly skilled loyal patrols for customer rescues. Weaknesses include slow phone and roadside without a response guarantee. That is in addition to expensive, perceived traditional like a club, and inconsistent quality of services. The advantages and disadvantages of the current cell-focused service management structure Advantages include simplicity and convenience for the operations staff to dispatch patrols to customers with set tight location boundaries that reduce patrol travel time and distance. The disadvantage is the existence of adjacent cells with different queue time with random breakdowns. The solution is to provide the patrols with more direct contact lines with the managers at lower costs compared with the current hierarchical approach with new leading patrols with associated responsibilities, making it more effective. The redesign opportunities of the employment contracts, payment systems, and working practices By replacing stand-by to reduce overtime payments, reducing dependence on contracts, taking over control of Patrol’s working hours, rewarding patrols for flexibility, pay constant salaries to the patrols irrespective of working hours, complying with the European Working Times Directive (EWTD), and eliminating non-compliance stand-by time. That is in addition to effectively managing the new annualized Roster. Recommendations for an implementation plan The overall recommendations included radical design changes with the union that lead to an excellent working team, with honesty being the core value. That reduced labor turnover to 6%, with the scheme saving RAC £6m a year by lowering the use of contractors. That was in addition to the patrols increasing their total earnings by £2m, with individuals, with an increase of Customer Service Index for quality for the next 17 months consecutively. That is because of the RAC patrol’s attendance and quick response time.
The End and the Beginning and Hitler’s First Photograph by Wisława Szymborska are two poems that share thematic elements concerned with time, war, and the invisibility of evil. The poems will be analyzed and contrasted with the central theme and each other. The thesis of this work suggests that both works by Szymborska illuminate the duality of time, both as reciting historical patterns with ease, such as the aftermath of war, and being completely untelling of events to come, such as the transformation of an innocent baby into a mass murderer. The End and the Beginning by Szymborska recounts the reconstruction of affected areas after a war. The particular imagery refers to the effects of the Second World War, the pushing of rubble, the collection of corpses, and miring in sofa springs and glass. However, the poem begins with “after every war, someone has to clean up” (Szymborska, lines 1-2), which is the focal point of the poem. Wars exist within a universal timeline as outlined by Szymborska. She illuminates a process in which the war demolishes nations, the press and media become disinterested at its end, and as rebuilding begins, the nation becomes populated with individuals who knew little or nothing of the war (Szymborska, lines 1-4). Here Szymborska refers to the generations that will inhabit the heritage which they did not live (lines 39-42). Birth and innocence become a prevalent theme at the end of the poem and
Abstract In this dissertation, the focus will be on the analysis of success factors for implementing the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) in the State of Qatar. For this reason, the study will take form of investigation both primary and secondary sources for obtaining industry views and comparing them with already published information related to critical success factors of ERP. The proposed study will investigate different critical successful factors of ERP and their existence for both private and governmental organizations operating in Qatar. The methodology proposed in qualitative in nature and will involve survey questionnaire to obtain views and responses from employees of organizations. The outcome will be rather subjective however, efforts will be made to provide a critical evaluation of factors affecting ERP implementation. Research Question  1. What are the inherent relations among CSFs in ERP implementation?  2. What is the relation between CSFs and the company’s characteristics? The CSFs to be evaluated are as follows:   * Support from the top management of organization,   * The flow of controlled and planned activities achieved through the integrated systems,   * The positive response of management and employees to the implementation of new system and the change it brings,   * Training and development of the system’s stake holders,   * The restructuring of the business processes that are brought about by the implementation of the system and the users’ interaction with the system,   * The effectiveness of the software and hardware on which the ERP is implemented. For the sake of collecting up to date information, a survey will be conducted in Qatar’s organizations, in which the emphasis will be on collecting information about the success of their ERP implementation and other issues related to that organization. The findings of this study will be required to reflect t he vital role of the success factors in the implementation of the ERP system and its advantages to the respective organizations. Introduction ERP has revolutionized the business practices of organizations si
Organization Development & Manpower Planning and Information Reporting   * Organization development targets improving the organization’s capabilities through the alignment of people, structure, strategy, and management processes.   * The main aim of manpower planning is to estimate the number of people for the successful work of an organization. They do it by counting the number of working personnel, establishing the types of skills required for the job, and analyzing demand and supply trends.   * Information reporting section specialists research the ratio of customers’ approval of the services. They gather statistics through phone calls or public polls for the clients. Recruitment   * Recruitment specialists search for new employees and lead them through all the stages of employment.   * It is the responsibility of the recruitment section workers to decide upon the employees’ promotion.   * When the term of the contracts between the institution and the employee is over, and the latter is willing to stay, recruitment specialists renew his contract. Salary Management & Benefits   * Salary managers provide statistics and reports on the payments and benefits to the workers released in a certain period of time.   * Salary managers establish the amount of severance pay for the employees who decide to quit.   * Salary managers deal with the retirement pay for those who are not capable of performing the job due to old age. Employee Relations & Performance Management   * Performance managers analyze statistics on each worker as well as the feedback of other managers to establish the efficacy of each employee’s work performance.   * They also establish strategies that will help boost the efficacy of the institution’s work.   * Employee relations specialists are responsible for providing healthy relations among employees, employees, and managers.
Introduction Global warming is a climate change issue that has captured global attention, thus the worldwide debates by individuals, political leaders, business-related firms and international organizations especially the environmental activists. It is arguably the leading concern compared to other environmental issues. Researchers concerns are connecting different but conflicting views, which make it difficult, understand the global warming issue, particularly the possible causes and solutions to the matter. Thesis Statement This essay presents a critical analysis concerning the challenges of global warming. It provides an investigation of possible causes of the occurrence and particularly forms a critical view of the effects of population growth to global warming. Is future population growth a major and potential consequence to the issue? The essay also forms a substantive argument in relation to researched solutions over the issue of global warming. Some of the analyzed solutions include population growth, the possibility of reducing the emission rates through reduction of consumption rate, enhanced campaigns to inform people on the need for commitments to controlled population growth rate, and reduced pollution rates. The first part of the easy will form a general investigation of the possible causes and solutions to the problem thus elucidate facts from confusions and discussions that are not sustentative. Challenges Various human activities such as excessive production of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide are the root causes of global warming. The gases form part of the atmosphere and traps heat that would normally escape to the outer space. Natural occurring greenhouse gases assist in maintaining global warmth to adequate amounts that are able to support life. Increase of greenhouse gases causes alteration of weather patterns and thus influences duration of seasons, leads to existence of severe storms such as El Nino and coastal-related floods. Use of fossil fuels also causes excessive production of carbon gases. Another significant source of global warming is the human act of deforestation. When the environment has few trees, there is production of more carbon dioxide than it is used. Concerning the discussions concerning the effects of global warming researcher, scientists and activists often fail to incorporate the issues of population growth. According to Weiss (p.A-8), scientist have qualitative analysis concerning measures of reducing global warming effects such as floods, droughts or other climate catastrophes. This is achievable through reduction of enormous carbon gas emissions. However, he raises a main concern over negle
The plot of the 1982 film Blade Runner (directed by Ridley Scott) unravels in the year 2019 in Los Angeles. According to the movie’s plotline, by this time the American society has undergone a drastic transformation, as the so-called ‘replicants’ (genetically engineered androids, virtually indistinguishable from humans) began accounting for the population’s ever increased share. Yet, formally speaking, replicants are not allowed to be present on Earth – the reason why they have been produced, in the first place, is to perform dangerous/non-prestigious jobs in the ‘off-world’ colonies. The film’s main character Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford) is entrusted with the mission of hunting down the group of replicants, which had made it to Earth illegally, and ‘retiring’ (killing) them. The foremost aspect of how the urban landscape is being represented in Blade Runner is that the director made a deliberate point in accentuating the perceptual unfriendliness of the environment, in the foreground of which the action takes place. This was done to expose the urban landscape, as such that prompts people to experience the sensation of an existential alienation. While striving to achieve the earlier mentioned effect, Scott resorted to emphasizing the foreign sounding of the featured neon-advertisements and underscoring the symbolical significance of a never-ending rain. As a result, viewers find themselves submerged in the clearly dystopian atmosphere of a futuristic living, which in turn makes them emotionally related to the explored themes and motifs. The foremost reason why viewing audiences almost instantaneously come to realize the fact that the film’s action takes place in the dystopian future is that the film’s depiction of Los Angeles does not quite match the contemporary images of this city. After all, even though that the policy of multiculturalism has been enjoying the status of an officially sponsored policy in California for quite some time now, it has not turned Los Angeles into another ‘Honcouver’ yet. In the film, however, this city appears to have gone almost completely Asian – something that the city’s contemporary residents are yet to witness in the future. The fact that replicants play an important role in Blade Runner , also contributes to the film’s dystopian a