HRM Human resource management is a strategic and coherent approach to the management of an organization’s most valued assets – the people working there‚ who individually and collectively contribute to the achievement of its objectives. Boxall et al(2007) describe HRM as ‘the management of work and people towards desired ends’. John Storey (1989) believes that HRM can be regarded as a ‘set of interrelated policies with an ideological and philosophical underpinning’. He suggests four aspects that
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Competitors analysis Students gave the answer of Q1.4 and analysed 3 competitors of Apple Describe background of IT industry with focus on Apple (5 marks) Use Porters Competitors analysis to analyse Apple (5 marks) 10 facts = 10 marks 1.4 Three different competitors of Apple Inc Describe 3 competitors (6 marks) Use Porters Competitors analysis to analyse competitors (9 marks) 10 facts = 5 marks 1.5 SWOT Most students did well in this question 10 facts = 5 marks Section B 1 PEST & SWOT Only
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PESTAL Analysis of Serena Hotel Political Pakistan has experienced many political upheavals during the last year of a century and the one thing‚ which the country was lacking‚ is political stability. This had a direct effect upon the policies of the businesses especially hotels management. Although tourism growth was affected all over the world after the 9/11 incident‚ and it had a far reaching negative impact on Pakistan’s economy in general and Gilgit Baltistan in particular‚ as its economy
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PEST ANALYSIS FOR APPLE INC The PEST analysis is the useful procedure to grasp market growth or decline. So it is a business dimension tools that helps to identify an organisations macro environment. The factors include in PEST analysis are Political factors‚ Economical factors‚ Social influence‚ Technological factors. An organisation cannot control the changes in those factors but any changes effect directly to an organisation. So the organisation should react quickly if any
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INFORMATION PAPER Marketing Management ‘PEST’ ANALYSIS AND FIVE FORCES ANALYSIS June 2008 Momtchil Krastev m.krastev@clusterstar.com Profit Center Sofia London School of Economics Information Paper The Firm and the Environment – A fictive amusement park in the UK PEST Analysis and Five Forces Analysis For further information‚ please do not hesitate to contact us: ClusterStar KG Werderstr. 1 86159 Augsburg Germany Office +49 (0) 821 26 12 084 Cell +49 (0) 176 213 003 52 E-mail:
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criteria examples ecological/environmental current legislation future legislation international legislation regulatory bodies and processes government policies government term and change trading policies funding‚ grants and initiatives home market pressure- groups international pressure- groups wars and conflicts Political 1. No significant awareness program around disease education/recognition resulting in lower awareness in policy makers. 2. Orphan disease
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Pest Analysis on Pfizer Pfizer Incorporated (NYSE: PFE) is a pharmaceutical company‚ ranking number one in sales in the world. The company is based in New York City‚ with its research headquarters in Groton‚ Connecticut. It produces Lipitor (atorvastatin‚ used to lower blood cholesterol); the neuropathic pain/fibromyalgia drug Lyrica (pregabalin); the oral antifungal medication Diflucan (fluconazole)‚ the antibiotic Zithromax (azithromycin)‚ Viagra (sildenafil) for erectile dysfunction‚ and the
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I. Introduction Acer is a Taiwanese computer technology and electronics corporation. It manufactures desktops and laptop PCs‚ personal digital‚ servers‚ storage devices‚ displays‚ smart phones‚ and peripherals. Since the company was considered to be of low value of manufacturing company‚ from the early 2000s Acer has streamlined its operations‚ spinning off its manufacturing operations. In addition‚ Acer has implemented a new channel business model and shifted itself to a pure brand company that
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Chapter 4 Knowledge Representation question and answers 1. Consider the following statements a) Reema is a super star. b) All super stars are rich. c) All rich people have fast cars. d) All fast cars consume a lot of petrol. Use predicate logic and inference rules to draw the conclusion “Reema’s car consumed a lot of petrol”. a. List any two knowledge representation techniques. b. Write Modus Ponens rule. c. Define disjunctive normal form with suitable
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PEST Analysis Example If you ’re a student of marketing and business studies then you must have come across the term ’PEST Analysis ’. Here are a couple of PEST Analysis examples to clarify the concept further. You cannot imagine the amount of hard work and research that is involved whenever a new product or commercial utility is launched. For that matter‚ any change in the business management and development strategy calls for minute scrutiny of the environment which would form the background
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