Identify L’Occitane’s core competence. With reference to resource based view‚ explain how the competence was created. 1. Respect for the Environment L’Occitane invested heavily in developing products that contain rich natural ingredients with traceable origins. The company follows the principles of phytotherapy and aromatherapy‚ without using animal products. All product tests are under medical supervision rather than tests on animals. L’Occitane also limits the use of silicones‚ chemical
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Fram and Sony case study. Motivation is internal and external factors that stimulate desire and energy in people to be continually interested in and committed to a job‚ role‚ or subject‚ and to exert persistent effort in attaining a goal. Motivation is the energizer of behavior and mother of all action. It results from the interactions among conscious and unconscious factors such as the intensity of desire or need‚ incentive or reward value of the goal‚ and expectations of the individual and of
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but will that do the trick? According to Oliveira and Wenzel‚ (2012) “Core beliefs are defined as fundamental‚ inflexible‚ absolute‚ and generalized beliefs that people hold about themselves‚ others‚ the world‚ and/or the future” (p. 17). This definition says nothing about rationality or logical nor does it state what is acceptable or appropriate in regards to adaptive behavior and social functioning. However‚ “When a core belief is inaccurate‚ unhelpful‚ and/or judgmental…it has a profound effect
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PDHPE STAGE 6 HSC COURSE HSC CORE ONE: HEALTH PRIORITIES IN AUSTRALIA HOW ARE PRIORITY ISSUES FOR AUSTRALIAS HEALTH IDENTIFIED? Health priority issues are those health issues that are greatest concern to governments and support organizations due to the effect they have on the overall health of Australians and the burden of health on the economy. * Measuring health status Health status is the pattern of health of the population in general over a period of time. We measure our health
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Marketing is basically selling and advertising. Estimating what price consumers are willing to pay for a product and if the firm can make a profit selling at that price‚ is an example of a production activity. Marketing can provide needed direction for production and help make sure that the right goods and services find their way to interested consumers. Customer satisfaction is the extent to which a firm fulfills a consumer’s needs‚ desires‚ and expectations. Marketing encourages the development
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Core Knowledge Using what you learned about brain development in Chapter 4‚ explain why intensive intervention for poverty-stricken children starting in the first 2 years has a greater long-term impact on IQ than intervention at a later age. A child’s brain development is very critical in its first 2 years. A childs brain develops dramatically during the first 2 years. “During the first two years neural fibers synapses increase at an outstanding pace. Because of developmenting neuron requires
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Disney’s Core Competency Walt Disney once noted: “I only hope that we don’t lose sight of one thing – that it was all started by a mouse”. (Disney Dreamer‚ 1998). Walt Disney’s original core competence was cartoons and animated movies. By combining Imagineering with engineering Disney’s company reached unparalleled success with the creation of the first full length animated movie. This success led to new ideas and one of them was to open a park‚ a different kind of park. In Disneyland Walt used
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training for them to understand the code of ethics as they may not know how to follow the ethical standard in some situation. In the training lessons‚ they will face some ethical dilemma‚ this gives them a guideline to handle it when they face in the selling process. Besides that‚ sales managers must ensure that their salespeople are aware of their legal responsibilities. They must provide
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Company Selling/Customer Service Jardine Cycle & Carriage was a leading distributor of motor vehicles in Singapore. So successful had its efforts been in developing the market for its flagship brand of Mercedes Benz cars that parallel importers entered the market to compete for a slice of the pie. C&C had tried to counter the parallel importers through various means such as negative advertising‚ withdrawal of warranty services and discrimination against Mercedes that were not purchased from the
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to sell their inventory as quickly as possible. The faster inventory sells‚ the sooner cash comes in. Inventory turnover‚ measures the number of times a company sells its average level of inventory during a year. A fast turnover indicates ease in selling inventory; a low turnover indicates difficulty. A value of 6 means that the company’s average level of inventory has been sold six times during the year‚ and that’s usually better than a turnover of three times. But too high a value can mean that
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