Jennifer Nguyen Buad 301-14 2/10/2011 Case 7.1 Westwood Publishing Prewrite: • Westwood Publishing is a magazine publishing company. • Dan Cassidy is director of employee relations for Westwood Publishing. • Catherine Callahan is the vice president of human resources. • Catherine Callahan proposed that with the layoffs‚ offer a voluntary severance package or early retirement package. • Westwood Publishing had never laid off anyone in the 13 years of their
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Internal Communication “Westwood Publishing” The people in the case: - Linda Bosworth: CEO of Westwood Publishing - Catherine Callahan: Vice President of Human Resources - Eric Ridgway: Vice President of Corporate Communication - Dan Cassidy: Director of employee relations - Craig Stevens: Outside Public relations consultant Westwood Publishing MBA 9 Westwood in the1990’s - Westwood is one the most important publishing firm in the USA. - It was started by Linda Bosworth in the middle of
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senior managers approaching 60 years old without having a negative impact on the employees. As we can see in the case study‚ Linda Bosworth (CEO of Westwood Publishing avoided making these types of deals while the other companies already underwent merger and acquisition deals. Obviously‚ there are no other ways but to lay off some of Westwood’s senior managers. But‚ if Bosworth had received and studied some of the merger and acquisition deals before‚ maybe she would be able to save some of her employees’
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HRM-587 Course Project Part 4: Communicating the Change Date: 2/17/13 Communicating the Change Introduction: Communication is generally known as the glue that holds organizations together. It is the way we share information‚ ideas‚ goals‚ directions‚ expectations‚ feelings‚ and emotions in the context of organized action. The change strategy for communicating the necessary changes made by Apple during the integration of iPod and iTunes business unit and the subsequent vision that kept the
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Change Plan: Circuit City Kara Burke Keller Graduate School of Management One major change that took place in the Circuit City organization was its bankruptcy and liquidation of its assets. I was unable to find any communications that occurred within the organization‚ much less externally to stakeholders. What I was able to find were many news communication pieces from third parties. The communications highlighted all the stages of this change‚ from the announcement of bankruptcy filing to
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eyes to how unfair our law system is. I never realized the District Attorney had screeners that get to pick and choose what cases will get tried‚ and if they don’t take the case that person gets off easy. I believe if you break the law you should get tried and get the punishment you deserve‚ no matter what. The reason I believe everyone deserves to be punished for their action is because my sister recently was a victim of what the cops said was a class three sexual assault. He was eighteen and
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Vivienne Westwood Vivienne Isabel Swire was born in Derbyshire on 8th April 1941 to Gordon and Dora Swire who were greengrocers. She left grammar school aged 16 and moved to London with her family. There Vivienne attended Harrow Art School and studied fashion and silversmithing‚ but left after one term quoting “I didn’t know how a working-class girl like me could possibly make a living in the art world”. I think this is a very normal statement for an artist to make as all of them have had doubts
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History Mr Reynolds Explain why Richard III was defeated at the battle of Bosworth. Why Richard lost at the battle of Bosworth can be put into long and short-term factors. In the short term‚ to start with Richard outnumbered Tudor’s men 10000 to 5000 and were obviously favoured to be victorious‚ however when Richard tried to kidnap Tudor‚ this forced Tudor to seek help from the French. This allowed for King Charles to use henry as a means of unsettling the English Monarchy‚ to do this Charles gave
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“Decisions & Revisions: The Planning Strategies of a Publishing Writer” Berkenkotter & Murray Summary * Berkenkotter’s research was designed to test the idea that researchers can study writing in a “laboratory” environment (as Perl did‚ and as Berkenkotter herself did in earlier research) * She studies Murray‚ a “publishing” writer‚ in both a lab & a natural setting‚ & makes startling discoveries about his differing abilities in eachallows her to make important claims about
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Introduction: We are here today because we have been asked to conduct a strategic analysis of the Vivienne Westwood Company and to provide our expertise regarding the strategic direction of the company. We will be presenting you with our findings and our recommendations for a possible change in strategy from which we believe the company can benefit. As you are aware‚ the Vivienne Westwood Company is a widely successful fashion brand‚ with a yearly revenue of over £20m. The brand is considered to
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