EM 503 – SYSTEMS AND ORGANIZATION‚ Spring 2013 TAKE-HOME FINAL EXAM 1.PEGASUS Mission: Its belief is that everybody has the right to fly. The Pegasus Family‚ our suppliers and our partners work together in cooperation to achieve this goal. Vision: To be the leading low-cost airline in our region with our innovative‚ rational‚ principled and responsible approach. The Goal Space: Due to its focus on low cost airline aim and input Pegasus Airline is highly efficient company
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Dove: Evolution of a Brand Introduction Unilever was formed in 1930 when the U.K-based Lever Brothers combined with the Dutch Margarine Unie‚ a logical merger given that both companies depended on palm oil‚ one for soaps and the other for edible oil products. It operated on every continent and described itself as combing local roots with global scale. Positioning In the 1950’s: The first Dove product‚ called a beauty bar‚ was launched in 1957. It would not dry out skin the way soap did. The company
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PESTEL ANALYSIS: A REPORT ON UNILEVER INTRODUCTION TO THE COMPANY The Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) environment is rapidly changing. Especially‚ the increasing popularity of line extensions seems to depend on advantages inherent in brand leveraging. FMCG manufacturers go into R&D in order to come up with the product that best satisfy consumers because customers become more critical about attaching themselves to a particular brand. They will also like to buy less expensive product due to current
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1) Why does Unilever want fewer brands? First of all let’s define what we mean does “brand” mean? I think brand is the practical‚ emotional‚ or instinctual response that is stimulated in the brain by a product or company. Brand is the image and feeling that get to people minds and hearts when they hear‚ smell‚ see and think of your name‚ product‚ and benefit. A brand may identify one item‚ a family of items‚ or all items of that seller. If used for the firm as a whole‚ the preferred term is trade
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managers and employees of developing a strategic approach to HRM in a company like Unilever. | 06 | Task 02 | 2.1 Explain in Unilever‚ how a model of flexibility might be applied in practice. | 07 | | 2.2 Discuss the types of flexibility which may be developed by the organization Unilever. | 07 | | 2.3 Assess the use of flexible working practices from both the employee and the employer perspective Unilever in this case. | 08 | | 2.4 Discuss the impact that changes in the labor
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International analysis of nestle Nestlé is the leading nutrition‚ health and wellness company in the world. Their mission is „Good Food‚ Good Life” and they provide consumers with nutritious and tasty food and beverages. The history of Nestlé starts in 1866‚ when the Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk Company opened the first European condensed milk factory in Switzerland. One year later‚ Henri Nestlé launched one of the world’s first prepared infant cereals-„Farine lactee”. The Anglo-Swiss Condensed
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blogs and in newsletters‚ marketing commentators argued that Dove’s management was abdicating its responsibility to manage what was said about the brand‚ and was putting its multibillion-dollar asset at risk.2 Unilever A leading global manufacturer of packaged consumer goods‚ Unilever operated in the food‚ home‚ and personal care sectors of the economy. Eleven of its brands had annual revenues globally of over $1 billion: Knorr‚ Surf‚ Lipton‚ Omo‚ Sunsilk‚ Dove‚ Blue Band‚ Lux‚ Hellmann’s‚ Becel
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region of Kimberly-Clark‚ the large consumer products company‚ was thinking about the many management changes spreading through the company almost like a virus. Less than a decade earlier‚ Kimberly-Clark had hired an Argentinean‚ Sergio Nacach‚ from Unilever. Nacach’s first job had been to run Kimberly-Clark’s operations in the small Central American country of El Salvador. Now‚ Nacach was running the Andean region for K-C and producing impressive business results. Because of his outstanding results
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Introduction When we say a particular country is economically developed‚ three determinants come to our mind‚ i.e.‚ human‚ physical and financial. Out of these important resource factors‚ human resource factor appears to be the most strategic and critical. This is true because a country may possess abundant natural and physical resources and the necessary machinery‚ equipment and capital‚ but if there is no man power to use these resources‚ growth is not possible. Similar to ‘Physical capital
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Option 3: Evaluate the statement that ‘organisational structure reflects and reinforces an unrealistic view of human rationality (Knights & Willmott‚ 2007)’. Introduction: Different authors have different definition toward organizational structure. Mintzberg (1979) defines the organization structure is defined as ‘The sum total of the ways in which it divides its labour into distinct task and then achieves coordination between them’ (Mintzberg‚ 1979‚ p.2 cited in Knights and Willmott
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