1. A recent issue of Fortune Magazine reported that the following companies had the lowest sales per employee among the Fortune 500 companies. [20 Marks] | |Company |Sales per Employee ($1000s) |Sales Rank | | |Seagate Technology |$42.20 |285 | | |SSMC | 42.19
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aerospace engineering‚ Hollywood films‚ higher education‚ or Fortune 500 leading positions‚ women max out at roughly 16 percent‚” said Debora Spar at a White House conference. “That is a crime‚ and it is a waste of incredible talent.” Although young women now earn more college and graduate degrees than men do‚ they fall behind professionally. In management women account for about a third of M.B.A. classes‚ but only 2 percent of Fortune 500 CEOs‚ 6 percent of top earners‚ 8 percent of top leadership positions
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Hitech Corporation (Hitech) is a well known IT company based in Hyderabad ‚ India. Hitech provides networking solutions to many Fortune 500 companies. Started in 1990 by two technology experts‚ Hitech currently has almost $40 million in annual revenue. When the founders started the company‚ they established as one basic value that working at Hitech should be enjoyable as well as profitable. That belief has helped create a company culture today that gives Hitech competitive advantages when recruiting
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“In the West today many young people do not have a meaning and purpose to their life. They’re looking to say‚ does my life matter? Do I have a meaning or contribution to make?…In developing countries this is a lot more clear. They may be in a crisis or conflict situation‚ and so for them it is clear: I need to survive‚ I need to get an education‚ I need to get a job because someone needs me‚ and that someone can be family or a friend‚ and in a larger sense sometimes that person or that entity can
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allows a professional to seek advice‚ information on companies‚ and expertise at your finger tips. LinkedIn Facts * LinkedIn has over 48 million members in over 200 countries and territories around the world. * Executives from all Fortune 500 companies are LinkedIn members. My own Epiphany with LinkedIn? I had a neighbor who attended Lake Forest Graduate School of Management who graduated with a MBA specializing in HR. At graduation he was working in Vernon Hills as a HR Generalist
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generating a constructive discussion. I was comfortable with this week’s topic. Currently working in a Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) unit‚ economic cost concepts are part of my daily routine. Applying economic cost concepts is crucial to my Fortune 500 Company and the clients we serve. Forecasting and cost analysis is another vital part of my business for both process improvement and staffing. Difficult Topics I did not quite get the economic cost concepts relating to equilibrium‚ but after further
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An outsider‚ studying our culture from the headlines on business and news magazines‚ might wonder what all the fuss is about. Women wanted the top jobs‚ then they got them‚ then they didn’t want them anymore. Men wanted to keep women out‚ then they thought that becoming more feminine would give them a competitive advantage‚ then they got tough and ruthless all over again. Now women are nearly as ubiquitous as men in the middle management ranks‚ and there are enough women making an impact at the “C”
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world. Being America’s largest employer and the most successful company‚ Wal-Mart’s influence is unparalleled. Wal-Mart isn’t just the largest retailer in the world‚ over the past several years it has popped in and out of the top spot on the Fortune 500 list—meaning that the firm has had revenues greater than any firm in the United States. Wal-Mart is so big that in three months it sells more than a whole year’s worth of sales at number two U.S. retailer‚ Home Depot. Wal-Mart’s key sources of competitive
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the candidate to spend leisure time with perspective clients after 5:00 P.M. This particular aspect of the job might deter applicants‚ but would not affect my judgment towards a final decision. Since the sales are at an all-time low for the Fortune 500 Company‚ to me that means that a piece of this company’s fate is in my hands because the person I hire could possibly save it. After reading all of the profiles from some very qualified personnel‚ I believe that Jyoti of Wireless Retail Store would
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computer peripherals and televisions. In 2006‚ Fortune magazine ranked Dell as the 25th-largest company in the Fortune 500 list‚ 8th on its annual "Top 20" list of the most-admired companies in the United States. In 2007 Dell ranked 34th and 8th respectively on the equivalent lists for the year. A 2006 publication identified Dell as one of 38 high-performance companies in the S&P 500 which had consistently out-performed the market over the previous 15 years. The company is one of the largest technological
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