ORGANISATIONAL CHANGE AT UNILEVER Unilever is a very old multinational with worldwide operations in the detergent and food industries. For decades‚ Unilever managed its worldwide detergents activities in an arm’s length manner. A subsidiary was set up in each major national market and allowed to operate largely autonomously‚ with each subsidiary carrying out the full range‚ of value creation activities‚ including manufacturing‚ marketing and R & D. The company had 17 autonomous national operations
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Question > Why do people use Facebook and what do they do when they are there? The social networking website fulfill 2 needs 1) Need for belongingness 2) Need for presenting yourself to the world/surroundings Internet based services like Facebook gives some capabilities to the individual to present themselves to the world and share events/photos etc. to the outside world. Initially Facebook started with an idea for interacting students of a common school‚ but now it becomes so large
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Organisational Behaviour. The Volta Aluminium Company Limited (VALCO) is an aluminium reduction facility (smelter) located in the industrial seaport city of Tema‚ east of the capital city of Accra. VALCO was originally jointly owned by Kaiser Aluminium and Chemical Corporation (KACC) - 90% and Reynolds Metals Company .The Government of Ghana purchased the 90% shares of KACC in October 2004 and subsequently completed acquisition in June 2008. Therefore‚ currently VALCO is solely owned by the
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Facebook. Today‚ this social networking site is the second most-used website in the world‚ after Google. It is the most popular social networking site in the UK‚ US and AUS with over 500 million members worldwide‚ nearly every single person reading this would have seen or heard of it. But what people don’t see is the dark side of Facebook‚ the side with horrific cyber-bullying‚ awful paedophilia‚ severe addictions and frightening stalking. Being a parent‚ I don’t want my young children subjected
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sites are-: · Facebook · LinkedIn · Twitter · Tumblr In this disssertation project we shall focus on the use of facebook as an a efficient tool for marketing.Facebook is a popular free social networking website that allows registered users to create profiles‚ upload photos and video‚ send messages and keep in touch with friends‚ family and colleagues. The site is available in 37 languages. Facebook includes some
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This is a list of the top 5 social media sites of 2011 it includes the following: 1.) Facebook 2.) YouTube 3.) Twitter 4.) MySpace 5.) Google +. Let us focus on Facebook‚ a social networking service and website‚ launched in February 2004‚ operated and privately owned by Facebook‚ Inc. was founded by Mark Zuckerberg with his colleagues Eduardo Saverin‚ Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. Originally‚ the website ’s membership was limited to Harvard students only‚ but later on expanded to other colleges
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Individual Research “Customer engagement of commercial brand community on Facebook” Ms.Benchawan Phumphuengsri ID: 543-9374 iMBA Batch 3 Section 19 BP6993 Individual Research Submitted to Assistant Professor Dr. Kriengsin Prasongsukarn Graduate School of business Assumption University Submission date: 12 April 2013 Word count: ……..words Abstract The rise of the Internet in worldwide there are opportunities and challenges have emerged for marketing brands and products
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article is about learning organizations‚ how they operate and what is required of them for success. First Garvin states most scholars see the learning environment as gaining knowledge and improved performance and efficiency‚ but the definition of organisational learning is different from one another. However after organisations “pass the definitional test”‚ big organisation like General Motors still find it difficult to apply the knowledge to practice. Second‚ he states some activities that most learning
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Pfizer Inc.’S Cost of Capital and Capital structure - Xiaoyue Shi The costs of capital and capital structures for Pfizer Inc. and its two competitors Merck & Co. Inc. and Johnson & Johnson in the pharmaceutical industry are analyzed in this memo. When calculating the cost of common stock for the three companies‚ three different approaches including Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM)‚ Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) and the bond yield plus risk premium are applied (Appendix A). For CAPM approach
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refinery had suffered safety problems before. The previous year two workers died when scalded by super-heated water that escaped from a high-pressure pipe. The British media focused on the effect of the 2005 blast: the price of oil rose by several $s a barrel. In Texas‚ however‚ the local media were outraged by ‘yet another’ safety scandal involving British Petroleum (BP). Over the following months‚ BP’s reputation in Britain remained unaffected. It remained a media darling for its constant references
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