BSM 411 2010 Global Management Skills and Training Globalization has flattened our borders and increased our opportunities for trade‚ participating in joint ventures or establishing foreign direct investments in other countries. Unlike managing a business on US soil interacting and directing a company in a foreign country requires an advanced skill set to be successful. Those skills should include a general business education and an advanced or MBA program focused on global management highlighting
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The Advantages And Disadvantages of Multinational Companies In a modern society‚ many multinational companies have been founded. They are called multinational corporations because these corporations operate in more than one country at a time. For example‚ McDonalds‚ Pepsi‚ KFC‚ Nike. I will discuss the advantages and disadvantages of these corporations. For the advantages‚ Firstly‚ multinational products and services provide the best possible standards. Because in a foreign country
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COMPENSATION MANAGEMENT Compensation is a key factor in attracting and keeping the best employees and ensuring that organization has the competitive edge in an increasingly competitive world. The Compensation Management component enables one to differentiate between one’s remuneration strategies and those of his competitors while still allowing flexibility‚ control and cost effectiveness. It provides a toolset for strategic remuneration planning that reflects organization culture and pay strategies
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Nike: A Multinational Company in China Nike is one of the largest athletic shoe brands in the world and sells millions of shoes and clothing each year. The company was founded on January 25‚ 1964 by a University of Oregon track athlete Philip Knight and his coach Bill Bowermanas. It was first named Blue Ribbon Sports and it officially became Nike‚ Inc. on May 30‚ 1978 (Nike). As a multinational company‚ it operates retail stores domestically and overseas and all of the products it sells are manufactured
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while sales were 7.3% higher at 18.55 trillion yen. Commentators argue that this is because the company has the right mix of products for the markets that it serves. This is an example of very focused segmentation‚ targeting and positioning in a number of countries. In 2003 Toyota knocked its rivals Ford into third spot‚ to become the World’s second largest carmaker with 6.78 million units. The company is still behind rivals General Motors with 8.59 million units in the same period. Its strong industry
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CentrePiece Spring 2005 Multinational firms are demonised by anti-globalisation campaigners. Yet according to a new book by Tony Venables and colleagues‚ the evidence is that they are generally a force for prosperity in the world economy. Multinationals: heroes or villains of the global economy? F oreign-owned multinationals employ one worker in every five in European manufacturing and one in seven in US manufacturing. They sell one euro in every four of manufactured goods in Europe
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MANAGERIAL AND LEADERSHIP SKILLS (REVIEWED QUESTIONS) Question no.1 Select a case you know where resistance to change was observed‚ suggest means of managing them. Resistance to change is the action taken by individuals and groups when they perceive that a change that is occurring as a threat to them. Change faces two forces when introduced‚ the supporting forces (driving force) and the opposing forces (restraining force). For change to take
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decades‚ as a result of globalization especially in the business world‚ operating as a multinational company has become as an opportunity for the businesses to grow and develop faster. As Iverson pointed out‚ the significant benefit that organizations can have from being multinational is to take advantage of an expanding talent pool of workers (Iverson‚ 2000: p.31) Dubai can be a good example to prove that multinational workforce is a growing opportunity‚ according to Dubai government‚ Dubai comprises
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In the corporate world communication and leadership are two attributes that are necessary to achieve business success. It is important to always have the lines of communication open between the employees and the managerial staff. The managers of an organization are responsible for the performance of the entire staff. It is imperative for managers to have good leadership skills. Leadership can be defined as a special case of interpersonal influence that gets an individual or group to do what the leader
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SHARING THE VISION OF EXCELLENCE GLOBAL MANAGEMENT SKILLS The collapse of international economic boundaries‚ rapid changes‚ workforce mobility and diversity‚ and the economic interdependence of countries is what is popularly known as Globalisation. This phenomena poses difficult challenges to everyone especially mangers to reassess their capabilities and get ready to manage internationally. The need arises from the fact that traditional management skills are designed to manage only in local
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