Objective: analyze the case offered and answer the following questions. Background: Zenith‚ a well-known electronics corporation in North America market‚ was facing options regarding high definition television (HDTV)‚ a new technology that offer consumers higher resolution (i.e.‚ sharper pictures) and superior digital stereo sound. The company had to forecast the marketing perspective and deicide what ways could be used to assess consumer preferences for the new product. 1. What factors will determine
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Job Evaluation at Zenith Medical Systems due week of Feb. 25 .. specific date/time to be confirmed) Background: Zenith Medical Systems has been practicing a human relations managerial style; tightly structured jobs‚ centralized decision making‚ employees are rarely fired‚ pay increases are generally based on seniority‚ liberal employee benefits. However‚ the firm is becoming more classical in its treatment of managers‚ replacing those who don’t seem to be performing. The problems are not
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IMPACT OF ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE AND CULTURE ON JOB SATISFACTION‚ JOB STRESS AND EMPLOYEE MOTIVATION: A SURVEY OF EXISTING LITREATURE ABSTRACT Effectively managing human resources in the organizations is a big concern both for HR managers and the policy makers of the organization. To have a satisfied‚ motivated‚ less stressed performing workforce an organization must have consistency amongst its structure‚ system‚ people‚ culture and good fit with the strategy. In this paper an attempt has been
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a) The named organization that is being discussed in this case study is FirstGroup PLC which is a transport company based in the UK. It generates revenues of approximately 5 billion pounds every year and employs staff of over 137‚000 over the UK and North America. The estimated amount of passengers that this company transports is about 2.5 billion per annum. That was a brief overview of the organization that is being dealt in the case study. Moving onto PESTEL which is the brief analysis of any organization’s
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1.0 INTRODUCTION Access Bank Plc is on the company carrying on the business of commercial banking in Nigeria. Access Bank Plc has its registered corporate head office at Plot 1665 Oyin Jolayemi Street Victoria Island Lagos. Access bank Plc was in- corporated as a private limited liability company on February 8‚ 1989‚ to undertake the business of commercial banking and commercial operations started on May 11‚ 1989. The bank converted to a public limited liability company on March 24‚ 1989 and was
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8 January 2013 DEBENHAMS PLC INTERIM MANAGEMENT STATEMENT Debenhams plc‚ the leading international‚ multi-channel brand‚ today announces its interim management statement covering the 18 weeks to 5 January 2013. Highlights • • • Good sales momentum: 18 weeks LFL sales up 2.9% Highest ever December sales: five weeks to 5 January LFL sales up 5.0% Online sales ahead of expectations: 18 weeks up 39.0% Michael Sharp‚ Chief Executive of Debenhams‚ said: “I am pleased with our performance
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Both job enrichment and job enlargement are serve as a tool for motivation and employee growth in an organization. Job enlargement mean taking charge of more duties and responsibilities which are not mention in job description. Job enlargement is a horizontal expansion of job‚ while job enrichment is about giving more control and managerial task and responsibilities which is a vertical expansion. For job enlargement. It could be a means of eliminating the boredom directly related to the type of
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Marketing Research Case – HDTV Question 1: How can you assess market potential for the HDTV? Attempt a calculation of an optimistic and pessimistic forecast. * The market potential is defined as those in the population who can possibly buy a product. In this case the market potential would be the total number of households. The total number of households in 1990 is 93‚979‚592. This is all the households who do not have a TV current will buy a HDTV and any household that has a TV will replace
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Tsotawi Tekat Tekelakay Mahiber [TTTM] (Organization against Gender-based Violence) Financial Support for Emergency Transportation Services for Women in Crisis Submitted To: Action Aid Ethiopia ------------------------------------------------- November‚ 2009 Table of Contents Title Page 1. Informing…………………………………………………………………………………………………………..2 2. Background…………………………………………………………………………………………………
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ABOUT STRESS Stress is one concept that is complex that researchers cannot agree on a single definition for it. Consequently‚ there are many different explanations of the concept. For instance‚ Hans Seyle defines stress as primarily “a psychological reaction to certain threatening environmental events.” For him‚ work related stress would simply refer to the stress caused by events in the work environment. Some believe that stress is “the physiological and/or psychological reactions to events that
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