The External Environment directly affects what a manager does. � TABLE OF CONTENTS 41.0 Introduction � 42.0 What is a Managers responsibility � 53.0 Characteristics of a good Leader � 54.0 Literature Review � 65.0 What are the external factors? � 65.1 Primary Factors � 65.1.1 Political � 65.1.2 Economic � 75.1.3 Socio/Cultural � 75.1.4 Technological � 75.1.5 Legal/Legislative � 75.1.6 Environmental/Ecological � 75.2 Secondary Factors � 85.2.1 Ethics � 85.2.2 Judgement � 85.2.3 Intuition
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survive and prosper in a global environment that is highly dynamic and unstable. Managers in this setting not only deal with a set of social ‚ economic‚ legal and political factors in the home nation‚ but with entirely different set of these in each country of operation. International management involves balancing a firm ’s internal environment forces which is a system of shared meaning and beliefs within an organization that determines employees act with external environmental forces which is outside
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is Nike Inc. I chose to do my research on Nike because I am for one‚ very much interested in Nike‚ and secondly I am very interested in Nike ’s clothing‚ shoes‚ and accessory line. <br> <br>Basketball players "want to be like Mike"‚ but shoe companies "want to be like NIKE." NIKE is the worlds #1 company and controls more than 40% of the US athletic shoe market. The company designs and sells shoes for just about every sport‚ including baseball‚ volleyball‚ cheerleading‚ and wrestling. NIKE also
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“There are myths surrounding creativity. The intangible nature of creativity does not lend itself to easy definition”. Introduction The intangible nature of creativity does not have a specific definition for it. However‚ creativity can refer to many things that differ and which also over laps many other elements. (jjenna: 2003). “creativity is defined as the tendency to generate or recognize idea‚ alternatives‚ or possibilities that may be used to solving problems‚ communicating with other
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Nike was founded in 1964 as Blue Ribbon Sports by University of Oregon track athlete Philip Knight and his coach Bill Bowerman‚ and officially became Nike‚ Inc. in 1978. The company takes its name from Nike‚ the Greek goddess of victory‚ and adopted the well-known logo‚ called the “Swoosh”‚ first used by Nike in 1971. Nike produces a wide range of sports equipments. Their first products were track running shoes‚ for a wide range of sports including track & field‚ tennis‚ baseball‚ Association
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The organisation and the environment in which it operates in are not closed systems because they influence each other. The organisation thus cannot be successful if it is not in step with its environment. The simple fact that the organisation interacts with the environment means that the organisation is is acting in an open system and will be both affected by the environment and also impact on the environment. This means that the organisation draws its inputs such as human‚ financial and informational
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Report: The Travails of Nike INTRODUCTION Nike‚ Inc. is a world’s leading supplier and a major manufacturer of athletic shoes and sports apparel. It was founded on January 25th‚ 1964 as Blue Ribbon Sports by Philip Knight and Bill Bowerman. It officially became Nike‚ Inc. in 1978. Currently their brands include Nike Golf‚ Nike Pro‚ Nike+‚ Air Jordan and Nike Skateboarding‚ while their subsidiaries are Cole Haan‚ Hurley International‚ Umbro and Converse. During this stage‚ the Nike brand has become so
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Company Overviews Nike In 1964 in Oregon‚ Phil Knight and Bill Bowerman join together to make a new enterprise; each contributed about $500 to the partnership. The company started bringing low priced and high tech athletic shoes from Japan to replace the German domination of athletic shoes in the industry. In 1971‚ a graphic design student created the Swoosh trademark for a $35 fee. In the same year Jeff Johnson‚ Blue Ribbon Sports ’ first employee‚ made his most durable contribution to the
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NIKE Executive Summary by Lawrence Gimeno Recommendations: Make it count My first recommendation is directed at Nike’s push into digital sports. In my opinion the new accelerometer based Nike+ technology is the birth of a whole new generation of Nike products and an amazing innovation to motivate people to include sports into their everyday life. Nike has attained a leading role in almost every one of the upcoming world wide sporting events‚ such as the 2012 Olympics‚ the 2012 Soccer Euro Cup
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Module Leader: Michael Cardoso Module Name and Number: Leadership and Management HRM3125 The Internal and External business environment of BBA Aviation plc Student Names & Numbers: Count: 4200 Date: 05/08/2013
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