Tutorial 1: Markets and Organizations Q1. Case Study [pic] Managing external influences First Group (First) is the UK’s largest transport operator‚ employing more than 137‚000 people in the UK and the USA. In the UK‚ it runs rail services carrying around 275 million passengers a year. It is the UK’s largest bus operator and also runs a rail freight business. In the US‚ it operates school transport for nearly four million students a day. The company is seeking to extend it operation in UK
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2.1.1 POLITICAL The hotel industry had evolved very rapidly since the opening policy in 1978‚ after that the economy has gradually transformed to a market-oriented one. The reform has created a much better business environment for the hotel industry development (Hornsby‚ 1990). According to Kotler (1996)‚ The political environment is strongly affect hospitality industry‚ political environment is made up of laws‚ government agencies and pressure groups influence and limit the activities of various
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A GLOBAL / COUNTRY STUDY AND REPORT ON “ PESTLE Analysis and Sector ial Study of Russia” Today we are at the door step of 21st century. The world is widening without having a New and new developments are coming these days in all fields all over India to make the people life more comfortable and luxurious. The industries are growing so fast in India in order to satisfy all the needs of people. Similarly Gov. has supported to these companies for their development and progress of private
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SWOT Analysis. Definitions of SWOT profiling‚ SWOT intelligence analysis‚ SWOT tools‚ matrix‚ templates and utilities. Strengths‚ weaknesses‚ opportunities and threats analysis. SWOT analysis definitions‚ descriptions‚ SWOT templates‚ examples and explanations. SWOT profiling & analysis in market & competitive intelligence. Tools and utilities in support of final SWOT analysis. Winword templates‚ screen shots‚ PowerPoint slides and word files. A standard marketing tool for market and
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Strategic Management of TESCO supermarket: PESTEL analysis‚ Porter ’s 5 Forces analysis‚ Critical success factors‚ SWOT Analysis‚ VALUE CHAIN analysis‚ TESCO ’S strategic options‚ Core Competences & Cultural Web. IINTRODUCTION The food and drink retail sector represents the largest industry in the UK‚ providing employment for over three million people in primary production‚ manufacturing and retailing. In 2003 retail accounted for 9% of gross domestic product (Datamonitor‚ 2003). In recent years
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P (political) E (economical) S (social) T (technological) ANALYSIS -is used to identify the external forces affecting an organization. * Political Factors * The basic understanding is when the government implement’s laws and or regulations which affect the way a business operate. * Is used to identify the external forces affecting an organization. It can create advantages and opportunities for organizations. Conversely they can place obligations and duties on organizations
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PESTAL Analysis of Serena Hotel Political Pakistan has experienced many political upheavals during the last year of a century and the one thing‚ which the country was lacking‚ is political stability. This had a direct effect upon the policies of the businesses especially hotels management. Although tourism growth was affected all over the world after the 9/11 incident‚ and it had a far reaching negative impact on Pakistan’s economy in general and Gilgit Baltistan in particular‚ as its economy
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criteria examples ecological/environmental current legislation future legislation international legislation regulatory bodies and processes government policies government term and change trading policies funding‚ grants and initiatives home market pressure- groups international pressure- groups wars and conflicts Political 1. No significant awareness program around disease education/recognition resulting in lower awareness in policy makers. 2. Orphan disease
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HRM Human resource management is a strategic and coherent approach to the management of an organization’s most valued assets – the people working there‚ who individually and collectively contribute to the achievement of its objectives. Boxall et al(2007) describe HRM as ‘the management of work and people towards desired ends’. John Storey (1989) believes that HRM can be regarded as a ‘set of interrelated policies with an ideological and philosophical underpinning’. He suggests four aspects that
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Chapter 4 Knowledge Representation question and answers 1. Consider the following statements a) Reema is a super star. b) All super stars are rich. c) All rich people have fast cars. d) All fast cars consume a lot of petrol. Use predicate logic and inference rules to draw the conclusion “Reema’s car consumed a lot of petrol”. a. List any two knowledge representation techniques. b. Write Modus Ponens rule. c. Define disjunctive normal form with suitable
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