union membership in Singapore and to provide suggestions on how to increase its appeal to the young people‚ the Generation Y‚ in the workforce. Generation Y refers to babies born after the year 1980 (Kuijsters‚ n.d.) The report will have an introduction of union in Singapore‚National Trade Union Congress (NTUC)‚ and analyse the existing strategies and positive aspects thathave been implemented to improve the union membership especially for the Generation Y. About Unions in Singapore NTUC isa central
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Cambodia 0r Singapore 1.) The health social conditions of Cambodia using the human development indicator were; their life expectancy at birth is 62.2. Its prevalence of undernourishment in total population (% of population) is 25. The country’s expenditure on health‚ public (% of GDP) is 1.7 and under-five mortality (per 1‚000 live births) is 90. 1.) According to the Human Development Indicator of Singapore their Life expectancy at birth (years) is 80.7. Its mortality rate is 3 (per 1‚000
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and privileged to connect with millions of customer every day with 18‚000 retail in 60 countries 2. STARBUCKS MACRO ENVIRONMENTAL & MICRO ENVIRONMENTAL FORCES 2.1 Starbucks macro environmental force (Cultural factor) 2.1.1 Singapore community structure Singapore is known for its diversity‚ made up of various ethnic groups: Chinese‚ Malays and Indians. The most practiced religions are Buddhism‚ Islam‚ Christianity and Hinduism. The main languages are Malay‚ Chinese (Mandarin)‚ Tamil and
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SINGAPORE AIRLINES: WHAT IT TAKES TO SUSTAIN SERVICE EXCELLENCE – A SENIOR MANAGEMENT PERSPECTIVE Jochen Wirtz and Robert Johnston1 Published in: NUS Business School Research Paper Series‚ December 2001 1 Jochen Wirtz is Associate Professor of Marketing with the NUS Business School‚ Faculty of Business Administration‚ National University of Singapore‚ 17 Law Link‚ Singapore 117591‚ Tel: +65-8743656‚ Fax: +65-7795941‚ E- mail: fbawirtz@nus.edu.sg‚ Http://www.nus.edu.sg; Robert Johnston
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Beyond Porter – A Critique of the Critique of Porter The writings of the American managementguru and Harvard-Professor Michael E-Porter are considered to be among the most influential of their subject – and among the most critiqued ones. Porter had a lasting influence on strategic management with his books about competitive advantages on industry level and on global level‚ which were written in the eighties. Porter’s models like the Five Competitive Forces‚ the Value Chain or Porters Diamond have
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PORTER Analysis Competitive rivalry: In United States as in Sweden‚ we can observe there are some companies operating in the furniture industry and there are many on the market retailers like Home Depot‚ Wal-Mart‚ Costco‚ Euromarket‚ etc... The import of products from China for all these companies allows them to sell at low cost. These elements therefore tell us that the furniture industry is very competitive. There is an analysis of the rivalry of IKEA in this sector: IKEA works in a highly
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commentary‚ I chose my artefact as a newspaper article on PSLE stress because of many reasons. 1) I had always harbored a strong interest on what everyone is saying about this hot topic and it seemed very interesting‚ stating just one problem that Singapore currently face. 2) Other than that‚ it is a topic that is easy to research‚ unlike some historic things which are little-mentioned (e.g. the banana note‚ the merdeka talks‚etc) 3) Last but not least‚it is a topic that is widely discussed
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all the professional that are interested in business and strategy. Home Business Toolkits T h ur s day‚ June 30‚ 2011 Labels Use of Porter’s (1985) Value Chain Framework Checklists (2) Use of Porter’s (1985) Value Chain Framework Porter’s model of value chain is one of the best known and widely applied models of a company’s valuecreation processes (Sanchez and Heene‚ 2004). According to Porter: “Competitive advantage cannot be understood by looking at a firm as a whole. It stems from the many discrete activities a firm
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Porter Analysis “Starbucks Case” I. Threats of Competitors Now a day‚ Starbucks is very well known in the market‚ so with this competitors are arising rampantly. Small coffee retail outlets are growing rapidly in America and it seems to be multiplying. Based on the study of the Ivey Management‚ there are more than 3485 competitors in the market. All are coffee retailing or even café or with carts. In US‚ they have low barrier to entry in the retail specialty coffee market. This has resulted
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BUDGET 2013 - PERSONAL TAX The Finance minister of Singapore announced several budget initiatives in the Budget 2013 that aims to improve the lives of Singapore citizens. A number of changes were introduced which promotes progressive taxation‚ building a more inclusive society and encouraging quality growth. This Budget is very much focused on productivity and helping the lower income group as well as the elderly. Although there would not be any drastic changes in the personal tax rates‚ we could
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