Case Study Analysis Sonoco Products Company (A): Building a World-Class HR Organization Abstract This is an analysis of the Harvard Business School case study -- Sonoco Products Company (A): Building a World-Class HR Organization. This analysis outlines the challenges of Sonoco Products Company to revise its corporate strategy (i.e. products‚ structure‚ Human Resources‚ etc.) to remain competitive and continue its growth in the volatile‚ ever-changing global packaging industry. In 1995
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Sonoco Products Company (A): Building a World-Class HR Organization Sonoco Products Company is a global packaging company that began in 1899 in Hartsville‚ South Carolina. During 1990’s Sonoco was one of the largest packaging companies in the world with revenues reached $2.6 billion through the manufacture and sales of consumer and industrial packaging‚ with 17‚300 employees across 285 operations in 32 countries‚ serving customers in 85 nations. During 1990’s the United States was
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Sonoco Products Company (A): Building a World Class HR Organization The major challenge faced by the Human Resources (HR) function of Sonoco was the negative consequences of decentralization tendencies and the shift to a more divisional structure throughout the 1980s‚ resulting in HR being just seen as an administrative tool ignoring also its importance as cost and productivity driver. Due to the existence of multiple HR functions in each department‚ each with its own systems‚ budgets and performance
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Team X-Treme Road Rage MGS 3400 Ms. Lauren Killion July 14‚ 2009 Evaluation of Sonoco Products Company’s Human Resources Company Since its inception in 1899‚ Sonoco Products was a company that could be described as constantly growing and thriving. Throughout most of the twentieth century‚ the company enjoyed uninterrupted growth and financial success. Most of its success could be attributed to the company’s ability to adapt to new packaging materials and technologies as they were developed
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| HR Case Presentation | PMS at Packages Ltd. | | | | Anam Waqar: | Amna Masood: 09-0775 | Dehneez Iqbal: 09-0660 | Jaweria Hassan: 09-0688 | Submitted to: Dr. Sadia Nadeem Contents Summary 2 Performance Objective 3 Strengths 3 Weaknesses 4 Recommendations 5 Performance Evaluation 6 Strengths 6 Weaknesses 7 Recommendations 7 Competency Evaluation 8 Strengths 8 weaknesses 9 Recommendations 10 Performance Development 11 Weaknesses 11 Recommendations 11 Cnclusion
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be trying to analyze a company by the name Sonoco Products Company (A): on the case Building a World-Class HR Organization. In this analysis‚ I will summarize the difficulties and challenges encountered by Sonoco Products Company when it set to modify its business technique in order to stay aggressive and continue its growth in the unpredictable‚ ever-changing international packaging market. In the year 1995‚ Cindy Hartley‚ the senior VP‚ Human Resources‚ came to Sonoco and discovered the Human
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management? * Sonoco as typically for company whose competitive strategies are predicated on long-term relations with employees‚ requiring that the workforce be perceived as an investment or asset to be nurtured and protected for the long haul‚ rather than an expense item to be pruned whenever this is expedient in the short term. “It was not uncommon for employees to spend their entire career at the company. In early 2000‚ over 60% of the executive committee had been with the company at least 20 years
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Sonoco Products Company Case Study California Baptist University Professor J. Avila BUS 343-DE‚ Human Resources Management August 23‚ 2013 Abstract This is an analysis of the Harvard Business School case study - Sonoco Products Company. This analysis outlines the challenges of Sonoco Products Company to revise its corporate strategy in order to remain competitive and continue its growth in the volatile‚ ever-changing global packaging industry. In 1995‚ Cindy Hartley‚ Senior VP‚ Human Resources
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Limited is a bus building company located in Toronto‚ Canada. The company produces and sells a variety of buses designated for public transport within cities. The main customers are in the United States and Canada. Five years ago (about in 1994)‚ due to the bad financial situation‚ the company was bought by the Dutch entrepreneur ‚ Mr Jan de Koning. He introduced several new techniques and designs to the production and management process of the company. He also changed the company structure from
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I. Executive Summary The Clorox Company is about to enter a new product market by launching a faucet mounted filter system in order to maintain its dominance in the water filtration business. To do this in a successful way‚ Clorox has to conquer this market with the right entry strategy. Main goal is therefore to gain market share by targeting the right customer segment and make an appropriate marketing investment. Also the previous pitcher market leadership must be maintained. The biggest
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