The Effective Management of Human Capital: Retaining Employees & Decreasing Employee Turnover MGT580x.Fall2011 Laurie Wells Organizational employee turnover and employee retention issues can be two of the most devastating management issues that an organization will face. Without organizational leadership monitoring and controlling these issues‚ employee morale can be affected and there can be a severe negative impact on the organization’s
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Target Corporation: Report on Long-term Financing Policy and Capital Structure with an Acquisition Analysis Introduction This report will be based on the Target Corporation‚ and will consist of two sections: 1) long-term financing policy and capital structure‚ and 2) an acquisition analysis. The first section will include: Target’s most recent long-term financing decision; an analysis of the economic‚ business‚ and competitive background in which the financing occurred; Target’s book value and
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Financial Leverage and Capital Structure Financial Leverage Chapter Outline Financial Leverage Effect of leverage Break-even Analysis Homemade Leverage M&M Propositions (I & II): optimal D/E? No tax Corporate tax Corporate tax & bankruptcy costs Corporate & personal taxes Arbitrage The Capital-Structure Question and The Pie Model The value of a firm is defined to be the sum of the value of the firm’s debt and the firm’s equity. V=E+B If the goal of the management of the firm is to make
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high‚ relative to book and past market values‚ and to repurchase equity when their market values are low. We document that the resulting effects on capital structure are very persistent. As a consequence‚ current capital structure is strongly related to historical market values. The results suggest the theory that capital structure is the cumulative outcome of past attempts to time the equity market. Introduction “Equity market timing” refers to the practice of issuing shares at
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30017 Corporate Finance Hannes Wagner The included PDF files are examples of case study write-ups made by students of the 30017 Corporate Finance course in 2012-2013. The underlying case was “Hutchison Whampoa Limited: The Capital Structure Decision”. The write-ups were evaluated as “excellent” and the students have agreed for their work to be distributed. All rights to their work remain with them. The instructions that students received were the following: “Your assignment is to provide a written
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Du Pont Case Study Capital Structure Statement of the Problem Determine a capital structure policy suitable for Du Pont in the 1980s and beyond. This paper will consider the history of the company and the turbulent times of the 1960s and 1970s‚ weigh the advantages and disadvantages associated with higher and lower levels of debt‚ and develop a strategy for the future after the merger with Conoco Inc. in 1983. Executive Summary Du Pont has been historically known for its
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factors 3. Pricing Porter’s Five Forces 1. Entry barrier 1. Entry & exit spectrum 2. Economy of scale/scope and experience curve 3. Capital intensity 4. Vertical power 5. Externalities barriers 2. Threat of substitute 1. Buyer tendency to change 2. Price elasticity and switching cost 3. Threats of Blue-Ocean strategies 3. Rivalry 1. Market structure and industry concentration 2. Product differentiation 3. Diversity of opponents 4. Tradition of strategic responses 5. Ease of entry
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Overview Long Term Capital Management (LTCM) was a hedge fund founded by John Meriwether in 19941. Meriwether was the former vice-chairman and head of bond trading at investment bank Salomon Brothers. Meriwether put together a high profile team of traders and academics in an attempt to create a fund that would profit from the combination of the academics’ quantitative models and the traders’ market judgment. Some of the high profile employees brought on were Nobel-prize winning economists Myron
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Definition of human capital management An approach to employee staffing that perceives people as assets (human capital) whose current value can be measured and whose future value can be enhance through investment Process of hiring and developing employees so that they become more valuable to the organization Includes: 1. Conducting job analyses 2. Planning personnel needs 3. Recruiting the right people for the job 4. Orienting and training 5. Managing wages and salaries 6. Providing benefit and
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reasoning on why you think a flexible or formal structure is appropriate? I) A Large Department Store Most of the large department stores using formal structure of management practices‚ which have very less amount of uncertainty that include external environment‚ strategy‚ technology‚ and human resources. The formal composition will allow the company management to control‚ coordinate and motive its employees to achieve the goal. The formal structure has a blueprint on its policies‚ procedures and
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