company. It has employed over 96‚000 people. Strategic decisions are usually long term decisions which are often risky and speculative. A strategic decision made by British Petroleum was to make redundancies of up to 620 from their solar power business to make the cost of solar power cheaper. ‘…part of the strategy to “reduce the cost of solar power to that of conventional electricity’. ‘BP blamed the cutbacks on the credit crunch and lower-cost competition saying its global manufacturing capacity
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LO2 Understand how businesses are organised to achieve their purposes LO3 Know the impact of the economic environment on businesses LO4 Know how political‚ legal and social factors impact on business. Scenario: You work as a junior journalist for a newspaper which is planning to run a feature article on UK businesses. You have been asked to produce an article on two contrasting businesses covering purpose‚ ownership‚ organisational structure‚ strategic planning and how businesses interact
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NORTHCENTRAL UNIVERSITY ASSIGNMENT COVER SHEET Learner: Marilyn Bennett Hannah THIS FORM MUST BE COMPLETELY FILLED IN Please Follow These Procedures: If requested by your mentor‚ use an assignment cover sheet as the first page of the word processor file. The assignment header should include the Learner’s last name‚ first initial‚ course code‚ dash‚ and assignment number (DoeJXXX0000-1) justified to the left and the page number justified to the right. Keep a Photocopy or Electronic
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How Do You Demonstrate Leadership? Fundamental principles underlie the thinking and conduct of all true leaders‚ and these principles are even sharply defined for leaders within the kingdom of God. From time to time those whom the Lord has chosen for leadership need to examine themselves in the mirror of thought- provoking maxims. These proverbs are designed to help Christian leaders move forward in administrative excellence. Responsible leaders do not make irresponsible statements. A godly
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The Role of the Manager within the Functional Areas of Business Zoe Barnes MGT/521 September 8‚ 2014 Stephanie Edens The Role of the Manager within the Functional Areas of Business Organizations have many areas within the operation that play a major role with it’s overall purpose. Without these functions working symbiotically‚ the business would most likely not be able to operate at it’s fullest potential for very long‚ if at all. Each function is important and offers a very specific objective
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DEFINITION OF SMALL BUSINESS: There is no precise definition of a small business. Some would consider a business as small if it has no more than a specified number of employees. Other would like to believe a business as small that limits its scope of operation to the local market area. Yet others may prefer to classify a business as small on the basis of nature of firm‚ such as the local medical store‚ clothing store‚ service station or a jewelry store. WRITERS’ DEFINITION: “A small business is defined
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The role of economic science in global business The term "science" reminds us of the most mathematics and everything connected with it. For some reasons this is quite right‚ but economics is a science which deals with the rational use of all resources available to human. This applies not only money‚ but other resources as well. Economics consists of two main divisions - microeconomics and macroeconomics. Quite often some economists also treat as a division the International Economic Relationship
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The INSEAD Chaired Professor of Ethics and Social Responsibility at INSEAD‚ Boulevard de Constance 77305 Fontainebleau cedex‚ France. Email: craig.smith@insead.edu ** Professor of Business and Marketing at the Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame 394 Mendoza College of Business Notre Dame‚ Indiana 46556-5646‚ USA. Email: Patrick.E.Murphy.72@nd.edu A Working Paper is the author’s intellectual property. It is intended as a means to promote research to interested
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why I have chosen to focus on this business is that we would like to increase awareness of the service that we have created for the countries‚ communities‚ customers and people everywhere that are using technology. All our research findings have been found using the research that has been carried out already in the preparation for Dell at the beginning of the year. Marketing Aims Business Aims and Mission Statement Dell main objective was to break even within the first month of launching the
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