RECENT PAST INTRODUCTION Virgin Group limited is a venture capital conglomerate founded in 1970 by Sir Richard Branson with interest in transportation‚ travel‚ mobile‚ financial services‚ media‚ music and fitness. It employs about 50‚000 people in more than 30 countries‚ comprising of 300 companies and brand‚ with 11.5 billion pounds in revenue as at 2009‚ (Virgin website).
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Types of Organizations and leadership styles Hypothesis: different types of organizations perform better with leadership styles tailored to that industry or type of organization. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- When researching the different styles of leadership‚ one question that likely comes to mind is the relationship of the leadership style to the performance of the organization. Organizations in the same industry can have vast differences
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Introduction While discussing about virgin group‚ virgin group is the crucial aspects when it comes to a recognized international leading investment group and brands. Virgin start to experience in 1970 lead by Sir Richard Branson based in London‚ United Kingdom. which has been expected to engage efficiently in business form between mobile telephony‚ travel‚ financial services‚ leisure‚ music‚ holidays‚ health‚ wellness‚ broadband‚ TV‚ radio which operates in Asia‚ Europe‚ North America‚ Africa
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Leadership in Virgin Group Company History: Virgin Group is a diversified grouping of more than 200 privately held companies. The largest of these are Virgin Atlantic Airways‚ the number two airline in the United Kingdom; Virgin Holidays‚ a vacation tour operator; Virgin Rail‚ the second largest U.K. train operator; the Virgin Retail Group‚ which operates numerous Virgin Megastores‚ a retail concept featuring videos‚ music CDs‚ and computer games; and Virgin Direct‚ which offers financial services
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Richard Branson’s Leadership Holding more than 200 companies in more than 50 countries‚ including the recent Virgin Galactic‚ a space-tourism company‚ the virgin group is a business force like few others (Biography.com‚ 2014). Employing approximately 50‚000 people worldwide this international investment group was originally set up as a mail-order record business the Virgin Group has gone on to grow in various business sectors ranging from mobile communications‚ transportation‚ travel‚ financial
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References: Kotler and Armstrong. (2000). Part 1-Understanding Marketing and the Marketing Process. In: MARKETING: AN INTRODUCTION‚ 5/E. USA: Prentice Hall. 4-6. Virgin Media UK. (2012). Introducing Virgin Media SmartCall. Available: http://customer.virginmedia.com/smartcall/. Last accessed 18th Nov 2012. ONS. (2011). Internet Access - Households and Individuals‚ 2011.Available: http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/dcp171778_227158.pdf. Last
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Introduction I have chosen to write the profile of a Business leader who I admire on Richard Branson. Branson is a English business magnate‚ best known as the founder and chairman of Virgin Group of more than 400 companies. According to Wagner and Hollenback (2009)‚ leadership is ‘the use of non-coercive and symbolic influence to direct and coordinate the activities of the members of an organised group toward the accomplishment of group objectives. According to Clark (2010)‚ there are three main
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Early life Abul Kashem Haider‚ Chairman of the Youth Group was born in Mogdhara Union‚ Thana‚ Shandip‚ Zilla‚ Chittagong in 1st April 1954. His father Alhaj Sekander Hossain was an educationist and his mother Shafia Khatoon was a housewife. At that time‚ the education environment Of Shandip was very much discouraging. In most cases‚ schools & colleges were far away and there were no regular means of transport. This had negative influence among the students making high rate of drop outs. He was the
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flyer points (FFPs) is not a straight forward process (Bowman 1995). The aim of this assignment is to examine the concept of how FFPs should be accounted for according to the Framework‚ compare how Qantas Airways Limited (Qantas) and Virgin Blue Holdings Limited (Virgin) account for FFP’s‚ and determine the potential consequences of different accounting treatments. Accounting procedure for frequent flyer points according to the principles of the Framework The major accounting issue with FFPs
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Intoduction It is said that management principles can be traced back as far as 5000 years‚ which has provided considerable amount of time to refine and develop these principles into efficient and successful ideologies. Throughout history‚ management practise has evolved thanks to a number of pioneers who have veered away from the norm to revolutionise views on what it means to be a good and efficacious manager. Both Robert Owen and Richard Branson can be seen as frontrunners of their time‚ performing
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