Discuss what is meant by sustainable competitive advantage Sustainable competitive is what all the companies want to gain it and maintain it‚ it can let the company to keep the position of market leadership and let the company be successful. Evans et al. (2003‚ p.225) states that “no advantage is sustainable for ever‚ as competitors will seek to imitate it. “It has told that a sustainable competitive advantage it should be unique and can’t be copy easily by the competitors‚ also Evans et
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A Strategic Plan is a plan within an organisation consisting of the organisation’s key goals and objectives. These goals and objectives are aimed to be achieved by a particular point in time‚ usually in a 3 to 5 year time period. The Strategic Plan’s sole purpose is to emphasise these factors to ensure that all members within the organisation understand where the company is heading and how it intends to reach these goals and objectives. The Strategic Plan should include the overall Mission‚ Vision
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What is a Strategic Audit? A strategic audit provides managers with the tools‚ information and commitment to evaluate the degree of advantage and focus provided by their current strategies. It produces the data needed to determine whether a change in strategy is necessary and exactly what changes should be made. The two major elements of a strategic audit are the external and internal environmental assessments. A strategic audit involves assessing the actual direction of a business and comparing
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Assignment 1.1 Explain what is meant by: Diversity‚ Equality and inclusion Equality means that every human being is to be treated in the same way and once cannot differentiate between people‚ being cause of their faith‚ sexuality‚ nationality‚ gender or age. Everyone is to be treated fairly and equally. Each person has the right to be treated with respect and has the right to participate with others. Equality though does not mean identical treatment. To make each human being equally successful
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What is meant by ‘Civil Society’ and is it a useful concept? Introduction Although the term “civil society” can be traced to ancient Greece‚ as Martin Shaw has explained‚ the modern concept of civil society originated from the philosophical and political thinking of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. At that time the thinking “began to distinguish systematically between the spheres of state and society” (Shaw‚ 1996: 296-278). The essence of the concept of civil society was its
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According to the Royal mail‚ “its highly skilled employees are its assets and the customers are the life blood of the firm”. The main points which are covered in this essay are:- Monopoly of the Royal Mail Royal Mail ’s three strategic levels Corporate Strategic Responsibility Human resource strategy (Definition) Human Resource Management Strategy and Policies between 2005-2010 Swot Analysis New Human Resource strategy of the Royal Mail The Royal Mail ’s response to the
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v Describe what Montessori meant by’ New Education’ Dr. Maria Montessori is the creator for the Montessori Education Method for a new world who devoted her life to improve children’s education excellence. Her educational method is widely used in schools or at home for children 3 t0 6 years old. Maria Montessori lived through one of the traumatic time eras of the world history‚ which changed everybody’s lives including children. It was the time of anxiety‚ cruelty‚ death‚ family separation and
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a shift has occurred away from ideas of ‘personnel management’ towards HRM and concepts of people management” (Pass‚ S. & Hyde‚ P.‚ 2005) This shift has been essential‚ as with the globalization of the market and more competitors‚ firms have found it more and more difficult to gain competitive advantage. In order to adapt to this changing environment‚ the firm’s traditional management system evolved to a more strategic approach towards human resource management. “Strategy is about building sustainable
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While business ethics emerged as a field in the 1970s‚ international business ethics did not emerge until the late 1990s‚ looking back on the international developments of that decade. Many new practical issues arose out of the international context of business. Theoretical issues such as cultural relativity of ethical values receive more emphasis in this field. Other‚ older issues can be grouped here as well. Issues and subfields include: The search for universal values as a basis for international
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It is important for all organizations to maintain a well trained and effective human resource team as it is directly affiliated with the personal policies and practices that influences the workforce. Today we will be focusing on two strategic issues that HRM faces: 2. Merger and acquisition 3. Offshoring 2. MERGERS AND ACQUISITION Mergers typically involves two companies usually smaller scale companies joins arms and becomes one to attain better growth for the company. Acquisition is an
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