Bagby Case

➢ Has to do what: To decide to either confront Gilman and change what she perceives as sexist and/or racist practices or to leave the company

Location - where regional divisions of the business take responsibility for a specific function or particular products, whether locally, nationally or internationally

You have recently been hired as the HR manager responsible for two separate Ontario locations belonging to Wilson Brothers Limited. You have been asked by the HR Director at the head office in Brandon, Manitoba, to quickly provide a report on any initial HR issues related to Recruitment and Selection, Compensation and Benefits, Health and Safety, Training and Development and Labour and Employee Relations that are affecting or will affect the Cambridge operation and the new plant in Scarborough. The HR Director has made it very clear that Wilson Brothers would like both the Cambridge location and the new plant in Scarborough to remain union-free and are willing to offer very competitive wages and benefits

This allows the industry to be better connected and function as a whole to allow for best productivity, volume, revenue, and rates.

Urban Outfitters Inc. is one of the leading lifestyle retail companies. Urban Outfitters operates in over 500 retail stores worldwide, with plans to open over 35 new locations by the end of the next fiscal year. The company also has a website, mobile app and catalogs used to assist with sales. Urban Outfitters has goals of expansion and growth for their numerous brands.

This case analysis explores the possibility of Breezy, a leading supplier of carburators and air filters in North America, the possibility of developing offshore busines in countries where car manufacturing is growing. The report is structured as follows: First, there are five important questions that Breezy must consider and ask itself before developing a relationship with a new customer. After Breezy decides to go offshore, it will have to go through the negotiating process, which involves five steps. Breezy then, must have capabilities of how an offshore business is organized, consider the many different costs and risks involved in the implementation and decide how it will finance the project. The report also talks

Bed, Bath and Beyond (BBBY) currently has $400 million more in cash than they need for ongoing growth and operations requirements. While the company is financially sound analysts and investors worry about the company’s capital structure decisions. Investors do not want to see that much cash on the books and worry that the current capital structure is not the most effective for the future. They prefer that BBBY change their capital structure by paying out excess cash and issuing debt. This could allow BBBY to improve their return on equity and raise earnings per share. Given the low interest rates available it seems like the perfect time for BBBY to add debt to its capital structure. Until now they

« Mattel regards the thoughtful management of the environment and the health and safety of its employees, customers, and neighbors as among its highest priorities and as key elements of its responsability to be a sustainable company »

Additionally, as expressed by Rebecca Ratner, Hsieh’s commitment to merging the workplace with social lives could present risk to the company in the form of unprofessional or inappropriate conduct that is not addressed properly.

This division of labor among regions increases profits in certain locations, just as the division of labor

2. Compares the returns of the asset to the market over a period of time (Beta)

Patagonia strives to provide quality clothing and outdoor equipment while staying as environmentally friendly as possible. A hiking boot, for example, would need to fit strict requirements. The boot would need to be durable, comfortable, stylish, and made from environmentally friendly products. You also need to determine if there is a large enough market for the product. This would provide the means necessary to determine if the product has the highest chance of being successful. Given these strict requirements, one way to help keep the costs down is to use recycled material from older products that costumers turn in, therefore saving resources and money.

Alternatives: There are three approaches to address the worldwide issues listed above. In an aggregation approach, Bimbo can decide to operate the way it does in Mexico across all borders. By doing so, it would benefit from its efficient local practices in manufacturing and distribution but will ignore local or regional needs. In an arbitrage approach, Bimbo can take a transnational approach, maintaining their current products while taking each region or country’s needs in consideration and doing business in local markets with the product and delivery system that meets their necessity. In an adaptation approach, Bimbo could take the specific needs of each location seriously and customize their products, distribution channels, marketing, and various efforts in order to specifically satisfy each market individually.

As several brand names of businesses continue to grow in the United States, most companies continue to search of different ways to maximize their profits. One of the most common ideas businesses have is to harness the potential of global sourcing. Global sourcing has been one of the many keys for owners to expand the territory of their companies. Besides the fact of low cost, owners want to expand their products line in other countries for many beneficial reasons. This benefit includes increasing supply capacity, gaining access into resources or skills that are unavailable domestically, learning how to do business in a potential market, and having an alternative supplier to increase competition. With all these benefits included, it is obvious that companies such as, CISCO, IBM, Microsoft, Google and Oracle wants to participate in global sourcing. The companies that recently been listed are five of the largest companies to obtain a huge amount of profit from opening up their businesses overseas. Between these companies, they accumulate up to 262 billion dollars in profits. Of course, not every company has the ability to attract as much popularity to their products overseas; it takes plenty of planning and research to invest the company’s products in global sourcing. One company that decided to invest in global sourcing several years ago is a company by the name of, Levi and Strauss.

The shifts in the jeans manufacturer Levi Strauss’s global strategy could vividly demonstrate how global sourcing strategy works and affect its supply chain. At first, the company was created in the USA. As it developed and became a global company, they began to employ workers all over the world. However, in face of fierce competition, Levi Strauss started to shift its operation to lower-cost countries in the late 1980s. By the year 2003, Levi Strauss closed the last four plants in North American and ‘has become an entirely offshore producer’ (Dicken 2011 p.318). The German fashion company Hugo Boss also provides similar example. In face of high production cost, namely high labor cost in domestic market, more and more fashion retailers choose to outsource their production. Moreover, some fast