Case Study: EZ International LLC

The given case study is about the company, Beijing EAPS Consulting Inc., which deals with the providing employee assistance services in China’s mainland. And focused upon studying, it has been found that the given company before the year of 2006 drives its business unsystematically and does well because of the small number of employees and their multitasking ability together with minor volume of the business functions. However, after 2006, it has received a bigger contract from the giant mobile companies, such as Guangzhou Mobile and Beijing Mobile. Hence, they amend their strategy to cater received business needs, which bring more business profit. They adopted project management structure to facilitate the expected and existing additional business; however, it creates chaos in the organization itself as dilemma caused by the structure, which lacks crucial management practices, such as priority decisions, hierarchy of the management functions, communication gap, and even, workload grows stress among limited number of employees as the said structure had poor work distribution process. The thesis of the paper is to render a recommendation report for Beijing EAPS Consulting Inc. It will analyze company structure and improvable areas together with discussing conflict, brought into the light by the said structure and its solution.

Question 1: In what ways are elements of the classical and behavioral management approaches evident in how things are done at Zara International? How can systems concepts and contingency thinking explain the success of some of Zara’s distinctive practices?

Due to the changes from AEP Texas Center and AEP Texas North merging into AEP Texas Inc. effective at the beginning of the year. Our Lessor will no longer accept anything under the AEP Texas Center and AEP Texas North. Which is why the bill to name under PO 119028448460009 will need to be change to AEP Texas Inc., even though the original request was process correctly.

Motherline, LLC is a full-service doula agency that is located in Cary, North Carolina. Their services include postpartum doula services, placenta encapsulation services, and belly binding services. Their postpartum care involves newborn care and education, new mother care and postpartum recovery, both physical and emotional, breastfeeding and/or bottle-feeding support, support during unique postpartum challenges such as colic/reflux, birth of multiples, or postpartum mood disorders, plus more. The owner and founder of Motherline, LLC, Kelly Rutan is a DONA Certified Postpartum Doula.

Fiest, VCP LLC, is a Vocational Counseling and Placement service the UW Madison Wisconsin hired as a “job coach” for me. To make things easier, I will refer to Fiest VCP, LLC as Fiest. When referring to Fiest VCP, LLC as Fiest, this will include everyone working at Fiest, i.e. Kim and/or Haley.

The Appellant is appealing the Department’s filing of an OI claim against her for failing to report income from wages from her secondary employment at Zotos Inc from January 1, 2016 to May 31, 2016. The Appellant argued that she provided all requested pay information to the Department when it was requested and that she would not have used the benefits if she had known she was not entitled to receive them.

EP733-Empath LLC is changing P10 numbers and is under new ownership. I have sent the request to Josh’s team to move over part of the balance from Empath to EX642- Excalibur Contracting Corporation which is their new account.

StraussGroup, Inc. is an employment agency that is located in Buffalo, New York. StraussGroup, Inc. was founded in 2001. Their search options include retained search, dedicated search, contingency search, and contract staffing. Their practices include financial services, information technology, healthcare/life sciences, safety/manufacturing, contract staffing, and RPO. StraussGroup, Inc. is the winner of the 2016 Buffalo Business First’s Best Places to Work- Micro Category award.

The strategy would be to expand into the already lucrative Macau casino market with one of the most successful casino/resort in the Las Vegas area, the Bellagio. MGM already has a foothold hold in Macau Market, which is provided due to a partnership with Pansy Ho and the successful MGM Macau. The main competition in this area is: Las Vegas Sands Corp. (LVSC), which have 7 properties in the Macau area, Galaxy Entertainment Group (GEG), which have 3 properties and Wynn Resorts Ltd. (WYNN), which have two.

Zara International is considered a high end clothing store that is affordable. Due to its quality in fashion, low prices and immediate availability, popular stores such as Gap and H&M fail to keep up with Zara’s success. Zara’s well known tactic of fast fashion has separated them from their competition. The ‘fast fashion’ objective is to distribute top trends of fashion within the runway to customers by selling them in local stores. Zara has been able to achieve the fast fashion perspective by hiring approximately 200 people that will assist in getting these trends out in stores within a matter of weeks.

Peter Nicholson wishes to convert the factory in the north east to production of the electric taxi. Using data in Appendix C, Table 1, calculate payback period and the average rate of return.

When comparing the very similar payoff diagrams above, we realize that Bio-Electro Systems has the ability to issue debt. It shows us also that if the asset value is low, then the debt will also be paid-off low. If and only if the debt is completely paid-ff does the equity show any value. In reality, Bio-Electro systems can actually issue debt to its investors. Additionally, if the project to develop their technologies ultimately fails only Bio-Electro Systems and its associated investors bear the costs, with no influence financially on ALZA. However, there must be potential benefits for both ALZA and investors of Bio-Electro Systems. For investors, what makes the deal attractive is the warrant to call ALZA stock at $30 per share. On ALZA's side of the deal, their benefits are immense. As time passes and ALZA does not exercise its call option on Bio-Electro systems, the strike

Read Case 1.9, "ZZZZ Best Company, Inc." in your text. Answer questions #1, 2, and 4 found at the end of the case.

is due to the fact that some of their current customers only buy from special sellers.

Alibaba currently operate mobile and online commercial center in the form of wholesale trade and retail trade, cloud computing and other information technology services, for example, Taobao, Tmall, Juhuasuan, Aliyun, Ant Financial Services Group, Cainiao Logistics, AliExpress, Alibaba.com, 1688.com and Alimama.