Case Study: Norfolk Southern

The Lincoln Electric Company was a legacy company from which the families ' personal values were incorporated in the beginning and continue to be the fundamental beliefs compromising the company 's culture. By creating and implementing a culture of service, respect, and loyalty, the Lincoln Electric Company has become an institutional leader in American business standards. Lincoln 's culture cannot be summarized by a single dimension of cultural analytics because of its multifaceted culture that is innovative, outcome-oriented, people-oriented, and team-oriented

Bell California is a small blue collar community which is one of the poorest cities in Los Angeles County, where the politicians had an easy time of taking advantage of the community. There are just two main streets with one having small shops and another a few blocks away with a few commercial stores. Many of the residents that live in Bell work for the city or receive public aid so not many people would speak out against any corruption that might be occurring within the city. Much of the residents are Hispanic or Latino and many do not have a high school education. Because of this fact it made it easy for the local politicians to raise taxes for public services, give city contracts worth tens of millions of dollars to associates and give

The human resource officers used predictive data to determine vacancies. These predictions yielded a quantity of vacancies but there wasn’t a list of specific positions to post to job boards, the website or the intranet. Chesapeake public schools informally posted their positions and recruited aggressively by announcing openings for the upcoming school year on college campuses. During this phase, recruiters traveled to universities on the east coast to present job opportunities in Chesapeake Public Schools. The recruiters actually came to our classes and introduced Chesapeake Public Schools to the all educational methods

The Norfolk Four is a disturbing case of eight men charged with only one matching the DNA evidence. So the real question is why would innocent people confess to brutal, death penalty worthy, crimes if they did not commit them? Among the eight men charged were the Norfolk Four who comprised of four, current and former, sailors of the U.S. Navy: Derek Tice, Danial Williams, Joseph J. Dick Jr., and Eric C. Wilson. In 1999, the four men were convicted for the rape and murder of a native Norfolk resident, Michelle Moore-Bosko.

Would Mary have acted unethically if she had actually orally guaranteed to repay her husband's debts and then raised the Statute of Frauds to prevent enforcement of the oral promises?

Lincoln comment that labor and management are properly not warring camps;they are parts of one organization in which they must and should coorperate fully and happily has made an easy effort to organize employees in the organization.

On February 29, 1996, WestJet Airlines came to life. They became the face of low-cost, short-haul, point-to-point airline for Western Canada. The organization began when entrepreneur Clive Beddoe, president of Hanover Group of Companies purchased an aircraft for personal use. Beddoe later made his aircraft available to other business people through Morgan Air, owned and operated by Tim Morgan. Tim Morgan, along with Calgary businessmen Don Bell and Mark Hill found an opportunity to start an airline. They all reached out to David Neelman, who was president of Morris Air and asked for assistance on writing the business plan for WestJet. They joined forces and WestJet Airlines came to life. They all held a different position and Beddoe was the president, chief executive officer, and chairman of the board of directors. Bell and Morgan were senior vice-presidents and Hill was the vice president. When WestJet first began, they only flew to Vancouver, Kelowna, Calgary, Edmonton, and Winnipeg. They now fly to 102 destinations in 19 different countries. In addition, they also increased the amount of aircraft they own. WestJet began in 1996 with just two aircraft and by August of 2000, they increased to 94 aircraft. Not only did they increase aircraft, but employees too. Their workforce expanded to 30,000 employees. On July 1999, WestJet hit a huge milestone when it completed its initial public offering of 2.5 million common shares. Clive Beddoe

Since, such an agreement will be regarded as an Operating Lease and not a Capital Lease; this lease will not be reported on the company’s balance sheet. Keeping the lease off the balance sheet would make our financial ratios appear more attractive (lower debt/asset ratio) than otherwise. Hence, such a setup provides the advantage of financing the deal as an off-Balance Sheet item.

Colson, Inc. is a successful company with eight shareholders, six of which are individuals and two which are family limited partnerships. None of these shareholders are related and only one of them currently works for the company. The shareholders have become frustrated with the double taxation imposed upon them by the company’s C corporation status and would like to explore the potential of converting to a pass-through entity such as an S corporation or LLC. They have asked our firm to advise them on this possibility.

Cunard is facing a problem as to whether their marketing efforts should go towards tactical promotions or if they should be applied to marketing the overall brand while facing the effects of a recession.

During the 1990’s the Carrier Corporation was working on a highly innovative new global chiller under 300 kW, called Aquasnap. The new design would integrate a Hydronic Kit inside the chiller, all previous versions required installation of the kit outside the chiller. While the new design would cost less, require less installation time, and save floor space, it did raise some concerns. Carrier was becoming deeply invested in the design and was worried if the world was ready for such an innovative product. The following sections answer some of the issues; what should Thierry Jomard’s (lead engineer) decision be, should the hydronic kit be integrated and how does Carrier address future environmental regulations, what are the

Lincoln Electric Company is a manufacturing company, which has been focusing on welding products for the recent 30 years. The company had outstanding brothers leading the company to success. John was a technical genius and he brought the best skills in production and James was good at management and he was working on the employees ' incentives. The company gained its reputation through the world war till present as the welding equipment supplier with higher quality and lower price at the same time. For the production aspect of welding equipment, it is an advanced production line with continuous flow with high flexibility and low idling time.

Piedmont Airlines recently invested over $1 million in state of the art equipment and employee development in order to forecast and analyze the appropriate amount of discounted fares to offer per flight. The company discovered that by offering several discounted flights to consumers willing to book their travel well in advance of their departure date left many options available for the business traveler who needed to book much closer to the actual departure date. The analysis was the task of the Revenue Enhancement Department (RED) managed by Marilyn Hoppe. While this state of the art equipment was a step in the right direction, Marilyn believed that there were still a lot of subjective decisions being made and

Telstra Corporation Limited (known as Telstra) is Australia 's biggest and leading telecommunications and media organization operating since 1901, which creates and runs telecommunications systems and markets voice, mobile, web access, pay TV and other entertainment items and administrations. In Australia Telstra provide 16.9 million mobile services, 7.2 million fixed voice services and 3.3 million retail fixed broadband services and that’s why we have an global existence covering 22 countries, including China.

The discussion between promoters of best practice and best fit approaches has sparked widespread controversy in the human resource management (HRM) area. The topic has gained much scholarly attention because it not only addresses a theoretical controversy but also possesses a high degree of practical managerial significance. The essay has the aim to analyse best practice and best fit approaches in HRM of a multinational enterprise. The reader receives insight into Lincoln Electric's organization through a case-study analysis of practical HR approaches serving as a basis for developing practical managerial implications in the last part of the paper.