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centre’1 A cost center is an unit of a company that is responsible and has control over only of the costs incurred in that unit. The manager is not held responsible for the costs outside of his/her control or efficiency in meeting demand, or long term investment decisions. A cost centre would be an appropriate centre when top management thinks that the unit managers could not cope with more responsibilities or if top management does not wish to lose control over investment divisions or the level

prepared in advance, the teaching assistant can provide support by doing their own prep work or helping out with task resources. There are three stages of planning: Long-term, medium-term and short-term. Long term requires the coverage of subjects for the academic year ahead, in conjunction with the National Curriculum. Medium-term requires a breakdown of all subjects to show what is required, such as learning outcomes and

is asking him to do. Cultural Difference Whenever a company is entering a new market it has to take into consideration the cultural differences between countries. Based on the case study analysis, the difference between the two countries in terms of eating out habits and eating preferences seem not to be understood by the Denver headquarter. Denver headquarter believes that it can enforce the same business model applied in the U.S to its stores in China, regardless of local preference. In addition

getting to know each other at a later time. The seller then understood he needed to talk less about business and get to know the buyer more personally. ------------------------------------------------- How would you characterize both players in terms of (1) HI LO context, (2) Linear active versus reactive or multi-active, (3) Hi power distance versus low power distance? Provide an example that illustrates each of the 3 characteristics. This is a longer answer, use more space if you require

from the sales force each person heads? How do you think each of them will benefit from the sales mananagement training seminar? Jerry Kline is a kind of sales manager who aims to sell products and make sales quotas. He believes that developing long-term customer relationships and internal company support distract sales people. Thus, his sales force is not effective to make sales. He needs to work

commitment. Quality management with less commitment may happens due to various reason. Misfocusing on the short-term profits, with limited experience and training of executives may also be the main problems. Some management team may just focus on the short term profit but ignored the long term profit; this will make their vision to be unsuccessful as vision are more towards the long term profit for the organization. Management may also be too ignorance to their decision and they will ignore the employees

1. Jeff Immelt, General Electric’s (GE) CEO as of September 7th 2001, has made tremendous improvements to the organizations strategy in terms of the firm-strategy interface and the environment-strategy interface. The foundation had been set by the “near legendary CEO” Jack Welch, his predecessor who had been the CEO for 20 years and built GE into a “highly disciplined, extremely efficient machine that delivered consistent growth in sales and earnings—not only through effective operations management

too much competition can cause prices to drop low to the point where you are making little to no money. The lower the price the more customers you will get, but the less money you will earn. Our short term goal is to increase our advertising budget each month for the next four months. Our long term goal is two receive 95 percent positive feedback from our customers and to get community recognition in three to five years. 2 The interior of the store will have approximately 26 aisles. There will be

Tanglewood Case One Rebecca Cassady With reference to Exhibit 1.7 in the textbook, I think that of the staffing quantity and staffing quality strategies listed; that developing talent, internal hiring, and exceptional workforce quality are the fundamental strategies to implement. By utilizing these differentiation strategies, Tanglewood would continue its strong culture. Tanglewood must differentiate themselves from their competition; companies like Target and Kohl’s. Tangelwood can accomplish

platter in front of you or as hard as saying “Hello” to that special someone in your life that you find adorable, either way you have made a goal. It’s also important to remember there is short term goals and long term goals. Short term goals are easier to achieve and can be very helpful in leading up to your long term goals. We can even classify our goals into personal goals, academic goals, and professional goals, as well as others. Whether we like to believe it goals play an important part in our