Since its founding in 1983, PSS World Medical has grown strongly, primarily through acquisitions. He’s had some trouble digesting a big acquisition lately and his share price is pretty depressed. The CEO and his senior management team wonder if the strong cultural organization they have built and the practices with which they run the company …
El Picante Mexican Grill is modeled after the American restaurant chain Chipotle and aims to offer fresh and healthy vegetarian fast food options. The owners of this chain of startups in Gurgaon, India, are struggling to manage their fast-growing operations. When considering expansion to new locations, various issues – such as determining opening hours, location, …
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Jim Sawyer, 40, manager of the United Industries Plastics Division, has shown signs of alcoholism. Staff now have to consider how the company should deal with this type of problem. It provides an opportunity to examine the role that organizations should play in helping their employees cope or cope with personal health problems.
Discuss the role of diamonds in the Angolan civil war.
This case describes how, in a period of 20 years, a small company founded by five friends became a company with a turnover of 49 million dollars and a recognized, sustainable and innovative business model with high social and environmental impact. It also shows the vocation and motivation of Impact Entrepreneurs, as well as the …
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The notice provides a framework for conceptualizing the responsibilities of managers towards employees for economic, legal and ethical considerations. The memorandum formulates the central ethical challenge for managers in the fair exercise of power. The fair exercise of power has three components: respect for legitimate expectations, procedural justice, and distributive justice.
A young aspiring French executive from a global technology group is sent to Moscow as deputy general manager to restructure the Russian subsidiary. He must report to the managing director of the subsidiary (a major reason for the organization’s poor performance) and the company. In his first three months, he took steps to prepare the …
The vice president of international operations must decide whether to continue with the company’s Nigerian joint venture or to give up. Although the emigrated CEO of the Nigerian operation made a very pessimistic report, Larson’s own guess was to stay in that country. Maintaining operations was hampered by personnel issues, a dissenting joint venture partner, …