Question 1: Analyze the reasons that impelled Dabur to refine its Ayurvedic image to that of a herbal FMCG company? Answer: Dabur India Limited started as a medicine manufacturer in 1884 by Dr S K Burman in West Bengal. It was started as a proprietary firm for the manufacture of Ayurvedic drugs. Daburinitially used to send medicines to villages in Bengal by mail.The company marketed an allopathic drug‚ Plagin‚ to combat the then prevalent epidemic of plague. In 1896‚ Dr. Burman set up a small
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Pfizer has long been praised by HR experts and academics for its commitment to training and developing employees. But confronted with an increasingly challenging market‚ the New York-based pharmaceutical company is changing its approach. Even before January’s announcement that it was laying off 10‚000 of its 100‚000 employees worldwide‚ Pfizer had begun to shift its hiring and employee development strategy‚ says Chris Altizer‚ vice president of global leadership and talent development. In the
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reasons: Lack of leadership skills among the top management: For example‚ during the VPs’ meeting‚ one staff commented‚ “Boyer is not a leader‚ but the others are just as bad.” This challenge was obvious in the decision making process and the lack of strategy in the company. Boyer’s attempts to fix the organizational wrangles among all the divisions were not reciprocated by the other leaders. No executive had the company’s vision for excellence except Boyer. The leaders did not have a clear path‚ specific
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EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES Dabur is committed to promoting diversity among teams in the broadest sense possible (in terms of gender‚ age‚ training‚ origins‚ disability‚ etc.) in order to improve performance and become increasingly innovative and competitive. The organization does not employ nor encourages forced‚ bonded or child labour and conducts proper checks and audits to ensure that their contractors follow their example. At Dabur‚ all employees are of equal value. Nobody shall be discriminated at
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New appraisal pill for Dabur staff Writankar Mukherjee‚ TNN Apr 22‚ 2008‚ 12.00am IST KOLKATA: FMCG major Dabur India is going to revamp its appraisal policy for 2‚600-odd employees across the country. The company has decided to move beyond plain-vanilla annual increments to a system of continuous employee reward. The move has been undertaken based on recommendations from noted HR consultant Hewitt Associates. There will also be spot awards to recognise employees on the spot at any time‚ for
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HR Restructuring - The Coca Cola & Dabur Way: The Leader Humbled It all began with Coca Cola India’s (Coca-Cola) realization that something was surely amiss. Four CEOs within 7 years‚ arch-rival Pepsi surging ahead‚ heavy employee exodus and negative media reports indicated that the leader had gone wrong big time. The problems eventually led to Coca-Cola reporting a huge loss of US $ 52 million in 1999‚ attributed largely to the heavy investments in India and Japan. Coca-Cola had spent Rs 1500 crore
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HRM Strategies Arab Emirates Airline Executive Summary Arab Emirates Airline is the largest major airline in the Middle East which is owned by the Government of Dubai directly under the Investment Corporation of Dubai. Arab Emirate Airline is one of the most high profile and glamorous company among the Emirate Group. Currently‚ Emirate Group seeks key role in the knowledge-based economy which determines potentials for progress of nations and their economic success. While airline traffic in
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linkages between the employer-employee relationships and wider organizational strategies and corporate policies. Strategy A strategy is a way of doing something.it usually includes the formulation of a goal and set of action plans for accomplishment of that goal.strategy is a long term plan Strategic Management Strategic management may be understood as the process of formulating‚implementing and evaluating business strategies to achieve organizational objectives. A more comprehensive definition of
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The purpose of the project is to give information about Google Company‚ its organizational culture‚ its recruitment & selection process‚ to discuss the concept of empowerment and its relevance to Google‚ to discuss the management problems that Google faces in the coming years because of growth rate. The information about co-founders of Google is given. Their backgrounds and their experiences about how to create Google are introduced. Since a company’s organizational culture
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Organizational Chart and Structure……………………………………..09 3. Environment…………………………………………………………….11 4. Wipro’s Six-Dimensional Strategy……………………………………...18 5. Globalization Strategy…………………………………………………..20 6. Acquisition And Restructuring Strategy : Stringing Together Pearls…..26 7. Corporate Governance : The Five-Dimensional Framework…………...28 8. Innovation Strategy……………………………………………………..30 9. Green Strategy…………………………………………………………..33 10. Suggestions And Recommendations……………………………………35 11. References………………………………………………………………36
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