Anglo American Business ethics and corporate social responsibility 1. How has Anglo American’s reputation enhanced by engaging with local communities in decision-making? Why is it important for this engagement to be an ongoing process? Anglo American mining company is one of the leading companies on the mining industry and has gained reputation because they include the local community at the moment of decision-making. Mining industries are often being observed as they are recognized because
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Situation Evaluation Regina Smith DeVry University Situation Evaluation Maria‚ a second generation native-born American citizen with a graduate degree made an accusation against her company that she has been with for the past 10 years. She claims that a promotion was giving to a co-worker over her because of her national origin. Alex‚ the employee who received the promotion‚ is a White male. He also has a graduate degree‚ but has not worked in the company as long as Maria. Alex was said to be the
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environment of the American Fur Company change in the 1830’s? What deep historical forces are implicated in these changes? The American Fur Company: The American Fur Company was founded by John Jacob Astor in 1808. The company grew to monopolize the fur trade in the United States by 1830‚ and became one of the largest businesses in the country. In early 1830’s it seemed nothing could slow Astor. But this environment suddenly changed for fur companies. Although the American Fur company was still competing
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INTRODUCTION Gerber‚ a U.S company producing jarred baby food‚ was considering in 1991 whether they should acquire Alima SA‚ one of Poland’s largest and most successful food processing plants. With this deal‚ Gerber expected to build a low-cost base for its European operation as a platform for growing markets of Central and Eastern Europe. Because the deal could help to have the aging plant modernized and boost its sagging export trade while bringing hard currency at the same time‚ Poland government
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of a promotional mix as without this you could have the best product at the best price but you will never generate any sales. Businesses need to make use of various above and below the line promotions to sell their products. (I have found a quote that backs up my views on the promotional mix and gives another basic insight for its implicational meaning) (The combination of personal selling‚ public relations‚ advertising‚ sales promotion‚ sponsorships‚ direct mail‚ and trade shows that are utilized
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Customer service Customer feedback cards- customers fill in feedback cards about the customer service from the company. Customer questionnaires- customers who call the company are asked to do a questionnaire about the customer service they have experienced‚ what they did well and what could be improved. These will then be given to the management within monthly meetings to be discussed and make appropriate changes. Informing future developments- based on the comments from the customers GSK can
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Executive Summary: In order to make their plant globally competitive‚ American Connector Company’s Sunnyvale facility needs to improve on production‚ process‚ quality control and inventory control. They should optimize the production line to smoothen the process flow‚ increase the yield and reduce overall costs. They need to analyse and standardize their product mix. Also‚ schedule optimization will go a long way to minimize start-up and end costs and to avoid wastage. Work in process inventory
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An American dream In nature never will you find two snowflakes that are the same. From the time a snowflake starts falling‚ till the time it finally melts‚ a snow flake is very fragile. There are so many elements working against a snowflake it’s a miracle if it ever stays on the ground. Like the snowflake the American dream is equally unique and fragile. Under most circumstances both need the right conditions to flourish. You will never see it naturally snow on a hot summer day‚ but unlike
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To keep Your Customers‚ Keep it Simple – by Patrick Spenner and Karen Freeman The above mentioned article reviews about the key finding of a marketing research done by Corporate Executive Board regarding the relation between consumer behaviors‚ brand loyalty and marketers. From the research‚ they found that in the effort of creating loyal customers‚ marketers by using holistic marketing strategy giving a lot of overwhelming information until pushing away the customers. Businesses misjudge what
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Evaluate three policies that might be used to increase LRAS In order for an increase to occur in LRAS a shift of the curve to the right must arise. For this shift of the LRAS to the right to take place an improvement in the quality of the factors of production or increase in the quantity of the factors of production. I will be evaluating three policies that might be used to increase LRAS through the increase in the quantity of the factors of production. The first policy that I will be evaluating
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