Strategic Human Resources Management of SONY About Sony: Company Name: Sony Corporation. Founded: May 7‚ 1946. Headquarters: 1-7-1 Konan‚ Minato-ku‚ Tokyo 108-0075‚ Japan. President and CEO: Kazuo Hirai. Numbers of Employees: 162‚700 (as of March 31‚ 2012). Sales and Operating revenue (2011): 6‚493‚200 million yen. Activities: The requirements of effective labor planning and success as: * Planning should contribute to a lot of time. * The alternative plan or amendment‚ if any‚ should
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PlayStation 3 Sony PlayStation 3 is a popular video game console dedicated for home user. This console was preceded by Sony PlayStation 2 which gains popularity since mid of 2000 to 2006. Since the release in 2006‚ Sony PlayStation 3 has evolving two times including PlayStation 3 Slim and PlayStation 3 Super Slim‚ and more than 75 million consoles have been sold in all over the world. This console features Blu-Ray discs as the games media‚ wireless stick controller‚ and great connection with
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at $13‚500) in data segment. In 1984 Barco introduced two more projectors BV2 (scan rate of 16 to 18 kHz & priced at $9‚875) and BD2 (scan rate of 16 to 25 kHz and priced at $14‚750) in video and data segment respectively. 1985 saw the entrance of Sony in the industrial projection market with its 1020 video model. 1020 was slower compared to Barco’s video projectors available at that time but it had a sharper focus indicating a better quality tube. In 1985 Barco launched BD3 (scan rate of 16 32
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concerned about graphics projectors. But with data projections they are second‚ whereas Sony takes the leading position. Normally Sony projectors are positioned below Barco’s in terms of performance and are also on average 15% lower in price. Sony eventually got real good in producing a good quality tube. Component part that’s used for inside the projectors. Because of this high quality Barco decided to take Sony as their new supplier for these tubes. So
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Research Case Study-3 SONY INDIA1 Sony‚ a multinational corporation based in Tokyo‚ Japan‚ stepped into India in early 1995‚ in the post Iiberalisation period. Within a couple of months in the same year‚ it set up its manufacturing unit. The company makes its presence felt in India through Sony Entertain Television‚ Sony Music and Sony India. While the first two are comfortably placed in their niche markets‚ it is the third which is expected to bring in all those exciting Sony digital products. Although
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believe that it is important for Sony to manufacture more products in the United States‚ Europe and from suppliers in Asia because Sony needs to remain a globally diversified corporation. The Yen stability against the US dollar has had a negative impact on the financial stability of Sony. When Sony translated US dollars and Euro financial statements into Yen‚ the net assets and earnings ended up being worth less in Yen which in turn dropped Sony’s financial results. Sony needs to work on spreading more
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Sony recognizes that global environmental improvement is the most important issue for humanity in the 21st century. Sony aims‚ through continuous technological innovation and new business initiatives‚ to contribute positively to the natural environment and the dreams of future generations. Recognizing the utmost importance of our natural life-support systems‚ sustainable economic development is the top business priority for the Sony Group. Sustainable economic development means utilizing
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for worldwide companies to benchmark the way they doing business globally. Japanese companies always come up with the effective global strategies and eventually can conquer many western markets and also US markets. This report will mainly focus on Sony Corporation which has been successful over several decades to exploit the benefits from globalization. The example of their global strategies and benefits which they have exploited from those strategies will be discussed in this paper. Globalization
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Background of the founding entrepreneur As one of the founders of Sony. Morita Akio definitely bring a huge influence to his enterprise. He was born in a small village of Japan named Kosugaya. His family managed one of the oldest and most famous wine-making business of Japan. As the oldest son of his family‚ Morita was anticipated to take over the family business. Morita‚ however‚ discovered his interest is physics and mathematics‚ and in 1944 he finished his study in physics and graduated from
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