competitors‚ Zara’s supply chain is quite unconventional. Instead of focusing on competitive product prices and advertising Zara has developed a super integrated supply chain paralleled by few (1). This supply chain allows it to rapidly respond to market demand and have extensive control over its design and production process (1). Inditex‚ the clothing company that owns Zara is extremely vertically integrated. It is comprised of over 100 design‚ manufacturing‚ and distribution companies (3). Contrary
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Pushing For Equal Pay and Gender Equality in the Workforce Over the past hundred years‚ women’s participation in the workforce has grown significantly. Today’s women are getting college degrees which was not common before the mid-twentieth century. More of them than ever are taking jobs that were originally run by men. Many women are going into medicine‚ engineering‚ and law which was nearly impossible fifty years ago. Their ability to get into these fields allows them to pursue careers they could
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Businesses are recognizing the need and importance of investing in diversity and inclusion as part of their overall talent management practices and to continually challenge their organizations to make the connection between those principles and their corporate performance.. Diversity is especially crucial in today’s global marketplace‚ as companies interact with different cultures and clients. The payoffs touch every area of the business by potentially resulting in increased creativity‚ increased
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Faculty Diversity in Community Colleges Pam Dooly AET/510 April 22‚ 2013 Deborah Hornsby Faculty Diversity in Community Colleges In this paper I will discuss the importance of having a more diverse faculty in community colleges. It will be discuss how having more ethnic people among these schools would help in better enrollment as well as more graduates of an ethnic background. I will also discuss how community colleges have a large number of students come from ethnic backgrounds. I will
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In what ways are elements of the classical management and behavioral management approaches evident at Zara International? Inditex’s group known a ZARA had implemented elements of both classical management and behavioral management approaches. Starting off with the Classical Management‚ ZARA has used some of the principles of Henri Fayol’s Administrative principles. Building their business model to identify the following five “duties” of management‚ which are foundations for the four functions of
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There are advantages to work in a multicultural workforce because there are benefits to expand the working environment‚ such as marketing‚ creating new ideas and providing customer service. The employees must have a great working environment so that these benefits can come about. The company has to give them the opportunity to get an increase‚ for coming up with new ideas. Researchers that have discovered companies that have Double Digit growth (DDG) have found that employees work better when the
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Technology and social change go hand-in-hand with the advancement of the workforce society within the last decade. Thanks to new technological breakthroughs emerging on a regular basis‚ the way we view employment has changed drastically compared to those of years before us. Dating back to the 1400’s‚ Johan Gutenberg revolutionized the world as we know it today by developing the printing press. Today‚ we take such things for granted but it is writing that makes it possible to spread knowledge‚
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The role of market orientation on company performance through the development of sustainable competitive advantage: the Inditex-Zara case Andres Mazaira  University of Vigo‚ Oureuse‚ Spain E. Gonzalez  University of Vigo‚ Oureuse‚ Spain Ruth Avendano Ä University of Vigo‚ Oureuse‚ Spain Keywords Market orientation‚ Competitive advantage‚ Clothing industry‚ Organizational culture Abstract This paper has been developed as a part of research seeking to verify the effects of organisational
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Significant local variation in customers’ attributes and preferences was an issue not only between regions but also within regions. ZARA’S BUSINESS MODEL We mainly analyzed Zara to recommend on Inditex’s strategy since it was the flagship of Inditex and the generator of a huge percentage of financial results by itself. Zara used needs-based positioning‚ targeting a specific segment of customers and providing a tailored set of activities that can serve those needs best‚ in developing its business
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culture: In last one decade many foreign and multinational companies entered into Bangladesh market and opened their business here. They established a linkage between Bangladesh and world market and thus contributed to creating a multicultural workforce in the country. Globalization effect: By virtue of globalization‚ both employee and employers are able get in touch with global work environment. For example‚ a group of data entry operators can receive training and instruction from their American
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