Machine Metaphor in Organizations The machine metaphor for an organization is one of two orthodox metaphors, the other being the organization as an organism (Morgan, 1980). The machine metaphor dates to the work of Fayol and Taylor, wherein the orga Continue Reading...
Rivera of 1990. This case involved Rivera, who was a financial advisor and Salvatore Guarino, Rivera's cohort, selling John G. Talcott, Jr. A resident, 93 years of age in Massachusetts a $75,000 investment. Talcott sent a check for $10,000 payable to Continue Reading...
Parcel Industry History of FedEx: The attempts at using airplanes for commercial transportation of goods started when the air planes started flying. One of the first air freight carriages took place in 1910 when a department store sent a bolt of si Continue Reading...
Business Information Systems Advantages Internet Electronic Commerce The Internet has much to offer companies like FedEx and UPS. More and more businesses like FedEx and UPS are realizing the long-term advantages and benefits they stand to gain fro Continue Reading...
FedEx Quality Management Issue Process Improvement Tools and Applications in Quality Management FED-EX Case Study For the purpose of the present study, the company chosen is that of Fed-Ex. This writer will take on the role of a quality management Continue Reading...
Recruitment is a critical component of any human resources strategy. A good recruitment strategy should seek to find the right workers for the available roles within the company. For many firms, finding the right workers is essential to gaining and m Continue Reading...
Business in Malaysia The author of this report is asked to answer to a theoretical scenario whereby the training and other initial materials for a new product line are lost in transit but yet the big-wigs want the sales and other outcomes of this ne Continue Reading...
Behavior This particular analysis will rely on the financial data of FedEx and UPS for the financial years ended 31st May 2013 and 31st May 2012; and 31st Dec 2012 and 31st Dec 2011 respectively. FedEx and UPS Comparison -- Selected Balance Sheet Continue Reading...
Financial Reports The company that I have selected is FedEx. The homepage of FedEx is located at: http://www.FedEx.com/us/ There are other sources of information about the company as well. Its financials and stock information are available at MSN Continue Reading...
One global business mentioned in the report as a technology leader with high brand equity was at&T. Customer equity is that value of future business purchased by the customer based on brand equity, which in turn means consumer acceptance of the Continue Reading...
FedEx was founded by Fred Smith, an ex-Marine who served in Vietnam, and the company retains strong elements of military culture (Smith, 2008). The company fosters its culture in several ways -- in the training process, through corporate lore, and t Continue Reading...
A combination of the two systems could be used, with a 75 to 25% ratio, for example. An important element of the compensation plan could be identifying a way that this could be used as an instrument to drive synergies and cooperation between what w Continue Reading...
NPV Obviously the easiest and most error-free way of doing this is in Excel. Thus, we get the following table for the NPV calculation. Flow NPV (1-5) $2,031,369.67 Total NPV $281,369.67 Google should accept the project, because it has a positi Continue Reading...
Org Structure An organization's structure affects many aspects of the organization. Kanter (1999) notes that people within an organization tend to operate in line with the messages that they are receiving, so structural elements do affect culture an Continue Reading...
ICT and Price Chopper Despite being more than a decade-and-a-half old, this 1994 case study detailing the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) by the New England grocery store chain Price Chopper could, with a few minor updates, be Continue Reading...
Technology & Logistics The author of this report has been asked to answer a fairly general but intriguing question. That question asks the author of this report to define how technology can improve the management of global logistics. Of course, Continue Reading...
Finance Assessment of the Financial Performance of UPS and FedEx The Companies UPS FedEx Selected Financial Data Ratio Analysis Short-Term Solvency Long-Term Solvency Asset Management Profitability Market value For any investor assessing Continue Reading...
It is as such necessary to assess it in light of the negative consequences it might generate, the resources available to the company so that it reduces the threat of the problem and finally, the criteria which need to be satisfied in order to state Continue Reading...
In addition to the fact that it reveals the strongest benefits, it also has the advantage that most of its limitations can be easily overcome. In this order of ideas, both time and resource consumption can be reduced by using the previous FedEx camp Continue Reading...
Total Quality Management or TQM is definitely an integrative administration structure targeted at consistently enhancing the output of products, services, items, procedures and general manufacturing to attain and exceed customer demands and anticipat Continue Reading...
Singapore has long built its economy on its strategic positioning for trade. The country is now home to the world's second-largest container port according to the World Shipping Council (2013). The country's position as a leading trade makes it a nat Continue Reading...
Investment in intranet technology for human resources and employee communication purposes is the single-most important means by which we can improve employee retention, because it addresses the most significant drivers of turnover (Ward, 2009). The Continue Reading...
Blue Nile Porter's five forces analysis focuses on the factors that influence a firm's ability to earn a profit: the bargaining power of buyers, the bargaining power of suppliers, the threat of substitutes, the threat of new entrants and the intensi Continue Reading...
Final Integrated Paper: SpaceXOverviewSpaceX defines itself as a designer, manufacturer, as well as launcher of advanced spacecraft as well as rockets (SpaceX, 2021). As the company further points out, it was established in the year 2002 with the ove Continue Reading...
Norton Lilly Analysis for growth alternative Norton Lilly: "Do not push for more top-line growth through sales but push growth by providing high quality service at a fair price, winning business slowly and sustainably." One method of generating cu Continue Reading...
United States Postal Service is an efficient organization. However, its operational efficiency is not enough for survival in the contemporary competitive marketplace thereby making it hard for the organization to be successful. USPS has been affected Continue Reading...
I believe the market is simply too small for continued growth to occur. In regards to Surrey British Columbia, I also believe it to be a viable option for FedEx, but not to the extent of Miami. For one, Surrey has a population of 394,976 people whi Continue Reading...
Macroeconomics Investopedia provides a list of major macroeconomic indicators, of which several are relevant to FedEx. FedEx is considered to be a bellwether organization in that its client base spans a broad swath of business. Thus, the GDP is the Continue Reading...
Long-Term Trends Short-Term Debt Long-Term Debt Common Equity Total The FedEx capital structure is mostly in common equity. The company does have some long-term debt, but this is only a quarter of the capital structure, indicating that FedEx is Continue Reading...
Those employees with the strongest enthusiasm for FedEx culture are often those who have been with the company the longest. If FedEx is able to offer a compelling package to Kinko's workers, sufficient to improve retention rates, they may also build Continue Reading...
Management Information management is essential for FedEx. The company uses information in a number of ways. On the operations side, data drives decisions regarding the scheduling of assets. Every piece has its own delivery time guarantee, for examp Continue Reading...
Change There are a few instances were a company tried to institute a large-scale organizational change effort and failed. One recent one was with the FedEx purchase of Kinko's. FedEx had decided that Kinko's would complement its business since they Continue Reading...
Corporate communications involves not just the message, but the idea that communications are managed, and are connected to corporate objectives (Cornelissen, 2004). Therefore, when communication possibilities were limited, corporate options were lim Continue Reading...
This is because the Web Site does not present all the simple things that an ordinary customer may need from the company's services. Links were provided on the top of the home page but there are further links and options that an ordinary user may not Continue Reading...
funds has its own advantages and disadvantages. In that regard therefore, debt financing could in some instances be more appropriate than equity financing. The reverse is true. This text concerns itself with some of the benefits FedEx Corporation wo Continue Reading...
Economics Discussions Production Costs Postal Service (USPS) operates at a loss but its closest competitors -- UPS and FedEx -- both operate at a profit. Suggest how fixed costs have contributed to the situation of the USPS. Provide support for you Continue Reading...
economics problems from a broader perspective, we need to apply macroeconomic principles. These principles help in understanding collective problems that various industry or countries are encountering and the role government can play in this connect Continue Reading...
New-found competitiveness for Small- to Medium-Sized Companies The outlook for smaller companies is much stronger today than it was at Amazon's founding. That's because several of the advantages enjoyed at the time by Amazon have been commoditized Continue Reading...
Business (general) Please list sections according to instructions Exercise 1.1: Review of Research Study and Consideration of Ethical Guidelines Option 1: Stanford Prison Experiment Go to: http://www.prisonexp.org, the official site for the Stanf Continue Reading...
