Business research has different steps to complete to ensure that the research covers every aspect needed to have the best outcome. In the workplace of construction, there is a great need of having researchers help to cure problems that are at current job sites. Such problems might be the building construction and the needed data to ensure a building is built safe and of good quality. The business research process is used in past experience to develop the process in which construction companies can use to cure a problem. Past experience can tell that in business research an individual must clearly define the objective of the research along with what the research will offer to the business. The objective usually consist of an ongoing problem that crew members can not figure out. After the goals and objective are define the research then proposals its purpose to all the stakeholders for approval. The stakeholders are usually the investors in the building site, along with supervisors of the construction crew. After approval is met the research group then comes up with a strategy to complete research that includes time frame, scope, environment of research, and type. Once strategy is in place data collection occurs. Data will exist of collecting all the contributing factors and variables of the research along with data needed to define the objective of the research. Once data is collected the analysis of data is performed. Researchers will analyzed all the data to interpret its findings. Once this is complete the researcher reports their findings to stakeholders. Stakeholders then make a decision based on research of their next move to cure the original problem that was given. The stakeholders will give direction to the construction team to fix original problem. This allows the research used to clearly define…
LaThis article found in the Wall Street Journal applies to insider trading. Thomas Conradt and David Weishaus bought shares of SPSS Inc. after illegally discovering about their near future acquisition of IBM. They believe Conradt was informed by his roommate at the time in 2009. Conradt then informed Weishaus but asked him to keep quiet claiming “we gotta keep this in the family” and “I don’t want to go to jail”. The two men were arrested last Thursday, November 29, 2012. It is believed that Conradt, Weishaus and three other brokers made more than one million dollars from the information. They each face up to twenty years in prison.…
The purpose of this report is to elaborate the situation and stories of fast food industry in…
The other Business Research Process includes: SWOT analysis, Studying the main audience, and lastly the application. Briefly what these state is…
For many years my wife and I have had the opportunity of running and teaching at our martial arts studio here in South Florida, in the past couple of years the competition has come and gone, our longevity has been due to our continuing to change up and add to our training programs. In the recent years our students and friends have asked us to possibly add some sort of boot camp training, due to my military background. Here is where my business research experience was born.…
I’d recognise a business problem by receiving a phone call from a travel agent and listen carefully to what they are explaining to me and taking notes at all times. Two weeks ago a travel agent called me to see why the GDS system did not cancel their booking and why it went through as a no show. I looked into this on our GDS system to see why this had not been cancelled. The booking had not been cancelled as the GDS system had gone down at the same time the travel agent tried to cancel the booking. I then called the hotel the booking was for and advised them of this problem to ensure no charges would be incurred. After calling the hotel they confirmed that no charges would be incurred, I then went back to the travel agent and advised them they would not be charged for this booking.…
The types of problems that may occur in a business environment Minor problems – have obvious, easy to implement solutions Major problems – have serious consequences and need careful consideration. Some examples of problems in the workplace include: Pre-ordered supplies not arriving on time A colleague is absent The deadline for a task to be completed is shortened A technical difficulty arises that you cannot put right Equipment failure Your colleague is slow and you have to wait for him/her to finish. How to deal with these problems Use your knowledge and experience (for minor problems) Ask an experienced colleague (for major and minor problems) Refer problems to an appropriate member of staff (major problems). Finding solutions to problems Ask the expert – talk to someone who has overcome a similar problem. Get creative: Use these steps Identify Prepare Instruct Incubate Eureka! Use comparisons and analogies State your challenge Choose a keyword or phrase in the challenge Choose a parallel List the images that you associate with your chosen field, then choose a particularly vivid one Look for similarities and connections between the two components of your analogy. How and when to refer problems to colleagues It’s important in business to decide whether you should act on a problem or refer it to someone else. An appropriate reaction depends on the type of problem and how easy it is to put right. You can: Solve it yourself Solve it with permission Get help.…
In Donetsk's Lenin Square, Yuroslav Korotenko keeps a constant vigil inside a collapsible shelter set up just a few feet away from a monolithic statue of Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin.…
WHAT WENT MISSING IN THE PRESENTATION: The presentation was manly focussing the promotion aspect of marketing but missed out on the other important aspects like price, product,…
There are some issues that need to be addressed in my organization, but there is one specific that I have been dealing since the day I started with my company and it is the capability to do call monitoring on my associates and provide them with positive feedback. My company does not pay any attention of certain issues that are important for us in order to run a state of the art call center and at the same time give associates the proper coaching and constructive feedback in real-time. This kind of approach will help us improve the performance and satisfaction of the company while it will help increase our associate’s morale. I found this article over the Internet by Rodney Kuhn title “ Using quality monitoring to enhance performance and improve morale” that talk about how to improve each associate quality and performance by boosting their morale using the right training and tools like phone monitoring. The purpose of this article is to inspire managers to use these tools in their daily task and train associates on how to approach the customers either by using scripts made by the company or by following manager’s guidelines. In order to keep associates motivated and more important to retain at all cost your top performers associates, you need to keep your agents with the latest technology available in the market so they will see that the support is there in a timely manner. The article mentions a fact that “in the call center alone, 26 out of every 100 full-time agents are likely to leave each year”. We have experienced this situation in our call center, we have lost more than 25% of our associates due to the lack of technology or simply because associates do not feel comfortable with the tools that are provided by the organization.…
Political stability is usually defined as the state of peace that is normally experienced in a country from the activities from the government and also the government in this situation will make decisions and keeping best interests in mind for people. Government initiatives are when the government can support business through grants and tax reductions.…
No. Using information collected from personal posts on Facebook and Linkedln is not an invasion of privacy. Of course marketers are always looking for better ways to gather information about target markets and increase product sale. Posting on a public site such as forums or social networking should not be expected to stay private. It is not eavesdropping when you openly post information and updates about yourself. You have the option to privatize your profile and send sensitive information via email or message from user to user, it is on the user what they want to publicly post and seen by marketers. If you don't want your information gathered either don't put it up on public sites or privatize it to prevent marketers from gathering your information. You have the option to.... Disabling or deleting cookies to prevent from being tracked. Taking advantage of the option to ensure all privacy boxes are selected. Turn on in private filtering to prevent your information from leaking. Refrain from putting personal information on public access. Every website tracks consumer movement for marketing purposes. None of your vital private information is spilling into their hands that will affect you in anyway. Even phone company's exchange this same information for marketing tactics. Facebook customers are not you, me or other individuals, but companies. Individuals and their data product are not the customers. Technically Facebook is not allowed to provide information about you however is allowed to provide trends that can relate to you. In that way, Facebook cannot sell information such as your name, sex, age, IP, etc. However, they can sell generalized information such as: "X% of female users, aged 18-20, from Tacoma, follow this trend, respond to certain posts, and frequently use the word 'Beiber". When I refer to customers I am referring to the marketing companies who wish to keep track of what people are interested in. It's an effective means of…
After five years of a great success on the Saudi Arabian market American manufacturer of precision steel products – Bladeco Corporation had been made to make some changes. In order to protect the local producers, government levied costly tariffs and trade restrictions on the foreign enterprises. The only way to avoid those regulations was forming a joint venture with a national company. Therefore Bladeco signed a contract with Mid-East steel Merchants, a subsidiary of the Al Amin family conglomerate. Initially everything seemed to be right. Al Amin family had a benefit of understanding the local business and cultural practises. Their name was also well regarded in Saudi Arabia. Over the time, however, Americans started to experience communication problems. The most important issue was the promotion strategy. Mustafa Al Amin did not want to accept the Blandeco’s former advertising. Moreover he refused talking to the CEO as she was a woman. Company’s management decided to sent the replacement – Jack Adams, who was supposed to resolve the problem of decreasing sales. In his home state Jack was really successful, but in Saudi Arabia he failed. Following paragraphs contain the analysis of his actions and proposals for the future of the company.…
Samson, D., Catley, B., Cathro, V., & Daft, L. (2012). Management in New Zealand. (pp. 191-192). Albany, North Shore, New Zealand: Cengage learning New Zealand. [Timberland case study]…
Clausen, H. (1996) ‘Web information quality as seen from libraries’, New Library World 97: 1130,…