Cost of Capital, RD A high credit rating indicates a lower cost of capital for most industries and organizations. Volkswagen had a rating of BBB+ with a positive outlook in May 2021 (Fitch Ratings, 2021a). The company’s rating is based on three critical components, including financial profile, corporate governance, and...
Introduction The 2017 Accounting Standards Update (ASU) by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FSBA) was issued for greater clarification on the definition of a business with the purpose of issuing guidance for entities on whether transactions should be accounted for as assets or businesses. This change came after much criticism,...
The learning organization can be described as a company facilitating and encouraging the learning process for its employees. It acknowledges the need for continuous development of the organizational culture and structure in order to adapt to environmental change (Doyle and Johnson, 2019). The concept of the learning organization is interconnected...
An Overview of the Consumer Electronics Industry Rapid technological development of humanity has predetermined the increasing relevance of the electronic industry or, in other words, consumer electronics. To begin with, it is necessary to find out what is taken by this kind of electronics. This definition means that all electronic...
Background The COVID-19 pandemic became an event which disrupted the normal way of life and forced all countries on the planet to adjust to new circumstances (Stefana, 2020). Businesses also were hit by the effects of the pandemic, which included not only hundreds of thousands of people being unable to...
Emotional intelligence has such critical components as self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, and relationship management. The four emotional intelligence skills can be combined into two pairs: self-awareness and self-management form intrapersonal competence and social awareness and relationship management – interpersonal or social competence. Intrapersonal competence focuses mainly on personality, while social...
Executive Summary L’Oréal is a multinational company that manufactures cosmetic products and owns several well-known cosmetics brands such as Lancôme and Maybelline, among others. Currently, it is the number one cosmetic group globally, with over 36 brands and subsidiaries in 115 counties. This company prides its ability to innovate, which...
Introduction Organizational change refers to the circumstances under which a company or a business organization alters the system of its organization through the transformation of its culture, technology, the way it operates the businesses, the outlined infrastructure, or the internal process. Many organizations suffer resistance to change; the major causes...
Background Many approaches to contemporary economic analysis are created to examine one or another industry based on specific criteria. Porter’s Five Forces model is a simple tool that is intended to assist in primary sources of competition identification (Mind Tools Content Team, n.d.). It considers the following concepts: rivalry, bargaining...
The purpose and objective of the report A balanced scorecard assists in the development of organizational strategy by identifying what is essential to the organization. It brings the many viewpoints of the stakeholders together in a single communication channel. A more planned and regulated workload for employees can assist the...
Introduction Apple is among the most competitive electronic multinational companies. It is an American International Corporation that majors in electronics products (Al-Serhan, 2020). The company produces computer hardware such as iPhone Smartphones (Liu, 2021). It also offers electronic hardware, including iPod media players and Home pod speakers. Apple Inc. has...
Amazon aggregators obtain and nurture e-commerce brands over innovative businesses with industrialists to scale the developed Amazon products and advance income for their stockholders. These aggregators search for the Amazon vendors they consider great auction potential to consolidate and run an e-commerce business portfolio (Tripathy, 2018). This research essay explicitly...
Business-level strategies are detailed outlines of actions and activities a business takes to offer customers value and maintain competitiveness. The main types of business-level strategies are; cost leadership, differentiation, and focus strategies (Edwards, et al., 2014). The cost leadership strategy aims at producing goods at a lower price per unit...
A good organizational culture is a key to the success of any company, as it affects the productivity of employees, their quality of work, and job satisfaction. A well-thought-out organizational culture allows you to create a space and environment in which employees will develop, provide better quality services, and resolve...
To make its products attractive, Nivea produces several cosmetics products that may appeal to many customers. Apart from the differentiation strategy, the company emphasizes the high quality of products: the products undergo a long testing period before they are released on the market. Each customer may be sure that the...
In the digital age, when technological progress and innovations make up an essential part of human lives, people find themselves in need of managing a complex and rapidly evolving world of information and technology. As people rely more and more on electronic devices in their everyday lives, they generate more...
An employee may have spiritual, material, or individual values that differ from the importance of the organization. This discrepancy can substantially impact the behavior and work of an employee in the company because common values can increase the loyalty of employees to the organization and motivate them. Shared values can...
Nowadays, technological progress has affected almost any area of human’s daily life. Many organizations from different fields are gradually implementing IT-based methods of work. In the medical field, in particular, in the United States, more and more hospitals use EHR (Electronic Health Record), EMR (Electronic Medical Record), and PHR (Personal...
Abstract Porter presented a model to analyze strategic and market positions by five aspects: customer bargaining power, supplier bargaining power, the threat of new entries, the threat of substitutes, and competitive rivalry. It is used to evaluate the auto industry in the United States. This field started to develop in...
Introduction A virtual team is “one whose members share a common purpose, but are separated by distance, time, and organizational boundaries. In such a team, members are linked only by communication technologies.” (Noble, 2009, a virtual team, para.1). Therefore, timely and efficient communication between the members play a very important...
Introduction Bipolar disorder is a serious mental disorder that is typified by drastic mood fluctuations between mania and depression. The lifetime prevalence of this disorder is about 2.4%.1 Bipolar disorder is a longstanding disease with affective incidents that may elicit substantial personal suffering, social dysfunction and negative outcomes on the...
Use of visuals to keep attention In the Abbott report, the visuals in the background are pictures depicting different aspects of nutrition and healthy living in warm colors, with green color dominating the presentations. The use of pictures to depict different products in the report is very attractive and a...
Personal and Communal Ethical Factors In determining the moral positions of the two sides of the debates surrounding mandatory vaccination, personal and communal ethical factors should be explored. One personal factor is individual beliefs and values. Advocates of compulsory vaccination may think that immunization is the only way to stop...
Introduction of disease High blood pressure, also known as hypertension, is a condition characterized by the high long-term force of the blood against the artery walls that negatively affect the heart’s function. The blood pressure depends on the two main conditions: the amount of blood in heart pumps and blood...
Introduction Strategic management concepts have become crucial in helping an organization to thrive in the current business environment that tends to be highly competitive. Success is attained by such concepts in the existence of modes of measuring the performance of the organization. Through such measuring strategies, the organization can set...
Introduction Problem Statement The current market circumstances enable companies to seek to implement innovative solutions to retain their competitive advantage. The retail businesses which sell clothing items and accessories have an extensive assortment of modern technological products to choose from. As research indicates, the fashion industry is experiencing a rise...
Background Organizations are operating in a dynamic environment which requires them to keep up with the changes. Failure to conform to such adjustments has negative impact on their operations. Problems that are faced by organizations have made institutional development as a career to be in demand for many businesses. The...
Abstract Marketing has undergone a tremendous transformation in the last few decades amidst environmental and technological changes, and so has the process of branding. Building a brand has been a daunting exercise for the custodians on the local and global scales. This study aims to help in understanding the primary...
Introduction The decision-making model of Vroom and Yetton assumes the determination of the most effective leadership style, depending on the characteristics of each specific situation. Moreover, it is assumed that one leader can use several different management styles. The main difference of the presented model is that it is focused...
Introduction Due to increased globalization and integration of world economies, companies are constantly seeking to expand their markets beyond regional boundaries into the global market (Das 2004). Consequently, companies reap benefits associated with diverse markets, economies of scale, and increased consumer base (Cragg 2005). These benefits associated with globalization prompted...
Executive Summary Business analysis, especially when it is focused on conducting a study with real client, requires a proper planning because of the need to have actionable solutions that can be used to solve real life problems. In this business analysis, the focus was on the Coca Cola Company, one...
Abstract The way businesses market their products and services determines their success. Organizations utilize various marketing tools to create and sustain demand for their products, which influences their bottom lines and business survival. This paper explores Apple Inc.’s iWatch and how the company implemented the four marketing Ps to achieve...
While attaining freedom for women in the nineteenth century was highly impractical, females were not contented with the injustices of a society overpowered by men. Kate Chopin’s Story of an Hour was published when America experienced rapid technological advancement changes to economic recession. The author lived in a society that...
Introduction The relationship between the American police and the people of color in the country has been questionable throughout history. Cases of mistreatment and even killing of the minority groups by the police have always been reported. The paper presents a summary of the history of the police and their...
Continuing Nursing Education Continuing Nursing education is defined as “systematic professional learning experiences designed to augment the knowledge, skills, and attributes of nurses and therefore enrich the nurses’ contributions to quality health care and their pursuit of professional career goals” (American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation, 2012). Mandatory continuing...
Federal governments play an important role in public health by protecting and promoting safety and people’s opportunities. In regards to the population’s health status, healthcare facilities should follow certain standards and policies, learn laws and regulations, and offer services at the required levels. Governments’ interventions touch upon different sectors, including...
Introduction Social support and familial sustenance are critical in terms of fighting the deadliest and most challenging diseases in the world. Social connectivity enables a person to feel a certain level of happiness and confidence. Challenged individuals experience a significant level of anxiety and stress. However, they also need their...
Introduction The use of secondary data is acceptable in many spheres of research. Secondary data are the sources of information “that has already been collected by someone else” and can be accessed by a researcher (Clark, 2013, p. 57). Johnson (2014) claims that secondary data can be a good alternative...
A chart showing how the researchers addressed the five areas of a research report. How evidence of the five areas in the research report supports the conclusion The conclusion shows that breast health survivors had significant roles in “motivating young women to adopt behaviors that helped in preventing breast cancer...
Introduction Advanced practice nursing is rapidly gaining support from health care providers because the use of different advanced practice roles and competencies improves healthcare quality and lowers health care costs. Comparison and contrast of advanced practice nursing roles can help to examine the specialty of primary care family nurse practitioners...
Introduction Heart diseases may not have received as much attention as they require. This may be the reason why many people are still not aware of the risk factors, symptoms, and preventive measures. This lack of knowledge explains why there is still a big number of people dying of heart-related...
Introduction Passion The need to ensure human beings live comfortable lives and access quality health care services motivate me to seek to know what should be done to ensure this is possible. I have a passion for ensuring that every person enjoys life despite the inevitable challenges that modern societies...
Abstract This paper provides a patient education plan for a hypothetical African American with congestive heart failure (CHF). The education plan includes information on diagnosis and pathophysiology of congestive heart failure, medications, and treatment of the disease, home care considerations, as well as health and wellness. Overall, the patient education...
Introduction Leadership is important in all organizations that utilize people to attain their goals, missions, aims, and objectives. It involves influencing other people to facilitate the accomplishment of a given goal. Leaders arrange, manage, direct, and guide other people towards the attainment of common mutual objectives and goals. Leadership occurs...
Introduction Current nursing training schools have embraced basic accounting classes in their coursework. This is to ensure that their end product becomes better nurse managers either immediately after college or at later stages in their nursing career. Managing a hospital takes the same approach as any other business. It requires...
The Determinant of Market price and Quantity in Long-Term-Care Services In Southern Mississippi The demand for long-term care services in the southern Mississippi has been observed to rise sequentially following the current trend of population increase, which in a way threatens the survival of the less disadvantaged in terms of...
Introduction Lung cancer is an illness of unregulated cell growth of the lung. This cell growth within the lung tissues may result to metastasis. Lung cancer is accountable for approximately 1.5 million deaths globally every year and it is the most cancer that affects the highest number of men and...
Introduction The health benefits of vitamin consumption are a controversial issue and should be considered with caution. Indeed, unreasonable use of these substances in various forms might have severe consequences for one’s health due to disregard for their side effects leading to the emergence of health issues (Cerrato 69). These...
Abstract—This paper looks at the use of Innovation Management process in the Project Management domain, it first introduces technique; how it works and how to use it. Two papers are reviewed that use innovation management processes in managing innovation driven projects. The first paper, “The role of business model innovation...
Background The prevalence of substance abuse cases and increasing aberrant behavior patterns among adolescents raise significant concerns to parents and community health workers due to their implications on the teens’ social development. Drug addictions among adolescents increase long-term physiological and mental health risks, low educational attainment, poor financial management, run-ins...
Employee satisfaction is directly linked to their levels of motivation, performance, and productivity. At DrainFlow, the adverse implications of an unhappy workforce are manifested in their failure to accomplish various key objectives and the poor services rendered to customers. For instance, clients have complained about the prolonged response time and...
The role of humour in counselling and therapy have become an area of intense intense interest for researchers in the field. Experts increasingly recognize its positive role in therapy, but the application is to be executed with precision. The present thesis reviews the literary insight into the use of humour...
Introduction Apple is an organization in the United States specializing in creating, progressing, and selling electronic products such as cellphones and computers. Established in 1976 by Steve Jobs and his colleagues, this US-based corporation has encountered various strategic developments to become one of the most reputable brands in the world...
Feeding is one paramount activity that not only allows a person to grow and live one more day but also protects the health of the one being fed in many ways. Children are one specific group of human beings whose nutritional needs continue from the womb to the real world...
Challenges to Social Cohesion Environmental health is a significant concern for public housing, especially in challenging conditions. Everything, from sanitation to safety, influences well-being and creates barriers to social cohesion in a community. Any sort of public or transitional housing is usually affected by a lack of care for the...
Abstract This paper is related to observing the effects that the economy of the United States of America has had on transportation and logistics management during the last two years. The paper focuses on the modern trends of the economy of the United States of America, considers international trends that...
Cognitive Psychology Defined The scope of cognitive psychology is very broad with many psychologists trying to explain it in their own perspectives and carry out more research on the same. There are many definitions of cognitive psychology which developed to counter the beliefs of behavioral scientists who attributed behavior to...
Board of Directors There are various differences between a professional nurse association and board of nursing. While the association advocates for nurses, the board regulates nursing practices. The board develop regulations and uniform rules, oversee the licensure, and enforces law (Neff et al., 2018). It also provides standards for supporting...
Getting to study your student is a prime issue in teaching practices, once you identify and understand each student in a more personal way; it helps you in knowing and understanding their cultures which subsequently helps in introducing the most appropriate teaching methods. In this class the arrangement has been...
Definition The Canada-United States border plays a significant role in determining economic growth and security status of the two countries. After realizing the importance of the border in 1999, the two countries adopted a binational approach in management of the border. According to Friedman1, binational approach of managing the border...
Did you know that online learning has a history of over two decades and that the Coronavirus pandemic only accelerated its pace? In today’s active comparison of online and traditional learning, some believe that distance learning is innovative and highly productive, while others favor traditional teaching, regarding traditional methods as...
Diversity Management Diversity management in bubble tea shops involves the use of diversity training tools in organizational activities. Many entities have embarked on providing training programs on a routine basis to evaluate and disseminate the assessment findings. Some of the benefits that can be accrued from diversity management include increasing...
A sharp rise in the rate of cryptocurrencies led to natural consequences – the rush demand for graphic processing units (GPUs) that can be used for mining resulted in their shortage. Moreover, high-performance GPUs have completely disappeared from the open market, severely damaging different industries such as gaming and designing...
During the last decades, Abraham Maslow’s «Hierarchy of Human Needs» theory has remained a popular technique in corporate management. The presented principles of motivating workers to raise productivity seem to be intuitively logical, illustrative, and universally applicable. However, within the historical development of humanity, the personal perception of workers modifies,...
Introduction Studies on global affairs focus on a wide area of political relations between countries, cultures, and administrations (Coppieters, 2015). The study of these international relations requires a methodical technique to find essential methods and forces of change. Analysis in international relations employs various methods, including the use of rational...
Teaching High-Frequency Words Words are an important aspect of learning in view of the fact that they allow students to create meaning from print. It is estimated that there are approximately a million words in the English language and studies indicate that proficient readers are capable of recognizing about 50000...
Introduction Leadership during organizational change is an important subject, as it can contribute to positive outcomes. In the chosen scenario, the organization changed mission and strategy to reach more customers and improve financial performance. Nurse leaders had to support organizational change by improving employee motivation and performance. This scenario was...
Introduction The success of a company mostly hinges on the choice of a leadership strategy. Therefore, it is imperative to come up with the leadership style that matches the organizational environment and allows meeting the employees’ needs. Because of the inconsistent leadership framework adopted at CMA, there is a significant...
Introduction organizational change has been a popular topic of discussion in management research for several years. This is because any organizational change is difficult for both the management and employees, and can lead to drastic consequences if not planned and implemented correctly. The implementation of organizational change requires consistent efforts...
Executive Summary For one and half year, the global economy has been experiencing an exceptional crisis for long term. Starting from the housing market of the USA as a crisis, it almost immediately spread out as a financial crisis of huge proportions in the mortgage market and by collapsing, the...
Executive summary China’s rapid economic growth China has an exceptional position the today’s world’s economy. There are several reasons for what makes the Chinese economy unique. These are the rapid growth rate, the characteristics of the Chinese economy and how china’s economic reforms resulted in increased productivity despite government control....
Introduction In the current global finance market, the issue credit risk management has become very important as banks try to ensure that they are not dangerously exposed to bad debts that may affect their sustainability. The 2008 global financial crisis and the credit crunch which followed created pressure among international...
Introduction The process of management always involves planning, organizing, leading and controlling activities. It does not consist of a single act. Management in general is cyclical and repetitive. It involves a linear process on which it has a start and an end and it always considers the planning, organizing, leading,...
Introduction In the current globalized society, it is common to find cases where an organization hires people with different cultural backgrounds, race, religion, level of education, gender, among other demographical factors. Diversity in the workplace is becoming a common phenomenon that organizations cannot avoid. According to Mor-Barak (2014), diversity in...
Craft Beer Industry The industry’s primary aim is to make a profit through the use of an effective strategy that helps in influencing the target audience. The competitive business environment is experiencing changes in the competition that occur at a fast rate. This poses a challenge in maintaining business operability...
Introduction Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental and neurocognitive disorder that implies impairment symptoms in social interaction and communication and restricted, repetitive patterns of behaviors, interests, and activities. The reasons for this disorder were earlier considered to be a combination of poor parenting and biological factors, but later it...
Eight traits of effective leaders Organizations become successful when leaders can influence followers to work towards achieving particular goals or objectives. Even though personal traits could not be solely responsible for effective leadership, supporters of trait leadership theory have ascertained that these traits are seen as preconditions that grant people...
Introduction The World Economic Forum identifies Nigeria as one of the big five economies in Africa. The country has a gross domestic product (GDP) of $448.10 billion in 2019 (African Development Bank, 2020, p. 6). Nigeria’s growth has materialized into an economic powerhouse despite its challenging political environment. It is...
Datapine is a digital platform that provides users with a business intelligence opportunity to visualize, explore, and share their data with dashboards. According to datapine, the corporate platform is a contemporary one, where all pertinent business data is placed in one central area. As datapine illustrates, the data tool empowers...
The quality and quantity of human resources in organizations are vital since they determine their success. No firm can remain competitive and productive in the long run without the right type and number of workers doing the appropriate job as planned. Therefore, companies need to have a department that strategizes...
Introduction Risk management implies an integral part of a successful and stable business in present-day developments. According to Hillson and Simon, “risk management is too important to be left to chance” (1). Starting any business is always associated with multiple hardships and hazards, which are highly likely to prevent the...
Introduction Technology and innovation are crucial in the survival, growth, and competitive advantage of a company. The company’s operating environment will help it determine if its strategy will compete favorably against immediate competitors (Kapoor, 2018). McDonald’s is a global leader in the fast-food industry with an estimated annual global turnover...
There are a number of expectations placed on China both from within its borders and from the world at large. Having established itself as an industrial economy in the early 1980’s, china has become an important source of goods for both its domestic and foreign markets. As a result china...
Introduction PPP or the Purchasing Power Parity is a theory that is used to determine whether the exchange rates between currencies are equal when the purchasing power is equivalent in each of the two countries compared. Basically, it depicts the clarification between the fairness of how exchange rates are calculated...
Introduction The modern theories about capital structure have gained momentum since the groundbreaking 1958 article written by Modigliani and Miller (hereafter, MM). Before the issue of the article, there was only a vague knowledge of the real consequences of debts and equity problems for the capital structure without any analytical...
Background Centene Corp is a publicly listed company in the US stock exchange. The company is headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri. It offers health benefits to more than 4.1 million people. The company has a market capitalization of $8.5 billion and is one of the best-performing companies in the medical...
Introduction The automotive industry in mature car markets, such as the European car market, has been at the forefront of embracing innovation (Laux, 1992; Cornet et al., 2019). In particular, one of the significant trends that need to be reckoned with was the digitization of production processes that was made...
Introduction The marketing research proposal will primarily focus on the Taste brand and the customers’ perception of its taste and communication, positioning, brand image, and brand awareness. The research question is which one of the elements is the key determining factor of the product’s low performance. The descriptive hypothesis is...
The four main types of the market structure include perfect competition, monopolistic competition, oligopoly, and monopoly. There are different economic structures that an economy can adopt, but the four main structures are the perfect competition, monopoly, oligopoly, and monopolistic competition. These structures of economies exist in the real world, except...
Introduction Marketing planning is a process that involves organizations adopting systems and procedures to profitably identify and meet customer needs. This process allows managers to develop an effective marketing mix for their enterprises from the limited supply of planning constituents needed in creating the right blend of place, product, price,...
Introduction Price elasticity of demand means the extent to which the demand of the commodity would change if it price is altered. The relationship between the price elasticity of demand and slope of demand curve is an inverse one i.e. the greater the gradient of the curve, the lower the...
Introduction The economic dependence on oil-derived fuels has made global economies vulnerable to economic variability. This commodity has intrinsic price dynamism and hence the reliance on it as a major economic sustainer has proved to be a major macroeconomic challenge (Mina 384). The demand and supply of oil have historically...
The concept “time value of money” is based on the principle that an amount of funds costs more at the current moment than it may cost in the future because money can be invested and bring profit (Lane, 2017). This concept lays the foundation for the economic appraisal of investment...
Introduction The purpose of this report is to conduct ratio analysis to evaluate the performances of Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank (UAE), Commercial Bank of Dubai, Emirates NBD (UAE), First Gulf Bank (UAE), and Union National Bank over a period of eight years (from 2008 to 2015) with regard to the...
Oil exporting countries often rely solely on oil revenues, which is especially common in the Persian Gulf countries. Fluctuations in oil prices depend on many factors, both institutional within the country itself and on the policy and volumes of other exporters’ oil production. For countries which rely solely on oil...
Introduction As shown in the attached Excel file, the three-year return for US Steel Corporation was 13.07% (C19, ratios). A closer review of the share prices shows that the prices rose between April 2014 and October 2014; thereafter, they started to decline until January 2016, when the share prices started...
Introduction Credit rating agencies refer to companies which assign credit ratings for issuers of debts and the debt instruments. They can also provide credit ratings to the servicers of the underlying debt. The issuers of securities include companies, state and local governments, special purpose entities as well as governments which...
Introduction Purpose of the paper This paper will provide a critical analysis of the financial and operational performance of Wal-Mart Stores, specifically for the three fiscal years 2011, 2012 and 2013. In addition, the company’s financial and operational performance will be viewed in comparison with another corporation- the US-based Target...
Strategic Choices The company has been struggling due to the recent global financial crisis that shook the entire business world. Due to this, the top management has brought on board a number of strategies that are meant to increase business and make the company more competitive. Even before the crisis,...
Enterprise Resource Planning Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), is usually used in ERP systems or software which are involved in managing all the information and all functions of a firm from shared data banks or even data stores (ERPwire, 2010). ERP has been given significant acknowledgment since the processes of ERP...