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Erasmus et al describe Business Management as a young science, which could be regarded as an independent science based on the characteristics of science. comment on this statement.(12)
1. You are a senior manager in Hi-Lo company. The managing director asks you to resolve this dispute between the HR directorate and the middle managers by clarifying the roles of HR and management. Use the information from the presicibe textbook ( Erasmus et al.) to provide arguments in your own words that describe the role of the HR directorate and managers in the company (12)
2. Analyse the arguments used in the case study. Indicate which will work and which will not in preventing a strike at Hi-Lo. (5)
Businesses Management is multidisciplinary in nature (= based on more than one discipline). Provide three arguments to support this statement. Substantiate your answer by indicating five disciplines from which Business Management borrows concepts. (8)
1. A company manufactures two products X and Y. Each product has to be processed in three departments: welding, assembly and painting. Each unit of X spends 2 hours in the welding department, 3 hours in assembly and 1 hour in painting. The corresponding times for a unit of Y are 3, 2 and 1 respectively. The man-hours available in a month are 1500 for the welding department, 1500 in assembly and 550 in painting. The contribution to profits are $100 for product X and $120 for product Y.
A. Formulate the appropriate linear programming problem
B. Solve it graphically to obtain the optimal solution for the maximum contribution
Differentiate between qualitative and quantitative research.
Define business research and what are objectives of doing research ? List the characteristics of good research.
What are matrix organization ? Explain its advantages and disadvantages. How
it is different from project structure ?
What are matrix organization ? Explain its advantages and disadvantages. How
it is different from project structure ?
What challenges might confront a mexican manager transferred to canada to manage manufacturing plant in Winnipeg manitoba? will these issues be the same for canadian manager transferred to Guadalajara
Japan’s March 11, 2011 Great Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami was among the most damaging natural disasters on record. This case examines the organizational structure and operational decisions that allowed Nissan Motor Company to recover from the disaster more rapidly than its peers. In doing so, Nissan was able to increase production and capture market share from its slower-to-recover competitors.
Discuss
(i) How the company was able to realize a faster time-to-recovery through superior supply chain visibility, rapid response efforts, and flexible supply allocation. (9 Marks)
(ii) The decisions the company might have made to realize a faster time-to-recovery (9 Marks)
