People in Business
People in BUSINESS PROJECT: Primark PRESENTED BY: JENNIFER TAKYE INTRODUCTION This unit of assignment will be based on Primark plc. I have chosen Primark as a case study to get information that will help me to produce a constructive piece of work. In the first part of my assignment I will write about the job roles in Primark business. This include the role of manages, supervisors and employees. To extend this I will look into the responsibilities of each chain of command. To achieve the first assessment objective successfully, I will give a detailed description of the qualities, skills and qualification that are required for each of the mentioned roles. In addition, I will explain the degree of decision making and problem solving accompanied with each role. Terms and conditions of every role will be described using as much detail as possible. Furthermore training and development opportunities available within the business will also take into account and also conclude the first part of the assignment and describe in depth the way in which motivation is used in the business. I will ensure that a detailed description of the relevant PEST factors in the business will also be provided. Importantly I will illustrate the role and responsibilities using detailed and realistic examples. GENERAL INTRODUCTIION The primary objective of this write up is to bring to bear the
ethics in business
Ethics What do you think of when you hear the word ethics? There are many times in our personal and business lives that we will face dilemmas where we will have to decide what is the right choice. Sometimes the unethical choice won't hurt us immediately, but time passes things tend to catch up with everyone. What, then, is ethics? Ethics refers to well based standards of right and wrong that prescribe what we as humans ought to do, in terms of rights, obligations, benefits to society, fairness, or specific virtues. Ethical standards enjoin virtues of honesty, compassion, and loyalty. State Farm is one of the most well known insurance companies in the world today. The company was founded in 1922 and is still going today. It is not just one company, but is built by subsidiary companies that offer both insurance and financial services, which was all form under State Farm Automobile Insurance Company. There are over 17,000 agents and 69,000 employees that serve nearly 73 million policies within the United States and Canada putting it at number nineteen on the Forbes 500 list of largest companies according to Business Ethics Magazine. According to Wikipedia.com State Farm didn't get its name from offering crop insurance, but instead by providing automobile insurance to farmers. It was founder George J. Mecherle who believed that farmers drove less than city drivers and were
Presenting Business Information
Tesco.com Introduction: For this assignment I have been asked to investigate Tesco. I will be describing Tesco as an organisation in detail. Tesco History: According to my research Jack Cohen founded Tesco in the year 1919.He also worked with the Royal Air Force during the First World War. Jack Cohen started his business only with £30. The first day of his business was not very successful, he only had a £4 turnover and £1 profit, but day-by-day his business started to make more money. In 1924 the name, which the company later took on as its corporate name, emerged. The name Tesco contains the initials of the owner of the firm MR.T.E Stockwell, who has supplied the firm with tea and of the initials of Jack's surname - Cohen. Towards the end of the twenties, instead of a stall trade Jack only focused on window shop trade taking on the main street. The name Tesco first flared (shown) with a lock in North London in 1929. [Burnt Oak, Edgware] In 1932 Tesco stores became a big company. In 1934 Jack decided to buy a piece of land in North London (Angle Road, Edmonton) with the idea to build the head office and the warehouse there. Since World War 2, Tesco Stores Corporation has been growing steadily. Tesco is a public limited (plc) company. There are so many products and services that Tesco provide to its customers but I am only going to list the main products and
