Essays on Economics

Work design and its Impact Work design is an elemental function of an organization s human resource management. Its concepts are geared towards how the nature of work affects the employees attitudes and behaviors, particularly their autonomy and skill variety. Job design aims to improve the satisfaction of job, quality,...

While the upsurge in the smartphone ownership has supported the utility of technological advances in the taxis industry, there is lack of awareness of how the platforms can improve taxi services in the metered taxi business. However, the gains of the Transportation Network Companies verify the advantages, thus the need...

Wal-Mart is a multi-national retail corporation based in Bentonville, Arkansas in the USA. With over 500 billion dollars in revenues, it is the world’s biggest retailer company and also happens to be the largest private employers with a total of 2.3 million employees. Wal-Mart operates hypermarkets, discount department stores, and...

United Airlines has faced scandals that put its image in question. The most famous one is the case involving the forceful removal of David Dao from an airplane and the pet incident. The paper provides an analysis of the two situations, their effect on the company’s reputation, and the role...

Transformational Leadership and Employee Motivation Transformational leadership has been associated with positive organizational outcomes on different levels. In the employee context, for example, research evidence has on numerous occasions shown a strong positive link between this leadership style and employee motivation. While many other factors come into play in the performance...

Toxic leadership is caused by lack of self-confidence, lack of self-awareness and shortage of self-awareness. The consequences of destructive leadership are dire and can even lead to a downfall of an organisation. Employing a qualitative analysis approach, with secondary data to analyse the tell-tale signs of a leader with such...

To what extent are Consumers Ready for a Fully Autonomous Restaurant? An Examination of Consumer Acceptance of automated service technology in the Restaurant Industry. Literature Review The foundation of technological innovation and advancement across the globe and the various industries is to increase efficiency in daily human activities and increase the individual...

To start with, factors that have significant impacts on social reporting include enterprise size, scope, and culture. Besides, the shifting of government power through derivative actions subjects the company to shareholders who do not care about social and moral considerations (Okoye 2015, p.374). Current paper, therefore, explains the meaning of...

Tiffany and Co is an American luxury jewelry company that began in 1837 as a stationery and upmarket merchandise emporium but later specialized in jewelry in 1853. Since then, the company has opened stores in major capitals all over the world. Tiffany and Co became a fully-fledged publicly traded corporation...

The rapidly changing business landscape and its impact on supply chain and procurement The rapidly changing business landscape across the world has significantly affected supply chain and procurement function in various organisations. However, few studies are focused on identifying the most significant skills associated with procurement function as well as determining...

The purpose of the study was to determine the impact of technology in the restaurant industry particularly the importance of these innovations on the overall operations. The section provides results for the finding from the primary and secondary data collected regarding the research problem. Notably, the specific objectives that were...

The next chapter of the human story is already taking shape courtesy of famous ground-breaking innovation of blockchain. Cryptocurrency has only been in existence for a decade, but the effects are already being felt, buoyed by the network effects of the Internet. Looking at the bigger picture, it is still...