Hidden struggles: mental health challenges in PhD training

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PhD training is intellectually demanding and often described as a labour of love. Yet behind the academic achievements lies a quieter struggle with mental health. Over the past decade, studies have illuminated an alarming prevalence of psychological distress among doctoral students. Surveys in multiple countries indicate that a substantial fraction of PhD candidates experience symptoms … Read more

Management for Environmental Sustainability

Abstract Management for environmental sustainability is the need of the hour due to increasing population and tendency of humans to ignore environmental issues. Organizations comprise all sorts of groups exploiting Mother Earth’s natural resources for fulfilling their own selfish needs. These organizations are the major contributors of pollution to this world. Earth is getting polluted … Read more

Steve Jobs and the Transformation of Apple

Steve Jobs was the founding father of the US multinational Apple Computers along with Steve Wozniak. The share value of Apple has increased 10 times from $10 to $100 when Steve Jobs just took over the reins after a 12 year absence. Such is the customer confidence Jobs had built around himself.

Apple initiatives towards diversity and equality

Abstract The equality act 2010 makes it law not to discriminate against employees and people that use their services because of a certain particular characteristic, it implies on all private, public and voluntary organizations. Equality act makes sure that all kinds of people with any particular characteristics i.e. (Age, gender, ethnicity, race, disability, and religion) … Read more

Amazon Economic Environment (SWOT, PEST, price elasticity, supply & demand)

I) Introduction: In this report, we are going to talk about Amazon. Amazon was founded by Jeff Bezos on July 4th1994 and it is now the largest internet store in the world. It grew from just a small book store to something really large. It is very diversified and sells everything from food to video … Read more

Airbnb Porter’s Five Forces Analysis

Introduction Airbnb’s primary business is a provision of an accommodation marketplace where people can list their living spaces to rent for short periods of time. The history of the company originated in the apartment of the two founders Brian Checky and Joe Gebbia in San Francisco. The two flat mates were struggling with rent money … Read more

What is Public Value? How Can It Be Created and Sustained?

Introduction Public value is a concept that has gained significant traction in the field of public management and administration. Originating from the work of Mark Moore in the 1990s, public value focuses on the creation of value through government and public sector activities that benefit the public. This essay delves into the essence of public … Read more

Merit system in Public Administration

Introduction The objective of this article is to perform an analysis of the merit system addressing the perspective of management, which forces us to question ourselves on how to make the human resources system work in the specific framework of the multiple and heterogeneous organizations that make up our public administrations. The analysis of this … Read more

How can ARM attract talent to effectively compete in the Microchip design industry?

Introduction. Having recently been taken over by Softbank, microchip design company ARM Holdings, they recognise the need for innovative designers that will help maintain the firm’s reputation as the world leader in Microchip design. The strategic plan is to double the workforce recruiting the brightest chip designers. Within the first 2 years they have increased … Read more

Talent Management’s relation to global talent mobility

Introduction Talent is the only differentiator for organization’s success in a global, complex, extremely viable and dynamic environment. In the early 1990s since a group of McKinsey coined the phrase War for Talent, the theme of talent management (TM) has grown to be one of the vibrant matters for managing academics, practitioners and consultants as … Read more

Strategy in Action: Evidence Review & Reflective Report (Energy Sector)

Introduction Change is the basic or fundamental factor of development because of the working condition and changing environment. The organization should adapt the changing culture and trends of the modern world to minimize the chances of risk. In the first assignment we discussed the need of cultural change in order to maintain the competitive advantage … Read more

Implementation of certified asset management system at Westland Infra

Chapter 1: Introduction 1.1. Research problem Westland Infra is a regional grid operator that manages the gas distribution network and electricity network within the municipality of Westland and Midden Delfland in the Netherlands. To manage these networks, Westland Infra has introduced a certified PAS55 asset management system in 2011 and replaced it in 2015 for … Read more