Essays on General Electric

General Electric (GE) is a true global company with attendance in more than 100 countries. Clearly, with a workforce of more than 320’000 employees, GE also has to have proper human resources processes established. Its energetic Business Operation Model and sophisticated and evolved human resources …

Communication methods and various training sessions should also be incorporated as part of the implementation of any new change which would be incorporated into the company using the Six Sigma approach by General Electric. Without this, the management of a particular division of the company, …

Managerial decision making and capital budgeting is critical in business. Companies usually based their decisions, when engaging in business transactions, from the incremental costs or the costs that they have to deal with if the firm will accept the new business transaction. Incremental costs too …

General Electric (“GE”), similar to many major corporations in the 1980s and 1990s, underwent a restructuring phase in line with the McKinsey Restructuring Pentagon. Through this restructuring, General Electric implemented a portfolio-planning model to manage the ever-increasing demands of a company involved in over 190 …

The need for Jeffrey Immelt to develop into a level 5 leader is imperative for GE to continue to grow and prosper in the current economic conditions of global expansion and constant change. Immelt can also benefit GE by becoming a level 5 leader by …

The prescribed passage, Maiden Voyage from Denton Welch’s novel is rich in action and suspense. Several literary devices are employed by the author to create such an appealing effect. The first person narrative is introduced in the first line of this passage and is very …

The Price-fixing scheme, in Burke’s belief, was done primarily in order to control prices but only to set prices which are of value in accordance with their products and not for gaining outrageously huge profit and monopolizing the industry. If that is the real aim …

In this age where globalization and empowerment seem to be mantra of all organizations, more and more companies have come to realize the importance of breaking away from the traditional organizational hierarchies. Most people would like to function more effectively in organizations and to contribute …

The General Electric Company, or GE, is a multinational American technology and services conglomerate that ranks second among the companies all over the world in terms of market capitalization. Founded in 1878 by Thomas Edison, GE currently has around 319,000 employees headed by its Chairman …

The organizational behavior issues that I addressed in this paper pertain to self-managing teams at General Electric”s aircraft engine assembly facility in Durham, North Carolina (hereafter referred to as “GE”). The article “Engines of Democracy” from Fast Company magazine is particularly interesting because the self-managed …

Jill Ridgley General Electric Strategic Planning During the 1980s General Electric’s Chairman, Jack Welch, became highly influential and equally controversial in the world of strategic management. Although Welch focused on gaining competitive advantage for his organization, he also began downsizing and restructuring GE. GE’s strategic …

Ever since the end of the Second World War, quality management is given more and more importance by business organizations. Indeed, the evaluation and monitoring of the quality of management provided by a business organization to its clientele has been considered as an integral part …

1. Jessica Gallinelli should hold a position in Honeywell and take a short position in General Electric Company (GE) simultaneously The main consideration in her decision is when she heard disturbing news about the proposed bid by General Electric Company (GE) for Honeywell International Inc. …

GE operates worldwide and provides technology, media and financial services. General Electric Company is a multinational American technology and Fortune 500 company. It is incorporated in the State of New York. It is the world’s second largest company with respect to market capitalization and number …

It is ironic and coincidental this memo comes on the heals of the massive Anheuser-Busch/InBev acquisition. The leak of our interest in GE Appliance by Wall Street Journal blog “Deal Journal” has not sullied our position or interest. It is strongly recommended Haier begin to …

Summary of the case General Electric Healthcare in the international leading producer of diagnostic imaging equipments, offering medical clinics around the globe a wide variety of products and services designed to improve the quality of medical diagnosis and treatments. In 2005, GE Healthcare had a …

General electric become the strongest company in the United States in the mid 1990s and most valued company in the whole world in market capitalization. Today, general electric is successful in a dozen of businesses and is at the vanguard of change. Some years back, …

Introduction Physics, as a discipline, has always fascinated me as a college student, especially when diving into the experiments that have shaped our understanding of the universe. One experiment that stands out in its ingenuity and influence is Robert Millikan’s oil drop experiment. Executed in …

Introduction “Management is doing things right, leadership is doing the right things” (Pascale, 1990) John Kotter (1996) defined management as number of procedures which can keep the complex interaction between individuals and technology moving efficiently. He identified several phases of this complex interaction, but the …

The advancement in technology has paved the way for the development in the operations of numerous industries especially for companies that produce electronics and supply energy from fossil fuels and other sources. The modes of operation of this kind of companies have indeed improved through …