Comprehensive Presentation that Covers: Resources and Capabilities, Strategic Capabilities and Competitive Advantage – VRIO, Diagnosing Strategic Capabilities, Bench-marking, The Value Chain, The Value System and Developing Strategic Capabilities.

Comprehensive Presentation that Covers: Strategic Business Units (SBUs) in Organisations, Identify Alternative Strategy Options, Including Market Penetration, Product Development, Market Development and Diversification, Distinguishes Between Different Diversification Strategies and Diversification Drivers, Business Strategy in terms of the Generic Strategies of Cost Leadership, Differentiation and Focus, Benefits of Cooperation in Business Strategy and the Principles of Game Theory to Business Strategy.

Comprehensive Presentation that Covers: Key Issues In the Three Methods for Pursuing Strategy and Determine the Appropriate Choices Between Organic Strategies, Mergers and Acquisitions & Strategic Alliances, Sources of Competitive Advantage in International Strategy and Assess the Internationalisation Potential of Different Markets & Identify and Assess the Relative Merits of Different Market Entry Modes.

Comprehensive Presentation that Covers: Structural Types, The Functional Structure, Functional Structures, The Multidivisional Structure, A Multidivisional Structure and Matrix Structure.

Comprehensive Presentation that Covers: the Historical Roots of Distinctive Political Economy of Welfare States, Past Decisions, Big or Small, Shape Development of Mixed Economies of Welfare Determines How they Can and Do Develop as well as Historical Dynamics and Current State-of-Play.

This Student Handout Supplements the Welfare State and the EU Presentations.

Comprehensive Presentation that Covers: Calculating the Weighted Average Cost of Capital for a Business and Assess its Usefulness when Making Investment Decisions, Calculating the Degree of Financial Gearing for a Business and Explain its Significance, Evaluating Different Capital Structure Options Available to a Business and Key Points in the Debate over whether a Business has an Optimal Capital Structure.

Comprehensive Presentation that Covers: Describe the Shareholder Value Approach and Explain its Implications for the Management of a Business, Explain Shareholder Value Analysis (SVA) and Economic Value Added (EVA) and Discuss their Role in Measuring and Delivering Shareholder Value, Explain Market Value Added (MVA) and Total Shareholder Return (TSR) and Evaluate their Usefulness for Investors, Discuss the Advantages and Disadvantages of Awarding Share Options to Senior Managers as a Means of Promoting Shareholder Value.

Comprehensive Presentation that Covers: Stakeholder Theory, The Management of Stakeholders Relations, the Characteristics of Individual Stakeholder Groups and Reflection on Theory and Conclusions.

Comprehensive Presentation that Covers: Examines the Challenges Facing Contemporary Management in FLexible and Post-Bureaucratic Organisations and ‘Ethics as Practice’ and ‘Microethics’– the Reality of CSR and Business Ethics?

Comprehensive Presentation that covers: Pressure Groups and Power, What is Pluralism? Robert A Dahl’s Work on Power Structures and Pluralist Democracy, Pluralists and Democracy, Pluralists and the State, Evidence for the Pluralist View, Problems with Pluralism, Criticism of the Pluralist Position, What is Elitism? Is this Democratic? So Where is the Power? The Distinction Between Pluralism and Elitism, What Determines the Success of Pressure Groups, Functions of Pressure Groups, Mobilise Public Opinion, Example of the Mobilisation of Public Opinion, Education, Example of the Educative Role, Encourage Participation, Pluralism and Diversity, Example of Encouraging Participation, Single Issues, Example of Single Issue, Redress of Grievance, Example of Redress of Grievance, Representation of Minorities, Example of Representation of Minorities, Expert Knowledge, Example of Expert Knowledge, Public Policy, Example of Public Policy, Check and Balance to the Power of Executive Government and Example of Check and Balance.

Comprehensive Presentation that Covers: a Historical Introduction to Management and Ethics, Two Recent Challenges, a ‘moral economics’? Morality and Business, The Rise of Management, Origins of Managerialism, Society and its ‘isms!, Capitalism and Management, Hobbes’ Psychological Theory of Human Nature, Early Industrialisation in Britain, Responses to Industrial Problems, Virtue and Unity in Industry, British Management, Bifurcation in Beliefs and Ideas, Traditional Morality, Morality of the Entrepreneur, The Great Separation!, Individual and Organisational Morality, Management, Managerialism, Ideologies are, Management Ideologies, Appeal of an Ideology, Duality of Ideology, Purpose of Ideology, Legitimacy, The Power of Ideologies, The Power of Ideas, Ideas as Ideology, Management Ideologies, Ideological Beliefs as Knowledge, Phases of Managerial Ideologies, Changes in Management Ideology, Promise of Organisational Utopia? and the Sources of Morality?

Comprehensive Presentation that Covers: Analysis of the Macro-Environment, PESTEL Framework Scenario Analysis, Industry Analysis, Porter’s Five Forces Analysis and 2nd step in the Strategic Analysis Methodology.

Comprehensive Presentation that Covers: Demand - The Demand Curve, Movements Along the Demand Curve, Shifts in Demand, Supply- The Supply Curve, Movements along the Supply Curve, Shifts in Supply, Market Equilibrium, The Determination of Equilibrium Price & Output, The Effect on Equilibrium of Shifts in Demand and The Effect on Equilibrium of Shifts in Supply.

Comprehensive Presentation that Covers: Short-Run Costs, Long-run Costs, Relationship Between Short-Run and Long-Run Costs, Decision Making in Different Time Periods, Revenue & Profit and Profit Maximisation.