Category: COVID-19

  • COVID-19 Effects on the Pret Companys Strategic Management

    Structure and Strategic Choices for Prets Success Before COVID-19 Business success is often determined primarily by a companys financial performance and revenue growth. Businesses outline objectives to be accomplished and formulate, implement, evaluate and control strategies for successfully achieving such goals (Wheelen, 2017). Before the global COVID-19 pandemic hit, Pret was thriving, with most of…

  • The Sphere of Leadership: Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic

    Table of Contents Introduction Changes in the Leadership/Management Sphere The Ways of Reorganizing the Business in the Pandemic Conditions How the Leaders Can Reduce Pandemic Stress Conclusion Works Cited Introduction For the past two years, the world has faced a severe challenge that influenced all the spheres and changed many peoples life. The COVID-19 pandemic…

  • Strategy and Strategic Implications: The Impact of COVID-19

    Table of Contents The Impact of COVID-19 Strategic Management Plans Competitive Advantages or Disadvantages References The notion of strategy has been in-depth studied by many business leaders and scholars since understanding this concept is one of the fundamental prerequisites to the success of any organization. Herewith, although experts still debate about the meaning and necessary…

  • Virtual Teams Adaptation to the Conditions of the COVID-19 Pandemic

    An article by Klonek et al. (2021), called Did the COVID-19 lockdown make us better at working in virtual teams, mainly focuses on the evaluation of the performance of virtual teams created during the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the authors, the pandemic and lockdown influenced the performance of virtual teams through an increased level of…

  • COVID-19 Pandemic and Valuable Cargo

    The COVID-19 pandemic has played a significant role in changing logistics, with the supply chain playing a more critical role than ever before. Companies must ensure the fast, safe and uninterrupted supply of goods and services to those at risk of infection and those working in the medical field, i.e., those on the front lines…

  • Risk Management in Companies Regarding Covid-19

    Executive Summary The current situation posed by Covid-19 has forced some companies to advise their employees to work from home. Most of the work done is therefore managed virtually with online meetings being the order of the day. The adoption of this method by company management exposes some of the weaknesses of these companies to…

  • Call-Center Service Performance During COVID-19 Recession

    The COVID-19 crisis has been hitting the world economy hard. With borders closing, airlines grounded, and offices of major organizations closed down for quarantine, many companies have been downsizing or even going out of business. For some areas of the economy, however, the crisis presented an opportunity for expansion and growth. Our company, called Online…

  • Companies Response to Supply Chain Disruptions Due to COVID-19

    Introduction Undeniably, supply chain disruption is not a new phenomenon for many leading companies worldwide. Over time, pandemics such as SAR-2012, MER-2013, and political situations, including Brexit and the 2019 China-US trade wars, have caused supply chain disruptions for many companies in some parts of the globe. However, the outbreak of COVID-19 in China and…

  • Management Change in the Ozfone Company During the COVID-19

    Table of Contents Introduction Implementations and Sustainability Issues and Their Overcoming My Personal Change Philosophy Conclusion References Introduction Remote work became widespread in the time of the COVID-19 outbreak and presented many prospects and challenges. Fortunately, the Internet and technologies allow working remotely almost in all job sectors. On the one hand, remote work provides…

  • COVID-19: Impact on Logistic and Supply Chain Management Sector

    Table of Contents Governmental policies to mitigate Covid-19 Disruption at the Global Hub of Manufacturing-China Drop-in freight Capacities Increased Rates of Supply and Transportation Increased Layoffs Demand Risk Labor Shortages Mitigation strategies References The emergence and spread of Covid-19 in the past two years resulted in massive global disruption of economies and business and it…