Wikipedia:School and university projects/University of Applied Sciences, Mainz, Germany - MA Business English Project

This is a project involving an advanced Business English course in the full-time MA Business program at the University of Applied Sciences Mainz taught by Prof. Stephanie Swartz-Janat Makan in the Summer Semester 2011. While improving their academic and business related English vocabulary, they will be asked to contribute to Wikipedia, first by editing an article of their choice and then by creating a new article or expanding on an existing one. There will be individual as well as group contributions, and the final grade is based on a portfolio handed in at the end of the semester with proof of both off-line as well as on-line contributions. The project will take place over the course of 15 weeks and each assignment must be fulfilled within the given time period in order to receive credit.

Global environmental analysis
This article is about the analysis of a company's global environment. A company's environment needs to be explored in order to follow external business developments and to find adequate business strategies in the end. External factors are analyzed with the help of specific methods, like environmental scanning, monitoring, forecasting and assessment. (Authors: User:ChrisDr88 and User:Scheubi84)

IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence
This article gives an overview over the main components of IBM Cognos 8 BI and example optional modules. The different modules are listed and the key functionalities of each module are described.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Cognos_8_Business_Intelligence

Milk run
This article is about the Milk-Run-concept in logistics. It describes how this round trip procedure works and contains the following informations:
 * general informations
 * procedure
 * disadvantages
 * history
 * Differentiation from groupage traffic.

Mobile marketing research
This article gives an introduction to the young field of mobile marketing research. Since it has become more difficult to nowadays reach people via traditional marketing research methods, new ways as well as new media are taken into consideration conducting surveys in marketing research. This text tries to give an overview of the development of mobile marketing research, its basic method types and difficulties as well possibilities. (Authors: Thomas Schneider and Alexander Best, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_marketing_research)

Shelf Ready Packaging
This article is about a very current topic, called "Shelf Ready Packaging".

Shelf Ready Packaging (SRP) refers to a product that comes in a ready merchandised unit. Products which come in a SRP can be placed easily into the shelf, without unpacking or repacking.

SRP covers all types of packaging, which are designed for the retail outlet. SRP is not limited to packaging which goes in the shelf; it also includes sales support mechanisms in all major distribution channels.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelf_Ready_Packaging

University of Applied Sciences Offenburg
This article is about the University of Applied Sciences Offenburg. It contains the most important informations about the history of the university, the campus, the faculties and the offered courses.

Work-Life-Balance in Germany
This article deals with the actual topic of the work-life-balance discussion in Germany. It refers to the demographic change and why it is therefore very important for companies to react. Also the combination of work-life-balance and family is mentioned in the article. Moreover the motives of companies to integrate work-life-balance measures were discussed as well as the benefits of companies which support work-life-balance measures.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work-Life-Balance_in_Germany

Gernot Pflüger
This article is about Gernot Pflüger, the owner and CEO of the CPP Studios Event GmbH which works with an innovative leading concept where the staff members can participate to a large extent in decision making.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gernot_Pfl%C3%BCger

Servant Leadership
This article is about the leadership style of servant leadership. The history and concept of servant leadership are described and an expample of a company which has applied this leadership style is given.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Servant_leadership

CPP Studios Event GmbH
This article deals with the CPP Studios Event GmbH, the company of Gernot Pflüger. The history and the core concept of the company are introduced in this article.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPP_Studios_Event_GmbH

Fons Trompenaars
This article is autobiographical and describes the model developed by Fons Trompenaars on cross-cultural differences. In this model he developed 7 dimensions, who are described.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fons_Trompenaars

Turnaround management
This article is about the concept of Turnaround management. It explains the approaches of the concept and why it is needed. A model by Boyne shows therefore seven stages, how this process is structured. Furthermore are techniques introduced that can be used to cause a turnaround.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turnaround_management

Ricardo Semler
This article is about Ricardo Semler, the owner and CEO of SEMCO. It deals about himself, the company history and an open minded and open way management style which works with an innovative leading concept.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricardo_Semler

Potential analysis
This article is about potential analysis in Human resources. The importance of potential analysis, quality criteria and features, objectives of potential analysis etc. is described. Furthermore potential analysis tools which can be used to examine employee´s potential are mentioned. (Authors: Allstar85 and Zvo.b)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potential_analysis

The german health insurancy
This article is about the german health industry with particular regard of the long term care and the care reform.

(Authors: User:Arielle87 and User:Schoki01)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_german_health_insurancy

Motivation theories
This article is about two motivation theories. Those theories deal with the question why a person performs certain services. In the study of motivation there are two fields usually distinguished. The first one relates to the content theory. This is about the motives, needs and goals of human behavior. The second field, the process theory, is about how a particular behavior generated, maintained, changed, or achieved a goal.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motivation

Collateral Management
This article is intended to provide an overview of one of the most important financial processes called collateral management, which has played a central role in the world’s biggest financial institutions post the financial crisis. It defines terms, rationale for collateral and types that are acceptable. It also explains the general idea of collateral management, describes collateral management process and presents advantages and disadvantages of collateral as financial instrument. The information in this article might be useful for people who want to expand their knowledge horizon in the area of financial risk management.

(Author: User: Binafhmz)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collateral_management

University of Applied Sciences Mainz
This article gives an overview of the University of Applied Sciences Mainz and further information. (Authors: Allstar85) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Applied_Sciences_Mainz

The term of yet unknown types of use in German copyright law
This article is about the term of yet unknown types of use in German copyright law. Since 1. January 2008 the new § 31a UrhG deals with new types of use. However, the contractual granting of rights to use yet unknown types of use is principally not impossible anymore, but tied to appointed conditions. Finally it remains the author`s decision whether he grants the rights to exploit his work via a new, yet unknown type of use or not.