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    The Virgin Group A. Introduction It started in 1968 Sir Richard Branson as the founder of the The Virgin Group built his first business. He created youth magazines named youth and continue his business by building label record company named Virgin in 1970. And back in these days, Sir Richard Branson has known as the billionaire in England with many companies that he owned under the name of Virgin. Virgin group consisted of many companies under the founder itself Sir Richard Branson. He is really successful entrepreneur who owned many companies start from the sectors of transport, travel, entertainment, telcoms and media, and also leisure. The companies that has named Virgin will be known as big multinational companies underSir Richard Branson as the founder. Nowadays the company is getting bigger and Sir Richard Branson really succeed in buiding the brand of the name of Virgin itself. But at his age right now, Sir Richard Branson choose to more focused to the…

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    The companies vary from selling books, mobile phones, and recently moving into the airline, train, finance, and resorts industries. The success of Virgin is reflected by Richard Branson’s personality and leadership style of openness and master negotiation skills. Team-building and approaching situations with a consultant perspective were skills that Branson used in daily decisions. The customer service aspect of all of the companies that Virgin Group was the parent company to be focused on…

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    business set up and am very involved the first three or four months get good people to run it and give them a stake in the company and a lot of freedom and then set back and move on to the next.” Branson’s method of giving his top management small ownership in his company not only creates limited liability and reduces Branson 's risk, but also gives them a sense of accomplishment. Branson thinks motivating his workers in these type of ways has a positive impact on their performance. Branson…

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    Leadership of Richard Branson Richard Branson was born in the 19th century in Stowe in the UK. He began his la business which was an understudy paper business, at the youthful age of '16 when he dropped out of school. In the 1970s, Branson starts a mail request and a record marking business. Two years subsequently, Virgin Records were made. In the middle of 80s and 90s, Branson wandered into aircraft and had likewise made a Virgin record name in America. In 2005, Branson made a space tourism…

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    Alexander Majors became a leader at a very young age when his mother passed away and his father left to prospect for silver. He was the man of the house and in charge of his family and family farm at only 13 years old. This could be considered the basis for his great work ethic and drive. Soon after serving our country in the Mexican-American war, he founded a freight business which earned a reputation as one of the best. As a young business man, Majors would join his employees while they were…

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    Virgin Group Case Study

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    Introduction Strategic human resource management is closely linked to influencing organizational behaviour and proper management will automatically have a major impact on the organization’s performance. Company’s employees, staff and professionals are considered as being the biggest asset to many organizations and winning their full commitment is vital to achieve success (Truss, et al., 2012). A business is never a one man show and each business depends on a group of dedicated individuals to…

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    Though there are many great and successful entrepreneurs, I have decided to do my research paper on Richard Branson. Richard Branson is the founder and creator of Virgin Group. Virgin Group generate millions of dollars yearly and are very profitable. Not is only Branson a successful entrepreneur, but he is also a very unique person. He likes to think outside the box and believes that if someone has done it already then you should not do it twice. I believe this is one of his strongest traits and…

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    Virgin Atlantic Airlines: Organizational Behavior Analysis Virgin Atlantic Airlines is part of the Virgin Group corporate structure founded by Sir Richard Branson. Virgin Atlantic was the first airline of the Virgin Group, but was later joined by subsidiary airlines Virgin Australia and Virgin America. Virgin Atlantic is based in London, England operating primarily in Gatwick Airport and Heathrow Airport, as well as Manchester Airport in Manchester, England (Branson, 2014). An organizational…

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    Community: a unified body of individuals. In a community, people come together to achieve great things and work together to bring each other to success. The theme of “If you work together, you can succeed” is conveyed in The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind through William’s education, the famine, and the process of building the windmill. William’s problems with education were solved by the community around him; his father, his teacher, and the people at TED. William’s teacher, Mr. Tembo, him…

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    Woman in ancient Rome served both religous and political roles. One of the most prominent Religous roles woman served was the servance of vestal virgins. There are a total of six Vestal 's, who served the goddess Vesta. They were isolated from the rest of society and kept in a sanctuary where anyone can enter during the day. Their significance was keeping the vestal 's chasity, or known as virginity, as it is seen as a sigma of keep the fire lit in rome. Because of their belief in complete…

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