Semco Essays

to Germany and is currently a leader in offering payroll and human resource services in Berlin. Recently, the company announced a joint-venture with Semco. Paychex and Semco are targeting Brazilian small and middle sized companies who employ less than 100 employees by offering comprehensive payroll services and HR services starting early 2014 (Semco, 2013). Both companies have recognized that Brazil has a vibrant market of approximately five million small businesses which accounts for 40 percent

The course cases exemplify intended cultural changes, implemented of leaders for example M&A projects, like BRL Hardy, or switching from a traditional hierarchical oriented to a modern, low-hierarchical culture such as the Semco case (Bartlett, 2003; Maddux, 2014). The leader, mostly a charismatic person who is primarily positioned at the top management, represents the main creator within this cultural change program. Many concepts and models exist portraying personal traits

Chapter 2 2. Literature Review Root causes analysis is simply a tool designed to help incident investigators describe what happened during a particular incident, to determine how it happened and to understand why it happened. The definition of a root cause varies between authors and root causes methodologies, with different ‘levels’ of causation being adopted by different systems. Figure 1 illustrates the different levels of cause that can be ascribed to an incident. The root causes lie at level