In the following report, the holistic approach and reductionist approach of decision-making has been discussed in details to provide an insight regarding the same. Furthermore, the two methods have also been compared to acquire a better understanding regarding their application. Upon the comparison, the most appropriate approach of decision-making has been identified.

Organizations with effective leaders tend to survive better in the competitive environment, than those that lack the same. In the following report, the leadership style and qualities possessed by Tim cook has been analyzed to identify the factors that have enabled Apple Inc. to sustain its competitive position in the business environment.

The purpose of the paper is to analyze the impacts of using HRIS and DBMS on the functions of the HR in hiring the employees. The special case taken here is Qantas Airways and the job profile chosen in this paper is that of Flight Engineers. An Australian company named Qantas Airways covers almost 45 destinations and serves people in different locations. This company hires almost 35000 people and HRIS with the assistance of DBMS helps the HR in keeping a track of a large number of employees. These technologies need to be implemented by the Airway companies presently in order to perform its functions efficiently and fight with its rivals.

HRM strategy is effective when suitable employees are selected for the correct posts and the purpose of the paper is to analyze the difficulties faced in HRM strategies when Barclays PLC in UK opened a joint venture in Hong Kong. For this purpose, it needs to transfer expatriates to the host country in Hong Kong and hire locals for the lower positions. However, Barclays PLC faces some issues in the HRM strategies and culture problems are encountered by the expatriates. The company undertook an ethnocentric approach for which it faced organizational issues in the host country Hong Kong. The international business environment has also been discussed in this paper. The recruitment process of the company in Hong Kong was based on Fraser’s fivefold grading and the company provided both in house training as well as off job training to the employees working in Hong Kong for cultural issues. The reward system of the company in the host country is based on CIPD (Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development) reward system for engaging the workers and motivating them.

In the following report, the discussions are focused on the cognitive complexity, cultural insight, global marketing, executive management and similar aspects, in order to highlight the importance of all these elements in building up a successful global leader. Global marketing requires the managers to know about the cultural aspects of various countries in order to establish as a successful global leader and the significance of the same has been elaborated in the following discussions.