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1.0 Introduction Organisations are increasingly recognizing human capital as an important locus for organisational competitiveness (Augusto et al., 2014; Kianto et al., 2013; Okoro & Washington, 2012), helping organisations build unique competencies, achieve operational excellence, and remain innovative to address the demanding challenges of the 21st century competing landscape.  Employees are a powerful source of human capital in an organisation, and therefore organisations should not view them in isolation, but rather as important as other organisational assets that help companies remain competitive. In their study of emerging roles of human resource management in contemporary firms, Kianto et al. (2013) attribute the growing need for talented and motivated employees to the increased competition brought about by the internet and increased globalization. On the globalization front, the study observes that an increase in free trade agreements and the growth of the internet ha...

Executive Summary This assessment critically reviews the project structure and success factors of the expansion of Panama Canal. The 3 parties involved are the Panama Canal Authority who have the full jurisdiction of the project, CH2M Hill who act as the consultant for this project and the Grupo Unidos Por el Canal consortium who is the contractor to expand the Panama Canal. By expanding, it is actually building a 3rd lock in an alternate route which is wider to replace part of the conventional canal route. The project consortium is huge and the limited word counts discourage discussion for every party therefore only the Panama Canal Authority and CH2M Hill will be actively debated. The discussion in this assessment also covers the communication hurdle between project members, meticulous risk management done and how the project can be improved. It is heavily referenced through journal articles and credible news reports as the completion of this project happens only at mid of 2016, ther...

1.0 Introduction of the Industry  WeWork is one of the largest and well-known service offices in the world with 12 and growing physical coworking workspace in Singapore. The shared workspace concept has been gaining its popularity since 2005 where it changes how a company converts its mandatory CAPEX to OPEX with many other said benefits (Leclercq-Vandelannoitte & Isaac, 2016). This industry has become more research-worthy since the spread of COVID-19 where there could be a comparable number of businesses went bust that reduces the need for office space and the surges of new businesses due to a crisis (Kuckertz, et al., 2020) which will require a quick office solution. Further to that, WeWork has been one of the prime discussion topics within its industry when their former CEO Adam Neumann made bad decisions that hindered the company going public and leaving the company in such a mess that the white knight such as Softbank pulled out in their rescue (WSJ, 2019). In this seemi...