Household Case Studies Samples For Students

Abstract
Shelter is one of the basic human necessities. Provision of decent-quality and affordable housing is one challenge that various authorities have been faced with, and Sheffield is not left behind. Though she has surpassed her average annual housing needs, Sheffield is still struggling to mitigate housing problems. This research project reviews the use of Geographic Information System (GIS) in Sheffield’s housing and how education level affects the adoption of GIS in affordable housing initiatives. In order to achieve this objective, the current state of Sheffield’s housing is exhaustively considered. Using the boundary data from EDINA ...

Swisse Credit surveyed consumers in eight countries including Saudi Arabia to find out more about emerging markets.1 Saudi Arabia consumers seem quite optimistic. Saudi Arabia was the number one country in terms of purchasing smart phones for the year. Credit Swiss suggests that “higher income markets were key drivers of the rise in ownership of smart phones.2 Saudi Arabia was the only country which showed a “rise in wage expectations;” 37 percent of those surveyed responded that within the next six months they expect to see their finances improve.3 Also 25 percent thought this is “the opportune time to make a ...

Engaging Clients and other Systems in GSW Practice
Agency Setting

North Suffolk Mental Health Association provides mental health services to underserved communities in East Boston, Chelsea, Withrop, and Revere, Massachusetts. Among the primary mission objectives of the Agency is to provide people with institutional care, support community-based services in addition to helping people to achieve independence and fullness of life through the provision of a wide variety of community-based, person-centered treatment. North Suffolk Mental Health Association was founded in 1959 and has expanded into one of the leading and largest providers of mental health services in the State (North ...

Relationship between consumption and GDP

The circular flow of income refers to the relationship between producers and consumers in a market situation. There is some sort of reciprocal actions where the two are interdependent on each other, they are both referred to in this case as firms and households where the firm is the producer, and the household is the consumer. This refers to a small-scale market situation as compared to the gross domestic product or the GDP. This is the whole accumulation of the market value of all of the services as well as the goods produced in a country during a specific period.
Therefore, consumption ...

Introduction

A woman in Palestine has a major role in her society, which is being part of the formation of the family. The formation of the family has different units, nuclear, transitional, or hamula or the extended family. Hamula or the extended family is the most common family formation in the Palestinian community. The tradition and teachings of the Quran have significant influences for the rights of women in Palestine. Hanan Riyan Bakri, a counselor of Women’s Social and Legal Center based in East Jerusalem traveled throughout the Occupied Territories to lecture Palestinian women about their rights . Generally, parents who are ...

1. Facts
2. Issue

The issues in the following case are:

Whether the search conducted by the police officers violated a provision of the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution regarding a protection from unreasonable searches and seizures.
Did Mr. Blake had a reasonable expectation of privacy when he was residing at Mr. Smith`s household?

Could the evidence (drugs and guns) be considered admissible in a court of law?

3. Rule
The Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution provides protection against unlawful search and seizure of persons and their property. The provisions of the amendment clearly state that search and seizure shall be conducted with the presence of a warrant that particularly describes the places and/or things that ...

EC 320

Regression analysis refers to a host of techniques used in statistics to explain relationships between variables in a data set. He helps us understand and make predictions of how dependent variables would change when independent variables are altered. Scott Armstrong (2012) says that “the estimation target is a function is a function of the independent variables called the regression function” (p. 9).It is this regression function that gives the mathematical relationship between the various variables in the data set. He says too that characterizing the disparity of the dependent variable around the regression meaning can also be described by the probability function.
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Unilever’s Quest by Shedding Brands

Product Portfolio Management

Unilever is a multinational consumer goods giant that produces and distributes personal care products such as shampoos and beauty soaps, home care products such as washing powder, foods, and beverages such as tea and ice cream. The company has over 400 brands all over the world. Some of the best known are Lipton tea, Blue Band, Flora, Heart brand, Hellmann’s, Knorr, Omo, Dove, Axe/Lynx and Rexona.

Unilever product portfolio is designed to meet every need in the household at the highest level of satisfaction possible. From the time an individual wakes up to the time they ...

Abstract

The Census Bureau of the United States is one of the key Federal Agencies that enhance activities of the government. The Census Bureau is mandated to perform different roles, mainly focusing on the collection of information used by development stakeholders including the government to formulate appropriate policies. The data collected by the Census Bureau also provides an overview of the overall development status of the United States. For instance, it depicts overall economic performance of the entire country or particular social challenges experienced by communities across the country. The roles of census bureau agencies have been appreciated by several ...

Material Safety Data Sheet for five Household products

(Household Products Database, 1)
Dr. Doe’s performance against the rest of staff could be considered relatively high. For example, his staff meeting attendance record was 93% in his evaluation report. With respect to diagnostic test ordering again he was exemplary only tests that are useful to make a diagnosis. His successful surgery rates also are very high in comparison to other obstetricians.
In relation to whether he must be must be reappointed to the medical staff in my opinion is has not been guilty of any wrong doing. Even though his performance index many not meet the hospital’ ...

Final Case Analysis

PART 1

Lona seems to be suffering from a Dysthymic Disorder. This is because the fact that her state of depression has been persistent for more than two years due to the circumstances and changes in her life. In the initial interview, there was no information that the issues Lona has been experiencing could be hereditary. In reviewing the facts, it is evident that Lona is experiencing an extreme change of routine in her life. This has prompted her illness and sense of lack of control. Lona's history is that she has been married for ten years, five into ...

Casey is a 25-year-old male who has suffered from bouts of sadness and lack of motivation about every three months for 8 years. He claims to have done all he can to stop this, yet is not strong enough to achieve it. He has several close friends who he has confided this too, but they have also been of little help. He claims to hear diffuse voices that tell him to hurt himself sometimes, which he has done a few times, including one suicide attempt.
The situation in his household has always been complicated. His father and his mother have had ...

Internal environmental analysis

Overview of Sara Lee’s market performance and developments
Every business is driven by key objectives that it uses to evaluate the extent to which it has progressed since its inception. These key factors are Market share, profitability and value of a share. Sara Lee Corporation‘s management used these key indicators to assess its progress until they resolved to strategize its business segments to manageable sectors. (Thompson & Gamble,2010).
Sara Lee has extended its growth over the last 70 years through acquisition of different enterprises to increase its pool of risk and projected revenue basket. Appointment of ...

Background

Love Etc is a love documentary that follows the love and sex lives of a set of couples living in New York City. The documentary is aimed at accessing experiences of the couples and individuals in the different levels of the love cycle of meeting up, dating/courting, marrying, divorce and starting over. To achieve a meaningful assessment the directors of the documentary choose individuals from diverse occupational, racial backgrounds, on different stages of the love cycle.

Relationship status

The documentary sets off at the getting married stage with Chitra and Mahendra, an Indian-American couple from Queens, Jamaica. The couple is engaged and are on ...

Personality theories elaborate individual characteristic behavior and factors that maintain such behavior depending on personal experience. The personality theories look for the essence of individual human beings. Sigmund Freud conceptualized the psychological paradigm called the psychoanalysis. Freud’s theory of psychoanalysis depicts state and development of individuals beginning from the ancient days up to the modern days.
Feud theory illustrates the psychoneuroses group like Jessica. This group of people has an influence of heredity and civilization that are pivotal to suppress their sexual instincts. Feud contends that the civilization leads to suppression of the sexual instincts and finally ...

Operational strategy of Google with Google Glass is exceptionally brilliant as well as unique. As estimated by experts, although Glass will take a while to shape up to emerge as the next generation ‘iPad’, the company is aware that connected eye gear and eye wear hold tremendous potential for ushering in a new age of wearable computing to be able to control household devices. In other words, Google Glass takes home automation to the next level. Google Glass was being chiefly employed for outdoor applications. But now with intelligent integration, many devices in a home can be automated and used on voice ...

The internal capabilities of Kraft Food define its competitive advantage and the current paper reflects on the Resource Based View (RBV) theory for identifying Kraft Food’s strengths and weaknesses. The company benefits of 10 brands that produce $500+ million in annual sales, and other 27 brands with revenues of more than $100 million per year, having a household penetration of 98% in United States and 99% in China and registering annual revenues of more than $18 billion in North America only (“Building North America’s”). Moreover, Kraft Food has 3 R&D development centers, it has 39 manufacturing facilities and ...

Nursing: Family Assessment Case Study

What components of the Friedman Family Assessment would you complete on your first visit with this family? Explain your rationale.
The first component would be to identify the family type. This is an extended family structure consisting of Jill 15, Mom 33; Mom’s boyfriend 40; two step brothers’ ages 11 and 12, younger sister is 2 years old (Minnesota Department of Health, 2006). Subsequently, the next step would be to begin an evaluation of the family.

These pertain to risk factors of each person in the household and they include assessment of stressful situations, dysfunctional behaviors, biological ...

Lenovo Group Limited is a multinational computer technology corporation that develops personal computers, servers and IT software. Amid the global dotcom bubble in the 2000s, Lenovo began to pump resources into sectors such as mobile phones, internet-related business and information technology services. The technology joy ride was short-lived as competition at home grew ferociously with the mainland's entry into the World Trade Organization, eating into Lenovo’s bottom line. After this ill-fated strategy of diversification and a focus on the domestic market between 2001 and 2003, Lenovo chairman Yang Yuanqing said in an interview with the South China Morning ...

Insurance Risk Mitigation: Case Study

Insurance Risk Mitigation: Case Study

People face different kinds of risks in their personal lives and in the communities where they live. Being aware of one’s level of risk exposure and taking concrete steps to mitigate the risks and associated liabilities can help people protect their lives and properties. Most risks are manageable and the resulting losses avoidable if the right measures are taken. From the case study, it is clear that Mr. Arkanfarkar and his family are exposed to several types of personal and commercial risks. This report presents a strategy for managing the personal exposures of ...

While diversity and equality represent the goal in today’s multicultural society, racialized groups continue to be disadvantaged in the business environment. African-American employees need to work harder in order to keep their jobs and to advance in their careers, and they are more likely to be fired for unsubstantial reasons. African-American women are less likely to be promoted in the corporate world than any other group in the country, including White women. As Galabuzi (94) shows, as of 2000, racialized groups in Canada earned less than Whites, despite having similar studies and experience. Furthermore, racialized groups were more ...

1. What microorganism do you believe is to blame for this illness (be specific)? Provide background information on this organism, history, morphology, virulence factors, toxins

Hemophilus Influenza is a cocobacillus that is small, pleomorphic and is gram-negative. It is non-motile and does not form spores. It is also a facultative anaerobe. Some strains of Hemophilus influenza have a capsule composed of polysaccharide (Deverajan, 2012), (CDC, 2013). There are 6 different stereotypes of the virus, labeled a-f. This division is based on the biochemical differences in the capsules (Deverajan, 2012). Some strains of Hemophilus Influenza do not possess capsules and are therefore referred to as nonencapsulated Hemophilus Influenza. They are also sometimes called nontypeable Hemophilus influenza. Identification of the different strains is done by slide agglutination for stereotyping ( ...

Chapter 7

Define recession and expansion. What are the beginning and ending points of a recession called? In postwar Canada, which have been longer on average, recessions or expansions?
Recession: Recession is the phase in the economy during which the economic activity declines. During this period, production, employment, income and all other economic activities falls below the normal level. A country generally experience negative economic growth during recession. Expansion- After recession, the economy slowly starts to recover and the expansion happens. Expansion is the economic period during which the country’s GDP starts to increase because of increased productivity, employment, real ...

Introduction

The family that this paper will analyze by running a multidimensional test includes a single mother who belongs to Nicaragua, a less developed country of Africa. She currently has four children. The family has three sons and one daughter. The mother married multiple times, but now she is living a dissociative life, and her focus remains on the well-being of her children. Her parents are alive, and therefore, she has a home to go to, if everything fails in her life. The family is hand to mouth as far as financial circumstances are concerned. However, the leader of the small collective is cautioneously optimistic ...

The document will analyze financial positioning of ClineKinds Inc that has proposed a loan of its future operation. The goal set for the purpose of this paper is to critically analyze the financial information of the chosen company in order to have in-depth understanding about the company’s positioning. It is also due to identification of the company’s performance are eligible to acquire further loans for its future operations.
Currently, ClineKinds have requested the commercial banks for another loan of $300,000 for at least five years and more. In order to expand its business operations, introduce new ...

Re: Lola’s Boutique

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The following are the findings and answers to the questions you requested tackled in your memo. These findings were made after a scrutiny of the emails, between Lola Styne and Liam Mills:
1. At what point does Lola make an offer to Liam and what importance, if any, is the advertisement placed in the newspaper?
Lola officially made an offer to Liam Mills in her email dated 17 September 2014. Lola’s email meets the definition and requisite elements of an offer. An offer is a definite promise that bounds the offeror to the offeree once the ...

Management

Module 1 – SLP
Mission and Vision statements defines an organization’s core values and are often used as the guiding principles in establishing organizational objectives. However, more and more companies have a discombobulated notion about the role of the mission and vision statement resulting to a creation of a rather more confusing jargon. What constitutes a good mission and vision statement according to Welch and Welch (2008) should convey a clear definition of realistic and more achievable expectations. Mission and Vision statements should possess specific elements that define the universal values of an organization.

The key elements that an explicitly constructed mission statement that demonstrates definition of an organization’s priorities are:

- Specific aim - Organizations often fall victim into ...

Global recession is often thought of as a serious problem or threat considering that it affects an individual’s or a family’s financial capability to maintain their lifestyle. Even if people deny the effects of global recession, some are in an advanced state of panic as people deem their businesses, employment, and plans are over. In reality, the inconveniences and life-changing situations vary depending on where one is geographically located, how much of the business is at stake, and how long the financial crisis lasts. Despite the apparent doom and gloom the situation presents, there is still much that can ...

Abstract

Corporate strategy is the effective use of resources at the disposal of the management of the organization in ensuring that the company meets its goals and objectives. This paper looks into the corporate strategy adopted by Dyson Company drawing inferences from its strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats in the home appliance manufacturing market. It also presents an overview of strategy that the company can employ that is effective in ensuring that the firm achieves its goals. Further, the paper examines the McKinsey’s 7s Framework as a potential strategy implementation approach for Dyson Company. It relies on corporate strategy theory ...

Abstract

This paper analyses Corporate Strategy approaches employed by Dyson-a home appliances manufacturing company based in the United Kingdom. It presents an analysis of the advantages and disadvantages that in turn influence its competitiveness in the home appliances manufacturing industry on a global scale. Subsequently, the discussion analyses the position of Dyson in comparison to competitors in the market. An evaluation of PESTEL and Potter’s Five Forces is presented with regard to the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats that Dyson faces given the current economic setting in the world. Later, the discussion presents suggestions for strategy implementation that can be ...

Introduction

The grocery stores industry of the US is one of the largest industries and contributes immensely in the GDP of the economy. The grocery industry comprises of numerous business ranging from the supermarkets and convenience stores to the wholesale clubs. The grocery industry experienced a remarkable decline in the quantity and quality of purchases in past five years, due to low household disposable income, and reduced spending on premium brand products. However, with the recovering economy and increasing household spending the grocery industry is growing steadily (Martens, 2006).

Kinds of Competitive Forces in the Grocery Stores Industry

Competition is extremely fierce in the grocery industry where brand promise and ...

This is a discussion of an article titled The New Business Cosmopolitans by Rosabeth Moss Kanter, whose main theme is business cosmopolitans. The author intends to explain how organizations are globalizing their operations and the benefits that are accruing to such operations. Of importance in this article are the key issues that need to be considered, even managed in the event that a company wants to succeed in the international and global business arena. The author answers the question, why does one business fail in the global business arena while another one succeeds and answers that a cosmopolitan business owner knows when ...

Introduction

Acquisitions and mergers are an increasingly rapid means by which organizations use as an efficient and quick manner to diversity, expand and foray into new markets. Mergers and acquisitions are a manner in which firms make economies of scale, acquire new competencies, spread risk and globalize to dominate already existing markets and enter new markets (Verma & Verma, 2011).

Take the instance of the merger between Pixar Animation Studios and Walt Disney. It is one of the rare instances where the merger between two organizations has helped both firm to survive in the global market. Previous movies of Pixar were released ...

The Strathfield Health Centre is a comprehensive Health Care provider catering its services to the Strathfield region in Sydney, Australia. The facility was started in 2003 by a group of six doctors. The facility is currently headed by Dr. Louis Lima. The SHC has been constantly expanding its operations and serving more and more clients each year. With this the administrative problems have also begun to emerge and there exists a need for a review of the overall operations and recommend a few changes that could be made for a smoother functioning of the facility.
The paper shall present a concise account of the interviews ...

Question Six

Ana is having the greatest impact on her mother, Kat. This is because Kat feels like she is the only person in the household capable of taking care of all the necessary tasks to maintain the family’s lifestyle (Interview One, Interview Three). This includes working, taking Ana to child care, household chores, caring for her disabled husband, and discipline of her daughter. Ana’s behaviour at home, at the child care center, and at Cooinda Community Health Centre (CCHC) are problems Kat wants to remedy, but she is confused and feels she lacks control over external factors concerning ...

Leadership and communication are two intertwined concepts. Leadership requires an individual to possess great communication skills. Effective communication is possible only when the sender and receiver perceive the exact same message. Faulty communication and leadership styles can lead to conflicts and dissatisfaction on the part of leader and the follower both.
The movie, “The Nanny Diaries”, was released in 2007 and was based on the novel written by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus. This movie is a good example of faulty leadership and lack of communication between employer and the employee and how it led to disastrous results. The ...