Award Course Works Samples For Students

The PMI’s Project of the Year Award recognizes and honors successful projects and the teams that employed superior elements of project management. The eligible projects must have a budget of more than $100 million, be of any type and industry, from all over the world and demonstrated exemplary project management principles. The 2008 Project of the Year Award went to Hatch, an engineering consulting Company based in Ontario, Canada (Project Management Institute, 2008). The Sorel Tracy, Quebec, a Canadian metallurgy company was seeking to increase the capacity of their highly sought after commodity while it was still in operation. The ...

Kaiser Permanente

Kaiser Permanente (KP) is a managed care company based in California; with a mission to provide high quality, affordable health care service to the community it serves (“Kaiser Permanente, News Center,” n.d.).

Member services

KP offers member services such as complaints regarding the medical service used, questions or comments about the chosen health plan, questions or comments about the KP website. A member can use the website to communicate to the concerned department of KP (“Kaiser Permanente, Member Services,” n.d.).

New/ current/ upcoming technology

In KP, the medical records of member patients are not stored on paper, but on most advanced and secure ...

Introduction

The West Tankers litigation, especially the decision of European Court of Justice, has raised many questions as to the issue of enforceability of arbitration agreements in EU Member States. The Court, by its decision, has extended the scope of application of the Brussels regulation to the arbitration agreements, and precluded English courts from issuing of an anti-suit injunction aimed at prevention of any judicial proceedings in other Member State when such proceeding clearly violates the arbitration agreement. In the following article, I would like to contemplate on the possible consequences of the court`s ruling as to the enforceability ...

The Visayan Forum Foundation, Inc or VF is working aggressively with other partners in innovating sustainable solutions to end human trafficking and the modern day slavery. VF is offers specialized services to the victims and their families, advocates for lasting changes, and builds social movements to fight human trafficking, exploitation, and domestic servitude.

History

Visayan Forum Foundation, Inc or VF is a Non Government Organization or NGO in the Philippines. It was established in 1991 regarded extensively in the innovation of sustainable solutions to end the modern day slavery totally. The founder and executive director of VF is Maria Cecilia Flores-Oebanda. ...

CITE: USA Today, Oct. 2, 2013, page 34.

FACTS: Katherine Jackson, mother to Michael Jackson brought a suit on negligence against AEG Live LLC. AEG Live LLC was a concert promotion company that produced Jackson’s comeback concerts. Katherine argued that AEG Live LLC acted negligently in hiring the physician responsible for administering the medication that killed Michael. Conrad Murray, the physician, was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in November 2011 for administering a propofol overdose that lead to the death of the singer.

In their negligence claim, the family sought to show that AEG Live LLC was responsible for hiring the ...

Education

Introduction

Child development is a crucial process that considers different nuances. In the process of development, a child faces a variety of issues that require constant motivation and guidance. Ideally, the life of a child revolves around motivation and achievements. Motivation in child development refers to the act of arousing a person or a being into appropriate actions with a goal that is desirable in mind. In the child, several actions and goals lay in the future. Learning becomes a vital aspect in this case. Motivation, therefore, dwells upon appropriating critical desires to perform an action. Motivation can either be intrinsic (internally driven) or extrinsic (environmentally driven). ...

1. Introduction: organization profile

Couture Fashion Week (CFW) is a set of fashion events most usually organized in New York. Started in 2003 by Andres Aquino, a luxury show producer, author, fashion designer born on Dominica, CFW organizes fashion weeks with participation of designers from all over the world. Started as a photographer and having covered thousands of shows in that role, Mr. Aquino launched Fashion Cyndicate Press – a fashion photography agency with big number of clients worldwide. Having made himself a name, he decided to use his charisma and experience in fashion to give his career a new development and to start organizing the fashion events. In ...

Furman v. Georgia

In the above case, the U.S. Supreme Court found for the first time that the death penalty in this case was unconstitutional. The petitioner William Henry Furman was committing a burglary in a home when his weapon accidentally killed a resident therein. Georgia court convicted Furman for murder and awarded death sentence. Along with this, two other cases Jackson v Georgia and Branch v Texas that awarded death sentence for rape were decided by the Supreme Court on the question whether death sentence in these cases constituted cruel and unusual punishment violating Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments. The U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ...

Identity audit

Singapore Airline is attached to various business processes and technical systems that are applied to manage the organizational identity. There are rules of conduct that governs the organization toward achieving the goals and building a good reputation. The company has a very high priority to ethical business conduct in the markets where they do business (Frank, 2005). In the corporate governance, the company has managed to engage its contractors, employees and agents in sense that their integrity in their conduct of work has enabled them to enhance the business operation as well as their reputation.

With the compliance to the corporate ...

James bought Popcorns in China. Does this imply that these Popcorns came from America? This is not necessary the case. However, a majority of us view America as cultural imperialism. Fundamentally, this implies that emerging nations are acclimatizing to the American way of life. For instance, many nations have acclimatized to the American popular music, American TV Shows like MTV, as well as, American foods like McDonald's. In my opinion, Americans have tried to impose their culture to the whole world, through their items. In other words, Americans have tried to make other nations to adjust to their culture ...

There are several quality management certification institutions in the world. The most famous of these institutions is the International Organization for Standards. The ISO 9000: a global benchmark for quality management is a collection of standards that are generally useful in quality management in organizations. It’s maintained by the International Standards for Organization while the administration is done by accreditation and certification bodies. These standards are updated with time. Amongst the ISO family, there are many standards dealing with several aspects of business (http://www.iso.org/iso/survey2008.pdf). Some of the most common are the ISO 22000:2005 (Food Safety in Supply Chains) and the ...

Introduction

Community engagement refers to the process through which a certain community benefits its individuals and organizations. This is achieved through a permanent and ongoing relationship between the two with the main aim being to apply a vision that is collective in nature for the community’s benefit. In most cases, the organizing tends to involve building movements in a community at a grass root level. Community engagement, however, seeks to move a given community to achieve change. In trying to achieve this, the key interest is put on the suspended or a stalled position.
For community engagement to be effected, there are some principles that ...

Question one

When multinational enterprises invest in any foreign country, they should consider the legal compensation laws of that country. The compensation practices differ from one country to another. Multinational firms should understand these foreign country compensation practices so that, when they invest in any country, they are able to carry out the compensation practice according to the law of that country.Multinational firms have their own compensation procedure and are also guided by the international policies of human resource management. The study of a foreign country’s compensation laws helps the firms to harmonize the three aspects of compensation. It also helps ...

Introduction

Ever since the concept of operant conditioning presented to the discipline of Psychology, it has been praised, applied and criticized equally in fervor. Currently, both psychologists and economists have interests in its applications. The concepts of operant conditioning are applied in many fields such as education, business organizations, communities, professional bodies, market, international relations and even in robotics. One domain that binds both, economics and operant conditioning is consumer demand (Domjan, M. 2009). In Economics, the consumer demand is a function of price of the good and the quantity purchased. The elasticity of demand or variability of the demand is ...

Ritz Carlton Hotel Company LLC, has, in two occasions, won the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award given by the United Stated Department of Commerce due to its consistent and reliable services. The Ritz Carlton makes history by becoming the first company in the hospitality sector to receive the award. Total quality management has ensured the success of the business and has maintained the integrity of the brand (Boersma & Kingma, 2005).

The Ritz Carlton Hotel Company offers approximately 100 hours of training to its employees and encourages them break away from their duties in order to help a guest whenever ...

Introduction

There are many contracts between different people regarding different contexts, which range from implied to express contracts. These are agreements between two parties regarding a specific action which are based on legal obligations thus enforceable by law. Contacts are based on several principles which should be satisfied by all the parties to ensure it passes as a legal contract. The absence of any of these elements can lead to the disqualification of the credibility of the contract thus making it illegal.

The benefit of a contract is to ensure all the parties are willing and aware of the basics thus acquisition of ...

Discussion question 1

The Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) is a uniform act meant to synchronize commercial laws across the United States. The importance of this harmonization is the interstate nature of many business transactions. Without such harmonization, not only would business be hampered but also resolution of disputes arising from commercial transactions with interstate effect would be very difficult. This code is a model law and states are allowed the latitude to alter it to fit their local circumstances. It is imperative to note that the code only applies to movable property only.

The Code defines goods as all movable property when a security interest ...

The famous aboriginal personality whom I have chosen for the assessment on aboriginal personalities is David Unaipon. David Ngunaitponi or David Unaipon as he later came to be known as was born on 28 September, 1872 at Raukkan Mission in the Coorong region of South Australia. Being the fourth of the nine children of his parents James and Nymbulda Ngunaitponi, Unaipon started formal education at 7 from Point McLeay Mission School.

After being forced to leave school at the age of 13 he was then forced to work as a bootmaker. But, after his marriage to Katherine Carter, a Tangane woman ...

Introduction

They say that the only thing that is constant in this planet is change. This old phrase can indeed be true in a lot of ways. It can also be applied not only in life but also in the process of managing a business. To innovate is to embrace change and improvement.

Innovation refers to any process that may lead to better solutions to problems, higher efficiency and effectiveness in doing work, higher productivity, and in general, increased capability to meet and fulfill the market needs. Any business has the right and the ability to innovate. Innovation can be done ...

(a)When you arrive at work on Monday, you get a call from Java Distributors, who tells you that the week’s coffee cannot be delivered until Tuesday afternoon. You believe this is a clear breach of your contract with Java Distributors. What should you do? Fully discuss all of your options, and choose the one that is best for your business.

A contract provides the duties and obligations of each party privy to the contract. It also offers the remedies which are available to the parties in case of a breach. In this case, java distributors are responsible for the breach ...

I. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

This paper is a study about Creative Edge Parties, a thriving catering and service company in New York. It has been in the industry, serving restaurant-quality food and service, for 25 years. Carla Ruben leads her team through the mission and vision of delivering quality events. It is estimated that the company profits $500, 000 to $1 million annually.It received the “Best Caterer” award via the Bizbash magazine, a publication on event planning. Despite this, the recognition as the most popular caterer goes to Le Pierre while the top rated company is Amoraco. This is through Thumbstack, a search engine of food ...

Google has a management team, which is headed by the chief executive officer and co-founder known as Larry Page. Larry page holds a bachelor’s degree in the field of engineering from Michigan state university. In addition, he as well holds a master in computer science from the University of Stanford. In terms of leadership, he forms the composition of the members of the national advisory committee in the University of Michigan’s department of engineering. Moreover, Larry together his co-founder he was accorded an honor of the Marconi Prize in the year 2004, and he forms a trusteeship partnership in the X ...

Introduction

The system, Health Promotion/Disease Prevention was an activity meant for decreasing inconsistencies particularly among Natives and American Indians. The HP/DP activity was done for serving to upgrade preventive wellbeing methodologies against ceaseless illnesses identified with way of life, for example, poor eating regimen, heftiness, wounds and substance ill-use. It was made conceivable through coordinated effort with gatherings included, for example, families and group qualities. An outside autonomous evaluator was contracted to satisfy the Office of Budget and Management demand. His principle part was to assess the adequacy of the Indian Health Service grantees. He was required to examine the ...

Discussion 1.1: Structure

The structural design that is used in the Modern Shed Company is the network approach. Network structure is a structural design approach where a company depends on the other external organizations to perform acute functions based on the contractual foundation. The Modern Shed Company is thus based on the collaboration with the external dealers which comprises thirty five independent contractors based in United States. The dealer network in the Modern Shed Company comprises external partners who specialize in different field such as sales, office, material and constructions processes (Daft & Marcic 2013). Smith, the founder of the organization, determined the structure ...

- Give a brief description of your organization. How and when was it formed? What bases its operations? How is it performing?

Cambridge consultants has for more than 50 years taken a lead role in product development and technology solutions. Founded in 1960 by Tim Eiloart and David Southwarth with the goal of providing innovative product development and conception, for Technology Companies mainly based within Cambridge city set up by Cambridge University graduates. Cambridge consultants has active offices in the United Kingdom and United states, the company has expansionary plans to grow into the Asian market beginning with the opening of its Singapore office to serve the enormous and fiercely competitive Asian hi-tech manufacturers in countries like Australia and Japan. The company ...

The Airline Pilots Association or ALPA have entered a collective bargaining agreement with Northwest Airlines in behalf of the latter’s pilots. ALPA representing the pilots of Northwest in the bargaining agreement filed suit against the latter and brought in to the District Court claims for monetary relief and declaratory assertion of breach by Northwest on certain provisions of the pension plan and Employee’s Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, 29, U.S.C. §§ 1001 (law.cornell.edu, N.D., a). For twenty years Northwest Airlines Inc. had made arrangements on the collective bargaining agreement of its pilots through ALPA. Prior to August ...

Introduction to Film

There are various different types of actors or performing artists in the world of industry and they are categorized according to the roles they play or portray on stage, television shows, on commercials, and in movies. The five types of actors are impersonators, personality, star, wild card, and character. Impersonators are someone who imitates the actions or behavior of another person, actors, or celebrities. Personality actors play unusual roles and as he in many instances, they are better suited and successful in soap operas and sitcoms. Stars or movie stars can perform much whatever they want, cast based on ...

The competitive proposal method which is better known as negotiated procurement is the main substitute to sealed bidding for contract requirements. Distinct to the sealed bidding method, the competitive proposal method authorizes consideration of technical issues other than price. Negotiation of contract price or estimated cost and other contract terms and conditions are also permissible. In the competitive proposal approach revision of proposals is done prior to the final contractor selection and the drawing out of an offer at any time is a possibility. Contractors normally choose the method of procurement that is reasonable and is based on the evidences ...

Marketers are actively using advertisements for promotion and sales of their products and services to new and existing customers. Numerous advertisements are targeted towards the existing and potential customers through different media. Customers see an advertisement as a communication message. But there is a lot more to an advertisement – conceiving the concept of the advertisement, developing the content and ensuring that it fulfills the objectives with which the advertisement is created (Frith, 1998).

By conducting an analysis, these aspects of the advertisements are understood. The commercial that has been chosen for the purpose of the assignment is of Ikea. The ...

Gender and Racial Discrimination in Public School Punishment

The American education system is based on inequalities and disparities in terms of the treatment that the students get from the administration. This is because the first incidence of disproportionality of punishment based on race and gender was first documented by the children’s defence force in 1975 and up to until now the situation has not changed it is still the same. The differences in the way the students are treated is mostly based on two conditions.

The first condition is the stereotype that is always surrounding the people in different race and gender. White people have always ...

Thesis statement

Capitalism is an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production, with the goal of making a profit.1 This is a quote and will be used in the introduction. Source : Capitalism Oxford Dictionaries. Retrieved 4 January 2013.

- John Maynard Keynes believes that capitalism is essential for freedom to survive and thrive. This is a paraphrase and will be used in I.2 Source: Capitalism. Wikipedia (Accessed May 13, 2013).
- Capitalism is a social system based on the recognition of individual rights, including property rights, in which all property is privately owned.3This is a quote and will be ...

Introduction

“Billions over Baghdad” is an investigation report, prepared by Vanity Fair contributing editors Donald Barlett and James Steele, published in the October 2007 edition of the magazine. The report exposes how those billions of dollars that flew from Federal Reserve Bank of New York to the War Land of Iraq in the name of financial assistance and human aid, get disappeared as if these haven’t even exist. The incompetence of US officials overseeing the entire matter, the mismanaged transfer to the local bodies and the corrupt and greedy contractors and ghost employees made the entire game possible. ...

Several types of information were used to study the customers. Some of them were the customer’s preferences and sensitivity in terms of the features they like and most need. The initial strategy for coming up with a competitive advantage was the pricing policy. However, the best strategy used was the production of several models, in that the low cost, eco-friendly, family and image. The company has maintained this strategy by improving on the models and using different market strategies to market. On the analysis of the team, several things have been done to effectiveness. The first one is the ...

Steve Bantu Biko, a spouse to Ntsiki Mashalaba was born in December 1946 in King William’s town in South Africa. He was a son of Mathew who was occupied in the police force and Alice who worked as a domestic servant at a hospital in the town. He was an Anti-apartheid activist in the country between the year 1960 and the year 1970. At the University, he was the student leader that later spearheaded the formation of the Black Consciousness Movement. It is this movement that endeavored to empower as well as mobilize much of the urban black populace in the country.

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Abstract

The competitive nature of firms and their environment is important in establishing whether a market is a monopoly, a perfectly competitive, oligopoly or monopolistic competition. The antitrust laws are composed of four Acts of legislations that contribute towards the law. Antitrust laws focus on ensuring fair, transparent and competitive trade activities in all industries or markets. Industrial and social regulations are usually conducted by legally established bodies. The regulation is done according the kind of market structure. This is because different market structures have different characteristics. Therefore, the regulation must be tailored to suit the specific market problems. The regulatory bodies have ...

The Texas House of Representatives refers to the 150 member lower house of the Texas Legislature that converges at the Texas Capital in Austin (Maxwell, Earnest, and Adolfo 113). The members are elected from single-member districts distributed across the state. An average district consists of about 150,000 people. The house elections are held every two years during the first Tuesday that comes after the first Monday in November. The incumbent has no term limits
The Texas senate refers to the upper house of the 31 member state legislature that also converges at the Texas State Capitol in ...

How has Wal-Mart grown from a small region chain to the largest discount retailer in the world? How has its strategy contributed to the firm's growth?

The company was founded by Sam Walton in 1962. The first Wal-Mart store was opened in Rogers, Arkansas. Seventeen years later, annual sales were more than $ 1 billion. In January 2006, Wal-Mart was the largest retailer in the world, with a turnover of $ 218 billion (for the same period, Kmart’ turnover $ 37 billion, Sears’s $ 40,9 billion, Target’s $ 36,9 billion, Walgreen’s $ 21,2 billion). However, the biggest figure of net income for the same period received Walgreen $ 3,7 billion, Target $ 3,4 billion, Sears $ 3,3 billion, the same as Wal - Mart$ 3,3 ...

Company Description

Tottenham Hotspur Plc is engaged in the operation of a professional football club in England together with related commercial activities. The Company has two segments: football and property. In addition, the Company continues to acquire numerous properties with a view to a new stadium development.

The sponsors of the club include Autonomy, Investec, Puma, Thomas Cook Sport, Sporting bet, Carlsberg, TNT, EA Sports and Glyn Hopkin. The Company's Tottenham Tribute Trust is an organisation that reaches out to members of the Spurs family who are fighting hard times either financially, medically or both. The clubs patron includes Chigwell Construction (London) Ltd is a ...