Essays on Armstrong

No school operates without a curriculum. Fundamentally, aA curriculum is an essential part of the education system (Bradford, Kenneth, & Helen, 2017). A well-set curriculum contributes enormously to a good education. Additionally, it eases the learning process for the teachers and the learners. However, various schools have various curriculums set by various people in diverse ways. Nevertheless, quality education remains the core purpose of all the curriculums in education institutions (Armstrong, 2006). This paper is oriented towards comparing curriculums of different states, districts, and schools to the research of the best practice. Most successful schools are those that comply with ...

Public Health

Public Health Today, many diseases, which emerge can be transmitted to a large number of population in different parts of the world. Everyone is vulnerable, even though technology and other health care informatics are evolving every day. However, there are efforts from different professionals in the medical field to address all health concerns and diseases that target the human species. In 2015, the Zika virus disease has been identified as a local transmission in Brazil and continue to spread through different areas of the United States. In the following year, travel-associated cases have been reported to increase. In addition ...

HRM challenges

The United States of America is proud to have the greatest work force in the world. Not from the quantitative point of view – counties like China or India have much greater labor pools, but definitely in terms of quality. With over 56 million of college graduates available on the market, America has a large pool of professionals, and problems in human resource management for private and official entities may seem artificial. Nevertheless, there are plenty of issues that HR specialists of this country need to address, and the number of problems they face does not tend to decrease.

Main HRM challenges in the USA

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Product Introduction and the Market

Technology is developing at a rapid pace. These changes are influenced by the internal organizational strategies as well as an external environment that determines the evolution of consumer demand and expectations. Companies constantly seek for technology-driven solutions to operational excellence and enhanced customer experience (Porter, 2008). One of the most recent trends, driven by technological development are drones and the potential for these devices in the enhancement of customers' e-commerce experience. While academic and business literature outlines the polarization of the views on the use of delivery drones in the commercial market, the potential and attractiveness this service for ...

Introduction

It is the role of every employee and the management of a firm to ensure that the firm succeeds. To make sure that a firm succeeds, there are ways through which the firm can track its performance. These ways are performance management system and the balance scorecard process. CliftonLarsonAllen is an example of a firm in the United States that uses these two methods to track its performance.

Performance Management

Performance management is the process through which all employees and their staff join hands and work together to strategize, monitor and track the performance of every employee in the firm, the ...

ABSTRACT

The businesses today have identified the need to focus more on customer and the key to retain customer is through development of customer relations. CRM or customer relationship management is based on the idea that loyal customers are profitable for the company. The loyalty has been identified by several researchers to be linked to the level of satisfaction of customers. Organizations require attracting the customers, developing relations so that satisfaction is ensured and retain customers by maintaining the relations. Due to intense rivalry and competition, businesses require focusing on building stronger customer base by promoting goodwill and providing them ...

Question One

Panera Bread's strategy is a focused market differentiation strategy that provides meals to consumers to a particular target group. The target group of the company comprises of suburban dwellers and workers. The market objective of Panera is to satisfy the needs and tastes of the consumers by offering its signature soups and sandwiches that rival those provided by other companies. The competitive advantage of Panera is to offer high-quality products that match those of the other players in the market. When dealing with food products, quality is a critical aspect and the company that provides better quality can not ...

In patients with cancer (P), is noise reduction (I) more effective than the sleep medication therapy (C) at improving the quality and quantity of sleep (O) during the period of admission and years after discharge (T)?

Background of the Question

Hospital noise is the major contributor to sleep disturbance, which is a fundamental component of cancer experience in young and adult cancer patients, survivors, as well as caregivers (Redeker, Pigeon, & Boudreau, 2015). Noise in hospitals also slow healing during hospitalization, cause sleep disturbance, increases the perception of pain (Mazer, 2012), and has implications for the responses to cancer treatment (Redeker, Pigeon, & Boudreau, ...

Introduction

Founded in 1983, AOL (America Online) is an American media conglomerate that specializes in the digital distribution of online services, products, and content and handles such websites as The Huffington Post and TechCrunch. It was one of the first and biggest companies to build the business on the Internet use. In 2015, AOL became a part of Verizon Communications. Nowadays, it has about 4,000 employees and more than 2 million dial-up subscribers (Karaian, 2015).

Mission Statement and Vision

AOL’s mission is to: Unleash the most skilled and talented coding and cultural builders and simplify the Internet for consumers (Glassdoor.com, n. d.) ...

Elizabeth M. Armstrong and Ernest L. Abel are the authors of the essay on “Fetal Alcohol Syndrome: The Origins of a Moral Panic,” which seems to be more of an opinion/editorial piece. Information about Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) is provided through presentation of various studies that confirm the authors’ position on FAS being less severe than the way it has been reported (Armstrong & Abel, 2000). Armstrong and Abel clearly acknowledge the FAS is a real diagnosis, but they do not think that it warrants as much panic as what has been created through western medicine and society (Armstrong & Abel, ...

Introduction

Leadership skills are critical in situations where a firm intends to conduct a succession of its leadership on a periodic basis. Leadership competencies are necessary skills in ensuring a smooth flow in leadership succession and in the development of the potential of the employees who will help an organization attain its vision (Delbridge, et al. 2007, p. 42). The current trend is characterized by seasoned managers and leaders who are retiring from their business ventures thereby creating a gap that needs to be filled through practical leadership training and mentorship. The aim of this paper is to examine the ...

Discussion Questions on the Institutions of Higher Education

Discussion Questions on the Institutions of Higher Education

Nowadays, the emerging “for profit” institutions become a popular alternative to the traditional “non for profit” higher educational institutions. The for-profit-sector, as Lloyd Armstrong claims, “has not made the mistake of equating program quality either with the level of prior educational attainment of entering students, or the fraction of applicants who are rejected” (Armstrong, 2010). Thereby this strategy and a greater innovativeness of the institutions result in a great interest to them among the working adults and the members of minority groups. Considering their students as the clients, for profit organization ...

Enter Name of Student

Enter Name of University The OCBC Bank has their own unique approach to talent management and development because their overall success contributes to these vital areas. One of the primary approaches are that the company enables the employee to place their own careers and talents first. The concept of learning is a major component of the business strategy and they created several programs to help with their employee’s professional growth. One program “Bank’s Career Best” goals were for their employees to evaluate their own strengths, orientations of the career and attempts to understand where their workers fit ...

Introduction

In its initial stages, the hotel industry provides renting space for people who were travelling from one place to another. The industry has grown exponentially into a flourishing service sector with revenues of billions of dollars (Prasanna, 2013). The hotel industry has improved its products. While it offered accommodation and food in the earlier years of the hotel industry, the hotel industry in the contemporary environment offers theme parks, conference facilities, lodging, cruise line, restaurants, and transportation among others (Prasanna, 2013). The classification of the hotels using the star system is also partly based on the products, services, and ...

Family law refers to the body of laws, rules, and guidelines that regulate issues arising from or relate to marriages, civils unions, and other forms of domestic partnerships. Naturally, children are a focus area of family law. Furthermore, adoption, or the assumption by one person or couple of the parenting rights of a child from the child’s biological parent, is a key element of family law’s focus on children. Interestingly systematic rules for adoption is a fairly recent addition to family law. That is to say, the formal and legal adopting a child is a modern concept. ...

Introduction

Employees are the most potent and valuable resources for any organization. An organization should take employees separation as a sensitive issue. Discretion, empathy, and planning are the most important aspects to be considered when separating employees permanently from the organization. There are several reasons that HRM practitioner may base on, such as incapacity, resignation, removal, and so that the organization has the best workforce that will produce high-quality products and services to meet customer expectations (Boxall & Purcell, 2011). Also, employees may be separated due to contract expiration or workforce downsizing. The most organization have established separation practices and procedures ...

Introduction

Delta Airlines is an international Service corporation that was incorporated in 1934. Initially, Delta focused its activities on the transport of agricultural produce but as it grew and expanded it adopted other market strategies. Essentially, Delta headquarter is based in Atlanta and it operates a fleet of more than 700 aircrafts and a worldwide population of more than 80000 employees (Sky team, 2016). The company targets over 160million customers annually, and a range of 350 destinations in over 60 countries (Sky team, 2016). The services offered by the airline include a world class airline loyalty program, sky miles frequent ...

Cross Cultural Management

The Case study presented here is that of a banking organization, Premuris Investments based in Southern California. The head of the organization, Marianne Whitaker is concerned about the behavior and performance of one of her financial advisors who is a Thai national hired only six months before. The employee named Pongpol Chatusipitak or ‘Moo’ as he liked to call himself did not appear to be motivated enough yet he was important to the company as he could generate substantial business from the large Thai community residing in California. Marianne tried to assess the possible reasons behind his behavior in ...

Introduction

Various environmental factors affect the everyday business operations of managers. Both internal and external environmental factors influence business managers. The internal environmental factors include the value system and organizational culture that the business organization can control to a significant extent. On the other hand, the external factors influencing business include marketing forces and a variety of macro-environmental factors. The macro-environmental factors are economical, social, political and technological factors. In brief, the manager can neither predict nor control the external factors. However, business success depends on effectively managing both the internal and external business environments.

Thesis statement

Effective management of business operations ...

A company that I think might be successful following a production orientation is McDonalds. The production oriented approach holds that all that a company makes is the focal point of attention by the managers (Blythe, 2014). Production orientation at McDonalds ignores the diversity of the needs by customers and generalizes them to one goal of producing a quality brand. McDonalds is the largest chain of Hamburger fast food restaurants. McDonalds has more than 36,500 outlets in countries (McDonalds Official Website). The production orientation is upheld since the foodstuffs offered at McDonalds are basically similar in all countries of ...

Introduction

Lumenpulse first ventured into business in the year 2006 with its headquarters in Canada. Their main business agenda was to design and manufacture lighting fixtures and related accessories, electronics and technologies for household and industrial interiors and exteriors decors (Lumenpulse, n.d). Over the years, the company has achieved significant growth and quite impressive recognition. To sustain its market share and maximize on its competitive edge, Lumenpulse has resorted into developing and implementing the latest and modest technologies and innovations to enable offer clients long-lasting and above standard lighting fixtures. All this is achievable formulating and executing a sound training ...

Skimming and penetration pricing strategies are used by the company when it is launching a new product into the market, but there are many differences between these two pricing strategies. In price skimming strategy, the company focuses on setting higher price for the product when introducing it to the market, and then decreasing it gradually. In this strategy, price is set high for skimming maximum revenues. The revenues are, however, skimmed layer by layer from the market segments that are willing to pay higher price; the organization in this way profitable sales though they are fewer in number (Kotler, ...

Introduction

This paper focuses on Automated Guided Vehicles (AGV), driverless, and autonomous trucks and cars—collectively referred to as “driverless and autonomous vehicles” in this paper. The transportation industry is one of the most important sectors in the world economy. It ensures that goods and services can freely flow within unrestricted (i.e. trade-able) areas. This is allowed through the fast and efficient (as much as possible) of commodities and people. The premise is that the faster and more efficient goods and people can be moved from one point to another, the more booming the transportation industry will be. A booming ...

Bishop V Armstrong Aggregate Company

Facts Summary. Aggregates Company sent a letter of offer to the plaintiff on 2nd May to sell scrap mica at $180 per ton. The petitioner received the letter on the following day. Some few weeks later, Bishop learned that the market price had rocketed to $185 per ton. Bishop wrote to the respondent on 22nd purporting to accept the offer. Armstrong received the letter on May 30th, Armstrong repudiated the offer and adjusted the offer to sell at $ 187, the current market price. Legal Issues. Under this case, the court would have to make a determination on three issues. ...

LIFESPAN DEVELOPMENT INTELLIGENCE

Perhaps, there is no a person, which has not, at least at once, considered the issue of intelligence from a particular angle. Schools and universities, employers and business companies are said to choose people, according to their intelligence quotient, etc. Is it admissible to compare intelligences of different people? Are there any kinds of intelligence, or instead, there is one standard, to which all should be equivalent? In fact, there are different approaches, so-called various theories of intelligence. To begin with, intelligence is defined as the ability to solve problems and to adapt and learn from experiences (Santrock, 2015, ...

Australia and the USA have different health care systems whose aim is to promote good health of the citizens in the respective countries. Each of the countries has elaborate public and private health care systems managed by the governments, private health insurance companies, individuals, and other organizations. This essay aims at comparing the health care systems in the two countries with an objective to achieve an informed stance on the issue. The Australian health structure is composed of both the private and public players. The system has an explicit financing control to enhance regulation of the essential service. Further, ...

Abstract

Radio has definitely been one of the most significant technological devices for more than a century. From the moment of its invention in the early 1800s till new developments in recent years, radio has performed a lot of important functions. Throughout the history, radios helped to supply communication and provide entertainment to many cultures. More than one hundred years already, radio still remains a powerful force in American life that will also retain its potency for some time to come. This unique form of mass media has the potential to reach any people, even the illiterate ones. No matter ...

Executive Summary

In general, the diplomas mentioned in the paper below have brought revolutionary changes to my personality and mind-set. They have broadened my vision and changed my attitude towards certain concepts in certain ways (that I have explained in the later parts of the assignment). I feel to have some inborn qualities relevant to the subjects that I took up and these courses have helped me polish my skills and expertise, and update my knowledge. As the course progressed, I could feel my development as a learner stage by stage. My teachers, supervisors, and group fellows have come in as ...

Introduction

I would like to show in this discussion that Maxwell’s Demon does not violate the second law of thermodynamic but violates the first law (Angus, Armstrong, and Reuck).This can be shown by demonstrating that Maxwell’s Demon Process (MDP) can be turned to a step process which is a reversible cycle. According to the Maxwell’s Demon Process, An ideal gas is contained in a very tough or rigid walled container is divided into two halves using a rigid partition with a hole or a trap door on it. The vessel and the trap door should be ...

Learning to write more effectively is one task that many university students struggle to complete, for a number of reasons. Many of them move through middle and high school learning to write to a particular formula that will help them to pass a standardized assessment that is often necessary for graduation but has almost no resemblance to the sort of writing that they will be expected to do down the road in the professional world. Once those students come to college and find that there are many more ways to write than that cookie cutter formula that they learned ...

Writing is an intriguing process, whether it is a small child learning to trace out the letters of his name or an accomplished author seeking to put the story that has taken shape in her mind down onto paper in words that others will understand and find compelling. The process of turning thoughts into words and then recording those words onto paper has long been one that has been a source of fascination, whether it was the creation of the dramas of the ancient Greeks or such world-changing essays as Jonathan Swift’s paradigm shift on the treatise in “ ...

In Conrad’s book, ‘Heart of Darkness’ Marlow can be viewed as a protagonist as he appears in various scenes. He is a character, who cannot be defined easily. For instance, he foresees records of great originality when echoing his Victorian forerunners. Marlow outstands as a strong hero, self-determined and creative thinker, an able and candid man. The writer echoes the words about Marlow by saying that, “Marlow was not typical (if his propensity to spin yarns be excepted), and to him, the meaning of an episode was not inside like a kernel but outside, enveloping the tale. It ...

Factors that Influence Purchasing Relationship in Automobile Industry of China

Introduction The USA, Western Europe, and Japan markets for the automobiles are almost stagnating causing an increased attention and concern to the world automotive industry. They have turned their interest in China market for cars. This is associated with the fast growing economy in China unlike that of European nations and the USA. The Chinese market for cars is indeed the turning point for all auto companies. The environment is conducive to start production in China to supply the potential markets and then export from there to other world markets. This literature will focus on the purchasing relationship in ...

Customers all over the world require a variety of services and goods to satisfy their day to day needs and wants. Both goods and needs are designed by marketers to fulfill the unique taste and preference of customers. However, services and goods differ in various ways and the common factor that distinguishes a consumer product from a service is tangibility. For instance, when a customer buys his favorite brand of shirt, he can feel, handle and ultimately consume it by wearing. On the other hand, a tour service a client gets from a tour operator can neither be felt ...

Introduction

A document that outlines all that a business undertakes as a marketing strategy define a marketing plan for the organization. A marketing strategy will only focus on what the management wishes to achieve for the organization. Therefore, its outline on how to achieve it can clearly define the marketing plan of an organization. The marketing plan will include a detailed description of the target market, competitors and that of all the products and services that a company deals with. The primary goal of this Emirates marketing plan is to grow the business to the next level. A marketing plan ...

Analysis of the Chipotle Mexican Grill Service

Introduction The purpose of this assignment is to conduct a multifaceted and complete analysis of the service, provided by the Chipotle Mexican Grill restaurant, operating in direct customer service in own physical space as well as catering. To narrow down this analysis and due to the limitation of the personal experience only to direct customer service in the restaurant, this document will look specifically at this aspect of the business. To better understand the proposition of the restaurant it is important to look at its business model. Founded in Delaware in 1993, today the organization operates over 2000 restaurants ...

Business Management

Introduction Businesses that are lucky to begin operations and operate profitably within the first two years should rely on a solid foundation based on responsive strategies if they are to maintain their success trajectory. The company, AM Shoe Shoppers, has been operating for eighteen months and is considerably doing well. The enterprise has been lucky to have survived this crucial phase without a clear strategic roadmap. It can be argued that the initial focus of buying in bulk and selling at a discount price made it possible for the company to weather formational challenges. However, as the company grows, ...

Comparing the Anglo and Asian Confucian

The Unites States is part of the Anglo culture cluster while China is the main player in the Confucian Asia cluster, according to the GLOBE (Global Leadership and Organizational Behavior Effectiveness). As expected, the two countries differ in many ways due to such factors like political inclination (where the United States is inclined towards democratic legitimacy while China lies on the end of performance legitimacy), community settings and religious beliefs. This part of the paper will concentrate on the differences between the Anglo and Asian Confucian clusters to create a backdrop of what a manager is moving from America ...

Cultural diversity is an asset as well as a challenge to business leaders the world over, especially those business leaders working in multinational organizations. Globalization is the current trend and it is certain that companies will continue to launch their businesses internationally in the future. The failure or success of a company is greatly hinged on the type of leadership style practiced and put in place in the organization. Hence, a multi- national company's management should use the kind of leadership style that would consider the various diversities that are present in the organization in addition to the host ...

Jazz is such a unique and distinguished genre of music that delights the ear of every person who listens to it. Found in New Orleans, it grew in fame all around the world and will always be popular. Why New Orleans? The founding of jazz and what impacted it is astonishing. The 19th century was a century that united different ethnic groups such as German, French, Irish, Spanish, African and Italian together, these ethnicities had one main thing in common – the same taste in music. How did Jazz develop and what were the main causes of it being found ...

Price discrimination refers to a business practice which involves selling of similar or near similar products to consumers at different prices during a certain period (Stole and Lars 2221). There are two main motives why businesses engage in the practice. Firstly, the business may be aiming at becoming a monopoly in the said market segment. In this case, the business could sell certain highly priced goods at a low price to a certain market segment that the business wishes to control. The second and the main reason why businesses engage in price discrimination is to take advantage of consumer ...

Leadership is the most radical and central aspect of any organization. While good management promotes quantitative and qualitative results, poor management compromises achievements and successful outcomes. That is why the end results of an organization are a projection of the leadership style in the said institution. As such, this paper analyses the threat in Volkswagen’s management in line with the various leadership theories.

Volkswagen`s Fraudulent

The leadership in Volkswagen illuminates an ill culture with the potential of undermining this auto giant reputation. Following the recent scandal of emission test, it is clear that the management in the organization is ailing. ...

Assimilation

Assimilation is a term which is so much associated with immigration. Its significance is not only felt in today’s immigrant communities but also throughout the history of the US. Previously, the term was used to mean a biological process carried out by the body used in the conversion of food into a substance which can be absorbed in digestion. However, the use of the term in today’s world as a physiological process has been eclipsed as a result of its greater social significance. Its broad use is evident by the many definitions it carries. Some sources define ...

Human resources or as commonly referred to as employees are one of the important assets of any organization. They are a critical factor of production i.e. without them no production of goods or delivery of services will take place. Another factor that makes employees even more important is the fact that their output can be significantly improved. Capital resources such as machines and funds cannot be motivated to produce more but the same cannot be said for human resources. Human resources can be motivated to produce optimally (Armstrong, 2011). The most common motivators are monetary and non-monetary incentives. Sine ...

Armstrong’s recording of Hotter than that is entirely based on his music prowess. He uses nonsensical syllables but produced solo brilliance which makes the track desirable to the ear and soothing to the heart with a combination of various musical instruments tones such as trumpet, piano, guitar, clarinets and alto saxophone which introduces the track. However, the trumpet dominates the whole track with the sound of other instruments playing distantly in the background. This is boring as there is no smooth flow of the tones. Armstrong’s trumpet solo is characterized by poor quality tones as he plays ...

Human Resource Management

Introduction Human resource management (HRM) is the process through which an organization interacts and guides its personnel so that they work together and achieve company objectives. The primary goal of this process is to set a target for the firm, build a plan for the organization, analyze data about staff members, train the company employees, and mentor them to fit in the enterprise. HRM can be traced back to the year 1950 when great scholars Drucker and McGregor saw that there is a need to have a vision and goal-directed activities in organizations. They also stressed that the management ...

My new role in this expansion for growth of The Dunkin Donuts by opening five new locations is huge task that I plan to undertake in the most professional way possible. Based on my past experiences in job staffing, leading, training, couching, and managing employees, which have contributed to my success in the previous position at Dunkin Donuts, I believe I can extent the same expertise to this new role. In my new role, I Intent to adopt a more advanced job design, organizational design, recruitment and selection process, and training and performance appraisal measures to ensure successful opening ...

Performance management is the process that makes an organization incorporates its employees in almost all activities of the company so that the enterprise can achieve efficiency. The key part in performance management is the employee involvement in decision-making. The activities that are involved in this process include planning where the human resource department sets the work schedule to be followed and the expected results if the work is done on their planned schedule. Continuous monitoring of the employee performance under regular schedules is imperative as Armstrong and Taylor (2014) assert. The other activity involved is that of capacity development ...

Jazz for years has remained an intriguing and interesting phenomenon in the music world. After watching the Jazz documentary by Ken Burns, the American filmmaker, there emerged interesting facts and fascinating observations that I realized made the genre a phenomenon. From the video, one of the main reasons jazz has been elegant and intriguing is origins because of its origin and diversity. The documentary comes out as a celebration of an exceptional art form in America while also noting the talent and uniqueness of people that made contributions to the genre (Farley 113-129). In the documentary, Burns strives to ...

The letter by Martin Luther King, “Letter from a Birmingham Jail.” targets the white ministers in the city of Birmingham. King writes this letter to the 8 white ministers who criticized his actions as a clergy in a statement which was published in the newspaper, after he violated the law of the city and had to be jailed. The purpose of the letter is to address issues in the city which subjects African American towards injustices and segregation. The author seeks to address the plight of the Negroes who have suffered under the whites for a long time (Fahey ...

Effective marketing requires identification of the target segments and employing the most appropriate segmentation and targeting strategies that ensure there is the ability to address the needs of each segment and that ability is effectively communicated in a manner that captures the segment’s interest. Given the number of targets, it can be said that there are multiple targets for HCC given that various variables can be used including the demographics and Geographic location. That means that there are various means by which the market can be segmented given the need to address the differences in the markets demographics ...

According to a number of research and studies, individual issues such as personality, way of life, and financial conditions have greatly affected the customer behavior and their purchasing patterns. Consumer behavior and market segmentation are important subjects in marketing. Goods are not produced and marketed anymore without considering needs of the consumers and their heterogeneity towards these needs. Although there are many ways of recognizing the market, the placement of goods is based on the demographic aspects of the clients. This is why demographic segmentation is admired due to the connection linking demographic features and other dedicated actions such ...

Executive Summary

The laptop retail market includes laptop sales that are sold through traditional brick and mortar retail outlets and now through mail order and online stores in the form of websites. Laptops are personal computing devices that can be used when the user is on the go to accomplish their own computing goals. Laptop retailing has major concerns that are focused on ensuring that the retailer’s own investment on the products does not end up remaining on the stores, instead, it should be made available for purchase by the consumers by ensuring that the information about what the retailer ...

Introduction

Brief profile of the video case The Video Cola War is a documentary about the competition between the two key competitors in the carbonated drinks market. In that respect, it provides an overview of the Cola industry and explains how Coca-Cola and Pepsi have been competing.

Description of the organizations’ position

Coca-Cola and Pepsi are the leading competitors in the carbonated drinks market accounting for about 75% of the market share. In 2004, Coca Cola’s pretax profit was about 9% of its sales (Nils, 2015).

Portfolio objective

Considering the video’s content, this report presents an analysis of the two companies’ strategies and the Cola ...

Uber - Ride Sharing Company

Introduction Uber is the biggest taxi company that operates in four hundred and sixty-three cities in the world. It was started by Travis Kalanick, a serial entrepreneur from the Silicon Valley, and since 2012, the company has been expanding exponentially. Uber has faced opposition in many cities in the world, from London to Nairobi in Kenya, and there have been cases of assault on Uber drivers. The impact Uber usually causes the problem has on local taxi industries, as it offers cheaper rides with better efficiency, pushing the traditional taxi drivers out of business on price advantage (Knight, 2016). ...

»WHILE THE ACCOUNTABILITY MECHANISMS OF PUBLICLY LISTED COMPANIES RESEMBLE THOSE OF DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED GOVERNMENTS, IN PRACTICE, THESE MECHANISMS ARE OFTEN LARGELY INEFFECTIVE.«

Introduction 3

The Concept of Accountability 4 Governance and its Relationship to Accountability 5 Publicly listed companies and accountability 6 Accountability with regards to various participants 9 The Challenges of Technology 11 Conclusion 12

Bibliography 14

Introduction The governance and accountability of the corporate world has been a significant focus for many since the economy fell apart during the 2007 financial crisis. Prior to this event, there was a lot of public trust in corporate structures; however, after the financial crisis, ...

Part A: Personal Safety

Question 1 Hazard The personal safety hazard in scenario A is the unlocked front door and the open windows while the client is asleep. In scenario B is the client banging the seat on the train platform. In scenario C, the community member who yells abusive things to the support worker and his client and follows them around the shopping mall. In scenario D, the personal safety hazard is the uneven path that exists in the complex where the client lives. In scenario E, the arrival of all customers at once causing much commotion is the personal safety hazard. ...

Introduction

The paper focuses on the project management problems that faced Rony’s project. The project was commissioned by The Custom Ronworking Company. The president of the company, Emelia Carpenters, contracted W.Easly Associates to conduct a post-project appraisal of Rony’s project. The project involved expansion of the company’s production facilities. The expansion included expanding the manufacturing and production residence. The plans were occasioned by a mini boom experienced in the commercial construction field in NSW, Rony’s hometown. A decision was reached to go ahead with the expansion and Spencer Moneyworth, the vice president; Finance and Administrator were ...

Introduction

An ideal organization reaps the best productivity out of it human capital by rewarding the right people at right time with right amounts and right reasons. Most of the organizations in the world have some sort of Reward philosophy although some do not articulate it as a guiding principle while others have them linked to their goals (Armstrong, 2012). There are different approaches to the development of the total rewards programs and the prevalent variable pay systems which help in devising adequate employee motivation strategies that boost the organizational productivity(Armstrong, 2012). However, in case of organizations facing a ...

Market-based compensation program is much greater than the structure of a wage range. In general terms, it is an overall compensation concept driven on the present market value situations for attracting preferred talent (Armstrong, 2012). Other primary considerations that propel market compensation strategies incorporate:

Competition

Understanding competitors pay practices remain a major consideration when identifying market value for task. Moreover, they determine whether they match, lead or lag the market in their overall remuneration practices (Boeri, 2015). Firms such as Facebook, PayPal, Google, Apple, Twitter, and LinkedIn are recognized for their market-prominent reward program, although how each get there varies. ...