Essays on Decision

Companies, businesses, or organizations around the globe face stiff competition. Market segments change. The preferences and tastes are equally dynamic. The effect of globalization is real. There is an economic shift from the developed and stable economies to developing. Therefore, it is ideal that companies should tirelessly focus on what makes them relevant in meeting customer requirements. This paper is a mirror reflection of how the Google Company has thrived and lived to its vision as well as mission. It seeks to address the significance of human interactions and correlations in the workplace. The work also gives clear views ...

Scenario Analysis

After conducting the chi-square test, the most important factors to consider while determining the presence of gender bias in firefighter promotion is the chi-square statistic and the p value. These two factors are important as they help determine whether the relationship between gender and firefighter promotions is significant.

Is the promotional status of recently promoted firefighters independent of their gender?

Based on the results of the chi-square test conducted it is evident that the promotional status of recently promoted firefighters is independent of their gender. This implies that there is no relationship between promotions and gender. What reasons should the assistant chief convey to the fire chief to justify the absence ...

In the globalizing world within the new economic competitive environment, enterprises increasingly turn to outsourcing of logistic operations. Outsourcing in logistic becomes an effective business strategy, allowing transferring the field specific functions to outsourcers . This process enables the efficient usage of resources giving a chance to the company to concentrate on particular tasks and functions. Experts estimate the approximate volume of the US logistic outsourcing services around $80-90 billion . Despite an ever-increasing significance of the outsourcing operations, the strategic component of this type of business is not sufficiently researched. The scale of outsourcing operations can hardly be adequately estimated. ...

I was surprised at how accurate the VALS test was about me. It calculated my personal buying habits and showed that I was not as interested in shopping as I thought I would be. I am a very thrifty person and I only like to spend money when I absolutely have to. I have had some very trying times when it comes to my finances so I always take that into account. These results will more than likely not change over a period of time. The results are more relevant to an average of times that I have spent ...

Developing to Sound Ethical Decision Making in Green Company

Ethical leadership is the main concept for the discussion at any one time when there is need to focus on organizational ethics and social responsibility. In the contemporary society than earlier before the focus on social responsibilities of an organization has developed in all areas of business. This, therefore, calls for organizations to plan effectively for the social responsibilities to the community and all the stakeholders (Trevino & Nelson, 2014, p. 53). This calls for the development of organizational codes of conduct and mission statements stating how an organization plans to dispense their responsibilities to its stakeholders. Planning for ethics ...

Outsourcing manufacturing activities from a local community to the developing countries is a decision that raises different opinions for varied organizations, community members as well as the workers in the foreign nations. The ethicality of the whole process needs to be considered in such a way that the process does not have adverse consequences to the progress of the community. Several scholars have related the process of outsourcing manufacturing to a developing country with the need for an organization to reduce on the cost of production as well as exploit the labor readily available in the developing nations. This ...

Introduction

Some organizations are successful while others are not successful. There has been arguments as to what causes some organizations to succeed and what causes others to fail. Some literature support the view that organizations succeed if they recruit skilled and experienced employees. Other sources argue that success of organizations largely depend on the kind of leadership they have. Still, some argue that it is a combination of leadership and employees with certain qualities because leaders are required to direct employees to achieve the vision of their organizations. But what differentiate good leaders from bad leaders? Allio (2007) argued that ...

The organization that has been considered is the Regions Financial Corporation. The details of the organization as obtained in the Bank Holdings Company Performance Report are as follows:

RSSD Number: 3242838

Federal Reserve District: 6 Consolidated Assets ($000): 124,891,540 Peer Group Number: 1 Company Introduction and Activities: With an aim to strengthening the financial activities in the United States, Regions Financial Corporation was established in the year 2014. It has its headquarters situated in Birmingham, Alabama.

The Company address of Regions Financial Corporation is mentioned as

1900 5th Avenue North

25th Floor

Birmingham, AL 35203 The official website of the company is http://www.regions.com. The industry in which the Company belongs to ...

Introduction

Corporate Social Responsibility, also known as CSR in business management circles, is a newer facet of business in most developed markets. Unlike previous generations of businesspeople and businesses that tended to put profit before all else, businesses in the modern world are more likely to put other concerns on an equal footing with profits; sometimes this is referred to as a “triple bottom line” (Carroll & Buchholtz, 20114). The triple bottom line refers to the people, the planet, and the profits that a business makes; all three of these things must be a concern for businesses in the modern world. ...

Mental Health has been increasing in individuals over the past several decades. It is important when diagnosing a person with mental health to have an accurate understanding of their situation. Being able to find out the symptoms a person is experiencing, background information, history, and other diagnosed illnesses that the person may also have is important. A licensed Psychiatrist will need to evaluate and test a person to ensure the proper diagnosis and treatments is given. In regards to mental illness it is important for a Doctor or Psychiatrist to be able to determine if a person is competent ...

The EU Should Admit the Western Balkan Countries Soon Even if They Do Not Meet all Criteria

The Name of the Class Introduction Nowadays there are 28 member countries in the European Union. From its humble beginning as a peace holder after the horrible outcomes of the end of the first and second world wars, European Union grew to the powerful and strong economic and political union. EU countries share common economic zone, political values, such as strict rules towards corruption, and so on. Historically, the reason why “ECSC or the European Coal and Steel Community” (Cia.gov, 2016) was so successful that it enabled to create EU afterwards, was because after couple of years of its ...

Bartleby and Gregor Samsa are outcasts but in different ways because they cannot deal with th societies they belong to. The alienate themselves from the role which they are supposed to play. It becomes too much for them to hande which is why they give up on participating in life. There are both similarities and differences between the ways they cope with the pathology that affected their lives and they cannot put up with what they are unable to change. Both Bartleby and Gregor change themselves because they cannot change the society. Bartleby alienates himself from the world, while ...

Application Assignment

Introduction

Still, everything is hardly so nice, because the task for this essay exactly is to ponder over you run your own tourism company. Its narrow specialization is to provide the visitors with apartments and other dwelling spaces. The right to be place where I would like to settle my small organization goes to Montenegro (or Crna Gora as is said among the people who reside within this locality). You may have asked yourself why I wanted to choose this certain one. So, the answer is more than just clear. This is because this small territory on the place ...

Analysis of Samsung Corp.

Introduction Samsung Corporations operates as a multinational company operating in electronics industry with the headquarter in Suwon, South Korea. It is a blue chip company listed in Dow Jones. The company makes profits in terms of trillion with over 200 trillion of assets and 168.088 trillion of equity (Michell, 2010). As of 2015, the company had around 307,000 employees contributing to its operations. This makes the company a big corporation thereby forming a platform for practicing how to analyze businesses. The profitability of a Samsung’s operation is dependent on the efforts put by the management towards ensuring ...

Career investigation is an important exercise as it helps a lot in assisting an individual identify personal skills and match them to possibly related occupations. Also, it helps a person to learn more about a career of interest and what to do to pursue the profession (Harrington, Niles & Garraway, 2006). Therefore, this paper is going to give a report of a career investigation in the marketing profession. It is essential to note that the career investigation exercise was carried out through “GIOADA problem solving process” (Goal setting, Information collection, Options identification, Analysis of the alternatives, Decision making and Action ...

Maslow hierarchy of needs works

Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is a theory that was proposed by Abraham Maslow’s in 1943 that explains on individual’s motivation and development. According to Maslow's human beings are motivated by the attempt of fulfilling their basic needs; Physiological, safety, social, self-esteem and self-actualization. These basic needs are believed to create an internal pressure that influences a person’s behavior. It means that human beings have a hierarchy of needs that is portrayed in a triangle. However, a person should act towards addressing basic needs before moving on to meet more complex needs in the hierarchy (Ahmad, ...

Abstract

The paper is designed to reflect the learning outcomes and lessons learned from the case studies of global organizations. The paper is based on two parts. The first part discusses the case study of Cliffe about “can this merger be saved?” to understand the reasons and causes of the failure of the merger of two companies Synergon and Beauchamp. The inefficiency of the management of the new developed company was the major cause of the failure as it was failed to understand the cultural differences of the two companies and thus resulted in the challenges. Then, I reflected my ...

Introduction

KIA Motors is a company that is run on a stringent Confucian culture and it is under a president. Byung Mo Ahn is the president of the company which has its headquarters at Korea. The company is known to have a culture a culture that is suffocating for the Americans. This is because it is defined as a culture where there is a King, who is the controller of everything and even worse he knows everything. The subjects just have to follow the militaristic system which according to numbers has worked for the company and its sister Hyundai.

The ...

WACC Calculation: Arrow Electronics Limited

Calculation of WACC WACC: Weight of short-term debt* Cost of ST debt(1-tax rate)+ Weight of long-term debt* Cost of LT debt(1-tax rate)+ Weight of equity* Cost of equity = 0.0019* 0.0274+ 0.2987* 0.0378+ 0.6994* 0.0707 = 6.085%

Calculative Notes:

i) Cost of debt: -Cost of Long-term debt

The cost of long-term bonds issued by the company has been calculated on the weighted average basis:

-Cost of Short term debt The information relating to the short-term debt of the company was available in Note-6 of the financial statement where we found that during the year the amount of short-term debt owed by the company amounts to $13.454 million. The company has also disclosed that short-term borrowings were used exclusively ...

Escatsa is an average Spanish company founded by two twenty year olds. It deals with the production of steel sheets jobs for the automotive industry. It is well established locally but then it is faced with the decision to expand internationally to one of two places, Hungary and the UK. So as to make a decision on what location is more favorable for expansion, it needs the analysis of key competencies, the market base, risks expected, cost and financing of moving project. This analysis will assist the company in making the right decision for expansion. A risk analysis helps ...

China has been playing an important role in the global economy and in the short term future the country is going to continue to build up its international presence. However, keeping up the economic growth may become a serious problem for the Chinese government in the short term. The rates of economic growth have declined in the past years and this is a very big risk for the developing economy that China has. So now China is looking for the ways how to improve the current situation. Stimulation of exports by means of the weaker national currency is one ...

Linear programming is one of the very famous techniques that helps solve the optimization problems when the objectives and constraints are expressed in a linear function. This technique was developed by George B. Denting in 1947. Though initially, its use was thought to be restricted to the activities of the Second World War but sooner, it gained prominent significance in the corporate world. It is a quantitative technique that helps in the optimal allocation of the resources, but the fact is that it only operates under conditions of certainty (A.E. Anieting, 2013). The aim of linear programming is to ...

Managers who do not work in their native country should be particularly aware of the cultural limitations of a particular leadership style. Studies show huge differences between leadership styles within different countries. This gives food for the research, especially important in today's world of multinational corporations. Europeans generally are more influenced by traditions, and they are more susceptible to the autocratic leadership rather than, for example, Americans. On the other hand, despite the fact that the Japanese culture appreciates tradition and loyalty, the Japanese widely and effectively use workers' participation in decision-making. The manager who wants to work as ...

The purpose of this case study is to obtain an in-depth insight into the alternative strategies associated with the current market, alongside focusing on the issues that are presented in the form of question 1, 2, 4, and 5. For some case studies, the development of models in Excel is of great significance for the evaluation of options encountered by an individual. In this regard, the answer of 3a will be entailed with adequate emphasis on the aspect above. 1. Natureview has gained notable success in the area of natural foods station as it carries out the utilization of ...

Cities in Cinemas: “Gone Baby Gone” by Ben Affleck

Gone Baby Gone is a film from 2007 and it is about the dark side of humanity, selfishness, but also about caring and about being moral and righteous. These themes are present in the film Gone Baby Gone and the film is successful in depicting major social and family issues. The story follows child kidnapping, two private detectives, the police and their attitude towards what means to do the right thing. The protagonist is a private detective, Patrick and he is a man of high integrity and moral standards, focused on doing his job consciously. The dark side of ...

Section 1 - Decision-Making Techniques Applied Now or in the near Future at Gentherm Incorporated of the United States

In my organization, there are two broadly used decision making techniques that have their own application specific to the management needs they satisfy. They are described in detail in the following manner:

Decision Matrix

This decision making technique is used to identify and evaluate possible alternatives to any given concern or problem for arriving at a most feasible decision. It involves creation or designing of a table containing several columns where the very first column different options or alternatives considered for making a particular decision. All those factors that have a direct and indirect on decision making process and the solution, ...

Business goals are primarily geared towards attaining financial gains. Other factors weigh heavily in ensuring the success of a business undertaking such as the organizational capability, management competency and market improvement strategies. Beyond these success factors, however, one aspect of running a business that is crucial in determining the performance of the business in the long term is business ethics or the application of moral theories in making business decisions. Business ethics refer to the adoption of proper business policies and practices concerning potentially controversial issues, such as corporate governance, insider trading, bribery, discrimination, corporate social responsibility and fiduciary ...

Following the guidelines of the course ID guidelinesStudent’s NameUniversity

Overview of the Case The paper has been developed to identify how organized data collection methods can be utilized in organizational change. In the given case study, some of the documented response from the teachers, parents, and staffs of Logan Elementary School has been attached. There are 38 faculty associates, eight school staffs, and a single part-time librarian. Nancy Mestas, the principal of the school, has wanted to build an improved relationship among the teaching staffs to provide a better education for students. Considering her overall vision, she has made several drastic changes over the past few years. To ...

Introduction: Ethical Issue

Auditors hold positions of trust in the society. However, over the years, auditors have been accused and, in some occasion, found guilty of failing to live up to these expectations. Therefore, this inability necessitated the enactment of laws that will support both accounting through strengthening firm’s internal controls and procedures and auditing through attestation of these internal controls. As such, this has strengthened the auditors’ position to uphold the social trust. Nonetheless, isolated cases have been observed where auditors have given the organization a clean bill of health yet such organization end up collapsing due to malpractices that ...

REPORT DETERMINING WHETHER VIRAL MARKETING CAN REPLACE OTHER ADVERTISEMENTS

Glacier Products Ltd. Figures Figure 1: Viral Marketing Capacity 10 Figure 2: Effectiveness of Viral Marketing 12 Figure 3: Security Issues Associated with Viral Marketing 13 Figure 4: Ethical Issues in Digital Advertisement 14 Figure 5: Social Media Use by Marketers 19

GLACIER PRODUCTS LTD.

This report is a fulfillment of the research approval you made on 5th January. Both qualitative and quantitative research methods were used. Primary and secondary sources of data were interrogated towards achieving the goals of the research. The report discusses the viability of viral marketing as a rising form of product marketing. Security and ethical concerns that ...

The issue of online credit card fraud has become one of the major crimes that can easily be committed using the internet. Due to the lack of policies and laws to prevent the crime, the number of victims continuous to increase since most sale transactions can be completed online using the internet. Online credit card fraud poses damage to the public but requires federal legislation to prevent future crimes. There is lack of corrective mechanisms to deter the proliferation of the online credit card fraud to prevent damage to future victims. The article of Segal, Ngugi & Mana (2011) explains ...

Introduction

Determining the factors that contribute to the domestic violence and child abuse can be a start in reducing the high rates of domestic violence around the country. The factors will be examined based on the psychosocial assessment. The mother has a history of domestic abuse and this history will probably continue on with the children. She came to the agency for the financial assistance. The family stayed in the abusive partnership for around 10 years have severe effects on the two children that have problems in school and also left the consequences to the mother the victim. Since she ...

Australia, being recognized as a vibrant democracy of a free market has always recorded economic progress for the last twenty-five years without encountering a recession. The economy has hugely benefitted from the entrepreneurial development which has been facilitated by an efficient governmental system, a legal system that is functioning properly together with an independent bureaucratic rule. All through in 2014, the economic growth of Macquarie environment has been below the long-term trend. Being driven by the sector of the resources, it experienced a declining value as the prices of the commodities also declined. This meant that while the country ...

Introduction:

Bethesda Lutheran Community is a Christian organization that caters for individuals with intellectual and development disabilities in the United States through services that seek to spread the gospel truth of Jesus Christ. The organization was started in 1904 as a single unit location in Watertown Wisconsin, creating an inclusion community that catered for people with mental disabilities. By 1960s, the pioneer campus in Watertown had a capacity of about 660 individuals (Hodge, Lieberman & Murata, 2012). At this time, the societal attitudes about people living with disabilities was perceived with skepticism, and hence there was little from either the government ...

As the culture and the techniques of advertising and exerting influence on human mind progress, we face more and more elaborate depictions and images of the human body. Jean Kilbourne's lecture presents a variety of them and gives some explicit comments. In the ads that surround ads, people age mainly shown either as unreachable idols or as things personifying some quality, concept, or even brand. While these depictions may seem to be genuinely different, in reality, they produce the same effect on the consumer. They dehumanize them, both the subject of objectification and the idol which is regarded only ...

The corporate world is characterized by different leadership styles. The leadership style chosen may result in either profits or losses. The chosen leadership style often depends on a leader’s personality and perspective on different issues. There are those who believe that leadership involves making all the decisions; therefore, adopt an industrial approach. However, most successful leaders believe in dialogue before making any decision. These leaders consider the views of all relevant stakeholders; thus, embrace a servant leadership perspective. John Mackey, CEO, and co-founder of Whole Foods has been termed as a controversial and liberal leader. Mackey’s leadership ...

Executive Summary

The purpose of the paper was to assess Canadian market for the ability of CBT, the UK-based supermarket chain, to enter it. Environmental analysis was made taking into account political situation in the country, economic overview, legal aspect and socio-cultural perspective. It was found that CBT is going to have more opportunities than threats. Competitive analysis showed that supermarket industry in Canada is monopolistically competitive. The characteristics of such market were properly described. In general, there are three main CBT’s competitors and numerous small, therefore, the company should enter Canadian market with some competitive advantages. In order to ...

Human Resource Management

Gap Incorporated.

Executive Summary3

1.Company Overview and Introduction6 1.1 Company mission..6 1.2 Company vision.6 1.3 Sources of revenue.7 1.4 Industry information and Market share.7 1.5 Number of employees and their demographics..8 2.Problem Definition and Research Objectives..10 2.1 Problem.11 2.2 Decision statement12 2.3 Research objectives12 3.Business Case for Business Research14 4. Research Plan and Methodology.16 4.1 Quantitative vs. Qualitative Data17 4.2 Secondary Data Collection.19 4.3 Primary Data Collection Tools20 4.4.Sampling Approacp0 5.Survey22 5.1 Survey Design Rationale.22 5.2 Focus Group Questions Rationale24 6. Implementation and Communication Plan26 6.1 Implementation Plan26 6.2 Timeline..28 6.3Budget..29 6.4 Communication plan30 8. References.32 7. Appendices

A: Survey Questions.34

B: Focused Group ...

AN ANALYSIS OF THE SUPPLY CHAIN FOR BOTTLED WATER

A supply chain is the link or network formed among different firms, producing, processing or distributing a certain product. This chain specifically covers the steps it takes to get a good product or service from the suppliers to the consumers. The management of a supply chain is an important process for many industries. Supply chains involve a series of companies. The series involves manufacturers, suppliers, and retailers. The effective management of supply chains and logistics gives companies the potential to reduce costs and to increase market share (Christopher 1999). The traditional supply chain also known as the open-loop supply ...

Conflict Management between McDonalds and its Employees

McDonalds is one of the largest employers by volume, not only in the United States but as well as globally. The ongoing conflict between the franchise, its employees, and the unions representing the employees promises not only to impact on McDonald’s employees but also on many franchises offering the current entry-level compensation. The phenomena that are currently known as fast food is an American concept, with the industry developing alongside America along freeways, suburbs, television, and virtually, shaped and was shaped by the American culture. The need by American’s for efficiency and instantaneity of gratification was catered ...

Business Decision Making 3 of 3

Business Decision Making 3 of 3

A Gantt chart is a scheduling technique used to assign a time scale and sequence to a project or plan. A Gantt chart comprises of horizontal bar charts drawn to scale for every project activity. The length of the horizontal bars shows the time to attain completion (Ghionea, 2014). The steps involved in the creation of Gantt charts include the establishment of horizontal axis to represent time, use of vertical axis to represent activities, and representation of each bar using suitable length. The activities represented by the Gantt chart include lot preparation, creating ...

The institutional operations continue to be sophisticated and bound in complex ways that are a bit difficult to understand. In many corporate societies, the idea of collaboration among employees has been spearheaded by the management as a way to consolidate the support and unite the employees within the organization. Several companies have applied the concept of employee engagement as a tool to understand quickly the nature of employee activities and get the best of them regarding service delivery to the company. It is appalling that for many years employers did not regard the concept of employee engagement as a ...

The recent proposal by Bill Gates and Warren Buffet to convince billionaires to give up half of their wealth was well received in the USA but received a cold reaction from the German super rich. Gates and Buffet’s proposal resulted in forty of the world most affluent individuals agreeing to donate half of their wealth to charity after their death. Some of Germany’s wealthiest, however, viewed the move with skepticism and explained the move to be too flashy. Most of the German billionaires who had an adverse reaction to the proposal explained that they had previously given ...

Florida

The Florida Legislature is seated in the Florida State Capital in Tallahassee. The Florida Legislature is composed of 160 state legislators. The state’s legislature is responsible for creating and amending laws within the state of Florida. In order to do this, legislators are responsible for proposing legislation in the form of a bill. If successful, the legislation goes through a review, readings, and requires a majority vote. Then, the bill is either signed into law by the state’s governor or the bill is vetoed. The state’s legislature also has the ability to propose amendments within the ...

As long as the Revolution of 1776 – 1783 established the United States, the Civil War 1861 – 1865 determined the kind of nation they are going to be. The war gave resolutions to two cardinal questions that remained unresolved by the Revolution: whether the United States are going to be a confederation of sovereign states or an impartible nation with a sovereign federal government, and whether it will remain in being the largest slave-owner nation in the world nevertheless it is born of a declaration which proclaims that all people have equal rights to liberty. When Abraham Lincoln won the ...

The implications/justifications of the RN's decision about the application of transmission based

The RN’s decision to ignore the transmission based precautions are not in any way justifiable and they further dampen the spirit and obligation of the healthcare professional to assure of quality and safe care within the clinical setting. This decision and the subsequent actions predisposes the RN to a high likelihood of acquiring infections and further, in their role and service to other patients exposing them to contact or communicable infections (Treas & Wilkinson, 2014). With the HIPPA guidelines clear on the role of the healthcare profession al and the healthcare facilities on preventing health acquired infections, then the ...

Human resource management is a function that is present in many organisations and is designed to optimise the performance of employees towards the delivery of products and services that are instrumental for the company’s achievement of its objectives. Human resource is basically managing people within an organisation by primarily emphasizing on systems and policies. There have been a variety of events associated with human resource management. Many of these events have been reported by the media, both the electronic and online media. This article will focus on one key human resource management event reported by the Society for ...

Business Report: Fantastic Food

Introduction

Histogram Median and Inter-quartile Correlation Coefficient staff head and weekly customers Staff health and Weekly Sales Staff head and Profitability “Fast Food Facts: Where We Are Now Overview The present presentation seeks to overview potential opportunity for Fantastic Fast Food to expand its customer base in the stronger market. Therefore, findings from short survey are discussed to seek potential opportunities to expand its outlets, size, location and restaurant chain to enhance its overall performance.

Descriptive

The survey data was taken for 20 outlets located in different localities in United Kingdom. The mean values show that the average staff headcount ...

An Explorative Analysis of the Use of Mobile Device App for Communication between Physician and Patient in the Context of a Private Sector Hospital in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Introduction:

Mobile technology has produced many opportunities to increase the quality of health care services. The opportunity to mobile communication could create bountiful improvements in patient care but there are many questions left unanswered. Before a mobile communication app can be implemented the risks and limitations of the software need to be carefully analyzed. A hasty implementation could cause a great opportunity for patient care to fail. The proposed research program will ...

Introduction

All companies must adapt to their specific niche or they are doomed to failure. American Apparel is no exception to this rule. While some companies choose to address the variety of competitive players in the market through designing better products or by offering the same quality at lower prices, other businesses choose to use a single feature that defines the product that they are offering. For American Apparel, there is no evidence of higher quality than analogous brands, and the prices are quite high for the clothing they are offering; as such, the company’s main appeal for the ...

Introduction

Wal-Mart is a company that is engaged in wholesale and retail operations, as well as in other units of varying formats around the world (Reuters n.d.). They offer a wide array of services and merchandise at everyday low prices.

B2B Relationships

An example of a B2B relationship that Wal-Mart has is with its suppliers. The suppliers provide Wal-Mart with the merchandise that it displays on its shelves and sell. The supplier then pays for shelf space while Wal-Mart pays for the merchandise. Recently, however, Wal-Mart has made a decision to also charge its suppliers for the storage of goods in its ...

In modern world the number of issues the company should deal with is dramatically increasing. Some main threats of the previous years are replaced by more significant ones. To remain competitive the organization should pay attention to all the decisions made on different levels. The company is also exposed to new types of risks. It means that the organization should use new approaches to manage both external and internal operations. The main requirement to the behavior of the firm is to be as flexible as possible. New strategies need to be defined in accordance with environmental issues and up-to-date ...

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Plausible bigotry in the criminal justice system

Over two decades ago, a bystander recorded Los Angeles police officers brutally beating an African American man, Rodney King. Members of the African American community had long trumpeted police abuse; with the videotape, these hopefully had enough evidence to crystallize their accusations against the “white-controlled” police force. But at the trial, the jury absolved the four of using inordinate force; the city was engulfed in a riot. Though two of the officers were eventually convicted in Federal court, the case according to African American community leaders shows the extreme difficulty for members of racial minorities to obtain justice ...

The path-goal theory is a leadership model developed by Robert House that posits that a leader has the ability to affect the performance, motivation and satisfaction of subordinates by helping, supporting and motivating them (House, 1996). This can be done in three primary ways. The first is helping them to identify as well as achieve their goals. The second is removing any obstacles that impede performance. Finally, the leader should offer appropriate rewards for work well done along the way. For the leader to be able to do this, he or she can utilize four distinctive leadership styles contingent ...

Reflection Essay

Reflection Essay

In the article entitled “Decision-making: Risk school” written by Bond (2009), the author asserted that contemporary education should incorporate the study of uncertainties as a means to improve decision-making in future endeavors. One shares similar contentions and agrees that the incorporation of studying risks and uncertainties, as part of technological applications, in school curricula for children in early stages of development would assist in improving decision-making skills, especially with regards to scenarios involving risks in daily activities.

The Reasons

The incorporation of studying risks and uncertainties through advances in technological applications in school curricula of children at very early ...

Moral Issues

The case raises the question of whether the companies’ policies on pregnancy and marriage amount to disparate treatment or intentional discrimination of some employees based on pregnancy, marriage, childbirth, and related medical/social impairments. Given that women in many societies bear the primary responsibility for child rearing, and are disproportionately more impaired by pregnancy, the requirement that they leave if they get pregnant may amount to sex-based discrimination. Ultimately, the policy may have a negative impact on the women’s labor force participation (even though this does not appear to be the case for these airlines). Lastly, the case raises ...

The supply chain is an activity that involves movement of business or company’s products from producer to the consumers. It does not involve the producers, consumers and the consumer only, but it also includes the other parties that facilitate the movement. These parties include transporters, warehouses and the customers themselves. Many factors are considered in the choice of a supply chain by the company. The aim of the paper is to analyze the supply chain of Ford Automobile and to discuss management and strategy of the firm. The figure above represents a simple diagram of the supply chain ...

Introduction

Projects are critical aspects of any venture in the business or public institutions. The project manager is tasked with ensuring the tasks constituting the project are accomplished in timely manner and in sequential manner. Projects are broken down to interrelated tasks that must be completed by different teams. The project manager coordinates the various teams to work in harmony for the success of the venture. The manager must possess good communication and team building skills to perform the tasks effectively (Malinowski, 2011).

Good Communicator and its Relevance to my Projects

A project manager must possess good communication skills/should be a good communicator. Communication is critical in running ...

(Professor/Instructor) (Course/Major)

Source: Law Office of Shawn M. George <http://www.smgapc.com/practice-areas/california-three-strikes-law/ Every generation in the United States has seen new tactics designed to continue the oppression of racial minorities, abjuring the rights the Founding Fathers deemed necessary and irrevocable for all people in the nation. Many African Americans were denied their right to participate in the growth of the new nation. Centuries later, the United States is still far from being called a true “egalitarian society.” Racial segregation and bigotry have been evinced in a number of forms; over the years, these forms have changed and evolved but the ...

Analyzing case of firing problems in Beach Electrical System Company

Abstract Employees are having restricted rules to follow in any kind of the company. And what will happen if they will disobey them? And do employees have rights to be protected against unrighteous managers? This paper is giving answer and explaining my personal opinion on what is going on in the case with Mary Schwartz, who had many problems with managers in her own company.

What role, if any, should Mary's past work record play in this case? Explain.

The working experience of Mary on this position in this company is actually high. Without counting that Mary Schwartz was working for the company for 9 years, we should notice that here working performance ...