Essays on Dobson

The Triple Constraint: Cost, Scope and Schedule

The triple constraint is also referred as the project management triangle or the iron triangle. It is used in project management as a graphic aid that helps in analyzing the project’s goals. It helps the team in a certain project to evaluate the management of costs and time in relation to expected results or goals.

Cost

Scope Time Cost In project management, cost refers to the financial value attached to resources used in the project. All resources have a cost or monetary value in relation to a project. Resources used in a project such as labor or workforce and ...

Application of elasticity in Starbucks Corporation

Introduction The concept of elasticity has great application in the decision-making process of a firm. Both production and pricing strategies must consider the level of elasticity of demand for various products. The market behavior of various products can be predicted by determining their elasticity with respect to price and income (Dobson & Palfreman, 1999). The price elasticity of demand helps in the measurement of the extent to which the quantity demanded responds to price changes while the income elasticity indicates how the quantity demanded varies households’ incomes (Opeyemi, 2013). Therefore, price elasticity helps in the pricing decisions while income elasticity ...

Assignment 1

Having read the course notes and the articles, I gained a proper understanding of what geography is. The concept of geography is closely connected with the spatial way of thinking, and yet it encompasses far more than the knowledge of places and their location. Broadly speaking, the realm of geography contains human and physical geography. The study of human geography covers the spatial peculiarities of human existence, whereas physical geography delves into the fields of landforms, climate, water, soil and vegetation. With regard to the socio-economic geography, it covers a wide range of topics, such as the concept of ...

Imperial Oil, founded in 1880 is a giant petroleum producing company, with its headquarters located in Calgary, Canada. It is the second largest integrated petroleum company in Canada and has registered a phenomenal growth since its inception. Its operations consist of exploring and producing oil, manufacturing and distributing petroleum products for energy sources, producing chemicals for industrial and domestic use through innovative and sustainable technology. ( Annual report, 2016) reports a cash generation of $22 bn from operations only during 2010-2015. Its performance can be evaluated from the growing dividends paid to its shareholders in last 21 consecutive years. Imperial ...

Mini Case page 147. "Is body language protected activity?"

1a) & b) The following could be the possible reasons why the three nurses were fired: The nurses had expressed their dissatisfaction with the manner in which the Heartland Hospital was being managed Yes, the right to free speech is protected by section 7 of the Wagner Act and thus, punishing these nurses merely based on expressing their views on conditions of work is against the provisions of this Act. The Hospital’s management under Barbara Young failed to listen to the nurses’ concerns about the shortage of staff aides and the quality of healthcare services rendered to residents Yes, ...

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. ...

The 1979 Sale of Goods Act is the most comprehensive pieces of legislation on commercial law in the UK that governs, inter alia, contracts for the sale of goods, implied terms in sale of goods, rules governing the transfer and possession of property (goods) and also provides some of the remedies that purchasers (buyers) may have against sellers for defects in goods or otherwise (Dobson, Dobson & Stokes 2012, p. 10). This Act thus ensures the effectiveness of the legal relationship between businesses and customers, for it contains rules and regulations that seek to protect the rights of buyers and ...

Introduction

This is one of the landlocked nations that border Namibia, Zimbabwe, South Africa and Zambia. The dominant language spoken in Botswana is the Set swana. Botswana was colonized by the British government and attained its independence in 1966 (Dollar, David and Roberta 11). The country appreciates and respects non-ethnic citizenship; it also promotes the concept of liberal democracy among its citizens. Women empowerment or the place of a woman has not only been a major issue of discussion in Botswana, but also in other parts of Africa. In most African nations, women do not possess equal socio-economic opportunities as ...

Management

Part V. Business Strategy Sony has differentiated its products and services. The company has used differentiation as its business level strategy. The basis of this differentiation in case of Sony is its core competence of product miniaturization. Miniaturized televisions, radios, cassette recorder, camcorder, and walkman cassette recorder are all examples of differentiated products that Sony has developed by using its core competence. Furthermore, the company has also used miniaturization competence in order to manufacture laptops so that the company become capable of maintain its competitive position in the market place, and to face competition as there is intensity of ...

Rome brought light to the darkest and the most barbaric places of the world, and if and when it did, these were areas that posed value to the strategic interests of the empire rather than be regions that needed civilizing. Britain was the island whose unique geography allowed founding a city serving the imperial interests well. Its conquest improved the image of the empire as a formidable force to reckon with and enhanced the reputation of the emperor. Furthermore, the introduction of religious and cultural buildings into Londinium served the ideological purpose of exposing the new subjects to the ...

Many people know that professional athletes receive excellent salaries that are hundred times higher than the average wages of average workers. Someone dreams of such income, someone else might claim that professional athletes are overpaid. Moreover, there are people who believe that professional athletes should receive more money than it is now. Where is the truth, and is the professional athlete`s salary is fair? This paper will answer these and some more related questions. It must be said that there is almost no sense to provide average wages among professional athletes in this paper because the salary can ...