Essays on Enterprise

International Criminal Law

Question 1 A. There are several modes of the liability that are used for the determination of the liability of the person prosecuted for the international crime. Given the merits of the case in question, the prime minister of Sanchista should be liable for the order issued in reference to the Nisum Campaign. The provisions of the ICTY are designed in the manner so that to address all criminal offences that are committed by the state bodies and relevant executives in the prosecution of particular persons. The article 6 of the ICTY defines that committing of the criminal actions ...

Introduction

Compensation and benefit system is a division of the human resource management that is aimed at making policies concerning workers’ benefits. Compensation benefits can be referred as all the benefits that employees receive and are part of the salary, and which is given to employees as a reward for their labor. Compensation benefits can be divided into three major classes. These benefits can either be direct, indirect or non-financial (Lissy, 11). In direct compensation, the company pays its employee in form of salaries, remunerations, commissions and bonuses. In indirect compensation, firms and other enterprises reward their employees in other ...

Enterprise Excellence

Stenzel (94) holds that enterprise excellence is not only dependent on the tangible assets which are the focus of accounting practices. Human assets are part of the resource in an organization that contribute to the excellence of the enterprise. The concept of employee competence is important in lean performance. Stenzel (94) illustrates this argument by citing the financial turnaround at Sears following the huge financial losses that the company suffered in the 1990s as a result of focus on the development of employee competencies. Employees who are highly competent can perform their responsibilities with more effectiveness. The resultant effect ...

Ethics refer to the accepted code of conduct in business operations and partnerships. They are the set rules and regulations that govern a business and the corporation itself. The ethics guidelines dictate the manner in which every partner in the firm contributes to the overall success of the business. Code of ethics demands several concepts. As the CEO of this company, the joint-partnership with the People's Liberation could be so unethical in businesses. Business ran by the military could violate the professional code of ethics as military leaders and influential people in the government could do anything in their ...

Introduction

Innovation is an important part of continuous improvement. The current case outlines the effect of innovation in the healthcare system in India. More precisely, it highlights the application of the low cost high volume at the Aravind hospital to increase access to care for the millions of people who cannot afford ophthalmic care. Some of the concepts discussed in the case include the focus on the rural communities and the effect on performance, the business model adopted by Aravind, whether it is optimal for acquiring capital investments, and whether it maximizes social impact. The case also discusses the social ...

Introduction

Technological advancements have been sweeping across different facets of the economy like bush fire. The education sector has not been left behind in the adoption and application of technology to streamline their processes. Several universities across the globe have taken a paradigm shift from the traditional manual records management to the digital records management (Alavi & Leidner, 1999). In this paper, we are going to propose a comprehensive University database used for data storage, extraction, and processing.

It is assumed that the University is currently using a manual paper-based records management system It is assumed that the University already has ...

Charlotte Supplements is a small-scale organization operating in Charlotte North Carolina (NC) selling over 6,000 products. The portfolio of the company includes supplements for vitamins, minerals, herbs, and sports edibles. Due to its scale, the company does not interact with the audience digitally regarding product information such as prices. Moreover, the company operates for a limited span each week (CS, 2017). The purpose of this paper is to propose a business model and a competitive strategy for overcoming this small-scale but a potential competition. The paper will explain the core concept of strategy briefly prior to the proposition. ...

Executive summary

Drone technology has been in used for quite some time now in many western nations for military operations. More recently, this technology is being applied to manufacture inexpensive technology and in the filming technology. Unmanned systems commonly referred to as drones continue to be made available to different consumers globally for their private means. The use of drones in the film making industry has helped to improve the quality of films produced. Further, it has increased efficiency and grown the film industry as film directors are able to capture moments that were nearly impossible to obtain some few years ...

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INTRODUCTION

The following discussion is a literature review on five sources each for sustainability monitoring systems and effective indicators.

Sources for Characteristics of Good Monitoring Systems

“Monitoring Systems for Sustainability. What are they measuring?” This is a doctoral thesis from an Australian university that examines the sustainability reporting and monitoring systems by governments, private corporations and global non-governmental organizations. Australian frameworks are compared to those of international models. Sustainability indicators in the Australian context are discussed extensively. Two case studies from the private sector are presented. (Davidson, 2008) Using the case study of the Australian Gas Light Company, shortcomings in current sustainability reporting practices ...

ABSTRACT

Cloud computing employs the use of parallel and highly computed processors to virtually and remotely deliver services. This is an important factor forenterprises whose processing resources are limited and who suffer limitations on the manpower and data storage. This notwithstanding, cloud computing faces a serious threat in the area of data security. This is because the attackers have become very opportunistic and look for any slight loophole that will enable them to bypass the server securities within the cloud computing environment. It is thus important to come up with a systematic approach that can help in identifying the vulnerabilities ...

Enterprise architecture is a holistic expression of an enterprise through different aspects of the enterprise, which includes goals and objectives, strategies and governance, organization structures, and technological structures. An enterprise architecture program supports frameworks that collectively enable essential communications and functioning of an enterprise as a whole. To capture the vision of an entire enterprise, the definition of a framework is necessary. Therefore, an enterprise architecture program enables communication regarding every aspect of the enterprise, which offers consistent and precise information about an organization’s entire environment (Schekkerman, 2004). This way an organization is able to determine ways to ...

Identify Stakeholders

Identify Stakeholders A stakeholder is an individual or group of individuals who are directly associated with the productivity of a business. Stakeholders have a direct and indirect effect on the success and failure of business. It is observed that organization focus on identifying their potential stakeholders and create an effective relationship with them to achieve their objectives. It is an incredibly important task and discipline in every large successful project. The paper discusses stakeholder identification process for understanding those people or groups that have a direct and indirect interest in the project.

The successful completion and failure of a ...

Abstract

Organizations select operating systems for use in their workstations and servers depending on their preference. In my organization, the preferred operating system is Linux. However, vendors to supply the system and associated support have not been determined. As such, the paper aims at considering different factors of the individual vendors such as reliability, performance, availability of training, and availability of support. Moreover, aspects such as pricing and suitability in different work environments will be considered since each organization is expected to have its advantages and disadvantages. Extensive research from the literature will be conducted to ensure that a clear ...

Abstract

The discussion over the advantages and disadvantages of the cloud computing is being held over the years. There are three models that are used in order to define has this technology will be used, such as SaaS, PaaS and IaaS. This paper provides the overview of the differences of those models and cover the concerns that are associated with the use of the cloud computing. Even though the future of any technology is not easy to predict, we try to analyze the current market of cloud computing and based on that try to predict how it will evolve with ...

Disinclination of some health care organizations to apply Electronic Medicinal Records

EMRs (Electronic Medical Records) are the information systems of medical that are electronic and they gather, store, and show the information of the patient. Even though there are a lot of favorable effects of the usage of EMR in the activities of medicine but, still the rate of implementation related to the above system is low and it also encounters opposition from the medical doctor (Clayton, 2005). One of the main barriers associated with the application of (Electronic Medical Records) is the financial issue as such issue is considered as the main factor for different doctors. The main questions ...

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POSTGRADUATE DIPLOMA IN BUSINESS ENTERPRISE

Southern Institute of Technology 2016

List of Tables 3

Section 1. Introduction 4 1.1 Purpose of the proposal 4 1.2 Research Aim 4 1.3 Research Questions and Objectives 4 1.4 Research hypothesis 5 1.5 Background and overview of business 5

Section 2. Literature Review 6

2.1 Introduction 6 2.2 Micro and Macro-Economic Indicators and Business Confidence 6 2.3 Recent Trends, Strategies and the Market Potential 7 2.4 Consumer Preferences 8 2.5 Conclusion 9

Section 3: Methodology 9

3.1 Introduction 9 3.2 Secondary Research Method – Literature Review 9 3.3 Case Study 10 3.3.1. Research Design 10 3.2.2. The Sample 11 3.2.3. The Process 11 3.5 ...

1. Summary The article “The perception of ethics in business: analysis of research results” written by Włodzimierz Srokaa and Marketa Lőrinczy represents a report based on a research conducted in the field of business ethics in Poland and the Czech Republic (Srokaa & Lőrinczy, 2015). The scholars state that business ethics is of utmost importance for modern companies that want to position themselves as serious and successful enterprises in the growing business environment. Therefore, they conclude that sustainable development of a contemporary company is not conceivable without taking into account basic elements of business ethics (Srokaa & Lő ...

I am reviewing the article titled “Use Pricing Strategy to Boost Sales” by Rafi Mohammed dated July 02, 2012, published in the Harvard Business Review. The author is writing about the subject to make executives and businesses aware about the importance of a pricing strategy and how optimising the pricing of products can lead to many fold increase in profits (Mohammed, 2012). The basic premise of the article is that better pricing should be the top priority for any company selling any product. The author provides three important reasons for this premise and then goes on to provide brief ...

Question 1

Neil Borden (1965) is believed to be the first to have used the term ‘marketing mix’ suggested to him by James Cullington’s (1948) description of a business executive as ‘a mixer of ingredient’ (Van Waterschoot & Van den Bulte, 1992). The term, therefore, referred to the selection and mixture of various elements perceived to be useful in the pursuant of particular market responses. To facilitate the practical application of the concept to concrete business operation problems, early researchers working on the model sought to itemize the various influences on a market response that business executives at the time needed ...

Once the entrepreneur has developed a business idea and is ready to plunge into the process of organizational growth, comes the riskiest stage of them all that will determine whether the company will survive or not: the startup phase. In the startup stage, the enterprise is born and becomes a legal entity. In most cases, the company has already started to serve its first set of customers. The single and greatest challenge in the phase is obtaining and managing the appropriate amount of funds needed to establish the firm and the market. This paper examines why the startup phase ...

Introduction

Industrialization refers to the sustained structural transformation of a traditional agrarian society to a modern economy driven by high productivity in manufacturing society (Szirmai, Naudé and Alcorta, 2013). Industrialization started in the mid-eighteenth century in Britain and then spread to other European countries and the USA in the nineteenth century. In the twentieth century, Japan, Singapore, Korea, China, and other East Asian Tigers became industrialized (Szirmai, Naudé and Alcorta, 2013). Gerschenkron (1962) used the term rarly industrializers to refer to countries that were first to industrilze such as Britain. He used the term late industrilizers to refer to countries ...

I. Vulnerability Assessments A wireless connection in the 20-people organization has the same vulnerabilities that other wireless network. A wireless network has the characteristic that virtually anyone inside the radius of the wireless network could have access to the network, have unauthorized access and create problems with the information flow. The information technicians of the company must consider the following risks and vulnerabilities of the network: Default Keys: They are the passwords that manufacturer brings into the router by default. Several administrators and final users forget to change the default password creating a risk for the organization. The NETGEAR ...

Introduction

Living in the modern world with well-developed technologies and complicated relations, it is important for people to mention all innovations and follow the principles, which may simplify their lives. Taking all of it into account, people, who deal with marketing, pay a lot of attention towards the abidance by corporate social responsibility (CSR) policies. They follow those policies at the time of building a brand image of any enterprise. There are some guidelines for proper structuring of the brand in order for it to develop correctly. This paper is to show the relation between CSR policies existing and their ...

Introduction

Changing a mindset is extremely difficult, especially for a person who is juggling all of the commitments of a busy life—a full-time job, family obligations, showing up for social occasions, and the like. It seems to be simple human nature to go along in life making incremental changes, but never really examining the underlying assumptions that our days are based upon. Entrepreneurs may have certain character attributes that give them the capacity to distance themselves from the urgent—what to wear, who to hire, how to soothe the boss—to focus on the truly important—what is meaningful, ...

Introduction

Customers are a vital part of any business entity because they are the life of an organization. Many companies take their relationships with their clients very seriously hence this begs the attention of customer relationship management. The process customer relationship management is primarily the practices, strategies and most importantly technologies used by companies to interact with their clients (Rouse). It entails the analysis and management of the rate of customer interaction with the business. Key areas of interest are within the points of contact with the customer like direct mail, telephone, live chat, websites, social media and even trough ...

1. Information technology plays a major role in improving the efficiency and performance of business. There are different applications of Transaction Processing System (TPS) that could support business transactions. Three most effective applications of TPS are IBM Transaction Processing Facility (TPF), Hewlett-Packard NonStop system, and Transaction Management Executive (TMX). 2. Transaction processing system (TPS) is a software system that collects, processes, modifies, captures, and retrieves detailed information of transactions in an organization. The system stores information in the most up-to-date manner that helps to improve the operational performance of an organization. The system helps to process online banking and ...

Management Team and Manufacturing Operations Plan

Management Team and Manufacturing Operations Plan The proposed business will be manufacturing organic dog treats, and it will require physical facilities within the city. It will need a manufacturing workshops and equipment for processing, testing and packing the product. There will also be a need for a climate controlled storage space for the ingredients and final product.

The packaging material and labeling will come from outside suppliers. Correspondingly, suppliers will also offer raw organic ingredients that make up the product. The business will process the ingredients according to approved specifications then package them and label. The product will be ...

Describe the transactional and transformational leadership characteristics that Don Green and Michael Budman possess.

According to the available literature, some assumptions are held regarding the transactional leadership. Transactional leadership style believes that leaders are motivated by the reward and punishment the satisfaction of such leaders is on seeing the company excelling (Kurland, Peretz and Hertz-Lazarowitz 8). They also believe that social network works best with a clear and defined chains of command from the top. Again, they believe that the primary purpose of the subordinates in the organization is doing what they are instructed to do. Transactional leadership involves a situation where leader works by creating a clear structure of what should be ...

Introduction

Endpoint protection platform remains a security technology, which ensures that security of an endpoint device is superb in its functionality as a unit. The unit is composed of antivirus, personal firewall, anti-spyware, control application and intruded preventions styles, hosted in it. A number of Enterprise endpoint protection platforms (EPP) with higher advancement are combining patch, vulnerability and capabilities that manage configuration; this eventually enhances the protection. The current products of the EPP have included features of protection like data loss prevention, file and disk encryption and also device control, besides fighting malware. Higher number of EPP market focuses on ...

The Eastern Insurance Company (EIC) was formed in 1987. It offers various services including motorcycle covers and education plans, and advice on questions arising from insurance. Before the merger, the Company had a Board of Directors consisting of six members, and twelve employees. Lion Insurance Company on the hand was formed in the 70’s, initially offering car insurance covers only. With time, the company grew to incorporate Travel insurance, Home insurance, Private medical and dental insurance, Car insurance, Life insurance, and Pet insurance. Being a global company, it had branches across various countries with hundreds of employees. The ...

According to Berger (1977), editorials are articles written to reflect the opinions of the newspaper and the majority stakeholders of the newspaper. Rocco & Hatcher (2011), therefore, provided the guidelines for this essay.

Editorial for The Voice of Enterprise: What the Critics Won’t Tell You

We at The Voice of enterprise support the government’s pipeline project that will not only go a long way in meeting the country’s petroleum needs but also generate additional revenue through export of the surplus oil and natural gasses. The government is proposing to construct a 2000 km crude oil pipeline that will traverse from the mines in the remote frontier through the largely uninhabited ...

Introduction

Cyber security has been a primary concern for all individuals and organizations regardless of their size over the years. Security concerns are on the rise as attacks become more sophisticated and requiring complex ways of mitigating them. Although the security risks are on the rise, accomplishing daily business operations is nearly impossible without heavy reliance on information technology devices and networks. In the previous year’s security has not been a priority for factory controls and industrial systems. The key focus on security has been on personal computers and business networks. Recent attacks such as the Stuxnet has proven ...

Executive summary

The Holvita involves the holistic vitamins where the business tend to offer the Himalayan salt spas. The business will offer the sales for the Himalayan salt products that include the diffusers, feet as well as the detox blocks. The business will also pertain the Himalayan rock salt lamps, the slat chunks, grains, candle holders as well as the tiles. Our products are exported all over the globe and we are well known for our commitment to our clients, the quality of our products, and also for our unique styles and designs. One of our main aims is to keep ...

Wal-Mart, the leader in supply chain management is a role model for many new companies that want to integrate a successful supply chain system into its enterprise. The success of Wal-Mart, lies in its innovative approaches it adopts to make the supply chain effective and sustainable. Wal-Mart never adopts a “one size fits all” attitude when it comes to supply chain management. One of the famous innovative strategies that Wal-Mart adopted to improve its product flow efficiency and profitability was to invite its leading suppliers to enter into a supply chain partnership. This enabled vendor managed inventories, category management ...

Introduction

An organization is regarded as an entity that is made up of people with a collective objective and is connected to the external environment. Hence, a business organization is a group of people collaborating to achieve a commercial objective (Handy, 2005). Toyota Motor Corporation is a Japan based auto manufacturing company with its headquarters in Toyota, Aichi. The company was ranked as the 13th largest in the world in terms of their revenue. It was the largest automotive manufacturer in 2010 ahead of the Volkswagen group and the general motors in terms of their production. The Toyota motor company ...

Indentured Servants

Indentured Servants

Introduction

At the beginning of the seventeenth century a lot of labor market institutions were created with the purpose of promoting the movement of labor. The majority of plantations in Southern English America, which were involved in the cultivation of tobacco, sugar cane, indigo and rice, began to feel an urgent demand for labor. Modern machinery was definitely providing considerable solutions, though human blood and sweat was still essential for the planting, cultivation and reaping of these commercial crops. As a result, many planters started to gradually introduce the idea of indentured servitude. This system, created because of ...

Coca-Cola Enterprises is the largest manufacturer of soft drinks in the world. As a result, it sits on the 13th position in the 2016 Global 100 list of companies. Its operations affect the entire spectrum of sustainability from economic, social, and environmental. Its impact on the sustainability dimensions is further raised by the expansive nature of its operations. Its operations cover expansive business processes that include the supply chain, logistics, as well as waste management among others. As a result, the company inherently has a large carbon footprint. It was in recognition of this fact that the company took ...

Introduction

Strategic management involves the plan that is employed by the firms as the form of the vision for the enterprises so as to move forward with the clear plan so as to keep in mind. The changes in the external environmental factors that tend to have an impact on the way the businesses tend to operate as well as adapt, the business strategy tends to highlight the ability as well as the drive success over the competitors in the entire market (Bizmove.com, 2017). The aim of the strategic planning involves enabling the firm to achieve a sustainable edge over ...

Currently people are living in the era of globalization. More information is becoming available for users of the World Wide Web in the whole world. It is important to be alert about the possible ways of leakage of information. Businesses become victims of scams and information leakage which has a negative effect on the overall success and prosperity of the enterprise. Industrial espionage is a term which is not often mentioned or being acknowledged by the big businesses. Oftentimes the heads of big companies do not want to accept the fact that they were victims of the espionage. Most ...

Introduction

High-tech entrepreneurship refers to a form of a business leadership characterized by technology-intensive business opportunities, high-potential for growth, managing rapid growth, and gathering useful resources such as cash and talent. Innovations influence high-tech business innovations that giving products and services exceptional values that stimulate high market demand. Moreover, world economies are known to compete under the concept of innovation in the global market (Zemlickeine 2011). The business world today has become diverse with every entrepreneur aiming at introducing a business idea or product capable of winning the competitive advantage in the dynamic business world.

The business idea

Coming up with a business ...

Introduction and Identification of Facts

Signode Industrial Group is a global leader in the manufacture of a wide range of protective packaging solutions. The company’s product lines include Contrax, Tenax, and GripPack, among other products. It has gone through various changes over its life with one of the major changes being the acquisition by the Carlyle Group in 2014 and the subsequent rebranding of the company from Signode ITW to Signode Industrial Group (The Carlyle Group, 2014). The year 2014 marked several changes in the human resources structure of Signode. The acquisition by the Carlyle Group brought with it the challenges of leadership ...

Introduction

A national organization operating in the United States has offices in all four time zones in the country. The organization wishes to complete an important and confidential project within the next three and a half months. The completion of the project will require the formation of a virtual team comprising of mostly senior managers and directors from all major business departments of the organization. For the project to be a success, a team charter needs to be created to direct the different team members on what is required of them. Also, since the team members will be working from ...

Every period in the history of a country differs not only in a number and sequence of events happening, people playing critical roles in it, or culture which defines people’s attitudes and behaviors. They also differ in perception of things and events by people, hence the variety of meanings people associate with certain ideas. It is true that meaning of an idea changes with the flow of time depending on historical environment, on the complex of events which happen in the given period. Therefore, the idea of freedom has been changing through American history, and the goal of ...

Issues in Business: Case Analysis – Risk Analysis

Issues in Business: Case Analysis – Risk Analysis

Introduction

The case study under analysis herein, assumes a larger business venture of an online streaming video service Netflix. The company, as any other commercial enterprise, needs to secure its online proprietary data, as well as protect its software learning environment from unpaid subscribers, or unauthorized hackers. Historically, the company just started one year ago, in the context of the case study. The perspective of this written report is from a consultant. According to Gill (2012) IT risk lays at the heart of business, although many treat this aspect “as an afterthought,” and ...

Introduction 4

Literature Review 7

Results and Discussion 13 Conclusion and Recommendations 14

References 15

Appendixes 18 Introduction France has been debated on their expatriates’ citizen lately due to the expansion of expat workers. It is seen negatively as some politics state that it is a “lose of brains” for the country because of the crisis and fiscal pressure of the government (Biacabe & Robert, 2014). The French system is often criticized due to the high risk that entrepreneurs are facing when they open their business in France. For instance, as Jean Tirole who awarded the Nobel Prize in economic, explained the French labour ...

IT Technology Implementation

IT Technology Implementation Verizon is a leading provider of telecommunication services including wireless services and equipment and wire line services tapping the mass market, global enterprise, and global wholesales (Verizon, 2016). The company’s wireless services include retail connections and retail postpaid connections. Such include Verizon LTE, 4G LTE, fiber broadband services, FiOS, internet, and cable, and video telematics. Verizon also offers technology such as cloud and security products and interactive products such as video, music, and commerce (Verizon, 2016). The company exhibited a growing revenue and net income in the last five years in all of its business ...

Issue 1 - Ethics and Legal Environment 2

Issue 2 - Organizational Environment 4 Issue 3 - Critical Thinking 7 Issue 4 – Business Associations and Torts 8

Issue 1 - Ethics and Legal Environment

As an agent of her employer, Monique has legal obligations of obedience, loyalty, accounting and performance to her principal. The duty of loyalty involves a fiduciary obligation where the agent is required to serve one principal at a time and shun from conflicts of interest, inform the principal about any material information, and keeping away from actions that would adversely affect the interest of the principal (Hartigan, 2014:272). Additionally, Monique has the duty of obedience towards her principal. The obligation ...

Background

Information communication technology has created a new paradigm in how people communicate in both their personal and business lives. Social networking services have created the capability to create virtual identities that are simple to manage. Technologists consulting with enterprise have proposed different ideas with regard to how social networking can add value to organizations. Wooqer is a cloud-based solution that operates as a graphic interface that manages employee communications with a multitude of communication media. Audio, video, word processing, spreadsheets and presentations can all be managed with the Wooqer package (Venkatagiri & Prakash, 2013). Wooqer uses worker interactions with the ...

Introduction

Businesses have a common goal of achieving success and uniqueness that helps them to stand a mile ahead of their competitors (Chattopadhyay et al., 2012). However, over the recent years, many companies have embraced the concepts of merger and acquisition in efforts to exploit their business potential fully. Mergers and acquisitions are important drivers of growth for a particular organization. Companies have come up with business and international level strategies that will help them to yield high profits. The Kellogg Company has acquired companies and the Publix Supermarkets, Inc. have not acquired mergers and solely operates within the U.S. ...

Assignment 5: Capstone

Abstract Dell Inc. deals with manufacturing and selling of personal computers and other computer accessories. Turbo PC was the first product produced by Dell Company, which has experienced gradual growth since its foundation. Various strategies and policies have led to the success of the multinational company over the years. Therefore, the paper covers the effect that the mission, vision, and primary stakeholders of Dell has on its success. It highlights the effect of the six segments of the environment on both the firm and the industry. It also focuses on the SWOT analysis and five (5) forces of competition ...

Introduction

Networks and computer systems are imperative to establishments in the present age. They have managed to simplify sending and receiving of information and colossal data processing over very short time periods. However, they are always facing threats and attacks from hackers. Dangers to the computing environment, network, and the database comes from everywhere. In such a high stake facility, it is critical to ensure that the main threats are identified and mitigated. The major threats can come from three areas: the physical installation, the users, and malicious attacks. The five top threats to the new network will be the ...

The actual implementation of the rights and freedoms of the individual as the highest social value is possible only when the most important task is to use the apparatuses of the state to guarantee freedom – freedom of personality, freedom of enterprise, freedom of developing institutions of civil society, building a strong state, which is unthinkable without respect for the rights and freedoms of man and where the only one dictatorship is the dictatorship of the Law. (Joyce, 2013) It is well known the importance of criminal justice in protecting individual freedom and human rights, protection of free enterprise and ...

Microsoft Notes

Securities issued on 2013 Yield = (1000 * 0.875%)/ 998.35 = 0.876%

Yield in 2015

Yield = (1000 * 1.625%)/ 995.61 = 1.632%

Yield in 2020

Yield = (1000 * 3.0%)/ 991.36 = 3.026%

Yield in 2040

Yield = (1000 * 4.50%)/ 989.11 = 4.55%

Coca-Cola Enterprises, Inc.

Yield in 2012 Yield = (1000 * 3.750%)/ 995.87 = 3.766% Yield in 2015 Yield = (1000 * 4.250%)/ 988.77 = 4.298%

Norfolk Southern’s ``century’’ Bond

Issue to the public Yield = (1000*0.06)/1008.33 = 5.95%

Issue to U.S

Yield = (1000*0.06)/998.33 = 6.01%

IBM floating rate notes

Yield = (1000*0.1)/999.0 = 10.01% Bonds are instruments of indebtedness of the bond issuer to the holder of such debt securities. They are debt instruments under which the company issuing the bonds owes the owners the obligation and contingent ...

Chapter 1

Question 1: Authority, responsibility and delegation are basic engines that drive every organization. Authority is the possibility of law enforcement, command and exact obedience. It gives the legal right to accomplish things through others by demonstrating influencing behavior. There are two types of authority: formal authority stems from credentials or ranks and informal authority which comes from friendships or compering to others. Responsibility means the capability of an individual to be accountable or liable. In this way, the managers have the authority to command and the subordinates are responsible to fulfill these commands. Thus looks like the structure based ...

Purposes of the Report

The goal of the report is to update and actualize a succeeding system for the company’s customers. As a system Designer, I have designed a system to be presented to the CEO of the firm on the concept of a model that is an ideal solution for the current contemporary market. This would constitute a working database that contains the current information about the customers. Similarly, the database can and or will be controlled remotely and managed by the company’s techs.

Introduction

The company, an industrialist of heavy-duty power equipment, currently uses manual advancements methods to take record ...

Performance Management Process

Performance management is considered to be a continuous process that entails evaluating past performance, learning from it and identifying what can be done to enhance operation efficiency as well as add value for shareholders money. It is a process of planning, monitoring, and evaluating employee performance concerning his contribution to the organization to realize organization success (Robbins & Judge, 2013). An effective performance management strategy should mainly revolve around matters of accountability and directness. There are many elements to consider when to develop a robust performance management plan (Adler, 2011). Lumenpulse has gone a long way to establishing several mechanisms ...

The company (TinD) uses many information systems that make its core. The three key ISs include Jidoka, Poke Yoke and T-WINS LS in relation to the identified situation. Jidoka’s purpose is to stop in a safely manner in case of normal processing. In addition, it enables the machine to detect the issue and stops automatically through andon (Toyota Motor Corporation, 2016). Moreover, the purpose of the Poka Yoke is to make issues visible and act as fuel for the Kaizen Teian (Obara & Wilburn, 2012). On the other hand, T-WINS LS helps to manage warehouse and logistics centers of ...

Analysis of Tesla Motors

Analysis of Tesla Motors

Introduction

Organizations must use any strategy that will enable the organization to stay competitive and to also learn about any processes within the organization that could be changed in order to increase proficiency and efficiency. One such process is a critical analysis of the microeconomic and macroeconomic environment as well as any challenges that the organization may be encountering. This essay will perform an analysis of Tesla Motors to include the history of the organization, organizational regulations, factor markets, global pressures and foreign competition, cost structure, economies of scales; a critical analysis, practices of economic theory ...

Innovative Ways of Using Emerging Information Technologies

There are several ways by which users can evaluate and gage the performance of cloud providers. Usually, they are assessed based on costs of the utility model, though there are several variations to further gauged each provider’s desirability such as the location, reliability and security factors. There are organizations that offer certification to providers that comply with specific standards; for instance, the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) developed the Trusted Cloud Initiative Program that help cloud providers comply with standards and practices (Cloud, 2011). In addition to relying on certifications, users must take considerable steps in evaluating the performance ...

Communication Techniques

Abstract Communication is considered as an effective means to support the flow of information within and across the departments in an organization. The prevalence of globalization has intrigued the organizations to operate in different geographical regions due to which it has become critical for the organizations to maintain the adequate flow of information to support the work processes. Communication is also considered as a building block of the organization because it supports the managerial functions related to the planning, organizing and leading in an effective manner. The current paper enlightens the scholarly literature in which the techniques of communication ...