Essays on Model

Abstract

It is evident that for businesses, organizational performance is of vital importance in order to be able to achieve organizational objectives and goals as outlined in a firm’s mission statement. As such assessing the ability to gauge the level of organizational performance, is a key component of ‘Strategic Management’. So the bigger organizational picture, is composed of the ‘broader’ aspects, related to the overall sense of the organizations direction and purpose, in being able to achieve its aspirations and desired goals and objectives. While a vision, describes what an organization aspires to be an organizations mission, is grounded ...

Article Review

Article Review I review such article as “Gender Flux: Transatlantic Influence on Fashioning the Cross-dresser in American Silent Cinema” by author Ricardo E. Zulueta. It has been published in the journal “The Journal of Dress, Body and Culture” in 2015. It should be noted, that until now, there is no single view of the nature of gender. On the one hand, gender is associated with the models, which are developed for the scientific description of the problems associated with gender issues. On the other hand, gender may be considered as a social phenomenon, which is created by people in ...

The overall structure is easy to follow, and it emphasizes on using and interpreting four financial ratios DuPont model; particularly: Sales Performance, leverage, sales of assets and return on equality. For scholars, the case can be consider appropriate due to the way indexes are used for evaluation of the financial performance of an organization for one year. They also provided reports for a better understanding of business models of an organization through the margins, which provides a better understanding of gaining productivity through application of provided assets. The case, however, stems from the obvious principles, which emphasize that “RE ...

Delivery date

Herzberg theory suggests that various factors usually affect individual’s satisfaction at the job place. Few factors result in job satisfaction, these include motivators, there are others that lead to job dissatisfaction, and they include hygiene factors at the job place. Motivation can thus be defined as incentives that result in positive satisfaction in the workplace. They are intrinsic conditions while hygiene factors are extrinsic conditions. The absence of hygiene factors causes dissatisfaction while their availability provides high motivation levels. Five-factor model is a theory that helps psychologists to determine the personality of a person and their psyche. Specifically, ...

Scenario:

Assume you are a manager at a medium-sized brick-and-mortar organization based in the Middle East and are looking to enter the global market. You have been asked to assess the company’s current business model and come up with a recommendation for scaling it up with IT security in mind.

A description of the following business models:

Brick-and-mortar: A brick and mortar business applies to those businesses that are established in actual physical locations and deal with their customers face to face. The term 'brick and mortar' refers to the fact that these businesses are run out of actual buildings, where they interact in person with ...

Abstract: A Bright Star Declined

Over the past 2 decades, IBM reach heights of unprecedented success, down to failure, and up to success again. In 1980, they were lagging in the personal computer business but by 1985, they had taken over 40 percent of the market share (Kanter 46). By 2005, IBM made its exit from the PC business and switched to consulting (Kanter 47-8). This is a drastic shift indeed for a company which provided virtually no consulting services in 1990 to becoming one of the largest services companies some 20 years later. IBM today is now an exemplar of how a company ...

Introduction

Through its franchise model, McDonalds has been a leader in the fast food market. However, understanding the success of the business requires an analysis of its environment and strategies. With that, it is crucial to understand how the competitive environment it operates affects it and how it responds. Further, understanding the brand’s global marketing strategies is crucial. To achieve that, this report provides an industry analysis and the brands marketing mix analysis. To begin with, the competitive industry analysis uses the Porter five forces to analyze the competition the business faces from rivals, competitors and substitutes and the ...

In a culture that in based on self-reliance, privatization, and a market-based mindset it is difficult for the current generation to view community engagement and public participation as a solution to today’s social challenges. The current leadership model, which is characterized by an authoritative leader and inactive followers, cannot be relied on to effectively solve global and local problems in the society. As the political leadership changes from individualism and privatization, the teaching and learning model in higher education should also move in the same direction. Currently, students are acquiring knowledge with the aim of being prepared for ...

Introduction

The problem of processing of memory has been aroused by many famous scientists and it is mostly concerned as part of critical analysis of the multi-store model. Unlike the structural approach which focuses on various stores of the memory, for example, long term memory and short term memory, this approach emphasize the significance and peculiar features of the different processes that exist in the area of our memory. Another difference between the two of these approaches is that processing of memory can hardly be called structural, while the multi-store model consists of various clusters which are hierarchical. This means ...

McDonalds’s Franchise 3

Justification of Resources 3 Pros 4 Cons 4 Levels of administration 5 Administrative level 5 Operation 5 Strategic administration 6 Training program to implement 7 Conclusion 7

References 8

McDonalds’s Franchise McDonald’s is among the most successful restaurants in fast food industry with a valuable trademark globally. It is the leading franchising company and the second largest in the fast-food restaurant market in the world. Over 80 percent of its restaurants globally are owned and run by their Franchisees (Coleman, Anderson & Yatchak, 2011). The corporate supplies fast foods such as French fries among others using standardization and branding as ...

Introduction

This paper provides a review of a movie named “Training day” and critique of the movie in the light of the RLR and RLP theories of leadership. Denzel Washington is the main character in the movie “training day” who acts some leader. His made up name is Alonzo. He is a rebellious leader who has some villainous characteristics inside him. Alonzo is a cop in the Los Angeles police department. He always displays some unusual attributes while he is on duty.

Critique of the Movie

As a matter of fact, Alonzo is of the view that justice is not served on the court ...

Internationalizing U.S. Colleges and Universities while Decreasing the Trade Deficit: the positive Double Whammy: A Case Study Vest, Boyer and Moses’ article builds a case for the internalization of American institutions for higher learning. The studies explain the various benefits that may arise due to international students coming to study in the United States. Vest, Boyer and Moses recommend that rather than encouraging American students to visit other countries, higher learning institutions should look for ways to attract foreign students. Other than promoting cultural diversity and cultural sharing, the increase in international students may result in decreasing the trade ...

Emancipatory knowladge is the fifth foundation pattern in nursing, which presents the universal longing for liberation. Emancipatory nursing practice can be characterized by seven traits, identified by Joyce Fontana (2004). These traits are context, critique, politics, democratic structure, emancipatory intent, reflexivity and dialectic analysis. All the approaches to nursing care are essential for every nurse, who seeks to identify the forces that prevent the patients from recovering and give well-being for all the families. I have provided support for one person, who was a hospice patient. He was ill with cancer and could not recuperate. He knew it, but ...

The case looks at the plan of action of Better World Books (BWB), the US based online book shop. Established in 2002, the organization gathered old and new books from people, book shops, recyclers, libraries and universities. Aside from gifts, libraries and universities likewise sold old books to BWB. BWB either gave the gathered books to the associations advancing education or sold them on the web. By giving and offering utilized books, BWB kept away a large number of pounds of paper waste from and fills. The books that did not offer were reused. BWB additionally had a Carbon ...

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 ...

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 ...

Abstract

The energy consumption in the high performance computing and cloud services is enormous. This requires energy efficiency techniques to reduce power consumption in operation and cooling of the data servers and high performance computers. To search for more energy efficient techniques to save power, companies across the world share data and conduct survey. This article gives an overview of requirement of energy efficiency, different energy efficiency algorithms for supercomputers, cooling and energy efficiency techniques used across the globe.

Introduction

There are multiple sources for energy consumption in high performance computing such as power consumption in running High Performance Computing (HPC), ...

One program that has been developed to help in the transformation of the work environment of nurses is Magnet Recognition Program. This program aims to establish a culture where excellence when it comes to nursing care and even professional practice is prioritized and valued. Survey results showed that there is higher satisfaction for nurses and a high performing work environment when a health care institution reaches the Magnet recognition (Morgan, 2007). There are 14 forces of Magnetism namely: Nursing Leadership Quality, Structure of Organization, Management Style, Policies and Programs, Professional Models of Care, Quality of Care, Quality Improvement, Consultation ...

Generally speaking, police officers must exercise some amount of force when they are involved in the arrest of persons of interest in the criminal proceedings. Force is permitted as it is necessary under specified circumstances including defense against perpetrators and cases of self-defense. Of course there are no universal classifications or definition on the extent of the force that these police officers use as each case of arrest is different and the perpetrators will respond in different ways. Nonetheless, the governing bodies such as the International Association of Chiefs of Police have created a structured definition of force as ...

Nurses play many roles in the delivery of patient care. One important nursing role is case management. However, consumers will not be able to optimize the health benefits of services from case managers if they do not understand this role and how to access related services. For this reason, access to information about case managers is paramount especially on the internet which has become a primary source of information for many consumers. However, it is important to appraise such information about case managers to determine the accuracy and ensure that patients have realistic expectations. The purpose of this paper ...

Question one

A dilemma refers to a situation where an individual finds him/herself in a position where they are supposed to make decisions concerning particular subjects and which in most cases will result in outcomes that may have challenging connotations (Post & Blustein, 2015). The case presented above presents an ethical dilemma in which urgent decisions need to be made to save the life of a 6-year-old child who has been affected by a bout of meningitis. However, there are challenges to the plan of care that is supposed to be given to the child since the parents have got conflicting views ...

There are different approaches to define small economies. Besides usual quantitative ways to measure country’s smallness by its population, territory, GDP and other criteria, there some qualitative factors that are used to define the economy’s scale. Some economists state that small economies are those that adopt “price taking” policies as they cannot dictate their rules in the market, neither significantly influence trade rules. This peculiarity of small economies mainly lies in the fact that such countries have limited resources. Hereby, small countries are more dependent on imports and are forced to accept trade agreements offered by large ...

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 ...

Part 1

Chronic diseases are the leading cause of deaths occurring in the country as far as the current statistics are concerned. The most common chronic diseases include; stroke, heart disease, cancer, obesity, diabetes and arthritis (CDC, 2016). Statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) indicate that about 117 million people of the total adult population have at least one chronic disease (CDC, 2016). This statistic translates to one in every four adults having, at least, one chronic condition (CDC, 2016). In 2010, seven out of 10 disease-related death cases were as a result of chronic diseases (CDC, ...

Importance of Strategic Management and Competitiveness

Importance of Strategic Management and Competitiveness

Introduction

The starting point of Apple Inc. is none other than the legendary Steve Jobs. Jobs and Steve Wozniak, were actually two friends living in the Silicon Valley, who were secondary school dropouts. The extent of imagination of these two young minds was simply exemplary. The pair decided to work together and start a company and this marked the birth of the world’s leading technology giant Apple. The company’s operations started the cellar of Job’s house in Silicon Valley. It was on the 1st of April, 1976 that the duo created ...

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 ...

1) Explain three approaches within psychology: The biological approach to psychology attempts to understand mental processes in relation to the physical factors that make up the human body. Physiological, chemical, and genetic information can help to establish a better understanding of how the biological makeup of an individual has an effect on their cognition. Surgery, electrical stimulation, and neuroimaging grant biological psychologists the ability to analyze these processes on a more fundamental level. This approach to psychology is much more concerned with the impact that nature has on the human mind than nurture (Aos, 2013: 119). Behavioral approaches to ...

U.S has one of the largest and costliest health care system in the world. Healthcare is the second largest industry in the country. In spite of this achievement, the health status of the people in U.S, does not match the cost and infrastructure put into it (HealthCare.gov, 2016). Both communicable and non-communicable diseases still continue to harm a large sector of the population, when compared to other developed countries. Unlike other developed countries, people in U.S were expected to obtain individual health coverages and pay individually for health services. The right to health was not treated as a basic ...

In order to complete the Portfolio Project, I have chosen the topic “Racial Profiling by the Police: What are the Critics Missing” for my research. Racial profiling, like many aspects of criminal justice has its opponents and supports. Opponents of racial profiling, such as the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the define racial profiling as the “discriminatory practice of law enforcement officials of targeting individuals for suspicion of crime based on the individual’s race or ethnicity” (ACLU, 2015). Racial profiling critics argue that police, rather than basing their actions on an analysis of the facts and circumstances ...

Alexander McQueen’s work in the fashion industry exemplified creativity. It was unconventional, dramatic, and innovative. According to the sources gathered for this literature review, artistic would be the most appropriate word to describe his signature style. This comes from the heavy avant-garde influence on his personal taste. The end result would be a fashion collection that was striking and that caught the attention of the fashion industry. The avant-garde influence on his work began when he started out as a designer creating theatrical costumes for Angels and Bermans, according to his biography. “The dramatic style of the clothing ...

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 ...

1) The volume of work that was performed; 2) Costs; 3) Time; 4) The quality; 5) The total satisfaction of the project members. We are obtained a dogma telling us that we have the certain company that has a trend of utilizing the traditional project management methods during a considerable time-lapse and is now looking for the opportunity of ratifying the so-called «agile practices». Let us just look deeper into the phenomenon of such a kind of company’s practices. In general, agile project management appears to be a repetitive approach that refers to processes of both planning and ...

Introduction and Situation Description

Organizations, by nature, go through constant change. As we evolve, new information becomes available that, if implemented, can allow us to operate more efficiently and productively. Educational institutions are no exception to this general statement. Schools develop over time to take into account new ideas and theories that hopefully benefit all stakeholders involved. Not all change, of course, is good. The danger of refusing to change, however, far outweighs the consequences of remaining in mediocrity simply because of a fear of failure or a general unwillingness to accept an opposing point of view. This author is currently employed at ...

The fifth chapter of AIDS and Mental Health Policy discusses the disadvantages and challenges of women within the HIV/AIDS community, as well as the prevention strategies of women to reduce the risk of contracting HIV. Entitled as “HIV Prevention, Women, and the Kitchen Sink Model,” the chapter is authored by Annette Hughes. In this chapter, Hughes (1999) discusses the challenges of women in a community plagued with HIV. Note that when the disease was first identified, the first few cases featured homosexuals and drug injection users. Knowing this, organizations and advocacies focused on gay men, creating an illusion that ...

Building information modeling (BIM) simply means the use of a digital model to help people understand a building or a certain facility. It represents all the functional and physical characteristics of a building. It helps people make decisions concerning the development of buildings right from when the designs are put in place for the time when the building is being constructed till it is fully complete. Also, it provides a basis used for evaluating the construction, demolition and even reuse of building materials. (InfoComm International 2010) The design process is the most critical when it comes to the life ...

Question 1 Response

BIG’s business model involves developing innovative toy concepts and sharing them with manufacturers who develop the products. Despite being a relatively small and young company, Big has managed to bring into the market the most innovative concepts when established companies feel they lack the necessary innovation. One of the reasons why BIG is so successful in developing innovative toy concepts when major companies find it difficult is because BIG is mainly focused on understanding consumers rather than technology. Big is not concerned with latest technologies that can be incorporated into the toy industry. Rather, the company goes out ...

The Branding and Logos

Introduction The Restaurant is based next to Heathrow Airport in Central London. Many people in the big city of London embrace the advent of this new restaurant in the central town. Most of the Logo design is adopted for ease of clients to have a clear view of what is expected by the prospective customers. The plan is aimed at controlling the influx of clients who are either from arrivals at the Heathrow airport or the general staff working in the domain (Adamson et al. 28). The branding by the Jim & Jay is clearly showcased in the Logo model ...

Over the years, scholars, economists, and managers have come with many theories to explain various efficient methods of managing organizations. Organizations have striven to come up with one particular theory that can apply to all the organizations. The task has proven to be difficult because no two organizations are similar. Organization management methods have evolved over the years. The classical theories were among the first theories formulated by economists to guide organizations (Rainey, 2009). They viewed the organization as closed systems unaffected by external influences; they also believed that there was only one way to run an organization. Their ...

Introduction

Growth is a big issue in the development of a nation. It is a measure of how a country can possibly sustain itself and make advances in terms of the development project. Growth of any given county can be attributed to some factors such as the resources that are available internally and the labor force that both in physical and technological that is needed to convert these resources to meaningful products.

Theory

The growth of a nation is caused by several factors, among them include: education, changes in the labor force, inflow of the foreign investments and the structures of ...

Introduction

Pain is one of the common problems that affect many old people worldwide (Tse, Leung & Ho, 2012). Despite the high number of old people who are affected by it, this condition is normally undertreated. According to the Maslow Hierarchy Model of Needs, the high pain prevalence is likely to affect negatively the fulfillment of the psychological needs (Tse, Leung & Ho, 2012). This challenge comes in the wake of an increase in the life expectancy of senior citizens aged 65 years and above in the past few decades. Since 1999, the life expectancy of these group has improved by 11 ...

Introduction

In education, it is vital to create an appropriate curriculum development procedure whose objective is to attain a good intellectual property development in children. Concerning the above, I, therefore, seek to review the educational development for toddlers/preschoolers whose age bracket is two years to 5 years. The age is the second stage of childhood and preschools and prekindergarten, therefore, tends to be a crucial area for children's life and, later on, impact on the general life of the individual. Given these, I henceforth seek to develop a one-week educational curriculum that spans from Monday to Friday; the expected results ...

Environment Analysis of Spirit Airlines

Introduction The aviation industry remains to be one of the fastest growing business in many countries. Air travel is a central key in fostering globalization, as it helps promote the growth of many other industries. This paper aims to provide a comprehensive environmental analysis of Spirit Airlines, Inc which is an ultra low-cost air carrier based in the Florida, and carries passengers on flights within the United States as well as in key cities of Latin America. It is interesting to note that despite several controversies ranging from contentious advertising campaigns, discrimination and poor customer service among others, the ...

The subprime mortgage crisis was due to house prices decline and a crisis in the banking industry due to diminished liquidity at a time was going through a period of recession (Demyanyk & Hemert, 2008). Demyanyk & Hemert (2008) argues that the subprime mortgage crisis had its genesis from the high loan delinquencies and mortgage foreclosures inherited between the years 2001 and 2006 with the year 2006 being the most notorious culprit. Wilse-Samsony (2010) claims that the high cases of delinquency and foreclosure may have been caused by caused by resets in the interest rates, poor consumer loan product information and ...

ACTIVIES: Abnormal Psychology. Please complete all activities and include these with your final submission.

In order that you can answer the essay on this area you will need to structure your introduction. First of all you could look up the definitions of abnormality and normality in the dictionary. Write these here:

Normality

Normality is the state that is characterized with normal behaviours that in turn opposed the factors such as deviance or unusual conditions. The normal behaviour is consistent when aligned with other behavioural practices of that individual .

Reference:

American Psychiatric Association, 2013. Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (DSM-5®). ...

Disruptive Business Models

Disruptive innovation model, which explains why the world’s largest companies fail with the advent of new technologies, was named one of the most important for modern business. The author of this concept, Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen, who wrote the book “The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail (originally published in 1997), led Thinkers50 rating of the most notable business thinkers in 2011 and 2013 (Thinkers50, 2013). According to Christensen’s model, at the time the new technology occurs in the market, it is still very flawed, and by most of the ...

Introduction

This paper will critically analyze and review the biography of the American entrepreneur, Steve Jobs a founder of Apple and its CEO until his death in 2011. Steve Jobs is known for having two separate spells with Apple – first as its founder in 1976 and secondly, as a visionary leader who turned the company around in 1997 when it was under serious crisis. The purpose of this paper is to conduct a review and assessment of how the company was founded and ran and how it became successful under Steve Jobs. This will include the examination of the situation ...

The sun holds immense energy that is yet to be tapped. It is estimated that the suns energy could be able to power 1000times of the worlds desired energy needs. Methods of utilizing this energy being devised could be the solution to all our energy needs, like oil, and could be the gateway to the future. Sol-U-Go is a new automobile manufacturing company that is harnessing solar energy to power their new automobile machines. With the plummeting prices of oil and its environmental pollution, solar power presents itself as the more affordable environment safe alternative. Sol-U-Go automobile company targets ...

Explicitly we can come to the conclusion that such phenomena as political religion and religious politics, being based on the social religion, which creates common values for their supporters, affected the development of the American consciousness greatly as well as nowadays it does the same. It reflects the conservative form of state’s ruling with some features of collectivism, since it is mainly based on the protection of traditional family and other religious values, by sharing of which people are more likely to put all their efforts in order to defend everybody, who belongs to their group – from the ...

The leadership among nurses involves their ability to identify a specific goal or target, motivate the action of other people, and provision of support and motivation to be able to accomplish goals set by the institution. According to studies, nurses will be able to act as efficient and effective leaders if they portray particular characteristics and apply certain strategies (Frankel, 2011). Some of the effective characteristics of an effective leader include creativity and innovativeness, good role model, appreciative, trustworthy, and encouraging. Creativity and innovativeness are necessary for leaders especially when thinking of an effective and efficient strategy that can ...

Selecting the appropriate family of statistic

Introduced to the case study and the statistical requirements, we believe that amongst all the family of statistics, regression analysis will be the most appropriate data analysis method to achieve the desired outcome. Important to note, regression analysis belongs to family of statistical techniques and includes methods which are used for forecasting, variance analysis, et cetera. Henceforth, considering the two requirements laid down by Mittra for his operations head as part of which she is required to forecast the sales and explain the past variance, regression analysis and related tools will be the most appropriate statistical tools to perform ...

[The Course]

Printed media had been the main source of information (particularly news) for people since mass printing technologies invention in XVI century till the middle of XX century, when alternative kinds of media started growing. The first considerable decline of newspapers popularity took place in 1950s, when television became the most important source of news and entertaining information thanks to its attractive audiovisual characteristics. And the recent shock for printed media owners was caused by online media vast emerge in 2000s. If in 1940 there were 1 878 newspapers in USA, in 2014 their quantity shrank to 1 ...

Technical communication in workers’ health and safety training

Introduction Technical communications encompasses an array of means used to convey scientific or technical information, that is, the information that has both the qualitative and quantitative aspects as shown by Mehler, Romary and Gibbon, D. (2012). As such, the mobile team division involved in this type of communication is quite diverse with such variations as age, profession, education level, gender as well as experience among other diversities. For instance, the mobile division team will include labor union officers, nurses, safety specialists, health officers and communication and information technology technicians. Therefore, the pre training will have to address the diversity ...

Dear Colleagues,

Last year we did grate and crossed vehicle sales level of 200,000 and Audi brand is as powerful as ever. However, the Audi A5 model line is among the outsiders, its YTD lost reached 22%. Still we should not give up, it has hidden potential. Thus, it is time to broad our horizons and to start a new era for Audi A5 I am sure that you know about the recent success of Volvo S60. Their concept was somehow revolutionary as this model was turned from the “old-fashioned slob” into lifestyle vehicle, which suits both young active and ...

Discussion

I agree with your answer regarding the advantages of Cobb- Douglas are acceptable because you have set it clear that both empirical and theoretical work on CD model may sometimes be unrealistic especially in the healthcare production because it does not address the relationship between the inputs and outputs. Question: do the alternative models such as the translog and additive model (AM) show the relationship between inputs and outputs in the healthcare? Answer: the alternative methods enjoy the above disadvantage of CD in the sense that it shows the interaction that exists between inputs and outputs. Therefore, most health ...

Introduction

The black population in Canada has experienced substantial growth over the past half century. As of 2006, the black community was approximately 2.5 % of the Canadian population with most of these being from HIV-endemic nations mainly in the Caribbean and Africa (Shimeles, Husbands, Tharao, Adrien, & Pierre-Pierre, 2011). The immigration of these communities in Canada has led to an increased HIV infection, with 57% of infected infants and 16 % of new infections being attributed to the African and Black community. The statistics on new infections as well as those on people living with HIV show that the black community in ...

Air Canada is Canada's largest carrier, which is one of the founders of the international alliance Sky Team. Today, it is capable of carrying out flights in 98 settlements in the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia and Asia (Aircanada.com). Together with our partners, this company carries passengers to 160 destinations.

Part 1: Enterprise Strategy and Air Canada

1. The airline industry has always been a very high-tech and, therefore, up to date with the developing global trends and requirements. The complexity of the business of air transportation is magnified by high responsibility to air travelers. With increasing passenger flows slightest failure in the processing and transmission ...

Introduction

Leadership endures relevance in virtually every field of life, and it cannot be overstated in the business world. The success and failure of every firm or organization rest on its leadership. This immense importance of leadership has garnered many interests around it for years, and this explains exhaustive researches in various fields and disciplines such as management, psychology, sociology, political science, educational and public administration (Yukl, 1989). Due to its importance and immense relevance, a lot of theories have been proposed which attempt to describe leadership based on several schools of thoughts. Each theory attempts to shed light on ...

Final Business Model and Strategic Plan

Final Business Model and Strategic Plan

Executive Summary

Amkor Technology Inc. is a global leader in the field of semiconductor technology with a client base comprising more than 300. The company relies on continuous improvement and development of new products to remain competitive in the industry. In view of this, it intends to launch a new product: silicon wafer. The proposed product will be a super thin silicon wafer based on Magnesium Diboride. The industry is dynamic and customer concerns need to be addressed. To delight customers, the proposed new silicon wafer will be very small in size, light in weight, ...

Wal-Mart, America’s largest chain of retail stores, has successfully explored its adjacent space to enter the healthcare market. Years of research has helped the retail giant to provide for the healthcare needs of its millions of customers across the country. The company now offers a simple bundle of medical services, which customers can purchase along with their bag of groceries. Wal-Mart stores are aggressively striving to serve their customers by being a one-stop buying destination for healthcare products as well (Abrams, 2014). Wal-Mart has been running by the side of many of its stores more than one hundred ...

The system can be defined as a group of elements, which cooperate in order to achieve a specific goal. The system is considered to be not only the sum of its parts. Moreover, these parts of the system interact with each other and form the properties of system. The main goal of the system is to transform the information or energy into planned result or product, which will be used within the system or outside the system. Systems can be different from each other. It depends on their degree of complication, self-sufficiency, and adaptation. In a closed system, the ...