Essays on Online

Introduction:

Achieving sound financial condition is a major focus for many organizations as it is through continual buying from customers that an organization can grow. Online banking has been identified as an effective strategy of achieving customer loyalty by delivering the best service or quality product in the banking sector. It is however worth noting that very little research has been conducted on application of online banking in the banking sector across the globe with the changing time. E-Banking or online banking seeks to produce quality the first time saves time that is often wasted on correcting mistakes hence can be used by banks to deliver timely services and in the process help build customer loyalty. This study seeks to investigate the effect of online banking on economic and financial condition of bank in emerging markets.

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Abstract

The internet has been hailed as one of the best inventions in human history. It presents seemingly endless opportunities in diverse areas including the ability to carry out business transactions over the internet. Online commerce has developed in leaps and bounds over the last decade and more complex transactions are now possible over the cyberspace. With this development has come an associated problem; cyber identity fraud. This research paper seeks to identify the trends in cyber identity fraud, analyze the legal issues involved in cyber identity fraud and make appropriate recommendations on the changes that can be made ...

Introduction

The current technological arena has taken learning to greater heights. Several institutions have incorporated distance learning in their programmes as it has proved to be fruitful. This has made it one of the common learning systems nowadays among various institutions. Before looking into the advantages and disadvantages of this learning system, let us first get its clear meaning.

Definition of Distance Learning

Distance learning is a system of learning where the physical presence of the student is not considered. The main aim of this system of learning is to deliver education to ...

What it will take for Webvan to make returns

Webvan is a Foster City based grocery firm, which intends to start using an online business model to carry out its activities of supplying groceries to its customers more profitably. To make returns by using the new online business model, the company will have to take practical approaches to solve some of its problems that it had experienced by using the earlier business model. To make a return, the company will have to make sales higher than its break even point.

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New technologies provide people with enormous prospects and allow them to do several things in a more competent, opportune and expedient way. Simultaneously, they present people with harsh and difficult questions when we realize some of the ethical insinuations connected with the assorted technologies the world at present have or are probable to have at their disposal in the future. For instance, a New York Times online edition issued on 11 June 2006 disclosed that human resources managers are increasingly declining job applications because of material they found on them on social networking sites. However, one may appraise this ...

Doing business today for many organizations been eased by the introduction of the internet. The internet has however become both a case and a blessing since the proliferation of the information online has been a challenge in the protection of the corporate brand. Many organizations have realized that monitoring and protecting brand use is becoming an increasingly challenging with the increase in internet use. Spoofing sites, misleading photos and phishing among many other ways in which brand and copyrighted documents are being misused. This has been worsening by the recent amendments in the laws of the United State to ...

Technology has been in use for many years past, but its initial application was in technical and scientific fields. However, the business culture has so far changed everything. With investors seeking for means to increase their sales and marketing objectives, technology has emerged as one of the most effective tools for business growth. E-Business is the integration of internet with management in order to increase productivity, sell brand name, increase sales or perform any other business oriented task. Its adaptability and ease of application has ...

The latest annual report for the Amazon.com, Inc. was released on 14th December, 2010 and covers 2009 financial year. The year officially ended or dates 31st December 2009. The report is titled ‘2009 Annual Report’ and begins with a brief statement addressed to its shareholders. Like the last thirteen annual reports since the year 1997, the report contains a brief statement as a letter directed to the firm’s shareowners which bears a signature of the firm’s founder: Jeffrey P. Bezos. The statement also shows an executive post of Chief Executive Officer (C.E.O) being held by the mentioned Amazon.com founder. Both statements are countersigned by the C.E.O (Amazon.com, 2010).

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The motion picture Twilight is based on a series of books written by Stephenie Meyers. The story of a love triangle between a human, a vampire and a shape shifting wolf, the books inspired a whole generation of teenagers and adults. Fans snatched up a 100 million copies of the four books that have been translated into 39 different languages [ CITATION Pom10 \l 1033 ]. Released on 28 November 2008 with a production budget of $37 million, the movie Twilight grossed a total of $192,769,854 at the box office, making it a resounding success. However, although the movie ...

Strategic Implications of Information Technology for Pioneer Corporation

Definition of the topic

Social websites are increasingly becoming important in almost all aspects of life, from socializing, communication to business and leadership. Social networking is increasingly shaping the way in which business organizations communicate and collaborate whether inside the organization or with external entities. Social websites provide a good means of connecting with customers, suppliers and even competitors (Sharp, 2009). Advertising, for example is the most important activity through which social networks have increased the profitability of business organizations. Facebook is the major social website which ...

Introduction

This is a social structure which is made up of individuals connected together by some interdependency like friendship, common interest or any kind of relationship that can make the individuals share something in common. A typical social network is composed of individuals called nodes and the connections called ties. The ties involve the interconnections between the individuals. In our study we are going to carry out a research on social network and how it has impacted the society. We are also going to look at its benefits and analysis of various social ...

One of the major duties and activities of the human resource department is recruitment. This activity has to be given special preference as it directly impacts on an organization’s performance. It therefore comes as no surprise to see many public service agencies continue to perform dismally, and fail to meet their objectives and goals due to failure in identifying and implementing new and effective ways of hiring. Thus, recruitment is simply the process of recognizing and hiring candidates that are best qualified for a particular job vacancy in a manner that ...

Introduction

Invading the privacy of businesses, institutions, and people, social engineering creates criminal acts using telephones, illegally accessing private information via computer accounts called "hacking", stealing bank account information, as well as eavesdropping are social engineering crimes. Two types of social engineering exist, including, human and technological based (Peltier, 2010). Social engineering uses deception, manipulating people into giving them personal information including social security and bank account numbers (Halles, 2008). Social engineers use tactics to extract private information including appealing to people's vanity, authority, look, over peoples' shoulders while ...

1. Familiarise yourself with the various network addressing terms e.g. socket.

Socket: a socket is a combination of an IP address (where the computer is located) and a port and places it together into a single identity – a good analogy is a telephone where the actual phone connection is a combination of a given phone number and a particular extension. In computer networking, an Internet socket or network socket is an endpoint of a bidirectional inter-process communication flow across an Internet Protocol-based computer network, such as the Internet.

Subnet Mask: A subnetwork is a distinct and visible ...

Introduction

Culture can be termed as the process of modifying or inventing way of life transmittable to another in a consistent pattern in relation to stylistic features which can recognized. The patterns spread within social units of a given population having intergenerational enduring meaning the acquired patterns must be retained .on the other hand, technology is the integration of made used, modified and known tools, techniques ,machines, systems, crafts and organizational methods to solve or advance already existing solutions to societal problems. The interaction between culture and technology is a contestable argument and the debate on which factor (culture and technology) drives the other can take both directions i.e. technology can drive the culture and vice versa. If technology is presumed to be a content like a computer or mobile phone for a specific purpose, then it’s the culture which drives technology but if technology is viewed as a process like internet as means of communication then its worth concluding that it’s the technology which determines culture and more so to a particular direction.

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The Mobile Phone: Parts and Choice of Materials

The mobile phone is one of the greatest inventions of all time (Guthrie, 2008). It has revolutionized the way people communicate and perform their day to day activities. Cell phones allow remote communication with people in far-away places, including those in other continents. Initially, cell phones were only meant to people to call and send short messages in the form of SMSs. However, cell phones have now advanced and are being used for a wide variety of purposes including taking pictures and videos, listening to music, browsing the ...

In the film, V for Vendetta, the audience are presented with a dystopian society under totalitarian rule by the fascist political party, Norsefire and its leader, Adam Sutler: dictator of the United Kingdom. V, a masked vigilante, is presented as being both, terrorist and hero: a concept which, in a post-9/11 world, is a difficult one to comprehend. Nonetheless, the audience are quickly persuaded to be on-side with this anti-hero as he fights for the personal rights of the British people. Alan Moore’s hugely ...

Part one

The media has recently become profit oriented with more focus on profit-making news. The news director dilemma shows the current trend in today’s media. The director can either adopt a social responsibility view whereby he lets the public be aware of the intention of the city council to close the city park three days a week or highlight celebrity death. The city parks are places where children play and families spend time together. This quality of family time will be compromised for the sake of money. The celebrity death will ...

Abstract

Clean water for domestic use is essential for a health population. Therefore, all people should have access to clean drinking water. Drought is a common phenomenon in arid regions and this makes water shortage a significant problem. The effects of water shortages are experienced in the arid Southwestern parts of the United States, this just being one among the many arid areas of the world. The paper seeks to address and compare the various small and large scale methods possible for water provision in this arid region of the United States. Among the large scale possible ...

Introduction

Islam and Muslims have been viewed in the Western world negatively and the contributions they make to the society have been overlooked, following stereotypes that are attached to the Islam ...

The key aspect of e-business is its focus on digitization of business processes. The universal connectivity permitted by the growth of the internet and a standardized way of communicating across different computing platforms is shifting the balance of importance from the physical world to the digital world.

Fundamentally, e-business is a broader concept and it is concerned with using the internet and related technologies to integrate and redesign an organization’s internal activities, processes and external relations, and create new ways of working that are significantly different from, and very often far superior to, what was possible (or conceivable) ...

Operations Management: A Case of Hilton and Etap

With the increased rate of globalization in business, most business managers are in turn increasingly focusing on the need to keep up with the management and financial requirements for a globalised business organization. Operations management has never been as vital as it is now with the era of globalization, and has therefore become a subject of study, research and practice. By definition, operations management is the management practice that deals with the design and management of business products, services, processes and supply chains (Cunill 2009). Within the scope of ...

The rapid proliferation of computing and information technologies has led to major transformation in the way people interact, communicate and receive information. Internet security is a broad concept which refers to the various steps that are taken by individuals and companies to protect their computers and computer networks that are connected on the internet. The reason why internet security is important when it comes to information technology since the internet itself is not a secure environment. The internet was originally conceived as an open and loosely linked ...

Database management approach refers to the process of communication between users of a database and the database and the process of requesting data from the database, its retrieval and the mode of its transmission from the database to the user. Database management approaches are influenced by the mode of access to the database and the mode of storage of the data in the database. One of the database management approaches is the distributed database management system (DDMS) which has a single logical database physically divided among networked computers at different physical locations. Computers in the network communicate through messages. ...

ABSTRACT

Customer satisfaction is a major concern to any business that intends to increase its sales. This research will be based on the need to understand what customers expect from business in an effort to improve success of a business. The research is planned to use a qualitative approach to collect data on the research topic. As can be noted in previous researches, customers’ satisfaction is an important contributor to the success of a business and hence it cannot be ignored. This research proposal gives the significance of collecting accurate information on consumer satisfaction; this is because previous findings ...

Abstract

The website ceoexpress.com is a web portal designed to be a valuable tool for busy business executives. The website features numerous links that are useful to a business executive and which provide easy and quick access to business related websites. The links in the website range from daily news sites to research sites of major research and study institutions like Harvard University web publications and resources.

Evaluation of the website

As a source for of useful links to business executives, the website is efficient, effective and relevant. Business executives are involved in the making of ...

PERSONAL ASSESSMENT

For all the students in any learning institution there is always one suitable way in which learning appears easier. Among the styles used I found auditory the most suitable method as I got to understand whatever I was taught. Any explanations the teacher made on the course work in graphs, handouts and other notes given by the teacher, I realized it was easy to remember than when I read for myself. Moreover the teacher gave practical examples that are easier to relate to unlike those given in the books that are hypothetical. This way it ...

Introduction

Background check, also referred to as background investigation, is the procedure for obtaining criminal records, business records and records pertaining to finance in particular occasions like employment investigation of a person.

These checks are usually required by potential employers on job seekers, in particular candidates applying for positions of high trust expectation, for instance school, sanatorium, a bank or a position in government. The checks are usually carried out by an agency of the government for a supposed charge, but can also be carried out by a personal company. The required information of a background check specifically embraces previous employment substantiation, credit score and unlawful history.

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Introduction

Globalization refers to the integration of economic activities with local and foreign companies competing in the host country. It involves the liberalization of the markets so that trade can be conducted freely. It brings in technological advancement into a country and the customer benefits greatly since the transaction costs have been reduced.

Globalization has led to the increase of multinational corporations in the world market due to the liberalization of trade policies and practices. The spread of globalization is based on the capitalist theory of free trade. With globalization there are winners and losers. The bilateral and multilateral trade agreements contribute to globalization as countries in the same region open up to one another through trade agreements on import, export taxes and tariffs.

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Early 21st century is when the internet came to the limelight as a device that can be used to access any place so long as it has a phone and the possibility of accessing the internet, always referred to,“as a global village”. This is because of its ability to transmit information to where one can access the phone and the internet itself.In addition, most of the people these days who use it have incorporated the same into their cultures. Before, the use of internet was a virtual reality but currently it has become a reality rather than just an ideology.

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Welshwheels might consider focusing their build-up efforts on direct mail and internet sales. Getting into business is relatively easier in an e-commerce environment. Unfortunately, staying in business may be more difficult. Easy access means increased competition causing business to operate with very thin profit margins. Thus, for Welshwheels to be profitable, it must maintain high sales volumes, which in turn means developing and maintaining a big and loyal customer base. Attracting customers and transforming them into repeat buyers is the key profitability. Electronic commerce involves purchasing and selling of commodities ...

In the modern world people hardly have time to waste. That is why the general trend in all businesses is to deliver quality products to the customer’s doorsteps in the least time. Industries, therefore, aim to optimize processes, satisfy customers and eliminate waste. Targeting both trends, the suggested business deals with online food ordering.

The idea of online food ordering is not novel, therefore to distinguish the business from competitors, it should possess a competitive advantage. In the core of the business is not simply providing an alternative to phone ordering of fast food, but creating a ...

With the advent of communication technology, the way in which many activities are done has changed over time. Whether these activities are ethical or unethical, there has been a rapid development in the methodologies that people use to ensure that they achieve their objectives. The internet and communication technology are major developments that have changed the way people do their duties over the last two decades (Trestan 2). Bullying, itself a vice in any given community, has been changed from its previous mode where young people would bully others physically and at a given location, to a situation where ...

In the past few years, smartphones have become more ubiquitous as a staple technology of our everyday lives, seeing a popularity that no one had expected. (Ankeny 2010) As a result, businesses have been attempting to use this unique technology to get their businesses closer to the consumer, creating new applications and ways of interacting with their prospects. (Barnes 2003) This resulted in the m-business market, a spinoff of e-business whose purpose is to provide electronic applications to customers with smartphones, in order to let them shop or use their services right from their phone. (Lee 2006)

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IT Report – Electronic Stock Control System Risk Management INTRODUCTION

In this scenario, a charity is selling donated goods through a variety of locations, assessing their value through an “expert” and often making changes to the inventory as they see fit. The charity wants to set up an electronic stock control system and sell their donated goods through e-commerce in order to increase their revenue. There are many risks that must be assessed, each of which carries a varied level of importance and significance. Once those risks are assessed, steps must be taken through proper risk management to avoid as ...

When considering the problems of importing exotic animals from foreign countries, it is necessary to evaluate the laws that currently exist, and determine whether or not they provide an effective means of safeguarding the animals in question. In this essay, it will be argued that the laws that are in place at this time do not protect animals from mistreatment in an adequate manner, nor do they effectively prevent the occurrence of disease.

One of the biggest reasons for importing exotic animals into the country is for private ownership, which is an ethically dubious practice that places the welfare ...

Abstract

Research has shown that we learn through our senses with each sense accounting for different percentage of that teaching. Through the skillful use of audio visual recordings and other instructional media, we can bring the world to the classroom. This paper therefore addresses the impact of education technology in student achievement. The use of education technology in teaching and learning process heightens motivation to learn. Ideally then, learners should have available, combinations of audiovisual experiences which reinforce one another so as to provide the most efficient path for possible mastery of understanding and concept. One of the trends ...

The Porters five force model is a technique for analyzing the competitors and industry for a particular company. This theory has been adapted by many companies to understand their structure and the plan they use to run their business. The five forces in the model talk of the five forces that affect the market. Knowledge of the forces helps the company analyze how they make profits. It can also identify how to attract other companies that they can do business with and those that they compete with. These five forces include the threat of new competitors entering the market, ...

Introduction

Computer Aided Design (CAD) involves the use of computers in the construction industry to perform design jobs. ICT is widely used in the construction industry due to the several advantages that it has over the manual applications. Information technology involves the use of hardware, software and liveware that work together in order to store, retrieve and manipulate data in a computer system. The main purpose of an IT system is to process data and give out the results as information. Information technology is very useful in the day to day activities of human life. ICT is being utilized ...

The new proposed business is about empowering the women to a new level than the one they are already in. In this case we ask who the next level woman is. She is a woman who always looks ahead and is ready to adjust to what is needed to achieve their goal. For this woman making things happen will not scare them off. Most women will let circumstances such as the economy hold them from making a move to improve their business. Some will let the business fall apart instead of fixing what went wrong that way they will ...

In terms of the presentation of this piece of work and the way it was written, I would ensure that APA guidelines on formatting and citations are followed – which would avoid the error of single spacing and the positioning of the header (which is simply missing from this piece). I would add a ‘Works Cited’ page as well, following APA guidelines. The use of colloquial language should be avoided, and this is similar to the informal use of the second person – you. In one sense, this writer needs to be more precise in his/her use of the conventions ...

Abstract

AllSport Ltd is a leading sports retail store based in the United Kingdom. It was started in February 2008 with one store in London. It has since expanded to four other locations around the UK. AllSport Ltd retails a wide range of sporting gear and equipment. The company is also engaged in the production of selected sporting gear. This report was compiled so as to examine the various aspects involved in creating and running a business. The roles of various managers were examined and SWOT and Pestle analyses carried out to examine the company position. It was found that AllSport was in a good position to grow and establish a solid brand presence in the UK and in Europe. It was recommended that management should use the analyses to establish weak points within the company and correct them to build a more successful business.

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Abstract

Stress is a dynamic and interactional process involving intricate body systems with formulations and operationalisation of the components at different levels(1).There is growing evidence that there is a positive correlation between emotional stress and oral health. As will be demonstrated from the literature reviewed in this paper emotional stress can be implicated in oral problems such as ulcerative conditions, inflammatory conditions, dental decay, TMD, RAS and others that continue to be linked to stress. Stress has also been found to aggravate some oral conditions such as oral lichen planus. In some of these conditions the precise mechanisms by which stress causes or aggravates them is not clear though definite association has been demonstrated.

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It appears that we, as a global society, are in the midst of a serious dilemma. While it would be foolish to under-utilize the power of our most recent communicational technologies, it has become apparent that there are legitimate and dangerous side effects associated with our current involvement with, and application of, cyber technologies. In this project, I will be studying the relationship between recent advances in communicational technologies and architecture, in order to analyze the current benefits and setbacks of both cyberspace, which has been created by various technological media, and the actual physical spaces which we live in, so that interpersonal communication in our physical world may be improved through the careful integration of the powerful and endless capabilities of cyberspace Gustavo Fischman(2005, 191).

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Microsoft Access is the best choice of data base system that can be used in the storage, management and manipulation of organization’s records or information. It is a pseudo-relational database system which is able to combine database engines with graphical user interface as well as software development tools. Microsoft access is a member of the office suite of applications, as is reflected in its name and is hence a product of the Microsoft Company. Following are some of the major factors that make the database outstanding and a good option for a rapidly growing company, keen on organizing ...

For many sectors, 2020 has been a dramatic year. The global pandemic of coronavirus has upended markets by slashing consumption and demand, stunning growth, and even threatening the existence of many companies. The energy sector also experienced a slump in prices and demand. However, those challenges came with a silver lining where it was least expected – in the renewable energy sector. ...

An arrhythmia is a complication with the rhythm or rate of the heartbeat (NHLBI 2). An arrhythmia can cause the heart to beat too slowly, too fast or to beat irregularly. Arrythmias generally disturb the electric rhythm of the heart and are often called palpitations. While there are many types of arrhythmias, they are generally classified into tachycardias, bradycardias and atrial fibrillations. Bradycardia occurs when the heart beats too slowly while tarchycardia is the result of a heart beat that is too fast. An atrial fibrillation (AF) is the result of an irregular heartbeat (MCC 45).

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Introduction

The charity organization has been selling donated products to the middle and low class people within its locality. Most of the operations in the shops are done manually. This leads to some items staying longer than they should in the shops thereby being scrapped. Determination of stocks has also been a problem as some shops are under stocked while others are overstocked. This results into goods being moved from one shop to another which is very costly. This has been attributed to the fact that there is any proper stock management system. The physical space for stocking ...

Differentiation Strategy

Differentiation strategy by Nike is used to gain market share advantage in the broad foot ware market. Aside from foot wear, the company boasts of products such as clothing, equipment, and even accessories. The strategy is achieved by producing consumer goods and services that customers perceive to be of high quality or have added unique features. This has been achieved by the company innovating state of the art athletic shoes that are publicized through dramatic “guerrilla” marketing (Marca, 2001). Marketing of the different products is designed to coerce customers that Nike’s shoes are not ...

Introduction The business Fresh Food is a national company operating in many areas across the United Kingdom. It operates in the tertiary sector as it provides a service to customers and does not create or harvest materials. It is a relatively large company and currently employs 460 people and has a turnover of 18 million per annum. Fresh Food sells a vast variety of products including groceries, drinks, baked food and electrical goods such as phone top-ups, lottery tickets, gas and electric cards. There are a large amount of competitors in the market located all across the country; food ...

Introduction

The current business world is undergoing major transformation as a result of several factors related to the globalization of the economy, increased scrutiny by regulatory authorities and the critical role being played by talented workforce. All these are having a huge impact on the human resource profession. HR has transformed immensely over the past decades from doing functions that are mainly maintenance to position itself as a strategic department paying a key role in promoting an organization’s competitive advantage. Management has started to realize the critical role the HR ...

Job aids are resources made available to individual, allowing them to enhance their performance via education and sponsorship. They can come in many forms, and provide very different means of assistance. The idea in this essay is to create an ongoing podcast that would further the ideas of Caring Science and educate individuals on the practices of healing and caring in nursing. In it, experts from various ends of the caring-healing practice spectrum would come together and provide new insights and developments in the field every week. It would also bring in special guests and new strategies for caring ...

Executive summary

In recent years, the issue of corporate governance and ethics has grabbed attention in the light of corporate scandals that have reported since the Enron scandal. Scandals emerge is environment where corporate governance is weak (Knell, 2006 pg 162). These unethical practices start at the accounting department or elsewhere but covered up during preparation of the accounting records of the company (Knell, 2006 pg 165). The possibility of fraud in accounts poses the single most corporate risk. This report will explore Classic Hotels Inc, its structure, internal and external environment and finally zero in on accounting systems and controls to determine weaknesses in its corporate governance and finally offer recommendation on ways prevent and detect fraud.

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Introduction

Human resources refer to the description of personnel who make up the workforce of a given organization. It is also the name of the utility within a firm that has the overall obligation of implementing strategies and programs relating to the management of individuals. The human resource in an organization is very important in ensuring the smooth running of the firm’s agenda. It is ...

Introduction

One of the characteristic features of construction industry is late adoption of information and communication technologies. Nowadays, software for preparing 2D drawings and bookkeeping software are perhaps the only widely used in the industry. Other advanced but extremely useful tools like 3D, 4D modeling, web-based project management, automation of resources management, planning etc, are used very rarely, and if used then incidentally. In this report there will be covered problems and perspectives of using ICT in construction industry, discovered the techniques of using ICT in different spheres of construction, and shown the ways of implementation of ICT techniques ...

The companies that we considered are: Apple Inc, Hewlett Packard, Nokia, and Wal-Mart. Before settling on these five, we had examined dozens but we settled on them after going through them carefully.

Wal-Mart

Wal-Mart is an American multinational corporation that runs discount and warehouse stores. It is the largest public corporation by revenue in the world (Soderquist 26). It is also the largest grocery retailer in US and runs Sam’s club retail warehouse in North America. It operates under 55 different names in the 15 countries it operates. It is listed in Dow Jones industrial average. ...

School and Classroom Processes:

Whilst researching Attention Hyperactive Deficit Disorder (ADHD), if one thing is immediately clear, it is that the ADHD child needs allowances to be made for their behaviour whilst in the classroom. ADHD is a diagnosis of the American Psychiatric Association and lists symptoms as including inattentiveness, impulsiveness and hyperactivity that are extreme enough to interfere with an individual’s day to day existence. (Lewis & Norwich, p125, 2005) The disorder is known to affect approximately 18,168 of the Hong Kong population, most of whom are male children. (Wrong Diagnosis, 2011) ADHD comes under the heading ...

Emerging Technology and e-Business

The methodology of doing business has greatly been affected by the emerging technology for the last two decades. Business organizations are forced to adopt new technology in one way or the other in order to cope up with the dynamic customer and industry requirements. The most influential technology is the information and communication technology, which has seen business organizations diver their modes of conducting business from the traditional local based system to computer and internet based information seekers. It is arguable that the advent of computer and internet has changed the role of ...

Abstract

The protestant ethic or what is commonly known as the protestant work ethic is a concept used in economics, sociology and history. It largely attributes much of its theory from the works of Max Weber. This ethic basis its arguments upon the emphasis by the Calvinist on the usefulness of hard work, which according to the Calvinist is part of one’s worldly success and calling and a sign of individual salvation (Grossman, 2006, pp.128- 131). Weber’s ethic therefore, is a study of the relationship that occurs between the spirit of ...

Introduction

In the recent past companies use their websites to get views, comments, ideas and feedback from consumers. This is geared towards obtaining informative and innovative ideas from consumers over time. With advancement of technology, it is easier to get consumer views through the internet than through the traditional ways of actually going to the field. The consumers are free to fill and submit online forms. Consumers can also make comments through social sites such as twitter and facebook. Companies allow consumers to visit their websites and through “contact us” the company can make comments and queries. A review ...