...Tecnologia/Technology THE USE OF HYBRID VEHICLES AS A PROPOSAL FOR REDUCING CO2 EMISSIONS AND ITS CONTRIBUTION TO REDUCING GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS C. A. R. de Carvalho, and W. Q. Lamas University of Taubate Postgraduate Programme in Mechanical Engineering Rua Daniel Danelli, s/n – Jd. Morumbi 12060-440, Taubate, SP, Brazil carlosalfredo.carvalho@hotmail.com, wendell@unitau.br ABSTRACT The problems related to energy consumption and pollutant emissions for the transport sector represent a major global concern regarding climate changes caused by greenhouse gases, directly related to the increased level of gas emissions from fossil fuels , the main one being carbon dioxide. One way to minimize this problem is through the introduction of new technologies. Hybrid cars are one of the new technology options that has the main advantage of reducing fuel consumption and therefore reducing the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere. This paper gives an introduction to hybrid vehicles, with the aim of presenting their main advantages and evaluate their impact on emissions of CO2 in the Brazilian fleet, compared to conventional vehicles. Keywords: CO2 emissions, fuel consumption, hybrid vehicles. NOMENCLATURE AR ER PEF N average round by a vehicle, km/year emission rate of CO2 per vehicle, t/year pollutant emission factor, g/km number of vehicles in the year INTRODUCTION Climate change and the increase in greenhouse gases are the main topics of discussion today in global discussions...
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...Organisational Behaviour FLEX TIME Case Analysis Group Members Summary of the Facts Electro Electronics was an electronic research firm established in 1948 and was based in Houston, Texas. Over time, the firm grew into a product area of electronic test instruments and commercial building control systems. Despite these changes, the firm was still involved in contract work. Mr. Fred Codova was the President of the company at this time. Due to severe traffic problems the implementation of a ‘Flex Time’ system was undertaken per suggestion from the Mayor. This implementation was said to be able to increase productivity along with a higher morale of work. President Cordova assigned the task of designing the plan and writing a memo to the Director of Personnel, Richard Sasche.The company was accustomed to the traditional work hours. The rush hour in the morning and evening period had always caused problems amongst the work force. The memo about the Flex Time plan was suggested to be posted for all employees to see. The memo informed workers about the plan and its guidelines. The Digital Display team was headed by Jim Hallora, who was the project coordinator. Jim worked at the firm for 27 years and is considered conservative with his thought and unsociable yet very argumentative whenever his mandates are criticized. He always exerts much authority over his workers.The Flex Time program is implemented and Jim disagrees and writes his own memo to be able to control...
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...1. What are the compulsions that have been driving the top management of Infosys to seek migration of the company up the value chain? Infosys is a highly respected, India-based information technology (IT) software service provider, established in July 1981. The ramp-up of the company has been particularly spectacular during the last several years, starting from 1995. The initial business model related to labor arbitrage and was based upon differential wage rates for IT professionals in India and the developed countries. The boom of the late 1990s, catalyzed by the Y2K-related problems, resulted in opportunities that the company capitalized upon. Today the company serves clients drawn from global 2000 companies. Based upon its strong ethical and principled approach, execution excellence, relentless quest for quality and customer satisfaction, the company had astounding financial success and became a darling of the stock markets both in India and the United States. Notwithstanding its successful track record, Infosys has over the last several years, proactively been applying itself to a fundamental question of identifying the drivers of success for the next 10 years. Infosys has been deeply concerned about leveraging its current strong position, to evolve into a much stronger company, so as to ensure continued growth and success in the long-term. Main drivers that have contributed to drive the top management of Infosys to move up the value chain are below: * International...
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...use of the budget and ethical code of ethics. The authors of this paper will provide Guillermo’s Furniture Store with the tools needed to make decisions based on data using performance and budget reports. Sales Forecasts: Risks and Organizational Success Sales budget is the foundation of budgeting and the accuracy of this budget relies heavily on the accuracy of budgeted sales. Managers prepare the departmental budgets monthly based on the sales forecast. Several factors contributes to creating sales forecast, which are past patterns of sales, estimates made by the sales force, general economic conditions, competitors’ actions, changes in firm prices, changes in product mix, market research studies, advertising, and sales promotion plans. Specifically in Guillermo’s case, the four challenging instance to creating his sales forecast is in the 1990s, when foreign competition provided furniture to exact specifications at very low prices. Enabling Guillermo to make an accurate sales forecasts that could skew the budget. Second, a large retailer that moved their headquarters nearby. Profit margins shrink as prices felled and costs raised. Third, the changing from manufacturing to distributing, Guillermo may have trouble with an accurate sales forecast because he doesn’t have any past data. Last, the quoting of Guillermo's furniture. A sales...
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... | Date of Birth: 24TH June 1971 Nationality: Ghanaian Gender: Male Marital Status: Married Summary of Work Experience • Experience in LAN/WAN Design, Installation and Implementation. • Conversant With Windows NT/Unix Systems Administration • Experience In Windows 2000/2003 Systems Administration • Good Working Knowledge In TCP/IP • Experience In Configuring And Installing Electronic Mailing System • Experience In Microsoft Exchange Server 2000/Microsoft Outlook 2000 and Outlook 2003 • Experience In Configuring And Installing Intel/Alpha Based Servers • Experience in providing Technical support to the following software’s; a. Microbanker b. Flex cube ver. 3.2, 4.6 and 11.2 c. Money gram d. Western Union e. Orfeo Personal Profile • A self-motivated person who achieves set goals. With varied work experience l am well suited and adaptable to different roles: able to work as an individual, team leader or member. • Possessing excellent interpersonal skills, which enable me to...
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...Management Skills, Customer Relationship Management and expertise in Software project development and management in Agile methodology • Over 5 years of experience in gathering requirements for software application development projects • Eliciting requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, site visits, product related descriptions, use cases, scenarios, business analysis, and task & workflow analysis. • Delivering IT Solutions involving requirement analysis and management, project scope definition, implementation and testing of applications built for Windows, Mobile devices and Web in internet/intranet infrastructure • Critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high-level information into details, abstract up from low-level information to a general understanding, and distinguish user needs from the required system • Proficient in documenting business requirements in Agile methodology, creating Functional specifications, User Interface design, Use Case Modeling, Process flows and reviewing Test Case document • Expertise in Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) management and Business to Business (B2B) integration concepts • Proficient at Scrum model & processes and Agile methodologies, Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) • Posses good domain understanding and expertise in Healthcare and Retail & Personal Finance • Skilled at building and maintaining...
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...Chapter-1 1.1 Introduction Android is an software platform and operating system for mobile devices. It is based on the Linux kernel. It was developed by Google and later the Open Handset Alliance (OHA). It allows writing managed code in the Java language. Due to Android here is the possibility to write applications in other languages and compiling it to ARM native code. Unveiling of the Android platform was announced on 5 November 2007 with the founding of OHA. It's a consortium of several companies 1.1.1 Introduction to Project Environment OPERATING SYSTEM: An operating system (OS) is software consisting of programs and data hostel management system project report runs on computers and manages computer hardware resources and provides common services for efficient execution of various application software. For hardware functions such as input and output and memory allocation, the operating system acts as an intermediary between application programs and the computer hardware, although the application code is usually executed directly by the hardware and will frequently call the OS or be interrupted by it. Operating systems | | Common Features: * Process management * Interrupts * Memory management ...
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...about the business researchers and practitioners should be study the literature on “360-degree feedback”and evaluation research or may can develop somecomprehensive survey instruments and objective measures regarding the use of sabbaticals. Besides that, there are also needs to establish reliability, validity, and measurement invariance. Finding shows that may have to develop a comprehensive theoretical model which involved question of what, how, why, who, where, and when and also test the model empiricallyin the literature. | An examination of a Factor Structure and Scale Reliability of the Work Motivation Scale, the Motivation Sources Inventory | Some weaknesses of the MSI are lack of research and development on the meta-theory of Leonard et al.’s (1999). To promote further research in this area, may can be re-examination and possible refinement of the MSI or development of an alternative instrument.. | Motivation Levels of Mis Managers Versus Those of their employees | The degree of MIS personnel are found that different from their management peers in other parts of the company. MIS managers may can consider some action to reduces the negative effects among differences. MIS management had existed a very healthy motivational environment. Try to pay some attention with a reasonable expectation of rapid resolutions on the problems. | HDM Modeling as a Tool to Assist Management With Employees Motivation : The Case of Silicon Forest | The wants and desires of employees so...
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...This article was downloaded by: [Tsinghua University] On: 19 March 2014, At: 22:22 Publisher: Routledge Informa Ltd Registered in England and Wales Registered Number: 1072954 Registered office: Mortimer House, 37-41 Mortimer Street, London W1T 3JH, UK The Journal of Peasant Studies Publication details, including instructions for authors and subscription information: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/fjps20 Land grabbing in Latin America and the Caribbean Saturnino M. Borras Jr. , Jennifer C. Franco , Sergio Gómez , Cristóbal Kay & Max Spoor Published online: 28 May 2012. To cite this article: Saturnino M. Borras Jr. , Jennifer C. Franco , Sergio Gómez , Cristóbal Kay & Max Spoor (2012) Land grabbing in Latin America and the Caribbean, The Journal of Peasant Studies, 39:3-4, 845-872, DOI: 10.1080/03066150.2012.679931 To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2012.679931 PLEASE SCROLL DOWN FOR ARTICLE Taylor & Francis makes every effort to ensure the accuracy of all the information (the “Content”) contained in the publications on our platform. However, Taylor & Francis, our agents, and our licensors make no representations or warranties whatsoever as to the accuracy, completeness, or suitability for any purpose of the Content. Any opinions and views expressed in this publication are the opinions and views of the authors, and are not the views of or endorsed by Taylor & Francis. The accuracy of the Content should not be relied upon and should be independently...
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...organization uses a specific or a combination of available scheduling strategies. “In May 1997, more than 27 percent of all full-time wage and salary workers in the United States – about 25 million – had flexible work schedules that allowed them to vary the time they began or ended work. The proportion of workers with such schedules was up sharply from the 15 percent recorded when the data were last collected in May 1991 and from the 12.5 percent tallied in 1985. The increase in flexible work schedules was widespread across demographic groups, occupations, and industries, reports the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) of the U.S. Department of Labor (1998, June 1)”. Flexible work arrangements originally derive from flex time that plainly means sliding time. Whereas a traditional work arrangement requires employees to work a standard nine to five work day, which as of the present time is considered a thing of the past. Usually credited to William Henning, flexible arrangements is a core phase when employees projected to be at work approximately 50% of the time, whereas the rest of the...
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...Case Study: Wal-Mart Stores “Every Day Low Prices” In China Webster University INTB 5000 1 Webster University 2 Wal-Mart Stores “Every Day Low Prices” In China FACTS: First opened in Shenzhen on August 12, 1996 As of December 2007 94 stores in 51 cities Employs 43,000+ associates Serves around 5 million customers per week Transition from rural US to metro/urban in China Competitive analysis a core value of the company Shopping 1,500 items and price matching them through “Special Buy” Analysis Major pressure from the Chinese regional governments to centralize in high growth regions About-face by Chinese govt. on Shanghai is of interest Has major implications on Wal-Mart’s ability to provide infrastructure for stores Supply Chain Challenges Abound Tier 1 cities include Beijing – Tianjin, Shanghai, Guangzhou Tier 2 cities include Chengdu, Nanjing, Chongqing, & Wuhan Tier 3 cities include Changzho, Jinhua, Mianyang Webster University 3 Wal-Mart Stores “Every Day Low Prices” In China 7,058 Units 1.9 Million Associates 23 offices sourcing from 70 countries UK 340 Units Canada 292 Units Japan 393 Units US 4,103 Units Mexico 943 Units Central America 433 Units China 86 Units Trust-Mart 101 Units India JV –Aug 2007 Puerto Rico 54 Units Brazil 297 Units Argentina 16 Units Webster University 4 Wal-Mart Stores “Every Day Low Prices” In China Webster University 5 Wal-Mart Stores “Every Day...
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...VATSAL POPAT - 25 MCOM PART 1 VATSAL POPAT - 25 MCOM PART 1 WORK LIFE BALANCE WORK LIFE BALANCE Abstract THE NEED TO MAINTAIN BALANCE IN WORK AS WELL AS LIFE FOR A HAPPY AND A SUCCESFUL LIVING Abstract THE NEED TO MAINTAIN BALANCE IN WORK AS WELL AS LIFE FOR A HAPPY AND A SUCCESFUL LIVING CONTENTS 1.0 – INTRODUCTION 2 2.0 - WORK LIFE BALANCE 4 2.1 - WHAT’S IN IT FOR EMPLOYERS? 6 2.2 - BOTTOM-LINE BENEFITS 7 3.0 - HOW SHOULD THE ORGANIZATION WORK TOWARDS IT ? 8 3.1 - FLEXIBLE TIMINGS. 8 3.2 - FLEX THE PLACE 12 3.3 - FLEX THE JOB 14 3.4 - FLEX THE BENEFITS 17 3.5 - OTHER IDEAS BASED ON PUBLIC SURVEYS 24 4.0 - EMPOYER AGENDAS TO IMPROVE WORK LIFE BALANCE 27 4.1 - STEP 1 CHECK IT OUT 27 4.2 - STEP 2 FIGURE IT OUT: PLAN THE RIGHT MIX 28 4.3 - STEP 3 TRY IT OUT: IMPLEMENTATION 30 4.4 - STEP 4 SPELL IT OUT: COMMUNICATION 31 4.5 - STEP 5 WORK IT OUT: LEAD BY EXAMPLE 32 5.0 - 10 TIPS TO THE HR MANAGER 33 6.0 - ARGUMENT AGAINST THE HYPE FOR WORK LIFE BALANCE 35 CHAPTER 1 - INTRODUCTION HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT - HRM is the process of managing people in a company as well as managing the existing inter-personal relationships. These two processes are key in the success and growth of a business. When viewing HRM from the point of ensuring that structures and processes are...
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...pg 5 IV. Issue Analysis pg 6 V. Issue Solutions pg 7 VI. Solutions and its Implementation pg 8 VII. Justification pg 9 VIII. Reflection pg 9-10 IX. Work Cited pg 11 I. Introduction JCS Technology is a small IT company that is owned by Steve Puzder. Steve employs ten employees of which six are full time, two are part time, and two are contractors. JCS Technology has been in business for 5 years. All the employees have been with JCS Technology for 5 years. The six full time employees are paid an hourly rate along with completion bonuses, the part time employees are paid an hourly rate, and the contractors are paid per job along with completion bonuses. JCS Technology has a small office and most of the work is done outside of the office. There is one full time person in the office all the rest of the employees work 95% of their time outside the office. Employees are paid every week with monthly bonuses. The IT field is always changing therefore JCS Technology offers education reimbursement which also includes any tests that need to be taken to get certifications that will keep the employees up to date in their skills. Each employee has a company issued laptop and cell phone. Flex scheduling is also offered along with one week paid vacation. We are going to look at adding paid mileage as most employees have to travel to get to the job site and the job site can change more than once a day. We will also look at medical care...
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...CASE STUDY COLGATE PALMOLIVE COMPANY THE PRECISION TOOTHBRUSH REPORT Submitted By Group-2, Section-D Abhishek Chowdhary, PGP2011507 Baljinder Singh, PGP2011587 Jubin Mahajan, PGP2011668 Rishabh Ratna, PGP2011825 Roopak Bhartee, PGP2011833 Vasanth C, PGP2011930 Vineeta Singh, PGP2011940 Executive Summary The Colgate-Palmolive case involves the Precision toothbrush, which was entered into the market in 1993 by Colgate-Palmolive. This marketing plan summarizes the company’s situation at the time the Precision toothbrush was introduced, and the different marketing strategies that we believe would be best for Colgate-Palmolive and their new toothbrush. The marketing strategies include proposed strategies involving product, price, place, and promotion. Included in the marketing plan are pro-forma income statements for Colgate Palmolive if they were to launch the product, and also if they were to choose not the launch the product. Also included is an advertising budget. Situation Analysis Colgate Palmolive, having sales of $6.06 billion and a gross profit of $2.76 billion, was poised to launch a new toothbrush “Colgate Precision” in the United States. From early 1990s, therapeutic toothbrushes were gaining acceptance among common people. As a result, the toothbrush industry experienced a massive influx of competitors and formation of a niche market. In order to gain an edge each competitor worked on developing new toothbrush technology and offering promotions...
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...Business Benefits to Hewlett-Packard Suppliers from Socially and Environmentally Responsible (SER) Practices in China A Case Study November 2008 By: Sonali Rammohan Socially and Environmentally Responsible Supply Chains Program Global Supply Chain Management Forum Stanford Graduate School of Business Business Benefits to Hewlett-Packard Suppliers from Socially and Environmentally Responsible (SER) Practices in China Executive Summary In recent years, the electronics industry has made important improvements in social and environmental responsibility (SER) conformance among first-tier suppliers, due in part to the standardization of SER practices set forth in the Electronics Industry Code of Conduct (EICC). Hewlett-Packard (HP), the first company in the industry to implement a Supplier Code of Conduct, has taken a comprehensive approach Delta Electronics Delta Electronics by educating suppliers on how to achieve compliance, conducting individual audits and third-party joint audits, and emphasizing continuous improvement. This approach is being disseminated now to sub-tier suppliers, which should improve standards throughout HP’s supply chain. What should motivate suppliers to achieve full SER compliance? Are there business benefits to meeting and exceeding minimum standards? This paper explores the business case for SER by looking at the operations of three HP suppliers with significant operations in China — Flextronics, AU Optronics (AUO), and Delta...
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