...Comprehensive Case Scenario Human Resources Management The Wilson Brothers Limited Case Case Scenario Written By Charles Purchase, Seneca College (Case Fictional) History In 1960, the Wilson Brothers, Bob and John, started Wilson Brothers Limited. This Canadian company manufactured and distributed various lines of prepared food products for the Canadian market from a number of plants, with the head office located in Brandon, Manitoba. Bob was just 23 years old at the time, and John was 21. In the first year of operations, the sales volume for Wilson Brothers Limited was $300,000. By 2000, Wilson Brothers Limited had six operating plants in Canada. They had also expanded to the western US market and had several plants in Europe. Wilson Export Division was responsible for exporting product to Japan and China. In 2000, the total sales volume of the Company was over $6 billion. The company was a Canadian business success story, both at home and abroad. In addition to the spectacular volume increases, the company was very well managed financially. It had no reason to go public to raise capital as it financed all of its expansion through earnings. There were several reasons for the Company’s exponential growth. First and foremost, the brothers valued hard work. They each worked ten to twelve hours per day, even in the latter stages of their careers. Consequently, their senior and middle management group worked similar hours. Secondly, each brother was a skilled...
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...The Wilson Brothers Case A – Using the criteria listed below describe Wilson Brothers Foods Limited from an organizational behavior point of view. Decision Making – Firstly, Wilson Brothers Limited has quicker decision-making and more flexible operations in comparison to its competitors. To launch a new product, the Company only requires a couple weeks. Secondly, they seek a local executive to be CEO upon expansion to a foreign market to ensure that local culture is respected. They hired a Canadian to be VP Finance to have financial reporting comply with Canadian GAAP consistently across all Company operations. Lastly, the Wilson Brothers decided to maintain both non-union status of their organization and flexibility of operations. Motivation – All levels of employees are proud to work at the Company and enjoy the company’s success. Employees demonstrate this pride by wearing jackets that display the company logo. However, there are no regular meetings in the organization. The brothers only attend two significant team meetings on a regular basis. Groups and Teams – Wilson Brothers Limited benefits from good team work between all levels of employees. They were support and implement the strategic decisions from Wilson Brothers in quick reaction. Strategies developed from the brothers are supported through all organization and implemented in a timely manner, leading to quick launches of products to the market. Equity – There are no policies of employee equity and fair treatment;...
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...The Wilson Brothers Limited Case History In 1960, the Wilson Brothers, Bob and John, started Wilson Brothers Limited. This Canadian company manufactured and distributed various lines of prepared food products for the Canadian market from a number of plants, with the head office located in Brandon, Manitoba. Bob was just 23 years old at the time, and John was 21. In the first year of operations, the sales volume for Wilson Brothers Limited was $300,000. By 2000, Wilson Brothers Limited had six operating plants in Canada. They had also expanded to the western US market and had several plantsin Europe. Wilson Export Division was responsible for exporting product to Japan and China. In 2000, the total sales volume of the Company was over $6 billion. The company was a Canadian business success story, both at home and abroad. In addition to the spectacular volume increases, the company was very well managed financially. Ithad no reason to go public to raise capital as it financed all of its expansion through earnings. There were several reasons for the Company’s exponential growth. First and foremost, the brothers valued hard work. They each worked ten to twelve hours per day, even in the latter stages of their careers. Consequently, their senior and middle management group worked similar hours. Secondly, each brother was a skilled salesman in the traditional sense. Their handshake was their bond. Thirdly, they had tremendous “cultural sensitivity.” Whenever they expanded to...
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...3. Write a document that Wilson Brothers specifically would use to establish guidelines and norms for the organization with respect to the use of email, and any other electronic communication medium, for internal and external communications. Make recommendations on what to do and what not to do. Explain the reasoning for your recommendations. (10 marks) WILSON BROTHERS LIMITED Guidelines for Best Practices in Electronic Communications This document will serve as a guideline on the use of electronic communications and addresses major issues such as; email and cell phone usage, best practices, how we define appropriate use of email and cell phones in the workplace, the effective use of email as a business tool for internal and external communication and how it is to be managed. This policy applies to all Wilson Brothers Limited Employees. Important Factors to Note: Email is not guaranteed to be private. Email is not an appropriate substitute for face-to-face in specific situations. Email is not always sent and received instantly; messages can arrive several hours or days after they are sent. As a result, email is not an appropriate method for exchanging time-sensitive information. Emails are considered to be company records. Therefore, they should be retained in the same way as Wilson Bros does customer/sales records or other forms of communication, such as letters, faxes Risks Associated to using Email include: The privacy and security of email communication...
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...Case Who is suing whom? What is the cause of action? What is being claimed? Who won? Urzi V. Board of Education for the Borough of North York (Icy Sidewalk Case) Parent suing the school board Fall at the schoolyard led to a injury in the knee; fell in Europe leading to a hip fracture from a weak knee Claiming recovering for damages sustained in her second fall Plaintiff aka the Parent Hedley Byrne & Co Ltd. V. Heller and Partners Ltd. (Bank case) Investor (3rd Party – Adv. Co) suing Bank Advertiser wanted to make sure that Easipower was suitable for investing in so ask Bank if they could determine if they were reliable and trustworthy for an amount of $100,000 per annum Claiming recover of the money loss when Easipower went into Liquidation ($17,000) Plaintiff aka Hedley Byrne the advertising company Dixon V. Deacon (Auditor case) Shareholder suing the auditors Dixon purchased shares off of another individual in the company known as NBS based on parts of the audited financial statements Money loss in investment of NBS Defendant aka Deacon. Case was dismissed Hagerman V. City of Niagara Falls Et Al (Hockey case) Resident suing the City At a hockey game, sitting behind the goalie, a net is up for pucks that fly over the board, during the game a puck flies over the board and over the netting used to catch the pucks. At point in time...
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...“An efficient, responsive, fair and effective bureaucracy is based on the principle of political neutrality”. With the aid of specific examples and relevant literature, support or refute this contention. A bureaucrat is an unelected official whose main purpose is to serve the public interests to his maximum capacity, with efficiency, responsiveness, fairness and effectiveness. This can only be achieved if the bureaucrats are politically neutral, as politics extends further than core party politics, to relationships, religion, blood ties and ethnic groups. Politics leads to partiality, favoritism, appointment of unqualified bureaucrats and inaccessibility of these officials by the general populace, and corruption. Therefore an efficient, responsive, fair and efficient bureaucracy is based on political neutrality. Nevertheless, this has remained only as a utopia as bureaucracy and politics have proved to be inseparable and bureaucrats have proved to have remained political. Van Riper 1984, asserted that “the field of administration is a field of business. It is removed from the hurry and strife of politics,” Dwight Waldo states that “administration should not be driven by partisan patronage and electoral politics” This stands to mean that, as a business field, it should act business like, which involves impartiality and efficiency .This aspect can be paralleled to the ministry of education. Even though the bureaucrats are stationed in Harare, one can see that the same education...
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...(Potts) Ana Belen Montes – The “Queen of Cuba” 11 February 2014 * Montes blindsided the intelligence community with blatant acts of treachery. Montes was the pinnacle Analyst for the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), yet, in her secret life, her true fervor showed as she worked for Fidel Castro and the Cuban Intelligence Services, Dirección de Inteligencia, (DI), translated in English as the Intelligence Directorate of Cuba. Montes listened to coded messages over shortwave radio, passed secret files to handlers in busy public locales, and snuck into the Communist country adorned with a fake passport. “Your honor, I engaged in the activity that brought me before you because I obeyed my conscience rather than the law. I believe our government's policy towards Cuba is cruel and unfair, profoundly unneighborly, and I felt morally obligated to help the island defend itself from our efforts to impose our values and our political system on it.” (Montes, 2012) Montes gave this statement to the presiding judge who presided over Magistrate Number: 01-0568M. (United States of America versus Ana Belen Montes, Defendant., 2002) Montes showed no remorse, no contrition, and no regret for her actions through her career as an agent for the DI. The purpose of this brief is to explain the life, career working for the United States (U.S.) Government and Cuban government, the downfall which resulted, and the sentencing of DIA Analyst General Schedule (GS)-14 Ana Belen Montes...
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...4 7. APPENDICES 1 8. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 1 1. INTRODUCTION The credit crunch occurred in 2008 has been arguably recognised as an extreme phenomenon during the financial crisis, which generated to the longest recession in the U.S. history since ‘the Great Depression’ in1929. Over 600,000 jobs lost in during 2008, and unemployment rate went up to 6.1% which was the highest point in 5-year time (Isidore, 2008). According to the Turner Review (2009), faultiness of regulation and supervision underpinned financial problems’ increase. Therefore, to illustrate the causes of Lehman Bother’s crash in 2008, events occurred during crisis progress are listed in Appendix 1. Among those serious cases, bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers was concerned to be the most typical one to explore. Lehman Brothers Holding Inc., founded in 1850, was once a prominent and highly reputational financial institution and used to provide diversified financial services all over the world with high quality (Lim, 2012; Smith and Sidel, 2010). However, it filed Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Protection on 15 September 2008, after failing to find any buyers to pull it out from tough financial...
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...games in favor of the electronic variety. However, the personal computer, with its improving multimedia capabilities, looked to be the future of gaming. Mr. Hassenfeld spoke with Tom Dusenberry, an ambitious rising star from Parker Brothers, a game company that Hasbro had acquired in 1991. Familiar with Mr. Dusenberry’s work, Mr. Hassenfeld admired his creativity and capability. Mr. Dusenberry believed that interactive games had a brilliant future. He was also a talented visionary, proficient at activating others’ enthusiasm for futuristic ideas. His effusiveness accelerated Mr. Hassenfeld’s interest, and soon Mr. Hassenfeld charged Mr. Dusenberry with building a new division, to be named Hasbro Interactive. He was to write a business plan, form a team, and go to market, starting with a handful of existing CD-ROM products that Hasbro’s long-standing toy and game divisions had developed in a decentralized fashion. Over the course of his career at Parker Brothers, Mr. Dusenberry gained direct experience in most aspects of the game business. He had started working on a loading dock and had been promoted several times through positions in manufacturing, marketing, and sales. He survived the consolidation that followed Hasbro’s acquisition of Parker Brothers and was promoted again, this time into product development. Throughout his career, he had remained connected to developments in interactive gaming. Running Hasbro Interactive would be his first experience as a general manager, and...
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...games in favor of the electronic variety. However, the personal computer, with its improving multimedia capabilities, looked to be the future of gaming. Mr. Hassenfeld spoke with Tom Dusenberry, an ambitious rising star from Parker Brothers, a game company that Hasbro had acquired in 1991. Familiar with Mr. Dusenberry’s work, Mr. Hassenfeld admired his creativity and capability. Mr. Dusenberry believed that interactive games had a brilliant future. He was also a talented visionary, proficient at activating others’ enthusiasm for futuristic ideas. His effusiveness accelerated Mr. Hassenfeld’s interest, and soon Mr. Hassenfeld charged Mr. Dusenberry with building a new division, to be named Hasbro Interactive. He was to write a business plan, form a team, and go to market, starting with a handful of existing CD-ROM products that Hasbro’s long-standing toy and game divisions had developed in a decentralized fashion. Over the course of his career at Parker Brothers, Mr. Dusenberry gained direct experience in most aspects of the game business. He had started working on a loading dock and had been promoted several times through positions in manufacturing, marketing, and sales. He survived the consolidation that followed Hasbro’s acquisition of Parker Brothers and was promoted again, this time into product development. Throughout his career, he had remained connected to developments in interactive gaming. Running Hasbro Interactive would be his first experience as a general manager, and...
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...Postpartum Case Study May 26, 2016 Postpartum Case Study Admission Assessment J.B. a 38-year-old female, G5, P3 (SAB 2, L3) admitted on 5/09/16 at 0930 for a scheduled repeat cesarean section. The patient’s chief complaint is minor contractions and concern from previous SAB (Spontaneous Abortions). J.B’s 1st pregnancy ended at 13 weeks with a SAB. 2nd pregnancy ended by C-section at 37 weeks due fetal intolerance. Her 3rd pregnancy ended at 38 weeks with a repeat C-section and her 4th pregnancy ended at 11 weeks with a SAB. Bringing us to this pregnancy number 5. J.B. chose to have a repeat C-section, because her physician recommended it due to a prior C-section. Multiple scars on uterus increase the risk for several serious problems for women and fetus. These risks include: scar rupture, placenta previa, placental abruption, and placenta accrete (Tobah, 2015). A high-risk pregnancy involves at least one of the following; the woman or baby is more likely to become ill or die more than usual. Complications before or after delivery are more likely to occur than usual. High-risk pregnancies must be closely monitored. Some risk factors are present before women become pregnant. These risk factors include certain physical and social characteristics of women, problems that have occurred in previous pregnancies, and certain disorders women already have. In J.B.’s case she had a high-risk pregnancy due to several reasons, she has advanced maternal age > 35, prior miscarriages...
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...Case 5-11 Case 5-1 America’s Cuban Conundrum: The Assignment Tonisha Pearson Strayer University – MKT 505: International Marketing July 29, 2012 Dr. David Holness, Instructor 1. Analyze the key issue that prompted the EU to take the Helms-Burton dispute to the WTO. The key issue that prompted the EU to take the Helms-Burton dispute to the WTO is the theory that law argues against the governments’ authority and the principle of International Law. The EU believed that there are measures in the Act that are divergent to the obligations of the United States of America in the WTO Agreements, particularly the GATS, Article 14 applying to trade and services, and GATT , Article 21 applying to trade in goods (Toledo, 2011). According to John H. Jackson, Andreas F. Lowenfeld, both Professors of Law, it is argued that the GAT and GATT contracts would provide a defense for the United States to many if not all of the United States Helms-Burton measures, even if some of these measures would otherwise be considered to be inconsistent with United States treaty obligations. These exceptions, however if given a broad interpretation could undermine the whole WTO treaty and impair the security and stability of the world trading system for which the WTO has been created. On the other hand, it is extremely important to all nations that national security to a requirement, and for an international...
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...available glucose, or sugar materials. Because glucose acts as the primary fuel for cells, this inability can cause serious medical conditions to develop when left untreated. Diabetes can be inherited from a parent through a genetic trait; however, its actual development may rely on the presence of certain environmental conditions. Type one diabetes genes alone is not enough to give someone the disease. Unlike some traits, diabetes does not seem to be inherited in a simple pattern. Yet two factors are important. You inherit a predisposition to the disease then something in your environment triggers it. In most cases of type one the person needs to inherit risk factors form both parents. They also believe white people have more risk factors than any other culture because whites have the highest rate of type 1 diabetes. So who are at risk? If an immediate relative (parent, brother, sister, son or daughter) has type 1 diabetes, one's risk of developing type 1 diabetes is 10 to 20 times the risk of the general population, or If one child in a family has type 1 diabetes, their siblings have about a 1 in 10 risk of developing it by age 50. Being that most of the people who are at risk do not end up getting diabetes, researchers want to...
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...Research TOC BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY, “SOCIOBIOLOGY,” AND HUMAN BEHAVIOR Bobbi S. Low W hen Juliet was twelve, her father, without consulting her, betrothed her to a man more than twice her age. She, being in love with Romeo, complained. Her father’s answer was (Act III, Scene V): An you will not wed, I’ll pardon you! Graze where you will, you shall not house with me; … An you be mine, I’ll give you to my friend; An you be not, hang, beg, starve, die in the streets, For, by my soul, I’ll ne’er acknowledge thee, Nor what is mine shall never do thee good. Today, in the United States, Juliet would probably sue her father for child abuse. And she would be likely to win. What is common, approved, and thought ethical varies widely across human cultures in time and space: whether one may marry more than one person at a time; who chooses marriage partners; whether abortion and infanticide are approved or forbidden; whether one may eat all meats, some meats, or none; what kinds of killings are forbidden or encouraged. How are we to make sense of all this variety? Human behavior has traditionally been the province of anthropology, sociology, and psychology. Within each of these fields there exist diverse approaches. Recently, behavioral ecology, an evolutionary approach to why we behave as we do, has joined other fields in trying to explain some of the diversity in human behavior. With its roots in Charles Darwin’s work 1 on natural selection, it examines how environmental conditions...
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...Article Watching the Watchers and McLuhan’s Tetrad: The Limits of Cop-Watching in the Internet Age Brian P. Schaefer Kevin F. Steinmetz University of Louisville, US. brian.schaefer@louisville.edu Kansas State University, US. criminogenic@outlook.com Abstract The internet is considered by many to be a boon for political activists, such as cop-watchers—a free, open, and widespread medium in which to disseminate political messages. While there is truth to these claims, the internet, like any technology, can be used for many purposes and comes with its own arrangement of limitations. To elucidate these limitations and to provide a word of caution about the political potential of the internet, particularly for video-activists/cop-watchers, the theoretical work of Marshall McLuhan is used to understand how the internet, as a medium, shapes and limits political messages. Using McLuhan’s tetrad, this study examines how the internet is problematic for cop-watching groups. In particular, the internet is said to yield consequences through how it (1) enhances or intensifies how the viewer experiences political messages through speed, (2) retrieves the importance of the narrator, (3) renders previous media increasingly obsolete, yet opens up new avenues for commercial dominance, and (4) creates additional reversals or other problems for video activism, such as the mass proliferation of surveillance and formatting discussion in counter-productive ways. ...
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