...Wisconsin Firefighters Applied Psychology (Graduate Major) Dr. James Tan (Research Advisor) May, 2002 (Month/Year) 108 (No.of Pages) American Psychological Association (APA) Publication Manual 4th Edition (Name of Style Manual Used in this Study) The purpose of the present investigation is to evaluate how personality and job satisfaction affect job performance in employees at a Central Wisconsin fire department. Through a process of conducting assessments and gaining access to performance evaluations completed at the department, interactions between the variables was seen. The main effects found were that Factor C (Emotional Stability) and Factor F (Liveliness) of Cattell’s 16 PF had positive correlations with job performance, while Factor H (Social Boldness) had a negative relationship with job performance. The global factor of Realistic on the 16PF also has a positive correlation, as did Self-Esteem and Leadership Potential. Social Sensitivity had a negative correlation. The Positive Affect scale of the Positive and Negative Affectivity Scale also had a positive correlation with job performance. Other significant relationships between the variables were found,...
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...and sports apparel and accessories for the surf, skate and snowboard markets. BBG now has a presence in more than 60 countries. The Billabong brand is targeted to both active participants in surf and extreme sports and people who desire to be identified with its image. BBG supports the promotion of the Billabong brand through the sponsorship of athletes and events. 27 July 2012 Recommendation Recommendation: Relative to: _BLANK_ Small Ind (ex Fins) Investment Fundamentals ASX code: Stock price: Market cap: Y\E 30/06/2012 Reported e $m Adjusted e $m EPS adjusted ¢ EPS growth % PE x PE relative x DPS ¢ Yield % Franking % 2012e 39.3 39.4 14.5 -68.8 9.3 0.6 3.0 2.2 0.0 2013e 315.6 60.6 16.5 13.6 8.2 0.8 0.0 0.0 2014e 66.2 66.2 13.9 -16.1 9.7 1.1 0.0 0.0 BBG $1.35 $647m 2015e 81.7 81.7 17.1 23.4 7.9 0.9 Strategy Analysis BBG´s strategy is to differentiate its products through quality, novel designs and branding. Management aims to initially build up a core niche brand then slowly differentiate products to appeal to a broader market without diluting this core. This strategy has been successful in moving designs away from men´s surfwear to the broader general apparel market. Management is duplicating this strategy with its less mature skate brand. This strategy aims to tap latent demand for products within a broader international market.Billabong International reported NPAT down 18.4% to $119.14m for the year ended 30 June 2011. Reported NPAT was significantly adversely...
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...16.1 Specific Performance The California and Hawaiian Sugar Company (C&H), a California corporation, is an agricultural cooperative owned by 14 sugar plantations in Hawaii. It transports raw sugar to its refinery in Crockett, California. Sugar is a seasonal crop, with about 70 percent of the harvest occurring between April and October. C&H requires reliable seasonal shipping of the raw sugar from Hawaii to California. Sugar stored on the ground or left unharvested suffers a loss of sucrose and goes to waste. After C&H was notified by its normal shipper that it would be withdrawing its services at a specified date in the future, C&H commissioned the design of a large hybrid vessel—a tug of a catamaran design consisting of a barge attached to the tug. After substantial negotiation, C&H contracted with Sun Ship, Inc. (Sun Ship), a Pennsylvania corporation, to build the vessel for $25,405,000. The contract gave Sun Ship one and three quarter years to build and deliver the ship to C&H. The contract also contained a liquidated damages clause calling for a payment of $17,000 per day for each day that the vessel was not delivered to C&H after the agreed-upon delivery date. Sun Ship did not complete the vessel until eight and one-half months after the agreed-upon delivery date. Upon delivery, the vessel was commissioned and christened the Moku Pahu. During the season that the boat had not been delivered, C&H was able to find other means of shipping the crop from Hawaii to its California...
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...characteristics and values for organizational members to appreciate and learn. Cultures are distinguished by artifacts, values, and basic assumptions. The socialization process is the entry stage in an organization that provides clues about its culture. Cultures are difficult to change, yet change is necessary in some instances for survival. Organizations need an adaptive culture in order to respond effectively to the changing environment. LEARNING OBJECTIVES After reading this chapter, you should be able to do the following: 1. Define organizational culture and explain its three levels. 2. Identify the four functions of culture within an organization. 3. Explain the relationship between organizational culture and performance. 4. Contrast the characteristics of adaptive and nonadaptive...
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...BUSN 420 Chapter-End Critical Thinking Cases Professor Mitchell Levin DeVry University August 8, 2015 16.1 Specific Performance Can C&H recover the liquidated damages from Sun Ship? Yes C&H can recover liquidated damages from Sun Ship. C&H had contracted with Sun Ship to deliver a barge on June 30, 1981 they also went under contract with Halter to deliver the tug on April 30, 1981 to the ship yard of Sun Ship. Both entities breached their contract as they failed to deliver by the dates in the contract. Halter completed the tug July 15, 1982 and Sun Ship completed the barge March 16, 1982 and delivery to C&H was in July 1982 they were both more than a year late on the contracted agreement. By having the force majeure Sun would have been entitled to an extension however they were still late and it seems as if there was a lack of good communication between the two contractors. C&H received the $17,000 per day that was agreed upon as liquidated damages this totaled $3,298,000 but it was also determined that they were entitled to $1,105,000 more less the setoffs determined by the district court (leagle.com). C&H went into contract in good faith with Sun Ship and there was a reasonable amount of time to produce and deliver the barge. Sun Ship wanted to blame Halter for the delay but they were both equally responsible for the delays that occurred and should in fact have to pay the liquidated damages since the contract explicitly stated the delivery...
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...Marketing Strategies and the Difference Level of Sales and Profits Performance of the Batik SMEs in Malaysia. Mohd Zulkifli Mokhtar & Wan Nur Syahida Wan-Ismail Faculty of Management and Economics, University Malaysia Terengganu, Malaysia Correspondence: Mohd Zulkifli Mokhtar, Faculty of Management and Economics, University Malaysia Terengganu, Mengabang Telipot, 21030 Kuala Terengganu, Terengganu, Malaysia. E-mail: zulkifli@umt.edu.my Abstract In this research, the business owners of batik SMEs were analyzed on their marketing strategies. The objective is to examine if the marketing strategies of high performance batik SMEs differently from low performance batik SMEs. The high and low performance batik SMEs were categorized based on their annual sales and profits for three consecutive years. For this purposes, the questionnaires were distributed among 186 batik business owners in Malaysia. The data collected were then analyzed using Mann-Whitney U Test and Chi-Square Test. The result found that the high sales and profits performers are not only focused in local market, but they expand their sales out-of their states. For high sales performers, they are frequently advertised their businesses and using various promotional tools. Hence, efforts should be made by the low performers to find and expand their sales outside of their states, advertise their businesses more frequently and not only depends on personal network as promotional tools. Using various promotional...
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...OVERVIEW The number of people worldwide accessing the Internet to read breaking news, conduct library research, make consumer e-commerce transactions, use web-based business applications, and perform other online tasks had grown at an astronomic rate since the 1994 introduction of the Netscape Navigator browser. The number of Internet users worldwide had increased from about 360 million in 2000 to nearly 1.5 billion in 2008. North America had the world’s highest Internet penetration rate with 73.6 percent of North America’s population having Internet access. About 220 million of the 248 million Internet users in North America resided in the United States. Even though only 15.3 percent of Asians had Internet access in 2008, Asia’s 578.5 million Internet users made it the world’s largest and fastest growing geographic region for Internet usage. The growth in the number of Internet users worldwide and in the United States had caused a shift in how advertisers communicated with consumers and had allowed Internet advertising to become the second most common form of advertising used in the United States in 2007. Only newspaper, with 2007 advertising revenues of $48.6 billion, controlled a larger share of United States advertising dollars. Cable television, radio, and network television each accounted for about $20 billion each in advertising revenues during 2007. The prospects for Internet advertisers looked strong in 2008 with Internet advertising expected to grow from $21 billion...
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...comforting when considering that should we succumb to this ill fate it will be because of our own doing. However, the proven ability of our race being capable of recognizing, analyzing, correcting and improving upon our mistakes is exactly what has gotten us this far. From wars to medicine, from politics to parenting, sometimes we fail but eventually… we always succeed; so I wouldn’t be so quick to count us out of the game just yet. AI: The Beginning The word computer, in a nutshell, “refers to an object that can accept some input and produce some output” (Tyson & Crawford 1998-2012) and due to an installed microprocessor, computers are able to compute calculations in the blink of an eye. But is the act of storing and memorizing specific “known” information and already processed formulas truly worthy of the title of “Intelligence” or is intellect actually a lot more? Will the computer’s...
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...Research Methods Project Report Ethical Concerns of Marketing towards Children Submitted to: Fatima Saman Qaisar Date: 30th November, 2013 FAST School of Business National University of Computer & Emerging Sciences Acknowledgements Thanks to Allah-The Almighty who helped us in completing this tremendous task. Then we would like to offer our very special thanks to our respected instructor, Miss Fatima Saman Qaisar, whose constant and untiring support helped us at every stage of the project. Without her devoted and sincere assistance, we would never have been able to complete this project in an organized way. Last but not the least, we would also like to offer our thanks to our parents and our friends who supported us at every stage of completion of this task. TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Tables iv Executive summary 1 Introduction 2 Background 2 Consequences 2 Research Problem 3 Significance of the study to practice and to the wider academic world 4 Research Objectives 4 Research Questions 4 Literature Review 5 Theoretical Framework and Research Objective 23 Purpose of study 23 Research questions 23 Research Hypothesis 24 Theoretical Framework 24 Research Methodology & Methods 26 Research Methodology 26 Research approach and research method 26 Findings 28 Project Management 52 Project Charter 52 Analysis of key findings 54 Conclusion 57 Recommendations 58 Bibliography...
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...the first. The proposal was innovative in several respects. First, Arundel would purchase sequel rights before the first films were even made, let alone released. Second, the investor group would not make artistic judgments or attempt to select the rights for particular movies based on predictions of a possible sequel’s success. Instead, Arundel would contract to purchase all the sequel rights for a studio’s entire production during a specified period (one to two years), or alternatively, for a specified number of major films (15 to 30). Third, Arundel’s advance cash payments for the rights, at an agreed-upon price per film, would help finance production of the initial films. No The idea was intended to capitalize on a few specific characteristics of the movie industry. Producing and distributing motion pictures was a risky business and predicting the success of any one film was extremely difficult, if not altogether impossible. Moreover, studios’ production decisions were driven by both creative and business considerations, which often conflicted. The combination of uncertainty and conflict sometimes strained the financial resources of even the largest studios. Arundel could expect to avoid the conflict between art and commerce and,...
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...Relationship between Employee Turnover and Performance 4 Employee Retention 4 Significance 4 Job Satisfaction 5 Embeddedness 5 Others 6 Conclusion 6 Reference 6 Introduction Following the process of globalization which is increasingly developing, consequent fierce competition brings about frequent phenomenon of turnover in organizations (Liu et al., 2011). According to the statistic data that showed by Meier and Hicklin (2007), the turnover rate of U.S. federal government was 16.1% from 2003 to 2004, that of Dutch temporary employment agencies was 14.2% in 2005 and that of trucking even reached 41% in 2005. Currently, employee turnover is still lacking of attention in many aspects, such that most previous researches were focused on the reasons of turnover, but paid less attention to the effect of turnover (Ton & Huckman, 2008). The emphasis in this essay is that high employee turnover damages organization performance for increasing cost and causing critical employee leaving, while moderate level of turnover benefits organization performance for improving innovation and motivation, employers should focus on enhancing employee’s job satisfaction and embeddedness for retaining their employees. This essay has four parts. In the first and second part of the essay, both effect of excessive turnover and moderate turnover would be discussed with focus on organizational performance. And then the relationship between turnover and performance will be showed. The final part of this...
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... Chapter 16—SUPPLY CHAIN PROCESS INTEGRATION AND A LOOK TOWARDS THE FUTURE For those for whom integration is not happening, the future is bleak and getting darker.[i] There is a lot of value that is “trapped” between the processes trading partners use to transact business, and when companies work together, they can unlock that value and share its benefits.[ii] LEARNING OBJECTIVES After completing this chapter, you should be able to: • Discuss and compare internal and external process integration. • Discuss the requirements for achieving process integration. • Describe the barriers to internal and external process integration, and what can be done to overcome them. • Understand the importance of performance measurements in achieving internal and external process integration. • Understand why it is important to align supply chain strategies with internal process strategies. • List and describe the eight key supply chain processes, and how trading partners integrate these processes. • Discuss a number of the latest trends in the areas of process management and process integration. CHAPTER OUTLINE Introduction Achieving Internal Process Integration Extending Integration to Supply Chain Trading Partners A Look at Trends and Developments in Integration and Process Management PROCESS MANAGEMENT IN ACTION—An Interview with Zack Noshirwani, Vice President of Integrated Supply Chain for Raytheon The Raytheon Company...
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...amount (28%) of market share in its specific industry. However, private labels as a whole constitute less than 19% in the entire personal care industry. Therefore, growth of HPL depends on the growth of the industry and more importantly the growth of private label component within the industry. In terms of the personal care industry, market growth will not improve significantly in the future. As proven in the past four years, unit volumes in the industry increases less than 1% in each year and the dollar sales growth was only driven by modest price increases. Therefore, the opportunity for private labels will come in the form of obtaining a bigger slice of the pie. In other words, private labels will need to take market shares away from the brand names by penetrating deeper into a slowly expanding market. Brand name manufactures still control the majority of the personal care market. However, private labels have been gaining momentum in market shares as a result of greater consumer acceptance. The economic downturns have fostered a trend of thrifty spending among consumers. The private labels, with lower price and improving quality, offer an appealing alternative and substitute to the more costly brand names. Therefore, despite the whole personal care market size being quite fixed, the private labels have the prospect of growing within the market. Review of Historical Financial Data HPL’s historical financial performance has been steadily increasing for the...
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...Define project and develop plan Performance objective Candidates will demonstrate knowledge and skills required to define projects and develop project plans. Assessment description Using the workplace scenario information provided, you will determine the scope of a project and develop a portfolio of draft planning documentation to be given to your Operations General Manager. You will develop a project plan to delegate tasks to your project team and a risk management plan to anticipate resource requirements. Page numbers in blue denote the appropriate section of the Student Workbook which you should refer to when necessary. Note: Before you commence, read through the separate case study document, ‘Simulated Business - Max Lionel Realty’ and the scenario information below. Scenario – Max Lionel Realty You are an external consultant (from Ace Consultants) contracted to manage a project for Max Lionel Realty (MLR). Kim Sweeney, the Operations General Manager, has asked you to come in for a meeting with her and the Human Resources Manager, Les Goodale, to discuss the project’s details. The meeting occurred on 13 January 2014. The objective of the project is develop and deliver a comprehensive one-day training session that will inform real estate agents of their legal and ethical obligations, particularly with respect to WHS and anti-discrimination legislation. During the meeting, the project is broken down into specific elements that MLR’s management team...
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...system (Peromnes System) currently applied by the University of South Africa, but to explain how the system works in a more understandable manner. General job evaluation concepts will be explained over and above the Peromnes concepts. This document should not be treated as a manual but merely as a guide to the job evaluation process and will be subject to review from time to time. 1.2. 1.3. 1.4. 2. OBJECTIVES/PURPOSES OF JOB EVALUATION 2.1 Primary Aim Job evaluation determines (measures) the “intrinsic” worth of jobs, based on systematic assessment of the degree of complexity of job content and requirements, and to do this independently of any pre-conceived standards of remuneration and without regard to the qualities and performance of the actual incumbents who perform the jobs. 2.2. Secondary Aim 2.1.1. Job evaluation relates jobs to each other in terms of their intrinsic worth, and hence to determine relative complexities of different jobs and a rational job structure within an organisation. Job evaluation provides a rational basis for equitable remuneration (pay and benefits) within an organisation, so that defensible rates of remuneration may be assigned to jobs themselves and to the individuals who perform these jobs (equal pay for equal value of the jobs). 2.1.2. 3. HOW DOES JOB EVALUATION WORK 3.1. Job evaluation examines the contents and requirements of jobs and measures these according to a standard procedure: This result in job grades, scores, levels...
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