...before making a decision to take the proposal to the beauty care global business unit to expand. One significant factor that needs to be considered is the fact that the consumers in the market outside Japan have totally different cultures than those consumers in Japan. In order for SK-II to be successful in the international market, P&G and De Cesare must first analyze the current situation in those markets to be able to identify the strategic opportunities and threats. In order to make the best possible decision regarding product expansion to Mainland China and Europe, it is important to analyze those international markets based on the SWOT analysis. One of the biggest opportunities in China is that consumers there have similar skin types than consumers in Japan. One of the biggest threats is that most Chinese residence has relatively low average incomes, which could affect their purchasing behaviors especially towards high priced products like SK-II, which cost about $100 a bottle. Europe’s market is quite different from China’s. European women have skin types unlike that of Chinese and Japanese women. The biggest threats are the difference in skin types among European women, the cultural gap between Europe and Asia, and the overcrowded skincare and beauty market in Europe. Thus, the big challenge for P&G would be to successfully introduce a new brand into an already crowded market. One of the biggest opportunities is the positive economic forces that enable high purchasing...
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...resource department of SK Holdings, South Korean company, has been recruiting more men than women, a practice that is common throughout the country. This essay finds that the HRM practices in this company do not align with the company’s business strategy, especially during the process of implementation of new technology. The essay further discusses how the hiring of more women would improve the competitive advantage of this company. A recruitment and retention plan for this company targeting women employees is also included. Potential obstacles that the company is likely to face during the process of recruiting more women are examined. Finally, the essay recommends some of the HRM practices that this company could adopt in order to the visibility of women employees. 1. How the HRM practices align with the company’s business strategy According to Lorber (2005), the HRM practical model represents effective solutions for issues related to gender inequality in organizations. The model values all people, irrespective of gender, in pursuit of goals within an organization. It stresses the role played by every individual within a given organization and presents equal opportunities for all. Thus, the diversity promoted by HRM model in valuing people helps in the promotion of gender equality, which is in turn associated with accomplishment of goals of an organization. Although there has been significant progress to ensure gender equality in South Korea, SK Holdings does not treat...
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...Slovakia: Life business after Crisis Central European L&H Leadership Forum, Radisson BLU Palais, Vienna Torsten Leue May 11, 2010 New reality crashed into the old plans Slovakia: GDP development old plan +15% +10% past development +5% W -NE OLD LITY R EA GAP +0% -5% new reality 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2 Data source: Slovak Statistics Office, Allianz – Slovenská poisťovňa Torsten Leue ● Slovakia: Life Business after Crisis May 11, 2010 Q4-2007 Q1-2009 Regular Life business a bit below 2006 Slovakia: New Business (mn €) New Business: Single vs. Regular 500 NB mn € 400 300 200 100 0 44% 56% 38% 62% 45% 55% 58% 42% Q4-2006 Q4-2007 Regular Q4-2008 Single Q4-2009 Share of Single gets higher consequence Life duration gets shorter Data source: Slovak Insurance Association Torsten Leue ● Slovakia: Life Business after Crisis May 11, 2010 3 Share of Traditional business grows Slovakia: Premiums of UL, Traditional and Riders (mn €) 1 200 1 000 GWP mn € 800 600 400 200 0 53% 36% 11% Premiums of UL, TR and RI 10% 33% 12% 30% 57% 58% 2 007 Traditional 2 008 Unit-linked Riders 2 009 Value creation mainly out of riders Data source: Slovak Insurance Association Torsten Leue ● Slovakia: Life Business after Crisis May 11, 2010 4 Insurance business under high pressure Capital Markets Low interest rates Pressure Clients & Sales Force Low prices, High commissions...
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...CASE STUDY ANALYSIS OF P&G: SK-II GLOBALIZATION PROJECT FOR: Professor Howard Kupferman Written by: Andres Torres Procter and Gamble Case Study Analysis Actors: 1. Alan Lafley: Head of P&G Beauty Care GBU 2. Paolo de Cesare: President of Max Factor Japan 3. Durk Jager: P&G CEO 4. GLT: Global Leadership Team (made up of business GM’s of crucial MDO’s, people from R&D, consumer research, product supply, HR, and finance). Chaired by Lafley. INTRO: In this case study we are introduced to P&G as an organization and their changes in structure overtime. More specifically, after the acquisition of Max Factor Japan and success in its SK-II line, questions are raised about whether global expansion is feasible and profitable as a franchise. De Cesare ran this skin-care line in Japan, but he reported directly to Lafley. This is crucial because global expansion would require Lafley’s approval in budgeting and organizational support. P&G recently went through major organizational changes over a period of six years known as O2005. This created huge questions in the strategy that would be put together in the case of a global expansion for SK-II. Within the U.S. Procter & Gamble originally followed an organizational structure consisting of seven different divisions that were furthermore shattered into 26 distinct categories. Each category had its own R&D, supply management and marketing. In addition, the international organization...
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...information theoretic method is presented for object-level summarization of meaningful changes in image sequences. Object extraction and tracking data are represented as an attributed tracking graph (ATG), whose connected subgraphs are compared using an adaptive information distance measure, aided by a closed-form multi-dimensional quantization. The summary is the clustering result and feature subset that maximize the gap statistic. The notion of meaningful summarization is captured by using the gap statistic to estimate the randomness deficiency from algorithmic statistics. When applied to movies of cultured neural progenitor cells, it correctly distinguished neurons from progenitors without requiring the use of a fixative stain. When analyzing intra-cellular molecular transport in cultured neurons undergoing axon specification, it automatically confirmed the role of kinesins in axon specification. Finally, it was able to differentiate wild type from genetically modified thymocyte cells. Index Terms: Algorithmic information theory, Algorithmic statistics, Information distance, Gap statistic, Clustering. Various portions of this research were supported by the Center for Subsurface Sensing and Imaging Systems, under the Engineering Research Centers Program of the National Science Foundation (Award Number EEC-9986821), and by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. 1. INTRODUCTION Given a set of image sequences, we...
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...Trident University Module 1 Case Assignment MGT501 Management and Organizational Behavior In this case study I will analyze Ms. Myers journey to a different culture than she was used to how it went wrong and what she might have done better to try and better prepare herself for the journey that she thought she could handle. I’ll analyze the problem using Hofstede’s five dimensions of culture to compare Korean and American assumptions. I will also make recommendations to her management style that might have helped accommodate the Korean environment. Linda Myers journey started out with good intentions and she felt she had a good idea of what she was getting herself into since she had been consulting for Asian firms and thought that she understood the culture well enough to fit in. Her problem was also compounded by the fact that she would be a woman trying to trail blaze into a field and culture dominated by men. It definitely did not help that she didn’t speak the language and from the reading doesn’t appear to have tried to really learn it instead relying on her associates to speak to her in English or having to use an interpreter. She came into the job with big ambitions and plans to change her Korean associate’s way of doing business not understanding that they didn’t want to change. Now let’s look at Hofstede’s five dimensions of culture to compare Korean and American assumptions. First, Power Distance (P/D) According to Mind Tools: This refers to the degree of...
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...Essay 1 – Research methods and Methodological Perspectives Different philosophical foundation create a division in social research methods into two key approaches namely qualitative method which is associated with interprevitism and quantitative methods which is associated with positivism. The main difference between these methodological approaches is that qualitative research is about the expression of meaning. Bowling 2002 defines qualitative research as a “method of naturalistic enquiry which is usually less obtrusive than quantitative investigations and does not manipulate a research setting.”(Bowling 2002). It is as a result of this naturalistic enquiry that feelings or expressions are derived in relation to a particular issue. This process of expressing feelings or thoughts is also known as Phenomenology. Bowling 2002 quoting Smart 1976 states that phenomenology is “based on the paradigm that reality is multiple and socially constructed through the interaction of individuals who use symbols to interpret each other and assign meanings to perceptions and experience; these are not imposed by external forces”. (Bowling 2002). Through the phenomology process research is interactive with the respondent and researcher and is performed through open-ended, unstructured or participant observation and in-depth interviews. The data is collected through a mutual understanding between the researcher and the respondent. Hence the phenomenology process is commonly called the “naturalistic...
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...Overhang Mike Paterson † ∗ ‡ Uri Zwick arXiv:0710.2357v1 [math.HO] 12 Oct 2007 Figure 1: A harmonic stack with 10 blocks. 1 Introduction How far off the edge of the table can we reach by stacking n identical, homogeneous, frictionless 1 blocks of length 1? A classical solution achieves an overhang asymptotic to 2 ln n. This solution is widely believed to be optimal. We show, however, that it is exponentially far from optimality by constructing simple n-block stacks that achieve an overhang of cn1/3 , for some constant c > 0. The problem of stacking a set of objects, such as bricks, books, or cards, on a tabletop to maximize the overhang is an attractive problem with a long history. J. G. Coffin [2] posed the problem in the “Problems and Solutions” section of this Monthly, but no solution was given there. The problem recurred from time to time over subsequent years, e.g., [18, 19], [12], [4]. Either deliberately or inadvertently, these authors all seem to have introduced the further restriction that there can be at most one object resting on top of another. Under this restriction, the harmonic stacks, described below, are easily seen to be optimal. ∗ A preliminary version of this paper [14] appeared in the Proceedings of the 17th Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA’06), pages 231–240. This full version is to appear in the American Mathematical Monthly. † DIMAP and Department of Computer Science, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK...
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...NATIONAL OPINION POLL: CANADIAN VIEWS ON ASIA © Copyright 2014 Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada TABLE OF CONTENTS ABOUT THE ASIA PACIFIC FOUNDATION OF CANADA _________________________________________________ 2 ABOUT THE NATIONAL OPINION POLL: CANADIAN VIEWS ON ASIA ________________________________ 2 METHODOLOGY KEY FINDINGS ___________________________________________________________________________________________ 2 ____________________________________________________________________________________________ 3 EXPLAINING CANADIANS’ VIEWS ON ASIA DETAILED FINDINGS ___________________________________________________________ 7 ____________________________________________________________________________________ 17 SECTION 1: PERCEPTIONS OF ASIA __________________________________________________________ 17 SECTION 2: VIEWS OF CANADA-ASIA ECONOMIC RELATIONS ____________________________ 23 SECTION 3: PROVINCIAL PERSPECTIVES ON CANADA-ASIA RELATIONS _______________ 31 SECTION 4: CANADA-ASIA ENERGY RELATIONS ___________________________________________ 35 SECTION 5: PROMOTING HUMAN RIGHTS IN ASIA ________________________________________ 39 SECTION 6: CANADA-ASIA SECURITY ISSUES ______________________________________________ 41 SECTION 7: DEMOGRAPHIC FINDINGS ______________________________________________________ 43 APPENDIX: READING THE TABLES _____________________________________________________________________ 49 NOP 2014...
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...Working Paper Series Serie 4 Societies and social change Paper No. 4.01 Labour Market Developments and Social Welfare Hermine Vidovic* * The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies 2013 www.grincoh.eu This paper was funded under the FP7 project “Growth– Innovation – Competitiveness: Fostering Cohesion in Central and Eastern Europe (GRINCOH)” under the Programme SSH.2011.2.2-1: Addressing cohesion challenges in Central and Eastern Europe; Area 8.2.2 Regional, territorial and social cohesion. Project Nr. 290657 Hermine Vidovic vidovic@wiiw.ac.at Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies www.wiiw.ac.at Please cite as: Vidovic H., (2013), ’Labour Market Developments and Social Welfare’, GRINCOH Working Paper Series, Paper No. 4.01 Labour Market Developments and Social Welfare Abstract Employment and activity rates in the new EU Member States (NMS) declined significantly up to the early 2000s and started to increase along with strong GDP growth thereafter. Job losses following the outbreak of the economic and financial crisis varied substantially across countries and have not been offset yet. Overall, the low educated and the young people are very disadvantaged on the NMS labour markets. With the exception of Poland and Slovenia, non-standard types of employment are uncommon in the NMS, following the pattern of Southern EU countries. Employment protection legislation has been adjusted to ‘European standards’ in the ...
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...Strategy Exam Framework Executive Summary (5%) I would recommend that (the company)… The company faces (the main issue), which has caused (major symptoms)… However, the following constraints must be addressed… - Timing - - In addressing this issue, the following alternatives were considered: - - - The alternatives were evaluated based on the following set of decision criteria: - - - The first alternative was selected because it satisfies (decision criteria). The second alternative was not chosen because it does not satisfy (decision criteria). Similarly, the third alternative was not preferred because it does not address (decision criteria). To implement the recommendations, the company should first (action plan). In the short term… In the long term… Issue Identification (10%) * Quantitative calculations Rule of 7272/# of years=Time it takes to double growth Rule of 114Number of years to triple growth Rule of 144Number of years to quadruple growth CAGR calculations CAGR=(1+Percentage growth)^n years Market share now versus market share in the future? (Current sales/Current market size) (Projected sales/Projected organic market size growth) Quantitative calculations Rule of 7272/# of years=Time it takes to double growth Rule of 114Number of years to triple growth Rule of 144Number of years to quadruple growth CAGR calculations CAGR=(1+Percentage growth)^n years Market share now versus market share in the future? (Current...
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...Nova Juwita Hersanti, Kusuma Ratnawati Pengaruh Atmosfer Terhadap Kepuasan dan Niatan Perilaku Konsumen di Toko ”Oen”, Kota Malang Nova Juwita Hersanti Program Magister Manajemen Fakultas Ekonomi dan Bisnis Universitas Brawijaya Kusuma Ratnawati Jurusan Manajemen Fakultas Ekonomi dan Bisnis Universitas Brawijaya Abstract: The purpose of this research is to enrich the empirical evidence about the influence of atmospherics on satisfaction and behavioral intentions of customers at Toko Oen, Malang. Research sample is consumer at Toko ” Oen” which amounts to 100, consistions of 50 local consumers and 50 foreign consumers. Sampling method applies purposive sampling technique. Partial Least Square (PLS) analysis is then performed to reveal the relationship between atmospherics satisfaction and behavioral intentions. The results reveals that atmospherics has a positive and significant influence on satisfaction and behavioral intentions of overall consumers, bath local and foreign consumers. Satisfaction has positive and significant influence on behavioral intentions of overall consumers, whereas satisfaction does not have any significant influence of satisfaction on behavioral intentions of local consumers. Keywords: atmospherics, satisfaction, behavioral intentions, Toko ”Oen” Abstrak:Penelitian ini bertujuan memperkaya bukti empirik tentang pengaruh atmosfer terhadap kepuasan dan niatan perilaku konsumen di Toko Oen, Kota Malang. Sampel penelitian adalah konsumen Toko ” Oen”...
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...of the basic and most used explanations for many language changes . Eg. She + is = she's; we + have + been = we've been; clothes /kloʊðɪz/ - /kloʊz/; fifth /fifθs/ /fifs/. * Analogy A linguistic process that reduces words which are perceived as irregular by making them similar to other regular forms . Eg. Semantic historically “livid” meant “pale”, its similar sound with “vivid” has led to analogical semantic change. Morphological the verb “thrive” (thrive-throve-thriven) is on its way to becoming a regular verbs (thrive-thrived-thrived). Language contact Languages come into contact with each other. The most common way that languages influence each other is the exchange of words especially if there is lexical a gap in the language . Eg. “shushi” from Japanese. Or if the donant language is thought to sound more prestigious [3]. Eg....
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...Evidence-based clinical practice guidelines are a potential vehicle to achieve the implementation of EBP into clinical practice. Implementing change in practice has been attempted by a number of direct and indirect methods Implementation depends on clinicians and managers changing a variety of behaviours, and there have been more than 300 evaluations of interventions to improve implementation - Grimshaw JM, Thomas RE, Maclennan G, Fraser C, Ramsay C, Vale L, Whitty P, Eccles MP, Matowe L, Shirran L, Wensing M, Dijkstra R, Donaldson C: Effectiveness and efficiency of guideline dissemination strategies. Health Technology Assessment 2004, 8:1-84. For theory to be used in implementation research, it needs to be seen as relevant, accessible and useful, and researchers need to have expertise in behavioural theory. The relevance of theories of behaviour change would be more apparent if implementation of research findings were conceived in terms of health professional behaviour = Eccles M, Grimshaw J, Walker A, Johnston M, Pitts N: Changing the behaviour of healthcare professions: the use of theory in promoting the uptake of research findings. Journal of Epidemiology 2005, 58:107-112. Make clinical staff more aware of existing research in their specialty areas • Help clinical staff to set up and keep up to date a resource area with relevant research papers • Help clinical staff to interpret and implement research findings in practice • Help clinical staff to locate relevant...
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