...There have been few events, though, that continued to show America’s core values. Events, such as the writing of the Containment Policy, the establishment of the Peace Corps, and the United States’s inclusion in the Korean War demonstrate liberty. Other events, like the Brown v. Board of Education court case, the passing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the passing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 demonstrates America’s core value of equality. And still more events, like World War II, the Miranda v. Arizona court case, and the Montgomery Bus Boycott demonstrates...
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...strong steps forward across an array of the shortcomings of our current immigration system. Chief among them is a practical approach to the nearly 11 million undocumented immigrants already making a contribution to our country. I support the inclusion in this proposal of a path to citizenship for upstanding immigrants, many of whom who had no choice in being brought to the United States and now want the chance to contribute to this country as members of our military or civilian workforce, in fact there are whole industries that rely on the labor of those who are here illegally. America’s immigration system should reflect America’s values, and as Congress works on comprehensive reform, the basic rights of those in the system should be considered. With the amendments I am proposing, I believe this bill should be passed and will help to reform our immigration policies to reflect upon America’s core values. In addition to bringing millions out of the shadows and welcoming them as full participants in our society and economy, this bill will go a long way towards fixing our current backwards-looking policies toward high-skilled immigrants who want to remain in the United States after receiving their advanced educations here.Mr. Chairman, in conclusion, I'm proud of what this bill means for our country.There are no perfect laws, but considering just how broken our immigration system is now, it is unquestionably a giant leap forward. I'm confident, if we can continue to work together...
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...that is pervasive across the bank’s executive ranks. The seven different philosophies are stated below: 1. Leaders really do matter in managing and driving accountability, results and culture. 2. Performance rules: Top performers, then high potentials 3. Talent is an enterprise resource. 4. Today’s top-performing leaders are not necessarily tomorrow’s. 5. A broad set of experiences and assignments is the best classroom; yet, a balanced approach is necessary for development. 6. Today’s top 100 must leave a legacy of future talent by teaching, mentoring and serving as role models to others on what it takes to succeed. 7. Invest in the best and focus the rest. Bank of America’s talent management and development efforts are structured around a core set of frameworks that includes the Bank of America core values, a 70-20-10 development frameworks that includes experience based development, 70 percent, coaching and feedback, 20 percent, and learning, 10 percent; targeted transition development for leaders at each turn of the leadership pipeline; and regular assessment to gain deeper insight into the experiences, leadership capabilities and vulnerabilities, and ambition of senior executives. (Knighton, 2009). This combination of...
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...According tone of the articles of Carter (founder and CEO of Best Practice Institute and the author of several books, including Best Practices in Leadership Development) at Talent Management’s web site, “Participants of their Accelerated Development Program include 80 to 100 high-potential leaders identified from a pool of 5,000 nominees as the bank’s next generation of senior leaders”. The author Carter adds that “The curriculum is a blend of self-paced, Web-enabled content, instructor-led classroom learning, assessment, coaching and ongoing, virtual instructor-led learning”. Carter asserts that, program participants are assigned to coaches from Bank of America’s HR community who know the company culture and live and work in the same region or business unit as those they are coaching (Carter, 2012). Bank of America's overall philosophy of talent management and development is determined by seven base doctrines that create a mindset which penetrate across the company’s executive line. This company has always kept the leadership in talent management in the banking industry. Knighton &Krupp have juxtaposed these doctrines in their article (Next-Generation Leadership at Bank of America) as follows: 1. Leaders really do matter in managing and driving accountability, results and culture. 2. Performance rules: Top performers, then high potentials. 3. Talent is an enterprise...
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...principles are natural rights, liberty, descriptive governments, and equality, among others. The Enlightenment assisted the absences in the standing of thought, the colonial situations and the absent classes respectively. Sadly, even though these principles were progressive, such ideals also had parochial aspects that caused them to be out of reach for most groups of people, namely, the enslaved people, Native Americans, and women. In that sense, this essay illustrates the ways in which these factors contributed to shaping and sometimes contradicting the core American values and some of the more radical aspirations that remained elusive in practice. The intellectual landscape of America’s founding ideals was significantly influenced by Enlightenment philosophy, emphasizing reason, individualism, and skepticism of traditional authority. John Locke's ideas about natural...
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...Established in 1937, Ducks unlimited, Inc. (DU) has conserved nearly 13 million acres thanks to contributions from more than a million supporters across the continent. Guided by science and dedicated to program efficiency, DU works toward the vision of wetlands sufficient to fill the skies with waterfowl today, tomorrow and forever. Ducks Unlimited is the world’s largest non-profit organization dedicated to conserving North America’s waterfowl habitat. The core values and guiding principles of DU are: • Waterfowl and Wetlands: We conserve North America’s waterfowl and wetlands. • Ethics: We act to uphold the reputation of DU, treating people and wildlife with respect. • Science-Based Decision: We are committed to science to ensure our programs are sound, efficient and credible. • Team DU: We work together as volunteers and staff. • Waterfowling: We value and enjoy the sport and heritage of hunting. • Collaboration, Not Confrontation: We partner with those who share common goals and values. • Wise Investments: Our goal is to commit over 80 percent of our resources to our science-base conservation mission. • Passion & Commitment: We celebrate the culture of DU as we serve our members. The focus on DU has remained constant since it was formed by a small group of U.S. waterfowl hunters in 1937. That focus, often referred to as a “Singleness of Purpose,” is built upon the understanding that sustainability of waterfowl is determined by success in conserving sufficient habitat...
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...Immigration and America’s core culture If one spontaneously were to mention a couple of prominent American figures in the 21st century, names such as Oprah Winfrey, George W. Bush, Jennifer Lopez, Steven Spielberg and the recently elected president Barack Hussein Obama, would usually come to mind. They do all have different religious backgrounds, ethnicities and to some extent culture, but to identify one of them as being “more American” than the others would occur as being weird for most people. Because it’s indeed the high degree of diversity, seen in iconic, grand cities such as New York or Los Angeles, that is representative of the American people today, and therefore the country has become to be known as a nation of immigrants. However, in his book, who are we?(2004), Samuel P. Huntington, argues that this high level of cultural diversity prevalent in the USA can disintegrate the country, as it’s experiencing a growing cultural gap between the adherents of the Anglo-protestant culture and the immigrants, who have not yet assimilated into this culture. Key features of the Anglo-protestant culture include; “Christian religion with emphasize on the protestant values and morals, a work ethic, the English language, British traditions, justice and the limits of government power, and a legacy of European art, literature, philosophy, and music”. As a consequence hereof the American people can lose their national identity and unity, as ideology alone is a weak glue to hold people...
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...A Glimpse of American Cultural Values from the Text of The Declaration of Independence Abstract The Declaration of Independence is a statement of the American Revolutionary War and also an important defense of bourgeois rights. Studying carefully American cultural values from The Declaration of Independence, we can better understand the core of our Chinese cultural values and get to know the main differences and similarities between these two value systems. In this way, we will find all the advantages and disadvantages regarding both cultural values, and thus learn those good ones while overcome the shortcomings. This thesis falls into five chapters. In the first chapter, the necessity and significance of the study are introduced. In Chapter Two, some definitions of key terms included in or related to this thesis are presented, including Value, Cultural Value and The Declaration of Independence. Chapter Three mainly concerns the analysis of the text of The Declaration of Independence. By analyzing the text, the main cultural values related are demonstrated as liberty, equality and democracy. Then each cultural value is explained respectively and thoroughly with proper examples. Chapter Four mainly discusses the contradictions and conflicts inherent in those American cultural values, showing that American cultural values is a double-edged sword. The last chapter is the conclusion part which summarizes the whole thesis. Key Words: American, The Declaration...
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...Discussion Case: Organizational Ethics and the Law Classification of Ethical Work Climate Discussion case “Alcoa’s Core Values in Practice” exemplifies Aluminum Company of America’s implementation of a strong values-based ethical climate by insisting decisions of employees and what they do be aligned with company values. Analysis of Alcoa’s core values relative to Victor and Cullen’s typology, suggest Alcoa follows a principled-local method to ethical climate where personal morality; company rules and procedures; and laws and professional codes are favored. In respect to Professor Paine’s studies of ethical climate, Alcoa would be categorized as implementing integrity-based programs, where concerns for the law and employee responsibility are combined. Role of Management Top management commitment to developing an ethical work climate and organizational performance at Alcoa was communicated by CEO Paul O’Neill in the 1990s. His focus on the company’s core value of health and safety, led to implementation of global ethics and compliance programs. The program included an ethics and compliance officer whose purpose is to report compliance issues to the CEO and board of directors. Other ethical safeguards created to support a strong ethical climate at Alcoa consists of a global code of conduct; ethics and compliance training for all employees; and a global helpline reporting system. Management of Personnel Alcoa’s top management believed that no employees should be...
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...their customers’ financial needs. This has led to a large customer base, which Wells estimates that one in three households in America does business with them. Wells Fargo has $1.2 trillion in assets and more than 278,000 team members across their 80+ businesses. They ranked fourth in assets, and third in market value of their stock among their U.S. peers as of March 31, 2010 ("Wellsfargo.com," 2010). Wells Fargo’s company vision is stated as, “We want to satisfy all our customers’ financial needs, help them succeed financially, be the premier provider of financial services in every one of our markets, and be known as one of America’s great companies.” This statement has led them to have an outstanding reputation in the community. They have been recognized in the following publications: FORTUNE 19th in Revenue among All Companies in All Industries (2010), World’s 39th Most Admired Company (2010), Forbes One of America’s Best Big Companies (2008), Top 100 Best Companies in the World (2010), Barron’s World’s 50 Most Respected Companies (2010), BusinessWeek Best Places to Launch a Career (2009), America’s #2 Most Generous Corporate Foundations (2010), Newsweek America’s #1 Green Bank and #13 Greenest Big Company (2009), Human Rights Campaign Perfect Score of 100 on Corporate Equality Index (2009),U.S. Environmental. we researched Wells Fargo's performance in the last couple of years as a way to check on its progress to greatness. What we found was an...
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...Conifer Health Solutions (Conifer Health) is a healthcare organization and is driven by its leadership and core values. This research papers purpose it to explore all the behaviors that Conifer Health’s leadership does in making it such a successful organization. Planning, organizing, controlling and most importantly leading are the four functions used by leadership to provide a solid foundation on which its success is built on. In addition, research on its strategies in determining the organization’s drive, including personal interviews from leaders in two different divisions, published information regarding its fundamentals and how it sets its goals and their means of reaching them. The different leadership styles used in this organization...
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...neither justifiable nor demonstrative of sound judgment by the American government. Many books, magazines, and other forms of commentary on the Vietnam War have surfaced in the half century since the war’s end. Historian and author Stanley Karnow suggests that such publications generally attempt to make sense of the horrific “war that nobody won” (Karnow 9). It is a subject that will continue endlessly to divide historians and others as they attempt to draw lessons from the conflict that might then be used to justify, condemn, or promote America’s involvement in modern day Vietnams. Because of the magnitude of complexities surrounding the war, some may find it difficult to formulate an unwavering opinion about the war’s causes and effects. According to Robert McNamara, who served as Secretary of Defense for Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, mankind has often struggled to find solutions to even simple problems related to the unification of values and ideologies spanning diverse cultures (McNamara 323). In order to fairly judge why the American government put our troops in the jungles, swamps, and fields of Vietnam, one might first closely examine why our government claims to have committed our troops to Vietnam. One of the reasons most adamantly advanced by our government to justify a full scale assault on the Vietcong of North Vietnam was an incident that is said to have occurred in the Gulf of Tonkin. The Gulf of Tonkin boarders Vietnam and was used by the South Vietnamese,...
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...Introduction In any nation state, internal and external policies are closely related to the country’s own traditional social culture and reflect the country’s own cultural values. The United States is a society of religions, a vast field of religious identities and conceptions, a sea of swirling religious currents. Religions legitimate the existing social system, institutions and values to a certain extent. They also provide a means to contend with and change the system; they are at once conservative and liberal. They motivate people to do things, to change the world in many ways. It might be said that the ultimate purpose and effect of religion is to take humans and their cultures to the “Ultimate”. (Eller, p 330) Owing to the importance of religion in America’s national identity, which is largely shaped by American core cultural values and "mainstream religions", these attitudes and traditions have played an important role in American social life, thus religious power naturally has penetrated into politics and foreign policy decisions more regularly in America than in other countries. Religious values are the sources of American “exceptionalism” and “messianism”. (Xie, p 39) After the Cold War¹, it became evident that religion was a key factor in many conflicts, including Bosnia, Rwanda, and Afghanistan. However, the ¹ “Cold War”: the state of hostility that existed between the Soviet bloc countries and the Western powers from 1945 to...
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...establish themselves – for example, the Puritans were some of the first to come to America in order to break away from the Roman Catholic Church that oppressed their new, differing values (Escaping). Laws like the First Amendment are the reason that immigrants like my grandmother decided to come to America. It is laws like these that express America’s core values and why the United States is so attractive to anyone living outside the U.S. in need of somewhere to go. America’s battle against immigration has been a long one. However, as stated above, America was founded upon equality, the gathering of different cultures, and acceptance of those who are different from us, but because of all of the laws in place against people who have immigrated here from other countries (i.e. the travel ban), people are unable to come to the U.S. and feel the security that is supposed to be offered from it. For many people, the United States is the only home that they have ever known, many people were even born and raised in America, but because their parents are immigrants, families are torn apart, and America then becomes a source of suffering and misery rather than a place of refuge. By discriminating against different cultures and turning people in need of a home away, we are going directly against our roots and core values as Americans. It is printed inside the Statue of Liberty that all who are in need of a home are welcome here, our government is now contradicting these sentiments. I believe...
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...Smart cookie - OREO Executive Summary: For most of its 100-year existence, Oreo was America's best loved cookie, but today it is a global brand. Faced with stagnation in the domestic market, Kraft Foods moved it into emerging markets where it made some mistakes, learnt from them and ultimately triumphed. This case study looks at the strategies used to win over customers in China and India. On March 6, 2012, the famous cookie brand, Oreo, celebrated its 100th birthday. From humble beginnings in a Nabisco bakery in New York City, Oreo has grown to become the bestselling cookie brand of the 21st century generating $1.5 billion in global annual revenues. Currently owned by Kraft Foods Inc, Oreo is one of the company's dozen billiondollar brands. Until the mid-1990s, Oreo largely focused on the US market - as reflected in one of its popular advertising slogans from the 1980s, "America's Best Loved Cookie". But the dominant position in the US limited growth opportunities and spurred Kraft to turn to international markets. With China and India representing possibly the jewels in the crown of international target markets due to their sheer size, Oreo was launched in China in 1996. The China launch was based on the implicit assumption that what made it successful in its home market would be a winning formula in any other market. However, after almost a decade in China, Oreo cookies were not a hit as anticipated, according to Lorna Davis, in charge of the global biscuit division...
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