...Case 3: The Insider I. Brief Summary In 2011, a stock trader of a well-known investment firm along with two alleged accomplices was convicted of insider trading. The lawyers allegedly browsed around their law firm picking up information regarding corporate deals and would provide it to a person who would then pass the inside information to the trader. This information was then used by the trader for him to earn millions of dollars. Since the information came from the lawyers, the trader would thank them by providing envelopes filled with cash. II. Central Problem * Screening out the potential bad stock traders and only those stock traders with good values and can be trusted with confidential information are selected. * Find a way to control the behaviours of those already in the firm who are prone to engage in inside trading. III. Conclusion The firm shows that they have a poor system in selecting employees since unethical employees are able to enter their company. They also possess poor security regarding with the works of their employees that is why most probably some employees are able to do insider trading. And lastly there is limited communication between top management and the employees which lead to this kind of behaviour by employees. IV. Recommendation Due to the alarming case of insider trading we recommend that the firm should strengthen their employee selection program in order to select the right personnel with ethical values. With...
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...APPLICATION CASE #4 Reinventing the Wheel at Apex Door Company 1. What do you think of Apex’s training process? Could it help to explain why employees “do things their way” and if so, how? I think the training process at Apex has no organizational effectiveness. It’s unstructured, and there is no training documentation which makes the entire training process weak. It appears the employee does things their way because the company clearly does not have in place a structured training process. The employee assigned to perform training is likely to have very low motivation, partial training their self, and few of the necessary skills needed to train. The employee must know what an employer wants them to do and how they want them to do it. If the employee is left not knowing, then he/she is left to improvise or teach other employees "their way" of accomplishing tasks. There are no outcome measures to determine if the training was successful. 2. What role should job descriptions play in training at Apex? The job description should play a pertinent role in training at Apex because the job description defines the learning requirements for a new or transitioning employee while also setting the boundaries of employment in terms of required knowledge and skills. By understanding the job description, a trainer can utilize the information it provides to write job descriptions and job specifications, which are utilized in recruitment and selection, compensation, performance...
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...PSYCH 283 October 16, 2013 Reinventing the Wheel at Apex Door Company Apex’s training process is lacking structure which could explain the way employees are performing. If there are no set instructions or a proper explanation of how things should be done, the existing employees will do the work to the best of their ability with the knowledge they’ve had from before the job. For example, the order processing department is failing to properly use the multipage order form to Jim’s liking, because there was no training on how to properly use the form. Which is resulting in wrong customer classifications and improper order forms. The job description should include detailed descriptions of activities and job duties that are both relevant and important to the position. Once those specific activities are listed, then Apex must decipher which activities require more in depth training before starting the job and which ones can be learned through experience. To improve Apex’s current training program, I would suggest to start with a thorough needs analysis to measure the amount of money the company can allot specifically towards training, what specific tasks employees need to be trained on, and which employees need it the most. Once that is completed, Jim needs to distinguish training that would specifically benefit each separate position and then which trainings can be completed as whole with the entire organization. For example the order processing department needs systems...
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...Business Functions: HRM Tutorial Exercises 1 Carter Cleaning Company Jennifer Carter graduated from State University in June 2005, and, after considering several job offers, decided to do what she always planned to do – go into business with her father, Jack Carter. Jack Carter opened his first Laundromat in 1995 and his second in 1998. The main attraction of these coin laundry businesses for him was that they were capital – rather than labour-intensive. Thus, once the investment in machinery was made, the stores could be run with just one unskilled attendant and none of the labour problems one normally expects from being in the retail service business. The attractiveness of operating with virtually no skilled labour notwithstanding, Jack had decided by 2015 to expand the services in each of his stores to include the dry cleaning and pressing of clothes. He embarked, in other words, on a strategy of “related diversification” by adding new services that were related to and consistent with his existing coin laundry activities. He added for several reasons. He wanted to better utilise the unused space in the rather large store he currently had under lease. Furthermore, he was, as he put it, “tired of sending out dry cleaning and pressing work that came in from oor coin laundry clients to a dry cleaner 5 miles away, who then took most of what should have been out profits.” To reflect the new, expanded line of services, he renamed each of his two stores Carter Cleaning Centers and...
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...in host countries. I believe Avon is very successful in its international human resources management in global market. First of all, Avon’s first female CEO took charge of company and implemented efficient policies to make the company get out of debt problem and sluggish sales problem. Secondly, Avon also focus on international market. They hire millions local door-to-door representatives who know well about local culture. Meanwhile, to improve the quality of their workforce, Avon runs leadership program and on-the-job training seminar on a regular basis. Thirdly, Avon set up Avon foundation to help charitable program and women issues around the world. Fourthly, Avon also builds up its good reputation by workforce diversity and minority recruitment. 2. Describe how Avon’s business model has changed in light of demographic and social changes in the United States and abroad. What role has IHRM played in the company’s global expansion? In global market, Avon hires and trains the new local workforce in its door-to-door selling model (Avon’s salespeople and company representatives become more critical in their door-to-door selling in diverse markets). Avon’s distribution strategies also adapt to the local needs because of working women or other cultural and logistical considerations and include mail, phone, fax, retail outlets, and web site. Role of IHRM in global expansion: 1) Training in both virtual and time-based seminar. 2) Adapting and adjusting the operation to local industrial...
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...MGT 434 Week 1 DQ 2 To Buy This material Click below link http://www.uoptutors.com/MGT-434/MGT-434-Week–DQ-2 You are the office manager of a small sales company. There are formally three employees with the company: the owner, the receptionist and you. The company hires part time sales reps who sign a contract stating that they are independent contractors. They are supposed to go door to door and make prepared sales pitches for people to purchase the product. There are required to obtain signatures to contracts and to drop of the contracts with initial deposits at the company’s office each Monday. Twice a month they meet at the local Starbucks to discuss sales, new product lines and other issues with the owner and the other sales reps. You get a letter and a telephone call from your State Department of Labor, wanting to examine the employee and sales rep files on the various individuals The owner has gone away to whale watch off the New England Coast and has told you not to call him, even in an emergency. You try to call him but you cannot reach him. How do you handle the issue of the audit and what do you say about the sales reps? On the same day as the audit is occurring, one of the sales reps calls you on his cell phone to report that he cannot make the weekly sales meeting and to give you his sales figures. As he is doing such, he hits a person crossing the street. Several weeks alter, he tells you that he has the lowest amount of car insurance and wants to know whether...
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...Earth, because as she used to say” her treasures lie on the other side.” Every one of us seated here today has had fond memories of my grandmother. Some of my earliest were when I used to beg her to scratch my back when I was a little boy. You see grandmothers have that soothing touch that seems to make everything better. I can’t count the many times when I fell asleep in her lap while listening to the preacher in the Andrews Church of God, third row from the back on the right side… there weren’t too many Sunday that you couldn’t find her there when I was younger. Also, I keep thinking about the many times when I was younger and I walked her across the field from my parents house to her back door to make sure she got in the house okay, and most importantly that she locked the doors behind herself. It wasn’t because I had too, it was because I wanted to and because I loved her just as everyone else gathered here today did and will continue to do. You see she never uttered an ugly or rude word to anyone that I know of. Instead if you were wrong, Granny could whip you with words, either her own, or quoted from the Bible. I think we all have talked to Granny on those late nights when she would make a cup of coffee and a biscuit, and listen...
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...Pencil line : I don't to be involve. d. Break in lines: aggressive impulses. e. Transparency: marked repression. f. No wall line: a maniac, no control over impulses, murderer. g. Horizontal dimension of wall emphasized: unable to bring dominance to any orientation, latent homosexuality. h. Vertical dimension of wall: more latent. i. Double perspective: intellectual deficit. 3. SIZE a.Scant detailing: desired lack of involvement with reality. b. Tiny and well drawn: failing of great inadequacy. c. Large: strong feelings of conflict with environment. 4. FENCE: guardedness; protect self from people. 5. DOOR: a. No door: difficult accessibility. b. Door high beyond base line: person is inaccessible; higher the door is beyond thee baseline. The greater the degree of unwillingness to get in contact. emphasize door: admit you`re only on your terms. d. Door knob: morality and dependency will not permit contact. 6. WINDOWS: a. Overly large windows: great demandness. b. On panes blank: oppositional tendencies; windows are high in strokes, apathy, empty feelings within. c. Bar in window: keep away. d. Decorations on windows: too defensive. e. Emphasis on windows: possible oral preoccupation. CHIMNEY a. Smoke: inner tension. b. Right: pressure from the past. c. Left: pressure from current situation. d. Overlarge: exhibitionism. e. None: coolness in home, missing father. f. Transparent: attempt masculinity. h. Large chimney: latent aggressiveness. WALKAWAY ...
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...Travis Martin Martin 1 Ms. Virginia Rachel English Comp. 101 09/15/2015 The Hero in the Night What goes bump in the night? A question kids will forever eerily ask themselves as they lay down at night. The dark corner of the room, what's underneath of the bed or who or even what is lurking behind the closet door. There's just something unsettling about what we cant see. The minute the lights dim my mind begins to wonder about what could possibly be gleaming at me from its hiding spot, waiting for its chance to pounce on me like a defenseless animal on the plains of Africa. Overcoming your fears isn't always easy, but facing them head on is the only way to feel comfortable in a situation that once made you uncomfortable. This night was like every other. As the night draws to an end, mom and dad yell its time for bed. After years of sleeping with a night light, I start to feel brave. I mean what can honestly be so frightening, and also be afraid to shows its self in the dim glare of my little night light. After finishing my nightly routine, brushing the teeth and saying my prayers, I reach over and turn out my night light that I found so much comfort in. Laying in bed thinking of everything that I need to accomplish for the next day and practicing lines for the few girls that caught my attention I start to doze off. Tossing and turning throughout the night...
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...has a social responsibility which can be defined as an organizations obligation to maximize its positive impact on stakeholders and minimize its negative impact. (Ferrell, 2009). Company Q’s attitude and actions towards the given circumstances and scenarios do not meet the definition of being socially responsible and are quite disappointing. When Company Q closed the doors of the two stores that were located in high crime rate areas what did they actually contribute to the community? Did they not research their target areas or were these situations where the dynamics of the neighborhood changed? What Company Q did do was help drive a spiraling neighborhood deeper into poverty, by closing their doors they have left a neighborhood with no local grocery store. The neighborhood has yet another vacant building that may or may not be used properly but may become something that will continue to help bring the neighborhood down. Company Q has now put working people out of a job who depended on that paycheck every week or other week who were trying to better their situations. Company Q states that these doors were closed due to profit loss it seems as though this is just an excuse to use as a tax write off or to just cut their losses. There are other ways that Company Q could have tried to keep the store open talk with community leaders, talk with the customers. Did they just not offer the products that their community desired? There has to be a reason that these two stores were...
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...Observation Environment At the head start program Easter seals, I had the opportunity to observe a partial-day interaction with the 2 year old classroom. The room was decorated with numbers, letters and animal pictures. For safety measures they had appropriate age toys, the door handles where not reachable for the children to open the doors, children were always supervised they were two teachers in the room. This teacher encouraged each child to be the active partner in their learning process, and created a curriculum based on: each child’s individual needs, and interests with a balance of child-initiated and teacher-directed activities. “Circle Time” was the first activity I was able to observe. The teacher asked all of the children to clean up the toys with which they were playing. As she navigated the room, verbally assisting some students, I noticed some students had already gone to the carpet area and sat in “Circle“. There was however, one child who was having a hard time following directions, and would not clean up the Lego’s, he wanted to keep playing. After giving this child 3 warnings to clean up his toys, the instructor proceeded to sit on the floor adjacent to him. She then told him that he could keep his “creation”, on the shelf, and return to it when Circle Time was over but, that he needed to clean the rest of the Lego’s up and come to Circle with the rest of the class. Agreeing to this compromise, he put his creation away and the remaining Lego’s back into the...
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...My cousin who is Hmong decent was marrying into a Thai family. The morning of June 8th arrived. Everyone was up by 3:30 a.m. to get ready for the Buddhist blessing. The Buddhist blessing had to be done no later than 8:00 a.m. My aunt and uncle’s house was busy from the moment everyone got up. Families arrived to help finish prepping food and decorations for the party. You can hear everyone chattering, yelling, people walking up and down the stairs and in and out the doors. You could also hear knives hitting against the thick cutting board that’s being used to chop up meats. My cousin Mylee had nine bridesmaid because the number nine is considered lucky in the Thai culture. Every helped one another get ready and put on their traditional Thai outfits. As 6:30am rolled around, the Buddhist blessing was ready to begin. Nine Buddhist monks in their orange robes, made their way inside my cousin’s house. In the basement was where the monks sat. The carpet of the basement floor was covered with reddish brown linen. As the bride and groom made their way to the monks, they first lit up some incense, candles and gave the monks fruits and money that is sealed in an envelope because the monks could not handle money. They both then kneeled in front of the monks to begin the blessing ceremony. After the blessing from the monks, the bride and groom receives three white dots marked on their foreheads. They also got sprinkled with the water that has been blessed from the monks. The water is...
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...LUFATA DOOR DESIGNER Undergraduate Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of the Department of Information and Industrial Technology Cavite State University-Carmona Campus Carmona, Cavite In partial fulfillment Of the requirements for the degree Bachelor of Science in Information Technology REGINA F. REYES APRIL 2017 INTRODUCTION Application of knowledge to the practical aims of human life or to changing and manipulating the human environment. Technology includes the use of materials, tools, techniques, and sources of power to make life easier or more pleasant and work more productive. Whereas science is concerned with how and why things happen, technology focuses on making things happen. As life today becomes fast-paced, convenience and accessibility starts to become a necessity. Mobile phones were created to cope up with those needs. Different mobile applications are now being used widely both personally and commercially. Pannazoa Trade Corporation as a growing company has to cope with its customers need for convenience and accessibility. The proponents come up to the solution of creating an android application called LDD for the company. The LDD has a gallery of doors where you can see different ready-made doors which you can actually see on one of the showrooms of Lufata. The application also has a feature where you can create your own virtual door. These features will help a lot in saving time, effort and resources both for the customer as well as the company...
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...Hazard/risk image | Types of hazard | Risk rating( L x S = R) | Reason why it’s a risk or hazard and what could happen if the risk is not removed | Who will it affect | How it can be reduced or removed | How will the risk be monitored | | Safety hazard | Likelihood=4Severity=4Risk= 4 x 4= 16 | Stairs are a risk due to the fact that they do not contain yellow tape on them which can make students slip. If this risk is not removed serious injuries will take place and damage will happen to students for instance broken arm or leg. | This risk may effect anybody in that building | Tis risk cannot be removed but it can be reduced by Putting yellow tape on every stair to make them less sloppy. | Having yellow tape apply to ever step. | | Physical hazard | Likelihood=2Severity=1Risk= 2 x 1 = 2 | These tables are a risk as they’ve been placed in corridors where it gets really packed and if for instance students are in a rush or running they can easily das into these without realising. If this risk is not controlled students can cause damage to their faces or body parts. | Mainly students | Tis risk can be reduced by moving the tables in an area where no one walks through or somewhere where isn’t really busy | By having staff members standing in corridors and reminding students in the direction that they should be going and also reminding them not to rush or run. | | Safety hazard | Likelihood=3Severity=1Risk= 3 x 1=3 | This is a hazard because while students...
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...ABSTRACT F.U Okoro’s keyhole theory of conflict assumes that “textual conflicts consist in series of locked doors and actions in the text comprises in attempts to unlock these doors”. Further, this theory of textual conflict recognizes the importance of what Aristotle has called the “depth burden of the past” however, it explains this concept in a slightly different way. The keyhole theory explains that the state of the key hole at the point of opening directly affects the state of the keyhole at the exit door. As explained by mr Fidelis himself, what we see as a comedy is just the manner of actions that sees to the opening of all the doors in a text, by contrast, a tragedy thrives because the hero meets difficulties and is ultimately unable to open the exit door both incidents are as a result of opening the first door with either the right or the wrong key. According to A.N. Akwanya, the theory is ‘a comprehensive statement which means that it must apply in the same way to a vast range of objects’. This can be further explained to mean that a theory must overlook he distinct properties of the individual object. This raises the question : can F.U Okoro’s keyhole theory of conflict qualify as a theory? Again, to what extent can it be able to apply in the same way to a vast range of literary text. A literary text here covers both prose narratives and plays. THE KEYHOLE THEORY AND DRAMA Now, without further ado, I will set about examining the extent of applicability of this...
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