...CERTIFICATE IN FOUNDATION STUDIES CRITICAL THINKING (Intake 8) Assessment 1 (30%) Read the article below and respond to the questions below: You are allowed to search for related articles on this issue and respond to the questions below: NUS to decide on student sex blogger in a week's time By Dylan Loh | Posted: 31 October 2012 2011 hrs Source: http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1234575/1/.html SINGAPORE: The NUS will decide in a week's time whether to take any disciplinary action against a student for posting explicit videos and pictures of himself and his girlfriend online. Law student Alvin Tan, who met representatives of the National University of Singapore (NUS) on Wednesday, said he is worried about the possible consequences of his actions, including expulsion. He is currently on a leave of absence from the university, and intends to return to his studies in January, if allowed to. He apologized to the varsity's disciplinary board for affecting the school's reputation as a result of what he did. The media were not allowed to observe the NUS disciplinary proceedings. The board conducting the proceedings was made up of five members - three of them senior academics and two student leaders. Mr. Tan said: "I'm not sure what sort of action they would mete out. I really have no idea. There was not a single bit of the discussion that was directed towards that. I felt it was more like an interview to just get to know me as...
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...Solutions to selected exercises from those assigned in outline (Chapters 1, 2 & 3) Message for Analysis (p. 31) Students will recognize this document as ineffective because it presents so many barriers to communication. The memo • Creates emotional barriers right from the first sentence (accusing employees of lying and cheating, later calling them names), preventing readers from perceiving the intended message • Presents a restrictive and authoritarian attitude, reflecting an environment that discourages open communication and thus discourages employee candor • Expresses bias or prejudice (in the slur against women employees) • Reflects the author’s anger and defensiveness (“I simply have no choice”) • Assumes bad intentions on the part of the employees, underlining the lack of audience-centered thinking • Uses vague, confusing language (More than three times during what period? Will have to answer to the author for what specific penalties?) • Polarizes workers by inciting conflict between “punctual” employees and others 1.2 The tasks described have the following communication directions: a. Downward, upward, and horizontal—since the entire company is involved. A memo is the best choice (either printed or electronic) to ensure that everyone receives the message (as opposed to, say, a blog posting, which is more passive). b. Upward. Depending on the situation, could be a formal proposal or a presentation at an executive meeting. c. Horizontal. Because this situation...
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...7/21/2014 My Personal Code of Ethics | Conscious Incompetence Conscious Incompetence Life After College A.K.A The Real World Feeds: Posts Comments My Personal Code of Ethics July 28, 2010 by vlc29 (http://consciousincompetence.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/personal-code1.jpg)DISCLAIMER: A major assignment in my Ethics for Public Relations Professionals class was to write a personal code of ethics that will later be used in my Capstone class at the end of my master’s program. I have been writing my personal code for several weeks, and I am very excited about the finished product. I think that I will hold myself more accountable for living my life according to this code if it is public information. I realize that it is a little long, especially for a blog post, but I thought I would share anyways. Enjoy! Background My personal values act as a basis for distinguishing between right and wrong and thus, determine my daily actions and emotions. My parents and education have played profound roles in the development of my core personal values: personal integrity, excellence, responsibility, family http://consciousincompetence.wordpress.com/2010/07/28/my-personal-code-of-ethics/ 1/9 7/21/2014 My Personal Code of Ethics | Conscious Incompetence and ambition. Additionally, these influences have demonstrated certain rule-based, ends-based, and virtue-based approaches to determining what conduct is consistent with these key values. Through her own actions, my mom has...
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...information, others strongly disagree. “Since all the books and articles have been chosen for publication, each one has presumably undergone some form of selection and review” (Spatt, 2011, “p.”339-340). Unfortunately, this statement is simply not enough to say that one can trust Wikipedia just because it exists. Issues with “Vandalism” In 2003 IBM researches conducted a study to find how rapidly the editors remove the false information in the articles of Wikipedia and discovered that “vandalism is usually repaired extremely quickly-so quickly that most users will never see its affects” and that Wikipedia had “surprisingly effective self-healing capabilities” (IBM, 2003, para. 3). This statement is not always true. Waldman (2004) tells the following story to disprove the above point: one blogger who goes under the name of Frozen North, made a point of deliberately making a number of minor errors on a number of entries at the start of September. He made five changes and it took at least 20 hours for them to be changed. Some of his implanted errors were there for five days before he removed them himself (para. 17). Nobody can rely on information in Wikipedia without proper evaluation of credibility and validity of the articles. Reasons to Trust Wikipedia People can use many ways to check the credibility and validity of Wikipedia. List of References Small blue numbers at the...
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...name | 1.Shawn Cowan2.Zahidah Zain3.Sheikh Hussin Bin Mohamed Hairi4.Belly Ciuwinly Tjiu5. Handi Yosef Pranata | Unit Code | BUS273E | Unit name | Consumer Behaviour | Date | 07/03/2016 | Assessment name | Team Assignment (Case Study 2) | Tutor | Mr Ken Kieran Ho | Student’s Declaration:• Except where indicated, the work I am submitting in this assignment is my own work and has not been submitted for assessment in another unit.• This submission complies with Murdoch University's academic integrity commitments. I am aware that information about plagiarism and associated penalties can be found at http://www.murdoch.edu.au/teach/plagiarism/. If I have any doubts or queries about this, I am further aware that I can contact my Unit Coordinator prior to submitting the assignment.• I acknowledge that the assessor of this assignment may, for the purpose of assessing this assignment:o reproduce this assignment and provide a copy to another academic staff member; and/oro submit a copy of this assignment to a plagiarism-checking service. This web-based service may retain a copy of this work for the sole purpose of subsequent plagiarism checking, but has a legal agreement with the University that it will not share or reproduce it in any form.• I have retained a copy of this assignment.• I will retain a copy of the notification of receipt of this assignment. If you have not received a receipt within three days, please check with your Unit Coordinator. | I am aware that I am...
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...• John posted a rant on his Facebook page in which he criticized the company’s most important customer. • Jim sent an email to other salespeople protesting a change in commission schedules and bonuses and suggesting everyone boycott the next sales meeting. • Ellen started a blog to protest the CEO’s bonus, noting that no one below director has gotten a raise in two (2) years and portraying her bosses as “know-nothings” and “out-of-touch” • Bill has been using his company-issued BlackBerry to run his own business on the side. • The secretaries in the accounting department decided to dress in black-and-white stripes to protest a memo announcing that the company has installed keylogger software on all company computers. • After being disciplined for criticizing a customer in an email (sent from his personal email account on a company computer), Joe threatens to sue the company for invasion of privacy. • One of the department supervisors requests your approval to fire his secretary for insubordination. Since the secretary has always received glowing reviews, you call her into your office and determine that she has refused to prepare false expense reports for her boss. • Anna’s boss refused to sign her leave request for jury duty and now wants to fire her for being absent without permission. As an astute manager, you will need to analyze the employment-at-will doctrine and determine what, if any, exceptions and...
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...Web Communications Assignment 1: Exercise - Short Question & Answers In Brief: This assignment is worth 15% of your mark for this unit. Please refer to the calendar in your Unit Outline for the due date. Instructions: Please answer all of the following questions. Each answer should be a paragraph in length, and the maximum total word length for the assignment is 750 words. 1. What is the Internet? 2. What is the World Wide Web? 3. What is the relationship between the World Wide Web and the Internet? 4. What are three purported differences between the World Wide Web as it first emerged, and the more recent Web 2.0? 5. What is RSS and why is it significant to Web 2.0? The word length averages out to 150 words for each answer, which is sufficient to answer each question, but only if you write concisely. One of the challenges of short word-lengths is making sure you avoid any unnecessary material and get straight to your main points. Since the overall assignment is worth 15 marks, this means that each question is worth 3 marks. It follows that for each question there are (at least) three full and distinct points you should be making. Since there is probably a lot more than three points possible for each question, you need to select what you think are the three most important points. Being clear and concise is the key to doing well in this assignment. You must clearly indicate all references and sources for the material informing your answers using in-text citations...
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...HUM/176 Week 3 Assignment Hello, I hear so many good things and am so fascinated with what you can do with the Internet. Finding all this information so quickly must make your life very easy. But please tell me: how do you assess the value of all this information you find on the Internet? How can you be sure that it is reliable and credible? Also, I have heard the term “digital divide.” What exactly does it mean, and how do you think this divide could be bridged? Thank you for helping me to understand these issues! Best regards, Your friend Dear Friend, I just wanted to see if I can help you understand a little about the internet and answer some of the questions you had. In the beginning you had to have a phone line, but the big cable companies started to use the cable system to transfer the data making it faster and more reliable. Private companies would start-up web browsers and search engines, internet service providers and email; all quickly changed the landscape and the culture around us. Many people became rich and powerful, but along with them came the scammers and those that were less ethical. Because of them the reliability of what you were reading, viewing or watching became suspect. There was so much money to be made because the net had exploded into almost every household in America. You had asked how to check the reliability of what you are reading; there are many ways to do this. The simplest way is to look at the internet as a vast array...
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...Assignment 2: Case Study essay Subject Code : TBS906 Subject Name : Information Systems for Managers Due Date : May 9th, 2012 Submission Date : May 9th, 2012 Submitted to Ph.D. Kathy Ning Shen Prepared by Name : Abdulghafor Al Saeed ID : 3730499 Phone : +971 50 6153914 email : aaias996@uowmail.edu.au Table of Contents ABSTRACT 3 1. INTRODUCTION 4 1.1. GOOGLE EXPANSION IN BRIEF… 4 1.2. HOW GOOGLE BENEFIT US? GOOGLE PRODUCTS… 4 2. GOOGLE IS INNOVATION & COMPETITIVE FORCE 5 3. GOOGLE TRANSNATIONAL GLOBALIZATION 6 3.1. GOOGLE ADAPTING “FLAT WORLD” 6 3.2. GLOBALIZATION CHALLENGES 6 3.3. GOOGLE VS. GLOBAL ECONOMY 6 4. GOOGLE SERVICES SECURITY 7 5. REFERENCES 8 Abstract In the following report I analyzed the case study in discussion – Google Inc. – from the prospective of Information Systems related topics studied during this semester. These data represented in order to reach for better understanding of the relation between the success of Google & the Information system setup, infrastructure & strategy implemented in Google. 1. Introduction 1.1. Google expansion in brief… Founded by to colleagues “Larry Page & Sergey Brin” Google started in 1996 with the name of “BackRub”, it was a search engine that meant to use links to determine the importance of an individual webpages. (Google Mission 2012) In 1998; this search engine that they...
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...Entrepreneurs at Twitter: Building a Brand, a Social Tool or a Tech Powerhouse? MID-TERM ASSIGNMENT A Paper Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements of the Robert Kennedy College MBA Course Nr. 57582 - Entrepreneurship Prof. Francois Therin October 27, 2010 1 Declaration of originality of work I affirm that the attached work is entirely my own, except where the words or ideas of other writers are specifically acknowledged according to accepted citation conventions. This assignment has not been submitted for any other course at Robert Kennedy College or any other institution. I have revised, edited and proof-read this paper. th Signed the student, October 27 2010 Certification of authorship I certify that I am the author of this paper and that any assistance I received in its preparation is fully acknowledged and fully disclosed in this assignment/paper/examination. I have also cited any sources (footnotes or endnotes) from which I used data, ideas, theories, or words, whether quoteds directly or paraphrased. I further acknowledge that this written work has been prepared by myself specifically for this course. Signed the student, October 27th 2010 Word count: 1952 without title pages, index of contents, executive summary and bibliography 2 “If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will get you there.” The Cheshire Cat in “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” by Lewis Carroll 3 Index of contents Executive Summary .........................................
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...Subject Code: | BUSM3097 | Subject Name: | Issues in International Business | Location & Campus (SGS or HN) where you study: | RMIT Vietnam | Title of Assignment: | Case study Assignment | Student name: | Tran Tuan Hoang | Student Number: | 3463819 | Teachers Name: | Thanapat Kijbumrung | Group Number: | 1 | Assignment due date: | 18/12/2015 | Date of Submission: | 18/12/2015 | Number of pages including this one: | 9 | Word Count: | 2339 | RMIT International University Vietnam Bachelor of Business Program Assignment Cover Page GOOGLE STRUGLING TO SURVIDE THE ETHICAL ISSUSES IN CHINA I. Introduction Google is the company who provide a wide range of services to both normal consumers and business. They are best known from their search engine while incorporating with other online technologies such as Gmail and Google chrome. While being one of the top company in the world, Google seem to be struggling when operating in China – the country with the largest number of internet user. Though Google is popular with their motto “Don’t be evil”, they were struggling to adapt with Chinese policy toward certain areas such as censorship and certain actions from the government toward Google prevented it from competing with Baidu –their local competitors. Consequently, Google officially leave china and redirect to Hong Kong in order to escape from the censorship of Chinese government in 2010. This report will analyze certain ethical...
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...Subway is the world’s biggest sandwich chain. It overtook McDonald’s as America’s biggest fast-food restaurant by number of outlets in 2002, and achieved the same feat on a global scale in 2010. 1. Marketing Advertising Campaign * Subway targets more of the younger generation aiming at nutrition consciousness, these would include ‘empty nest 1 and 2’ (singles and newly married people) and ‘full nest 1 and full nest 2’ (family with young children and that with grownups still living with parents). * Subway also focuses on hard sell approach in terms of the functional benefits and attributes of the menu being offered while the soft sell approach is inclined towards the nutritional value gained and often gets to be criticized for the hefty amounts spent for ad campaigns and promotions. * Jared Fogle “The Subway Guy”, first came to media attention in 1999 when Men’s Health magazine did a story on how he became obese by eating junk food and not exercising and then proceeded to lose 245 pounds by eating Subway sandwiches. Fogle is now the face of Subway marketing. He tours around different schools and promotes healthy eating to children. * Mark Blackwell is Subway restaurants weight loss hero in Australia. Blackwell was inspired by Jared Fogle to develop a diet of his own design that included Subway sandwiches. * In the year 2002, the outlets’ low fat sandwiches were promoted showing Mark Blackwell having lost 42 kilograms after a year of Subway...
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...Freedom of Connection – Freedom of Expression: The Changing Legal and Regulatory Ecology Shaping the Internet by William H. Dutton Anna Dopatka Michael Hills Ginette Law and Victoria Nash Oxford Internet Institute University of Oxford 1 St Giles Oxford OX1 3JS United Kingdom 19 August 2010 A report prepared for UNESCO’s Division for Freedom of Expression, Democracy and Peace. The opinions expressed in this report are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of UNESCO or its Division for Freedom of Expression, Democracy and Peace. Preface As stated in its Constitution, UNESCO is dedicated to “Promoting the free flow of ideas by word and image”. Part of this mission, therefore, is to promote freedom of expression and freedom of the press through sensitization and monitoring activities, as a central element in building strong democracies, contributing to good governance, promoting civic participation and the rule of law, and encouraging human development and security. Media independence and pluralism are fostered by the Organization, providing advisory services on media legislation and sensitizing governments and parliamentarians, as well as civil society and relevant professional associations. However, UNESCO recognizes that the principle of freedom of expression must apply not only to traditional media, but also...
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...image in repositioning. In order to gain the consumers’ awareness of Yoguru, we have came up with a series of eight events that will take about six months to complete, with a budget of SGD 50, 000. Some of the tactics include advertising through traditional and new media, holding an event, creating buzz, the launch of our new product, Blend It Yourself (BIY), etcetera. However, in the event of unforeseen circumstances, we also came up with a contingency plan. Page 2 of 21 BUS 214 Marketing Management | Marketing Plan Table of Contents Page 1. Title Page ------------------------------------------------------------ 2 2. Executive Summary ------------------------------------------------------------ 5 3. Current Situational Analysis 3.1 Current Operations ----------------------------------------------------- 6 3.2 Product Offerings...
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...Digital Marketing Activity Putting E-Commerce at the heart of Wills Boston' Business Strategy This paper sets out some of the leading and fundamental e-commerce decisions Wills Boston has taken and implemented across 2010-2014, decisions that have led to 25 consecutive months of outperforming online market growth as stated by IMRG. Wills Boston is the UK’s favourite department store, a brand famous for its Never Knowingly Undersold commitment and for inspiring genuine affection in its customers. It has 35 shops, over 27,000 Wills Boston partners and an award-winning website. It currently sells the biggest range of products of any UK high street retailer. In early 2010, Wills Boston saw that despite having an incredible 350,000 product SKUs most customers visited on average only twice per year. It was also clear that there was significant potential to increase online annual sales by creating opportunities for customers to interact with the brand through new and multiple touch points. Indeed it was apparent that a multi-channel customer was worth on average 3.3 times more than a shop-only customer shopping on average 6 times per year. As a result of this, and the consumer trend for browsing and purchasing online, Wills Boston refocused its strategy and made e-commerce growth its single highest priority, setting a new commercial objective to increase online annual sales from £393m in 2009/2010 to £685m through online channels by 2014. The journey so far has taken Wills Boston...
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