... Submitted By: Rinky Dhar Assistant professor Accounting & Information Systems Sec - B 1st Batch of Business Graduate CENTER FOR BUSINESS STUDIES Faculty of Business Administration University of Chittagong (2013-2014) Bangladesh gets biggest budget in history of 2.22 trillion taka with estimated expenditure at 18.7% of GDP for 2013-2014 fiscal year. Planning to fetch 1.41 trillion taka as tax revenue and 262.40 billion taka as non-tax revenue. The overall budget deficit was estimated at 550.3 billion taka or 4.6 per cent of the GDP while Muhith proposed that the deficit financing would be met through foreign loans and domestic borrowings. The proposed budget allocated 23.17 per cent of the overall resources to social infrastructure sector, mainly to human resources, 30.18 per cent to physical infrastructure sector and 22.45 per cent to general services. Budget(2013-2014) criticized by specialists in different perspectives Ambitious but Achievable Finance Minister AMA Muhith said, “The budget for the upcoming fiscal year is ambitious but feasible. The minister admitted that the Tk 2, 22,491 crore budget is lavish. “But this ambition is not for the sake of ambition. This ambition is one that is achievable.” Budget in the eyes of leading...
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...kinds—expensive, elite colleges, state universities, and community colleges—are flirting with the idea of MOOCS, massive open online courses, where tens of thousands of students can take the same class simultaneously. Is this the future of college? Nathan Heller wrote about the phenomenon in the May 20, 2013 issue of The New Yorker in "Laptop U." I recommend you find a copy or subscribe online for the full article, but I'll share with you here what I gleaned as the pros and cons of MOOCS from Heller's article. What Is a MOOC? The short answer is that a MOOC is an online video of a college lecture. The M stands for massive because there is no limit to the number of students who can enroll from anywhere in the world. Anant Agarwal is a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT, and president of edX, a non-profit MOOC company owned jointly MIT andHarvard. In 2011, he launched a forerunner called MITx (Open Courseware), hoping to get 10 times the usual number of classroom students in his spring-semester circuits-and-electronics course, about 1,500. In the first few hours of posting the course, he told Heller, he had 10,000 students sign up from all over the world. The ultimate enrollment was 150,000. Massive. The Pros MOOCs are controversial. Some say they are the future of higher education. Others see them as the eventual downfall of it. Here are the pros Heller found in his research. MOOCS: 1. Are free. Right now, most MOOCs are free or nearly free...
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...LEADERSHIP IN EVERYDAY PRACTICE All too often we explain problems or successes in organizations with the acts of one or several of the leaders at the top. It is never that simple. Yet leaders make a difference, and when they influence people and organization the most, we tend to call it leadership. I first heard about plant manager Steinar as I, together with two colleagues at the university, was contacted by a HR manager at an aluminum plant and asked to contribute to a new leadership development program for foremen and middle managers at the plant. As the HR manager described the plant, their principles, and practices in leadership and organizational development, we got a sense that this was something different than “industry standard,” if anything like that existed. She told us about extensive training and competence development, about efforts in creating leadership skills and practices among non-formal leaders, and she presented their work of creating a cooperative climate between all levels and areas at the plant. This was all very idealistic, of course, and we had heard managers tell such stories before and experience reality as less impressive. But after a while as we met more people and heard them describe the past, present, and future, their stories were in line with those of the HR manager, and also seemed to have at least one vital ingredient in common: namely, the plant manager, who himself rarely led the processes they referred to, but seemed to be a point...
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...The First Eagle – Analysis Adaptations An interesting aspect of Hillerman's fictions is the multi-ethnic, multi-cultural contexts in which they are set with their particular historical imperatives and consequences. The "Big Res" itself although sparsely populated by the standards of large urban enclaves is nevertheless home to a wide mix of Native American tribal entities including Navajo, Apache, Hopi, Ute, Zuni as well as Anglos and Hispanics of various national origins. Add to this cultural diversity such social elements as the disparity of power and wealth between the communities, and the opportunities for friction and conflict are significant. Therefore, a possible focus for discussions of this novel could be to examine the ways in which Hillerman ignores, acknowledges, utilizes, or highlights particular elements of the cultural and economic contexts in the service of his plot, characterization, and themes. Characters Hillerman populates the novel with a rich cast of characters whom he reveals through their speech, their actions, and their thoughts. He also describes their physical appearance so that readers form specific and distinguishing images of them. Jim Chee is portrayed as a "traditional" Navajo who has studied to become a hatathali, a traditional singer who can conduct traditional curing rituals; he is also a universityeducated (University of Arizona) lawman as is his former supervisor, now retired, Joe Leaphorn (Arizona State University). The relationship...
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...ETHICS IN JAPANESE BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT Romanian Economic and Business Review – Vol. 2, No. 2 Caraiani Gheorghe, Maduţa Gyongyver Gheorghe Caraiani is Professor of International Business at the Romanian American University in Bucharest. Maduta Gyongyver is Assistant Professor of English Language at the Romanian American University in Bucharest. Abstract At first sight it is easy to understand that “ethics in business” is a field which aims at explaining problems of moral aspect which come up currently in the activity of economic agents from a market economy. Considering the cultural variety of moral values and principles lengthwise and crosswise the planet and, since the adopted policies led to many unacceptable effects, the idea of drawing up international ethic codes appeared more and more substantial through the explicit agreement of some governmental and non-governmental associations in which the big transnational corporations have the main role. The company system in Japan is so strict that it is quite hard, sometimes even impossible for a company to do business with another company with which it does not have personal, tight and previously established relations. The Japanese philosophy is that only the company in which the human relations are good will succeed in while the one with bad human relations will go bankrupt. In order to understand a Japanese company and to be able to cooperate with it, it is really useful for one to see it as an exclusive club, a cooperating...
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...Human Resources Management Report Ngai Ting Chan 300762020 Centennial College HRMT 301-102 Professor: Imran Fancy February 11th, 2015 Table of Contents I. Organizational Research and Recommendations RBC Royal Bank 3 a. Mission Statement 3 b. Core Values 3 c. Commitment to Employees 3 d. Strategies to new graduates 4 e. HR Issue 4 f. Solution 5 II. HR Position and Job Analysis a. Financial Control Assistant Manager at RBC Royal Bank 5 b. Sample Job Description 6 c. Sample Job Specification 7 III. Human Resources and Technology a. Employees and HR Technology 8 b. Effective HR Software 8 c. Risks and Concerns 9 I. Organizational Research and Recommendations I am truly interested in working for RBC Royal Bank because employee in the bank provided good services and explained methodically when I firstly set up bank account in Ontario. It also pledged 100 million to help a lot kids and youth that address their needs (Canada, Royal Bank of Canada, 2015). It gives me really positive image that I really want to work in this company. a. Mission Statement Based on market capitalization, RBC Royal Bank is one of Canada's largest banks and one of the largest banks in the world. Always earning the right to be our clients' first choice is RBC Royal Bank’s vision that it committed to provide best services in its five business segments, personal and commercial banking, wealth management services...
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...BRIEF INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND OF THE CASE: Ms. Jenifer is well known and extremely popular person in the university campus. Her devotion to the school was unparalleled. She knew everything about the campus. She started career in teaching introductory to history course. After that she earned Ph. D from Metropolitan University. She was appointed as assistant Professor and eventually earned the rank of Associate based on her popularity and excellent teaching capabilities. She was an extremely popular person on the campus and had 10 years of experience in the role of Associate Vice President. She knew everything about the campus. She was also elected the President of the Faculty Senate. During her 10 years as Associate Vice President handled most of the academic complaints, oversaw several committees and reports to the vice president. She was friendly to the entire campus life. People counted her for better relationship especially the female staffs. JENNIFER’S NEW ROLE CHALLENGING & FOCUSED: Jennifer appointed as interim Vice President for 3 years, by the newly elected president. This is a new challenging job to her. She has to understand the job responsibilities, understand the culture, know the faculty and get things done timely. It’s also difficult for her to take some tough decision. She desired to take care of every employee. It’s difficult to satisfy everybody. Even planning, organizing and managing time effectively is a challenge for her now. Figure-1:...
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...Abortion Facilities Impacting Women for the Good In the year of 1973, the option of receiving an abortion became legalized due to the case of Roe v Wade. (NRLC). Women in the earlier years were having unsafe procedures to terminate a pregnancy, due to the negative views people held on the topic, they sought alternative methods. Some people highly place abortions on an ethnics issue stand, judging whether the act is moral or unmoral or whether the bad outweighs the good. This issue, when debated, is focused mainly on the life on the baby not yet born, rather than the mother childbearing. Abortions should be viewed to others as an advantage to women because it provides them with a healthier and optimistic lifestyle. Pro-choice is seen as a “helping milestone” for women and a fundamental to female empowerment and equality according to Valerie Tarico in which women are more in control of their bodies (AlterNet). The popular motto in the pro-choice movement is “Trust Women” meaning that no other person can make a decision better than the women herself. This motto “means that no one else can make a better decision- because no one else is living her life, and since she will have to live with that not you, and not that state legislature or the Supreme Court- chances are she is doing her best in a tight spot” says Katha Pollitt as she attempts to show women should be able to make a decision upon themselves (Pollitt). Having the chance to obtain an abortion provides women to have plans...
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...CHAPTER I THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND I. INTRODUCTION Phenomenology is a qualitative research method originally developed by the philosopher Edmund Husserl.[1] The termed phenomenology is both a philosophy and a research method. As a philosophy, phenomenology is a particular way of approaching the world and apprehending lived experience[2]. As a research method, phenomenology is a rigorous process of reexamining what Husserl termed “the things themselves.”[3] The question of phenomenological inquiry is about the meaning of human experience and asks, “What is it like?” Phenomenology is a way of thinking about what life experiences are like for people[4] and is primarily concerned with interpreting the meaning of these experiences. Phenomenological research “explores the humanness of a being in the world”[5]. Bergum refers to the phenomenological research method as an “action-sensitive-understanding” that begins and ends in the practical acting of everyday life and leads to a practical knowledge of thoughtful action. Phenomenological research is an introspective human science, the intent of which is to interpret and to understand as opposed to observing, measuring, explaining, and predicting)[6]. The intention is to go beyond the aspects of life taken for granted and “to uncover the meanings in everyday practice in such a way that they are not destroyed, distorted, decontextualized, trivialized or sentimentalized”.[7] To answer the question, “What is it...
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...tierzahjane@yahoo.com Keller Graduate School of Management at DeVry MGMT-591-20618 Leadership & Org Behavior Professor Joseph Neptune February 22, 2015 Abstract The organization discussed in this work of literature is Cuba Memorial Hospital, located in Cuba, NY. Cuba Memorial Hospital is named as a Critical Access Hospital through a federally supported program. This allows the hospital to choose which services best meet the needs of the community with 50+ employees. Cuba Memorial provides mostly long-term care treatment as the main bulk of their income. Like many other hospitals, Cuba Memorial Hospital (Cuba Memorial Hospital) went thru a significant downturn around 2008 due to fraud and theft of education funding and much more. Not only do they lose funding, but also they also almost get shutdown every six months due to not meeting regulations in controlling heat and air-conditioning, as well as having asbestos in the pipes, and a lack of food as they have maxed out their credits with many companies. It has been a roller coaster for many years. The main contributor for many issues among the organization is lack of morale and ethics within the company and this contribute to a very high turnover rate overall. Employees are not very good as well due to the lack of appreciation of everyone’s hard work, very low pay for nurses and nursing assistants, as well as the need to work long hours because the people always call in. There are no incentive and...
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...Education: Good Value for the Cost? In these harsh economic times when practically everyone has to ‘trim the fat’, so to speak, from their expenditures it pays to evaluate everything closely. Perhaps the harshest cost facing people is a decent education beyond high school. It is my belief that for the amount of money invested in a college education, the actual education gained is far below an acceptable threshold. “It's more than 500% more expensive to enroll in college now than it was in 1985…the rising cost of college tuition far outpaced the growth of medical costs (286%) and overall inflation (121%) during the same span (Notte).” Another article I read detailed one person’s costs to attend college in 1977 when “At one of New York's state universities, I managed to pay for years three and four with a $500 scholarship, a summer job, and by becoming a resident assistant in year four, plus a $500 federally guaranteed student loan. I finished in 1982 with $3,000 in debt, equivalent to $7,026 in 2012 dollars (Daughter Number Three).” My adopted younger sister lives in Maine and attended the University of Southern Maine, part of a state university system. Her cost of attendance as an in-state student was $20,086 per year of enrollment, for out-of-state students that rocketed up to as much as $32,446 a year, dependent on several factors. That’s three or four times the amount paid by the blogger in 1977, even accounting...
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...HCM City Chapter AMCHAM Scholarship Directory 10 10 Anniversary AmCham Scholarship 2001 - 2010 th th Anniversary 2001 - 2010 We dedicate this directory to our Advisors, Sponsors, Scholars, and anyone else who has helped us along the way. Thank you. AmCham Scholarship Management Team December 11, 2010 Table of contents Directory Introduction 10 Anniversary Message 10-year AmCham Scholarship Photos AmCham Scholar Alumni Information AmCham Scholarship Management Team Special Thanks to Sponsors AmCham Scholarship Review Interview with Nguyen Ngoc Ha and Le Tran Anh Dung (AmCham Scholars 2009) Facts and Figures AmCham Scholar Alumni Activities AmCham Scholars Profiles Index th Directory Introduction 02 AmCham Scholarship Directory - 10th Anniversary HERB COCHRAN Executive Director AmCham Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh City Chapter Mr. Cochran has lived in Vietnam for about 10 years, in various cities such as Can Tho, Hanoi, and now Ho Chi Minh City. Previously, Mr. Cochran worked for the US State Department, US Commerce Department, and US Embassy in Japan and Thailand. “I would like to see AmCham Scholarship expand to other cities such as Can Tho, Da Nang and Da Lat.” AmCham Scholarship started out as an idea for community development. From there, we created a selective program to find the most outstanding Vietnamese students. Through this process, we hoped to find the best employees for AmCham companies. We thought this investment would generate...
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...Team: The team who was in charge for the mechanism, evaluation and training was very well structured since the beginning. The Project Management team was forms from the people of the Industry department Danoneand the Human Resources assistant director. It is interesting to be said that the one who came with this idea was the Industry manager department (not the Human Resources one) and together with the Human Resources manager began setting up this change in the management of Danone. From the beginning they had to find sponsors within the firm who will actually finance their idea. The project manager together with the assistant from Human Resources were in charge with the training part of the employees, the manager of Accounting and Production Departments were in charge of the communication between the employees and the director. The direct chiefs were the ones who actually made the developing plan for this management change and after the process of interviewing and testing was finished, they had to inform about the results. After that, the employees were able to give some feedback because after all, they were the beneficiaries of this projects, and all of this were made in the goal of helping them but also developing the company in a good and fear manner. For this project, the stakeholders were the Syndicate and the Employees Representative . The Syndicate is a non - profit NGOs defined in Labor Code as:" independent legal entities , non-profit , formed to defend...
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...ZENITH International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research Vol.2 Issue 1, January 2012, ISSN 2231 5780 RIGHT TO SIGHT: A MANAGEMENT CASE STUDY ON ARAVIND EYE HOSPITALS DR. BHUPINDER CHAUDHARY*; DR. ASHWIN G. MODI**; DR. KALYAN REDDY*** *Assistant Professor, Department of Hospital Management, H.N.G. University, Patan (Gujarat)-384265. **Co-ordinator, Department of Hospital Management, H.N.G. University, Patan (Gujarat)-384265. ***Assistant Professor, Department of Hospital Management, H.N.G. University, Patan (Gujarat)-384265. ABSTRACT With the aim of providing affordable eye care services to a country which has about 20 million blind citizens and 80% of it due to curable cataracts, at the age of 58, Dr. V. Started, the Aravind Eye Hospital. Popularly known as the McDonald‘s of cataract surgery, with a bed strength of more than 4000 beds and serving 0.25 million patients every year, this is one of the world‘s largest eye care systems catering largely to the poor population. Poor people with cataract can regain their eye-sight at a price as low as $40 or even free, if they can‘t afford. It was demonstrated by this non-profit system that it is practically possible to combine high quality, low cost, world scale and sustainability. It has been seen as a unique business model by many Organizations and has proven that care provided at low cost can also yield sustainability and even profitability. Aravind system's successful manufacturing unit, Aurolab, has produced 6%-7% of...
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...Kremed! The rise and fall of Krispy Kreme is a cautionary tale of ambition, greed, and inexperience. What could be more perfect than a Krispy Kreme doughnut? Hot from the fryer and loaded with sugar, the Original Glazed is practically irresistible. For a time, Krispy Kreme's stock seemed irresistible, too. When the company went public in April 2000, at the peak of the Internet whirlwind, investors flocked to buy into a business they could understand. An old-fashioned franchise based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Krispy Kreme Doughnuts Inc. boasted solid fundamentals, adding stores at a rapid clip and showing steadily increasing sales and earnings. But Krispy Kreme also had a mystique. Its doughnuts, available for many years only in the Southeast, had attracted a devoted, even fanatical, customer base. When the company decided to go national, it opened franchises in locations guaranteed to generate buzz — Manhattan, Los Angeles, Las Vegas — and customers lined up around the block. By August 2003, KKD was trading at nearly $50 on the New York Stock Exchange, up 235 percent from its initial public offering price of $21 on Nasdaq, and Fortune magazine was calling Krispy Kreme the "hottest brand in the land." For the fiscal year ended in February 2004, the company reported $665.6 million in sales and $94.7 million in operating profit from its nearly 400 locations, including stores in Australia, Canada, and South Korea. And then, just as rapidly as its popularity spiked, Krispy...
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