...Strategic Management Becton Dickinson Case Tuesday January 28, 2014 In the case of Becton Dickinson (BD), employees are looking for more guidance from their top management on how to deal with ethical issues such as issues with bribery and corruption within the international markets. The problem for BD is that they are in stuck in a situation that they are feeling pressure to not follow their ethical conduct and participate in these social norms that consist of bribes and scandals in order to guarantee a contract. The US government outlawed any company that participates in international trade to offer gifts or money in order to make deals. This is definitely not the case in countries such as Europe, Asia, and Africa where it is a social norm to offer these gifts to influence a business deal. The problem for BD is that other companies within the international market are going to use such incentives to gain business. BD needs to decide if they are going to have a uniform policy on gifts, or make a region-by-region policy? My recommendations are that the company treats these ethical issues on a region-by-region policy. As we have discussed in prior cases, culture is a large part of how people do business and companies need to respect the culture and their norms when running international businesses. But at the same time, BD should not be chosen because of how great the gifts or bribes are but rather how good of a product they provide. BD is trying to increase their attention...
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...Analysis from Society’s Perspective Society can be defined through many different factors. The simplest of all is the general, dictionary definition that states: ‘People in general living together in organized communities, with laws and traditions controlling the way that they behave towards one another.’ (Macmillan Dictionary, 2014) The crucial parts in this definition are the’ laws and traditions’ that control the society. We can easily interpret these as Government and Culture in contemporary society. Through Culture we have interests, task divisions and roles, and we can say that nowadays Businesses play a big part of a nation’s Culture. In addition we can say that both Government and Business are parts of Society, while Society is being influenced by both sectors nonetheless, creating a cycle of actions and reactions. In this case society represents the organisations and the people under their care. The organisations fall under either business or government sector, even though they are societies on their own, and part of a bigger society altogether. On one side we have the hospitals, on the other, businesses and in between them the regulating bodies. The society that I will be talking about in this report represents all the people involved, the business people, the government and the rest of society, the common folk. Society has different faces. Society can be the victim; it can be the harasser and finally the peace maker. The role it will take depends on what roles...
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...Main Problem Certainly the main problem of Becton Dickinson is that going into a transnational business evolves many upsets among the managerial force, from all different levels of the organization and also all around the globe. Another very big issue is like since most of the revenues were earned in the local U.S. market, this local market has a priority than its other business in Europe, Asia and Latin America; local managers in foreign nations where frustrated because they did not get enough resources to satisfy its local market, and at the same time the headquarters wanted more profits and get more market share to their other locations. Company's situation Becton Dickinson Company a medical manufacturing company, with operations worldwide, and revenues of over $2 billion dollars, almost half of it from outside the U.S. B.D. is a supplier of two main product lines of clinical products, divided in medical and diagnostic. The U.S. domestic production was starting to give way to international sales, making necessary a European division, which in the 1980's the company, was divided by local business divisions centralized with decisions made in the U.S. focusing production mainly in the U.S. market needs, given the remains to other divisions like Europe and Asia. Recommendation An excellent recommendation is that the company should take more in consideration of create a new environment of cooperation among colleges from all over the world, the firm should mold...
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...hen Thomas Shaw gets worked up, he twists in his chair and kneads his hand. Or he paces about in his tube socks grumbling, “They’re trying to destroy us,” and “The whole thing is a giant scam.” And Shaw, the founder of a medical device maker called Retractable Technologies, spends a lot of time being agitated. One of the topics that gets him most riled up these days is bloodstream infections. And with good reason—while most people rarely think about them, these are the most dangerous of the hospital-acquired bugs that afflict one in ten patients in the United States. Their spread has helped to make contact with our health care system the fifth leading cause of death in this country. A few years ago, Shaw, an engineer by training, decided he wanted to do something to help solve this problem and quickly homed in on the mechanics of needle-less IV catheters. Rather than using needles to inject drugs into IV systems, most hospitals have moved to a new design, which involves screwing the threaded tip of a needle-less syringe into a specially designed port. The problem is that if the tip brushes against a nurse’s scrubs, or a counter, or the railing of a hospital bed, it can pick up bacteria. And the rugged threaded surface makes it difficult to get rid of the germs once they’re there. Often, the bacteria go straight into the patients’ bloodstream—which explains why, according to some studies, the rate of bloodstream infections is three times higher with needle-less systems than...
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...had a good time in Round Rock, Texas. A few weeks ago, I was there along with Dr. David Simchi-Levi of MIT to film our Videocast that was broadcast Wednesday on Dell's Supply Chain Transformation. The team at Dell, from Annette Clayton, VP of Global Supply Chain and Operations, to a number of supply chain, communications and video professionals, was first rate and universally friendly (thanks Bruce Raven). You can see an on-demand version of this outstanding broadcast here: Dell's Supply Chain Transformation Videocast. It was our biggest event ever, and I believe the largest on-line event in supply chain history. We had a huge audience from around the globe. I frankly learned a thing or two. When Dell announced in 2008 that it was moving into the retail business and making other related changes to its supply chain, it really did seem to me like the end of an era. The primary corporate icon of supply chain excellence was giving up on its legendary make-to-order model, outsourcing large swathes of manufacturing, and seeming to move back to the supply chain field it had been previously outdistancing by many lengths. But as many of our readers noted at the time, the customer has to drive the supply chain. There was a significant portion of the market, especially globally, that wanted to buy a different way. To grow, Dell had to expand its customer value proposition to reach different market segments. That required different supply chain strategies across multiple dimensions...
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...Mgt 350 Week 3 Decisions in Paradise, Part I Decisions in Paradise I am Nik and I work at Becton Dickinson (BD). I just graduated from college with my degree and I am really happy I landed a job in a solid organization. During the first week at BD, I received the overview of the company along with HR procedures, organizational processes, an overview of Kava, and flight arrangements. The second week I will fly to Kava and no one could tell me what I would be doing there. I will work with Alex, the director of strategic planning and Chris Morales will be helping us out. In this paper, I will define the issues of the scenario, discuss the forces, and describe the organizational and environmental obstacles which will affect the stakeholders impacted by the decision. Kava is a significant island located in the South Pacific. The population of Kava has 50% under the age of 15 and has a diverse ethnic mix. The economy is supported by coffee, cocoa, bananas, tourism, fishing and inexpensive quality labor. Businesses, faith-based groups, community based organizations, and government are Kava's helping organizations. Once Nik landed in Kava, there was a mess all over, the island was a mess and also the company's office was a make-shift office. Alex greeted Nik at the inside and Alex is also the receptionist. After the introductions, Alex gave Nik an overview of the island and Nik pointed out the disaster of the island. The disaster threats could be from tidal waves,...
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...Holly Pryor 372 After great pain, a formal feeling comes- The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs- The stiff Heart questions ‘was it He, that bore,’ And ‘Yesterday, or Centuries before’? The Feet, mechanical, go round- A wooden way Of ground, or Air, or Ought- Regardless grown, A quartz contentment, like a stone- This is the Hour of Lead- Remembered, if outlived, As freezing persons, recollect the Snow- First – Chill- then Stupor- then the letting go I believe Emily Dickenson is talking about the toll that a severe pain, possibly death, and how it makes you feel stiff, restless, and cold. Starting with the nerves you may feel “The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs,” explaining how nervous and anxious feelings can arise from pain. She says “The stiff Heart questions,” which can be relatable to how deep, sincere pain can make your heart feel stiff, and sad, and all the many questions you may ask yourself after losing someone close to you. She says “This is the Hour of Lead – Remembered, if outlived, As a freezing persons, recollect the Snow-“ touching base with the fact that no matter what, you will always remember this feeling of pain, like a person stuck in the snow will always remember the snow. Next she says “First – chill- then Stupor- then the letting go” , describing, basically, the whole process of losing someone you love. First you feel cold, stiff hearted, hurt, and next you go into a slump of stupor or sadness, and then there comes the part where...
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...more complex poems that I have read. I do have a slight idea of her meaning of the poem and what the characters mentioned represent. I read the comments made by other people and their interpretations and have a better understanding on the poem. Biography Born on December 10, 1830, in Amherst, Massachusetts, Emily Dickinson never lived anywhere but Amherst and lived the last years of her life a recluse, writing poetry. After her death, her sister found hundreds of poems Dickinson had written, got them published, and Emily Dickinson's reputation grew from there, making her one of literature's most renowned poets. Although Dickinson is highly deemed as one of the most prominent poets in the field of American literature, during her lifetime she was chiefly known as a gardener rather than as a poet She never married She wore only white dresses for almost her entire adult life Although she was alleged to be a recluse, in reality, she was very much sociable. She frequently entertained guests at her home during her 20s and 30s She wrote nearly 2000 poems, most of which were published posthumously. During her lifetime she published only 7 poems Dickinson never named her poems; the titles were given by the early editors of her...
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...province, Emily Dickinson challenged the existing definitions of poetry and the poet’s work. Like writers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Walt Whitman, she experimented with expression in order to free it from conventional restraints. Like writers such as Charlotte Brontë and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, she crafted a new type of persona for the first person. The speakers in Dickinson’s poetry, like those in Brontë’s and Browning’s works, are sharp-sighted observers who see the inescapable limitations of their societies as well as their imagined and imaginable escapes. To make the abstract tangible, to define meaning without confining it, to inhabit a house that never became a prison, Dickinson created in her writing a distinctively elliptical language for expressing what was possible but not yet realized. Like the Concord Transcendentalists whose works she knew well, she saw poetry as a double-edged sword. While it liberated the individual, it as readily left him ungrounded. The literary marketplace, however, offered new ground for her work in the last decade of the nineteenth century. When the first volume of her poetry was published in 1890, four years after her death, it met with stunning success. Going through eleven editions in less than two years, the poems eventually extended far beyond their first household audiences. Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, on December 10, 1830 to Edward and Emily (Norcross) Dickinson. At the time...
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...Rate This Paper: 1 2 3 4 5 Length: 1371 words (3.9 double-spaced pages) Rating: Red (FREE) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Emily Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts. She died in the same place on May 15, 1886. Today people know her as a fascinating, talented writer. Most of the pieces Emily wrote were poems. Emily was a very isolated individual. She rarely ever got out or had any contact with anybody outside of her home. Along with writing her poems she wrote letters to the people that she did have contact with. In the letters that she would write there would be poems somewhere within them. Emily wrote a total of 1,775 poems in her lifetime. Even though she wrote these poems she never let it be known that she had the capability to write poems with such elegance. All of the poems that she would write she kept hidden somewhere in her room. She would hide the poems in places like her window, under her bed, in corners of the room, and lots of other places. After Emily’s death the truth would be told about her secret talent. Emily’s sister, Lavinia Dickinson found around 900 of the poems Emily had hidden in her room. Her sister decided that the poems were good enough to be published. She went to a friend of the family where she would get help in editing and publishing the poems. Lavinia’s friend, Mabel Loomis Todd and a friend of hers, Thomas Wentworth Higginson began to...
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...When someone dies, is the experience frightening or peaceful? One can argue that it is not death that is scary; it is the fact that it is unknown. Emily Dickinson is known for her poems on death. The poem Because I could not stop for Death argues on this topic. According to Dickinson, death is a peaceful experience. She emphasises this theme with the use of style, characters, and imagery. Emily Dickinson uses tender diction, and repetition to emphasise the theme of death being a peaceful experience. In the poem, the reader is continuously bombarded with the peaceful vocabulary. Words such as “kindly,” “slowly,” “civility,” “setting sun” and others are used to make the tone quite mild and smooth. These words provide encouragement to the previously established image in the readers mind. This is significant because it helps emphasize the theme even more. Next, Emily Dickinson uses repetition in her work to help support the theme. She constantly repeats the word “We,” that symbolises the fact that she1 and death are together, with no pain. If there were some sort of tension between the personified death, and the speaker, Emily Dickinson would have used a word that shows separation between the two distinct characters. By using the style of diction and repetition Emily Dickinson supports her theme. There are two (and a minor one)2 major characters in the poem that all share the show the element of peace. The kind characteristics of the speaker, death and the horses’ highlight...
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...Jealousy has A cunning face. Jealousy can live Without a mind, Without a heart, Without a soul, Even without God. Human jealousy And divine Ecstasy Are eternal strangers. Jealousy Is an aggressive boxer, A repulsive dancer, A hopeless singer And a useless storyteller. Jealousy, Before you entered Into my life, I was the world's Richest prince. Now that you are in me And I am for you, I have become The poorest street-beggar. Jealousy, You are my constant Nightmare-mind. You are my constant Love-absence-heart. Shortest is the distance From jealousy to hell. Jealousy, You are your own Ultimate Self-destructive-indulgence. HOPE IS THE THING WITH FEATHERS By: Emily Dickinson "Hope" is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul And sings the tune without the words And never stops at all, And sweetest in the gale is heard; And sore must be the storm That could abash the little bird That kept so many warm. I've heard it in the chillest land And on the strangest sea, Yet never, in extremity, It asked a crumb of me....
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...Still in the Gilded Age There are many things in life that appear attractive on the outside, but turn out to be quite the opposite on the inside. The forgotten fruit that was left to rot on the kitchen counter, the empty promises of a government body, the two-faced colleague at work… there are many of examples of beauty being only skin deep. Theodore Roethke’s “My Papa’s Waltz” and Emily Dickinson’s “I’m Nobody! Who are you?” explores this theme of the gilded side of humanity. Roethke opens “My Papa’s Waltz” through the eyes of a small boy, lending an initial tone of naivety and innocence. This mood is reinforced through his use of rhyme scheme, which adds to the childish effect. However, this feeling is quickly subverted, as a more sinister interpretation can be seen midway through the poem. The boy describes, “The hand that held my wrist/Was battered on one knuckle;/At every step you missed/My right ear scraped a buckle.” (9-13), leading the reader to question what the actual meaning behind this “waltz” is. The minor mentioning of the unhappy mother, as well as the phrase, “But I hung on like death:” (3) is suddenly relevant; it suggests that the father may be an abusive alcoholic, deviating from the prior assumption that he was simply a happy drunk spending time with his son. This shift in reader interpretation can also be attributed to Roethke’s unique word choice. Take for example the word “waltz,” which is used exclusively in the beginning and ending stanzas...
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...Never Die – Live Forever If you were given the chance to live forever without ever dying, would you accept it? If so, would you be able to watching everyone you love and care about die? The poem I choose to do my paper on is “Because I could not stop for Death”. The poem was written by Emily Dickinson in 1863. There are 3 points in the poem that I want to point out and explain further in detail. The three things this poem has rhythm, imagery, and flashback. I want to start by talking about the rhythm in the poem. First I will start by explain what rhythm is? Rhythm is the structure and movement of the poem. This poem has great rhythm. She starts this poem out by saying in the first 2 lines what she wants. It says “Because I could not stop death- He kindly stopped for me-”. It goes on from there explaining that they are in a carriage. They drive slowly and they see different points in her life and moments that seem to mean a lot to her and they continue to a house that seemed to be as the poem says “A swelling of the ground”. Finally at the end of the poem, she surmised the horses head and they were toward eternity. The poem really makes you feel like you’re there by using great imagery. Imagery is the use of vivid or figurative language to represent objects, actions, or ideas. The poem “Because I could not stop death” had great imagery. She says that they were in a carriage and that they slowly drove. Reading those words just gives you an image of a carriage rolling down...
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...Emily Dickinson is one of the most well known poets of her time. Though her life was uneventful, what went on inside her house behind closed doors is unbelievable. After her father died she met Reverend Charles Wadsworth. She soon came to regard him as one of her most trusted friends, and she created in his image the lover whom she was never to know except in her imagination. It is also said that it was around 1812 when he was removed to San Francisco that she began her withdrawal from society. During this time she began to write many of her poems. She wrote mainly in private, guarding all of her poems from all but a few select friends. She did not write for fame, but instead as a way of expressing her feelings. In her lifetime only six of her poems were even printed; none of which had her consent. It was not until her death of Brights Disease in May of 1862, that many of her poems were even read (Chelsea House of Library Criticism 2837). Thus proving that the analysis on Emily Dickinson’s poetry is some of the most emotionally felt works of the nineteenth century. Miss Dickinson is often compared with other poets and writers, but unlike Shakespeare, Miss Dickinson is without opinions (Tate 86). Her verses and technical license often seem mysterious and can confuse critics, but after all is said, it is realized that like most poets Miss Dickinson is no more mysterious than a banker. It is said that Miss Dickinson’s life was starved and unfulfilled and yet all pity is misdirected...
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