...| Managing Professional Development | | TASK 02 | | | 10/14/2011 | Student Name: Yamin Abdul Wahhab Student ID: BM/C/38/38 Assessor: Mr. Marcilline Croose/Ms. Rangitha Balasuriya Student Name: Yamin Abdul Wahhab Student ID: BM/C/38/38 Assessor: Mr. Marcilline Croose/Ms. Rangitha Balasuriya Task 02 Monitoring and evaluating the PDP via a personal Skills Development log My individual and short term objectives * To complete my degree in business management at University of Wales. * Get Experience and through working in the Multinational company abroad. * Enhancement of Finance. * To complete my Masters in Australia. * Get married and setting up with life. My long term objectives * Get experience after my Degree and get Masters from Business Management. * Start up my own business in Maldives from own earned money and borrowings from family members and from bank. * Working in the UAE in similar field to build my professional career directing to achieve my main objective in this field. * By working there I will build my own house in Maldives to set up with life. * Get married and setting up with life as well as get 2 children * Policymaking Management professional like Vice president HRM or Chief Human resource Officer. * Although in somewhere in my life I have plan to be a politician. To achieve these entire Individual and long-term objective I should plan out my day to day life that could...
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...furniture, together with the flat packages, reduced space requirements in logistic operations, which lowered the costs either.2 To maintain their low-cost strategy they have to manage an international low-cost supplier network. By 2004, IKEA’s network of international low-cost suppliers had grown to the point where it had 43 trading service offices in 33 countries.3 By well thought allocation of their warehouses and stores they managed to reduce costs even further. So we can conclude IKEA is capable of sustaining its low costs, by managing, establish and designing its supplier network in such a way that IKEA achieves lowest costs in logistics. Even though they’re capable to establish a low-cost supplier network, IKEA is also capable of designing its furniture in such a way that it “fits the IKEA concept of form, function and price”4, “for example the OGLA chair which initially was made of wood but eventually is made out of hollow composite, to make the chair affordable to most people”5 Also IKEA was capable of recombining their skills to serve the needs of entire families. To create child-friendly products IKEA consulted two psychologists, which in combination with their design expertise responds to children’s needs.6 It’s clear that IKEA’s core competencies are based on a low-cost...
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...Whether you are planning a vacation some place new or looking for activities in your hometown, finding something to do can be stressful. It can be stressful if you are a parent looking for activities with your children or it can be stressful if you are an adult looking for a little fun and adventure with friends. Most ways to find exciting ventures are through word of mouth, listening to advertisements on the radio, scrolling the internet or perusing the local newspaper. However, what if there was a way to bring word of mouth, radio advertising, internet, and newspaper ads to your finger tips all in one place….your phone. Unlike any other app or website What’s The Hap’s allows you to customize your experience by enabling you to be in complete control of your settings , bringing you the hottest current events, giving you savings, and connecting you to your social media sites that you can share the selfie fun. Key partners are important when launching a phone application this fun and connected. What’s The Hap’s would like to bring the fun to you by partnering up with other cool phone applications. For example, Group-on because What’s The Hap’s not only wants to find you events but save you money at the events that may require payment. We would like to link you to any sites that may offer prepayment so that you do not have to wait in long lines at the event of your choice so as Fandango (A cool movie app). These partners are just to name a few. However, What’s The Hap’s will strive...
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...What are the ethical issues in relations between business and customers? Nowadays the level of competition between businesses is high because of big quantity of producers of relatively same goods and services. Because of that, companies try to do as much work as it is necessary to somehow differentiate their product from competitors. Their profit is firstly dependent on how much money people are willing to pay for the product or service (based on their income), secondly on the level of customer loyalty and thirdly on the truthfulness of the company itself. To adapt to the high-competitive environment, companies need to build strong customer relationships, it is core component in future successful sales. If people are interested and satisfied with product and service, they will continue to repurchase it and long-term relations can be established. The aim of any company is to save existing customers and attract new ones. To attract new customers company should use any tools that will work. To establish long-term successful and profitable relations, company should definitely conduct its business in ethic way. However, sometimes there are probably situations, when doing wrong things (grey market, absence of customer care, bad/cheap product) may result in much higher income. This view indicates that ethics and profit are inversely related (Bowie 1998). The situation, when stated promotion does not coincide with the reality is rather common and is a good example of unethical...
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...The Death of Radio: an Analysis based on Mass Communication as a Political Economy and Culture Saad Rana ICMS Abstract Before the advent of television, radio was the form of broadcast medium to disseminate information to the masses. Broadcasters announced news, provided infotainment, as well as entertainment in the form of stories and shows with live audiences in the studio. This paper will look at radio as a form of mass communication, the proliferation of other types of broadcast media. The paper will try to understand the political economy of the industry and how it has become big business by analyzing Murdock and Golding's The Industrialization of Mass Communications. MacDonald's Theory of Mass Culture will be dissected to understand that although radio was a form of mass culture, it provided entertainment to the masses, which allows the economy to thrive. Discussion In their paper, 'The Industrialization of Mass Communications,' Murdock and Golding imply that mass communications—how people or organizations communicate to the masses—is a money-making industry, and like all other industries such as technological, auto etc.; it is susceptible to losing its value for what it was intended to be –a pure form of communicating to the masses. Their theory on mass communications focuses on the industry as a political economy which is how an economy cycles, questioning and arguing the ownership and control of media, factors that bring together media industries with other...
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...TASK 6 Explain how quality management can be measured. Select and explain a tool or technique that can be used by the restaurant for continuous improvement Quality is something customers crave for and what business pursue. Therefore managing the quality of products and services is very important to ensure that the management can be measured using different tools. This helps to improve the quality of the products and services to meet its standard. Below here is one of the tools used to measure quality management. FISHBONE DIAGRAM The fishbone diagram is used to identify all of the contributing roots causes likely to be causing a problem. This can be used when identifying possible causes for a problem especially when a team’s thinking tends to fall into ruts. For example the problems faced for Mr. Mahmud restaurant are such as lack of focus, lack of resources, low in delivery and training. All this problems and there effects can be drawn using a fishbone diagram as below: Lack of resources Lack of resources Lack of focus Lack of focus Demand and patterns lack of quality control Product failure Product failure Creating uncertainty Motivation communication with food runners Variable skill levels High employees Delivery Delivery Timing of course Delays Training employers Training employers A fishbone diagram has a central spine running left to right, around which is built a map of factors...
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...When I Grow Up: An Analytical Study of the Interpretations of Children on Pop Culture Elements found in Selected TV Commercials “TV takes our children across the globe before parents give them permission to cross the streets.” - Joshua Meyrowitz BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Advertising is a form of mass communication strategy created to promote the purchase of a certain product, message, or service in the market. It carries the messages that come to you from the people who pay for the media (Biagi, 2001, p. 227). It is also an act of popularizing something through mass media to attract the attention of the consumers, audiences, or mainly the public for higher sales and marketability. Tracing through the history, evidences of advertising is said to have started thousands of years before when people started trading things for survival. Thus, the rise of technology, industrialization, and capitalism triggered the success of advertising in the heightening state of competition worldwide and in every aspect; from commodities, to people and politics. The industrial revolution, according to some historians, is the root of commercial advertising (Campbell, 2002, p. 387). Because of the continuous occurrence of new products in the market and there is a need to sell them off instantly, businessmen tried the concept of large scale advertising to sell more. Over the time, manufacturers realized that if their products were distinctive and became associated with quality, customers...
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...UCC28C41, UCC28C42, UCC28C43, UCC28C44, UCC28C45 UCC38C40, UCC38C41, UCC38C42, UCC38C43, UCC38C44, UCC38C45 SLUS458E -- AUGUST 2001 -- REVISED OCTOBER 2010 BiCMOS LOW-POWER CURRENT-MODE PWM CONTROLLER FEATURES DESCRIPTION D Enhanced Replacement for UC3842A Family D D D D D D D D D D UCC38C4x family is a high-performance currentmode PWM controller. It is an enhanced BiCMOS version with pin-for-pin compatibility to the industry standard UC384xA family and UC384x family of PWM controllers. In addition, lower startup voltage versions of 7 V are offered as UCC38C40 and UCC38C41. With Pin-to-Pin Compatibility 1-MHz Operation 50-μA Standby Current, 100-μA Maximum Low Operating Current of 2.3 mA at 52 kHz Fast 35-ns Cycle-by-Cycle Overcurrent Limiting ±1-A Peak Output Current Rail-to-Rail Output Swings with 25-ns Rise and 20-ns Fall Times ±1% Initial Trimmed 2.5-V Error Amplifier Reference Trimmed Oscillator Discharge Current New Under Voltage Lockout Versions MSOP-8 Package Minimizes Board Space Providing necessary features to control fixed frequency, peak current-mode power supplies, this family offers the following performance advantages. The device offers high-frequency operation up to 1 MHz with low start-up and operating currents, thus minimizing start-up loss and low operating power consumption for improved efficiency. The device also features a very fast current-sense-to-output delay time of 35 ns and a ±1 A peak output current...
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...[pic] Resolution of the World Health Organization After meeting in Geneva in May 2003 for the Fifty-Sixth World Health Assembly, the WHO outlined its Global Initiative for the Elimination of Avoidable Blindness, or VISION 2020 plan. The WHO urges national governments to: • Set up, not later than 2005, a national VISION 2020 plan, in partnership with the WHO and in collaboration with NGOs and the private sector. • Establish a national coordinating committee for VISION 2020 or a national blindness prevention committee, which may include consumer or patient groups, to develop and implement the plan. • Commence implementation of such plans by 2007 at the latest. • Include effective information systems with standardized indicators and periodic monitoring and evaluation, with the aim of showing a reduction in the magnitude of avoidable blindness by 2010. • Mobilize resources for eliminating avoidable blindness. In turn, the WHO agrees to: • Maintain and strengthen the WHO’s collaboration with governments and all partners of the initiative. • Ensure coordination of the implementation of the VISION 2020 plan, by setting up a monitoring committee grouping all those involved, including national government representatives. • Provide support for strengthening national capability, especially through development of human resources, to coordinate, assess, and prevent avoidable blindness...
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...Popular American Culture The Real Housewives of Atlanta, New Jersey, Orange County, Beverly Hills, and Miami; Love and Hip-Hop Atlanta; along with various other “reality” television are some of the guilty programming that draws my attention. The integrated pattern of human knowledge, belief, and behavior that depends upon the capacity for learning and transmitting knowledge to succeeding generations or b : the customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group; also : the characteristic features of everyday existence (as diversions or a way of life) shared by people in a place or time (Merriam-Webster, Incorporated , 2013). Embracing culture, especially popular culture can have varying meaning depending on one’s environment. The recognition of the iconic one-liners, the names of “reality” television show stars that may otherwise go unknown to the American public is a key indicator of trends in American culture. Three trends in America’s societal popular culture seem to be the fascination with other individuals lifestyles or their reality, the shift in political participation could be considered a trend linked to the election of an African-American as president a president that made varying pop culture references during speeches (ESPN Internet Ventures, 2012), and a third trend may be the continuously growing popularity of hip-hop music. The impactful nature of the trends in pop culture from relating to politics to fashion sense, is impacted...
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...Samantha Wilson Dr. Carter English 112 FO1 24th February 2013 Pop culture and Our Society Pop culture gives the notion of having a lot of negative implications associated with it. Opponents accuse the mass media of minimizing the intellect of society. Pop culture has grown increasingly more complex over the past thirty years. Some of the biggest influences of style in pop culture stems from watching television, genres of music, video games, the internet and individual trends and fashions. Television plays a major role in present day pop culture. The Nielsen Company estimates that there are 114.7 million United States households with a television. Commercials, music videos, and television shows that push the limits of the FCC, are in a continuous rotation on most networks. TV shows have changed a lot over the past thirty-five years. Also, people have changed their thoughts and perceptions about family concepts, social behaviors, personal interactions, and what’s acceptable in society. Families are no longer viewed perfect as they were once portrayed. Television shows with families like the Cosby’s, the Cleaver’s (Leave It to Beaver), and the Brady’s (Brady Bunch) have become obsolete to today’s suggestive humored sitcoms. Nowadays most television shows are based upon sex, drugs and violence. Sex and murder have become the norm on primetime television. Media news today did a study with 600 films and 5,000 students to find that movies play an important role in people lives (medical...
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...registered trademark of Apollo Group, Inc. in the United States and/or other countries. Microsoft®, Windows®, and Windows NT® are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. All other company and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. Use of these marks is not intended to imply endorsement, sponsorship, or affiliation. Edited in accordance with University of Phoenix® editorial standards and practices. Course Description The course provides an introduction to the most prominent forms of media that influence and impact social, business, political, and popular culture in contemporary America. It explores the unique aspects of each medium as well as interactions across various media that combine to create rich environments for information sharing, entertainment, business, and social interaction in the U.S. and around the world. Course Topics & Objectives Week One: The Internet: Social Media • Identify forms of social media....
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...Dr. Faucette English 111 October 14, 2013 Footloose “While the 1984 original is hardly a perfect film, New Footloose has some hefty shoes to fill,” as stated by Benjamin Wood. The original movie and new make of the movie Footloose are perfect examples of change in pop culture. In my essay, I have decided to compare and contrast the values and characteristics of these two movies. From the first to the second there are the same basic ideas, but so many differences in the characters and events. Christ Lemire describes the old Footloose as a “flood of fond memories” for anyone who grew up in the 1980s. This movie was a true symbol of the growth of pop culture during this time. The main character, played by Kevin Bacon, was a bad boy from big city Chicago. He was forced to move to a small town called Bomont, Utah with his mother into his aunt’s house. All he wanted to do was dance, but it was banned. This had a lot to do with the church and their moral beliefs. The boy meets a rebellious girl and it almost halfway becomes a love story also. His goal in this movie was for the town to put on a prom for the teens in school. He even goes before the town council in order to change the law against dancing. Although he portrays a very good argument and quotes from the bible about how they danced and rejoiced, the council voted against it. The young boy is determined and does not give up. In the end they hold the prom at a grain mill outside of town and everyone has the time of their...
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...Rock is strongly connected to an ongoing mass culture and economic engine in popular culture. It helped define the voice of youth during the rise of the adolescent class. It is known for being a creative and imaginative expression of music that holds an elevated position in culture. Rock has a background history in protests, riots and being bold on what one likes or believes in. In the article “Black Sabbath’s Tony Iommi stands in glass box for cancer awareness campaign”, Iommi is making a statement by standing within a two way mirror to highlight the loneliness felt by people diagnosed with cancer. Bystanders could see into the box however Iommi could not see out, instead herd audio of personal stories from cancer sufferers. Iommni was personally diagnosed with stage three of cancer, lymphoma. He is not just standing up for but was relating to the situation through hand. The mission of this article was to proclaim the understanding of cancer and how it makes those diagnosed with cancer feel. It also confirmed the rumors of Iommi being diagnosed with cancer. I believe the article is both informational and advertising to help the awareness and to help bring donations to cancer foundations. The author is clearly identified, labeled right before the prompt begins. The author’s article is informational within the article giving a basic brief summary on the situation being placed. The article page is relevant and was written this year on August 27th. There was also a video of an...
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...It’s not like like most women are 100% wearing active wear. A lot of time you will see women wearing a piece or two. One very common look is to see women wear yoga pants with a sweater when they are out doing arrears or having a night on the town with friends. I wonder how many women wearing yoga pants actually do yoga. The active wear company Lululemon has been doing amazing business. Lululemon, established in 1998, was the first to see and seize the opportunity in activewear in a major way. Founded in Vancouver, Canada, by longtime surfer-turned-yogi Chip Wilson, the company went public in 2007, raising $327.6 million. From 2008 to 2013, sales increased by more than $1 billion....
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