...CAREER DEVELOPMENT THEORIES COGNITION Contributors: A Bandura, R Hawthorn, B Law, J M Kidd J Killeen, J D Krumboltz, A.S Levin, and K.E. Mitchell SOCIAL LEARNING THEORY OF CAREERS DECISION MAKING Learning Theories suggest that it is an individual's unique learning experiences over their lifespan that develops the primary influences that lead to career choice. Mitchell and Krumboltz’ Social Learning Theory of Careers Decision Making (SLTCDM 1976) identifies four categories of influencers that affected career decision making: 1. Genetic Endowment and Special Abilities e.g. IQ, gender, appearance, race, ‘natural/gifted’ talent 2. Environmental Conditions and Events e.g. economic climate, technological development, educational system 3. Learning Experiences e.g. instrumental and associative learning experiences Instrumental Learning Experiences Reinforcement theory suggests that an individual will develop preferences through encouragement or discouragement and this will be directly connected with repeat behaviour. For example, if someone is praised for an action (positive reinforcement), they are more likely to repeat or build on that experience. Equally, if someone succeeds with an activity (for example, an academic subject), then they are more likely to pursue it. Associative Learning Experiences Associative learning describes how emotions can become attached to otherwise neutral events or observations. For example, if a person becomes stuck...
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...A Report on Foreign Market Entry Strategy: The case of Crimson Tide Plc Global Marketing Masters in Business Administration Word count excludes tables, figures, abstract, bibliography and appendix Glenworth M Joseph A4046741 Page i of 28 A Report on Foreign Market Entry Strategy: The case of Crimson Tide Plc Table of Contents Executive Summary ........................................................................................................................................................... iii 1 1.1 Introduction ............................................................................................................................................................... 1 Crimson Tide..................................................................................................................................................... 1 1.1.1 1.1.2 1.1.3 1.2 2 2.1 3 3.1 3.2 3.3 4 5 5.1 6 7 8 8.1 9 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 9.5 10 11 12 Core business and performance ............................................................................................................ 1 History of the company.......................................................................................................................... 1 Target Market and Competitors ............................................................................................................ 1 Going Global.....................................................................................................
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...Simmons Case (A) Review They say there are only two things constant in life: death and taxes, the rest of the time we are faced with change. Since 1875 the Simmons Company has seen many changes in product lines and technology; however by 2001 they were facing out dated leadership techniques and economic challenges that needed to be addressed in order for the company to survive. Eitel, Simmons CEO, found division between manufacturing plants and low morale throughout many of the factories. In order to instill new life into Simmons, Eitel knew that the company had to make some drastic changes to its culture. One of these changes up for debate was the Great Game of Life (GGOL). The Great Game of Life (GGOL) program uses key psychological and sociological behaviors to bring a group of people together and build bonds of trust and cohesiveness that transforms them from a collection of individuals into a team. The program is designed to break down social barriers and create situations where the only way people can be successful is to rely upon each other. This allows them to see the importance of building working relationships in a positive way at work and helps them “envision [a] success together and have trust established” (Casciaro & Edmondson, 2007). It seems that GGOL is based on the inside-out growth method by starting first with the person and then the team. Ultimately the program was designed to “help people make better choices in order to live a better life through...
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...Analyzing Pro Forma Statements Andre' D. Singleton FIN/571 March 17, 2016 Gregory Willis XYZ Company The selected company is a Bread and Pastry store which goal is to increase the company’s market share by implementing technology through telephones, text-orders, and emails. These processes will help in increasing interactivity. The financial performance of the company for the past years is as follows: Financial Performance With 100 employees manufacturing 6000 output units 5 day a week each month, earning $70 a day the company's output price is $32 with $2000 as variable input costs. Balance Sheet | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | | Excess Cash: Plug Figure | | | | | | | Current Assets | 7,304 | 8034.4 | 8837.84 | 9721.62 | 10693.8 | | Net Property Plant & Equipment | 11,418 | 11,418 | 11,418 | 11,418 | 11,418 | | Other Long Term Assets | 768 | 768 | 768 | 768 | 768 | | Total Assets | 19,490 | 20,220 | 21,024 | 21,908 | 22,880 | | | | | | | | | Current Liabilities | 6,301 | 6,301 | 6,301 | 6,301 | 6,301 | | Short Term Borrowing: Plug Figure | | | | | | | Long Term Debt | 5,634 | 6028.38 | 6450.37 | 6901.89 | 7385.02 | | Other Liabilities & Preferred | 1,036 | 1,036 | 1,036 | 1,036 | 1,036 | | | Shareholder's Equity | 977 | 1006.31 | 1036.5 | 1067.59 | 1099.62 | | Retained Earnings | 5,542 | 5,849 | 6,200 | 6,601 | 7,058 | | Total Liab. & Shareholder's Equity | 19,490 | 20,220 | 21,024 | 21,908 |...
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...Federal Contracting Activities and Contract Types Strayer University, BUS-315 Cost and Price Analysis Professor Mark O’Connell May 25, 2012 For my research paper, I selected a top 100 federal contractor company from the Washington Technology list. In it I will address the history and background of the company, identify a recently awarded contract, describe the type of contract that was awarded along with explain why that particular type of contract was chosen over others. In addition, I will identify and discuss three (3) indirect costs that the contractor incurred. The company I chose to wrote about is listed number 37 on the Washington Technology list, happens to be my employer, VSE Corporation, headquartered in Alexandria, VA. VSE is Federal Services Company known for solving issues of global significance with agility, integrity and value. VSE marked its 50th year as a government contractor in January 2009 and is dedicated to making our clients successful by delivering talented people and innovative solutions for program management, logistics, engineering, IT services, construction program management and consulting. VSE Corporation was established in 1959 with a mission to provide engineering, and technical support services to reduce the cost, plus improve the reliability of DoD systems and equipment. VSE has five wholly-owned subsidiaries: Energetic Incorporated, Integrated Concepts and Research Corporation (ICRC), G&B Solutions, Inc., Akimeka LLC,...
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...Table of content Introduction 3 Overview of Jakarta 4 The International Marketing Mix 5 Product 5 Place 7 Pricing 8 Promotion 9 The market entry strategies 10 Conclusion: 11 Final remarks 11 Bibliography 12 Introduction As a second year Marketing student from the Katholieke Hogeschool Leuven, I wrote this paper in the context of the comprehensive assignment II. This assignment is an educational subject that belongs to the fourth semester of the bachelor Businessmanagement in Marketing. This comprehensive assignment was given to the students to learn and understand about the basic principles of international marketing. Each student was assigned to make a plan for a Belgian company that wants to export its product to another country. I recently got back from a long stay in Jakarta, the capital city of Indonesia. During this stay, I was confronted by the biggest problems of Jakarta. Which is traffic jam, pollution, parking and high car expenditure. Jakarta has a bad reputation for having some of the worst traffic-jams in the world. (www.thejakartaglobe.com) Belgium on the other hand is more environmentally friendly than ever. Smart mobility solutions have expanded in the past couple of years. So I decided to write an export plan for the Belgian company Zen Car. It’s a company with a new concept of green mobility. Its system of sharing electric, silent and non-pollutant cars is simple and practical. Zen car in Jakarta is the topic of this...
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...Pergamon PII: European Management Journal Vol. 19, No. 5, pp. 534–542, 2001 2001 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved. 0263-2373/01 $20.00 S0263-2373(01)00067-6 Cross-Functional Issues in the Implementation of Relationship Marketing Through Customer Relationship Management LYNETTE RYALS, Cranfield University School of Management SIMON KNOX, Cranfield University School of Management There is a major change in the way companies organise themselves as firms switch from productbased to customer-based structures. A key driver of this change is the advent of Customer Relationship Management which, underpinned by information systems convergence and the development of supporting software, promises to significantly improve the implementation of Relationship Marketing principles. In this paper we explore the three main issues that can enable (or hinder) the development of Customer Relationship Management in the service sector; the organisational issues of culture and communication, management metrics and crossfunctional integration — especially between marketing and information technology. 2001 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved. Keywords: Customer relationship management, Cross-functional integration, Information technology, Relationship marketing keting debate were made by Reichheld and Sasser (1990) reporting on the customer retention work of Bain and Co. These findings indicated that a 5 per cent increase in customer retention resulted in an increase in average...
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...CONTENTS Executive Summary 1 Introduction and Company Overview 1 Data Flow Diagram 3 Process of Candidate Selection 8 a) SAP Business One 9 b) UFIDA U8 9 c) NetSuite 9 Candidate Comparason 10 d) Point Scoring Matrix 10 * SAP Business One 11 * UFIDA U8 16 * NetSuite 19 Department Scoring Matrix 24 e) Economic Feasibility Analysis 25 Discussion of Selection Process 25 Reflection of Selection Process 26 Reference List 28 Appendix A. Final Scoring Matrix 32 Appendix B. Economic Feasibility Analysis 34 Appendix C. Seminar Work 38 Appendix D. Meeting Minutes 42 1. Executive Summary This report sets out to introduce the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software selection process in the purchasing department of a company “Choc & Choc”, which is a chocolate wholesaler established by the graduates from the University of Nottingham, Ningbo, China. Considering the company’s future operation, Accounting Information System (AIS) which will help the company store, process data and make business decisions is recommended. Aims at comprising the whole AIS in the company, purchasing department plans to choose the software that could satisfy its own needs. ERP system, which is multi-module transaction-based system management software, is taken into account under this condition (Bagranoff, 2008). The purchasing department needs to summarize and categorize supplier...
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