...Ronald J. Downham MGMT-303 Week 5 Case Study Prof. Mayes 29 Nov 2014 1) What does this case imply about the supply of and demand for employees and the implications for businesses? This study implies that the demand for high quality high tech employees is high and the supply of these employees is low. There are more companies that need these types of employees than there are in the job market. What this does is forces the businesses to become more competitive for good talent. Google is one of the most sought after companies because of these employee perks. Google employees are extremely well fed, getting healthy and varied breakfast, lunch, and even dinner if they stay late, for free. There are also coffee and juice bars scattered throughout the campuses. According to the Management text, “If an employee wants to come to work in cargo shorts, t-shirts, and flip-flops, they do and what attracts many talented employees to companies like these is the fact that they can set their own hours” (Management, 2014). 2) What’s the meaning behind the “search for the purple squirrel” in relation to spotting talent? Is this relevant to non-tech companies, as well? Discuss. A purple squirrel has come to mean the unobtainable. Just as a purple squirrel is almost impossible to find in the forest, the perfect job candidate is so unlikely to occur in real life that they are almost a fantasy. This doesn’t seem to be as relevant in non-tech companies though. Non-tech jobs are more abundant...
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...NOTE: Stacy Sullivan Download Request: Current Document: 1 Time Of Request: Saturday, May 24, 2014 19:09:31 EST Send To: NEXIS, 146BTS DEVRY UNIVERSITY 3005 HIGHLAND PKWY DOWNERS GROVE, IL 60515-5799 Source: OH Courts of Appeals Cases from 1913 Project ID: FOCUS - 1 of 1 DOCUMENT REBECCA KOOP, Plaintiff-Appellant, - vs - SPEEDWAY SUPERAMERICA, LLC, et al., Defendants-Appellees. CASE NO. CA2008-09-110 COURT OF APPEALS OF OHIO, TWELFTH APPELLATE DISTRICT, WARREN COUNTY 2009-Ohio-1734; 2009 Ohio App. LEXIS 1469 April 13, 2009, Decided PRIOR HISTORY: [**1] CIVIL APPEAL FROM WARREN COUNTY COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. Case No. 07CV69537. CASE SUMMARY: PROCEDURAL POSTURE: Appellant personal injury victim filed suit against appellee store alleging that it was negligent in its cleaning of a coffee spill, upon which she slipped and fell. The store filed a motion for summary judgment. The Warren County Court of Common Pleas (Ohio) granted summary judgment for the store. The victim appealed. OVERVIEW: The victim argued that the trial court erred by failing to consider the incident report and corresponding witness statements. The appellate court held that the trial court did not err by disregarding the document due to its lack of authenticity. There was no indication that the document, purported to be an employee witness statement, was sworn or certified, nor was there any evidence presented to establish its authenticity...
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...MGMT 582 4/2/2012 Section 510 of ERISA Gives False Hope of Non Retaliation by Employers The Scenario is this; an Employee of one of the biggest hotel chains in the United States works in the Benefits section of the company. She finds a major flaw in the company’s benefits plan and brings it to the attention of Management. She was terminated and brought up a wrongful termination suit against Marriott. The Courts upheld the termination saying that Section 510 of ERISA did not protect the employee. This article argues that the employee should be protected when reporting internal violations voluntarily for three reasons. “(1) The protection of unsolicited internal complaints is consistent with congressional intent, (2) The text of section 510, as compared to other anti-retaliation provisions in other federal statutes, supports protection of unsolicited internal complaints, and (3) Section 510 reflects the view of the Secretary of Labor, whose interpretative position is coherent and attractive as a policy matter.”(PETERSON 1). The first reason is “the protection of unsolicited internal complaints is consistent with congressional intent.” Even though the Supreme Court upheld the judgment in this case, the article is arguing the side of congressional intent. If someone comes to their employer, who works in a position of power when it comes to employee benefits, to tell them that they are in a state of illegality they should be protected by section 510 of ERISA. The way that...
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...The CONSTRUCTIVE Styles (11, 12, 1, and 2 o'clock positions) reflect self-enhancing thinking and behavior that contribute to one's level of satisfaction, ability to develop healthy relationships and work effectively with people, and proficiency at accomplishing tasks. The PASSIVE/DEFENSIVE Styles (3, 4, 5, and 6 o'clock positions) represent self-protecting thinking and behavior that promote the fulfillment of security needs through interaction with people. The AGGRESSIVE/DEFENSIVE Styles (7, 8, 9, and 10 o'clock positions) reflect self-promoting thinking and behavior used to maintain one's status/position and fulfill security needs through task-related activities Position Style Raw Score Percentile Score 1 Humanistic-Encouraging 19 7 2 Affiliative 25 30 3 Approval 18 78 4 Conventional 23 91 5 Dependent 25 92 6 Avoidance 23 99 7 Oppositional 16 90 8 Power 5 42 9 Competitive 6 10 10 Perfectionistic 16 25 11 Achievement 22 19 12 Self-Actualizing 15 10 DEPENDENT 5 o'clock apologetic obeys too willingly easily influenced by friends reacts rather than initiates predictable very respectful to superiors meek says what's expected overcautious very tactful eager to please modest dependent on others self-doubting compliant easily fooled a good follower does things by the book seeks help from others worries a lot restrained too concerned with looking good agreeable conservative very conventional conforming suggestible CONVENTIONAL 4 o'clock avoids conflict very respectful...
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...The U.S. is in a shrinking economy. Many plants are closed and many people are unemployed. The big retailers change their suppliers from U.S. manufactures to the developing countries’ manufactures, which cost much less. The competition between the suppliers( manufactures) is more intensive. The supplier has less prower is retail business. The market is shift from supplier dependence to buyer dependence, which means the buyer/ retailer has more prower. They very know their customers’ needs and wants, and they determine what the manufactures should produce, including the specific product, the schedule, the quality, and the price. Retailers are now more powerful than manufacturers, and they are forcing the decision to move production offshore.2 Dog-eat-dog environment. High competition. High change rate, not able to forecast the trends. What is the driving force to make the industry changing. (focus on the text-book’s idea). Tied into the dynamic environment. Complex! The system relationship. Organization environment. Recourses the company has. The player in the film suggests the Walmart is using pull strategy, which the want. And the player thinks this way is more efficiency and increase U.S. productivity as well. a. In my opinion, Walmart is belongs to the shareholder model. The main reason is, Walmart strives for the lowest cost and gives the best price to its customers, in order to do the best business and maximizes profits, shareholder wealth and satisfaction. Walmart...
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...Running Head: End-of-Chapter Questions Case Review September 28, 2012 Assignment 47.1 The case of Buder v. Satore (1989) deals with gifts to minors and the duties of the custodian of those gifts. Respectfully, this case arose out of an action brought by respondent on behalf of Theodore Alexander and Cori Marie Buder, then minor children of Ms. Sartire Buder and ex-husband Alexander Buder. The mother filed an action against the father based on his alleged breach of the fiduciary duty he owed the couples minor children as the custodian of gift money they had received from a grandparent. The trial court found that the father had breached his fiduciary duty and assessed damages and attorney fees. The intermediate court affirmed and added attorney fees on appeal. The court’s held that: (1) the standard of care under the Uniform Gift to Minors Act (UGMA) and the Uniform Transfers to Minors Act (UTMA), Colo. Rev. Stat. §§ 11-50-101 - 11-50-126 (1987), is not the same as under the general trust laws, Colo. Rev. Stat. § 15-1-304 (1973), (2) a custodian is a fiduciary, (3) the statutes contain different standards and that the standards contained in the UGMA/UTMA apply exclusively to custodians, while the standard contained in Colo. Rev. Stat. 15-1-304 applies to other fiduciaries, (4) any error in assessing the standard of care was harmless because the trial court...
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...Costco Case Analysis Assignment # 1 Mark Frenkel MGMT 670 9046 02/21/11 Jim Sinegal initially took a job at Fed -Mart as a means to pay his bills while attending San Diego Community College never imaging that this decision would forever change the direction of his life. It was there that he met Sol Price, who ran the company and who mentored his further inclusion in the business. Sol had a vision that he acted on when he founded his Price Club with the goal of establishing a member warehouse retailing niche business. Having embarked on this path, he took Jim with him and they shared a vision for shaping how they would do business going forward. Initially, Price was content in becoming a leader in member warehouse retailing until he correctly recognized an opportunity to gain more sales volume and greater negotiating leverage with suppliers by granting membership to individuals which arguably created the market for deep-discount warehouse clubs. Sinegal excelled at understanding the driving elements in this type of marketing and became particularly adept at understanding what was working and what wasn’t at stores, which was something that Price was also very good at. Noticing these burgeoning skills, Price made him the manager of the original store. It was here that Sinegal learned the craft at the hands of his mentor, a task he did so with such skill that he decided to leave the proverbial nest and team up with Seattle-based...
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...MGMT 520- Week 2 Case Brief Style of Case and Citation: United States v. Kay 359 F.3d 738 (5th Cir. 2004) Court Rendering Final Decision: U.S. 5th Circuit Court Of Appeals Identification of Parties and Procedural Details: Who is the Plaintiff/Appellant? Who is the Defendant/Appealer? What is the cause of action? Who prevailed in lower court? Who is appealing to what court? Original Plaintiff, United States of America, is Appealing original defendant, David Kay and Douglas Murphy, for the original defendants’ violation of Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). The district court dismissed the indictment because of the conclusion that bribes to reduce taxes are not covered by FCPA. United States of America is Appealing to the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals. Discussion of the Facts: Who did what to whom? What relief is being sought? Defendants were bribing Haitian officials in order to have them accept forged document, so the defendants (or American Rice. Inc) could pay substantially lower custom duties and taxes to Haitian government. United States of America is accusing the defendants for violation FCPA. Statement and Discussion of the Legal Issues in Dispute: What decision of the lower court is being challenged? What specific legal questions is the subject court being asked to address? Is the question about Common-Law? A Statute? The Plaintiff is challenging the District Court's conclusion that bribes to reduce taxes are not covered by...
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...MGMT 520- Week 2 Case Brief Style of Case and Citation: United States v. Kay 359 F.3d 738 (5th Cir. 2004) Court Rendering Final Decision: U.S. 5th Circuit Court Of Appeals Identification of Parties and Procedural Details: Who is the Plaintiff/Appellant? Who is the Defendant/Appealer? What is the cause of action? Who prevailed in lower court? Who is appealing to what court? Original Plaintiff, United States of America, is Appealing original defendant, David Kay and Douglas Murphy, for the original defendants’ violation of Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). The district court dismissed the indictment because of the conclusion that bribes to reduce taxes are not covered by FCPA. United States of America is Appealing to the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals. Discussion of the Facts: Who did what to whom? What relief is being sought? Defendants were bribing Haitian officials in order to have them accept forged document, so the defendants (or American Rice. Inc) could pay substantially lower custom duties and taxes to Haitian government. United States of America is accusing the defendants for violation FCPA. Statement and Discussion of the Legal Issues in Dispute: What decision of the lower court is being challenged? What specific legal questions is the subject court being asked to address? Is the question about Common-Law? A Statute? The Plaintiff is challenging the District Court's conclusion that bribes to reduce taxes are not covered by...
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...With these developments, it is obvious that conflicts between parties of different nationalities occur and liability to tax on income of foreigners especially among those engaging in trading venture. Whilst the laws affecting domicile and residence may be sufficiently settled, it is paramount for courts to pursue a detailed analysis to ascertain specific preliminary issues so as to avoid controversial rulings. Courts often handle numerous financial cases that involve what can be best described as foreign or international elements. In such cases, court must decide whether it has the jurisdiction under the Family Law Act 1975 to make a decision on such cases. In the event that it is determined that the court is invested with the jurisdiction to determine the case, the court has to consider whether there is a system of law in foreign country that also has the jurisdiction to handle the case. As it was addressed in the case Attorney General of New Zealand v Ortiz [1984] AC 1, these benefits and costs to either party if the case resolution is made in foreign country as compared with the apparent country should also be a subject of concern. [1] Legal systems in most countries around the world adopt community property regime, which takes effect at the inception of marriage or at the time of divorce. For instance, California and Massachusetts in the United States have adopted community property regimes that support equal division of assets upon divorce. However, this provision...
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...Adapted from Bernhardt & Kinnear (1988). Cases in marketing management, pp. 6-16. Plano, TX: Business Publications, Inc. Pay careful attention to the following points. They are often used by instructors to evaluate either a written or oral analysis. 1. Be complete. Each area of the situation analysis must be discussed, problems and opportunities identified, alternative presented and evaluated using the situation analysis and relevant financial analysis, and a decision must be made. An analysis that omits part of the situation analysis or only recognizes one alternative is not a good analysis. Second, each area must be covered in-depth and within insight. 2. Avoid rehashing case facts. Every case has a lot of factual information. A good analysis uses facts that are relevant to the situation at hand to make summary points of analysis. A poor analysis just restates or rehashes theses facts without making relevant summary comments. 3. Make reasonable assumptions. Every case is incomplete in terms of some piece of information that you would like to have. A good case analysis must make realistic assumptions to fill in the gaps of information in the case. For example, the case may not describe the purchase decision process for the product of interest. A poor analysis would either omit mentioning this or just state that no information is available. A good analysis would attempt to present this purchase decision process by classifying the product and drawing upon real life...
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...are given. It is understandable then that we should seek out more opportunities to apply our skills and make more positive impacts within our jurisdictions. It is this general attitude that led us to get involved in investigating cold cases. How We Got Started Mark had, for several years, been consulting with our Coroner’s Division as a forensic anthropologist. During this time he came to learn that there were numerous coroners’ cases in which the identity of the decedent was unknown. These cases were kept in three-ring binders on a shelf in the Sergeant’s office. Over the years, in the course of this forensic work, we would discuss these cases and the progress that was being made on them. The conversation usually ran along the lines of us asking “any luck with that 1980 homicide victim?” and the sergeant answering “well, we’ve gotten so many new cases that I haven’t been able to even look at it yet.” This went on for a few years and through two different sergeants. One day we, as a crime analysis unit, were brainstorming about how we could broaden our “client base”, as it were. We had been successful in integrating ourselves into our Investigations Bureau and had been involved in numerous major cases. And, of course, we had always been active in producing tactical and strategic analyses for our patrol personnel. But we knew that we could be doing more, particularly given the size and responsibilities of our agency. It was during...
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...BUSINESS CASE Presented to the Accountancy Department De La Salle University In partial fulfillment Of the course requirements In ACCTBA2 (C33) March 2, 2015 A stakeholder is typically concerned with an organization delivering intended results and meeting its financial objectives. In general, a stakeholder can be one of two types: internal (from within an organization) or external (outside of an organization). The stakeholders in this situation are Lanie Marquez and Tim Rodriguez who are also partners in the retail distribution business and their capital contributions are as follows P500,000 and P300,000 respectively they are an internal stakeholder since they are also the owners. The total Capital of both stakeholders is P800,000 and with a monthly salary for both partners at P15,000 on the assumption that both of them will contribute to manage the business equally. Assuming that both managed the business equally the total salary for the year for Lanie and Tim are P180,000 each. They share profit and loss equally and no interest will be given on capital contributed. The problem for this situation is that Lanie is starting to get concerned with the behavior of her other partner Tim. He only manages the business 50% of the time, which will mean that his salary of P15,000 will need to decrease by also 50% since he does not manage the business equally with his partner. The business has seen a downturn in the profit outcome and for the current financial...
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...Ralph’s Grocery and United Food and Commercial Workers Union The case that I chose for the week 6 critical thinking assignment concerns Ralph’s Grocery Company, located in California. It applies to this week’s material due to the fact that the case involves unlawful suspension and discharge of an employee, as reviewed by the National Labor Relations Board. Background In May 2011, Vittorio Razi was an employee at Ralph’s Grocery and was suspended and terminated after he refused to take a drug test without first consulting with his UFCW Local 324 representative. The company (Respondent) says that on the day in question, Razi’s behavior was in question, acting nervous, anxious, agitated, and slurred speech. After a couple managers discussed the...
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... Many people wonder why their own teeth stain so easily. The enamel on your teeth and chromogens are what stains your teeth, but what exact beverage stains teeth the most? I chose this topic because I was curious to know what stains teeth the most. It affects us daily because it could rot your teeth or you can’t pick up hot chicks anymore. So what causes teeth to stain? The temperature causes teeth to expand or contract making it easier for stains. So hot and cold drinks affect that. Color in foods and beverages come from chromogens. Chromogens are intensely pigmented compounds that stick to teeth enamel. Chromogens cause a lot of trouble when they mix and react with other stain causing and stain promoting factors. Tannis may be natural or synthetic tannis is another factor that stains teeth. Tooth enamel is porous making it extremely susceptible to stains. The darker the liquid the darker the stain. There are some examples that stain teeth. Not only sodas bad but also Gatorade. Beets are bad for you also. Mostly cause they’re concentrated. Berries dark skins stain teeth. Ketchup is also really bad because of its bright red color and high levels of acid. Dark liquids and sauces you put on your foods also stain teeth. Colored candy and popsicles both contain colorants that will transfer to the teeth and embed in the porous enamel. Fruit juices, especially grape and cranberry, leave a colorful tinge on the teeth and tongue. Colored sodas instantly discolor teeth. The citric acids...
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