...This essay highlights the ethical issues of the case study titled World Class Bull, analyses them from the four perspectives namely Utilitarian, Deontology, Liberal and virtue ethics. It is then followed by a reasonable decision based on the analysis and concludes by examining what was done and how the process could have been improved by reflecting on it. The major ethical quandary in this particular case is the manipulative scheme of Chris, member of the SFS sales team in landing a contract with a resilient client namely Dale, CFO of Armadillo. The latters actions are seen as conspiratorial as at some point he lied to the customer about the extent he knew on him and his company as well as on his intentions. Sam, the Human Resources Vice President (VP) regarded his actions as a breach in the code of ethics particularly under deceptive business practices. The second issue concerns the unintentional and hasty act of Jeremy, the Sales VP which was sending a mail to the entire sales team flattering the scheming plan of Chris and ridiculing Dale and his wife. As seen above, there are two sides of this issue both being unethical however impacting on different stakeholders. Firstly, it breaches the code of ethics as Jeremy is seen as instigating the entire sales team in deceptive business practices. Secondly it breaches the American universal code of conduct whereby employees should respect all customers (Universal American Code of Conduct 2014). Utilitarianism means acting to maximize...
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...Newcastle Business School Faculty of Business and Law ASSESSMENT ITEM COVER SHEET Student Name: May Han Thein Last name First Name 0 3 7 9 0 7 8 (Your studentmail account) Student Number: Email:c3087097@uon.edu.au Business Strategy N M 0 0 2 1 T G Course: ode Course Code Course Title Campus of Study: PSB Delta,Singapore Assessment Item Title: Assessment Item 3 Essay A5 24.10.2010 1451 Tutorial Group: Word Count (If applicable): Due Date/Time: Lecturer/Tutor Name: Param Alahakone X Extension Granted: Yes No Granted Until: Please attach the approved copy of your extension approval. Include here any instructions / checklist for submission I verify that I have completed the Faculty of Business and Law online Academic Honesty Module and adhered to its principles (please tick the box) Y I declare that this assessment item is my own work unless otherwise acknowledged and is in accordance with the University’s plagiarism policy available from the Policy Library on the web at http://www.newcastle.edu.au/policy/academic/general/academic_integrity_policy-new.pdf I certify that this assessment item has not been submitted previously for academic credit in this or any other course. I certify that I have not given a copy or have shown a copy of this assessment item to another student enrolled in the course. I acknowledge that the assessor of this assignment...
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...Presented information is tentative for 2008 KOÇ UNIVERSITY MKTG 450-Selected Topics in Marketing Sales Management Fall 2008 Instructor: Ayten Kök Office: CASE Building-156, Phone: 338 1451, Email: akok@ku.edu.tr Office hours: Monday and Wednesday 15:30-16:30 or Friday by appointment Prerequisite: MKTG 201 Course Objectives and Overview Sales management which can be defined as the planning, implementing, and control of programs designed to achieve the sales and profit objectives of the firm is the focus of the course. The course is concerned with how to manage a salesforce rather than how to sell. It aims to familiarize students with sales management concepts and to show examples of their application for the solving of business problems. The relationship of sales management with other marketing activities and how strategy drives tactics are shown. Case studies which indicate that sales management is concerned with strategic decision making along with carrying out of marketing programs will be worked out. A good understanding of the role of the sales executive in the design and development of corporate marketing programs will be provided. The course uses the lecture-case method. Important Course Policies/Procedures University rules and policies on academic honesty will be strictly enforced. The students are required to attend the course section for which they are registered. Regular and timely attendance at all class meetings is expected...
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...Encountering stressful life events is an unavoidable element of the human experience. Quite possibly, the extent to which these stressful events affect one’s mind and body are more severe than noticeable. Research has shown that such stressful events have the potential to adversely affect an individual’s physical and/or psychological state (Nezu , Blisset and Nezu, 1988; Porterfield, 1987; Cohen, Tyrell, & Smith, 1993). Studies have shown a relationship between stressful life events and both increased susceptibility to the common cold (Cohen, et al., 1993), and a depressed or anxious psychological state (Dohrenwend & Dohrenwend, 1981). With this in mind, it is important to investigate the ways in which an individual deals with stress; how one handles these events may determine the impact on one’s physical and/or psychological well being. For example, coping skills, problem-solving skills (Nezu, Nezu, Saraydarian, Kalmar & Ronan, 1986), and cognitive appraisals (Kuiper, Martin & Olinger, 1993) have been identified as psycho-social variables that moderate the negative impact of stress. Humor, as well, has been investigated for its potential to moderate the negative effects of stress, as well as directly influence negative affect. In addition to receiving attention from the research community, the benefit of humor in dealing with stress or difficult life circumstances has long been recognized by many. How often do we hear that “laughter is the best medicine,” and how frequently...
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...Quality Systems for Business Excellence MT1026F Main Diet Unit 2 For 2011 Researching on Contribution of Organisation Learning that Develop Organisation Excellence by Using the European Framework for Quality Management Name: Shaun Amirthalingam 0705668 Matthew Peh Voon Yang 0805185 Boo Tong Kwong 0805183 Table of Content Title | Page Number | 1.0 Introduction | 3 | 2.0 Learning Organisation2.1 Inspiration and Motivation2.2 Empowerment2.3 Accumulating and Sharing Internal Knowledge2.4 Gathering and Integrating External Information2.5 Enabling Creativity | 4-5 | 3.0 European Foundation of Quality Management3.1 The Good of EFQM3.2 EFQM Developing Organisation Learning3.3 Limitation of Organisation Learning | 6-13 | 4.0 Conclusion | 14 | Referencing and Bibliography | 15-18 | Researching on Contribution of Organisation Learning that Develop Organisation Excellence by Using the European Framework for Quality Management 1.0 Introduction It is a huge change that has accelerated over the past few decades in the economy. During the 20th century, organisations always focused at traditional factors for production on tangible resources such as equipment, land and money. Almost every organization...
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...Company Case/Pepsi : Can a soda really make a world good place? 1. Consider PepsiCo’s advertising throughout its history.( For a List of Pepsi slogans over he years, visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepsi#Slogans.) Identify as many commonalities as possible across its various ad campaigns. How is this campaign consistent with PepsiCo’s brand image? According to our case study campaign advertisement strategy very good in the social media and in the social network ,because at the advertisement PepsiCo use spokesperson which people have popularity. Campaign slogans for the every years explain brand well and attract people. And also campaign projects for ex: “Pepsi Refresh “ make opinion in the people mind that what we drink and spend, in the same time it return to us with other way. And even some of the earlier slogans have the commonality that you get more bangs for your buck that when you buy Pepsi you get more of flavor, amount and whatever than the competition offers. Pepsi is for everyone and that Pepsi alone can refresh or change the world. Many slogans have to deal with being young as well as being in the future. Most of Slogans indicate that if you want to be part of the future or new generation then you have to drink Pepsi. It is consistent with the PepsiCo brand image because they target the younger nation and making it a better place for many generations to come. They started to advertise by reinvesting into actual community to actual make the future better...
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...How To Stop Worrying And Start Living By Dale Carnegie Courtesy: Shahid Riaz Islamabad – Pakistan shahid.riaz@gmail.com http://esnips.com/UserProfileAction.ns?id=ebdaae62-b650-4f30-99a4-376c0a084226 “How To Stop Worrying And Start Living” By Dale Carnegie 2 Contents Sixteen Ways in Which This Book Will Help You Preface - How This Book Was Written-and Why Part One - Fundamental Facts You Should Know About Worry 1 - Live in "Day-tight Compartments" 2 - A Magic Formula for Solving Worry Situations 3 - What Worry May Do to You Part Two - Basic Techniques In Analysing Worry 4 - How to Analyse and Solve Worry Problems 5 - How to Eliminate Fifty Per Cent of Your Business Worries Nine Suggestions on How to Get the Most Out of This Book Part Three - How To Break The Worry Habit Before It Breaks You 6 - How to Crowd Worry out of Your Mind 7 - Don't Let the Beetles Get You Down 8 - A Law That Will Outlaw Many of Your Worries 9 - Co-operate with the Inevitable 10 - Put a "Stop-Loss" Order on Your Worries 11 - Don't Try to Saw Sawdust Part Four - Seven Ways To Cultivate A Mental Attitude That Will Bring You Peace And Happiness 12 - Eight Words that Can Transform Your Life 13 - The High, Cost of Getting Even 14 - If You Do This, You Will Never Worry About Ingratitude 15 - Would You Take a Million Dollars for What You Have? 16 - Find Yourself and Be Yourself: Remember There Is No One Else on Earth Like You 17 - If You Have a Lemon, Make a Lemonade 18 - How to Cure Melancholy in...
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...D.C. 20546 (202) 358-1600 GLOBAL EXPLORATION STRATEGY AND LUNAR ARCHITECTURE SPEAKERS: SHANA DALE, Deputy Administrator DOUG COOKE, Deputy Associate Administrator, Exploration Systems Mission Directorate SCOTT HOROWITZ, Associate Administrator, Exploration Systems Mission Directorate [Moderated by Dean Acosta, NASA Press Secretary] Monday, December 4, 2006 Johnson Space Center [TRANSCRIPT PREPARED FROM A DIGITAL RECORDING.] MALLOY TRANSCRIPTION SERVICE (202) 362-6622 2 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 P R O C E D I N G S MR. ACOSTA: Good afternoon, and welcome to Johnson Space Center here in Houston for today's exciting announcement for the Global Exploration Strategy and Lunar Architecture announcement. Secretary. It is an exciting day at NASA and exciting week, and joining us for today's announcement, to my right, is NASA's Deputy Administrator Shana Dale. To her right is I am Dean Acosta, NASA Press the Deputy Associate Administrator for Exploration Systems Directorate, Doug Cooke, and to Doug's right is the Associate Administrator for Exploration Systems Directorate, Scott Horowitz. We are going to go through a presentation, and then we will get to your questions and have a question-and-answer session later in the announcement. So right now, I would like to turn it over to Deputy Administrator Shana Dale. DEPUTY ADMINISTRATOR DALE: Thank you, Dean. I am so pleased to be here today with Doc Horowitz and also Doug Cooke to announce...
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...Effect of Metacognitive Strategy Instruction Through Co operative Learning on Reading Comprehension among Secondary School ESL Students Author: Mrs. Jane Sequeira is a research scholar at St. Ann’s College of Education. She has served as a teacher for classes’ right from Kindergarten to 12th standard for two decades. She is passionate about trying innovative methods to make the process of teaching learning effective and enjoyable. At present she is conducting an experimental study under the guidance of Dr.Vijaya Kumari S.N. The author may be contacted at jane.r.sequeira@gmail.com. Abstract The present study titled “The effect of Metacognitive Strategy Instruction through Co operative Learning on Reading Comprehension among Secondary School ESL Students” is an Experimental Study. The pre test - post test control group design was adopted for the facilitation of which the researcher prepared instructional materials both in Metacognitive Strategic Instruction through co operative learning and Conventional Method and applied them on the experimental and control group respectively to find out their effect on the respective groups and compare them. A reading comprehension test prepared by the investigator was used as pre test and post test. The sample consisted of 112 ESL students of standard nine studying in Kannada medium. Descriptive statistics Mean and SD were calculated to find out the effect of the teaching strategies and Inferential statistics ‘t’ test was used to infer...
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...Evidence October 2007 Brief 6 of 6 issue brief In February 2007, AcademyHealth conducted a meeting on behalf of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation examining the role of consumer engagement in improving the quality of health care. In preparation for this meeting, five papers were commissioned on the following subjects: consumer activation, consumer choice of health plan and provider, consumer choice of treatment, patient navigation, and the appropriate role for consumers. This issue brief is based on the consumer choice of health plans and providers paper, which was authored by Jonathan Kolstad and Michael Chernew, Ph.D. Consumer Choice in the Health Insurance and Provider Markets: A Look at the Evidence Thus Far may or may not be evidence-based. Because consumer choice of health plans and providers drives cost and quality outcomes, consumers are being asked to make use of these formally reported data as they assume greater responsibility for their health and health care decisions. Despite the momentum in this area, it is not easy for consumers to make evidencebased decisions about their health plans and providers. There are several reasons for this. First, there is a relative dearth of information on quality. Second, choosing between health plans is not as simple as it once was because there is no one-size-fits-all or “right” answer. Third, out-of-pocket costs are increasingly a factor. Consumers are also at a distinct information disadvantage when it comes to...
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...advantage, and consequently supply chain management (SCM), is a relatively recent thinking in management literature. Although research interests in and the importance of SCM are growing, scholarly materials remain scattered and disjointed, and no research has been directed towards a systematic identification of the core initiatives and constructs involved in SCM. Thus, the purpose of this study is to develop a research framework that improves understanding of SCM and stimulates and facilitates researchers to undertake both theoretical and empirical investigation on the critical constructs of SCM, and the exploration of their impacts on supply chain performance. To this end, we analyse over 400 articles and synthesize the large, fragmented body of work dispersed across many disciplines such as purchasing and supply, logistics and transportation, marketing, organizational dynamics, information management, strategic management, and operations management literature. 1. Introduction The popularity of the supply chain concept has been stimulated from many directions including the quality revolution (Dale et al. 1994), notions of materials management and integrated logistics (Carter and Price 1993), a growing interest in industrial markets and networks (Ford...
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...11 5.1 Roles and Responsibilities 11 5.2 Resource Requirements 11 5.3 Contributions of SMART Targets 12 6 References 13 7 Appendices 17 7.1 Appendix – 1: PEST Analysis 17 Index of Figures Figure 1 - Ansoff Growth Matrix for Premier Inn 3 Figure 2 - BCG Growth Share Matrix of Premier Inn 4 Figure 3 - Strengths and Weaknesses of Premier Inn 5 Figure 4 - Stakeholder Analysis of Premier Inn 7 Figure 5 - SAFe Analysis for Premier Inn 10 Introduction and Background This paper examines various factors related to strategic planning, such as the process of strategic planning, approaches and theoretical models linked with strategic planning, and the implementation of strategic plans by taking Premier Inn as the case study organisation. This paper shed light into how strategic planning models and theories can be used in real life situations to create the best suitable outcomes for an organisations, depending on its goals, vision, strategic capabilities and such. The report details how Premier Inn has aligned its strategic planning process and used its plans to become a leading hospitality service provider in the UK market. Premier Inn is the leading budget hotel chain in the...
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...procedures of study in the various school subjects. Many methods of supervised or directed study are being tried. The socialized recitation is now a part of the regular classroom routine in many high schools. By this method pupils "take an active part, in defining the problem under consideration, in securing data, in presenting these data for class criticism, and in raising questions. Classroom study is now eliminating much of the former home study, especially in the elementary and junior high schools. The purpose of this method is to train students, under the guidance of the teacher, in habits of study. Student’s academic performance occupies a vital role in education as well as in the learning process. It is a key criterion in judging one’s total potential and capacities. It is used to pass judgment on the quality of education offered by academic institutions. In fact, it is still the most topical debate in many learning institutions that caused great concern to educators and researchers. In a more recent meta-analysis, Crede and Kuncel (2008) found that non-cognitive factors like study habit, skill and study motivation, among other attitudinal constructs, accounted for incremental variance in academic performance beyond standardized tests and previous grades. Moreover, a literature review by Nagaraju (2004) pointed out that, for good academic success, good study habits and attitudes are important. Hence, it is imperative and desirable that a probe into the pattern of study habits...
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...Team Debate Paper Stacie Hearne, Manita Johnson, Jessica Lightfoot, and Roy Tucker BCOM/275 October 4, 2012 Kwanis Nelson Debate Team Paper “We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” Gay marriage has become one of the hottest issues in politics. Supporters of gay marriage have compared their struggle for equality to an era when African- Americans were denied their right to vote, some have even argued that to be denied of your right to marry is also a direct violation of your civil rights. Non supporters of gay marriage beliefs are based more from a religious stand point as well personal values. With homosexuality being seen by a vast majority as being immoral and sinful, the biggest argument to date is that many people feel by allowing gay marriage to take place that this will weaken the institution of marriage and family values. On September 21, 1996 both houses of Congress passed the Defense of Marriage Act or DOMA a federal law which defines marriage as a legal union between one man and one woman. This law, signed by then President Bill Clinton denies the rights of same-sex couples to marry. Not only does this law prevent same-sex couples to marry, it also denies these men and women certain monetary benefits such as public employee benefits, social security survivors...
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...Soft Systems Methodology A report by Dale Couprie Alan Goodbrand Bin Li David Zhu Department of Computer Science University of Calgary Table of Contents. Abstract. Introduction Map Stage 1. Problem situation unstructured. Stage 2. Problem Situation expressed. Rich Pictures Illustration of Stage 1 and Stage 2 as a whole in SSM Pitfalls that must be avoided. Stage 3: Naming of Relevant Systems Root Definitions CATWOE Stage 4: Conceptual Models Systems Thinking Formal Systems Model Monitoring a System Stage 5: Comparing Conceptual Models with Reality Using Conceptual Models as a Base for Ordered Questioning Comparing History with Model Prediction General Overall Comparison Model Overlay Stages 6 and 7. Implementing Feasible and Desirable Changes Case Study - Rethinking a Service Function in the Shell Group Stages 1 and 2 Stage 3: Naming of Relevant Systems Stage 4: Conceptual Models Stage 5: Comparing Conceptual Models with Reality Stages 6 and 7. Implementing Feasible and Desirable Changes Observations and Conclusions Exercise References Figures. Figure 1. Figure 2. Figure 3. Figure 4. Figure 5. Figure 6. Soft Systems Methodology map. Transformation process for producing Rich Picture. The routing of Systems Thinking. Shell's MF Rich Picture. Shell's MF world view of training. Shell's MF training conceptual model. Tables. Table 1. One to one transformations involving different world views. Table 2. Shell's Comparison with reality. Abstract This document deals with...
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