...Study Unit 5: The Treadway tire company: Job dissatisfaction and high turnover at the Lima tire plant Strategic Human Resources Management April 20, 2014 Case Study Unit 5: The Treadway tire company: Job dissatisfaction and high turnover at the Lima tire plant Case Study Unit 5: Prepare a case analysis on the topic of Traditional versus Strategic HRM and Its Effectiveness for Organizational Success. Case Analysis Criteria: Your Case Analysis should consist of: * A brief analysis of the situation and pending-decision problem, as presented in the case, and as relevant to your answer. This should be exceptionally brief and you should assume the person reading the Assignment is familiar with the details of the case. * Identification of the major issues surrounding the organization or individuals involved with the organization. * Identification of alternate courses of action to address the issues identified. * The decision or recommendation for action, with the appropriate supporting arguments. * The Case Question is designed to guide the direction of your analysis in the case. Your analysis should address and ultimately answer the question. Analysis: The tire plant in Lima is going through some rough time as its profits and margins are declining due because of the rising cost of raw materials and also due to intense global competition. Not much can be done with the increasing cost of raw materials but to reduce the overall company’s cost, Lima...
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...USA Today: Case Analysis 1Research and update the case information as much as possible with current research, and then conduct a comprehensive SWOT analysis for USA Today. Since its 1982 debut, the American newspaper USA Today has had a major impact on the North American Newspaper industry. It has been an immensely successful experiment, a trend - setting hybrid of print and television journalism which in less than 10 years was able to boast a daily readership of 6.6 million. With its effective use of bright colors, high – quality photo reproduction, innovative graphic design, and brief stories, Gannet Co. the parent company of USA Today established the newspaper in its quest to appeal to a new generation of readers who are predominantly young and middle aged achievement-oriented students, professionals and managerial personnel who were heavy newspaper readers and frequent travelers. Weaned on television, this new generation is increasingly attuned to images rather than words and, because of a busier lifestyle, has less time to read than earlier generations of newspaper readers. USA Today has made huge gains by tailoring its product to this market segment. At the same time, it has influenced the form and content of a host of other North American newspapers. The most notable examples are Wall Street Journal and New York Times. USA Today has become one of the leading sources for news in the nation. It has established its credibility and validity as a reliable and resourceful...
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...This aspect of economics deals with the principles of economics that apply to the analysis of the behavior of individual consumers and businesses in the economy. Questions on this exam require test-takers to apply analytical techniques to hypothetical as well as real-world situations and to analyze and evaluate economic decisions. Test-takers are expected to demonstrate an understanding of how free markets work and allocate resources efficiently. They should understand how individual consumers make economic decisions to maximize utility, and how individual firms make decisions to maximize profits. Test-takers must be able to identify the characteristics of the different market structures and analyze the behavior of firms in terms of price and output decisions. They should also be able to evaluate the outcome in each market structure with respect to economic efficiency, identify cases in which private markets fail to allocate resources efficiently, and explain how government intervention fixes or fails to fix the resource allocation problem. It is also important to understand the determination of wages and other input prices in factor markets, and to analyze and evaluate the distribution of income. The examination contains approximately 80 questions to be answered in 90 minutes. Some of these are pretest questions that will not be scored. Property rights and the role of incentives Marginal analysis 55–70% The Nature and Functions of Product Markets 15–20% Supply and Demand • Market...
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...Information Technology 229 100-05 -- 10:00 – 10:50 a.m. MWF – Sondheim 409 Instructor: Ellen Gorman Office: Fine Arts 424 Office Hours: By appointment E-mail: elg@umbc.edu; elgorman@msn.com Required Texts Celebrity Culture and the American Dream, Karen Sternheimer The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz Shoplifting from American Apparel, Tao Lin It's Bigger Than Hip-Hop: The Rise of the Post-Hip-Hop Generation, M.K. Asante Films: The Social Network (Fincher 2010); Mean Girls (Waters 2004); Bomb It (Reiss 2007); Objectified (Hustwit 2009), The Bling Ring (Coppola 2013) Course Description: In this course we will engage in an interdisciplinary analysis of oral, written, visual, and material representations of American life and culture and the historical and social contexts in which they are produced and consumed. Our analyses will necessitate a survey the interplay of the popular arts and American society, using American studies interdisciplinary methodologies. The framework of the course is the development of critical thinking and writing skills. All students are encouraged to avail themselves of the free services at the University’s Writing Center, http://www.umbc.edu/lrc/writing_center.htm List of assignments and percentage of grade Formal Assignment #1/Critical Analysis 20% Formal Assignment #2/Creative Production 30% Response Papers (4) 20% Participation 15% In-class Quizzes (3) 15% General Policies Grading ...
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...addressing himself. Although the use of transition between multiple metaphors has often been critiqued. As Fred Hasson (2013) suggests “The metaphors are choppy, jumping quickly from the mansion to the worms, and then to Death eating man and vice-versa. The "cost" theme mixes uneasily with the soul/body comparison.”, through a powerful use of metaphor as well as religious notions, the poet brings light to the idea of materialism and earthly greed as catalysts for the souls entrapment in the body and furthermore addresses the potential escape from such boundaries into eternal life. Despite it's ability to appeal to both Christian and Non-Christian audiences, Sonnet 146 has been often declared one of Shakespeare's more Christian poems (David E. Anderson, 2005). This very accurately acts as a reflection of the poems context, with legal requirements on churches to read Psalms from The Book of Common Prayer monthly at the time. Richmond Noble (1940, p4) in 'Shakespeare's Biblical Knowledge' lists at least 135 Psalm references in Shakespeare's plays, also vouching for other such references in the sonnets. Shakespeare's awareness and furthermore use of several Pauline paradoxes becomes apparent through the close study of the thematic structure and development of the Sonnet. Noticeably, paradoxes in Sonnet 146 work to emphasize the disparity between the initial state of the soul and the desired state expressed at the end comparable to Paul's ironic use of paradox when contrasting the 'appearance...
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...NSA Surveillance Program The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) was created in 1978 as a response to past presidential abuses of massive domestic wiretapping and surveillance that were conducted by the National Security Agency (NSA) on many innocent Americans. FISA was designated to limit warrantless foreign intelligence surveillance for national security purposes and to issue the extent to which NSA could seize domestic communications. An executive power would need a warrant approved by FISA and only for the cases where the sole intention for the surveillance was to obtain foreign intelligence information (Skalski 15). Things changed shortly after the September 11 terrorist attacks in 2001 when President Bush secretly gave authorization to the NSA to wiretap Americans on the US soil without a warrant from FISA. By the same year, the Bush Administration passed the Patriotic Act that enabled FBI to demand the sharing of “any tangible things sought relevant to an authorized investigation” (Barnett 4), including strictly domestic records. Also, three days after the terrorist attacks, the Congress passed AUMF (Authorization for Use of Military Force) Act that was a necessity, but it was wrongly used by the Bush Administration as the reason of permission for the massive spying program. Because of the secrecy of these surveillance transmissions, the American public had no idea of the existence of these...
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...Case Report - Amazon CONTENT 1. Amazon in Brief 2. Amazon’s Five Forces 2.1 Threat of New Entrants 2.2 Bargaining Power of Buyers 2.3 Rivalry Among Existing Competitors 2.4 Bargaining Power of Suppliers 2.5 Threat of Substitute Products or Services 3. Amazon’s Value Chain 4. Conclusion 5. References Case Report - Amazon 1. AMAZON IN BRIEF Amazon.com, an American company, started the journey 1994 in a small garage based in Seattle, Washington. Today, twenty years later Amazon has become the world's largest web retailer with a predicted revenue around $100 billion in 2014. The founder Jeffrey Bezos, a former Wall Street broker, started Amazon.com by selling books online from the garage in Seattle through the website Amazon.com; With a mission to provide everything for everyone. The company is one of the most customer-centric company in the world and every decision taken by Amazon, started with the key question; What is the value for the customer? - to provide the costumer with the best possible experience of Amazon. Jeffrey Bezos did not care about profit or return to the shareholders; the main focus has always been to provide the costumers with the most enjoyable experience. By offering a wide range of products and services to the lowest possible price and a fast and convenient delivery. Over the years, the selection of products and services have expanded enormously from just...
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...Consumer Behavior towards Ice creams: A perspective on Kwality Walls Contents 1. History of Ice creams 3 2. Stages of Consumption 3 3. Market Analysis 4 3.1. Ice cream industry in India 4 3.2. Challenges 6 3.3. Future growth prospects 6 4. Attitudinal factors: Ice creams 7 5. Company background 8 6. Short-term and Long-term Memory factors in Ice cream 10 7. Maslow’s Hierarchy 10 8. Competitors 11 9. Recent Developments in Ice cream industry 12 9.1. Effect on Kwality Walls 13 10. References 14 1. History of Ice creams Ice cream's origins are known to reach back as far as the second century B.C., although no specific date of origin or inventor has been undisputedly credited with its discovery. We know that Alexander the Great enjoyed snow and ice flavoured with honey and nectar. Biblical references also show that King Solomon was fond of iced drinks during harvesting. During the Roman Empire, Nero Claudius Caesar (A.D. 54-86) frequently sent runners into the mountains for snow, which was then flavoured with fruits and juices. Over a thousand years later, Marco Polo returned to Italy from the Far East with a recipe that closely resembled what is now called sherbet. Historians estimate that this recipe evolved into ice cream sometime in the 16th century. England seems to have discovered ice cream at the same time, or perhaps even earlier than the Italians. "Cream Ice," as it was called, appeared regularly at the table of...
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...CHAPTER 13 Financial Analysis: The Big Picture Study Objectives 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Understand the concept of sustainable income. Indicate how irregular items are presented. Explain the concept of comprehensive income. Describe and apply horizontal analysis. Describe and apply vertical analysis. Identify and compute ratios used in analyzing a company’s liquidity, solvency, and profitability. Understand the concept of quality of earnings. Summary of Questions by Study Objectives and Bloom’s Taxonomy Item SO BT Item SO BT Item SO BT Item SO BT Item SO BT Questions 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 1. 2. 3. 1. 2. 1 2 1 2 6 2 2 2 2 1, 2, 6 C C C C C AP AP C AP C 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 4. 5. 6. 3. 4. 5. 2. 2. 4, 5 4, 5 4, 5 6 6 4 5 4 4 5 4, 5 6 6 C C AP K C AP AP AP AP AP AP AP AP 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 7. 8. 9. 6. 7. 8. 3. 3. 6 6 6 6 6 4 5 4 Exercises 4, 5 6 6 6 6 AP AP AP AN AN 9. 10. 11. 4. 4. 6 6 6 6 6 AP AP AP AN AN 5. 5. 6 6 E E 12. 6 AP K C C C C AP AP AP 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 10. 11. 12. 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 C C C C AP AP AN AN 13. 14. 15. 6 6 6 AN AN AN 21. 22. 7 7 C AN Brief Exercises Problems: Set A 1. 1. 5, 6 5, 6 AN AN Problems: Set B 13-1 ASSIGNMENT CHARACTERISTICS TABLE Problem Number 1A 2A Difficulty Level Simple Simple Time Allotted (min.) 20–30 20–30 Description Prepare vertical analysis and comment on profitability. Compute ratios from balance sheet and income statement. Perform ratio analysis, and discuss change in financial position and operating results. Compute ratios;...
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...818-677-2459 – Department Office (leave message) Office Hours Friday at 10:00am E-mail address danny.litt@csun.edu (reference class) COURSE DESCRIPTION This is an introductory course on the fundamentals of investment analysis and management. Survey of investments including corporate and government securities, real property and financial intermediaries. Survey of investment theory emphasizing security analysis, valuation and portfolio management. PREREQUISITES Finance 303; cannot be taken concurrently COURSE GOALS AND OBJECTIVES This course provides the student with the information and skills needed to analyze investments and portfolio management. The intent of the course is to provide students with a basic understanding of different alternatives in investments, how to value those investments, and how those investments fit together within an investment portfolio. TOPICS INCLUDE Corporate and government securities Risk-return tradeoff Institutional aspects of security markets Fundamental and technical analysis Stock and bond valuations Portfolio theory Portfolio management REQUIRED COURSE TEXT Investments, 9th edition, Bodie, Kane, Marcus, McGraw-Hill. ISBN: 0073530700. Copyright year: 2011. The books website is http://highered.mcgrawhill. com/sites/0073530700/information_center_view0/ SYLLABUS FINANCE 352 AUGUST 3, 2012 PAGE 2 RECOMMENDED READING Current daily issues of the Wall...
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...REPORT ON KFC KFC [Type the company address] [Type the phone number] [Type the fax number] 12/27/2012 Quartulain Shah BY :Abdul Moiz PREFACE This report focus on KFC marketing strategies, its marketing environment , demographic factor ,marketing factors. I designed a report to provide a brief description about its marketing mix & its major competitors in Pakistan. We also discuss four P’s of marketing & their marketing tools. In addition to it, this report includes a research base survey on KFC. We all have tried our level best to fulfil all the requirements mentioned to us. Now its depend upon the reader to read it carefully and understand what we want to communicate. This report provides a brief knowledge about KFC in Pakistan. ABOUT KFC Introduction Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC)- one of the most known fast food chains in the world started in the early 1930's by Kernel Sanders in the Southern USA as a small franchise operation. Colonel Sanders has become a well known personality throughout thousands of KFC restaurants Worldwide. Quality, service and cleanliness (QSC) represents the most critical success factors to KFC's global success. Food, Fun & Festivity, this is what KFC is all about. Leading the market since its inception, KFC provides the ultimate chicken meals for the Chicken Loving Nation. Be it Colonel Sanders secret Original Recipe Chicken or the Hot & Spicy version, every bite brings a YUM on the face. At KFC we proudly...
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...Karen Park Grand Canyon University: TCH-518 November 9, 2014 Stephanie Hirsch, an executive director of the National Staff Development Council once said that, “For teachers, going to school must be as much about learning as it is about teaching. They must have time each day to learn, plan lessons, critique student work, and support improvement as members of learning teams…” (p.98). Throughout the school year, teachers have multiple tasks that are part of their daily work schedule. Among the daily work, lesson plans are essential in creating a successful learning environment for students. This is where the role of an instructional coach can be advantageous. The role of a coach is defined “with a narrower remit than mentoring, and relates to specific areas of performance and job outcomes” (Lord, Atkinson, & Mitchell, 2008). Furthermore, coaches that are in of an assistance to a classroom teacher must be able to identify “individual’s strengths and limitations, degree and elements of motivation, work ethic, beliefs, interests, vision, educational background, formative experiences, and professional goals” (Kise, 2006). Therefore, when a teacher is brainstorming a lesson plan, a coach can be a vital role in building teaching effectiveness. Purpose of the Lesson The purpose of this lesson is to build appropriate content concepts and build background knowledge of the unit, “The Gold Rush” in the fourth grade classroom. As part of the fourth-grade social studies curriculum...
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...Spring 14 Spring 14 08 Fall 08 Fall US Army Corps of Engineers Ken Lynch A brief analysis of the US Army Corps of Engineers role in locks and dams US Army Corps of Engineers Ken Lynch A brief analysis of the US Army Corps of Engineers role in locks and dams US Army Corps of Engineers Nature has constructed a labyrinth of highways perfect for resourceful materials handling. The web of rivers cutting their way throughout this country comprises the United States Inland Waterway System. There are over 12,000 navigable miles carrying almost 625 million tons of commodities annually on the rivers (C. James Kruse). An in depth look in one of the oldest methods of transportation describes the design, creation, implementation, and maintenance of locks and dams as conducted by the US Army Corps of Engineers. A closer look will also be taken at the history of the US ACE. A brief explanation of what is the inland waterway helps to understand the significance the US Army Corps of Engineers has played in shaping the capacity of waterborne transportation. The United States has used rivers for materials handling dating back hundreds of years. As time went on, the potential for using rivers became more and more apparent. Locks and dams had to be constructed to fully utilize the waterways. The rivers were already in place but for barges to travel up and down the rivers the implementation of locks and dams alleviated the problems arising from drops in river elevation...
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...Famous Thinkers Paper PHL/458 September 17, 2012 Prof. John Muench Famous Thinkers Paper The world has had numerous famous thinkers that have inflicted change upon society through their views. Martin Luther King Jr. and Cornel West are two examples of famous thinkers that has through years of trials and tribulations, had their personal journeys turn into societal change. This paper will chronicle their personal journeys and how their contributions changed the way society acts today. Martin Luther King Jr. was born on January 15, 1929. He was raised in an environment where African-Americans were singled out and isolated in the southern part of the United States. He enrolled and graduated from a public school at the age of fifteen and earned his diploma in Sociology from Morehouse College in 1948. He later enrolled at a graduate school in Boston where he met his wife, Coretta Scott, who understood Martin’s purpose in the African-American society. Martin continued the legacy of his father and grandfather and joined the Ebenezer Baptist church, serving as co-pastor alongside his father. In this little Baptist church is where Martin Luther King Jr. began to instill has beliefs and values amongst the African-American society. As an African-American minister and belligerent leader, people looked up to him as he fought for the rights of the African-American society. Cornel West was born on June2, 1953 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He attended Harvard and received his graduate degree from...
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...External and Internal Environmental Analysis DSW is the leading footwear specialty retailer in the United States operating 305 shoe stores in 39 states as of January 30, 2010. The shoe warehouse offers a wide assortment of better-branded dress, casual and athletic footwear for women and men, as well as assessories. The company’s main focus is to create a distinctive shopping experience that satisfies both the rational and emotional needs of DSW customers by offering a vast, exciting assortment of in-season styles combined with the convenience and value they desire (DSW, Inc. 2009 Annual Report). External Environmental Factor in the Remote, Industry, and External Operating Environments Part of DSW’s external environment factor in the remote is their economic factor. DSW is in a leading marketing position that is driven by their competitive strengths, the breadth (heart) of their branded products, their distinctive and convenient store layouts, the value proposition they offer to their customers, and their financial strength (DSW, Inc. 2009 Annual Report). DSW stores and dsw.com sell a large assortment of merchandise. They purchase shoes and athletic footwear from over 400 domestic and foreign vendors. DSW’s growth is attributable to their operating model and management’s focus on store-level profitability and economic payback. Over the five fiscal years ending in January 30, 2010, their net sales grew at a rate of 11%. They have also generated a positive operating cash flow...
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