...2005 Mother Nature brought Hurricane Katrina to the coast Lousiana and, she devastated the city of New Orleans. Today our community’s natural disaster is a life-threatening biological agent which has spread in the water supply of several towns. Technology has changed the way a community in a disaserous situation communicates after the Three Mile Island and Hurricane Katrina. Comparing the way an Emergency Management Office communicates with the public and the groups involved, the advantages and challenges that come with the past and present communication technology, and the media opportunities used in today’s world. Individuals and Groups With a life-threatening situation there are many individuals and groups internally and externally that need to be notified of the situation. Within the office the entire staff needs to be aware of the seriousness of the situation. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Center for Disease Control Center (CDC) are a few federal agencies that need to be aware of the situation. The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Office of Emergency Communications (OEC) was directed by Congress to develop the first National Emergency Communications Plans (NECP) in early 2000 (Security, 2008). Within the NECP there are partnerships that also need to be notified of the situation, some of them are, the SAFECOM Executive Committee (EC) and Emergency Response Council (ERC), the Emergency Communications Preparedness Center (ECPC), and the Federal...
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...Scotteana Jones Dr. Baghar Fardarnesh, PhD Managers styles vary depending on the personality of the manager and the organizational structure of the company. We’ve learned that there are “A” type and “B” type managers in every organization. The managers style tend to dictate the working environment for the mid-level managers and staff. Competition is something that we all do as individuals, groups, cultures, large and small organizations as a way of proving to the other party involved that we are better or more dominant. When individuals compete, in most cases there is not a large wager involved however when organizations compete, they place the success of their companies financials and reputation on the line. Two of the largest companies I know of have different management styles, different organizational cultures, and have been competing for decades over being the top technological distributor and manufacturer in the world, and they are Apple, Inc. and Microsoft, Inc. Owners Bill Gates of Microsoft, and the late Steve Jobs & Steve Wozniak of Apple, Inc are probably three of the wealthiest and intelligent men in the industry. They share the dominant forces of being leaders in technology, yet sharing is not enough, they want the raining title. Cultural History Started in 1975 by owner Bill Gates, Microsoft is known to be the leader in computer software and supplies. Microsoft has spent years perfecting its software products and continue...
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...operation in a multinational organisation. The effectiveness of business operations to organisational goal of Shell Petroleum will be discussed As operation management entails risk, the risk management techniques that can be applied to the management of a business operations (Shell Petroleum) and how to evaluate the risk to business operations in global markets will be discussed. How risk to Shell Petroleum operations be minimised for a business functioning in a global market will be discussed The technological infrastructure that supports operations management of Shell Petroleum will be identified and the contribution of information technology to it operations management will be analysed. The benefits to operational management of implementing technical solutions will also be analysed . The contribution of information technology to operations management of a multinational organisation (Shell Petroleum will be presented to class using power point. The concept of operation management Operation management is the activity of managing the resources which produce and deliver products and services (Nigel et al 2010). The operation function is the part of the organisation that is responsible for this activity. Every organisation has an operations...
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...editing disabled mbagroup5 Actions * Join this WikiJoin this Wiki * Recent ChangesRecent Changes * Manage WikiManage Wiki Navigation 1. Home 2. an article about a typical Japanese Entrepreneur I like 3. Deutsche Exec Summary guest · Join · Help · Sign In · Wikispaces Remove From FavoritesAdd To FavoritesDeutsche Exec SummaryProtected * pagesubmenu o Details and Tags o Print o Download PDF o Backlinks o Source o Delete o Rename o Redirect o Permissions o Lock * discussion * history * notify me Details last edit by willzhouchuan willzhouchuan Oct 10, 2006 8:26 pm - 23 revisions hide details Tags * none Protected COVERPAGE- NAMES, id#s AND NAME OF CASE(Please add your student number after your name/thanks) Professor: Dr. Giovani J.C. da Silveira Lodge Karen Koupal Ondrej Miller Alana Ogunsola Oluseun Will Chuan Zhou (328253) Name: Case Analysis of Deutsche Allgemeinversicherung Coverletter?- Addressed to kluck, from consultants If someone can find a sample cover letter for case analysis then I can make it longer Dear Mr. Kluck; We are a 5 member consulting team from University of Calgary, Haykayne Business School and we did a very comprehensive study on Deutsche Allgemeinversicherung's PMV project and its problems, including the problem's background, the competition the company is...
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...UNIVERSIDAD AUTONOMA DE NUEVO LEÓN FACULTAD DE CONTADURIA PÚBLICA Y ADMINISTRACIÓN INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS PROGRAM BUSINESS ITS LEGAL, ETHICAL AND JUDICIAL ENVIRONMENT “SUMMARIES” CHAPTERS 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 20 and 21 Name: Nayeli Berenice Beltran Garza ID: 1586848 Group: 4Ai Cd. Universitaria de Nuevo León, November 16th 2015 CHAPTER 12 CONTRACTS AND SALES Introduction and Formation A contract is a promise or set of promises for breach of which the law fives a remedy, or the performance of which the law in some way recognizes as a duty. The three general sources of contract law for contracts entered into in the United States include common law, the Uniform Commercial Code, and the new sources of law evolving in response to e-commerce. Common Law The common law was the first law of contracts. It consists today of those traditional notions of law and the body of law developed by judicial decisions dealing with contract issues. Common law applies to contracts that have land or services as their subject matter. Contracts for the construction of a home and employment contracts are governed by common law. The Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) One of the problems with common law is its lack of uniformity, the states do not follow the same case decisions on contract law, and some states do not follow the Restatement. To address the uniformity, the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws and the American Law Institute worked...
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...CHAPTER 1: 1. A systematic grouping of people brought together to accomplish some specific purpose is call a(n): ______ B: Organization 2. Common characteristics that are found in every organization include the following except for: A: it has been organized by a union. 3. Titles of typical top management positions include the following EXCEPT: D: district manager 4. Organizations develop a systematic structure that defines the various roles of members. This may include the following EXCEPT FOR: E: creating informal cliques. 5. The Taft-Hartley Act started that any person who can do which of the following is a supervisor? A/ Lay off B/ Hire C/ Suspend C/ Transfer E/ All of the above 6. Organizations may be divided in the following distinct levels EXCEPT FOR: B: board of directors 7. The controlling function includes all of the following EXCEPT FOR: D: resolving conflicts among members. 8. The bottom level in the pyramid is occupied by: E: operative employees 9. As the role of coach, the supervisor is expected to: A: know how to listen to, guide, train, and assist. 10. Individuals who reflect a group of people responsible for establishing the organizations overall objectives and developing the policies to achieve these objectives are called: D: top-level managers 11. The management function which involves monitoring activities to ensure that targets are being met is called _______ A: controlling 12. Another way to think...
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...Strat. Change 15: 213–229 (2006) Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com) DOI: 10.1002/jsc.764 Strategic Change Rethinking and reinventing Michael Porter’s five forces model Tony Grundy Cranfield School of Management, UK Michael Porter’s five competitive forces model has been a most influential model within business schools but has perhaps had less appeal to the practising manager outside of an MBA and certain short business school courses. In this article it is argued that whilst there are a number of reasons why the model has not achieved greater currency, most importantly it can be developed a lot further. The paper looks at a number of important opportunities for using Porter’s model in an even more practical way, including: mapping the competitive forces, which can vary significantly over market and competitive terrain and within the same industry; understanding its dynamics; prioritizing the forces; doing macro analysis of the sub-drivers of each of the five forces; exploring key interdependencies, both between and within each force. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Introduction When Michael Porter conceived the five competitive forces model, it propelled strategic management to the very heart of the management agenda. The framework became a centrepiece of texts on business strategy and strategic management, and essential examination material on MBA and similar courses globally. But what has become of his original five competitive...
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...Chapter-1 Introduction 1. BAckground of the study. Four years back Bangladesh Bank undertook a project to review the global best practices in the banking sector and examines in the possibility of introducing these in the banking industry of Bangladesh. Four ‘Focus Groups’ were formed with participation from Nationalized Commercial Banks, Private Commercial Banks & Foreign Banks with representatives from the Bangladesh Bank as team coordinators to look into the practices of the best performing banks both at home and abroad. These focus groups identified and selected five core risk areas and produced a document that would be a basic risk management model for each of the five 'core' risk areas of banking. The five core risk areas are as follows- a) Credit Risks; b) Asset & Liability / Balance Sheet Risks; c) Foreign Exchange Risks; d) Internal Control & Compliance Risks; and e) Money Laundering Risks. Bangladesh Bank in one of it’s circular (BRPD Circular no.17) advised the commercial banks of Bangladesh to put in place an effective credit approval and monitoring system by December, 2003 based on the guidelines sent to them. In my study, I would try to put forward my findings about the “Credit Management Policy of Bangladesh Bank, and its implementation”. To illustrate my point, I am giving the example of Bank Asia Limited. 2. Objectives of the study. Broad objective: ❖ The broad objective is to know...
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...v105 some people claim that the disadvantages of the car are more than the advantages,do you agree or dis the birth of cars have made an enormous change to our life.in the past,we travel from one place to another only by foot,nowaday,cars can do it .its goes withour saying that the invention of cars bring great benefit to all of us.but as proverb goes:no garden without weeds.car is not exception. owing a car has a lot of advantages.for one thing,car provide us the most convient way of transportation.we can get around freely without spenting a lot of time.emotionally,i always found driving is so exciting.for another,its the comfortable to drive a car.In winter.drivers always can stay warm and dry even in rainy whether,in addition,drivers are usually safe in their cars when they are out at night. Cars bring the human merits,their side-effects graudually come to the surface.firstly,to run a car need a lot of oil,which is getting less and less.the increasing number of cars contribute the lacking of energy.secondlly,as more and more cars are used,the traffic ecpecially in big cities is getting heaver and heavier,which lead to the serious social problem--traffic jam.in addition,the inceasing numbers of cars ,which excaust sent a huge quantities of carbon monoxide into atmosphere.it make the air of cities unbreathabe,it strip people contact with frensh air. therefore,the new energy should be explored to replace the oil so that our envionmental pollution can be avioded .and th...
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