...Bribes and Deception Gregory O. Clark Regent University In the case study this week, I am supposed to be an export manager of a United States steel company that provide heavy beams and plates for huge construction projects. The company that I worked for has been unfruitful the past couple of year and are now looking to generate business oversea in South America. I have been working with a company in South American on a contract that would allow my company to make 20 million dollars. The problem is that this official will not sign the contract until I pay him 20,000 dollars. A bribe is something valuable (such as money or jewels) must be given to someone to get something. It is typically illegal or dishonest. (Merriam-Webster, 2014). He tells me that if I don’t pay the bribe then he will give the contract to the Germans. This goes against his country laws as well as the laws of United States. This is considered a bribe. I have a small mini tape recorder in my brief case which I could use to deceive the official. I could tell him that my company policy is to tape all my meetings conducted while oversea. And I could give this recording over to his superior. I will not do so as long as he sign the necessary documents. There are several ethical dilemmas in this situation which make things gray when looking at it through the eyes of ethics. The first dilemma face was to pay the bribe which was illegal in his country as well as my own. It is possible that the Germans may...
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...Macaroon Berhad should have considered and analyzed thoroughly before they proceed with the project in the first place where can avoid the problem during or after installation of new system. There are some points the company need to take into consideration before install new system. Firstly, review the vendors with IT express with specific requirement which needed by the organization. The proposal should meet the requirement of the company with rules and regulations are mentioned. Thus, help the company may have more choices, can choose the better performance or can have additional features with new idea from the various vendors. In addition, before choose the system better have the feedback from the customers because they know well about the system. If it is big or small company whether is it suitable for the firm, or they can recommend which one is suitable for the firm with the relevant requirements. So it depends on the organization which project is more convenient. Furthermore, the organization should determine the size and complexity of projects. Before choose the new project they should know the implementation process, the challenges on working with the project. The in charge person should know about whole process and procedures, how to run the project and get to know the capacity or capability of the project. Basically, they nee to understand the flow of the project thus can avoid the conflicts. Moreover, the time is also crucial part when replacing with new project...
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...JOMO KENYATTA UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY BPS 4TH YEAR GROUP ASSIGNMENT (GROUP E) GROUP MEMBERS: 1. GACHERU BRIAN WAWERU- HD211-3221/2011 2. MUGO VICTOR MAMBO - HD211-3265/2011 3. GITONGA J GATERE - HD211-3229/2011 4. FLEMINS MUTSOLI VUDOHI- HD211-0977/2011 DATE OF SUBMITION: 11TH OCTOBER FACILITATOR: MR MBITHI INTRODUCTION An information system (IS) is any combination of information technology and people’s activities using that technology to support operations, management, and decision making. In any business organization, data is the most important thing. Different types of information are produced from data. When the amount of data is large, it becomes more difficult to process this data manually. In order to get quick results and timely information, an information system is used in almost all organizations. As the business grows, the amount of data also increases. As a result, it becomes more difficult to process the data manually. With the use of information system, data can be processed with rapid speed and information is generated quickly. To run a business successfully, effective and timely decision-making is very important. The decision making is based on the information we get from the stored data. The history of information systems coincides with the history of computer science that began long before the modern discipline of computer science emerged in...
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...INFROMATION SYSTEMS AND SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS Larger numbers of software applications are used to perform the various department tasks. Determining why a company needs information system and software application for the various departments. A company must have knowledge of the information systems and software applications, to allow the department to use the product; the various software applications are different. To perform daily task and jobs within a company requires at less one information system several software application systems. The information system is made up of data items, information, and knowledge within a business. According to Smith “information system refers to technology designed to handle the data that institutions receive, process, generate, save, backup, disseminate, and use to make decisions” (2007). Software applications are programs store in the information system. According to Rainer, “software is a program or collection of programs that enable the hardware to process data” (2008). The information system is the fast way to obtain needed data for the various departments within a business. “Regardless of the overall trends in software (increases complexity, increased cost, and increasing numbers of defects), software has become an everyday feature of our business and personal lives” (Pearlson, 2005, p 350). Businesses are creating of various departments that work with different software application. The various...
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...1/25/2014 Business Information Systems • Business Processes - Daily tasks and activities related to Business functioning Business Information Systems Information System Architecture Business Information Systems - Transaction Processing Systems Enterprise Resource Planning Systems Management Information Systems Decision Support Systems Technology Infrastructure Software Hardware Databases Telecommunications and Networks People Procedures Business Information Systems Business Information Systems Suppliers Competitors Business Problems and Opportunities Business Planning Customers Business Problems and Opportunities Organizational Individual Group Enterprise Business Planning Business Objectives (What)) Business Strategy (How) Business Processes Effective Integration Increased Performance Business Objectives (What) Information Systems Essentials, Sixth Edition Business Strategies (How) Information System Architecture Business Information Systems Technology Infrastructure Information Systems Essentials, Sixth Edition Business Information Systems • Various types of information systems that support the business functions in an organization • Types - TPS,MIS,EIS, GSS,GDSS, AI, ES,… • Business Functions - Accounting, Finance, Marketing, Production, Human Resource Management Business Information Systems Marketing Accounting BUSINESS INFORMATION SYSTEM Human R Resource Management Information...
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...BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Preventive care and health information education has been the advocacy of several hospitals in the Metro for the past few years due to the rapid increase in spreading illnesses in the city. One of the most dedicated in the advocacy of disseminating health care information is the hospital located at the heart of Quezon City, the Capitol Medical Center. Their commitment in excellent medical health care brings about the duty to provide equally excellent and accurate health care information. The medical center has come up with several methods as to how to disseminate information, from leaflets about different kinds of diseases and what you have to know about them to community seminars that discuss about several significant topics like family planning, Vaccination and the likes. However, current methods of spreading information about health care have many evidences that it successfully penetrates at a certain location at a time, thus, making information dissemination slow-paced and easily forgettable once the information reaches the next location. The case writer wondered if it was possible to make the information much more accessible to the people so that information would not only be disseminated fast but at a larger scale as well. KEY MESSAGES The goal of the campaign is to help doctors, nurses and other health proffesionals to be more accessible to the people who need them in order to be able to advise them about health care and disease prevention...
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...users, data, and equipment permission for each location. The UO will ensure only the departments in each location have permissions for computers and printers for each department. CompanyA.com users will have unlimited access across the departments as shown in fig 1.1. Domain Fig. 1.1 The group structurer allows administors to set groups and prived the nessary permission setting according to the resources needed for daily acitivies within the orginazation departmental structure. For example a manager group in one department might have different privlege setting to devices and data then the average employee group for the department. However people who work in the human resource department will have more abilitites to view vital data infromation then a person in the anther department whereas the CEO or the owner of the company may end up in a group the has privlages to all data and the IT department will have a group set to full permissions over all devices and data to help detect issues such as perform/user errors, updates, viruses, intruders, and other preventive maintence pratices. The group user structure is shown in fig 1.2. Group Stucture Fig...
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...One out of every four car accidents in the United States is caused by texting and driving. In 2013, 3,154 people were killed in distraction-related crashes. Still people are using thier cell phones while driving. It is careless and dangerous to everyone around. Many people today take the risk of using the cellphone without thinking about the consequences. Using a cellular device while driving is dangerous and should be prohibited. It is alarming the number of casulaties and injuries that have come from people using their cellphone. Looking down at your cellphone for five seconds going 55 miles per hour is like driving your car with your eyes shut across a football field. this fact shows how dangerous and scary it can be to look...
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...This was review for the students but by restating old knowlegde I modeled and guided students to use restating to retain information. Throughout the lesson I continued to ask questions to motnitor that I was communicating and conveying ideas clearly. The students responses both proved I was effectivly comminucating and they were able to restate information using communication strategies. The questions I asked required students to look beyond the text and into the visual clues. Students had to draw connections from context in order to communicate the correct infromation. When students were able to draw connections using visual cues and answer my questions it showed that I communicated the intital inforamtion and ideas effectivily and modeled appropriate communication stategies for them to imitate. While I was modeling communication stratgeies by asking questions, I was also aware of the class and what was happening non-verbally. In my reflection I recorded a converstation I had with the teacher about the students behavior during the lesson. Through this note it shows that I was aware and senstive of students’ reception of the message by using...
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...Patagonia Inc. Why do you think there were problems with the workbook process? What could be done to solve those problems? The workbook process has that problems, that Senior Patagioni recognized, these were ’the numbers were reported only a mounth or two after the month ends”, the too much paperwork and the employees need more training to can understand and use this system. They should solve these problems as soon as possible. After the solutions of these problems there are still some other problems. 1. They should convince the head managers of each department, that how usefull this process. They should understand, why they need to work much, beacuse the people don’t like work more for the same prize. Maybe they should motivate them with some benefits. It is very importants that the managers like this process, that they want to do it well and sucessfully, because even the head of the departments don’t feel like to use this new stuff, their workers, the peoples under them, also won’t like this workbook system. I think first of all, the top managers and the bosses should make a personal conversation with the head of each department. They should make them motivated to use this. If they still doesn’t want to use it, or they use it, just because they need to do, than that people need to be fired, and find and the firm has to find an other person for that position. 2. It think the process was a bit complex for the employees. For that people who had the qualification to...
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...and you are in need of new employees. With this being said you will need more equitmet. The best network for a small group is the Ad-Hoc. This network is the smallest and most basic network. using this network will allow two laptops or two tablets to create their own two node network. This network is perfect yet sutable for 2-3 people. Its perfect for a company that is just now atarting out. Along with this you will be allowed to conect networks together to share files, music, pictures, notes or anything you possobley need to share from one computer to another. With having possibly three other computers in your home its important to make sure all of your information and persnal material is secured. Its critical that all your personal infromation is safe. Not only from his employed (which im sure you can trust) but from possibly leaking out on the internet perhaps. Another is private work documents, these domcuments are stricly private and for work use only it’s a majr key that everthing is secured. Having a secrue netork is important when hackers are on the rise is easy for somone to hack into you computer or network and get accecc to all of your information along with hackers comes with stealing passowrks along for them to get this far can bring your company down locking you out of al of you rimportant documents and chcanging evrthing giving them complete access to you whole buissnes. Keep in mind you can keep every last one of these from happinh with a secure netweok. Using...
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...Q1. Introduction & Profile of the organization outlining its business activities, markets, customers and its organization objectives. We chose the organization is Air New Zealand. The principal activity of the Air New Zealand Group is the operation of domestic and international passenger transport and cargo. Air New zealand will strive to be number one in every market they serve by creating a workplace where teams are committed to they are customers in a distinctively New Zealand way, resulting in superior industry returns Guiding Principles •Air newzealand will be the customers' airline of choice when travelling to, from and within New Zealand. •Air newzealand will build competitive advantage in all of our businesses through the creativity and innovation of our people. •Air newzealand will champion and promote New Zealand and its people, culture and business at home and overseas. •Air newzealand will work together as a great team committed to the growth and vitality of our company and New Zealand. •Our workplaces will be fun, energising and where everyone can make a difference Q2. Identify and discuss the functional structure of the organization Air New Zealand has 6 major divisions • Marketing: Make the Air New Zealand's long-term flight plan. Control the flight seats put. To determine fares for each flight cabin seat. Discount. Accept the flight plan the next day. Flight canceled merger • Flight division: Responsible for the daily training of flight...
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...Name: Phương Nhi International tourism has become an extremely popular, global activity and become a thriving global industry with the power to shape developing countries in positive ways. While tourism is important economically, it is also benefit socially, politically, culturally and educationally. Therefore, tourism agencies, organizations and people interested in the tourism should find many ways to make the industry better. The first way to develop the industry is to find and make the connection between travelers and local people. There is a new platform called Withlocals.com connects travelers with the local population directly in order to show tourists the real Vietnam. Local people can become guides who give tourists the authentic travel experiences, activities and anything such as food, beautiful sightseeing, etc. They even invite them to eat dinner with their family and this is the best experiences while you can eat local food and listen to their story about their country. For instance, we can take them to the local market to show them how the traditional Vietnamese buy food and buy the ingredients for a real home-made Pho or Banh Xeo, then take them to Cho Ben Thanh to shopping or show them the most beautiful view of Vietnam in Ha Long Bay. This is the most interesting things when you experiences real things and live their dalily life. According to Ronald Crooy, CTO of Withlocals said “The idea is to let poeple use their own skills and strengths. No one knows more...
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...On March 11, 2011 a magnitude-9 earthquake shook northeastern Japan for 6 whole minutes. Not even an hour later the first of many tsunami waves, reaching up to 128 feet, began crashing onto Japans coastline and traveled as far as 6 miles inland destroying everything in its destructive path. This tsunami not only was the cause for 18,000 deaths, but also the reason for a cooling system failure at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant which then resulted in a level 7 nuclear meltdown and the release of radioactive materials. I am first going to discuss how TEPCO, the Tokyo Electric Power Company, reacted to the meltdown and how they continue to store and reuse the nuclear waste, and then will discuss my opinion on what they are doing and future steps I believe they should take. When the tsunami swamped the plant, the power to vital cooling systems for three of the reactors were cut. These began to melt and leaked radioactive material in the atmosphere. In order to cool these down TEPCO began pumping hundreds of tons of water into the plant. This now highly radioactive water was stored in makeshift, hastily built containers that were meant for temporary holding and have hardly held up 3 years after the catastrophe. The operator of the plant Toshimitsu Motegi compared the way they are dealing with leaking containers to a game of “whack-a-mole” and after 300 tons of radioactive waste leaking from one container, he decided it was time for the government to step in. Current...
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...Running head: MARKETING KILLER PRODUCT Marketing Killer Product Blake E. Lance Lubbock Christian University Tobacco is a nasty, horrible, addictive drug in any form or fashion. I feel that it is one of the leading drugs in America and it is legal. Legal or not there is to many American's addicted to tobacco, whether you chew it, or smoke it. If it was illegal people would farm it, sell it, just like any other drug in America, believe the government legalized it just to be able to tax the tobacco and gain a very large profit off of it. The government raises the prices as if the drug addicted people are going to quit, its just more money in uncle sam's pocket, knowing that the people are addicted to tobacco. Tobacco company's will never stop selling tobacco because they know that there is to many people addicted to it and if they did not sell it, there competitor will and why loose out on all that money. Even tho, predictions are that one billion people world wide will die this century from smoking related ailments, (Armstrong/Kotler 11th edition p. 34.) Its legal and the tobacco company's know there is a very high demand for the product. There may be a few of the big bosses in these big tobacco company's have a little conscience and moral fiber in themselves but the big almighty dollars stands in their way. Therefore I think it will never stop the money is to good and there is way to many American's and foreign people addicted to it. Cigarette marketers will continue...
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