...Kyle Evans at Ruffian Apparel Problem statement The main problem of this case is that the Ruffian Kelowna store cannot keep employees due to not having competitive salaries and an unrealistic compensation program. The turnover rate for employees is high and this leads to the store not meeting the sales requirements. The store’s sales kept a downward trend, so it is time to do something to turn this situation around. The newly hired regional manager Kyle Evans will meet his new boss Jason Wilcox in two days to give a plan to deal with these problems, so there is a time limit. Background The Ruffian Kelowna store had been without a capable store manager for several months, and sales figures were far from optimal. The newly hired regional manager of Ruffian Apparel, Kyle Evans was planning to get the Kelowna store back on track, with the back-to-school rush fast approaching. And he only has two days to make a decision before he meets his new boss, the operations manager Jason Wilcox. Paramount to the employees’ job, there was an expectation of making sales called “Extreme Customer Service” (Hewins K, 2009). The idea was that employees were expected to go above and beyond when it came to understanding customer needs, providing advice and options when necessary, and generally making the shopping experience an exceptionally pleasant one. Given the diverse responsibilities at each level, goal structure and compensation systems were set up differently. Part-time employees...
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...body-builder turned actor, Arnold Schwarzenegger. What is so different about The Terminator though, is that unlike most of these films, this movie has enough depth and substance that, not only does it still bear watching now that I am older, but it also has an archive of academic theory written about it. The Terminator tells of a cyborg, a human shaped machine coated in flesh, that is sent back in time, from an apocalyptic future in which machines have 'got smart' and acted on their own to destroy the human race. The cyborg's mission is to assassinate the mother of the human's great leader, the man who taught the survivors to fight back against the machines. The woman, a young waitress named Sarah Connor, is protected only by a lone warrior - Kyle Reese - sent back to protect her by her future son, John. Reese is in love with Sarah, a love formulated from a photograph he has of her. A sexual relation with her causes pregnancy that will result in John's birth, before the pair manage to destroy the terminator, although not before Reese is himself victim to the wrath of the machine. John Connor has then in effect knowingly sent...
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...Knockout Mice Technology | Submitted By : Wasman ID : 11136007Course ID : BTE 402 | Knockout Mice Technology | Submitted By : Wasman ID : 11136007Course ID : BTE 402 | Modern medicine is the product of centuries of experiences in dealing with various diseases and disorders related to the human physiology. From the discovery of vaccination to the discovery of antibiotics, each medical breakthrough highlighted the success of humans in dealing with the prevailing medical issues of that time. With the discovery of the structure of DNA by Crick and Watson in the early 1950s, the focus on medical research has shifted to the understanding of the genetic cause of a particular disease. Because of this, we are now able to understand the pathophysiology behind much of the diseases that has been a mystery to us before. An example of this is cancer, which was initially untreatable, but now thanks to our ever improving understanding of the genetic and biochemical mechanisms of the disease we are almost a step closer to achieving a reliable cure. In order to understand the progression of a particular disease accurately, scientists need to recreate the symptoms in a controlled environment (e.g. a laboratory) within a living organism. Such organisms are known as model organisms, because they serve as a live model which allows us to explore the workings of the disease. Due to various ethical issues, using humans as model organisms are out of the question, so scientists...
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...The Ronald McDonald House Charities history starts in 1974 when a Philadelphia Eagles player’s daughter became sick with leukemia. Fred Hill and his wife had no place to sleep other than waiting rooms and hospital benches during their daughter’s three years of hospitalization. The Hills and other families traveled many miles for treatment and were not able to pay for hotel rooms. The Eagles’ manager and Fred’s teammates raised funds to donate to the pediatric oncology unit to give short term housing for the families with sick children at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (n.d.) Retrieved from http://www.rmhccoastalempire.org/-mcdonald-house-charities-of-the-coastal-empire-inc. The Eagles manager, Jim Murray, requested help from the local McDonald’s advertising company and enough aid was raised to purchase an old house near the hospital. In 1974, this became the first Ronald McDonald House. The Ronald McDonald House Charities (RMHC) of the Coastal Empire began in 1986 and is one of 338 Ronald McDonald Houses around the world. Each House is an independent, community agency. The Savannah RMCH has thirteen bedrooms and is usually on a waiting list. Other programs connected to the local RMCH are the Ronald McDonald Family Room and the Ronald McDonald Care Mobile (n.d.) Retrieved from http://www.rmhccoastalempire.org/-mcdonald-house-charities-of-the-coastal-empire-inc. “The mission of Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Coastal Empire is to create, find and support programs...
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...Assignment: Ethics, Responsibility & Governance – Prof. Swati Panda Case Study - Martha McCaskey 1. As Martha McCaskey, what is your plan of finishing the silicon 6 project? Please map out your detailed plan of action. The case in question requires Martha McCaskey to perform tasks in relevance to the Silicon 6 project that might hamper her integrity towards work. However, there is a major stake of her losing the promotion that she is expectant and has been promised. Furthermore, Mr. Phil Devon’s eagerness to help her in a sincere way is killing her more in the process of getting the information that she needs from him. Very primarily, our task, in imagining ourselves as Martha McCaskey lies in making sure to get the insider information from the target competitor of our company’s client. The insider information that we are now seeking is about the manufacturing of a chip for our client, so as to help our client. The constraints and challenges that lie before us in obtaining that information are as follows: 1. The potential information provider, Mr. Phil Devon is sincere in his attempt to share the information, provided that we come forth with specific information, provided by our clients. 2. Our integrity in asking for insider information, the consequence of which might invoke bad temper in Mr. Phil Devon and which might also lead Mr. Devon complaining to the concerned authorities about the whole set-up. 3. The prime challenge ahead is to get the information...
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...Bruce Almighty, A Lesson in Integrity Tenetta Griffin English 225 Melissa Rigney January 14, 2014 Bruce Almighty, A Lesson in Integrity Jim Carrey is a talented comedian and I have enjoyed every film that I’ve seen him in. I selected Bruce Almighty for an in-depth film analysis because of how the talented actors helped put a unique spin on the whole god/human relationship for the modern day moviegoer. This movie is not designed to be an in-depth expose on the god/human relationship but a platform to gently remind the audience the of how important our decisions affect where we are in life and gives us a moment to pause and think about what kind of future do we really desire. In my opinion, the film Bruce Almighty utilizes Jim Carrey's comedic talents to address the heavy topic of the god/human relationship and the moral issue that the director wants the share with the audience is that our free will should be exercised a modicum of human integrity to effectively resolve our own personal issues/dilemmas. My first step in analyzing Bruce Almighty involves taking a closer look at plot development and how this movie took the universal truth concerning how mankind in general tends to get frustrated with God when things just don’t go their way while taking it down a unconventional comedic path to help lighten up the seriousness of the topic. The director of Bruce Almighty’s tells the story from a mixed point of view which means we sometimes learn what is going on at the same...
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...Crystal Del Raso 1024 W Cullerton Chicago, IL 60608 Cdelraso@gmail.com February 2, 2012 Deloitte & Touche 111 S. Wacker Dr. Chicago, IL 60606 United States To whom it may concern, I am interested in becoming a participant in the Deloitte National Leadership Conference. I am currently studying for a degree in Accountancy at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. From the start of my first accounting class I read about the esteemed reputation of Deloitte services. One day after listening to current employees speak about their experiences I was immediately interested in Deloitte. My education at the University of Illinois has granted me with many opportunities to strengthen my ability to work well in a group as well as my leadership skills. In my business classes we are given multiple group projects where I have gained much experience in working together with others. I am usually working with students that I do not know personally and that has strengthened my ability to work as part of a team where I listen to the others opinions, ask for help when needed and effectively accomplish the work we are given. Aside from working with others in the classroom I am also a board member of a club named U.N.F.A.S. (Unidos Nuestra Fuerza Avanzara Siempre) which is a latino/a housing organization that provides workshops and philanthropic events to help students in a variety of ways. For example, I was involved in a workshop where we organized a panel of students to...
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...Gray Case: Moss and McAdams Accounting Firm 1. If you were Palmer at the end of the case, how would you respond? If I were in Palmer’s position, I would accept Sands and Olds choice and move on as the bottom line is to work towards accomplishing the organization’s goals. Considering the toll the situation had on Olds, it would be only fair to grant his wish and ensure that things get back right on track. In addition, I would also persuade Sands to find someone who has a skill set close to Olds, so that the slipping schedule can be brought back on track and ensure that the project is completed successfully. I would also convey my message that I did not appreciate a key resource being pulled mid way to work on another project to the senior management so that this situation can be avoided if possible in future. 2. What, if anything, could Palmer have done to avoid losing Olds? Palmer should have engaged in a conversation with the Project Sponsor to explain the importance of having Olds on the Johnsonville Project, which may have encouraged Crosby to look for another suitable employee. Considering the basic nature of the Johnsonville project and the high profile status of Crosby’s project, it makes more sense for Olds to move to Crosby’s project keeping the company’s goals in mind. In addition, Crosby seemed to be relationship oriented, indeed he gave his team some rewards such as lunch at a good restaurant, game of golf, tickets to the baseball games. In contrast, Palmer...
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...Sir Arthur Evans was a famous and somewhat controversial British archaeologist. Studying history at the Universities of Oxford and Göttingen, Evans later became Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford. He was known for extracting or uncovering artifacts from ancient societies. After unearthing some of the sites, Sir Arthur Evans of Nash Mills would go on to restore his findings in an attempt to bring them back to life per say. Throughout his days, Sir Arthur made some very crucial discoveries as it pertains to ancient archaeology such as his excavation of the Palace at Knossos. Sir Arthur Evans was born in 1851 in Nash Mills, Hertfordshire, England. His initial interest in archaeology stemmed from the period of 1884 to 1908 where he became interested in seals which were essentially tiny carved stones. These seals were sources of inscriptions from ancient, pre-Classical Mediterranean civilizations. He as the article reads was particularly drawn to Crete as one such source of seals containing undeciphered early inscriptions. Sir Arthur first visited Crete in 1894 to study and decipher two types of unknown scripts appearing on Cretan seals. This would be the...
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...Rubric for 5S Project | | |NEEDS FURTHER |INCORPORATES | | |LACKS ESSENTIAL |DEVELOPMENT |BEST POL PRACTICES | | |FEATURES OF EFFECTIVE POL | | | | | |50% |100% | | |0% | | | | | |The project has essential POL features but has some of the |The project has the following strengths: | | |The project has one or more of |following weaknesses: |...
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...Twelfth Night The section of the play that I have chosen is the scene in which Sir Toby and Sir Andrew are both drunk and are throwing the balls into the stage with the fool. I chose this section because it stood out very distinctively because of all the actions that were happening in it. In the scene Sir Toby and Sir Andrew were playing around with the fool and making a lot of noise whilst the others who were living in the house were asleep. Malvolio the butler kept on coming onto the stage every so often to tell Sir Toby, Sir Andrew and the fool to be quiet. It started by the fool running to the back of the stage and grabbing the foam balls and hats and then making Sir Toby and Sir Andrew put the hats on. The musicians then started playing very upbeat and loud music whilst Toby, Andrew and the fool threw the foam balls into the crowd for them to throw back at them. This then went on for several minutes. Whilst in the middle of all this, pizzas were passed through the crowd by the fool. Every so often Malvolio would come onto the stage and when he did all the music would stop and it would go silent. He did this because everyone else in the house was trying to sleep and they couldn’t because of Toby, Andrew and the fool. Once Malvolio had left the stage all the music would start again and Toby, Andrew and the fool would start throwing the balls back into the crowd. Some members of the audience were pulled out to put the hats on and stand in the middle of the stage to catch...
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...on the story of Sarah Connor set against the backdrop of the larger conflict. The plot is exquisite in its simplicity as the machines determine to win the war before it even starts. They send the terminator (Schwarzeneggar) back through to kill Sarah Connor (Hamilton) and thereby prevent the birth of John Conner, the future resistance leader. The human resistance sends back a human, Kyle Reese (Biehn), to protect Sarah. Unfortunately for both the Terminator and Kyle, Sarah's residence is not known. So both proceed to phone booths, where they learn that there are three Sarah Connor’s in the phone book. Kyle has the advantage here since he has a photo of her, while the Terminator must resort to assassinating each Sarah Connor in order to achieve his mission. The alternating cross-scenes between the actions of Kyle and The Terminator are played in direct contrast to each other. The Terminator arrives calm, poised and untouched from his experience with time-travel. Kyle arrives pained and in physical distress. The Terminator easily kills someone and injures another to take their clothes. Kyle starts to rob a homeless man, but flees police pursuit. He does not kill anyone in the meanwhile. These scenes are inter-cut and the use of the music in both smoothes the transition as a part of the mise-en-scene. The music for...
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...Torres, Stacy. "Aging, Gran Torino-Style." Contexts (2010): n. pag. Print. In this article the author, Stacy Torres begins with highlighting the aging issues that are presented in the film. She points out that in this film; Walt defies the stereotypes of the old and from a physically helpless victim of these stereotypes to a doting old man enjoying a worry-free retirement. He turns out to be a man of heroic deeds by helping helpless victims of violence, Thao and his sister, Sue. The author of this article terms the star, Walt as a man who can be graded under a different generation of his own because of the raw language that he does use; it makes one to flinch. It gets worse for such kind of man to live with neighbors that he cannot befriend: the Hmong brother and sister who live next door. But, out of the confrontation with Thao, who was trying to steal his Gran Torino car he becomes friend with this teenager and later on with his sister. The true friendship goes on as he shifts from spending all day involving himself with physical labor of mowing the lawn and fixing his neighbors’ car, sink, or washing machine. One of the things that the writer of this article notes is the deteriorating physique of Walt and the uncaring family members. She suggests that they either should take the responsibility or arrange for someone to come and take care of him, instead. The writer notes how Walt further changes to helping the street families together with Thao who has developed a positive...
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...“I have been called a lot of things but I have never been called funny”. This story is about a war torn Vietnam veteran Walt Kowalski (Clint Eastwood), who has been living in the same neighborhood a majority of his life and he is watching it change and be immigrated with Hmong people and it's becoming a popular place for gang activity. Gran Torino is destined to become a classic film because of the great acting that Clint displays, the story can relate to some people and places today. It's a very simple yet amazing story that you can take to heart. It is a movie that everyone should see at least once. I believe that the acting is a good reason to why this movie should be a classic film. Clint Eastwood displays one of the best acting seen from him in this movie Then seen in awhile. Also from Thao (Bee Vang) he did a phenomenal acting job. He played the innocent teen caught up in the wrong group, not trying to cause trouble. All in all the acting was really good, they were nominated for many awards but I don't think they won one. Along with the acting I think that the story also plays a big role in why I think this film should be a classic film. The story i think can fit into today's society in some parts of the U.S. It seems just like a simple story about a Vietnam veteran who is living in a neighborhood that is being migrated by Hmong people and he is the only Caucasian left in his neighborhood. He doesn't like the changes going on but but he refuses to move out of the neighborhood...
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...Gran Torino was released in December 9, 2008 and was directed by Clint Eastwood, who is also the main character. The movie focuses on a Korean War veteran widower Walt Kowalski and his Hmong neighbors on a Rhode Island street. Walt develops an unlikely relationship with his neighbors when he stands up to the gangbangers, who tried to force Thao, Ben Vang, to steal Walt’s Gran Torino. Sue, Ahney Her, being a protected sister wants Walt to see that Thao is a good kid. Some Characters that developed throughout the movie is Walt Kowalski and Thao. Walt goes from being this grouchy old man who hates the world to this man who still hates the world, but he appreciates his neighbors Thao and Sue. Thao goes from being someone who has no clue how to...
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