...Essay in Economics The State of the Nation Adress (SONA; Filipino: “Talumpati sa Kalagayan ng Bansa”) is an annual address by the President of the Republic of the Philippines to a joint session of the Congress of the Philippines. It is mandated by the 1987 constitution, and must be delivered every fourth Monday of July at the Plenary Hall of the Batasang Pambansa Complex in Batasan Hills, Quezon City, Metro Manila. The Blumentritt Interceptor Catchment area is 3.3 kilometer in length, it will be able to catch the equivalent of 14 Olympic-sized swimming pools of water when rain starts to pour. We know that Metro Manila is susceptible to floods and we know that Metro Manila is the center in economic and industrial in the Philippines. If you are an uneducated person your perception to this project is negative. For an educated person like me this is equal and fair because Metro Manila is important because it is the center of economical growth here in the Philippines. The implementation of the Jalaur River Multi-Purpose Project || in Iloilo has started. What is its benefits? First, an estimated 24,000 farmers across Iloilo will benefit from year-round irrigation. As a result, the harvests of rice farmers may double. Iloilo is one of the top manufacturers of rice here in the Philippines. It means the import of rice here in Philippines will decrease and soon we will manufacture our own rice and that leads to low prices in rice in which not only Ilocanos will benefit but also...
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...Essay Questions The hierarchy of business decision makers categorizes organizations based on how they use business research to make decisions. List and explain the three levels in the hierarchy. The three levels in the hierarchy are the base tier, the middle tier, and the top tier. Organizations in the base tier are called intuitive decision makers because they use past experience and intuition to make decisions. The middle tier organizations are called standardized decision makers because they base some decisions on business research and others are past experience. The top tier is called the visionaries because they consider research to be the foundation of any good decision. This group may also develop specific proprietary methods of research. What is the difference between applied research and basic research? Applied research is research that has a practical problem-solving emphasis and is conducted to reveal answers to specific questions related to action, performance, or policy needs. Basic research is designed to solve problems of a theoretical nature with little direct impact on strategic or tactical decisions. Essay Questions What are the seven basic principles of the U.S. Safe Harbor Agreement? List each principles and explain what it means for companies seeking to adhere to the agreement. The seven basic principles are 1) notice, 2) choice, 3) access, 4) security, 5) onward transfer, 6) data integrity, and 7) enforcement. Companies must notify consumers about...
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...To the reader, I bet you are wondering what this is all about, or perhaps who I even am. Let us start with a greeting, shall we? Hi, I’m Celina Gonzales, a college freshman taking up BS Legal Management. This E-portfolio encapsulates my entire writing journey of sorts in my ENGLCOM (Basic Communication and Study Skills) course throughout the second term of my first year in university. In here, you will be able to read about various ideas—from the meaning of the word “infinite” beyond the concept taught to us in our Math classes, to the causes of the Philippines’ lagged progress (no, it is not solely due to corruption), and, well, Korean Pop. With all these topics mentioned, I hope you appreciate how much I have grown in terms of flexibility, as I was never comfortable with writing beyond my interests. The entire journey was a roller coaster, thanks to the great deal of papers that came with strict deadlines, high standards, along with numerous revisions inked in either pink, green, red, or blue. However, I believe that all those days figuring out how exactly my professors want me to revise parts of my papers and whatnot are worth it—The innumerable scratch papers that I was armed with in the beginning of the term are gone. I can now write an article of great quality without having to frantically jot down my ideas on a separate sheet of paper. I believe that this growth of mine is impossible without my professors. Therefore, I would like to extend my gratitude to them: To...
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...1.Other conclusions make predictions based on the details in the body of the paper. Pollution is a major worldwide problem against which many powerful interests are being marshaled. From the private citizens who are concerned with the type of detergent or pesticide they use to the leaders of great nations, all thinking people are involved in the environment crisis. There is still time for humanity to resolve this problem, as people are creative, inventive and ambitious. These qualities, which are responsible for precipitating this crisis, will be the very means for humanity's salvation. 2.An anecdote sometimes effectively concludes a paper. The following is the conclusion made by the guest speaker on Teachers' Day. There were these gentlemen...
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...Interview and profile special guests for feature articles | | Coordinate advertising streams and payments with commercial partners | | Manage a team of six interview and administration staff on content and deadlines | | Participate in campus radio segments three mornings a week | Key Achievements | Reached target readership of 4000 in November 2009 | | Exceeded advertising revenue targets for 2009 by 150% | | Promoted to Editor after 2 months with the Newspaper | Pick out the most important points of each position Feb 2008 – May 2009 | Tutor | Excellent Essays Etc, North Ryde | Excellent Essays Etc is a small tutoring company established to help secondary school students with their assignment planning, structure, grammar and spelling. Position Summary | Meet with clients on a fortnightly basis to review assignment progress and deadlines | | Conduct training workshops on essay and short answer composition | | Support junior tutors with client...
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...Traffic congestion: This essay deals with the sources, effects and steps taken by The Government, Public Amities and The Greens organization to cover the traffic congestion and keep it stable. Increasing bicycle, train and trams. Maintaining the less roadway usage by people and shortening to build new roads. Investment in public transports like trains and trams are the only ways to control road transports, also the facilities and features which attracts people for using public transport and their safety purposes. Australia is facing a vast problems due to traffic congestion, The sources for traffic congestion is there are more cars and vehicles increasing day to day, not only because of Australian citizens but also outsiders, travelers, overseas students and by many ways Melbourne is is facing traffic congestion. Although Melbourne is well planned and arranged city yet it faces traffic congestion because of population and all kind of works I T companies, businesses and industries are held in the city so there is a need for everyone to go city for their needs. Australian urban freeways are averaging around 1,600 to 1,700 vehicles per hour per single lane during the peak hours which goes about 2,100 vehicles per hour per lane are being used as overseas in urban freeways. According to a survey taken in last year by government says that 8,200 motorists in 20 cities and its still increasing day to day and over 70% of the job holders and self business people and 90% of workers...
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...Revista Mexicana de Estudios Canadienses (nueva época) Asociación Mexicana de Estudios sobre Canadá, A.C. erika@amec.com.mx ISSN (Versión impresa): 1405-8251 MÉXICO 2007 Will Straw GLOBAL METRO: THE RISE OF THE FREE COMMUTER NEWSPAPER Revista Mexicana de Estudios Canadienses (nueva época), primavera-verano, número 013 Asociación Mexicana de Estudios sobre Canadá, A.C. Culiacán, México pp. 45-53 Red de Revistas Científicas de América Latina y el Caribe, España y Portugal Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México http://redalyc.uaemex.mx GLOBAL METRO: THE RISE OF THE FREE COMMUTER NEWSPAPER WILL STRAW Resumen In the last half-decade, the newspaper industries of Canada and the United States have been transformed by the introduction, in most major cities, of free newspapers distributed to commuters at the principal nodes of public transportation systems. English-lanuage newspapers such as 24 and Metro and French language papers such as Montreal’s 24 heures have transformed the economics and geographical bases of the newspaper industry. The largest chain of free newspapers is the Metro chain, based in Sweden, which adapts a standardized format for each metropolitan market, mixing news produced on an international basis with local or “localized” material in each city. Free commuter newspapers are embraced by some industry analysts as a solution to the declining circulation of traditionally daily newspapers, particular insofar as they attract...
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...Essay 2b Topic - Job Specialisation uses standardised work procedures to have workers perform repetitive; precisely defined and simplified tasks. Explain why companies use this approach to job design. Using the Job Characteristics model, describe how specialised jobs can be modified to eliminate the boredom and low job satisfaction associated with them. (Chapter 9) According to the management text book Williams & McWilliams, 2010, job specialisation reflects the degree to which tasks get broken down and divided into smaller tasks. Benefits include worker proficiency, decreased time between task transfer and the ability to develop specialized equipment for a specific function. So why do organisations employ such a technique? It’s because they want to leverage these advantages and indeed some of the world’s biggest organisations employ their staff in such a way because it help workers become experts in their assigned job responsibilities. For example, Subway fast food restaurant have a systematic way to prepare food for customers by dividing into few segments that have workers in charge of it so that it is efficient and productive. Production cost can also be cut down by using job specialisation. Low wages and salaries are paid to employees due to the simple and easy nature of the work and employees can replaced easily too. The companies do not need to hire professionals who are higher experienced and educated so that they can maximise their profit. Job design is defined...
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...session, where a student can receive quick help on a few questions they may have about assignments. In anything above, a recommendation for a 40 minutes’ session is advised. In a 40 minutes’ session, a student can be assisted with the comprehension/managing of writing assignments, therapeutic writing, citing sources, developing a thesis statement, grammar, punctuation, and all the above. With each session, a writing advisor can help a student with essays and research papers for any class, project/portfolios, degree program advising, poetry, resumes/cover letters… etc. There are also specific sessions held for CCD class in the confluence...
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...ourism Introduction Overview of Middle East Tourism Industry Specifically in the Middle East 5, overall growth in number of tourists for 2012 is estimated to be -1%, which is up from a decline of 7% in 2011 due to the political turmoil and instability in the region (“International Tourism”). The Middle East as a whole earned $46BN from tourism receipts in 2011 (“UNWTO Tourism”). For the United Arab Emirates (UAE), tourism directly contributed to around 6.5% of GDP in 2011, with total contributions, including direct, indirect, and induced, accounting for 13.5% of GDP. From an employment standpoint, tourism directly supported 166,000 jobs (4.6% of total employment) and its total contribution to employment was 388,000 jobs (10.7%). The UAE invested almost $28BN in the travel and tourism industry in 2011 and ranked ninth worldwide in terms of total capital invested tourism. (WTTC) UAE put tourism at the core of its economic development plans in order to diversify and strengthen its economy, while decreasing its dependency on fluctuating oil prices (Sharpley 2008). The plans have been successful; in 2007, non-oil revenues contributed to 63% of GDP, with Abu Dhabi and Dubai contributing 59% and 29%, respectively, to the UAE’s total GDP. What is more surprising is that due to Dubai’s push to use tourism to diversify its economy, Dubai contributes over 80% of the non-oil related GDP in the UAE. Dubai is now considered one of the top tourist destinations in the world. In 2011, Dubai’s...
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...TESCO PLC is a British multinational grocery and general merchandise retailer. It is a third largest retailer in the world. It has stores in 12 countries across Asia and Europe and is the grocery market leader in the UK, Ireland, Hungary, Malaysia, and Thailand. Mission Tesco’s business was built with a simple mission – to be the champion for customers, helping them to enjoy a better quality of life and an easier way of living. This hasn’t changed. Customers want great products at great value which they can buy easily and it’s Tesco job to deliver this in the right way for them. That’s why we’ve chosen ‘Serving Britain’s shoppers a little better every day’ as the new core purpose. As a business, serving customers is at the heart of everything we do – from colleagues in its stores to those of its in supporting roles. In the UK, Tesco serve some 66 shoppers every second, so it’s Tesco goal to ensure every one of those customers experiences just a little better service on each visit. PESTLE Using PESTLE analysis to analyse to business environment of Tesco. Political Many governments encourage retailers to create more career opportunities for the domestic population. So Tesco plays its role in providing employment opportunities, it also increases the demand for its products and diversifies its workforce. Economic Tesco is concerning any changing in policies, such as taxation. Although Tesco is growing internationally, it is still concern the UK market where it has...
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...Business Experience Essay The work experience which I completed took place at the media company Mindshare, part of the WPP group. Mindshare is a media advertising company which works with large companies such as Unilever, Ford and Chanel to help advertise their products using different media platforms, such as TV, Press and Digital. My two week work experience was broken up into two different teams which I would be working with, both within the Unilever advertising team. The first week I work with the Publishing team. This involved placing adverts within newspapers and magazines for certain Unilever products, and I had to work on deciding which products should be advertised at appropriate times which coincide with certain world events, e.g. The World Cup. This was particularly rewarding when I had been working on placing a ‘Sure men’ advert about the world cup in the appropriate newspapers to gain the most reach to their target audience, such as The Sun and The Metro. The next day on my commute I read the Metro to find the advert which I had place in that issue the day before which really gave me a rewarding feeling that I had actually contributed during my work experience, rather than just make tea for the whole two weeks. The second week of my work experience involved me working with the Media Planning Team. Their job was to plan whole advertising campaigns using all different advertising platforms and deciding which are the best and most cost effective to use. My job during...
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...people have no car or go for a walk, the sidewalk plays an important role for them. Wherever people are staying, they always do some sport and leisure activities on the sidewalk. Hence, in order to deeply understand the sidewalk, the content could take Northbridge as an instance to discuss detailed. Northbridge, in fact, is an entertainment precinct in Perth where the government has built sidewalks outside restaurants; bars, nightclubs and shops and other attraction entertainments. Nowadays, under the condition of the developed urban city and citizens' life styles, Northbridge has gradually becoming a bridge between people and safety, and communication, and convenience, which significantly enhance the development of the local economy. This essay will also focus on the different functions of the Northbridge in Australian neighborhood. Generally speaking, one of the most primary function of common sidewalk is to offer pedestrians a pretty safe area where could prevent them from the danger of being hit by a moving vehicle on the street (Lee, Jang, Wang and Namgung, 2009). However, with the development of the Australian economy, most people really keen on the sidewalk with the comfortable and leisure style. In fact, those sidewalks are usually some walkable streets and better measured by how pedestrians act and feel when walking along them. When walking along healthy streets, people could certainly gain the relaxed and comfortable feeling. In the meanwhile, those pedestrians who...
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...| 2013 | | | [Case 6: Walmart's Global Strategy] | 604.800 International and Comparative Management | 1. Case summary 2006 was one of the years that marked the biggest retrenchment in Wal-Mart’s history. It was the year that Wal-Mart had decided to exit the German market after trying to penetrate it for about eight years. The company undertook its international expansion in the early 1990s to rejuvenate sales and growth. However, on July 30th, 2006, Wal-Mart had announced that it was selling its operations to German retailer Metro. In May of same year, Wal-Mart had also announced that it was selling its 16 stores in South Korea, admitting another internationalization failure. What went wrong with Germany? Wal-Mart had underestimated its German competitors, the power of German shoppers, cultural differences and the power of labor unions in Europe. The company did not expect that these differences would impede its ability to apply in Germany what worked so well in the United States. German competitors offered very low prices, while German shoppers had shown how demanding they can be and that they buy products predominantly based on price; even if that meant going to a few different retail stores during their shopping trip. German shoppers were also not accustomed to workers putting their groceries in shopping bag. Moreover, German regulations limited Wal-Mart’s ability to offer extended weekend hours and sell merchandise below cost. Strong labor unions limited...
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...UNIVERSITY Date of submission: 13th December 2013 Joshua Travers i7943443 Introduction The author has interpreted the dynamic business environment to be all of the factors, both internal and external, which influence the function of a business. Internal factors include items such as the company's products or services, employees, assets, and marketing. External factors include competitors, stockholders, customers, and economic conditions (Investor Words 2013). This essay will explore how the two issues addressed in the title can impact the central theme; the employee. Failure of engaging with the employee has been highlighted as a major cause to why 70% (Keller and Aiken 2008) of change and 50% (Sher 2012) of M&A efforts fail. This common pitfall suggests that both of these issues impact heavily on the employee and vice versa. The author aims to critique change management and merger literature to provide an extensive view of these issues in the business environment. Once the relevant context is set, the essay will focus towards the employee perspective of these two issues and will apply significant theory to a range of recent examples within the realm of these topics. Change Management Change management can be defined as “the process of continually renewing an organisation’s direction, structure, and capabilities to serve the ever changing needs of the external and internal customers” (Moran and Brightman 2001). Importance of Change Management Two Mckinsey consultants, Tom...
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