...Contents 1 Executive summary 2 2.1 HCA mission, values and vision 4 2.2Marketing Report Objective 5 3. Phase 1- Industry and client partner overview 6 4. Phase 2 – Key ethical and social responsibility issues and challenges in the relevant industry sector, and for the client partner 9 5. Phase 3 - Analysis of existing ethical and social responsibility policy and practice of the client partner 11 1. Recognize 12 2. Identify, prioritize and act 12 3. Review and improve 13 6. Phase 4- Strategic recommendations for future ethics, and social responsibility policy and practice 14 6.2Recommendation for future social responsibility 14 6.3Recommendation for future Ethics 16 6.4Strengths, weaknesses, and impacts of the projects 17 6.5Alignment of the Global Policy 18 References 18 Appendices 19 Appendix1 19 Appendix2 19 1 Executive summary Hitachi was founded in 1910 as a repair shop for machines in Hitachi city, Kuhara Mining Company in Japan by Namiel Odaira. It’s founding spirit was “Harmony”, “Sincerity and the “pioneering spirit”. (Hitachi Plant Technologies Ltd, Japan 89) Namiel wanted to contribute to society through the development of original, superior technology and quality products. (Hitachi Plant Technologies Ltd Japan 20) Hitachi is articulating its desire to address key worldwide challenges through Social Innovation Business with their slogan “Social Innovation- It’s our future”. Hitachi as a global company operates in a number of countries. This has been...
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...CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION Background of the study The middle school years are a critical turning point in young peoples’ lives. At ages 11-14 years, children go through the early adolescence stage. Adolescence is an important period when a child adjusts physically, learns new cognitive abilities, forms positive social relationships, develops a positive sense of self, and forges a personal code of ethics and morality (Eccles, Midgley,1989;Jackson & Davis,2000). Schools, along with peers and families, play an important role in fostering young peoples’ healthy development through the adolescent years (Meece, 2003). Thus, ignoring the developmental needs of students in school might result in the students developing a wrong notion of school until adulthood. Students’ eagerness and motivation to go to high school may decline as they go through their first year in high school if they may still lack the interaction they need to become familiar with and to be exposed to the high school’s norms and environment (Eccles & Midgley, 1989) (Barone, Aguirre-Deandreis, & Trickett, 1991). First year students tend to become lost in the “new world” they are in (Mizelle, 1995; Phelan, Yu, & Davidson, 1994) as they are expected to be more independent in high school, with less spoon-feeding of information and more application of good study habits. The new first year students are expected to be more mature as they deal with new classroom subjects, adopt a better value system, and be...
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...www.med.monash.edu www.med.monash.edu NUR1010 FOUNDATIONS OF NURSING AND MIDWIFERY PRACTICE Concepts of health, illness & human development OBJECTIVES • • • • • • Begin to develop their understanding of what nursing and midwifery involves. Discuss the concept of health. Discuss the concepts of human development. Describe factors that influence health across the lifespan. Begin to develop an understanding of the concepts surrounding person centeredness. Discuss the role of the nurse in infection control and prevention 1 2 www.med.monash.edu www.med.monash.edu 2009 Number Nursing Statistics Clinician Clinical management & Adm. Clinical nursing Average age (years) Average hours worked per week Definition of Nursing Nursing: encompasses autonomous and collaborative care of individuals of all ages, families, groups and communities, sick or well and in all settings. Nursing includes the promotion of health, prevention of illness and the care of ill, disabled and dying people. Advocacy, promotion of a safe environment, research, participation in shaping health policy and in patient and health systems management and education are also key nursing roles International Council of Nurses 2002 250,786 29,971 220,815 44.1 47.3 43.7 33.2 39.2 32.4 Non-clinician Lecturing, education and or supervision of new nurses Research Other 25,965 9,570 2,325 14,070 46.4 45.0 45.1 47.6 33.9 36.7 34.2 54 Total 276,751 44.3 ...
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...processes to make a variety of different products (move into related markets) • Functional divisions • First movers: companies that quickly dominated their industries by making large investments and gaining competitive advantage. (high market share) - created national and international marketing distribution organizations - recruited teams of managers • Management hierarchy: - lower and middle managers: coordinate products though production and distribution - top managers: coordinate and monitor current operations and to plan and Allocate resources for future activities • Research & development: to improve products and processes. Innovation and strategy is more important than price. • Diversification, related & unrelated: - Unrelated diversification: when managers acquire businesses in which they have few if any organizational capabilities to give them a competitive edge (ignore logic of managerial enterprise) This leads to: • Separation of top vs middle managers: - Top managers have little knowledge of or experience with the technological processes and markets of the new acquisitions - Overload in decision making at the corporate office • Stock market pressures: loose profits and market share if: - Entrepreneurial enterprises fail to become managerial enterprises - Managerial enterprises fail to maintain their competitive capabilities ...
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...Op-Ed Columnist The Odyssey Years By DAVID BROOKS Published: October 9, 2007 There used to be four common life phases: childhood, adolescence, adulthood and old age. Now, there are at least six: childhood, adolescence, odyssey, adulthood, active retirement and old age. Of the new ones, the least understood is odyssey, the decade of wandering that frequently occurs between adolescence and adulthood. Skip to next paragraph [pic] David Brooks The Way We Live Now During this decade, 20-somethings go to school and take breaks from school. They live with friends and they live at home. They fall in and out of love. They try one career and then try another. Their parents grow increasingly anxious. These parents understand that there’s bound to be a transition phase between student life and adult life. But when they look at their own grown children, they see the transition stretching five years, seven and beyond. The parents don’t even detect a clear sense of direction in their children’s lives. They look at them and see the things that are being delayed. They see that people in this age bracket are delaying marriage. They’re delaying having children. They’re delaying permanent employment. People who were born before 1964 tend to define adulthood by certain accomplishments — moving away from home, becoming financially independent, getting married and starting a family. In 1960, roughly 70 percent of 30-year-olds had achieved these things. By 2000, fewer than 40 percent...
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...(a) Question: Using the Strategic Management model discuss its application in a certain organization in Kenya that deals with projects. Strategic Management Model Definition: Strategic management is an ongoing process that evaluates and controls the business and the industries in which the company is involved; assesses its competitors and sets goals and strategies to meet all existing and potential competitors; and then reassesses each strategy annually or quarterly [i.e. regularly] to determine how it has been implemented and whether it has succeeded or needs replacement by a new strategy to meet changed circumstances, new technology, new competitors, a new economic environment., or a new social, financial, or political environment.” Types of Strategic Management Models • Basic strategic planning model • Alignment strategic planning model • Goal-based or issue-based strategic planning model • Self-organizing or organic strategic planning model • Scenario strategic planning model Organization The organization chosen is Acorn Properties Limited, which is a limited company, incorporated in Kenya with its head office in Nairobi. Acorn is a real estate investment company offering solutions that range from project management to development and acquisition partnership in the Kenyan real estate sector. The company uses a combination of Goal-based or issue-based strategic planning and Alignment Strategic Planning model. Contents of their strategic plan 1. Company’s...
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...advancement of society (Lesser & Pope, 2011). This could lead to one overindulging themselves in their work which can lead to burnout. It could also lead one to become preoccupied with other factors and responsibilities in their life and add to a sense of depersonalization or detachment from the work they are doing due to a new focus on these other issues. An example of this could be grandchildren who have entered the picture. When Melanie was asked how experiencing...
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...The following are several theoretical perspectives that influence the clinical process regarding language assessment and intervention; biological, linguistic, behavioral, cognitive connectionist, cognitive constructivist, cognitive-emotional, and social interactionist. The theory pertaining especially to Kathy is the Biological Maturation Theory; (Ridley, 2003) states this theory's main premise is that the nature of language is a product of brain structures and functions (affected by genetic and environmental influences), which is a primary role in supporting language acquisition. He adds that Biological theorists are less concerned about the nature of language than the genetic and neurological systems that support it (p.59). Given that...
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...centered and employee centered culture. Looking at the retail market of Brazil in 2004, it was a large and diverse markets, with 84% of its 47 million households were located in urban areas, and regional development and income distribution were very even. In addition, high inflation, interest rates, and cost of capital, which impacted the costs of inventory, marketing, and distribution – made alternative channels such as catalog-based retailing practically nonexistent, and facilitated the growth of small family-run operations and medium-sized chains that developed local expertise. Because of the macro level environment, Magazine Luiza tried to build its retail model that was truly customer centered and matched with the industrial phase of Brazil. Focusing on low-income segments, the major elements of the retail model can be viewed separated in following perspectives: operational evolution, deep customer relationships, people and management and innovative use of technology. I will discuss these building blocks of its retail model in the following paragraphs. Operational Evolution: In order to better serve low-income customers, Magazine Luiza put much effort in operation innovation in order to encourage growth while limiting costs. First, because of Brazil’s history of economic volatility and vast geographic area, procurement and distribution were critical. Magazine Luiza operated mainly in small cities that did not accommodate large local inventory stock. Magazine...
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...www.ccsenet.org/ies International Education Studies Vol. 5, No. 2; April 2012 Group Dynamics and Peer-Tutoring a Pedagogical Tool for Learning in Higher Education Muhammad Azeem Qureshi Associate Professor School of Business Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, Oslo, Norway E-mail: muhammad-azeem.qureshi@hioa.no Even Stormyhr Senior Lecturer Department of Film and TV, School of Communication, WSoC University College of Communication, Oslo, Norway E-mail: even@westerdals.no Received: October 19, 2011 doi:10.5539/ies.v5n2p118 Accepted: November 3, 2011 Published: April 1, 2012 URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ies.v5n2p118 Abstract The increasing diversity in students’ enrolment in higher education in Norway offers an opportunity to use collaborative learning and teamwork as a learning vehicle to exploit the synergy in the community to have formal and informal agoras. Theoretical and empirical observation of the value of team processes provides the framework to personify our understanding of learning and present a model for teaching in higher education in Norway. We consider learning as a holistic process and one must appreciate its dynamics and be flexible and responsive to it. Moreover, such a view of the entire process necessitates an active communication with all stakeholders of the system and to make an integrative and coordinated effort to ensure availability of the required institutional resources, equitable distribution...
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...3.1.4 ORGANISATIONAL ARRANGEMENT From Mintzberg (1983, p.152) analysis, organizations are composed of five configurations and each configuration has six components. Operating Core: These are employees who execute the work related to the organization products and services. Strategic Apex: Top-Management workers (Coordinating Directors) responsible for the management of the organization. Middle Line: Directors who link the strategic apex with the operating core. Techno structure: Analyst who design, plan, change or train the operating core. Support Staff: Experts who provide support to the organization outsides of the operating core’s activities. Ideology: The practices and beliefs that make the organization unique. There...
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...Bipolar Disorder: A Cognitive Behavioral Approach Introduction Bipolar Disorder is a condition that many children and adolescents across the nation struggle with. The Child and Adolescent Bipolar Foundation estimates that “at least three quarters of a million American children and teenagers struggle with bipolar disorder, many of whom are undiagnosed and untreated (as cited in Killu & Crundwell, 2008, p. 245). Individuals with this disorder not only suffer emotionally and socially, but academically as well. With so many children and adolescents being affected, it is imperative that counselors familiarize themselves with this disorder so they can help these individuals be successful in school. This paper will provide counselors with basic information about Bipolar Disorder, the most appropriate approach to apply when working with students with this condition, and also provide two case studies that help counselors understand how Bipolar Disorder affects individuals academically. Literature Review According to Olfsen, “one out of 100 kids is now diagnosed with bipolar disorder” (as cited in Cleaver, 2009) and these “numbers are on the rise” (Cleaver, 2009, p. 62). “The American School Counselor Association (ASCA) acknowledges that individuals with psychological problems will likely experience difficulties with performance at school” (Bardick & Bernes, 2005, p. 72), and since so many are being affected by this disorder, it is important that educators familiarize themselves...
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...Philosophy Research Waldorf Education History: According to my research, Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner was born on February 25, 1861 and died on March 30, 1925. He was an Austrian philosopher, social reformer, architect, and esotericism. Steiner gained recognition and became respected and well-published scientific, literary, and philosophical scholar, particularly known for is work on Goethe's scientific writings. Also, He began to develop his earlier philosophical principles into an approach to methodical research of psychological and spiritual phenomena. After the I world war Rudolf Steiner was lecture his ideas for a society transformation, to workers factories in Germany. On April 23, 1919, he lectures for the workers of the Waldorf-Astoria cigarette factory in Stuttgart, Germany; in this lecture he mentioned the need for a new kind of comprehensive school. On the following day, the workers approached Herbert Hahn, one of Steiner's close co-workers, and asked him if their children could be given such a school. Independently of this request, the owner and managing director of the factory, Emil Molt, announced his decision to set up such a school for his factory workers' children to the company's Board of Directors and asked Steiner to be the school's pedagogical consultant. The name Waldorf thus comes from the factory which hosted the first school. In 1924 Steiner founded the General Anthroposophical Society, which today has branches throughout the...
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...V Citation/Source Miller, Fredrick A., & Katz, J. H., (2002) The Inclusion Breakthrough – Unleashing the Real Power of Diversity Major Thesis The workforce is becoming increasingly diverse, and organizations are doing more to address employee concerns and to maximize the benefit of different kinds of employees. But to benefit from those differences managers need to look past the obvious differences such as how they think, learn, work, solve problems, manage their time, and deal with other people. One of the enduring roles of HR managers is to serve as employee advocate – listening to employees’ concerns and representing their needs to managers – to make certain that the interests of employees and interests of the organization are aligned with one another (Snell and Bohlander, 2013). Authors of The Inclusion Breakthrough, Unleashing the Real Power of Diversity, Frederick Miller and Katz Katz believe that organizations are strengthened by a diversity of perspectives, nationalities, and backgrounds; and that all groups posses the inherent potential of diversity, but to truly leverage it you need inclusion (Miller and Katz, 2002, pg.1). An inclusion breakthrough is a process to transform the organization from a mono-cultural organization that values and supports sameness in style and approach, to a culture of inclusion that leverages diversity in all its many dimensions. It also is an approach for any organization that wants to transform their efforts from, a diversity...
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...We also found that some leadership behaviors are universally effective such as charismatic/value-based leadership; others are much more culturally sensitive such as participative leadership. Finally, we identified truly superior (and also truly inferior) CEOs by the degree to which their behaviors exceed (or fail to meet) their society's expectations. All in all, understanding national culture gives us a heads-up as to which kinds of leadership will likely be enacted and effective in each society. We believe that the GLOBE journey has helped us understand the complex, tricky, and fascinating relationships among societal culture, organizational behavior, and leadership processes. This paper is a celebration of twenty years of collaborative work conducted by more than 200 researchers and it summarizes some of the milestones uncovered during this journey. Since its inception in the early 1990s, the Global Leadership and Organizational Behavior Effectiveness (GLOBE) project progressed to be a huge research effort involving more than 200 researchers from multiple academic disciplines located across all parts of the globe. With Robert House as the principal...
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