...kieth English 100 8-27-13 “What does it mean to take ownership of your education? “ If students want to be successful they must take full advantage of their education. Taking ownership of your education means; to further your education, not just doing the bare minimum. Furthering your education is one of the best things that you can do for yourself. Education is one of those things that no one can take away from you. Taking higher-level courses and excelling in them will help you better in the long run. The benefits of taking ownership of your education are: Better job prospects, higher income and an abundance of opportunities. Expecting to get a top job with only a high school education is unrealistic. You have to take ownership and further your education; so better job prospects can be directly in your reach. Just doing the bare minimum in college is not enough, you have to excel in your class, Take leadership roles in your college, volunteering, and setting a positive example for your classmates. If you want to have a good job and move up in the ranks it’s vital that you continue to further your education. When you take ownership of your education you’re expose to a lot more opportunities such as meeting new people, traveling to different states etc. A wider circle of friends is also beneficial to your education. You can learn a lot just by talking with other people. It is also a good idea to be able to talk upon different individuals who can assist you or you can...
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...State versus Private Ownership Andrei Shleifer Department of Economics Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts. Abstract Private ownership should generally be preferred to public ownership when the incentives to innovate and to contain costs must be strong. In essence, this is the case for capitalism over socialism, explaining the "dynamic vitality" of free enterprise. The great economists of the 1930s and 1940s failed to see the dangers of socialism in part because they focused on the role of prices under socialism and capitalism, and ignored the enormous importance of ownership as the source of capitalist incentives to innovate. Moreover, many of the concerns that private firms fail to address “social goals” can be addressed through government contracting and regulation, without resort to government ownership. The case for private provision only becomes stronger when competition between suppliers, reputational mechanisms, the possibility of provision by private not-for-profit firms, as well as political patronage and corruption, are brought into play. 1 What kinds of goods and services should be provided by government employees as opposed to private firms? Should government workers make steel and cars in government-owned factories? Should teachers and doctors be publicly employed or should they work for private schools and practices? Should garbage be picked up by civil servants or employees of private garbage haulers? Should the whole economy be "socialized"? Although...
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...Stretch and support NS = Non-supervised individual study time Week 1 Non-supervised individual study time and research: 40 hours Outcome Content Learner activity Resources Assessment and PLTS LO1: Know the range of different businesses and their ownership Introduction to unit and the structure of the programme Introduction to LO1 Range of different businesses: local; national; international; global; public; private; not-for-profit/voluntary; sectors of business activity (primary, secondary and tertiary) Business purposes: supply of products or services; difference between profit and not-for profit organisations Set up file for new unit Reflective questions AS1 Business types and ownership, Task 1; as individual or pair activity SB activities: • Starter stimulus • Tony and Guy • Aresenal • VSO • Primary, secondary and tertiary businesses Sample assignment brief Task 1.1 for P1; learners should spend the session time and NS time on this activity SB activities: • Poundland AS1 Business types and ownership SB Sample assignment brief Task 1.1 Stretch and support Assessment P1 PLTS RL BTEC National Business © Pearson Education Ltd 2010. Copying permitted for purchasing institution only. This material is not copyright free. BTEC National Business Unit 1 The business environment Unit 1 The business environment Scheme of work 5 3 4 5 Content...
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...not taken away or jepordize in anyway. The brady campaign is different in that it works to create, pass, enforce, and protect laws and public policy that address gun violence at both federal and state level. They are advocates for awareness of gun awareness. Addressing the issue for the NRA is simple, gun violence is the result of no education and training of guns. Where the Brady Campaign differs is that gun violence is the result of not enough public awareness and gun laws to protect our citizens. After reading material from both websites, the NRA is very strong on their point that it is a citizens right to carry a firearm where as the Brady Campaign feels that there should be laws that help control gun ownership to prevent gun violence. Both organizations feel that govenrment can help raise awareness of gun education. They both agree that politics can help their causes. The NRA turns to the governemt and believes that the more education, training, and awareness of guns can help remedy the situation. While the Brady Campaign turns to the government and believes that lawmakers can help protect the citizens with use of stricter gun ownership laws and policies...
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...Case 14-01 Bringing Students Together Overview Education in China is highly protected by the government of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) because it represents an avenue to teach, inform, and shape the minds and beliefs of the country’s people. As a result, any enterprise that provides education services in China needs to follow certain PRC laws. Specifically, one law requires that an entity that conducts education services must be owned by Chinese nationals and cannot be owned directly by foreign individuals or entities. Recently, an increasing number of wholly foreign-owned enterprises (WFOEs) in the PRC are involved in complex business structures that allow a foreign entity (often an SEC registrant), through a series of contractual arrangements as opposed to equity ownership, to effectively control a PRC-domiciled enterprise that provides education services. This typically results in the SEC registrant accounting for the PRC-domiciled education enterprise as a consolidated subsidiary, effectively allowing the SEC registrant to recognize the gross assets, liabilities, and profits (or losses) of the PRC enterprise even though the WFOE has no equity ownership. These structures have been the subject of recent public scrutiny and focused on by the SEC. This case will discuss (1) the various contractual agreements that are used to create such structures and (2) whether a consolidation conclusion is appropriate under U.S. GAAP in different scenarios. Background ...
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...responsibility is the willingness to both accept the importance of standards that society establishes for individual behavior and to make strenuous personal efforts to live by those standards (Haskins, 2009). This article speaks volumes. Personal responsibility is an unspoken standard that we are all held to as children and especially as adults. Accepting personal responsibility is not a task that someone else can do for us. Instead, we have to make the decision to accept the standards established for us and to take personal responsibility for ourselves. Personal responsibility has other characteristics such as honesty; however, ownership is a characteristic that is quite similar. Ownership is being responsible and owning the choices that you make. Responsibility means to take ownership and not try to blame or rationalize the situation. Once ownership is accepted, personal responsibility is much easier to accept. In Personal Responsibility: Why it matters, Alexander Brown believes the three key aspects of personal responsibility consist of fairness, autonomy, and human flourishing and what exactly is necessary to achieve personal responsibility as it relates to those...
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...Chapter 8 CONSOLIDATIONS — CHANGES IN OWNERSHIP INTERESTS Answers to Questions 1 Preacquisition earnings and dividends are the earnings and dividends applicable to an investment interest prior to its acquisition during an accounting period. Assume that P purchases an 80 percent interest in S on July 1, 2011 and that S has earnings of $100,000 between January 1 and July 1, 2011 and pays $50,000 dividends on May 1, 2011. In this case, preacquisition earnings and dividends are $100,000 and $40,000, respectively. Historically, preacquisition earnings purchased were shown as a deduction on the income statement to arrive at consolidated net income. Under current GAAP, this is no longer the case. Instead, the consolidated income statement should only report revenues, expenses, gains and losses subsequent to the acquisition. For example, in a March 31 acquisition, the consolidated income statement would only include income of the subsidiary from April 1 through December 31. GAAP reasons that acquirers purchase assets and assume liabilities, based on their fair values. Acquirers do not “purchase” preacquisition earnings, although fair values of net assets should reflect earning power of the acquired firm. Preacquisition earnings are not recorded by a parent under the equity method because the investor only recognizes income subsequent to acquisition on the interest acquired. Historically, preacquisition earnings purchased were shown as a deduction on the income statement to arrive at...
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...provincial government departments are currently purchased through a provincial government controlled agency called GPA, also known as Government Purchasing agency. In order to determine the need and effectiveness of collaborative procurement process for Department of Education NL, there are three key elements involved: extending the use of agreements based on whole-life costing; progressively reducing transaction and process costs, and the provision of more qualitative added-value service. The concept advances Cooperative purchasing from a reaction to outside forces or top-down pressures, to a supply methodology congruent with an overall business strategy. Based on a detailed research and analysis, we have come to a conclusion that forming a strategic coalition with ISI (Interuniversity Service Inc), a not for profit organization that is currently responsible for all Education related procurement for Atlantic Canadian provinces except NL will solve the major issues discussed above and will provide more value to NL’s educational structure and at the same time will reduce overall operational and overhead costs. ISI provides strategic sourcing approach towards procurement by operating based on Total Cost of Ownership model and by bulk commodity and services purchasing provides Total Landed cost strategy to the business. Being a not for profit organization, their True north is to serve the community and creating a better Educational structure in Atlantic Canada. They have demonstrated...
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...adulterated by individuals taking advantage of the perceived trustworthiness (Aadulteration challenge@), and (3) nonprofit status must be treated as a reliable predictor of organizational behavior by consumers, when the reputation of individual firms is not seen as reliable (Areputational ubiquity challenge@). We propose that the trust hypothesis stands on shaky ground. It can be sustained only under particular conditions that have been neither carefully described in theory nor subject to empirical assessment. The available evidence, patchy and inadequate as it is, seems to suggest that there are ownership-related differences in the organizational behavior of non-profits and for-profits. However, there is little evidence that these differences can be connected to trust per se or provide a rationale for the existence of nonprofit ownership. * Center of Economic Research and Graduate Education at Charles University and Economics Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. E-mail: andreas.ortmann@cerge-ei.cz or aortmann@yahoo.com ** School of Medicine, Yale University. E-mail: mjs4@email.med.yale.edu Note: A shorter version of this paper has been published under the same title in...
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...|Philosophy |From each according to his ability, to each according to |From each according to his ability, to each according to| | |his needs. Free-access to the articles of consumption is |his contribution. Emphasis on profit being distributed | | |made possible by advances in technology that allow for |among the society or workforce to complement individual | | |super-abundance. |wages/salaries. | |Economic System |The means of production are held in common, negating the |The means of production are owned by public enterprises | | |concept of ownership in capital goods. Production is |or cooperatives, and individuals are compensated based | | |organized to provide for human needs directly without any |on the principle of individual contribution. Production | | |use for money. Communism is predicated upon a condition of|may variously be coordinated through either economic | |...
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...organization may choose to empower workers by giving greater decision making power, how to complete their tasks and work in self managed teams (Spencer and Kelly, 2013) In this essay, various debates and case studies on organizational learning and learning organization will be identified and it will be discussed if the concept is in fact based on firm foundations. According to Spencer and Kelly, 2013 workplace learning needs to begin with the substantive issues of equity, power, authority, control and ownership. Large corporations create hierarchies of control and power and are driven by the profit motive. These control, power and profit relations create the social relations within work and society. When looking at income equity, from September 2010 to September 2011 the average earnings of Canadians rose by 1.1% while the top 100 CEOs income rose by 27% (CCPA, 2012). Additionally, HRM policies create a “sense of shared ownership” and control of the enterprise but the “sense of ownership” is not the same thing as workers actually owning and controlling and could be regarded as a form of propaganda. The idea is to increase productivity and commitment which would lift labour performance higher- “committed employees would “go the extra mile” in pursuit of organizational goals (Spencer and Kelly, 2013). Workers are naturally encouraged to learn about what is useful for the employer, and some of their learning may contribute to a “culture o f silence”, that is, to an acceptance of the...
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... They want you to focus on two contrasting companies; this can be your choice. The purpose of the article is to contrast two businesses in respect of their business purpose, ownership type, organizational structure and their strategic planning; the newspaper wants to help readers understand more about businesses. The second business must be a contrasting business from the first. Task 1: (P1) P1: Describe the type of business, purpose and ownership of two contrasting businesses. • One of the businesses has to be profit making • The second business should be not for profit and operate on a different size to the first. • You should set it out as a written guide for readers of the newspaper. You must consider the following; Range of different businesses: local; national; international; global; public; private; not-for-profit/voluntary; sectors of business activity (primary, secondary and tertiary) Business purposes: supply of products or services; difference between profit and not-for profit organizations. Ownership – public, private and voluntary sectors; types of ownership, e.g. sole trader, partnership, private and public limited companies, government departments, governments agencies, worker cooperatives, charitable trusts; main implications of different types of ownership on business (extent of liability, limitations to operations for public and charitable organizations). Task 2: (P2+M1+D1) P2: Describe the different stakeholders who influence...
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...CCMM515 | Bringing Along Change | Socio-economic Challenges of South Africa and Policies That Could be Implemented | | John JH Scheffer 22770933 | | 14 April 2015 Class Participation Assignment for CCMM515 | Introduction Since the dawning of a new era in 1994 South Africa has faced many challenges. Naturally change brings a long a new frontier and as one would expect many rough terrains. South Africa has thus far been a colossal beast charging through the constant strife of these rough terrains despite the constant lashing of its riders ever since it received its independence, however many fear the last straw is about to be placed on this beasts back. Current affairs threaten the future economic viability of South Africa and although recent assertions have been made to ensure the economic growth, the governments have done little or nothing to achieve these goals. Whether because of sheer incompetence, narrow vision focused on the past or the lack of proper management is arguable however there is little to be achieved by discussing the shortcomings of the government. This essay focuses on a more challenging viewpoint where the current socio-economic challenges of South Africa will be discussed and the policies that could be implemented to resolve these issues. The propositions in this paper are proposals that would be suggested for implementation as policies to resolve socio-economic...
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...Unit 1 – The Business Environment P1 – Describe the type of business, purpose and ownership of two contrasting businesses Done by Fatima Shafique 12 G2 * Emaar (Profit orientated business) Emaar is a real-estate company which is based in the United Arab Emirates. It is currently the Persian Gulf region's largest land and real estate developer. With over 60 companies, Emaar's activities include property investment and development, property management services, education, healthcare, retail and hospitality sectors, as well as investing in financial service providers. Type of ownership: Public Joint Stock Company (public limited) Liability: Limited liability Size: Emaar is extending its expertise in developing master-planned communities internationally, and has a significant presence in several key global markets with established operations in the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Morocco, India, Pakistan, Turkey, USA and Canada. It employs over 10,000 people and has over 60 companies. Revenue: $3.307 billion (2010) Sector: Secondary sector Purpose: to transform Emaar into a one-stop, global solution provider for lifestyle, including homes, work, play, leisure, retail, health, education, finance, industry and more. * Dubai Autism Centre (Nonprofit organization) Since November 18th2001 The Dubai Autism Center began the creation of its various services targeted towards encouraging...
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...Responsibility is an essential requirement for anyone who desires to reach individual goals and to obtain dreams. Responsibility is also a vital part of maturing. The key element to understanding personal responsibility is ownership. According to the Webster’s Dictionary for Student Special Encyclopedia Edition, ownership is “the legal right of possession or the state of being an owner” (p. 278). Hence, the processes of becoming a responsible individual means to take claim in order to move towards possession. According to a case study conducted by Stockdale and Brockett, “personal responsibility means that individuals assume ownership for their thoughts and actions” (p. 26). Each individual is responsible for his or her own actions and behaviors and all decision making be it good or bad or lack thereof. One primary focus of child rearing of parents is to teach responsibility in a loving and caring environment so this attribute will be a stabilizing factor well into adult life. Many parents and scholars argue that the act of being responsible is a learned behavior as many children lack this quality at various stages of development. My husband and I have three children ages 15, 10, and 5. In the process of rearing and watching them grow into their own, the lack of ownership amongst the children becomes clearly evident. For example, when a mishap happens and each child is questioned about their part in the situation, almost instantly, each child began to point their finger at one...
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