...Double A Public Company Limited The company background The company was founded in 1991. It is a leading manufacturer and distributor of pulp and paper in Thailand. There are currently 2 pulp mills to produce pulp for 58000 and 3 paper mills with 600000 tons per year. Over the years, the company has tried to come up with different ways to revolutionize the paper industry by introducing farmed trees concept to be more friendly to the environment. Double A has come out with tree which can be harvested after only 3-4 years in stead of 50 years that the traditional method. The trees are grown on the empty spaces between the rice paddies together with other cash crops. These are Double A’s raw material in producing paper which promotes sustainable development and cause no harm to the trees in the natural forest. These trees are cared by more than 1.5 millions Thai farmers. This offers jobs and income for the local Thai families. Company differentiates its product from any other paper in the market by focusing on its 7 benefits to buy Double A’s product which are 1.Good runability 2.Two-sided copying 3.Printing sharpness 4.Bright appearance 5.Prolong performance of copier 6.Time saving 7.Longer storage period for documents Most of the products are sold internationally with the proportion of 35% nationally and 65% internationally. Main countries that Double A export to are Asian countries which are Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Hong kong, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia...
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...America’s largest forest products/paper firms with sales of $6.5Billion in 1983 and a net income of $105 million. The case study revolves around Atlantic Corporation’s intention to add linerboard capacity. In order to achieve this goal, they started looking at viable solutions, including purchasing and acquiring mill and box plants instead of through construction and fabrication of new plants and equipment. This included the possible acquisition of Royal Paper’s “crown jewels”, that is, the Monticello mill and the corrugated box plants. Is the acquisition of Royal’s linerboard mill and box plants a sound strategic move? One of the solutions was to offer a purchase of Royal Paper’s company assets, including a linerboard mill and box plant. This is a sound strategic move as Atlantic Corporation purchases 150,000 tons of linerboard from its competitors each year which could lead to problems such as lack of supply and increased cost prices. Construction of a new linerboard mill would be time consuming and the opportunity cost of lost revenue from this may exceed the benefits when the mill becomes operational. For Atlantic Corporation, it may face two scenarios: linerboard becoming unavailable or linerboard prices increase. Both these two scenarios will be detrimental to the company’s performance and should be avoided. As linerboard’s industry sales is less responsive to market movements, signifying that it is less risky, the acquisition of Royal Paper’s mill and box plants will reduce...
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...America’s largest forest products/paper firms with sales of $6.5Billion in 1983 and a net income of $105 million. The case study revolves around Atlantic Corporation’s intention to add linerboard capacity. In order to achieve this goal, they started looking at viable solutions, including purchasing and acquiring mill and box plants instead of through construction and fabrication of new plants and equipment. This included the possible acquisition of Royal Paper’s “crown jewels”, that is, the Monticello mill and the corrugated box plants. Is the acquisition of Royal’s linerboard mill and box plants a sound strategic move? One of the solutions was to offer a purchase of Royal Paper’s company assets, including a linerboard mill and box plant. This is a sound strategic move as Atlantic Corporation purchases 150,000 tons of linerboard from its competitors each year which could lead to problems such as lack of supply and increased cost prices. Construction of a new linerboard mill would be time consuming and the opportunity cost of lost revenue from this may exceed the benefits when the mill becomes operational. For Atlantic Corporation, it may face two scenarios: linerboard becoming unavailable or linerboard prices increase. Both these two scenarios will be detrimental to the company’s performance and should be avoided. As linerboard’s industry sales is less responsive to market movements, signifying that it is less risky, the acquisition of Royal Paper’s mill and box plants will reduce...
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...director of The Energy Cooperative.” The following paper will analyze the ethical issues surrounding the use of such a statement from five different ethical theories. These particular theories come from Immanuel Kant, John Stuart Mill, John Locke, John Rawls, and Lawrence Kohlberg. Finally, there will be a solution that the board should take with the issue, ethical, or otherwise. Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) had an ethical theory dubbed the Categorical Imperative. Within this theory he discusses the morally right and morally wrong ways to go about an action based on experience, which one must gain throughout the course of his life. Because the different moral ways are something that cannot be taught, but actually acquired through experience, something that is morally right at one point in life can later become morally wrong (Janaro, 2009). The example for this particular scenario suggests that if everyone at the Energy Cooperative decides the statement is ethically and morally right to use, then by Kant’s theory, it is ethical. However, this is just the tip of the categorical imperative that “if everyone else could adopt the same decision and it would remain the right choice. . . the decision is ethical” (Kaplan eGuide Chapter1, 2014). The real question, which is easier to understand, and is the underlying basis for accurately interpreting Kant’s theory is “would it be okay for everyone else to do this?” (Janaro, 2009). In this scenario one would hope that at least one board member...
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...Name Professor Course Date Why does Mills think that Utilitarianism provides the foundation for Justice and why does Rawls reject it? Introduction The concept of utilitarianism is one that has engulfed the philosophical arena with an obscene number of arguments that support and/or criticize it. Generally, utilitarianism is a theory in normative ethics that defines an action as one that ensures maximum utility. Other schools of thought would like to put it as the concept of “maximizing happiness while reducing suffering” (Mills 3).In as much as utilitarianism has continued to receive applause from people and the political scene, other divergent scholars has come up with other theories that seek to compromise the philosophies under which the concept of utilitarianism operates. As a result, utilitarianism has become subject to contradictions from other theories in the field of ethics. The thinking class in other fields of utilitarianism characterizes in as a quantitative yet reductionist approach to ethics (Mills 3). Over time, the concept of utilitarianism has received ideological threats from; deontological ethics which does not assign moral worth to an action based on its consequences, virtue ethics that solely deals with action and habits that results to happiness, pragmatic ethics and other forms of ethics that backs the idea of consequentialism. In a nut shell, the concept of utilitarianism as defined by political philosophers and in relation to justice is becoming...
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...VISY PULP AND PAPER PTY LTD ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT FOR A MAJOR PROJECT TUMUT MILL EXPANSION 436 Gadara Road, Tumut, New South Wales January 2007 H:\Environmental\VPP9 Stage 2\Stage 2\FINAL EA SUBMISSION\Main Report\Visy Tumut Final Env Assessment Main Report.doc Environmental Assessment Submission Under Part 3A of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 Statement by Authors Environmental Assessment Prepared By: Name Ms Leanne Hayes Company Visy Pulp and Paper Pty Ltd Position Project Environmental Engineer Qualifications BSc Environmental Biology Address 436 Gadara Road, Tumut, New South Wales, 2720 Co-authored and Reviewed By: Name Ms Alison McRae Company Peter J Ramsay and Associates Pty Ltd Position Associate Qualifications Bachelor of Engineering (Environmental), Bachelor of Commerce Address 3/538 Gardeners Road, Alexandria, New South Wales, 2015 Project Under Part 3A: Application Number 06_0195 Development Visy Pulp and Paper Tumut, Mill Expansion Development Location 436 Gadara Road, Tumut, New South Wales, 2720 Proponent Visy Pulp and Paper Pty Ltd PO Box 98 Tumut, New South Wales, 2720 Certification: I certify that I have prepared this Environmental Assessment report and that to the best of my knowledge: it has been prepared in accordance with Part 3A of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act and Regulations; and the information...
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...Scenario Scenario Summary One of the great and ongoing situations that calls for ethical decision making is the reality that there is almost always a greater need for something than there is a supply to meet the need. For our assignment and scenario, the need is the life-and-death situation of the need for transplantable organs and the rather small and transitory supply. Hard decisions need to be made, and there is little time to think things through. These are emergency situations. Transplantable organs become available on short notice – usually because a donor has died for reasons unrelated to the organ. They need to be removed and transplanted very quickly, because they only remain fresh for a limited period. And there is the whole complicated issue of tissue type matching. There is also an ongoing concern about how long recipients can wait. KEY PLAYERS Roles Back to Top Choices and Consequences Review the roles for this scenario before proceeding to the activity. YOU DECIDE Activity Your assignment is to make the decision using utilitarian ethics as this week’s classwork and discussions have brought you to that skill and then to write it up in the form of a Memorandum for the hospital records. Remember that this record could be reviewed by the Peer Review Committee or the Hospital Trustees at a later date. This is Utilitarian Week in our course. Employ what you have learned from J. S. Mill and Utilitarianism this week AND one other of our course’s...
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...from your business or personal experience you can base your assignment on a journal article of your selection. Here are some key words to help you find an article for this assignment: * Decision making * Risk taking * Persuasion * Social heuristics Write a 5–6 page paper in Word format that addresses the following: * Describe a decision-making scenario using your business experience, personal decision making or cited journal article; include an example of the decision-making process, why it was a risk, how persuasion was used, and what the social heuristics were. * Explain the incentives that caused others to support the decision and identify why these incentives were selected. * Identify the risks and the potential decision biases in your scenario. Propose the corrective steps that should have been taken to overcome these biases. If a risk assessment was conducted how did this affect the decision-making process? * Analyze your scenario for what happened in terms of social heuristics. Explain how decisions were made and the social factors that shaped the decision-making environment. * Discuss the greatest challenges to sound decision-making in your scenario. * Critique the decision-making process used by the sponsor(s) and leader(s) of the decision. Identify the mistakes made by the sponsor(s), leader(s) and team members or others impacted...
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...Duties and Consequences Tenesha Williams Capella University November, 2015 Author Note This paper was written for Philosophy - Ethics, taught by Instructor Mulberry. Duties and Consequences The motion picture Casablanca from 1942, is a romantic drama movie that portrays people and scenarios in the midst of World War II background in Casablanca, Morocco. The lead protagonist, an American expatriate Rick Blaine, owns a nightclub Café Americian in Casablanca and in the movie must choose between his love interest or helping his love interest’s husband, a renowned leader of Czech Resistance movement, in fighting against the Nazi occupation in the Czech Republic. While Rick appears politically neutral, he is shown in the movie as having helped Ethiopians fight against fascist Italia hence his neutrality is only a cover. The thematic concepts that run through the course of the movie show that Rick must choose between his own individual happiness of reuniting with his love interest who is now married to the Resistance leader, or helping her and her husband in their fight for a greater common good that is the liberation of Czech Republic from the horrors of the Nazi regime that is taking over Europe. This paper examines the ideas that intersect between the characters and scenarios from the motion picture Casablanca, and philosopher Immanuel Kant’s Categorical Imperative, as well as how the motion picture supports the claims of Immanuel Kant and of philosopher John Stuart Mill’s...
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...elasticity and revenues (With example of ITC paperboard & specialty papers division) BY Indian Paper Industry Structure: * The Indian paper industry accounts for about 2% of the world production of paper & paperboard; currently ranks 15th in the world. * Estimated turnover of Rs. 25,000 crore approximately; contribution of about Rs. 2920 crore to the exchequer. * The industry provides employment to more than 0.12 million people directly and 0.34 million people indirectly. * Over 800 players are currently present in the industry and the total estimated capacity is about 11.1 million Metric Tonnes. * Most mills in India are small; a few mills have integrated manufacturing operations or the facility for manufacturing paper from pulp. This, along with government policies, has resulted in the industry becoming highly fragmented, with a large number of companies having small capacities. * The Indian paper industry had been classified on the basis of size, grades manufacturers and raw materials utilized. The Indian paper industry is chiefly categorised into writing and printing (W and P), paperboard and newsprint, of which paperboard accounts for the largest share of market in volume terms, while W and P is the largest in value terms. This industry is highly fragmented. Wood-based pulp, wastepaper and agri-residues are the main raw materials used to manufacture paper. As domestic wood supply is inadequate compared to demand, and wastepaper...
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... he seemed like a very serious, no game playing type of guy. His nightclub is where the Nazis hang out and conduct business with their enemies to help them get their visas and get into America. In this movie the characters deal with good and evil scenarios in which we can compare to the theories from philosophers Immanuel Kent and John Stuart Mill. Immanuel Kent’s theory was based on categorical imperative and concept of duty, and John Stuart Mill was based on utilitarianism and the concept of the “greatest good for the greatest number”. Categorical imperative is a moral obligation or command that’s unconditionally and universally binding. Moral obligation in other words deontology is the study of right and wrong. Ethics is about deciding whether an action is good or bad and what to do about it if it is "bad." The problem in discussing ethics is that it turns everyone into judge and jury, each deciding what is good or bad behavior, inevitably attempting to impose that judgment on others. The community to which we belong, then, decides the ultimate ethics” (de Jager ,P. 2002). Utilitarianism is the belief that a morally good action is one that can help the greatest number of people. In this essay I will discuss scenarios...
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...VARK Analysis Paper Franklin C. Jones, Jr. Grand Canyon University Family-Centered Health Promotion NRS-429V Leslie Jennings March 31, 2013 VARK Analysis Paper The process of learning can be accomplished in many different ways; every individual has their own learning style, which we will explore through. In order for an individual to be a successful learner they must be familiar with their own learning style, whether they have learned this through trial and error or by taking an assessment such as the VARK questionnaire. The VARK questionnaire developed in 1987 and is a tool that people can use to identify their own individual learning style. Consisting of sixteen different questions, based upon different learning scenarios, your answers are evaluated to establish which type of a learner you are. There are four types of learners based on the questionnaire, which are: visual, aural, read/write, and kinesthetic or someone who scores similarly in two or more areas is defined as multimodal. Based on the VARK, visual learners “want the whole picture” and they “are often swayed by the way something looks” (Fleming & Mills, 1992). Visual learners prefer to look at pictures and graphs instead of listening or writing. Aural learners, according to the VARK, want to hear the content. The written word is not as valuable to an aural learner as content they hear (Fleming & Mills, 1992). VARK read/write learners “believe the meaning are within the words, so any talk is OK but...
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...Final Research Paper OL-500 Human Behavior in Organization Kesha Jaramillo Southern New Hampshire University Abstract This paper will discuss Malden Mills and the decision that CEO Aaron Feuerstein’s actions following the 1995 fire. The organization is associated with both business and basic human values which makes it a brand with which anyone can relate. After the factory burned down in a fire in 1995, Aaron Feuerstein chose to value his employees over what could have been a huge monetary gain for the business (Leung, 2003). This went against typical business practices of the time. Because of this, Aaron Feuerstein eventually became the example of business ethics. The tenants of organizational behavior will through the actions of the Malden Mills CEO, Aaron Feuerstein, and its employees by answering the following questions: * What does Malden Mills’ commitment to its employees prove or disprove about the impact of values in action within the company? * Did the business model for Malden Mills and level of engagement with its employees cloud decision maker’s business judgment and lead to the failure of the organization? If so, to what extent? * Did Malden Mills’ CEO Aaron Feuerstein fail his organization by demonstrating compassion for his employees? If so, what does this show about balancing the needs of the employees with the needs of the business? Introduction When Aaron Feurestein chose to value his employees over monetary gain, he went against...
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...acting on behalf of someone but not whom; and Giorgio, who did not know that Delilah was acting on anyone’s behalf. For which contracts, if any, are you liable? For which contracts, if any, is Delilah liable? Explain. During my reading I learned that whenever an agent acts with actual or apparent authority then their acts are imputed to the principal. In this situation Delilah’s contract with the other two individuals (Evon & Felipe) would be binding on the employer. However the contract with Giorgio wouldn’t bind with an employer because Delilah did not give the identity of her agency. Just because she didn’t return with wood pulp she would not be penalized because her job was to simply secure sources. Another employee of your paper mill, Hotspur, steals a shipment of wood pulp for your company to impress you with initiative to secure new resources for free. Unfortunately, he runs down a pedestrian crossing properly in the crosswalk on his way back to your factory, injuring her. If the pedestrian sues your company can there be a recovery for the injury? Initially, organizations whose representatives hurt somebody while acting inside of the extent of their obligations are frequently considered in charge of the terrible demonstration of a worker. Second an organization may likewise be considered in charge of a worker's awful demonstrations in the event that it were demonstrated that the organization procured a representative without adequate foundation data to decide the...
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...ASSIGNMENT #4: HRM ISSUES/DIVERSIFICATION STRATEGIES Introduction This paper presents the analysis of the Nucor Corporation case (Thompson, Strickland, Gamble, 2010, Nucor Corporation, p. C-193). Nucor is one of the largest producers of steel in the United States with a production capacity that exceeds 26 million tons. Nucor was among the first steel companies in the United States to use electric arc furnaces to melt recycled steel. In 2007, Nucor recycled nearly 10 million cars in its production processes, the equivalent of one SUV every four second (Nucor.com). Trends in the Steel Industry Steel Industry Trends are not at all static in this industry and is a very dynamic. The country that is producing the maximum amount of steel may not be in the first position in the coming years. Analysis of the Steel Industry Trends show that from the period starting from 1910 until the year 1960, the first position in terms of producing the largest amount of steel in the whole world was captured by United States of America. During this period, it was observed that almost half of the total steel production around the globe was produced by USA. However, the scenario started to change after the countries like Japan and China came to the fore. Again, in the recent years, India as well as Brazil has shown tremendous performance in the steel production side. According to the recent Steel Industry Trends, China is the largest steel producing nation. However, it has also been seen that the...
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