...Staff Motivation at Sharp Healthcare The purpose of this research paper is to discuss the key factors responsible for the success of the Sharp healthcare system’s approach to staff motivation, Identify any weaknesses in the approach and also explain if the approach to staff motivation can be replicated by other healthcare organizations while stating some barriers and facilitators of the approach. The healthcare industry is characterized by constant changes and dynamism with the aim of providing quality care that is affordable. “Motivation is a state of feeling or thinking in which one is energized or aroused to perform a task or engage in a particular behavior”(Steers and Porter,1987 as cited by Burns et al 2011). Sharp healthcare’s major objective is to increase the satisfaction of its employees, physicians and patients. To achieve this, the organization adopts techniques such as open communication among workers, re-recruitment of current employees and the development of the workforce. Although these techniques may successfully motivate some workers it may not be as successful in motivating other workers because they are intrinsic factors which do not necessarily motivate everyone. In November 2007, Sharp HealthCare received the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, the nation's highest presidential honor for quality and organizational performance excellence. (Sharp Healthcare, 2015) Due to its success a number of organizations have adopted the sharp’s approach to staff motivation...
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...brand reputation. One such company in the insurance industry is AFLAC. Understanding and applying the six pillars of the marketing code of ethics enables companies like AFLAC to grow a better business and a bigger bottom line. Maintaining this competitive advantage in the insurance industry also requires AFLAC to be ever more diligent in exploring new opportunities for green initiatives and philanthropic commitments. Company Background AFLAC is not a typical supplemental insurance company. “AFLAC products have given policyholders the opportunity to direct cash where it is needed most when a life interrupting medical event causes financial challenges” (Aflac, Incorporated, 2009, p. 1.). The company has increased historically annual dividends for more than 26 years and is a Fortune 500 company. The company has built a recognized reputation for ethical business practices in its industry. “AFLAC has been recognized by Ethisphere magazine as a World’s Most Ethical Companies for seven consecutive years” (Aflac Incorporated, 2013, p. 1.). Business media consistently rates the company as one of the most admired businesses for which to work. It has built this reputation through understanding and applying the six pillars of the marketing code of ethics. Application of the Six Pillars of the Marketing Code of Ethics AFLAC exhibits and practices the application of the six pillars of the marketing code of ethics in all facets of its business. Investors, news media, and financial supporters...
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...11/23/12 Operation Flood - Research Papers - Mahesh8006 Log In | Essays Book Notes Citation Generator More Sign Up Search 840 000 Essays Taaza Bollywood News Stars, Gossip, Style and More For the New Indian in You! Site Search Web Search Essays » Governments » International Organizations Operation Flood Report | By mahesh8006, Jun 2012 | 4 Pages (824 Words) | 43 Views| Sign Up to access full essay This is a Premium essay Operation Flood was a rural development programme started by India's National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) in 1970. One of the largest of its kind, the programme objective was to create a nationwide milk grid. It resulted in making India the largest producer of milk and milk products, and hence is also called the White Revolution of India. It also helped reduce malpractices by milk traders and merchants. This revolution followed the Indian Green Revolution and helped in alleviating poverty and famine levels from their dangerous proportions in India during the era. Introduction Operation Flood has helped dairy farmers, direct their own development, placing control of the resources they create in their own hands. A 'National Milk Grid', links milk producers throughout India with consumers in over 700 towns and cities, reducing seasonal and regional price variations while ensuring that the producer gets a major share of the price consumers pay. The bedrock of Operation Flood has been village milk producers' cooperatives, which procure...
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...International Paper: Combining Industry and Social Responsibility Marketing 406 Roosevelt University December 6, 2014 Natalie Mierzynska, Sujatha Lekshmivaragan, Dmitry Rozental, Ebuka Nkwonta Table of Contents Background 2 Objectives 4 Procedures 4 Summary of Findings 4 Detailed Findings 6 Defying Common Criticisms 6 Integrating Sustainability Principles 8 “Greening” and Beyond 11 Enlightened Marketing 14 Social Responsibility & Financial Success 15 Conclusion 16 Works Cited 18 Background International Paper (IP) is the global leader in the production and distribution of paper and packaging products (Internationalpaper.com). It was founded more than 110 years ago, and produces products that we use every day including various types of paper, consumer packaging, pulp, recycling, and industrial packaging. The company’s stock symbol is IP, and a share of IP stock currently sells at around $53/share. IP is currently headquartered in Memphis Tennessee, and employs over 62,000 people (Kotler & Armstrong, 607). Last year, the company sold over $26 billion worth of product, placing it 111th on the Fortune 500. From a consumer perspective, when a multi-billion dollar producer of paper and packaging products comes to mind, we automatically assume that the company produces a large amount of pollution and destroys forests all over the world. However, International Paper prides itself on being on top of Fortune Magazine’s “Most...
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...chosen to research cultural diversity in life sciences is Bayer.com. According to Bayer’s website, Bayer is a global company operating in almost all markets in the world for a little over 150 years. For a company with such a long history of over 150 years and operating in 120 countries with a little over 100 thousand employees, the question is how culturally diverse is Bayer? Introduction Bayer was chosen to research cultural diversity for the inherent nature of the diversity in the company itself. Being that Bayer is so diverse, how does the bayer.com webpage portray cultural diversity. Germany is the largest country in the European Union, and Bayer is in the Top 5 companies from a market valuation perspective on the German stock exchange. As all multinational companies, and United States (US) being the largest market in the world, Bayer also has a very large presence in the US. Finally, the business model is very interesting where Bayer has three main pillars of business; 1) Pharmaceuticals (prescription medication), 2) Consumer Health (over the counter general medicines) and finally 3) Crop Science (crop protection and growth). Since Bayer has such a unique blend of diverse characteristics from varied important business model of life sciences, to large market presence, to rich history, how does Bayer.com display diversity. Although Bayer is a multi-national company, this research paper is primarily US based with general statistics about the world. This paper will present...
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...3: The Arts sector …………………………………………………………. 30 Chapter 4: Publishing, Reading and Writing ………………………………………. 39 Chapter 5: The audio-visual sector ………………………………………………… 43 Chapter 6: Heritage Management and Promotion………………………………….. 47 Chapter 7: Mauritius, an Artistic and Cultural Island City- ACIC………………… 51 Chapter 8: Developing synergies…………………………………………………… 56 Chapter 9: Arts and Culture: the cement of our nation …………………………….. 61 Chapter 10: Conclusion - Arts and Culture make Mauritius a haven ……………...63 Message of the Prime Minister Culture is connecting with development and is poised to become a fundamental component of sustainable development. This White Paper sets the stage for a revival of arts and culture in Mauritius. My government sees arts and culture as an important lever of social integration and as an industry that can offer employment potential and wealth creation opportunities. While culture in the abstract is a set of mental constructs, it is rooted in a place at a moment in history and is always local. However, we often forget that it is a renewable...
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...Without question, "sustainability" is the latest buzzword in many sectors, public and private, for-profit and nonprofit. Is it just the latest fad? This paper, the first phase of a larger research project, agues that sustainability is "creating permanent shift in the very nature of business." Sustainability integrates three spheres--profits, the planet, and people--often viewed as competing or contradictory. How can management integrate them to boost the "triple bottom line?" This study identifies the leadership challenges through a literature analysis and emphasizes that measurement tools often miss the point: the pursuit of an organization's particular brand of success is a journey, not a destination. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Introduction "Sustainability" has come to have many different meanings. It's the latest buzzword among business, government, and nonprofit entities. Business leaders must be wondering if it's just the latest management fad of a concept that will fundamentally change how businesses are managed and measured. This paper is based on the notion that sustainability is more than a fad, but rather is creating a permanent shift in the very nature of business. Since the advent of the paradigm of sustainable development in the 1980s, the private sector has been shifting from a narrow economic conception of responsibility toward a comprehensive approach that attempts to balance economic objectives with environmental pressures and changing societal expectations...
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...CSR practices: An Accor Hotel Group and Colgate-Palmolive Company review Student name: Lior David ZOLDAN YAHALOMI Student number: 302413 Class: G2 CSR practices: An Accor Hotel Group and Colgate-Palmolive Company review Student name: Lior David ZOLDAN YAHALOMI Student number: 302413 Class: G2 Statement of authorship I certify that this dissertation is my own work and contains no material, which has been accepted for the award of any degree or diploma in any institute, college or university. Moreover, to the best of my knowledge and belief, it contains no material previously published or written by another person, except where due reference is made in the text of the dissertation. Signed _________________________________________________ Date ___________________________________________________ Table of content 1. INTRODUCTION 3 2. CSR 4 2.1. Definition 4 3. History of the selected businesses 5 3.1. Accor Hotel Group 5 3.2. Colgate – Palmolive Company 5 4. CSR Practices 6 4.1. Accor Hotel Group 6 4.2. Colgate – Palmolive Company 7 5. Discussion 9 5.1. Accor Hotel Group 9 5.2. Colgate – Palmolive Company 12 6. Conclusion 15 7. REFERENCE LIST 16 INTRODUCTION Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is a management initiative in which companies incorporate environmental and social issues into the relationships with stakeholders and also in their business processes. By implementing CSR practices, a...
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...Impacting Organizational Learning: The Training and Experiences of Quality Award Examiners and Assessors Prof. V.K. Susil Kumar Faculty and Manager – Placements Institute for Technology and Management, 11/D 14, Fourth Main Road, SIPCOT IT Park, Siruseri, Rajiv Gandhi Salai (OMR), Pudupakkam Post, Chennai – 603103 Landline: 044-32974148 Mobile: 9380502425 Abstract The Training and Experiences of Quality Award Examiners and Assessors aim to show that developments in the quality award assessment process in organizations can make a contribution, within a wider framework of organizational learning. The underpinning theoretical argument is that quality award models and associated organizational assessment processes can be used to achieve much wider benefits, than that of quality per se. The quality award assessment process has been applied in organizations from the mid-1980s to the present. The process uses models such as the Business Excellence Model and the Baldrige model. These models use an interpretation of quality, which is based on the holistic approach of total quality management. In parallel with the development of the assessment process, there has been considerable development in the field of organizational learning with an emphasis on developing learning based skills in employees. It shows how the learning experiences and skills developed and enhanced through the assessment process can be applied within an organization’s approach to learning in other...
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...communications in UK and US. 11 5) How the communication activities are helping BMW 13 The key challenges of practicing IMC of BMW: 14 1) The key issues impacting upon BMW’s IMC: 14 2) Measurement of level of IMC evident: 16 Recommendations on further use of the tools/media 18 Conclusion 19 References 20 Appendices 26 Appendix 1: Planning and Implementing of IMC 26 Appendix 2: Factor impacts on customer’s purchasing in UK 27 Appendix 3: Factor impacts on customer’s purchasing 27 Appendix 4: Levels of IMC 28 Appendix 5: Four pillars of IMC 28 Introduction This paper provide an overview about the integrated marketing communication of BMW Corporation for the BMW i8 model in the United Kingdom and the United Stated. In those markets, the BMW i8 is considered as the first car that revolutionized in utilization and release values of a sport car. The purpose of the paper is to give information about the strategies of BMW in order to announce the BMW i8 to customers by using marketing communication methods and media and then analyse how BMW Corporation applied integrated marketing communication. . Marketing communication concepts In order to raise sale performance and achieve productivity, intensively investing in marketing strategy is considered as vital duty for organisations recently. According that, Fill (2013) and Shimp (2000) stated that...
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...DECLARATION I Japhet NKURUNZIZA ,do declare that this research project is my own work. I have to do the best of my knowledge acknowledged all authors or sources from where I got information. I further declare that this work has not been submitted in any university or institution for the award of a degree or any of its equivalents. Signed…………………………………………..date………./……………/………………. APPROVAL This is to acknowledge that this research project has been submitted with my approval. Signed…………………………..Date………………/……………./……………… Dr TOMBOLA M.Gustave, PhD DEDICATION To the beloved members of my family, colleagues and friends. ACKNOWLEDMENTS This thesis is yet another landmark achievement in my academic history. Yet, truth be told, I believe the completion of the same would not be possible it had to be for the incessant and unconditional help from different persons, physical and moral. My highest appreciation goes to my beloved mother Mrs. palacidia UWIZEYIMANA and my former headmaster, Etienne UWAGIWABO, my uncles, my friends Philip NSENGUWERA, Felix BIZINDA, brother and sisters for all the support and encouragement. I also appreciate the government of Rwanda for the support of financing my studies and Rwanda Tourism University College for the academic supports. Heartfelt thanks go to Dr TOMBOLA M. Gustave,PhD who devoted his precious time to the supervision...
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...CARIBBEAN EXAMINATIONS COUNCIL Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate CSEC AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE SYLLABUS Effective for examinations from May/June 2008 CXC 07/G/SYLL 06 Published by the Caribbean Examinations Council © 2010, Caribbean Examinations Council All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form, or by any means electronic, photocopying, recording or otherwise without prior permission of the author or publisher. Correspondence related to the syllabus should be addressed to: The Pro-Registrar Caribbean Examinations Council Caenwood Centre 37 Arnold Road, Kingston 5, Jamaica, W.I. Telephone: (876) 630-5200 Facsimile Number: (876) 967-4972 E-mail address: cxcwzo@cxc.org Website: www.cxc.org Copyright © 2006, by Caribbean Examinations Council The Garrison, St Michael BB11158, Barbados CXC 07/G/SYLL 06 Content RATIONALE ........................................................................................................................................... 1 AIMS ........................................................................................................................................................ 1 CAREER CHOICES ............................................................................................................................... 2 SUGGESTED RESOURCES ...............................................................................................
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...first women ever to hold the office of Prime Minister of Norway, who spearheaded the initiative which ultimately led to the earth Summit in 1992), published in 1987 by the United Nation’s World Commission on Environment and Development, defined sustainable development as “Meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs”. Sustainability has been used more in the sense of human sustainability on planet Earth. At the 2005 World Summit it was noted that this requires the reconciliation of environmental, social and economic demands - the "three pillars" of sustainability. This view has been expressed as an illustration using three overlapping ellipses indicating that the three pillars of sustainability are not mutually exclusive and can be mutually reinforcing. (Definitions of sustainability often refer to the "three pillars" of social, environmental and economic sustainability) (A representation of sustainability showing how both economy and society are constrained by environmental limits) Rapid growth of industrial activities in the past has led to natural resources being depleted at a rate that is faster than the rate of restoration. If this trend continues, most globally admired companies will be out of business. Growth of businesses will always be dependent on the resources available. And if there is no planet, there really will be no business to do anywhere. Sustainability is thus about doing business keeping the...
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...Qualification structure and syllabus CIMA Chartered Management Accounting Qualification 2010 December 2008 Contents CIMA now designs its qualifications in what we believe to be a unique way. Based on rigorous international primary research with all of our key stakeholders and involving the participation of over 6,000 individuals and organisations – members, students, employers (both existing and potential), CIMA tuition partners, universities and our examiner and marker team – we have designed a professional finance training and development solution that is second to none. I commend this revised CIMA Professional Qualification to you. It will be examined for the first time in 2010, so there is plenty of time to absorb the exciting changes contained in the pages that follow. A qualification focused on the future – fit for purpose, relevant and unique I am honoured to introduce the new 2010 Chartered Management Accounting Qualification to all of our stakeholders. With seismic shifts occurring in the world’s economy, coupled with accelerating concerns about the sustainability of our planet, never before has there been a greater need for organisations to train and develop their people to manage the impact of these changes. With this revised qualification CIMA remains true to its long and proud history of providing finance professionals with a difference – Chartered Management Accountants – who combine management and finance skills in a unique way and who fully understand...
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...Corporate Social Responsibility At the core of the AmBank Group’s responsibilities, priority is placed on the development and sustainability of the four main pillars of the larger business ‘ecosystem’ within which we operate: the marketplace, the community, our staff and the environment. We aspire to contribute to a better society, concurrently contributing to the nation’s growth, development and prosperity. Continuously adding value to the marketplace and contributing to the development of the industry are considerations that are given priority in the AmBank Group’s products, services and market initiatives. Annual Report 2012 Leading Innovation, Stimulating Market Participation The AmBank Group has closely aligned itself with the country’s efforts at entrenching Malaysia as the world’s leading international hub for Islamic finance. AmInvestment Bank was appointed as one of the Joint Principal Advisers/Joint Lead Arrangers/Joint Lead Managers for the 20-year Sukuk Musharakah Programme of up to RM2.0 billion in nominal value by Westports Malaysia Sdn Bhd on 2 June 2012. It was structured under the widely accepted principle of Musharakah to a wide investor base. AmInvestment Bank was also the Sole Lead Manager for Gulf Investment Corporation GSC, Kuwait’s RM750 million (USD253 million) issuance under its existing 20-year RM3.5 billion (USD1.18 billion) Sukuk Wakalah bi Istithmar Medium Term Notes programme, where AmIslamic Bank was Transaction Agent to facilitate the commodity...
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