...it is discussed in detail about the relationship between the early management innovators ideas and theories towards the modern management thinking. In the early days the concept of management was followed in different ways but when we compare it to the existing modern management ideas and practices it can be seen that they been created a long back by the early management pioneers. Early management pioneers have a lot of contribution to the current management ideas and practice followed in any kind of organisation. (Robbins, Bergman, Stagg & Coultor, 2006, pp-6-20) Construction of pyramids and the existence of the major economic trade centre in the 1400’s in the city of Venice are good examples of early management prevalence. (Bartol, Tein, Mathew, & Sharma, 2007, p-40) Bartol et al says new ideas however do not emerge from nowhere. They normally arise from a foundation of established ideas. He also stated that history is important and knowing the origins of particular ideas and theories helps to understand the foundation for emerging ideas and theories in the modern management. Some of the preclassical pioneers responsible for the foundation of the modern management ideas and thinking will be discussed throughout this article. Early contributors for the management theory Bartol et al examined the work of the early pioneer’s contribution and classified them as preclassical management contributors. Some of the contributors and their pioneering ideas are Robert Owen (1771-1858) ...
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...it is discussed in detail about the relationship between the early management innovators ideas and theories towards the modern management thinking. In the early days the concept of management was followed in different ways but when we compare it to the existing modern management ideas and practices it can be seen that they been created a long back by the early management pioneers. Early management pioneers have a lot of contribution to the current management ideas and practice followed in any kind of organisation. (Robbins, Bergman, Stagg & Coultor, 2006, pp-6-20) Construction of pyramids and the existence of the major economic trade centre in the 1400’s in the city of Venice are good examples of early management prevalence. (Bartol, Tein, Mathew, & Sharma, 2007, p-40) Bartol et al says new ideas however do not emerge from nowhere. They normally arise from a foundation of established ideas. He also stated that history is important and knowing the origins of particular ideas and theories helps to understand the foundation for emerging ideas and theories in the modern management. Some of the preclassical pioneers responsible for the foundation of the modern management ideas and thinking will be discussed throughout this article. Early contributors for the management theory Bartol et al examined the work of the early pioneer’s contribution and classified them as preclassical management contributors. Some of the contributors and their pioneering ideas are Robert Owen (1771-1858) ...
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...[pic] PLASMA TV SETS SALES BREAK RECORDS THIS HOLIDAY SEASON Wide Assortment of Plasma Models from Major Brands Supports Consumer Demand for Ultimate Home Theater Experience New York '' December 13, 2006 '' Industry reports that sales of Plasma television sets are soaring this holiday season affirm that consumers are now seeing at retail the clear advantages of benefits of Plasma for their big screen home entertainment center, according to the Plasma Display Coalition. On Black Friday alone, the NPD Group reports that Plasma experienced a 140 percent increase in unit sales, compared with last year. “Consumers are embracing Plasma in record numbers because they love the life- like picture that a big-screen Plasma HDTV delivers,” said Jim Palumbo, president of the Plasma Display Coalition. “It is evident that the outstanding picture quality, very high contrast and black levels, full range of color reproduction, and wide viewing angle that Plasma offers are resonating with people who are shopping for a new high-definition TV. For consumers considering a television above 40-inches, Plasma is the clear choice for the home entertainment center,” Palumbo added. Inundated with so many HDTV options at retail, consumers are arming themselves with information before heading out to shop. “They know that if they are looking to create the ultimate home theater experience to enjoy movies and sports, then Plasma is the TV of choice,” said Palumbo. In the store, consumers...
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...Willa Cather depicts in O Pioneers the life of a family who starts off poor, living on a farm. The daughter, Alexandra took over the farm when her father died and they told her that she should not, and just to let it go. But she wanted them to trust her, and they ended up having a huge farm with a big house. Although Cather does a great job making all the characters fit, Marie draws my attention because she is passionate, friendly, and vivacious. Marie is characterized to be a passionate young girl. She was forced into marriage with Frank Shabata, and an unhappy marriage is all she has to show for it. She is constantly craving a passionate, physical love that she knows is unattainable in her current situation. This want, or need rather, is what lead her into the arms of Emil. Although, she may feel guilty for wanting another man, she realizes that her own happiness is more important than what others may believe. She longs for Emil’s passion but persists in the self-torture of being with her husband. So why does Marie continue to torture herself? Marie believes that it is her own fault for taking the vows to live an entirety in an unfulfilling, passionless marriage. Not only is Marie a passion seeking individual, she is also depicted in the film as being a friendly human-being. An example of her friendly effervescence is the insistent cheer that made her an easy friend for her neighbor, Alexandra. Marie was constantly there to help Alexandra with the many troubles she had...
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...1. What is the main argument from this section of the Molesworth committee’s report used to describe the convicts as slaves e.g. is it religious. political, economic? Having been branded as a slave society and convictism as a slave labor system the Molesworth report pointed out that the economical affluence of New South Wales (NSW) and Van Diemen’s Land swift rise in wealth was due to the compulsory free labor of the convicts. Scarcely surviving the first year it was the increase of the convict transportation that help the economy with the delivery of cheap skilled labor, craftsmen, clerks and tradesmen. Providing free the abilities and expertise to help build the new settlement. The first governor of NSW Arthur Phillips penned the plans for management of the colony. Insisting that the laws within England would be initiated in the new country. No slavery and no slaves within the new land. Unfortunately the similarity of convictism to slavery was considerable. 2. Why does the committee argue that transportation to New South Wales must end? The Molesworth’s committee argued that due to economics it was no longer financially feasible to continue to transport convicts to NSW. Arguing that it had become too expensive to continue with the transportation to NSW. With the government paying for the excess produce and granting a variety of indulgences the settlers who engaged a convict, it was costing the British government over and above 7,000,000l. Analysing the situation...
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...Calyx and Corolla: Case Study Write-up Prepared by: Group 3 Brendon Jordan Krystal Juren Matt Leslie Andreas Rudin University of Florida Gainesville Executive Summary Tivo’s new consumer electronics product has the potential to revolutionalize media consumption habits and the structure of the television industry. The key challenges include: i) how to improve the value of the product in terms of the benefit to cost ratio and ii) how to increase awareness of the brand as well as the many different product attributes. We recommend that i) TiVo improve the value of the product by unbundling it in terms of the various benefits provided and then bundling the individual components with other complementary products. ii) So as to increase the awareness of the different TiVo products and the brand, we propose to segment the market in terms of the specific customer profile whose needs are aligned to the particular benefit provided by the product. Accordingly, we arrive at a communication plan for the different TiVo products that target different customer segments through a mix of advertising, promotion, distribution and branding strategies. In the following section, we analyze the situation that Tivo is faced with and follow it up with the logical sequence that helped us arrive at the above recommendations. Company Analysis Calyx and Corolla is a new company in the fresh flowers market. They have pioneered the concept...
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...VENDOR PROFILE HCL Technologies — Vendor Profile Series for R&D/Product Engineering Services Mukesh Dialani IDC OPINION As HCL Technologies likes to put it, product engineering is in its DNA. Since inception of its group operations more than 30 years ago, the company has invested in creating technology products and offering engineering services to its customers. Until recently, its focus was to position itself as a "technology services provider." IDC believes that in order to scale revenue and utilize its assets more productively, the strategy has changed since the past five to six years to include other IT services offering. As a result, engineering and R&D services now contribute to approximately 26% of HCL Technologies' total revenue. IDC has made the following observations: ! It is commendable to note that revenue for R&D/product engineering services has risen by 40%, while head count has risen only by approximately 24%. This indicates that HCL is successfully optimizing the use of its resources. ! Among its various initiatives, its Global Risk Reward Partnership (GRRP) model is unique and does enable it to create differentiation. However, success of this partnership will be determined by analyzing customer adoption over the next 2–3 years. ! HCL Technologies has created a sound and robust ecosystem consisting of partnerships, alliances with educational institutions, and manpower certification. ! It has acquired more than 270 customers and its top 10 customers contribute...
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...Family Conflict In Willa Cather’s O Pioneers!, farmer and land developer Alexandra Bergson feels the land her father, John Bergson, gave her and her brothers, originally belonged to her and her brothers, but has since been divided into separate titles between the three of them. Before Alexandra’s father died, he placed her in charge of the land and she became the lands steward and expanded it beyond the original homestead. The role Lou and Oscar Bergson, Alexandra’s younger brothers, played was that of laborer under the direction of Alexandra. Lou and Oscar feel that the land belongs to them because they have put their blood, sweat, and tears into the land. It is not until Alexandra’s brothers see Carl spending time with Alexandra that they begin to worry about the true ownership of the land. The boys are ok with Alexandra having the property but once they find out Alexandra might marry their jobless old neighbor Carl, they confront her, reminding her that Alexandra’s property really belongs to them. John Bergson always had more faith and trust in Alexandra than he did with Lou and Oscar. Even before Alexandra was the age of twelve John was calling on her to give him advice. He reminisced, “It was Alexandra who read the papers and followed the markets, and who learned by the mistakes of their neighbors… Lou and Oscar were industrious, but he could never teach them to use their heads about their work.” From a very young age Alexandra showed wisdom and leadership. ...
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...Whitney. They then ventured west to Utah with the Mormon pioneers. Within a month of traveling Newell died, he left behind Emmeline and their two daughters. Emmeline had a very hard time supporting her daughters and being a widow traveling to Utah. She then wrote a letter to Newell’s best friend. She asked him to marry her and he accepted, becoming his seventh wife. Em became the editor of The Women’s Exponent. This was the first women’s magazine west of the Mississippi River. Em was Utah’s representative for the National Women’s Suffrage Association. She was also the president of the LDS women organization called Relief Society. Em was called to do a project by the president of the LDS church. The project was that she would store grain (the grain was brought in by many farmers) in case it was needed in difficult times. This project was for long term purposes. It was a big success all over Utah. She even provided grain for the starving Europeans at the end of World War 1. Later on, close to the end of Em’s life she met the the President of the America, Ronald Reagan in Washington. Emmeline B. Wells died on April 25, 1921. Emmeline was important for many reasons such as pushing for economic, educational, and political opportunities for all women and she stored grain for starving families all over Utah. This especially helped through the harsh winters. Some of her main connections to Utah are coming here as a Mormon pioneer, being Utah’s representative for the National Women’s...
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...Executive Summary Tivo’s new consumer electronics product has the potential to revolutionalize media consumption habits and the structure of the television industry. The key challenges include: (i) how to improve the value of the product in terms of the benefit to cost ratio and (ii) how to increase awareness of the brand as well as the many different product attributes. We recommend that (i) TiVo improve the value of the product by unbundling it in terms of the various benefits provided and then bundling the individual components with other complementary products. (ii) So as to increase the awareness of the different TiVo products and the brand, we propose to segment the market in terms of the specific customer profile whose needs are aligned to the particular benefit provided by the product. Accordingly, we arrive at a communication plan for the different TiVo products that target different customer segments through a mix of advertising, promotion, distribution and branding strategies. In the following section, we analyze the situation that Tivo is faced with and follow it up with the logical sequence that helped us arrive at the above recommendations. Company Analysis Calyx and Corolla is a new company in the fresh flowers market. They have pioneered the concept of selling fresh flowers by mail. In its short lifetime, C&C has established strong relationships with many large growers, who cut flowers when ordered, thereby increasing the life of the buds tremendously...
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...external factors were affecting UPS’s HR practices? How did UPS respond to the trends? They responded to the trends by taking the idea of a traditional classroom to establish the Integrad buildings. Now that the trainees play video games that simulates mock village delivery as well as the slip and fall. These are the types of processes we will have to change as we go through generations and a fast changing global environment 2) Why is efficiency and safety so important to UPS? What role do the company’s industrial engineers play in how employees do their work? Efficiency means saving time and lowers expenses as well. As for safety, which they must take of importance otherwise they would have to consult with labor union. At the end of the day, UPS just wants the employees to have their tasks and deliveries done in a set amount of time to be as efficient as possible. 3) What changes did the company make to its driver training program? What do you think of these changes? Significant changes and if you think about it, was a low risk. UPS basically wanted to get with the times and go along with the generation we now live in. The driving simulator identifies obstacles for them to overcome, and the slip and fall simulator. My personal opinion is that it saved a bunch of time and money. It saved time by having a higher percent of graduates of the program and not having to start the process over...
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...of this knowledge in the support of the position of ethical relativity. All being different he believed there is an underlying continuity to structures of moral development throughout all cultures. (Krasemann, 2012) The six stages include: Stage 1. The Punishment and Obedience Orientation, Stage 2. The Instrumental/Relativist Orientation, Stage 3. The Interpersonal Concordance Orientation, Stage 4. The “Law and Order” Orientation, Stage 5. The social Contract Orientation, and Stage 6. The Universal-Ethical-Principal Orientation. Let’s start with stage 1. The Punishment and Obedience Orientation. This states that if you so something wrong then you will get punished. In today’s society I see this as flawed because the younger generation does not care about the consequences, all they care about is the gratification of the act at that moment. How would you choose to help stop this trend, I am confused! Stage 2. The Instrumental/Relativist Orientation is all about you help me and I’ll help you mentality. There is no thought by people anymore to do something just because it is right, it’s all about “What’s in it for me !” Do you think that if the children were brought up to respect others more that they would think about others thoughts and feelings? I think this brings up a big flaw in that things will not get done if there is nothing tangible in in it for people, do you agree and how could we change this? Stage 3 The Interpersonal Concordance Orientation...
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...COMPUTATION OF THE GENERATION CHARGE FOR AUGUST 2014 a (Applicable for Customers Not Under Meralco TOU) Based on July 2014 Generation Costs (A) (B) (C) Basic Generation Cost (PhP million) 582.13 828.98 49.30 802.09 2,628.28 635.84 491.37 6,018.00 1,112.61 2,515.97 1,420.46 5,049.04 1,391.43 6.86 0.52 1.20 0.55 9.15 12,467.62 (D) Other Cost Adjustmentsb (PhP million) (0.02) (9.54) (1.44) (31.94) (3.38) 20.47 (25.85) (10.96) (23.85) (14.92) (49.73) 869.80 0.02 0.00 0.00 0.02 794.24 (E = C + D) Total Gen Cost for the Month (PhP million) 582.11 819.44 47.86 770.15 2,624.90 635.84 511.84 5,992.15 1,101.65 2,492.12 1,405.54 4,999.31 2,261.23 6.88 0.52 1.20 0.55 9.17 13,261.86 (F = E/A) Average Gen Cost (July 2014) (PhP/kWh) 3.4881 4.2152 4.3380 3.6371 4.5419 9.0235 11.0741 4.6862 4.4301 5.5925 5.1672 5.1736 13.3372 3.9727 5.2743 4.0706 5.0056 4.0953 5.4874 (0.0150) 0.0000 0.0003 0.0118 0.1507 g (G) Average Gen Cost (June 2014) (PhP/kWh) 3.3717 3.7857 3.8216 4.1455 4.7161 9.7002 9.9409 4.6350 4.5576 5.3101 5.4727 5.1715 12.1216 4.2861 4.2310 4.3501 5.0056 4.3175 5.2781 (0.0124) 0.0001 0.0008 0.0062 0.1344 (H = F - G) Source Disptachc A. Power Supply Agreements (PSAs) 1. SEM-Calaca Power Corp. (SCPC) 85.9% 2. Masinloc Power Partners Corp. (MPPC) 100.0% 3. Therma Luzon Inc. (TLI) 6.1% 4. San Miguel Energy Corp. (SMEC) 89.1% 5. South Premiere Power Corp. (SPPC) 74.3% 6. Therma Mobile Inc. (TMO) 48.9% 7. Othersd 31.5% Subtotal 67.1% B. Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs/IPPs) 1. Quezon...
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...In Joan Didion’s essay, “On Going Home” Didion describes her experiences and thoughts on what defines her meaning of home. Didion uses many asyndetons and polysyndetons to emphasize her emotions and poses several rhetorical questions. Throughout the essay, Didion poses an important point that, perhaps her generation is the last to truly know the meaning behind the word “home”. The contributing factors to such conclusion derived from her personal experiences with her direct family (mother, father, and brother), her husband, and even her own daughter. Didion first sets her definition of home by clarifying that to her, home means “not where [her] husband and [she] and the baby live, but the place where [her] family is.” (Didion1) Her diction reflects the way she thinks about her home, with words such as “troublesome” that give off a negative connotation. Although she defines this place as her home, she expresses how she changes personalities and formalities in front of her parents and brother, which her husband is unfamiliar with. This transformation represents her familiarity with her family, whom she grew up with, or her childhood. However, since she is not in her childhood anymore, this familiarity is somewhat uncomfortable to her and her husband, whom Didion is more accustomed with. She, therefore, calls her “home” a “burden” (Didion2) where her source of tension and drama come from. Didion’s relationship with her husband reflects what she left behind at “home”. When Didion...
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...The Most Expensive Home The door thuds as you close it behind you on your way out to go to school, work, or wherever you are headed. You don’t have a second thought about what you’re leaving behind: your home. But have you ever thought about the significance of that word, “home”? In Joan Didion’s essay, “On Going Home”, Didion describes her experiences and thoughts on what defines her meaning of home. Didion uses many asyndetons and polysyndetons to emphasize her emotions and poses several rhetorical questions. Throughout the essay, it can be concluded that perhaps the generation that truly knows the meaning behind the word “home” is gradually disappearing. The contributing factors to such interpretation derived from Didion’s personal experiences with her direct family, her husband, and even her own daughter. Didion first sets her definition of home by clarifying that to her, home means “not where [her] husband and [she] and the baby live, but the place where [her] family is”. Her diction reflects the way she thinks about her home, with words such as “troublesome” that give off a negative connotation. Although she defines this place as her home, she expresses how she changes personalities and formalities in front of her parents and brother, which her husband is unfamiliar with. This transformation represents her familiarity with her family, whom she grew up with, or her childhood, and a vague description of what makes up her home. However, since she is not in her childhood...
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