...Sustainable Construction and Green Design info Green Building Discussions USGBC- United States Green Building Council. organziation website “www.usgbc.org” NAHB- National Association of Home Builders. organization website “www.nahb.com” Built Green- organization website “www.builtgreen.net” These “organizations” are organized around the idea that a group of individuals have found merit and acheivement in creating better building practices that benefit the environment and an owner’s built habitat. The individuals probably understood that creating an organization would benefit their agenda more efficiently and effectively than just a charter or group. The organizations then have the interest of their members. Their members have founded these organizations simply to provide better building practices, cleaner environment, more effecient energy use, and better overall quality life built directly from the green building elements. The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) does not appear to have been started with the initial effort to create green building practices. This organization has been around longer than the green building movement began its’ roots, but has watched the trends of the housing market, evaluated the financial systems within this industry, and have forecast from these analysis. Provided, the NAHB has seen a growing interest in the community to create higher quality homes and businesses while also protecting the environment. The NAHB bagan their interest...
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...Walton group also introduced the Sam's Club Warehous store in Iowa ,Nibrasca ,Indianna in 1983. During 1980's the company rises considerably by reaching 25.8 billion dollars sales with almost 1,525 stores and 271,000 workers at the end of the decade. In 1990's walmart considered as a largest retailer of the nation and it continued the acheivement by opening more stores within an outside country. The company entered in Japan by buying 36% stake of Seiyu in 2002 and Walmart increased its stake about 67% in 2007.According to the fiscal year sale of Walmart is about 469.2 Billion in 2013 with 2.2 million workers worldwide and 11 thousand stores under 69 banners in 27 countries. * Scale of Operation: The strong market position is the main strength of Walmart with more then 400 billion dollars revenue and almost 11 thousand stores worldwide and consumer trust that differentiate walmart from its competitors. Walmart can also acheive higher profit because of its huge size and it has a strong buyer power on supplier to trim down the cost as compared to competitors. * Product line : The company is offering broad range of both branded and own label products to attract its customers. Walmart sells health and wellness, entertainment, clothing , home , groceery related goods under different categories. * Employment : Walmart offers good jobs with competitive wages and benefits...
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...INDEX |Contents |Page Numbers | | | | |EXECUTIVE SUMMARY |2 – 4 | |CERTIFICATE FROM MIMA | | |CERTIFICATE FROM COMPANY | | |ACKNOWLEDGEMENT |5 | |COMPANY PROFILE |6 – 10 | |INDUSTRY PROFILE |11 - 16 | |RESEARCH PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND |17 – 19 | |OBJECTIVES, HYPOTHESIS AND SCOPE |20 – 22 | |RESEARCH METHODOLOGY ...
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...Initiative for ASEAN Integration (IAI) and Narrowing the Development Gap (NDG) Narrowing the Development Gap Narrowing the Development Gap in ASEAN refers to reducing various forms of disparities among and within Member States where some pockets of underdevelopment persist. Measures in the ASEAN Political Security, Socio-Cultural and Economic Community Blueprints are targeted at policy reforms for narrowing the development divide to foster regional cooperation, greater social and economic integration, consistent with the objective of building an ASEAN Community in 2015. Initiative for ASEAN Integration The ASEAN Heads of State at their Summit in 2000 launched the Initiative for ASEAN Integration (IAI) with the objectives of Narrowing the Development Gap (NDG) and accelerating economic integration of the newer members of ASEAN, namely Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, and Viet Nam (CLMV). IAI Work Plans The efforts to narrow the development gap will be driven mainly by the IAI Work Plan (IAI-WP). The six-year IAI-Work Plans have been developed to assist the CLMV countries as well as ASEAN's other sub-regions to ensure that the economic wheels of their economies move at an accelerated pace. The first phase of the Work Plan covered the years 2002 to 2008. The current Work Plan (IAI-WP II) is based on key programme areas in the three Blueprints for the ASEAN Community: ASEAN Political-Security Community Blueprint, ASEAN Economic Community Blueprint and ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community...
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...and with the people in formally organized groups. It is an art of creating an environment in which people can perform and individuals and can co-operate towards attainment of group goals”. According to F.W. Taylor, “Management is an art of knowing what to do, when to do and see that it is done in the best and cheapest way”.Management is a purposive activity. It is something that directs group efforts towards the attainment of certain pre - determined goals. It is the process of working with and through others to effectively achieve the goals of the organization, by efficiently using limited resources in the changing world. Of course, these goals may vary from one enterprise to another. E.g.: For one enterprise it may be launching of new products by conducting market surveys and for other it may be profit maximization by minimizing cost. | Management involves creating an internal environment: - It is the management which puts into use the various factors of production. Therefore, it is the responsibility of management to create such conditions which are conducive to maximum efforts so that people are able to perform their task efficiently and effectively. It includes ensuring availability of raw materials, determination of wages and salaries, formulation of rules & regulations etc. Therefore, we can say that good management includes both being effective and efficient. Being effective means doing the appropriate task i.e, fitting the square pegs in square holes and round pegs in...
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...The Beneficial Uses of Hemp Following my father's death, I felt there was some unfinished business that we had not discussed. I searched to find some of my father's thoughts and feeling that I could justify our relationship through. Ironically, I came across a manila envelope, which had contained some of his prized possessions. As I searched through it, I developed a new opinion of the bio mass plant called "Hemp." There were articles showing a hemp bills being passed and farmers wanting to cultivate it within Delta County. There was also a book called "The Emperor Wears No Clothes." It was a book stating compelling facts about the miracle crop Hemp." An article struck me. It told of, Woody Harrison, a well-known actor stating, "He would pick up the tab for Colorado's first hemp crop if state legislators approve the crop." He also stated that you could smoke a pound of it and not get high. (Rice)" In addition 4.6 million members of the American Farm Bureau Federation support Hemp 100 percent. Hemp could be the most abundant natural resource, it can replace 80% of our fossil fuels, and be used for many major medicinal purposes (Kriho). It is essential that we stop the use of all fossil fuels, and deforestation to save Mother Earth. This can be accomplished with the cannabis plant hemp seizing pollution and provide the world with more than enough of its energy needs. According to Jack Herer, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, we're not only the founders of our...
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...object in view. 1.2 HISTORY OF DAIRY CO-OPERATIVE IN INDIA: The co-operative movement started in India in the last of the 19th century with two objects in view, i.e., to protect the farmers from the hands of the private money lenders and to improve their economic conditions. The history of dairy development movement in India is a new one. The most notable of this venture was a Khera District to Co-operative Milk Producer Union Limited of Anand, Gujarat. But after Independence, the national government took great initiative in setting up new dairy co-operative in many parts of India. The National Dairy Development Board was setup to make ambitious project a success. Dairy Industry is playing a vital role in providing quality and hygienic milk and other milk products at a competitive price to the consumer as well as it is offering / providing employment opportunities to rural folk. In June 1974 an integrated project was launched in Karnataka to restructure and recognize the dairy industry to the co-operative principle and to lay foundation for a new direction in the dairy development project was initiated in 1975. Initially the project covered 8 southern districts of Karnataka. Dairy development co-operative was setup to implement the project. The organization with total vertical...
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...to enrich the quality of life of the people through responsible application of knowledge, technology and skills. ACI is committed to the pursuit of excellence through world-class products, innovative processes and empowered employees, to provide the highest level of satisfaction to our customers. Our Vision To realise the Mission, ACI will : Provide products and services of high and consistent quality, ensuring value for money to our customers. Endeavour to attain a position of leadership in each category of our businesses. Develop our employees by encouraging empowerment and rewarding innovation. Promote an environment for learning and personal growth. Attain a high level of productivity in all our operations through effective utilisation of resources and adoption of appropriate technology. Promote inclusive growth by encouraging and assisting our distributors and suppliers in improving efficiency. Ensure superior return on investment through judicious use of resources and efficient operations, utilising our core competencies. Our Values Quality Customer Focus Innovation Fairness Transparency Continuous Improvement Annual Report 2014 Page 1 ISO 9001 Quality Management System ACI in the first company in Bangladesh to have obtained ISO 9001 Certification for Quality Management System across all categories ACI Quality Policy One of our important vision is to provide products and services of high and consistent quality, ensuring value...
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...to enrich the quality of life of the people through responsible application of knowledge, technology and skills. ACI is committed to the pursuit of excellence through world-class products, innovative processes and empowered employees, to provide the highest level of satisfaction to our customers. Our Vision To realise the Mission, ACI will : Provide products and services of high and consistent quality, ensuring value for money to our customers. Endeavour to attain a position of leadership in each category of our businesses. Develop our employees by encouraging empowerment and rewarding innovation. Promote an environment for learning and personal growth. Attain a high level of productivity in all our operations through effective utilisation of resources and adoption of appropriate technology. Promote inclusive growth by encouraging and assisting our distributors and suppliers in improving efficiency. Ensure superior return on investment through judicious use of resources and efficient operations, utilising our core competencies. Our Values Quality Customer Focus Innovation Fairness Transparency Continuous Improvement Annual Report 2014 Page 1 ISO 9001 Quality Management System ACI in the first company in Bangladesh to have obtained ISO 9001 Certification for Quality Management System across all categories ACI Quality Policy One of our important vision is to provide products and services of high and consistent quality, ensuring value...
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...Engineers This page intentionally left blank An Introduction to Organisational Behaviour for Managers and Engineers A Group and Multicultural Approach First Edition Duncan Kitchin AMSTERDAM BOSTON HEIDELBERG LONDON NEW YORK OXFORD PARIS SAN DIEGO SAN FRANCISCO SINGAPORE SYDNEY TOKYO Butterworth-Heinemann is an imprint of Elsevier Butterworth-Heinemann is an imprint of Elsevier 30 Corporate Drive, Suite 400, Burlington, MA 01803, USA Linacre House, Jordan Hill, Oxford OX2 8DP, UK First edition 2010 Copyright Ó 2010 Duncan Kitchin. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. The right of Duncan Kitchin to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Permissions may be sought directly from Elsevier’s Science & Technology Rights Department in Oxford, UK: phone: (þ44) 1865 843830, fax: (þ44) 1865 853333, E-mail: permissions@elsevier. com. You may also complete your request online via the Elsevier homepage (http://elsevier.com), by selecting ‘‘Support & Contact’’ then ‘‘Copyright and Permission’’ and then ‘‘Obtaining Permissions.’’ British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the...
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