...Executive Summary Schneider Electronic, in its global account management (GAM) development, has got a new client, Calchem, and is preparing for the first account manager workshop. Some management issues have been exposed regarding not only the relationship between Schneider and Calchem but also the effectiveness of Schneider’s communication network and the cooperation from its subsidiaries. This report aims to analyse the challenges Schneider is facing in depth with the focus on cultural differences to figure out the solutions for this company to promote system of global account management, to gain support from local subsidies and to build the reliable long term relationship with new clients. The report identifies the challenges Schneider is facing at current. Firstly, the internal communication channel across organizations, relationships between subsidiaries and head quarters (HQ) and customer relations is considered as the core issues. Due to the matrix structure and the larger number of cultures involved in the net work communication, effective information feeding and sharing is difficult to be achieved. Secondly, different cultural orientations of different subsidiaries have made the goal of GAM hard to be gained. This is presented by the resistance to develop GAM in some subsidiaries and the reluctance to attend workshop. Furthermore, different cultural orientations of the clients raise different interpretation of Schneider Electric’s actions bringing misassumption...
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...society. Ads are intended to grab your attention and get you to buy their products. But the promotional ways that ads go about expressing their product can be misleading. In my chosen commercial, Schneider Beer, uses stereotypical guy antics to show the immaturity of men. Men are shown using tacky compliments, taking no’s for a yes and other questionable foibles. The thesis for this beer commercial is: drink our product, “a beer with the exact maturity for the man who’s in the process.” The purpose of this ad is to get males to drink their beer. The audience that this commercial is directed towards is primarily men, specifically immature men. The scenes of men goofing off and flirting with women are something that a lot of men can relate to. The silliness of the commercial makes it seem like the actions that men do should easily be forgiven. The respectfulness to boundaries seems transparent to men when a woman is...
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...Schneider National Inc. Al Schneider was raised on a farm in eastern Wisconsin. He was only educated through the eighth grade. In 1935, he sold his family car and purchased his first truck. He started taking shipments around the local area and through Green Bay, Wisconsin. One of Al Schneider’s five sons, Don, received a very good education graduating from a parochial high school as well as a degree from St. Norbert’s College. Don Schneider continued his education at the University of Pennsylvania and received a business degree from Wharton School of Finance and Commerce. With this excellent education, Don worked his way up in the family business and eventually in 1971 became president. Schneider National Incorporated was a fairly small sized company until the 1980s. After Don Schneider came into power, he quickly realized that his company needed to undergo large changes to keep up with the changing business culture. The two changes that Schneider needed the most were in employee relations and investing in the use of new technology. In the early 1980s Schneider began giving its drivers bonuses based on performance and eliminated reserved parking spaces for higher ranking employees. Typically, if a driver was out on the road, they would have to find a phone at a truck stop and call the company to check in and update the dispatcher on their location. This was very slow process at times because many times the pay phones would be in use, or the company dispatcher...
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...the strengths and weaknesses between building telescopes on Earth, in orbit, or even on the moon. Additionally, this paper explains how different frequencies of light tell more about the birth, life, and death in the nature and properties of the Sun, stars, and the universe. Lastly, this essay explains how telescopes operate in wavelengths of light that range from radio waves to gamma rays. How Telescopes Changed People’s View The invention of the telescope significantly impacts the way people in the past and present view the Earth, other planets and solar systems, as well as the universe as a whole (Bennett, J., Donahue, M., & Schneider, N., & Voit, M., 2015). Until the invention of Galileo Galilei's (1564-1642) simple telescope, many people thought that the earth was the center of our solar system (Bennett, J., Donahue, M., & Schneider, N., & Voit, M., 2015). By showing that Venus underwent phases, Galileo successfully “proved that Venus must revolve around the Sun” and “thus supports the heliocentric solar system” (Lecture notes, n.d. Galileo: A Crisis in Conscience, para. 1). Earth is just a planet “orbiting a rather ordinary star, in a galaxy of more than a hundred billion stars, in an incredibly vast universe”...
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...As a proud member of the Seattle Seahawks 12th man, I've always enjoyed watching the Seahawks compete every game weather they win or lose. During the 2012-2013 season, I must say it felt astounding when they became the Super Bowl champion. In spite of the athletes and coaches that get highly recognize for prevailing to be the Super Bowl champs, I acknowledge John Schneider the most, who is the team general manager, for building a top-notch football team. Schneider's profession is one of the most complex and burdensome career. Before Schneider was hired as sports general manager, the Seattle Seahawks were an abysmal team. The Seattle Seahawks organization expected Schneider from the get-go to convert the franchise in to a top-notch; also, that...
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...familiarity commitment and separation. Now let’s look into each of these in detail. Awareness “Customers who recognize the name of the company or one of its products are in the awareness stage of customer loyalty. They know that the company or products exists, but have not had any interaction with the company (Schneider).” Exploration “potential customers learn more about the company or its products. The potential customer might visit the company’s web site to learn more, and the two parties will often communicate by telephone or email (Schneider).” Familiarity “customers who have completed several transactions and are aware of the company’s policies regarding returns, credits, and pricing flexibility are in the familiarity stage of their relationship with the company (Schneider).” Commitment “After experiencing a considerable number of highly satisfactory encounters with a company, some customers develop fierce loyalty or strong preference for the products or brands of that company (Schneider).” Separation “over time, the conditions that made the relationship valuable might change. The customer might be disappointed by changes in the level of service or product quality (Schneider).” Now based on the chart on page 186 let’s see which customers fall into place with the MMB corporation. First we can look at the awareness percentage which in my case I would give them a 5% of customers that know of the product because Jerry had ads in the magazines but did not get a turn around that he...
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...In the controversial book “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald one can see that the idea of the American dream is expressed through the simplicity of color. Many have argued that The Great Gatsby is a book of sexual immorality and critically acclaimed thoughts as well as a magnificent book that secretly has deeper meaning than the simply words it offers in its sentences. Such a person is Daniel J. Schneider who is an advocate of the glory behind the cover, he wrote “Color Symbolism in The Great Gatsby” where he puts forward his own point of view on the meaning of the use of Fitzgerald’s color symbolism in each sentence were he expressed an elusive idea hard for the common reader to find. In this mysterious book the color blue is very much present, from describing attire to showing the mode of the characters, blue goes beyond this and elusively states that it is the dream...
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...What is Intellectual Property? According to Schneider (2007) “Intellectual property is a general term that includes all products of the human mind. These products can be tangible or intangible” (p. 322). In simple words intellectual property is that can be derived from works of individual mind and these products can be either physically seen or touched, or not physically being touch. This is what Ellen Carson an author and illustrator of a series of children books will be facing when she decides to take her business online. Ellen Carson wants to take her series of books online where her customers can play games, buy her books, chat with different users, she plans to limit the website to just US consumers but also hopes with the start of the website her product will be made successful all over the world( Schneider, 2007, p-348). Most of Ellen’s illustrations are copyrighted from her books, and once her website is running and online Ellen plans on offering those copyrighted materials to her registered users on the website, with that said problems will arise when it comes to intellectual property and the operation of the website. The issues that will arise while operating the website would be copyright infringement, trademark frauds and trademark infringement (Schneider, 2007, p-348). What is copyright infringement? When some one steals an artist work or music or picture of the internet they are breaking the law of copyright. Copyright usually gives the owner of the artwork, music...
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...Assistant professor of education and writer, Jack Schneider, in his article “Making it easier to fire teachers won’t get you better ones”, demonstrates how assumptions that job security can help educators improve is illogical. Schneider’s purpose is to inform/assemble school systems to help teachers find guidance for improvement. He adopts a supportive/candid tone in order for school administrators, districts, and readers to realize that teachers do care for professional growth, but lack their support to reach their full teaching capacity. Throughout the first section of Schneider’s passage, he addresses the Vergara case to distinguish how their logic is far from reality. Schneider creates a pedantic diction to capture the attention of schools and districts, to emphasize that his claims are correct. “Research does indicate that, though teachers tend to improve by leaps and bounds in their first few years on the job, they...
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...Under Minnesota common law, our client, Green Valley Bowling Lanes cannot be held liable for Ms. Mormont’s injuries because Ms. Mormont knew of and appreciated the risks inherent in bowling. A person is knowledgeable and appreciative of a risk if they know from experience with the sport that a dangerous outcome could occur given a certain action. Grady v. Green Acres, Inc; Jussila v. United States Snowmobile Association; Schneider v. Erikson. The Court of Appeals of Minnesota has applied this rule to several inherently dangerous sports. Id. In Grady, a case concerning an adult who was injured while snow tubing after colliding with another patron, Grady sued Green Acres Inc. the owner of the business where the incident occurred. Grady v. Green Acres, Inc.. Grady claimed Green Acres was negligent with regards to the safety of its patrons and that he was not appreciative of the risks involved. Id. The court held that Grady was both knowledgeable and appreciative of the risks of snow tubing from his previous experience snow tubing and other related sports. Id. In Jussila, a case concerning a patron who was struck with a snowmobile at a snowmobile race, Jussila sued the United States Snowmobile Association (USSA) who organized the event. Jussila v. United States Snowmobile Association. Jussila claimed USSA was negligent in designing the barriers around the track to protect spectators. Id. The court held...
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...The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is a multinational institution based on humanitarian factors established with the main objective being availing humanitarian aid to victims of war and other calamities (Kim & Schneider 2009). ICRC basically known as Red Cross is a an organization established and focused to deliver humanitarian services in times of both natural disasters such as floods, droughts, storms and earthquakes as well as in events of human made disasters such as wars, terrorism and other complex situations that require emergency reaction towards life-saving assistance. Formerly, ICRC was known as the International Committee for the Relief to the Wounded in Time of War which was founded by Dunant and four others in 1863 after the Swiss business man witnessed how the Italian Unification War left thousands suffering and i8n need of medical services. The organization was formed in 1864 with the origin from the Red Cross and the Red Crescent movements. The body was formed and established in the Swiss land (Switzerland) so as to be a custodian of the International Humanitarian Law. The ICRC has its headquarters in Geneva in Switzerland (Kim & Schneider 2009). Through independency, impartiality and neutrality, ICRC slowly became an international organization now with over two hundred states being members. ICRC CULTURE ICRC is very distinct organization and like every organization, ICRC has its own unique culture. This can...
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...Total Quality Management Vol. 23, No. 11, November 2012, 1227–1239 Which HRM practices contribute to service culture? Akiko Ueno∗ ,† Royal Docks Business School, University of East London, Docklands Campus, 4-6 University Way, London, E16 2RD, UK It is known that Human Resources Management (HRM) can help to develop service culture, which will in turn improve service quality. The purpose of this article is to determine the relative importance of six HRM practices in terms of their impact on culture. A questionnaire survey of medium and large-sized UK service businesses was conducted. The results reveal that there is a strong association between culture and HRM practices, and that some management practices are more strongly associated with culture than others. Further research should explore the reasons why some HRM practices are more contributory to culture than others. Service businesses in pursuit of service quality should make use of these HRM practices for developing service culture in their organisations. This research has confirmed a strong association between culture and HRM practices, and also clarified the relative importance of HRM practices in terms of their impact on culture in order to improve service quality. Keywords: culture; HRM; services Introduction This article investigates the relative importance of six Human Resources Management (HRM) practices in terms of their impact on culture in order to improve service quality. In a previous study, it was found...
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...Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is a multinational institution based on humanitarian factors established with the main objective being availing humanitarian aid to victims of war and other calamities (Kim & Schneider 2009). ICRC basically known as Red Cross is a an organization established and focused to deliver humanitarian services in times of both natural disasters such as floods, droughts, storms and earthquakes as well as in events of human made disasters such as wars, terrorism and other complex situations that require emergency reaction towards life-saving assistance. Formerly, ICRC was known as the International Committee for the Relief to the Wounded in Time of War which was founded by Dunant and four others in 1863 after the Swiss business man witnessed how the Italian Unification War left thousands suffering and i8n need of medical services. The organization was formed in 1864 with the origin from the Red Cross and the Red Crescent movements. The body was formed and established in the Swiss land (Switzerland) so as to be a custodian of the International Humanitarian Law. The ICRC has its headquarters in Geneva in Switzerland (Kim & Schneider 2009). Through independency, impartiality and neutrality, ICRC slowly became an international organization now with over two hundred states being members. ICRC CULTURE ICRC is very distinct organization and like every organization, ICRC...
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...In 2013, Dr. Howard Schneider ,a pediatric dentist, lived in Jacksonville, Florida and was sued by nearly twenty patients for allegedly performing unnecessary surgery on kids—pulling out their teeth for no reason, and in some cases hitting or choking them. Dental Malpractice occurs when a dentist separates from the dental standard of care in its community and as a result of that deviation a patient is injured. In some circumstances when a pediatric dentist starts having behavior problems like carelessness or inattentiveness it may cause issues during a procedure. They may perform unnecessary extractions of teeth, give unsafe amounts of anesthesia, and also use unsterilized dental equipment which causes infections and long term complications...
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...Going Green with Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Course Description: This course defines green buildings, explains the mission of the US Green Building Council and the requirements of the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) rating system. Schneider Electric solutions for meeting the LEED requirements will also be explained. Course Outline: Learning Objectives At the completion of this course, you will be able to: • Define the characteristics of Green Buildings • Explain the mission of the US Green Building Council • Identify the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design rating system • Describe Schneider Electric products and services which satisfy LEED requirements Agenda • Introduction • Impacts of US Buildings on the Environment • Advantages of building green • Review the Mission of the US Green Building Council • Discuss the LEED rating system • Discuss Schneider Electric products and services that satisfy LEED requirements • Introduce Case Studies • Summary Course Content or Material 1) Introduction a) Green Building b) Design of Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) c) Who makes up the LEED team d) LEED reach e) Point of the LEED point based system f) Why is there a demand 2) Impacts of US Buildings on the Environment a) Impacts of US buildings on resources b) US Energy Consumption c) US Electricity Consumption 3) Advantages of Building Green a) Demand for Green Building ...
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