...Abby Somers W-430: Organizations and Organizational Change September 5, 2013 Chapter 3 Case Study: The Dim Lighting Co. I. Problems a. Macro i. Company strategy – they cannot agree on whether they want to be innovative or constantly behind the trend. They are slow to adapt to change, and are reluctant to be ahead of the change. ii. Financing – they are in a bit of a financial squeeze, which hence places reluctance on going ahead with the new project. However, it “takes money to make money” so if they decide to not go through with the project due to lack of financing I foresee financing continuing to be an issue long into their future, and a potential second bad year in a row. b. Micro iii. Spinks leaving – it’s been brought up that if his new project is denied, the Director of Research and Development will leave the company in search of other employment. He left his last job because of a lack of creativity and innovation, so chances are he would leave again if forced to work under the same circumstances. iv. Broken production equipment – the broken production equipment is inhibiting their current operations. If fixed, this would provide an instant, although smaller, source of income. If they go ahead with the new project this broken equipment will be put on the backburner, causing the company to be low on cash for quite some time. II. Causes c. Lack of product development –...
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...Hollie Adleberg 1/22/13 MGT 311: Case Analysis THE DIM LIGHTING CO. CASE ANALYSIS Problems Macro 1) The Dim Lighting CO has a major decision to make. The facts and the numbers are saying that they are not realizing their operating targets and their profit margins have declined. The first thing that Mr. West should do is to evaluate all the pros and cons of the project. 2) The other side of the problem is that at this moment, they are not in the greatest financial situation. Mr. West knows that his business position is heavily weighed on the financial success of the coming year. Micro 1) Mr. West has to have a profitable year. Two years in a row with poor performance could lead to his dismissal from the company, and will not look good for future career advancements. The director of marketing is stating that new machinery is needed in order for any profit to be made. The downside being that it will take two years to complete, and during those two years, only break-even will be met, no profits until the third year. 2) Mr. Spinks has stated that he left his previous company because they lacked creativity and innovation in research and development. He has the tendency to be impatient if his project does not get approved. There is a threat that Mr. Spinks will leave the company and shatter the whole R&D department. Causes 1) Previous unprofitable year 2) Mr. Spinks history of leaving former company for lack of creativity and innovations 3) The...
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...| | | | | | | POPULATION | MISSISSIPPI | JACKSON | | Total Population | 2,922,240 | 176,799 | | EDUCATION (AGES 25+) | | | | Less than 9th Grade | 7.46% | 5.11% | | 9th to 12th Grade | 13.63% | 12.84% | | High School Diploma | 31.21% | 25.25% | | Some College | 21.17% | 23.28% | | Associate's Degree | 7.47% | 6.50% | | Bachelor's Degree | 12.42% | 16.58% | | Graduate/Professional Degree | 6.65% | 10.43% | | RACE & ETHNICITY | | | | White Non-Hispanic | 58.83% | 20.98% | | White Hispanic | 1.16% | 0.78% | | Non-White Hispanic | 0.95% | 0.92% | | Black/African American | 36.90% | 75.95% | | America Indian/Alaskan Native | 0.40% | 0.14% | | Asian | 0.84% | 0.66% | | Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander | 0.01% | 0.01% | | Two or More Races | 0.90% | 0.49% | | GENDER | | | | Male | 48.49% | 46.51% | | Female | 51.51% | 53.49% | | AGE | | | | Under 15 | 21.62% | 23.69% | | 15 to 19 | 7.71% | 8.00% | | 20 to 34 | 20.65% | 23.44% | | 35 to 54 | 26.93% | 25.64% | | 55 to 64 | 10.61% | 9.20% | | 65 and over | 12.48% | 10.02% | | ECONOMIC INDICATORS | | | | Poverty Rate | 21.41% | 26.87% | | Workforce Participation Rate | 59.78% | 63.60% | | Per Capita Income | $19,534 | $19,749 | | | | | | | | | The area that would be best for the expanded location, and facility is Jackson Ms. This decision was made from data collected from the office of economics...
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...Case 3: The Dim Lighting Co. The Dim Lighting Co. (heretofore known as Dim) is challenged with several macro-level problems. Primarily, low cash flow and decreasing profit margins are an important concern. Also, the management team (i.e., Dr. Spinks, P. Newell, B. Boswell, and C. Preston) seems prone to in-fighting and name calling. For example, Preston refers to scientists (i.e., Spinks) as “prima donnas.” At the micro-level, Dim’s General Manager, West, is quite concerned about his tenure at the company due to his company’s performance during the previous year. He is worried about what will happen to his job security if the coming year is unsuccessful as well. Also, Spinks, director of R&D, is reported to be “autocratic, strong-willed, and impatient,” and he seems to be quick to resign when dissatisfied with the degree of innovation present within his location. Now, with Spinks’s new project as a possible panacea for Dim’s dilemmas, there is much resistance to going forward with development due to extant monetary worries. Also, the new project is not a guaranteed success, and it is difficult to determine if the payoffs are worth the risk in investment. The causes for the problems at Dim are multiple and varied. First, the organizational culture seems to be split. Some management primarily focuses on the “bottom line”, while others focus on innovation competitiveness. This creates great conflict when new ideas and change and proposed. Dim’s culture (with the exception...
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...NAME: Chris Brady I. Problems A. Macro 1. The Dim Lighting Co. has to decide whether or not to invest in a major R&D project for new technology. The reason for looking into pursing this is due to the fact of declining profits and not meeting the companies operating capacity targets. The margins and operating targets dropped by 15 percent last year. Jim West has to look into all of the pros and cons of the project that Robert Spinks has presented at the staff meeting. 2. One issue is the company has been underperforming the last two years. It would be an easier decision to invest the $1.2 million for the next two years and $500,000 for the third year. The Mr. West knows that his career at the company depends on the next year profit margin. Without a strong performance he could be no longer employed at Dim Lighting Co. The other idea brought up by Bills Boswell is to purchase newer equipment for the production line which he feels would create an immediate impact on the financial profits for the company, instead of investing in a project that could fail completely. Mr. Sparks stated that it only as a 70% chance of success. B. Micro 1. The last two years had declining profits and operating targets were not met for the last couple years. Mr. West knows that he has to make this trend end and start to make the company profits increase. If the performance doesn’t change he feels that it could lead to himself being released from his services from the company...
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...from remaining competitive or adapting to a changing environment. 2. The Organization needs to remove the fear of failure and provide a climate that supports the risk that is being taken. B. Micro 1. The management team is questioning Mr. Spinks because the feel he is often autocratic, strong-willed, and impatient. Mr. Spinks has to show he has the same ethical and value as the organization. 2. Determining the Priority of the Goals – Is Mr. West looking for Mr. Spinks to just make him look better after having a bad couple of years or is the goal the Mr. West really have in mind is for the better of the company. II. Causes: 1. Dim Lighting Company has not produced new products or set them apart from the competition. In order to be successful the company needs to standout from their competitors. 2. With changing technology Dim Lighting Company needs to come up with innovated ideas to make them stand out. They need to keep the customers coming back and not going to the competitors. 3. All companies have to look at change to continue to grow and stay competitive. Without change profits can become stagnant and can this could be the demise of the organization. III. Systems affected: 1. Marketing will have to change in the way they sell the new products. It will require new marketing techniques on how to sell this new product. 2. Manufacturing will have to learn different equipment to manufacture the new product 3. Sales will have to be trained to understand the new...
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...Carl Vitale MG350 Case Analysis: The Dim Lighting Co. I. Problems a. Macro – the problems for this organization on a large scale are pretty easy to see from the case. The company failed to meet its operating targets. This has caused them to decline financially, but also limits their ability to take risks that would help them to research and design new technology to get them back into the market. That means that when Mr. Spinks has an idea that would normally be a great opportunity for the company to jump out in front of its competitors, instead of immediately jumping into that project, they must first consider all options. Their situation makes the endeavor, and ones like it, far more risky than they should be. b. Micro – on a smaller scale, the companies head of R&D, Mr. Spinks, faces a problem of his own when he comes up with an idea for a new type of lamp that he believes could be the next step up from LED lighting. This is obviously a huge idea, and a big risk to any company. This company however, also happens to be struggling, making it necessary for the organization to discuss all possible risks before agreeing that it is the right idea. This is a typical high-risk, high-reward situation. If Dim Lighting decided to take a risk and put money into developing and producing this new product, they have to be confident that it will in fact be the next big thing. If not, the organization could lose all the money they had put into the project, which at...
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...Film Noir Lighting comparison with Ridley Scott's “Blade Runner”. Menelaos Pampoukidis 3. Choose a film, TV show, music video or advertisement and discuss how the directing OR editing OR lighting style and choices inform its narrative form, genre and theme(s). Consider the film or show in its entirety and demonstrate your understanding and awareness of directing OR editing qualities. How lightning style and choices inform Ridley Scott's “Blade Runner”(1982) narrative, genre and theme. In early 1940s, soon after the second World War, a new film genre started to develop. Almost, twenty years later Nino Frank, influenced by the France “Black Book”, gave it the name Film Noir. “Product of a multifaceted interaction between developments within particular genres – the gangster/crime film and the Gothic melodrama – fluctuating conditions of production and reception within the American industry, and more diffuse cultural movements.”1 The early Film Noir was profoundly influenced by the depression of the war. Hard boiled, dark, devious and cynical, it was originally based on German expressionism and later on Italian neorealism in order to create it's individual style and unique iconography. “As expressionists motifs supplied Noir's dark undercurrents, the Neo-Realist influence that appeared after war introduced a documentary flavour to American thrillers”2 As Film Noir kept progressing many elements were added to the prime features, expanding the range of the genre...
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...The lights were violently bright. Too bright for eyes that, for the past 12 hours, had been subjected to the smokey, dim-lighting of a scuzzy bar or drunk sleep. Waking up at 4:30AM isnt Taylor's idea of a good time, especially when she had just crawled into bed at 4:03AM, but the job helps maintain the wild-child lifestyle that she had grown accustomed to. "Fucking kill me", she huffed, pissed that her co-worker had turned on the lights. She thought to herself, "Just make it through the day Taylor. You only have to be here until 12:30. Once the interns get here, freedom will be yours...You can do it." Work for Taylor, isnt what most people would call work. She works for EVP, Elite Vision Productions, a social events company that was created by a sorority sister-turned-stripper who got tired of the stage rotation and meth-addicted coworkers. As an Executive Event Coordinator (an inflated title, with inflated pay), Taylor was considered to be pretty high up on the chain of command. She managed 10 people, 3 interns and had keys to the building. Yet there were still quite a few people above her, which, at this point in time, she was ok with. There are two offices for Elite Vision Productions in sunny California. Standing at 4 stories tall on X Ave in Beverly Hills, CA, the headquarters of EVP is a reconstructed warehouse, looking like it would fit better in some hipster infested district in New York City, than in the glossy glamour of LA. The look of the building is that...
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...ADAPTIVE STrEET LIGHTING GUIDE DIScLAImEr This BC Hydro Adaptive Street Lighting Information Brochure (the “Brochure”) has been produced by BC Hydro for the convenience and informational purposes of only those BC Hydro customers to whom BC Hydro has provided this Brochure and is not to be provided to any other party. Any information in this Brochure that is summarized or excerpted from specific studies, articles or other sources reflect the views of the authors of such studies, articles or other sources that are cited. All other information in this Brochure reflects the views of BC Hydro after reviewing and interpreting the foregoing cited sources and other sources. BC Hydro has not conducted any of its own research or other activities to verify its own views or the views of the authors of any of the cited sources. BC Hydro does not make any representations or warranties of any kind, whether express, implied or statutory, with respect to any of the information contained in this Brochure and any user of this Brochure is advised to use the information contained herein at their own risk. BC Hydro also does not accept any liability (including, without limitation, liability for any direct, indirect, consequential or any other type of damages) arising from or relating to any use of, or reliance upon, this Brochure for any purpose. If any information relating to a particular product or manufacturer is contained in this Brochure, BC Hydro will not be deemed to have endorsed or promoted...
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...sound refers to the teacher’s voice - explaining the lesson, giving out instructions or assignments, or scolding a student or the entire class (Tenedero, 2009). Some learners prefer total silence or minimum sound because sound acts as a distraction to their effective learning (Senge, 2006). A study done by an American, named James Wallace (2008), mentioned that Filipino students prefer a quiet environment rather than having music or other sounds when studying. However, there are researches which showed that many students prefer to listen to a lecture or study on their own with some background music on because it makes them more receptive to learning (Tenedero, 2009). Light is the second element of the learning environment. Brighter lightings can reduce visual problems, fatigue, and posture problems and produce effective learning which helps improve students’ academic performance (Jensen, 2006). However, research also shows that there are many students who perform significantly better in low light environments because bright lights make them restless, fidgety, and hyperactive. Dimmed light environments calm down many learners and it makes them relax and think clearly (Prashnig, 2006). Temperature is another element that plays a key role in the learning environment. If a student is too cold or too hot, he will have a hard time concentrating on his learning tasks (Moore, 2007). There is research evidence that the brain functions well at lower temperatures instead of when they...
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...“The Mission of Levi Strauss & Co. is to sustain responsible commercial success as a global marketing company of branded apparel.” (“Mission Statement”). Levi’s main goal is to be a long-lasting company, as it’s written in their mission statement. The company has been around for quite some time; almost everyone can recognize the name Levi’s. But when someone purchases a pair of Levi’s jeans, they probably don’t think about what goes on behind-the-scenes, or how the jeans were actually made. The following paragraphs will cover Levi’s raw materials, modes of transportation, marketing strategy, and their operations. Jeans were invented shortly after the California Gold rush. Levis Strauss then began making miners’ denim work pants with copper rivets. The denim pant had already existed for a while at the time, but Mr. Strauss’ addition of the metal rivets at pocket corners and other points of strain made regular denim pants a “Levi”. In the year 1873, Levi Strauss and his business partner Jacob Davis received a patent for what would soon become the most popular denim brand ever made. (“Levi Strauss”). Because Levi’s is a well-known, international brand, it has suppliers all over the world. There are many different routes through which a pair of Levi’s jeans can be made, throughout the Americas, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. One of the many routes taken in the production of a pair of Levi jeans is one located right here in the United States, operating from the...
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...“Romeo, Romeo where for art thou Romeo” the phrase lingers through my mind as I head to the green room for my sixteenth century makeover. Tonight was the night every Year 10 student from Westside Boys and Girls had anticipated for. All the after school and weekend rehearsals were finally put to rest. I frantically run to the green room, knowing we only have three hours to get everything into place. The doors swing open, as Rosie the make-up artist runs up to me and grabs me tightly on the arm. “Where on earth have you been?” The main roles of Romeo, Juliet, Friar Lawrence, and Mercutio were told to come three hours earlier, while the smaller roles could have an hour off. Rosie’s question was obviously rhetorical; I mean who would want to know I had to go to my brother’s football match in the morning? Both Rosie and Brianna start rubbing on layers of foundation which makes my face look pale, my sporting tan was no longer existent. I clasp onto my booklet of lines, as I revise for the final time; Mr. Fraser the coordinator of our production stampedes in and asks where Romeo was. Romeo, played by Westside Boys’ bad boy Tony Thugbolt, Tony is of a muscular build, his shoulders bolted out his white top; his short brown hair was rarely dry; not a typical fancy Romeo looking face. He had won the vote of hundreds, or according to Clare the school gossiper; his mates threatened to pay out anyone who didn’t vote him for the main role. I take a glance at Mr. Fraser with my face looking...
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...Final Film Critique – LA Confidential Adam Ehinger Ashford University: ENG225 Instructor Michael O'Donnell 1/31/2015 Sometimes a movie makes a lasting impression on you as an individual, sometimes you'll come back to this movie time and time again. LA Confidential (1997) is a combination of a star studded cast and a scintillating detective story set in the 50's. The movie combines all aspects of movie making, from acting, directing, writing, mise en scene and all sorts of film techniques to make one of the most entertaining noir's you'll ever see. LA Confidential (1997) is directed by Curtis Hanson, he doesn't have this prolific history of stunning movies like some other directing heavy weights but he handles an a-list cast and directing duties admirably here. While most of the big names in the cast weren't technically BIG names yet they must have still had personalities or needed work to get the job done. Notably at least to me is Kim Basinger, someone who usually I do not enjoy, usually a weak point in movies for me, but in this she is perfectly fine, nothing to much, but not noticeable like usual, a feat in directing to me. The cast is name after name, Russel Crowe as the ham fisted Officer Bud White, Kevin Spacey playing the mercurial Detective Jack Vincennes, Guy Pearce in my eyes as his break out performance playing the golden child Ed Exley. You have a plethora of famous character actors to back these boys up, David Strathairn as...
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...Prologue Spring, 2023 A D Editor took the guest to Kanyam Resort for refreshment. Dr. Simpson has come all the way from Kathmandu, originally from Amsterdem. He is a research fellow on Kathmandu University, department of sociology and anthropology. It took around fifty minutes from Birtamode to reach there. Kanyam resort lays aside the beautiful tea garden of Kanyam, Ilam. One could view the scenic views of Nepal as well as Indian hills when sky is clear. The climate was very cool when they reached. He was deeply dragged by the green hills. He beheld beautiful hills on the horizon, veiled partly with clouds….gurgling sound of small rivulet, chirping of birds etc. etc. Simpson wondered why people fancy leaving such a beautiful place and fly abroad. Ecologically speaking, he is in such a place where numerous rare species regard it a safer habitat to live in. Economically speaking, he is in a third world with a remittance-fed economy. But geopolitically speaking, he is in such a strategic location where power centers prefer to play. And statistically speaking, he was in south Asia where half of the world’s poor people live in. However spiritually speaking, every black cloud has silver lining. Dr. Simpson was mechanically sipping a handmade tea of Kanyam. He came to the real world when editor broke the silence. ‘So, how can I help you sir?’ editor told. ‘I am...
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