...Case Study 1 – Pre-presentation Learning Journal Dated: 2 March 2014 In order to prepare for assignment Case Study 1, which required our team to create a poster and present the analysis, and recommend for a future strategies, I need to understand some theories that are required in the case. After went through the textbook and several write up about SLEPT and SWOT analysis. SLEPT is one of the analysis that is frequently used by business analyst for examining the marco environment of the organisation that the business operations in. Most of the time, companies are unable to control the external environment factors but it can effectively have better understanding in it so that they can either exploit the situation to its advantage or minimise the impact that is to its disadvantage. The factors that influence the macro environment are SLEPT – Social, Legal, Economical, Political and Technological. In order to help me relate to the case study, I had posted myself with a few questions. 1) How will the factors impact business? The macro environment factors affect FedEx’s competition advantage in the market that it operates in. As a foreign international company, the political and legal factors are especially important for the business. Every change in policy and regulation may affect the way the business operates. The economical factor is also critical to the success of FedEx as the growth of ecommerce in China will bring demands to the logistic business. 2) How will this...
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...HR 485: Strategic Human Resource Management Unit 7 Project March 14, 2012 Learning Journal For this assignment I will be expressing my thoughts about issues, concepts, and events from the reading and classroom discussions in this class. I will address what I have learned and how I will be applying this knowledge to my job. Some of the specific points I found interesting in this course are understanding what the purpose of HR business strategy is, learning what a high-value organization is, the components of an HR business strategy, learning about the HR business strategy matrix, learning what an HR business strategy looks and feels like, human systems and organizational culture, understanding the HR maturity scale, learning about teamwork, employee value, appreciation, and value measures and management tools. Human resource strategies are designed to ensure that small businesses have the staff they need to meet customer demand. Considerations that impact human resource strategy include both internal and external environmental changes, such as anticipated turnover, the need for new types of skills and experience, growth or expansion into a new market, changing economic pressure and competitive pressures. At the highest level, the objectives of a human resource strategy will require businesses to consider two key things: the type of staff needed to manage and run the business to meet stated business objectives, and the pay/benefits and other programs necessary to attract...
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...Since this Friday was declared as holiday, our group decided to move our “culminating” activity on Saturday, giving us more time to prepare our gifts for the children. Today, we have talked about how much we should spend and after agreeing on the amount, we decided that one will buy all the things that we need since we have conflicting schedules. I am quite excited to go back on Saturday but also I feel sad too that our activity will come to an end. Even though we only came for a handful of visits, it still made an impact in my life since children are really close to my heart. It was a heartwarming experience especially that the season of giving is here. It’s also nice to know how we made an impact or somehow changed their lives with what we have done even though it’s not a big as an impact as getting adopted. I know that these children will find the perfect parents for them, who can provide for their every need and even more; parents who will be able to give them bright futures and the insurmountable love that they need. Knowing that there are children from this orphanage has been given permanent homes gives me hope for our future. It shows that amidst the wars, disagreements between countries and people, there are still those who opt to do something right for these children who aren’t as fortunate as the rest of us. I’m not condemning the parents of this children for what they have done. Although it is quite sad how some of the children end up in the home, it is also...
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...Activity 5 I have chosen obesity 1. Describe the issue: Australia today is ranked as one of the fattest nations in the world. (monash university 2012) there are 14 million Australians overweight or obese. Obesity has over taken smoking as the leading cause of premature death and illness in Australia. Obesity has become the single biggest threat to the public health system in Australia. 2. Outline the problem for the individual with this this condition: psychologically being obese can affect your body image and damage self esteem in some cases this can cause social anxiety and depression. The most common physical problems include: * Difficulty breathing * Difficulty walking or running * Increased sweating * Pain in the knees and back * Skin conditions such as acne * Gallstones. Obese people are more likely to have the following medical conditions * High blood pressure * High cholesterol * Heart attack or stroke * Type 2 diabetes * Osteoartheritis * Cancer. 3. Discuss the impact on the community and the health care system: apart from the massive health system cost of obesity experts predict that australia’s obesity rate will keep rising, which will put an even greater strain on our health system. It is estimated by 2025 16.9 million people will be obese (medibank 2011). In 2009 (medibank 2011) the direct health cost associated with obesity related medical conditions were determined to be $1.3 billion. ...
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...Hello, Mr. Adam, and Readers of the Journal Entry The challenging tasks of these units simply demonstrate a small piece of the challenges we shall be encountering as this course unfolds. As for me, provided the challenges are interesting and provided they are good teachers, I am fully comfortable with it. This Learning Journal Entry (LJE) is of two parts: one is for the programming exercise and the other for my reflective first-person narrative of my learning procedures this week. Part 1. The Programming Exercise. This part serves to demonstrate the systematic approach I have taken to tackling the programming exercise attached to submitting this LJE. At first, I will briefly lay out the program requirement, and then I will express some considerations....
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...Learning Journal on Behaviorism According to B.F. Skinner that an understanding of personality will develop from a consideration of the behavioral development of the human organism in continuing interaction with the environment. The organism is in the process of operating on the environment which in ordinary terms means it is a special kind of stimulus called reinforcing stimulus or reinforcement. This stimulus has the effect of increasing the behavior occurring. In operant conditioning the behavior is followed by a consequences and the nature of consequences modifies the organism’s tendency to repeat the behavior in the future. Responses to stimuli can be reinforced with positive or negative feedback to condition desired behaviors. Punishment is sometimes used in eliminating or reducing incorrect actions but Skinner believed that reinforcement is more effective than punishment as a strategy to reduce undesirable behavior. Punishment may be effective in the short-term and severe forms of punishment may lead to negative and destructive consequences which include aggression, escape or avoidance. However, some circumstances warrant punishment, if it is more preferable when reinforcement has not been found to work or when the behavior is more destructive than the punishment itself, then punishment might be justified. Reinforcement is very important in scaffolding our learners. Being a teacher we must know when and how to give reinforcement. Praising, motivating, giving rewards...
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...Learning Journal Week 4 Learning Summary- Social Media in Our Life Recently, the fact that social media affect people’s everyday life more deeply has been brought into our focus. With the booming of smart phone, more people delay on the social media to communication with friends, reading the news and even buying goods or foods. In everyday morning, the first thing for most of people is updating the news in social media. Caring about what happened last night, the fresh news in the morning and recording the feelings at this moment. Siapera given an umbrella term for social media that social media is an integrate technology, social interaction and user-generated content. And he also identify three main characteristics of social media which are allowing users to create, downloading and sharing content, to publish their profile and personal information, and to connect with others. (Siapera,2012). The rapidly development of social media have both advantages and shortcomings, there is no doubt that social media makes people communicate more convenient and can make more friends in this way and also keep a close connected with old friends. However, the weakness is the face-to-face communication will be reducing and excessive delay on the social media will influence the normal daily life. In this week, I recognized several overviews of the social media, such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and LinkedIn… and understood how to use designated computer software and the basic principles of...
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...------------------------------------------------- Learning Journal II: Week 6 to Week 12 Corporate governance is ‘the system by which business corporations are directed and controlled’ (Mucciarone 2012). Milton Friedman argued that “corporate governance is to conduct the business in accordance with the owner or shareholders’ desires, which generally will be to make as much money as possible while conforming to the basic rules of the society embodied in law and local customs (Mucciarone 2012). I’ve learnt now that corporate governance is an integral part of our lives. This was evident during the collapses of Enron and WorldCom in the United States and the collapse of ABC learning in Australia. ABC Learning was a listed company on the Australian Securities Exchange, with market shares worth A$2.5million. In 2008, the company went into administrative receivership and was overwhelmed with massive debts. According to (Kruger 2009), it came to light that ABC Learning employed methods of financial reporting designed to artificially create apparent shareholder value, when, in fact, that shareholder value associated with the child-care licences (91 per cent of net assets) is based entirely on the future net cash flows of the company. ABC Learning’s profits increased rapidly through acquisitions, which should have raised questions about the underlying valuation of assets it acquired - especially given that 70 per cent of its assets were intangibles (Kruger 2009). Dr Philip Ross, the...
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...Learning Journal Best Books CE The Best Books exercise was consist of two parts. Students formed group of two for this exercise. First portion was to conduct negotiation and the second portion was to calculate points for comparing. We were given two different role information, one for Paige Turner’s Agent and one for Bestbooks. The negotiation between the Agent and Bestbooks was hinged on the 8 points. They included royalties, contract bonus, number of print runs for the book, numer of weeks that Paige has to promote the book, number of books, advance, number of countries where the book will be sold, and the number of bookclubs that will adopt the book. After the negotiation, we calculated points according to the “Confidential Success Table” that was provided. For this exercise, I was Paige Turner’s agent. As we started negotiating, both of us didn’t know where to start. Therefore, we simply decided to negotiate in sequence from royalties to number of bookclubs that will adapt the book. However, we soon realized that it was not going to work that way. Naturally, we started offering deals on several points without telling each other what we were after. I think we both were trying to figure out what each other was focusing on. During this process, we also figured out that we had some common interest on several points. It took us about 25 minutes to complete our negotiation. When we were done with our negotiation, we signed each other’s paper and calculated...
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... for a change." ― Steve Maraboli Stefania Lanfranchi stefania.lanfranchi@student.unisg.ch CEMS MIM BLOCK SEMINAR on SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP Prof. Devi Vijay Number of pages: 10 Kolkata, September 23rd 2013 CEMS MIM BLOCK SEMINAR Prof. Devi Vijay Indian Institute of Management Calcutta Stefania Lanfranchi Introduction This paper constitutes a reflection on my learning gains as a consequence of attending the CEMS MIM BLOCK SEMINAR 2013 at the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta. In the fol-‐ lowing, I identified five topics, which to me, have contributed greatest to my intellectual and personal development. Notwithstanding, I will neglect certain aspects and course contents of the block seminar. This is however necessary in order to treat selected topics in detail. Clearly, neglecting...
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...CULTURE AND ETHICS IN BUSINESS LEARNING JOURNAL CHALLENGES OF MANAGER’S CULTURAL DIFFERENCES FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT Introduction Business today has seen a high surge in globalization. This increase of international business all over has led to a number of ties and relations among people from different culture and nationalities. Managers who still haven’t adapted to the new age managerial skills and are still following the conventional route have found themselves extremely ineffective in the global platform. A need of global managers who understand multi-cultural competencies has arrived and most scholars debate that the working style, values and behaviour of a manager are directly a persona of their national culture. Thus in order to be competitive in this global market, the traditional approach by the managers must transcend to a global one. A global manager is one who has the ability to manage the complexities in a business which is conducted or laid upon multi-cultural diversities. A global manager has many challenges when managing people from different cultures; this includes the people from both High context society as well as low context society. Challenges Lack of communication: When a manager is working with his team members who have different native tongue, it’s most possible at time that the information flow is not constant. Adding to the woes are the multitasking employees and talking to employees over...
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...Learning Journal Questions What information did you not know before. 1.6 Counting Derangements (and associated equations) was a new subject area of mathematics which appears to have numerous practical applications. 2.4 Characteristic Root Techniques for solving problem isn’t entirely new, however, it helps fill the gaps in my toolbox needed to solve the progressively complex problems we are starting to encounter. What information was contrary to what you believed. This week’s material was a logical extension of material covered in previous sections, consequently there were no surprising ideas to deal with. How was the Discussion and /or assignment helpful in mastering new information. I went a bit overboard with the subject and wrote a program to explore a...
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...1. Learning Journal Reflective Comments: Thursday, 08, September 2016 This day, I learnt how to sample data (using either random sampling or cluster sampling). This has enable me to know why two samples that have the characteristics of a population are most probably different but produce the same result. I also learnt about the two types of data-qualitative data or factor and quantitative data or numeric. Now I know why numerical technique are applied to numeric value as they are numbers and cannot be applied to letters and words which are factors. Friday, 09, September 2016 This day, I was able to create a directory IntroStat in my computer. I was also able to download the data files successfully. When I executed the commant get() in R, the address of the directory that I created displayed. Also, when I executed the command dir(), the csv file that I downloaded and saved to the IntroStat folder display as the output....
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...Learning Journal Unit 6 Prepare an (approximately) 200 words summary of the textbook material you have read this week on Chapter 17. This summary should be entered in your learning journal this week. Feds before the 1980s did not had understanding of monetary policy and tools or rather had wrong ideas and concepts, after going for long recessions they gradually gave up those ideas and went along with new policies and learned to work with OMO and then got better with it in time, technology in communications and learning from others who did better in same situations have helped them understand their policies and concepts better than before. It is cycle of continuous learning and hopefully they will keep learning. They have learned that central...
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...Practice: using learning journals in higher and continuing education Teachers College Reflecting on Practice: using learning journals in higher and continuing education Langer (2002) central focus is plainly stated in the introduction, which is “how the use of journals impacted the learning process of adult non-traditional students and how this impact compared to that of traditional students”. The purpose of this article critique is to analyze the strengths and weaknesses of the Langer (2002) article. The body of the critique will develop the five major elements, which begin with the research question/problem to include the author’s purpose for writing the article. The next element is the conceptual framework, followed by the methodology, results/findings of the study, and lastly the discussion. Even though the research question is stated clearly in the third sentence, the use of the terms former and latter in the introduction was somewhat ambiguous because the two comparatives were used early in the paragraph. The article mentioned traditional students, but it was unclear if they too were adults. The reviewer eventually determined that the traditional students were adults because the article stated that the computer technology certification courses were designed for adult students interested in changing their careers. Langer (2002) gave a clear purpose of his study, which was to understand the immediate and extended effects of journals as learning tools for working...
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