...com/studyguide−passageindia/ Copyright Information ©2000−2007 BookRags, Inc. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. The following sections of this BookRags Premium Study Guide is offprint from Gale's For Students Series: Presenting Analysis, Context, and Criticism on Commonly Studied Works: Introduction, Author Biography, Plot Summary, Characters, Themes, Style, Historical Context, Critical Overview, Criticism and Critical Essays, Media Adaptations, Topics for Further Study, Compare &Contrast, What Do I Read Next?, For Further Study, and Sources. ©1998−2002; ©2002 by Gale. Gale is an imprint of The Gale Group, Inc., a division of Thomson Learning, Inc. Gale and Design® and Thomson Learning are trademarks used herein under license. The following sections, if they exist, are offprint from Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction: "Social Concerns", "Thematic Overview", "Techniques", "Literary Precedents", "Key Questions", "Related Titles", "Adaptations", "Related Web Sites". © 1994−2005, by Walton Beacham. The following sections, if they exist, are offprint from Beacham's Guide to Literature for Young Adults: "About the Author", "Overview", "Setting", "Literary Qualities", "Social Sensitivity", "Topics for Discussion", "Ideas for Reports and Papers". © 1994−2005, by Walton Beacham. All other sections in this Literature Study Guide are owned and copywritten by BookRags, Inc. No part of this work covered by the copyright hereon may be reproduced or used in any form or by any means graphic, electronic...
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... Michael Moore is one such filmmaker that has exploited this genre. In his latest documentary, Fahrenheit 9/11, Moore presents a biased recount of the Iraq war. Analysis of Fahrenheit 9/11, in particular chapter eight, demonstrates the subjective nature of the documentary genre. Moore exploits a toolkit of persuasive techniques to position viewers to accept his own values and beliefs regarding the war. Moore creates three distinct, biased representations in the chapter; he represents George Bush and his administration as deceitful warmongers, Iraq as a sovereign nation suffering at the hands of US oppression and American soldiers as both unsympathetic idiots and as mere pawns that are experiencing the horror of war. Together, these representations uphold Moore's political agenda of the time; to discredit Bush and his administration, to depict the US decision to invade Iraq as a foreign policy abomination, all with the ultimate goal to sway the public from re-electing Bush in 2004. Chapter eight opens with a shot of bombs being readied for deployment, immediately followed by Bush receiving attention to his hair. The alternation between wartime preparations and the cheeky smile of the president continues until Bush addresses his nation. By juxtaposing the serious subject-matter of war with a president who is apparently more concerned with appearances, Moore represents Bush as being superficial and underhanded. It can be seen that Moore wastes no time in this chapter and immediately...
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...BUAD635 Quantitative Analysis for Decision-Making Study Guide To accompany the prescribed text: Quantitative Analysis for Management by Render, Stair and Hanna, 11th edition, Prentice Hall, 2012 Unit # 1: Overview and Introduction to Quantitative Analysis Prescribed Text: Quantitative Analysis for Management by Render, Stair and Hanna, 11th edition, Prentice Hall, 2012 – Chapter 1 Objectives of unit 1: After completing this unit, students should be able to: 1. Describe the quantitative analysis approach for management 2. Demonstrate an understanding by applications of quantitative analysis in real world situations 3. Demonstrate the use of modeling in quantitative analysis 4. Use computers and spreadsheet models to perform quantitative analysis 5. Understand the limitations of quantitative analysis 6. Demonstrate/perform break-even analysis. Scope of coverage: Concepts Development 1. Overview of quantitative analysis 2. Defining quantitative analysis 3. The approach to quantitative analysis 4. A quantitative analysis model 5. Using spreadsheet for quantitative analysis 6. Limitation of quantitative analysis Introduction Quantitative analysis for decision-making is the application of a scientific approach to solve management problems. The purpose is to help managers make better decisions. Quantitative analysis encompasses a number...
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...Introduction The chapter begins with an introduction that explains the research framework. The intention of this study is to analyze the relationship between compensation and benefits and others independent variables towards the employee turnover. Then, it proceeds about the hypothesis development. The theoretical framework and hypothesis development examine the relationship between dependent variable and independent variables. Next, it goes to data collection methods that consist of primary data and secondary data collection. Next, the size and number of respondents and sampling method will be explained. After that, it goes to the data analysis method for qualitative and quantitative data in this study. Research Framework Since all the variables are being determined, the factors that cause the employee turnover in the working place will be developed through the framework. In this framework, it will consist of dependent variable and independent variables only. The independent variables are compensation and benefits, organization cultures, supervisor, job analysis and characteristics, and career development. On the other hand, the dependent variable is employee turnover that deeply discuss in this research. All the independent variables are being measure with the relationship with employee turnover. The chapter begins with an introduction that explains the research framework. The intention of this study is to analyze the relationship between compensation and benefits and others independent...
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...The Giant Pool of Money Analysis The housing crisis that occurred less than a decade ago is a great example, and has become an extensively covered case study, of how dangerous certain biases and heuristics can become if left unchecked on a massive scale. Alex Blumberg and Adam Davidson, in collaboration with NPR News, put together a special program titled “The Giant Pool of Money,” where they explore just how the phenomenon occurred and the underlying factors that contributed through sound bites of those directly involved, affected, or simply aware of the situation as it unfolded. Based on descriptions of various biases and heuristics in Judgment in Managerial Decision Making (Bazerman, 2009), the two biases that prolonged and strengthened the housing crisis in a significant manner can be seen in the “Ease of recall” bias stemming from the “Availability Heuristic,” as well as the “Anchoring” bias coming from the “Confirmation Heuristic.” Bazerman and Moore define the “ease of recall” bias as one where “individuals judge events that are more easily recalled from memory, based on vividness or recency, to be more numerous than events of equal frequency whose instances are less easily recalled.” The housing market and real estate had been doing quite well since the “Dot-com” boom and bust had rattled markets in the late 1990’s. Housing prices were continually increasing, and “lots of people in the mortgage industry had this faith that housing prices in the US simply never go down...
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...CHAPTER 1 Background of the Study The existence of successful women like Cory Aquino, Hillary Clinton and Oprah Winfrey might cause some individuals to believe that the gender equity gap in business is narrowing quickly. For the past 50 years, laws such women rights have protected women from overt discrimination in the workplace. However, despite these examples of prosperous women and legal mechanisms, gender inequity continues to exist in the workplace (King, 2006; Sarra, 2005; Scott & Nolan, 2007). Of the 75,768 claims filed through the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in fiscal year 2006, 30.7% were gender related (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, 2007). Theorical Framework To comprehend perceptions of inequality and the...
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...know what it is that they are studying and how this study should be undertaken. But as we shall see in this chapter and others in this book, this has often not been the case. Marketing as a subject has proved almost impossible to pin down, and there is little consensus about what it means to study marketing. Most organisations now employ marketers. Marketing roles were traditionally found in commercial firms, but increasingly all kinds of organisations feel the need to employ marketers or to commission services from marketing consultants. The popularity and pervasiveness of marketing is, however, a relatively recent phenomenon. Academics have only studied marketing as a discipline in its own right for just over a century, and during its short history the study of marketing has been influenced by many different academic movements, fads and priorities. This variability can be viewed as a positive state of affairs, because it means that the subject is always open to new ideas and new trends. On the other hand, it has the potential to undermine the value of marketing knowledge because there is no general consensus on what the study of marketing should be for, how these studies should be conducted, or what the outcomes should be. Before we can begin to study marketing, we need to understand something about this history and the debates and controversies that have shaped the field. In this chapter, we shall review the origins of marketing thought, examining when the term ‘marketing’ was...
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...Professor: Dr. Sandra M. Best Office: Colston Adm. Building – Room 120 Phone: (912) 358-4194 FAX: (912) 358-3664 E-mail: bestsm@savannahstate.edu *Do not use the ELearning email system* Office Hours: M-F 11:00 a.m. – 12 noon and by appointment Class Info: Tues and Thurs 2:00 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. in Jordan Rm. 203 COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course will cover basic principles of business management such as planning, decision making, and leading. In this course you will learn both the theory and the practice of management concepts and have the opportunity to practice some of them during class activities. PREREQUISITES: This course may only be taken by students with junior standing, or successful completion of 60 hours of coursework. Students who are enrolled in MGNT 3165 Management in Organizations are advised with this notice that they must have a grade of C or better in the above-listed prerequisite courses, prior to enrollment in this course. With your continued presence on the official roll, you are certifying that you have satisfactorily completed all of the required prerequisites prior to enrolling in this course. Students further acknowledge that, should the instructor, or the administration, subsequently determine, at any time hereafter, that this certification is invalid; violator(s) will be subject to administrative withdrawal from this course. Should such administrative withdrawal occur, after the official date to withdraw without a grade penalty, the grade assigned...
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...Looking at luxury: consuming luxury fashion in global cities Professor Louise Crewe, University of Nottingham, UK Dr. Amber Martin, Queen Mary University of London, UK 1: Introduction This chapter explores the growth and transformation of the global luxury fashion market focusing specifically on the flagship stores of the largest global luxury fashion organisations.[1] The conceptual basis of the chapter lies in recent debates about global economic austerity and the future of consumption under conditions of precarity. The chapter focuses on the remarkable resilience of the luxury market in the face of global recession and the slow-down in consumer spending. Luxury consumption and passionate investment are argued to provide one means through which the more deleterious effects of the over-consumption of cheap, throwaway, fast fashion can be effaced. The arguments made in the chapter are both theoretically and empirically significant. Firstly, luxury fashion is empirically an important but neglected area of scholarship and one with a pronounced Geography that requires scrutiny. The luxury fashion market is significant not only in terms of its value but also in terms of its rate of growth which has significantly outpaced that of other consumer goods categories over recent decades. The rate of growth has been driven by a variety of factors, including growing concerns over the economic, environmental and social impacts of throwaway fashion, a desire for more responsible investment...
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...Module Handbook [Strategic Management] [19-6B02-00L] Module Leader: Deborah FitzGerald-Moore 2008-2009 Level [6] Undergraduate (September Intake) Faculty of Organisation and Management Events Management Subject Group Faculty of Organisation and Management Sheffield Hallam University, Howard Street, Sheffield, S1 1WB Contents WHAT’S THIS MODULE ABOUT? 1 MODULE TEAM CONTACT DETAILS 1 MODULE OVERVIEW 2 SCHEDULE OF STUDY 3 READING LIST 6 TASK BRIEF 1 - COURSEWORK 8 TASK BRIEF 2 - COURSEWORK 9 Presentation Assessment Criteria Task 1 11 Assessment Decision - Task 1 -Presentation 15 Assessment Decision - Task 2 - Company Report 16 TASK BRIEF 3 - EXAMINATION 17 What’s This Module About? This module is here to help you better understand how business organisations work. It will help you to consider why certain companies or organizations in your chosen sector are successful and some are not. Whilst it will not give you a crystal ball it will hopefully give you a forward looking perspective on your chosen industry and many of its major companies This module will also allow you to integrate the wealth of knowledge you have gained throughout your course. Strategy is manifest in all the functional activities of the company i.e. marketing, operations, human resource management and finance and at many different levels of the company from the Board of Directors down to Heads of Department. Strategic decision making occurs in all types...
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...another way which is genial and gentle. From his works, we can know that he was not only practising Nordic modernism but also regionalism that always considers the...
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...LIBERTY UNIVERSITY BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ANALYSIS PAPER # 1 Submitted to Dr. Rick Garner in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the completion DSMN 630 Small Group Ministries by Jeffrey W. Moore November 4, 2015 Contents Summary - Comiskey (Chapters 2-4) 3 “God’s Trinitarian Nature,” (Chapter 2) 3 “The Family of God” (Chapter 3) 3 “REVELATION: Jesus and His Method of Ministry” (Chapter 4) 4 Biblical Basis for Small Group Ministry 5 Principles from Passages 6 ‘My’ Church 7 Current Structure 7 Small Group Structure 7 Conclusion 8 Bibliography 9 Summary - Comiskey (Chapters 2-4) Summarizing the following three chapters of Joel Comiskey’s book, Biblical Foundations for the Cell-Based Church will prescribe a brief understanding of the trinity and its relationship to the image of God being created in man, and reinstituted through the work and person of Christ, the second person in the trinity. “God’s Trinitarian Nature,” (Chapter 2) God’s Trinitarian divine nature and character is revealed through theology, “the study of God” His ‘oneness’ is explicitly revealed, and His Trinitarian nature is implicitly revealed, yet equally true from His special revelation in scripture. The first reference to the Godhead being comprised of more than one is Gen. 1:26 where the plural ‘us’ is used; thereafter it is used multiple times. The triune nature of God reveals the foundation of his image being created in humanity with relational...
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...All rights for this book reserved. No part of this book 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 permission of the copyright owner. ISBN (10): 1-4438-4604-X, ISBN (13): 978-1-4438-4604-2 TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter One ................................................................................................. 1 Knowledge Hybridization: An Innovative Business Practices to Overcome the Limits of the Top-Down Transfers within a Multinational Corporation Hela Chebbi, Dorra Yahiaoui, Demetris Vrontis and Alkis Thrassou Chapter Two .............................................................................................. 17 Rethinking Talent Management in Organizations: Towards a Boundary-less Model Carrie Foster, Neil Moore and Peter Stokes Chapter Three ............................................................................................ 42 Solidarity as a “Commons” to be Promoted: Organisation of Collective Action for a More Responsible Management Bernard Paranque Chapter Four .............................................................................................. 65 Mindset and Behaviour Effect on Firm Performance Stefano...
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...Antecedents of Commitment to an Import Supplier Submitted by Md. Abu Saleh B. Com (Honours), M. Com, M-Phil Dhaka A thesis submitted in fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy School of Advertising, Marketing and Public Relations Faculty of Business QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY Brisbane, Queensland 4000, Australia 2006 Title: Antecedents of Commitment to an Import Supplier Saleh @ 2006 Key Words: 1. Antecedents of commitment 2. Importer’ s commitment 3. Importer supplier relationship 4. Mediating role of trust 5. Cultural similarity 6. Communication 7. Knowledge and experience 8. Supplier’ s opportunism 9. Environmental volatility 10. Transaction-specific investment 11. Supplier’s competencies ii Abstract The concept of commitment has emerged recently in international business literature especially in explaining importer behaviour as a counterpart of the process of internationalisation. Importer commitment often plays a dominant role as one of the major factors influencing relationships in the exporter-importer dyad and facilitates the process of internationalisation by imparting access to the international market. This critical importer and supplier relationship and its animating factors are, however, overlooked and largely neglected in the literature. Accordingly, it is inconclusive as to which factors influence importer commitment and how they influence it. Drawing on the literature, this study strived to investigate...
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...A Summary of “Crossing the Chasm” By Jonathan S. Linowes, Parker Hill Technology Geoffrey A. Moore, Crossing the Chasm, Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customer (revised edition), HarperCollins Publishers, New York, 1999 The high-tech marketing guru (and principle of The Chasm Group marketing consultants), Geoffrey Moore offers time tested insights into the problems and dangers facing growing software companies, and a blueprint for survival. This classic text (first published in 1991) is widely accepted as “the bible for bringing cutting-edge products to progressively larger markets.” For the benefit of the reader, while I do not presume to do justice to Moore's book, I attempt to summarize key points here: !" market is defined as A #"a set of actual or potential customers #"for a given set of products or services #"who have a common set of needs or wants, and #"who reference each other when making a buying decision The final point may be the least intuitive, but Moore says, "the notion that part of what defines a high-tech market is the tendency of its members to reference each other when making buying decisions-- is absolutely key to successful high-tech marketing." Many business plans are based on a traditional Technology Adoption Life Cycle, a smooth bell curve of high tech customers, progressing from Innovators, Early Adopters, Early Majority, Late Majority, and finally Laggards. In turn, this model becomes the foundation for...
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