...successful, all work must be done in a timely manner and communication is always required. 2. Discuss the concepts and the pros/cons of each types of teams: functional, cross-functional, and self-managed. Please share your experiences with each of these types of teams. Functional Team A functional team is higher on the “Need for traditional leadership” scale. This team of individuals requires a centered leader to assist a vertical or command team. Pros: • The team is managed by a person with experience, in the same field/industry • Team members have the opportunity to move up in their functional areas • Team members are willing to stay longer due to more...
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... Page I. Abstract ……………………………………………………………. 3 II. Introduction ……………………………………………………………. 4 III. An Easy Target ……………………………………………………. 4 IV. You Don’t Need a Moat ……………………………………………. 7 V. Evil Thoughts Prevent Evil ……………………………………………. 8 VI. Bibliography ……………………………………………………………. 10 Abstract Midway International Airport is located within a residential area in Chicago, Illinois. Handling hundreds of flights per day and millions of persons each year, securing the facility after the events of September 11th, 2001 should be the concern of not only Homeland Security officials, but every American. Current conditions of perimeter security appear to be impotent to anyone with an imagination to commit evil. The current conditions will be explained. Possible attack scenarios will be discussed, as well as how security officials can try to prevent future attacks by trying to anticipate the unperceived. Introduction Midway International Airport is located 10 miles from downtown Chicago. The Airport is only behind O’Hare International Airport, also located in Chicago, in local volume. Averaging 670 flights per day at the end of 2009, Midway International Airport served over 17.3 million travelers in 2008 and is becoming one of the fastest growing airports in North America (http://www.ifly.com/chicago-midway-intertnational-airport and http://www .airnav.com/airport/kmdw). The Airport has five runways squeezed into one square mile. Because Midway International Airport...
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...business. While others feel that businesses need to practice good ethical and moral values within their company. Ethical questions can range from a company’s obligation to be honest with its customers, to a company’s responsibility to protect employee’s rights. There are several concepts and approaches that businesses can refer to in helping them make moral business decisions. Business Ethics Business Ethics studies and evaluates business decisions according to moral concepts and judgments. Business ethics has two main characteristics. One, it tells people what they should and should not do. Two, it sets a list of principles or rules to be followed. Deciding how we behave towards ourselves and others is a matter of making choices. Making the right choices can be extremely crucial in a business environment. Why Ethics is Important in Business When business people think about business ethics they are usually thinking about one of three things. The first is to avoid breaking the law in a work related activity. The second is to avoid any type of action that can lead to a civil lawsuit against the company. The third is to avoid actions that can do damage to a company’s image. Businesses are concerned about these things because it involves the company’s reputation as well as the loss of money. Ethics is important in a business because it gives a company good credibility. If a company has good credibility, consumers...
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...GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF TOURISM & CULTURE DEPARTMENT OF TOURISM MARKET RESEARCH DIVISION FINAL REPORT ON 20 YEAR PERSPECTIVE PLAN FOR DEVELOPMENT OF SUSTAINABLE TOURISM IN MAHARASHTRA MARCH 2003 ΑΒΧ DALAL MOTT MACDONALD (FORMERLY DALAL CONSULTANTS & ENGINEERS LIMITED) Study Report on Preparation of 20 Years Perspective Plan for Development of Sustainable Tourism in Maharashtra Dalal Mott MacDonald Joint Director General (MR), Department of Tourism Joint Director General (MR), Department of Tourism Ministry of Tourism & Culture C-1, Hutments, Dalhousie Road New Delhi – 110 001 India Study Report on Preparation of 20 Years Perspective Plan for Development of Sustainable Tourism in Maharashtra March 2003 Dalal Consultants & Engineers Limited Sarojini House 6 Bhagwan Dass Road New Delhi 110 001 India Tel: (011)-3389386, 3383521. 1441/Maharashtra/A/18 July 2002 C:\websiteadd\pplan\maharashtra\Vol 1\Executive Summary Final.doc/01 Study Report on Preparation of 20 Years Perspective Plan for Development of Sustainable Tourism in Maharashtra Dalal Mott MacDonald Joint Director General (MR), Department of Tourism Study Report on Preparation of 20 Years Perspective Plan for Development of Sustainable Tourism in Maharashtra ssue and Revision Record Rev Date Originator Checker Approver Description This document has been prepared for the titled project or named part thereof and should not be relied upon or used for any other project without...
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...Marshall McLuhan “The Man behind the message” A professor from Winnipeg, Marshall was one of the world’s most innovative thinkers. His theories about mass media turned him into a media guru. Arguably most famous for his quote “The medium is the message” Many would consider Marshall to be a brilliant man; others would say they don’t understand a word he is saying. I wonder how much thought his skeptics have put into what he had to say. I will agree that some of his theories are not clear at first but once dissected you begin to understand the man behind the message. “The message of any medium or technology is the change of scale or pace or pattern that it introduces into human affairs. The railway did not introduce movement or transportation or wheel or road into human society, but it accelerated and enlarged the scale of previous human functions, creating totally new kinds of cities and new kinds of work and leisure. This happened whether the railway functioned in a tropical or northern environment, and is quite independent of the freight or content of the railway medium. (Understanding Media, NY, 1964, p. 8) What McLuhan writes about the railroad applies with equal validity to the media of print, television, computers and now the internet. “The medium is the message” because it is the “medium that shapes and controls the scale and form of human association and action.” (E. McLuhan) Now, some may be thinking that they don’t understand the message of the preceding paragraphs...
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...Jesus makes some important claims about Himself and some of the most important claims that Jesus made can be found in the Gospel of John. The Gospel of John is the only gospel that records the “I Am” statements of Jesus.[1] These are important statements by Jesus and provide some of the most significant insight into what Jesus’ ministry was all about and why He was sent here on earth. These statements gave special insight as to who Christ claimed to be.[2] These statements were of such importance and could be understood by the Jews that many times it led the Jewish leaders to be outraged and want to either arrest Him for blasphemy or even stone Him for blasphemy. These were significant statements in which Jesus is claiming Deity. However, there are seven “I Am” statements of Jesus that have a metaphor attached with it. Each metaphor once again gives insight to who Christ was claiming to be. Each of these statements were important for revealing Jesus and they are: I Am the bread of life (John 6:35), I Am the light of the world (8:12; 9:5), I Am the door (10:9), I Am the good shepherd (10:11), I Am the resurrection and the life (11:25). I Am the way, and the truth, and the life (14:6), and I Am the vine (15:5). Each of these statements can give believers assurance and hope in Jesus. These are truly amazing claims by Jesus which He fulfilled in every way. Before we can completely understand the importance of Jesus referring to Himself as “I Am,” we must first look at Exodus 3:14...
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...Business Ethics Columbia Southern University Business ethics has become a key component in our economic relations and trade industry internationally. Ethics are defined as “how human beings should properly live their lives” (Hartman, DesJardins, & MacDonald, 2014, p. 11). Business ethics are the policies and practices that are applied in the professional or business environment, especially when dealing with controversial issues. The approach to business ethics is diverse and has many interpretations as you travel around the world, just as there are different theories to define these approaches. To begin, we will discuss three different theories to business ethics, and how they change and are applied to the business environment. Business ethics have developed for many different reasons in many different places, beginning with the Ten Commandments as a definition of how to live and treat one another, a concept that is still strongly believed in and practiced today. The bible and religion in general, have defined ethics for many individuals and are concepts that people practice in their work environment. Philosophers have had their own definitions and practices over time. Aristotle and Plato are well known for their discussions on justice, economic relations, trade, and commerce, making statements into rules about greed, treating each other as equals, or “having an equal amount before and after the transaction” (De George, 2005). The 1960’s brought a real test...
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...acted out of greed for the almighty dollar. 1- Encouraging employees to invest and buy stock in Enron when they knew the truth about the lack of value in the stock. As an employee you trust in your management to make the best choices both for you and for the business to succeed. Ken Lay and other executives strongly encouraged Enron employees to invest in it’s stock. They all knew that the company was not doing well and yet they encouraged others to spend their hard earned money investing in it all the while they are selling their shares of stock. Employees trusted and relied on their decisions and in the end it ended up hurting them. With Ken Lay publicly encouraging its employees and other investors to invest in Enron’s stock he is affecting their future and retirement. These employees didn’t earn nearly as much as he did and he is convincing them to invest their money into an entity that was set to fail by Lay himself. I don’t believe any proper ethical alternative action could have been taken in this situation. Of course you want your employees to have faith in the company they work for and the VP’s aren’t going to encourage their employees to invest elsewhere, but Lay shouldn’t have encouraged and pushed as hard as he did all the while knowing that the stock wasn’t worth anything. This effect is a prime example of how the rich are a separate entity from the rest of us. While Lay and other high level executives weren’t hurt by their decisions, the rest of the employees...
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...Human Resource Strategy Contemporary Business May 22, 2015 Profesor Jean Fonkoua Hospitality and Financial Services are two services that are offered to the general public. Marriott International and United Services Automobile Association(USAA) are two companies in the fortune 100 that meet these type of service. Both companies offer two different type os service to the public , but are very different and yet similar in may ways. The Marriott is a bigger company by number of employees and location. Having one hundred and two thousand employees, compared to USAA’s twenty-six thousand employees. The number of locations is also very different as USAA only has 76 locations while Marriott has more than 715 world wide. USAA customers can do many banking issues on line with USAA, Which makes the need for on site locations not as important. With the two industries doing very different things for their customer base . Marriott is on on-site customer service organization. They provide many different service to the customer. The most popular by the company is temporary resting quarters. If you are on business or a personal vacation. Marriott doesn't just offer hotels rooms they also offer meeting rooms with all the technology you would need to run a business meeting or even a hotel reception. The other services they offer the customer vacation resorts around the world, giving you the chance to enjoy many different types of activities. They have locations in...
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...The impact of globalization on Trinidad and Tobago’s TVET programmes has been drastic. Globalization has increased the liberalization of trade policies and reduced barriers to trade. It has also increased the migration of persons between countries, outsourced and displaced jobs while at the same time creating new ones among other things. The need for a more highly skilled and technical workforce is a direct result of this globalization process and developing countries such as Trinidad and Tobago have turned to TVET to overcome the challenges they now face. However, these challenges created by globalization are transferred to the design and application of effective TVET facilities, thereby making it even more difficult to conquer these globalization issues. Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) has many soubriquets depending on the area of the world in which you reside. In various parts of the world it is also known as vocational education, workforce education, technical education, apprenticeship training or Career and Technical Education (CTE), as it is more commonly referred to presently. TVET “comprises all more or less organized or structured activities, whether or not they lead to recognized qualification, which aim to provide people with knowledge, skills and competencies that are necessary and sufficient in order to perform a job or set of jobs” (Özsoy, 2007).In today’s rapidly changing technological environment, new disciplines are constantly being created...
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...Journalist, historian, solider, painter, he was also one of the greatest leaders of our time. His name was Winston Churchill and he rallied the nation in its darkest hour. Even tough he was one of Britain’s greatest leaders, he was also one of the hardest man to work with. With many failures in his political career his opponents called him “A man with a brilliant future behind him”. (Churchill the maverick politician) But most of his colleges and friends will remember him as a hardworking man who, after every failure, pulled himself back and began anew. Few people remember his early days. He was born in aristocracy, his father Lord Randolph Churchill was the youngest son of the Duke of Marlborough, John Spencer Churchill. His mother was a lively daughter of an American financier. When his mother was seven and a half months pregnant she stayed at Blenheim palace, were on the 30th November of 1874 Winston Churchill was born and baptized. He was brought up by a nanny, Ms. Elizabeth Anne Everest. She served as his confidante, nurse, and mother substitute. (Jenkins 10) At the age of seven his mother sent him to a boarding school. And at the age of thirteen he went to Harrow School. At Harrow school he showed great interest in fencing and the subject History of England. He also won the public school championship in fencing. His parents’ were too busy with their social life to pay any attention to their son. During his years at Harrow he sent several letters to his mother asking...
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...http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/1967/feb/23/a-special-supplement-the-responsibility-of-intelle/ the responsibility of intellectuals A Special Supplement: The Responsibility of Intellectuals Noam Chomsky FEBRUARY 23, 1967 ISSUE TWENTY-YEARS AGO, Dwight Macdonald published a series of articles in Politicson the responsibility of peoples and, specifically, the responsibility of intellectuals. I read them as an undergraduate, in the years just after the war, and had occasion to read them again a few months ago. They seem to me to have lost none of their power or persuasiveness. Macdonald is concerned with the question of war guilt. He asks the question: To what extent were the German or Japanese people responsible for the atrocities committed by their governments? And, quite properly, he turns the question back to us: To what extent are the British or American people responsible for the vicious terror bombings of civilians, perfected as a technique of warfare by the Western democracies and reaching their culmination in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, surely among the most unspeakable crimes in history. To an undergraduate in 1945-46—to anyone whose political and moral consciousness had been formed by the horrors of the 1930s, by the war in Ethiopia, the Russian purge, the “China Incident,” the Spanish Civil War, the Nazi atrocities, the Western reaction to these events and, in part, complicity in them—these questions had particular significance and poignancy. With respect to...
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...Journals referred: 1. Salmond, Torts, 18th Ed 2. HOLMES Common Law, pp. 179 (180) 3. The Law of Torts by Ratanlal and Dhirajlal 4. Law of Torts by Dr R. K. Bangia 5. Law of Torts by B.M.Gandhi Websites referred: 1. www.legalserviceindia.com Cases: 1. Brook v. Hook (1871) LR 6 Ex 89 2. Keighly Maxsted & Co. v. Durant (1901) AC 240 p.260 : 84 LT 777 (HL) 3. PER LOCH, J., in Rani Shamasundari Debi v. Dukhu Mandal (1869) 2 Beng LR (AACJ) 227 (229) 4. Bird v. Brown (1850) 4 Ex 786 (799); Buron v. Denman (1848) 2 Ex 167 5. Baxi Amrik Singh v. The Union of India (1973) 75 P.L.R. 1 at p.7 6. Imperical Chemical Industries Ltd. V. Shatwell (1965) AC 656 (685) 7. Stevenson Jordan and Harrison v. MacDonald and Evens (1952) 1 TLR 101 8. Morgan v. Incorporated Central Council (1936) 1 All E.R. 404 9. Govindarajulu v. M.L.A. Govindaraja Mudaliar A.I.R. 1966 Mad. 332 10. Rylands v. Fletcher (1868) L.R. 3 H.L. 330 11. Manganbhai v. Ishwarbhai A.I.R. 1984 Guj. 69 12. Barwick v. English...
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...China, Multinational Corporations, and Internet Privacy Issues: An Incoherent Landscape Lysette Kent China, Multinational Corporations, and Internet Privacy Issues, Lysette Kent 49 Abstract In the mid 2000s, staff at the Chinese division of Yahoo! sent information on one of its users, Shi Tao, to the Chinese government. The journalist had been critical of the Chinese government, and, based on the information sent to the government, Shi Tao was sentenced to ten years in prison. In 2010, e-mail accounts housed by Google were hacked. Many of these accounts belonged to human rights activists. Issues like these pose a conundrum for the United States and international entities that are looking to prevent human rights abuses, including violations of privacy, in countries such as China. This paper will evaluate current and proposed efforts to curb such actions by the Chinese government. I propose the following three-pronged approach to deal with these actions: 1) a vigorous naming, blaming, and shaming campaign; 2) the adoption of a uniform policy by the United States government for addressing the Chinese government on these issues; and 3) the development of coherent, enforceable, and specific codes of conduct by trade associations and business groups that discuss issues of censorship and privacy regarding the internet, their customers, and foreign governments. 50 The Public Purpose Statement of the Problem In the mid-2000s, staff at the Chinese branch of Yahoo! sent...
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