...Research Paper Outline I. Although everybody should help care for the environment, the U.S. government should be responsible for promoting and fostering green practice of natural resources. II. Individual actions to stimulate and encourage green practice will not happen without government enforcement. A. “Only the right economic policies will enable us as individuals to be guided by self interest and still do the right thing for the planet...” (Wagner 8) B. “it won’t change until a regulatory system compels us to pay our fair share to limit pollution accordingly…” (Wagner 11) C. “Penalties for failing to comply with Courlandt’s laws could result in hefty fines. First time offence… $1,000 fines…. $2,000 second violation and up to $3,000 for each additional offense…” (Charkes 10) III. The price increase due to the depletion of America’s natural resources that are used daily, leads individuals to look for new reservoirs that contain certain resources. A. “86% of US Energy Consumption Is Fossil Fuels” (US Energy Information Agency) B. “Those quantities can and do rise in response to price rises and anticipated increases in demand… reserves of a resource grow scarce, the price rises…” (Blackman & Baumol 4) C. “… then the resource’s price will rise as its remaining quantity declines… price rises can be interpreted as a signal that the resource is getting scarcer…” (Blackman & Baumol 5) D. “Exploring for American’s Vast, Untapped Natural Resources…” (Beeler) E. “The country...
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...several plans available for application with widely varied results. An organization may choose to implement one plan or several incentive plans operating at once leaving employee’s to choose plans to pursue based on their individual goals. Despite the fact that all organizations would like to keep a staff that is highly motivated and productive it is not always possible to implement some of the plans based on factors that may be out of the organization’s control. For example, a non profit organization would find it impossible to implement a profit sharing plan. The selection of the incentive plan to use is dependent on the type of business among other factors and if properly implemented can provide a major boost to the organization. In this paper we will highlight the incentive plans at Pratt nursing home. We will attempt to understand why the incentive plans in place assist the organization in achieving objectives. We will also describe how we believe they are related to organizational goals and objectives. We Incentive Plan 2 will make reference to current examples in the public domain to stress our arguments. We...
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...Participating Students Frank DeSimone, Department of Business Administration, Wagner College, Staten Island, NY John Buzza, Center for Entrepreneurship, Monmouth University, Long Branch, NJ ABSTRACT The motivation for this paper comes from need, need for our students to learn not only subject matter through traditional methods in a classroom, but foundational learning through experiences obtained directly in the workplace. The terminology used today for this student experience is referred to as experiential learning. This experiential learning comes in two forms, either (1) learning by yourself or (2) through experiential education (learning through programs established by others). You can kindly refer to learning by yourself as “nature’s way of learning” as it occurs as a direct participation in the life cycle. However experiential education can be defined more succinctly as a structured approach, using experiences and the direction of others to create the learning curve. The issue at hand is simple - does participatory (experiential) education create critical thinkers among our students and make them more aware of and able to more easily solve the problem(s) at hand? Our diligence has focused on two distinctly different courses in two different semesters (fall 2011 and spring 2012) in two different business disciplines (business marketing and entrepreneurship) at two distinctly different universities (Wagner College and Monmouth University) with one similar problem, is there a...
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...Research Paper Template Gayle Pierce GpiercS3004 Travis Williams Date submitted: 9/20/2015 Accounting software/programs: How do you know which accounting software/program is a good fit for your business? Introduction In the world of accounting software/programs, there are more choices available than there were 10 years ago. Accounting has gone from a pen and paper system to accounting software/programs that are either in a server at the business, the information is on a server that is not in the business office, or more recently the information is stored in what is called the “cloud” The “cloud” has just come into play in the last few years In my paper, I will be discussing the history of accounting from the early beginning to the advances made today, a few of the different accounting software/programs, and some of the problems that include hidden costs, compatibility issues and the proper training of the accounting staff. History of Accounting The first accounting software/programs were written by the individuals who used them. One of the earliest programs written was by Bob Nadel, a CPA for an accounting firm located in New York.(Nadel,1959) As time went on businesses had heard about the new accounting software/programs that were known as “computerized” accounting systems. These new software/programs made accounting easier by allowing the accounting staff to be able to pull up reports so they could be analyzed immediately. These new ideas made the process easier...
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...[pic] How Entrepreneurial is Germany? The Institutional Context of Entrepreneurship and Business Start Up Costs in Germany in International Comparison Abstract The importance of entrepreneurial activities is integral to a nation’s economic growth. This paper reviews the results of the 2000 Global Entrepreneur Monitor (GEM) country report with a sole focus on Germany in evaluating its degree of entrepreneurship. The factors examined include the costs, legal procedures, and institutional context via a look at the formal and informal entrepreneurial frameworks. The view of entrepreneurship in Germany will be explored as well as comparison to other countries in the GEM report. It is found that entrepreneurial activities differ within regions in Germany and the cultural and social norms place a barrier to start-ups despite the government effort in financing and state promotion programs. TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction……………………………………………………………….3 2. Overview of Germany’s entrepreneurship and international comparison...4 3. Institution context………………………………………………………....6 The regulation of entry……………………………………………………6 Political context- government policies……………………………………8 Human Capital…………………………………………………………….9 Education…..……………………………………………………………10 Psychological and sociological context………………………………….12 Regional context…………………………………………………………15 4. Conclusion……………………………………………………………….18 5. Works cited……………………………………………………………...20 Introduction The German economy...
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...Born on December 3, 1895, Anna Freud was the youngest daughter of Sigmund and Martha Freud’s six children. As a young girl, Anna was always fighting for Martha's attention. Constantly in the shadows of older sister Sophie’s beauty, Anna learned to loath Sophie and Martha and took to her father. Anna was continuously reading the works of Sigmund and became instantly interested in psychoanalysis. As Anna grew, she began to work with Sigmund exploring the idea of psychoanalysis and together they turned it into one of the most widely used methods of psychology. The mutual interest in psychoanalysis brought father and daughter together and formed a close bond between them. Sigmund stated in his book “The Interpretation of Dreams” that, “Annerl had a masculine appetite and aggression, and is beautiful with naughtiness” (Hernandaz, 2008). When Anna was around seventeen years old, she took a two year vacation in which she stayed in Vienna with her grandmother. At the time, Anna was suffering from an illness that was then called, “it”, but can be safely labeled as depression (Hernandaz, 2008). While on vacation, Sigmund wrote to his daughter often and offered advice on how to overcome the “it” she was suffering from. Half way through the vacation however, Anna received a letter from Sigmund stating she was not invited to her sister Sophie’s wedding and subsequently, Anna was once again overtaken with depression. After her two year stay in Vienna, Anna, "...worked as an elementary school...
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...12/17/12 National Labor Relations Act Initial History The National Labor Relations Act of 1935, commonly referred to as the Wagner Act, is the basic bill of rights for unions. It was enacted to eliminate employers' interference with the organization of workers into unions. Before, many employers would threaten the employees that if they would be joining a union they would receive less pay, benefits, hours, or even be fired. This caused an outcry in American society because many of the employers weren't giving the employees much security for their jobs and they weren't able to join any unions. So to help out with this problem the Wagner act was signed into law on July 5th, 1935 and it investigates and charges ventures on unfair labor practices. This law gives the workers many rights as far as being able to organize and join unions, to bargain collectively, and to actively pursue their objectives whatever they may be. The problem with the law at first was that many people were ignoring this as a law all together. Many of the initial appellate courts agreed that this law was unconstitutional and therefore unenforceable. It took many years and many court cases that were won because of the NLRA that it became an enforceable law that could be upheld in court. The Wagner Act requires that employees bargain in good faith with the union when it comes too wages, hours and terms and conditions of employment. In accordance with the NLRA the National...
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...Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (/ˈniːtʃə/[2] German: [ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈniːt͡sʃə]; 15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) was a German philologist, philosopher,cultural critic, poet and composer. He wrote several critical texts on religion, morality, contemporary culture, philosophy and science, displaying a fondness for metaphor, irony and aphorism. Nietzsche's key ideas include the Apollonian/Dionysian dichotomy, perspectivism, the Will to Power, the "death of God", the Übermensch and eternal recurrence. One of the key tenets of his philosophy is the concept of "life-affirmation," which embraces the realities of the world in which we live over the idea of a world beyond. It further champions the creative powers of the individual to strive beyond social, cultural, and moral contexts.[3]Nietzsche's attitude towards religion and morality was marked with atheism, psychologism and historism; he considered them to be human creations loaded with the error of confusing cause and effect.[4] His radical questioning of the value and objectivity of truth has been the focus of extensive commentary, and his influence remains substantial, particularly in the continental philosophical schools of existentialism, postmodernism, and post-structuralism. His ideas of individual overcoming and transcendence beyond structure and context have had a profound impact on late-twentieth and early-twenty-first century thinkers, who have used these concepts as points of departure in the development of their philosophies...
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... Adebowale Onatolu April 24, 2014 Companies apply and use the marketing mix in order to gain consumers, more consumers equal more sales and more sales equals more money. One company that applies the marketing mix successfully is Procter and Wagner better known as P&G, they produce many commonly used products that are purchased by millions of people all over the world. According to (Kerin, Hartley, Berkowitz, Rudelius 2011) “ Marketing seeks first to discover consumer needs through extensive research, it then seeks to satisfy those needs by successfully implementing a marketing program possessing the right combination of the marketing mix the four P’s.” P&G possess all four combinations of the marketing mix, from products, price, place and promotion. P&G’s products are of good quality and supplies merchandise to numerous consumer’s, p&g.com states “For 175 years, P&G has created products that make people’s lives better and were firsts of their kind.” The company has produced some of the most top tier products in the industry; their products include but are not limited to Bounty paper towels, Charmin toilet paper, Crest toothpaste, Dawn hand soap, Duracell Batteries, Gillete Razors, Iams Dog Food, Ivory Soap, Olay beauty products, pampers, Pantene hair products, Tampax products, Tide and many more. P&G’s products are far better than their competitors in many ways, for example according to p&g...
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...Massive Incarceration: A Racial Perspective Sociology 350N Abstract In 2010 there was a significant imbalance in the incarceration rate of males within the U.S.; these differences were among the ethnic groups of Caucasian (white), Hispanic and African American (black). In reference to the number of people incarcerated per 100,000 in their individual group, black males had the highest number of inmates, followed by Hispanic males; however, white males had the lowest number of prisoners (Wagner, 2012). We must ask the question “why”. Why and how is this occurring? The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world; so, is the system that was designed to protect and serve abusing its power. Some factors that can possibly be contributing to this disproportion is socioeconomic status, prejudices within the criminal justice system and power investments. Massive Incarceration: A Racial Perspective Introduction Today the US makes up for about 5% of the world’s population and carries 25% of the world’s prisoners, this 20% difference shows that the US imprisons more people then actually living in the country (NAACP, 2015). This is the highest prison population when compared to other countries. Records show from 1980 to 2008, the number of individuals that have been incarcerated has quadrupled from 500,000 to 2.3 million (NAACP, 2015). During that time frame crime & poverty rates have also increased dramatically, while unemployment & educational...
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...is the process of using theory, data, and models to study products, exchanges, and activities for measuring relevant ideas and alternative solutions in order to support decision-makers in choosing the most appropriate alternative. This paper explores how CBA may best be used, focusing on the effectiveness of CBA during the early phase of a program life-cycle in ensuring that there are worthwhile alternatives in making investment decisions. It also examines the measures and the methodology used to develop a CBA, addresses the accuracy and reliability of CBA, and identifies techniques available to support decision-making in the early phase of a program’s life-cycle. It also notes, however, that because not all costs and benefits can be quantified, measures other than CBA should also be considered in making business decisions. The effectiveness of CBA lies in its ability to provide increased understanding of the consequences of proposed public programs. CBA must be understood as one means to support decision-makers in making the best decisions for the public good. The value of CBA will vary with the importance of mandates, policies, and regulations. For example, CBA offers a well-established and tested approach, supported by substantial research, for identifying and assessing corporation. A CBA can enable decision-makers to make prioritized decisions about business programs. It provides a broad view of the programs’ costs and benefits, as well as other economic factors that are...
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...Individual Assignment OF Organization studies Dr: Mohammad Iqbal, MIB, MIB, DBA. Student: Ahmed Hassan Ali Elmaloul . Student NO: 126030208021003. Sustainability Performance Measurement for sustainable organizations: beyond compliance and reporting Key Words: sustainability performance measurement (SPM), Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), compliance, reporting, Communication, stakeholders, Organizational change, TRM. Type of paper: conceptual essay 1. Introduction The end of 20th century observed unprecedented prominent changes in corporate strategy and management towards sustainable thinking - the emergence of sustainability as corporate strategy, and making sustainability an integral part of a company’s business strategy in order to obtain the bottom-line benefits .But, this is requires a dramatic changes in the organizations’ performance against the economic, social and environmental (triple) bottom lines , and paying more and more attention to their values and responsibility .Sustainability is also necessitates the transformation of mindset and commitment of the leadership and organizational performance to include key stakeholders. Managing sustainability holistically is challenging and requires a sound management framework that integrates environmental and social performance with economic business performance. 2. Conceptual and theoretical analysis Sustainability performance measurement (SPM) Yet few, if any, companies can respond definitively...
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...Section 404 of Sarbanes-Oxley Act Introduction Before 2002, many U.S. companies, such as Enron, WorldCom and Xerox went bankrupt and caused the serious global issues and financial responsibilities of managers in the world. The primary issue was about an ethical leadership and maintained the clean audit system. Well known examples perhaps were Enron and WorldCom scandals. Dyck and Neubert (2010) mentioned that “Ironically, the lucrative rewards for performance and innovation were keys to Enron’s early success and growth, before excesses in pursuit of these goals contributed to the ethical failures that ultimately destroyed the company. ” (p. 151). According to Dyck and Neubert (2010), both Ebbers as C.E.O of WolrdCom and Skilling as C.E.O of Enron went to a prison for their unethical behavior within their organizational structure caused (p. 449). According to Noreen and colleagues’ (2008), these scandals were involved at the highest level to the former C.E.O including the misuse company money and fraud financial reports (p. 25). In particular, Sadka (2006) indicated that in the case of WorldCom, its financial fraud includes mispricing of its products (p. 439) Moreover, due to WorldCom’s financial fraud, investors of WorldCom’s competitors lose $7.8 billion with additional losses of $49 billion social welfare (p. 463). That is to say, the bankruptcy of one of the biggest company caused a lot of problems in the U.S. As a result, not only investors lost billions of dollars but...
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...open economy trades freely without controlling by the local government with applying tariffs and quotas on the goods and services. This paper is to analyse the factors that influence free trade to the developing countries. Within the framework, the research paper shows that tariffs can improve the country’s welfare. Besides, this paper shows that the improvement in country’s terms of trade can improve the country’s welfare. This paper is using one method which is a general equilibrium model whereas two traded outputs and one public consumption output are producing by using two factors of production. Key words: Free trade, developing...
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...University of Windsor Scholarship at UWindsor Odette School of Business Publications Odette School of Business 2012 An assessment of the early stages of a sustainable business model in the Canadian fast food industry David Hutchinson University of Windsor, dhutch@uwindsor.ca Jang Singh University of Windsor, jang@uwindsor.ca Kent Walker University of Windsor, kentwalk@uwindsor.ca Follow this and additional works at: http://scholar.uwindsor.ca/odettepub Part of the Business Commons This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Odette School of Business at Scholarship at UWindsor. It has been accepted for inclusion in Odette School of Business Publications by an authorized administrator of Scholarship at UWindsor. For more information, please contact scholarship@uwindsor.ca. In Press (October 2012) European Business Review http://www.europeanbusinessreview.com/ An Assessment of the Early Stages of a Sustainable Business Model in the Canadian Fast Food Industry David Hutchinson, Ph.D. Jang Singh, Ph.D. Kent Walker, Ph.D. Odette School of Business, University of Windsor Structured Abstract Purpose: The objective is to describe a Canadian corporation's implementation and application of a sustainable business operation and model. It is based upon a case study of an International Canadian coffee and donut chain: Tim Hortons. Design/methodology/approach: Data were collected through: (1) extensive publications of corporate documents, (2) observations...
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