...Describe the different stakeholders who influence the purpose of two contrasting businesses A stakeholder is anyone who has an interest in any company. There are 8 different types of stakeholders which are: employees, suppliers, customers, trade unions, employer association, government, owners, and the local and national communities. My two contrasting businesses are RSPCA and Argos. Stakeholders- Employees- want to seek security of employment and also be able to get promotions and a good pay. The employees also want their work to provide them with a livelihood. They also want to work for a good business which they can be proud to say they work there and of what they do. Owners- owners of any business have an aim to make their business rise; they are in charge and want to make a profit. Owners can be sole traders, partnerships or they have shareholders which all need to succeed in the business. Their business may be their life and livelihood because they have taken their time and effort building up the business. The owners take the principle risk especially if it’s a sole trader or partnership because if they don’t make the business work they will lose everything they have put into it. Owners are said to be the most important stakeholders and it is said it will affect them the most. Suppliers- The suppliers have an interest in the companies they supply because they need guaranteed work and money so they can continue making goods to supply. The suppliers want steady orders...
Words: 1809 - Pages: 8
...Allison Morris Elena Santa Maria This book was set in Janson TextLTStd-Roman 10/13 by MPS Limited, a Macmillan Company, Chennai, India and printed and bound by R. R. Donnelley & Sons. The cover was printed by R. R. Donnelley & Sons. This book is printed on acid free paper. ∞ Founded in 1807, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. has been a valued source of knowledge and understanding for more than 200 years, helping people around the world meet their needs and fulfill their aspirations. Our company is built on a foundation of principles that include responsibility to the communities we serve and where we live and work. In 2008, we launched a Corporate Citizenship Initiative, a global effort to address the environmental, social, economic, and ethical challenges we face in our business. Among the issues we are addressing are carbon impact, paper specifications and procurement, ethical conduct within our business and among our vendors, and community and charitable support. For more information,...
Words: 9095 - Pages: 37
...Dave Madsen JGRD 915: Mass Communication Theory Dr. Linda Shipley Final Paper Dec. 14, 2009 Discovering Methods of Communication Use in Ord, Nebraska In a recent editorial opinion column in the Sioux City (Iowa) Journal, Editor Mitch Pugh wrote “We are becoming a nation that only wants to consume news that perpetuates or supports our own tightly held beliefs. I’m not sure I quite understand how that line of thinking contributes anything to a society that used to value open and fair-minded debate and learned from absorbing diverse viewpoints.” (Pugh) If you actually asked people about their news consumption practices, would they agree with that sentiment? Would the residents of a particular small town in Nebraska be able to determine if any commonly held beliefs might be determined by the selection of a specific type or style of media? These are just some of the questions that arise when evaluating the results of just such a research project. During the month of October, 2009, students of Dr. Linda Shipley’s Mass Communication Theory class at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, conducted interviews with 33 residents of the small town of Ord, Nebraska. The purposes of the survey were: 1) To measure the use of media by the people of Ord. Specifically, how do they gather information about Ord and how do they disseminate information about Ord? 2) To measure their opinions about living in Ord. The interviews were conducted by telephone, with each of the eleven...
Words: 3856 - Pages: 16
...DNV planning IN A DECEPTIVELY simple essay entitled Earth Day and the War Against the Imagination, Pulitzer prize-winning poet and eco-essayist Gary Snyder says, "Real estate and business people like to argue that economic growth and development are inevitable." In what's become a landmark statement, he argues: "It is not selfish for any community or neighbourhood to try to find ways to check unwanted growth and expansion in its own backyard." And: "Those who try to shove growth down our throats are precisely the people who profit from it." An old English teacher like District of North Vancouver Mayor Richard Walton should appreciate this. As they say in the TV cop-shows, "Follow the money." Swelling density and slamming huge residential towers into other people's communities is a surefire strategy for the wealthy to grow very wealthy. The ownership of North America's professional sports teams includes a preponderance of real estate developers, and we know what it costs to buy one of these franchises and pay the all-star employees. Next time you spot one of those colossal holes being excavated for another highrise tower, remember the builder's maxim, "Where there's muck, there's money." Somewhere along the line while everyone was watching hockey reruns or Desperate Housewives, people in North Vancouver stopped caring about big residential growth the way they used to - the kind that's preparing to steamroll the district under its current developer-cosy, Talk Big, Do...
Words: 989 - Pages: 4
...Social Responsibility Review of Company X When reviewing Company X’s business plans I noticed they are lacking in community loyalty and can see room for improvement when it comes to social responsibility. Company currently has an attitude of what’s in it for me? Or in this case what’s in it for Company X? They haven’t thought of their social responsibility to the local community. The first area I will address is products that are being offered and ideas on how to work with the community. The concern here is the company is only worried about the small amount of profit being made selling these products. Not the customer satisfaction that comes from carrying health conscience foods. The next thing that I think is very important to change would be to rethink donating day old food. This is very concerning that Company X can’t take a little extra time to donate day old food and give back to the company is unacceptable. They need to give back as much as possible to the local community that gives them business. Finally I would like to explore the idea of reopening the stores in the high crime areas with a plan to involve the local neighbors and try to show them our support. Company X’s decision to close these stores was a move to only better the company and hurt is community by decreasing employment. There have been multiple requests for the last few years from customers who would like to see health conscience and organic products to be sold in the stores. Company X has stocked a...
Words: 649 - Pages: 3
...SUMMER OUTREACH PROGRAM A Community Service for Children SPEAK ENGLISH (AGES 3-5) Location: Brgy. Holy Spirit Quezon City Personnel: Volunteers( Professionals, Students) I. Introduction This program will definitely help children ages 3-5 in a community to be able to speak in English. Our targets are the children in the community that needs to develop their speaking skills. Teaching children to speak correctly requires patience and persistence. The program will help facilitate the process of proper English acquisition by having the children play fun games and singing songs. Volunteering some of your time to outreach activities can be truly rewarding both for you and the children you help. Sometimes actions speak louder than words, when you are trying to witness to people. Participating in outreach program can help show the world you can do something worthwhile. I believe that each child becomes a whole person through growth in all areas of development social, emotional, intellectual, physical, sensory and language. Play and learning experiences provide age appropriate stimulating and fun enhancing each child’s potential future success in speaking English. This program is unique in that design to meet the individual needs of its children. The performance of children varies on their abilities, needs and goals. This program will supply assistance to help enhance the child’s ability to speak in a step by step process. At the same time it will prepare them to...
Words: 2129 - Pages: 9
...Simply because the Internet is going to make inroads into remote comers of the world and bring new customer segments online does not mean that every new Internet user is equally likely to make online purchases 5.1.5 Advertising cannot pay for everything- Most of the portals and search engine sites developed in the last few years have been built on the assumption that as they get a large number of visitors, advertisement revenue from the site would turn the venture profitable. That has not, in general, been the case. Advertisement on the Internet has been and will continue to be significant but not enough to sustain more than a few portal and news media sites. 5.1.6 Margins will be razor thin and logistics will win the...
Words: 939 - Pages: 4
...What’s wrong with Supermarkets www.corporatewatch.org.uk Strip lights, endless queues of strangers and shelves of packets, fake smiles from bored checkout assistants isn't there a better way to get our food? Supermarkets wield immense power over the way we grow, buy and eat our food. They are shaping our environment, our health and the way we interact socially. These changes have gone unchallenged because consumers have been sucked into superstore lifestyles, persuaded that the opportunity to select from six different brands of cut-price oven chips at three in the morning represents choice and value. What’s Wrong With SUPERMARKETS But the tide may be turning. Unease at the true cost of supermarket food is spreading among consumers, who are beginning to join forces with the farmers and workers who have always known that supermarket 'choice' is a bad deal. This booklet aims to help campaigners get to grips with the reality of supermarket domination and argues why we must start looking for alternatives. Researched and written by Lucy Michaels and the Agriculture Project at Corporate Watch What’s wrong with Supermarkets www.corporatewatch.org.uk What's Wrong with Supermarkets? Overview: Supermarkets sweep up 2 3 10 11 The supermarkets we know today started in Britain with the Cooperative Movement in the 19th century. This was a group of independent local retailers controlled by its consumer members...
Words: 14175 - Pages: 57
...Are Worth all the Trouble Hard lives can not be an excuse to missing assignments, being late, or overwhelming oneself. In a way it is almost an insult to an instructor, saying that time is not well spent doing something for them. That being said, instructors should never lower their standards due to a student's busy life; students also shouldn’t think of time as something they can abuse simply because they are young and in college. Community college students come to community college for a variety of reasons, regardless of why they choose to do so, they are always welcome. As long as students believe they can achieve their goals than anything is possible. We all have hard lives, some more difficult and drawn out than others. And however for many decades people have managed to overcome busy schedules and make it work, all instructors want what's best for their students and although they might seem a bit insane, believe it or not all the trouble is worth it in the end. All the work and all the trouble of scheduling may seem unimportant and a new student might not understand the big deal, however it can change the outlook one might have on their life. Just taking ten minuets week to evaluate the time that we all have available can make a drastic difference in how the task at hand are accomplished. Putting a schedule down on paper gives the perfect perspective on how the time that’s available is used. The author of The Myth of Inferiority backs up this clause by stating that, "I...
Words: 1017 - Pages: 5
...city is its constitution and policy guide for the future. I have chosen a city of Fresno in California to analyze its general plan and how they are dealing with problems. This community is facing some noise issues, especially traffic sound. It might look like not so important problem in the fast-growing world, but often it can be annoying and even harmful for mental health. That’s why, it is useful to know how to deal with such problems. Furthermore, issues of noise are widely spread in Fresno, because there are three airports, four state highways and also some major streets, carrying large vehicles and truck traffic. It is important to note that industrial facilities in the city also generate noise from equipment. Due to the general plan, the goal of the community has been made in relation to this issue. They want to promote a city of Fresno with safe and comfortable streets and to have a lot of opportunities to relax. A vision is to make Fresno an ideal place for living, working and relaxing or to improve the quality of life there. In the general plan there are a lot of solutions to deal with noise problems. For example, state and federal standards control a level of noise from transportation facilities, but also such facilities might be located on distance or replaced out of town. What’s more, they have to use soundproofing construction activities such as sealed buildings or masonry walls. Another interesting moment is typical sound levels, which are described in...
Words: 955 - Pages: 4
...information over the internet; his idea for creating the web was about anything potentially connected with anything, thus providing us with a new freedom and allow people space to create and communicate, he never anticipated that it would have a global impact as far as social networking is concerned! [Weaving the Web by Tim Berners–Lee, page 1] A social networking is basically an online service, platform, or site that focuses on building and reflecting of social networks or social relations among people, e.g. who share interests and/or activities. It essentially consists of a representation of each user (often a profile), his/her social links, and a variety of additional services. Most social network services are web based and provide means for users to interact over the internet, such as e-mail and instant messaging. These types of sites allow participants to share ideas, activities, events, and interests within their individual networks. The main types of social networking services are those which contain category places (such as former school year or classmates), means to connect with friends (usually with self-description pages) and a recommendation system linked to trust. Popular methods now combine many of these, with Facebook and Twitter widely used worldwide. [Wikipedia] While other forms of social media—such as blogs, content communities and podcasts—bring together Internet users online, only social networking websites facilitate this interaction primarily for social interaction...
Words: 1402 - Pages: 6
...be solved. Moreover, how businesses use the aforementioned tools to facilitate ecommerce through the use of business to business and business to customer technology. INFORMATION SYSTEMS IN BUSINESS What's the Buzz on Smart Grids? Case study 1. How smart grids differ from the current electricity infrastructure in the United States The current electricity infrastructure within the U.S. provides power to shoppers with the smart grid providing info of how shoppers use energy. This makes it exhausting to be able to develop varied methods and approaches to finding ways of optimally distributing power. This infrastructure conjointly doesn't effectively handle power that's generated from energy sources. On the opposite hand smart girds digitally deliver electricity from suppliers to shoppers in a vary means that enables back and forth communication between suppliers and shoppers thereby enhancing selections created on energy production and consumption. This helps in saving energy, reducing prices and pollution and increasing transparency and re-liableness since the smart grid system is able to apportion involuntary changes to the energy stations. This permitting induces the energy they have, enhancing higher energy distribution whereas preserving it at identical time (What's the Buzz on Smart Grids, 2010). 2. Management, organization and technology issues to be considered when developing a smart grid Such managerial controls need...
Words: 2636 - Pages: 11
...Christopher Cordon Sociology 142 Friday 4- 4:50 P.M. 04-12-16 USC Village: What’s the Cost? Jack hammers, dump trucks, construction cranes and safety cones; all in a days work at USC’s new university village. We’ve all been somewhat affected by the recent demolition and construction in and around USC. Along with all the construction going on, traffic jams, detours as well as some of the noise going on, students such as myself aren’t the only ones affected. As beautiful and appealing as these renovations might seem, the price of a new beautiful new village does come at a cost to the residents, businesses and employees of the surrounding community. I was a member of this community as a young kid. I went to Vermont Ave. elementary just down the street form USC, and growing up, I did see a few changes here and there. Back in the early 90’s, the neighborhood had a completely different feel to it. There were gangs, drugs, and violence; typical for a South Los Angeles neighborhood. Over the years, USC’s presence started to change a few things. As students began to trickle over to the northwest neighborhoods, the tone of the neighborhood slowly changed. I was in elementary, so I didn’t really make much of it, only that a few of my friends from my block began moving away. As an 8 year old, you don’t really put two and two together until I started noticing the same thing in my new neighborhood in East Hollywood. Since it wasn’t a college neighborhood, there wasn’t a diverse group...
Words: 2099 - Pages: 9
...Peeling this lousy crust off my sandwiched, I could have sworn I order without goddam crust on it sheesh. I look onto the television and more violence of blacks and police I ask the guy in the table next to me what’s going on what are they talking about on TV? He looks at me with fire in his eyes and says “You snobby people are so close off to what’s going on around you”. “The nerve to act like this will not affect you”. “You rich snobby fools stay sheltered in our own sheltered lives not caring for what’s going on”. “It’s a protest of police brutality”, “it’s been going on last couple of years”. People of the community are growing with rage over the brutality cops get away with on people of ethnicity. “WHO IS RESPONSIABLE FOR JUSTICE” he asks me? “Wow” I thought as more and more people in the deli listen in our conversation and start to voice their opinions. The topic in the deli gets heated but not violent as the scenes on television. I leave the deli to find out more of what’s going on. Those dumbasses are supposed to protect not kill their citizens. I stopped and asked a group of kids my age in what to be a “Walmart” shopping plaza. They scarfed and laugh at me because I do not know what’s going...
Words: 761 - Pages: 4
...1.1 Accessing a range of services and facilities can be beneficial to a individuals wellbeing because it can give the individual a boast in self-esteem and personal development can be affected by using community services and facilities. Meeting new people, making friends and learning new skill would all be developed when assessing new services and facilities. Being an active part of the community can give a sense of worth. Meeting new people and developing new skills will help with intellectual needs and mental stimulation. Social needs will develop if they attend a services and facilities regularly and are able to build new relationships. Creating new relationships can also help with emotional needs, sharing stories and worries can relieve stress and create a bound with new friends. 1.2 The barriers that an individual may encounter when accessing a range of services and facilities are environmental, communication, psychological and financial. Environmental barrier would be lack of disabled toilets, narrow doorways, no ramps, lifts or lack if wheel chair access. Transport can also be an issue, no buses to direct location or no transport provided. Communication can also be an issue. If you have staff members unwilling to help to find out the information requested, have a lack of translators or interpreters, or lack of information available regarding the services, what the offer and how to access them fully. Psychological problems would be that the individual would note...
Words: 805 - Pages: 4
