...a topic that has been discussed for a long time. It is true that there are more females participate in the workforce as comparing to the past. However, as we consider the facts that in a normal household, women still are taking more responsibilities for domestic works and in the organizational setting, there still are less females in the executive position etc. So the purpose of this study is to look at female participation within the context of collaborative consumption. Collaborative consumption (which you may or may not heard of) is about sharing, like sharing your car, house and even your knowledge etc. Hopefully from your answers, we could get some insights of why female would take more roles through sharing, and therefore to promote more equality between females and males. The information provided by you in the interview will only be used for research purposes. It will not be used in a manner that would allow identification of your individual responses. The data will be kept on a password protected computer which will only be accessed by myself. The data will be kept only for the duration of the research project. Once again, I would like to thank you for taking part in this study. If you have any questions about the research at this stage, please do not hesitate to contact me. Interview Questions There are total of three questions included, please answer accordingly. As you know that the questions are descriptive in nature, so I am very appreciated if you can give...
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...Chapter Three The World Marketplace: Business without Borders Review Questions 1. What countries represent the largest global business opportunities for the next decade? What factors determine the size of the opportunity? 2. Why do companies tend to thrive in global markets when their country of origin enjoys a comparative advantage in their industry? 3. Explain how to calculate the balance of trade. How does the growing United States trade deficit impact the economy? Why? 4. Explain the meaning of “strong” currency and “weak” currency. What are the advantages and disadvantages of each? 5. Why is outsourcing such an attractive way for firms to tap into foreign markets? What are the risks of foreign outsourcing? 6. Outline the potential pros and cons of the 3 key strategies for developing foreign markets: exporting, licensing and franchising, and direct investment. 7. Explain how countertrading works. What are the benefits and drawbacks for both parties that engage in countertrading? 8. What are the key elements of sociocultural barriers to trade? How can companies overcome these barriers? 9. How has NAFTA impacted the U.S.? Overall, do you believe that it was a positive move for the U.S.? Why or why not? 10. What is the overarching goal of the European Union? What role has been played by the introduction of the euro...
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...Chapter Three The World Marketplace: Business without Borders Case Connection China in Africa: A Big Step Forward, or a Bigger Step Backward? Entering an untapped international market can strengthen a business tremendously—but what if the costs outweigh the benefits for the market itself? China has long been an important player on the global stage, but recent advances in manufacturing, natural resources, and energy production have catapulted the expansive country to the forefront of international trade. Currently the world’s fastest growing major economy, China is set to eclipse the United States as the world’s largest economy by 2016. Among various domestic and international plays, one of China’s most fascinating uses of its newfound economic might is a considerable interest—and investment—in the continent of Africa. As its economy grew throughout the 2000s, China began establishing oil and mining firms across Africa. In return for the cooperation of African governments, China built new roads, bridges, and other varieties of desperately needed infrastructure. The economic powerhouse’s inroads into the African market quickly widened, and so did the scope of its investments. For every new mining and drilling operation, China built new governmental buildings, sports stadiums and housing complexes. China’s most prominent declaration of its intent to strengthen ties with Africa, however, was the construction of the $200 million African Union building in Addis Ababa...
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...International Expansion Zara was found in Spain, 1974. With the successful opening through out Spain, Zara starts to expand in 1980s. Firstly Zara entered Portugal, later on United States and France. Then in 1990s the expansion reached Mexico, Greece, Belgium, etc. Now Zara has really been a globalized brand. Zara can be found in 86 countries, 5887 retail stores worldwide according to the latest data research. For the latest markets Zara just invested in are Australia, Taiwan, Azerbaijan, South Africa and Peru. In 2012, there were 360 stores newly opened in the world. Depends on different countries, zara expands more in Asian countries like China, Japan. (Inditex website)In China zara increased its presence to 156 new stores in 2011, at rate of 3 stores per week. (THE ECONOMIST, 2012) |Number of Zara’s stores in major Countries (Inditex website) | |Asia |Europe |North America |South Hemisphere and Africa | |China: 138 |Spain 332 |Mexico 56 |Australia 8 | |Japan 83 |France 126 |United States 45 |Brazil 39 | |South Korea 39 |Italy 90 |Canada 22 |Egypt 4 | |Saudi Arabia 26 |Germany69 | |South...
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...The Secret Life Of Bees, by Sue Monk Kidd. Book Report, Dorthea Søiland The secret life of bees centres on Lily’s search for clues and connections to her mother, who was killed when Lily was a little girl. We get to follow her journey as she runs away from her abusive father along with her nanny Rosaleen. Lily is longing to be loved, because the lack of it in her past life is destroying her. “People who think dying is the worst thing, don’t know a thing about life” Lily, p2. The novel is an excellent written drama. It explores race, love and the idea of family and home in troubled times. The author of the book, Sue Monk Kidd, is a well-known writer who has written other known books such as “The Mermaid Chair”(2005) and “A Mother-Daughter Story”(2010). She has been on the New York Times bestselling list twice, which one of them were with this very novel. The secret life of bees was published in 2002 by Penguin Books New York. The story takes place in South Carolina in the 1960’s, which we can say is a time were racism was on it’s worst. Time and place has a lot to do with the story, and we get to look into a time were being black wasn’t easy. The main character of the book is fourteen years old Lily. She is a brave and smart girl, whose only wish for a birthday present is to know a little about her mother. Her fear of living a life without being loved is getting her to write poems, which she’s good at. All-tough Lily doesn’t have a mother she has a father, T....
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...that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That is the true genius of America, a faith -- a faith in simple dreams, an insistence on small miracles; that we can tuck in our children at night and know that they are fed and clothed and safe from harm; that we can say what we think, write what we think, without hearing a sudden knock on the door; that we can have an idea and start our own business without paying a bribe; that we can participate in the political process without fear of retribution, and that our votes will be counted -- at least most of the time. This year, in this election we are called to reaffirm our values and our commitments, to hold them against a hard reality and see how we're measuring up to the legacy of our forbearers and the promise of future generations. And fellow Americans, Democrats, Republicans, Independents, I say to you tonight: We have more work to do -- more work to do for the workers I met in Galesburg, Illinois, who are losing their union jobs at the Maytag plant that’s moving to Mexico, and now are having to compete with their own children for jobs that pay seven bucks an hour; more to do for the father that I met who was losing his job and choking back the tears, wondering how he would pay 4500 dollars a month for the drugs his son needs without the health benefits that he counted on; more to do for the young woman in East St. Louis, and thousands more like her, who has the grades, has the drive, has the will, but doesn’t...
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...1. Barriers to effective communication A. Physical barriers Internal structure of the organization and layout of office machines and equipments creates physical barriers in communication a. Distance: – communication is found obstructed in long distance. Like communication between America and Nepal. b. Noise: – it is from external sources and affects the communication process. Noise negatively affects the accuracy c. Physical arrangement: – the physical arrangement of organizational sources like men, money, material and machine obstruct the communication process. B. Semantic barriers The use of difficult and multiple use of languages, words, figures, symbols create semantic barriers. a. Language: – we can find some words having different meaning. As meaning sent by the sender can be quite different from the meaning understood by the receiver. Long and complex sentences creates problem in communication process. b. Jargons: – technical or unfamiliar language creates barriers to communication that may be drawn from the literature. So message should be simple and condensed as far as possible so that no confusion creation will be there to the receiver. C. Organizational barriers It is raised from the organizational goals, regulations, structure and culture. a. Poor planning: – it refers to the designing, encoding, channel selection and conflicting signals in the organization. b. Structure complexities:- difficult organizational structure...
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...The National Football League (Assignment 1) Michael Davis BUS 475 February 2, 2014 Dr. Joaquin M. Angles The National Football League My choice is the National Football League (NFL) which was founded on 20 August 1920. The NFL is made up of 32 teams across the United States; each team has 53 players on the team at the start of the regular season. The 32 teams are broken into two divisions; the American Football Conference (AFC) and National Football Conference (NFC). The NFL original name was the American Football League and the name was change on 22 August 1922 to the National Football League. The NFL is the only major sport that does not have any teams outside of the United States. Each team has one majority owner and the owners elect the commissioner of the league; the commissioner oversees the daily rules and regulations of the league. The NFL ends a long season by two teams playing in the Super Bowl for the Vince Lombardi Trophy. The NFL has become the number one sport in America; most watched and biggest profits year after year. But with that said the NFL still has its issues going forward form profits, society and business. Most teams in the NFL are privately owned and finically statements are not release to the public. In my opinion the two key factors that can affect the success of the NFL or the ownership and customers (fans). I know that ownership is internal/external because the owner is not really seen as a part of the team. The owner is one of the...
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...have to prove their worth. Women in the SAHMs (Stay at home mothers) community are labeled as lazy, are said to have it easy, are dumb, moochers, and many other stereo types. In all actuality the life of a SAHM is quite the contraire. In the 20th century the term “house wife” was more so used than the term Stay at home mom. Now, in the 21st century we changed that term because it seemed as if we knew nothing but the walls inside our homes. We are married to our husbands, not our houses. Women in the 1950’s rose to the term house wife and wore it proudly. During this time, the women who worked outside of the home were looked at as some scientific phenomenon that we didn't understand. The role of women in the 1950’s was repressive and constrictive in many ways. Society placed high importance and many expectations on behavior at home as well as in public. Women were supposed to fulfill certain roles, such as a caring mother, a diligent homemaker, and an obedient wife. The perfect mother was supposed to stay home and nurture so society would accept them. (R.C.2005) “Most of the time, when people ask, I tell them that I work from home. Technically this is true, because as a novelist, staring out the window daydreaming while nursing a baby can actually be considered “working.”But even though I continue to write and occasionally publish fiction, now that I’ve had my third baby the truth is, for the most part, I’m a stay-at-home mom. So why do I hesitate to admit this? If I’m being...
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...benefits through flexible and innovative care of their employees. In addition, Samad found in the area of wage surveys, Electronic Applications are paid 5 to 8 percent above the market for various categories of electrical engineers and do not do anything about that based on the informal exit interview system or in others word, higher position for the engineers after working so many years and the junior and younger engineers have gone to the competitors. Then, the structure of the exit interview survey must have their formal set up that in the future will know possible explanations if anything happen. 2. What additional questions should Samad ask or what additional information is needed before proceeding toward a solution to this problem? Why? It’s clear that it’s important to develop a retention plan to retain employees and keep turnover...
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...ability to be financially sound, even if you think you may live in an un-financially sound society. Although, both books are geared toward readers in different stages of their lives, they do bring up the questions of whether or not these individuals understand the concept of money, or how it should be a benefit and not a hindrance, and also that it is truly not the happiness factor for life that several millions believe the case to be. The one idea that should be taken from this paper is the knowing whether or not you are financially healthy enough to fit your needs, goals, and desires. What is an economy? It is a type of management of one’s resources. Whether its money, oil, food, land, or a type of service, knowing how to manage one’s own resources, is key to having a great personal economy, even when your countries’ economy isn’t doing so well. To make it even simpler, when talking about one’s personal economy, I talk about one’s financial situation. It has become very trendy for young people, middle aged adults, and even some elderly people, to not understand how to handle money, spend it, and invest it. The one goal on all of these individuals’ minds is how to get a lot of money to be happy, or content when it comes to living now, or while in retirement. To get to this destination, no one wants to gain the...
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...The name “New England” leads one to assume that the New England Colonies resembled England, while in reality the two places were very different. This name is a geographic and conceptual misnomer as it differed from England in nearly every aspect, examples of colonies that resemble a “New” England would be the ones located in the Chesapeake area. New England had a society that differed from England largely due to the motives of the settles. Each of the settlers wanted to leave England permanently to start a new life. An example is the Puritans who moved to America to preserve their way of life rather than adhere to England’s. This led them to form a society different from that of their home countries. However, the Chesapeake colonies such as...
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...Every women needs to know the facts the facts when it comes to breast cancer, every women is at risk. “Breast cancer is a multi-dynamic disease which affects the patient, the patient’s family, and society in various ways.” People should care about breast cancer because it kills men and women. It takes your friends and family members away. Now that breast cancer is being detected at an earlier stage, women are able to be treated before the cancer gets worse. Learning how many women get breast cancer and how many women die each year from the terrible disease shows me that getting and mammogram early they can detect the cancer and ultimate save women and men lives. I will be discussing about how breast cancer affects the patient, the patient’s family and society. Breast cancer can affect people in many different ways. Finding out that you have breast cancer can cause you stress like uncertainly of your future, the unpredictability of the cancer, disability, and financial difficulties. You can also be stress out about your physical appearance after a mastectomy. Losing your hair after chemotherapy, and your skin changing from the radiation therapy. You feel that everybody is going to look at you differently because you have cancer. Common signs of stress are disturbed sleep, fatigue, body aches, pain, anxiety, irritability, tension, and headaches. You can reduce stress by keep a positive attitude, accept that there are events you cannot control, be assertive instead of aggressive...
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...Solutions Researched Proposed Solution Other features & thoughts: Pricing Summary Introduction As you read this proposal, please consider the women at Haitian Creations. The goal is to empower them with knowledge and to share the good news with these ladies: “My name is Joseph and I am 23 years old. I have 2 children who are 6 and 3 years old. I was living on the streets. Now, I am able to live in a home. I have worked at Haitian Creations for one year. This program allows me to pay for my children's education. I am very thankful for Heartline giving me the opportunity to learn and work. One day I would like to study and be a nurse.” - Joseph Wideleine “My name is Nehimie and I am 27 years old. It is difficult to find work and I am very excited to be able to learn and make purses. This is my first job and I have worked at Heartline for one year. I enjoy making purses and other products with my hands. One day I would like to be a clothing fashion designer.” - Nehimie Ulysse Can we help more women like this? These are women that are working hard to bring themselves out of the oppressed lifestyle they are all too familiar with from before. When I visit the program I see them studying, writing down notes, working long hours from sunrise to sunset. The heart of Heartline is that we want to be diligent in doing everything we can to support these women. Details of the Plan We support and help grow the program by marketing their creations to others in the U.S. We distribute their work...
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...New England, the 1950s. Todd Anderson (Ethan Hawke), a lonely and painfully shy teenager, who is under pressure by his stern parents because he must live up to his older brother's reputation to attend Yale and become a lawyer, arrives for the new semester at the Welton Academy for boys. This semester begins during an orientation gathering with a speech given by the stern Headmaster Nolan (Norman Lloyd), who states the academy's four pillars: Tradition, Honor, Discipline, and Excellence. Todd meets Neil Perry (Robert Sean Leonard) an ambitious student whom becomes his dorm roommate. Later in his dorm, Neil is ordered by his grumpy and domineering father (Kurtwood Smith) to drop an extracurricular class in order to maintain good grades so the boy may become a doctor much as he has done. Neil is under pressure from his stern father's will. Also, Mr. Perry tells Neil that Mrs. Perry also wants him to become a doctor, which further worries the boy. A little later, Todd tells Neil that he is in a similar situation with his parents involving his older brother who also attended Welton a few years ago, graduated, and attended Yale Law School and became a lawyer and his parents want the exact same thing for him. But Todd does not have the courage to tell his parents that he instead wants to be a writer, not a lawyer. During the first day of classes Todd and Neil experience the various teaching methods which include speeches by the trig teacher, as well as the Latin teacher, and the...
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