...Chapter 2 International human resource management Review and reflect question 1 and HRM in practice 2.1 What are some of the likely advantages and disadvantages of companies pursuing an ethnocentric, polycentric or geocentric approach to internationalization? Perlmutter’s EPG profile is a neat way to categorize the approaches adopted to internationalization by multinational companies (MNCs). There are likely to be a number of advantages and disadvantages to each of the approaches and as suggested by HRM in practice 2.1 these can vary significantly between MNCs. For those companies adopting an ethnocentric approach the obvious advantage is the ability to retain tight control over overseas subsidiaries, especially in terms of attempting to transfer organizational culture or HRM practices, something which was apparent in Swedco. This strategy also potentially allows for managers to develop their skills in an overseas posting, a process that is part of a broader management development approach. On the other hand there are several disadvantages. The use of home country expatriate managers could cause a good deal of resentment in the host country and may be seen as a very imperialistic device, especially where the home country has previously had a colonial relationship with the host country, something illustrated in the Frenco example. More pragmatically, host country employees and managers may also feel very strongly about the lack of local career development opportunities...
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...Chapter 2: Plate Tectonics and Physical Hazards Earth Structure - Inner Core - Solid, High Temperature, 90% Iron, 1300 km thick - Outer Core - Liquid, similar to inner core, 2000 km thick, density of 10.7 g/cm3 - Mantle - Solid, iron & magnesium-rich silicate rocks, 3000 km thick, density of 4.5 g/cm3 -Lithosphere - Outer rind of the Earth - made up of tectonic plates - Asthenosphere - Below lithosphere - Hot layer of weak rocks - Crust - Outer rock layer of Earth, density of 2.8 g/cm3 - Moho – the boundary between Earth’s crust and mantle, marks the base of the continental crust, separates lighter crustal rocks from the more dense mantle - Isostacy (buoyancy) is the reason why there’s a difference in elevation between continental and oceanic crusts - Plate tectonics describes the movements of Earth’s plate (moves up to 11 cm/year) Hazards and Plate Boundaries - Most of tectonic actions, like earthquakes and volcanoes, occur near boundaries of the plates - Divergent boundaries: plates pulled away from each other by the sinking of lithosphere at oceanic trenches - If the plates are continental plates, once pulled apart they will form a continental rift zone, which can develop into a new ocean. Spreading continues allowing basaltic magma to push to the surface. - Convergent boundaries: plates moving towards each other - Subduction zone: when one or both plates are oceanic and the denser ones slides down into the asthenosphere...
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...Chapter 2 |The Balanced Scorecard and Strategy Map |[pic] | QUESTIONS 2-1 Financial performance measures, such as operating income and return on investment, indicate whether the company’s strategy and its implementation are increasing shareholder value. However, financial measures tend to be lagging indicators of the strategy. Firms monitor nonfinancial measures to understand whether they are building or destroying their capabilities—with customers, processes, employees, and systems—for future growth and profitability. Key nonfinancial measures are leading indicators of financial performance, in the sense that improvements in these indicators should lead to better financial performance in the future, while decreases in the nonfinancial indicators (such as customer satisfaction and loyalty, process quality, and employee motivation) generally predict decreased future financial performance. 2-2 A Balanced Scorecard is a systematic approach to performance measurement that translates an organization’s strategy into clear objectives, measures, and targets. The Balanced Scorecard integrates an appropriate mix of short- and long-term financial and non-financial performance measures used across the organization, based on the organization’s strategy. 2-3 The four measurement perspectives in the Balanced Scorecard are (1) financial, (2) customer, (3) process, and (4) learning and...
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..."How to Create a Hotmail Account" Microsoft Hotmail is a great way to keep up with your email, instant messaging, Xbox LIVE, and other Microsoft services—all with one Windows Live ID. Plus, their new SkyDrive lets you access your files in your inbox, across PCs, on you Macs, iPads, and smart phones. We'll show you how, with this step-by-step guide. 1. Go to the Hotmail website: www.hotmail.com. There, you'll be given the option to sign in, or to sign up with Windows Live and a Hotmail address. If you already have a Windows Live account, all you need to do is sign in, using the fields on the right. If you do not have a Windows Live account, click on the Sign Up button, circled below. 2. Fill out the sign up page. This is where you'll decide what your email address will be, as well as entering personal and security information. 3. Enter your personal information. Fill in how how you would like to sign in. This is the easy part: name, birthday, and gender. Note: this information doesn't have to be factual. However, if you do choose to use false information, write it down somewhere so that you'll remember it. * Create your account name. Enter in a unique name in the Microsoft account name field, and make sure @hotmail.com is selected. Note: you can use an existing email address if you like, but for our example we'll stick to a Hotmail address. * Create a password. Use at least 8 characters, case sensitive. Numbers are recommended for greatest security. To...
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...1. Describe Ugandan cultural attributes that might affect the operations of a foreign company doing business there. The population of Uganda is about 25 million. And it official language is English. But many people can only speak an indigenous language, is primarily Bantu language or Nilotic languages. Although, about two-thirds of Ugandans are Christian, there a large number of Muslims and adherents of various animistic religions. From this perspective, language is a big problem for a foreign company operating in Uganda. Business in Uganda, on the other hand, often moves slowly. For example, it will take months installing a telephone. The Ugandan’s income is very low, but meanwhile, it has an exorbitant payment system. The nepotism is a norm for its employment staffs. If any company involves such activities, then it is illegal under U.S. law. And its corrupt government is also a brick wall for foreign companies. Finally, I think people of Uganda are too much devout to their religion and beliefs and culture. So foreign must accept the religion and beliefs and culture of Ugandan people. 2. How would you describe the respective attitudes of Martin and Green: ethnocentric, polycentric, or geocentric? What factors do you suspect of having influenced their respective attitudes? Charles Martin has a geocentric attitude, but James Green’s attitude is ethnocentric. When studying in college, Martin’s major is about African studies. After graduation, Martin worked in the Peace...
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...Preparation of Financial Statements is the process of several important stages that has different properties. General Journal completion is actually a permanent process. Here are the main rules of leading a General Journal * The General Journal is called the book of original entry. * A journal is a chronological record of transactions - they are in date order. * Each entry is called a journal entry, and represents a different business transaction. Each transaction is recorded once, and only once. * All journal entries follow the rules of debit and credit. Here is legal aspect of making General Journal entries timely. “A contemporaneous writing carries much more weight than a writing made at a later date. And a writing carries much more weight than a mere recollection of events, months or years after the event has taken place. The courts recognize that people's memories about events are much clearer right after the event has taken place. As to the sale of real estate, state laws require a contemporaneous writing, to establish the exact terms and conditions of the sale. In contract law, this is called a “meeting of the minds,” and must be present for a valid contract to exist. We will use verifiable, tangible evidence whenever it exists. Tangible evidence has physical existence – we can touch it, fold, staple, copy and file the document. We will look for a check, invoice, purchase order, contract or other business document that is a record of the event...
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...------------------------------------------------- University of Phoenix Material Earth and Earth Materials I Worksheet From Visualizing Earth Science, by Merali, Z., and Skinner, B. J, 2009, Hoboken, NJ: Wiley. Copyright 2009 by Wiley. Adapted with permission. Part 1 Complete the WileyPLUS® GeoDiscoveries Earth Drag and Drop from Chapter 1. Label and describe each letter in the space below. A B C D E F G H A. Ocean | B. Continental crust | C. Oceanic crust | D. Solid inner core | E. Liquid outer core | F. Mesosphere | G. Anthenosphere | H. Lithosphere | Part 2 Resources: Minerals Drag and Drop (Chapter 2) Virtual Rock Lab (Chapter 2) * * Complete the following WileyPLUS® GeoDiscoveries and answer the following questions: What is the difference between a rock and a mineral? A mineral is a naturally going on the non-living compound with a unique chemical structure and the physical properties. An the rock is a solid, rocky mass composed of a combination of minerals or other organic complex. 1. 2. What types of tests are used to identify minerals? The type of test that are used to identify a mineral is I think depending on the colour,luster, and the hardness and as well the gravity. Also by the event test the chemical of the mineral they can see what type it is. 3. Part 3 1. Label the part and mineral resource that compose each part of this lightbulb. Refer...
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...MBA Course Code: BMMK5103 Course Name: Marketing Management Credit Hours: 3 Assessment: Assignments Assessment Type | Details of assessment | Marks distribution | Assignment-1 | Refer to the case study on CISCO Systems on pages 79-80 Chapter2. You are required to: 1- Discuss how building brand in a business-to-business context is different from doing so in the consumer market. 2- Critically analyze CISCO’s plan to reach out to consumers. Is it a viable one? Why? Why not? 3- Offer suggestions/recommendations to CISCO Systems on how to develop its marketing strategies more effectively? (Word Count 2000 words) | Assignment 1 = 20% | Assignment-2 | Industry-Based ResearchReference may be made to Chapter 4 : Conducting Marketing Research You are required to:1. Identify any organization of your choice. 2. Critically discuss the marketing research process of the chosen firm. 3. Offer five recommendations on how to improve the marketing research process and for the best practices in the firm. (Word count 3000 words) | Assignment 2 = 40% | | | Class Course work = 60% | | | | Final Exam: (3 Hrs.) | Final Exam StructurePART A2 Essaysquestions(20 marks each) – answer BOTHLevel of learning:Application and AnalysisTOTAL MARKS: 40% | Part A- 40 Marks | | PART B5 Essaysquestions(20 marks...
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...Lovely Professional University,Punjab Format For Instruction Plan [for Courses with Lectures and Labs Course No CAP510 Cours Title COMPUTER NETWORKS Course Planner 15946 :: Gunit Kaur Lectures Tutorial Practical Credits 4 0 0 4 Text Book: 1 Behrouz A. Forouzan, Data Communication and networking, 4th Ed., Tata McGraw Hills year of publication 2006 Other Specific Book: 2 Andrew S. Tanenbaum,Computer Network 2nd Edition, PHI, Third Edition 1997 3 Comer E. Doughlas,Computer Networks and Internets, 2nd Ed., Pearson, 2000 4 W. Stallings,Data and Computer Communications, 7th Ed., Pearson, 2002. 5 Black U,Computer Networks-Protocols, Standards and Interfaces, PHI 1996 Other Reading Sr No Jouranls atricles as compulsary readings (specific articles, Complete reference) Relevant Websites Sr. No. (Web adress) (only if relevant to the courses) 6 http://authors.phptr.com/tanenbaumcn4/ 7 http://williamstallings.com/DCC6e.html 8 http://www.mhhe.com/forouzan/dcn4sie 9 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_network Salient Features Website on reference book Website on reference book website on text book Provides information on basic concepts of networking 10 http://compnetworking.about.com/od/basicnetworkingconcepts Networking Basics - Key Concepts in Computer Networking /Networking_Basics_Key_Concepts_in_Computer_Networking .htm 1 Approved for Spring Session 2011-12 11 http://www.cisco.com/web/learning/netacad/course_catalog/P Tools required to understand...
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...Ashley Caffrey Chapter 1: “I have a dream….of Peace Co-Existence”. The reason that Chapter 1 is titled this, is because Nakita Khrushchev’s main points in his beliefs were that everyone could have a peaceful co-existence. His theory was that all the feuding countries (Russia, America, Great Britain, China and Italy), could co-exist together without war or fighting. Chapter2: “Camp David Getaway” The title was given to this chapter because it describes the failed attempts made my Krushchev to create a sort of bond between himself and President Eisenhower. He took a trip one year to the Camp David sight and spent a day with the President. Chapter 3: “Staring Contest Showdown” In May of 1962, Nakita Khrushchev met with Fidel Castro and came to an agreement to place nuclear missiles in Cuba. This was said to have been done to prevent any sort of future invasion attempt on the country. The US got wind of this via a U-2 aircraft and sent navy ships to “blockade” the Russians from delivering any more weapons to the Cubans. After a tense stand off in the waters of Cuba, the two countries came to an agreement. Russia agreed to dismantle all nuclear devices in Cuba as long as America vowed never to invade Cuba. Chapter 4: “Give Me Freedom or Give me Press” One of the big impacts that Khrushchev had on Russia was his belief in freedom of speech. He felt that artist and writers should have the freedom to express their thoughts and opinions. Chapter 5: “While The Cat’s...
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...Chapter 1 1. Why do you think good communication in an organization improves employee attitudes and performance? Explain briefly? Good communication helps employees feel that they are a part of the business process. They feel supported in their efforts and rewarded for their accomplishments. They believe their comments, suggestions, and problems will receive fair consideration, so any problems among co-workers are quickly and easily resolved. Knowing the company’s objectives and having clear instructions on how to accomplish their tasks makes employees confident in their work. Chapter2 3 Is conflict in a team good or bad? Explain your answer. Conflict is constructive when it improves the quality of decisions, stimulates creativity and innovation, encourages interest and curiosity among group members, provides a forum for airing problems and releasing tension, and fosters an environment of self-evaluation. In addition, constructive conflict can force important issues into the open, speed up their resolution, and be a catalyst for change. Conflict frequently becomes bad or disruptive when there is a strong polarization of opinions. In this case, conflict can retard communication, reduce group cohesiveness, and stifle the generation and creativity of new ideas. Sometimes a group whose culture is high in avoidance will suppress or avoid conflict. This avoidance can result in poor decisions because they stand unquestioned. Chapter 13 1. Why are unsolicited...
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...Quality Components Health care quality denotes doing the appropriate thing, at the appropriate time, in the appropriate way, for the appropriate individuals as well as possessing the finest possible results (Quality, n.d.). The following are some health care quality components being effective, safe, timely, patient focused, equitable, and efficient. These are all quality components that a healthcare facility should take into consideration. Create Quality Being effective means stipulating services based on scientific knowledge to patients that can benefit and abstaining from stipulating services to those who are not probable to benefit (Quality, n.d.). Safety means to prevent injuries to patients from the care that is meant to assist them (Quality, n.d.). Being timely means to decrease wait time and occasionally damaging intervals for both the receiver and giver of care (Quality, n.d.). Focusing on the patient by stipulating care that is respectful of and receptive to the patient’s preferences, needs and values and making sure that the patient values lead all clinical choices (Quality, n.d.). Being equitable through stipulating care, which does not differ in quality because of personal individualities such as gender, ethnicity, geographic, location and SES (Quality, n.d.). Efficiently operating through preventing waste, incorporating waste equipment, supplies, ideas, and energy (Quality, n.d.). These are all ways to create quality in a health care organization for...
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...ACID HYDROLYSIS OF INTACT MYOGLOBIN Francine Nicole M. Lim, Mikko Edison P. Maniego, Lea C. Maomay, Kyle Mendoza, Meg Joen F. Misa, Sharra Jessamine Pasia ABSTRACT Myoglobin functions as an storage protein for oxygen. Hydrolysis is done primarily to obtain information about the protein. The myoglobin extracted was brownish red in color. The isolated protein was subjected to autoclaving for five hours at 15 psi. After autoclaving, the resultant solution was clear and colorless. The acid component (HCl) added prior to autoclaving was neutralized by the addition of a base, 1-molar NaOH. The neutralized acid hydrolysate was used for characterization tests and chromatography. INTRODUCTION Proteins, from the Greek proteios, meaning first, are a class of organic compounds which are present in and vital to every living cell. In the form of enzymes, hormones, antibodies, and globulins, they catalyze, regulate, and protect the body chemistry. In the form of hemoglobin, myoglobin and various lipoproteins, they effect the transport of oxygen and other substances within an organism.(1) Myoglobin is an extremely compact heme protein found primarily in cardiac and red skeletal muscles. It functions in the storage of oxygen and facilitates the transport of oxygen to the mitochondria for oxidative phosphorylation. (2) Hydrolysis is performed to obtain information about the said protein. (3) It is a process in which the compound reacts with water leading to its decomposition...
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...会计期中考试复习资料（自备） Chapter1 What’s assets? 什么是资产 P2 Assets may be defined as items of value owned by the business or owed to the business. Such as cash, buildings, motor cars, land, money What’s liabilities? 什么是负债？P4 Liabilities are amounts of money owed by the business. Such as creditors or accounts payable, a mortgage, a loan and a bank overdraft. What’s accounting equation? 什么是会计等式？ P5 The relationship between assets, liabilities and owner’s equity is highlighted by the accounting equation. Assets=liabilities + owner’s equity A=L+OE Chapter2 What’s double entry bookkeeping？ 什么是复式记账法？ P18 Processing transactions in accounting is done by what is called double entry recording. A+E=L+OE+R Debits=credits A=assets E=expenses L=liabilities OE=owner’s equity R=revenue What’s debits and credits? 什么是存储卡和信用卡？ Debits (left-side entries) increase assets and decrease liabilities and equities. Credits (right-side entries) increase liabilities and equities and decrease assets. The debit(DR) and the credit (CR) rules are as follow：P19 Accounting element on which side is an increase recorded? On which side is a decrease recorded? | Assets Debit side Credit side Expense Debit side Credit side Liabilities Credit side Debit side Owner’s equity Credit side Debit...
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...Chapter 1: 1. What are the six different properties of materials that determine their applicability? 2. State the four components that are involved in design, production, and utilization of materials. How are they related? 3. State the three criteria that are important in the materials selection process. 4. State the classification of solid materials. Chapter2: 1. What is atomic number and atomic mass? 2. What are isotopes? 3. Explain the two models of the atom: Bohr atomic model and wave-mechanical model 4. What are the four quantum numbers? 5. Know how to write electron configurations for the first 20 elements in the periodic table. 6. What are the valence electrons? 7. Define electronegativity. How does it vary across a period and down a group? 8. Know the concept of bond forces and energies. Know the equations. 9. Define ionic, covalent, and metallic bonding. 10. What are secondary or van der Walls bonding? Chapter 3: 1. What is a crystalline solid? Are metallic solids crystalline? 2. What is a unit cell? Draw unit cells for FCC, BCC, HCP. 3. Know the properties of the crystal structures for the FCC, BCC, HCP. How many atoms per unit cell, relationship between edge length (a) and atomic radius (R), the APF, etc. 4. Know how to make density computations. 5. Know the crystallographic directions and planes. Know how to draw directions and construct planes. Know how to determine indices for the direction and Miller indices for the plane. 6. Study...
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