...“LAST TRAIN HOME” A CASE STUDY OF THE CHINESE RURAL MIGRANT WORKER Introduction China's massive population has always been a major difficulty for the government as it has struggled to provide for it. The major economic changes of China in the last decade have brought on new and different economic and social challenges. Some of these issues are depicted in the documentary film “Last Train to China.” The purpose of this paper is to discuss some of these points that the film brings to light and see how they affect China today. Media reports on social and economic conditions in China present a contradictory picture. The cliché that hundreds of millions of people have been 'lifted out of poverty' is repeated again and again, alongside lurid accounts of worsening social problems which threaten to engulf the country in conflict. Both of these claims have a basis in fact. Most people, not only the rising class of millionaires, have gained materially as a result of China's huge increase in GDP. However, because of the increased role of the influence of the market and the breakdown of socialist institutions, this added wealth has been accompanied by many damaging effects such as mass unemployment, inhumane and dangerous working conditions, and inadequate health care. Some of these effects and the consequent breakdown of the traditional Chinese social structures, especially in the rural areas are seen in real life in the “Last Train”, and will be analyzed in this paper. ...
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... Page A. Executive summery ............. 1 B. Contents 1 – Introduction ............. 2 2 – Main body A- PESTE analysis of China ............. 3 B- Opportunities and threats of China ............ 5 C- HR issues and challenges of China and Wales ............. 5 I-HR issues of China ……… 5 II-HR Challenges of China ………. 8 III-HR issues of Wales ……….. 8 IV-HR Challenges of Wales ………… 9 3 – Recommendations ............. 10 4 - Action plane a. For Home Country (England) .............. 11 b. For Host Country (China) ………… 13 5 – Conclusion ............. 15 6 - References ............ 15 A. Executive Summary – The British establishment i.e. Burberry has decided to close its Wales unit...
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...McDonald's SWOT analysis and recommendations SWOT Analysis: 1. Strengths: - Strong brand name, image and reputation McDonalds has built up huge brand equity. It is the no 1 fast food company by sales, with more than 31,000 restaurants serving burgers and fries in almost 120 countries. The image of McDonalds is recognized everywhere. This brand is in top ten of the most powerful brand names in the world with Coca-Cola, Nokia or GM. - Large market share McDonalds is considered as the largest player in size and global reach. When Wendy’s or Burgers King are losing market share in 2006, McDonalds still increases its market share. Market share of McDonalds in the recent time is about 19% while Yum!Brands is 9% and both Wendy’s and Burger King is 2%. - Specialized training for managers McDonalds is very serious on training managers. This company has its own program to train managers the most professionally, which is called Hamburger University. As a result, McDonalds has many good managers who can help company development well. - McDonalds Plan to Win McDonalds customer – focused Plan to Win provide a common framework for its global business yet allows for local adaptation. Through the execution of initiatives surrounding the five elements of its Plan to Win – People, Products, Place, Price and Promotion – McDonalds has enhanced the restaurant experience for customers worldwide and grown comparable sales and customer visits in each of the last eight years. This Plan, combined...
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...served Worldwide Key people Steve Van Andel (Chairman) Doug DeVos (President) Products Amway Home, glister, G&H, Nutrilite, Artistry, AmwayQueen, eSpring, ATMOSPHERE... Revenue US$ 11.3 billion (2012)[1] Employees 20,000[2] Parent Alticor Website Amway.com Headquarters in Ada, Michigan Amway (short for American Way) is an American multinational direct-selling company that sells a variety of products, primarily in the health, beauty, and home care markets to consumers and independent business owners.[3][4][5] Amway was founded in 1959 by Jay Van Andel and Richard DeVos. Based in Ada, Michigan, the company and family of companies under Alticor reported sales of USD$11.3 billion for the year ended December 31, 2012 - the seventh consecutive year of growth for the company.[1] Its product lines include home care products, personal care products, jewelry, electronics, Nutrilite dietary supplements, water purifiers, air purifiers, insurance and cosmetics. Amway conducts business through a number of affiliated companies in more than a hundred countries and territories around the world.[6] Amway was ranked No.114 among the largest global retailers by Deloitte in 2006, and No.25 among the largest private companies in the U.S. by Forbes in 2012.[7] Contents [hide] 1 History 1.1 Founding 1.2 International expansion 1.3 Quixtar 2 Global markets 2.1 Amway Australia 2.2 Amway China 3 Brands 3.1 Household cleaners 3.2 Health and beauty 3.2.1 Artistry 3.3 Nutrilite 3...
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...Engineering the Impossible: A Film Analysis The documentary “Engineering the Impossible” features three ‘impossible’ superstructures that would define the world’s grandest architecture and engineering: Millennium Tower, Freedom Ship, and Gibraltar Bridge. David Nelson, one of the key designers, designed Millennium Tower to be a city within a city, hosting its own hospitals, schools and a range of entertainment and retail options large enough to attract and keep the traffic necessary for the financial success of such an endeavor. Its designers calculate that this structure would represent the best solution to the world’s population explosion. Freedom Ship, designed by Norman Nixon, would be the world’s first mobile community and would house more than 60,000 people whose dream is to travel the world without leaving the comforts of their home. Its passengers would circle the globe within two years with no need of a traveling backpack as the ship would contain all of the features that any modern city might have. Gibraltar Bridge, designed by T.Y. Lin, spanning 9 miles over the Straits of Gibraltar at the entryway to the Mediterranean, would serve as the first modern structure to bridge two continents together, starting from Morocco in Northern Africa to Spain in Southern Europe. According to its designers, the success of such an impressive design is expected to contribute to both of the continents’ tourism industry and economy. On the other hand, engineering the ‘impossible’ would...
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...Bend Nuclear Power Plant and Waterford Nuclear Power Plant, I have heard many different opinions on the topic of nuclear energy. In the last twenty years, the Federal Government has focused on going “green”, to lessen the amount and effects of carbon dioxide emissions. Currently, there are very few options on where we get our power. However, one of these sources is from nuclear power. These words cause many to tremble in fear. Some believe that nuclear power is the most effective way to produce energy. However, just because something is effective, doesn’t necessarily mean that it is worth the risk. This point has raised many questions around the world about whether or not nuclear power is the best source of alternative energy. I have had fears of something happening at River Bend. I have wondered if one day I would have to abandon my home to escape the effects of radiation. I have also wondered if these fears are due to the lack of knowledge that I have on the subject of nuclear power and if nuclear power truly is a safe source of energy. Safety is not the only concern some have when considering nuclear power in the United States. The cost to build a nuclear power plant today is unknown. With that being said, financing a new plant is very difficult to do, and investors are nervous to put money into this source of energy. Cost analysis building a plant makes many believe that nuclear power is not worth the time and/or money. Is nuclear power a safe and efficient alternative...
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...Assignment on Management Practices of \ ___________________________ ACKNOWLEDGEMENT First and fore mostly we would like to thank the Almighty Allah who blessed us with knowledge, understanding and ability to do this report. We are indebted to many people for providing us encouragement and support during our learning and working while making this report and we want to show our gratefulness to these people. We are very much grateful to Ms. SharminAkther, our respected course instructor of MGT101 (Principal of Management), who assigned us this challenging work. She always guided us to take and overcome this challenge successfully. Without her help in every step it was quite impossible for us to finish this report properly in time. We are also grateful to AKM Ahsan Habib, Team leader, Retail Banking and Wealth Management, and Othish Asif Rahman, Relationship Officer HSBC Select for giving us valuable information. Table of Content Topic | Pages | Chapter # I: Introduction | 01-02 | Brief History of HSBC | 01-2 | Chapter # II: Main Body | 03-17 | Management Function * Planning * Organizing * Leading * Controlling | 03-1303-0707-0910-1111-12 | Chapter # III: Conclusion | 12-15 | References | | | | Introduction The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited is a prominent bank established and based in HongKong since 1865 when Hong Kong was occupied by British drug traders and made a colony of the British Empire. It...
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...1.1 Introduction Banking Industry is one of the most promising industries of our country. Bank is a financial institution of any country. The importance of the sector revealed through its contribution in the economic growth of the country. Bank has kept in vital role in economy day by day. Bangladesh‘s economy is surviving to free from the most underdeveloped economics. Banking industry is extending in various activities domestically and globally of the world. Our daily work is easily and fast aspect of transaction. The economic development of our country mainly depend upon the efficiency of the banking results is so far as, whether the bankers have been able to read the economic situation properly and are successful in selecting the promising industrial sectors seeking import and export assistance to grow. Bank can be defined as” a financial intermediate a dealer in loans and debts”. It is support of customers and clients all kinds of transaction through the technology. Bangladesh bank keeps monitoring banks performances. Jamuna Bank Ltd is a commercial private bank of the banking sector in our country it provides excellence services to the customers in short time. They always try to provide better services from other banks. So I have chosen Jamuna Bank because it is very first emergence and inception of modern civilization, Bank plays a pivotal role in case of overall financial & socio-economic development of any modern country. Nearly all sector contributed to the GDP...
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...Sumons INTERNSHIP REPORT ON “Foreign Exchange Activities” of Jamuna Bank Limited at Malibagh Branch,Dhaka Date of Submission April, 2011 STAMFORD UNIVERSITY BANGLADESH INTERNSHIP REPORT ON “Foreign Exchange Activities” of Jamuna Bank Limited PREPARED FOR .................................. .................................. ................................. ................................. PREPARED BY Lutfur Nahar ...................................... Batch: ............................... Program: BBA (Major in Finance) Date of Submission April, 2011 STAMFORD UNIVERSITY BANGLADESH Letter of Transmittal April, 2011 Md. Nur Alam Siddik Senior Lecturer Department Of Business Administration Stamford University Bangladesh Subject: Submission of Internship report on “Foreign Exchange Activities of Jamuna Bank Limited”. Sir, I am honored and pleased to have such a creative report paper which has given me immense pleasure and enhanced my educational knowledge beyond my limit. While preparing this report paper, I had the unique opportunity to deliver my ideas, thoughts, plans as well as myself. I have tried to give my best to follow your instruction, Schedule, Format and Suggestion in every step of our writing. Thanking you and expecting to get cordial acceptance from you. Sincerely yours _____________ Lutfur Nahar Id:03411502 Batch:34-D Major In Finance Stamford University Bangladesh Declaration Of...
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...(c) Bedford/St. Martin's bedfordstmartins.com 1-457-62096-0 / 978-1-457-62096-6 SOUNDS AND IMAGES Movies and the Impact of Images 187 Early Technology and the Evolution of Movies 192 The Rise of the Hollywood Studio System 195 The Studio System’s Golden Age 205 The Transformation of the Studio System 209 The Economics of the Movie Business 215 Popular Movies and Democracy In every generation, a film is made that changes the movie industry. In 1941, that film was Orson Welles’s Citizen Kane. Welles produced, directed, wrote, and starred in the movie at age twenty-five, playing a newspaper magnate from a young man to old age. While the movie was not a commercial success initially (powerful newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst, whose life was the inspiration for the movie, tried to suppress it), it was critically praised for its acting, story, and directing. Citizen Kane’s dramatic camera angles, striking film noir–style lighting, nonlinear storytelling, montages, and long deep-focus shots were considered technically innovative for the era. Over time, Citizen Kane became revered as a masterpiece, and in 1997 the American Film Institute named it the Greatest American Movie of All Time. “Citizen Kane is more than a great movie; it is a gathering of all the lessons of the emerging era of sound,” film critic Roger Ebert wrote.1 CHAPTER 6 ○ MOVIES 185 (c) Bedford/St. Martin's bedfordstmartins.com 1-457-62096-0 / 978-1-457-62096-6 MOVIES A generation later...
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...Under “Western Eyes”: The Personal Odyssey of Huang Fei-Hong in Once upon a Time in China by Tony Williams Rather than being read in exclusively postmodernist terms, Tsui Hark’s series Once upon a Time in China may be understood as a new version of a Hong Kong cinematic discourse involving historical “interflow.” It deals with dispersion, China’s relationship to the outside world, and strategic forms of reintegration designed to strengthen national identity. In Sammo Hung’s Wong Fei Hung Ji Saam (West Territory Mighty Lion/Once upon a Time in China and America, 1997), Master Huang Fei-hong (Jet Li Linjie) travels to the Wild West to visit an American branch of the Po Chi Lam Clinic set up by his student Sol. During the journey, he bangs his head against a rock in a turbulent stream and loses his memory. He is rescued by a friendly tribe of Indians. Moments before we see Huang again, an Indian emerges from a tepee proudly announcing the birth of a child. When Huang recovers, he stumbles around in the Indian camp wearing an Indian costume, and his loose unbraided hair is flowing like an Indian’s. After using his martial arts prowess to defeat a hostile Indian, who ironically mouths racist American platitudes against the outsider—”His clothing is different, his skin color is different, his speech is different”—Huang is adopted into the tribe and given the name “Yellow.” Before this, he attempts to remember events of the recent past. But his vague recollections...
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...Indian cultural and analysis, we find the information that is general in nature, focusing on product categories. Therefore, we will perform the next to parts “Market Audit and Competitive market analysis” and “Preliminary marketing plan”. In part III, “Market Audit and Competitive market analysis”, the data generated in part III are used to determine the extent of adaptation of the company’s marketing mix necessary for successful market entry to the develop the final step, the action plan. This part concludes some evaluations of the products, the description of our market in India. Moreover, we also compare and contrast our “Van Tho” vegetable oil and the competition’s products. We also give some numerous data to easier forecast about this market. In part IV, “Preliminary marketing plan”, we will gather the information from Part I “Cultural analysis” to part III to develop a marketing plan for “Van Tho” vegetable oil in the our target market in India, Mumbai and New Delhi. We would point out the opportunities, threats, strengths, weaknesses to understand what we have and what we have to do next. We also provide the plan of promotion, distribution when we first introduce our “Van Tho” vegetable oil in our target market. Also provided in this paper is other information which is necessary for our plan. This paper can be a market orientation to help our company around company objectives, markets, and the competitive environment. Doing business in home country involves much...
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...FOREWORD At no time during the last three or four decades have the communication skills of individuals in the business world come under closer scrutiny than today. And never before have those who work in the business world needed better, more effective communication skills. The emerging technology appears to be increasing, rather than decreasing, the need for effective communication skills. As more individuals have ready access to desk-top equipment to process written communication, fewer support personnel will be readily available to provide editing assistance. Therefore, welldeveloped communication skills among originators are more important to success than ever before. This book is suitable for several different audiences, including undergraduate and graduate students. The organization of this manual is a logic sequence of chapters including both business communication and correspondence. The first part is dedicated to business communication and the second to business correspondence. The special features found in this edition are: 1. Examples of effective letter writing. Studies have shown students studying written business communication can learn as much, if not more, from ineffective examples of written communication as they do from effective examples. 2. Varied application problems in the writing-oriented chapters. The number of problems has been increased. While the majority of problems require the writing of a letter or report, some are designed...
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...demise of the domestic carrier Little Red joins a string of the entrepreneur’s failures from makeup to bridalwear to alcohol • Virgin Atlantic axes Little Red * Share * * * inShare0 * Email * ------------------------------------------------- * ------------------------------------------------- Gwyn Topham, transport correspondent * ------------------------------------------------- The Guardian, Monday 6 October 2014 18.19 BST Sir Richard Branson hands out free cans of Virgin Cola in downtown Tokyo. Sales of the brand lost fizz against the might of Coca-Cola and Pepsi.Photograph: EPA Sir Richard Branson has made a fortune from a string of business ventures that bear his signature brand, including Virgin Trains and Virgin Media. But Little Red joins a series of failures that have seen Branson fail to break into lucrative markets including soft drinks and alcohol. Virgin Cola Launched in 1994, Virgin Cola was initially available only on Virgin planes and in Virgin cinemas before Branson sought wider distribution. “It tasted better than Coke. For one wonderful year we had the dream of Virgin Cola being the brand on everyone’s lips.” Instead, Branson claimed, “swat teams and bagfuls of money” sent from Coke’s Atlanta headquarters gobbled up his drink, whose market share peaked at 0.5% in the three years it was on sale in the US. In 2012, the UK producer went bust and no one else acquired the licence. Virgin Vodka A complementary spirit was born at...
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...lay_man Says @Cricaddict- By this point you mean that average age of population is less than 22 years or there is some typo mistake? Sorry to barge in but i could not understand this line Yes avg age of population, for yemen - 17.9, syria - 21.5, egypt - 22 or 23 yrs.. in general a very young population and umemployed, so frustration and anger.. thats why the uproar.. @layman updated.. S.P. Jain Institute of Management & Research PGDM Finance Class of 2014 | CAT'11 - 99.04%le QuoteReply. Like . Share 3 cricaddict Reply #22 03:44 PM, 10 Mar '12 Limits of Foreign Direct Investment in various sectors in India :: Non-Banking Financial Com-panies (NBFC) : 100% Petroleum Refining (Private Sector) : 100% Petroleum Product Marketing : 100% Oil Exploration : 100% Petroleum Product Pipelines : 100% Housing and Real Estate : 100% Power : 100% Drugs & Pharmaceuticals : 100% Road, Highways, Ports and harbours : 100% Hotel & Tourism : 100% Electricity : 100% Pharmaceuticals : 100% Transportation infrastructure : 100% Tourism : 100% Mass transit : 100% Pollution control : 100% Mining (Mining of gold and silver and minerals other than diamonds and precious stones) : 100% Advertising : 100% Films : 100% Mass Rapid Transport Systems : 100% Pollution Control & Management : 100% Special Economic Zones : 100% Air Transport Services (Domestic Airlines) : 100% for NRIs 49% for Others Single Brand...
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