...Big business and machine Edward Abbey’s 1975 novel The Monkey Wrench Gang presents four lawless protagonists’ eco-sabotage against overdevelopment carried by big business corporations. Abbey introduces necessary consequence of the corporations and capitalism on nature, showing that the damage they cause is higher than the benefits they produce. Encouraging resistance to global capital, he inspires direct protection of the threatened natural environment. The recurring motif, the resemblance of machine and big business corporations, throughout the novel serves to reflect Abbey’s argument that monkeywrenching should be directed toward machines and capitalism. Abbey employs an allegory of transnational corporations to foreground his opposition to capitalism. When Doc, Smith, Bonnie, and Hayduke see the industrial wastes of the Black Mesa coal mine, Doc responds with an image of monster, “The whole conglomerated cartel spread out upon half the planet Earth like a global kraken, pan tentacles, wall-eyed and parrot-beaked, its brain a bank of computer data centers, its blood the flow of money, its heart a radioactive dynamo, its language the technetronic monologue of number imprinted on magnetic tape” (172). In the description, coal mining operation for energy production is linked through global capital to big business corporation. Doc reflects on the size and the destructive power of the operation as compared to the “Kraken” of Scandinavian myth that dwells at the bottom of the sea...
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...Women take on traditional male roles such as factory workers, business owners, and even replacing male athletes in some circumstances. Yet all the while, they are still to support their men while they are off fighting. The Japanese version of support, much darker than what most history books let on, is that of a “comfort” woman. These women undergo horrors that many soldiers do not even dream of facing. Kkutaeh supports the war effort as a comfort woman, but she is also Doc’s first “sheep”; she is not given a choice whether she wants to be in his flock or not, but Doc cares for her nonetheless. He provides her with sufficient amounts of food, medical attention, and even protects her from most of the “predators” of the camp. Doc even goes far enough to fantasize about their future as shepherd and sheep: “I stayed awake until almost morning, thinking of other places you might like to see” (Lee 256). Doc perpetrates a delusional destiny that involves the two of them because he sees her as being able to provide to him a stable and happy life. He believes that because he brings her daily rations, takes care of her health needs, and allows her to survive adequately in a hostile environment, that she will love him for fulfilling those basic needs of which otherwise she would deprived in that in infernal environment. The shepherd in him imagines a future for them...
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...'ethnicity'. For over fifty years, part of Australia ‘cultural issue' has been solved by implementing a rule of elimination. Australia changes their approach and at last discarded it in the late 1960s to enlarge its people after World War 2. From this environment, acceptance of a 'cultural diversity' guiding principle in 1970s was a past removal of the preceding procedure. Within the fundamental nature, cultural diversity not only evidenced and showed the growing multiculturalism of the country but as well as to hold and form it. Therefore, definition of “Multiculturalism promotes the integration of ethnic acceptance and respect for cultural diversity, community harmony and inclusion.” is true. Skilled labour is any worker who has acquired certain skill in their job or may have attended a college or technical school. An example of a skilled labour job is carpenters. Unskilled worker is a worker who has not acquired special skill or proficiency. If there is a shortage of migrant skills, the immigration restores the difference among labour supply and demand with no affect on local pay (Shah & Burke, 2005). The purpose of this report provides the reader a better understanding on the impact of multicultural environment to business communication practices in Australia. The outlines of this report are the three factors that affect the migrants settling in Australia that is economic,...
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...the most effective tools for analysing external environment of an organisation is PEST ANALYSIS. 1.POLITICAL FACTORS: These factors affect the organisation in many ways. Depending on the situation, these factors can generate opportunities for organisation or may be disadvantages too by imposing taxes and duties. Indian political system is going through various changes. In India, FMCG market can be categorised into rural and urban. Rural sector is mainly dependant on agriculture as its main source of living is with generally lower penetration levels and more unorganised part. Whereas, urban sector has high penetration levels and more spending power. That is why rural sector was the main area of focus for government for development in the recent past. There were many schemes run by government to generate employment and major investments were made in infrastructure development. Because of all this, there was an increase in disposable income level in rural sector and hence rise in FMCGs demand. (<http://www.hul.co.in/>) HUL has its own set standards to deal with political issues. It applies its rapport and experience to deal and negotiate with government, at both national and international level, to make changes in the regulations and policies. It does not actively take part in politics but only lobbying. It never sponsors any government parties, as the main motive is to build favourable and smooth environment for business. (<http://www.codewit.com/Pestel_Analysis.pdf>) ...
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...William Raftery Competing In Global Business Environment Dr. Nina Aversano July 11, 2010 Case 1- Malawi Business Decision Against Corruption Corruption is not just the clearly “bad” cases of government officials skimming off money for their own benefit. It includes cases where the systems don’t work well, and ordinary people are left in a bind, needing to give a bribe for the medicine or the Licenses they need. Even if you don’t come direct with corruption it is still affects everyone. Corruption reduces wealth in a country because it will disclose business from operating there. In countries with high level of corruption like Malawi has a level of average income three times lower then your average country as ours being one of them. This hurts business because even if you think you can get around the corruption the government cant either because they now have lower cash flow to pay the good workers and purchase suppliers. Corruption as a whole harms the environment and undermines trust in government. So for a company operating in international surrounding with corrupt business practices I think is a huge problem and even though it is just an acceptable way of doing business in some parts of the world not something I would put my business into. For this case we see a company take the negative effects of corruption that are readily apparent and were willing to abstain from corrupt practice to make a personal gain from them. We see that corruption is widespread in Malawi...
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...planes, they used several different legacy software packagesinstalled over years. The system weren’t able to interact with one another or with finance or inventory. 2. The inefficiencies of the system were costing Jet Airways the time of its engineers and money thatcould have been used on maintain its planes, instead of needlessly maintaining excess costs. Q 2.How does Citrix Systems’ improve operational efficiency and decision -making? Ans 2. The benefits of Citrix Presentation Server that interested Jet Airways were enhanced and fasterdelivery of business-critical application to local and international users, timelier decision making andincreased operational efficiencies, superior service levels and significantly lower IT administration costs.2. PresentationServer with its inherent centralization capabilities facilities application delivery andinformation available in a timely manner.3. Instant access to business critical application helps management to take faster decision on criticalbusiness aspect of running the airline.4. By providing relevant authenticated user IDs, users are able to access application as and whenrequired. Q3.Give examples of three decision supported by the Citrix system. What information does thesystem provide to support each of these decisions?Ans 1. Implementing Citrix Presentation Server for centralized application management .About 300 concurrent users across all domestic and international location access all domestic andinternational locations...
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...company. View the link Public Companies for a comprehensive list of publicly traded companies.) 2. Identify/ create/ build a Marketing Mix for this product as it is today. 3. Discuss any potential ethical or social responsible issues that could arise from the marketing of this product. Your post should be written about the marketing activities of a well-known consumer product, not services (like insurance, storage, or banking), not automobiles/ jets or any other industrial product. Select a well-known consumer company/product that comes in a box/ bottle/ can/ etc. (like Corn Flakes, M&M, Hershey Kisses, Welch's Grape Jelly) to demonstrate the marketing concepts we will study. You will usually find a great deal of marketing/ business information...
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...DDBA 8160: Business Strategy and Innovation Student Support and Calendar Information: So that you have all key information available to you offline, it is highly recommended that you print out the following items for your reference: * This Syllabus * Term Calendar * Instructor and Student Support Info Course Number and Title DDBA 8160: Business Strategy and Innovation Credits 3 credits Catalog Description This course focuses on the development and implementation of business strategies that enable competitive advantage, with an emphasis on understanding the current environment and innovation in which the organization competes and forecasting how that environment may change. Course assignments focus on the practical application of writing and critical-thinking skills and the integration of professional practice at the doctoral level. Learning Objectives Stated in Terms of Learning Outcomes By the end of this course, you will be able to: * Demonstrate an understanding of the evolution of traditional concepts of strategic management and thinking, including models of business-level competitive advantage * Evaluate contemporary challenges to traditional strategic management and thinking models * Apply systems-thinking principles to the framing and analysis of business problems and opportunities * Develop innovative business strategies designed to achieve sustainable solutions * Synthesize principles of sustainable strategic management...
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...Unit 38: Business and the Economic Environment - Edexcel https://www.edexcel.com/.../Unit%2038%20Business%20and%20the%20... P4 explain how both fiscal and monetary policy decisions have affected a selected business. [IE]. M2 analyse the effects of fiscal and monetary policies for a. [DOC]Unit_39, Anon - VOCBUS https://vocbus.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/natunit39assignmentanon.doc Describe the effect on a selected business of variations in economic activity ... Outline how both fiscal and monetary policy decisions have affected a selected. [PDF]Unit 38: Business and the Economic Environment fc.nbvlc.org.uk/.../Unit%2038%20Business%20and%20the%20Economi... P4 explain how both fiscal and monetary policy decisions have affected a selected business. [IE]. M2 analyse the effects of fiscal and monetary policies for a. [DOC]GNVQ Part One ICT - BTEC Business btecbusiness.weebly.com/uploads/6/8/7/.../business_unit_38_btec_d.doc Analyse the implications of government policies for a selected business. D1 ... Explain how both fiscal and monetary policy decisions have affected a selected ... Explain how fiscal and monetary policy decisions have ... https://www.stuvia.com/.../explain-how-fiscal-and-monetary-policy-decis... 26 May 2014 - Explain how fiscal and monetary policy decisions have affected a selected business. Stuvia · United Kingdom · Ealing, Hammersmith and West ... How Fiscal Policy and Monetary Policy Affect the Economy ... education-portal.com/.../how-fiscal-policy-and-monetary-policy-affect-t...
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...Ch 3 Strategy 06.08.02 version 2.doc 06.08.02 Chapter 3. Strategy1 By Marylynn Placet and Kristi M. Branch The word “strategy” has been in use since Sun Tzu wrote the Art of War in the fourth century B.C. (Sun Tzu 1971). Sun Tzu wrote, of course, about military strategy. The literature on corporate strategy, which emerged in the 1950s and 1960s (Chandler 1962; Ansoff 1965; Learned et al. 1965) is vast and continues to grow at an astonishing rate. Strategic management – the way in which a firm identifies its strategic direction and aligns its operational processes to its strategy – has become an academic discipline in its own right, like marketing and finance (Mintzberg et al. 1998:18; Rumelt et al. 1994:15). In essence, strategy has to do with understanding where an organization will go in the future and how it will get there. Most academicians and corporate managers believe strategy affects the overall welfare of the corporation, and strategy making is an important activity, though a few believe firms are better off without a strategy (see Inkpen and Choudhury 1995). Many who believe strategy is important, however, find fault with the ability of formalized strategic planning processes to deal adequately with the pace of change facing organizations in today’s environment. The disruptive changes created by revolutionary technologies (including communication and information processing technologies), globalization, and new business methods can turn an organization’s...
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...Labor Unions formed to help their members fight for the job descriptions they wanted and felt they deserved. They wanted no more of these terrible conditions. Some of the labor unions’ main goals were to raise wages, decrease the hours worked, and improve the safety of the work environment. The Historical Statistics of the United States (Doc A) shows how the labor unions were successful. These stats show how with more and more years, average working hours decreases and the average wages increase. This is mainly because of the work that the labor unions did. Before these unions, the hours and wages were not in favor of the workers, but as the unions developed, the numbers got closer to what the workers wanted. The purpose of this chart is to simply show the trends that were occurring with the wages and hours as time went on. The logger of these states was trying to inform the citizens of the U.S., any viewers of this chart, of the differences that had occurred. The workers were thrilled with the lowering wages and the changes that had occurred. The...
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...Table of Content Page Introduction......................................................................................... 3 Literature review................................................................................. 4-6 Background of Nippon Express........................................................ 7 Description of logistics operation...................................................... 8-11 Challenges of Nippon Express........................................................... 12-13 Recommendations............................................................................... 14 Personal Reflection.............................................................................. 15 Conclusion............................................................................................ 16 Reference.............................................................................................. 17-18 Introduction Logistics is the art and science of management, engineering and technical activities concerned with requirements, design and supplying, maintaining resources to support objectives, plans and operation. [Society of logistics engineers (SOLE) 1974] INBOUND LOGISTICS Inbound side of logistics includes procurement or purchasing inventory management activities. It is important to note that the inbound and...
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...loyal customer base, a strong service ethic, a profitable and well positioned store portfolio, a strong Balance Sheet, robust cashflows and a high dividend payout ratio - all of which position the Company well to leverage the many opportunities that exist for future growth outlined below. DESPITE ITS STRENGTHS THE COMPANY FACES CHALLENGES • • • Structural Changes – the internet is globalising & changing retailing; Macro Economic Headwinds –retail sales have been flat and rents, labour, utilities & financing costs are increasing; Challenging Australian Consumer Credit Markets - the Company’s card portfolio is exposed to prevailing weak discretionary retail spending. This could result in a halving of EBIT contribution from this business in FY14 when the alliance with American Express converts to a share of underlying profits. DAVID JONES WILL ADDRESS THESE CHALLENGES & GROW VIA A “3 POINT STRATEGY” 1. Transformation: The Company is in the process of transforming: • into an Omni Channel Retailer (OCR) modelled on international department store best practice. The Company is investing in technology and realigning its processes & structures. The Company will increase its online SKUs from 9,000 to 90,000 before Christmas 2012. Its OCR offering will integrate the shopping experience across sales channels (i.e. physical stores, web-store, mobile applications, contact centre, social commerce platforms) to enable customers to choose how and when they engage with David...
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...industrial boom in the Gilded age, America had previously finished the Civil War and began the period of Reconstruction to fix the destroyed south while throughout this period the North expanded its industrial size. Throughout the period from 1865 to 1900 the American Government was in a large part isolationism, meaning that America's government was not investing in other nations ordeals. The isolationism policy helped foster improvements in American society and industrialization. America's Industrialization also sparked a large economic boom in addition that Americans moved to Urban environments. Industrialization in American society marks the the beginning of America's large manufacturing industry and less reliance on...
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...The Progressives were set on reforming many of these issues including poor food quality, unsafe child labor, and no women’s suffrage. The Progressives used the different aspects of media to share the issues and gain support. Due to the major industrialization and urbanization during the Industrial Era, there were millions of immigrants and unemployed citizens that were living in poverty. Due to this, they were forced to live in unhealthy, overcrowded tenements (Doc. 1). Another issue prior to the Progressive Movement was unsafe food and meat quality. Before the Progressive movement, there were no food regulation laws such as the Pure Food and Drug Act or the Meat Inspection Act. (Docs. 3 and 6). Additional issues prior to the Movement were child labor and women’s suffrage. Children were working in extremely hazardous working conditions (Doc. 4). Women still had not received the right to vote. (Doc. 7). All these issues were targeted by the...
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