...Introduction Tony Jackson was first employed in the office of a building society on a Youth Training Scheme but left after two years because there was no permanent position available. However, nine months later due to a continual rapid growth in business a new position was created and Tony applied and got the job. Tony was given high recommendation by Mary Rogers the branch manager, and she even told her staff that she always got on well with him and he seemed very bright, and was always cooperative. Previously, when Tony was on the Training Scheme, Jane Taylor was employed as a cashier and assistant with mortgage advance accounts. She had been with the company for four years. However two weeks prior to Jackson’s return to the organisation Mary Rogers the branch manager promoted her to senior branch assistant without any form of supervisory training. Two months later Jane is experiencing problems with Tony Jackson and she thinks it’s a personality clash. Tony Jackson is not cooperating with Jane and embarrasses other members of staff when they are serving customers Although Jane draws the problems she is experiencing with Tony to Mary’s attention she does nothing about it. Three months later things have escalated between Jane and Tony and his attitude is getting worse Problem Statement In the branch office of the Building Society several problems exist. After careful analysis, one can conclude that the core problem is lack of effective Leadership. This issue gives...
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...Island Life Case Study 1. Identify and briefly justify the core problem (major internal weakness) faced by Island Life Insurance. The core problem lays in the marketing concept i.e. the Product concept undertaken does not suit the industry in which the company is in. This can be seen where the company focuses mainly on quality and continuous improvement with little promotion. Since insurance is an unsought good, promotion is highly needed, yet there is limited promotion and no marketing department. 2. Suggest a marketing strategy to increase sales at Island Life. The marketing strategy should identify the target market and the marketing mix. Briefly justify each element of the marketing strategy. The marketing strategy that should be implemented holds a selling concept; this concept can increase sales by developing a strong promotional strategy as well an established marketing department, which can be highly effective once the promotional budget is well planned. Although the company has a target market of mainly males who hold 52.5% of the population, the company is not capitalizing out on the other 47.5% of women who can attribute highly to increase sales; therefore insurance should be sold to persons who need insurance and the target market focuses on persons between 25-65 years of age. Along with the right marketing concept and a readjusted target market, the marketing mix would be as follows: Product High quality should be continued in order to maintain existing...
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...impacting peoples’ life and company’s profitability. For many businesses a small deviation from normal weather patterns can adversely affect their financial performance. Recent events around the world highlight the increasing volatility of the weather and how they can impair the economy. Although the majority of businesses are exposed to weather risks, many are still failing to adequately identify...
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...American Family Life Assurance Company is a fortune 500 company that was started by three brothers in 1955. The company is known for pioneering the supplemental insurance industry and was also the first insurance industry to offer a cancer policy. These major accomplishments all came about due to the Amos brother’s personal life experience with their father, whom after having worked several years and retired from a well-established company that offered great benefits, was still unable to pay his bills, after being diagnosed with cancer. As is the case with most families that have someone battling cancer, the surmounting cost of cancer treatment can put a severe strain on the family and cause the family to seek other means of covering health costs such as: savings accounts, loans, employers or friends. This ordeal propelled the brothers into wanting to help others and therefore, started their own health and life insurance company which is better known today as AFLAC. At the end of the first full year of operation, the company 6,426 policies and just over $388,00 in total assets (NATC,13). Since the 1950’s the company has seen significant growth due to it’s continued dedication to providing products that are needed and service that is unsurpassed. In 1964, Paul Amos introduced “cluster selling,” a virtually new concept in insurance marketing.”(NATC, 13) By the mid sixties the company was selling insurance in 11 states and covered 37 states by the 1970s. The company continued...
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...1) Questions 1-2 Choose the correct letters, A, B, or C. Example: What nursery school registration option does the woman choose? A Half-day B Full-day C Full-day plus after school care 1 What is the woman’s husband’s nationality? A Swiss B Swedish C Swazi 2 How is a child’s personal education number normally received? A By post B By e-mail C Picked up from the school Question 3 Choose the correct letters, A, B, or C. 3 Why is the husband out of town? A Vacation B Work C Family reasons Question 4 Choose three letters, A-F 4 Which THREE pieces of information are required to retrieve the child’s personal education number? A The woman’s Personal Insurance Number B The husband’s Personal Insurance Number C The woman’s National Insurance Number D The husband’s National Insurance Number E The woman’s name F The husband’s name Question 5 Choose the correct letters, A, B, or C. 5 How is the husband’s name spelt? A Erick B Eric C Erik Questions 6-7 Choose the correct letters, A, B,...
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...Summary: Our group decided to work with Walt Disney Company for operating a theme park in Taiwan. After doing some research on Taiwan local culture and environment it really helps us to know more about this “Treasure Island” which is the place that we decided to operate business. At first of course we were doing some research about our partner Walt Disney Company. As we know this huge company does have an intention to consider Taiwan as viable location to import their company product for long time ago. Taiwan’s island population concentration of 641.24 km2, which is only second to Bangladesh’s 1,101.2 km2, would cause great desire to have the Disneyland and Resorts, especially in the southern part of Taiwan which is where all the good beaches reside. For the Geographical setting of Taiwan, we found that it have both advantage and drawback for us when operating a theme park business here. Advantage is Taiwan is a small island which means the entire Taiwanese or tourist that came to Taiwan may easily come to visit our theme park, unlike Japan or United States; tourist might not easily or have no time to visit every single place in those big countries. But on the other hands, we also might not able to find an suitable huge place to held theme park in such a small island, especially these place already have plenty of theme park as well. For aware this challenge, we have a good strategy to resolve it, that is take over or work with one of the local theme park, the details strategy...
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...moment, scientists have the right to clone a human if they wanted to. While some believe that, we should not ban cloning in the United States, there are also many that believe that we should, and I am one of them. Within this paper, I will explain my view in order to plead my case that human cloning is unethical and inhumane. Human Cloning, Is it Ethical Human cloning is and has been the subject of moral debate in the United States and around the world, and because of this it has raised many ethical questions. One thing that I do have in common with our previous president Bush is his principle that it is unethical to create human life for destroying it. I never thought about human cloning and its relevance until I watched the movie, called The Island. The Island is a sci-fi action thriller that reportedly cost about $120 million to make. Its powerful message is against creating human life in a laboratory and it truly came through loud and clear despite the ingenious and noisy special effects. The Island tells the story of a government-funded billion-dollar laboratory hidden in the Arizona desert in 2019 where scientists do cloning on a mass scale. They sell $5 million "insurance policies" to rich people who want to live forever by buying replacement body parts. The scientists agree to follow ethical guidelines in their cloning, and falsely...
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...BA 310 Case Study #1 In any business instances whether it be directly dealing with money, or any type of contract or agreement it is imperative to have trust between the two parties. This is to ensure that the process is successful and handled correctly. In the case study Madoff gained an insane amount of investors by promising them they would have a guaranteed return on their investment. Later on, the investors figured out that the money they invested was in fact put towards a fake company resulting in no return on the investment after all. Greed is very apparent in this study as shown all throughout the case. Greed is the obsessive desire to want money far beyond the basic survival and comfort. This definition sums up Madoff and his ill intentions completely. Ponzi schemes are still very prevalent in today’s society. Although the consequences of the scheme are very harsh and scary, the con artist still believe they are able to come out with a better outcome if they follow through with the scheme. Ponzi scheme’s are a form of fraud in which belief in the success of a nonexistent enterprise is fostered by the payment of quick returns to the first investors from money invested by later investors. Charles Ponzi first introduced the Ponzi scheme to the American public. Simplicity] is the trait that seems to make all of this easier and more gullible to believe. There have been several people that attempted to this act of scheming. Martin Frankel...
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...300 Case Studies of Social Media Marketing – An e-guide by Roderick Low of Expeditus Media What is Social Media? Social media is best understood as a group of new kind of online media which share the following characteristics: Participation Social media encourages contributions and feedback from everyone who is interested. It blurs the line between media and audience. Openness Most social media services are open to feedback and participation. They encourage voting, comments and sharing infomation. There are rarely any barriers to accessing and making use of content – password protecting content is frowned on. Conversation whereas traditional media is about “broadcast” (content transmitted or distributed to an audience) social media is better seen as a two-way conversation. Community social media allows communities to form quickly and communicate effectively. Communities share common interests, such as a love of photography, a political issue or a favourite TV show. Connectedness Most kinds of social media thrive on their connectedness, making use of links to other sites, resources and people. Need Inspiration? Now that you know what social media is, do you need any inspiration in getting your social media campaign under way? One of the best way to get inspiration for your organization can use social media is to check out what others are doing. This ebook is intended for anyone who wish wants to start a social media campaign, but will be most useful to people working in...
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...TOPIC HEALTH CARE SYSTEM IN SINGAPORE CASE STUDY PARKWAY HEALTH XXXXXXXX College University of Wales STUDENT ID- Anonymous (XXXX- XXXXX) INDEX 1. Introduction 3 2. Education system 4 3. Healthcare status 5 4. Health care system 5 5. PESTEL analysis 12 6. SWOT analysis 14 7. References 15 INTRODUCTION One of the most prosperous countries in the world was founded just 200 years back. Singapore was founded as a colony by British Empire in 1819. In 1963 it was under Malaysian federation for 2 years but it detached itself from that identity and now is an independent country. Known for the conservatism of its leaders and strong discipline in social controls, Singapore has grown to be one of the most important trading links in the world. Singapore’s port is one of the busiest ports in the world in terms of amount of cargo it handles. The country comprises of Main Island along with 50 small islands and they are linked to Malaysia by bridge and causeway. The location of Singapore is around south eastern Asia, an island between Indonesia and Malaysia. The latitude and longitude coordinates for Singapore are 1 22 N, 103 48 E. With covering a total of 697 sq km, it has land of more than 687sq km and water of somewhere over 10 sq km. It also enjoys a strip of 193 kms of coastline. On the comparison of countries in the world, it lies at 192 rank. The prosperity and the economic importance...
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...A. Summary of Situation The situation that will be evaluated in this analysis will be; is there a region of the United States in which childhood obesity tends to be more prominent? This will be done to show areas in which the Government, insurance companies and healthcare institutions should focus campaigns for healthy living to reduce future healthcare cost. The data that will be utilized to answer this business question will be the percent of children ages ten to seventeen that are overweight or obese in each of the fifty states. The states will then be categorized into their respective regions of East, South, Midwest, and West. It is important to look into the regions to see if there is a trend of obesity within a region, as this region should be the focal point of Government, insurance companies, and healthcare institutions to launch a healthy living campaign. Conducting such campaigns in a region of most need will in the long run, reduce healthcare cost because children will mature into health conscious individual with less preventable diseases. B1. Summary of Data Again the data that will be used in this analysis is the percentage of children ten to seventeen of which are overweight of obese in each of the fifty States and the District of Columbia. The States will then be put into regions to identify a region that shows more overweight or obese children. The data for this analysis will come from “The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation (Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation...
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...law as well. In other words, the employee is bound by rules and regulations at his workplace and it could be liable for a penalty or punishment in case of violation of any kind. The employer is also bound to provide certain workplace conditions to the employees and the employer needs to give clear instructions to his employees to avoid errors. Thus both employee and employer should perform their part of duty in the best interest of the business and attract more customers. In Longmeid v. Holliday, the distinction is recognized between an act of negligence imminently dangerous to the lives of others, and one that is not so. In the former case, the party guilty of the negligence is liable to the party injured, whether there be a contract between them or not; in the latter, the negligent party is liable only to the party with whom he contracted, and on the ground that negligence is a breach of the contract (6 Ex 761, 155 ER 752). Every man who, by his culpable negligence, causes the death of another, although without intent to kill, is guilty of manslaughter. (2 R. S. 662, § 19.) A chemist who negligently sells laudanum in a phial labeled as paregoric, and thereby causes the death of a person to whom it is administered, is guilty of manslaughter. (Tessymond’s case, 1 Lewin's Crown Cases, 169.) “So highly does the law value human life, which it admits of no justification...
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...universe—a captivating other world. By the time she was 7 she would smuggle it into school and engage it secretly under her desk. By 15 the visions of The Device—a girl entering a ballroom, a man dying on the battlefield—seemed more real than her actual adolescent life. She would sit with it, motionless, oblivious to everything around her, for hours on end. Its addictive grip was so great that she often stayed up half the night, unable to put it down. Reading the words, “She would sit with it, motionless, oblivious to everything around her for hours on end,” in most cases that is the harsh...
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...Abstract This paper address the challenges to determine what parts of the Affordable Care Act can apply to Puerto Rico and the impacting the Medicare, Medicare patient services and employees. Most of the people in the island think that the Affordable Care Act is giving more security and help to address the existing disparities in the healthcare system. With the new Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act, the insurance companies can no longer drop the coverage if one becomes sick, bill individual into bankruptcy because of an annual or lifetime limit, and they will not be able to discriminate against anyone with a pre existing condition. Most of the Medicare and Medicaid community suffers do to the imbalance in our healthcare system this situation affects the quality of care and places a financial strain on the government, individuals and families, employers and employees, and public and private providers. Most of the Medicare beneficiaries have to enroll in the MA program to help them to succeed and receive the adequate treatments without MA to help the disadvantaged seniors on the island, Puerto Rico's elderly citizens will be forced to turn to Mi Salud in larger numbers. Although Mi Salud is scheduled to receive an average of $690 million annually during the next five years, the widening deficit in MA funding is likely to create a net negative impact on federal funding for healthcare in Puerto Rico. The Health care Policies and Issues Ethical concerns and issues ...
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...have a master's degree. A term paper in a human resources management degree program can cover a wide variety of industry topics. Labor Relations Labor relations is a major focus area for human resources management students. If you are interested in writing a term paper on labor/employee relations, you can concentrate on the area of conflict resolution or explain the value of integrative bargaining--which is more cooperative--versus distributive bargaining, which is more competitive. You additionally could write about current issues and changing trends in employment laws that cover fair labor standards, pension funds and Occupational Health and Safety Administration requirements, according to the University of Rhode Island. In addition, you can evaluate case studies on collective bargaining and explore the functions of the National Labor Relations Board and state labor boards. Diversity A popular human resources management term paper topic is diversity in the workplace, according to DeVry University. Your paper could identify ways to create a nondiscriminative and productive workplace and highlight how to handle issues related to ethnicity, social class, military background, religion, marital status, parental status and sexual orientation. The paper can highlight the importance of maintaining a diverse workplace to help a company compete globally, as well as strategies to...
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