...A 21st Century Model Of The Sun The visible surface of the Sun is called the photosphere. This is the region of the Sun where energy produced in its core can finally escape the star, and fly off into space. It reaches a temperature of almost 6,000 degrees Kelvin, and gives the Sun its white/yellow appearance. | | | | | Perhaps the most familiar feature on the surface of the Sun are sunspots. These are relatively cooler regions on the surface of the Sun, where its magnetic field lines pierce the surface of the Sun. Sunspots can be the source of solar flares and coronal mass ejections. core The Earth core is the innermost, hottest part of the planet that has been detected by seismological study. It is a primarily solid sphere about 1,220 km in radius. It is thought to be made up of an iron-nickel alloy with a temperature similar to the surface of the Sun (5,778 K). The make-up of the inner core can be deduced from the abundant chemical elements in the solar system. There are two layers to the core * Inner unconnected * Outer The existence of an inner core distinct from the liquid outer core was discovered in 1936 using observations of seismic waves that partly reflect from its boundary. The outer core was believed to be liquid due to its inability to transmit elastic shear waves. It only allows compressional waves to pass through it. The solidity of the inner core has been difficult to establish, because the elastic shear waves that are expected...
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...This paper was prepared in support of the Baker College’s Mission, Guiding Principles, and online learning Model in how Baker College's commitment to its mission influence on an instructor; and how the 11 Guiding Principles set the foundation and the culture for Baker College; finally, how the Online Learning Model (OLM) fosters rigorous expectations, a high level of engagement, and a strong commitment for success in the online learning environment. There are many evidences that the professional development at Baker College is a priority of the school leaders. Professional development is receiving greater attention in all areas, for example, both adjunct and full time faculty from all programs get a mandatory first year faculty development....
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...The twelve guiding principles for instituting variable team-based pay structures within organization are: First principle, goals should cover areas that team members can directly affect, meaning compensation will not motivate employees unless there is a direct line of sight between performance and results. Second principle, balance the mix of individual and team-based pay a thoughtful balance of individual and group incentives may be most appropriate. Third principle, consult the team members, who will be affected, the programs with the greatest likelihood of success are those that have input from all levels of the organization, including members of the team, teams that support or interface with the team, those who will administer the plan, management, and customers. Fourth principle avoids organizational myopia; many programs fail not because they are inherently flawed, but rather because they create problems with other teams, groups, and units within the organization. Fifth, principle, determine eligibility who is qualifies for the plan, every member of the team should be eligible for the plan, and the plan should indicate when someone becomes eligible or loses eligibility. Six principles, determine equity method, there are two basic variations: same dollar amount and same percentage amount. Seventh, principle, quantify the criteria used to determine payout, there are two main ways to measure team results: financial and operational. Financial measures tend to be ''bigger...
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...Question 1. Consider the entrepreneurial team that Jim brings together. Can you identify some guiding principles in team member selection? Assess how well Jim has done in assembling a suitable team. From the case of Ockham, it can be discovered that there are several guiding principles in selecting members of the entrepreneurial team. First of all, the team members should respectively be expertise in different aspects of the business. For example, in the case of Ockham, Jim Triandiflou has degrees in marketing and MBA, and he was to be the CEO, handle sales and marketing – all the “outside” stuff. Ken Burows with a background mixed both technology and finance, was to be the COO, handle the “inside” stuff like engineering, finance, and human resources. Mike Meisenheimer, who Triandiflou and Burows thought “had domain expertise in sales management and could thus be in charge of defining product specifications”, was going to run product management. Moreover, they had worked together at The Alexander Group, so they knew each other’s working abilities well. That is important to ensure the composition of the team, also mentioned in the “Three Rs” principle as Roles. The roles that each team member plays had better not be overlapped. Second, make sure that each member of the team can be highly devoted to the business that is going to be started. If some of them are just interested but cannot be fully in, they are not the right ones to choose, like in the case Ron Hardin. Ron...
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...UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights-Introduction, practical relevance and critical analysis Xiaoxiao Ding Master in International Business and Sustainability ABSTRACT: due to the increasingly significant influence of the transnational corporations in industrial and commercial fields in modern society, especially in the spheres of environment and labor protection, more and more cases raised involving their infringements of the international human rights laws. On June 16, 2011, the United Nations Human Rights Council endorsed Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, providing guidance for the implementation of the United Nations " Protect, Respect and Remedy" Framework. In the form of " Soft Law", these principles specify what business enterprises should do to respect human rights and how to prevent the violations on human rights. This paper identifies the main idea of these principles, gives relevant practical references and analyzes these principles with a critical perspective. Contents 1. Introduction .............................................................................. 2 2. The development and content of UN Guiding Principles......... 3 2.1 Historical development of UN Guiding Principles ........................ 3 2.2 The main idea of the UN Guiding Principles ................................. 4 2.3 The legal framework of the UN Guiding Principles ...................... 5 3. Practical relevance of the UN Guiding Principles ......
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...Conceptualizing a Business An organization must first define its mission statement, vision statement and its guiding principles. These definitions will help propel a business into its success or its failure as a company. Assuring they hold the values, beliefs, and goals for the company is critical when the company needs to adjust their route to success. Relaying on these fundamental components of a business is what sets one company apart from another. Using these statements and principals as a stepping-stone into a strategic plan is crucial to a successful business. Just Drive It, an indoor and outdoor driving range, will set these same central standards for its business to drive a strategic plan to define and grow the organization. Just Drive It Just Drive It is an indoor and outdoor driving range. The range is designed to accommodate experienced and novice golfers who wish to improve their mechanics, swing, and overall golf game anytime of the year. The driving range will include a pro shop, concessions, and offer individualized lessons by a professional golf instructor. Golf is a weather-limited sport. The weather must be dry and warm to fair temperatures to play. Rain, snow, or cold temperatures will prevent golfers from practicing the sport. The indoor golf dome will enable golfers to practice their skills day or night rain or shine. The pro shop will offer a variety of golf accessories such as, balls, club heads, golf clubs, gold bags, tees, towels, and...
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...the San Diego area. The goals will be set from the statement above to keep Eleven Boutique true to their mission. Goals: • To expand store front from one to three in the next three years • To expand the stylist services to 50 regular clients within the second year Guiding Principles Eleven Boutique had established 3 guiding principles that all employees of the boutique is expected to follow and will be evaluated yearly on their ability to uphold the guiding principles. The guiding principles are as follows: • Commitment • Integrity • Teamwork Commitment: Commitment to the boutique’s success and reputation; commitment to the client’s happiness; and commitment to the community in which Eleven Boutique resides in. Integrity: To uphold the highest level of integrity to the boutique and the clients. Teamwork: To work as a team inside the boutique and outside the boutique to bring harmony amongst the partners (co-workers) and the clients. The Eleven Boutique will live by these guiding principles. The company will be built on the guiding principles and become successful because of them. Each employee will be expected to understand the principles and follow them. If they struggle with the principles and are unable to find a way to be successful in them, they will find that Eleven Boutique is not the best fit for them. Eleven Boutique will be committed to their clients...
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...The Coca Cola Company is a multinational leader in the beverage industry, best known for its flagship product, Coca-Cola. With such global recognition, their sustainability efforts are significantly prominent, with different geographical regions having different initiatives to help the world generally, especially less fortunate communities. In the United States, their latest Sustainability commitment called “Me, We, World” has the goal of creating social value and making a positive difference for the consumers and communities they serve. This commitment is aimed at ‘Enhancing personal well-being’ (Me) by offering low or no-calorie beverage options in every market, providing transparent nutrition information on their packages, among other initiatives. It is also aimed at ‘Building strong communities’ (We), by enabling the economic empowerment of 5 million women entrepreneurs by 2020, complying with Human and Workplace standards, as well as giving back 1% of their annual operating income. Finally, this commitment to Sustainability also involves ‘Protecting the environment’ (World). They aim to do this by replenishing 100% of water used in their finished products, sustainably source key agricultural ingredients, reducing the carbon footprint of their drinks by 25%, as well as many other goals. In the United Kingdom, their Sustainability initiative titled “Live Positively” recognized the various components of Coca Cola products that needed to be more sustainable and developed different...
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...Business Model and Strategic Plan Part I: Conceptualizing in Business Victoria N Wilbert BUS 475 December 1, 2014 Ryan Simpson Business Model and Strategic Plan Part I: Conceptualizing in Business Innovation is a money and time saver that will help an organization achieve a competitive advantage to grow and adapt in the marketplace. Innovation refers to implementing new ideas, creating dynamic products, and improving existing services. Businesses that innovate create more efficient work processes and have better productivity and performance. Innovation is the key to competitive advantage for a successful organization. Best Buy’s New Division and Product Innovation requires new ideas. Best Buy is constantly thinking of ways to keep its customers happy. Best Buy is now reaching out to the customers who want to give back to their community. Best Buy is creating a new division called Best Giving. This division's focus will be on helping others in local communities. The mission statement of Best Giving is “To give peace, hope, and help to local communities through the generosity of our loyal customers”. As part of Best Buy’s undefined mission statement “… a growth company focused on better solving the unmet needs of our customers…” (Strategic Management Insight, 2013), Best Giving is meeting customer needs by altering the rewards card program. The card will now allow customers to give back their earned rewards to a charity of their choice. Customers can choose what percentage...
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...Theme: International standards and principles on business and human rights Outline 1. UN Global Compact 2. Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights At first sight, it is difficult to trace the connection between human rights and business. However, nowadays the proximity of these concepts has been developing rapidly and ceases to amaze. For many influential companies this direction has already become a mainstream. Companies can achieve real progress in observing human rights and at the same time succeed in conduct of business operations. Respect for human rights by commercial structures has become a "sign" of an ideal, socially responsible organization and comfortable for the best shots. With the support of business and other stakeholders, the UN Global Compact’s governance framework was adopted by then UN Secretary-General Annan on 12 August 2005 following a yearlong international process co-led by Georg Kell, Executive Director of the UN Global Compact and Professor John Ruggie, then Special Advisor to the Secretary-General. That process included studying networked governance models of other cutting-edge global action and solution networks and holding focus groups with participants and stakeholders, including governments, local networks, and academics. The resulting governance framework distributes governance functions among several entities so as to engage participants and stakeholders at the global and local levels in making decisions and giving advice...
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...The psychology of change: understanding the guiding principles of effective change management Most change management models in use today are in the form of a process or set of steps. In fact, the most effective processes or methodologies are based on research and the experiences of change management experts from years of trial and error in the field. However, the underlying lessons and principles that produced these change management processes and tools are not always clear to the practitioner (especially if you are new to the field of change management). In many cases, the guiding principles and lessons-learned are not even discussed as part of the model or tools. The result: you learn the how but not the why. The years of practical experience and knowledge that formed the basis for these processes are not readily available to a person trying to make them work in a specific situation. This new tutorial series goes beyond the activities and tasks of managing change for one simple reason: understanding the “why” makes you better at doing the “how.” Change management is not a matter of simply following steps. No two changes are exactly alike, nor are any two organizations. Following a recipe for change management is insufficient to drive business results. The right approach will be specific to the situation. If you do not understand the why behind your actions as a change management practitioner, changes can fail even when reputable change management processes are followed...
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...Conceptualizing a Business Edmund G. Peabody University of Phoenix Integrated Business Topic BUS/475 Mr. Arthur Murphy April 30, 2012 Conceptualizing a Business Throughout this paper, a vision for an organization that demonstrates a decision on what is wanted in the future will be created. I will define the guiding principles or values for the selected business considering the topics of culture, social responsibility, and ethics. I will analyze how the vision, mission, and values guide the organization’s strategic direction. I will also evaluate how the organization addresses customer needs and critique how they achieve competitive advantage. Strategic Plan, Part 1: Conceptualizing a Business It is imperative to comprise a Strategic Plan to ensure that the business is successful. Astrategic business plan facilitates the company to characterize its mission and vision, giving the company a sense of purpose and direction that sets them apart from competitors (Pearce & Robinson, 2009). A mission statement also discusses the product or services conducted by the company (Pearce & Robinson, 2009). Instituting a firm mission and vision statement without a doubt represents to prospective and current patrons the company’s core values and its strategy for the future. Discussed in this paper will be the mission and vision statements and the values of the Red Dawg Range based in Pine Mountain Georgia. This paper will address the company and how each of the...
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...economy, or making procedural changes to improve compliance. The most important question is how should proposed changes be analyzed? The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) has issued suggestions for Federal tax policy. The suggestions analyze fundamental tax-reform proposals. AICPA determined that the proposal debate was missing an analytical framework to determine whether the proposals incorporated principles of "good" tax policy. AICPA created a framework to present the principles of a good tax system; it can be used both to analyze proposals and to modify them (if necessary), so that any changes will strengthen the tax system, rather than weaken it. It can also serve to identify and design improvements to the tax system. The framework can be used to analyze tax proposals of any size, degree and at any government level. The framework is titled “Guiding Principles of Good Tax Policy: A Framework for Evaluating Tax Proposals. Sets 10 tax principles that are commonly used as indicators of desirable tax policy. Incorporating those principles into the...
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...Policies and Procedures Consider how the following situations might be interpreted with regard to ethics and integrity: Reusing classmates’ paper Using inappropriate language in the Discussion Board area Providing critique of a classmate not the content of the classmate’s work Not submitting work as instructed Knowingly giving incorrect information Failure to stand by a commitment to other classmates Based on your reflection of the items above, create a list of at least 10 guiding principles that you currently engage in or follow and describe how they can represent academic ethics and integrity. Note: Use examples to support the connections you describe. Include a summary paragraph that "connects or applies" your academic guiding principles to a professional workplace environment's ethics and integrity principles. In what ways can "your "principles be used to benefit your current work environment, or your future work environment? Submit your completed guiding principles and concluding paragraph to the Submissions area of the course. If you are planning to re-purpose or re-use a previous...
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...Strategic Plan Strategic planning is an important tool for any organization. By having the right strategic plan, a company could reach their goal as well as meet their customers’ demands. A strategic planning helps a company develop basic goals which company will try to reach in certain a time period. In the strategic planning, company will usually consider the mission statement, vision, and values of company. Through this paper, an individual will gain information how US Airways business, product the airline provide, and services US airways. The reader will also gain information about how US airways work on developing right mission statement. The reader will also gain information how important mission, vision, and values to US airways in direction of their strategic plan. Mission Statement The mission statement is short and memorable, like a catch phase. The purpose of a mission statement is to endorse the meaning of the company and associate with company business. The company main customer’s bases are individual who like to fly. The mission statement of US airways is “Fly with US”. It is very obvious that the company is an airline operator, providing travels all around the world for its valued customers. The mission state or the slogan “Fly with US” could vary with different meanings for individuals. The individual could perceive this statement in many different ways. An individual could look at US as top airline for United State . This could also mean by flying...
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