...Services & the Internal Market Article 56 of the EC Treaty guarantees companies from any European Union Member State to be able to establish themselves in another European Union Member State and provide services on the territory of another European Union Member State or on that one which they are thus established in. Companies established in one EU Member State are therefore able to provide services in any of the other EU Member States. The internal market is the market within the European Union, a market not based simply on the individual Member States but across all Member States and is achieved through the free movement of services and the free movement of goods throughout the European Union. Benefits of the Internal Market Since the creation of the internal market and in the ten years following the first completion of the first Single Market programme in 1993 the following tangible benefits were recorded: * 2.5 million extra jobs created due to the removal of national barriers * Increase of wealth in the single market up to EUR 9 billion – EUR 6,000 per family * Increased competition – better prices and better products available for consumers Barriers to trade between Member States Central to the creation of the internal market is the removal of barriers affecting trade between European Union Member States. For example certain Member States imposing...
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...A success story? Happiness in the new post-communist EU member states Sergiu Bălțătescu University of Oradea, Romania www.sergiubaltatescu.info Abstract: Ten of the post-communist countries managed to integrate into EU. Which are the subjective outcomes of socio-economic transformations in these countries? Did they manage to increase their citizens’ happiness in this process? To give an answer to these questions I used data from Candidate Countries Eurobarometer (2001-2004), Standard Eurobarometers (2005-2007), and World Bank Development Indicators. Developments in average national happiness have been compared with the economic (GDP, optimism concerning the level of living) and political (satisfaction with democracy) trends on the same time span. In all the studied societies, trends were positive after 2001. Eastern European countries showed higher increases in GNI per capita and also life satisfaction than in the rest of European Union. Those who started with lower levels increased more, strongly suggesting a possibility of convergence. A non-economic factor, satisfaction with democracy, mediates the influence of GNI on life satisfaction. Overall, access of Eastern European countries in European Union seems to be a success story, from both economic and non-economic points of view. However, the economic crisis may change the prognosis, raising the issue of sustainability of growth in happiness levels. Keywords: subjective well-being; economic...
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...Question 5 Marketing is the process in which advertisers attempt to create profitable relationships with consumers, while establishing a profit for their goods or services. In addition to generating new customers, marketers must also focus of customer retention. The marketing process has five key steps that lead to a successful organization/ campaign. * Targeting Consumer Wants The first step of the marketing process is analyzing and comprehending the current marketplace. Understanding what people want is essential to beginning a successful marketing campaign. After finding a potential niche for a product or service, marketers must conduct research about competitors and similar items currently available on the market. After identifying these factors, an overall plan must be established to launch the good or service. Sales methods, franchising, and partnerships are all aspects of the product launch that must be examined before production can take place. * Establishing a Consumer-Driven Sales Strategy After finding a profitable niche, a unique strategy must be established to market to the intended target audience. This step of the marketing process is essential, as a method must be constructed that not only will be profitable for the company, but also for the consumers. Market segment analysis is often done to break down the population into smaller groups, so the target audience can be found. * Creating Consumer Value The next step of the marketing process...
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...networking applications, and video games. Its entry-level price is just $499. The challenge for Apple is to convince potential users that they need a new, expensive gadget with the functionality that the iPad provides. This is the same challenge faced by the iPhone when it was first announced. As it turned out, the iPhone was a smashing success that decimated the sales of traditional cell phones throughout the world. Will the iPad do likewise as a disruptive technology for the media and content industries? It looks like it is on its way. The iPad has some appeal to mobile business users, but most experts believe it will not supplant laptops or netbooks. It is in the publishing and media industries where its disruptive impact will first be felt. The iPad and similar devices (including the Kindle Reader) will force many existing media businesses to change their business models significantly. These companies may need to stop investing in their traditional delivery platforms (like newsprint) and increase their investments in the new digital platform. The iPad will spur people to watch TV on the go, rather than their television set at home, and to read their books, newspapers, and magazines online rather than in print. Publishers are increasingly interested in e-books as a way to revitalize stagnant sales and attract new...
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...Introduction USAA's mission is to facilitate the financial security of its members, associates, and their families through provision of a full range of highly competitive financial products and services; in so doing, USAA seeks to be the provider of choice for the military community.(USAA,2014) In our team huddles or meeting’s we always begin with our mission. We live and breathe the mission every day in all our doings at work and at home. USAA strives for excellence in all lines of business; Property & Casualty, Banking, Financial Investing and Retirement. Companies will have their pros and cons, it is up to them to correct their flaws and make it right. USAA scores their performance with Satisfaction Scores (Sat Score) in every department that deals with members on a face to face environment or interaction on the phones. These scores reflect on our performance reviews as a whole. USAA, the innovator in mobile and online banking has opened its doors to their members through social media and the internet. Not only does USAA communicate with members through online media, they have created other outlets for employees to communicate with each other. These outlets are not that effective for Financial Centers that are placed away from our Home Office and Campuses. Communication needs improvement between Home Office and the Financial Centers, leaving disconnects between the two; leaving members upset and in turn give Financial Centers a bad satisfaction score. Teamwork...
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...dividends and future growth which maximise the price of stock. Discuss the corporate dividend policy. You are required to include a public company listed in Bursa Malaysia and determine is there any obvious pattern to the dividend decision? Notes to Students 1. For the Group Coursework, the maximum is 5-6 students to a group. 2. The approximate length for the Group coursework should be around 3,000 words. Report in excess of 10% of the required words will be penalized. Include the word count at the end of report. Students are to use Harvard referencing in this assignment. 3. The coursework should be type written using Times New Roman font (size 12) with line spacing of 1.5. Use simple binding and no need for plastic cover. 4. Students are to submit a Group Member Appraisal form to ensure total participation of each member and a plagiarism statement. It is compulsory to submit your assignments to Safeassign. 5. Be mindful of plagiarism. Referencing and bibliography are expected if any part of your assignment is borrowed from any particular source. You may be penalized for non-referencing to the source. Please fill up plagiarism statement form and attach it with your report. 6. The deadline for submission of your coursework is WEEK 10. General assessment criteria: Criteria | Maximum Marks | 1. Introduction | 10 | 2. Body | 35 | 3. Company Review | 20 | 4. Conclusion : Opinion | 10 | 5. Plagiarism | 10 | 6. Harvard Referencing...
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...the groups were initially allotted, four of the members were familiar with each other. On our first meeting everyone introduced themselves and it was encouraging that our group was diverse in terms of educational background and work experience. Initially everyone used to assemble for the group assignments and gave their inputs. It was evident that no one wanted to be left behind. Also it was evident that no one wanted to own the responsibility for the group assignments. Everyone initially wanted to establish for themselves that they were good enough to be a part of the group. Member C having extensive experience of working in teams took the lead and initiated interaction among the group members through social mediums like whatsapp and google groups. Meetings were organized and to the point. After everyone became comfortable with each other our group meeting became fun. Storming: Member C’s systematic and planning ahead of time was well received by the group. But since he took the lead everyone started expecting him to take care of things and contribution of members decreased. After first set of quizzes group realized that the members who didn’t contribute were lagging behind. There was a drastic change after that. Members concurred that group meetings for qualitative subjects were inefficient. Members attempted the assignments individually and understanding developed that successive assignments were not taken by the same member. Group operated in a very mechanical way. There...
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...TEAM AURORA We are team ‘B9’, a name that we decide to combine to our new team name, Aurora. B-class stars, as quoted from Wikipedia, and as an analogy to our new team: “Class B stars are very luminous and blue. […] As B stars are so powerful, they only live for a relatively short time. Thus, due to the low probability of kinematic interaction during their lifetime, they do not, and are unable to, stray far from the area in which they were formed.” While this highlights our cohesion, our team ‘literal” name, Aurora, defines our dynamism and diversity: “An aurora is a natural light display in the sky predominantly seen in the high latitude regions. Auroras are caused by charged particles, mainly electrons and protons, entering the atmosphere from above causing ionization and excitation of atmospheric constituents, and consequent optical emissions.” Our team, though being composed of individuals with different backgrounds, believes in the strengths and cohesion of our opinions and skillsets: 6 different personalities, 6 different backgrounds, for only one goal: working together delivering on our promises and creating values for our pairs. As the new team B9 we have decided upon a few guidelines: * What are the General objectives of the team? Do you have any learning or social goals beyond task accomplishment? How do we know we are being successful at this? Our common goal is to achieve excellence through in-depth collaboration, resulting in both individual achievements:...
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...University of Phoenix Material Team Building Worksheet 1. Describe team members’ results on the Discovery Wheel and develop your multiple intelligences exercises. What similarities and differences exist within the team? Within the team we have found that due to our similar back grounds in the military we approach learning in a lot of the same ways. As a group we brain storm and analyze every aspect of the problem to come up with the solution. Although some of us are easier to persuade to one idea to another, all of us require justification in order to allow it to pass the group. Alberto, Marvin, and Mike all use the no non sense approach to problems and class while Tracy tends to look at it more as a 3D more than one way to skin a cat type of out look. It seems that we feed off of one another in a group environment. When one of the team members doesn’t understand the others try to explain it in the easiest way possible. Through the discovery wheel and intelligences exercises we found that the team pretty much has the same learning style and curve. It isn’t hard for any of the members to get their input in or speak up to the other members if there is a difference of opinion. With the exercises so far we have had no problem coming together as a team. 2. What are the advantages of having diversity on a team? What challenges might the team face because of diversity? The advantage of having diversity...
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...Case Study: New Team Member By Sherri Johnson Project Management 4460 Professor Hepler Term IV 2011 Troy University – Ecampus April 21, 2011 Abstract This case study is about a company called Straight Arrow Systems Corp. This company makes items for the military. The team leader for the hardware department is Bob. Bob has a strange introduction process for his employees. Brad is a new team member and is about to learn the ropes of the department. The high turnover rate should tell management that there is a problem with the department. They should conduct an investigation instead of sending new employees to the group and having them quit shortly after joining. Case Study: New Team Member The first question that needs to be answered is “what behaviors is Bob demonstrating with respect to valuing team diversity and they also ask what are some alternative choices for what Brad can do next.” (Clements and Gido, 2009) Bob is definitely showing signs of discrimination against his own team members. The wide range of diversity does not appeal to him and he seems to believe that he needs to carry the weight of the team with Bill. The team has nothing in common as far as age, appearance, ethnicity, gender, health, job status, marital and parental status, race, and religious affiliation for this project. This is how Bob groups the members of his team. Bob is ultimately discriminate against...
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...know each other formally, as our focus was just to produce the best and most feasible business idea. In contrast, the TGP made the requirement of "knowing the group members" in such an interesting way. This was done by the requirement of producing a power point presentation for each member via the "Cultural Prototype Exercise" in which each member have to produce 4 slides that describes a typical person from his/her culture and how the member falls under the "stereotypes" of the culture and how they differ from it. This exercise made me realize how similar I am to my culture even though I believed that I don't fall under the "stereotypical Saudi". Other than learning about myself, I came to be more aware to the cultures of my teammates. I was particularly interested in the cultures of two team members as they are relatively new to me, that is the Russian culture (through Ilya) and Hong Kong Culture (through Eva). I enjoyed knowing about the typical person in their culture and how they are different from those typicality. Another requirement was the "Interview Each Other" requirement. In this part, my teammates showed most interest in my culture as I was surprised by how little they know about it. We had the interview during the time in which we shared our personal power point presentations. My group members were amazed how in Saudi...
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...The Forgotten Group Member The Forgotten Group member is a case study in the Organization Behavior book that creates a scenario about an A student by the name of Christine who faces challenges while working in a group on a project as the team leader. Initially, the group starts in the forming stage because the group members and especially Christine begin to have concerns about how their personal work and the work of the other team members contribute to the project. Towards the end, the group is now in the storming stage. The storming stage is described as a period of high emotion and tension among group members. During this stage, the group may experience uncomfortable pressures and efforts are made to find ways to accomplish team goals while also satisfying individual needs. I believe the group is now in this stage because a difficult member by the name of Mike has not been showing up to group meetings and has only turned in rough handwritten notes. Because Mike has been social loafing, this will cause the group to express emotions about the situation which will cause tension among the group. The group will then realized that because the lack of Mike’s efforts, they will have to come together to do his work. If Christine, the team leader, would have understood the stages of development, she would have realized that her team was not developing at the pace they should have been. She would have recognized the issues at a time where it could have been easier to resolve...
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... Each team member is different from the and therefore bring different strengths and weaknesses to the team. Team members must learn to listen to each other, accepting the ideas and suggestions of other members. Trust between team members is a very important part of becoming a successful team. The team charter is an excellent tool that is used to find out what each member can contribute to the team. THE TEAM CHARTER 3 The Team The first step to being a successful team is to get to know your team members. Without knowing your team you cannot fully know what each member can do for the team. You will need to ask each other questions to find out what strengths each member will bring to the team. These questions will also help the team learn what weakness the members of the team will need help with. Webster’s online dictionary defines team as “a number of persons associated together in work or activity” (2011). The Team Charter What is the team charter? The team charter is a contract between each team member. The charter has several different parts to it. The first part, of the team charter, is the team information section. In this section members can list their contact information. This makes it easy for the team members to communicate with one another. The next section is the skills inventory section. Here team members can list the skills that they can contribute to the team. The third section lists the goals that each member has for the...
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...story, map their terrain, or keep accounts such as how many animals one owned, etc. 2. Mechanical.- The mechanical age is when we first start to see connections between our current technology and its ancestors. The mechanical age can be defined as the time between 1450 and 1840. A lot of new technologies were developed in this era due to an explosion of interest in computation and information. Technologies like the slide ruler (an analog computer used for multiplying and dividing) were invented in this period. 3. Electro-Mechanical.- The electromechanical age heralded the beginnings of telecommunications as we know it today. This age can be defined roughly as the time between 1840 and 1940. Several revolutionary technologies were invented in this period such as the Morse code, telephone, radio, etc. All of these technologies were crucial stepping stones towards modern information technology systems. 4. Electronic.- These machines used electronic switches, in the form of vacuum tubes, instead of the electromechanical relays seen in the previous era. In principle the electronic switches would be more reliable, since they would have no moving parts that would wear out, but the technology was still new at that time and the tubes were comparable to relays in reliability. Business goal The Information Technology Services (ITS) group, under the leadership of the Chief Information Officer is responsible for designing, deploying, managing, supporting and maintaining all technology-based...
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...LEARNING TEAM ‘A’ CHARTER |Course Title | LAW/531 – Business Law | |All team members participated in the creation of | | | | |this charter and agree with its contents ( (Please| | | | |check) | |Instructor |MICHAEL T. MILLAR, JD | | | |Course Dates | 06/29/10 – 08/09/2010 | | | | | | | | | | | Team Members/Personal Information |Name | |Phone | |Fax | |Email | |Jennifer Hall | |(707) 628-6679 | | | |Jhall806@sbcglobal.net | |Aleen Lien | |(651) 249-3111 | | | |alien@sjm.com | |Sharona...
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