...Fashion’s Faux Pas of Hiring for Cultural Fit 1 Fashion’s Faux Pas of Hiring for Cultural Fit Markisha B. Velazquez MGT 500 Organizational Behavior Dr. Matthew D. Kenney 4/11/2015 Kenney College Fashion’s Faux Pas of Hiring for Cultural Fit 2 Introduction With a majority of practicing fashion designers being women, and openly gay male designers at the spotlight receiving more design awards than their heterosexual peers (Stokes, 2013), you would expect the fashion industry to have exemplary diversity hiring practices. However, the fashion industry’s obsession with “fitting in” leads to managers offering jobs to candidates whose physical appearance and lifestyle embody the brand. Of course if your brand sells a certain look and lifestyle, you want your employees representing that lifestyle to eat, sleep, and dress like the brand. However, the practice of hiring for cultural fit can lead to lack of diversity and creativity and overconfidence amongst staff from groupthink. Reverse Discrimination Stokes (2013) reports that out of the 81 men included in Voguepedia’s canon, 51 are openly gay and women outnumber the fashion design labor market with 70% women to 30% men in Canada and 51.6% women in the US. Though the fashion industry disproportionately represents and even idealizes these minorities, diversity still remains an issue in many companies. The tendency to hire and ad...
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...Going My Way Could Mean the Highway Zachary I. Knutson Business Practices in the Global Market - #2125 Prof. Creed Final Paper 04/29/2015 As shared in the Introduction section of the textbook “Kiss, Bow, or Shake Hands” by Terri Morrison and Wayne Conaway, one of the most important lessons to learn in doing business internationally is that “communication always takes place between individuals, not cultures.” (Morrison pg. ix) We live in an age today where information and knowledge that is almost instantaneous is gradually blending the lines between countries doing business and the individual cultures that those businesses cater to. Today, more foreigners are entering U.S. schools for education and that will only continue to blur the lines between understanding specific business dealings – and understanding how those business dealings will work in a foreign country. If the playing field of business is becoming more and more aligned – where do the missteps happen in regards to doing international business? And if the communication goes successfully between the individuals creating the deal – shouldn’t that be the ‘green light’ for success? My argument is No. Because once the communication is successful in establishing the opportunity to do business internationally – it will then not be in the correct handshakes or presentation of business cards that success will be found – now it’s time to communicate with the culture. Here is where international business could go...
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...Esther Joseph Ault-1st period English 1 Pre-AP 25 October 2011 The Dark Side of Us I agree with the statement that the ‘true troublemaker is inside of us’, so we may have associated it as the “shoulder devil” or a dark side. They’re there since childhood, a recent event, a forgotten memory, but in all, it’s our part of the unique personality that we possess. We make mistakes, flaws, or sometimes we have done a faux pas so unbelievable, it’s often astonishing. We often feel if the actions are right or wrong, creating a cynical side to ourselves. Our lives, both good and bad, have experienced events that cause no control over our own selves and make us completely uncontrollable under certain circumstances. The darkness inside personally can slowly become your enemy, agent, adversary at the same time. We cannot begin to feel that shadow over individually because we tend to feel guilty over something. Our lives are lukewarm, worldly, and cynical over the reason that we could be sinful. The analogy for the concept is a happy person falling down a hill and they can’t the vexing pain in their body. Our uncertain selves are touched by a grace that we must acknowledge before our darkness takes over us and to make us into terrible people that we’ll regret. The darkness is like a sweet poison sucked into our lungs; an insanity of life without light for our very lives. We must recognize the darkness within us, in...
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...Machines have taken a huge role in our day-to-day lives. They can either effect us in a good way or in a bad way. Granted, machines have impacted many people in the workplace but they help us finish the jobs. There are many ups and downs to the development of machines. Some people have become so dependent on machines they start to lose their “humanity”. Machines can take away the personal aspect of life. For example, we lose basic courtesy, respect, and tolerance for people due to using machines so much. Some machines that could make that happen are; cellphones, computers, and video games. When people purchase one of these machines they usually are on it and depend on it all the time. Due to the lack of self-motivation through machines we could lose our common courtesy. In the workplace, machines have effected jobs dramatically. They can perform at low-skill repetitive jobs and at high-speed precise jobs. They mostly are better than humans because they are more precise within their work and they are less likely to produce an error. Although machines do help the workplace, they can also harm it as well. By the advancement of so many machines, an abundance of people are losing their jobs due to them. Machines can have a positive and negative effect in the workplace. Although machines have a good amount of drawbacks, they also have a positive amount on us today. Due to the advancement of machines people are starting to push themselves to a whole new level. People are becoming...
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...Standards PAS | Title | Effective Date | PAS 1 | Presentation of Financial Statements [superseded by PAS 1 (Revised)] | 01/01/05 | | Amendment to PAS 1: Capital Disclosures | 01/01/07 | PAS 1 (Revised) | Presentation of Financial Statements | 01/01/09 | | Amendments to PAS 32 and PAS 1: Puttable Financial Instruments and Obligations Arising on Liquidation | 01/01/09 | | Amendments to PAS 1: Presentation of Items of Other Comprehensive Income | 07/01/12* | PAS 2 | Inventories | 01/01/05 | PAS 7 | Cash Flow Statements | 01/01/05 | PAS 8 | Accounting Policies, Changes in Accounting Estimates and Errors | 01/01/05 | PAS 10 | Events after the Balance Sheet Date | 01/01/05 | PAS 11 | Construction Contracts | 01/01/05 | PAS 12 | Income Taxes | 01/01/05 | | Amendments to PAS 12 – Deferred Tax: Recovery of Underlying Assets | 01/01/12 | PAS 14 | Segment Reporting [superseded by PFRS 8] | 01/01/05 | PAS 16 | Property, Plant and Equipment | 01/01/05 | PAS 17 | Leases | 01/01/05 | PAS 18 | Revenue | 01/01/05 | PAS 19 | Employee Benefits | 01/01/05 | | Amendments to PAS 19: Actuarial Gains and Losses, Group Plans and Disclosures | 01/01/06 | PAS 19 (Amended) | Employee Benefits | 01/01/13* | PAS 20 | Accounting for Government Grants and Disclosure of Government Assistance | 01/01/05 | PAS 21 | The Effects of Changes in Foreign Exchange Rates | 01/01/05 | | Amendment: Net Investment in a Foreign Operation | 01/01/06 | PAS 23 | Borrowing...
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...Anonymous Student BU204 Unit 1 Assignment August 27th, 2012 Dear President Smith, Upon your request, I have finished my extensive research on the culture and customs of the country of Saudi Arabia. I have come across quite a few things that will not only be helpful to our business professionals over there, but also some that could be a necessity to their wellbeing. First and foremost, if one is not a Muslim, in order to leave Saudi Arabia, there has to be a granting of an exit permit. Anyone without Saudi citizenship that is involved in a business, labor, or employment dismissal dispute will not be allowed to leave the country until the dispute is resolved in a Saudi court. These cases are notorious for being dragged out, and can last anywhere from 3-18 months. Saudi citizens are known to have incredible leverage in these cases, and can block departure or future visitation and employment in the country. This is definitely something for our workers over there to keep in mind during any type of negotiation (travel.state.gov, 2012). While we want our employees to try to assimilate into and be a part of the culture as much as possible, they need to know to draw the line at wearing traditional Saudi clothing. Saudi’s oftentimes find it offensive when they see foreigners wearing traditional Saudi attire. Even though the heat can be overwhelming, it is important that all of our professionals attend meetings in a jacket and tie. They additionally need to try to steer...
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...breathe let alone speak. Your life was well lived all those years before. You are now in such unbearable pain that you can’t even cry. You can no longer complete simple tasks on your own and there is no way that you could function without assistance. You think and feel as if your life has no meaning. Although your family is there to support you, you wonder could ending your life be the answer? Well in all reality this isn’t something anyone needs to imagine. This is a real situation for many, many people. These people should be able to make their own choices and have control of their own lives.ThesisWhat’s life without the quality of life?Now let's take a look and examine 3 reasons why Physician Assistant suicide should be legalized. PAS is about giving people the right to choose how they want to live and die, saves money in medical bills, and it also stops the person from having a bad quality of life.Transition to body of speech :BODYA. Main-point 1: Everyone has the right to choose how they want to live and die.i. Supporting details:First of all, deciding if you want to be alive or not is a personal decision. Neither the doctors nor the government has the power to decide if you should live or not. Since it is not their life and they are not in your situation, they cannot make that kind of decision for you. It might sound like suicide, but again, that is our problem, not theirs. They give us the...
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...Date 28 September 2013 TABLE OF CONTENT Cover Page 1 Table of Content 2 Introduction 3 - 4 Executive Summary 5 Data Collection Methodology /Research Methods 6 - 7 Analysis and Finding 8 - 10 Recommendations 11 - 15 Conclusion 16 Appendices 18 - 20 1. INTRODUCTION 1.1 COMPANYS The Two Companies under Investigation for this project are: A. Lotus Bedding (S) Pte Ltd Lotus Bedding (S) Pte Ltd, The Company is a dealership of Brand Lotus and Omazz Mattress which import all it Mattress and Bedding Accessory from Thailand and Norway. With showroom located at Park Mall and Lotus Counter at Robinson, Courts and many other. It has currently Twenty-Nine employees in the Sale and Office Administrative Lotus start to do Performance Appraisal System last three year ago. The System serves as a measurement of employee Performance on the Sale team in the Company. B. ABC Maintenance Pte Ltd ABC Maintenance Pte Ltd, ABCMPL was established in 1996 by two brothers, start as a family business and incorporated as private limited in 2001. They are providing refuse removal service, recycling and general cleaning service. They started with a few trucks and open top containers has now over 35 garbage trucks, many numbers of refuse compactors and containers and over 250 devoted employees. They are currently serving over 400 customers, including government organizations, hotels, shopping...
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...Final Assignment of Financial Management The Final Written Assignment is to answer the questions below. They are divided into four sections based on the class lectures. The first three questions (a,b,c) in each section are calculation problems, and the last question (d) in each section asks for an explanation, which you should use to increase your word count. The assignment should be no less than 3500 words, and should be submitted in Word. You do not need to do any outside research. You should answer the questions based on what you learned in class and on the information given in each question. Your answers should be written in your own words. If your writing is too similar to another student’s or copied from the Internet you will be penalized. You will be graded on the clarity and accuracy of your answers. Please feel free to contact me at davidpollon@yahoo.com if you have any questions about the assignment. Best of luck.Please note: No extensions will be considered for late assignments, unless they are requested. Yann JACOBSEN 10/10/2012 Email : yann.jacobsen.mgt@gmail.com Introduction In this course with Professor David POLLON, we tried to understand what exactly the Time Value of Money is. Now we can say it’s an essential principle of finance which establishes the notion of time and risk of cash flows. Moreover it’s an important key to all financial analysis used to look valuation for stocks and bonds. Moreover, we discussed about financial securities and...
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...Machines have taken a huge role in our day-to-day lives. They can either effect us in a good way or in a bad way. Granted, machines have impacted many people in the workplace but they help us finish the jobs. There are many ups and downs to the development of machines. Some people have become so dependent on machines they start to lose their “humanity”. Machines can take away the personal aspect of life. For example, we lose basic courtesy, respect, and tolerance for people due to using machines so much. Some machines that could make that happen are; cellphones, computers, and video games. When people purchase one of these machines they usually are on it and depend on it all the time. Due to the lack of self-motivation through machines we could lose our common courtesy. In the workplace, machines have effected jobs dramatically. They can perform at low-skill repetitive jobs and at high-speed precise jobs. They mostly are better than humans because they are more precise within their work and they are less likely to produce an error. Although machines do help the workplace, they can also harm it as well. By the advancement of so many machines, an abundance of people are losing their jobs due to them. Machines can have a positive and negative effect in the workplace. Although machines have a good amount of drawbacks, they also have a positive amount on us today. Due to the advancement of machines people are starting to push themselves to a whole new level. People are becoming...
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...Introduction Payroll System is the heart of any Human Resources System of an Organization. The solution has to take care of calculation of salary as per rules of the Company. This Payroll System is a full-featured system that manages financial information of every employee in an organization. It computes and processes the payroll in the certain payroll period. This Payroll System is also a flexible compensation administration solution. It is designed to help human resource professionals as well as finance and accounting personnel to manage employee compensation, deductions, allowances, and benefits in an organization. The system is integrated with the Employee’s information, offers efficient features and functionalities to manage company's expenses. The computer shop business nowadays is in demand in all part of our country today because of the modernization of our society. Every time you need to use computer there always be a computer shop to serve you. They give convenience to the people. Many of the people have no personal computer at their home. That’s why they go to the computer shop to use computer. Many of the computer shop have their own style of convincing people to go their shop. They do a promo to have more customers. That’s why I and my group mate do a proposal for a computer shop business. To explore the world of computer shop business. Please guidance of our proposal. Objective of Study General Objective ❖To give privacy to the client, and give convenience...
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...History Hybrid electric vehicles (HEV) are vehicles that combine internal combustion engine propulsion and electric propulsion. The first attempt at creating a hybrid vehicle was in 1665 by Ferdinand Verbiest. Verbiest had plans for a four wheeled vehicle that could run on steam or pulled by a horse. Verbiest tried for more than 15 years to fine tune his idea but there is no proof that this vehicle was produced (TopBits Tech Community, n.d.). Nicholas Cugnot came up with a working steam-powered carriage in 1769. Cugnot built his invention and it could travel at a max speed of six miles per hour. The downside to this vehicle concept was acquiring enough steam to travel any long distance was hard to accomplish. This defect was the demise of this idea and any possible improvements in transportation (TopBits Tech Community, n.d.). Robert Anderson of Scotland designed the first electric powered car in 1839. The vehicle had limited range and a battery that was difficult to recharge. In 1870, Sir David Solomon had developed a lighter electric motor for the carriage but had problems creating a dependable battery that could recharge easily. The very limited range and expensive recharging hindered his invention from going too far (TopBits Tech Community, n.d.). In the upcoming years, London business investors became interested in creating an electric taxicab. The plans would use a 28-cell battery system powering a small electric motor. Unfortunately...
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...how they all worked closely with the patients, took the time to speak to them, listened to their complaints and symptoms, and consulted with the physicians regarding the patients’ course of treatment. I began to realize what an integral role a PA can have in both a hospital and private practice setting, and the relationships that they develop with their patients. There were many times that I witnessed the PA’s spending more time and being more involved in the care and treatment of the patients than the physician for some of their regular patients. During this time, several PA’s and physicians I had worked with suggested to me that I would make an excellent physicians assistant, and that was when I first became inspired to pursue a career as a PA. I further explored the field by spending time shadowing several PA’s in various fields, including plastic surgery, vascular surgery and OB/GYN. This has inspired me to take 36 credits of prerequisite courses in one year, while still working full time. I constantly strive to excel in what I do, and I commit myself fully to any endeavor that I become passionate about. I am going back to school after almost ten years since graduating college in order to pursue my dream of becoming a PA because I believe in what I am doing, and I am passionate about my goals. I look very forward to a rewarding profession that combines my interests in clinical science and helping others while working in a team...
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...SPECIAL WARRANTY DEED THIS SPECIAL WARRANTY DEED is made this 18th day of January, 2011, from Joseph E. Little and Karen L. Little, formerly husband and wife (hereinafter called “Grantors”), to Joseph E. Little, unmarried (hereinafter called “Grantee”). WITNESSETH: THAT in consideration of One Dollar and Zero Cents ($1.00), paid to the Grantors by the Grantee, receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, Grantors hereby grant, transfer and convey unto the Grantee, his successors and/or assigns, the following: ALL that certain lot or parcel of ground situate in the Borough of Plum, County of Allegheny and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, being Lot No. 219 in that certain Plan of Lots known as Holiday Park Plan No. 29, as the same recorded in the Recorder’s Office of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, in Plan Book Volume 105, Page 157 to 165; and HAVING erected thereon a dwelling house known as 1445 Abers Creek Road, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15239; and BEING designated as Block and Lot No. 1239-E-378; and UNDER AND SUBJECT TO any mineral rights, including, but not limited to, oil, coal and gas and the right to mine the same heretofore conveyed, transferred or granted by prior instruments of record; and UNDER AND SUBJECT TO reservations, restrictions, rights of ways, easements, exceptions, building liens, conditions and covenants as appearing in prior instruments of record; and SUBJECT TO Protective Covenants dated 11/17/1978 and recorded in DBV 6035, Page 903; and ...
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...PA230: Unit 2 Assignment Kaplan University Ethical Considerations for a Law Firm Website * To: Supervising Attorney * From: Pat Paralegal * Re: Security Protocols in the Law Office * Date: 11-24-2014 In regards to what is admissible on the website, you must list what state that you practice in. According to ABA Model Rule 7.4 “A lawyer shall not state or imply that a lawyer is certified as a specialist in a particular field of law, unless: (1) the lawyer has been certified as a specialist by an organization that has been approved by an appropriate state authority or that has been accredited by the American Bar Association; and (2) the name of the certifying organization is clearly identified in the communication.” The Rule makes it clear of this when it states “The lawyer has been certified by an appropriate state authority”. An attorney can list a legal specialty on the webpage, but there are specific rules that must be followed. According to ABA Model Rule 7.4 “A lawyer shall not state or imply that a lawyer is certified as a specialist in a particular field of law, unless: (1) the lawyer has been certified as a specialist by an organization that has been approved by an appropriate state authority or that has been accredited by the American Bar Association; and (2) the name of the certifying organization is clearly identified in the communication.”. As long as you certified by the appropriate state authority, you should be in...
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