...Managing Operations is Sound Prioritization: The Mexicana Wire Works Case A case report presented to the faculty of the Master of Business Administration Far Eastern University In partial fulfilment of the requirements In Quantitative Analysis Submitted To: Professor Willy Cuason Submitted By: Jeancy Dela Rosa Joan Eclipse Gerra Lanuza Mark Nimeno Timmyleh Pocong Jerome Tumambing June 03, 2014 I. Case Background Mexicana Wire Winding, Inc. is a subsidiary of Westover Wire Works based in Texas which is a medium-sized producer of wire windings of electrical transformers. Ron Garcia is the new management trainee, who studied operations management in his MBA program but lacks any technical knowledge about the manufacturing process. He is tasked to help the company in solving the increase in booking orders for April.There will be new equipments coming in the next several months but these won‘t help them fill the April orders. (Render & Stair, 2012) To better understand the case the group researched on the sequence on how to produce wire windings as discussed in the case: 1. “Wire Winding- the metalworking process used to reduce the cross-section of a wire by pulling the wire through a single, or series of, drawing die(s). There are many applications for wire drawing, including electrical wiring, cables, tension-loaded structural components, springs, paper clips...
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...4: Decreases worker’s earned income and raises the cost of living. Thesis: Union Close Shops are economically depressing to the region that they exist in. The late Sen. Paul Tsongas once said, “You cannot redistribute wealth you never created. You can’t be pro-jobs and anti-business at the same time. You cannot love employment and hate employers.” Currently 22 states have right-to-work laws, which guarantee workers the right to determine individually whether or not they will join or otherwise support a labor union. The remaining states are Evidence 1: Retards economic growth of the region Every States are ranked on their economic competitiveness in a report called "Rich States, Poor States" for the American Legislative Exchange Council. This ranking uses 15 fiscal, tax and regulatory variables to determine which states have policies that are most conducive to prosperity. One of these 15 policies, right to work laws, has consistently stood out as one of the most important in predicting where jobs will be created and incomes will rise. States that have right-to-work laws grow faster than states with forced unionism. Over the past decade the right-to-work states grew faster in nearly every respect than their union-shop counterparts: 54.6% versus 41.1% in gross state product, 53.3% versus 40.6% in personal income, 11.9% versus 6.1% in population, and 4.1% versus -0.6% in payrolls. In a separate study Prof. Vedder of ______ found that right to work states are getting...
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...organization to be able to work towards one set goal. Socialist societies are based on the human needs of the people and since they are controlled by the government, they are the ones responsible for distributing the goods and services, which in turn allows for everyone in need to be assisted. It also allows the people who work there to be more focused on helping the people in need because the government takes care of paying them. This means that they don’t have to worry about who will be paying them for their help, and instead can focus mainly on helping the people that are in need of their full attention. Being from Oklahoma, we are right in the middle of tornado alley. In fact, just recently in May of 2013, Moore, Oklahoma was hit with an EF5 tornado. The aftermath left a devastating toll not only on Moore, but its surrounding cities. People from all over Oklahoma had joined in helping the cleanup and rebuilding of the city. Organizations such as American Red Cross and Habitat for Humanity reached out to the citizens, which are two organizations funded and regulated by the government. Major corporations were able to donate through both of these organizations in order to partake in it. It’s with organizations like these that I believe the best system to be the socialist. Everyone was working towards one goal; helping the people of a devastating natural disaster. If it hadn’t been for the government operated...
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...Choctaw (alternatively spelled Chahta, Chactas, Tchakta, Chocktaw, and Chactaw) are Native American people originally from the Southeastern United States (Oklahoma, California, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas,Alabama). The Choctaw language belongs to the Muskogean linguistic group. Henry Halbert, a historian, suggests that their name is derived from the Choctaw phrase Hacha hatak(river people). (“Choctaw,” n.d.) Choktaw is the approved, anglicized form of the tribal name Chahta (Chäh’ta).It seems to have been first applied to the tribe about the beginning of eighteenth century and is found spelled in a number of different ways in historical records. It has been suggested that the name Choctaw is from the Spanish word chato, meaning "flat," descriptive...
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...Terri A. Tacquard The History of Food Lion The now ever popular grocery store Food Lion was first founded 50 plus years ago in 1957 in the small town of Salisbury, North Carolina. Originally known as Food Town, Wilson Smith, Ralph Ketner, and Brown Ketner were the great minds who started this now multi-million dollar company. Many believe that more than any other North Carolinian Glenn Ketner helped create millionaires. For those who originally bought stock from Ketner in Food Town and did not touch it, for many simply not knowing if it could make money or not, 20 years later would be multi millionaires. It all started out with a simple grocery store owned by Glenn Ketner named Ketner Grocery, then once his brother Ralph Ketner had went through several jobs came to work for him along with holding several other jobs in the same industry it all started to take shape. Before they knew it, they were in price wars with big names such as Winn-Dixie. The Food Lion name itself was adopted around 1983, when the Belgium-based grocer Delhaize acquired the Food Town name. Once the Food Town chain expanded into the Virginia area, the chain came upon several stores still called Food Town in the central Virginia area, such as Richmond. Once the chain expanded into Tennessee, they would see an even bigger problem. Nearly 100 stores were displaying the name Food Town. Since the Delhaize Corporation had a lion as its official emblem logo, Food Town thought to display it on all of its...
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...president of the u’s: in 1929 the stock market crashed and the economy collapsed and Hoover was defeated for reelection by FDR. 4. Great depression- the economic crisis and period of low business activity in the u’s and other countries, roughly beginning with the stock market crash in October, 1929, and continuing through most of the 1930’s. 5. Hawley-smooth tariff- raised import duties to protect American businesses and farmer, adding considerable strain to the international economic climate of the Great Depression. 6. Okies- a migrant agricultural worker from Oklahoma who had been forced to leave during the depression of the 1930’s. 7. Breadline- a group of needy persons waiting in the line for free food to be distributed by a government agency or charitable organization. 8. Hooverville- a shantytown built by unemployed and destitute people during the depression of the early 1930’s. 9. Dust bowl- An area of Oklahoma, Kansas, and northern Texas affected by severe sell erosion caused by windstorms in the early 1930s, which obliged many people to move. 10. migration-movement from one part of something to another. 11. Bonus Army- was the popular name of assemblage of some 43,000 marchers-17,000 ww1 veterans, their families, and affiliated groups. 12. Reconstruction finance corporation-RFC was a government corporation in the United States that berated between 1932 and last which provided financial support to state and local government and made loans to banks, railroads, mortgage...
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...Introduction Written by John Steinbeck in 1939, “The Grapes of Wrath” is an in-depth look at how economic forces of the time had a tragic effect on the lives of the working class. The story and examples of the five economic structures are told, as the Joad family travels to seek a new life in California. The novel details how the economic changes that were taking place impacted the Joads and the people of Oklahoma, making them desperate to find a new life. Forced from their homes and land, they hoped that migrating west would allow them to find work, allowing them to provide for their families. Steinbeck shows in detail how economic forces and externalities, can affect the lives of individuals, families, communities, and the nation. While...
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...M1: Interpreting Laws and Court Decisions Case Studies 1.1 and 3.4 Case Study 1.1: Discharge for Whistleblower Activity 1. Should the federal appeals court deny Broom and Miller’s appeal and enforce the decision of the state district court finding upholding the discharge of the two whistleblowers? The federal appeals court should uphold and enforce the decision of the state district court findings of the discharge of Broom and Miller. I will list several reasons that I believe will support my answer this question. Janet Broom and Darla Miller worked for a residential care facility. They were suspicious of another fellow employee. They believed that the employee was stealing drugs from the residents and falsified the medication log books. Broom and Miller decided to turn that employee in which in turn they were fired from their jobs. The first reason is that Broom and Miller did not follow the procedure in the residential care facility employee handbook. The employee handbook states “for the initial complaint to be filed with the accused employee’s immediate supervisor.” (Holley, Jennings, and Wolters, 2006) They both decided to make the complaint to the medication supervisor consultant who was not their immediate supervisor. The second reason is since they lived in Oklahoma, this state’s common law has the employment at will doctrine. This doctrine states “employment relationships established for an indefinite duration may be terminated by either the employer or employee...
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...Analyze a Social Issue - Final Paper Population growth occurs through birth rates, death rates, and immigration. Some states are affected by population growth more than others and one of the largest contributors is owned by the high level of immigration in certain areas, such as Texas. If growth continues on the path that it is currently on, the state will suffer the changes that will occur. The current census reports over 25 billion people in the United States but with the projected growth this number can exceed 400 billion within the next century. Illegal immigration accounts for a large portion of this increase and the majority of Texas’ immigration is from Mexico because of geographical location and cultural diversity that already exists in the state. Over the years, illegal immigrants are earning naturalization or obtaining permanent citizenship which allows them access to government benefits. It is also stated that the death per birth ratio is lower in Texas than the national average which causes an even higher amount of population growth every year. This kind of growth will cause a higher level of poverty, urbanization, social inequity, and environmental damage. If a solution is not determined soon on how to lower the growth rate, the state will also suffer detrimental impacts to employment rates and government benefits such as social security and government provided medical care and assistance. The quality of our future, and our next generations, depends on a rational...
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...Additionally, those who were looking for an ideal life were corrupted by the system. In his book, Steinbeck said that the attainment of the American dream was nearly impossible due to the economic instability and constant government interference. The Joads found unpredictable jobs in California (Ownby 73). They failed to achieve the American dream and so they did not succeed in California. Before they migrated from Oklahoma, the Joads had a good life. They had land, a home and money. Their migration was fuelled by their hopes of finding success and a better life in California. The Grapes of Wrath is set during the great depression. The great depression was a result of the inaction by the federal government which led to failing of the financial institutions. Many people were out of work since jobs were scarce hence a rise in poverty and economic hardships. It basically focuses on the Joads family who move to America in pursuit of the American dream. The economic hardships, drought, changes in financial and agricultural industries forced them to abandon their Oklahoma home for California. In...
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...1. Assess your community’s access to health care technology and determine how that access (or lack thereof) impacts your community economically. For people living in the rural areas, the distance to main metropolitan centres often places restrictions on access to essential services, including specialist healthcare. Telemedicine provides one possible answer. Many different terms such as telehealth, telecare, online health and E-health have been used but they all have a common meaning, i.e. the use of information and communication technologies to deliver health care services at a distance. The motivation for investigating the use of telemedicine for different clinical problems include large distances between patients and specialists, isolated health professionals requiring specialist support and/or education, and situations where there is no other alternative, for example space flight or patients at sea, as well as the pervasive and pragmatic issue of cost. Are health care dollars better spent on sending the clinician to the patient, bringing the patient to the clinician, or by facilitating the consultations using telemedicine? Modern advances in information communication technologies have seen developments in the different mechanisms available for conducting telemedicine, from Morse code to the ordinary telephone and more recently the Internet. The different telecommunication networks required to support these communication technologies have also advanced...
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...During my time working in the telecommunication field I haven’t had the opportunity to work with any team members that were in any union affiliation. That is why discussing an organization that is unionized is very challenging to me. Since I am working for 15 year as a telecommunication engineer I will choose AT&T mobility as the organization and discuss the union that includes around 40,000 union employees in the geographical area I worked the most, (CWA-District 6, 2009, February 9). The AT&T mobility is under the umbrella of the union Communications Workers of America as a District six, in the geographical area of, Texas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Kansas, and they follow local laws from the respective states, like minimum wages, leave of absence, health care laws, etc. The CWA has a total of 700,000 members following in the United States, (CWA-District 6, 2009, February 9). Reading for the first time about the number of union workers, 40,000, in AT&T mobility, immediately made me wonder why during my 15 year career I did not meet and work with any of those people. Maybe popularity is one reasons, why people do not want to associate themselves in unions even though they belong to one, or the people I worked with were receiving better wages from the employer than the collective bargain agreement from the union. The AT&T Mobility follows the Communication Workers of America union charter that has its roots back in 1910 when the first telephone workers...
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...Removal Act of 1830- sign by A.J -relocate to Oklahoma Represent one The Indian removal act will place a dense and white civilized population in large tracts of country now occupied by a few They re not unique Burlingame Treaty 1868 allowed 1. China to open up economic opportunities with US merchants in China In return, the US welcomed Chinese to migrate freely to the US continent The US doesn’t realize the US California as US resident Chinese Migration and movement Motives and Mean Number of Chinese migrants to us 1851-1900: increasing In 19th is cheaper to travel Born and reared under different governments and speaking different tongues we nevertheless meet here in California as brothers. You stand among us in all respects as equals Filial Piety Foot binding is kind of painful dress Transcontinental Railroad: Chinese migratory patterns Produced a network of remittances where by young men sent monies home to their parent Initially encouraged the men to be sojourners, temporary residents rather than settlers Later produced a disproportionate gendered ration, which meant the by 1890, for every 26 Chinese men there was one Chinese women Finally the massive in-migration of Chinese male labor produced the transcontinental railroad route After we got Chinamen to work, we took the more intelligent of the wither laborers and made foremen of them. They got a start by controlling Chinese labor on our railroad. Chinese labor entered the US for 10 years as a result...
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...Prepared by: Lisa Fell The Effect of the “Right to Work” Law on Unions and Union Workers in the United States Capstone Co-ordinator: Ted Seath Faculty Advisor: Gary Gannon Table of Contents CHAPTER I 1 DEFINITION OF THE PROBLEM 1 Background Statement 1 Problem Statement 2 Purpose Statement 3 Limitations of Study 3 Reliability 4 Availability 4 Timeliness 4 Precision Error 4 Researcher Prejudice 5 CHAPTER II 5 LITERATURE REVIEW 5 Selected Review of Literature 5 The Effect of Right-to-Work Laws on Workers and Wages 5 Right-to-Work Laws are Beneficial to Unions and Union Workers 10 Right-to-Work Laws Negatively Affect Unions and Union Workers 16 Free-Riders are the Cause of Union Demise 23 Free-Riders Make Unions More Accountable 26 Results Summary 28 Right-to-Work Laws Weaken Labor Unions 28 Workers Gain Fewer Benefits from Economic Growth under Right-to-Work Laws 28 The Broader Economic Effects of Right-to-Work Laws are Difficult to Separate 29 CHAPTER III 29 CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS 29 Conclusions 29 Recommendations 30 WORKS CITED 32 CHAPTER I DEFINITION OF THE PROBLEM Background Statement The typical factory worker in the late nineteenth century worked ten hours a day, six days a week. Unskilled workers were paid between $1.00 and $1.50 per day. Children were a significant part of the labour force after the Civil War. Workplace accidents were common, and the idea of compensating workers...
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...WELLNESS AND THE CLEVELAND CLINIC’S NICOTINE TESTING IN PRE- EMPLOYMENT PHYSICALS By Asbjorn Osland and Pamela Wells Department of Organization & Management College of Business San José State University “As a leading healthcare organization dedicated to fighting disease and advocating healthy living, our policies and procedures must reflect that commitment,” said Delos M. “Toby” Cosgrove, M.D. CEO and President of Cleveland Clinic. “Having banned smoking from our campuses and launched a communitywide program to promote smoking cessation, incorporating Cotinine testing is a natural extension of our efforts to highlight the perils of tobacco use.” The Cleveland Clinic informs applicants when they apply for work that those that “applicants who test positive for tobacco products will not be considered for employment and will be referred to tobacco cessation resources paid for by Cleveland Clinic. After 90 days, applicants successful in quitting will be encouraged to reapply.” Existing personnel are not covered by this policy. The Clinic continues to offer existing personnel extensive support and guidance to quit using tobacco. Use of Tobacco by Employees One has to recognize that some people enjoy tobacco. Standing outside with a group of friends smoking during a break provides camaraderie. Pacing one’s actions throughout the day by indulging in a smoke break is pleasurable for many. Smoking also satisfies one’s oral needs that may otherwise be met by eating;...
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