...Rio Grande Supply Company Case Study The president of Rio Grande Supply Company, Jasper Hennings, is facing a dilemma concerning his chief of operations, Henry Darger. Per the company’s internet use policy personal tasks are not to be done on company computers. A female employee broke this policy by accessing another employee’s email and was subsequently fired by Darger. While speaking with Mr. Hennings this employee mentioned two things; that Darger is up to something when he shuts his office door and that she intends to hire a lawyer. Mr. Hennings approached Darger to gain clarification of what the female employee meant and Darger admitted that due to stresses in his personal life he has been using the company computer to view pornography while at work. The dilemma for Mr. Hennings is how he should address the contradictions in his company internet use policy, how he should proceed with his employee Darger, and what would be the best decisions for his company. The most apparent environmental factor that led to the situation Mr. Hennings faces is inconsistency with the internet use policy. Management set out a policy stating that internet use on company computers is limited to business related activities. However, the company turns a blind eye when employees use their computers to check personal emails, check the weather and perform personal banking transactions. This sort of variation between what is policy and what is actually enforced facilitated Darger’s inappropriate...
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...CASE ANALYSIS: RIO GRANDE SUPPLY COMPANY PROBLEM STATEMENT 1. Facts of the case Rio Grande Supply Company is a Texas-based wholesale plumbing supply company - Promotes integrity, honesty and a respect for each individual employee as the company’s values Has very strict policy on computer use; only for business-related activities Jasper Hennings, President, believes that a company’s top executives were largely responsible for determining a firm’s corporate culture Henry Darger, hard-working chief of staff and a member of Jasper Hennings’ church - fired a female employee for accessing another worker’s email. - his young nephew had committed suicide and a business he’d helped his wife start had failed. used company computer to access pornographic sites. Female employee, fired by Henry Darger for having accessed another worker’s email surreptitiously. 2. Statement of the problem How will Jasper Hennings handle the situation involving his chief of staff, Henry Darger and the female employee KEY OBJECTIVES To define a specific course of action for Jasper Hennings involving Henry Darger and a female employee, whom Henry Darger fired DIAGNOSIS AND ANALYSIS OF CAUSES An organization’s values serve as the guiding principle that are most important in performing work and achieving goals. These values are shared amongst all employees to help them determine what is right and wrong. Values shape the culture of the organization...
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...Rio Grande Supply Co. Objective: To determine the appropriate action of Jasper Hennings as the president of the company to the two employee, Henry Darger the chief of operations and the female employee that Henry Darger fired. Statement of the Problem: How does Jasper Hennings the president of the Rio Grande Supply Co. handle the issue of Henry Darger by firing the female employee by following the company’s values it adopted: integrity, honesty, and a respect for each individual employee? Analysis of the Problem: Jasper Henning can fire Henry Darger but it is costly and it is hard to find another employee that could fit the position of Henry Darger. But I suggest not to fire Henry Darger but send him in a counseling procedures in order to give him the correct punishment. Also I suggest to hire the female employee and send him also to counseling. Questions: 1) What environmental factors have helped to create the situation Jasper Hennings faces? What factors does Jasper need to consider when deciding on his course of action? 2) Analyze Rio Grande’s Culture. In addition to the expressed cultural values and beliefs, what other subconscious values and beliefs do you detect? Are conflicting values present? When values are in conflict, how would you decide which ones take precedence? 3) Assume you are Jasper. What are the first two action steps you would take to handle the Henry Darger situation? How would your role as a cultural leader influence...
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...Fray Damian Massanet, Jose de Escandon, Antonio Margil de Jesus, and Francisco Hidalgo. Fray Damian Massanet was the founder of the first Texas mission. He also helped found the missionary College of Santa Cruz de Queretaro. He arrived in Texas by boat in 1683. He was sent to search for La Salle’s Ft. St. Louis and to help with the San Francisco de los Tejas mission. He argued with civil authority about the horses he was keeping at the San Francisco de los Tejas Mission and the horses had to be commandeered. Due to floods, failed crops, shortages in supplies, and bickering with the Tejas Indians, Massanet’s missions did not succeed. On October 25, 1693, Massanet, and the other surviving priests set the leftovers of the failed mission on fire. Shortly after, he...
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...025-1065 The firm’s operational capability and innovation: Comparative studies of innovative firms from the south of Brazil. PAULO ANTÔNIO ZAWISLAK Graduate Center on Business Administration Management School Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul Rua Washington Luiz, 855, Porto Alegre, RS, 90.010-000, Brazil paz@ea.ufrgs.br ANTÔNIO DOMINGOS PADULA Graduate Center on Business Administration Management School Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul Rua Washington Luiz, 855, Porto Alegre, RS, 90.010-000, Brazil apadula@ea.ufrgs.br LÁZARO SUMBA QUIMI Graduate Center on Business Administration Management School Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul Rua Washington Luiz, 855, Porto Alegre, RS, 90.010-000, Brazil lsumba@hotmail.com CAROLINE PRATES Graduate Center on Business Administration Management School Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul Rua Washington Luiz, 855, Porto Alegre, RS, 90.010-000, Brazil carol.prates@ibest.com.br POMS 23rd Annual Conference Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. April 20 to April 23, 2011 The firm’s operational capability and innovation: Comparative studies of innovative firms from the south of Brazil. Abstract: In emergent economies, firm’s innovation is often a survival issue. This research is focused on the operational capability concept and it is intended to explain, in a comprehensive way, how this capability matters and supports innovation. This paper analyzes firms, which working under standard technology...
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...consisted of four campaigns as follows, the Texas, California, Pacific Coast and Mexico campaigns. President James K. Polk, who was elected in 1844, believed the United States had a “manifest destiny” to spread across the continent to the Pacific Ocean (Frazier, 1998). At first, the United States declined to incorporate Texas into the union, because northern political interests were against the addition of a new slave state. The Mexican government encouraged border raids and warnings that if any attempt to annex Texas it would lead to a war. As time went by Polk had his eyes on the southwest territory and wanted to occupy Texas and New Mexico. When offers to purchase the land were denied, he instigated a fight by moving troops in the Rio Grande and Nueces that both countries recognized as part of the Mexican state of Coahuila, causing the start of the Mexican-American War (Frazier, 1998). Throughout the two-year period, the Mexican-American war covered more than...
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...bringing challenges, reports Joe Leahy Inside Mercosur fails to open doors The country’s approach to trade policy could see it left behind Page 2 E arly in October, an event took place that showed that foreign investor interest in Brazil remains resilient, even as the economy has slowed in recent years. BMW, the German carmaker, opened its factory in the southern state of Santa Catarina to begin producing its Series 3 sedan in an investment that is projected to cost R$600m ($240m) and generate 1,300 jobs. “Whether or not to export will depend on the economy and the speed with which we manage to nationalise production of our cars,” Arturo Piñeiro, president of the carmaker in Brazil, said at the opening ceremony. BMW is not the only company investing in an economy that is undergoing a deep shift in trade flows with the end of the commodity supercycle and the slowdown in China. In the 10 months to the end of October, Brazil attracted $52bn of foreign direct investment inflows, putting it on track to reach about $60bn by the end of 2014, roughly in line with previous years. “This will be another positive year,” says Alexandre Petry, executive manager of investments at Apex-Brasil, the export promotion agency of Brazil. “The principal driver for investors is our market: 200m people with a lower middle class that is still growing.” For a Brazil that grew accustomed to almost automatic success by the end of the first decade of the century, with the rise out of poverty of much...
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...ANTEBELLUM TEXAS. In the drama of Texas history the period of early statehood, from 1846 to 1861, appears largely as an interlude between two great adventures-the Republic of Texas and the Civil War.qqv These fifteen years did indeed lack the excitement and romance of the experiment in nationhood and the "Lost Cause" of the Confederacy. Events and developments during the period, however, were critical in shaping the Lone Star State as part of the antebellum South. By 1861 Texas was so like the other Southern states economically, socially, and politically that it joined them in secessionqv and war. Antebellum Texans cast their lot with the Old South and in the process gave their state an indelibly Southern heritage. When President Anson Jonesqv lowered the flag of the republic for the last time in February 1846, the framework for the development of Texas over the next fifteen years was already constructed. The great majority of the new state's approximately 100,000 white inhabitants were natives of the South, who, as they settled in the eastern timberlands and south central plains, had built a life as similar as possible to that experienced in their home states. Their economy, dependent on agriculture, was concentrated first on subsistence farming and herding and then on production of cotton as a cash crop. This meant the introduction of what southerners called their "Peculiar Institution"-slavery.qv In 1846 Texas had more than 30,000 black slaves and produced an even larger number...
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...http://www.sagepublications.com Additional services and information for Marketing Theory can be found at: Email Alerts: http://mtq.sagepub.com/cgi/alerts Subscriptions: http://mtq.sagepub.com/subscriptions Reprints: http://www.sagepub.com/journalsReprints.nav Permissions: http://www.sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav Citations: http://mtq.sagepub.com/content/8/4/339.refs.html Downloaded from mtq.sagepub.com at Glasgow University Library on July 5, 2011 Volume 8(4): 339–366 Copyright © 2008 SAGE www.sagepublications.com DOI: 10.1177/1470593108096540 articles Marketing the hegemony of development: of pulp fictions and green deserts1 Steffen Böhm University of Essex, UK Vinícius Brei Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Brazil Abstract. In this paper we analyze the role of marketing in the construction of what can be called the hegemony of development. Through an investigation of the marketing practices of the pulp and paper industry in South America and the resistances that are articulated by a range of civil society actors against the expansion of this industry, we problematize marketing as a political and contested discourse and practice. By using Laclau and Mouffe’s (1985, 2001) theoretical framework, which is centered on the concept of ‘hegemony’, we highlight the crucial role marketing plays in the social and cultural legitimation of the highly controversial development of the pulp and paper industry – regarded as one of the most...
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...The river was first called after Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe. It was then renamed the San Augustin by Domingo Terán de los Ríos who maintained a colony on it, but the name Guadalupe continued. Evidence indicates that it has been home to individuals for several thousand years, including the Karankawa, Tonkawa, and Huaco Indians. These early inhabitants were gradually displaced by settlers from Mexico, Europe, and the United States. European settlement along the Guadalupe began as early as the 1720s, when the Spanish established several missions above the site of present Victoria. Settlements of a more permanent nature along the Guadalupe were not long in coming, however. Martín De León established Victoria near the mouth of the river in 1824, and in 1825 James Kerr founded Gonzales sixty miles further upstream, where on the south bank a historic marker has been placed...
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...“The Slave Power Conspiracy and Latin America” Throughout the course of America’s history there have been events that are so unbelievable and lack sufficient evidence to back them up, thus they become known as conspiracies. One of these conspiracies is the idea of Slave Power. The Slave Power Conspiracy, to most American’s this conspiracy is probably unknown, but it relates to an idea which is a topic of debate among scholars and historians. The Slave Power Conspiracy is an idea that came to be in the 1840’s and lasted till the end of the Civil War. As was stated this idea is a conspiracy as there is no direct evidence to give it a strong foundation or validity in our time. The term “Slave Power” coined in 1864 in a book written by John Smith Dye entitled “History Of The Plots And Crimes Of The Great Conspiracy To Overthrow Liberty In America.” The term started off simply as the Slave Power (conspiracy was added in the modern era). In the book Dye alleges that since the time of Independence, the aristocrats of the South and politicians from the South have had an agenda to extend slavery to the Western United States and Latin America and thus increase their power, wealth, and influence in the United States.[1] There are certain events that happened in Dye’s time that can show this idea was real. They can also prove the legitimate and real threat Slave Power posed, to Latin America. By examining all angles...
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...Enthralled by the Mountains beauty Pike attempted for over a week to reach the mountain's top. Sadly Pike would never step foot on the mountain which bore his name and instead mistakenly only climbed the nearby lesser alp, Mount Miller and was forced to turn back before the onset of a winter they were grossly unequipped for. Once again following the trail of Spanish Solider, Pike headed north along the Arkansas, eventually reaching the Royal Gorge, before attempting to find the Red River, Unfortunately the party made a series of key mistakes and wound up back where they started at the Arkansas, wasting weeks’ worth of time and supplies by traveling in a...
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...territory (Lecture Sept. 24). In this case, the American public, which was influenced by the Polk administration, justified and disguised means for war and territorial and economic expansion as being “pioneers of civilization,” (Herring 201) and spreading the blessing of democracy; American public support for the war was strong. Moreover, Mexican land was the driving factor of the war because Polk considered Western territory to the Pacific Coast to be valuable as it would be pivotal to increase American power, as well as important to conquer before European powers could ally with Mexico, hindering US expansion. He therefore convinced Congress that this was enough of a threat to declare war. It was Polk’s mission to secure the border of the Rio Grande and the lands of California and New Mexico to secure additional economic and military advantage. Another example of economic interventionism was carried out by President Taft in the early 1900s. He adopted...
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...NAME : NELIUS WACHUKA. NJOROGE. ID NUMBER : B0505RORO0410 TO : DAVID ACQUAYE COURSE : STRATEGIC INFORMATION MANAGMENT DUE DATE : 25/10/2010 SUBJECT : STRATEGIC PLANNING PROCESS OF DELL. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Every organisation has different processes it uses to be successful and there are some that are quite essential for a business to identify what it is doing right and what it is not doing. Through this process clearly analysed in Dell Corporation in this report it is able to help a business grow, and thus by identifying all this factors a business is able to make starategic decisions on what is best for the business and develop goals that will help move the company forward. So by looking at Dell we will be able to identify all this important processes and thus run a successful business. INTRODUCTION. Dell which was formed by Michael Dell in his university dorm room as shown in http://www.bizface.co.uk/bizfaceforum/blogs-leading-articles/43905-famous-dell-case-study-finance-case-study-dell-s-dilemma-brazil-del.html in 1984 when he was only 19years and is now one of the biggest computer seller worldwide. It has over 100,000 employees in the world and sells 110,000 systems daily to over 180 countries. In its’ second quarter of the fiscal year ended 30th June 2010, dell generated a net income of $545 million. All this huge figures just show how big a corporation dell is and many may ask what were the factors that attributed to this dells’ success...
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...Tata Motors Case Jordan Jenkins Professor Watson University of Rio Grande 11/14/2013 Tata Motor case Economic characteristics Describe the economic characteristics of the global motor vehicle industry. The past five years were tumultuous for the Global Car and Automobile Manufacturing industry. The price for fuel and other growing concerns have shifted consumer’s preferences away from big pickup truck to more fuel efficient cars. Some automakers embraced the change by expanding their small-car portfolios and diversifying into the production of hybrid electric motor vehicles. Other automakers were more reluctant to shift their focus from big to small cars, expecting the price of fuel to contract eventually, bringing consumers back to the big-car fold. When fuel prices did fall during the second half of 2008, it was due to the US financial crisis ripping through the global economy. The meltdown began when a debt binge overwhelmed many US consumers and businesses. This had a domino effect throughout the developed and emerging worlds, with many Western nations following the United States into recession. The Global Car and Automobile Manufacturing industry is deemed to have a low level of market share concentration. There are several major automotive companies across the globe, each with a significant share of the market, but concentration has been declining over the past five years as firms in emerging economies ramp up production a good example would be Tata in India. ...
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