...control systems required in today's business environment. Can eBay Continue Growing? 1. What is eBay’s business model and business strategy? How successful has it been? According to the course textbook there is several internet business models found on page 444. The internet business model that best describes eBay is an “online marketplace”. As it says in the case itself, “eBay is an online auction service…who stores no inventory and ships no products. Instead, it derives its revenue from the movement of information”. This is essentially what an online marketplace does. It provides a digital environment where buyers and sellers can meet. From there, they can exchange products. This is done by displaying and searching for products and then setting the prices at which the transaction will occur. EBay’s business strategy is to generate revenue from the fees and commissions charged to the customers who use the site to exchange products. The commission scale is somewhat complicated, but seems to be successful. The revenue is generated by the people who use the site. However, the interesting part of this business strategy is that none of these people actually work for the company. EBay is very successful. According to the case, the company has been profitable and had attracted more than 200 million users by 2006. It has operations in 32 countries. In 2005, eBay users listed 1.8 billion items in auctions. This caused about $46 billion dollars exchanging hands. One of the most...
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...My communication preference is relationship driven and people orientated. Many physicians differ in their type of communication preference depending personality. My hospitalist group has a combination of different preferences that make our group unique. As a lead physician, my most arduous task involves identifying each physician’s communication preferences and adapting my preference to mesh well with theirs. The physicians in my group most often identify with action oriented versus content oriented with few that identify with technology oriented preferences. I will go through specific examples of each communication preference I have encountered, conflicts that have arisen and solutions to those conflicts. My communication preference is relation driven and people orientated which allows me to directly interact with my fellow colleagues face to face. I feel my strengths include empathy, consistency, and honesty. Weaknesses include emotional attachments, directness, and at times overcritical. My schedule currently allows me to work seven days on and seven days off. We work about 12 hours per day during our work week. I share my managing responsibilities with a fellow colleague that works on the opposite week. My colleagues communication preference is technology oriented. A specific example on where a conflict arises is with our sign out process. We are required by our group to sign out our patients to our counterparts once work is complete for that week. My preference is...
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...The Literature Review In this emerging world the businesses is keep gets changes, those changes carried out by the projects and projects often creates many difficulties and in the same time is increased the vagueness and risk. Project management and functions has become increasingly important in the development of any nation. Various organisations have used project management techniques to success in implementation of projects. The main objective of project management is to help projects achieve their core target of final product quality within a given budget and timeframe (Have Project will Manage, BBC). Concrete Masonry Corporation (CMC) has delivered the successful project in the past however there’s lack of strategy management and project management functions lead them to force out of the business. . Now Organisations need to adapt and continuously change to increase their business to keep up in the emerging market. (2011 M.Afzalur Rahim) states that Change is associated with conflict, and dealing with conflict effectively is essential for realizing the benefits of change. Learning organisations like Honda, Motorola, Dow Corning, and General Electric have developed the kind of leadership, culture, and organizational design needed to manage conflict effectively, but many organizations still handle conflict ineffectively and also MA Rahim suggests Enable the organizational members to learn and use the various styles of behaviour, such as integrating, obliging, dominating...
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...groups go through stages and they had identified that there appeared to be an “ending” stage as well. In 1977 Tuckman with Jensen reviewed who the stages of group development had evolved over the years since his first proposal of the stages of group development and in response to other studies they added a final stage of group development which the called adjourning (Tuckman & Jensen, 1977). The adjourning stage will not be reviewed in this paper since there was no real adjourning stage with this group. Another model for group development is the punctuated equilibrium (PE) model which was proposed by Gersick in 1988 (Hall, 2007). In the PE model groups do not go through stages by go through states of stability or equilibrium. The PE model has three phases. Phase 1 is the group developing agendas and norms, followed by and upset of the equilibrium followed by a new period of equilibrium Phase 2 (Hall, 2007). The punctuated equilibrium is a 3 stage...
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...E-COMMERCE: THE EXCHANGE Your Name Here College Here Abstract Through the innovations of technology evolved e-commerce. E-commerce is a form of business where transactions or facilitation of business are done on the Internet (Khurana, n.d.). E-commerce “eliminates limitations of time and geographical distance,” as well as “streamlines operations and lower costs” (Khurana, n.d.). Through e-commerce startup, businesses can either do exceptionally well or fade out. The businesses that will exceed make use of resources available to them, as well as having knowledge about their customer base and competitors. The ExchangeHunterJumper.com is an e-commerce business that will be reviewed to discuss how the owner made her business successful through the customer base, competition, social media, user-friendly web pages, and customer personalization in e-commerce. E-Commerce: The Exchange E-commerce is an evolution of the Internet. According to Laudon & Travor (2012) the Internet has three stages of development: 1) Innovation, 2) Institutionalization, and 3) Commercialization. Innovation stage was through the period of 1961-1974, in which the fundamental building blocks are conceptualized and realized in hardware and software. Institutionalization stage was through the period of 1975-1995, in which large institutions provide funding and legitimization for the Internet. Commercialization stage is through the periods of 1995 to present, in which private corporations...
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...In April 1996, Dag Juul Møller, owner and president of Juul Møller Bokhandel A/S, an (in Norwegian terms) medium-sized bookstore company located in Oslo, Norway, was sitting in his home office contemplating a new challenge to the industry. He had just finished a telephone conversation with Dagfinn Nettland, a young Master of Management student at the Norwegian School of Management with a passion for computers. Dag had used him to help set up his home office. Dagfinn had spent the Easter break surfing the Internet and writing his term paper for a course called GRA2329 IT in Global Business at the Norwegian School of Management. The term paper assignment was to take an existing company and analyze how this company could use the Internet as an information and sales channel for products and services. The students in GRA2329 had chosen a wide variety of businesses and organizations. Dagfinn had been a member of a group working with Norsk Rikstoto, the company administering nationwide equestrian sports gambling. What interested Dag, however, was another aspect of the course: When GRA2329 was started, the required books had not been available in the bookstore, but had first started arriving several weeks into the course. Normally, in situation like this, the professor would have postponed the discussions over the delayed literature until later in the course. However, for GRA2329, things had been different. Several of the students had bought the course literature over the Internet, from...
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...Norwegian School of Management NSM-2002-001-CA-EN, August 30, 2002 Juul Møller AS In April 1996, Dag Juul Møller, owner and president of Juul Møller Bokhandel A/S, an (in Norwegian terms) medium-sized bookstore company located in Oslo, Norway, was sitting in his home office contemplating a new challenge to the industry. He had just finished a telephone conversation with Dagfinn Nettland, a young Master of Management student at the Norwegian School of Management with a passion for computers. Dag had used him to help set up his home office. Dagfinn had spent the Easter break surfing the Internet and writing his term paper for a course called GRA2329 IT in Global Business at the Norwegian School of Management. The term paper assignment was to take an existing company and analyze how this company could use the Internet as an information and sales channel for products and services. The students in GRA2329 had chosen a wide variety of businesses and organizations. Dagfinn had been a member of a group working with Norsk Rikstoto, the company administering nationwide equestrian sports gambling. What interested Dag, however, was another aspect of the course: When GRA2329 was started, the required books had not been available in the bookstore, but had first started arriving several weeks into the course. Normally, in situation like this, the professor would have postponed the discussions over the delayed literature until later in the course. However, for GRA2329...
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...Discuss the use of the voice in Spike Jonze’s film ‘her’ as a primary carrier of narrative and consider its relationship to image in the film. Not so long ago, sound was not considered as a significant medium in the media industry. However in 1936 Rudolf Arnheim put together a book, which helped unveil the amounts of unseen potential that were in radio. Subsequently, rather than writing the sound medium out of movies, filmmakers started to realize the essentiality of sound in film, and how effective it is whether it is evident or not. (Arnheim, 1936) Early 2014, Spike Jonze constructed a highly complex movie in which he has set sound as a primary carrier of narrative in ways that are unfamiliar and unique in comparison to most movies seen today. As soon as the movie begins, it starts becoming more and more evident that it will not be a highly visual piece, as it will be more led by story. The movie is set in the near future and revolves around a sensitive and soulful man that earns his living by writing personal letters for people. He is left devastated after he separates from his wife and gradually becomes obsessed with a new complicated operating system, which is highly intuitive and can develop its own separate entity by evolving through space and time. He launches the program and meets Samantha a playful and friendly voice that is acted by Scarlet Johansson. Which is an operating system that consists of an earpiece and a small screen, the size of a cardholder. Throughout...
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...Late Adulthood and Death Paper Late Adulthood and Death Paper In regards to late adulthood and death, there are many complex and complicated sub topics that can surround this main topic. It is important to understand this though, and to be able to understand this will give you a better insight into how to deal with this. Every human being will be lucky to experience late adulthood, because there are some people who unfortunately don’t ever have the chance to live into their later life. This paper will go into detail about ageism and stereotypes as it pertains to today’s society. Health and wellness at this time is also very important to learn about and to apply to every day life when you are within your late adulthood timeframe. This paper will also discuss the importance and having relationships and social interaction; this will be a primary source of mental health. Last, this paper will go into detail about cultural and personal attitudes; this will be key when it comes to your behavior and view of yourself and others. Ageism and Stereotypes To begin, ageism and stereotypes related with late adulthood describes is known to be ones prejudice or discrimination that happens because of age. When thinking about ageism, we must look at the disconnection theory (Cumming & Henry, 1961) that suggests adults voluntarily decrease contact with society, rather than experiencing isolation later and the disappointment not selected. Other ageism statements describe older people being...
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...Introduction This paper aims to firstly discuss what is the globalization and then to look at the effect that it has on the “global village” and mostly on poor countries such as countries inside the Africa’s continent. These topics are raised as we discuss globalization as an economic culture and a source of conflict due to the imperative change in methods of production and consumption. What is globalization? There are a lot and different proposed definition of globalization as "the set of processes of global and regional integration" currently underway at the global level . One of the most successful definitions of “globalization” is the one given by the English sociologist Anthony Giddens . according to which the term refers to "the intensification of worldwide social relations which are able to link really distant localities, making sure that local happenings are shaped by events occurring many miles away and vice versa". Giddens believes that globalization has the characteristics typical of modernity , including the idea of the nation state, the capitalist economy, the division of labor and militarism. Globalization is thus essentially an expansion of the western Europe modernity and way of living expanded to the whole world on a global scale. It follows, then, that for Giddens, globalization and modernization coincide. The term was first used by economists , referring mostly to the economic aspects of the relationship between people...
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...of health care is short but it provides a small view of how the United States made a simple choice of demand and supply through fee-for-service to managed care, PPOs, and other insurers of health care including the federal government. Fee-for-service in the early 1900s was the norm for the American public. Insurance companies did not provide health care, and if they provided the service it was only available to a few wealthy people. Physicians charged a set price based on the ailment or disease, they were paid in goods or money. In the 60s and 70s it was becoming popular for employers to pay health insurance and employers realized that if they provided this essential benefit, the productivity and profits would increase because his or her employee is healthier. At the end of the 70s Americans were demanding health benefits and in the advent of the demand the cost of health increased. The government entered the health insurance arena in 1965 with the passage of Medicare and Medicaid, which covered people without health insurance and elderly, children and mothers. The advent of this legislation changed health care services and the supply and demand of American public. Today the United States health care system is a myriad mass of complex coverage, funding, and regulation. The factors that influence health care economics are the advances in technology and medical care. This paper will discuss supply and demand and price...
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...Administrator Challenges essay In this essay, I will discuss the functional role of the criminal justice administration in the police department. I will also describe what I consider being the major issues and satisfactions of that particular role. Finally, I will discuss if this course helped prepare me? If not, what might improve the course? To understand and comprehend what a criminal justice administrator job functions are we must first define these two words Criminal Justice, Administrator of Criminal Justice and Police Administrator. Criminal Justice – Is the system of law enforcement, involving police, lawyers, courts, and corrections, used for all stages of a criminal proceeding and punishment (Dictionary.Reference 2016). Administrator of Criminal Justice – Is defined as the performance of activities such as detection, apprehension, detention, pretrial release, post-trial release, prosecution, adjudication, correctional supervision or rehabilitation of accused person or criminal offenders or the collection, storage and dissemination of criminal history record information (Us. Legal 2016). Police Administrator – Is defined as the process, art, and science of the management, supervision and ethical leadership of a police agency (Us. Legal 2016). In today's world of policing the role of criminal justice, police administrator is a very complex and challenging job in today society. A police administrator has many different functions when it comes to his/her job description...
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...Administrator Challenges essay In this essay, I will discuss the functional role of the criminal justice administration in the police department. I will also describe what I consider being the major issues and satisfactions of that particular role. Finally, I will discuss if this course helped prepare me? If not, what might improve the course? To understand and comprehend what a criminal justice administrator job functions are we must first define these two words Criminal Justice, Administrator of Criminal Justice and Police Administrator. Criminal Justice – Is the system of law enforcement, involving police, lawyers, courts, and corrections, used for all stages of a criminal proceeding and punishment (Dictionary.Reference 2016). Administrator of Criminal Justice – Is defined as the performance of activities such as detection, apprehension, detention, pretrial release, post-trial release, prosecution, adjudication, correctional supervision or rehabilitation of accused person or criminal offenders or the collection, storage and dissemination of criminal history record information (Us. Legal 2016). Police Administrator – Is defined as the process, art, and science of the management, supervision and ethical leadership of a police agency (Us. Legal 2016). In today's world of policing the role of criminal justice, police administrator is a very complex and challenging job in today society. A police administrator has many different functions when it comes to his/her job description...
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...summary: There are many work tasks to be done in a large organization and consequently the work must be divided up and allocated. In this case we consider what is meant by organization structure and design; consider why it is necessary to structure human resources, discuss how we should set about this enormous challenge and ask how we can make efficient and effective use of human resources in order to attain goals and derive a sustainable competitive advantage. In particular we consider issues associated with bureaucracy and hierarchy. Body Shop grew and with it came particular design challenges. Learning objectives: Define and discuss the nature of organization design. Outline the main structural choices available to organizations. Explain the limitations of the organizational chart in describing activity within an organization. Case problem: What is organizational structure and why do large organizations need continually to consider the designs of their organization? What may be the consequences of a good or bad design for a specific organization? Personal Products Company Body Shop www.thebodyshop.com Founded in 1976 by Anita Roddick, The Body Shop International plc, known as The Body Shop, has 2,400 stores in 61 countries, and is the second largest cosmetic franchise in the world. The Body Shop is headquartered in England and is now part of the L'Oréal corporate group. The Body Shop International plc is a global manufacturer and retailer of naturally‐inspired...
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...508 July 17, 2011 Entrepreneurial Leadership Discuss the common elements described in the theories/philosophies of Case, Kouzes, and Drucker including how their principles/strategies relate to the new definition of entrepreneurial leadership presented in Understanding Entrepreneurial Leadership in today’s Dynamic Markets. Knowing what it takes to become an entrepreneur and establish a successful and thriving business is not easy. Entrepreneurs are risk takers and they understand that no matter how small or large the venture there must be a strategy and a business plan in place in order to operate a profitable business. In order to accomplish this there are particular leadership skills, practices, and principles that are required. Social ecologist Peter Drucker, Former AOL CEO and Chairman Steve Case, and leadership scholar James Kouzes each have a different set of common elements, however, they all share similar principles, philosophies, and strategies that define what is expected of an entrepreneur and the relationship between their philosophies and the new era and definition of entrepreneurial leadership. Former AOL CEO and Chairman Steve Case based his philosophy on the 3P’s “People, Passion, and Perseverance”. In the video Steve Case described the realization that the technology industry was out of touch with the people by making technology too complicated to use and that consumers wanted simplicity in technology. By focusing on this realization Case concentrated...
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