...Toms of Maine Case Study Organizational culture is the basic pattern of shared assumptions that have been created by the corporation to enable the employees in the organization to have a shared norm. There are varied sources for the development of the organizational culture; they include the following-the general influence from the external environment, the factors that are specific to the organization and the influence of the values that exist in the society such as the spiritual perspective. The spiritual perspectives that are held in the organizations can transform the organizational culture in the sense that it will create a behavior system that will be adopted by the personnel in the organization. The Tom Chappell’s spiritual perspective clearly puts that the culture of an organization is inseparable from the spiritual ties that have been formed in the work place. The functions of the organization will be conducted in certain way that will make the organization to be noticed by the rest of the esteemed clients of the company. The individual identity of the employees comes from the connection that has been created with the relationships in the organization. This is what makes the distinct culture of the organization. This will hence be included in other entities in the organization such as; the customers, the suppliers, the stakeholders, community and the government. This will create the moral foundation where the operations of the company will be based on. ...
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...In 1806, William Colgate, himself a soap and candle maker, opened up a starch, soap and candle factory on Dutch Street in New York City under the name of "William Colgate & Company". In the 1840s, the firm began selling individual cakes of soap in uniform weights. In 1857, William Colgate died and the company was reorganized as "Colgate & Company" under the management of Samuel Colgate, his son. In 1872, Colgate introduced Cashmere Bouquet, a perfumed soap. In 1873, the firm introduced its first toothpaste, an aromatic toothpaste sold in jars. His company sold the first toothpaste in a tube, Colgate Ribbon Dental Cream, in 1896. In 1896, Colgate hired Martin Ittner and under his direction founded one of the first applied research labs[4]. By 1908 they initiated mass selling of toothpaste in tubes. His other son, James Boorman Colgate, was a primary trustee of Colgate University (formerly Madison University). In Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the "B.J. Johnson Company" was making a soap entirely of palm and olive oil, the formula of which was developed by B.J. Johnson in 1898. The soap was popular enough to rename their company after it - "Palmolive".[5] At the turn of the century Palmolive, which contained both palm and olive oils, was the world's best-selling soap, and extensive advertising included The Palmolive Hour, a weekly radio concert program which began in 1927 and Palmolive Beauty Box Theater which ran from 1934 to 1937. A Kansas-based soap manufacturer known as the "Peet...
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...despite growing competition. Replogle's mantra was that all this momentum gave Burt's Bees a unique opportunity to bring natural personal care to the forefront of mainstream personal care in the coming years, a revolution that would be consistent with the original vision of Burt's Bees founder Roxanne Quimby, who thought that the natural and earth-friendly products would ultimately reach "everyone, everywhere." Replogle liked to provocatively claim that Burt's Bees wanted to become the "Starbucks of personal care," in reference to the niche coffee" brand that won over its category by imposing superior product expectations and a renewed sense of meaning in consumption. Achieving this ambitious goal, however, would require many changes for the Maine-born brand that carried an anti-commercial image of friendly quirkiness. Already, rapid growth had propelled Burt's products into mainstream outlets such as CVS and Walgreen pharmacies. Under Replogle's leadership, the product range would be changing rapidly as well. It would still star the brand's classics, including beeswax lip balm and lip shimmers, and "hand salve" and other esoteric creams and ointments contained in small, endearing containers. Many products would continue to carry the brand's early (and highly recognizable) symbol: Roxanne Quimby's original drawing of Burt's bearded face, half shaded under a flaky hippie hat. However, new product lines, with a noticeably different look, were about to appear on Burt's Bees honey-yellow...
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...Background Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain was born in Brewster, Maine on September 8th , 1828. Originally born Lawrence Joshua, he changed his name to Joshua Lawrence when he reached adulthood. Joshua was the eldest of three sons. Joshua’s father, Joshua Chamberlain Jr., was a farmer who held many political offices. Despite his father’s aspirations for him to become a soldier, Chamberlain wanted to be a missionary from a young age. Chamberlain attended Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine in 1848, where he met Harriet Beecher Stowe, a northern abolitionist writer. It was her book, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, a novel about the cruelty of slavery in America, that sparked his contempt for slavery. For the first two years of his college experience,...
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...The Civil War was a time of chaos and different opinions. It all started with Abraham Lincoln being elected to be our 16th president. Slowly tension from the South and North started to build up about slavery, which then resulted in war. This war lasted for about four years with many significant battles. There were many important events that were leading up to the Civil War, but there were a few that were the key causes. The six events that are vital to the war’s build up are the Missouri Compromise, Nat Turner’s Rebellion, Compromise of 1850, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Bleeding Kansas, and John Brown’s Raid. The Missouri Compromise was in 1820, after the Louisiana Purchase. As time went on after the Louisiana Purchase, the Congress decided that it...
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...Many people think that the Civil War was about slavery, but, it was actually about federal and state rights. The south and the north had very different opinions on slavery, and with that, tensions grew. The threee topics that I will be discussing today, are the Missouri Compromise, John Brown's raid, and Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe. These events had negative and positive impacts. They even played a part in the Civil War. In 1819 the United States consisted of 11 free and 11 slave states. They had a balance, and Missouri had wanted to enter the Union. If Missouri entered as a slave state, the balance would be upset. Later, Maine had wanted to join the Union as a non-slave state. This kept the balance, but, in 1820, the Congress adopted the missouri compromise which stated that Louisiana Territory north of the border would be free of slavery, while south of it would be slave states. This also gave southern slave owners the rights to pursue escaped prisoners in the north, and take them back. Not only was the north mad that anotehr slave state had been permitted, but the south was also angry because Congress was making laws regarding slavery. This led to some of the first disagreements between the north and the south....
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...1811. She later in life attended a school for women, that was focused on actually teaching women. In 1832, she moved to a town in Ohio called Cincinnati. While she dwelled there she met a man by the name of Clavin Stowe. He was a professer and strongly apposed slavery. Harriet and her husband made thier house a railroad stop. This ment that slaves could come and say for awhile and then move on to the higher northern states. In 1850, she and her husband move to maine. They did this to carry thier income. Harriet started wrighting for magazines and newspapers. Soon congress passed the Fugitive slave Act. This ment that anyone that saw a slave must return the slave back to the slave states. This motovatvateded Harriet to write about her image in slave treament in her book Uncle Tom's Cabin. As for her reserch for the book she whent and saw a coluple of plantations and intervivewded the formal slaves. She even colaboratied with Fredrick Douglas, a black free abloishnest. Harriet later wrote a book called, A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin. This book containded actual events of slaves. These books eventually lead to the American civil war. In her later years she moved down to Florida and wrote about her expierances there. It later made people come down to live there. Overall Harriet has made many goals in her life. She is most know though for her book Uncle Toms's Cabin. Allen pinerton was bor in 1819, in a place called Gasglo, Scotland.When Allen was about the age of 11 his father died...
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...new constitution did not fully acknowledge if at all the rights of states to act independently. This was an exponential concern with right of slavery. As America began to expand with the addition of new states from the Louisiana Purchase and the victory of the Mexican War, the fight arose between slave and non-slave state proponents. The Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850, and Kansas- Nebraska Act of 1854 were all based around the use or freedom of slaves in new territories causing rising tensions between the North and South. The growth of the Abolition movement twisted the nerves of slave owners throughout the south. The movement was influential for abolitionists against slavery that grew especially after the publishing of Uncle Tom’s Cabin and The Raid of Harpers Ferry. The election of Abraham Lincoln was the final straw for slave states. Lincoln was seen as an anti-slavery activist, causing the secession South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia,...
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...The tension between the North and the South grew rapidly in the 19th century. The Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850 and the Kansas Nebraska Act are just some of the events that contributed to this. The reason that this tension grew was because during these events, the North and South had different views on the events. Sometimes the South would agree but the North would disagree and that caused problems. The Missouri Compromise was the starting point for this rapid growth. It took place in 1820 and permitted Maine to be admitted into the union as a free state and Missouri as a slave state. When this happened, it maintained the balance of the Senate. Now, southern slave owners have a clear right to pursue escaped fugitives that went...
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...The American Civil War was a war between the confederate and union states. It started on April 12, 1861. It ended on May 9, 1865. By the end of the civil war, more than 620,000 men died. One of the causes of the American Civil War was slavery. The confederate states were eleven southern states that promoted the slavery. The confederacy is also known as the confederate states and “the South”. The union states was against slavery. The Union is known as “the North”. The union defeated the confederate states in 1865. The union put an end to slavery when they won. In 1863, Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which freed the southern states. Lincoln was killed in 1865 by John Wilkes Booth, who was a southern supporter. One cause...
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...evolution of the institution of slavery from the Colonial Period to the 1860s. | 1619 - 1865 | Slavery began with in 1619 with the first slaves brought to Virginia as indentured servants. As time goes by, slavery becomes more popular, to help with farming large farms or plantations. Though the Declaration of Independence in 1776 states that “all men are created equal” this did not apply to people of color. By the time the Civil War starts, slavery is big business, and the south is fighting for the right to keep it. In 1865 the U.S. abolishes slavery with the 13th Amendment. | 2) The socio-cultural impact of the abolitionist movement including: a) The effect of Uncle Tom’s Cabin b) The Kansas-Nebraska Act c) The Compromise of 1850 d) The Underground Railroad | 1850 - 1865 | a) Uncle Tom’s Cabin brought to light the horrors of slavery. This gave more fuel to the already strong abolitionist movement. b) The Kansas-Nebraska Act created the territories...
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...states continued to hold onto their social pecking order. (americanhistory.about.com, 2011) States versus Federal rights Southern states were in favor of state’s rights over federal rights; northern states were in favor of a federal government. States rights would enable the states themselves to decide if a federal law was constitutional or not and whether or not that they were willing to accept it. When they were unable to nullify the United States Constitution, that was secretly created, the southern states began to move towards secession from the Union. Slave States versus Free States With the expansion of America continuing the question of whether new states should be free or slave arose. First, with the addition of Missouri and Maine into the Union in 1820 and then acquisition of new...
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...Animal Testing Traditionally, animals have been used to ensure the safety of our consumer products and drugs. Yet around the world, scientists, regulators and animal protectionists work together to develop alternatives to their use. The use of animals in the life sciences dates back to ancient Greece and the earliest medical experiments. To learn about swallowing, physicians cut open into the throat of a living pig. To study the beating heart, they cut open into its chest. For centuries physicians and researchers used animals to enhance their knowledge about how the various organs and systems of the body functioned, as well as to hone their surgical skills. As long as animals have been used in experiments, people have expressed concerns about such research. Questions about the morality, necessity, and scientific validity of animal experiments have arisen since those ancient physicians first began to study bodily functions. Alternatives are methods, which refine existing tests by minimizing a! nimal distress, reduce the number of animals necessary for an experiment or replace whole animal use with vitro or other tests. While vivisection has received more attention and funding, clinical and epidemiological (studying the natural course of disease within human population) studies have had a much more profound impact on human health. In fact, clinical and epidemiological evidence linking smoking to lung cancer was established long before warnings of the dangers of smoking...
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...PROJECT ON COLGATE Submitted To:- Submitted By:- Shweta Miglani Priyanka Gulati Anu Ahuja Colgate (sub-brand of Colgate-Palmolive) is an oral hygiene product line of toothpastes, toothbrushes, mouthwashes and dental floss. Colgate toothpaste was first sold by the company in 1873, sixteen years after the death of its founder, William Colgate. Colgate is in the Personal Care sector. The current market capitalisation stands at Rs 27,182.24 crore. The company management includes M V Deoras - Chairman, R A Shah - Vice Chairman, P K Ghosh - Deputy Chairman, I Bachaalani - Managing Director, G Nthunzi - WholeTime Director & CFO, N Ghate - Whole Time Director & Co. Secretary, J K Setna - Ind. Non-Executive Director, V S Mehta - Ind. Non-Executive Director, I Shahani - Ind. Non-Executive Director. HISTORY Colgate was the first toothpaste in a collapsible tube, introduced in 1896 in New York when it had previously been sold in glass jars since 1873. It has been in Singapore since the 1920s. It is in Nepal and India, with manufacturing units based in India and exported to Nepal. In 1992...
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...INTRODUCTION From chairman’s point of view It's my pleasure to welcome you to the world of Colgate- Palmolive. The small soap and candle business that William Colgate began in New York City early in the 19th century is now, more than 200 years later, a truly global company serving hundreds of millions of consumers worldwide. Our 200-year history reflects the strength and innovation that Colgate people have used to constantly transform our Company and identify new opportunities. With global brands sold in over 200 countries; Colgate, Mennen, Palmolive, Ajax, Softsoap, and Hill’s Pet Nutrition are among the world's most recognizable household names, trusted and relied upon by consumers everywhere. Colgate People, working around the world, share a commitment to our three core corporate values: Caring, Global Teamwork and Continuous Improvement. These values are reflected not only in the quality of our products and the reputation of our Company, but also in our dedication to serving the communities where we do business. As a leading consumer products company we are also deeply committed to advancing technology which can address changing consumer needs throughout the world. In fact, our goal is to use our technology to create products that will continue to improve the quality of life for our consumers wherever they live. Colgate-Palmolive Colgate-Palmolive Company is an American multinational consumer products...
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