...WOMEN ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND EDUCATION Introduction The domain of entrepreneurship education is now faced with ever more interesting choices about what to be, who to serve and from what principles to profess. Opportunities and challenges in teaching and training related to globalization, technology, political organization and shifting demographics and social views have created entirely new understandings of what is important and where attention should be directed. Entrepreneurship is exciting and valued and most agree that while academics and others can’t help every person to be an entrepreneur, but can help those who are interested with tools, skill acquisition and ideas. The emergence and growth of women-owned businesses have contributed to the global economy and to their surrounding communities. The presence of women around the world driving small and entrepreneurial organizations has had a tremendous impact on employment and on business environments worldwide. Women-owned firms comprise between one-quarter and one-third of all the businesses in the formal economy, and are expected to play an even larger role in informal sectors (Delaney, 2002). Entrepreneurship refers to an individual’s ability to turn ideas into action. It includes creativity, innovation and risk taking, as well as the ability to plan and manage projects in order to achieve objectives. To achieve success, growth and employment, we need to stimulate the entrepreneurial mindsets of young women, encourage...
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...Critical Thinking and Its Importance in Education By Kadoko Chanda 1. Introduction Technology, travel and business have brought countries together, so does our thinking evolve. No more thinking within our boundaries, we need critical thinking to evaluate our own decisions in everything we do. For example, how do you teach students without discriminating their beliefs or religion? How do we start a business in a country with different laws from ours and still incorporate our business values? So, what is critical thinking? 2. What is Critical Thinking? Critical thinking according to Hamilton-Reeves (2009) is the process of filtering information by removing emotional and environmental discrepancies and remaining neutral to make the most accurate decision. On the other hand Elder and Paul (1994, pp.34-35) believes critical thinking is the "ability of thinkers to take charge of their own thinking by developing sound criteria and standards for analyzing and assessing" information to make an informed decision. Lastly, critical thinking from a general psychology point of view is analyzing ones standards, facts and assessing conclusions (Petress, 2004). From the above analysis, it is apparent that critical thinking is a process that guides ones logical decision making process by analyzing all possible information before making a decision, therefore reducing the chances of making quick and unethical decisions. According to Hamilton-Reeves (2009), critical thinking improves your...
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...Business Ethics Concepts & Cases Manuel G. Velasquez Copyright © 2012 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Chapter One Basic Principles: Ethics and Business Copyright © 2012 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Ethics and Morality • Ethics is the study of morality. – Morality = The standards that an individual or a group has about what is right and wrong, or good and evil. • Example: B.F. Goodrich A7-D Fraud – Moral Standards = norms about the kinds of actions that are morally right and wrong, as well as the values placed on what is morally good or bad. – Non-Moral Standards: The standards by which we judge what is good or bad and right or wrong in a non-moral way. Copyright © 2012 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Five Characteristics of Moral Standards • Involve significant injuries or benefits • Not established by authority figures • Should be preferred to other values including self-interest • Based on impartial considerations • Associated with special emotions and vocabulary. Copyright © 2012 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. What is Business Ethics? • Broadly, ethics is the discipline that examines one’s moral standards or the moral standards of a society to evaluate their reasonableness and their implications for one’s life. • Business ethics is a specialized study of moral right and wrong that concentrates on moral standards as they apply to business institutions, organizations, and behavior. ...
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...same time it will increase a company’s performance level because of the added increased productivity within a company. There is a passage that Epstein includes from Payne v. Western & Atlantic Railroad in out text that reads; “[M]en must be left, without interference to buy and sell where they please, and to discharge or retain employees at will for good cause without thereby being guilty of an unlawful act per se. It is a right which an employee may exercise in the same way, to the same extent, for the same cause or want of cause as the employer.” This is so true and is in my opinion the way the EAW works for the most part. For instance I used to work at a food court where we had all EAW employees and it worked. We gave employees the raises they deserved and when an employee would do something wrong we would document with a write up ensuring that the employee would know what they did...
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...a. What are the major arguments made in the first paper? The major arguments made by Professor Sandra Waddock is that business professions are mainly concerned with temporary financial performances and the growth of earnings at the expense of people, society, and natures resources. Thus, she recommends transforming business education curriculum to increase future business leader’s society responsibility, trust, and integrity. Accordingly, the five critical elements she suggest to significantly change business education are a sense of balance, integration of body, mind, and heart, holistic understanding, respect for diversity, and a grasp of complex change. Do you agree with them? In my opinion, she is very accurate about most company’s culture being about maximizing profits at all cost. For example, the chocolate maker Nestle maximized profits to shareholders by exploiting child slave labor in West African cocoa farms. According to Collingsworth, “Nestle crossed a very bright line and proceeded in bad faith. It’s clear the only way they are going to change is if they get smacked”. In the end, the Nestle leaders of the firm should have followed the curriculum set by Professor Sandra Waddock’s. Thereby, allowing them to acknowledge that taking advantage of cheap labor wages in another country is very unethical. They should have concurred that the ethical action was to provide a living paying wage to the workers producing the chocolate. As a result, the firm would generate a...
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...------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- FACULTY OF BUSINESS ------------------------------------------------- Graduate School of Business ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Management & Organisations - 21800 ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Student Name: Arijit Banerjee ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Student Number: 11294636 ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Lecture Day: Monday 9 AM to 12 PM ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Lecturer: Dr. Walter Jarvis ------------------------------------------------- Tutor: Ms. Alison Lee ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- UTS: BUSINESS SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT PART A: The educational system in any country around the world is, by no doubt, designed to meet the ever growing hunger of Industrialization. Dubbed by Sir Ken Robinson (2010) as “the fast food model”, this educational system, albeit useful in shaping the world that we all see today, has had some significantly negative impact on the lives of some people who were...
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...HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT AT TERTIARY EDUCATION LEVEL IN NIGERIA: IMPLICATION FOR BUSINESS EDUCATION ABSTRACT The paper observes that Nigeria higher education Institution have fallen short on expectations, their product (Tertiary Education level) lack the skills required by the labour market and this trend results in mass graduate unemployment since they would have assisted them to be self reliant. The study investigated the relevance of higher level business education, human recourses management and how it’s being handled at tertiary Education level in Nigeria. The ever increasing pace of technological charges in the fields of business and economy generally has rendered the teaching of business skills and the training of skilled manpower ever more challenging. The problem posed by this development is the search for graduates and competent business educators with the knowledge and skills needed by employers of labour in business offices, industry and public sector. The task of producing skilled human resource management at tertiary level, productivity and efficiency in society lies with skilled trainers and the quality of training institution. The implication of business education of a virile higher level skilled worked force for the economy is critically analyzed and recommendations are made to relevant public especially the university and its tutors. INTRODUCTION The rapid development of any nation depends largely on the caliber of its youths, most sector of...
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...totalling $9,400 were made to your assessable income, and four decreases totalling $16,300 were made to your allowable deductions. You have approached us to assist you in explaining the objections to assessments process, prepare relevant objections to the Assessment, and explain the applicability of the General Interest Charge included. 2. THE OBJECTIONS PROCESS The Taxation Administration Act 1953 (Cth) governs the process for objecting to Amended Assessments prepared by the ATO. The Assessment is a definitive judgment of your taxable income, and you will be liable for the included amounts unless an objection is lodged. We have completed a comprehensive objection form on your behalf, which we will deliver to the Federal Commissioner of Taxation for evaluation. This is the key document in the objections process as it explains assessments we deem to be incorrect and provides detailed reasons for the objection supported by applicable law. If you are unhappy with the Commissioner’s response, which can often take several months to prepare, you can appeal to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal, for a minimum fee of $574. 3. EXPLANATION OF OBJECTIONS MADE TO AMENDED ASSESSABLE INCOME 3.1 Up-front fees from Tom The Commissioner has determined that the...
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...Ethics and ethical theories: a road map for teaching ethics in business schools Joan Fontrodona (IESE Business School, Spain), Manuel Guillén (University of Valencia, Spain), and Alfredo Rodríguez-Sedano (University of Navarre, Spain) Introduction A three-dimensional framework to explain ethical theories Ethical approaches of business firms Teaching ethics experiences using this framework Discussion of the teaching experiences Conclusions References 1 2 6 9 10 12 13 Introduction This paper tries to contribute, in some way, to the urgent need recently warned by Benedict XVI: “the university, for its part, must never lose sight of its particular calling to be a "universitas" in which the various disciplines, each in its own way, are seen as part of a greater unum. How urgent is the need to rediscover the unity of knowledge and to counter the tendency to fragmentation and lack of communicability that is all too often the case in our schools!”1 This seems to be a challenge for both, Catholic and non-Catholic universities. The purpose of this paper is to present a theoretical framework that helps to conceptualize ethics and to clarify the characteristics and limits of the different ethical theories. In other words, students without philosophical background will find here a synthetic “road map” of ethical approaches. This framework has been previously published in a book in Spain2. In this paper, authors will describe the model and discuss how it has been successfully tested...
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...International Business Cultural Assignment Shawna Johnson January 25, 2013 When talking about culture and how it can affect business practices brings up many topics. Culture is a system of values and norms that are shared amount a group of people and that when taken together constitute a design for living. (“Components of culture”, 2011, p.2) Values and norms have a huge impact on culture within the work place. Values are abstract ideas about what a society believes to be right or wrong, good or bad. Norms also shape culture; they are the social rules and guidelines that lay down the proper behavior in certain situations. There are several components that define culture; religion, political and economic philosophies, education, language, and social structure. Different countries have different religions views and values. Different religious have different views of work and material goods. Cultural views influence the competitiveness of companies, the way cultures change due to religious and the need to adapt to those changes. For example Mc Donald’s change the main ingredient in their product to lamb instead of beef because of the religious views of Hinduism. (“Components of culture”, 2011, p. 11) The way businesses adapt to different religion in different countries in a major component of how they prosper among many different cultures. The way different countries are taught education has a great impact on cultures and the way companies conduct business deals. Education...
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...Through education, we learned, educated, and lectured to shift the world around us. Education obviously not just to brighten our way of life in the future, it also make a huge impact on the nation economy once every individual is able to equally receive education. However, this trend yet indicate that education should be freely provided as there have many business people are running their own business in the field of education and those businesses highly integrate in the share of the country’s economic surviving. In my view point, education should never set in wholly free of charge but partially free of charge. Virtually, educated people are saw to be the core development and improvement of one country’s economy so that the governments of each one countries are putting their much effort into securing educational system throughout their countries to ensure that all classes of its nation is getting a full educational programs; from primary school to secondary school, from high school to undergraduate and then to higher educational study. Wide ranges of government policies were insensitive in the bid of assisting their citizens to get a better education. For instant, in the United States the government have just rise budget into education and loads of Universities in the United State also be the cause of boosting up education within the nation by offering wide ranges of scholarship to applicants with excellent academic record from their previous study. One another essential...
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...BUSINESS COMMUNICATION PRESENTATION WRITE-UP 1. Discussions within the group The points which were discussed with the class have been omitted from this section and have been included in the next section to avoid redundancy of the content. What B-Schools teach which they shouldn’t? The increasing levels of competition among the students leads to the creation of a Superiority complex among few individuals who tend to become dominating at times, which greatly hampers the group dynamics and morale of others. There is an overdose of curriculum within a stipulated time period hampering the understanding of the subjects. This necessitates the system to be more flexible in allowing the students to choose among the subjects as per their preference. Focus should be to understand whatever one studies rather than getting overburdened with more number of subjects. What B-Schools don’t teach which they should? Organizational Commitment: It is the individual's psychological attachment to the organization. The level of Organizational Commitment an individual has reflects in his job performance in the organization. B-schools today have become a means of getting a fat paycheck at the end of the two years without being able to foster a sense of belongingness towards the institute. It wouldn’t be surprising to know that many MBA students today would not be aware of their B-School’s Mission, Vision and Values. This needs to be given importance so that the student understands and reflects...
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...candidates have somewhat different backgrounds and views and ideas, such as their past experiences (which definitely affects how they choose to react to some issues), their views about the current education system and how they might improvise on it. Sanders and Trump have very contrasting background experiences. Sanders has done hard work from the bottom up. He started off as a carpenter and documentary filmmaker. In 1981, he was elected as mayor of Burlington, Vermont. But getting elected was not easy, he repeatedly ran and lost low level contests before he actually won. He soon became part of the House of Representatives and then finally of the U.S Senate.(“Meet Bernie”). We can conclude that Sanders has had political experience before. Trump meanwhile, inherited a lot of money from his father and used it to become a “real estate mogul” as The Week’s journalist Damon Linker puts it in his article. Trump wrote books about business and economics. He has been the subject of comedians, flash cartoon artists and online caricature artists. He has made appearances in various television series, films, and shows (“Donald Trump” Wikipedia). He has little or no past political experience. Both the candidates want to approach terrorism issues in extremely different ways. “We live in a difficult and dangerous world, and there are no easy or magical solutions. While we must be relentless in combating terrorists who would do us harm, we cannot and should be policemen of the world, nor bear the burden...
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...Paper Social Responsibility of Business Social Responsibility of Business Name= Bisweswar Chakraborty BBA, 4th Semester, 2nd year * Introduction :- * Social Responsibility :- Social responsibility is an ethical theory that an entity, be it an organization or individual, has an obligation to act to benefit society at large. In our daily life, you perform a number of activities. For example, brushing our teeth, showing respect to elders obeying traffic rules on road etc. Now why do we perform all these activities? It is because we live in a family as well as in a society and the members of our family as well as the society want to do all of them. They do several things for us and expect something from us, which you must do. The expectations of the family or society become our obligations, which you need to fulfill. For example, keeping the road clean by not throwing garbage on it, etc. There are also obligations towards our self, which you need to fulfill. For example, taking food timely, going to sleep early at night, etc. that keep you fit and takes care of your health. Now we fulfill all these obligations by performing certain activities which are called our responsibilities. Any responsibility we have, particularly towards members of the society with whom we interact or towards the society in...
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...ASSIGNMENT-1 OF COMPARITIVE GEOPOLITICAL SYSTEMS SUBMITTED BY:- GLOBALIZATION: Globalization is not a new word in the world of business and also to the common people. “As far as the definition of Globalization is concerned, there is no such single definition on which all the disciplines of study have agreed upon. One of the famous sociologists has defined globalization with 3 different concepts:” (1) * Globalization as transference between the already defined items that may be in term of politics, culture or economics; * Globalization as transformation on system level; * Globalization as transcendence which affects the basic conditions of existence (Bartelson, 2000). From financial point of view, Financial Globalization has strengthened the links between Banks and the financial markets. Banks which are well developed and have good credit have the main role to play in Financial Globalizations. (2) Globalization also helps in boosting up of many activities like Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), Telecommunication Developments, and Cross Border Trade activities and also in technologies sector.(1). ARGUMENTS IN THE FAVOUR OF GLOBALIZATION: 1. ELIMINATED COMMUNICATION BARRIERS: Few years ago it was almost impossible for the people who belong to different countries and also culture to communicate with each other. But now day’s one person who is living in one corner of the world can communicate to the other person living in other part of the world...
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