...CASE STUDY of ‘The Moonlighter” 1. INTRODUCTION According to Lewis, business ethics is a topic that has received much attention in literature but due to its abstract nature, nearly all definitions available exist at highly theoretical levels (Lewis 1985, 377). Most people have the tendency to distrust corporations in the market and the larger the firm, the worse the problem of trust usually gets (Rushton 2002, 138). Highly visible business ethics issues influence the public’s attitudes toward business and can destroy trust. Ethical decisions are a part of everyday life for those who work in organisations (Ferrell, and Fraderich 2012, 25). As such, the ability for the corporation to maintain a good public image, retrain customer trust and succeed as a firm highly depends on their ability to comply with business ethics defined by the society and environment it is surrounded by. “The Moonlighter” by Bronwyn Fryer is an article consisting of several ethical dilemmas where problems can range from large to small and from personal to business for several individuals. The aim of this case study is to identify what the ethical issues are and comprehensively understand the ethical dimensions. 2. Ethical Perspectives It is essential for an individual to maintain ethical behaviour in their conducts of business especially in the modern professional environment. Therefore, in order to adhere to the high degrees of ethical standards and accountability, individuals must be...
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...employees. Employees need to be kept motivated to work at all times. The way to motivate them is to reward. Rewards can be either financial or free (for the business). It is important for the HRM department to understand this as a mixture of different methods should be made in use and in practice. This will allow them to reward them for maximum results and gain the most possible. Lastly, once a suitable reward system has been put in place then they need to understand how to check if their rewards are achieving what they want – hardworking employees. Sometimes employees will fall easy so managers need to know different ways they can monitor so they can understand what their reward system is producing. LO3 – Understand how to reward employees 3.1 – Motivational theories There are motivational theories out there that consider many approaches. A classic theory states that motivation is related to need. It classifies different types of needs into groups; then puts them in a pyramid structure. In terms of reward this means that people will have to be rewarded with whatever satisfies their needs. Many times this can refer to giving more importance or authority to employees; allowing them to feel empowered, important and wanted. These are examples of cheap rewards. Herzberg also looked at factors. He concluded that there are basic needs which every employee needs them there are motivational factors. These are not rewards but rather motivations for example recognition of effort or achievements...
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...Research Paper Matthew Emery memery@capella.edu BUS3004 Developing a Business Perspective Lynn MacBeth 08/12/2012 Too Big to Stay Introduction A financial institution so interwoven in the fabric of the national economy that its failure could cause a massive ripple effect is deemed “too big to fail”. Unfortunately for the taxpayers, their hard earned dollars are the only thing between salvation and failure for these companies. Poor management or industry instability can ruin any business, but the larger an institution gets, the larger the collateral damaged induced by their failure will be. It is the duty of a responsible government to never leave their citizens vulnerable to such a catastrophe. The goal of this paper is to prove that too big to fail policy is what turned a period of stagnant growth into the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. It is a well known fact that the housing market and therefore the United States economy started slipping in late 2007. As the economy was faltering, it still managed to not slip into recession status until September 2008. It is lees than coincidental that America's fifth largest financial institution, Lehman Brothers, filed for bankruptcy on September 15, 2008, the very same time the economy plummeted. The instability of the market led to runs on banking institutions, which in turn led to more bank failures, which led to massive bailouts. These bailouts, while helpful at the time, lead to unprecedented...
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...Nike Case Analysis 1 Nike Case Analysis Contents I. Introduction............................................................................................................................................................3 II. Conclusions of Nike Core Marketing Strategy .......................................................................................................3 2.1. Pros: ............................................................................................................................................................3 2.2. Cons: ...........................................................................................................................................................3 2.3. Risks: ...........................................................................................................................................................3 III. Nike Core Marketing Strategy ...........................................................................................................................4 3.1. IV. Core marketing strategies .........................................................................................................................4 SWOT analysis .................................................................................................................................................6 4.1. 4.2. Weakness ..................................................................
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...and also discuss impacts on financial systems supervision and regulations. TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. INTRODUCTION 1 2. LITERATURE REVIEW 4 3. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 1 3.1 Data collection 2 3.2 Methodology x 3.3 Limitations 3 4. ANALYSIS AND DISCUSSION 4 4.1 5 4.1.1 4.1.2 4.1.3 4.1.4 4.1.5 4.2 4.3 6 5. CONCLUSION 1 6. REFERENCES 4 7. APPENDICES 1 8. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 1 1. INTRODUCTION The credit crunch occurred in 2008 has been arguably recognised as an extreme phenomenon during the financial crisis, which generated to the longest recession in the U.S. history since ‘the Great Depression’ in1929. Over 600,000 jobs lost in during 2008, and unemployment rate went up to 6.1% which was the highest point in 5-year time (Isidore, 2008). According to the Turner Review (2009), faultiness of regulation and supervision underpinned financial problems’ increase. Therefore, to illustrate the causes of Lehman Bother’s crash in 2008, events occurred during crisis progress are listed in Appendix 1. Among those serious cases, bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers was concerned to be the most typical one to explore. Lehman Brothers Holding Inc., founded in 1850, was once a prominent and highly reputational financial institution and used to provide diversified financial services all over the world with high quality...
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...accounts, including fabricated gains, was almost $65 billion. The court-appointed trustee estimated actual losses to investors of $18 billion. On June 29, 2009, he was sentenced to 150 years in prison, the maximum allowed. Madoff founded the Wall Street firm Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC in 1960, and was its chairman until his arrest on December 11, 2008. The firm was one of the top market maker businesses on Wall Street, which bypassed "specialist" firms by directly executing orders over the counter from retail brokers. On December 10, 2008, Madoff's sons told authorities that their father had just confessed to them that the asset management arm of his firm was a massive Ponzi scheme, and quoting him as saying it was "one big lie." The following day, FBI agents arrested Madoff and charged him with one count of securities fraud. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) had previously conducted investigations into Madoff's business practices, but did not uncover the massive fraud; critics contend that these investigations were very incompetently handled.1...
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...Acknowledgement I would like to express my deepest appreciation to all those who provided me the possibility to complete this project on time. A special gratitude I give to our lecture in charge Ms.Tharanga Wijesuriya, whose contribution in stimulating suggestions and encouragement, helped us to coordinate this project. Furthermore I would also like to acknowledge with much appreciation the crucial of the staff of Akbar brother (pvt) Ltd, who gave the permission to use all the necessary information to complete the project tasks. Special thanks go to my friend Thiwangi Wijesuriya, who help me to assemble the information and gave suggestions to do the assignment tasks. Lastly, I thank almighty, my parents and friends for their constant encouragement without which this assignment would not be possible. I am making this project not only for marks but to also increase my knowledge. Executive Summary Today e-commerce became a major part in the business world. It remains a relatively changing area of business management and information technology. Nowadays modern organizations are seeking for the methods to expand their business, so ecommerce became one of the solutions for that. With the use of e-commerce, organizations easily can achieve their goals. Therefore in this project we first considering about the global influence of e-commerce. And understand the positive and negative effects of ecommerce on society. Akbar brother’s (pvt) Ltd is a large tea manufacturing and...
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...employee to a large extent. (McShane, Olekalns&Travaglione, 2010) First the problems have been identified and then analyzed using the above mentioned models and methods. Finally the advantages and disadvantages of the methods and models used are discussed and then the assignment ends with recommendations and a conclusion. 2.0 Identification of the problems Companies are striving to answer many questions in efforts to benefit from positive employee behavior in the workplace. The goal of most companies is to foster a win-win situation for both the company and a good employee environment (David, 2007).A happy satisfied employee can do a much better job than a disgruntled unmotivated employee. However, there are many problems in this case. Peter as a management account is regarded “moody” and is not well liked by his staff, he is “stolen” Mike’s revision plan and so on. All of this behaviour is bad influence Fran and other employee’s emotion, and give the employee too much stress. Peter also told to some of his employee do not talk to Fran, it is really made Fran shame. Vernon as the Chief cost accountant is easygoing employer, but when he gave some advice to Fran, it is no help to her. Rob as the Chief accountant is not handle the problem well, when he ask Fran to take the workshop he need consider Peter’s emotion. And Rob can either talk to Peter about that later, but he did not explain and lead Peter angry at Fran who is really innocent. It is means Peter and...
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... |and clothing chain would need a new title. Comedy of | | |Errors is more like it. | | |Businessweek – 18.10.99 | Introduction Marks & Spencer Plc (from now on M&S) is an international retailer with 718 locations across 34 countries. The group sells clothing, footwear, gifts, home furnishings and foods under the St. Michael trademark in its chain of 294 stores in the United Kingdom. Approximately half of the group's overseas stores are franchised to local partners. The group also owns the clothing retailer Brooks Brothers and the Kings Super Markets chain in the United States of America. Direct mail helps M&S meet the core objective of providing customers with wider, easier access to their products such as home furnishings, flowers, hampers and wine. The financial services comprise of operations of the groups financial services companies providing account cards, personal loans, unit trust management, life assurance and pensions. Retailing...
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...Table of Contens Introduction 2 1. Foundation of Euro Zone 2 1.1. Background 2 1.2. Optimum Currency Area 3 1.3. Is Europe an Optimum Currency Area? 5 2. Account imbalance in Eurozone 6 2.1. Captial inflow from outside of eurozone 7 2.2. Bond interest rate convergence after eurozone introduction, it increase raising capital of periphery countries. 10 2.3. Price and unit labor cost increase in periphery countries -> competitiveness loss 11 3. Lehman Brothers 14 3.1. Reasons for Bankruptcy 14 3.2. LEVERAGE 15 3.3. LIQUIDITY 15 3.4. LOSSES 15 3.5. Final words 16 4. Greece Financial Crisis 16 4.1. Current Greece Financial Crisis 16 4.2. Greece before Financial Crisis 18 4.3. Industry 19 4.4. Tax Evasion 20 4.5. Populism and Corruption 22 5. Conclusion 23 5.1. Fundamental defect in the euro area – The impossible of independent monetary policy worsen the Economic Crisis of Europe. 23 5.2 Fundamental defect in the euro area – The Eurozone, which was established without financial alliance makes the financial crisis to the banking crisis. 26 REFERNECES 28 Introduction In June, whole world paid attention to Greek economic crisis. Greece, had undergone crisis because of financial crisis from United States since 2008, has evaded a default with two times of relief loans from European Commission (EC), European Central Bank (ECB), and International Monetary Fund (IMF). But Greece announced that they couldn’t pay back the loan to IMF...
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...3rd Edi ti on Elements of Effective Practice for Mentoring™ Newly revised edition, which includes evidenced-based operational standards Sponsored by Introduction As a strategy for helping young people succeed in school, work and life, mentoring works. It helps give young people the confidence, resources and support they need to achieve their potential. But, the fact is this: these positive outcomes are only possible when young people are engaged in high-quality mentoring relationships. The Elements of Effective Practice for Mentoring holds the key to success in producing high-quality relationships. The new edition of the Elements provides six evidence-based standards for practice that incorporate the latest research and best-available practice wisdom. It also reprises advice that appeared in earlier editions on program design and planning; program management; program operations; and program evaluation. We believe adherence to the Elements will ensure that mentoring relationships thrive and endure. They include measures that any mentoring program in any setting can implement, as well as measures that any agency can incorporate within the mentoring element of broad-based, positive youth development programming. This means that community-based, corporate-based, school-based, faith-based and Internet-based mentoring programs can use the Elements to meet the specific needs of the young people they serve and the milieu in which they operate. And, it means that afterschool...
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...BUSI2034 Research Project 2015 Due Date: Monday, 4 May 2015, 4pm Length of Essay: 4000 words excluding tables, figures, reference list, and appendices (if any). Instructions: You are required to develop an essay addressing the issues described in the following statement: ‘Geopolitical crises and epidemics haven’t stopped the global economy from expanding by some 3 percent in 2014. However, the Eurozone will remain the world economy’s main problem, with growth in the single-currency bloc expected to be negligible. Problems in some of the Eurozone’s big economies are worrying analysts. The situation in Italy, for instance, is quite dramatic, with the economy stagnating. In France, high public deficits are a big worry; such a policy could not be continued for much longer. Underperforming fellow Eurozone nations could affect Germany’s own economic growth prospects, since they are the customers for most of Germany’s exports; it is expected that Germany’s gross domestic product will expand by just 1 percent in 2015. Despite the evident problems in Eurozone, Germany and France are determined to restore a confidence to the Euro.’ Discuss the statement, and use examples to justify your opinion. 1.0 Introduction The Global Financial Crisis or the ‘great recession’ as it is now known has been widely regarded as the worst global recession since the end of the Great Depression (Drezner, 2014). The events following the collapse of the US housing market and the subsequent...
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...1.1 2. 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 3. 3.1 3.2 3.3. 3.4. 4. INTRODUCTION................................................................................................. 2 OBJECTIVES ................................................................................................... 3 GROUND EFFECT AERODYNAMICS.............................................................. 4 CHORD DOMINATED GROUND EFFECT ................................................... 4 SPAN DOMINATED GROUND EFFECT....................................................... 5 AERODYNAMIC CENTERS IN GROUND EFFECT..................................... 6 AERODYNAMIC EFFICIENCY IN GROUND EFFECT ............................... 7 EKRANOPLANS.................................................................................................. 9 CONFIGURATION LAYOUT ......................................................................... 9 POWER AUGMENTATION RAM (PAR)..................................................... 12 LONGITUDINAL STABILITY...................................................................... 14 LATERAL STABILITY ................................................................................. 15 1. INTRODUCTION Wing-in-ground effect applies to vehicles design to fly at very low altitudes to take the advantage of increased in aerodynamic lift and reduced drag which occurs when a wing is in ground effect. The phenomenon of ground effect was observed as early as the Wright Brothers’ Wright Flyer I which flew...
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...Word Count 3822 Reflective Practice This assignment is reflection on my first practice placement of work undertaken which provides evidence of my progress in meeting the domains of the Professional Capabilities Framework. I will attempt to include the majority of the domains. I will reference the domains as PCF followed by the numbers incorporated surrounded by brackets. Example (PCF 1.4, 2.5, 5.2) Names have been changed to protect identities and respect privacy in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998. My placement was within a non-statutory agency which supported homeless and potentially homeless people of the specific age range sixteen to nineteen. My role was as a support worker in which I had several clients. My involvement as a support worker led me to work with a female client, nineteen years of age and living at home with her family. Beth is 30 weeks pregnant and has been living without an income. In my practice I will work within the guidance of legislation such as the Human Rights Act 1998, Data Protection Act 1998, Children Act 1989, Housing Act 1985, Equality Act 2010 and Welfare Reform Act 2012 It will aid me in being anti-discriminative and anti-oppressive by ensuring that Beth, regardless of her background or circumstances, can have the support and enable access to services. (PCF 3.2, 4.2, 5.2). In my induction training, I learnt that the agency empowers clients to attain their ambitions and goals in life. They do this by ensuring that the client...
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...conferencing solutions 9 Table of Contents Executive summary 2 Introduction 3 Technical Aspects of Web Conferencing 6 i) Web conferencing 6 ii) Technical Features of web conferencing 7 iii) How web conferencing works 7 iv) Server Architecture 8 v) Issues with web conferencing 7 vi) Standards in web conferencing 8 How companies are using the web conference 9 a) Identify and Describe Issues 12 b) Web conferencing advantages 8 c) Challenges of webconferencing 8 d) Web conferencing advantages 8 Businsess impacts of web conferencing 8 a) Businsess impacts of web conferencing 8 b) Collobaration and Process Management Survey Results 8 c) Business Case Studies 8 a)Seagate Case study 8 b)Vodafone Case Study 8 c)University of Notre Case Study 8 d)Cost Savings from web conferencing 8 e)Top web conferencing solutions for Enterprise 8 Conclusion & Recommendation 10 Executive summary As an integral part of the course “Integrated System Network” for E Business Technologies Program we are assigned by our respected course teacher to write a report on “Web Conferencing and its impact in Business”. Hence this part constitutes the executive summary of the report. In order to cover up the topic selected, we have decided to follow a logical flow for report writing that we deem fit to explain what we have studied. Firstly we have explained about the web conferencing and method of study and then we go for bit technical...
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