...BITSTREAM Background of Company: Bit stream is a $30 million company, founded in 1981. The sales were from Retail and OEM. The new president Mr. Jim Sole found opportunity in network print manager. To manage the new business a new person is to be hired. Problems in the Case: The main problem in the case is selection of suitable candidate for the post generated due to new opportunity found in Network printing business. There are four suitable candidates who applied for the post. Analysis and probable solutions: Criteria and Requirement: The new president Mr. Jim Sole found some challenges when he joined Bit stream. Some of them were top heavy structure, lot of dimensions in the organization etc. Jim sole cleared all these issues very intelligently. He started a team building process and the task and targets of the company were made clear to everybody. According to Jim, he wanted the person who is able to take decisions and manage the people. Though Jim himself was in favour of selecting from his lot of people, but for the new venture in network printing, he thought that a person, who has some prior experience in the similar fields like VAR and network printing, would be more suitable. The key was to get the right brain at right place and matching personal goals with the job requirements that will make better chances of success. According to Sole, a person with positive attitude, intellectual curiosity, variety of experience, flexible, comfortable...
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...Bitstream is a software firm which has encountered a dramatic opportunity, a new network printer management product. Jim Sole, the new president of this growing Boston-area company, is currently looking for somebody to take the position of a leader for the new product division. So he engaged a headhunter that gave him some propositions of possible candidates. When searching for an appropriate candidate Jim is looking for specific traits. His policy is to seek internal sources of candidates to promote. However, this is a very specific case since the company is entering the market with a new product. Jim will have to recruit someone from outside in order to provide some insights about the selling channels. Therefore, one of the major requirements for the candidate is to have experience with networking products and understand Value Added Resellers (VARs) business. Any customer of VARs is a potential customer for Bitstream. Since this new product has a prospect value of $100-million in a very few years, there are more than just a handful of requirements for the position. Personality traits such as leading skills, flexibility and intellectual curiosity are critical for the job. On the other hand, Jim considered that a specific amount of experience is not so important because a smart person can learn how to do the job. For Jim, the suited person for the job will have marketing skills, be energetic and enthusiastic. The president knows that they have to speed into the market and...
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...International Affairs and Global Strategy ISSN 2224-574X (Paper) ISSN 2224-8951 (Online) Vol.25, 2014 www.iiste.org E-Recruitment as a Strategy for Informal Networking: A Case Study of Mobilink Muhammad Arslan (Corresponding Author) Rashid Zaman Bahria University Islamabad, Pakistan PO box 44000, E-8, Islamabad, Pakistan Email: MuhammadArslan73@gmail.com Abstract E-recruitment strategy is necessary to attract the potential employees to better equip the organization with competent workforce. E-recruitment helps to get the informal networks for the organization. These informal networks support the organization in form of employee’s clarity of their roles, which increases the organizational knowledge of employees to perform their tasks efficiently. It increases the satisfaction of employees which in result will increase the commitment of employees for organization in long run. A case study of Mobilink, a repudiated telecommunication company, is conducted to get the implication of e-recruitment strategy that either it is beneficial for the organization or not. The survey method was employed for data gathering. The results have strong support for the long run benefits, for Mobilink, of adopting e-recruitment strategy. Keywords: E-Recruitment, Mobilink, Employees, Informal Networks 1. Introduction Recruitment is the basis for an organization to create and then continually recreate itself. It involves the workforce of an organization who are directly involved...
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...Spatial analysis on regional economic growth of China 1. Introduction Economic growth is always an important topic in the economics research. Many study in the past just considered region as an isolated “island”, and the mutual relations among different regions were usually ignored. However, regional economy is an open system. Factors such as trade, factor mobility (labor or capital), and technology or knowledge spillover will all make relations among regions become complicated. Under such circumstance, regional economy is no longer isolated but strongly related. The development of regional economy not only relies on its own endowment, also highly depends on the development of other regions This paper is going to bring relative spatial autocorrelation analysis and econometrics methods in the analysis of regional economic growth in China. It attempts to test the spatial dependence of economic growth among different provinces in China and its tendency. The inner mechanism of regional economic growth will also be discussed. In the second section, I will briefly introduce the literature review about regional economic study in China. In the third section, using a sample of per capita GDP data over 1978-2008 in 31 provinces in mainland China, I compute a global spatial autocorrelation, and use the local spatial autocorrelation to get general idea where this global spatial autocorrelation come from. In the fourth part, the spatial factors which influence regional economic...
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...a subsidiary of the parent company Inditex. Zara operated in 87 countries by 2014, having 45 stores in United States alone(http://www.inditex.com/en/our_group/international_presence). Zara’s Mission/objectives >>>> (http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_Zara_mission_and_vision?#slide=1). Continuous design, production and distribution is Zara’s objective with a quick turnover maintained through updating stock twice a week (http://www.slideshare.net/shaheen1934/zara-the-inditex-group). The rapid turnover of new inventory allows Zara’s consumers to have access to the most trendy fashion available within the shortest time, this is one of the factors that distinguishes Zara apart from other fashion retailers (http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/bitstream/2438/2003/6/Internationalisation%20of%20Zara.pdf). Zara’s Business Model >>>> In order to better understand Zara’s international business it is beneficial to examine the business model that it uses. As explained in (http://202.120.224.199/picture/article/81/f2/99/5a4dcd89499eba2b4caf15d45755/d2fe8735-0f5a-4313-953a-751b1e3a6607.pdf) a business model is the managerial equivalent of the scientific method where there exists a hypothesis which is tested in action and modified when necessary. Zara’s business model...
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...Video compression design, analysis, consulting and research White Paper: An Overview of H.264 Advanced Video Coding Iain Richardson 2007 Vcodex White Paper: An overview of H.264 http://www.vcodex.com - H.264 and video coding expertise and consulting. 1 What is H.264 ? H.264 is an industry standard for video compression, the process of converting digital video into a format that takes up less capacity when it is stored or transmitted. Video compression (or video coding) is an essential technology for applications such as digital television, DVD-Video, mobile TV, videoconferencing and internet video streaming. Standardising video compression makes it possible for products from different manufacturers (e.g. encoders, decoders and storage media) to inter-operate. An encoder converts video into a compressed format and a decoder converts compressed video back into an uncompressed format. Recommendation H.264: Advanced Video Coding is a document published by the international standards bodies ITU-T (International Telecommunication Union) and ISO/IEC (International Organisation for Standardisation / International Electrotechnical Commission). It defines a format (syntax) for compressed video and a method for decoding this syntax to produce a displayable video sequence. The standard document does not actually specify how to encode (compress) digital video – this is left to the manufacturer of a video encoder – but in practice the encoder is likely to mirror the steps...
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...BITSTREAM CASE STUDY ASSIGNMENT HR MANAGEMENT SUBMITTED BY RAMASUBRAMANIAN MAHADEVAN SIBM KTI BATCH NO: IV ROLL NO: 1235 SUMMARY OF THE CASE STUDY: Bitstream, a software company was a traditional type-setting firm located in Cambridge and founded in 1981. The nature of the business was to develop digitized type fonts for display screens and printers. By 1992, the company’s revenues were principally derived from two distinct lines of business driven by this core technology:- a) Retail Sales b) Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) Sales Appointment of a New CEO: Bitstream hired Mr.Jim Sole as the president in 1992. Jim had roughly 20 years of experience in a variety of sales management in IBM and Xerox companies. As he took over Jim had to face several problems. They were: 1) Financial, 2) Re-organizing the whole setup 3) Achievement plans for goal attainment After analyzing the various dimensions of the above mentioned problems Jim suggested/implemented some major ideas for growth. One of the ideas was to introduce a new Project called “The Network Print Manager”. For the Network Print Manager Project, which was basically always connected with a networking environment, Bitstream selected Novell Networking. Jim and his management team went through various R&D research studies and finally decided to launch this with the help of Novell networking Value added resellers in the market. Hence, indirectly...
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...Beer industry is one of the most competitive industries in the world wide is beer industries. Many beer companies using their own good business model and strategies to improve the organizational business performance. Malaysian company in same industry could learn several good business model and strategies from the Carlsberg and Heineken. The Carlsberg Group, one of huge beer company in the world. One of the strategies that Malaysian company could learn is to make a connection between its external environment and the company. Based on Carlsberg’s goals and value, the organization tries to join its capacities and assets with its organizational structure in order to be the most proficient. Through this way of internationalization, an organization borrows to another licensee the utilization of its rights, copyrights or ability on products and procedures, so this firm, the licensee can make its products and offer in the solid business sector it operates. The licensee company will should pay royalties contingent upon the business volume in return of it. It is an extremely basic method for penetrating in another business sector as a result of it is not necessary to do an important investment, so the risk that the organization must backing is not particularly solid. Carlsberg has utilized authorizing amid decades as a part of better places. The company has diverse accomplices who brewer its beers everywhere throughout the world. The primary market where Carlsberg was available utilizing...
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...(VARIABLES) | FUENTES:TESIS-LIBROS-REVISTAS | Administración Empresarial | Gerencia Estratégica | Gestión del talento humano | Gestión del talento humano y el desempeño organizacional | - Gestión del talento humano basado en competencias.- Gestión del talento humano y sus procesos en diferentes entidades privadas y públicas. | http://ri.uaq.mx/bitstream/123456789/1965/1/RI000769.pdfhttp://biblio3.url.edu.gt/Tesario/2013/05/57/De%20Leon-Edy.pdfhttp://www.academia.edu/7795914/TESIS_DOCTORAL_JUAN_JOSE_MARINEZ_BAEZhttp://es.slideshare.net/EduardoLogia/gestion-del-talento-humano-chiavenato-3-thhttp://www.itson.mx/publicaciones/pacioli/Documents/no74/6.-_gestion_del_talento_humano_en_la_universidad_publica.pdf | FICHAJE DE TESIS: tres Tesis (cinco años de antigüedad) Guerrero, A. J. (2014). Gestión del Talento humano basado en competencias (TESIS DE MAESTRÍA). Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro. Recuperada de http://ri.uaq.mx/bitstream/123456789/1965/1/RI000769.pdf Guerrero, A. J. (2014). Gestión del Talento humano basado en competencias (TESIS DE MAESTRÍA). Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro. Recuperada de http://ri.uaq.mx/bitstream/123456789/1965/1/RI000769.pdf De León, E. R. (2013). Gestión del talento humano en las pequeñas y medianas empresas en el área Urbana de Retalhuleu (TESIS DE LICENCIATURA). Universidad Rafael Landívar. Recuperada de http://biblio3.url.edu.gt/Tesario/2013/05/57/De%20Leon-Edy.pdf De León, E. R. (2013). Gestión del talento humano en las pequeñas...
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...Coca-Cola re-entered china in 1979, after three decades after the Equity joint venture law was issued, and was the turning point for coca cola to China’s open door policy aiming to increase sales by 15% using effective strategy, “Think Local, act local” and to exceed USA i.e., the home market of Coca-cola and become the largest market in terms of capital consumption by 2020 (manufacturer., 2014). (Geert-hofstede.com, 2014) If we explore the Chinese culture through the lens of hofstede culture model, we can have a good understanding of Chinese culture relative to the other world’s culture. Talking about the first parameter of Hofstede analysis, as we can see in the graph that Power distance in comparison with the home market of coca cola i.e, USA, the power distance is just double, that states that there is no direct communication between the bosses and employees also the employees fear to disagree with their bosses even if they find anything unjustified. Individualism is also one of the major aspect where the company has to deal with, as China has more collectivism approach that means they are interdependent to each other and give priority to group goals and achievements in exchange of loyalty. coming to the next parameter i.e, Pragmatism which means that each group or society has to maintain some relation or link with their previous experiences while dealing with the upcoming tasks or challenges, seeing the score we can determine that china has more Pragmatism than...
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...מגישה: מורן טאו ת.ז: 066720632 Case Study: Bitstream שאלה 1 ג'ים סול, נשיא חברת Bitstream, עומד בפני 2 אפשרויות, לקדם עובד מתוך הארגון לתפקיד חדש או להעסיק עובד מהשוק החיצוני למשרה חדשה אשר לא קיימת בחברה, מנהל מחלקה אשר תשיק מוצר המספק שרותי ערך מוסף למוצרים הקיימים בחברה. (מנהל ממחלקת שרותי ערך מוסף). קידום של עובד בתוך הארגון מעיד על תרבות ארגונית של אופק מקצועי עבור כלל עובדי החברה. עובדי החברה מרגישים בטוחים תעסוקתית ורואים בארגון קריירה ארוכת טווח. דבר אשר מבטיח את נאמנותם ומחויבותם של עובדי החברה לארגון. בעוד שאם עובדי הארגון רואים שהארגון מגייס עובדים מהשוק החיצוני למשרות ניהוליות הם יכולים לאבד את תקוותם לצמוח בתוך הארגון ולעשות עבודה פחות טובה או לנשור מהארגון. דבר נוסף המוזכר במאמר הינו שלכל ארגון יש את התרבות הארגונית שלו, את ה"אישיות" של הארגון, ולכן כאשר מקדמים עובד שנמצא ועובד בתוך הארגון, העובד מכיר את התרבות הארגונית ומתאים לה. לכן אין צורך לגלות האם הוא מתאים לתרבות הארגונית. כמו כן בהעסקה של עובד מהשוק החיצוני יש ללוות אותו בתהליך הקליטה בחברה, יש להשקיע זמן ומשאבים בלהדריך את העובד החדש על החברה ועל התרבות הארגונית. במאמר של Claudio Fernández-Aráoz, Boris Groysberg, and Nitin Nohria מוזכר כי בסקר שנערך ב-2007 בקרב 2,000 מנהלי מש"א ומנהלים בארגונים נמצא כי שליש מהמעסיקים איבדו בין 10% ל-25% מהעובדים החדשים בשנה הראשונה כתוצאה מהסיבות הבאות: הציפיות הלא מציאותיות של החברה, חוסר הבנה של איך הדברים עובדים בתוך החברה, כישלון בפיתוח תחושת שייכות , חוסר הבנה של הקשר בין התפקיד לחברה. עובד מתוך הארגון לא יצטרך להתמודד עם פרמטרים אלו, הטרנספורמציה...
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...[pic] CASE STUDY [pic] NAME : TANMAY MEHTA COURSE : MBA TECH BRANCH : TELECOM ROLL NO : 527 PREFACE The acronym MPEG stands for Moving Picture Expert Group, which worked to generate the specifications under ISO, the International Organization for Standardization and IEC, the International Electrotechnical Commission. What is commonly referred to as "MPEG video" actually consists at the present time of two finalized standards, MPEG-1 and MPEG-2, with a third standard, MPEG-4, in the process of being finalized . The MPEG-1 & -2 standards are similar in basic concepts. They both are based on motion compensated block-based transform coding techniques, while MPEG-4 deviates from these more traditional approaches in its usage of software image construct descriptors, for target bit-rates in the very low range, < 64Kb/sec. Because MPEG-1 & -2 are finalized standards and are both presently being utilized in a large number of applications, this case study concentrates on compression techniques relating only to these two standards. MPEG 3- it was originally anticipated that this standard would refer to HDTV applications, but it was found that minor extensions to the MPEG-2 standard would suffice for this higher bit-rate, higher resolution application, so work on a separate MPEG-3 standard was abandoned. CONTENTS *Introduction *History *Video Compression *Video Quality *MPEG *MPEG Standards ...
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...Restaurant Customer Satisfaction Surveys Can Keep Your Customers Coming Back Keep your customers coming back and recommending your restaurant to others with help from restaurant customer satisfaction surveys. Restaurant customer satisfaction surveys give you quantitative insight into the opinions and attitudes of your customers. You’ll obtain facts about what they want, what they expect, and if they plan to return to your restaurant again. If results show that your restaurant does not meet your customers’ expectations, you’ll know exactly what areas to target for improvement. Whether you own a fast-food restaurant, a dine-in establishment, or a chain of restaurants, Infosurv’s restaurant survey measuring customer satisfaction can provide you with valuable data you can use to make better business decisions. Gauging satisfaction with a restaurant customer survey can tell you about the demographics of your customers as well as give you insight into what they really think about: * Food quality * Menu selection * Menu pricing and value * Waiting times * Promptness of service * Professionalism and friendliness of server(s) * Server’s knowledge of menu * Decor * Restaurant location * Overall restaurant experience By assessing the wants and needs of customers – and then acting upon them – restaurants have continually found that satisfaction surveys encourage: * Repeat business * Positive feelings towards the restaurant because they...
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...Mediated Perceptions of Women and Female Adolescents: An Annotated Bibliography Green, C. (2013, April). The effects of romantic comedies on women and female adolescents. Paper presented at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR), University of Wisconsin La Crosse, WI. In the article, Green points out how romantic comedies alter women’s and female adolescents’ perceptions of romantic relationships. She refers to Bandura’s Social Cognitive Theory (as cited in Green, 2013) to explain how they learn from observation and copy behaviors that are depicted by romantic comedies. She advocates that romantic comedies cause women to have high expectations of their romantic relationships and that these movies or series support conventional patriarchal ideals and post-feminist ideologies. She explains that romantic comedies make women believe that the behaviors of the male partners that are depicted in the shows are truly ideal and should be expected in a romantic relationship. With all these explanations, the article answers my research question directly as can be predicted from its title. The article’s being supported with Social Cognitive Theory and concrete examples makes it more reliable. Moreover, it is quite recent. Johnson, K. R., & Holmes, B. M. (2009, July-September). Contradictory messages: A content analysis of Hollywood-produced romantic comedy feature films. Communication Quarterly, 57(3), 352-373. Retrieved from http://academic.csuohio...
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...Ethiopia Name Course Tutor Date Ethiopia’s profile Colonial History and Current Political Context Capital City Addis Ababa Colonial History Ethiopia is among the first independent African republics. In 1935, during the Fascist rule of Benito Mussolini, the Italians invaded Ethiopia. At the time, Ethiopia had a traditional polity comprising a feudal political system. In rebellion to the Italian occupation, Ethiopians engaged in a multi-dimensional ‘patriotic resistance’ in efforts to banish the invaders from their country. The Patriots (Arbegnoch) fought against many odds, such as the indifferences from the West and the League of Nations to establish the indigenous resistance movement. The resistance lasted for five years while Haile Selassie, the then Ethiopian Emperor, took part in an ineffective diplomatic struggle during his period in exile. Under the leadership of Haile Selassie Italians were defeated and withdrew from Ethiopia and as a result, Ethiopia became a sovereign nation (Berhe, 2008, p. 2). Present Leader Mulatu Teshome Current Political Context: In August 2012, Hailemariam Dessalegn was appointed the successor of the Ethiopia’s Prime Minister, Meles Zenawi, representing a historical moment in the nation’s politics. Ethiopia embarked on a constitutional and peaceful transition of power for the first time in her contemporary history. During the 20th century, the country was predominantly under regimes of highly centralized governments...
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