...To what extent is Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) beneficial to a company’s performance? CSR—A double-edged sword for company’s performance Starting from the refined corporate social responsibility (CSR) strategies issued by the European Commission in 2011, a stinging debate is being aroused on the influence of CSR to the whole society. The most influential critic is Noble Prize winner Milton Friedman, who regards CSR as a waste of stockholders’ money (1970). However, many other articles claim, opposite Friedman, that CSR actually improves companies’ financial performance in the long run (Bagnoli and Watts, 2003; McWilliams and Siegel, 2001). There are plenty of arguments on CSR’s influence on company’s performance. As far as I am concerned, CSR plays as a double-edged sword in company performance. The definition of CSR is quite easy to understand. According to Business for Social Responsibility (BSR), CSR is defined as “achieving commercial success in ways that honor ethical values and respect people, communities, and the natural environment.” McWilliams and Siegel (2001:117) describe CSR as “actions that appear to further some social good, beyond the interest of the firm and that which is required by law.” These suggest that a socially responsible corporation should take a step forward and adopt strategies and business practices that go beyond the profit requirements and contribute to some social-friendly activities. However, when companies choose to engage in CSR...
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...Electricity Prices - INTRODUCTION • Electricity! 3rd Largest Business in the USA $300 billion/per annum. • Demand for Electricity is seldom constant over time. • Excess generation during low demand periods - can be stored. • Stored Energy can provide Electricity during high demand. • Help reduce power system loads. • Improve Efficiency and Reliability. • Make better use of efficient Baseload generation. • Allow use of Renewable Energy technologies. TECHNOLOGIES • • • • Batteries Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES) Flywheels Pumped Hydro Storage Two Main Categories: • Bulk Energy Storage – CAES-PHS • Distributed Energy Storage – Batteries-Flywheels-Other (capacitors) PROJECTS • OPERATING • UNDER CONSTRUCTION • PLANNED PROJECTS OPERATING • Bulk Energy Storage • PHS (Pumped Hydro) - First introduced circa 1904 in Swiss Alps. – 100,000 MW Europe, Asia & Latin America. – 21,000 MW Japan. – 18,900 MW in USA. (Installed 1970-1990) • CAES (Compressed Air Energy Storage) – Two Highly Successful Plants in Operation • E.ON (Germany) 290 MW Huntorf Facility • Alabama Electric Cooperative (USA) 110MW McIntosh Facility PUMPED HYDRO STORAGE (PHS) Ogelthorpe Power - Rocky Mountain – 848 MW from 3 units – Project Stopped in 1984 – Project purchased in Mid-80’s – Project completed 1995 – 1000 Acre/Ft. Reservoir OPERATING MODE • Daily Cycling – 7.5 Hours of Generation – 8.25...
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...The customs and habits of Gallic traditions were an interesting one, especially when looking at the dowry system and their marriage practices. The women in society were at the bottom of the social hierarchy, and their status was similar to those of slaves and animals. Women had no rights and were bounded to their husbands, and given off during marriage as property. Caesar explains that the husbands had complete control over their wives’ life, and it was up to their jurisdiction about how long they lived for. In The Gallic Wars, he states, “Husbands have power of life and death over their wives as well as over their children” (Caes. 19). Caesar explains that a woman’s life was dependent on her husband’s life, both physically and metaphorically....
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...MUKONO DLG MUKONO MAENDELEO FOUNDATION BLIS UCU- MUKONO LIBRARY BLIS UCU- MUKONO LIBRARY BLIS UCU- MUKONO LIBRARY BLIS BRAM KAYUNGA DLG KAYUNGA DLG BLIS BRAM UCU- MUKONO LIBRARY UCU- MUKONO LIBRARY BLIS UGANDA TEXTBOOKS ACADEMICS &NON- FICTION 14 NATURINDA ROGERS BRAM AUTHORS ASS INTERNATIONAL NEEDS UGANDA - BUIKWE 15 AKAMPA LABAN BLIS 16 LUBOTWA JOSHUA BRAM ST. LWANGA HOSPITAL- BUIKWE 17 KIMULI FRANK BRAM TEMBO STEEL ROLLING MILLS LUGAZI 18 KAWEESA IVAN BRAM SUGAR COOPERATION OF UGANDA 19 MAYENDE CONSTANCE DRAM BUSIA DLG BUSITEMA UNIVERSITY 20 SHEILLA KONG'AI BLIS MUKONO DLG 21 WALUSIMBI LAMEC MUK- CONAS 22 LUKWAGO MICHEAL BLIS MUK- CONAS 23 MWESIGWA DERRICK BLIS MUK- CONAS 24 SSEWAALI NATHAN BLIS MUK- CONAS 25 IKINGYENEYE FLAVIA BLIS MUK- CAES 26 BUKIRWA RACHEAL BLIS NAME BIRUNGI SARAH BUKIRWA MARY KIIZA SANDRA NANDAWULA PATRICIA PULE JUDITH ACHAM SARAH KIRABO EUNICE NAKAYIZA AIDAH NAMUSABI BRENDA AYOBU BEATRICE NAKIGOZI FLORA NAKIRYA AISHA NDAGIRE RUTH 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 BUULE ROGERS BWIRE EMMANUEL KIWANUKA NATHAN MAGOBA ESTHER NAKYEYUNE BEATRICE NAMWIRAY ANNET SEKAMATTE GODFREY WAGONZA FATUMAH...
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...November 30, 2002. For the urgent attention of: Mr. Darren Crone Sales Manager Soft Drink Unlimited 1834 Orange Street Downtown, Kingston. Dear Mr. Crone: NON-DELIVERY OF ORDER TS6813: FIFTY CAES OF SCHWEPPES SOFT DRINK On November 10, 2002 my company placed an emailed order with you for fifty (50) Shweppes Soft Drink, specifying forty (40) 2L cases and ten (10) 5L cases. The email included details of required delivery dates arising from the approaching Christmas season in order to cater to our loyal, repeating-purchasing customers. Your email reply confirmed our order and indicated that there would be no problems in meeting the specified delivery dates. Additionally the email also stated that the sizes of the ordered soft drinks were available to the request of our customers. I also phoned the company at the beginning of the week and I was assured that the supplies would be delivered, consequently this did not happen. I am therefore extremely concerned that the commitments which B.F. Ltd has given to valued customers can not be met because of your company’s failure to deliver the fifty (50) Schweppes Soft Drinks as guaranteed. Currently the sales staffs of my company are under intense pressure from customers who are involved, who are now threatening to withdraw their order worth a total of $100,500. As a result my company simply cannot afford to risk not doing business with such valuable customers, therefore am asking you to intervene personally in...
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...used with the smart grid. He explained the pros and cons of these entire power generation sources. Among some problems that have to be taken into consideration is the demand, space, how much land it will take to build a power station, cost, the amount of power generated, how it will affect the landscape and the environment, should it be done in a large scale or a small scale and much more. Another problem is that renewable energy are not always usable, for example solar energy which only generates energy when there is sunlight and wind turbine which provides energy only when there is wind. These energy sources are intermittent. It has been suggested that they should be stored in batteries, pump storage hydro, compressed air energy storage (CAES) or any other storage systems. He also stated a few non-traditional players in the smart grid introduction. Such bodies are CISCO, GE, IBM and Siemens. Though technology plays an important part in the development of the smart grid, he also emphasis more on consumer awareness and education...
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...used with the smart grid. He explained the pros and cons of these entire power generation sources. Among some problems that have to be taken into consideration is the demand, space, how much land it will take to build a power station, cost, the amount of power generated, how it will affect the landscape and the environment, should it be done in a large scale or a small scale and much more. Another problem is that renewable energy are not always usable, for example solar energy which only generates energy when there is sunlight and wind turbine which provides energy only when there is wind. These energy sources are intermittent. It has been suggested that they should be stored in batteries, pump storage hydro, compressed air energy storage (CAES) or any other storage systems. He also stated a few non-traditional players in the smart grid introduction. Such bodies are CISCO, GE, IBM and Siemens. Though technology plays an important part in the development of the smart grid, he also emphasis more on consumer awareness...
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...Deming's 14 points W Edwards Deming was an American statistician who was credited with the rise of Japan as a manufacturing nation, and with the invention of Total Quality Management (TQM). Deming went to Japan just after the War to help set up a census of the Japanese population. While he was there, he taught 'statistical process control' to Japanese engineers - a set of techniques which allowed them to manufacture high-quality goods without expensive machinery. In 1960 he was awarded a medal by the Japanese Emperor for his services to that country's industry. Deming returned to the US and spent some years in obscurity before the publication of his book "Out of the crisis" in 1982. In this book, Deming set out 14 points which, if applied to US manufacturing industry, would he believed, save the US from industrial doom at the hands of the Japanese. Although Deming does not use the term Total Quality Management in his book, it is credited with launching the movement. Most of the central ideas of TQM are contained in "Out of the crisis". Dr.Deming's famous 14 Points, originally presented in Out of the Crisis, serve as management guidelines. The points cultivate a fertile soil in which a more efficient workplace, higher profits, and increased productivity may grow. 1. Create and communicate to all employees a statement of the aims and purposes of the company. 2. Adapt to the new philosophy of the day; industries and economics are always changing. 3. Build quality...
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...Pooja Iyer 1228 California Ave, Apt#B301, Kalamazoo, Michigan. 49006. poojaiyer.mani@wmich.edu +1-269-365-3547 SUMMARY Highly organized and motivated student seeking work at an organization where my design and technical skills can be used to the fullest for the promotion of work at the organization. Academic Background Masters of Science in Engineering, Teaching Assistant, CGPA:3.25 Expected Graduation: Dec 2016 Western Michigan University (WMU)- College of Engineering and Applied Sciences (CAES) Kalamazoo, MI Major: Mechanical Engineering Bachelor of Technology in Engineering, CGPA:7.3 June 2014 Guru Nanak Institute of Technology, India PAPER PUBLICATIONS * “Exhaust gas Emission Revelations During the Study of Performance of Pongamia oil as Bio diesel” in International Journal of Engineering Research and Technology(IJERT) - Vol. 2 Issue 8, August – 2013, ISSN: 2278-0181 * “Design and Fabrication of Solar Electric Scooter” in International Journal of Research in Engineering and Sciences(IJRES)- Vol.2 Issue 5, May- 2014, ISSN (Online): 2320-9364, ISSN (Print): 2320-9356 * Presented a paper on the “Mechanisms used in an aqua robot and efficient ways of building it to increase the efficiency of the bot” in Technofest 2012. Gurunanak Institute of...
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...Publications (E) Energy 1-1-2010 The Role of energy storage with renewable electricity generation P. Denholm E. Ela B. Kirby M. Milligan Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/renew_pubs Part of the Oil, Gas, and Energy Commons, Power and Energy Commons, and the Sustainability Commons Repository Citation Denholm, P.; Ela, E.; Kirby, B.; and Milligan, M., "The Role of energy storage with renewable electricity generation" (2010). Publications (E). Paper 5. http://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/renew_pubs/5 This Technical Report is brought to you for free and open access by the Energy at Digital Scholarship@UNLV. It has been accepted for inclusion in Publications (E) by an authorized administrator of Digital Scholarship@UNLV. For more information, please contact marianne.buehler@unlv.edu. The Role of Energy Storage with Renewable Electricity Generation Paul Denholm, Erik Ela, Brendan Kirby, and Michael Milligan Technical Report NREL/TP-6A2-47187 January 2010 The Role of Energy Storage with Renewable Electricity Generation Paul Denholm, Erik Ela, Brendan Kirby, and Michael Milligan Prepared under Task No. WER8.5005 NREL/TP-6A2-47187 January 2010 Technical Report National Renewable Energy Laboratory 1617 Cole Boulevard, Golden, Colorado 80401-3393 303-275-3000 • www.nrel.gov NREL is a national laboratory of the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Operated by the Alliance...
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...+mohammad بحث صور خرائط Youtube الأخبار Gmail Drive المزيد full_stop_900@hotmail.com 0 مشاركة… mohammad alyahya mohammad alyahya malyahya0001@stu.kau.edu.sa Google البحث الآمن ▼ حوالي ٣٤٬٢٠٠ من النتائج (عدد الثواني: 0,48) نتائج البحث Handbook of Automated Essay Evaluation: Current ... - صفحة 125 https://books.google.com.sa/books?isbn... - ترجم هذه الصفحة Mark D. Shermis, Jill Burstein - 2013 - معاينة - المزيد من الإصدارات Current Applications and New Directions Mark D. Shermis, Jill Burstein. models resulting from machine learning must be effective at reproducing human assessment, which requires weighing the complexity and thoroughness of a ... Machine Learning Algorithms for Problem Solving in ... - صفحة 136 https://books.google.com.sa/books?isbn... - ترجم هذه الصفحة Kulkarni, Siddhivinayak - 2012 - معاينة - المزيد من الإصدارات It consists of essays written by English language students who are studying English in their third or fourth year at university. The corpus currently has over 3 million words from students from 16 different native languages. The target for each ... Psychology of Learning and Motivation: Advances in ... - صفحة 58 https://books.google.com.sa/books?isbn... - ترجم هذه الصفحة Brian H. Ross - 2002 - معاينة - المزيد من الإصدارات The larger the number and variety of essay grades there were to mimic, the...
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...Grid Energy Storage U.S. Department of Energy December 2013 Acknowledgements We would like to acknowledge the members of the core team dedicated to developing this report on grid energy storage: Imre Gyuk (OE), Mark Johnson (ARPA-E), John Vetrano (Office of Science), Kevin Lynn (EERE), William Parks (OE), Rachna Handa (OE), Landis Kannberg (PNNL), Sean Hearne & Karen Waldrip (SNL), Ralph Braccio (Booz Allen Hamilton). Table of Contents Acknowledgements ...................................................................................................................................... 1 . Executive Summary ....................................................................................................................................... 4 1.0 Introduction .......................................................................................................................................... 7 2.0 State of Energy Storage in US and Abroad .......................................................................................... 11 3.0 Grid Scale Energy Storage Applications .............................................................................................. 20 4.0 Summary of Key Barriers ..................................................................................................................... 30 5.0 Energy Storage Strategic Goals ...............................................
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...Night Vision COMM215 July 28, 2014 David Mumford Night Vision It's four forty-one in the morning, and the room is pitch black dark and the only light illuminating in the room is from the clock. You feel an additional presence in the room. You look back and forth trying to get your eyes to adjust in the darkness, and you realize there is a person in the room with you. Standing over you dressed in full military fatigues is your husband fresh from the most recent deployment and this time he has a loaded .357 in his hand. With all the horrifying and traumatic events that our soldiers encounter and experience overseas fighting for our country it raises the question: Is it really okay to be sending our soldiers straight home and attempt to return them to normal lives with their families without any post-war therapy? Although some people may object and claim that soldiers are doing just fine, and there's no reason to worry about them, soldiers should complete therapy before returning into normal life for the simple reason that some soldiers are not able to snap out of "War Mode" and think that everyone in their lives is the enemy including their loved ones. We will discuss the importance of getting the required treatment. “Post-traumatic stress disorder or PTSD is defined as an anxiety disorder that can develop after expose to a terrifying event or ordeal in which severe physical harm occurred or was threatened. (Psychology Today) The symptoms can include...
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...INTRODUCTION This paper presents the research findings on the practice of Human Resource Development (HRD) in Australia. HRD can be defined as a set of systematic and planned activities design by an organization to provide its members with the opportunities to learn necessary skills to meet current and future job demands. The paper also highlights the challenges in the development of the HRD in the country such as the alignment of training and development practice with the business strategy, the unfocused and not strategic training, and lower level of resource allocator in this field. The implication of HRD by the means of globalization also has been stated in this paper. The later section of this paper identifies the strategies that are capable of overcoming the stated challenges. Such strategies are engaging to national vocational education and training (VET) system, and developed specific roles that can help the HRD practitioners to develop HRD field. Involvement of HR professional’s association members will also be crucial. The Australian government also participates to develop strategies by introducing the Training Guarantee Administration Act 1990, principally to raise Australia’s international competiveness. Australian organizations also involve by improving generic skills needed by the workers to perform well in the workplaces of the future. 1.0 HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT IN AUSTRALIA In recent years, the rise of Human Resource Development (HRD) in Australia...
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...Accounting Standards Boards Paper Accounting Standards Boards Paper This paper will discuss the relationship of the two accounting boards, International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) and the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB). Both groups are working on a venture known as the convergent project. The convergent project is an attempt by the IASB and FASB to eliminate differences between the International Financial Reporting Standards and the US GAAP. This paper will also explain how the MSA program will help students to prepare for a career in the accounting field. The Security Exchange Commission (SEC) was established by the Security Exchange Act in 1934. The SEC is the authority to establish financial accounting standards for publically held companies in the United States. The FASB was established in 1973 as the official body charged with issuing accounting standards. It is a private organization and is documented by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants as well as the SEC. The mission of the FASB “is to establish and improve standards of financial accounting and reporting” (FASB.ORG, 2014). The FASB also oversees that reporting from publically held companies provide useful information investors, auditors and creditors, as well as anyone else who needs the information. The FASB issues Financial Accounting Standards (FAS) and other accounting pronouncements that make up the Generally Accepted Accounting Procedure. The GAAP is...
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