...as a species to take responsibility and make the effort to keep other species away from extinction. Wildlife conservation is not something that can only be handled by professional members of organizations. Anyone can do their part to help protect a species in need. In some cases it is as simple as refraining from harmful activities such as hunting for sport. Hunting is a major conservation concern (Selvan & Veeraswami, p11.) If people raise awareness about how hunting effects the populations of large bodied animals perhaps we can help to reduce the damage done to these species. Hunting has been a part of every culture since the dawn of time. Once, it had its place as it was required to survive. Hunting some animals can provide food, clothing and even shelter. Today, hunting is considered a sport and glorified on television with competitions and informative programs. Because of its sport like popularity, hunting is severely damaging to the species...
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...Biodiversity Paper Biology as a science concerned with living organisms, said organism’s function, origin, structure, and distribution is defined through numerous subdivisions and branches. Conservation biology is a branch, which deals with certain factors threatening biodiversity as well as the preservation of genetic and biologic diversity of animal and plant species. Threatened, endangered, and extinct species are only some factors that may influence biodiversity. Any given species has to meet a certain criteria to suit the previously named terms. Conservation biologists are concerned with numerous species because of said species’ influence on the interrelation within their ecosystems, and the interruption of such ecosystem when the numbers of a certain species are drastically decreasing. Conservation biology is concerned with the maintenance of species, their genetic variation, ecosystems, and communities within such ecosystems. Biodiversity includes “The variety of life and its processes, including the variety of living organisms, the genetic difference among them, and the communities and ecosystem in which they occur” (U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, 2004, p. 1). Even though the term “species” is complex, and some definitions may differ slightly from others “A species is often defined as a group of individuals that actually or potentially interbreed in nature” (Berkley University, n.d., p. 1). Therefore, a species is defined as the greatest gene pool that can...
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...Value Alignment BUS/475 Value Alignment Whole Foods Market, a natural food supermarket, was originally founded in Austin, Texas in 1980. When they opened there was a very small staff at one store location and there were fewer than a dozen other natural foods supermarkets available in the United States. Over the years the company has grown substantially. Much of their success can be attributed to their strong mission statement and core values for which they promote and proudly advocate. Whole Foods mission is to “to be able to be a grocery store featuring good, wholesome food; not a health food store filled with pills and potions” (Whole Foods, 2013). The Origin and Subsequent Evolution of Personal and Workplace Values Personal values are the beliefs deep within our subconscious and mixed and molded into the way we live our lives. Values guide our behaviors and the decisions we make. Very often our decisions about friends, a new job, a future marriage, and business decisions are based on our personal value system. We develop an initial set of values during our childhood from our parents, mentors, teachers, and grandparents; however later as we gain life experiences and develops our abilities to think critically we may add different values or disregard some of our initial values altogether. Many of our personal values affect our behaviors and the decision we make with regard to business. The origin and evolution of personal and workplace values joins the standard...
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...general guidance for the application of the system while recognizing that the details of application may vary depending on the circumstances of the food operation.2 The HACCP system, which is science based and systematic, identifies specific hazards and measures for their control to ensure the safety of food. HACCP is a tool to assess hazards and establish control systems that focus on prevention rather than relying mainly on end-product testing. Any HACCP system is capable of accommodating change, such as advances in equipment design, processing procedures or technological developments. HACCP can be applied throughout the food chain from primary production to final consumption and its implementation should be guided by scientific evidence of risks to human health. As well as enhancing food safety, implementation of HACCP can provide other significant benefits. In addition, the application of HACCP systems can aid inspection by regulatory authorities and promote international trade by increasing confidence in food safety. The successful application of HACCP requires the full commitment and involvement of management and the work force. It also requires a multidisciplinary approach; this multidisciplinary approach should include, when appropriate, expertise in agronomy, veterinary health, production, microbiology, medicine, public health, food technology, environmental health, chemistry and engineering, according to the particular study. The application of HACCP is compatible with the...
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...Marketing Research Paper MKT/421 Marketing Research Paper Kudler Fine Foods is a local upscale food store in San Diego metropolitan area and has three locations in LaJolla, Del Mar, and Encinitas. Kathy Kudler was the founder of Kudler Fine Foods and started the first location in June 1998. Each store is approximately 8,000 square feet and offers products ranging in bakery and pastry products, fresh produce, fresh meat and seafood, condiments and packaged foods, cheese and specialty dairy products, and wine. The company mission is to offer each customer a delightful and pleasing shopping outing. The staff is helpful and knowledgeable and will go to extensive lengths to ensure that Kudler Fine Foods is the purveyor of choice for customers aspiring to purchase the finest delights. Kudler Fine Foods shops around the world to offer fines foods with reasonable budgets for consumers. Kudler Fine Foods will continue to be successful by understanding the importance of market research, identifying areas where additional market research is needed, and analyzing the importance of competitive intelligence and analysis regarding the development of the company’s marketing strategy and tactics. Importance of Marketing Research The importance of marketing research is a process to define a marketing problem and opportunity to resolve the issue. Marketing research systematically collects and analyzes data, and recommends actions to the organization. The purpose for marketers is to help the organization...
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...determining just how much of any given mineral I am getting in a supplement, and interpreting the chemical-babble often found on processed foods these days. So, it was a bit of a humbling experience to find that I was not guaranteed an A on the assignment, and even worse, that although I thought I had all the answers, I was really short on solutions. My primary error was to think that knowledge about food was equivalent to eating well. Once I began the assignment in earnest, I realized that I really had not been using what I knew to benefit my health. Over the past few weeks, I have made a sincere, though not 100% successful effort to apply what I learned when creating my Healthy Eating Plan, and have summarized the results below. In terms of general eating habits, I have often jokingly described myself as person who does not real eat a lot of meat. As detailed in my Healthy Eating Plan, I relied on dairy as a primary protein source, particularly hard cheeses, as many yogurts, for instance, are actually not vegetarian. One notable conclusion I reached from the assignment was that I was really over emphasizing dairy to fill my protein needs. I was already having a sufficient, healthy intake of other protein substitutes for meat, such as Garden burgers and soy proteins like Yves vegetarian cold cuts. Another concern was that because of food choices such as high salt dairy products and the frequent use of condiments, including prepackaged salad dressings and pasta sauces, my...
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...planning is the key to an organization success or failure. This paper will discuss the importance of alignment between an organizations stated values and an organizations actual plans and actions. This paper will give examples of Team D’s real life experiences of personal values that drive actions, behaviors as it is aligned between personal values, actions and behaviors. Team D will analyze the degree of alignment between Trader Joes organization stated values and the organizations actual plans and actions. This paper will explicate the differences of degree of alignment between Team D’s group members individual values and the organizations values of Trader Joes; as reflected by Trader Joes plans and actions. Trader Joe’s was established in the 1950s as a convenience store. In 1967, Trader Joes changed its course and created larger grocery stores that offered hard to find, great tasting food (Our Story, 2012) with the Trader Joes brand name. The idea was to have innovative products that customers could save money on. Trader Joes does not believe in carrying an item that sits and does not sell. Doing this will eliminate product waste and different products can be brought in that will be higher in demand. This also saves both Trader Joes and the consumer money. Trader Joes vision is “great food plus great prices equals value” (Our Story, 2012). Trader Joe’s does not charge a suppliers fee to stock products on shelves like other grocery stores. This saves also saves the...
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...Established Corrective Action to be taken when the Critical Limit has been Exceeded HHACCP1 HBH-1 2:00-300 MWF January 20, 2016 Submitted to: Ma’am Vivien E. Rios Submitted by: Group 5 Ronald H. Schmidt and Debby Newslow2 Under a properly implemented HACCP System, whenever a deviation from a critical limit (CL) for a critical control point (CCP) occurs, there shall be a corrective action. A deviation is a failure to meet a CL. It indicates that a possible food safety hazard may have occurred and that unsafe product may have been produced. Thus, corrective actions must be immediate and must trigger an automatic review of the HACCP plan. Corrective actions and expected actions or outcomes, as defined by different agencies and organizations, are presented in Table 1. The HACCP team should routinely pay close attention to operational trends. This should include tracking the frequency of the process adjustments that are required when operating limits are exceeded. A pattern of exceeding operating limits on a regular basis could serve as a warning that a deviation may be imminent. I. Properties of Corrective Actions * Specific: Corrective actions are required for each affected CCP, and for each and every deviation at each CCP. * Immediate and comprehensive: The time for corrective action is dependent upon the monitoring frequency. All food products affected and produced within the monitoring time period must be brought under control. Holding and storage provisions for...
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...process among the functional areas that needs to be employed to achieve organizational goals, and prepare an action plan to implement the collaboration process. o Identify and provide an example of the use of lateral collaboration and vertical collaboration within the organization, and prepare an action plan to use lateral and vertical collaboration. Nick o Identify the key stakeholders and their roles needed to achieve the organizational goals, and recommend the collaborative interactions among the key stakeholders to facilitate the organization’s success. Organization Analysis Kudler Fine Foods was founded by Kathy Kudler. She was an executive living a fast paced life which required extensive travel and put her under a lot of stress, which had finally started to take its toll. Kathy enjoyed cooking gourmet meals to ease the stress of her busy lifestyle; the idea for Kudler Fine Foods grew from this passion. When shopping, Kathy noticed that to get the finest products for her meals that she had to travel to several different stores around the San Diego area. The need for a gourmet food store that offered a wide selection was apparent to Kathy and she believed that by filling this need she could create a profitable business. Kathy’s idea was to provide a store that focused solely on the gourmet food...
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...Final Project, Healthy Eating, Nutrition, and Exercise Plan SCI/241 Version 6 Carlos E. Matta University of Phoenix Final Project, Healthy Eating, Nutrition, and Exercise Plan In my first report I indicated my age 42 years old, my weight was 165 pounds and height 5’6”. My daily exercise was riding bike between 6 to 8 miles a day for 3 days during the week for a total of 350 minutes of Physical Activity. Week one 3 day analysis for breakfast I had a cup of coffee with flavored cream with sandwich or cereals, for lunch I had sandwich or reheated food from previous day, snack I had wheat cake, fruits or chips and for dinner; Latin food, hamburger or pasta, don’t drink soft drinks, but drink Lipton Iced Tea and water. (Matta) (2012). Based on the first report I was over in grains on vegetables, fruits, dairy, protein foods, oils I was under; empty calories I was under with 280 calories, total calories average was 1785 status and sodium was high on all 3 days. (SuperTracker) (n.d.). After the first report I tried to modified some eating habits measuring the amount of food; cereal, pasta, rice and beans in cups, steaks and fish cut in 4 ounces, drink more water and less alcoholic drinks and increase my daily exercise adding two days of walking 3 miles per day increasing my weekly Physical Activity to 630 minutes. (Matta) (2013). The latest report from January 2nd through January 4th, all the food groups where under my empty calories was lower then the first one at 208...
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...Strategic Plan, Part I: Conceptualizing a Business In this paper the subject to explain is the importance of a organization’s vision, mission, and values in determining strategic direction. In addition it will define the organization by developing a mission statement and create a vision for the organization that clearly demonstrates what the business will become in the future. Additionally, it will define the guiding principles or values of the selected organization considering the topics of culture, social responsibility, and ethics. The subject of this paper is to also analyze how the vision, mission, and values will guide the organization’s strategic direction as well as evaluate how the organization addresses customer needs and critique how the business achieves competitive advantage. The Business The business will be a national retailer of organic food and natural health products. The organization is Green Foods, which will depict the environmental friendliness of the products. The organization will sell chemical free, organic food and natural health products from around the world across the United States through its own retail stores as well as through an Internet website. These products will be guaranteed for freshness, quality and will adhere to the standards prescribed for organic food and natural health products. The organization will offer the greatest variety of organic food and natural health products to its customers. Mission...
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...Consulting Plan – Part One MGT/527 Consulting July14, 20014 Dr. Harvey McDonnell Consulting Plan – Part One The discovery phase is an appeal to action. The purpose of a consultant throughout this phase is to guide the client through the process and keep them engaged. The action that is essentials to take place during this phase is one that will improve the organizations function. Even though there is research that will befall to collect data, the research is not the main goal. The research is only meant to gain a better understanding of the business problem. Present Problem Morale is more than people just being happy or eager to work. Low morale can have a devastating consequence on productivity and ethics. Pol-Lee Fire Extinguisher has a business problem of low employee survey scores because of low employee morale. Underlying Problem The employees are upset about three main things. The first problem is the employees are unhappy with the benefits being offered compared to other companies in this industry. The second problem is the employees are unhappy with the food and beverage that are being served at the company gathering. The third problem is the employees are unhappy with how management balances work schedules and their personal lives. The Cause A few things are causing and helping to maintain this business problem. The benefit carriers changed the benefits offered to a small business with less than 30 employees. One of the major carriers left...
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...Project Management Project Proposal This project is targeted at developing a comprehensive online order placement system (Bezoz et al. 1999) for utilization in the food items service market which will enable the restaurants to easily and quickly handle an online list of options which client can browse over the Internet and utilize to place orders with only a few mouse clicks. The clients will have to select whether they need the food items to be sent to them or it will be packed for pick-up. The charges or payments will be made upon pick-up or delivery. There will be the software application administrator who will have the privileges to add and handle user accounts, a supervisor who will be handling food items and purchases and last but not least a food deliverer who will be working explicitly with awaiting supplies. The client will be able to view the food items, sign-up and place the order. There will be a verification invoice (printable) for each and every purchase hat is made by the client. The development of this project will be determined by Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) with HTML and PHP as the development 'languages' while MySQL server will be used as the data source of the project. HTML language is beneficial due to its simple to use and understand approval qualities while MySQL has better innovative functionalities and qualities, is free, has good protection and possess interoperability. The benefits of using PHP language in developing this project...
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...concepts and strategies effectively in a manner gives it a competitive advantage in the market place. McDonald has been one of the highly growing profitable fast food retailers globally. With operations in 119 countries and more than 33,000 restaurants worldwide with 80% of these franchised, the management needs to perform its management functions effectively in order to sustain the growth and profitability and to stimulate further growth in the company (McDonald's Corporation, 2012). This paper analyzes the functions of management that’s being usedby the McDonald's leadership to turn make the company profitable. Functions of management at McDonalds: There are mainly four functions of management that makes a company able to translate strategy into profitability and enhances a more cohesive organization which helps in fulfilling a company's operating objectives. These are planning, organizing, leading and control (Robbins and Coulter, 2001). Planning: Planning is a function of management which helps in determining exactly where the organization is presently and the course of action that needs to be undertaken in order to take it where it wants to be in the future and how the company's goals and objectives can be attained (Robbins and Coulter, 2001). In this sense therefore planning involves curving out a course of action to be taken based on the available and prospective resources, capabilities and advantages that a company enjoys. At McDonald's it is the management which sets...
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...Strategic Plan: The Cheesecake Factory STR 581 March 31, 2014 Dr. Patricia Dues Strategic Plan: The Cheesecake Factory Table of Contents Executive summary 3 Mission and Vision Statement 3 Company Overview 3 Environmental Scan 4 External Environmental Analysis 4 Internal Environmental Analysis 5 Value Disciplines 7 Generic Strategies 8 Grand Strategies 8 Recommended Strategy 9 Implementation Plan 9 Objectives 10 Functional Tactics 10 Action Items 11 Milestones and a Deadline 12 Required Organizational Change 12 Risk Management and Contingency Plan 12 Conclusion 13 References 14 Executive Summary Mission and Vision Statement The mission of The Cheesecake Factory is to create an environment where absolute guest satisfaction is the highest priority. The vision statement is as follows: Through a shared commitment to excellence, we are dedicated to the uncompromising quality of our food, service, people and profit, while taking exceptional care of our guests and staff. We will continuously strive to surpass our own accomplishments and be recognized as a leader in our industry. (The Cheesecake Factory, 2014) Company Overview “The Cheesecake Factory restaurants provide a distinctive, high quality dining experience at moderate prices by offering an extensive, innovative and evolving menu in...
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