...Fran Hayden is in the final year of her Bachelor of Management Studies (BMS) degree at the University of Waikato, who has been offered the position of Assistant Cost Accounts at Dairy Engineering (NZ) Ltd, Hamilton. The company manufactures equipment for the dairy industry. The head office of this company is organized into two sections, Cost Accounting and Management Information Services (MIS). To Fran’s disappointment she was not welcomed at the company. Even worse she discovered that there was no vacancy for her in Cost accounting instead she had been assigned to management information systems (MIS). Peter Bruton is her new boss and Mike, Tom and Adrian are her colleagues. Her first assignment was the compilation of the monthly Management Report known as “Big Brother”. Fran found that her part was almost entirely One day the Chief Accountant called Fran to his office to tell her about an upcoming management workshop in Auckland on Performance Measurement. Rob suggested Fran to attend the workshop. Unfortunately her boss was away on two weeks leave at the time but Rob said he would talk with Peter. Fran enjoyed the workshop. She even wrote a detailed report on the workshop for the Chief Accountant. On her return to Hamilton however she found all was far from well. Fran’s boss Peter was furious on Fran for going to the workshop without any prior intimation to him. He also attacked her verbally. The Chief Accountant on listening to her complaint advised her for a transfer...
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...Learning is acquiring new, or modifying existing, knowledge, behaviors, skills, values, or preferences and may involve synthesizing different types ofinformation. The ability to learn is possessed by humans, animals and some machines. Progress over time tends to follow learning curves. Learning is not compulsory; it is contextual. It does not happen all at once, but builds upon and is shaped by what we already know. To that end, learning may be viewed as a process, rather than a collection of factual and procedural knowledge. Learning is based on experience. Learning produces changes in the organism and the changes produced are relatively permanent Measurable and relatively permanent change in behavior through experience, instruction, or study. Whereas individual learning is selective, group learning is essentially political its outcomes depend largely on power playing in the group. Learning itself cannot be measured, but its results can be. In the words of Harvard Business School psychologist Chris Argyris, learning is "detection and correction of error" where anerror means "any mismatch between our intentions and what actually happens. perception noun 1.the act or faculty of apprehending by means of the senses or of the mind; cognition; understanding. 2.immediate or intuitive recognition or appreciation, as of moral, psychological, or aesthetic qualities;insight; intuition; discernment: an artist of rare perception. 3.the result or product of perceiving, as distinguished from the act of perceiving; percept...
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...CHAPTER 7 - The Marketing Plan What is Small Business Marketing? Identifying a target market Determining target market potential Preparing, communicating and delivering a bundle of satisfaction to the target market Good marketing strategy contains a Consumer Orientation: State of competition - I don’t have any competition for my product – I have to produce! Production focus - I don’t know how to market, I know how to make it. Focus on the present - I can sell it!! Develop Marketing Strategy A)Analyze the Market - Locate and describe your customers B)Scope the Competition- -What are they doing? C)Segment the Market - Divide it into manageable size D)Build Sales Forecast - Estimate how much you will sell E)Develop Marketing Mix The Formal Marketing Plan 1. Market Analysis 2. Competitor Analysis 3. Marketing Strategy (Mix) a. Product b. Distribution c. Pricing d. Promotion Steps in Research Process 1. Identify the information you need - Figure out what you need to know 2. Search for secondary data - Find existing data from available resources 3. Collect primary data - Observe or question 4. Interpret the data - Figure out what it means A Market is: customers or potential customers with purchasing power and unsatisfied needs Market Segmentation - The division of a market into several smaller groups with similar needs Market Segmentation Variables Demographic varibles age gender Geographic varibles region...
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...accountant with a chartered accounting (ACA) qualification. He has been with the company for six years. He is an unassuming person regarded as a bit "soft" by his staff. Vernon is 30 years old and is a graduate with an ACA qualification. He joined the company 18 months ago. He is considered an easygoing type and is well liked by his staff. Peter is 37 years old and has a science degree in dairy technology. He is also studying part-lime (or a management degree through Massey University. He is regarded as "moody" and is not well liked by his staff. Fran, the New Graduate Fran Harden was in the final year (if her bachelor of management studies IBMS) degree at the University of WaikaUx where she hud proved to be a high achiever. Fran was interested in a position with Dairy Engineering because of the opportunity to gain practical experience, the higher starting salary compared to the industry average, and the fact that her boy Fran sent her curriculum vitac to the company, and rwo weeks later sine was invited to an interview with the chief...
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...As a child, I grew fond of watching television. I always had the channel set on cartoons, watching the colorful display of silly humor and adult jokes that went over my head. However, the younger me found one cartoon special. Three childhood friends in a slice-of-life show that would try their hardest to accommodate their desire for cheap candy. The show, named Ed, Edd, N’ Eddy was one of my favorite shows that still holds a place in my heart to this day. The cartoon revolves around three friends, aptly named Ed, Edd, and Eddy, who go around their neighborhood, named the Cul De Sac, and come up with wacky schemes to make enough money for their favorite treat, a jawbreaker. Each episode shows an idea crudely constructed with various materials,...
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...Anomalies in Bee Bennett Mansion Bee-Bennet Mansion, now converted into Sequoia Restaurant, was a 16 room Victorian wonder, and is now the home of Sequoia Wedgewood Wedding and Banquet Center. Back in its days, in the early 1850s, Colonel Fredrick Bee was one of the first merchants to set up his business in Placerville. He ran the pony express in California and set up the Bee telegraph company. The first tragedy hit the Bee family when his 2 year old son died of croup. Afterwards, the family moved out of the house and it passed on to many owners until in 1889, a judge renovated it and converted it into a 16 room mansion. The judge and his family lived there for many years, though tragedy struck them too. Their 3 year old son fell on the grand central staircase and died. Another baby daughter also died in a few months. Again the house was purchased by another owner before being opened for social events by its current owner. As with many other mansions, the Bee Bennett mansion also has a few apparitions and anomalies. Different ghosts behave in different ways. Some ghosts are benevolent while others are malicious. The ghosts in the mansion were harmless, but very particular about code of conduct and behavior. The spirits of Colonel Fredrick and Mrs. Bee have been spotted here. A former cook saw a solid, life-like couple appearing in the front porch swing dressed in crisp Victorian attire. They appeared to be enjoying the fresh air and the cook called out a hello and noticed the...
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...In detail, explain how Janie’s struggle to become and individual creates tension in her life Throughout Zora Neale Hurston’s story, Their Eyes Were Watching God, the main character Janie goes through multiple hardships to reach her independence from the people that she loves in the story. She tries to reach independence from Nanny because she wants her to leave the house and marry someone that she does not love. She tries to gain independence from Logan. Finally, She tries to gain independence from Jodie because he is not letting her be who she wants to be. Throughout the beginning of the novel, Nanny tries to get Janie to leave the house and become a woman with a man. She no longer wants her to sit around all day at the house she lives in, even though Janie did lots of work in the town and especially at home. Nanny tries to set her up with many different suitors, trying to get her to marry and to adventually have children with a husband. Later in the story, she realizes that she is wrong, and is not supposed to chose a husband for Janie, only to realize after she had been married multiple times. Janie realizes that Nanny is protective of her when Nanny says, “Don’t tell me you done got knocked up already, less see – dis Saturday it’s two month and two weeks,” showing that Nanny wants her to live her life without having to worry about silly things like children, she just wants her to form a stable relationship. Janie’s relationship with Logan Kellicks is not too strong...
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... Lazy weekend days that begin at 12 and end at 2am always start with morning cartoons, especially if you were young enough to experience the golden age of Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon and the Disney Channel. Hours could slip by quietly, as pancakes cooled on a breakfast tray in front of the TV while I would laugh and holler as Tom and Jerry slapped each other with frying pans and Sheen on Jimmy Neutron explained his intense love for Ultra Lord. The shows I watched as a child shaped the way I behaved; from being harsh and mean like Sam on iCarly, to embracing my quirks like Harper from Wizards of Waverly Place, to developing a strange sense of humor like Patrick from Spongebob Squarepants. Through the years, I have watched a great number of TV shows from the truly terrible, (T.U.F.F. Puppy) to the famously great (Hannah Montana). There will always be one T.V. show, a specific cartoon, that will forever keep my heart in its furry clutches. This show is Scooby Doo. It is a show that has gone through twelve versions and has always managed to stay on the air or be re-booted. As I sat beside Mystery Inc. solve spooky mysteries, the temperaments and personalities of the main characters wound their way into my brain. Each of the main characters from Scooby Doo has taught me things I still use today, weather or not it was intended by the writers. All the way from the leader of the gang, to the goofy dog the show was named after, I fell in love with these characters as they wove tiny...
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...Human beings are born with the ability to sense the feelings of others. Even at a young age humans can tell when someone is happy, upset, or enraged. People are also born with the aptness to empathize for others, automatically sympathizing when someone is hurt, whether we know them or not. As people grow older, the sense of empathy for others is lost and the focus becomes more about ourselves. Solitary confinement, the “me versus them” mentality in America, the sentencing of Socrates to death show people acting in ways showing no empathy for others. So if we, as humans, are naturally empathetic, why are we so un-empathetic in our actions? In The Age of Empathy, Frans de Waal says that empathy is a trait humans are born with, but society has told us it is not one to be shown in public. “We live in an age that celebrates the cerebral and looks down upon emotions as mushy and messy” (de Waal, 7). Emotions are part of our being and how we feel, and because of this we should be expressing them and acting in ways that portray them. As humans, we long for interaction with others that gives us the opportunity to express ourselves and are not meant to live in circumstances that prohibit this, such as isolation. Though I do realize we have to have consequences for those who break the law, is this the best way in which to do so? According to afsc.org, solitary confinement has lead to visual and auditory hallucinations, hypersensitivity to noise and touch, uncontrollable feelings...
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...Fran Hayden Joins Dairy Engineering INTRODUCTION Fran Hayden is in the final year of her Bachelor of Management Studies (BMS) degree at the University of Waikato, who has been offered the position of Assistant Cost Accounts at Dairy Engineering (NZ) Ltd, Hamilton. The company manufactures equipment for the dairy industry. The head office of this company is organized into two sections, Cost Accounting and Management Information Services (MIS). To Fran’s disappointment she was not welcomed at the company. Even worse she discovered that there was no vacancy for her in Cost accounting instead she had been assigned to management information systems (MIS). Peter Bruton is her new boss and Mike, Tom and Adrian are her colleagues. Her first assignment was the compilation of the monthly Management Report known as “Big Brother”. Fran found that her part was almost entirely One day the Chief Accountant called Fran to his office to tell her about an upcoming management workshop in Auckland on Performance Measurement. Rob suggested Fran to attend the workshop. Unfortunately her boss was away on two weeks leave at the time but Rob said he would talk with Peter. Fran enjoyed the workshop. She even wrote a detailed report on the workshop for the Chief Accountant. On her return to Hamilton however she found all was far from well. Fran’s boss Peter was furious on Fran for going to the workshop without any prior intimation to him. He also attacked her verbally. The Chief Accountant on...
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...MGT 2383 Fall 2012: Group Case Fran Hayden Joins Dairy Engineering (Author: Glyn Jones, University of Waikato, New Zealand) Background: Dairy Engineering (NZ) Ltd. has its headquarters in Hamilton, New Zealand with manufacturing plants in South Auckland and Christchurch. The company manufactures equipment for the dairy industry. In its early years it focused on the domestic market but in the last five years has expanded to the export market. The company employs 450 people, which makes it a large company by New Zealand standards. The case focuses on events in the Accounting Department at head office which is organized into two sections, Cost Accounting and Management Information Services (MIS). Fran, the New Graduate: Fran Hayden is in the final year of her Bachelor of Management Studies (BMS) degree at the University of Waikato where she has proved to be a high achiever. Fran was interested in a position with Dairy Engineering because of the opportunity to gain practical experience, the higher starting salary compared to the industry average, and that her boyfriend lived in that community. Fran sent her resume to the company and two weeks later was invited to an interview with the Chief Accountant. She was surprised at the end of the interview to be offered the position of Assistant Cost Accountant. Fran said she would like to think it over. Two weeks later when she had still not replied she received a telephone call from Rob asking if she was going to take the position. Still...
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...Fran Hayden Jones Case Study What are the main issues in the case? Dairy Engineering showed a serious lack of communication among employee’s, from Fran’s experiences working for the company we have been able to gather that employees feel mistreated by managers, while managers are unable to communicate effectively. Organizational commitment is a large factor influencing the flaws in this companies ability to have a positive work environment. Employees are easily becoming stressed which is having a direct impact on their effectiveness, and their roles are not specifically outlined for them. Why did the problems/ issues occur? Continuance Commitment: Continuance commitment is the view that the employee is only attached to the company because of money motivation, and if they were to leave it would be costly to that employee; therefore the employee continues to work although they may be dissatisfied. In this particular case Fran is over her head in student debt and simply cannot afford to begin looking for another job. Although she is frustrated with the lack of communication from management and by the way she is treated by her managers she continues to work in her position working towards paying of her student debt, Fran is demonstrating continuance commitment. Task Identity: In this case, it is evident that Fran task identity is very inaccurate, along with the other employees at Dairy Engineering. The first flaw in task identity is that of the recruiting department;...
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...FILMENS UTVECKLING FRÅN 1895 – 2015 Den tekniska utvecklingen Den första officiella filmvisningen ägde rum i en biljardsalong i Paris 1895. Det var bröderna Lumiére som hade lyckats kombinera en filmkamera med en projektor och filmerna som spelades var inte mer än en minut långa. Från stumfilm till talfilm De första filmerna var så kallade stumfilmer, ingen hade hittat ett effektivt sätt att integrera ljud i filmerna och därför visade man dialoger och handlingsförklaringar som text i filmen. Dock var det sällan helt tyst under filmens visning, för det mesta använde man sig av livemusik inne i biosalongen för att förstärka det som visades på bioduken. Att ljudet inte hade lyckats kombineras med filmen handlade inte om brist på idéer, det var helt enkelt en avsaknad av tekniska förutsättningar som satte käppar i hjulet. Thomas Edison hade redan 1895 uppfunnit ett kinetoscope (tittskåp för rörliga bilder) där han med hjälp av en fonograf kunde förmedla ljudet till åskådaren via ett stetoskop. Denna teknik gick dock inte att överföra till biograferna. Man försökte vid flera tillfällen att använda sig av en fonograf eller grammofon för att kunna ha med ljus i filmerna, men synkroniseringen fungerade inte och det fanns inte heller några möjligheter till förstärkning, med andra ord hördes det inte tillräckligt bra. Det var runt 1920-talet som den nödvändiga tekniken för ljudsystem hade utvecklats men det dröjde ändå till 1926 innan den första ljudfilmen hade premiär;...
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...Fran Hayden Joins Dairy Engineering By Glyn Jones, University of Waikato Background Dairy Engineering (NZ) Ltd has its headquarters in Hamilton, New Zealand, with manufacturing plants in South Auckland and Christchurch. The company manufactures equipment for the dairy industry. In its early years it focused on the domestic market, but in the last five years it has expanded into the export market. The company employs 450 people, which makes it a large company by New Zealand standards. The accounting department at the head office is organised into two sections: cost accounting and management information services (MIS). The accounting department is structured as shown in Exhibit 1. Exhibit 1: Description of Employees in the Case Name Rob Poor Position Chief accountant Description Rob is the accounting department manager. He is 40 years old and is a qualified accountant with a chartered accounting (ACA) qualification. He has been with the company for six years. He is an unassuming person regarded as a bit ‘soft’ by his staff. cost Vernon is 30 years old and is a graduate with an ACA qualification. He joined the company 18 months ago. He is considered an easygoing type and is well liked by his staff. Peter is 37 years old and has a science degree in dairy technology. He is also studying part-time for a management degree through Massey University. He is regarded as ‘moody’ and is not well liked by his staff. Vernon Moore Chief accountant Peter Bruton Management accountant ...
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...en utfyllnadstext från tryck- och förlagsindustrin. Lorem ipsum har varit standard ända sedan 1500-talet, när en okänd boksättare tog att antal bokstäver och blandade dem för att göra ett provexemplar av en bok. Lorem ipsum har inte bara överlevt fem århundraden, utan även övergången till elektronisk typografi utan större förändringar. Det blev allmänt känt på 1960-talet i samband med lanseringen av Letraset-ark med avsnitt av Lorem Ipsum, och senare med mjukvaror som Aldus PageMaker. Det är ett välkänt faktum att läsare distraheras av läsbar text på en sida när man skall studera layouten. Poängen med Lorem Ipsum är att det ger ett normalt ordflöde, till skillnad från "Text här, Text här", och ger intryck av att vara läsbar text. Många publiseringprogram och webbutvecklare använder Lorem Ipsum som test-text, och en sökning efter "Lorem Ipsum" avslöjar många webbsidor under uteckling. Olika versioner har dykt upp under åren, ibland av olyckshändelse, ibland med flit (mer eller mindre humoristiska). I motsättning till vad många tror, är inte Lorem Ipsum slumvisa ord. Det har sina rötter i ett stycke klassiskt litteratur på latin från 45 år före år 0, och är alltså över 2000 år gammalt. Richard McClintock, en professor i latin på Hampden-Sydney College i Virginia, översatte ett av de mer ovanliga orden, consectetur, från ett stycke Lorem Ipsum och fann dess ursprung genom att studera användningen av dessa ord i klassisk litteratur. Lorem Ipsum kommer från styckena 1.10.32 och...
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