...Principles of individual decision - making paper Developing professional knowledge and abilities can impact career success. Companies today require a minimum educational level for any job. Acquiring a degree in today’s society opens a vast array of opportunities in addition, to giving individuals an upper hand in many situations. Knowledge consists of facts and ideas that have been acquired by study, investigation, observation, or experience. In today’s society, Professional knowledge is just as important for the professional field as it is for personal use. Association of Professional Community Managers (APCM) is an organization of special interest. Working in Property Management it necessary to interact and meet new people outside my normal work environment. “For more than 30 years, APCM has been the leader in providing education and resources to the volunteer homeowners who govern community associations and the professionals who support them” (Community Association Institute, 2010). The above-mentioned organization contributes to increasing personal knowledge and abilities in the following ways: online training, monthly seminars, continuing education, conferences, and books. Our brains are like sponges the more “we” take in, the more we learn. These are critical tools that I believe need to be used effectively to improve my knowledge. I have found from speaking with others individuals within my company that this organization has an amazing group of individuals who, in...
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...William Grier ECO/365 Market Structures Professor Peterson University of Phoenix September 25, 2013 Market structures allow companies in the same field to compete. Consumers benefit greatly from market structures by allowing consumers to pick and choose from many different producers. Monopolistic completion by definition is having a number of firms within a particular share of a market by having almost complete control of that market share. Duopoly by definition is when a market is dominated by two large firms. Monopsony by definition is when there is one specific buyer for a specific market. Oligopoly is when a market has a large number of sellers but only has access to a very few buyers. A monopoly occurs when there is one product or a service that is completely dominated by a single entity. Perfect competition occurs in a market structure that allows no barriers of entry. Governments implement practices to deter companies to create monopolies. A perfect market with globalization seems nearly impossible. To have a perfect market there are a few characteristics; selling companies are profit maximizing companies that operate on bottom line methods. Company products are similar and have to compete against each other. There are little to no barriers to enter the market. The number of competition is very large, and both sellers and buyers can adjust the price. The company I choose is the Kroger Co. The Kroger Co. was started by Barney Kroger...
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...Andri Wicaksono Jl Bendi Raya Blok B2 No.43 Tanah Kusir, Jakarta Selatan 08567861166 e-mail: ngkong_andri@yahoo.com OBJECTIVE To obtain a position as a Marketing Assistant Manager that utilizes my 2 years of marketing and promoting product experience, my experience founding and managing a small business, and my bachelor’s degree in management. PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY Experience with successfully managing all aspects of a large distribution center including implementing automated distribution systems; selecting, managing and training staff; developing and managing the departmental budget; establishing and monitoring productivity goals; and leading cross-functional teams on key projects. Have designed the layout, organization, processes, and procedures for a distribution facility. Proven leadership skills gained from managing a large distribution center as well as founding and managing a multi-million dollar business. EXPERIENCE General Manager, Distribution ABC Companies, Any City, Any State, 1989 – 1999. • Reporting to the Executive Vice President of Operations, responsible for managing all aspects of operations for a 270,000 SF distribution center with a 94-person staff and a $3.4 million budget. • Processed 8 million units annually while managing 5,700 SKUs to supply appropriate product to over 500 different locations during off-peak times and...
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...601 From table2 and table3,we can know as follows: Firstly, we know that family- friendly coworkers is the most important element that affects work-family facilitation from table2 and work-family facilitation is the most important element that affects life satisfaction from table3. Employees may turn to their coworkers for emotional support, advice, and help with family problems and all these lead to high evaluation of work-family facilitation. So employees could learn to get along well with coworkers and believe coworkers, so that coworkers could try their best to listen to them and give them good suggestion. Secondly, we can see that working hours have the biggest effect on work-family conflict from table2 and work-family conflict could lead to job satisfaction mostly from table3. In moderm times, employees often have too much work, so that they have limited time staying with family, can not accompany lovers and parents, can not educate their children and so on. When time goes on, there must be various conflicts. In my opinion, employees should have to learn to how to get a good balance between work and family. Maybe they should improve their working skills and efficiency; the companies should stand on the side of employees, it’s better not to force them to work overtime and do not give them too much working pressure; consider offering conditions to their employees, for example, offering houses or kindergartens next to their companies. Thirdly, from table2,we monthly...
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...routing protocols (RIP, OSPF, and EIGRP) Citation Work: * Deng, J., & Wu, S. (2014, April 1). Comparison of RIP, OSPF and EIGRP Routing Protocols based on OPNET. Retrieved September 30, 2014, from http://www.sfu.ca/~sihengw/ENSC427_Group9/Final Report .pdf * Adler, S. (2013, March 11). Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP) Informational RFC Frequently Asked Questions. Retrieved September 30, 2014, from http://blogs.cisco.com/getyourbuildon/cisco-opens-up-eigrp/ * Schluting, C. (2006, June 01). Understanding ospf routing. Retrieved from http://www.enterprisenetworkingplanet.com/netsp/article.php/3610496/Networking-101-Understanding-OSPF-Routing.htm * Differences between ripv1 or ripv2. (2014, 09 21). Retrieved from http://computernetworkingnotes.com/routing-static-dynamics-rip-ospf-igrp-eigrp/rip-routing.html TCP three-way handshake The three-way-handshake is a method used in a TCP/IP network to create a connection between a local host/client and server. It is a three-step method that requires both the client and server to exchange SYN and an ACK (acknowledgment) packet before actual data communication begins. A three-way-handshake is primarily used to create a TCP socket connection. It works when: * A client node sends a SYN data packet over an IP network to a server on the same or an external network. The objective of this packet is to ask/infer if the server is open for new connection. * The target server must have open ports...
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...Individual Marketing Research Paper MKT-421 Individual Marketing Research Paper Kudler Fine Foods While developing the Kudler Fine Foods marketing campaign strategy it is critical to identify areas which will need additional marketing research. By identifying areas for needed additional market research, Kudler Fine Foods can better target its marketing strategy and tactics. By analyzing competitive intelligence, Kudler Fine Foods can better assess opportunities within its current marketing strategy. Background Kudler Fine Foods was founded in 1998 when its first store was built by Kathy Kudler. The company maintains its main base in San Diego, California and services the neighborhoods of La Jolla, Del Mar, and Encinitas. Each store has more than 16,000ft of modernized groceries and fresh organic specialty foods. Kudler Fine Foods prides itself on offering high quality foods, both domestic and imported. The company maintains specific strategic practices to introduce planning unrealistic goals and objectives. Although the company services a niche market in a minimal geographic area, the grocery industry is inherently competitive. The success of the company is attributed to its high standards in human resources and inventory control. By identifying additional areas for marketing research and analyzing competitive intelligence, Kudler Fine Foods will be able to expand its operations and establish more locations. ...
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...Individual Assignment 2: Case Study Wardell Johnson AMBA 610 Professor M. Frank Introduction It takes constant work to ensure that any given system maintains order. The universe has a natural tendency to lead to entropy “a process of degradation or running down or a trend to disorder” (Merrim-webster.com). What guides Humanity to function in a society in concert with their fellow man? It’s the ability to set up laws to govern the actions of the members of said society. According to researchers Kubasek, Brennan, & Browne (2011) great minds have always debated the purpose of laws. For instance, Plato expressed that law is a form of social control, and Aristotle posited that law is a rule conduct, an ideal of reason (Kubasek et al., 2011). No matter what ones philosophical views are in regards to legal systems whether good or bad, laws help societies maintain a sense of order, setting and maintaining a sense of normalcy, in efforts to prevent societal entropy. In America the foundation of our legal system is based on the U.S. Constitution created the nation’s founding fathers to ensure every citizen equal access to justice. Liebeck v. McDonalds and Pearson v. Chung are two highly publicize cases of Tort law. “The primary goal of tort law is to compensate the innocent persons who are injured or whose property as result of another conduct (Kubasel et al 2011, p.309). Both of these cases involve people who wanted to turn to the American legal system to obtain justice...
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...Individual Research Paper on Leadership Table of Contents Introduction 2 Practices of Admired Leaders 3 Survey and Interview Methods 4 Interpretation of Results 5 Interpersonal 5 Deep-Level Diversity and Ethics 6 Analytical 7 Areas for Improvement 7 Personal Philosophy of Leadership 8 Conclusion 8 References 9 Appendices 10 Appendix 1.1 Survey Questions and Results 10 Appendix 1.2 Interview Questions and Answers 11 Introduction As a woman in young adulthood with over ten years of experience in both the work force and student practice, I am able to take a look at my leadership as a journey of evolvement and growth. Through the years I have gained a deeper understanding of my personal strengths, my own set of values, the morals that guide me, and the person that I am. Each of these facets have continued on a forward path of evolution as I survive trials and tribulations, live through personal and professional experiences, and ingest new opportunities. This set of traits that makes up the person I am is reflected in the way I lead others and the perceptions that others have of my leadership skills. In this research paper I have attempted to gain a deeper understanding of my skills in leadership through deep personal reflection as a result of my peers and managers feedback, and the materials learned throughout my organizational leadership course. I also take a look into the traits and practices that I find to be the most beneficial and desirable...
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...Individual Learning Paper PSY 103 April 28, 2008 As ever changing individuals, there are many learning experiences that one encounters every day of one’s life. These event s can be good or bad. But the ultimate goal is to learn from them. I will discuss from a psychological viewpoint, my personal learning experience with the mistake of giving a minor permission to drink wine while at home without clear and implemented guidelines. I was about 15 years old when my father gave me permission to drink wine freely in the home. He assumed that he was teaching me the properly way to consume and enjoy the taste of various wines. My father’s rationing was that if I learned from an adult instead of another minor this would keep me from abusing alcohol. Unfortunately that was not the case. Being inexperienced to the risk of over drinking, I experienced firsthand what being drunk felt like. I had in the past few months enjoyed the flavor of very chilled wine. My father would place a bottle in the freezer along with our glasses for about 10 to 20 minutes or so. After the wine and glasses were chilled, my father and I would partake in the enjoyment. One particular Friday evening my father did his usual routine with the wine and glasses, except that he unintentionally left the wine bottle in the freezer. I went back to get myself another glass full, only to notice that the wine had froze...
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...Thinking about my individual writing process has caused me to forget how I begin a paper. It’s strange to think about the concept of what writing is before you actually write something. After reading over the assigned pages to give me the help I need to discover what my individual writing process is I “skimmed” over freewriting. I tend to just start writing and let my thoughts flow and I feel like it’s what best suits my writing style. So here we go. My individual writing process includes freewriting, lists, and looping. I like to use freewriting because I enjoy continually writing and letting my ideas flow out. Sometimes when I get stuck, it helps me to have a list of the things that I want to include in my writing so I can elaborate and expand on them. After I get to a certain point, I use the process of looping. Looping can be considered a side effect of freewriting. I loop by rereading what I have written and decide if I like the order and the theme of my...
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...Naturalism and realism are responses to romanticism. This paper will explore the background of each and analyze the tension between the individual and the environment for chosen works by authors of each writing style. From 1860-1890 realism was prominent, developed as a reaction to romanticism as folks believed life was no longer seen through rose colored glasses. This was the civil war, the urbanization and industrializing of America and the emerging middle class as well as the upheaval and social change in the latter half of the 19th century with increasing rates of democracy and literacy. The characteristics of realism are reaction against romanticism and neoclassicism, factual is more important than intellectual or emotional, life is driven by fate. An example of realist writers includes Mark Twain, William Dean Howells, and Edgar Lee Masters. From 1865 -1895 regionalism was prominent and was also referred to as local color. It focuses on characters, dialect, and customs specific to a certain region. Regionalism is coincided with realism and sharing many of the same traits. Regionalism was developed due to the civil war and the building of a national identity, and the dual influence of romanticism and realism. An example of regionalist writers includes Kate Chopin, Mark Twain, and Willa Cather. From 1880-1920 naturalism was prominent and is the view that nature is all there is and the basic truths are truths of nature. Naturalism applies scientific principles of objectivity...
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...Satisfaction Survey Study Perspective The Satisfaction Survey Study was performed due to the very low number of respondents that had submitted satisfaction surveys during the previous year and to see what the expected number of responses should be in comparison with our peers. Methodology From January to June, 100 patient satisfaction surveys were placed throughout our facility advising patients to take one. These surveys had return envelopes attached to them, without paid postage. One designated individual was responsible for maintaining these surveys so as we could determine the number of surveys that were taken. The surveys that were placed in our office were printed on gray paper. Goal The goals of this study are to receive a comparable percentage of patient satisfaction survey responses in comparison with our facilities. Comparison/Benchmarks A 30% to 35% response rate is satisfactory according to a study, “Survey Response Rates and Overall Patient Satisfaction Scores,” published in the Journal of Nursing Care Quality 2003 Jul-Sept. And the Patient Survey Website June 2011 Article “What Does Patient Response Mean?”. Results At the end of the 6 month period, January to June, there were 71 surveys remaining of the original 100 placed throughout our facility by which we determined that 39 surveys had been taken. We received only 6 surveys back during this time period. This is a response rate of 15% which is 20% lower than our benchmarks. In attempts to increase...
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...review system that recognizes errors most commonly made by university students in academic essays. The system embeds comments into your paper and suggests possible changes in grammar and style. Please evaluate each comment carefully to ensure that the suggested change is appropriate for your paper, but remember that your instructor's preferences for style and format prevail. You will also need to review your own citations and references since WritePoint capability in this area is limited. NOTE: WritePoint comments are computer-generated writing and grammar suggestions inviting the consideration and analysis of the writer; they are not infallible statements of right/wrong, and they should not be used as grading elements. Also, at present, WritePoint cannot detect quotations or block-quotes, so comments in those areas should be ignored. Please see the other helpful writing resources in the Tutorials and Guides section of the Center for Writing Excellence. Thank you for using WritePoint. Personal Responsibility Danielle Fairley GEN/200 May 22, 2012 April Miller Personal Responsibility Begin your [Eliminate second person (you, your) in academic documents and avoid addressing the reader directly. Prefer third-person pronouns (he, she, they, it)] paper [This title could be more inspiring. Labeling it a "paper" or an "essay" is redundant (what else could it be?), and only a few words as a title are not very explanatory (or intriguing to the...
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...Writing a paper can be very hard for some people, but writing a paper as a team might prove more difficult than writing a paper as an individual. It can come to conflicts or misunderstandings within the team, and it is very different from an individual writing process and a collaborative writing process. People have to think about how to do brainstorm different in a team or as an individual, how will the individual revise and edit his work different from the team, and how can you solve problems and conflicts that may arise. When a team writes a paper together, conflicts may occur, since everybody has a different writing process. If you get to a conflict in the team during your writing process, first you think about why this conflict aroused. After looking into everything what is causing the problem, the team has to talk about the different ways to erase it. It might be that one of the team members thinks, what he or she is writing is the best. However, if a team works together, they cannot only go on the opinion of one individual. The whole team has to decide what is the best way to write this paper and how to get rid of the conflict one single person may cause. They can make a compromise on what to write and how to write it; if the individual wants his writing in the paper the team can work on the writing, get the main ideas of it and revise it so it fits for everybody. Furthermore, the team can come up with different ways to put the main idea or convince the individual that...
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...Birch Paper Company Birch Paper Company Question 1 Which bid should Northern Division on accept that is in the best interests of Birch paper company? Answer: Thompson division even through the bid from west paper seems at first to be the best choice. In you calculate out the cost you find that Thompson actually has the lowest costs associated with them. Cost involved: ✓ Costs for Thompson are a:Linearboard and corrugating medium: cost $ 400x 70% * 60% - $168 plus out of pocket: $400x 30% = 120, for a total cost of $ 288. ✓ Cost for west papers would be a total of $ 430. ✓ Cost for Eire papers would be $ 90x 60% - $ 54 (Southern) plus $ 25 (Thompson), and their supplies of $ 432 – 5 - 432 = $ 312 for a total of $ 391. Question 2 Should Mr. Kenton accept this bid? Why or why not? Answer: Mr. Kenton should not accept the bid from west because it isn’t in the best interest of the company, but at the same time with the transfer policy that exists, it is really up to him what is in the best interests of his division. I believe he should accept the bid from Thompson because not only will it result in the lowest cost, but also it will encourage buying from within the company. Question 3 Should the vice president of Birch paper company take any action? Answer: Yes. As if no orders come from top management Kenton would accept the lowest bid. The vice president of Birch should take action in order to remedy the overall problems associated with...
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