...…………………. | | Table of contents Executive summary i 1. Introduction 1 2. Benefits of visual communication in business 2.1 Definition and value of visual communication 2 2.2 The brain prefers message in different form. 2 * 2.3 Visual communication makes information easily-understood. 2 3. Information visualization techniques in hospitality industry 3 3.1 An brief introduction of hospitality and two visualization techniques 3 3.2 Graphs 3 3.2.1 Use graphs to highlight key information in corporate reporting. 3 3.2.2 Graphs help audience see the substance of data. 3 * 3.3 Photographs make corporate reports more attracting. 4 4. Evaluation of Intercontinental Hotels Group’s annual report 4 4.1 Brief Introduction of Intercontinental Hotels Group...
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...levels in an organization’s ladder, the more chances there are for filtering. However, filtering will happen whether there are differences in status or not. Issues, such as delivering bad news and wanting to satisfy a manager often lead to managers being told what the employees think they want to hear, hence distorting communication. At times communicating a message accurately may be not have the desired results. Team C will share some examples of situations that require change in the message to improve their productive effects. Example One: Filtering is known as “a sender’s manipulation of information so that it will be seen more favorable by the receiver” (Robbins, & Judge, p. 352). This is a critical issue for a number of people working in a salaried position, or in a position that reports directly to a manager. The majority of people, including myself think of reporting bad news to a manager as a terrible thing, or as the text say we just want to please our boss. Anytime information is distorted to sound better or worse, accuracy is lost. This is the same as performing an experiment and only reporting the results that align with your hypothesis, the data is skewed. Thus if the manager would like to make...
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...Creating and Maintaining an Effective Ethics and Business Conduct Program About DII The Defense Industry Initiative on Business Ethics and Conduct (DII) is an organization comprised of companies that provide systems, professional services, weapons, technology, supplies and construction to the U.S. Department of Defense. DII Signatory Companies are united in their commitment to adopt and implement the highest standards of business ethics and principles of conduct that acknowledge and address their organizational responsibilities under federal procurement policy and law. DII seeks to promote and nurture a culture of ethical conduct within every company in the defense industry. DII members, and the CEOs of every DII company, must abide by DII’s core principles. The DII Principles, updated in March 2010, state: We, the members of the Defense Industry Initiative on Business Ethics & Conduct (DII), affirm our commitment to uphold the highest ethical standards in all our business dealings with the government, as expressed through the following principles: 1. We shall act honestly in all business dealings with the U.S. government, protect taxpayer resources and provide high-quality products and services for the men and women of the U.S. Armed Forces. 2. We shall promote the highest ethical values as expressed in our written codes of business conduct, nurture an ethical culture through communications, training, and other means, and comply with and honor...
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...3) Message for Analysis (p. 31) Students will recognize this document as ineffective because it presents so many barriers to communication. The memo • Creates emotional barriers right from the first sentence (accusing employees of lying and cheating, later calling them names), preventing readers from perceiving the intended message • Presents a restrictive and authoritarian attitude, reflecting an environment that discourages open communication and thus discourages employee candor • Expresses bias or prejudice (in the slur against women employees) • Reflects the author’s anger and defensiveness (“I simply have no choice”) • Assumes bad intentions on the part of the employees, underlining the lack of audience-centered thinking • Uses vague, confusing language (More than three times during what period? Will have to answer to the author for what specific penalties?) • Polarizes workers by inciting conflict between “punctual” employees and others 1.2 The tasks described have the following communication directions: a. Downward, upward, and horizontal—since the entire company is involved. A memo is the best choice (either printed or electronic) to ensure that everyone receives the message (as opposed to, say, a blog posting, which is more passive). b. Upward. Depending on the situation, could be a formal proposal or a presentation at an executive meeting. c. Horizontal. Because this situation calls for feedback, a phone call, an e-mail, or an instant message would...
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...FOOD RISK COMMUNICATION, PROBLEMS AND ISSUES CONFRONTING COMMUNICATORS INTRODUCTION Risk communication is an integral part of risk analysis and an inseparable element of the Risk Management Framework (RMF). Risk communication helps to provide timely, relevant and accurate information to, and obtain information from, members of the risk analysis team and external stakeholders, in order to improve knowledge about the nature and effects of a specific food safety risk. Successful risk communication is a prerequisite for effective risk management and risk assessment. It contributes to transparency of the risk analysis process and promotes broader understanding and acceptance of risk management decisions. Risk communication is defined as an interactive exchange of information and opinions throughout the risk analysis process concerning risk, risk-related factors and risk perceptions among risk assessors, risk managers, consumers, industry, the academic community and other interested parties, including the explanation of risk assessment findings and the basis of risk management decisions (Codex Alimentarius Commission). The risk communication process Risk communication can be difficult to do well. It requires specialized skills and training, to which not all food safety officials have had access. It also requires extensive planning, strategic thinking and dedication of resources to carry out. Since risk communication is the newest of the three components of risk analysis to have...
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...Introduction Businesses of all sizes face many challenges at present. Key challenges in relation to corporate reporting are to ensure that the annual report and accounts provide relevant and reliable information to stakeholders, comply with relevant law and accounting standards and tell a consistent story. All directors, both executive and non-executive, have a legal responsibility for preparing accounts and must not approve accounts unless they are satisfied that they give a true and fair view of the assets, liabilities, financial position and profit or loss. It is important not to underestimate your legal responsibility as a non-executive director to prepare accounts that give a true and fair view and that comply with the law and accounting standards. Following are the three issues in Financial Reporting which I consider are significant: 1. Going Concern - the continuing challenge The going concern assumption is a fundamental principle that underlies the preparation of the vast majority of financial reports. A company is a going concern when it is considered to be able to pay its debts as and when they are due, and continue in operation without any intention or necessity to liquidate or otherwise wind up its operations for at least the next 12 months. The continuing difficult economic conditions mean that the assumption that the business is a going concern may not be clear-cut in some cases and directors may need to make careful judgements relating to going concern...
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...to go talk to someone tonight about what is going on. Oliva said she did not want to go speak to anyone currently about what she has going on. Olivia said she has been speaking to Maggie about what has been going on. I asked Olivia if she knew about the Counseling and Testing center we have here on campus. Olivia said she did not know about them. I informed her it was someone she could use to speak to about the things she is worried about. I let her know it is okay to go and speak to people about issues you are having in life. I also let her know in my expirence in life it is better to speak to someone who is a third party who you dont know. I let Olivia know you generally can get more off your chest and fell better if you talk to someone who is not a family member or a friend....
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...changes have affected our lives thanks to the information and technology explosion. However, there have been some negative consequences of the rapid expansion of the Internet and communication technology. One of those alarming issues is a new form of bullying called cyber bullying. Like bullying, many people feel that cyber bullying is not a big deal. This can occur through social networking sites like MySpace, Twitter, and Facebook, cell phone pictures and text messages, blog posts, or e-mails. Many feel that it is a normal part of life that people just need to deal with the best that they can. However, cyber bullying is something that should concern everyone. Cyber bullies use ruthless tactics and cyber bullying should be considered a crime because it is a form of harassment that causes victims to suffer feelings of depression, isolation, low self-esteem, humiliation, anxiety, and thoughts of suicide. Cyber bullying is very harmful. Phoebe Prince was your average 15 year old—attending high school, worrying about boys, clothes, and most importantly, fitting into her new high school. She had just moved from Ireland to a small town in western Massachusetts when she became the unfortunate target of some unwarranted attention from the other girls in her class. Going so far as to call her an "Irish slut," these girls constantly belittled Ms. Prince in the school hallways, over Instant Messengers, and on the popular social...
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...Term Paper: Investigating Data Theft By: Daniel Figueroa Strayer University CIS417 Prof. Curtis Bunch Digital Forensics is an important aspect to computer systems security. I mean we are talking about Identifying, Collecting, Preserving, Analyzing, and Presenting evidence digitally. Therefore, preserving electronic evidence is important. Investigating Data Theft is a malice act towards a company/ organization (Kruse, 2001). Such theft is made by an employee that is either terminated or resigning. Motives for data theft include setting up a competing business, using the information at a new job, sense of ownership of what was created, and revenge against the employer, among other things. Common Theft include, customer information, financial records, software code, email lists, strategic plans, process documents, secret formulas, databases, research and development materials, and employee records. Now, with such theft around, we often wonder how is such theft achieved. Knowing how technology is always advancing each year, the millennium era grows with fascinating knowledge on the know how to working a computer, hard drives, etc. Tools like flash drive, which can hold thousands of documents that can be copied to the flash drive, and taken anywhere. Then you have Dropbox, remote desktop connections, personal email accounts, smart phones, CD’s/DVD’s, and FTP ( File Transfer Protocol ) (Kruse, 2001) There is always this saying, that personnel who steal data often leave...
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...event E. It is a process of active interpretation. • The way that the E is perceived will be determined by a variety of factors, such as the assumptions, attitudes, point of view, experience of M. • E can be a person talking, sending a letter, telephoning, or otherwise communicating with M. In other words, E could be what we conventionally call the Source or Transmitter. • Equally, E can be an event - a car crash, rain, waves crashing on a beach, a natural disaster etc. In this case, we could be applying the model to mass media communication, say the reporting of news. The model is a useful starting-point for the analysis of wide variety of communication acts. Note that the model, besides drawing our attention to those factors within E which will determine perception or interpretation of E, also draws our attention to three important factors: • Selection: M, the perceiver of the event E (or receiver of the message, if you prefer) selects from the event, paying more attention to this aspect and less to that. This process of selecting, filtering is commonly known as gatekeeping, particularly in discussion of the media's selection and discarding of events or aspects of them. • Context: a factor often omitted from communication models, but a vitally important factor. The sound represented by the spelling 'hair' means an animal in one context, something that's not supposed to be in your soup in...
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...1 Introduction The makers of HootSuite, the social media dashboard, recognized the need for real social metrics and released the new Custom Social . This platform provides a new level of insight for how social media is impacting your business. It provides metrics beyond those available anywhere, like fans and followers, and gives decision making metrics like how many site visits your social media activities generated and how many of your social media contacts converted on your site. Combining this data with basic executive measurement philosophies will provide concrete reports on what is and what isn’t delivering in your social strategy. The following pages outline some core measurement strategies that will transform your conversation about social media measurement. Customize. Automate. Simplify. Get a better view of your social campaigns with new, more powerful analytics tools, more ways to measure, and customizable...
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...SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), we can create and manage a wide variety of different types of reports, and in a range of formats that allows them to deploy a server-based reporting platform. Reporting Services to develop and strengthen its reporting utility to tweak the programming features included. We charts, maps and tables and graphs using spark lines, or more complex data visualization, which can create basic reports. Reporting Services you care to make, and I am report, and empower designers or custom applications to change the API includes information and a complete set of tools for creating reports are comprehensive. Reporting Services tools work within the Microsoft Visual Studio environment and fully coordinated with SQL Server are apparatuses and parts. Our reports draw their data from SQL Server database, but it can also other relational databases such as Oracle, SQL Server Analysis Services such, Teradata, or parallel data warehouse as a multi-dimensional or XML - based on other types of data sources. Report graphs, maps, and rich information visualization with spark lines, can contain. Report, the report dealing with timetable can deliver, or access writes about interest. The survey configuration example, a mixed bag of different applications rent report, choose from Microsoft Excel, you can subscribe to and distribute reports. We called the Reporting Services Report Manager can report prepared directly from the website, or users within your web...
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...capitalizing them would be, as the purchases would be expensed in one period instead of amortized over multiple ones. This would result in cost savings, as the company would not need to hire as many accountants or spend as much money on overtime for them. Moreover, expensing all company purchases would be more in line with the Recognition Principle of the GAAP, which states that costs should be recognized in the accounting period in which they are incurred. However, expensing all purchases will negatively affect the company’s financial statements. When office supplies are purchased, the asset account will be debited. However, when expensing them, the entire office supplies account would be completely emptied at the end of the financial reporting period and the supplies expenses account would be debited by that entire amount, which would cause the company’s assets to look smaller and its expenses higher than they actually are. This would cause the company’s income statement to reflect very high expenses, which would in turn cause the company’s net income to appear lower and negatively impact owner equity. Furthermore, if the company were to invest in a large piece of equipment during one period, the cost of this equipment would be expensed in that one period instead of amortized over many, making the company’s income appear lower than it actually is. On the other hand, capitalizing all purchases would make the company balance sheet look like it has more assets. Supplies would be...
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...Whistleblowing and Sarbanes-Oxley This document will describe the key characteristics of a whistleblower and briefly summarize on researched instance of Whistleblowing in one publically traded company within the last 12 months. It will include the details of the issue that the whistleblower reported and the effect of the whistleblower’s actions on both herself and the company. Next, it will evaluate whether or not the whistleblower was justified in reporting the company’s actions. Lastly, it will examine the extent to which the whistleblower would be protected under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Characteristics For many years, individuals have raised concerns about misconduct, unethical or illegal practices observed at their place of employment to reporters/media, employers’ ethics hotline, management, via labor law posters, or the Office of the Whistleblower. This included employees from private companies, non-profit organizations, and governmental agencies. Employees can report unethical actions regarding public safety, health, business practices, fraud, waste, and abuse. Keep in mind that is does not have to be an employee; it can also be a supplier, contractor, client or any individual who somehow becomes aware of the illegal activities. Despite the fact that unethical behavior occurs within the workplace, there are still several employees that are loyal to the law, the community and society as a whole. These people are known as whistleblowers. Publicly Traded Company One...
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...Research about the ‘phone hacking’ scandal involving News International and be prepared to discuss the following based on the ‘Sorry’ advertisement reproduced below. 1. Identify three key aspects of the ‘phone hacking’ scandal? On 13 November 2005, the News of the World published an article written by royal editor Clive Goodman, claiming that Prince William was in the process of borrowing a portable editing suite. Following the publication, the Prince and royal staff met to try to figure out how the details of their arrangement had been leaked, as only two other people were aware of it, and asked police for investigation. In August 2006, Goodman and private investigator Mulcaire were arrested by the Metropolitan Police, and later charged with hacking the telephones of members of the royal family by accessing voicemail messages. It was first reported by The Guardian on 4 July 2011 that police had found evidence suggesting that the private investigator Glenn Mulcaire collected personal information about the family of the missing schoolgirl Milly Dowler, following her disappearance in March 2002 and the subsequent discovery of her body six months later. According to the paper, journalists working for the News of the World had hired private investigators to hack into Dowler's voicemail inbox while she was still missing. It was alleged that they had deleted some messages, giving false hope to police and to Dowler's family who thought that she might have deleted the messages herself...
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