...Case Study 2 Public interest groups claim to work for the good of the whole society, not just one part of it. Public interest groups often have very different ideas as to how to improve society. Many public interest groups tackle a number of related issues. Greenpeace, for example, works to protect ecosystems around the world and to educate the public about dangers to the environment. They are a huge organization built around fixing the environment and making the world a better place. Greenpeace is a non-governmental organization that was started back in 1972 in Vancouver, BC. The founders of Greenpeace started it all in the late 1960s when the U.S had plans for a nuclear weapon test in the island of Amchitka, which is one of the worlds most earthquake-prone regions. In 1970 they sailed ships off towards Amchitka to stop the U.S from detonating another bomb there. Even though they got sent back, they felt sympathy for the protesters and decided not to continue with their plans to set of the bombs at that location. Greenpeace is now an organization, which uses non-violent, creative confrontation to expose global environmental problems, and to force the solutions, which are essential to a green and peaceful future. This being their main mission they have many different ways that they go about doing this. These are some ways listed by them of how they are living up to their mission statement, by doing things like: Catalyzing an energy revolution to address the number one threat...
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...Asian Institute of Maritime Studies Pasay City, Philippines INTERNATIONAL SHIP AND PORT FACILITY SECURTIY CODE In partial fulfillment of the Case Study and presentation for: Issues and problems in the Maritime Industry being addressed by ISPS Sunken Ships Submitted to: ENS. GRACIANO C. CONSORIO PCG (Ret) Instructor Submitted by: Group Number 2 I. Introduction The sea is a large body of salt water that is surrounded in whole or in part by land. More broadly, the sea is the interconnected system of Earth's salty, oceanic waters—considered as one global ocean or as several principal oceanic divisions. Moreover, it has served as a home for marine and aquatic environment and also as defined roads for marine transportation in the conduct of trade and civilization. In spite of the glorious facts accounted, the sea was also the venue and sole witness of such tragedies, catastrophes known as maritime incidents. By definition, maritime incident means any occurrence, other than an accident, that is associated with the operation of a ship and effects or could affect the safety of operation. From the initiation of transport at sea up to the present, tremendous accounts of maritime incidents can be noted and such incidents lead to countless loss of lives, property, and the environment. With these adverse effects at hand, major approaches can further explain the importance of such incidents. From a historical approach, the first transport at sea was accounted as trade using small...
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...Brief history: In the early 90s of the cruse history begin to get on the line, making the cruse famous in tourists and passenger till 1960s. shipping companies started making their investments over the passenger cruise spend huge money on their comforts and services. Gradually to the demand these ships started to grow in the sizes after the year 1980, which can be compared to the cruse industries of today. These transportation vehicles are not only used as the mode of transport but are also widely rekno Maritime Disaster Costa Concordia: Introduction: The cruise history was started in early 1900 with the first passenger ship, but the business flourished in 1960s when the companies started focusing on the tourist and passengers for their services. The era changed when the megaships started sailing in the ocean after 1980s which are similar to the modern day cruise ships, and if we take a look at recent cruise ships which not only include the cabins for passenger, but also restaurants, casino, swimming pool, spa, movie theater, bar almost like a luxurious mini city floating on the ocean just for the holiday purpose, the most of the business of the cruise ships are because of the service they provide, they are not just a mode of transportation now but also a place to spend the vacation and enjoyment. This business become popular because of American middle class family moved from traditional vacation trips to the cruise for new experience. Costa Concordia was the largest...
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...The Collapse of Sensemaking in Organizations: The Mann Gulch Disaster Karl E. Weick . Reprinted from The Collapse of Sensemaking in Organizations: The Mann Gulch Disaster by Karl E. Weick published in Administrative Science Quarterly Volume 38 (1993): 628652 by permission of Administrative Science Quarterly. © 1993 by Cornell University 00018392/93/3804-0628. This is a revised version of the Katz- Newcomb lecture presented at the University of Michigan, April 23-24, 1993. The 1993 lecture celebrated the life of Rensis Likert, the founding director of the Institute for Social Relations. All three people honored at the lecture-Dan Katz, Ted Newcomb, and Ren Likert-were born in 1903, which meant this lecture also celebrated their 90th birthdays. I am grateful to Lance Sandelands, Debra Meyerson, Robert Sutton, Doug Cowherd, and Karen Weick for their help in revising early drafts of this material. I also want to thank John Van Maanen, J. Richard Hackman, Linda Pike, and the anonymous ASQ reviewers for their he lp with later drafts. The death of 13 men in the Mann Gulch fire disaster, made famous in Norman Maclean's Young Men and Fire, is analyzed as the interactive disintegration of role structure and sensemaking in a minimal organization. Four potential sources of resilience that make groups less vulnerable to disruptions of sensemaking are proposed to forestall disintegration, including improvisation, virtual role systems, the attitude of wisdom, and norms of respectful interaction...
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...references. ISBN: 1-880410-45-1 (pbk.) 1. Industrial project management--Case studies. I. Cleland, David I. HD69.P75P728 1997 658.4'04--dc21 97-3116 CIP l Copyright O 1998 by the Project Management Institute. Al rights resewed. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, manual, photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without prior written permission of the publisher. Book Team Editor-in-Chief: James S. Pennypacker Book Designer: Michelle Owen Copyeditor: Toni D. Knott Copyeditor: Amy Goretsb Copyeditor: Mark S.Parker Cover design by: James S. Pennypacker and Dewey Messer Production Coordinator: Mark S. Parker Acquisitions Editor: Bobby R. Hensley PMI books are available at special quantity discounts to use as premiums and sales promotions, or for use in corporate training programs. For more information, please write to the Business Manager, PMI Publishing Division, 40 Colonial Square, Sylva, NC 28779. Or contact your local bookstore. The paper used in this book complies with the Permanent Paper Standard issued by the National Information Standards Organization (239.48-1984). Table of Contents Acknowledgments Preface viii vii Chapter One: Planning 1 The Benfield Column Repair Project 5 Food Waste Composting at Larry's Markets 15 W W g the Sydney to Hobart: A Case Study in Project Management 17 Kodak's New Focus 29 Managing Kuwait Oil Fields...
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...The Human Factor (By William Langewiesche, downloaded and edited without changing the content by Rik Nieuwenhuys for easyJet Flight Operations – please do not distribute this document outside easyJet) Airline pilots were once the heroes of the skies. Today, in the quest for safety, airplanes are meant to largely fly themselves. Which is why the 2009 crash of Air France Flight 447, which killed 228 people, remains so perplexing and significant. William Langewiesche explores how a series of small errors turned a state-‐of-‐ the-‐art cockpit into a death trap. TROUBLE AHEAD Inside the automated cockpit of an Airbus A330—like the one belonging to Air France that crashed into the equatorial Atlantic in 2009. 1 I. Into the Night On the last day of May in 2009, as night enveloped the...
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...Minh Nguyen Principles Of Management 12/07/12 Case Study: Flight 001 1. Maslow’s hierarchy consists of five need levels in order of importance: physiological, security, belongingness, esteem, and self-actualization. At Flight 001 store, Shank’s old boss failed to meet three basic needs. First is the need for belonginess. It was not met because her boss made her feel as if she is just a number to the organization and could easily be replaced by someone else. As Shank mentioned in the video, “the people who own the company or the CEO is just some unknown person - you might not even know their name - that is in an office halfway across the country”. Her statement shows that Shank obviously doesn’t have the personal connection with her employer. Therefore, her mentality is to complete the given work at the minimum standard as a routine and not looking forward to any challenges. Secondly, Shank’s old boss failed to meet the need of esteem. Shank didn’t feel good about her job because there was no appreciation, no recognition or any sense of achievement for the work that she has done. She doesn’t feel appreciated at her work and this is due to the poor treatment that upper management had toward its employees. Per Maslow’s theory, self-esteem is important because it motivates employees to work harder. Last, the need for self-actualization was not met as Shank’s old boss failed to let her participate in the decision making in regard to her work. She wasn’t given any...
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...A Case Study on Crossroads: A Story of Forgiveness1 Prepared to Support the Central Learning Activities In PACO 500 Introduction to Pastoral Counseling Liberty University/Seminary 1John K. Harrison, 2007. Crossroads: A Story of Forgiveness (Hallmark Hall of Fame Productions, Inc.). The previous case study of Dr. Gary Stewart was revised by this course’s subject matter expert. Further insights have been added to facilitate the preparation of various learning activities within this offering of PACO 500. Abstract This case study sets the stage for the application of a solution-based, short-term, pastoral counseling strategy. A Hallmark Productions’ movie, Crossroads: A Story of Forgiveness, recreates the story of 5 people that experienced a tragedy resulting from a street racing accident. The student will choose one of 5 characters as a counselee to move through an abridged counseling scenario: Bruce Murakami (father); Josh (first born son); Brody (second born); Melissa (family friend); and Justin (teenage street racer responsible for the deaths of Bruce’s wife and daughter). Sufficient information is provided to identify at least one potential issue to address in counseling. 2 web links are provided to support student’s understanding of tragedy; an annotated resource also provides information for purchasing a Video On Demand download of the movie. This case study is loosely based on a true story of a family, which has been thrown into the torment of living through...
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...broadcasters and production companies like Sahara, Jaya Tv, Kairali etc. As per the recent report by PricewaterhouseCooopers (PwC), Indians are likely to spend more on entertainment in the coming years with a steady growth in their disposable income. With the introduction of digital distribution platforms like direct-to-home (DTH) and Mobile TV, Indian television industry has undergone a revolutionary change. As per KPMG and FICCI reports, the Indian television industry is worth US$ 4.63 billion and is estimated to grow by 14.5 per cent during 2009-13. Moreover, by 2013 the television advertising industry is likely to own a share of 41% in the Indian advertising sector, which indicates a steady increase of 2% from the current share of...
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...Annals of Tourism Research, Vol. 27, No. 2, pp. 345±370, 2000 Pergamon 5 2000 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved Printed in Great Britain 0160-7383/00/$20.00 PII: S0160-7383(99)00073-0 CARIBBEAN CRUISE TOURISM Globalization at Sea Robert E. Wood Rutgers University-Camden, USA Abstract: Caribbean cruise tourism provides a particularly illuminating vantage point for understanding the processes of globalization in the world today. After documenting the rapid expansion of this business, the paper explores three central manifestations of globalization at work in the Caribbean cruise industry: the restructuring of the industry in the face of global competition, capital mobility, and labor migration; new patterns of global ethnic recruitment and strati®cation, including their incorporation into the product marketed to tourists; and deterritorialization, cultural theming, and simulation. The paper asserts that this ``globalization at sea'' illustrates the contradictions, ambiguities, and unchartered course of contemporary globalization processes. Keywords: globalization, tourism, cruise industry, Caribbean, migration, ethnicity. 5 2000 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved. ReÂsumeÂ: Le tourisme de croisiÁere aux CaraÈõbes: la globalisation en mer. Le tourisme de croisiÁere aux CaraÈõbes fournit un point de vue particuliÁerement appropriÂe pour comprendre le processus de globalisation dans le monde d'aujourd'hui. AprÁes avoir passÂe en revue la rapide expansion de ce...
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...for McDonald's success from the position of customers' expectation. Besides that, McDonalds keeps a good relationship with stakeholders is the key factor in the company's success as well. ''So we must think through what management should be accountable for; and how and through whom its accountability can be discharged. The stockholders' interest, both short- and long-term, is one of the areas. But it is only one. '' (Peter Dnicker, 1988 Harvard Business Review). ''A stakeholder in an organization is any group or individual who can affect or is affected by the achievement of the organization's objectives. (Pitman, 1984). Supplier is the really important part of the way McDonalds runs if McDonalds did not have suppliers, there would be nothing for them to sell. McDonalds...
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...An Analysis of Outliers: The Story of Success XXXXXX MNGT 5670 – Managerial Leadership Webster University Abstract A theory is presented to the reader that there are not any successful self-made people, which is contrary to popular beliefs. The theory is presented in the book, Outliers: The Story of Success (2008), authored by Malcolm Gladwell. The theory is further defined by the premise that holds that success is enabled by a person’s culture, environment, when and where they were born, and a strong work ethic. These theories and examples of success are analyzed using the textbook, Leadership: Research Findings, Practice, and Skills (2013) by Andrew DuBrin. Several examples are provided in this paper that illustrate and support Gladwell’s thoughts on opportunity and cultural legacy. Keywords: cultural legacy, success, leadership, Leader Member Exchange Model, in-group, out-group, cognitive factors, behaviors, task-related attitudes An Analysis of Outliers: The Story of Success The author of the book Outliers: The Story of Success, (2008) Malcolm Gladwell, leads us through several compelling chapters of discussion regarding selected individuals who are extremely intelligent, driven, some famous and ambitious. These are the characteristics of individuals that are perceived as being the highly successful members of our society. Successful individuals are termed as “outliers”, people who fall outside the normal acumen of human experience. Gladwell (2008)...
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...CASE STUDY OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT – HARD ROCK CAFE CASE STUDY OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT – HARD ROCK CAFE Submitted by: Orson Gonzales Louella Malapad Olivia Kristine Pakingan Kristofer Jon Valderama Rubenstein Vallo EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Hard Rock cafe has grown from a modest London pub to a global power in the restaurant business. From its humble beginnings to its current global position, Hard Rock was driven to success by a guided Operations Management. TABLE OF CONTENTS I. Introduction 4 II. Objectives and Scope a. General objectives of the group activity 5 b. Specific objectives of the group activity 5 c. Assumptions and Justifications 5 III. Methods / Approach 5 IV. Analysis and Discussion 6 V. Findings and Conclusion 11 VI. Recommendations ? VII. Annexes ? INTRODUCTION “Operations Management or OM is the set of management activities that create value in the form of goods and/or services by transforming inputs into outputs.” As for this case study, Hard Rock café creates value in the form of good food and entertainment. From its humble beginnings by founders Isaac Tigrett and Peter Morton in London way back in 1971, to its current global status after 42 years in the industry, Hard Rock continues to expand and evolve. Modifying its menu from serving classic American - burger and chicken...
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...Thomaz Paschoal Writ 340 Prof. Townsend 05/01/2012 Illumin Article Portfolio Abstract: This paper is aimed at highlighting the benefits of installing structural health monitoring systems on structures. Through a case study, I examined the various issues with todays outdated visual inspection techniques and showed how the installation of SHM systems on new bridges solves many of these issues. Bio: Thomaz Paschoal is a junior majoring in Civil Engineering at the University of Southern California. He was born in São Paulo, Brazil. Outside of class he is involved with Engineers Without Borders and the American Society of Civil Engineers. Structural Health Monitoring Systems Imagine for just a second that you live in Minneapolis, Minnesota; you work in one of the many shiny downtown skyscrapers. It’s Wednesday, 5:30 p.m., and you decide to go back home to the northern suburbs of the city. You are about to get on the I-35W Bridge over the Mississippi river, a bridge that you take at least twice a day. But this crossing is not like the hundreds of other previous crossings. On August 1, 2007, this bridge, a major commuter route, simply collapses into the river. 13 people die and 145 people are injured and, even more frightening, it could have been worse. The infrastructure in the United States is in need of a major upgrade. There are roads, bridges and tunnels all over the country that are badly in need of repairs. According to the Federal Highway Administration there...
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...monotony of their unfulfilled lives. Virtual reality seems to be the way of the future. Creating your own world and living a life you could only otherwise dream about. Even providing treatments to the medically impaired virtual reality is a miracle technology with seemingly limitless application. However everything has a price, could this amazing creation have a hidden danger? Why would anyone want to live their real lives that are full of uncertainty, lack of comfort, and no control when they could have everything they have ever desired in a world they create. I believe their are various uses for this technology but without proper restrictions we will lost in the addictive worlds we create for ourselves. When we think of virtual reality we often think of video games and simulated worlds that are used for entertainment or relaxation, but I think that real world application is what makes this technology so remarkable. many companies are incorporating simulated driving so that they may train new vehicle operators without having to worry about damages if a mistake is made. This applies especially to the operation of aircraft where you are traveling at hundreds of miles per hour and have to account for wind as well as a multitude of situations that may arise when you are thousands of feet in the air. Without virtual training these pilots would only be able to learn first hand and a simple mistake or oversight could cost many their lives. In the Navy you have to be...
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