...How was Wendy Peterson taken charge of the Plano branch office? * Took charge under pressure to fuel growth * Junior manager of account service clients * No experience with sales organization * Excellent at bringing business through client * Inherited team of 11 sales persons and 3 sales assistants * Decent mix of experience and enthusiasm in sales team * Stable revenue through established clients * Inherited underperforming division What is your evaluation of Wu's performance? * Wu’s performance is ambiguous since although he landed one large client and generated revenues of 400,000 he generated further revenues though add-ons that the client perhaps didn’t need * Wu’s work ethic was questionable, there are numerous instances to support this: He was always at a meeting with a client, he was rarely at his desk, never updated the sales pipeline tool which he knew very well and never took sales calls publicly * He also printed his business card in mandarin * While one may argue Peterson was a little too involved in her employees work, Wu derelict his administrative duties entirely * In his first moths he exposed himself as a dedicated student. He arrived early and stayed late nearly every day. He showed curiosity and attention to detail. He, also, enjoyed being expert for a change. * After his first month he started his real sales efforts. Then he spent only early mornings in the office. He was not updating Peterson for his daily progress...
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...First, the legal issues, in this case, are Wendy Vehar worked at Cole as a data analyst and states she made less income than the male employees. The other employees she worked with made more than she did, had less experience, and not as good of job performance reviews as she did. She felt overworked with bigger and harder jobs than the rest without adequate pay. The district court decided that the defendants satisfied the fourth factor of prima facie and that is “any factor other than sex” (Walsh, 2016). The defendants assert this by Vehar’s lower salary, but there are more factors to the case and prima facie. The court used Crosley and Leipold’s additional work experience, but here their experience is not enough. Their performance reviews were not good as Vehar’s. “To grant summary judgment on the basis of an identified distance, without requiring proof of a qualitative difference essentially...
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...WENDY’S INTERNATIONAL CASE STUDY Introduction Wendy’s aim is to achieve international success by expanding its operations globally whilst pursuing its notions of superior quality and competitive prices. In order to do this, it must take into account the needs, attitudes, culture as well as many other determinates of consumer behaviour to be able to penetrate the market and gain market share over its competitors. Wendy’s will need to consider which factors are most important to its target market in influencing their purchase decision and strive to gain a competitive edge in the market. This essay will analyse Wendy’s marketing strategy in its international expansion and in particular, into Germany by identifying the decision making process and determinates that contribute to the attitudes and behaviour of its potential customer base. Consumer Decision-Making Process The consumer decision-making process is a series of steps which a consumer will go through before, whilst and after purchasing a product. The first step is need recognition, where the consumer realises a need that needs to be resolved. This need is often stimulated by advertisements or sighting a product. Consumers go to Wendy’s to satisfy their need for food, which Wendy’s aims to satisfy with its menu. In Korea, Wendy’s restaurants are located in high-traffic, prime visibility locations that keeps the store in the public eye – which may stimulate latent needs of consumers. For example, a consumer who...
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...Wendy Kopp is the founder and CEO of Teach for America. Teach for America is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to reduce or eliminate the educational inequity in the United States. Educational inequity could be describes as the lack of equal opportunities that individuals have as a result of differences in quality education. Wendy Kopp has been recognized as one of Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People and has received numerous honorary degrees and awards for public service. (Teach for All) She is the author of A Chance to Make History: What Works and What Doesn’t in Providing an Excellent Education for All, and One Day, All Children: The Unlikely Triumph of Teach For America and What I Learned Along the Way. Wendy Kopp also serves as the chief executive of Teach for All, which supports the development of Teach for America’s model in other countries. Wendy Kopp shows all characteristics of an entrepreneurial leader: cognitive ambidexterity with her creation of Teach for America, self-awareness and context awareness with knowing her desire to meet a need in society, social, environmental, and economic responsible (SEERS) helping to make educational change. Wendy Kopp is also shows characteristics of an Ethical entrepreneur by increased happiness and reduced suffering. Wendy Kopp shows cognitive ambidexterity in her creation of her organization Teach for America, by showing both the creation and prediction aspects of cognitive ambidexterity. For individuals to...
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...have a problem with Wu’s performance inconsistencies his vision of how things should be done, obviously conflicting with my leadership style. He definitely is able to do “as I say” but not willing - he does not keep daily contact, works outside the office more than normal and his various meetings usually conflict with AccountBack activities and meetings. I do not know if this is based on cross cultural differences or situational leadership. I definitely should consider a mismatch of leadership style and development level of my subordinate. I should reconsider my participating approach towards my employees. It definitely worked for our branch and the financial results are proving it but most of the salesmen were new to the company. In case of salesmen with more experience and high readiness to do the work and accomplish results I should lower relationship behavior and delegate more duties. Low level of cooperation that we have causes a competition between us and solving the conflict could come only after compromising with each other, accommodating our expectations and collaborating to achieve our...
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...SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP When I was a kid, I could have been what people would now call a social entrepreneur or socialpreneur. A lot of people would have fallen into this category. To help your school or church or youth group, you may have sold chocolate bars door-to-door. People bought them, even if they didn't like chocolate; because they knew the money would go to support a worthy cause. Both the seller and purchaser are examples of social consciousness in action. Now my own children, bring home their school fundraisers from school and we too buy the over priced products, not because they are great products, but because it supports their school, a good cause. Today's socially conscious entrepreneurs, socialpreneurs, are elevating that door-to-door fund raising spirit into full time business. Some of their businesses are created specifically to put unemployed, disadvantaged and underemployed individuals to work. Some sell merchandise designating disadvantaged groups as beneficiaries of their profits. Others market goods to supplement the budgets of existing social service programs. Entrepreneurs are innovative, highly-motivated, and critical thinkers. When these attributes are combined with the drive to solve social problems, a Social Entrepreneur is born. Social entrepreneurs are defined by Ashoka those who “act as the change agents for society, seizing opportunities others miss and improving systems, inventing new approaches...
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...Edwardian London, in the neighborhood of Bloomsbury, where George and Mary Darling's preparations to attend a party are disrupted by the antics of the boys, John and Michael, acting out a story about Peter Pan and the pirates, which was told to them by their older sister, Wendy. Their father, who is fed up with the stories that have made his children less practical, angrily declares that Wendy has gotten too old to continue staying in the nursery with them, and it's time for her to grow up and have a room of her own. That night, they are visited in the nursery by Peter Pan himself, who teaches them to fly with the help of his pixie friend, Tinker Bell, and takes them with him to the island of Never Land. A ship of pirates is anchored off Never Land, commanded by Captain Hook with his sidekick, Mr. Smee. Hook boldly plots to take revenge upon Peter Pan for cutting off his hand, but he trembles when the crocodile that ate it arrives; it now stalks him, hoping to taste more. Hook also forms a plan to find Peter's hideout using the knowledge of Tiger Lily. The crew's restlessness is interrupted by the arrival of Peter and the Darlings. The children easily evade them, and, despite a trick by jealous Tinker Bell to have Wendy killed, they meet up with the Lost Boys: six lads in animal-costume pajamas, who look to Peter as their leader. Tinker Bell's treachery is soon found out, and Peter banishes her "forever" (though she is eventually forgiven). John and Michael set off with the Lost Boys...
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...Contemporary American Drama This is a term paper assignment for the class “Contemporary American Drama.” In this assignment, I will firstly give a clear definition of drama producing the historical background of contemporary American Drama briefly. Then I am going to introduce the genres we have covered with the characteristics of each such as absurdist, realist and feminist drama. After introducing the genres, I will give a brief analysis of the plays and the playwrights we have studied in class. Finally, I will make a few objective points about my personal performance, the instructor’s performance and the contribution of the course to my academic career. Drama is a literary work generally performed by actors in a kind of stage which involves conflicts and action crisis in it with a plot, characters and dialogues. Setting, costuming, props, blocking, movement, gestures, pacing, intonation are main elements of the spectacle. The distinct period in all arts with drama begins in 1960s. Until 1950s, the words American Drama and Broadway have almost same meanings. In the very beginning times of American Drama, plays were not originals; they were wholly borrowed from London. But after 50s, American Drama changed radically. Actors, directors, and others from Broadway came to America, because now they did not have any job there. After they came, they established their own Off-Broadway companies here. The most popular and affection dramatists of time in America were Eugene O’Neill...
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...The character Peter Pan was actually inspired by the tragic death of the author's brother. Because J.M. Barrie,which is the author of Peter Pan, experienced what it's like to lose a brother he used this to write the very popular story known as Peter Pan. J.M. Barrie was a boy who grew up in Scotland.He later released the book of young wendy being taken to neverland with a boy named Peter. Information concerning the life of J.M. Barrie includes his early years,inspiration for writing Peter Pan. and the world at the time. These topics are all associated with Peter Pan. To begin,information regarding the world of J.M. Barrie includes his early years. James Matthew Barrie was born May 9, 1860(“J.M. Barrie” 1). He grew up in scotland and graduated from Edinburgh University around 1882(“J.M. Barrie” 1). He studied Journalism and later started publishing popular novels(“J.M. Barrie” 1). The article states “He got married himself in 1894 to actress Mary Ansell but it didn’t turn out to be a happy union”(“J.M. Barrie” 1). In other words Barrie and Ansell soon got divorced. To escape his difficult life at home he often took long walks in the Kensington Gardens(“J.M. Barrie” 1). On one of his walks he made the acquaintance of the five...
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...curiosity of Neverland contributed to the void in his heart that should have been filled with love and comfort from his family. Peter chose to stay in Neverland, “for moons and moons and moons” (Barrie 132). His curiosity and imagination separated him from his home for a long time. His mother had to move on because he had abandoned them. Peter does not realize that the very emptiness he feels when he thinks about mothers is what his mother went through when he left as well. Adults and children have many parallels in the way they function. Adults have traces of childhood magic that pops up now and then. Similarly, children have traces of adult tendencies. Many children long for independence for daily activities with their parents. In this way, Wendy has traces of adulthood that is present in her, such as when she plays the role of the mother for the boys and her brothers. Though there is a line that separates that of adulthood growth and instability. Peter’s actions that show adult-like tendencies, such as his murders of innocent citizens of Neverland shows his instability due to his past. Peter felt abandoned by his mother and now searches for a new mother to support and care for him. His body stays youthful, yet his mind has spiraled into something much darker than that of a child or normal adult. A normal adult does not commit such murderous and unsafe acts as he does. The narrator points out that Peter has a deranged view when it came to his life in Neverland saying, “The difference...
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...Peter Pan Peter and Wendy Peter and Wendy is a novel written by James M. Barrie. Hodder and Stoughton published it in 1911 in the United Kingdom. The novel is based on Barrie’s play The Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up which has the same storyline and was published in 1904 The novel is about the little girl Wendy and her smaller siblings Michael and John who goes on an adventure in the magic Neverland with Peter Pan, the boy who wouldn’t grow up. Peter listens to Wendy’s mother’s bedtime stories ever night by the open window in her room. One night Peter gets seen, but while trying to get away peter loses his shadow. Another night Peter tries to regain his shadow. He wakes Wendy up and gets her to help him. Wendy helps reattaching the shadow to peter, and Peter invites her and her brother to the Neverland. In the Neverland Peter introduces Wendy and her brothers to the Lost Boys, and the brothers quickly becomes one of them. Peter is in trouble with some Pirates who is lead by the evil character Captain Hook. Hook despises Peter; they are a kind of archenemies. One day Wendy realizes that it is time for her to go home to her parents, but unluckily Hook kidnaps her. Peter goes on a mission to save her, and it ends in an epic battle between Hook and Peter. Peter wins the battle. Wendy decides to go home, and she takes her brother and the lost boys with her. Peter keeps living in Neverland. Peter Pan is a relatively easy novel to read; I have calculated the lix number for the...
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...Wendy from Peter Pan Change controls the structure of humanity, the building blocks of evolution, and the creator of new beginnings. Sometimes authors use change as inspiration for books and movies like J.M. Barrie. All of the characters of J.M. Barrie’s “Peter Pan” experience thrills and dangers of Neverland or by meeting Neverland’s habitants specifically Wendy who go through Love, Family, & Peers. Wendy turns into a different person because of the influences of peers. For example When Wendy and her siblings are requested to go with a boy who can fly, and a fairy to a land that they did not know existed anywhere other than their dream (J.M. Barrie pg. 22-35 CH. 3). They have to trust the ever so ignorant boy and fly over long distances to...
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...“Second star to the right and straight on 'til morning. ” ― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan. That is how you get to Neverland but there is an easier way by simply going to the VPA’s musical Peter Pan. The new Peter Pan musical in Sherwood has viewers lined up to watch.The VPA or voice of performing arts will be putting on the musical.They are also the same people who performed The Little Mermaid and Beauty and The Beast. This is a trip not by plane or a car, but by flying to the magical world of Peter Pan. What makes this really special is that it is done by all kids. The musical will be held in the new Sherwood center of the arts. The VPA is eager to use this newly built building for the musical. Not only is the VPA excited, but so is the friends, family and just plain music lovers of this breathtaking musical. The VPA is very influential here in Sherwood. They do many well known musicals. Some of them include The Little Mermaid, Beauty And The Beast, Aladdin, Into The Woods and plenty more. VPA does not just do musicals though. They also have string instrument programs that and a large variety of choirs in which many people attend. It is easy to see why they are so memorable. This musical is done by the voices of the performing arts.They chose this musical for many reasons. Specifically because lots of people know it, it is fun/entertaining, and it gets people excited for the new movie Pan.What makes this really musical extraordinary is that this musical is being done with only kids...
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...With these developments, it is obvious that conflicts between parties of different nationalities occur and liability to tax on income of foreigners especially among those engaging in trading venture. Whilst the laws affecting domicile and residence may be sufficiently settled, it is paramount for courts to pursue a detailed analysis to ascertain specific preliminary issues so as to avoid controversial rulings. Courts often handle numerous financial cases that involve what can be best described as foreign or international elements. In such cases, court must decide whether it has the jurisdiction under the Family Law Act 1975 to make a decision on such cases. In the event that it is determined that the court is invested with the jurisdiction to determine the case, the court has to consider whether there is a system of law in foreign country that also has the jurisdiction to handle the case. As it was addressed in the case Attorney General of New Zealand v Ortiz [1984] AC 1, these benefits and costs to either party if the case resolution is made in foreign country as compared with the apparent country should also be a subject of concern. [1] Legal systems in most countries around the world adopt community property regime, which takes effect at the inception of marriage or at the time of divorce. For instance, California and Massachusetts in the United States have adopted community property regimes that support equal division of assets upon divorce. However, this provision...
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...Adapted from Bernhardt & Kinnear (1988). Cases in marketing management, pp. 6-16. Plano, TX: Business Publications, Inc. Pay careful attention to the following points. They are often used by instructors to evaluate either a written or oral analysis. 1. Be complete. Each area of the situation analysis must be discussed, problems and opportunities identified, alternative presented and evaluated using the situation analysis and relevant financial analysis, and a decision must be made. An analysis that omits part of the situation analysis or only recognizes one alternative is not a good analysis. Second, each area must be covered in-depth and within insight. 2. Avoid rehashing case facts. Every case has a lot of factual information. A good analysis uses facts that are relevant to the situation at hand to make summary points of analysis. A poor analysis just restates or rehashes theses facts without making relevant summary comments. 3. Make reasonable assumptions. Every case is incomplete in terms of some piece of information that you would like to have. A good case analysis must make realistic assumptions to fill in the gaps of information in the case. For example, the case may not describe the purchase decision process for the product of interest. A poor analysis would either omit mentioning this or just state that no information is available. A good analysis would attempt to present this purchase decision process by classifying the product and drawing upon real life...
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