...What are the Values in Life? Grand Canyon University Legal and Ethical Principles in Healthcare HLT-305 Professor Chornick January 10, 2014 What are the Values in Life? I think the answers to these questions are going to vary quite a bit from person to person. To me an ideal is what motivates a person and makes them who they are. The most important to me, would have to be allowing other people the respect and dignity I feel human beings should get. I think keeping as many options as possible open to oneself in life is important as well. The distinction between right and wrong, and good and evil is also important to me. Worth isn’t necessarily how much money or how many assets a person can accumulate. Worth to me is the do’s and don’ts, and the shoulds and shouldn’ts I live by in order to be accepted by others (Saban, 2013). If a person feels good about what they have accomplished, their worth increases. If a person is a little insecure about themnselves, their self worth might tend to be a little on the low side. According to Aristotle, a virtue is something learned through practice at a very young age (Sparknotes, 2013). I think some of the important virtues a person should possess are friendliness, accountability for one’s actions, compassion, dignity, reverence, meaning the sacredness of human life, nobility or having high moral standards, and understanding. I remember reading somewhere once that if admirable character traits are called virtues, then their opposites...
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...Southern Methodist University Cox School of Business MKTG 6223-021 Analytic Methods for Understanding What Consumers Value 195 Crow Thursdays 2-4:50 pm Spring 2011 Professor William R. Dillon 210A Fincher 214/768-3163 Email: bdillon@mail.cox.smu.edu Office Hours: Thursday 1-2 pm and by appointment Course Description Determining what is valued and the importance of product features and service offerings is perhaps the most important issue that marketing managers face. Recently, conjoint and choice models have become popular techniques to help marketing managers understand what customers value. The objective of this course is to expose the student to a variety of preference models used by brand managers and marketing analysts and to give students hands-on experience in using conjoint and choice modeling techniques. This course examines these marketing decisions using a combination of lectures, cases, and exercises. Learning Objectives: 1) Develop an understanding of consumer decision making frameworks and protocols. 2) Learn how to design and analyze choice/conjoint experiments so as to quantify the importance consumers place on specific attributes/ benefits. Course Material Readings, Lecture notes, Case Exercises and Situation Analysis directions are available on Blackboard at https://courses.smu.edu/webapps/login/ . Evaluation Exam 40% Quizzes 35% Simulation Exercise 25% 100% Please...
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...A value delivery process is an amalgamation of value creation and the delivery process, which are divided into three phases. The first phase is choosing the value, which refers to the homework that marketers must do in terms of market segmentation, appropriate market selection, and developing an offering’s value positioning or identifying the values that the company’s product or service should meet. The second phase is providing the value, wherein marketers must determine the price, features and distribution method. The third phase is to communicate value by making use of the sales force, advertising tools, promotional activities, and other important mediums that are necessary for announcing a product or service’s existence and its features. In other words, the process starts from identification of customer values that are usually not met by existing products or services in the market, creating a product or service that offers those customer values and creating an awareness of the product or service in the consumer market through marketing.For example, in the mid 90s, there were no camera phones. Cell phones came only with a calling and texting feature. However, there were customers who wished to have integrated cameras in their mobile devices. In this example, the wish to have integrated cameras is the customer value. Companies that constantly strived to identify the needs of the customers came across this customer value through market research. The marketing professionals of...
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...What Value Really Means Something that has value is usually seen as having some sort of worth. There are values with a big price tag, and there are values that are priceless. You probably value people with qualities like caring, compassion, good work ethic, responsibility, trustworthiness, etc. Also, you may put value in photographs, memories, heirlooms, and many more; these can be worthless to some and mean the world to others. To one person an object or memory could be priceless. Other values are objects like houses, cars, computers, phones, jewelry, and more. They come with large price tags and are considered universally valuable because of their status symbols. So, which value is more “valuable?” Pricy values are material objects. Diamonds and gold have value because they are rare; flat screens and iPhones have value because they are expensive. They both are symbols of wealth and status, which is why people strive to own the newest, biggest, and best. These objects certainly do have value; but in the end they’re just objects. They’re all relative to what society says is the best. Having valuable objects in today’s world may make people respect you more, and nobody would dispute that having nice things is better than having nothing. But in the end, are the homes and the cars and the money really even valuable? In dollars and cents, obviously, but in life, no. These material values can be taken away in an instant. True value lie in things that can’t be touched or seen...
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...This system of values effectively displays the relationships of those in Han culture. Among these, humanism(believing that all humans are teachable and can be morally corrected), humaneness(treatment of others with respect and the golden rule), rituals(confucianism felt it was important the way one performs his daily activities in education and enjoyment), loyalty and filial piety(a belief that there is a social hierarchy within society, valuing the elders and political officials) were of the utmost importance.(Clymo Powerpoint) These values were the driving force behind the stabilization of the Han...
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...Title: What Happened to our Moral Values? Author: Judelle Sterling Source: Helium.com, the Values and Morals in American Society: 1950s versus today Article by: Jennifer Buckett Created: September 23, 2007 I remember growing up as a kid. My mother would teach us on a daily basis how to always keep and practice good moral values. Not only did she teach it to us, she did it with examples. We watch mother saying “hello” and “good morning” with a smile to everyone; young, old, friends and strangers alike. We grew up learning how to respect everyone, how to conduct ourselves in a proper and respectful way to show respect and earn respect. That was the good old days when things were simple and happiness was all we had time for. Where love for the fellow man was so thick that you could feel it just by looking at each other as we walk by, yes that was the past. Now in the present time all I see is people being rude to each other. Moral values mean nothing these days. People are too busy to greet one another. All you see on the news is how a group of teenager beating up a 70 year old man in the name of fun or gang initiation. Things are getting out of hand, and it will get worse if we stand by and do nothing. Compared to the old days society today has plunged to a new low in moral values. Let’s go back as far the 1950s where our moral values were at its best. I wasn’t around in the 1950s but I’ve watch television shows...
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...P1 – Personal Attributes Personal attributes Personal Attributes are traits that make up a personality, a trait is a distinguishing quality or characteristic that makes up a person. It is important for someone who is applying for a job to state their personal attributes on their application as employers value a good set of traits, but it is important that the potential employee does not show any negative traits such as aggressive, lazy and arrogant. It is also important that the employee shows those traits and proves that they have them. There are some traits that employers value more than other traits but there are some traits that employers want to see in all of their staff these include: Leadership qualities: Leadership in the workplace is about responsibility. Leadership can often be mistaken for ‘being the boss’ and shouting at those who are ‘weaker’ than you, that is not the case. When it comes to the workplace leadership is about taking responsibility for your actions and the progress of your company, it is also about motivating others and directing your team. Leadership can be used to manage staff and to increase work productivity, the person should be able to take charge of situations and ensure that the task in hand is completed. An advantage of Leadership skills is that people with good leadership skills can make important decisions for themselves and for others, they can manage their time and other peoples time efficiently which makes sure that everything...
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...Media & Innovation What are the Effects of Netflix’s Innovation of the Value Chain? Source: (Netflix, n.d.a) WS 15/16 Current Issues in Media and Communication 1 Table of Contents • Key Slides • Getting to know Netflix • Disruptive Innovation of the Value Chain • Effects of the Innovation • Outlook • Bibliography WS 15/16 Current Issues in Media and Communication 2 Key Slides 1/3 Netflix can be regarded as a service business model within the video-ondemand area. It is known for being the pioneer offering its users entertainment content for a subscription fee. Since the foundation of Netflix in 1997 the new business concept turned into a success story with more than 70 million members around the world. People in 190 countries have access to Netflix‘s wide range of media entertainment possibilities and Netflix plans to add more to its list. The fact that their previous expansion meant 130 new countries in one go forecasts that Netflix will become a very important and influential global player in media entertainment industry. But how does all of it start? Innovation was the key. Netflix’s success in the new video rental business was based on the idea to offer an online DVD mail service. Adding new technology to a breakthrough idea created a combination which was meant to succeed. WS 15/16 Current Issues in Media and Communication 3 Key Slides 2/3 The users of the Netflix service are those who pay for it. In exchange...
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...To what extent does Hardy challenge conventional Victorian values in Tess of the D’Urbevilles? To a notable extent, Hardy does challenge conventional Victorian values concerning class, gender roles and marriage, and, above all, the Victorians’ faith in the merits of “progress”: industrialisation and rationality. However, an alternative view is that Hardy’s presentation of his “heroine” as largely passive and objectified implicates him in the prevailing patriarchal values of the time. Hardy’s treatment of gender in the novel is not consistent. His protagonist is a woman, in some respects strong-minded and perceptive and more moral than the principal male characters. The other female characters, however, are in the main presented as almost extremely conventional: Mrs Durbeyfield conforms to the stereotype of a lower-class Victorian mother, who wants only for her daughter to marry a rich man, even after the man has raped her; Tess’ fellow milkmaids are stereotyped as foolish, love-sick and largely without individuality; although Mrs Rolliver, the canny landlady, in chapter 4, is the person in control of that situation. Tess is introduced as the person on whom the family relies, for work, childcare, family pride (she is the one who protests “Oh no, I wouldn’t have it for the world! … and letting everyone know the reason – such a thing to be ashamed of”, when her parents suggest missing the chance to sell the beehives because her father is drunk). Contrary to the expectations...
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...the value of management history Absorbing the past to understand the present and inform the future David Lamond Sydney Graduate School of Management, University of Western Sydney, Parramatta, Australia Abstract Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to consider the value of management history as a contributor to the development of the theory and practice of management and, to the extent that it is necessary to absorb the past in order to understand the present and inform the future, consider what happens to the knowledge base when the surviving “contributions” to the knowledge base are partial and, indeed, erroneous. Design/methodology/approach – The articles that constitute this special issue form the launching-pad for this discussion, with the ideas presented here combined with previous research and commentaries on the issues raised. Research limitations/implications – In The Life of Reason, Santayana said, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it”. Managers looking for the “next big thing”, without being able to incorporate it effectively into their experience, and the experience of those who are long gone, are condemned to repeat not just the past, but also the mistakes of the past. Accordingly, it is also critical for management scholars to both recognise and take advantage of earlier thinking and empirical work to inform their contemporary musings and research if they are to provide meaningful frameworks for practitioners. Originality/value – Drawing...
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...What is the value of liberty according to J.S.Mill? Do you agree? Stefan Stefanov NBU John Stuart Mill was known as an economist, philosopher and influential contributor to social and political theory. He was famous for his writing on individual liberty and utilitarianism. He believed individual liberty is essential in evolving society as well as unleashing the truth. Mill’s ideas stretched to governing every aspect of human liberty promoting change, innovation, and the development of societies, his arguments can be easily used in any dispute over rights and freedoms. His greatest concern was that society will morph into a “collective norm” where human innovation would not exist. Although his notions became problematic he was still able to clarify the benefits that came with individual liberty. Mainly, Mill’s emphasis the abolishment of tyranny whether politically or socially while promoting a simplistic yet effective view on social growth and individual liberty. He was a very radical politician for his time. He once proposed in parliament that women should have the right to vote just as man. The vote did not pass and actually he was made fun for his absurd proposition. It went so far as to speculate with his sexual orientation since only “such a person could have these strange ideas”. Mill however did not approve of the movement for universal suffrage and did not believed that a woman should be completely independent. In his essay “On Liberty” explains his thoughts on...
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...Exhibits in the Geffrye Museum [Name of the writer] [Name of the institution] Abstract This analytical essay presents information about the value of exhibits in the Geffrye museum to interior design students . The bibliography page appends four sources in Harvard format Outline I . Introduction II . Analysis III . Conclusion Introduction The Geffrye Museum located in East London puts forward a breathtaking imminent interested in the way people of London used to live all the way through the past . Basically the museum under consideration is of English household interiors and has space sets from the year 1600 till just about up to these days . Every single period room that is present in the Geffrye Museum is a superior illustration of how English people belonging to the middle-class in those times , with astonishing innovative furnishings , materials , works of art and accessories used to live . In every single room that you look into one would find something that has never been seen before , for example , the chess set that is arranged and exhibited in the Regency room or the string for calling upon the maids and house workers in the Victorian room are just examples (Porter , 2008 Analysis Perhaps the most welcoming and appealing museums of the United Kingdom the Geffrye puts forward the times gone by of the English household internal from the year 1600 to the contemporary times . A succession of epoch rooms restraining excellent compilations...
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...For example I came across an article about how Starbucks, the worlds largest coffee company leveraged strategic CSR initiatives to gain competitive advantage to secure premium coffee from Etiopia and gain successful market access into India. Starbucks faced the risk of losing Starbucks Fair Trade coffee market share in the long-run. As a solution to this problem Starbucks developed partnerships to invest in coffee farmers in Ethiopia. As a result coffee yield from farmers increased due to the farming best practices they now could adopt, coffee quality increased and Starbucks developed long running relationships with these quality suppliers. In addition, the farmer’s standard of living also increased thus integrating business value and social progress. Secondly Starbucks when aiming to make a market entry in India adopted a India-specific CSR strategy to raise the domestic coffee industry to Starbucks standards and thus gain the government approval to enter the India market. Starbucks’s inital attempts to enter the Indian market had failed due to lack of political support, however with this startegic CSR startegy Starbucks was able to gain the local government support. It worked with Conservation International and the Coffee Board to raise coffee farmers to C.A.F.E. and Fair Trade standards and thus not only secured market entry but also secured local coffee supply thus reducing costs. It created a win-win situation as the farmers benefited as well and the initiatives raised their...
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...Developed by Michael Porter , Value Chain Analysis is an analytical framework that is used to analyse relationships between various parts of operations and the manner in which each part adds value to contribute to the level of revenues. Value Chain Analysis the business activities are divided into two categories: primary activities and support activities. The primary activities directly deal with the creation of products or services, whereas, support activities can be used to obtain or increase competitive edge in the marketplace. Primary activities: Inbound logistics; Operations; Outbound logistics; Marketing and sales; Service. Support activities: Infrastructure activities; Technology; Human resource management and development. Let us see Pacific Coffee. Pacific Coffee Company is a Pacific Northwest U.S-.style coffee shop group originating from Hong Kong, with a few outlets in China, Singapore and Malaysia. Primary activities Inbound logistics. Pacific Coffee inbound logistics involve company agents choosing coffee beans producers mainly in African continent, South and middle America, Hawaii and Asia ,communication the standards related to the quality of coffee beans, establishing strategic relationships with suppliers and organizing the supply-chain management. Operations. Pacific Coffee operations are conducted mainly in Hong Kong, Macau , Mainland China, Singapore and Malaysia with stores over 130 in two ways :direct operations of the stores by the...
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...title of this chapter by stating: “A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.”1 This implies that no matter what instrumental value a biotic community may have to human beings, it is also of paramount importance to preserve biotic communities based on our “obligations to land”2. This concept of a prima facie responsibility to protect our environment and the communities within it is known as the preservationist intuition3. We certainly attribute this value to our fellow man, putting laws in place to prevent harm and maltreatment in our communities, and breaking these laws would indeed render the culprit to be considered morally wrong. We attribute value (be it intrinsic or instrumental) to sentient animals, even plant-life. But what of ecosystems? Can we consider ecosystems to be morally considerable, and therefore attribute any value to them? It is a question that has many variables, and in this essay I will be evaluating various arguments for and against the premise that ecosystems command any value with regards to an environmental ethic. First we must consider what it means for something to be morally considerable. It would appear that this definition would depend on what moral determinant we deem appropriate in pursuing an environmental ethic. Many philosophers, including K.E.Goodpaster adopt Joel Feinberg’s view that a thing may be morally considerable if and only if it is a...
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