Context Case Studies Samples For Students

Clinical Case Study

The evidence based clinical literature reveals the difficulties in diagnosing Myocardial Infarction (MI) concomitantly with pre-existing left bundle branch block (LBBB) with the application of 12 lead ECG in the pre-hospital environment (Surawicz and Knilans, 2008). Indeed, the T waves and baseline ST segments incongruently displaced in negative direction in cases of LBBB as evident through the ECG findings. These abnormal variations in ECG findings tend to override the actual ECG results in relation to MI manifestations, thereby challenging the confirmation of MI with the ECG intervention. However, the moving ST segments revealed through the serial ECGs during ischemic ...

Approaches in configuring Clinical Decision Support (CDS) System

The development of an effective CDS system to facilitate the healthcare delivery of a chain of hospitals and outpatient clinics warrants the systematic incorporation of clinical guidelines, documentation templates, patient summaries, HPI and medication history recording tools, condition-specific orders and diagnostic support system across the electronic health record (EHR) (CMS, CLINICAL DECISION SUPPORT:More Than Just ‘Alerts’ Tipsheet, 2014). The association of these approaches in EHR is warranted in the context of incorporating the entire aspects of patient care to facilitate the patient outcomes across the clinical settings. The EHR across clinical settings requires the effective incorporation of the research ...

1. Tell me whether each of the following statements is descriptive or normative, and briefly explain your answer:
a. Genetic screening could reveal an individual's tolerance for or susceptibility to chemicals used in the workplace.

First of all, it is important to understand that normative statements explain about how things should be. Conversely, descriptive statements give an opinion about what an individual or persons think about a certain thing or phenomenon. In the case of this statement, it is a normative statement because it explains about how things in workplace should be. The statement advocates the idea that genetic ...

According to US-CERT (2008), computer forensics is a discipline that combines law and computer science elements to collect and analyze data from computer systems, wireless communications, networks as well as storage in a manner that that is court of law treats as admissible. Similarly, Rouse (2007) clarifies that it is the use of computer analysis and investigation to collect evidence appropriate for purposes of presentation in any court of law. Its main goal is to carry out planned investigations while at the same time maintaining a well documented chain of evidence to exactly establish what happened and who is accountable. In essence, ...

Summary of case

Elizabeth Moreno is the vice president of the chemical development and processing in the Global Pharmaceutical Company. Since the company has representatives all over the world, including such countries as Canada, Puerto Rico, Australia, Brazil, the Philippines, Engliand, France, many managers have to travel quite a bit. Most affiliates benefit greatly from video, chat, and phone conferences. However, even though these technological advanced do greatly facilitate the global communication, it is not enough. The French part of the company, for example, always puts everything to question and does not trust the American side, even though that is where the headquarters ...

Abstract
Shelter is one of the basic human necessities. Provision of decent-quality and affordable housing is one challenge that various authorities have been faced with, and Sheffield is not left behind. Though she has surpassed her average annual housing needs, Sheffield is still struggling to mitigate housing problems. This research project reviews the use of Geographic Information System (GIS) in Sheffield’s housing and how education level affects the adoption of GIS in affordable housing initiatives. In order to achieve this objective, the current state of Sheffield’s housing is exhaustively considered. Using the boundary data from EDINA ...

Introduction

All organizations be it public or private strive to survive to progress and grow. To achieve this goal, organizations may need to change their physical infrastructure or incorporate some changes in their routine operations. These changes have always been viewed a top-down approach that is mostly induced by managers (Samuel, 2013). Due to this reason, organizational change theory has been a very useful tool for management practice. There are various and multiple information sources available today on change theories to help managers manage change in organizations. However, despite the vast amount of literature involving change management available today and ...

Strategic Management

Ardiff Metropolian University
Overview of Wikipedia’s Strategy
Wikipedia is thought to be the unique example of a market player that implements the principles which have been previously declared. It means that the thesis consisting in creation of the free online encyclopedia was proven by the consequent and following actions, taken by the website. The company has managed to be powerful competitor, when there were other online free information players, such as Britannica and Encarta.com. The former was represented by Microsoft Inc (Blue Ocean Strategy Institute, 2011).
When the online information platform was only being formed, it was the ...

Introduction

The quest to promote ideal working conditions for employees has been ongoing in the UK and the world at large for over centuries. While it remains to be seen whether a universally satisfying working conditions can be reached that wholesomely settles the long-raging battle between management and the worker’s union, several companies have continued to exercise colloquial and outmoded management practices on the employees and even attempted to bar them from seeking for their rights. There is a growing trend of many organizations’ management attempting to abuse the employees in a bid to maximize the output. All over ...

Qualitative research methods such as case studies, comparative and historical approaches have gained popularity and relevance as research methods within the field of social research such as international relations. This prominence has mainly been attributed to the unique features and advantages that these methods enjoy over other research methods in the study of complex social phenomena, events, groups, relations and communities within specific contexts (Becker, Bryman & Ferguson, 2012). Further, the capability of some of these research methodologies, such as case studies, to provide researchers with the ability or possibility of developing theories, evaluating programs and developing appropriate interventions has ...

Question A: Justification for shift into the new market

The reasons given by the directors to justify the shift into a new market can be seen in different perspectives. However, in overall, the main reason that justified the move was the poor performance of their business in their initial area of operation. This is perhaps explained by the fact that the Ghanaian market was nascent and had hardly grown sufficiently to necessitate the information services the company initially offered. In that context, it is imperative to appreciate the need for the company to profit so as to offset its loan while at the same time being able to pay ...

Introduction:

Description:
The court case deals with a dispute over an easement given on a car park's property. At the time of the trial, the respondent had been attempting to limit the amount of time that the easement was allowed to be used while a tavern owner contended that the patrons of their business would be unable to take full advantage of the area during important hours. The limitation of five hours on the parking area’s use would profoundly limit the access that their customers have to parking. The rights of the easement as expressed by the grantee have ...

CONTENTS

A. Introduction 3

B. Part I - Analysis of Strategic Capabilities of Wikipedia under RBV Model 4
Resource Based View Model in Wikipedia Perspective 6
Heterogeneity and immobility of Wikipedia resources 7
VRIO Nature of Wikipedia Resources 8
C. Part II - Wikipedia in Blue Ocean Dimension 9

Elimination Aspect 10

Performance Raise Aspect 11
Reduction Aspect 12
Creative Aspect 12
Complexity Theory: The Wikipedia Case 13
D. Conclusions 15

Bibliography 17

Introduction
Wikipedia is the largest international online encyclopedia with free access and free content (Ling, 2011) . It is supported by the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization registered and operating in the United States (The ...

Legal rights and responsibilities of Landlord and Tenants

Introduction
The real estate and home ownership have been a lucrative business since time in memorial. The business involves buying and purchasing of the houses. Some houses might be new to the tenants, and some might have just been renovated for instance, in the case of Roger and Larry (Stocking, 2010). Both the clients and the owner of the business are supposed to abide by some laws and instructions that govern landlord ship and the tenants. According to Larry and his client Roger, they did not check the house under the disclosure format that allows the Landlord to show ...

The question of whether the doctor ordering based on the insurance costs of the patient is ethical presents the need for major consideration regarding the roles of healthcare professionals and their obligations towards those they are helping. The principle of humane healthcare has become increasingly more important over the past few decades in medicine. Humane healthcare presents the need to establish a basic minimum level of care to society as a whole with equity of the people in mind. This presents the importance of humane principles in modern medicine, which challenges healthcare professionals to provide the best possible solutions. ...

Alcan has no centralized IT management framework. As a matter of fact responsibility of IT is shared among various business groups. Every business entity functions independently with its own strategic IT plan, infrastructure needs, IT applications and services. The needs of the specific business group determine the IT objectives pursued by the organization. This culture of autonomy has been reinforced by mergers and acquisitions in its lifetime.
Autonomy in the management of IT services can be beneficial as well as detrimental. A decentralized management of IT services gives the organization absolute fief to design and tailor its IT services ...

Introduction

- Background of the Organization
In this paper, the Four-Part Model is applied in the context of the social responsibility activities of the Coca Cola Corporation. In this regard, the specific components of this model will be discussed, and the effects of their application within this organization will also be analyzed. The Coca Cola Corporation is one of the largest soft-drinks` manufacturer in the United States and the globe at large. The company`s operations are found in almost all the countries in the world, and its corporate social responsibility programs are also run parallel to the company` ...

Feigenbaum defines quality as an “excellent-driven” rather than a “defect-driven” process. However, such a definition will depend on the role of people defining it. According to Feigenbaum, there is no system of universally defining quality because some people view quality differently. For instance, some view quality as “fulfilling the customers’ needs” while others view it as “conformance to the standards or specifications set”. In the context of healthcare – particularly the case study – the physicians or doctors will have a slightly different viewpoint regarding quality in the hospital. The nurses too will have their own viewpoint while patients will tend to define quality ...

- Would you define Germany's national context? And the institutional context?
Germany national context is the trend towards world-wide standardization and convergence of organization structures and practices with the aim of upgrading the economic standards of German. Institutional context simply refers to the funding opportunities, programs and informal and formal support to an organization with that will undergird the capacity to create a strong engagement program in a society.
- What sort of laws hinders business?
The antitrust law has been one of the major laws hindering business in Germany. This law seeks to maintain a monopoly by regulating the ...

Introduction

A woman in Palestine has a major role in her society, which is being part of the formation of the family. The formation of the family has different units, nuclear, transitional, or hamula or the extended family. Hamula or the extended family is the most common family formation in the Palestinian community. The tradition and teachings of the Quran have significant influences for the rights of women in Palestine. Hanan Riyan Bakri, a counselor of Women’s Social and Legal Center based in East Jerusalem traveled throughout the Occupied Territories to lecture Palestinian women about their rights . Generally, parents who are ...

Abstract

The Hurricane Katrina presents one of the most devastating disasters ever witnessed by the global community. From the Engineering perspective, the Katrina disaster is of high relevance because it challenged ethics in engineering professional. The disaster caused a storm surge that levees in New Orleans were unable to sustain. Evidence affirms that the Katrina disaster is attributable to failures in various elements including engineering, political and social systems. In the Katrina case, the engineering failure that prompted the incident is identifiable in the fact that the engineers failed to armor or protect the levees against erosion. Other factors including the ...

Introduction

Equality and diversity are distinct terms though they are used interchangeably. Equality refers to equal opportunity for all so that fairer society can be created. Equality aims to eliminate prejudice and discrimination so that in the context of health care, services can be rendered without discrimination in a diverse society. In a healthcare setting, it means to make the service provider more accountable to service takers (patients) and avoid discrimination at workplace. Diversity which means difference, refers to respecting the differences in individuals and groups of individuals. It is very relevant when dealing with workforce. Equality and diversity are important in ...

RAPE CASE IN MALAYSIA

Introduction
Human beings interact through a complex mechanism guided by values, morality, ethics, and law. The diversity of human interactive systems provides overlapping interactive mechanisms between these principles. It is therefore important to understand the meanings, boundaries, and role of these principles within the domain of human interaction. Values are ideas we hold that give significance and meaning to our lives. They underpin our beliefs, influence the actions we take, decisions we make, and even the life we lead. It is important to understand values in order to acquire know on how to create realities about ourselves, and thus ...

346 U.S. 537, Theater Enterprises, Inc. v. Paramount Film Distributing Corp. et al (1954)
- Abstract of case
The case relates to a Supreme Court appeal decided on January 4th 1954 in which the petitioner was seeking to have the court find the defendants liable in violation of the Anti-Trust laws. The petitioner resided on the Sherman Act and the Clayton Act. The contention lay in the manner in which the first and subsequent runs of a film were conducted by the defendants to the detriment of the petitioner and whether their action (which in the opinion of the ...

This paper puts into context Bronfenbrenner’s ecological systems theory. The paper takes a close look at a Winnipeg lady who allegedly attempted to murder her two sons. In accordance with Bronfenbrenner’s framework, the paper focuses on an inquiry into the microsystems, mesosystems, macrosystems and chronosystems that affected the lady’s childhood development. Bronfenbrenner’s theory offers the best opportunity to understand the context in which people draw their actions from.

Analysis

Bronfenbrenner’s framework also known as bioecological systems theory looks at the development of children in the context of relationships that form around their environment. A child’s environment ...

MANAGEMENT

Today, the world of sports has an immense number of fans following with subsequent industrial growth. According to Schlesinger (2016), the American population was recorded more than 320 million and Jones (2015) claimed that more than 60% of American population is a diehard fan of sports. Among innumerable sports, the National Basketball Association (NBA) has 17.7 million viewers; the Major League Baseball (MLB) World Series has 14.9 million viewers, and the National Football League (NFL) Super Bowl had record-breaking 108.7 million viewers throughout United States of America (USA; Thompson, 2014).
Surprisingly, more than half a million viewers of each ...

Introduction

Mary’s case reflects a serious case of criminal behavior, not counting the numerous crimes committed against her by her family members. Mary is a serious psychological case, as she has faced numerous negative influences in her life and suffered serious emotional trauma. Raised by a father who was abusive against the family and a mother who was emotionally distant, Mary’s childhood and most formative years were spent facing damaging abuse that would affect her for the rest of her life. Her step-father, who arrived on the scene when Mary was nearly ten, sexually abused her and her ...

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Evaluation of School’s Vision and Learning
The educational establishment has a traditional vision of learning, believing that the school has to comply with the requirements of the national program. Specifically, the school concentrates primary attention on the process of learning, the academic productivity of students, and their behavioral patterns inside the school. Also, it is considered that children’s performance has to match the nationally established requirements for certain subjects and the teachers as well as management do not go beyond these frames. The development of school’s vision is conducted through the provision of the course material, ...

Introduction

The entrance in the sport apparel and footwear arena of Under Armour, a relatively young sports brand followed its founder, Kevin Plank’s mission to provide athletes with fabrics that would prevent the accumulation of sweat, allowing them to focus on their games. This is still the company’s mission today: “Our mission. To make all athletes better through passion, design and relentless pursuit of innovation” (Thompson 53; Under Armour official website). Mission statements should answer the question why the company exists, it should be short, memorable, inspiring, market focused, indicate what the company wants to be remembered for ...

Personal Case Study

Communication
Personal Case Study

Interpersonal Conflict

One in a while we find ourselves in a situation where we need to make a stand to what we believe is right and fair. In the past, I have been in a conflict with a store manager and the attending staff during one of my visits at an electronic gadget store. The cause of the conflict is the miscommunication regarding the validity period in the product return and replacement policy of store, which was not clearly explained and communicated to me as a customer. The product I bought is entitled for a replacement in ...

International management in an Asian context: Business life and management in China

Introduction
Globalization has complicated the management process. As such, for one to be an effective manager, that individual needs to understand the global context of the management process. Fundamentally, one needs to appreciate the role of culture in the management process (Luthans & Doh, 2014). As such, the paper shall examine several features of the Chinese society and evaluate the ways they will affect the management process.

Discussion

Culture sensitivity is highly linked to effective management (Luthans & Doh, 2014). Considering the Chinese society, the Chinese have been socialized to believe that they are the descendants of Hun. As such, the Hun ...

Overview

Social workers practice a profession which, in a hospital context, falls under "care", an ambiguous labeling (IN-TEXT CITATION). In a hospital setting, social workers perform daily jobs according to a "medical model" based on an assumption of detached service to all. In contrast, social workers are educated and practice social work based on empathy and personalized care. An organizational conflict arises, accordingly, between social workers and medical care providers, in bureaucratic organization based on hierarchy and control.
More broadly, social work is marginalized as a practice performed by female workers offering care services for patients, largely ill, poor or ...

Introduction

This case concerns a local shelter which is the recipient of funding from the National Institute of Health and Mental Health. Currently, it is in the process of improving its website with the help of a web developer and consultant. The consultant has suggested that the shelter might add a testimonial web page which includes a feed from such public rating sites as Yelp or Angie's list with posts by people who have utilized the services. The developer suggests that the site use a feed which includes the already publicly available ratings information from Angie's List or Yelp and ...

Section 1

Question 1
In order to understand the most influential technology in broadcasting, it is imperative to first understand the meaning and concept of broadcasting. Broadcasting is identified as a means by which audio and/or video content is distributed to a dispersed audience. This is done through a mass communications medium, mostly one that uses electronic magnetic spectrum, otherwise referred to as radio signals (Gielan, 2015). With this approach in mind, the greatest innovation technology of the 20th century was the coaxial cable.
The coaxial cable is a cable that has a conductor in its inner workings and which is ...

Question I – Explain the strategic management process and how a corporation is likely to use this process to achieve strategic competitiveness to earn above average returns.
Strategic management is the counterpart of the scientific problem process in the field of science. It grossly involves the identification of a problem, the gathering of information, and formulation of a hypothesis and a solution, and it usually ends with implementation and evaluation. The typical problem solving process shares a lot of similarities with the strategic management process yet the two cannot be the same. In general, the strategic management process involves four ...

Husky Strategic Analysis

Introduction
The company that is being analyzed in this paper is that of Husky, which specializes in the manufacturing of plastic injection molding equipment. Robert Schad is the director of this Canadian company and was largely responsible for turning it into one of the world’s premier manufacturer of plastic injection molding equipment. The company performed well over in the early 1990’s, however, over the course of time, there have been many challenges obstructing its performance. The paper has conducted a comprehensive analysis of the company and its competitive environment. In the context of analysis, the paper has ...

Develop an initial mental health postarrest assessment for Doe that includes a line of questioning to determine personality type and suicide risk.
Personality type should be taken into account in order to determine the psychological context of Doe. This can established through the development of their past circumstances and mental health history. This will help in demonstrating the conditions upon which the criminal action took place. Understanding their past history of mental illness will help to provide insight into this context. Through the establishment of a conceptual framework that can be understood in regards to the history and criminal ...

Abstract

Decision-making is process physicians do in various aspects of their professional care provision endurance. However, the critical nature of decision-making in the health sector makes physicians vulnerable. The best decisions yield the best quality in care provision. In this context, the formulations of decision support systems have been an aspect of concern in the contemporary health care society. The numerous cases of physicians making wrong decisions and jeopardizing the quality of care have been a topic of criticism that could be effectively solved by these decision support systems. A comprehensive analysis of various case studies depicting the success and efficiency ...

Elements of the crime

Orr was arrested over an arson charge at a place called Atascadero. In order for the prosecution to prove that he was the person responsible for the crime, the following elements were identified. In this case, the prosecution provided both the Actus Reus and the Mens Rea element in their bid to charge Mr. Orr for the offense. On the Actus Reus section, the following factors were associated with the arson that Mr. Orr was under accusation. The factors included the physical manifestations that placed him on a probability scale of being the mastermind in setting the place ablaze.

Actus Reus

The prosecution ...

Introduction

India is a country of multiple ethnicities, religions, and races. Its diversity is not only seen in terms of its people, but also geographically. Despite its diversity in ethnicity and geography, India is able to exist in harmony and peace. After the country got its independence in 1947, different parts of India were at different developmental levels. Through the implementation of Five Year Plan, the Indian government has successfully bridged most of the developmental gaps between states and regions. Although all the Indian states are not doing as good as Punjab and Gujrat economically, but at least each state has ...

Human character and attitude seems to be the defining attributes that people value in their leaders, pushing other classical leadership traits such as experience and technical skills on a secondary level. This is what the examined case study indicates, when comparing the leadership skills of Barak Obama and Hillary Clinton, suggesting that neither Obama’s communication skills nor Clinton’s political experience mattered as much as their human character and attitudes in their political confrontation from 2008. While this situation might be true for the political scene, the business environment acts on different principles. The examined study identified fairness and ...

Section 1: Provide a general description of the company.

Matsushita is one Japanese companies activating in the consumer electronics industry. Launched in 1920, the Japanese giant has revolutionized the world along time through its products, which have traveled globally, because the company has established a global presence. In its incipient decades, Matsushita applied a traditional managerial style, specific to Japanese business, based on the paternalistic, Confucian philosophy, which praised the employees’ loyalty towards their superiors and towards the company, in exchange of consistent benefits that settled a positive working environment within the company. This business philosophy, based on employee loyalty conferred the proper context for an effective and progressive growth for ...

Critically evaluate the macro and micro-competitive environments facing airline companies using module and framework?

For the micro-competitive environment, I will be analysing Ryanair against The Five Forces Framework. Under this framework, the competitive rivalry is linked to threats from potential entrants, bargaining power of buyers, threat from substitutes, and bargaining power of suppliers. The threat from potential entrants is relative less due to the nature of the aviation industry. The major reason being the capital required to start a new airlines. Any new entrant will have a well thought of strategy to take on Ryanair. From the case study it seems they have most of the things correct. Any new entrant, besides the capital requirement, ...

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Abstract

Military use of unmanned drones has increased in the war against terrorism. Just recently after the marathon bombing a drone was used to attack and kill a local al-Qaeda leader in the Arabian Peninsula. Drones are being used in many forms to include spying, tracking and killing. This case study will present data about using drones in violent conflicts or threats and the ethical dilemmas of doing so. Should the government be allowed to use these forms of technology without restrain or specific governing laws? These are question for you to explore and decide if using drones is ethical.

Introduction

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Introduction

Michelin China is a world leading tire-manufacturing company originally started in France and moved to explore the huge market in China in the 1980s and 1990. The company started doing business with China in the late 1980s where they began supplying tires to the Chinese market. However, its decision to start business ventures in China began in 1996 when it established a joint venture in Shenyang. Opportunities became better with the beginning of the new millennium as the market widened and the China market proved to one where growth was a guarantee. The first opportunity came up in 2001 when an opportunity ...

The question on whether affirmative action is still necessary in American context remains a controversial issue in a modern society. This issue raises a heated debate among scholars and members of the public who articulate contradictory views on this matter. A greater position of the population holds the view that affirmative action remains relevant in the American context. The proponents affirm that the government has the sole responsibility of establishing institutions that will foster for effective implementation of affirmative action. However, this predisposition is highly criticized by the opponents who articulate that affirmative action holds no meaningful position in the American context. ...

The case of Newton in the police force presents modern day ethical concerns in the management of the Y generation. This generation of employees are more aggressive, assertive and cognizant of their rights. However, even in light of the new approach adopted by employees, the manager must maintain a balance between the organizational concerns and the employee demands. It is this paper’s contention that Newton is a problem employee. One in as much as one would want to exercise his rights, the right comes with a duty. The employee in his ordinary daily engagements must appreciate rights and duties. It is ...

Introduction

In a society where contacts between people from different linguistic back grounds has become common, there is a great need for learning a second language .Bilingualism or multilingualism has become very important if a person wants to expand his or her cultural contacts and interaction. English is one of the widely used languages in international forums. Learning English as a second language has become very common. There is a big relationship between willingness to communicate and success in learning a second language.WTC (Willingness to communicate) in a second language largely depends on several factors. Curiosity affects a lot on the success of learning a second language. A curios learner ...

Technology has and continues to impact on various aspects of information and communication technology. With regard to organizational context, technology has provided avenues through which organizations communicate effectively and manage employees situated in different geographical contexts. The article “The Impact of Team Empowerment on Virtual Team Performance: The Moderating Role of Face-to-Face Interaction,” by Kirkman et al., 2004 offers a substantive review on how various organizations have managed to implement organizational behavior policies in the context of virtual teams. In fact the article delves on the relationship between the performances of virtual teams with respect to face to face communication. ...

This essay will consider the five bases of power within the case study organisation as well as the potential nature of the relationship between dependency and power.

Fives Bases of Power

Sources within the literature commonly define five bases of power including, legitimate, reward, coercive expert, referent, and information based sources of power (Robbins and Judge, 2007). These bases of power may be seen in the context of the case study with each of the members of the team making use of different sources of power. In the first instance, it is the marketing manager who in the scenario holds the legitimate sources ...

Every profession has its own ethical considerations, but the area of social work has some of the most heart-wrenching ethical stories, because when practitioners act unethically, either through neglect or through malice, the effects are so tragic. In this case study, the patient was a 52-year-old single man (never married). Because he had multiple handicaps, he had a social worker serving as his legal guardian. He did have two relatives in the area – two sisters. Both of them took care of their brother as much as they could, but they also had full-time jobs of their own to hold down. Over ...

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Introduction and Background

In the past 60 years, India has crossed major milestones in healthcare such as greater life expectancy, decrease in infant death rate, wiping out leprosy and eliminating small pox. Regardless of the progress, India’s healthcare demonstrates crude inequalities. At one end of the spectrum is the rise in medical tourism, pulling in more than 2 lac global patients in 2006. At the other end, curable diseases like diarrhoea and malnutrition, particularly of children below 3 years, are continually predominant. Likewise, in comparison to South Asian countries like Bangladesh, Indonesia and China, vaccinations in India are still ...

The business organization under analysis in this case is Mueller-Lemhmkuhl that is involved in production and sale of apparel fasteners and it is located in Germany, Europe. The company has operations on the international front though it is faced with multiple challenges that inhibit is profitability and market dominance. The cost accounting model used has flaws and impinges on pricing of fasteners leading to reduced earnings due to intense competition from rivals. The President of the company, Dr. Richard Welkers attested that HI, a Japanese firm poses a great challenge to Mueller- Lemhmkuhl due to their price wars, as they price ...

Elements of the Self-Determination Theory

The Self-Determination Theory proposes that autonomous motivation is distinct from controlled motivation (Gagne and Deci, 2005) where autonomy “involves acting with a sense of volition and having the experience of choice” (Gagne and Deci, 2006, p. 333) while controlled motivation involves external regulation. It proposes that uninteresting activities require extrinsic motivation; thus, making the activity externally regulated.

External regulation is the use of external factors to initiate and maintain a behavior. However, the Self-Determination Theory names another type of extrinsic motivation where the regulation of a behavior and the value that is associated with it becomes internalized. Internalization is when people have ...

Introduction:

The media is always an important tool in any context as it instructs and apportions exposure to several instances in life. With the advent of the 24 hour news cycle some years back, the media exposed the vast majority of the world’s population to sordid scenes of violence which went occasionally uncensored also. This context and the impact such media portrayals have on children is discussed in this paper.

Context:

In Thinking about Theory the author discusses how certain media portrayals can have a negative effect on children especially with regards to violence. For example the recent uprisings in Arab ...

Communicating value

1. Direct Marketing is the use of consumer-direct channels to reach and deliver goods and services to customers without using marketing middlemen.
2. Sales promotion consist(s) of a collection of incentive tools, mostly short term, designed to stimulate quicker or greater purchase of particular products or services by consumers or the trade.
3. Some companies set their promotion budget to achieve share-of-voice parity with competitors. This is called the Competitive-Parity Method.
4. A program designed to promote or protect a company's image or its individual products is called Public relations (PR).
5. Advertising is/are any paid ...

UPSE v. Dept. of Health & ors. 2010 PESC 29

The Prince Edward Island Union of Public Sector Employees (UPSE) sought to make a claim of gender discrimination against the Prince Edward Island Department of Health on the basis that they advertised jobs and specifically stated that applicants must be male only. The Board of Arbitration found that this specification was, in context, understandable as the roles were for people who collect urine samples from men in which they are required to stand behind the subjects during the sample being given. The Board ruled that the ‘men only’ specification was to preserve the dignity of the male sample givers. However, ...

Introduction

It is essential for management to consider the environmental forces that have affect business performance. The management has the role to identify the legal, political, socio-cultural, economic and technological factors that influence business in a particular market. These helps the management to make decisions on marketing strategies used in a given market, trace the economic trends to understand the economic condition in a given market, adapt the products to the market and comply with the legal requirements in that particular market. The management makes decisions that best suits the business in the context of the various environmental factors. A successful business in ...

Introduction

Management is a task that brings together the various aspects of the roles of managers. In particular, the tasks performed by managers in organizations are quite huge because it is essential that a person is courageous enough to deal with the various views and characteristics of people that make up the workforce of the organization (Rice, 2013). Therefore, the analysis of the effects of the management theories on the management roles of managers is a timely analysis that requires adequate time and resources for the investigation of the various aspects of the subject.

Part 1

The analysis will incorporate a case ...

Introduction

Sony Corporation began in 1946 in Tokyo as a manufacturer of measurement and telecommunications equipment. Over the decades that followed, Sony became a major player in electronic markets such as communications, audio and video equipment’s meant for professional and home use. By 2010 the company had more than 171,000 employees worldwide in countries such as china, the United States, Europe and japan. In the financial year ending March 31st, 2010, Sony Corporation reported annual sales of $89billion. Sony introduced the VAIO series of computer products to build its consumer lines and debited the market with desktop product ( ...