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Wal-Mart in Germany was a subsidiary of the Wal-Mart international. Wal-Mart international is a segment of the Wal-Mart incorporation. Wal-Mart has three segments, namely the Wal-Mart U.S., Wal-Mart International, and The Sam’s club. Wal-Mart ventured into Germany’s market in 1998. The reasons Wal-Mart chose to venture into Germany’s market was based on some interesting features about Germany. Germany is among nations in Europe with the largest economies. In addition, the country has a retail market bigger than any other countries in Europe. Consumers in Germany spend almost thirty percent of their total incomes in retail stores.
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Wal-Mart Stores Incorporation, known better as Wal-Mart, is an American corporation The Walton family control over 50% of the retail corporation. Along all those years since its incorporation in 1969, Wal-Mart has remained as a family owned enterprise. The headquarters is situated in Bentonville, Arkansas. Some of the investments engaged by Wal-Mart that are very successful include in china, United Kingdom and in South America. Those that have not been successful include operations in Germany and South Korea.
Wal-Mart in Germany was started in 1998 when it acquired 95 stores from two retail companies and interns spars (Clark, 2006). ...

In the midst of a globalized world, it becomes vital to appreciate the varying types of economies carried by different nations and cultures. When examining the effects and attributes of capitalism as a whole, it is necessary to understand that not all capitalisms are created equal. Two basic types of capitalism exist: liberal market economies (LME) and coordinated market economies (CME) (Hall and Soskice 2001, p. 8). However, within these two major groupings there are many different types of capitalism, which all have their differences that make their particular brand of society unique. There are several major forms of capitalism: mercantilism, ...

Television commercials are very important tools in shaping the behaviors of the potential buyers, but the imagery used in today’s commercials have disregarded ethical and moral standards leading to decay even though the consumers might not realize the fact. Many years ago, the members of the society in the United States used to watch television and took commercials for granted. Before the advent of television, advertisers used radios for advertisements. The commercial advertisement began late in the United States after previous attempts allowed free advertisements with the aim of delivering services that served the best interest, convenience, and ...

Introduction

The role of packaging has actually changed due to the increasing changes in the preferences and wants of the consumers. It has also changed due to the increasing self-service and changing consumers’ lifestyle in a very global and intensely competitive environment (Deliya & Parmar, p. 2). Historically, the main purpose of packaging is to defend the product. At present, it is also being utilized as an instrument for increasing sales, attracting customers and communicating the brand to its consumers. More and more businesses are turning to packaging as a means of increasing sales. It has, indeed, become a tool of promotions. Packaging has ...

When examining the effects and attributes of capitalism as a whole, it is necessary to understand that not all capitalism is created equal. There are many different types of capitalism, which all have their differences that make their particular brand of society unique. There are several major forms of capitalism: mercantilism, free-market capitalism, social market economy, state capitalism, and corporate capitalism, all working toward the idea that societies run on the exchange of goods and services.
Mercantilism is one of the earliest forms of capitalism, and is mostly identified by the give and take of trade between nations (Aizenman ...

4.0. Results
Using the conceptual framework of this academic investigation looked at successful music companies making their marks in the music business promoting music, singers, musicians, and related products. The methodologies used in this academic investigation were meta-research and one-on-one interview approaching the companies identified for the research as a form of a case study model.
4.1. Meta-research
The meta-research as exhibited in the previous sections of this thesis presentation provide the basis for creating intentional and focused questions for the following four one-on-one interviews of successful music industry organizations in the form of case studies. The interview ...

Business

Approach & Methodology
The Project Plan
What guides consumer behavior is a complex question to answer, and it requires a lot of research. In order to do so, this paper involves both, qualitative and quantitative research methods. For the quantitative research, a number of scholarly articles, government white papers, magazine articles and newspaper reports, and blogs will be referred, and for qualitative research, interviews emphasising the importance of blogs, advertisements and word-of-mouth as ‘influencing agents’ will be addressed. Consumers today have the option to choose from a variety of products. Added to this are marketers who try to influence a consumer’s thought. ...

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Restatement of Problem
The topic of consumer buying behavior has researched by a number of scholars, and each one of them has illustrated what are the possible factors that influence or guide consumer behavior. Therefore, when organizations plan their strategies to ‘guide’ consumers, they do so by studying these factors and using them to design and market their products or services. This involves the participation of all stakeholders in the planning and strategizing process. The stakeholders could include the design team, the production team, finance, marketing, purchase and stores to name a few, and it is the collective effort of ...

ABSTRACT

Brand image or identity refers to the view or perception of a brand not only based on its offerings and services, but also on its values and culture as perceived primarily by consumers. Organizations may utilize brand image to accomplish its goals or objectives by structuring an image that is interesting and acceptable to customers. In recent years, one of the ways that organizations consistently market or advertise their brand involves social media. The primary objective of this research study is to explore best practices in social media marketing towards brand image or perception management. To obtain data, the researcher ...

Business

Thesis Statement
Consumer buying behavior has been researched a number of times and there are enough research papers available that focus on consumer buying patterns. This paper takes a different perspective to address what guides consumers to buy a product or service. The difference is that it is easy for marketers to understand what influences consumers today and work out strategies to address them. However, understanding what guides consumers is farther complex, and to understand this, a number of theories and articles by scholars are researched, and a few governmental efforts in place to guide consumers are evaluated and added to show how ...

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Chapter 2
This section contains a literature map that outlines the areas of focus when organizations and marketers need to guide consumers. Each subheading contains the topic and the literature utilized and cited to substantiate the research.

Literature Map

Literature Review
According to Barry L. Bayus (1985) in Word of mouth: Indirect Effects of Marketing Efforts, communication plays an extremely important role in marketing, and marketers use communication to guide consumers. In other words, communications is the link between marketers and consumers and between consumers and their socio-cultural environments. Bayus says that marketers are well aware that socio-economic conditions influence ...

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Literature Review
This paper will use a qualitative approach to show the guidance consumers seek when they are confronted with a purchase decision-making. This study will examine and correlate the relationship between multiple variables such as family conflicts, family social support, peer influence and economic positions. Demographics that will be measured include age, income, marital status, and number of children. Ultimately all these factors contribute to a consumer’s buying behaviour, and it is important for organizations to focus on these variables before they draw a plan to guide consumers’ buying behaviour.
Depending on the group that is being interviewed, questions ...

Business

What influences a consumer’s purchasing behavior? A few factors that come to mind are brand awareness, product knowledge, advertisements, and references. To understand the depth of this intrinsic behavior, this paper explores the various factors that contribute to a consumer’s purchasing pattern. A very powerful tool that guides consumer behavior is word-of-mouth advertisement. Barry L. Bayus, writing in a column in Journal of Advertising Research had this to say on the indirect effects of marketing; “The business community is well aware of the power of word-of-mouth on consumers, and they are also equally aware how catastrophic it can be if ...

Executive Summary

China is a very attractive gaming destination in the Asia Pacific region. This city attracts a large number of tourists and international visitors. It has also seen a rapid growth in the establishment of large gaming companies, ever since liberalization for gaming operators in 2002. This must have actually spurred economic growth, and boosted SMEs, which are the economic growth power engines. This paper explores the role of SMEs in an emerging economies, the role of manpower in SMEs, as well as understanding the key success factors of the SMEs in China.

Introduction

SMEs are the growth engines for any economy in the ...

Introduction

With the advent and increasing popularity of the internet, the social media is fast emerging as a viable platform for marketing by many organizations. This form of marketing that makes use of social media sites and networks is known as social media marketing. It is really gaining popularity among organizations despite its novelty. Social media marketing may be defined as a form of business activity which is done through various channels of social media networks. We argue that companies that are intent on making use of social media as a marketing tool need to have a social media marketing strategy plan. It is ...

Introduction

The work of marketing manager is one of most important in the company as particularly marketing management is concerned with shaping marketing mix of each of the products on offer, implementing both management and marketing strategies of the company. For the purposes of the following assignment we would like to discuss min-Dutch ovens, being produced by Paderno. Paderno was founded in 1925 and initially specialized on manufacturing and distributing aluminum pans and pots for households. According to the information, provided by the official website of Paderno in the USA (2013), nowadays Paderno is perceived as a leading international brand, selling ...

The capitalist system adopted globally comes with costs. One of the easily observable characteristic is that money defines a person. In other words, the economic ability determines one’s capacity and place in the society. This is what Karl Marx coined as pure capitalism which creates a system of classes in the society with the bottom at the pyramid being the poor.
This research paper appreciates the social class stratification argument by Karl Marx. Indeed, it is the contention of this paper that the economic ability impacts on the social class of a person. This is what can lightly be referred ...

Green Kitchen is a multinational company based Netherlands and is involved in the manufacturing of a wide range of kitchen cleaners based on an original formula. In particular, the company manufactures cleaning solutions that are environment friendly. Green Kitchen Co. is looking at investing in another country, and they picked Germany as their final destination based on the country’s strongly incentivized investment opportunities (Kazmi, 2000).
The Green Kitchen strategic environmental policy enables the company to identify its competitive environment in order to generate reasonable structural transformation within which to meet its goals and objectives. With the company’s key ...

Introduction

In the recent past doing business beyond the borders has been the wish and struggle of most organizations in the world not only for profitability but also to caution the business against the domestic uncertainties. This has driven the motive of multinational enterprises (MNE). Recently the urge of going global has made many businesses to venture into new overseas markets leading to foreign direct investments (FDI). Presented in this research is an able overseas market for the Dutch stroopwafels manufacturers in Yangling. As a way of satisfying the growing demand for their product, they are presented with a virgin opportunity which ...

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- Introduction
- Background
The Chinese market is growingly rapidly. By the end of 2009, its population was at 1,334.74 million. This was an increase of 6.72 million people from the previous year. The income of urban households rose from RMB 10,493 to RMB 17,175 between 2008 and 2009.the expenditure on clothing among the urban households increased from RMB 801 to RMB 1,284 between 2005 and 2009. Therefore China is ranked as the world’s largest fibre consumer. Figure 1 below shows statistics of the country’s ...

Chapter 3: Methodology

3.1 Research Design
“A research design is a framework or blueprint for conducting the business research project. It details the procedures necessary for obtaining the information needed to structure or solve business research problems.” (Green Field Online Research Center, 2009). Choosing the right research design depends on the topic at hand, and whether a hypothesis is available, initially or is to be deduced from the literature review and primary research itself. This research design approach has been carefully selected, in order to match the topic. Three in depth interviews have been conducted with experts on the topic, their expert opinions ...

For years globalization has been a buzz word mentioned in a variety of contexts. Some people use the phenomenon as an explanation for most of the recent economic and political catastrophes. Others refer to globalization as an ultimate development path for the contemporary world. This ambiguity arises from the large numbers of areas affected by globalization and by the diverse impacts that it may have. The current paper aims to explore effects of globalization and to suggest whether its net impact is mostly positive or negative.
Globalization can be broadly defined as the process of world compression and consciousness intensification ...

The perceptual process involves detecting stimuli in the environment. The stimuli in the surrounding can be detected by use of five senses which include; sight, smell, taste, touch and hearing. The five senses allow as interacting with the people and objects around us thus resulting to making up a conscious experience. The perceptual process leads to the creation of perception through the utilization of the five senses. The process cannot be into being without the surrounding or the people and objects that interact with human beings. In this case, Mistral products are the objects that have to interact with people. ...

Introduction

Nanaimo is popularly known as harbor City for several reasons. It is British Columbia’s sixth-largest city and has a series of attractive sceneries. The attractive sceneries serve as the major tourist attractions in the city. The city extends like a long, slant finger which is located beside the east coast of South-central Vancouver Island (Lee and Sainsbury, 2011). Tourism is a significant economic initiator for the Nanaimo area. The economic benefits of tourism are broadly spread all over a network of businesses that sustain the industries with the provision of goods and services. Tourists are drawn to Vancouver Island’s natural attractiveness ...

1. PREFACE

Today’s world is influenced by many factors such as globalization, cultural influences and the presence of the open market. Europe is a fine proof of this influence as it is more open for international business. Products from around the globe can be accessed by all types of consumers in the European market. Many find the European market more open to international businesses. Some find their successes in the European market through the use of good market analysis. Brooksbank (1991) notes that good market analysis is a key to the successful marketing plan;; it gives companies advice which will ...

Executive summary

Multiple linear regression analysis is a statistical tool of analysis that is commonly used to forecast a variable, which is dependent on several independent variables based on historical data. Multiple linear regression analysis is normally used to evaluate the nature of the correlation between the dependent variable denoted as y and the independent variables (X1, X2Xn). The developed model is then used to predict levels of the dependent variable y. Multiple linear regressions is important in business, economics, medicine, psychology among many other fields.
The correlation between Y predicted and Y actual is called the multiple correlation coefficients which is ...

Abstract

This research proposal outlines measures to be undertaken in exploring the unintended consequences of unemployment. The researcher wishes to advance the assumption that unemployment is inevitably linked to serious economic and social dysfunctions occurring within the confines of Social Structure. Many of these irregularities are obvious, but others are rather insidious and concealed. Together they define the unintended consequences of unemployment. Unintended consequences of unemployment from the perspective of this researcher embodies a conceptual framework explaining all psychosocial factors, medical elements and subsequent descriptive emergent variables that adequately represent a sequel of events for which unemployment is inevitably the underlying force. ...

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Acknowledgement

The preparation of this thesis would ...

Developing a model of brand personality in Sport Industry

Organised competitions such as sporting events have been meaningful and important cultural components of essentially every civilization that has existed throughout history. In an effort to capitalize on this ubiquity, sports media and marketing have been used to connect with customers for nearly as long as sport itself has existed, in one form or another.
People have been engaged in different activities that may be associated with and classified as organized sports competitions for hundreds of years. One of the first examples of modern sports marketing involved tobacco cards featuring popular baseball players of the 1870s .
The ...

Summary

Global automobile industry is growing with a very fast pace. Technological advancements are very common in this industry, as the disruptive rate has increased. An advancement will be implemented in such a way that it could lead to sustainable competitive advantage. Hybrid cars are one of the most significant technological advancement in the automobile sector. However, people still prefer fuelled cars for personal use due to many underlying reasons. Despite the many benefits attached to hybrid cars such as environmental friendliness, status symbol and fuel efficiency, people living in Indian geographical boundaries are less adaptable to it. This research makes an ...

Introduction

The Saudi labour market currently presents a series of impressive economic prospects for Saudi Arabia. Moves to improve the Saudi economy through diversification have since earmarked the necessity to raise the value of the Saudi labour market mainly through the improvement of their skills. Mainly possessing a petroleum-based economy bearing the ubiquitous label of being among the largest producers of oil in the world, Saudi Arabia recognizes the need to sustain its economic growth and development through means apart from a highly valuable yet depleting resource. The fact that diversification necessitates the departure from the usual skills involved in currently active industries ...

Chapter One: What Kind of Equality Does Sharia Law Provide?

The Problem
Gender Imbalances in the Saudi Arabian Workforce. The Saudi labour market currently presents a series of impressive economic prospects for Saudi Arabia. Moves to improve the Saudi economy through diversification have since earmarked the necessity to raise the value of the Saudi labour market mainly through the improvement of their skills. Mainly possessing a petroleum-based economy bearing the ubiquitous label of being among the largest producers of oil in the world, Saudi Arabia recognizes the need to sustain its economic growth and development through means apart from a highly valuable yet depleting resource. The fact that diversification necessitates the ...

Abstract

In the nowadays world, when the entire social environment is dominated by the commercial aspects and the advertising enters the intimacy of consumers, branding is increasingly significant and its approach is to influence consumers’ choices by creating positive associations and appealing to their emotional side for determining them to choose one brand over another. In this tight competition for market share companies have taken globally their strategies to position as good as possible their brands in the consumers’ mind, understanding that an international approach comes with a correct branding strategy. Although there is no receipt for a correct international branding strategy, ...

Capstone Project – Oral Presentation

The capstone project is a consultative report for Samsung Electronics which focuses on areas including management, time management, quality management, cost management, and risk management. In addition, the consultative report will consider how effectively the target organization performs in cross cultural settings with the aim of making improvements in domestics and international markets. This is important given the multinational nature of the target organization.

Samsung Electronics was started as an export business. Since then, it has transformed into an electronic giant, one of the biggest globally. The company specializes in semiconductors, digital appliances, system integration and memory. Samsung Electronics, a subsidiary ...

Chapter I

Introduction
Succession planning is the process of identifying, recruiting, and training employees of an organization in order to equip them with skills necessary for enabling them to take up future top management positions. It entails training and evaluation processes to ensure that the respective employees are capable of effectively and efficiently handling all the management and leadership issues, they may face in the course of duty.
Succession planning is an important part of everyday organization activities and, as a result, all organizations whether small; medium sized or even large must prepare for future succession possibilities. Effective succession planning ...

Chapter Two: Real Estate Lending Decision in Kuwaiti Banks

Literature Review

The five Cs of credit model – character, collateral, capital, conditions and capacity, all serve as important indicators for gauging the inclination and aptitude of debtors in fulfilling the obligations they have to their respective creditors (Sraeel, 2005, p. 40, par. 5; Strischek, 2009, par. 2). It is thus advisable for creditors to make their decisions based on the five Cs of credit model in order for them to assess the creditworthiness of their respective debtors properly (Strischek, 2011, par. 1). The prominence of the five Cs of credit model resurged most recently during the 2008 global financial ...

California Lutheran University

Rayan Azhari
Chapter I

Introduction

Succession planning is the process of identifying, recruiting, and training employees of an organization in order to equip them with skills necessary for enabling them to take up future top management positions. It entails training and evaluation processes to ensure that the respective employees are capable of effectively and efficiently handling all the management and leadership issues, they may face in the course of duty.
Succession planning is an important part of everyday organization activities and, as a result, all organizations whether small; medium sized or even large must prepare for future succession possibilities. ...

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The Gulf war between Iraq and Kuwait in 1990-1991 led to an increase in petrol price and affected both The US and the EU negatively
The economic objectives of every nation are stabilization of the economy, keeping the level of inflation and unemployment below the target rate (Carbaugh, 2012, p.481). All of the governments pursue these goals given the large abundance of external factors that affect the macroeconomic policies of the state. The main concepts for the determination of economic growth are of course the growth of Gross Domestic Product, which is comprised of Aggregate ...

Drowning in Debt: How Does the U.S. Solve its Debt Crisis?

Scott Walterhoefer
Abstract
Can the United States solve its debt crisis? That is the daunting question that currently confronts our nation and the manner in which the “powers that be” attempt to deal with this problem will dictate the political and economic landscape for the foreseeable future. The sheer size of this debt (roughly $16 trillion) is so massive and seemingly out of control that it is nearly impossible to fathom. This paper will examine this debt and the factors that caused its exponential rise over ...

Principles of Consolidated Financial Statement Acc to IFRS

Executive Summary
International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) is governed by a set of principles, which came into effect in the year 2005, and determine how consolidated financial statements are prepared by holding companies residing in the EU. Consolidated financial statements are combined financial statements of both a holding company and its subsidiary. This research paper will focus on the principles that govern the creation and presentation of consolidated financial statements by individual company groups residing in the EU. Previous researches have postulated that presentation of financial statements in a consolidated form aids in creating outlook at both company levels i.e. holding ...

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

When attempting to fill a position in any business, the recruitment process is integral. In order to find the best person for the job, you have to find someone who is qualified, educated, and possesses the necessary job skills and temperament to survive in that environment. Recruitment methodologies are the means by which companies and businesses perform this recruitment process, and can mean the difference between getting the right or wrong person for the job. In this paper, various recruitment methodologies are overviewed, and their effectiveness in sourcing a qualified job candidate is evaluated.

EVALUATING THE ROLE OF RECRUITMENT

Before a recruitment process can begin, there are ...

The Effect The Servicemen’s Readjustment Act Of 1944, Otherwise Known As The G.I. Bill, Had On The Economic Boom Experienced By The United States Post World War II

Introduction

The Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944 (P.L. 78-446,58 Stat. 248m) was a statute that was aimed at providing a range of benefits to the returning Second World War troupers. The Bill was assented to law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on June 22, 1944. The law was aimed at creating pool fund for the active fighters in the Second World War that would enable them to acquire education, houses and ...

The table above shows the results of nine different motivations that were included as “part 2” in the questionnaire, and were presented as “five-point” Likert scale questions measuring participants’ degree of consent. “1” represents a respondent from the survey, who agrees with the statement, and “2” represents the student who disagrees; therefore, the higher the mean result is, the more disagreeing with the survey statement the student is. The figures in the above mentioned table were calculated in order to find three main motivational factors that influence students to shop online. The results below show the prevailing motivations, which influence ...

Chapter 4

Chapter IV: Results
- How do the Ventura Health Agency and the Ventura Library plan for leadership changes?
- What are the challenges of succession planning in the Ventura Health Agency and the Ventura County Library?

Findings Organized by Questions

The significance of this question is to enable the researcher to examine how well most agencies anticipate new leadership takeover and how they plan for the same. The literature review has established that most of the CEOs who head the health agencies in the country are in their retirement age and they stop being actively involved, in matters concerning the agencies, ...

Introduction

Sexual harassment has been a pathological problem that has affected many people in different workplaces across the globe. The root of sexual harassment is confirmed to emanate largely from power relations and cultural practices at the workplace. Due to its rampancy, many human rights activists and adherents have carried various researches to decipher the rationale behind the perpetuation of this inhumane practice. Sexual harassment has mostly affected women, a scenario that has attracted impassioned focus on the subject to understand the perennial propagation of the vice. Rationally, legal intervention has been viewed as a prudent manner to eliminate the vice but the ...

Professionalism is a worldwide recognized concept. Being a professional means specializing in a particular area of study. This person should, therefore, know every little detail of that specific field of study. There are different areas of study that offer that offer professional courses to individuals willing to pursue them. For example, there is medicine as a field of study. (Smith, 94-96). One can be an expert in the different branches that exist within the medical profession. One could, therefore, opt to be an expert in surgery under medicine. It would imply that this person could deal best with surgical problems within this profession. ...

Management

Introduction and Thesis
A number of researches have been done in the field of consumer buying behavior, and consumer buying patterns. In order to understand what guides consumers, this paper takes a look at a number of scholarly articles published that discusses the points that guide consumers, and also conducts a qualitative research to understand from consumers what guides their purchase behavior. The emphasis is to understand how consumers are guided in their buying behavior. Marketers have gone to long depth to understand what influences consumers today and work out strategies to address them. It is easy to get carried away ...

Affirmative Action and Minority Employment in California Higher Education

Affirmative Action and Minority Employment in California Higher Education

Chapter 4: Results and Discussion

Based from the data gathered from the use of individual data from the available Public Use Microdata Samples of the Census of Population or PUMS data for the years 1880, 1900, 1910 and 1940-1990, the unemployment rate between white men and black men are almost totally similar prior to the Great Depression. However, the 1940s and 1950s showed signs of growing disparity among unemployment rates of white men and black men at an approximate of 11 percent and 9 percent for black men and white men, respectively, in 1940 and ...

The economy of Canada is among the largest economies in the world in relation market exchange rates measured in US dollars. Canada is therefore one of the wealthiest nations in the world. This country is ranked eleventh largest economies in the world and it is one of the members of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).This country is also a member of Group of Eight called G8.The service industry dominates the Canadian economy like the rest of the developed nations. The service industry in Canada therefore employs around 75% of the Canadians. The Canadian economy has also ...

Funds Transfer Pricing in Commercial Banks: A simple Model: Chapter 5

5 A SIMPLE FUNDS TRANSFER PRICING MODELIntense competition in the financial services industry has reduced the potential of traditional operations to finance loans through deposits. The current situation forces to reconsider traditional approaches to improve the efficiency of banks: increased attention to the internal generation of bank capital, financial innovation, the search for new investment opportunities, reduce management costs, etc.One of the most significant innovations in banking - the creation of risk management measures was able to introduce risk transformation that are comprised of diversified risks as a result of the increasing number of borrowers. Risk sharing for instance allows ...

Never judge culture by one man and never judge a man by popular culture.

- Anonymous

Abstract

In “The Death of the Author,” structuralist thinker Roland Barthes suggested the notion of the author as a distinct identity in the creation and interpretation of a text was a thing of the past. Instead, he preferred the use of the word “scriptor” to refer to the person writing or typing a work for the first time. The ideas in the scriptor's mind would have to travel through his or her semiotic filters to make it to the paper – those filters take the ideas and shape them – for ...

1. Executive Summary

Ben’s Joinery is a privately owned company that is located in Barking, United Kingdom. The company has an estimated annual income of $147,712 and employs a staff of about 2 people. The company is seeking to acquire a CNC miller machine however the management of the company has not made a decision whether to buy the machine or lease it. There are several considerations that need to be made when determining the right course of action. This analysis uses several financial statement documents to determine the viability of any decision to be made (whether to purchase or lease). The financial statement ...

AN EXPLORATORY ANALYSIS OF SENATE BILL 863

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ABSTRACT
California’s (CA) legislature has passed a series of Workers Compensation (WC) reforms during the past 15 years; the most recent, Senate Bill (SB) 863 passed on August 21, 2012. SB 863 was introduced and presented to the California public as a reform bill that would ensure better coverage and easier medical access for workers injured on the job. SB 899 passed during the early 2000s was shown to be better for California’s workers, than SB863. ...

An Exploratory Analysis of Senate Bill 863

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TABLES FOR FIGURES AND TABLES
ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS
AB Assembly Bill
CA California
CCHSWC California Commission on Health and Safety and Workers' Compensation
DIR Department of Industrial Relations
DIV Division of Workers’ Compensation

DWC Division of Workers’ Compensation

ER Emergency Room
FEHA Fair Employment and Housing Act
MMI Maximum Medical Improvement

MPN Medical Provider Networks

PD Permanent Disabilities
PPD Permanent Partial Disability
SB Senate Bill
SB 899 Senate Bill 899 on workers’ compensation passed by the California legislature in 2004
SB 683 Senate Bill 683 for ...

Pitrik, 2013). On the other hand, in socio-cognitive teaching, teachers offer scenarios whereby the students enter into the kinds of social discourse situations and societies that they (students) would encounter outside the traditional classroom. For example, students connect to various contexts for social interaction through the internet. In these contexts, they (students) meet and interact with native English speakers (Strambi & Bouvet, 2003), which allow them (students) to learn the English culture, and therefore, learning the language becomes easier. Therefore, socio-cognitive teaching explains the role of social interaction in the creation of an environment to learn a language, learn about the ...

An outline for Capitalism

The research is about capitalism and how it has been adopted by many countries over the years in fields such as social, economical and political this therefore, has caused a lot of effects for the citizens either positive or negative in their day to day lives.
Start with the brief definition of capitalism in the economic sector, social setting and political field. Provide a brief history of capitalism and provide example of countries that practice capitalism.
- What is capitalism in the economic sector? Capitalism in the economic environment simply means the economic area in which there is freedom ...

Master of Business Administration

For decades, the encumbrance of evaluating the potential of organizational risks and exposures has been assumed insurance specialists both internal and external to the company. For instance, risk handling mechanisms particularly self-insurance and insurance have provided some degree of comfort to organizations that could be otherwise be incapable of withstanding financial impacts associated with disasters. Sadly, false confidence cases have led to multiple problems for small and big firms within the insurance industry. In order for companies to efficiently execute functions related to pre-incident risk assessment and find the at-need operational crisis directions, majority of firms have developed corporate ...

1.0 Introduction
Generally motivation is a psychological process that refers to issues that drive an individual into action. Motivation can also be defined as the process of triggering, sustaining and guiding behavior to a specific purpose. All human behavior is usually as a result of either an external (the environment) or internal (physiological) causal agent (commonly referred to as stimulus) (Stajkovic and Luthans 34). In a business environment, the terminology “motivation” is very complex because different employees are motivated differently and by wide range factors. While some employees are easily motivated by monetary means others are motivated by recognition of their efforts ...

Industrialization after the Civil War Final Paper

I. Introduction
The Second Revolution takes place between 1860 and 1920s. During that period after the Civil War, there was a need for a massive industry to open trade networks and reach the Pacific plains. The aftermath of the Civil War saw American, realize the American Dream as the economy grew exponentially. Some of the opportunities that America had were abundance in natural resources in the newly acquired regions and a huge supply of cheap labor from immigrants. The Second Revolutions saw innovative ways to produce, communicate, and transport products to other territories. Prior to the development in the distinct transportation ...