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Diversity Management Trends and Challenges in the Multinational Organizations (MNCs)

Paper Due Date Introduction The global business environment is subject to several influences, resulting from globalization, internationalization of organizational supply chains and ever increasing international mobility of individuals that constitute employment and customer base of modern businesses. Business landscape in the United States has been evolving for several decades, when large companies expanded abroad and found cost-effective solutions in outsourcing, postponement strategies, building on virtual e-commerce environments and took other steps to increase their reach, responsiveness, and resilience on the global business arena. The fact is that growth brings diversity (Syed and Ozbilgin, 34-65). This gender, cultural and professional ...

National Labor Relations Act

Line managers need to take into account that interference with unions and collective actions by employees is illegal hence the legal obligation to give employees the right to express their grievances. Line managers need to understand that it is illegal to discriminate against employees who take part in collective activities since such interference interferes with the freedom of employees at their work place and are also common causes of conflicts. Line managers should also give employees the right to file against unfair labor practices since such actions are in line with the need to improve the workers’ well-being. It ...

INVESTMENT ANALYSIS: ACTIVELY MANAGED PORTFOLIO

Unlike the passively managed portfolio, the actively managed portfolio relies on the theoretical basis that the market is not perfectly efficient. This inefficiency allows an investor to outperform the market by utilizing a certain skill or strategy. An active portfolio management usually requires short term, frequent trading, which could potentially result in large trading costs for the investor. Taking this into account, the task was to make a strategy as accurate as possible to cover the large trading cost and make profit. In building an actively managed portfolio, the selected strategy was stock picking. The reason for selection of ...

Corse Lecturer

There are big changes that have occurred in the economy over the years. Some positive and others negative. A large number of people now are enlightened on issues related to the economy and are involved in investment. More businesses are growing and resources are continuing to be strained. Greed is common as many people aim to have a large pool of resources at their disposal to grow their businesses as well as finances. There are now many economic vices that are stunting the growth of the economy. This paper will look at some of the economic issues today and ...

Sima Guang helped improve historiography in ancient China; the concepts that he espoused in co-authoring the Zizhi Tongjian have formed the basis for recording historical events and the same concepts have continued to be in use, even for the modern day historian (Buckley, 45).

Introduction

Sima Guang was a pioneer in the structured recording of historical events in ancient China. He compiled the Zizhi Tongjian, which offers a historical timeline of key events in China from 403 BCE to 959 BCE. Zizhi Tongjian is often referred to as the “comprehensive mirror for aid in government” (De Crespigny, 73). Historians have ...