Essays on Company X

Introduction

Contemporary business landscape places numerous pressures on the companies. Some of the major challenges for the modern corporation, operating in the increasingly diverse environment, is to ensure consistent ethical business practices at all stages of the business. Globalization and the international supply chain made this task even more complex, as the social and environmental responsibility of organization is extended not only to direct employees, but to external stakeholders, such as suppliers, customers and Third-party logistics providers (3PLs). The modern consumer is becoming increasingly aware of social and environmental issues and, consequently, more demanding with regards to the approach that ...

Introduction

Business ethics is a set of principles or values that regulate the actions and conduct of employees in an organization (Marcoux, 2008). These principles apply to all aspects of a business and determine the interaction of profit-making and non-profit issues. This paper contains an ethics program that Company X will include in the new workers handbook.

Elements of acceptable behavior in code of ethics

The new employees should practice respect and communication, honesty, time management and adhere to the set dress code (Duggan, 2016). These practices will ensure that the company achieves its goals and mission.

Respect and Communication

A good communication structure exists where employees respect each other as ...

Introduction

This chapter gives an analysis of the results of the study to derive insights on why insider threats remains to be one of the leading and challenging security issues to deal with. The results of the study present a vague picture of what motivates insider threats in private organizations. The questions of why, what and how will be answered with references to the data obtained from the study. This section also demonstrates the actions taken by organizations and tries to link it with theoretical frameworks and pool of knowledge developed by earlier scholars.

Analysis

The belief that insider threats ...

Changing AIS

Implementing a new enterprise wide change in an organization is a daunting task for any organization, and if it is not properly handled, the process can fail and lead to unprecedented losses for the organization in question. Accounting Information Systems are important in any modern business organization. Businesses cannot continue using the now outdated accounting techniques in this era of advanced technology. However, a number of organizations have encountered problems trying to implement accounting information systems for the first time or even when changing from one to the next one. Such was the case with an Australian company X-Ray Australia (Not real ...

Essay question

- Business, organization and Information system strategies.

A business strategy can be defined as a plan which clearly communicates the destination of a business in terms of goals and the means of reaching the anticipated destination. An example of business strategy is where Dell Company was at, first, selling its computers directly to its customers without passing through middlemen or brokers. Organization strategy, on the other hand, is a plan that responds to the issue of how the company will arrange itself in order to attain its goals and put into practice its strategy for business. An example of organization strategy is ...

Part A: Please pick the criteria listed below, define it, and indicate how it applies to this proposal. Added comments, experiences, and a lot of interaction are highly encouraged.

- Horizontal Equity

Income tax systems have changed and developed so much in the past 200 years that there are already a lot of ways how an individual or a group of individuals could be taxed or levied by the government. Before defining what horizontal equity is, it would be beneficial to know what a basic equity is. Equity or what is not so popularly known as economic quality, is actually a large umbrella of terms that refers ...

The prime mantra of this paper is to exploit both the concept of cost and revenue models on the given companies whose nature of business are identical. There are two hypothetical based companies that have been selected for the execution of the same analysis. The underline companies are denoted by Company X and Company Y. They both have dissimilar pricing policies with one another. The entire assignment is divided into different headings that are mainly based on the Introduction, Analytical Framework, and the Conclusion.

Analytical Framework

Brand Y “lit” pricing/sales history There are a number of tools and models that have a ...

Introduction

Economics is a field which has its active recognition n almost every walk of life and it is an important thing as well . Alfred Marsha and Adam Smith are known as the founder of Economics who invented it. According to both of these individuals, Economics is the name of how to earn the money and how to consume it in a perfect and well organized position. There are two different branches of economics, which are microeconomics and macroeconomics. Microeconomics is the branch of economics that deal specifically with the economics of individuals while macroeconomics is the name of economics that ...

Ethical incident 2

Culture ethics in an organization is a crucial aspect. Ethics is the laid down rules that govern the operation of the company. Ethics guides the reputation of the organization and its employees. The way the public views an organization is dependent on how they present their ethics to the outside world (Mele, 2011). The top management should do all it takes to ensure the reputation of the organization is maintained. Company X is a very sensitive organization because it deals with medical devices. Thus, they must maintain high ethical standards. Inventory management and control should be an issue that should ...

Ethical incident 2

Culture ethics in an organization is a crucial aspect. Ethics is the laid down rules that govern the operation of the company. Ethics guides the reputation of the organization and its employees. The way the public views an organization is dependent on how they present their ethics to the outside world (Mele, 2011). The top management should do all it takes to ensure the reputation of the organization is maintained. Company X is a very sensitive organization because it deals with medical devices. Thus, they must maintain high ethical standards. Inventory management and control should be an issue that should ...

Abstract

Alternative dispute resolution has been hailed by many people for the crucial role it plays in finding solutions to disputes outside the courtroom. By definition, arbitration is an alternative dispute resolution technique that takes place out of the legal courts. In this kind of dispute resolution, a third party reviews the facts and evidence of two parties and imposes a legally binding decision. The fact that the parties to a dispute have total control over the process makes it more admirable as compared to the judicial process. The parties have the ability to make their own schedules and choose the arbitrators. For a ...

Abstract

The current paper is devoted to the analysis of entertainment, political, and general surveys. Three types of surveys were compared to each other from statistical perspective. Own general opinion survey was created and the results of this survey were analyzed and explained.

Introduction

There were three articles chosen for analysis of different types of surveys namely: entertainment, political, and general surveys. The first research conducted by Macnab (2013) relates selling movies, the second research conducted by Newport (2012) relates voting, and the third survey conducted by Gallup (2013) relates the research of relationships between employees’ engagement and performance.

Part 1 Survey Analysis

- Analysis ...

[Author Note]

Executive Summary

The main perspective of this assignment is to make effective strategies in terms of 4Ps of marketing. There is a hypothetical company has been chosen for the analysis, with the name of X-1. There are four different companies are also present in the industry with the name of X-2, X-3, X-4 and X-5 and all of these companies are doing exceptional job as far as competing with X-1 is concerned. From the assignment, it is found that all of the strategies like Place, Price, Promotion and product are in the favor of Company X-1 as far as generating ...

Introduction

Public relations and what it encompasses is probably one of the largest unsolved yet not so popular issues in the field of media and reporting. It is important to take note at this point that although directly correlated, public relations and mass media are not the same. Mass media is the use of different methods and technologies to disseminate information or basically anything that may either pertain to the truth or what the people or the masses would want to know. Public on the other hand, while it certainly uses the power of media to communicate and manage relationships, ...

Threat of new competition poses the greatest impact in the carbonated drinks industry. New significant competition may destroy the comfortable market top companies enjoy. In this case Coke and Pepsi would not prefer another competitor since there would be a great division in the market in terms of demand. However, the market still has competitors but none of them has come close threatening the supremacy of the two companies. Coke and Pepsi enjoy 75% of demand of the whole market. In the rise of new competition this number may decrease significantly and may cost the two enterprises in terms of ...

Situation A

The family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) of 1993 govern the rights of employees who are eligible to its protection. This law provides flexibility to employees’ working life so as to meet unplanned for events in their life such as illness of a family member as one is entitled to a 12 week leave. It entitles the employees’ to leave, maintain health benefits on leave and get their jobs restored after leave and clearly outlines the requirements for notice and certification of the need for leave and also protects employees’ who request for leave (Ford, 2000). This law applies to both ...

Background of the Company and Industry

Consumers consider different companies synonymous with different products. In the technology industry Apple is synonymous with portable music devices and in the culinary industry McDonalds with cheese burgers. These companies have established themselves as the leaders in their industries and are immediately associated with the products that they produce. Today, in the office products industry, Staples and Office Depot have become the top two most popular chains with branches all over the United States and even in other parts of the world. Over the last three years Staples and Office Depot have generated respective annual revenues averaging around $24 ...