Essays on Crikey

Suppliers

Suppliers are vital stakeholders of the organization that shapes the efficiency of its operation. Any organization that needs to promote its success needs to develop a good relationship with its suppliers (Krzyżanowska and Tkaczyk, 2014, pp. 157). Its intentions are to create value to its supplier who will reciprocate by delivering quality materials and products that meet the required standards. The move also involves favoring and supporting its suppliers all the times to help them achieve the company’s social compliance standards. Pacific Brands has taken measures to ensure continued supplier relationships, especially in China. It's China suppliers ...

Business Plan Proposal

Business Identification of Problem Poor publicity can affect a wonderful product and can lead to an uphill battle getting back into good standing with your customers, community, employees and stakeholders. Competent leaders are a necessity to rally teammates in tough times, even though acquiring and retention of qualified individuals may pose to be even more of a struggle. Recently, Transurban, the company that designs and operates the Express Lanes on I-495, I-95, and I-395, have taken on some bad publicity with civil lawsuits, deaths on the Express Lanes, back-ups on the lanes that are a result of user accidents ...

Introduction

Australia’s economically developed status attracts tens of thousands of refugees to the country each year, and this trend poses a range of socio-economic threats to nation. In response to this social problem, the Australian governments under Labor and Liberal parties have been adopting a tough stance towards the refugee arrivals at Australian coasts by boats. Since the increasing number asylum seeking claims has been a sensitive issue in the Australian politics, the political parties always tend to meet the interests of Australian citizens in this regard. This paper will critically evaluate the Australia’s asylum seeker policy, government and community responses ...

Rail construction is a sequence of steps that takes laborious amounts of time in each step and finally results in a wonderful and safe system for transport for many decades to come that requires minimal maintenance over that period. The first step in the construction process is the approval for new line itself. This is typically the responsibility of the government to do it. Once a approval is given for rail connectivity between two points then the role of engineering kicks in. The first step in the process is the alignment. Alignment is nothing but the path in which the track ...

Introduction

Public perceptions are more important than anything else now. It is for this reason that successful corporate world do not have concern with only their profits but they have to take part in various social activities also. Global organizations have to meet up with the international standards of business ethics as well. The corporate social responsibility thought first came in to being in 1960s and now it aims at serving and taking care of the environment, communities, workforce, and governance. An organization with a CSR label is believed to behave ethically. However, there is a little difference in the concepts of ...

Indonesia has been experiencing an influx of beef prices over the past year; this is because its local beef producers have become incapable of meeting domestic demand. The increase in the demand for beef in Indonesia was caused by the country’s self-sufficiency policy. This policy was implemented to restrict imports from other countries such as Australia. The government has found a solution for the beef supply crisis. The government of Indonesia is considering buying land in Australia in which it will raise beef cattle and export them into their country. This issue has raised controversy especially among Australian top ...

HOW ARE WOMEN AND THE POOR TREATED IN THE MEDIA

Sociology Media

Australia’s Economy: How are women and the poor treated in the media?

The country’s budget and the economy in general are always very big subjects in the media. Often times it is difficult to really separate truth for the ‘hype.’ Should everyone start becoming concerned when the headlines are frightening? Is there too much drama about the economy in the media? And most importantly I wanted to discover how women and the poor are treated in the media when the subject focuses on the economy? These are not silly questions. The media has a great impact ...