Essays on Fontaine

Apple is undoubtedly one of the best companies in the world today and part of its many achievements come in part due to the organizational structure implemented. The organizational structure of a company is important since it outlines how various activities such as supervision, work coordination and allocation are handled by an organization to achieve the set aims and goals. A good organizational structure creates opportunities for business growth. Apple’s organizational structure has been the major factor how good products such as the iPhone, iPod and iPad, have been released by the company and how the company has ...

‘A Man Escaped’ is a powerful and thought-provoking movie, which was directed by Bresson. The movie ‘A Man Escaped’ supposed to the most crucial in the lifeline of the Bresson’s works, and is admired to be nominated as a masterpiece. The movie focuses on the struggle and suffering of the people, who are in the prison. They are searching for the opportunity to escape from the prison in order to end with these unfair suffering and killing surrounding (‘A Man Escaped: Quintessential Bresson’). The movie pictures people with different worldviews and perspectives. Besides, the director wants to express ...

I am reviewing the article titled “Use Pricing Strategy to Boost Sales” by Rafi Mohammed dated July 02, 2012, published in the Harvard Business Review. The author is writing about the subject to make executives and businesses aware about the importance of a pricing strategy and how optimising the pricing of products can lead to many fold increase in profits (Mohammed, 2012). The basic premise of the article is that better pricing should be the top priority for any company selling any product. The author provides three important reasons for this premise and then goes on to provide brief ...

Background

Successful modern business marketing lays emphasis on meeting the needs of the customers. This focus is a departure in the opposite direction from the traditional business whose major concern was selling its products or services. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is one way of meeting not only the direct customers’ desires but also the needs and expectations of all the stakeholders of a business (Ortenblad 2016). Unethical profiteering practices of large companies and customer awareness due to free flow of information have forced many companies to make CSR a key strategic focus in their conduct of business. Besides enabling a ...

At the start of 1985, the Pacific Oil Company experienced some key difficulties as they began to regenerate discussions with Reliant Chemical Company. Both companies- Pacific Oil Company and Reliant Company formerly had a fruitful business agreement and the corporations also had a healthy affiliation that they wished to uphold. Jean Fontaine, the marketing vice president for Pacific Oil Company, and Paul Gaudin the marketing manager for Vinyl chloride monomer (VCM), both recognized that having a long-standing predetermined settlement and a good association with Reliant Company in the forthcoming days was fundamental for the success of their companies. Upon ...

Every business entity has stakeholders who are individuals or a group of individuals that are directly influenced by the success or failure of the entity. “Stakeholder Theory is a view of capitalism that stresses the interconnected relationships between a business, its customers, suppliers, employees, investors, communities and others who have a stake in the organization” (Stakeholdertheory.org, 2014). This theory was developed with a view to effectively manage and create value to an organization. There are two branches of stakeholder theory namely, the ethical or normative branch and the positive or managerial branch. The Normative or Ethical theory argues that ...

Vice president’s comments on cost and schedule variance

The concerns of Spokane’s vice president were valid because the cost and schedule variances had gone up between the second and the third month. The total cost variances for all the work packages in the second month were $14,000, a figure that went up $25,000 in the third month, reflecting a -78% surge in the total cost variances. Also, the scheduled variances indicated by the vice president were correct, as it showed that the period between the second and the third month experienced a 45% slippage on schedules. However, the information on the table is not ...

Introduction

Pacific Oil Company had entered into a contract with Reliant Chemical Company of Europe in October 24th, 1982 for the supply of Vinyl Chloride Monomer (VCM). The contract was initially written to run for five years ending in December 1987 with minimum quantities to be supplied being capped at 150, 160, 170, 185 and 200 million pounds for the five years starting from 1983 to 1987 respectively. Other conditions of the agreement stipulated that the product was to be metered at from the Pacific Oil side, and invoices raised using the same quantities with an allowance of 0.1% for ...

Final Essay: Robert Bresson’s Dictum & Film Analysis of “A Man Escaped”

Introduction The modern film-viewer may anticipate feeling abashed, or risk feeling bored when scrutinizing an old, black-and-white movie that lacks an action package. However, Robert Bresson’s film made in 1956, A Man Escaped, offers a compelling example of filmmaking skills which captivate the attention of its audience. One of Director Robert Bresson’s favorite dictums asserts that “What is for the eye must not duplicate what is for the ear” (“Notes on Sound”). Control of narrative space, and command of sound perspective strategies in the film demonstrate an exercise of the filmmaker’s philosophy. The film analysis herein, ...

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The Rosenhan experiment used in the establishing the validity of psychiatric diagnosis conducted in 1972 by David Rosenhan, titled “On being sane in insane places” consisted of two main parts. The area second part of the experiment, where the staff in the psychiatric hospitals falsely detected a large number of genuine patients as impostors is not a justification as to why the sane people cannot be distinguished from the insane in psychiatric hospitals (Fontaine 348-365). It is this is because in the experiment, the inability of the nurses to identify the imposters cannot be a generalized aspect, their inability ...

Introduction

The professional organizations and associations in nursing plays a crucial role towards promoting advanced and better health care. They’re charged with the responsibility to generate the energy, organization of ideas, and pre-emptive work required to sustain a healthy profession that promotes the needs and preferences of the nursing profession, nurses, and the patients. The associations improves the trust of society concerning health care matters. The paper will shed light on defining the scope of professional organizations in nursing, examine the scope, discuss the trending issues, and offer an analysis of the future of the nursing profession.

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ABSTRACT

Pilot uniforms, particularly in the commercial airline industry, conveys professionalism, competence, and experience. However, historically, uniforms started as a component of safety in aviation, which relied not just in their protective functions but as well in their capability to protect combat pilots from the natural elements of extreme heat and cold, particularly during the era of open cockpits. Protective flight clothing has evolved significantly through decades and even centuries. The sophisticated development in protected flight clothing, however, failed to influence adaption in the civil air transport industry. Using grounded theory through archival literature analysis, the Capstone Project revealed advantages ...