Essays on Friendliness

Lyft’s Profile and Background

Lyft is an American online transportation firm it is a car-hiring company that grounds its services on a mobile app. The San-Francisco-based firm is the second-best in online transportation industry behind Uber. However, Uber outshines Lyft in almost all facets of online transportation network ranging from marketing to revenue generation. For instance, while Uber is swiftly running internationally with even successful operations in developing countries, Lyft is still contained in the US but expanding on the scale of cities (UPI NewsTrack 1). Nevertheless, the company is showing immense efforts to improve and maintain its competitive edge. One of the ...

Introduction

Globalization and development of technology brought into the picture significant changes in social and economic environments, shaping new organizational strategies, based on human capital and innovation as central concepts of competitive advantage (Swanson and Elwood, 2009). That said information and learning processes became significantly more accessible, while employment relationships are increasingly complex. Some of the latest trends in Strategic HRM include informal learning and information sharing through a digital environment, unsolicited and innovative approach to job hunting and recruitment and selection, online-based HRM Journals and other important aspects of this body of knowledge. The purpose of this work is ...

Part 1 - Executive Summary

Most people are in need of organic foods which do not have any chemicals. Establishing an organic food supermarket will be able to provide the fresh fruits and vegetables to the people. The business will be hoping to offer best-quality feeds to the people which will promote their wellness. The venture is hoping to make profit through distributing the organic food and promote the environmental wellness. The potential growth of the business is diversifying through providing the food material, producing their own suppliers and manufacturing natural products such as creams (Canavari and Olson, 2007). When carrying out organic food ...

Abstract

Sustainability in the early education in childhood is a necessary part of the curriculum which should be part of the service setting. Creation of natural environments and offering natural materials in a single way to ensure sustainability takes place. Sustainability can be termed as the “environment education,” is a method of learning about the environment and the way the natural system operates (Hessle, 2014). It is all that is required for the wellbeing and survival of the people which relates directly to the natural environment. Sustainable education for the children would be various practices such as encouraging the children ...

Introduction

Accessibility and user friendliness are integral for websites since one of their primary objectives is to expand their usefulness to many individuals. Web accessibility considers the needs of both the able-bodied and disabled persons with regards to their interaction, navigation, understanding, and perception of the web. This essay illustrates the user-friendliness and accessibility of the U.S. Congressional website, Congress.gov.

The Search for the Website and Affordable Care Act

My search commenced by typing in the words U.S. Congressional Website on the Google Search Tab. From the list provided, I clicked on the first option of Congress.Gov. On the Search Tab, I typed the terms Affordable Care Act and ...

Management

MANAGEMENT Executive Summary NIVEA is the initial label and most significant line of Beiersdorf, a derma care organization that was started in Germany. Beiersdorf’s common aim is to become the leading care label in the product categories and market. The agency plans to attain such goals by utilizing NIVEA as a star line strategically. NIVEA's communication purpose is to reinforce its brand as the leading derma care line and to update its brand image (Keller, 2008, p. 6). Lately, the organization has declared Blue agenda the label compass, which concentrates on reinforcing the NIVEA line. Nevertheless, the firm ...

Throughout all the times, humanity struggled to fight something real, something which would be the reason of their living. Aristotle was among those who truly answered this question and found for the sake of what people are living their lives. In this paper, I will describe and explain Aristotle’s findings regarding the matter and describe how they pertain to our lives. As they say, great people always are similar in their greatness. Aristotle's findings regarding the contemplating way of living and the aim of living match those of Buddha. They both have found that happiness is essential to ...

Pandora’s original business model was about giving each potential subscriber 10 free hours to listen to their favorite music and subsequently persuading them to pay a monthly subscription of $ 36 for their service. No wonder, individuals were not ready to pay that much for a service which they got free of cost on FM radio (Laudon, 2012). Failure of the original model motivated them to introduce the “freemium” model which gives limited free service to everyone; the ads showing up between songs tend to reduce the quality of the listening experience and influence listeners to subscribe to the ...

Corporate Social Responsibility

Keurig Green Mountain was formerly known as Green Mountain Coffee Roasters (GMCR). The company was founded way back in 1981 and it is among the most established coffeemakers in the USA (Lee, 2015). It specifically produces and sources for high quality coffee, tea, cocoa, as well as other beverages under different brands. Moreover, it also sells ground coffee and coffee beans in bags and fractional packages. Its signature packaging however, is the K-Cup single pods. It is only fair that a company as big as Keurig Green Mountain to give back to the community. The company believes that everybody ...

Visitors’ Perception on Westminster London as a Sustainable, Responsible, and Environmental Friendly Destination

Referencesp.41 List of Figures Figure 1. Findings from the questionnaires Figure 2. Finding for three sections of sustainability, responsibility and environmental friendliness Figure 1.1. Sustainability Figure 1.2. Responsibility Figure 1.3. Environmental friendliness Abstract Sustainable tourism is one of the rising trends in the tourism industry. More and more stakeholder groups are starting to realize the importance of their assets. One of the best ways to preserve tourist destinations (i.e. the assets) is to promote sustainable, responsible, and environmental friendly tourism management. Unfortunately, engaging in those kinds of practices and operations can be costly. Most tourism industry firms are still ...

Design and Functionality

Introduction A suit is the modern gentleman's armor. There are many intricate facets of a suit that a company has to consider while crafting such an essential garment; mainly, its functionality. Today, the designers and producers of sportswear focus not only on the attractiveness of their clothes but also on the functionality of the apparel. The demands for this type of clothes has been elevated with the customer’s sophistication, increased competition in the market, the popularity of sport and healthy lifestyle, and the desire to combine comfort and functionality. Sportswear has become a necessary attribute for the sportsmen, ...

Executive summary 2

Introduction 3 Brand image of Lufthansa 6 Turkish Airlines brand image and reputation 18 Viral campaign from Miles and Smiles reward program 19 The viral advertisement campaign of KLM Airlines 22 Viral Christmas campaign of WestJet 24

References 26

Appendix A 28 Executive summary The purpose of this research is to investigate The Deutsche Lufthansa AG Company and how it can enhance its brand image by using the social media marketing. The case study is conducted based on the analysis of social media users of Lufthansa Company and the extent of popularity of airline companies on different social media networks. Furthermore, ...

Introduction

A suit is the modern gentleman's armor. There are many intricate facets of a suit that a company has to consider while crafting such an important garment; mainly, its functionality. Today, the designers and producers of sportswear focus not only on the attractiveness of their cloths, but also on functionality of the apparel. The demands for this type of cloths elevated with the sophistication of the customers, increased competition in the market, popularity of sport and healthy lifestyle, and the desire to combine comfort and functionality. Sportswear has become a necessary attribute for the sportsmen, active sport enthusiasts, and ...

Nokia

Nokia, headquartered in Keilaniemi, Espoo, Finland, is a global growing communications organization that concentrated on procuring services and products in the IT, wireless, and wired telecommunications industries. The span of its employees’ recruitment exceeded one-hundred and twenty thousand across the globe and its yearly income as of 2008 was fifty billion euro. The current production of Nokia entailed a broad array of smartphones and mobile phones which is supplementary to a handful of fixtures. Moreover, Nokia launched digital map information, internet, and navigation services that are certainly the value addition in the global marketplace.

Fredrik Idestam established his initial timber pulp company ...

Introduction

Images embody cultural meanings or symbolisms in their very nature, color, text and other elements. These meanings are drawn, created or extended from a wide sociocultural context. Advertising communications seek to inform, persuade and identify their products with symbols that would give their products or brands approval in the eyes of the consumers. In order to achieve this, advertising must establish a dialogue and create a relationship with a consumer, which in turn means that they must draw on numerous ways of creating meaning or modes of communications. Create meaning/relationships draws is heavily influenced by culture. This paper argues that the Fiat Panda ...

Virtue Ethics highlight the principle of a person’s character rather than some other factors when it comes to determining his moral value and philosophy. Basically, virtue ethics is a person-based ethics. It focuses on what type of person one should become and what kind of life a person should live with. According to virtue ethics, certain ideals that are only discovered through reflection, such as dedication and excellence, must be attained to whole-heartedly experience humanity. A person chooses to be morally good solely because it is innate in his character.

Virtue ethics speaks of an individual’s character but it is ...

Operations management is very crucial a process in the control of activities and decisions involved in the production, maintenance and delivery of goods and services. In encompasses all the activities and responsibilities that are employed in managing resources in production, maintenance and delivery of products and/or services. In at least every organization, there exists an operations arm that is mandated with such tasks of decision making and responsibility taking in trying to manage a company’s resources. This arm of management is usually headed by an operations manager who is responsible for supervisory work in managing these resources that form the ...

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 ...

Abstract

The Cloud and Grid computation systems are different computation services or platforms that can help in different tasks. Cloud computing started in late 1990s. It is the form of TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol) based on advanced development and integration of computer technologies such as huge memory, fast microprocessor, reliable system architecture, and high-speed network. Cloud computing are helpful in solving Internet-level computation problems, which are somewhat different from those of Grid computing. On the other hand, Grids started working in the mid 1990s to compute the large-scale problems with the help of network based resource-sharing commodity machines. Such ...

Certain experiences in one’s life can be counted as transformative experiences as they have greater meaning and impact on the future life of that person. One of such experiences in my life relates to a period when I had spent with my friends. I had always considered that seeking others’ help or suggestions for solving our problems was a sign of cowardice and weakness. When I was 20 years old, I had a chance to camp with my friends in the woods near my home city Ufa. We proceeded with the decision of camping expecting a favorable weather. Soon, contrary to ...

Annual performance evaluations are often regarded as essential components of employee development. The mentioned performance review is prevalently geared towards balanced assessment of an employee’s performance coupled with fairness. Notably, employee evaluations elicited myriad concerns on the relevant systems that efficient and effective employee appraisal would rely on. The paper seeks to establish the relevant means of implementing effective performance evaluation processes. Prevalently, the mid-sized manufacturing plant initially based the evaluation on friendliness of an employee. The item of friendliness came to practice when the manager considerably awarded a medium rating on that scale. The evaluation emanated because ...

Abstract

Leadership is a critical component of such law enforcement agency as police. To make an efficient police leaders, the chiefs of police departments need to possess a wide scope of requisite traits like honesty, integrity, impartiality, flexibility, approachability, knowledge, and other features. Depending on personality attributes, senior police officials may adopt a wide range of leadership modes like transformation, transactional, mixed, active, role-modelling, situational, participative, passive, avoidant, and laissez-faire styles. Beyond that, police leaders are supposed to pursue a number of arch-important activities like the creation of a shared vision that produces the sense of purpose for subordinates, the cultivation of organizational commitment, the ...

Company overview

The online bookstore will be known as booksgalore.com. The store will stock online and paperback versions of rare books on the following subjects: history, philosophy, theology, fiction and science. The bookstore will be in operation as from mid-January 2015. Its base of operation will be New York City where the company will have a warehouse for storing paper back copies of books. The company’s site will be hosted and maintained by Itl Internet Service providers which will be contracted on a yearly basis.

The company’s address is:

335 Park Avenue Street

New York City

United States of America www.booksgalore.com

Mission and vision

Vision A book in every hand. ...

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 ...

In this report, we are interested in determining if there is any relationship between the dependent variable (y) business friendliness and the independent variables: change in revenue, state economy, black, Hispanic, and Asian. In this case we are interested with a multiple linear relationships between the dependent variable and independent variable.

Problem statement

In this study, the main idea behind this work is to determine if there is any relationship between the regressor variable business friendliness and the predictor variables; Asian, Hispanic, Black, State Economy, and Change in revenue. These predictor variables may directly contribute to the dependent variable business friendliness. In ...

Abstract

This paper, is aimed at reviewing literature on the topic of soft skills and emotional intelligence employed by the project leaders in order to improve the outcome of the people working under them. The paper starts with an introduction about the topic while highlighting few soft skills that are exhibited at the workplace environment. The paper then proceeds to reviewing literature available on the topic of soft skills in project leaders. Few books, articles and researches have been selected for inclusion in the literature review. A brief review of each source is mentioned in the literature review section of ...

Abstract

As the majority of the people are becoming more aware of the adverse effects of petroleum-based products consumption and of the continued diminishing of natural fuel oil reserves all over the world, the search for more environmentally friendly and renewable substitute is becoming the focus of many studies. Such substitute products include the soybean-based adhesives, and soybean-based adhesive bonded wood composites and particle boards. In this study, a “literature review” was conducted in order to identify the many issues associated with the search for a replacement for petroleum-based adhesives. Accordingly, the issues identified are (1) environmental friendliness, such as the biodegradability ...

Carrington College

Many factors are involved in professionalism and ethics in the workplace; how an employee dress up, carry himself during work, his attitude, and how he interacts with colleagues and more. Professionalism specifies that a person perform his tasks with genuineness and truthfulness. It means that a person performs his job with sincerity; maintain his professional etiquette, and his ethics in the workplace. Professionals are more aware of the significance of performing any business anytime stated in the agreement of the Institute of Real Estate Management code of Professional Ethics (IREM). As stated in the first paragraph of the code, the principle ...

Importance of Counselor Qualities to the Success of the Counseling Relationship

Most people at some point find themselves taking up the role of a counselor without the necessary knowledge regarding the true nature of counseling or what a professional counselor is supposed to carry out her roles. There is a big difference between a person who practices counseling skills in various instances such as while a person is assisting a friend to overcome some disappointment and a professionally trained counselor. The major differences lie in the ability to use various approaches to help a person deal with a situation. In order to understand the qualities of a counselor and the way such qualities are important in the success or otherwise ...

A short story ‘The Lottery’ by Shirley Jackson has raised controversial feelings in me. It tells about a special annual occasion taken in a small village by its dwellers. Every year the whole community participates in a so-called lottery when a person is chosen at random by means of drawing and is stoned nearly to death by the villagers. The participation is obligatory for everyone. The town lives according to a deeply-rooted tradition which has existed for already seventy-seven years. The story strikes with its cruelty skillfully masked with friendliness. The lottery implies something to be won, it symbolizes hopes and dreams. In a ...

Business organizations need effective communication to efficiently operate in cultural diversities and attain their objectives. This is possible through effective use of intercultural communication, which is the communication process where individuals from different cultural backgrounds attempt to communicate and understand the meaning of the message conveyed by others from another culture (Dong and Ying 2010). Intercultural communication has two key components which include the verbal and nonverbal communication. Consequently, to ensure efficient cross cultural communication, businesses should address problems and issues with regard to nonverbal and verbal communication. Failure of organizations to address these issues and problems will result ...

Abstract

This essay will focus on a ‘Newsbreak’ from the book, Psychology and Work Today. A belittling, sexiest and retrospectively funny article, that illustrates on a guide for hiring women in the 1940’s. It will dwell on eleven tips on getting more efficiency out of women employees. At that point, the manpower shortage and the draft had settled at a point. The next important thing was to figure out how and who to select as the most efficient women available. Secondly it was important to determine the best way to use these women to the best advantage because men were no ...

Assignment 4: Leadership Style: What Do People Do When They Are Leading?

Dr. Carla Henryhand BUS-520 Leadership Style: What Do People Do When They Are Leading? Introduction There have been a number of renowned leaders in contemporary times who excelled above the rest. In examining the factors that contribute to effective and successful leaders, leadership style always emerge as a crucial component. Leadership style is “the pattern of behavior and actions that leaders make over a period of time as perceived by followers. It is how leaders behave, over time, when they are trying to influence the performance of others” . The current discourse hereby aims to investigate the leadership style ...

Introduction

Executive Summary Southwest Airlines is an airline company headquartered in Dallas, Texas. The company has been in operation since 1971. It is the leading local airline in the US. Analysed as per the porter’s five forces model, Southwest Airlines has a good chance of weathering competition from market entrants due to its unique approach to business as Simple, Fun and Profitable. The general external environment presents increased population and therefore higher market, better and supportive technologies, non-bureaucratic political and legal environment among other aspects advantageous to the growth of the company. The main weaknesses for the company are ...

Analysis of consumer behavior

Introduction The USA can be described as a highly motorized society given that most individuals use motor vehicles as their preferred means of transport. Every year, about 200 new models of vehicles are manufactured by car manufacturers and marketed to the ever dynamic US market. The choice of a certain model of a car is dependent on the preferences of the individual in addition to their needs. There are other factors that come into play such as fuel consumption, price and the type of travel that the individual engages in. research has reveal that in the USA, different models dominated different ...

Fielders contingency theory is a contingency model of leadership effectiveness sought to integrate person, process and situation. The basic premise of the theory is that the effectiveness of the leader is contingent upon two factors, the motivational system of the leader and the degree to which the leader has control and influence in a particular situation. The analysis of the fielder contingency theory is based on three elements. The first element, the leader follower relationship is the degree of friendliness of the leader and the extent to which the others trust and respect them. The second element is the task structure, ...

Introduction

The Toyota Company has developed over the years into one of the most recognizable brands for a vehicle manufacturer throughout the globe. The initial perception that the company was offering cheap alternative motor vehicles has slowly but surely been eroded by the fact that the company has been over the years been developing more luxurious vehicles targeting high end markets. The company’s control of the global market is quite substantial, and its growth has been influenced by many factors, chief among them the cost friendliness of its products. However, the company still faces a myriad of challenges in its growth, ...

Are they Competitive with Conventional Cars?

Electrical cars are vehicles that work on rechargeable electric power supply that runs the engine instead of gas. Scientists believe that electrical cars are environmentally clean vehicles that do not produce as much poisonous gasses and waste as conventional cars nowadays. There are many kinds of electrical vehicles; some types of electrical vehicles use the energy that is stored in Lithium batteries. Other kind of electric-power cars use a combination of electric power and gas to run their engines called hybrid cars. In the 1800’s there were many initiatives in making an electric motor. Davinport made the first American ...

Computer based Horizontal prototype

The application developed in the following section, is meant for facebook users and takes care of the news feed manager and the users’ login page. It has a news feeds manager imbedded in facebook and a person the news feeds by a person are filtered according to the users’ needs. The user is first prompted to log into their facebook account and then their news feeds are filtered for them. Once the newsfeed has been filtered, they are arranged for them at the top of the page as shown in the preceding sections.

i. The user is prompted to enter his/her login ...

Introduction

Southwest Airlines, a company incorporated in March 15, 1967 by Herb Kelleher and Rollin King, is a very competitive airline company, headquartered in Dallas, Texas. It piloted the idea of a “no frills” airline, which meant a reduction in ticket costs for consumers and the removal of unnecessary expenses by the company. This meant using a single type of plane (the Boeing 737) for all the short routes that Southwest serviced. This move proved to be the company’s ace, with just one type of aircraft boosting the company’s efficiency while bringing down its maintenance costs.

Currently, the company services 64 cities in ...

"Why Should I Be Nice to You? Coffee Shops and the Politics of Good Service" The concept of good service dictates that customers should always be treated with respect and friendliness, even if they do not behave that way themselves. Raine comments that this is an unfair balance, and that if clients are rude to her, she will behave in the same way back. This makes sense as, even when in a client and waiter scenario, both are human beings and should treat each other with equal respect. Raine once worked serving drink so people and she said ...

Background

Waterlife Marina & Boatyard was founded in 1987 as a boat repair shop. The firm has since then grown to become the largest marina & boatyard facility in the state of Florida. Today, Waterlife is not only a marine retailer but also a renter of small boats, yachts, sailboats, and houseboats. In addition to providing marine services, waterlife has a restaurant in the property that is popular most for the organically produced foods that it serves. Water life also practices small-scale commercial fish farming. Overtime, the firm has been recognized for its impeccable environmental record. However, the expansion of the business has bestowed ...

Conference on role of organic matter and temperature in contaminant toxicity and global perspective within an ecosystem.

The focus of the first conference was on the role of organic matter and temperature in containment toxicity and a sub-theme was a global perspective within an ecosystem.

About the main theme, one particular presentation struck me. It was on the Sequestration of Hydrophobic Organic Contaminants by Gadsosorbents. It examined the chemical interactions that occur between hydrophobic contaminants and the soil. It suggested that the sediments may lead to strong binding and release rate that is slow and therefore affect remediation rates and endpoints. However, ...

Since the Ford made the first automobile in the history of America, continuous innovation has seen development inn this industry such that today, various kinds of automobiles are available for the consumer (Consumerreports.org, 1). The various forms of automobiles serve different purposes in the lives of consumers. A consumer buys an automobile depending on the purpose for which it is intended. This essay takes seeks to establish stand that there are various kinds of automobiles and therefore a consumer makes a choice depending on the purpose for which he intends to use the automobile.

There are various factors that come into ...

Introduction.

In November 29, 1864, a contingent of seven hundred white American troops attacked a camp of Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians in Colorado killing an estimated 163 Indians1. It is one of the recorded atrocities of war during the Indian American Wars. In this massacre, the Colorado Territory Army Regiment managed to kill such a large number of Indians most of whom were women and children. The attack did not just stop at the killings; the bodies of the victims were mutilated. An Indian leader, referred to a tribal chief, Lean Bear, who was one of the negotiators of peace together with President Abraham ...

Introduction.

In November 29, 1864, a contingent of seven hundred white American troops attacked a camp of Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians in Colorado killing an estimated 163 Indians1. It is one of the recorded atrocities of war during the Indian American Wars. In this massacre, the Colorado Territory Army Regiment managed to kill such a large number of Indians most of whom were women and children. The attack did not just stop at the killings; the bodies of the victims were mutilated. An Indian leader, referred to a tribal chief, Lean Bear, who was one of the negotiators of peace together with President Abraham ...

The Influence of Culture

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTORXZr5w9Q In the video clip, several individuals demonstrate the different cultural settings. The discussion is based on developing an understanding of the factors that can be used to bridge the gap that exist or have established diversity. The aim is not to abolish cultural diversity but to establish links that would bring different cultures together. The panel uses various activities to demonstrate the nature how cultural diversity influences negotiations. In the video, the head of the panel (who is American) uses assertive communication to illustrate dominance to communicate to the rest of the individuals to carry ...

Working with others

The results of self-assessment reveal important insights into personality traits of the assessed person and present an opportunity to determine the optimal work environment and position for the candidate. The outcome of the present assessment provides an overview of various aspects of the personality. The assessment II-A-1 shows that the candidate is able to leave impression in communication as well as to be attentive to the other person in the conversation. In face-to-face communication, friendliness is demonstrated quite strongly, as well as the ability to animate the discussion. However, none of the abovementioned characteristics is resented very strongly, ...

Performance Evaluation

Performance evaluation is a technique of determining the employee performance based on some given criteria to improve efficiency in the workplace (Guerra-Lopez, 2008). It is essential in ensuring that employees meet the expected standards of their work and meet organizational goals. In the given scenario, there are three points of concern with the current evaluation form. The first point of concern with the evaluation form is that it focuses more on the personality of the engineer than on his performance. The evaluation form focuses on the relationship the engineer has with other employees and his personality. The form evaluates the ...

Performance Evaluation

Performance evaluation is a technique of determining the employee performance based on some given criteria to improve efficiency in the workplace (Guerra-Lopez, 2008). It is essential in ensuring that employees meet the expected standards of their work and meet organizational goals. In the given scenario, there are three points of concern with the current evaluation form. The first point of concern with the evaluation form is that it focuses more on the personality of the engineer than on his performance. The evaluation form focuses on the relationship the engineer has with other employees and his personality. The form evaluates the ...