Case Study Case 1-4. X-Philes Data Management Corporation: RFP matters Question 1 We think that the future additional contract with another customer can cause an overload of workers who already have to work long hours and weekends completing Scully and Mulder projects. It can lead to decrease of quality of work and delays of projects completion‚ which in turn will be a reason of lost of the bonus and probable penalties in the work with Scully project. Question 2 The crisis facing Yrisket will
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1.0 INTRODUCTION The chief financial officer (CEO) of TELUS Corporation (Telus) has just been informed that Moody’s‚ a bond rating service‚ has downgraded the firm’s credit rating to one notch below investment grade. The CFO’s challenge is to determine what specific actions‚ if any‚ to recommend to the firm’s audit committee. In solving this problem‚ the members of this group decided to divide the work into four main parts. The first part will contain the major problem that led Moody to downgrade
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Colfax Corporation Student Name School name Overview Colfax Corporation is one of the world’s best producers of industrial fluid handling equipment with the concentrated niche of the pump market also known as positive displacement technology. Unfortunately‚ the positive displacement pumps faced severe limitations from engineering and procurement groups across the world concerning that the PD technology is minimal because in many engineering universities’ centrifugal pump technology
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APPEX CORPORATION Background Appex Corporation’s business is supplying management information systems and intercarrier network services to various cellular phone companies. In 1986‚ Appex entered this fast-growing market as a very small organization. Between 1986 and 1990‚ revenues grew 1600%. Similar growth was also seen inside the company as the number of employees rose from 26 to 180 between 1988 and 1990. Due to the relative youth of both cellular phone technology and Appex‚ the company
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The average American eats about 1‚996.3 pounds of food per year (Credit Loan). Just what exactly is it that they are eating? Between additives‚ pesticides that are sprayed onto fruits and vegetables‚ hormones that are given to cows‚ and the amount of pollution in water‚ the foods that people eat everyday may not be as safe as some would think. Even simple drinking water has been contaminated by illicit drugs‚ medicinal drugs‚ and hormones (National Geographic). Additives also cause a concern when
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Solution to the Case Study: “Levi Strauss’s Goes Global” Book: Organizational Theory‚ Design‚ and Change Fifth Edition Page 235 Gareth R. Jones Discussion Question 1 and 2 1. How does Levi Strauss take advantage of the global environment? 2. What structure does Levi Strauss use to implement its strategy? This case demonstrates how a company can pursue a transnational strategy and which organizational structure supports this strategy. “Levi Strauss”‚ the company under discussion
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The American Red Cross is an organization that makes available the emergency assistance to people around the world who are in need of help. Its mission is to make suffering less severe while the volunteers promote compassion and welfare of humanity. After serving as a Red Cross volunteer in Europe in 1870 caring for the injured of war‚ Clara Barton embraced the idea of humanitarian aid for victims of misfortune and started the concept in the United States in 1881. The organizational structure consists
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are several factors and steps counselors should take when developing effective counseling services for African American clients. The first is taking the time to explore one’s own culture‚ worldview‚ and their awareness of their own spiritual and religious development (Moore-Thomas & Day-Vines‚ 2008; Hays & Erford‚ 2014). Next‚ the counselor must take steps to learn about African-American history‚ culture‚ stigmas related to mental health and counseling‚ and barriers to seeking and obtaining care‚
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authors (2013)‚ studies continue to reveal that Asian-Americas from India are being ignored and treated differently in American society. Furthermore‚ Asian-American Indians face widespread prejudice‚ discrimination‚ and barriers to equal opportunity. They tend to endorse coping sources and practices that emphasize talking with family‚ relatives‚ and friends rather tan counselors and other helping professionals (Chandras‚ Chander & DeLambo‚ 2013). There is a belief that Asian-American Indians are a
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issues arise because the populations are either oppressed‚ or uneducated of the consequences of these issues. One of the issues that currently needs to be addressed is that of schizophrenia in people of color. Currently‚ the representation of African Americans with schizophrenia is much greater than that of those who are not. Presently‚ individuals of color who are admitted to hospitals across the world have a higher rate of being admitted with schizophrenia. In fact‚ they are actually two to five times
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