Analysis Opportunities For more than 160 years‚ Siemens has focused in technological achievement‚ international‚ reliability and quality. Siemens has coupled innovative concepts and creative ideas with future-sighted willingness and taking in business risk to make the company strong. Siemens brand can be reflected around the globe because of its sustainability‚ technology and financial leaderships‚ market leadership and values. Global presence As Siemens maintain the Regional Companies directly at
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1) What explains the high level of corruption at Siemens was how it was legal at one point in time to offer bribes‚ but once the law changed‚ Siemens continued to do brides that was once legal but now illegal. Also‚ when the company continued bribery‚ Siemens transferred money into a hard-to-trace bank in Switzerland to protect their business and help them win contracts. Managers rationalized it as the bribes being useful money‚ but in a way they were still making profit‚ and bribes were used as
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1. • In your opinion‚ is “bribing” unethical & illegal or just a cost of doing business? Discuss this in light of Siemens’ bribery scandal. We believe that bribing is unethical because it takes away the fairness of a business transaction between bidders of a contract. Bribing also has a negative impact on competition because it allows for oligopolies and monopolies to emerge in an industry due to smaller competitors being unable to financially compete with the amount of the bribes. This in
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of Global Business Professor Portillo BSAD 113W 18 February 2013 Assignment #3: Siemens Bribery Scandal Before 1999 the use of bribery in Germany was not illegal and could be deducted as a business expense in a company’s taxes. This allowed companies like Siemens to gain the upper hand and have an unfair advantage over their competition in acquiring business deals around the world. Then when the law changed‚ Siemens still utilized bribery‚ and employed bribery tactics in other countries where it
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but there is a lot of evidence to show that the change in climate is global and is seriously dangerous. Because climate change has been‚ and is still is being; extensively researched. As the climate gets warmer‚ the more extreme the weather will be and 97.4% agree that human activity is a significant factor in changing global temperatures. I am exploring the reviews and research of many people who have thought towards global climate change. What they feel is affecting it: Humans‚ natural
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Case Study10 Siemens’ Simple Structure–Not There is perhaps no tougher task for an executive than to restructure a European organization. Ask former Siemens CEO Klaus Kleinfeld. Siemens‚ with 77 billion Euros in revenue in 2008‚ some 427‚000 employees‚ and branches in 190 countries‚ is one of the largest electronics companies in the world. Although the company has long been respected for its engineering prowess‚ it’s also derided for its sluggishness and mechanistic structure. So when
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ENC 1101 Making new changes Today we are living in a world in which we as the people don’t have enough authority to do whatever we feel is right relate to education programs. That’s why after I had finished reading the articles from barefoot college and Gustavo Esteva‚ I strongly agreed with every single word they discussed in their articles. First of all‚ teenagers don’t feel like getting a diploma from college because many of them are discriminated from their parent’s
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The case study of Siemens’simple structure－not Question 1 Based on the case’s description‚ Siemens has a long history. It means that it took for a long time to form the current structure. It is truly global company offering a portfolio of technological solutions in the areas of water‚ energy‚ environment‚ healthcare‚ productivity‚ mobility‚ safe and security. The changing is a big revolution which involves the many departments. The issue of departmentalization is a key consideration in any restructure
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Case: The Bribery Scandal at Siemens AG 1. There is no question that ’bribing’ is unethical and illegal. However‚ nowadays there are a lot of developing countries in which corruption and bribing is a common practice and large companies that are targeted to expand to those countries’ markets have no other option but to pay government officials or other demanding individuals. In the Siemens case which involves bribing for contracts it is partially understandable if the company’s convicted managers
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Critiques: Depiction of Indian Activism as an Agent for Change Paul Chaat Smith and Robert Allen Warrior’s Like A Hurricane sheds light on remarkable Indian activism that U.S. history textbooks tend to overshadow. Up to1996‚ they argue that this era was only illustrated through the perspectives of sympathetic non-Indians who disagreed with how Federal policy dealt with Indians. Though each author has special ties to the movement they write about – Smith‚ a Comanche‚ served on the American Indian
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