Methodologies and Research Design 18: Research Design IV: External Validity and Sampling Objectives • to unpack different types of external validity • to describe crucial issues in sampling - precision vs. representativeness vs. cost - probability vs. non-probability / ’judgement ’ • to describe stages in the process of sampling‚ and the possible intrusion of ‘bias’ • to describe methods of probability sampling and methods of non-probability sampling • to be able
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to the customers to meet those needs. The market now determines what the manufacturer produces or the retailer sells and information collected from customers provides the basis for the focus for all organisational activities. Do not make assumptions about customers and their needs‚ ensure that you identify just who your customers are and what their needs are. Communicate with them often and regularly. Go directly to your customers for the information you need for information on customers priorities
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How to deal with angry customers The answer is to be patient Every business encounters angry people. Not disappointed or confused‚ but actually angry. Here are a few steps you might want to try: •Acknowledge the anger. You don’t have to agree with it‚ but in order to have a chance at making it go away‚ you need to empathize with the person’s anger. You cannot sell something (even a solution) nor can you negotiate with an angry person. •Talk more quietly and more slowly than the person
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The External Environment: Opportunities‚ Threats‚ Competition‚ and Competitor Analysis The external environment affects a firm’s strategic actions. For the example‚ when Philip Morris International (PMI) joint venture with Swedish Match AB‚ PMI distribute smokeless tobacco in multiple global market. A firm’s external environment creates the opportunities (opportunities PMI to enter the smokeless tobacco market) and threats (the regulation in its market reduces the consumption of PMI’s tobacco
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The story of El cid There are three parts or cantos to the Poema del Cid. In the first part‚ Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar‚ called Cid "El Cid Campeador" by the Moors(Sidi means My Lord in Arabic)‚ is accused by Count García Ordóñez of holding back for himself tributes he was sent to collect from the Moors for his king Alfonso VI of León. Alfonso exiles Rodrigo from Leon and Castilla. He gave him 9 days to exile. El Cid needed money to live and support his troops in exile‚ so he faked a chest full
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’ for not doing more to prevent this horrible event (Simic 2008). Following Bosnia’s declaration of independence from the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY) in March 1992‚ a civil war broke out in progressive stages between the three ethnic communities that had existed in Bosnia for several centuries (Turns 2007). Although initially internal in nature‚ this conflict was ‘internationalised’ at various points by the intervention of armed forces from both Serbia and Croatia on the
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10-30-11 5 Parts of the Writing Process 1. Pre-Writing - Before you sit down to write something‚ you need to figure out what you are going to write about. 2. Drafting - Once you have planned out your ideas‚ the next step is to start drafting‚ or writing. 3. Revising - When you revise‚ you are looking at the parts of your document and making sure that each part works together to make a coherent whole. 4. Proofreading - When a person is finished the "writing" step of the process and have
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Policy Process Part II HCS/455 The Policy Process: Part II In this paper we will discuss the final stages of how a topic becomes a policy. The paper will discuss formulation‚ implementation‚ and the legislation stage. These stages must be done in this order to ensure the policy is being formed the correct way and not scattered around. This paper will also consist of the evaluation stage‚ analysis stage‚ and revision stage and describe the purpose and methodologies process for evaluating and
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External analysis How can a smartphone company use external analysis to gain competitive advantage? 1. Apply 5 forces model for the smartphone industry According to Hill and Jones‚ the five forces model serves the purpose to identify opportunities and threats in the external business environment‚ by analysing “competitive forces” (Hill & Jones‚ 2012‚ p. 42). Once created by Michel E. Porter this particular framework functioned as a useful tool for managers to approach the external analysis
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one spare parts management process but it has some drawbacks and issues need to be addressed to refine the process and to increase its efficiency. First main point is that these aviation spare parts is very expensive and thus has very adverse effect on Cathay Pacific’s balance sheet. They have sufficient inventory of these spare parts but of which significant percentage of parts are dead and inactive stock. They can’t simply get rid of these parts because for aircraft safety certain parts are necessary
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