Q4. What can Mattel do to enhance product quality? As mentioned in the article‚ one of the contributing reasons to the recalls of Mattel’s toys was due to insufficient quality controls. Product quality starts from the product development and design stages of an industry. Mattel has research and development centre where the designs and developments of its products is done in its headquarters in California‚ USA. Most of the recalls of Mattel products in 2007 were due to the design fault‚ excessive
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China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone was launched on September 29‚ 2013. It is being used as China’s experiment field to test policies for economic and social reforms. The main characteristics of the free trade zone are its open market‚ freedom from the majority of the tariffs and its liberal investment policies. It was established as a solution to the slowdown in China’s economy and increasing concerns about the rising debt of the country. With the opening of this zone‚ Chinese private enterprises
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Resource Management ROLE OF TRADE UNIONS IN NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT Table of Contents I. Introduction 1 II. Historical Development of Trade Union 1 III. History of Trade Union in India 2 1. Trade Union in India: Formation of First Union Association 2 2. Trade Union in India: Formation of the First Trade Union 3 IV. Phases of Trade Union in India 3 1. First phase: 3 2. Second phase: 3 3. Third phase: 3 4. Fourth phase: 3 V. Trade Unions and Related Legislation
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Tariffs and Trade (GATT)‚ succeeded in 1995 by the World Trade Organization (WTO)‚ International Monetary Fund (IMF)‚ World Bank have played an important role in promoting free trade in place of protectionism. The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) was a multilateral agreement regulating international trade. According to its preamble‚ its purpose was the substantial reduction of tariffs and other trade barriers and the elimination of preferences‚ on a reciprocal and mutually advantageous
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Education .................................................................................................. 5 School Education.................................................................................................................... 6 National Curricula .................................................................................................................. 7 Examination and Assessment............................................................................................
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1. What are the main reasons of the emergence of numerous bilateral and multilateral free trade agreements in the past couple of decades? Answer: Since the 2000s the world have seen a lot of bilateral and multilateral free trade agreements between countries ‚ unions and even international companies. This can be explained by a few reasons. First of all‚ it can be connected to the global economic development process. When the developed states are trying to help/use the undeveloped states and therefore
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SHOULD HIGHER EDUCATION BE MADE AVAILABLE TO ALL Education is a channel to understand the real world better and whether this education should be provided to the students by the universities should be free or not‚ is one of the most debated topics over last many decades. In the today’s fast growing civilization this education has become everyone’s necessity to survive. Everyone understands the value of education in their lives; hence they compete hard to get the best of the education. So to
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CHILD LABOUR Prepared by: Nimrah Saleem M.Sc. D.J (A) 2012-2014 Roll # 45 Institute of Communication Studies Punjab University‚ Lahore Content 1: Introduction 2: Strategies/Plans 3: What can you Do? 4: Target Audience 5: Communication Mode 6: Conclusion 7: Bibliography Introduction Definition of child labour The Article 1 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child defines a child as anyone below the age of 18.“Child labour” is
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affecting Supply of labour Use diagrams Chapter 4&5: wages‚ unions perfectly competitive markets‚ imperfect market‚ bargaining Be able to compare competitive and imperfect Chapter 6: productivity Will not include flexibility Chapter 7: Globalization Chapter 8: types‚ tlfp‚ pr‚ unemployment programmes Chapter 9: criticisms of hct Chapter 10: inequalities Structure 3 Questions 1 compulsory‚ choose 1 of 2 50 marks each Chapter 2: Factors affecting supply of Labour. EAP- Economically
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Is Investing in CSR profitable to business? At any juncture when an organization goes past simply legitimate compliances and emphatically engages in activities that seem to more extensive social good which is for the most part outside the diversions of the firm and is more customized towards the more extensive social responsibility‚ the firm is said to have embraced the concept of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) (McWilliams et al.‚ 2006). The terms corporate social responsibility (CSR)‚ corporate
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