CASE IBM : Restructuring The Sales Force In 1993‚ IBM’s Board of Directors decided the time was right for dramatic action. The once proud company had seen its sales fall from almost $69 billion in 1990 to $64‚5 billion in 1992. In the same period‚ profits plunged from $5‚9 billion to a loss of $4‚96 billion. In April 1993‚ the Board hired Louis V. Gerstner‚ Jr. to serve as its new Chairman and Chief Executive Officer and to turn the company around. Just three months into the job‚ Gerstner announced
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Let’s begin with timidity. This trait needn’t have any thing to do with generosity‚ but if often plagues givers. Timidity is sthe opposite of assertiveness‚ which is easy to associate with takers: they know what they want‚ and they’re not shy about demanding it. For a giver‚ however‚ the goal of acting in others’ interests can make it difficult to assert one’s own. Managers can help the givers in their organizations tease the two concepts apart and learn techniques for appropriate self-advocacy that
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1991. Engendering Archaeology: Women and prehistory. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. Leacock‚ E.B. (1971). Introduction. In Leacock‚ E.B.‚ & Lurie‚ N.O. (Eds.)‚ North american indians in historical perspective. Illinois: Waveland Press‚ Inc. Lerner‚ Gerda. 1986. The creation of patriarchy. New York: Oxford University Press. Moore‚ J. H. (1996). The cheyenne. Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishers Inc. Reiter‚ Rayna R.‚ editor. 1975. Toward an anthropology of women. New York: Monthly Review press.
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Anon 11/4/12 APWH Chapter 2 Notes I. Something New: The Emergence of Civilizations A. The contrast between “artificial” life as a “civilized” city dweller and the spacious freedom and imagined simplicity of earlier times still resonates today. B. “Civilizations” are a relatively recent phenomenon in human history made possible by the surpluses produced by the Agricultural Revolution. C. The distinctive features of civilizations are: 1. Cities
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Daniel Rubin November 18‚ 2012 Were blood sports an essential part of the early modern era? Do they have a place in today’s society? Blood sports of Great Britain and its American colonies in the early modern era encouraged violent tendencies among men. These tendencies were necessary for use in contemporary warfare. Blood sports also helped to solidify class divisions by providing an avenue for the nobility and the rich to demonstrate their superiority over one another and the
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Phenomenology in Sociology Gurwitsch A 1966 Studies in Phenomenology and Psychology. Northwestern University Press‚ Evanston‚ IL Gurwitsch A 1979 Human Encounters in the Social World (ed. Me! traux A‚ trans. Kersten F). Duquesne University Press‚ Pittsburgh‚ PA Heidegger M 1962 Being and Time (trans. Macquarrie J‚ Robinson E). Harper & Row‚ New York Herzog M 1992 Phanomenologische Psychologie—Grundlagen W und Entwicklung (Phenomenological Psychology—Foundations and Development). Asanger
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Compare and Contrast Economic Market Systems In differentiating between market structures one has to compare and contrast public goods‚ private goods‚ common resources‚ and natural monopolies. All of these are major factors that need to be considered. Public goods are those goods in which all of society benefit from and are equally shared among everyone within. These types of goods can be consumed simultaneously by several individuals without diminishing the value of consumption to any individual
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Unethical Recruitment Wal-Mart vs. Target Ethics is a very crucial part in businesses especially when it comes to the Human Resource department to recruit ethically. Ethics seeks to address questions about morality‚ different concepts of what is good and bad‚ right and wrong‚ justice‚ and virtue. (Hirsch‚ 2010‚ p.33) Many people associate ethics with their feelings‚ religion‚ laws and cultural society but on the contrary ethics is not a matter of one’s feelings nor is it based on religion
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Self- concept in athletes is a considerable topic of research‚ which demonstrates much benefits of participation in sport for self- concept. Self-concept is defined as composite look of one’s self (Rosenberg 1979) an individual’s feelings and thoughts of their self or see their selves as an object. Self-concept is made up of experiences through environments and especially affected by significant others. Research on self-concept has emphasized that of global construct of general self-concept. Typically
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Assisted reproductive technology Assisted Reproductive technology (Art) is a technology used to make babies in artificial way. This technology gave hope to a lot of people all over the world to have children. Statistics show that almost Three million infants have been delivered using Assisted Reproductive Technology in the last 30 years‚ all over the world. This procedure enables couples to achieve pregnancy‚ for example women or men who are infertile; also singles that want have babies‚
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