DEPARTMENT OF TECHNOLOGY AND BUILT ENVIRONMENT Chinese culture‚ Chinese corporation culture and innovation How does a corporation implement innovation properly? Hengsong.TU & Xin.YUAN 06.2010 Master’s Thesis 1 Abstracts: 文化反映在人类生活中的很多方面，诸如做事情方式，沟通的礼节， 教育，历史事件，经济状况等等方面。在很大方面，一个国家的文化 会影响到企业的经营方式。通过当前比较流行的霍夫特德的文化区分 理论，我们了解到中国的文化特点体现为比较长的权利距离，集体主 义倾向，更男性化，强调风险规避以及考虑长期目标。因此，中国的 企业也长期处在中国文化的影响中，表现起来就是中国的企业更强调 集体文化，以及把企业当作家的思想。企业中存在许多的规章制度以 及等级观念，员工的晋升与个人的成就和服从相关联。通过这篇文 章，我们在一系列文献整理的基础上，更好的了解中国文化和中国企
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Hurry Date‚ a small & privately owned company‚ is one of the America’s leading provider of speed dating with a strong brand recognition. It’s an online version of traditional round-robin speed dating. It operates a website HurryDate.com to screen singles looking to mingle. The range of service it provides are‚ online match-making‚ personal browsing and event hosting. It does this by hosting round-robin meeting event for potentials dating candidates. This is where they make money by charging
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MapReduce is a widely used parallel computing framework for large scale data processing. The two major performance metrics in MapReduce are job execution time and cluster throughput. They can be seriously impacted by straggler machines— machines on which tasks take an unusually long time to finish. Speculative execution is a common approach for dealing with the straggler problem by simply backing up those slow running tasks on alternative machines. Multiple speculative execution strategies have been
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Airbnb offers free rentals to the victims of hurricane Matthew The government ordered millions of residents in the southeastern U.S to vacate their places due to the dangerous hurricane have approached the city. The home sharing platform‚ Airbnb has decided to help the people whose houses were affected by the dangerous storm. Hurricane Matthew moved to Florida’ east cost before affecting the regions of Georgia and South California. Though the storm has weekend‚ the impacts it created takes days to
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CHAPTER 10 CRITICISMS OF ABSORPTION COST SYSTEMS: INCENTIVE TO OVER-PRODUCE P 10-1: Solution to Federal Mixing (10 minutes) [Explaining absorption versus variable costing] Variable costing writes off to income all fixed manufacturing costs incurred during the year. Absorption costing prorates the fixed overheads between units in inventory and units sold based on machine hours. Absorption costing net income is higher than under variable costing by $1.2 million. This means that inventories
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ronGreg Newman ACC 707 Jones Ironworks 1) I agree with Freddie. The payment system would be more effective as a piece rate. This should effectively increase the employees’ incentive to produce efficiently. The piece rate will encourage higher production. It will benefit employees for them to know that if they work harder‚ they will get more money. Under the other system‚ they could work inefficiently and get paid the same amount as someone who was working much more efficiently. This encourages
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current contracts in place. The result was that the most efficient and best cost option involves a combination of all the options mentioned above. Our recommendation‚ included in the spreadsheet below‚ resulted in the lowest unit cost of all the solutions analyzed‚ and we feel is fair to the organizations values. The details: • Maintain the current workforce level of 25 workers for the first 4 periods. During these periods‚ workers will work a full production schedule and at times‚ work overtime
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Q1) Comment on the forecasting method being used by Yankee? Suggest changes that you feel are justified? Ans1) Yankee presently is using the qualitative method for forecasting future demand. Qualitative method as we know is subject to experts’ intuition‚ experience‚ and opinions. So each person according to his/her past experience‚ forecasts the demand for the future. For example‚ Phil Stanton who is in the operations makes his decision of producing in the future on the basis of demand forecast
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2. How much value is generated from cost savings associated with the project? In order to answer this question‚ we need to pay attention that all the revenue we used should be the number before tax‚ then Cost Baseline-Cost Upside=Net Income of Upside-Net Income of Baseline+ Revenue of Baseline-Revenue of Upside=693492‚ which is the value gathered from cost savings in five years. 3. How much value lies in improved revenues? As shown in the Excel above‚ the improved revenue accumulated in five
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1. Describe in words how costs are assigned in the Wilkerson’s current costing system. Discuss the pros and cons of this system. Wilkerson uses a simple traditional cost accounting system in which each unit of product is charged for direct material‚ direct labor and overhead costs. Material cost is based on the prices paid for component under annual purchasing agreements. Labor cost is charged to products based on the standard run times for each product. Labor rates‚ including fringe benefits
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