Fall 10 [Management 3200 – Business & Society 08 Fall I. Background Information a.) HealthSouth Corp. is the nation’s largest provider of rehabilitation‚ outpatient surgery and diagnostic services. Now however‚ it is the nation’s largest inpatient rehabilitation hospital. * At the company’s height in 2003‚ it recorded nearly $4.5 billion in revenue‚ dominated the rehabilitation‚ surgery and diagnostic services market and employed more than 60‚000 people at 2‚000 facilities
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companies are directed and controlled‚ which involves a set of relationship between a company’s management‚ its board‚ its shareholders and other stakeholders‚ and the objectives for which the corporation is governed. There are mainly three important theories included in corporate governance‚ which are agency theory‚ transaction cost theory and stakeholder theory‚ each theory views corporate governance from different perspectives. These three theories play significant roles in understanding the corporate
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HealthSouth Fraud Richard Scrushy was the founder of HealthSouth he graduated from Jefferson State Community College and become a registered respiratory therapist after studying at Alabama Birmingham University. He later went to St. Louis and became the regional director of the respiratory therapy department at Lifemark. He eventually moved to Houston and became the COO. In 1984 He left to follow his dream of creating a rehabilitation center in Little Rock. The company changed their name from Amcare
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www.ccsenet.org/ass Asian Social Science Vol. 8‚ No. 10: August 2012 Managing Stakeholders: An Integrative Perspective on the Source of Competitive Advantage Minyu Wu’ ’ School of Business‚ Curtin Universify Sarawak‚ Sarawak‚ Malaysia Correspondence: Minyu Wu‚ School of Business‚ Curtin Universify Sarawak‚ CDT 250‚ 98009 Miri‚ Sarawak‚ Malaysia. Tel: 60-8-544-3844. E-mail: minyu.wu@curtin.edu.my Received: March 19‚ 2012 doi:10.5539/ass.v8nl0pl60 Abstract Despite the enormous amount of academic
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don’t always involve extreme cases such as life or death‚ in fact most cases relate more to theft or dishonesty. Many recent cases such as HealthSouth case prove that making the right decision is often seen in our society. Choosing the right decision may not always be a clear decision. Richard Scrushy‚ is an example of this. Scrushy was the CEO of HealthSouth Corporation. He was known to many is home state of Alabama as a hero and philanthropist. However‚ it wasn’t until 2004‚ where many of those
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Stakeholders The world ’ ’stakeholder ’ ’ was first used in an internal memorandum at the Stanford Research Institute in 1963. It refers to "those groups without whose support the organizations would cease to exist". There are two types of stakeholders‚ primary and secondary. The first type are those that engage in economic transactions with the business - stockholders‚ customers‚ suppliers‚ creditors and employees. The second type are those who do not engaged in direct economic exchange with
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A corporate stakeholder is that which can affect or be affected by the actions of the business as a whole. Examples of a company’s stakeholders Stakeholders | | Government | Taxation‚ VAT‚ legislation‚ low unemployment‚ truthful reporting. | Employees | Rates of pay‚ job security‚ compensation‚ respect‚ truthful communication. | Customers | Value‚ quality‚ customer care‚ ethical products. | Suppliers | Providers of products and services used in the end product for the customer‚ equitable
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P2 describe the different stakeholders who influence the purpose of two contrasting businesses In this task I am going to be writing a business report regarding Carlsberg and Capital Foods showing the different types of stakeholders‚ which include within the two organisations. It will show how the stakeholders influence within the two businesses‚ and how they set their own objectives towards the companies. CARLSBERG Customers Customers are the people who buy the products and sell them‚ or use
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P2 – Describe the different stakeholders seeking to influence the purpose of two contrasting businesses. Stakeholders - a group of people or organisation that has interest or concern in an organisation. For most of the businesses it is vital to have stakeholder groups because it may affect business efficiency‚ may increase sales‚ or even it may help for the business to reach its aims and objectives more effectively. Although‚ there are loads of stakeholders in a business‚ but not all of
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FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE CASE STUDY: ROOFINGS GROUP 1.0 INTRODUCTION Corporate governance is concerned with ways in which all parties interested in the well-being of the firm (the stakeholders) attempt to ensure that managers and other insiders take measures or adopt mechanisms that safeguard the interests of the stakeholders. Such measures are necessitated by the separation of ownership from management‚ an increasingly vital feature of the modern firm. A typical firm is characterized by numerous owners
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