factors‚ forces‚ situations‚ and events outside the organization that affect its performance. Understanding External Environment What Role Do Demographics Play? Demographics‚ the characteristics of a population used for purposes of social studies‚ can and do have a significant impact on how managers manage. Age is a particularly important demographic for managers since the workplace often has different age groups all working together. Types of Generations • Veteran: Those born before 1946
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Kellan McTague 9/5/12 Period 8 Portfolio project #1 Otterbox History: see timeline Mission statement: We’ve Got Technology Covered! Demographics: Statistics that describe a population in terms of personal characteristics. Otterbox deals with demographics in various ways‚ primarily with colors and designs on their cases. They have black‚ a sort of universal color but they also have colors like pink and designs like camouflage. Otterbox really has something for everybody and that’s why they
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Luke’s House is a small primary care clinic that provides free‚ basic services to patients without a primary care provider. Most of the clinic’s patients are people who would otherwise have gone to the ER or not received care at all. The mission of Luke’s House is “to be a place of medical and spiritual hope‚ health and healing for the people of Greater New Orleans‚ to provide patient centered experiences for students‚ and to open a doorway to long-term healthcare solutions.” The clinic is in a low-income
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in family purchase decision making in India and the West: A review. 2. Beatty‚ S.E.‚ and S. Talpade‚ 1994. Adolescent influence in family decision making: A replication with extension 3. McNeal.‚ J‚ 1998. Tapping the three kids markets. American Demographics.‚ 20 (4): 39-41. 4. Lindstrom‚ M.‚ and P.B.‚ Seybold‚ 2000. Brand child. Kogan Page‚ London‚ pp:1 5 6. Caruana‚ A.‚ and R. Vassallo‚ 2003. Children’s perception of their influence over purchases: the role of parental communication patterns 7. Chan
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changes to be able to survive with the increasing liabilities caused by older employees. Companies must also scrutinize their marketing strategies‚ so that they will be ready for the new powerful consumer generation‚ the seniors. The changing demographics will have a major impact on the consumption patterns as the world`s population ages. For example‚ the age cohort people older than 65 will double to 1 billion over the next 20 years (United Nations Population Division 2010). It is estimated that
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more particularly in the Social and economic life of the society. Significance of demography in different fields could be treated as under (l)Political: l In the political field the authorities wou1d be able to know with the help of factual demographic data about‚ the rate at which the number of voters‚ both male and female‚ are increasing and how the generation gap is gradually influencing national and international politics Besides data on population can help in identifying pockets of high concentration
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variations are discussed. The first (segmentation variation) relies on interaction-based classification of users into lifestyle segments‚ while the second (similarities variation) is based on the identification of similarities among users based on demographic and TV program preferences data. In both variations‚ the user’s interest is predicted by aggregating lifestyle neighbors’ preferences. Results from an empirical validation‚ in the form of a laboratory experiment‚ are also presented in order to provide
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Comparative Analysis of Depression among Housewives and Working Women in Bilal Colony of Kornagi Area Karachi Riaz. H. Soomro (Corresponding Author) Assistant Professor Hamdard Institute of Management Sciences and PhD Research Scholar in Hamdard Institute of Education and Social Sciences Hamdard University Karachi‚ Pakistan. Dr. Fozia Riaz MBA Graduate Institute of Health Management Dow University of Health Sciences Karachi‚ Pakistan Shahid Naved Assistant Professor Hamdard Institute
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© The Journal Contemporary Management Research 2010‚ Vol.4‚ No. 2 THE INFLUENCE OF CHILDREN ON FAMILY PURCHASING DECISIONS IN OTA‚ NIGERIA S. T. Akinyele* Abstract Children constitute an important target market segment and merit attention from a marketing perspective. The role that children play in making decisions concerning the entire family unit has prompted researchers to direct attention to the study of influence of children. This research focuses on the influence of children on family
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controllable by the organisation. (Elliot‚ Rundle-Thiele‚ Walker‚ p.48) Components of the Marco Environment: There are six (6) major components of which the macro-environment is made up of; 1. Demographic 2. Economic 3. Natural 4. Technological 5. Political 6. Cultural Demographic Forces: variables of a population which include‚ age‚ sex‚ level of education‚ employment status‚ income level‚ home style status (ownership vs. renting & location) also ethnicity. Example: An
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