Summary On November 13‚ 2007‚ a global‚ cross-functional team at Cisco Systems‚ Inc. was seeking the green light to start manufacturing a new router‚ code-named Viking. The team faced a number of challenges in launching the low-cost but powerful router for telecommunications service providers. After overhauling the project to sharply increase the router’s planned speed and capacity‚ the company had just one year to launch the product‚ an unusually fast schedule. In addition‚ Viking team was proposing
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Hiring the Elderly: an Ethical Dilemma Abstract The purpose of this report is to examine the topic of hiring the elderly in Latvia from a business ethics point of view. Since there are several tendencies‚ like ageing population‚ lack of labour-force‚ a shift towards western values and standards of company conduct‚ etc.‚ that are observable in Latvia‚ the authors believe this complex issue to be of significant importance and controversy. While putting forward the principle-based
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Cisco Business Councils (2007): Unifying a Functional Enterprise with an Internal Governance System Harvard Business School June 11‚ 2010 Ranjay Gulati Synopsis In August of 2001‚ just months after Cisco System reported its first loss a a public company ($ 2.7 billion)‚ John Chambers‚ president and CEO‚ announced a major restructuring that would transform Cisco from a decentralized operation organized around customer groups to a centralized one focused on technologies. This restructuring
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Ethical Issues in Management Hiring Hiring is the process of interviewing the candidate selected to the job he‚ or she applied for. Appointment of a certain person to a particular post involves formally asking that person to work on the position her‚ or he officially to do it; It involves placing the selected employees on the right position of the jobs. Hiring is an everyday job for every business. It is not an easy job as it sounds; they are numerous rules‚ and procedures
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References: Goetsch‚ D. L.‚ & Davis‚ S. B. (2010). Quality Management for Organizational Excellence: Introduction to total quality (6th ed.). Upper Saddle River‚ NJ: Prentice Hall.
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List and discuss the different phases of the police hiring process. There are 100 applicants for every police officer position. In larger cities announcements for police officer positions usually generate about 1000 applicants. A civil service type of application is one of the most commonly used application process for police recruits. The application contains basic information; name‚ address and background information like education and experiences‚ some applications will even go beyond the
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long term skillful workers and unable to compete to the other competitors. Therefore the long term (strategic) plan will be fail. 5. What possible solutions to this dispute do you think might emerge from dialogue between Cisco Systems and its stakeholders? Cisco System should prove and convince to the stakeholder that the development only brings less negative impact by develops the project in eco-friendly ways. They also should create more
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Introduction Gender preferences in hiring decisions is a very current subject. It has been proved that there is an inequity in salaries between men and women‚ and that men will more often occupy leadership positions than women. But does gender really has an influence in hiring decisions? In this paper one will try to investigate this. The first point will treat the different gender stereotypes. The second point will cover the three main factors that have an influence on hiring decisions and the effect of
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Shattered Mind‚ New York: Knopf. Gardner‚ Howard (2006) Changing Minds. The art and science of changing our own and other people ’s minds. Boston MA.: Harvard Business School Press. Gardner‚ H.‚ Csikszentmihalyi‚ M. and Damon‚ W. (2001) Good Work: Where Excellence and Ethics Meet‚ New York: Basic Books. Gardner‚ H.‚ & Hatch‚ T. (1989). Multiple intelligences go to school: Educational implications of the theory of multiple intelligences. Educational Researcher‚ 18(8)‚ 4-9.
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CISCO Corporation is a company that provides software‚ hardware and services that enable consumers to use the internet. Since its incorporation in 1984 and its IPO in 1990‚ CISCO has been a front runner in the internet infrastructure business. By spending billions on research and development early on‚ CISCO has become leading provider of networks services. With over sixty thousand employees worldwide‚ this company has grown and evolved since its inception in 1984 by a small group of scientist
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