What is INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY? Intellectual property (IP) is a legal concept which refers to creations of the mind for which exclusive rights are recognized. Under intellectual property law‚ owners are granted certain exclusive rights to a variety of intangible assets‚ such as musical‚ literary‚ and artistic works; discoveries and inventions; and words‚ phrases‚ symbols‚ and designs. Common types of intellectual property rights include copyright‚ trademarks‚ patents‚ industrial design rights‚ trade
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Leadership‚ Organizational Change and Consultancy Final Paper NEW LEADERSHIP MODEL: INTELLECTUAL LEADERSHIP HARUN MENGES (s1279521) 1 HARUN MENGES (s1279521) 09.07.2012 INTRODUCTION Since the corporations’ requirement change in time ‚ leadership conception develops and becomes more important. Changes in the field of total quality management result in arising new concepts about leadership.Especially since 1978‚ it has been found that conventional approaches about leadership style is not enough
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1.1. Definition of intellectual capital and a brief history of IC management Before someone can measure something‚ he/she has to know what to count. So how should intellectual capital be defined? A universally accepted definition is the first step toward standardization‚ but still it is hard to find the best one for "intellectual capital". In this section I ’ll define intellectual capital and study the history of its development. Intellectual capital is knowledge that can be exploited for
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The rise and fall of sweatshop labor in the United States have had major effects on the global garment industry. The effects of sweatshop labor are still debated today because we still struggle over the morality of sweatshops (Ross‚ 50). It is problematic to think that “Sweatshops aren’t that bad. You can live like a king on those wages in other countries because everything is so cheap and they don’t have the same expenses we do in the United States” (Kelley). We can analyze this statement by applying
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Introduction: The term ‘sweatshops’ means; A factory or workshop‚ especially in the clothing industry‚ where manual workers are employed at very low wages for long hours and under poor conditions. Sweatshops are involved in many terrible breaches of Human Rights Breaches‚ Fuelling Greed‚ Feminism and Environmental Impacts which then lead to bad situations causing deaths‚ injuries and further corrupted situations. Human Rights Breaches: Australia is outsourcing the production of goods from developing countries
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Nike: The Sweatshop Debate analyzes the legal‚ cultural and ethical challenges confronted by global business and will also examine the roles that host governments have played while summarizing the strategic and operational challenges facing global managers at Nike. Having standards in place will protect the organization from a major crisis like the one formally faced by Nike. Philip Knight and Bill Bowerman created the world’s largest sportswear company‚ Nike‚ in 1962. Nike now controls more than
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Intellectual Property Kiara Rubenstein Intellectual Property (IP) is legal rights that result from intellectual activity in the industrial‚ scientific‚ literary‚ and artistic fields. The four major components of intellectual property include; patent‚ copyright‚ industrial design‚ and trademark. A patent is a government grant giving the right to eliminate others from making‚ using or selling an invention. A Canadian patent is protection within Canada for 20 years from the date of filing of the
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Although Intellectual property can be catorigized under many aspects‚ not every idea the mind can think is included. The legal definition of intellectual property often abbreviated IP is ideas‚ inventions‚ artistic works‚ songs‚ business processes etc. In general terms is any commercialily viable product created out of a persons mental processes. The Coca Cola company for example has legal ownership of several factories‚ bottling equipment‚ trucks for transporting their product and the actual ingredient
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Assignment 5: Nike” From Sweatshops to Leadership in Employment Practices” M.K. Green Dr. James Emerson Human Resource Management 522 Ethics and Advocacy for HR Pro March 13‚ 2014 Discern how a more effective ethics programs and a more viable code of conduct could have mitigated the ethical issues faced by Nike Nike leads the world in the manufacturing and distributing of its athletic footwear and accessories. Nike is the brain child of Phil Knight and his
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Intellectual Power: How it is Measured‚ and its Effect on Learning Intellectual Power: How it is Measured‚ and its Effect on Learning Intellectual power‚ brainpower and mental capacity can all be defined as intelligence. According to The Developing Child‚ intelligence is a set of abilities defined in various ways by different psychologists but generally agreed to include the ability to reason abstractly‚ the ability to profit from experience‚ and the ability to adapt to varying environmental
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