INTERNATIONAL STANDARD SAI SA8000®: 2008 SOCIAL ACCOUNTABILITY 8000 SA8000® is a registered trademark of Social Accountability International Page 2 of 10 SA8000:2008 ABOUT THE STANDARD This is the third issue of SA8000‚ an auditable standard for a third-party verification system‚ setting out the voluntary requirements to be met by employers in the workplace‚ including workers’ rights‚ workplace conditions‚ and management systems. The normative elements of this standard are based
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When Rosemarie Morgan claims‚ "Hardy ’s women ... must have confused many readers caught with mixed feelings of admiration and alarm‚" (Morgan‚ Women and Sexuality in the Novels of Thomas Hardy xiii) she brings forward a duality of reaction which reflects Hardyan heroines ’ characters. The confusion she refers to can be understood within the novels ’ historical contexts‚ as these female protagonists were most likely to have been quite unusual at the time of their creation. Concomitantly‚ today ’s
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Tse Hiu Lam 2013559921 Assessment 2 – Case Synthesis: Morgan Stanley‚ Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP‚ Oppenheimer & Co‚ Inc. involved Introduction Today’s financial market is a vibrant yet unpredictable domain‚ with mergers and acquisitions that sometimes cannot be predicted by the market trend or even with sophisticated information technology. With such uncertainty‚ investors are disposed to gain all necessary information upon making investment decisions. This puts those who handle sensitive undisclosed
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A case study of Nokia Corporation leading to the acquisition by Microsoft The significance of Nokia case study to leadership revealed how a technology communication giant that was an industrial leader could easily be acquired by Microsoft for $7.2 billion US dollars (Versace‚ 2013; Swisher‚ 2013). In this analysis‚ Nokia Corporation deviated from its core competences in terms of technology and from its pedagogical historical data that have catapulted the company from local to national‚ to international
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Even though we all live in a wealthy society these days‚ people still chase after wealth and social facts today. In the short story “The Necklace” Mathilde is a woman that is married to a clerk. Ever since she was young she has been seeking for wealth. She dreamed of having expensive clothes‚ silverware‚ etc. Comparing this short story to the world today‚ there are many similarities and differences. One similarity between the short story and the world today would be not everyone lives in healthy
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The Puritan Dilemma by Edmund Morgan John Winthrop’s "Puritan dilemma" arose out of his life long effort to accomplish two goals: to secure a community dedicated to upholding every aspect of God’s will and to do this within the context of everyday life. His first challenge dealt with the depravity of the Church of England in the early seventeenth century and how to escape its wickedness without withdrawing from the world. Then‚ with the founding of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630‚ a decade
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Shardena Perry Tiffin University MGT 506 Week 7 Assignment October 9‚ 2014 From NASDAQ‚ my chosen stock is AAPL‚ which is the symbol for Apple Inc. “ Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Cupertino‚ California‚ Apple designs‚ develops‚ and sells consumer electronics‚ software‚ online services‚ and personal computers. “(Apple.com) Apple’s most successful items have been the Mac computer‚ the iPod‚ and iPhone Apple was founded on April 1‚ 1976
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Executive summary: In this report we try to evaluate the performance of CEO & chairman of JP Morgan Chase James Dimon. In a nutshell‚ the paper discusses several periods of Mr. Dimon’s career‚ examining his performance at one of the world’s leading financial organizations and provides a comprehensive summary of his leadership. Having been named as CEO of the year by BusinessWeek in 2007 and included in the list of top 100 most influential people in the world according to Times magazine (what
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Investment Industry EXECUTIVE SUMMARY We chose to do our analysis on the Investment Industry. The companies that we have chosen to analyze are Bank of America Merrill Lynch followed by Goldman Sachs Group‚ Morgan Stanley‚ and JP Morgan Chase and Co. These companies are known as investment banks. An investment bank is a financial institution that assists individuals‚ corporations‚ and governments in raising capital by underwriting and/or acting as the client’s agent in the
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Case Study: Merit Enterprise Corp March 19‚ 2013 After careful review Merit Enterprise Corp case study the pros of option 1: (assuming that JP Morgan Chase will continue to extend season credit lines and medium term loans.) First‚ it would keep Merit Enterprise as a private company. Secondly‚ Merit’s would have the right of non-disclosure. Private companies are not required to disclose details about their operations. Third‚ Merit Enterprise does not have to answer to shareholders if the stock
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