CHAPTER 5: HENRI FAYOL 1) How convincing is Fayol’s claim that the activities of industrial undertakings can be divided into 6 groups? According to Fayol the activities of industrial undertakings could plausibly be divided into six groups‚ regardless its size or the complexity. These groups of activities or essential functions are always present and they are: technical activities (production‚ manufacture‚ adaptation)‚ commercial activities (buying‚ selling‚ exchange)‚ financial activities (search
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their own very different ways. And so no matter who became the next Sultan‚ despite making enemies every time the Ottomans had expanded‚ the Ottomans kept their empire well unified because they had a very robust army‚ and the Golden Age aided in legitimacy and loyalty towards Suleiman I. The Ottomans used very tactical
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Recommended references Cho‚ CH & Patten‚ DM 2007‚ ‘The role of environmental disclosures as tools of legitimacy: a research note’‚ Accounting‚ Organizations and Society vol. 32‚ no. 7‚ pp. 639-47. Cormier‚ D‚ Magnan‚ M & Van Velthoven‚ B 2005‚ ‘Environmental disclosure quality in large German companies: economic incentives‚ public pressures or institutional conditions?’ European Accounting Review‚ vol. 14‚ no. 1‚ pp. 3-39. Cowan‚ S & Gadenne‚ D 2005‚ ‘Australian corporate environmental reporting:
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Business Ethics Term Paper: Wal-Mart Walmart serves customers and members more than 200 million times per week at more than 9‚826 retail units under 60 different banners in 28 countries. With their fiscal year 2010 sales of $405 billion‚ Walmart employs 2.1 million associates worldwide. Walmart was founded in 1962 by Sam Walton‚ with the opening of the first Walmart discount store in Rogers‚ Ark. The company incorporated as Wal-Mart Stores‚ Inc.‚ on Oct. 31‚ 1969. The company’s shares began trading
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in a serious oil spill incident. Its environmental reporting in both annual report and the corporate sustainability reports for 2012 increased significantly. How does the Legitimacy theory explain this? Legitimacy theory provides a view that corporations need to maintain ‘legitimacy’ in order to survive. Retaining legitimacy is dependent upon complying with community expectations‚ and the expectations of the community are considered to be embodied within the ‘social
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To conclude‚ Transnational Organized Crime poses a significant threat to the international community because it can be associated with terrorism; it allows for the legitimacy of a state to be undermined; and because it affects both strong and weak states. Since 9/11‚ terrorism has been a huge threat for the security of most countries around the world. Recent attacks in Paris and Brussels only contribute to the fear that the West has of terrorist organizations. With the convergence of terrorist organizations
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minister‚ Prince Klemens von Metternich. The Principle of Legitimacy I. Metternich claimed that he was guided at Vienna by the principle of legitimacy. B. To reestablish peace and stability in Europe‚ he considered it necessary to restore the legitimate monarchs who would preserve traditional institutions. This had already been done in the restoration of the Bourbons in France and Spain. C. Elsewhere‚ the principle of legitimacy was largely ignored and overshadowed by more practical
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Formerly referred to as Third World countries‚ these countries have a shared history of colonialism and imperialism. That history and separation is the starting point for the new democracy. Imperialism caused issues‚ introduction ethnic identities and discrimination that may not have previously existed. Free people found themselves subjects with a voice. Trade was interrupted as the economies were adjusted to support the government in place. The countries may have also be subject to isolation
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Summary of Chapter 7: Law and Social Change In the development of Legal Institutions‚ law and society theorists have been trying to correlate it with legal and social change. Later after several studies they viewed that law as an independent and dependent variable in the society’s system. First of all what needs to be understand is the term change that used in “social change”. The social change in this term is refers to changes in society. Society is a complex network of patterns of relationships
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speaks of the crimes the two have committed against Athens and aims to prove them guilty in order to ‘preserve Athenian society’. Stephanus and Neaera were parents to the illegitimate child Phano‚ whom they used to marry off to men in order to fake legitimacy however the couple were not affectionate towards each other‚ they simply had a business arrangement in which they pretended to be married and Stephanus would
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