Warren Oats was a highly successful employee for American Auto Suppliers‚ a Chicago-based company that makes original-equipment specialty parts for Ford‚ GM‚ and Chrysler. Because of his excellent performance as a maintenance engineer‚ Oats was promoted to a high executive position supervising a division of more than fifty staff distributed in different locations. Oats was confused. He has tremendous experience as a an engineer but non as a manager‚ sitting in his office thinking about his new
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THE SPIRALITY OF THE SINGLE JERSEY FABRICS AND ITS EFFECT ON THE GARMENTS F. CEKEN Dokuz Eylul University Engineering Fac. Textile Eng. Department Bornova-Izmir/TURKEY 1. Introduction The single jersey knitted structures‚ used widely in knitted garments‚ cause some problems‚ because of their unbalanced structures. The most important problem of the single jersey structure is fabric spirality‚ which affects all the fabric and creates big problems at the clothing step. It affects the garment
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To: Ms. Kiklas (skiklas@allworldtravel.com) From: Eric Rivera (erivera@carnival.com) Subject: Carnival Student Tour Package Inquiry Ms. Kiklas‚ Your message regarding student package deals has prompted me to send you a response. We‚ at Carnival cruise lines‚ would like to thank you for thinking about our cruise line as an option for these students. Carnival cruises has reached the number one spot by appealing to younger customers. Unfortunately‚ Carnival has made many changes
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Ethics is the code of moral principles and values that governs the behavior of a person or group with respect to what is right and wrong. Ethics sets standards as to what is good or bad in conduct and decision making. Example of Unethical and Illegal Organizational Behavior Toward Customers False or deceptive sales practice Submitting misleading invoices Fabricating product quality data Toward Employees Discriminating against employees Creating a hostile work environment Violating
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JetBlue Managing Growth JetBlue Case JetBlue’s main strategy is to be a low cost carrier (LCC) and use differentiation as a competitive advantage. The main problem that concerns this case is that JetBlue has the need for slower capacity growth but the exact size of the cuts from each of the airlines’ two aircrafts was far from obvious. The contents of this case analysis will show how they managed to get to this point through the use of business strategy tools. Also I will give some recommendations
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Chapter 7: managing flow variability: safety inventory 7.1 Objective In the previous chapter on inventory‚ we focused on economies of scale as the major driver for inventory. The purpose of this chapter is to introduce the notion of safety inventory as a buffer against stochastic variability in supply / demand and discuss various levers for reducing it. The chapter is covered over two classes each of duration 100 minutes. In the first class‚ we first motivate the need for forecasting as a way
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Organizational culture can be summed up as a complex set of assumptions‚ beliefs‚ perceptions‚ symbols and values that define how a company goes about doing business. Every organization has its own unique culture or value set. Most organizations do not consciously try to create a certain culture as the culture of the organization is typically created automatically and unconsciously‚ based on the values of the top management or the founders of an organization. How things are said and done in a
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Task 1: Research Communication Audit: A communication audit is a thorough evaluation of an organization’s ability to transfer information. This type of audit can be performed to evaluate an organization ’s external or internal communication capabilities. The purpose of a communication audit is to uncover the strengths and weaknesses within the various stages of the information transfer – whether occurring directly within the company itself‚ or with its clients
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Leadership lessons from the Great Rail Yatra: Indian Railways In 2006‚ when the then Railway Minister rose to address the parliament with the rail budget‚ he said “Mr. Speaker Sir‚ I rise to present the Budget Estimates 2006-07 for the Indian Railways at a point in time when‚ there has been a historical turnaround in the financial situation of the Indian Railways.” The sheer size and scale of the Indian railways in terms of the volume of passengers and freight it carries to the number of trains
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Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater 5210 BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (BOD)*#(1) 5220 CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (COD)*#(2) 5220 A. Introduction Chemical oxygen demand (COD) is defined as the amount of a specified oxidant that reacts with the sample under controlled conditions. The quantity of oxidant consumed is expressed in terms of its oxygen equivalence. Because of its unique chemical properties‚ the dichromate ion (Cr2O72–) is the specified oxidant in Methods
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