Case 4.1: Stakeholders and the One Industry Town‚ questions #1-3 1. Identify the stakeholders that influence and/or that are influenced by the company’s decision. The appropriate identification of stakeholders is very important to business corporations as one approach to understanding the environment in which they operate. According to this case‚ there are insufficient eligible workers in the immediate area and workers would have to be attracted from other communities. Employees want to
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Available online at www.sciencedirect.com Computers & Industrial Engineering 54 (2008) 513–525 www.elsevier.com/locate/dsw An integrated AHP–DEA methodology for bridge risk assessment q Ying-Ming Wang a b a‚* ‚ Jun Liu b‚ Taha M.S. Elhag c c Institute of Soft Science‚ Fuzhou University‚ Fuzhou 350002‚ PR China School of Computing and Mathematics‚ Faculty of Engineering‚ University of Ulster at Jordanstown‚ Shore Road‚ Newtownabbey‚ Co. Antrim BT37 0QB‚ Northern Ireland‚ UK
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originally presented in their article " Structure is not Organisation". To quote them: "Intellectually all managers and consultants know that much more goes on in the process of organizing than the charts‚ boxes‚ dotted lines‚ position descriptions‚ and matrices can possibly depict. But all too often we behave as though we didn’t know it - if we want change we change the structure. Diagnosing and solving organizational problems means looking not merely to structural reorganization for answers but to a framework
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Amazon.com: The Brink of Bankruptcy Jeffrey Bezos‚ formerly a senior vice president for D. E. Shaw & Company‚ founded Amazon.com in 1994. D. E. Shaw is a Wall Street-based investment bank‚ and Mr. Bezoswas assigned to find good Internet companies in which to invest. During the summer of 1994‚ he stumbled across a Web site that showed the number of Internet users was growing by 2‚300 percent per month. He quickly realized the vast potential of the Internet‚ and began putting together a list of
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House of Quality Definition: It’s a kind of conceptual map that provides the mean for infrastructural planning and communication. People with different problems and responsibilities can thrash out design priorities while referring to patterns of evidence on the house grid. Basically‚ it is the nerve center and the engine that drives the entire QFD process. There are many different forms of the House of Quality‚ but its ability to be adapted to the requirements of a particular problem make
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this optimality‚ as well as the incapability to generate long-term forecasts for these asset classes. 2 – a) HMC developed its Capital Markets assumptions from the Modern Portfolio Theory‚ focusing on a big extent on mean-variance and covariance matrices analysis‚ leading to the construction an efficient frontier (Exhibit 11). These numbers were obtained though historical analysis done by HMC and third-party analysts. b) HMC has as one of its objectives to maintain the endowment’s long-term purchasing
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Moviegoers’ Perceptions of Food & Drink at Cineplex Odeon As the start time for the Friday night film nears‚ friends‚ families‚ and partners all begin to filter into the dimly lit theatre. Nearly all are carrying‚ almost without exception‚ a bag of popcorn. But what accompanies an individual’s popcorn varies‚ including Coca-Cola‚ Twizzlers‚ or even donuts. This research project seeks to uncover these latent combinations by eliciting moviegoers’ perceptions surrounding food and drink at Cineplex
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Research types Experimental - uses independent (random‚ representative‚ etc.) vs. dependent (observed outcomes)‚ free of confounds. Make causal claims about why things happen‚ prevent bad stuff‚ promote good stuff. “experiments" Correlational - descriptive‚ observational. Does not make causal claims. “studies" Variable types (SS Stevens‚ 1946) Nominal - assign item to category; are discrete / categorical Ordinal - rank order items; are categorical‚ but often treated
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____________________________________________________________ Chapter 05: External Recruitment _____________________________________________________________ Sample Answers for Ethical Issues Issue 1 Many organizations adopt a targeted recruitment strategy. For example‚ Home Depot has targeted workers 50 and above in its recruitment efforts‚ which include advertising specifically in media outlets frequented by older individuals. Other organizations target recruitment messages at women‚ minorities
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Cultural Competency A PRACTICAL GUIDE FOR M E N TA L H E A LT H S E RV I C E P R O V I D E R S By Delia Saldaña‚ Ph.D. Hogg Foundation for Mental Health Cultural Competency A PRACTICAL GUIDE FOR M E N TA L H E A LT H S E RV I C E PROVIDERS © 2001 Hogg Foundation for Mental Health The University of Texas at Austin About the Author Delia Saldaña‚ Ph.D.‚ is a clinical associate professor at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and past director of Health
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