regulated offshore oil drilling activities adopt the plan for drilling in the Gulf of Mexico produced by petroleum giant BP to assure the agency that the environmental damage from the spill anywhere would be "minimal or nonexistent". Predict the worst case spill 1500-4600 barrels. MMS approved BP’s plan to set a cement plug to the temporary closure of wells with only a 90-minute telephone conversation between the MMS and BP officials. BP declares MMS application ’categories excluded "from environmental
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CMEC01 12/8/06 8:50 Page 1 Chapter 1 Managers and Managing LEARNING OBJECTIVES After studying this chapter‚ you should be able to: ✓ Describe what management is‚ why management is important‚ what managers do‚ and how managers utilise organisational resources efficiently and effectively to achieve organisational goals. ✓ Distinguish among planning‚ organising‚ leading and controlling (the four principal managerial functions)‚ and explain how managers’ ability to handle each one can affect
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CONCEPT OF BRAND COMMUNITY: BUILDING COMMITMENT IN THE CHARITY SECTOR ABSTRACT The paper introduces a model of brand community development that is extended to the nonprofit sector; a sector that has just recently begun to embrace relationship marketing. It is believed that brand communities represent a unique form of relationship marketing‚ with benefits that are particularly compelling for nonprofits. Indeed‚ the paper reveals that many of the characteristics of brand communities
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PART 1‚ SOCIAL WORK VALUES 1. Does the social work code of ethics have a viewpoint or perspective on poverty? 2. Based on the values of social work‚ what would be our stance on the situation described in this case study? 3. What could be the role of a social worker in this case? 4. What are the value conflicts here? Social work is a discipline derived from the professional practice of worker and social worker‚ whose aim is to promote change‚ strengthening society and problem solving in human
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WRITERSHARP INC. (Case Study) I.THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK Writesharp Inc. Is thinking of customer’s satisfactions through listening to what usually a customer demands in terms of how will the pencil they are producing should be. Writesharp Inc. is particular with the effects of change of the feature of their current product line. II. STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM How will Writesharp Inc. improve the quality of its product that will satisfy the customers and performance of its
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Managing Change Acceptation-Accountability Plan Date I 19 November 2010 Place I Hotelschool The Hague Prepared for I G.J. Smit‚ C. Valk‚ D. Verschoor and A. van Rheede Introduction In line with Hotelschool the Hague’s course ‘Managing change: KLM‚ Air France and JAL’‚ students are assigned to take part in an Integrated Professional Duty Course. Students‚ as a HR management team‚ will be deciding on an implementation plan for the adaption JAL to Air-France-KLM‚ and vice versa‚ at strategic
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International Management II (Core Competencies) Case Study Bank of America (A) by Alexander Beil Christoph Hillgärtner Florian Schlegelmilch Harvard Case Study: Bank of America List of Contents 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Introduction / Definitions Overview “Bank of America” Product development processes Strength and weaknesses of the systems Learning through experimentation Conclusion / Learnings Summary Questions for group discussion References 1 Harvard Case Study: Bank of America 1. Introduction /
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Student Self-administered case study Principles of Management ‐ an Introduction Case summary: Case duration (Min): Principles of Management (PoM) 45-60 Introduction to PoM Worldwide This case considers what is meant by management from the perspectives of commercial and not‐for‐profit organisations. Similarities and differences are considered and arguments from two people presented over three short film clips. Consider using role play initially ‐ i.e. make one group of students a profit
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Various literatures indicate that managing diversity within today’s labor force has become a primary concern for companies and organizations today. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (2012)‚ compared with the labor force of past decades‚ today’s labor force is older‚ more racially and ethnically diverse‚ and composed of more women. Over the next decade‚ the labor force will become even more racially and ethnically diverse (Bureau of Labor Statistics‚ 2012). Non-Hispanic whites made up
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dividing a potential market into distinct subsets of consumers with a common need or characteristic and selecting one or more segments to target with a specially designed marketing mix. Besides aiding in the development of new products‚ segmentation studies assist in the redesign and repositioning of existing products‚ in the creation of promotional appeals‚ and the selection of advertising media. In order to be a viable target market‚ a segment must be identifiable (by some criteria such as demographics
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