Proposal: Four Day Work Week I propose that we implement a four day work week over the conventional five day work week. 1938 was the year that the Fair Labor Standards Act was passed. This act stated that there was a need for a standardized work week‚ and that the new standard work week was to be eight hour days‚ five days a week. There need for this act stemmed from employers taking advantage of their employees and working them to many hours a day and to many days a week. The basis for the eight
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Management 307 Shell-Nigeria case The Business Ethics of Shell in Nigeria The Shell-Nigeria case has produced great debates about business practices and what is deemed ethical behavior. When applying the views of some of the great moral philosophers‚ economists‚ and philosophical concepts in history to the Shell-Nigeria case‚ one is left with a variety of diverse viewpoints about whether or not Shell’s business practices were ethical. Philosopher and economist‚ Adam Smith‚ would likely have
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should government of an oil or gas-producing nation seek advice from outsider on how its oil or gas reserves should be developed and the resulting revenues should be used? Fiscal management is one of any government’s sovereign functions. However‚ not all governments have the capability to effectively manage its own revenue generation and revenue flows. At some point‚ outsiders must be sought for guidance and advice‚ especially in the case of a government that found its first oil/gas reserve and had no
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Labor Practices Keegan Rodgers PHL/320 5/25/15 Walter Sienkiewicz Labor Practices A “sweatshop” is defined by the United States Department of Labor as a factory that violates two or more labor laws. The use of questionable labor practices‚ popularly knows as “sweatshop labor”‚ is widespread in the production of consumer goods (Paharia‚ 2013). Major international brands such as Nike and Apple are some of the high-profile companies that have been exposed to such labor abuses. Sweatshop
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The Standard Oil company. John Rockefeller‚ the owner of Standard Oil‚ took over the oil industry‚ he would put his prices low so that everyone would buy his oil over the others and when that would happen the other businesses would go out of business and so Rockefeller would buy them out and jack up the prices because there was no one else to go to. This issue is very important to the people that buy the oil because the oil would be necessary to them and they would have to buy his oil because he had
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1) Shell Program To check the greater number between two numbers #!/bin/sh [sourcecode language=’sh’] echo Enter a Number read num1 echo Enter Number read num2 if test $num1 -ge $num2 then echo $num1 is greater than $num2 else echo $num2 is greater than $num1 fi 2) Shell Program to Check a number is even or odd [sourcecode language=’sh’] echo Enter a Number to Find Even or odd read num b=`expr $num % 2` if [ $b -eq 0 ] then echo Even number else echo Odd Number fi 3) Shell
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future Value of 10‚000 for 30 years at 7% $76‚122.55 paying 10‚0000 enter it as a negative Develop Model inputs Quiz rate 7% 12% nper 30 6 pmt 0 -3500 pv -10000 0 output fv $76‚122.55 $28‚403.16 Quiz
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THE STATE OIL COMPANY OF THE AZERBAIJAN REPUBLIC The State Oil Company of the Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR) is involved in exploring oil and gas fields‚ producing‚ processing‚ and transporting oil‚ gas‚ and gas condensate‚ marketing petroleum and petrochemical products in domestic and international markets‚ and supplying natural gas to industry and the public in Azerbaijan. Three production divisions‚ two oil refineries and one gas processing plant‚ an oil tanker fleet‚ a deep water platform fabrication
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formal way to communicate because sometimes it has its own language which can be misunderstood or not appropriate. For example‚ LOL stands for laugh out loud. The benefits and drawback of web pages and search engine usages also can be harmful to a company if the searches are not appropriate for that organization. Having a web page can be a great way to advertise because in most cases it is free. Search engines can supply the organization with much needed information faster than manuals.
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performance and guidelines by providing proper instructions in operating the backhoe. However‚ Jim’s work quality was deficient in breaking waterlines or digging up underground telephone lines. According to Blanchard & Thacker (2013‚ p. 151) table 5-4 would have been cheaper in a training program‚ then constantly paying for the damage Jim imposed upon the
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