Abstract: The accident that happened aboard the offshore platform Piper Alpha in This summer 1988 wiped out 167 people and price vast amounts of dollars in damage to property. It had been triggered with a massive fire that was not caused by an unpredictable “act of God” but of an amount of errors and questionable choices. Many of them were rooted within the organization‚ its structure‚ methods‚ and culture. These business factors are generalizable with other industries and engineering systems.
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Mills’ (2011) Futures of Reproduction:Bioethics and Biopolitics and Mol’s (2008) The Logic of Care: Health and the Problem of Patient Choice both argued ethics. In Mills’ book she approached to ethics was from more of a technological stand point. Mills discussed in details how preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) influences medical decisions. However‚ Mol approached ethics from a patient standpoint. Mol discussed how the logic of care begins with the collectives with patients (p. 58). Mol believes
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Mike Romero 9/4/13 Malden Mills The case of the Malden Mills fire poses many important questions related to ethics. At first look‚ a CEO paying his employees continually after his mill burned down seems to be the model for ethical behavior. However‚ when one looks deeper into the case and asks questions it is not so obvious. The first question that needs to be answered is what the factual circumstances of the case are. Malden Mills was a factory located in Lawrence‚ Massachusetts that specialized
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The Lowell textile mills The Lowell textile mills were a new transition in American history that explored working and labor conditions in the new industrial factories in American. To describe the Lowell Textile mills it requires a look back in history to study‚ discover and gain knowledge of the industrial labor and factory systems of industrial America. These mass production mills looked pretty promising at their beginning but after years of being in business showed multiple problems and setbacks
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Instructor Gallup Kant or Mill 14 November 2011 The topic of Kant and John Stuart Mill produces much debate. Both scholars have their own beliefs that they deem to be appropriate point of views in the way man should view a moral life. In this paper I plan on elaborating on both Kant and Mill’s point of views. This paper will first talk about John Stuart Mill’s beliefs on morality and what he deems appropriate. Then in the next segment of the paper‚ Kant views will be dissected and discussed
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PROJECT PROFILE ON MINI FLOUR MILL PRODUCT : WHEAT FLOUR (Atta)‚ SOOJI/RAWA WHEAT FLOUR (Maida)‚ BRAN PRODUCT CODE : 204109000 (Wheat Flour) 204111003 (Sooji /Rawa) 204108004 (Maida) QUALITY STANDARD. : The Product may be manufactured as per ‘AGMARK’ Specification. The BIS have also laid down Specification for the Products : IS :1155 – 1968 (Wheat Atta). IS : 1009 - 1979 (Maida) IS : 1010 – 1968 (Sooji/Rawa) PRODUCTION CAPACITY (P.A.) : Item Atta Maida : Sooji : Bran
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Industrial Realities Game 1 Introduction: Alpha Co. is a mobile manufacturing company‚ whose supply chain process was executed by us in the form of a game‚ demonstrated as an example for better comprehension for/about how supply chain process flow‚ the factors that could affect the flow‚ how to optimize the flow of the supply chain and how to balance the business. Round 1: The First round comprised
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Thomas Dublin in “Women‚ Work‚ and Protest in the Early Lowell Mills” In Thomas Dublin’s article‚ “Women‚ Work‚ and Protest in the Early Lowell Mills‚” he talks about the conditions of factories. He describes the work and the personal problems that women endured working in factories during the Industrial Revolution. Lowell was originally a rural area. “In 1820‚ there had been no city at all-only a dozen family farms along the Merrimack River in East Chelmsford.” (Dublin 264). A year later‚ a group
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questionnaire‚ this study used the Cronbach’s Alpha which is the most popular model to determine the correlation among the items and to assess the internal consistency of a questionnaire (or survey) that is made up of multiple Likert-type scales and items. According to Sekaran and Bougie (2010)‚ the range of Cronbach’s Alpha less than 0.60 is consider poor and the range above 0.60 and 0.70 indicate at the level of acceptable. If the Cronbach’s alpha coefficient is closer to 1.0‚ the consistency
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General Mills Annual Report 2012 Generating Balanced Growth Generating Balanced Growth Our brands compete in large and growing food categories that are on-trend with consumer tastes around the world. We’re investing in our established brands while also developing new products. And we’re building our business in developed markets while increasing our presence in emerging markets worldwide. Our goal is to generate balanced‚ long-term growth. General Mills at a Glance U.S. Retail Net Sales
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