Case Overview: Weymouth Steel Corporation in September‚ 1990 is having a critical time in finding out the ways to communicate the bad and good news to its salaried employees. An erroneous selection of time and communication channel selection may demoralize the workforce completely resulting in a disaster for the company. The good news is that the company management has decided to increase the salary and benefits of almost all the salaried employees regardless of their grades while on the other
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international steel companies. The number of rivals in America is declining due to higher labor costs than in foreign countries. There is a very fast pace of technology in the steel industry and it seems that the company‚ that obtains the newest technology‚ flourishes. This is due to the difficulty in lower costs of steel production. Better technology is one of the only ways to decrease costs because labor is pretty much at a set cost and all that is left is the cost of iron and making the steel. If a company
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Lehigh Steel: The Case for Activity Based Costing and The Theory of Constraints Introduction: Lehigh Steel is a steel and alloy production company with a huge range of products. It was able to reach a record profit in 1988‚ but went down to a record loss by 1991. Lehigh is owned by a parent company‚ The Palmer Company who’s a global manufacturer of alloy and steel and were interested in Lehigh’s specialised equipment to allow them to gain a competitive advantage. Palmer had acquired Lehigh
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Table of Contents Issue #1 Percentage use of Production Capacity Nucor steel has the largest production capacity capability in North America. However‚ they have some deficiencies in this area in that in 2010 they utilized just 70 percent of capacity‚ though it increased in 2011 it was still just 74 percent. Gaining greater production efficiency will reduce costs and in turn increase the profitability of the company. Issue #2 Rising Scrap Metal Prices Nucor maintains its competitive
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If someone was assigned to compile a video of clips that would make me cringe‚ they would come up with something similar to The Purity Myth. The clips used were reminders of the oppressive‚ heteronormative‚ misogynistic system that I grew up in. The film itself provides ample examples of the ways in which women’s sexualities are policed‚ the idealization of virginity‚ the shortcomings of abstinence only sex education‚ and the arguments against women’s reproductive health. I have never been envious
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The Ride of Steel has many safety features to keep the passengers safe. In the initial climb up to point A‚ 12‚000 moving parts make up the large gear and chain assembly that pulls the car to the top. There are over 40 sensors that monitor the climb so that if at any
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Investigating Aspirin Aims Synthesize my own aspirin Analyse the purity of my aspirin samples (aspirin and recrystallized aspirin) compared to commercial aspirin by use of analysing melting points‚ TLC plates and colorimetry tests Investigate how pH effects the rate of hydrolysis of aspirin Background theory Making my own sample of Salicylic acid (to then be converted into Aspirin) Salicylic acid (2-Hydroxybenzoic acid) can be made by hydrolysing methyl 2-hydroxybenzoate. Oil
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In Bauman’s “The Dream of Purity‚” the idea of social purity‚ as well as impurities to the said society‚ is discussed. One of the main disruptions to “purity” and prescribed social order is the introduction of a “Stranger”. Bauman says of the Stranger: the arrival of a Stranger has the impact of an earthquake. The Stranger shatters the rock on which the security of daily life rests. He comes from afar; he does not share the local assumptions - and so becomes essentially the man who has to place
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Social purity feminist and new moralists had different beliefs and advocated for different things when it came to female sexuality. According to Bland‚ social purity feminists advocated that when it came to the women’s body they had every right to say no to all unwanted sexual advances‚ this included married women (Bland‚ 1983). They also advocated that a married woman should have the right to control conception of a child‚ they suggested one of two ways to do so and this was by either continence
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In its forms lies the essence of purity‚ as it continuously morphes creating new ones. While taking a first look at Socrates’ mind and work‚ we see a fundamental core of his theories is the concept of Absolute Purity. Socrates speculates on the theory of Pure and True knowledge; specifically‚ the Eidos of an idea regardless of time or people. In his quest to eradicate the world of mystery‚ he creates a systematic way‚ an algorithm of sort‚ to reflect the purity of justice in all of our acts through
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