Michael Porter’s Value Chain and Gaining a Competitive Advantage The more value an organization creates‚ the more profitable that organization likely will be and by providing more value to your customers‚ the organization is gaining a competitive advantage. Understanding how your company creates value and looking for ways to add more value are critical elements in developing a competitive strategy. The concept was first introduced by Michael Porter in his 1985 book “Competitive Advantage.” A
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Inequalities in Education It has been shown that for some time now boys have always been thought to be the problem when it comes to education. Girls start school at a much calmer stage in their life‚ ready to sit‚ listen and learn. Boys are still at a stage in their development where they want to play. Sitting still is very difficult for them to do and expecting them to sit and concentrate is too much to ask. By the age of 5‚ 53% of boys reach the expected level in writing compared to 72% in girls
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.) Social inequality and stratification are universal phenomena. In what way or sense may they be engendered by or attributed to: a.Private ownership (Rousseau) - In the eighteenth century Jean-Jacques Rousseau argued that private property creates social inequality and that this inequality ultimately leads to social conflict. Rousseau takes a more realistic approach to private property‚ and recognizes the vast inequalities that it creates between human beings‚ arguing that the acquisition
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of stratification and differentiation is that people have different life chances in the course of their lives; whether a person will have good or bad life chances depends on where a person is in the social hierarchy. In addition‚ inequalities are also as a result of stratification‚ social inequalities are established from power‚ status‚ wealth and income which are unequally distributed in society. For a sociologist‚ inequality outlines socially developed differences in the well-being between the
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male’s tough breadwinner role. The Seventies marked the beginning of the Woman’s Movement and the end of the ideals we held on to‚ of what it is to be a "woman". Women were no longer like the stereotypical homemaker‚ but were instead out protesting inequality. One of the Women’s Movements primary goals was to crush gender roles in the sense that women were secondary to men. Girls are encouraged to play with dolls and playhouse type of toys while boys will often play with trucks and army
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institutions affect the process of education and how this impacts on students. Education is widely perceived to be a positive social institution where individuals can acquire knowledge and learn new skills. However‚ some would argue that this is not the case and that education produces an unequal society and is a negative institution where individuals are socialised to accept such inequality. This essay will explore the inequalities in education to establish how they occur. By examining Marxist‚ Functionalist
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discussed the challenges that we face when dealing with overcoming inequality. This class along with reading the text helped me in opening my eyes and realizing that even though we may not care about the color of a person’s skin we still face an uphill battle in absolving inequality. After reading the text my views have not really changed in regards to people getting along with other people of a different color‚ however‚ my views on inequality have changed from that of being an easy fix to one of being
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Michael Joseph Jackson (born August 29‚ 1958)‚ often referred to as MJ[1] and The King of Pop‚[2] is an American musician and entertainer. The seventh child of the Jackson family‚ Michael Jackson debuted on the professional music scene at the age of ten as a member of the Jackson 5‚[3] and went on to become a pop icon as a solo artist. His successful career and controversial‚ enigmatic personal life have been a part of pop culture for almost four decades.[4] Jackson has dominated pop music since
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The subject of inequality has been realized in many spheres of life. The education sector is not an exception. Educational inequality is the disparity seen in learning efficacy and results as encountered by students with varying backgrounds. Efficacy in education is mainly determined through test scores‚ grades‚ college entrance statistics‚ drop-our rates and the completion rates amongst learners in college. Most of the education inequality seen today comes from economic differences that usually
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Inequality and Education Brenda A Mota Adams City High School Inequality and Education has been such a big problem for many Americans around the United States. Many have written about and talked about the situation‚ but nobody has come up with a solution for it. There has been a shrinking of inequality between racial groups from 1970-1988‚ but since then the gap has grown again. Too many of American’s disadvantaged children grow up without the skills needed to thrive in the twenty-first century
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