(unclassified paper) Secretary of Defense Fellowship Program 2005-2006 Inside FedEx Express By Captain Gary Peterson 12 May 2006 Edited by Ms. Gerry Yemen Inside FedEx Express Introduction As a Secretary of Defense Corporate Fellow during 2005-2006‚ I was assigned to work at FedEx Express located in Memphis‚ Tennessee. FedEx Express provides time-critical delivery services and associated information assistance globally. It is one of several Operating Companies (OPCO)
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Presenting to Stakeholders Doug Cordova COM/285 01 April 2011 Tammy Walker Presenting to Stakeholders Having to give a presentation is always a nerve racking experience‚ regardless of how many times a person does it. The stress gets multiplied when it involves an audience of stakeholders consisting of managers‚ CEO’s‚ stockholders and the like. These people determine your future within the company. Giving a bad presentation not only makes you look bad‚ but also portrays the company’s
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Job satisfaction of the employees will happily contribute to the organization positively and effectively also‚ organizational commitment of the employees will play major role. If employees are well committed in to the organization‚ they will do their best to the organization in a happily and positively. As stated in the case‚ managements try to select the employees with personality to work long hours when requiting the new employees so they don’t need to do much to change
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A board member for American Express has brought up the fact that some companies are starting to refuse hiring smokers and that the same should be discussed at the next month’s meeting. He brought this to attention due to the fact that medical costs are rising 10 to 15 percent a year. Employing a smoker‚ on average‚ cost about $4000 more a year because of higher Health-Care cost and lost productivity. Smokers will have 50 percent more absenteeism and because of smoke break will work 1‚817 hour less
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Short Essay on Coase’s article: “The Nature of the Firm” Coase’s article “The Nature of the Firm” provides a set of answers to important questions such as “Why do firms exist?” “What characterizes firms?” and “What determines their scale and scope?” According to Coase‚ a firm has to find the most cheap‚ most productive goods and services by establishing contracts in an open‚ efficient market place. However‚ market places are not that pure to let firms to succeed in their needs; they are not fluid. This
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Ethical code of conduct for a Long-Term-Care Facility Professor Tamara D. Smith April 8‚ 2012 The code of conduct for a Long Term Care Facility is a guideline and procedure for personal conduct for those working in that kind of facility. To preserve the highest standard of care using integrity and ethical standards‚ code of ethics or code of conduct are the foundations that most long term care facility based their business principle. It is the responsibility of all parties including upper management
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Enron provided the perfect example of how mismanagement and greed‚ culminating in an unethical business environment‚ can result in the collapse of a seemingly secure organisation (Wang & Murnighan‚ 2001: 279-280). This paper will illustrate how the cultivation of an organisation’s ethos is often vastly dependent on the examples set by top management. Therefore‚ in order to foster an ethical culture successfully‚ the conduct of these members is key. Through the use of Schein’s primary mechanisms‚ instances
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Corporate Social Responsibility This essay will be based on corporate social responsibility (CSR). It should allow the reader to understand what CSR is‚ the importance of CSR and how it would influence customer activities. Themes that would be included in this essay will be the background of corporate social responsibility‚ history and the development of corporate social responsibility. The key concepts will also be explained and the different stakeholders which will be linked to corporate social
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1. 0 Introduction This literature review examines and discusses the relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and financial performance of firms in emerging markets through analysis made in relation to developing countries especially Malaysia‚ Indonesia‚ Turkey‚ Dubai‚ China and Brazil. Most of the studies examining the financial performance case for CSR show a positive association between CSR practices and financial performance (63 percent) whilst 15 percent present
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EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES Dabur is committed to promoting diversity among teams in the broadest sense possible (in terms of gender‚ age‚ training‚ origins‚ disability‚ etc.) in order to improve performance and become increasingly innovative and competitive. The organization does not employ nor encourages forced‚ bonded or child labour and conducts proper checks and audits to ensure that their contractors follow their example. At Dabur‚ all employees are of equal value. Nobody shall be discriminated at
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