Facts Lael Matthews takes one of managerial positions in the company . She faces the need to promote one of her subordinates . She has chosen the three potential candidates for the promotion . Liz is an African American ‚ who is a single mother and has a child . Liz is extremely energetic ‚ her performance can be called mediocre ‚ and she had some problems with managing her staff . Roy is a 57-year-old white ‚ who has spent the last 20 years with this company . He is not very energetic ‚ but he
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10. Concentration Camp10952You are an inmate in a concentration camp. A sadistic guard is about to hang your son who tried to escape and wants you to pull the chair from underneath him. He says that if you don’t he will not only kill your son but some other innocent inmate as well. You don’t have any doubt that he means what he says. What should you do?9. The AccidentAmbulanceYou are an emergency worker that has just been called to the scene of an accident. When you arrive you see that the car belongs
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Our story opens with an irate Jim Mclntosh confronting his manager of corporate reporting: “I thought we had an understanding on this issue‚ Frank. Tina tells me that you are threatening to go public with your stupid statements about the report. For Pete’s sake‚ Frank‚ wake up and smell the coffee! You’re about to damage all the important things in your life: your career‚ your friendships‚ and your company!” Frank sat quietly in the overstuffed sofa in his V.P’s expansive office. He thought
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Ethical dilemmas and multicultural issues are things that you will come across in your professional career. When we seek the assistance of a counselor in schools or in any other setting we want to know that what we share will not be shared with others. We want to feel comfortable and know that our standards and ethics will not be violated. While working in a school setting we came across Amy who is a 16 year old African American high school student. She went to talk to her high school counselor
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Intercontinental Clothing Distributors has paid cash dividends every year since the company was founded in 1990. The dividends have steadily increased from $0.05 per share to the latest dividend declaration of $1.00 per share. The board of directors is eager to continue this trend despite the fact that earnings fell significantly during the recent quarter as a result of worsening economic conditions and increased competition. The chair of the board proposes a solution. She suggests a 5% stock dividend
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Part A: Omnivore’s Dilemma is a scathing indictment of the industrial food system we’ve perfected over the last century. Michael Pollan is a prolific author and journalist and muckraker who concentrates his efforts on the food system and the environment. Omnivore’s Dilemma is his tour de force‚ with which he successfully deconstructs the food system into three principle food chains: The Industrial‚ Organic‚ and Hunter-Gatherer. Pollan begins with arguably the most important and certainly the largest
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I. Operational Effectiveness Is Not Strategy According to Porter‚ various management tools like total quality management‚ benchmarking‚ time-based competition‚ outsourcing‚ partnering‚ reengineering‚ that are used today‚ do enhance and dramatically improve the operational effectiveness of a company but fail to provide the company with sustainable profitability. Thus‚ the root cause of the problem seems to be failure of management to distinguish between operational effectiveness and strategy: Management
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Case study The Walt Disney Company: The Entertainment King 1.Briefly describe the type(s) of diversification strategies that Walt Disney pursues/has pursued over the years. The Walt Disney company can be seen as a highly diversified company. Over the years‚ it has pursued a wide range of diversification strategies that we can enhance:Horizontal integration: obviously‚ Walt Disney has invaded several markets‚ diversifying its offer to many fields. In 2000‚ we can find five big main fields of
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1 The marketing strategy of a company is critical to its success for many different reasons. Without product awareness‚ customer will not know about the availability of the product. A lack of branding will result in customers quickly forgetting about the product and the significance of the products on their lives. Strategic marketing is a planning process by which an organization devises the best way to develop an advantage over competitors. Businesses measure the success of their strategic
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1. Railroads- Railroads in each area were often controlled by one company‚ enabling those railroads to charge what they wanted. Railroads were the only way for many western farmers to get their produce to market and high prices were always charged. Railroads controlled storage‚ elevators‚ and warehouses so the prices the farmers paid were very high. Middlemen- Middlemen set the price of the produce low when they sold because the market price was unpredictable. Bankers- High interest rates caused
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