1. Social media enables the spread of unreliable and false information. 49.1% of people have heard false news via social media. On Sep. 5‚ 2012 false rumors of fires‚ shootouts‚ and caravans of gunmen in a Mexico City suburb spread via Twitter and Facebook caused panic‚ flooded the local police department with over 3‚000 phone calls‚ and temporarily closed schools. Shashank Tripathi‚ tweeting as @ComfortablySmug‚ spread false information in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy by posting on Twitter that
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Internal and External Influences affecting the Consumer’s Decision Making Process A number of factors affect the consumers buying behavior. Some of these are internal and others because of external influences. A few of these internal and external factors influencing the consumer’s buying behaviour while deciding to buy a Digital Camera are listed below: Internal Influences Perception: Perception is how a consumer processes information consciously or subconsciously. The perception about the brand
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successful management. Good management includes attentive evaluations of internal and external factors in the four functions of management: planning‚ organizing‚ leading‚ and controlling. Globalization was a factor that has influenced Google and vice versa. Managing the globalization for the company from Mountain View was a key aspect of the business. Google is running its business globally and with such exposure‚ the external risks are amplified. Google has international competition in all of its main
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The external Environment of business refers to the external forces which consist of legal-political‚ economic and culture‚ that play a part in influencing the direction that the firms take. The legal element of the environment is the framework of rules laid down by the government which business must operate. The labor laws protect the rights of the NBA players by providing for contracts of employment ‚ compulsory insurance ‚ recognition of National Basketball Association and industrial
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Mobile device security Threats: Over the past two decades‚ we have witnessed significant technology advances in mobile devices‚ from the personal data assistants (PDAs) of the late 1990s and early 2000s to the ubiquitous and multifunctional smartphones of today. These advances have extended the virtual boundaries of the enterprise‚ blurring the lines between home and office and coworker and competitor by providing constant access to email‚ enabling new mobile business applications and allowing the
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My locus of control score demonstrates that I have a more dominant external locus of control compared to internal locus of control. “Locus of control refers to the attitude people develop regarding the extent to which they are in control of their own destinies” (Whetten & Cameron‚ 2016‚ p. 78). Locus of control can either be internal or external‚ where one is more dominant than the other. An external locus of control is dominant and occurs “if [individuals] interpret the reinforcement as being a
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is also the history of chasing hegemony by powers. According to patterns or methods taken by the hegemonist to maintain hegemony‚ three different types of hegemonies exist. They are strength hegemony‚ institution hegemony and culture hegemony. Strength hegemony is the traditional hegemony. It emphasizes the importance of force. Using force and threat against the territory integrity and political independence of any countries challenging the existing hegemon is its philosophy‚ which partly results
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Internal and External Equity HRM/324 09/09/2013 Internal and External Equity Equity as it applies to compensation plans used by employers refers to the exchange of service for compensation that employees make with their employers. Total compensation systems take into consideration all things of value given by an employer to an employee in exchange for his or her service in a specified role (Romanoff‚ Boehm & Benson). Total compensation systems include not only salary or wages‚ but also insurance
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Types of Merchandising: Two type of merchandising done in garment exports 1. Marketing merchandising. 2. Product merchandising. MarketingMerchandising: Main function of marketing merchandising is 1. Product Development 2. Costing Ordering Marketing merchandising is to bring orders costly products development and it has direct contact with the buyer. Product Merchandising: Product merchandising is done in the unit. This includes all the responsibilities from sourcing to finishing i.e. first sample
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TYPES OF RIVETS Solid/round head rivets A typical technical drawing of a universal head solid rivet Solid rivets are one of the oldest and most reliable types of fasteners‚ having been found in archaeological findings dating back to the Bronze Age. Solid rivets consist simply of a shaft and head that are deformed with a hammer or rivet gun. A rivet compression or crimping tool can also deform this type of rivet. This tool is mainly used on rivets close to the edge of the fastened material
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