USPS Business Practices John Tuttle MGT 330 Alfred Wilfong February 5‚ 2012 The United States Postal Service has been in business since 1775. It employs over half a million people‚ and is the second largest civilian employer in the United States. Without the aid of tax payer dollars‚ the USPS has been profitable every year until 2008. With the congressional mandated 5+ billion dollar prefunded health care payment‚ along with the rise of other forms of communication (E-mail‚ Facebook
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Perceptual Learning There are three different types of learning styles. The three are: The visual learner‚ the auditory learner‚ and the kinesthetic learner. The visual learner learns by seeing‚ the auditory learner learns by listening and the kinesthetic learner learns by doing. At my shoe boutique titled De’Jenae the majority of my employees are either auditory or visual learners. I have designed a program that best fits the auditory and visual learners and have been assigned a new employee
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Case Study: United States Postal Service BSOP-588 Keller Graduate School of Management Laura Almasan The United States Postal Service has gone through some major changes in the past twenty-five years due to the increase in popularity of technologies such as email‚ fax machines‚ the internet and mobile phones. Sending letters and paying bills using the traditional method of using stamps no longer became the preferred method of sending correspondence
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Breakdown the perceptual process There are multiple steps in the perceptual process. The steps consist of Environmental stimulus‚ Attended stimulus‚ Image of the retina‚ Translation‚ Neutral processing perception‚ Recognition‚ and Action. The environmental stimulus consists of every object in the universe that has a potential to be perceived. This will consist of anything that a person can see‚ hear‚ taste or even smell. It may also involve the movement of a person arm and leg or even the change
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immediate past experience‚ and‚ therefore‚ by the establishment of a perceptual set. It is based on an experiment conducted by Bugelski and Alampay (1961). It was hypothesized that interpretation of an ambiguous stimuli that can be perceived as either a rat or a human face will be influenced by the context under which they view the figure and their past experience with other figures. That is they will be influenced by their perceptual set. The results from this study supported the hypothesis
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Perceptual maps are used by companies to observe how they stand up to their competition through the eyes of the consumer. By giving a snapshot of what the consumer is thinking‚ perceptual maps help companies compare attributes such as price‚ design‚ and quality of a particular product. The quantity of attributes used in perceptual maps can be endless but usually only four attributes are used depending on the product. It is absolutely vital for companies to choose the correct attributes on the grid
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advantage in selected target markets‚ and they design marketing mixes to create these planned positions. In planning their positioning‚ marketers often prepare perceptual maps that show consumer perceptions of their brand versus competing brands on attributes that are important to the consumer‚ whether functional or symbolic. Perceptual Maps are useful for these key reasons: Assessing strengths and weaknesses relative to competing brands along certain criteria important to the customer. This is
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Idea: Hellriegel and Slocum (2011)‚ discuss the importance of perception and attribution and the impact it has on a leader‚ an employee‚ and the organization as a whole. The text elaborates on the perceptual process‚ external and internal factors that influence perception‚ person perception‚ perceptual errors‚ and attributions that people make to explain their behaviors and those of others. Perception is the process by which people interpret the input from their senses to give meaning and order
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Using Perceptual Maps in Marketing Simulation Janice JohnsonMKT/421 June 5‚ 2013 Using Perceptual Maps in Marketing Simulation While reading this paper the reader will get a summary of the three major phases from using Perceptual Maps in Marketing Simulation. The phase will be the situation‚ a recommend solution and the reason why it was chosen‚ and the results. The relationship between differentiation and positioning will be discussed and whether or not if the repositioning of the product
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report offers a basic theory of process mapping in different factors‚ which has an influence on the service operation management. A basic definition is mentioned to recognize its utilization in the business operation with explain the tools that used to map a process. Various advantages of process mapping are discussed as well. The way of mapping a process in three levels is included to specify the activities in the operation. With a well created process mapping‚ there are more implementations in different
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