McDonald is the largest fast food restaurant brand in the world. It provides a mass fast food service with great-tasting and high quality foods as well as speed and convenience to customers. (McDonald annual report 2013) It operates with a low variety and high volume products. Technology is used to improve operation process in order to produce standardized service to individual customer. Thus only limited customization of service‚ and limited contact between customers and staffs can be made. (Greasley
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The value of performance related pay Currently‚ many companies are utilizing the performance related pay (PRP) scheme. The PRP is often regarded as an effective method to achieve a better performance in both individual and collective terms. In the study of Cutler and Waine (1999)‚ PRP affords employees with opportunities to increase return after the performance appraisal. It is quite different with certain salary schemes‚ such as those offering an automatic increase in pay but despite employees’
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‘An accidental universe is as likely as a created one.’ Discuss Stephen Hawking‚ one of the World’s leading scientists‚ released a new book in 2010 called‚ ‘The Grand Design.’ He and his co-author‚ Leonard Mlodinow‚ stated that‚ ‘you don’t need God to create the universe because the laws of gravity and a certain version of quantum physics suffice to make it inevitable that the universe will create itself‚ out of nothing‚ in an infinite variety of forms; and given an infinite variety of forms‚ a
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| |Rating | Tiffany and Company is a jeweler and specialty retailer. Tiffany has adopted multiple direct distribution channels. This strategy has enabled the company to emerge as a prominent player in the jewelry and specialty retailer segment. However‚ as counterfeit trade increases‚ the company stands to loose its brand equity. But as shown in the Weighted Competitive Strength Assessment chart‚ it can be said
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Work-Related Attitudes * Attitudes: Relatively stable clusters of feelings‚ beliefs‚ and behavioral intentions toward specific objects‚ people‚ or institutions. * Work-Related Attitudes: Attitudes relating to any aspect of work or work settings. * Job Satisfaction: Positive or negative attitudes held by individuals toward their jobs. Job Satisfaction * Most people are quite satisfied with their jobs. * Levels of job satisfaction‚ however‚ vary by country * Overall
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their life for better or worse. A teenage boy named Bobby in The First Part Last has to choose whether to give his baby Feather‚ to a social worker‚ or be the father Feather deserves. In the book Summer of Secrets‚ a girl named Darcy is going through hard times and needs to choose whether to share problems of hers or not‚ especially when she always tries to hide it with lies. Her friend Brisana has to choose whether or not she wants to change herself to be with a boy‚ Duane‚ forever. Overall‚ both
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Since 2004‚ 92 high school boys have died due to football related injuries. Andre Smith was the most recent student to join the list. This year alone there have been seven football related deaths. These statistics often raise the question‚ “Why?” Despite the frequency of these unfortunate events‚ not many steps have been taken to avoid future accidents. The impact of these deaths are visible in the declining number of students enrolling to play football for the past 4 years. Although football has
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Have you ever wondered about the reason why people choose to follow Hitler or chose to resist? What were these two groups of people thinking? Even though Hitler had obtained a great amount of power during this period of time‚ people chose to fight back. Due to the fact that political‚ economic and social factors had played a big role in people’s morals and opinions‚ which eventually led them to follow or resist. For example‚ when the Germans had been informed that they had surrendered during the
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The founders of Nau‚ a fledgling retail outerwear company‚ believed the answer to this question to be a resounding “Yes.” Built with an unprecedented level of environmental‚ social‚ and human-rights consciousness‚ by April 2008 Nau was an underground success on the West Coast‚ opening five stores and a website selling critically acclaimed clothing collections. Then‚ at the beginning of May‚ Nau’s board of directors voted to shut down the company. Viewed through Innosight’s lenses‚ Nau’s promise
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Madison Collins Briefly discuss why there are times when the government needs to intervene. Next‚ choose two examples of government interventions and describe how they work. Some people think that the government should not intervene in market failures. This is because the government can be inefficient and could make the situation worse. Intervention is needed to promote efficiency or equity. However‚ the government sometimes gets involved. I discuss further‚ the options the government has to intervene
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