Case 2-1 Cynthia Cooper and WorldCom Cynthia Cooper details her trials and tribulations about her experiences at WorldCom in the book Extraordinary Circumstances: The Journey of a Corporate Whistleblower. The following excerpts from the book describe the actions she took to uncover the fraud at WorldCom and reactions of key players in the accounting department‚ top management‚ the audit committee and the external auditors. Cooper was first alerted to the fact that there may have been a problem
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BUSI 400 July 20th‚ 2013 Exercise 1 Page 22 Questions 24‚ 25‚ 28‚ 30 and 37 24: Strategic Management is often referred to as the capstone course in business administration because it provides a way of “formulating‚ implementing‚ and evaluating cross-functional decisions that enable an organization to achieve its objectives.” This type of management requires skill and critical thinking in all aspects of the business to create a plan that will make the company prosper in the overall
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Professional Development (OAD 134) Questions from chapters 1 & 2 in your textbook NOTE: You need to keep a copy of your answers so that you have them to study for your first test. 1. List 7 workplace trends that are changing the labor force. larger workforce older workforce increase in e-commerce more service jobs change in consumer demand more diversity in the workplace increase in education and training requirements 2. How many new jobs for office and administrative support supervisors
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Application 1 – Evaluation of Two New Assessment Methods for Selecting Telephone Customer Service Representatives 1. The reliability for both the clerical and the work samples are favorable. We see in the Clerical Test that the co-efficient alpha (at .85 and .86) and the test-retest (.92) are both high so we have an acceptable degree of reliability for the test. For the Work Sample (T) & Work Sample (C) we find the inter-rater agreements to be high at with Work Sample (T) being T1=88% and T2=79%
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4DEP Activity 1 & 2 Allys Parsons – 10716742 12th May 2015 The CIPD Profession Map - Core Functions The CIPD Profession Map is provided to give a distinct overview of the specific areas of business that HR personnel are concerned with. The map includes 10 professional areas‚ 8 behaviour areas and 4 bands of professional competence. The specific professional areas are defined by Bands which describe professional competence‚ with Band 1 being the entry level standard or those working in
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Chapter 1 1. What positive and negative managerial characteristics does Jamika possess? Positives: She set objectives by ordering Marianne to call both employees to have them to bring in a doctor’s note when they return back to work after having to reschedule the clients hair appointments. She is doing the best she can do by showing leadership by saying to herself that she would take care of the situation personally. Negatives: She didn’t show great communication with her employees that were
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Activity 1 – Theories of Ageing Disengagement theory The disengagement theory is one of the first social theories of ageing developed by Cumming and Henry in 1961. It is the idea of which states older people begin to withdraw or disengage from their past roles in society due to the decrease of their physical‚ intellectual and emotional abilities and skills which they are unable to accommodate in their roles. Also‚ at this stage of life‚ the elderly will eventually begin to diminish interests in activities
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CASE 1-2 : McDonald’s expands globally while adjusting its local recipe Discussion Questions : 1-18. The key elements in McDonald’s global marketing strategy are based on the concept of this quick-service restaurant which is delivering three things to customers: inexpensive foo‚ quick-service and clean and familiar environment. Memorable advertising and intensive promotion efforts are two important tools that made McDonald’s one of the world’s most valuable brands. For instance “I’m loving it”
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1890 – 1900 Great Britain‚ Germany‚ Russia U.S Foreign investments rise from 1869 – 1908 More global trade 1870 – 1914 Alfred Mahan argues that a very powerful navy sets apart a great country (coaling stations around the world) Social Darwinism - Rudyard Kipling argues that it’s the burden of white men to take care of his little brown brothers. Beginning of 1900 U.S sent missionaries around the world to make sure they become Christian‚ educated & civilized Frederick Jackson
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Sahar Abdi ID: S130031891 – Week 2-1 Project 1. Select an e-commerce company. 2. Visit its website and describe its business model based on the information you find there. 3. Identify its customer value proposition‚ its revenue model‚ the marketspace it operates in‚ who its main competitors are‚ any comparative advantages you believe the company possesses and what its market strategy appears to be. 4. Also try to locate information about the company’s management team and organizational structure
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