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The final stage of the contracting process is the most important. It is extremely necessary to assess all the possible risks and the overall economic situation in the country. A company should carefully review the contract clauses to make sure that there are no mistakes that may cause monetary damage or other severe complications for the business. Angeleana Torres Inc. is active under the Historically Underutilized Business Zone (HUBZone) Program. Currently, there are no more competitors, and the company has won the contract with the Department of Navy. Our company is going to provide the Navy with specialty coating and the application of the coating services. Ruben (2006) states that “the procedure tends to favor the larger and more established contractors” (p. 120). This means that a contract with our company was the best option for the Department of Navy. Angeleana Torres Inc. has gained an advantage over another company because it agreed for less than a 10% margin for provided services which significantly reduces the overall revenue of the bidder, and our company has enormous experience in the market. However, thanks to the chosen negotiating strategy the company was able to sign two favorable agreements such significant agreement of future cooperation with the Department of Navy. According to another agreement, the Department of Navy is going to provide the company with a particular yearly amount of work. The former competitor has become a sub-contractor of Angeleana Torres Inc. on beneficial terms for our business. Currently, the flooring equipment that belongs to our business is rather outdated. However, there is equipment that is necessary for such jobs available at the Navy base. Furthermore, the company is going to request the use of such machinery. The company is planning on establishing a long-term partnership with the Department of Navy. It is absolutely important to prepare the final decision on the cost of the contract. Navy has agreed to the previously discussed cost of $294,000. The contract is going to include inspection procedures and quality control methods that are effective and are often used. All of the properties of the materials are going to be inspected by the specialists, and the performance of the workforce is going to be monitored. Such procedures are going to assure you that our company is going to provide the Department of Navy with an excellent service. It is extremely necessary to determine the payment type that will be appropriate for a business. The Department of Navy offers three types of payment options: performance-based payment, progress payments, and partial ones. Performance-based payment and receiving progress payments are preferred by most of the Government contractors. Performance-based payment option was picked among other options because a Firm-Fixed-Price contract was chosen by Angeleana Torres Inc. This payment type is extremely practical for our company. Nowadays, this kind of payment is getting extremely popular. Many companies around the world start to make performance-based payment incentives. Our company is going to use GSA SmartPay because it one of the best options when dea
Introduction The management of employee or the human resource is very instrument towards success in terms of performance. Proper management makes the employees be motivated and feel that they are working in a friendly environment. The performance management is affected by different factors that surround the employee. These range from social, economical and even work related reasons. The organization is supposed to reduce to the least attainable levels the factors that may affect an employee in order to realize the full potential of the same. A cliché goes “a happy employee makes a happy boss”. The concept of performance management seeks to improve the general efficacy and the efficiency of human resource. An efficient and proper system of performance management can be used for several purposes. These include communication of the organization goals, gauging the performance of the organization as well as giving feedback as to how to improve the current existing performance. Performance management is defined as: “a process used for establishing a shared understanding of what is to be achieved, and the approach to managing and also developing people in such a manner which increases the probability that it shall be achieved in the desired short and long term” (Armstrong & Baron 19). From the definition, it is self evident that performance management is a key process in any organization. It plays an important in determining how fast an organization will grow. It is also important to the employee as it makes him be aware of his strengths and development during his career. It is not a single process. Neither is it a technique. It’s a comprehensive set of process combined with philosophies that seek to determine the factors that can improve the performance of an employee and the way which these will be employed (Aslam 3). This means that performance management involves a deeper understanding of the employee and the factors surrounding his ability to perform a certain duty as well as coming up with a solution to remove these hindrances and develop an efficient employee. In order to ensure that the full potential of employee is achieved, step must be taken to ensure that performance is attained. The steps begin before the work is actually carried out and it continues even after the completion of the work. In pre planning, there are role setting and objective determination while in post work there is the employee appraisal (feedback) and the overall review of the employee performance. The steps involved generally include role definition, performance benchmarking, performance development and performance review. Role definition and Profiling The first step in performance management is understanding the role and niche that the organization seeks to fill. In understanding this, the company then goes ahead and profiles. Here the managers sit and define the purpose of the organiza
Integrated Marketing Communications What am I learning? At this stage my major task is to study the process of communication, its components and relevance to marketing strategies. Communication, itself, consists of several elements:  1. sender (company), which encodes information,  2. transmission device:  3. receiver (buyer), who decodes the message and gives a certain feedback (Clow & Baack, 6). I need to understand how these notions are connected with advertising and promotion of the product. I also need to get a better understanding of such concept as integrating marketing communications (IMC), which implies that the company should use all of its marketing communications tools and channels in order to appeal to the client (Clow & Baack 8). Another important issue to be studied is the perception of the message by the customer. I need to find answers to the question why he or she may disregard the advertisement, or why the message can be misinterpreted. The authors pay special attention to such concept as noise (the factors, which prevent the viewer from receiving the message). Furthermore, it is of the crucial importance for me to examine the development of Integrated Marketing Communications plan. The chapter provides detailed information about information tools, recent changes in channel power, the importance of the World Wide Web as a means of sending the marketing message. In addition to that, it is vital for me to gain knowledge of how cultural differences can shape the promotional strategies of an enterprise and what should be done to reduce the costs of marketing. Overall, I can say that the knowledge that I have acquired is of great use to me because it throws light on the psychological principles of product promotion. It will help to research this issue further and better analyze other scholarly works dedicated to the communicational aspects of advertising. Learning strategies First, I would like to say that I am a visual learner, and I tend to rely on graphics, tables or diagrams while learning any material. The visual aids, presented in this book have been of great assistance to me. Having read this chapter, I tried to summarize its major points in my own words. After I jotted down some brief notes, most of them were in the form of bullet points. This approach appears to be most suitable to me because it enables me to retrieve the necessary information very quickly. I do not usually overload notes with too many facts because they can detract my attention from important ideas. I am firmly convinced that the information, presented in the textbook, can only lay a
Excedrin is an analgesic or pain killer which is used to reduce fever, pains etc. Excedrin is normally found as tablets. Using analgesic in the normal dose is safe but overdoses do not prove to be safe. Excedrin like the other analgesics does not affect the functioning of the platelets. It does not cause any problems like addiction. Aspirin, acetaminophen and caffeine are the contents of Excedrin. Excedrin can be used in the treatment of pain due to headaches, toothaches, migraine, common cold etc. Excedrin cannot be consumed if a person has symptoms of chicken pox and flu. It also cannot be used if a person has allergy towards acetaminophen, caffeine and aspirin or in the case of any liver problems, asthma etc. If there are any of these symptoms while using Excedrin, the consumption of this analgesic should be stopped and the person should immediately consult a doctor. Just like any other drug, Excedrin also can cause side effects like coughing, difficulty in swallowing, change in the color of skin etc. Aspirin is an important analgesic in Excedrin. “Aspirin is a member of a family of chemicals called salicylates.” (Hoffman 2009). Aspirin can reduce the substances causing pain, fever and swelling in the human body. Aspirin can also be used for diseases affecting cardiovascular systems. But this can be done only after consulting a doctor. Aspirin has been proved good in reducing heart attacks because it helps to reduce blood clotting and thus blood flow to the heart becomes smoother. Aspirin also has some ill-effects. It causes side effects like nausea, vomiting, pain in stomach etc. In children it can cause a serious situation called Reye’s syndrome. It can cause harm to the heart of an unborn baby, decrease its weight and can also cause many other serious problems. Another analgesic approved in the mid nineteen hundreds is named as acetaminophen. The actual method of reaction of the tablet inside the human body is still not unveiled. It acts as a pain killer as well as a temperature reducing pill, i.e. analgesic and antipyretics. The temperature is lowered by making the central brain to regulate the temperature. The control is given such that a rise in temperature is lowered. The pain killing action is accomplished by raising the threshold leading the pain. So, a higher amount of pain requisition is developed within before the actual pain is felt. The tablet was introduced to the market with the approval of FDA. The metabolism of acetaminophen is carried out effectively by th
The working neighborhoods of New York City in the 1790s comprised watchmakers, printers, bookbinders, tailors, and hatters among other skilled craftsmen, who attracted a wealthy clientele. They lived and worked under the same roof in comradeship. The neighborhood around the streets of East Ward and the East River waterfront were characterized by story houses where artisans worked on the ground floor and the upper floors were family dwelling units. This however did not last long as rental prices rose and income dwindled. This led to many changes and conflicts which shaped the lives of the city’s laborers at the beginning of the 19 th century. The discussion that follows analysis the conflicts that arose and how they changed the lives of the city’s laboring people. Major points of conflict Competition for land for housing was a major point of conflict in the city’s laboring neighborhood. This happened in the Chamber street community built on Trinity leased land by independent proprietors who built houses rented by the laborers. The land was bought by wealthy merchants and professionals who were moving up from downtown dingy neighborhoods. It was also witnessed in the Five Points neighborhood where sanitations had filled the pond to revitalize the area. Absentee landlords flocked the area buying houses that were once lived by artisans and building new houses transforming the area into boarding houses. This led to a mass movement of laborers to new areas where rent and building costs were affordable such as Greenwich, Bowery village, and Brooklyn village among other places. Degradation of dwelling places for laborers and oppression by rich landlords as they increased rent was another point of conflict. Filling the pond in five points to revitalize the area by sanitations, it was bought by absentee landlords who purchased houses that housed the artisans. They subdivided the houses or rebuilt them using the new frame. These were then rented out to new tenants; this changed the area into the area of a boarding house for wage laborers. The issue of lack of adequate housing for the black laborers was there as they inhabited basements of boarding houses whose upper stories were resided by the whites and those who lived in all-black tenants’ houses lived four to five men in one room. This resulted to further movement of laborers to other states or annual movements to less expensive dwellings. The capitalist penetration into the artisan trades by the turn of the century
Executive Summary Oman Air is a four-star international airline company operating largely in the GCC and the Middle East. It is the largest air company in the Oman Sultanate and the second-largest carrier in the region. As it stands, it sports a fleet of 47 air carriers and operates 50 flight routes. The Qatar-GCC crisis of 2016 presents a major opportunity to claim leadership over the region, as Qatar Airlines, Oman Air’s primary competitor and the current largest airline company in the Middle East, is suffering from sanctions imposed by Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain, and Egypt, which prevents it from crossing their airspace and significantly limits the company’s operating capabilities. Facing no such restrictions, Oman Air has the opportunity to greatly expand its operations in Qatar to cater to thousands of potential customers now unable to freely leave their country. This business proposal suggests renting or purchasing seven additional airliners and establishing a branch office at Hamad International Airport in Doha to support the operation. Estimated revenues from the first operational year are at 300 million dollars and are expected to grow the longer Oman Air maintains its dominant position in the existing political climate. Company Summary Oman Air is a four-star international airline operating from Muscat International Airport in Seeb since 1993. The company is the primary air service in the Sultanate of Oman and a second-tier carrier in the region, right after Qatar Airlines, which, until recently, held a dominant position in most aspects of commercial fligh
Communication Climate Communication, by the means of both official and unofficial channels, is the livelihood of any company. In reading about announcement surroundings, channels, procedures, structures, and pecking orders, people occasionally lose evidence of the quintessence of the communication act: it is deeply individual. At the core of every company are people held mutually by slender strands of collaboration. These yarns are supported by people splitting data with one another. The outcome is a slight system of human contacts connected by the means of communication. Communication climate can be classified as the interior surroundings of data swap among people throughout a company’s official and unofficial schemes. Communication climate is released when data streams without restraint; closed when data is restricted. In an open climate, workers feel free to articulate estimations, voice protests, and offer propositions to their superiors. Workers talk unrestrictedly among themselves about significant policy conclusions and their manufacture, workforce, or marketing anxieties. Data flows without deformation vertically and horizontally throughout the company. Investigate reveals that this unrestricted communication climate has at least three separate features: it is supportive, participative, and trusting. But we are actually interested in the former one. Supportive Environments In supportive environments, workers express data to bosses with no uncertainty, certain that superiors will eagerly take it, never minding good or bad, positive or negative. A worker, for instance, who accounts an EPA infringement in the company’s disposing of dangerous desecrate, must be stated of organization’s maintenance. If workers regard that reporting dictatorial contraventions to their bosses will brand them as stoolpigeons, thereby imperiling their works, they will not possibly say anything. But as helpful superiors are seen as non-intimidating, probably even nurturing, workers will generally open up to them and split disagreeable or threatening data. Horror, disgrace, and arrogance inspirit people to keep silence if they feel defenseless or unmaintained. In a conference, for instance, a person may not tell the colleagues that production deliverance will not be on time as the receiving plenipotentiaries were not informe
Introduction Research Topic The article under consideration is written by Lee Edwards (2012) and titled ‘Exploring the Role of Public Relations as a Cultural Intermediary Occupation’. The narrow research topic is concerned with the function of PR as a cultural and social intermediation tool. Topic Significance The topic of PR is actively researched because its importance has grown together with the process of globalisation and the introduction and development of the modern consumer model (L’Etang 2009; Jain, De Moya & Molleda 2014; Meadows & Meadows 2014; Edwards 2012). The globalisation process has also highlighted the importance of the cultural aspect of PR and the interconnection of culture and PR (L’Etang 2009; Edwards 2012). The significance of PR studies as such is both theoretical and practical; as for the narrow topic of the study, the primary importance of recognising PR as a cultural mediator, in the view of Edwards (2012), is theoretical. By acknowledging the cultural dimensional in the politically and economically oriented PR, the theoretical understanding of the subject expands. Research Question The research question that is explicitly stated in the article is concerned with the way PR operates as a cultural intermediation tool. In other words, it is the nature and mechanisms of PR cultural intermediation that are explored in the work. Answering the Question: the Structure and Summary To answer the question, the author introduces relevant concepts, grounds the claims and proceeds to explore the nature of PR as a cultural intermediation tool with the help of case studies. Summary The author thoroughly introduces all the topics: first, UK PR actions are described in the historical perspective; then the thesis concerning the cultural role of PR is affirmed and specified. The author demonstrates how PR practice (PRP) was created for the sake of preserving the colonies of the Empire; how it was then transformed into an enlightenment tool for the same colonies by the government and as an interest protection measure by commercial organisations. Apart from that, the author dwells on the way PRP was used domestically to encourage the usage of new products, promote the understanding of new policies and so on. The author emphasises the way PRP acted as a cultural intermediary that asserts and maintains the ‘the cultural and social norms associated with particular areas of activity’ (Edwards 2012, p. 440). Having determined the key concepts, the author proceeds to address the research question directly: the Bourdieuian understandings of practice are used to frame the analysis of PR that the author bases on a case study. The case study is concerned with Roule, a railroad company that was chosen for the successful campaigns of its Corporate Affairs team. The case study describes a crisis for the PR team caused by the decrease of the company’s reputation as a result of its operation difficulties that followed terrorist attacks. The author studies the team’s actions (media work, brochures,
Introduction FIDIC is a body that was formed in 1913 by France, Belgium and Switzerland stands for ‘Federation Internationale des Ingenieurs-Conseils’. On behalf of FIDIC and FIBTP, the first version of the conditions of international agreement for works of civil engineering construction was published in August 1957. The earlier FIDIC contracts had several difficulties and were founded on the detailed design that was provided to the contractor by the employer or his Engineer. As a matter of fact, these contracts were suited for civil engineering and infrastructural projects such as tunnels, bridges, roads, and water and sewage facilities. The contracts did not suit where the chief items of the firm were manufactured away from the location. As a result, this led to the first edition of the “Yellow Book”. On this, the classical contract became known as the “Red Book” and were produced in 1963 by FIDIC for electrical and mechanical works. Construction Law The second edition of the “Red Book was published in 1980. FIDIC and new editions released in 1987 amended the Yellow and Red books. A recognizable and key characteristic of the fourth publication of the Red Book was the preface of an express term which required the Engineer to act unbiased when giving a decision or taking any action which might in one way or the other affect the rights and obligations of the parties. The previous editions had assumed this fact implicitly. Whereas FIDIC has undergone several reviews and amendments, the contract of choice in most Middle East and particularly the United Arab Emirate remains that of the Old Red Book. For the purpose of this essay, clause 20.1 would be given emphasis and elaborated for further development of the content. FIDIC clause 20.1 This clause covers the issues behind disputes and claims that may arise between the Employer and the Contractor pertaining to issues of compensation, extension of time or both. 1 Although the Employer is required to be personally involved in supervising the construction process by the contractor, on the side of the contractor, the clause stipulates clearly that, under any case a contractor regards himself as entitled to any extension to the time of completion and additional payment in connection with the agreement, he shall give notice to the Engineer, establishing the occurrence bringing forth to the said claim. According to that, an urgent notice requires to be given within twenty-eight days. The clause goes on to stipulate that, failure of the Contractor to issue notice of a request; there is no extra time to complete, and the supplier can’t be provided with extra payment. On the contrary, va