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Cash rebate is considered to be a certain amount which is paid through return or reduction on the paid or contributed sum; it should be stressed that this notion is frequently used in modern marketing and business sphere being referred to the type of sales promotion used by marketers as supplements or incentives for the purpose of sales production. Current businesses use this cash management technique very often; cash rebates are popular enough among in manufacturing business as they go unredeemed and done by means of electronic mail. It is necessary to underline the fact that one of the businesses to use cash rebates frequently is computer technology promotion. According to the surveys provided in Business Week, more than one-third of manufactured and supplied computer equipment is sold through cash rebates covering such products as digital cameras and LCD televisions. Business reports in computer technology have shown that more than $400 million rebates are provided annually. Despite the wide usage of cash rebates in small and big businesses, this form is considered to be unethical and causes a number of complaints. To understand all difficulties and principle of work fulfilled by Rebate Company, it is necessary to examine established rules and important aspects connected with the procedure under analysis. It should be noted that a lot of firms cooperate with rebate centers in order to pay customers’ requests, though these companies usually create complicated rules providing short term periods and plenty of documentation – all these cause sharp inconveniences and impossibility to get clients’ money back. The problem evaluation gives an opportunity to see that in most cases consumers are completely ignored or their rebate checks are delayed for a long period in order to avoid additional paying to the client. Some companies can try to ask for additional documentation such as product box codes being thrown out long time ago. The analysis of cash rebates system has shown its unethical side in cooperation with the customers; nevertheless, it usually brings billions to the companies offering them. According to business surveys only 38% of all rebates is paid to the customers; in most cases people are to avoid cooperation with rebate companies, such as:   * Firms accepting no receipts copies;   * Firms sending no rebate checks according to identified rules;   * Firms providing no telephone information for inquiries allowing checking the rebate status. Cash rebates are beneficial for many businesses though they are risky for customers; in case people are ignored or paying is delayed it is necessary to file a complaint and write to the company of the product purchased. It is an open secret that business sphere makes money from everything; the technique provided for money saving appears to be a risky management technique requiring customer’s attention and careful attitude. Cash rebates in computer tec
Examination of the concept and procedure of yield management used in the hotel industry today Examination of the concept of yield management in the flourishing hotel industry is extremely essential in obtaining maximum yields from this industry. I will commence by explaining in much details what we mean by yield management especially in the hotel industry. To be precise, this term generally refers to an activity greatly used in the lodging and transportation industries in an attempt to maximize profit. It is generally a measure to skyrocket revenues and the profits. It refers to a procedure that deals with establishment of different prices for the services that are the same and then subsequent allocation of these services in a manner that increases the revenue. Within a hotel set up, there should be a preliminary way of room allocation for a given period. This measure will ensure that there are many alternatives in terms of pricing. This will result into accountability for all the rooms found in that particular hotel (Kumar 2010). Yield management concept has never been new to hoteliers. Both staff with much experience and those with little experience carry out this practice. They do this with a talent that is variable. They anticipate demand that is overall for given periods like days, weeks or even years. Revenue/yield management is normally a discipline that is economic in nature. It is normally relevant to a myriad of industries that offer service to clients. In this case, service segments in the market pricing are added to analyze statistics. This enhances expansion of the market for an increase in the revenue or yield per each unit of capacity. Forecasting of demand characterizes management of yields in hotels. It utilizes optimal procedures in the determination of requests on booking to comply with the objective of maximizing profit. Nearly all main hotel chains like Hilton practice simple or compound yield management procedures. This is to ensure maintenance of control systems in the inventory. These hotels have come up with their own hardware and software measurements combined with corporate systems in screening of the market for profit maximization (Ismael 2002). Strategies used in hotels to maximize occupancy and maximum rate to achieve maximum revenue In order to maximize profits, serious hoteliers pay a lot of attention to the following key areas: Bookings, cash flow, and customers. In most cases, they are the top and key areas for the hotelier to ensure profit maximization. The hotelier should put the above items into reality in order to make them tangible and functional. They also require much effective strategies, which can work well on all aspects of operations in a hotel. These strategies can be applied in sales, profit management, and marketing. Therefore, the followi
Change management in an organization depends on what people think and how they think about the change to be implemented. Implementing change in an organization is a difficult task. This makes many organizations to refrain from implementing change especially if they are forced into it. In order for an organization to implement change successfully, it must be prepared for it. People’s beliefs about change are mostly influenced by their underlying capacities and psychological aspects which determine if they are ready for the change that is to be implemented in an organization (Richard, Murphy and Willmott 12). This paper will therefore address the concept of change management and determine its effectiveness within an organization. Level of readiness for Company X to go through the journey for change Acceptance to change For any organization to emerge successful while deciding on whether to implement change, it is important for it to accept that it needs the change. In this perspective, an organization may look at its production processes and decide that it needs to adopt modern equipment in order for it to improve its efficiency. In the case of Company X, it is evident that the company lays more emphasis on the aspect of change acceptance. This aspect has a score of 3.34, which is the highest score compared to all the other aspects. This is an indication that in order for a change initiative to be successful, it is vital for employees to accept that the change is needed within the organization. Change initiatives In order for a change process to be successful in an organization, it is ideal for employees to work together to ensure that the process becomes successful. It is necessary for employees to play their part and ensure that they complete the assignments that are assigned to them successfully (McMillan 5). In the case of Company X, the score for change initiative is 3.26. This ranks as the second aspect that the company lays emphasis on. This is an indication that in order for the change process to be successful, the employees within the organization must demonstrate their willingness to work hard. Managing change Managing change within an organization is an essential requirement for any organization that needs to succeed in implementing change. In this perspective, the management within the organization should ensure that all new equipment that is brought to the organization is managed properly. Moreover, the management of the organization should ensure that any new equipment that the organization acquires is allocated to the qualified employees (Cameron and Quinn 13). In the case of Company X, the average score for this aspect is 3.24. This is an indication that in order for the change practice to be successfully implemented, it is vital for the organization to ensure that the employees are allocated their rightful duties as well as ensure that they have sufficient information to enable them cope with the changes that take place within the organization. Managing change applies when the administration of an organization is able to confirm that all the equipment within the organ
Art is a form of human activity that aims at reflecting the beauty of the surrounding world. However, ancient art (30,000 BCE- 500 CE) was also directed at expressing human religious beliefs and events of the real world. This paper will focus on the comparative analysis of the two pieces of ancient art in respect of their artistic meaning, means of production, and the historical context of their creation. So, the first piece of art represents the culture of Ancient Egypt. It was accessed at the website of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The culture of ancient Egypt can be characterized by great attention paid to religious issues, and the piece under consideration is a bright example of this fact. It is the Statuette of the god Anubis, belonging to the Ptolemaic Period, 304-30 B.C. The Statuette is created from wood using pieces of gesso and paint, and its height amounts to 16 ½ inches. The materials used are characteristic of Egyptian art, and the almost perfect quality of the paint and gesso elements on the piece proves the skills with which the unknown author created this work. The meaning of the piece is evident from its background – Anubis is the guardian of the dead in the afterlife and of their mummies in this world. This statue was created as a part of a burial aimed at protecting the tomb of a respectable Egyptian person (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2009). As contrasted to the Anubis statuette, the second piece under analysis is a memorial of a real-world person. It is the Statue of a Sumerian Prince belonging to the ancient art of Babylon. It is approximately referred to as the Neo-Sumerian period (late 3rd millennium B.C.). It is created of diorite, which was a traditional material for the region of the Near East. The height of the piece is 70 cm. Drawing from the peculiarities of the Sumerian culture, the statue depicts a prince as Sumerians believed in the supreme role of monarchs in their social and religious lives. The symbolism of the statue lies in the fact that the royal power was viewed as a divine gift and was considered to be the primary topic for arts. All other pieces of Sumerian and Babylonian art of the ancient period are dedicated to either social or political events, including the stones with the Code of Hammurabi, bas-reliefs depicting the battles of the Babylonian armies with their rivals, etc. Accordingly, this piece of art reflects the epoch of its creation by being dedicated to the real-life topic rather than to religious motives that would become dominant after the Persian conquest of Babylon (The Louvre Museum, 2009). To conclude, the pieces of art under analysis represented different ancient cultures and were created in different epochs. The earlie
William Faulkner’s 1930 short story A Rose for Emily concerns the tragic life of the last remaining survivor of a powerful southern family, the Griersons, and the unhealthy relationship she has with memory and the past. Miss Emily Grierson, the daughter of the overbearing and self-important southern gentleman Mr. Grierson, preserves a proud haughtiness in the face of her neighbors and refuses to pay municipal taxes, thanks to an arrangement made 30 years earlier with the former mayor of Jefferson, Colonel Sartoris. Miss Emily Grierson’s unwillingness or inability to let go of the past and the prison of her father’s beliefs about her social station cause her to become a recluse. A man much beneath her social station takes an interest in her, but eventually leaves her, and the townspeople of Jefferson grow to feel sympathy for her and attempt to protect her from the reality of her situation – poverty, isolation, and spinsterhood. The following essay analyzes the setting, characters, plot development, and symbolism of A Rose for Emily to demonstrate how William Faulkner uses these devices to develop the theme of memory and the past in the short story. The fictional town of Jefferson, Mississippi provides the setting for A Rose for Emily. In Jefferson, William Faulkner creates a town steeped in a storied pre-Civil War past that it struggles to relinquish. Though the Civil War and all of its supporters and participants are long dead, their memories crowd the pages of the story. William Faulkner tells the reader at the story’s outset that Miss Emily Grierson has now “gone to join the representatives of those august names where they lay in the cedar-bemused cemetery among the ranked and anonymous graves of Union and Confederate soldiers who fell at the battle of Jefferson” (Faulkner 49). Miss Emily Grierson occupies a house of former grandeur on a street of former renown; both are dilapidated at the time that the story takes place. William Faulkner describes Miss Emily Grierson’s house as “a big, squarish frame house that had once been white, decorated with cupolas and spires and scrolled balconies in the heavily lightsome style of the seventies, set on what had once been our most select street. But garages and cotton gins had encroached and obliterated even the august names of that neighborhood; only Miss Emily’s house was left, lifting its stubborn and coquettish decay above the cotton wagons and the gasoline pumps” (Faulkner 49). The frozen in time quality of the setting, combined with the images of “coquettish decay,” underscore Miss Emily Grierson’s inability to free herself from the memory of her father and of the past. The characters in A Rose for Emily occupy two generations: the elders, including “the mayor, Judge Stevens, eighty years old,” who understand Emily’s faded grandeur and think of her as “a tradition, a duty, and a care,” and the more youthful characters (Faulkner 51; Faulkner 49). The members of the younger generation of characters do not understand the elder obsession with decorum and propriety, let alone why the town allows this woman to default on her mu
Introduction This essay aims to analyze the meanings and interpretations of such words as wealth . Traditionally, this term (along with its derivatives) is understood as a large amount of money or valuable material possessions. Furthermore, this word is often viewed as an abundance of financial resources. To some extent, such an approach may be quite plausible especially in terms of economics but probably it narrows down the meaning of this term. According to the definition proposed in this paper, wealth is a combination of both spiritual and material values that a person has or thinks to have. This abstract idea is subjective at its core and each individual can measure it according to his or her standards. Judging from that, it is quite possible to say that this notion also implies the state of mental health and financial prosperity. Of course, one cannot presume that this definition is conclusive. Others may easily disagree with it arguing that universally accepted interpretation is more accurate and concise, but any abstraction tends to be complex and multi-faceted and it normally has several layers of meaning. Wealth is as combination of material and spiritual values In the first part of this definition, we advocate the opinion that this word is closely associated with spirituality. The first reason is purely linguistic because in English as well as in many other languages, there is such an expression as spiritual wealth which means that people focus not only on financial aspects of their well-being. Secondly, many ancient and modern philosophers such as Plato, Aristotle, Nietzsche, or Werner Krieglstein maintain that a human being has both physical and mental needs. Consequently, he or she seeks various resources to meet or saturate these demands. Certainly, it is impermissible for us to argue that wealth does not include money or that money is of no importance. Such a statement is hypocritical or self-deceptive. People, who are deprived of material possessions, may be reduced to an animal state and this involves moral degradation. One cannot deny the significance of financial resources; they help to maintain existence, make it more comfortable and satisfactory. However, people who think only about them eventually become enslaved by this obsession. There are many examples in literature and cinematography that substantiate this point of view. We may remember Honoré de Balzacs Gobseck , in which the author describes the life of a miser for whom money becomes the ultimate goal and this leads him to hi
Introduction The concert was conducted on the 12th of June, 2016, at Santa Monica College Performance Arts Center. The conductor was Yosuke Miyoshi, the director of Emeritus College Concert Band. The performance consisted of seven pieces: Prelude, Siciliano, and Rondo by Malcolm Arnold, Something by George Harrison, Rhosymedre by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Jerusalem by Sir Hubert Parry; Second Suite for Military Band: Movement III – Song of the Blacksmith and Movement IV – Fantasia on Dargason by Gustav Holst; Balad for Benny by Philip Spark, and Love by the Beatles (John Lennon and Paul McCartney). The guest soloists were John P. Paynter, Paul Murtha, Walter Beeler, Michael Farkas, and Jay Bocook. Rhosymedre Rhosymedre: Prelude on a Welsh Hymn Tune was composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams in 1836. The composition is a piece included in the collection of Welsh hymns. Two other pieces included in the collection are Bryn Calfaria and Hyfrydol. The melody of the hymn is expressive yet soft and flowing. It evokes associations of celebration and sublimity. The texture of the piece is polyphonic, and the polyphony is created through the implementation of different wind instruments: flutes, clarinets, oboe, and trumpet. The harmony of the piece is primarily consonant, and it is played in major. A few key modulations are made throughout the performance – the introduction, the climax section, and the final part are played in different keys. These three elements of the piece represent the main movements that are rhythmically contrasted to each other. The introduction and the major tune are calm and simple while the countermelody is active and more energetic. The contrasts help to diversify the melody and make it more interesting for a listener. The timbre of Rhosymedre is multidimensional and diverse. The sounds are made by the wind and string orchestration. Despite the apparent calmness and simplicity of the piece, it is very expressive and keeps a listener attentive from the beginning to the end. Rhosymedre ‘s rich and harmonious polyphony is one of the major aspects of the piece that makes it distinctive, beautiful, and memorable. Prelude, Siciliano, and Rondo Prelude, Siciliano, and Rondo were composed by Malcolm Arnold in 1963, and it relates to the neo-classical period. The original name of the piece is Little Suite for Brass, Op. 80 . The piece has a vivid character, it is written in the major key and has a consonant harmony. The composer introduces multiple contrasting movements – the melody
Introduction The organizational learning and growth perspective is the analysis of an organization’s ability to maintain the capability of its assets. It involves the creation of good environmental conditions in the company that promotes innovation, efficiency, changes, and the overall growth. It also helps the company in proper utilization of the available labor force. These processes reduce the cost and maximize the benefits to an organization. Learning and growth of an organization is a very important practice that companies are encouraged to apply in their day-to-day activities. In this analysis, we are going to use the Susan G. Komen foundation.Susan G. Komen foundation is an organization that is involved in preaching the awareness and research of breast cancer. The foundation is also involved in funding other measures aimed at combating breast cancer. For instance, the foundation organizes activities like ‘Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure is a Success!’ in an effort to collect money to use in achieving its goals. The vision of the organization is to end the breast cancer forever. In an effort to fulfill this objective, the company has opened various programs that would help it in realization of its dreams. This involves strategies aimed at raising the necessary funds that could be used in eradication of cancer. Organization’s Learning and Growth Processes Objective                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Measure                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 Target
Introduction Even for people that remain extraordinarily active while they are aging, considering leisure opportunities at some point is critical. However, the described change should not be perceived by an older adult as the sign of them becoming useless for the business setting. Instead, their contribution to the organization and the fact that they have deserved their time off should be emphasized extensively. The described task gains increasingly more weight in the rural setting, where the process of aging is amplified and accelerated (Hash, Jurkowski, & Krout, 2015). Therefore, strategies for assisting older adults to transfer to a new stage of their development and retain the extent of their activity are important goals. Main Features Despite a common misconception, retiring does not imply becoming less active. As the podcast with Deenaz Patel has shown, a range of adults, even in the rural setting, tend to remain very active during their retirement years (“Aging in rural places – Part 7, retirement & leisure for older adults,” 2014). The described situation is also typical for older adults that live in a facility since, with the amount of financial support offered to them, options such as cruising and help tourism, remain open (Hash et al., 2015). Therefore, it is essential for older adults to receive the necessary support to express themselves and explore options for remaining engaged even after they retire. Conclusion Moreover, it is critical to ensure that the healthcare needs of older adults in the rural setting are met fully. While the target demographic tends to be less frail than their urban counterparts, establishing control over the well-being of older adults in the rural environment is still necessary. For this purpose, health education and the supervision of local nurses and social workers is required (Hash et al., 2015). Thus, older adults will receive the support and encouragement needed to keep the quality of their lives high.