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Introduction Perceptual maps have become popular in the projection of business situations especially in sales and marketing (Petta et al, 2011, p.453). Graphic illustrations created out of data that is generated from scales of rating are called perceptual maps. It is important to note that the validity of the maps generated depends on the parameters that have been used to produce them (Lilien et al, 2007, p. 80). Perceptual mapping has especially been cited as one of the most effective ways of injecting input directly into the marketing planning process (Lamb et al 2011, p. 67). This paper will concentrate on the impact of simulation on the lifecycle of the products as well as its impact of the life cycle on them marketing of the product. Simulation In the marketing simulation, the given company is involved in the production of CruiserThorr motorcycles whose production exceeds 200,000 a year and has a significant market share. Given the dynamism among the client base of the company, the declining sales have generated the need for a good marketing strategy. The perceptual maps created by Thorr’s marketing team are meant to project the potion of Thorr in the market so that the company can come up with suiting strategies that will raise the sagging sales numbers. Phase 1 In the first phase product design and styling, service offerings, price and quality engineering were chosen. Many motorcyclists associate the gadget with open road freedom. Engineering was chosen for the design of perceptual maps because of its critical role in delivering desirable customer designs. Engineering determines all the attributes that customers are looking for and how they will be fitted into new Thorr design. Price is the ultimate selling point of the motorcycle. Affordability will play a big role in the number of units the company hopes to sell after a new strategy is implemented. Price though won’t be very low given the status and reputation of Thorr in the market. That is the reason why service delivery is one of the factors chosen so as to main
Introduction Sinclair Lewis was the first American awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. The novel was written only in some months; it is considered to be inferior to the brilliant author’s novels of the 1920s. Nevertheless, Lewis’s satire still captured the attention of all the American readers. The novel appeared in 1935, in the period when the USA and the Western Europe were still in depression. In this political novel Lewis described the dangers of fascism by transferring this movement from Germany to the USA. What is more, later the novel inspired a play with the same title, which was extremely popular all over the United States. Main body In this novel the author describes his idea of what would happen if a dictator who promises an easy solution to the depression is elected. In It Cant’t Happen Here there is a story of a “small-town newspaper editor” Doremus Jessup. When the new president is elected Doremus is 60. For a year he struggles with a new government in attempt to defend his newspaper from the censorship. His newspaper is the only liberalistic voice in his town. He struggles to fight against the totalitarian regime, but fails. Eventually Doremus Jessup is in a concentration camp. He is surprised to see that prison is the only future waiting for people like him. To the journalist Doremus and his family it was not least interesting that among these imprisoned celebrities were so many journalists: Raymond Moley, Frank Simonds, Frank Kent, Heywood Broun, Mark Sullivan, Earl Browder, Franklin P. Adams, George Seldes, Frazier Hunt, Garet Garrett, Granville Hicks, Edwin James, Robert Morss Lovett—men who differed grotesquely except in their common dislike of being little disciples of Sarason and Macgoblin. (Lewis, 1993, 98). In a year he manages to escape to Canada, and after that he goes back to his country in order to organize the underground resistance movement. The new president Windrip is a power-hungry populist who appeals to his voters with stories of growing up poor. “He continued to tell himself that his main ambition was to make all citizens healthy, in purse and mind, and that if he was brutal it was only toward fools and reactionaries who wanted the old clumsy systems” (Lewis, 1993, 67). He masterly plays on anti-intellectualism of his electorate, which is the result of the lack of education, presenting Jefferson
Abstract This paper analyzes the differences that exist between the public sector and the private sector. This is done by considering employment laws governing the two sectors and how they are applied in each sector. It is evident that the public sector is run using strict government regulations that are mainly guided by public opinion. On the other hand, the private sector has more flexible regulations that favor businesses and promote profit making. Introduction Employment law is a business concept that guides the legalities involved within a business environment. The private and the public sector are both characterized by differences. Thus, both sectors are characterized by the application and implementation of various employment laws (Bennett-Alexander & Hartman, 2011). The public sector consists of employees working for the central government or governmental agencies. On the other hand, the private sector consists of employees working for non-governmental agencies. The private sector can be comprised of individuals owning businesses, limited partnership, and corporations. Within a country, the private sector is mainly comprised of more workers in comparison to the public sector. Differences in public versus private sector The public sector usually applies more employment laws in comparison to the private sector. The government, through the legislature, does the work of formulating laws that guide the private and the public sector. However, the public sector tends to apply more laws established by the central government. On the other hand, organizations in the private sector are established by individuals. Thus, they tend to apply laws that they view as favorable for their activities (Smith & Thomas, 2007). They lack the rigorous initiatives used within public organizations in applying their laws. Thus, most of the laws they make are for their benefit and do not affect the public sector. The employment laws made to manage the private organizations are not restrictive to encourage growth within the private sector. In many cases, the laws are made to ensure that ethics exist within the business environment. Moreover, the main objective of the laws is to ensure that businesses make profits and achieve growth. In comparison, the employment laws formulated to guide the public sector are more restrictive. They contain specific details on how various activities should be conducted within government offices. The laws also cover all governmental organizations. Private entities vary in terms of the laws that they are required to apply. For instance, they have fewer la
People have always been interested and fascinated by celestial bodies trying to attach some importance and divine extraordinary meaning to the processes they observed during the shifts of the day and night. There’s not so much time passed as people started to perceive astronomy as a branch of science and by now accumulated a considerable amount of galaxies, stars, comets, asteroids, and other cosmic bodies. By now a lot of observations about galaxies are available though outer space still puzzles peoples’ minds and leaves more questions than answers. In this paper, I would like to give an overview of some galaxies, try to explain how they occur, coexist with other astronomical bodies, and focus on the Milky way in particular. To commence with it is reasonable to provide a definition of a galaxy. The scientists provide different definitions of galaxies but they are all very similar. Thus, according to D. Moche “, a galaxy is an enormous group of millions of stars and gas and dust held together by the force of gravity” (147). J. Binney and M. Merrifield describe a galaxy as “a gravitationally-bound collection of stars” (1). The structure and the materials they are built of are very complicated. Galaxies can also amalgamate into more complex structures called “clusters” but it is the galaxies that serve as the basis for the Universe (Binney and Merrifield 1). It’s noteworthy that galaxies can be very small, containing few stars or just gases and huge clusters, consisting of stars, gases, dust, cosmic rays, and the like. H. Karttunen states that in the center of almost every galaxy should be “a compact nucleus” that may radiate bright light (Karttunen and Kroger 367). There exist many classifications of galaxies, but the most widespread is the classification of galaxies in terms of their shape or “visual morphology” (Fanning and Menzel 167). Thus, galaxies may be of different patterns that are clearly distinguished through the astrometric telescope in the X-ray spectrum. The prevailing form of galaxies in outer space is the elliptical galaxy, i.e. having the shape of an ellipse. There exist also spiral galaxies, spherical, spiral, dwarfs, and other galaxies that present a complicated pattern of clusters, stars, and gas (National Research Council 39). It’s also known that galaxies consist of dust clouds that “absorb the visible light and turn it into radiation” (National Research Council 40). For a long time, there was a belief that galaxies are stable congregations that don’t change over time. But in the 1970s the scientists found evidence that galaxies develop. It is difficult to obs
Today, the Internet becomes an extremely powerful tool that attracts the attention of millions of users all over the world. For this reason, its exploration could bring numerous benefits to companies that try to interest new customers or potential partners. In this regard, web design became an extremely important activity as it guarantees the pleasant appearance of any site and its efficient functioning. However, some problems might still occur. For instance, the website of a great retail company Kantar Retail (www.kantarretail.com), is obviously used as a tool to attract attention to the company and find new customers via the Internet. However, there are several areas of improvement. First of all, there are many images on the website, and they do not load in a timely manner. A user has to wait for several seconds, and only then he/she is able to see the content. Moreover, there are constant freezes and problems while trying to follow a new link. These errors
The primary goal of the negotiation is to support the development of teachers and encourage their professional growth by paying vehement attention to their salaries and rewards. In this case, it is essential to conduct sufficient research to gain a clear understanding of the topics that have to be discovered in the context of this discussion. This approach will assist in presenting different sides of the issue and preparing for a debate that will take place in the recent future. Consequently, the critical goal of this paper is to discover dissimilar stages of planning and discuss the main themes that will be covered to succeed in the negotiation. In the first place, it is vital to discover the possibility of increasing a teacher’s salary and pension contribution. The most suitable percentage will be described and explained. It is believed that these matters, along with offering additional training, have a direct impact on the quality of the provided education while stimulating change in a positive direction (Kraft & Furlong, 2014). Discovering this topic in details will assist in providing a rationale for the need for these changes. Apart from the specific concepts that will be addressed during the negotiation, it will be vital to discover current economic (GDP, GNP, budget, and growth) and political situation in the region, as, without this information, it will be impossible to understand the possibility of budget’s and teacher’s salary increase. Alternatively, one cannot underestimate the significance of providing a favorable learning environment to encourage learning among students. One of the aspects will be discussing the maximum number of students in the class. This feature will not only help optimize space in the classroom but also increase the quality of the provided education (Yongxin, 2014). Understanding this matter will offer a rationale for changes and also redesign the national benchmarks and standards concerning the appropriate number of students in the class (Yongxin, 2014). Simultaneously, underlining the significance of psychological counseling for students is critical, as provisioning it can help diminish the adverse consequences such as misbehavior and help target academic excellence (Yongxin, 2014). Reviewing these factors will help develop effective argumentation and clearly present opinions and claims
The first element that is fundamental in The Left Hand of Darkness is its length and components. The book is lengthy and entails various themes, such as gender and sexuality, betrayal and loyalty, otherness and connectedness, religion and spirituality, light and dark, and truth and storytelling. The novel is interesting in the way it utilizes these themes to question gender and sexuality, just like science questions most other things. All these themes interact to develop a fictional planet and a society with gender neutrality while embracing diversity. It also brings out an aspect of the journeys that individuals have to take alone and those that they work cohesively with other parties to attain common strategies. All these themes play a significant role in bringing out the experiences of people in daily life and the way they live with each other. However, in making the movie, the book needs to be trimmed to two hours. In this case, the novel will need to be subdivided into various parts with subheadings referencing the most essential parts relating to the final goal. Editing will be centered on the theme of gender and sexuality, betrayal and loyalty. For example, the exploration on culture and society in relation to Estraven and Ai to bring out feminism is essential. Family and love will help highlight the bonds that society has in the world and how they maintain these bonds. To make the movie appealing in this century, a few editions involving today’s family expectations, spiritual values, and feminism will be incorporated. For example, digital forums of communication help families reconnect and use solicitors to fight for the rights of the planet’s citizens. The use of spaceships and neurotransmitters will also help neutralize the originality of the book. The second most important element in the novel is gender equality and neutrality. The book is set as a science fiction novel where the inhabitants are ambisexual to bring equality between men and women. Therefore, both men and women in the book possess both female and male qualities since they can reproduce and bear children. However, the author uses the pronoun ‘he’ for both genders in the book. The novel looks at the essentiality of masculine and feminine aspects in biological terms and not how other factors influence them. Furthermore, from various incidents, it is easy to distinguish the males and females. The use of proper nouns is critical in defining the gender of characters in a movie. However, the use of the pronoun ‘he’ dominates in the narrator’s opinion, the use of ‘he’ and ‘sh
In many kinds of organizations, leadership is one of the core factors that determine the success of the entire institution as well as its level of performance in the market or industry. Leadership behavior is a complex phenomenon that is comprised of a variety of aspects. Leadership behaviors can differ significantly from one individual to another and are driven by a multitude of internal and external characteristics such as the environment in which such behavior occurs, the situation that triggered it, the leader who displays, and the followers it targets, among others. Theoretically, leadership behaviors that work well in successful organizations could be beneficial for other organizations as well. This is why it is important to study such behaviors and identify their key features that could be adopted by companies that seek improvement. This was the main purpose of the article under discussion. The focus of this paper is the article by Larsson and Vinberg entitled “Leadership behavior in successful organizations: Universal or situation-dependent.” This work was published in 2010 in the Total Quality Management Journal. The research project presented by Larsson and Vinberg included four organizations of different kinds, sizes, specializations, and structures that acted as the study participants. The purpose was to explore leadership behaviors in these organizations and analyze them in order to identify the most effective aspects. Additionally, the implications of the identified successful leadership behaviors were discussed. The major elements targeted by the examined leadership behaviors were the effectiveness of work, its quality, the state of the working environment, health and wellbeing of employees, and their perceptions of their leadership. The authors of this study were determined to find out if leadership behaviors observed in organizations were a universal dynamic or a pattern dependent on situations and circumstances. For this purpose, leadership behaviors in these organizations were divided into three groups based on their focus – structure, change, and relationship-orientation. This was done based on the leadership behavior theory according to which two dimensions are recognized in this phenomenon – relation- and structure-orientation. In this regard, the two dimensions represent two s
Dressmaking is a lucrative venture. However, several dressmaking companies have recorded poor business performances (Haugen, 45). The affected companies may recover, stagnate, or close down, depending on the production strategy adopted in such challenging situations (Busi & Ronan 185). Concerning my product, I will be required to adopt an appropriate production strategy to remain competitive in the market. As such, I must restructure my production units. My recovery plan focuses on international versus domestic production strategy. The paper below compares and contrasts my preferred method. My production and outsourcing strategy To lower the cost of operation in my company and remain competitive in the American market, I will outsource products from my home country to China. I will consider China rather than the United States because the government has a cheap source of labor, lower capital cost, manufacturing efficiencies, and cheap raw materials. Subsequently, the country is close to other Asian and European markets. By relocating, I will be able to cut down on the cost of labor needed in the production of dresses. In the US, work is blamed for the increased cost of producing dresses (Long 37). On the other hand, labor in China is cheap and readily available. Equally, the relocation will reduce the overhead charges related to operating a dressmaking firm in the United States. The overhead costs comprise fuel, power, water, machinery maintenance charges. In China, the cost of manufacturing a dress is reduced by 40-70% compared to manufacturing in the United States (Linda 34). By relocating, I will be able to save on the labor cost. I will be able to direct the saved funds towards the expansion of my business. With respect to equipment, specialties, and capacity, China is my preferred relocation country. For the last few decades, China has risen progressively to be a major manufacturer of industrial goods. In this regard, the cost of acquiring dressmaking equipment in China will be reduced compared to receiving them in the USA (Jayaraman 2). Similarly, the country has a large number of garment experts, unlike the USA. Given the abundant source of garment specialists and reduced labor costs in China, I will be able to cut production costs through relocation. With reduced costs, I will be able to construct a large dressmaking factories in China. The factories will have increased capacity. By relocating, I expect to encounter a number of challenges, which could be avoided in the USA. The challenges comprise infrastructure and logistics issues. Unlike in the USA, the western and cen
Abstract This paper delves into the issue of global warming and attempts to showcase its origins, its impact, and what can be done to potentially resolve it through a viable solution that would work. Introduction In the movie, “An Inconvenient Truth”, Al Gore presents viewers with the results of human activity on the planet. He shows how storms are getting stronger, droughts are getting longer and dryer and, as a result of humanity’s unmitigated use of fossil fuel resources, the Earth is supposedly getting hotter resulting in global warming which has severe ramifications for the future of humanity. He explains that it is within the past 70 years that humanity’s expansion and consumption has reached a critical point resulting in the slow decline of the planet’s natural ability to replenish resources. It is with this view in mind that this paper will delve into the issue of global warming and its impact on the planet. The rapid expansion of the global population following the 1960s resulted in humanity consuming more resources than the planet could replenish, resulting in the present-day conditions wherein 6.8 billion people are consuming the equivalent of 1.4 Earth’s. This phenomenon described as an “ecological overshoot” can be seen in the rapid degree of deforestation in various countries around the world, the rampant overpopulation in developing and Third World countries as well as the sheer amount of pollution currently in the planet’s ecological system (Newman, 2014). Such activity has consequences which have affected weather and climate patterns to such a degree that it has caused artificial climate changed resulting in an increasingly hot atmosphere due to the accumulation of pollutants such as C02 in the air as a result of cars and fossil fuel burning power plants. Various scientists have stated that a grim future for humanity is expected based on accelerating conditions wherein farmlands have turned into deserts, freshwater is nonexistent, the climate is hellish, and natural disasters abound as a result of the ill-advised nature of the voracious human exploitation of the planet’s resources. Insights gained from various academic journals reveal that the main reason behind global warming, which threatens the very future of the planet is the rampant overpopulation of humanity, which threatens to drain the resources of the planet. It is revealed that as the population of humanity grows so too does the strain the human species places on the planet. This strain can be seen in the increased consumption of water which has drained underground water reservoirs; formerly lush plains turned into arid deserts and the very sky itself filled with CO2 gases as a result of humanity’s rampant consumption of fossil fuel-based products an