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Executive Summary Dehumidifiers are some of the most commonly used household appliances. They are used for the purposes of reducing the levels of humidity in the air. Ideal levels of humidity range between 30 and 50 percent. At this level, the growth of microbes and other disease vectors is inhibited. The appliances are of great importance since they help the population deal with a number of health issues. The use of the appliances has become popular over the years following the realisation of the benefits associated with them. Statistics have shown that in countries like Korea, the sales of the appliances rose from 40,000 to 1.5 million units between 2009 and 2013. In addition, Samsung recorded a 631 percent increase in sales between May and January 2013. In light of this, it is apparent that the dehumidifier market has a significant potential for a company wishing to invest in new areas. Introduction Companies need to regularly evaluate their markets to determine their success. A company may also seek to enter new markets in order to support growth. Such a business requires information touching on the new market in order to make an informed decision (Esslinger 2009). For example, it is important to gather information on the customer needs. Data about other businesses operating in the market should also be sought. It is important to study the nature of the existing regulations to better understand possible barriers to entry. Companies seeking to enter new markets have to make a number of considerations prior to making any investments. To begin with, the market must be viable and able to achieve higher returns compared to other possible opportunities. The new market should also be easy to enter. As such, the company should encounter minimum constraints as it seeks to invest capital into the new opportunity. Before selecting the preferred opportunity, the management team must discuss and review a number proposed opportunities. The most promising venture is then selected. In most cases, the board of directors is involved in the evaluation process (Hague 2003). Usually, a project manager is then appointed to help the company further explore the market opportunity and determine its feasibility. The project manager is required to evaluate the new market. Following the assessment, the project administrator makes recommendations to the board. They may propose for the company to enter into the new market or abandon the venture. In cases where it is recommended that the opportunity presented by the new market be exploited, the project manager needs to present to the board what actions need to be taken in order to enter into the new frontier. As such, they must come up with an action plan that is to be implemented. Timescales need to be clearly stated in order to help the board determine the implications that the implementation will have on their business. An execution proposal is also required to gu
Introduction Cruise ship tourism is one of the fastest developing industries in the world. People are eager to get access to various traveling opportunities and enjoy their vacations. It is hard to define one particular reason for why some many people want to try cruise ship tourism at least once in life. The peculiar feature of this industry is people’s desire to choose cruise ship industry in spite of the fact that fuel costs are increased, and the economy of various countries decreases considerably. Australia, the Unites States of America, and the Caribbean region benefit a lot from the possibility to develop the cruise ship industry and attract the attention of many tourists (Brida & Aguirre, 2008). However, it does not matter what country offers its cruise ship tourism opportunities. It is necessary to consider a number of health and safety issues to help people being confident in their solutions and preferences. Travelers’ safety and health remain to be important questions for consideration worldwide. It is necessary to consider possible threats and understand how the chosen issues can be solved. The current report aims at investigating health and safety issues in cruise ship tourism to evaluate the current state of affairs in the sphere of the Australian cruise ship industry, define the importance of the chosen aspect, consider the threats the staff and consumers may suffer from, and introduce the ideas on how the chosen health and safety issues can be improved in terms of cruise ship tourism. Cruise Ship Tourism: Essence and Peculiarities Many researchers identify the growth of the cruise industry as phenomenal because, during the last four decades, this kind of tourism has introduced itself as a powerful and beneficial service with a more or less stable income (Dowling, 2006). Its international growth is explained by the possibility to diversify the products and create a new market with a number of luxurious services for people of different social classes. The main benefits of cruises for tourists are as follows (Dowling, 2006):   * Ships are defined as self-contained in comparison to other traveling means;   * High-quality food is usually offered in the best serving style;   * People are provided with a chance to visit different places without any problems (except those connected to the natural disasters) in a short period of time;   * Passengers have a variety of insurances to be protected from any possible harm during travel. In fact, people like cruise ship travel due to the possibility to be confident in everything that happens on board. They have enough space to relax and en
Pre-Award Description Procurement is an essential element of project planning and implementation since, through this process, one can ensure that necessary resources are available for the project’s execution. The planning stage and pre-award stage of the project should include the outline of the project’s scope and assessment of possible risks, which can be addressed in the post-reward stage. This paper aims to examine and evaluate the report by Western Australian’s Auditor General titled “Health Department’s Procurement and Management of its Centralised Computing Services Contract.” The pre-award process of developing the scope of the initiative, its primary goals, and the implementation process was not accurately described, which is the main issue highlighted in the report. The main aim of the project was to establish primary and backup data centres that the Department can use to collect and store health-related information by using a contractor (Western Australian Auditor General’s Report 2016). However, the procedures of cooperation and addressing any variations, as well as the monitoring process for the financials, were not outlined in the pre-award stage. According to the World Bank (n.d.), “pre-contract award processes (such as comprehensiveness of project documents, proper planning, choice of contract, appropriateness and quality of Procurement Documents, evaluation of bids/proposals) all contribute to the success of a contract.” There are several outcomes of the problem described in the report, including an increase of the initial budget from $44.9 million to $175, failure to establish authorisation procedures, and lack of invoice monitoring. The general findings suggest that the Department of Health’s managers did not apply proper procurement practices when developing the contract since the procedures of monitoring and authorisation were not established. This audit was launched after the request submitted by the Acting Director-General of the Department of Health because the former had concerns regarding the outcomes of this project, which were unsatisfactory, which suggest that the procedure of monitoring and the roles and responsibilities were not established at the initial stages. The Department of Health aimed to award a contract of health IT services aiming to establish a Centralised Computer Services that would manage health-related data. The report suggests that Health did not manage the funds allocated to it to work on the IT project adequately, resulting in unnecessary spending and suggesting a need for better procurement management. Analysis In this report, it is recommended that the Department of Health addresses the issue that was overlooked in the pre-award stage,
To achieve high results in the sport competitions of different levels, it is necessary to pay attention not only to the improvement of physical skills and abilities and to the regular training but also to the development of the athletes’ mental skills. In this case, imagination can be discussed as the most influential mental skill. In their article, Duran-Bush and Salmela state that different external factors, personal relations, specific features of training, and personal characteristics including motivation and imagination can influence the peculiarities of an athlete’s development and maintenance (Durand-Bush & Salmela, 2002). According to Vealey, the aspects of the athlete’s performance can be influenced by the level of his mental skills’ development. Thus, the author’s main idea is that the improvement of such a mental skill as imagination is equal in its effectiveness to the regular training because athletes have the opportunity to provide the expected picture of their further success (Vealey, 2007). In his turn, Gladwell develops the notion of the ‘physical genius’ and indicates that such mental processes as imagination and especially visualization are of great importance for the physical progress because they affect neurological mechanisms (Gladwell, 1999). Thus, the level of the athletes’ successes and their results depend on a variety of factors. Although those results which athletes perform at the competitions are predominantly based on their physical state, the regularity of their training, the quality of the recovery, and the effectiveness of the used techniques, it is also necessary to focus on such characteristics as the development of the athletes’ mental skills, imagination and visualization in particular, because the athletes can not only regulate their motor functions but also use their productive thinking in order to create the picture of success. Being able to manage his or her thoughts effectively, an athlete can influence the neurological processes which are important for the improvement of the physical abilities (Gladwell, 1999). Thus, the imagination power can be used to change the physical state and improve the effects of the training. Nevertheless, the development of mental skills is also the necessary condition for the emot
Introduction The rate of deforestation of the Amazon has been on the increase for the last two decades. Presently, 70 percent of the land in the Amazon that was initially forested is now occupied by cattle ranches (Marglis, 2004, p. 2). Further, 91 percent of the deforested land in the Amazon since 1970 has been put to the same use of cattle ranching. Cattle ranching on large scale are thought to have led to a 38 percent decline in the forest cover of the Amazon in Brazil, from 1966 to 1975. CIFOR (Center for International Forestry Research) asserts that “between 1990 and 2001 the percentage of Europe’s processed meat imports that came from Brazil rose from 40 to 74 percent” and by 2003 ” (2007, p. 4). Since mid 1960s, the Amazon forest cover has been cleared at a high rate, in order to make room for cattle ranching, owing to a rising demand for beef. Dia 1: Large areas of forest are removed to make way for plantations and cattle ranches In addition, the Brazilian real was rapidly losing value against the dollar, and this necessitated the need to increase beef prices two folds, and hence the mass beef production. Brazilian land tenure policy facilitated the ease with which ranchers could clear the forest for cattle rearing. Nepstad and colleagues (2008, p.6) argue that approximately 20 percent of the entire Amazon rainforest in Brazil has now been cleared to pave way for human activities, such as ranching. Accordingly, estimations are that by 2050, nearly 50 percent of the rainforest in Brazil shall have disappeared. As a result, it is expected that the temperature in the region shall increase by an average of 4°C. In addition, this shall result in a 20 percent reduction in rainfall within this region, with such devastating consequences as forest die-back and ‘savannization’ (Nepstad et al, 2008, p. 6). This research paper intends to describe and analyze the environmental impacts of the human use of resources and to identify and evaluate technologies or policies designed to manage these impacts. Accordingly, the environmental impacts of cattle ranching on Brazilian rainforest shall be examined. Cattle Ranching and Brazil’s rainforests The clearing of the Amazon forest in Brazil, ostensibly to pave way for cattle production, is an issue that has elicited vocal and visible environmental debates for the last one decade, with critics arguing that unless policy and attitude changes are instituted, there is the possibility that the Amazon could be faced with an imminent disappearance. A multitude of environmental problems have been associated with the current high deforestation rates of the Brazilian Amazon rainforest. These includes localised land degradation, and climate change issue that impacts on a global level (Nepstad et al, 2008, p. 6). Dia2: Slash and burn forest removal in Brazil increased dramatically in the 1970s and 1980s While land in the Amazon has been put to different uses, cattle production appears to be the most predominant human activity, and environmentalists are concerned about the impending environmental degradatio
Introduction Globalization has led to an increase in the number of multi-cultural organizations all over the world. Consequently, recruitment of employees has become a global activity with at least 25 – 30% of a company’s workforce belonging to diverse cultural backgrounds (Persing, 1999). Such organizations face the challenge of embracing the cultural diversity and using it to promote productivity. Cultural diversity refers to the “representation, in one social system, of people with distinctly different group affiliations of cultural significance” (White, 1999). Various concepts have been put forward, most notably by Edward T. Hall, to explain the approaches that different cultures have towards time and communication at the work place. A culture may be low context or high context depending on the degree to which they rely on things other than words to convey meaning. Given that in a low context culture, nothing is left to chance, there is very little room for misunderstandings to occur (Hall, 2003). In most instances, low context culture will provide clear explanations that do not bear any hidden meaning (Gamsriegler, 2005). In the case of a high context culture, many options exist that allow people to comprehend what is said (Gamsriegler, 2005). Using Hall’s classification, cultures may also be either monochronic or polychronic depending on their perception of time. In monochromic cultures, time schedules are very important and must be followed strictly (Moseley, 2009). This is not so with polychronic cultures where people place a greater value on personal involvement rather than getting things done on time (Moseley, 2009). By understanding these different perceptions, international organizations can curb some of the problems they face from having a culturally diverse workforce. Such problems include stereotyping, ethnocentrism as well as conflict between individualistic and collective approaches to task completion. Managers of such multi-cultural groups must show a strong commitment to encouraging diversity in order to achieve harmony in the workplace (White, 1999). Understanding international organizational behaviour through appreciation of cultural diversity
Executive Summary The main goal of this very document is to offer an efficient management framework that will be able to guarantee that all risks and uncertainties are managed at the high level, and the infrastructure of Sharjah City in the UAE will benefit from the improved approach. Considering the fact that risk management is a complex and long-term project, the introduction of a risk management plan to guarantee the improved results of the whole venture might be considered the first step to its improved functioning and outstanding final outcomes. However, a well-thought-out and comprehensive approach is needed. The document will contribute to the achievement of this very goal by assessing the most important features of Sharjah City and its infrastructure to determine its strengths and weaknesses and be able to suggest a change strategy aimed at the mitigation of the negative impact of some aspect. Additionally, the paper will outline the effect risk mitigation strategies might have on the functioning of this entity and how the exploration of these very strategies will be deployed to minimize the chances of the appearance of a certain risk factor. Altogether, the given document could be considered an attempt to create a framework for the enhancement of Sharjah Citys infrastructure functioning. Introduction The blistering rise of the Gulf region results in the appearance of giant cities characterized by the complex infrastructure. The fact is that the tendency towards the increased number of visitors and residents introduces the necessity of the outstanding performance of every object of infrastructure to guarantee that the basic needs of the majority of people will be satisfied (“Sharjah picks four key pillars of growth in 2017,” 2017). In this regard, risk management strategies become an integral part of the functioning of any great object with the developed infrastructure as the purpose of this sort of analysis is to guarantee that all possible risks are identified and managed to eliminate any threat that might appear in case one or another aspect remains unnoticed. For this reason, the main objectives of the given paper are to identify, assess, and analyze all possible risks related to Sharjah Infrastructure. The complexity of the task and sophistication of relations between different objects of infrastructure precondition the usage of various risk assessment tools and increased level of attention given to an array of factors. Reason The choice of the topic and object for the investigation is not accidental. The fact is that at the moment the Gulf region is one of the most fast-growing areas in the world characterized by the high pace of the d
Introduction The general objective of this coursework is to demonstrate the importance of Strategic Management in the successful functioning of a business organization and illustrate the application of Business Strategy tools to implement strategic solutions at different levels of a business organization. In this case study, Aramex, which is a leading global provider of a wide ranges of logistics and transportation services, will be used for a SWOT analysis and demonstrate application of strategic management to grow a company. The Company: Aramex Mission: To be recognized as one of the top five global logistics and express transportation service providers. Purpose: To enable and facilitate regional and global trade and commerce responsibly. From a small express logistics company based in the Middle East, Aramex has grown to become a global player in a global integrated supply chain firm. In the recent past, Aramex has pursued an insistent expansion strategy globally to claim leadership position and establish itself as a formidable force among firms in the global logistics and supply chain management. Moreover, it has focused on leveraging the Global Distribution Alliance where it boasts of being among the largest constituent. Aramex was established in 1982, and it has become a global brand known for its innovative and customised solutions. Consequently, in 1997, Aramex became the first Arab company to trade on NASDAQ. Today, the company has grown across the globe with over 307 offices distributed in 195 countries. in addition, Aramex has more than 7,000 employees who meet diverse needs of more than 5,000 companies located in the Middle East, Africa, Asia, Europe, the US, and India. Aramex uses acquisition strategies to expand its business interests across the world (Shuaa Capital, 2008). The company controls a significant market share in its main market in the Gulf region. In addition, Aramex continues to focus on other unexplored geographical regions for its expansion drive as a way of revamping its global distribution network. Nevertheless, the Middle East region will continue to be the most significant market for the company even in the future. In light of this growth, it is anticipated that the company will continue to experience massive growth for several years. The growth will emanate from high and unrelenting regional economic activities, strategic outsourcing practices in supply chain management, declining trade barriers across geographical regions, escalating investment in the infrastructures and the company’s abilities to leverage on all these growth drivers. Aramex has created different divisions for its operations, including international express, logistics, supply chain management, regional distribution and other strategic core operations. The international operations cover parcel distribution globally and in the regional destinations for both retail and corporate clients. The distribution channels include air, land and sea. The