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Introduction The U.S. retail market is a place of numerous opportunities and risks. However, for a while, the American retail industry has been dominated by a single company. Walmart has built a well-developed system for functioning in the U.S. retail economy. However, while Walmart has been enjoying grand success in the American market, it is largely underrepresented in the rest of the world. Thus, the organization should strive to integrate into the promising environment of the Brazilian and Indian retail markets, simultaneously adjusting its corporate philosophy and marketing approach to meet the requirements of the new setting and demands of new customers. Strategic Plan: Discussion The current Strategic Plan includes the reconsideration of the company’s vision and values toward a more stakeholder-oriented, multicultural approach. It is critical for Walmart to recognize the individual needs of its stakeholders and provide them with an environment in which they will feel fulfilled and satisfied. For Walmart employees, the specified change will imply improving the corporate benefits package and offering training opportunities (Frost & Strauss, 2016). For customers, the specified change will imply alterations in the approach toward positioning the product and representing the firm to its potential clients. Therefore, the strategic plan for Walmart includes the steps outlined below. Vision The change in the corporate philosophy and vision is currently the most important one for Walmart. The company will introduce a vision that is people-oriented, focused on Christian values, and leading to the enhancement of multiculturalism. The latter is a particularly significant change since it implies a transfer to a new level of relationships between the company and its employees and customers. Core Values Christian principles, Corporate Social Responsibility, and communication will become the key tools for ensuring that all stakeholders are satisfied and contented. The specified ideas along with innovativeness will pave the way for the company to succeed in addressing HR issues and catering to the demands of buyers from different cultural backgrounds, specifically, Indian and Brazilian ones. Outcomes It is believed that the emphasis on the change in corporate values will allow for a rise in Walmart’s popularity in the global market. Specifically, the organization is likely to gain higher recognition rates and market its products to Indian and Brazilian customers effectively (Groose, 2015). Furthermore, among the key expected effects of the suggested technique, the emergence of potential investors and partners that will help Walmart to explore the potential of Brazilian and Indian markets should be listed. Accountability The introduction of the principles of accountability within the organization is another step toward assisting Walmart in entering the selected markets. It will be critical to providing the company with the platform for decision-making in the new economic setting. In addition, the promotion of SCR will encourag
Today’s leadership in the public policy making arena faces a number of technical and fundamental challenges spanning from globalized marketing, advancement in the information technology and the dynamism of the hierarchical arrangements in organizations or firms. Recently years brings about wide changes in business transactions in the aim of facing out the global market modest challenges, to cope with the rapid changes in technology and cater for the extreme transitional economies. New leadership skills and management techniques in the business world are therefore inevitable. The leader must be valuable and have unique skills that are not easily to imitate or which lacks a perfect substitution. The employers are interested in leaders who have the ability to cater for diversity to combat the increases of demands and competition. Dynamism is a key trait for the managers and leaders. They must have the mechanisms of transforming company performance to global economies through globalization and liberalization. The most important leadership traits in creation of public policies comprise of ability to empower others. An empowering leader is visionary and has the ability to accomplish goals by encouraging and influencing on others through team performances. According to Noonan (2003), leadership is not the ability to work, but influence others to join cohesively and achieve the set objectives. Successful leaders are able to set an influential operational atmosphere at the workplace where everyone is able to set and achieve personal goals and eventually departmental or organizational goals. The positive attitude and ability of to work under minimal supervision is empowerment. Leadership requires the ability to create, manage and exploit skills and knowledge of others to gain competitive advantage over rivals. Empowering leaders arrange for motivational visions and missions through orientation and division of responsibilities at all levels of performance. Today the role of leadership has changed to cater for measures of increasing resources. Leaders are able to formulate environments that are conducive for engaging individuals’ coercive powers, and thus achieve the set goals. This strategy of empowering others overthrows the traditional dictatorial and directive leadership style where decision-making was centralized. Empowered employees are able to support transacts within the firm. They are readily willing to have a clear definition of the link performance requirements and rewards. Empowered employees also support transformation in the firm by bringing in the individual objectives, goals, and ideas to merge with the business ideas. Empowered employees have an elevated self-esteem, vision, concerns, self- confidence, conductive and liberal thinking. The style promotes cohesiveness, cooperation and independence of thoughts, character-management, responsibility, positive attitude, mutual trust and self-motivation Noonan (2003). Although not compulsory, the leader’s education, foreign experience and military backgrounds have a major significan
Consumers’ Perspective While the article features eight principles of ethical marketing, it seems that consumers are most concerned about two of them. The first principle that they find to be important is the truthfulness of the information they receive through advertising. The principle identifies it as the importance of honest and ethical advertising in various media types. This fact is understandable since people do not want to be misled by any sort of information. It is still a big issue that many people tend to suspect commercials for carrying the wrong information. The general reason for this concern is that companies receive huge revenues from selling their products and they wish to receive as much money as possible could make them sacrifice the ethical side of the question. Consumers are aware that advertisement producers are trying to hide as much information as possible if it is not regulated by any law. Another principle that is important to consumers is the notion that their data will not be used by companies for commercial purposes. While some people are unaware that their online activity data is being collected by businesses, others show concerns and unwillingness to share this type of information. The issue has become a base for many website owners to include information about the use of cookies and their influence on the visitors’ privacy. While context advertising could be useful sometimes, people are often frustrated with the offerings of products and services they do not wish to discover. Technologies are rapidly developing, and nowadays there is even a concern that search engines reacting to voice may be collecting information that was merely discussed near a device. Ethics Violations While most aspects of ethical advertising are regulated by legislation, some companies ignore these rules. The most common problem of this sphere is cooperating with online bloggers by ordering them not to disclose that they are working for money. One of the most popular examples of such violations includes numerous beauty blogs where speakers, mostly female, discuss various cosmetic products that they use. While some of them place the AD sign in the name of the post or video, many bloggers do not mention it due to the concern that this will turn away their audience. For instance, Zoella who is the most popular beauty blogger in the UK never states that any of her product reviews are advertisements, yet many reports claim that she is the highest-paid YouTube star in the industry of beauty blogging. The danger of beauty blogging lies in the fact that it is considered the most popular among the teenage population. Bloggers usually do not disclose their revenues and show their lives as being similar to others.
The modern world is a highly computerized environment in which everything, or almost everything, can be found with the help of the Internet. Further on, the latter worldwide network allows computer users to enjoy the advantages of the Free Software accessible online. However, history shows that the situation could have developed in a completely different way, if the inventors of the ARPANET, and further the Internet, cooperated not with the publically but privately funded organizations. Many scholars Dravis (2003), Yamamoto (2008, p. 516), etc. believe that the growth of the Open Standards and the Internet as such would be endangered if private interests were involved. The story itself began already in 1957 when the USSR sent its first artificial satellite Sputnik. This event impacted the wish of U.S. researchers to achieve a goal of equal or even greater importance. The Advanced Research Projects Agency was founded in pursuit of this goal in 1962 (Hauben, 2010). The 1960s were the time when computers, after being considered as mere calculating machines, became means of connecting people that used them. The work of the Advanced Research Projects Agency soon resulted in the creation of the so-called ARPANET, the predecessor of the modern Internet and the first computer network invented by humanity (Dravis, 2003; Hauben, 2010). Further on, the Internet developed from ARPANET, and scholars like Clark and Lick, as cited by Hauben (2010), call this invention not a technological, but rather a human achievement. At the same time, the challenge of the Internet growth is viewed by the same scholars as already a purely technological issue imposed on the human beings working on the Inet development. The main advantages of the Internet are the open standards of using the TCP/IP Protocols and the Free Software available to any computer user without the need to pay royalties (Song, 2008; wheeler, 2007). Drawing from this, scholars like Hauben (2010) and Wheeler (2007) argue that the creation of the Internet in collaboration with a private company like AT&T would have adverse effects on the Internet growth and the development of its open standards. Nowadays, the use of TCP/IP Protocols is free, and so is the of the licensed software that can be distributed through the Internet. This is possible due to the fact that the Internet was developed using the public funds, and if private company finance were involved, the situation would be different. First of all, the use of TCP/IP Protocols would be paid as the company owning rights for licensing would definitely make a profit of its sale. Second, the distribution of Free Software would hardly be pos
Introduction Around the 1980s, the number of older adults was significantly increasing in society; the local government of New York established a home for the aged and was named Acacia Network. Acacia Network, Housing’s target population, revolves around clients currently living in shelters, homeless people, or the current community in need of medical, mental health, or concrete conditions. Acacia Network is an inclusive agency concerning the availability of open clinics and mental health facilities to all within the free community. The facility has grown over the years and is now recognized nationally, and serves people across the nation. Recently it introduced home care where the clients may be taken care of while in their homes. It was contributed by two significant factors: the existing number of clients in the facility was maximum, and there was no room for more admission. Another factor was the financial strength of various individuals and families to manage the cost of the facility. It was deemed helpful to provide health needs and psychological support to clients in their homes at affordable rates. In Acacia Network, three social workers give service to the clients. My role in my agency is to serve clients in a shelter setting. I work as a Client Care Coordinator, to whom I maintain monthly treatment plans, conduct initial assessments, and provide medical and mental health referrals. Through my position, I have made it possible to coordinate and collaborate with other clinical staff such as case planners, housing staff, and kitchen staff. As a Client Care Coordinator, I have yet to witness an unintended consequence in the program’s relationship by accepting all clients to the clinic or shelter. One possible consequence may be insurance regarding some clients being undocumented or unable to pay. Concerning this, the agency has a policy to which it promises to serve all clients regardless of their ability to pay insurance.The institution issues periodical eligibility guidelines but the guiding principles are that the person should be over 65 years or have underlying medical conditions. Acacia Network being the leading Latino integrated care nonprofit organization in the nation offers the community from children to seniors, a pathway to behavioral and primary healthcare, housing, and empowerment. Social Worker According to Cummins (2018), a social worker helps the client adapt to the new environment in an institutional setting by providing the client’s social and emotional needs. At Acacia Network, social work is being able to support the client and giving them the conducive environment they deserve. The Acacia Network, the nation’s leading Latino integrated nonprofit care network, offers the community, from children to seniors, a path to behavioral and primary health care, housing, and empowerment. Social workers at Acacia Network are dedicated to serve and provide satisfactory services to ou
Consumer needs are the effects that consumers require. This does not imply that the consumers can not necessarily do without these commodities. Some of the commonly identified needs of consumers include food, shelter, clothing and medical care: these elements form the basis of the lives of consumers which as a result make them top priority necessities in consumers’ lives. Any particular consumer will thus be forced to go for these goods and services in order to sustain life. They are more like things that people can not do without. Marketing is the act of promoting the level of sales of a commodity. Whether the commodity is a good or a service, the marketing process will seek to influence consumers into using that particular good or service that is being marketed. One of the main objectives of marketing initiatives involves the provision of information of a commodity which in turn helps to increase the number of consumers who are willing to try out that commodity and ultimately the level of sales is likely to increase. The fact that marketing is a step to promote a commodity into satisfaction of needs thus illustrates that needs pre-exist marketing. Marketing efforts can therefore not change consumers’ needs because these needs must be satisfied with or without marketing. A consumer who is hungry at a particular time will have to look for food to eat whether there is a marketing initiative or not, unless if the consumer is constrained to temporarily sacrifice the need to satisfy the hunger. Similarly, once the person has satisfied the hunger, it will not be possible to be immediately hungry because of a marketing initiative carried out after his/her satisfaction. Marketing efforts can similarly not arouse customer needs because the needs are primarily aroused by the human body. Personality Personality is defined as the way an individual behaves in regard to his or her environment. This response is a factor that depends on two elements. The first element of personality is the general social aspects that surround the person. Such social aspects constitute external factors around an individual consumer. The factors are therefore shared by a group of consumers in a given society of geographical location. Peer influence or advertisements can thus form the basis of an individual’s personality. The other element of personality is, on the other hand, genetic. Personality acquired genetically can be said to be features that are acquired by an individual from his or her parents biologically through the recreational process. This aspect of personality is thus permanent in an individual as a character and cannot be cha
An investor puts his money in a company to earn dividends at the end of an accounting period. This has been the belief before Warren Buffet coined look through earnings in the 20 th century. These earrings are called hidden earnings in accounting terms. It attempts to explain an investor’s earnings as a whole. Warren Buffet believes that in as much as it does not go directly to the investor as cash dividends, it contributes greatly to the future earnings of the same dividends. The retained earrings help a stock to grow. This is because a company increases and enhances growth in its core business by using the retained earnings. The growth in business operations means that a shareholder will be in a position to earn similar amount of cash dividend in future. This assuredness mitigates risk and works towards enhancing the timeliness of a company. This futuristic company outlook assures a company of ability to pay dividends. Look through earnings are calculated as follows: If all the profits were received as cash dividends, less all the taxes that would be accrued if that is the case the we get the look through earnings. Most companies retain most of these profits. In theory, the case is that stock value will increase over time to the benefit of the shareholder. Berkshire hatchway, the holding company owned by Warren Buffet, takes advantage of this accounting model. His company owns many shares in many companies. Sometimes, he owns majority shareholding. This means he makes major investment decisions in a company. His, is not an interest in earning cash dividends. Rather, his intention is to see the continuous growth and expansion of the company he owns majority stake. This means that his intention is to see the growth of his company (a holding company) through the growth of other companies. Look through earnings helps a compnay to ‘look through’ earnings with the cheapest price possible. Then, a company becomes even more attractive to shareholders. This means, that trading of its shares in exchanges intensifies. Although this may not form the core business of the company, it is actually a product of the successful core business that a company carries out. Hence, it can be termed a ‘snowballing effect’. Investors will try as much as possible to put their money in the company because of its good standing in the market. The generally accepted accounting principles requires that a company have 20% of shareholding investments at most. Warren buffet circumvents this requirement by having many holding companies registered as different shareholders although under the umbrella of Berkshire Hathway. This ensures that he has majority stake if not whole ownership of the company. Although it looks more theoretical than practical, it is a model of doing business that makes a lot of sense especially for long-term investors like Buffet. He takes advantage of the frequent daily trading at the exchanges to grow the share meaning he increase chances of getting more dividends and entrenches
Abstract The park and ride program introduced into Abu Dhabi by the department of transportation is critical in the preservation of the environment. It is a form of transport that is being in use in many parts of the world. The success of such a program in different cities of the world underlies the rational to introduce the system in Abu Dhabi. Many similarities, differences, benefits, and criticism have however emerged from the implementation of the park and ride system in Abu Dhabi and other parts of the world. Despite the criticism associated with the park and ride system, many countries and cities including Oxford, and the United Kingdom have successfully benefited from the system. In this study, the similarities and differences associated with the park and ride system in Abu Dhabi and other cities are discussed, leading to the discussion on the advantages and disadvantages of the system when used on different parts of the world. Among the similarities discussed in the paper include the pay as you use system that is widely used in the west, the structure of the system when compared with the way it has been implemented in Abu Dhabi when compared with other cities. Introduction Many cities and towns in the world have suffered heavily from the adverse consequences of congestion and pollution related problems necessitating the need for the many of the countries and cities to legislate and develop strategies on different methods of addressing the congestion and pollution problems. Studies show that new systems have been contrived and tried with success or failure in different parts of the world. One such is the park and ride system tried in the Abu Dhabi. The park and ride concept has been in existence in many cities especially in the western world mainly because issues related to pollution and congestion was first experienced in such countries. Abu Dhabi., being one of the growing towns in the Middle East has woken up to the reality of the effects of congestion and pollution and the scarcity of space within the town to service the space needs of the growing population. Perhaps, the need for more space has been facilitated by the rising number of tourists visiting the Middle East and a similar demand for space. The park and ride system developed in Abu Dhabi has significant differences and similarities with the park and ride systems in other cities of the world. One such similarity is that the parking space which is available is used on a pay as you use basis. However, in Abu Dhabi., the pay as you use basis is significantly different form other cities in the western world. The key differences are the time one is allowed to use any space that is available. The difference is that when one is assigned some space to use in Abu Dhabi, one is required to pay at an hourly rate one occupies the space. On the other hand, in other countries especially in the United