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First of all, one can speak about the owners and stockholders of Multitype Corporation. These people attach importance to the financial performance of this organization and its sustainability. Secondly, the management should remember about the needs of customers. They want to buy high-quality products at a moderate price. However, they also expect Multitype Corporation to meet the standards of corporate social responsibility. Secondly, one should speak about the Carib Indians who urgently need medical assistance. Furthermore, the managers should not overlook the interest of workers whose survival depends on employment in the company. Finally, one should speak about the government of the Swan Islands. This government is represented by John Bailey, who is the president of this state. This person does not want to place an extra economic burden on the population of the Swan Islands. Nevertheless, it is possible to assume that this individual is also driven by the irrational prejudice against the Carib Indians. These are the main interest groups that can be distinguished. The top managers of Multitype Corporation are primarily concerned about the profitability of their organization. Some of them do not want to interfere with the activities of the local government. In their opinion, the company should focus on its financial performance, rather than the problems of a foreign society. In my view, this approach is not ethically appropriate because it is not permissible for business administrators to disregard the activities of a government that dehumanizes the citizens of the country. This is the main argument that can be put forward. There are several ethical issues that the management of the country should address. On the one hand, this organization must not be indifferent of the problems encountered by the Carib Indians. Nevertheless, at the same time, they need to meet their financial responsibilities towards stakeholders. Therefore, the senior managers have to resolve a conflict of interest that should be resolved. In my opinion, the organization of a coup d’etat is not an acceptable opt
Abstract Relations between shipowners and charterers are one of the fundamental issues that appear under each charter party. This sort of agreement determines terms, primary conditions, duties, obligations, and other aspects of the cooperation and penalties that could be applied to one or another party. In this regard, this report aims at the investigation of the types of disputes that might appear between shipowners and charterers because of different reasons. Causes for the appearance of these issues are analysed and discussed. The report also revolves around the possible ways to avoid the appearance of this contradictions in relations between parties and suggests efficient solutions that could contribute to the improved outcomes and enhanced relations between agents. Moreover, the paper delves into the peculiarities of the charter party and legal frameworks that regulate the cooperation of all vessels owners and hirers. At the end of the paper, the conclusion about the importance of the issue is given. Introduction Today, maritime transport remains one of the cheapest ways to deliver cargoes or passengers to different destination points. Such factors as significant capacity, safety, ease of operations, and numerous routes contribute to the enhanced importance of the sphere of shipping across the globe. Therefore, big vessels characterised by a high cargo capacity might be too expensive for companies operating in the given sphere to be able to buy them. Under these conditions, we nowadays observe the cooperation between shipowners and charterers with the primary aim to acquire benefits by leasing a vessel out from one side and using it to deliver cargoes from another. The importance of these relations is evidenced by numerous regulations and terms of the agreement that exist to monitor the sphere and introduce the legal framework for the cooperation between a shipowner and a charterer. However, there are still some grounds for the appearance of disputes especially if complex situations occur. Background Thus, a charter party could be defined as a hire or lease contract between a shipowner and a lessee or charterer for one or more voyages or for an established period (Alderton 2011). In such a way, parties engaging in cooperation, both a vessel owner and charterer, stipulate terms of an agreement and outline the legal framework of their partnership. It is fundamental to establish terms, freight, both parties obligations, responsibilities, and duties, etc. These elements precondition the success of the would-be cooperation and might be used as the central argument in debates in case some disputable issue appears. The fact is that regardless of the specified terms, there are numerous situations whe
CSR obligation surpasses what the law requires a firm to do. It is the responsibility an organization takes upon itself to better the social lives of both the workforce and society. Currently, this is a worldwide trend. This is because of the pressure from society and governments for organizations to feel more responsible for the sources of their resources. The members of society are also more sophisticated than sometime back. The competitive environment is also cutthroat with more companies joining the framework (Capon, 2008). Importance of Business Social Responsibility in the Society A better society creates a better environment for doing business. Business will, therefore, gain e.g. by contributing to the societies efforts to increase the level of security, business will also be protecting its own plant. In today’s business world, businesses are seeking to tailor their goods according to the taste and preferences of the end users who are a big part of society. The more business is involved with society the more it is going to become aware of its end user’s needs. Consequently, the more it is going to tailor its products to fit their various needs. Good public image; social responsibility shows that the organisation cares about society and not just their money. As a result, society wants to keep doing business with the organisation (Carnal, 2007). Impacts of Business Social and Ethical Responsibility in the Society Social responsibility has greatly affected society in different areas of life. Among the greatest beneficiaries is the environment. As more and more organisations take up the challenge of conserving the environment, it is becoming a necessity for the whole of the business fraternity in the world to engage in environmental conservation activities. Consequently, the world’s society is gaining from these efforts, for instance increase in rainfall around the world, reduced global warming etc. The funds that come from Corporate Social Responsibility are changing lives in the society. Organisations are reaching out around the globe (e.g. third world countries) and transforming the lives of poor members of society (Slide Share, 2009). Managerial Views What do managers across the globe say about the issue of social responsibility? Well, the opinion is diverse. It depends upon factors such as the industry, the nature of business and the target market. There are those against and those for corporate social responsibility. This part discusses the reasons behind this divide. Managers against CSR Studies show there is a direct correlation between Corporate Social Responsibility and profit maximization. Maximizing profit is the main goal of any organization. However, some organizations argue that Corporate Social Responsibility beats the whole logic of this objective. Extensively, therefore, it dilutes the purpose of doing business. For example, if a company offers a basic product, whose
High School and College are two different and polar opposite periods of an individual’s life. This is true for most of the student population in the world. The one similarity that both the periods share is that these are the times when the individual is on the verge of self-discovery and patenting a path for his and her future. High school is usually awkward for most people as the first year of high school is usually filled with anxiety and kind of defines the role of the individual for the remaining years in the high school. The college first-year, however, is very jovial and fun, with immense choices and a variant future looming ahead of the individual. The orientation that takes place in the first year of college helps build long-term bonds among classmates. Another difference between high school and college is that the teachers in college are more experienced than the ones in high school. They usually have prominent and high-ranking designations. The notes are usually not provided; instead, research is to be conducted by the students. Aside from this, in high school, the teachers are there to aid and help students, while in college, the professors are present to enable the students to help themselves. Social life is also a factor of difference between high school and college. In high school, the parents usually maintain and control the education of the student, while in college, the individual has to balance his social and academic life. This makes them more prone to making mistakes that don’t get realized until later. In high school, the individual usually makes a choice based on the advice of the parents and the teachers. Usually, parents play a strong role in the choices that are made for the individual. In college, however, the choices to be made are entirely the responsibility of the student. However, counselors are present who can guide the student through the option available. High school students usually live with their parents with siblings as roommates. Many have the whole room to themselves. In colleges, the student usually shares the room with a complete stranger. This is actually beneficial to the students. The roommates can help each other through the loneliness of the first few days and also help in adapting to the new college life. Most high school students originate from the same city or state. Their interests and culture do not vary much from one another. It is easy to approach another student for assistance or social matters. Many even believe that life does not differ from their own. Colleges house students from across the world. Their varying cultures clash; this makes them harder to understand one another. This is advantageous as it provides a necessary lesson in dealing with foreign co-workers, clients or superiors in further life. High school students usually eat food prepared for th
The prevailing culture in a society influences individual and collective perceptions of materials belonging to people in a given culture. Artefacts, adornments, and other objects within a culture are also perceived within the realm of cultural beliefs and practices (Appadurai 304). However, different groups of persons within a society give different interpretations to such artefacts, objects, and adornments. In many parts of the world, the mobile phone has acquired a certain level of symbolism that stretches beyond its prototypical function of communication. Through various and constant improvements on its use, the mobile phone has come to imply and project different meanings to various persons in different societies across the world. According to Pfaff, for the people of East Africa, mobile phone is much more than a communication gadget (343). Firstly, mobile phone is a predictor of social status; for instance, a person with an expensive (looking) mobile phone is deemed to be economically above average. For teens and youth, mobile phones are communication
Introduction Reyna Grande is a writer. After two successful, award-winning novels, she decided to write a memoir, an honest story of her own life and her own experience. In all her books, Grande writes about immigration as a social issue. Nowadays, the question of illegal border crossing became a pressing problem. However, studying this issue in general, society starts to forget that it is based on the stories of real people and families. In The Distance Between Us: A Memoir, Grande focuses on real problems of immigrants: the family separation, children suffering, problems of the adaptation; she tries to make her readers feel her pain and compare her life path with their own experience. The Reyna Grande’s life It is important to learn more about a person’s life experience for understanding one’s qualities and the inner world. Grande’s memoirs provide an opportunity to understand her formative influences, challenges, and successes that had an impact on her personality. The author described her own experience as an example of an immigrant’s life. With the touching frankness, she described her childhood, the poverty in which her family lived, her broken house. They lived in a small town in Mexico in the 1980s, and her parents did not have a lot of opportunities to earn money and to provide for the family. The only solution that her father had found was illegal immigration to the United States. This solution was (and, probably, remains) popular for a lot of Mexican people. At first, Grande’s father left for the United States, and later her mother followed him. Reyna remained with her siblings in the broken house with a severe grandmother who did not pay much attention to the children. The pain of separation is the first thing that a reader learns about the author. Grande badly missed her parents. She was called an orphan by other children in the town. But her parents were alive; they just were far away, in “El Otro Lado” (Grande 3), at the Other Side in the United States. Grande lived in poverty, and her childhood was not easy. However, it could be claimed that the pain of the separation from her parents was the strongest feeling during that period of her life. Grande’s father left when she was two years old and took her and her siblings to the United States when she was already nine years old. In her book, the author described her burning desire to join her parents in “El Otro Lade”. In her imagination, the United States was the place where all her problems and challenges would disappear and where they would be a family again. However, the reality was not so perfect, as in her imagination. After the illegal border crossing, Grande became an undocumented child immigrant, and she started to feel another sort of separation – the separation from the community. In Mexico, she was at home, she was the same as other children, and she was a part of society. In the United States, she realized that she was different from other kids. At first, she did not know the language and the culture of her new parenthood and could not become a part of
Abstract Economic growth is an indicator of diversifying markets, opening up new businesses and jobs, and enhancing society’s general welfare. Unemployment shows the orientation of a particular region’s economy and its connection to the specialization of the labor force. The United States has demonstrated strong economic growth and declining unemployment rates over the past ten years after the global financial crisis in the late 2010s. However, the 2020 pandemic has sharply worsened both indicators, proving their correlation. The hypothesis of the research is their relationship in shock economic conditions but, at the same time, possible deviation due to cultural or financial markers. This study’s methodology is the collection of data in the literature and econometric calculations of both analyzed indicators, regression analysis, and obtaining quantitative and qualitative markers. Growth and unemployment have been proven to be correlated concepts, with the transformation of one leading to changes in the other and vice versa. Background The economic status of the region directly depends on material and intellectual resources, market conjuncture, ecology, and the existence of a technical base for creating an optimal working structure. Unemployment is considered to be one of the factors that demonstrates a country’s financial position. The corresponding figures characterize the structure of economic dynamics and the diversification of the labor market. The US has an uneven unemployment rate: it fell gradually from October 2019 (10%) to February 2020 (3.5%), which signifies a robust economy (“Civilian unemployment rate,” 2020). However, the global coronavirus pandemic has caused irreparable damage to the global financial balance. It is no secret that the suspension of enterprises’ activities and the forced quarantine entered the American economy into a period of stagnation. People have stopped earning and spending money, and companies have produced much smaller quantities. Consequently, economic growth was stalled, while the unemployment rate reached alarming levels. The hypothesis of this study is a positive correlation between the two indicators due to the creation of new jobs, an increase in business financing through investments, and an improvement in resource provision later. Purpose of the Study This study is essential in terms of assessing current world events in an economic context. For example, the global pandemic has caused irreparable harm to the broader community, with consequences for the professional sphere’s well-being. The production shutdown and quarantine restrictions have led to a catastrophic rise in unemployment, as well as slowing down long-term economic growth. Thus, this study will create a context for markers that affect the region’s financial well-being, including shock conditions. The analysis will then cover the necessary information gap in linking economic growth with socio-cultural factors such as migration. Thus, the study’s purpose is to investigate the relationship between the two indicators a
Introduction Seagate Technology International is one of the major Multinational Corporations (MNCs) having operations in Singapore. Currently, the technology company’s principal executive offices are situated at Cupertino, California. The famous technology company, which was first started as Shugart Technology in the year 1978, has been reputed as a global leader in the manufacture and production of hard disk drives and storage solutions. Ever since its incorporation over three decades ago, Seagate has attained great success in hard disk development, and this makes it a giant player in the transformative technology sector (Bay, Tang and Bennett, 2004). In Singapore, Seagate Technology premises are situated in the business oriented region of Woodlands. Sectors aligned to electronics, finance and IT are observed to have undergone a very rapid growth in Singapore in the past several years. According to market experts, business opportunities in those sectors are expected to increase tremendously in the near future, and this offers a stable business potential for Seagate Technology in the country. However, apart from the promising business opportunities presented by Singapore, Seagate, just like any other firm, is vulnerable to a number of external forces that are likely to influence the achievement of our business goals. Environmental Factors Affecting the Operations of Seagate Technology in Singapore Integrated Economic Markets The practice of economic integration between different groups of countries within a particular geographical region is increasingly gaining momentum in the modern world. Economic integrations have the benefit of minimising common barriers to the steady flow of products, services, capital, and labor among other production inputs between member countries. The movement from segmented markets to the integrated markets comes with immense benefits to member countries. For instance, this would tend to affect the volume of trade activities, profits, and consumer prices in a monopoly model. Seagate Technology operations in Singapore markets have greatly benefited from Singapore inter-relationships with the US and other giant economies in the world, such as Japan and China (Contractor and Lorange, 2002). Global Consumer Preferences Consumer tastes and preferences for various products are observed to be converging, and this would determine the success and failure of companies within a particular geographical region. Seagate’s products in Singapore continue to face stiff competition, considering the wide range of hard disk manufacturers in the region. Seagate might be a global market leader in hard disks and other storage products, but they are yet to thrive in Singapore, due to the factor of consumer preferences, whereby different people tend to have varied tastes for products made by different companies. Management across Cultures Culture is a highly-sensitive issue that plays a significant role in influencing consumer
Introduction Religious resurgence is the transformation of belief systems to suit the global world. The resurgence process tends to differ between the belief systems exercised by different communities in the world. Of all the belief systems the Christian faith is believed to be the most changed form of religion. It has moved a long way from Judaism to the modern Christian cultures and beliefs. The Islamic religion has also been slightly transformed to enable the modern Muslim faithful to fit in the modern society. Buddhists and Sikhs have also undergone some key transformations to enable the believers to perfectly coexist with one another. Globalization and religious resurgence however is a very wide and complex topic. This is because the study has been modeled through the simplification of complex theories. It is believed that people have increasingly used religious concepts such as radicalism and extremism to dictate and describe their international connections with the rest of the world. For instance, the extremist in the Middle East has used Islamic religion as the unifying factor which joins their countries together. The Christian revivalists and resurgence which is mainly identified in Europe and western countries have also glued them together. Similarly, the fundamentalists in the Asian continent have also played a big role in the integration process of the Asian countries. People with similar beliefs systems will tend to share common objectives and goals. It becomes easier for nations that share a common religious belief to relate with one