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Abstract The growth of the global business is accompanied by increasing complexity as well as an increase in the number and types of risks faced by corporations. Unpredicted extreme events such as terrorist attacks and natural disasters continue to occur, further adding to the problems corporations face. The global economic crisis of 2008-2009 is an example of how extreme events have affected businesses throughout the globe. Although the crisis had been predicted by some, its timing and impact were greater than what had been foreseen before 2008. The analysis of the global financial crisis by many researchers and financial analysts has brought to light the inadequacy of good management practices and in some cases the application of poor management practices. Introduction The global expansion of any company requires wise strategic management. It is very important for the company’s leadership to develop such a strategic management plan which will take into consideration political and economical issues that might arise during the process of global expansion. In the following paper, a few major political and economical issues that the company under consideration may face during its expansion will be considered. Generally, evaluating the situation currently existing in the world including France (the country of the company’s expansion) it appears that possible problems may occur in the area of crediting, tax collecting, and cooperating with local governments. Political and Economical Issues that may Rise during Global Expansion Indeed, the global economical crisis brought to light several weaknesses of risk management practices that are to be implemented during creating a strategic management plan (Shah, 2012). The credit crisis affected most global financial institutions. Nevertheless, some financial institutions performed better than others, indicating differences in risk management practices. To a certain extent, a strategic risk management culture should incorporate broad business goals into risk-aware decision-making. Risk management should not be left to an independent function but rather it should penetrate the culture of the organization in its entirety to ensure its effectiveness in minimizing risk. As a result, developing its strategic plan, the leadership of the painting company under consideration should remember about the economical problem of crediting system (Johnson, & Turner, 2009). In addition, the other important economical issue which is to be considered in the strategic plan is constant changes in the sphere of the transportation business. The company’s activity will be definitely connected with transporting different objects related to its business to the new areas. For this reason, it is very important for the company to include the regulations which will help it cope with possible transportation risks. Next, the company may face such a global political issue as revol
The Most Appealing Ideas The major idea presented in the book by Burke is based on the difference of standards for each state of the US. In particular, the author pointed out that the standards may differ in terms of the language used for their introduction, as well as the goals they target. As a result, there are no standardized approaches or rules as to the conversion of these standards into rubrics for teachers and students in each state. Much confusion may result from this tendency. Alongside, there is a need for a systematized guidance helping educators transform educational requirements into practical plans and strategies. This issue particularly concerns the formation of various types of assessments that would allow the provision of timely feedback to learners on a daily and hourly basis. In that way, Burke’s idea is very interesting because it is focused on the creation of general guidance for educators throughout the country to use in accordance with their individual standards. This idea is appealing because it can help educators from various establishments align their performance and academic demands with the needed requirements, thus facilitating the coordinated evaluation of students’ work in the entire district or school. Moreover, the author’s idea is also oriented at the provision of guidance as to the level of academic performance that needs to be expected from students in accordance with their grades and age. Finally, the coordination of the educational units with the official standards will help enhance the development of skills that are valued in the contemporary world and that the modern young adults are expected to have as they search for employment. The Implications of Ideas in the Book for Me as an Educator The book by Burke was written specifically for educators for the purpose of improving the organization of their professional performance and the provision of a set of recommendations. According to these recommendations, educators from all around the country could coordinate their plans and activities with educational standards accepted for their states and locations. In that way, the major implication of the ideas presented by the author is an opportunity for educators to align their performance with the current requirements effectively and without confusion. Reading this book, I was clear that it was written by an educator who is well aware of the issues faced by her peers and colleagues. As a result, Burke’s intention to offer a proactive solution to some of the most common professional issues is understandable and appreciated. The author organized her guidance for educators in six steps that allow the creation of a plan and various checklists that could help professionals monitor their own performance alongside the performance of their students. The ideas presented in the book imply that the educators who may want to use them will have to spend additional time working on the reorganization of their strategies a
One of the most widespread human hobbies is collecting things. Assembling a collection of some items may become the deal of one’s life which takes not only time and effort but also a great deal of financial investment. In the recent decades there has emerged one of such expensive collecting hobbies which is has already developed into a whole subculture — and is now growing into a mainstream trend. This popular trend is focused around collecting the so-called designer toys, a range of exclusive toys that are produced in quantities of not more than two thousand pieces by specialized companies. The unique feature of designer toys is that they have re-defined the meaning of ‘toy’ as such and appear to have combined toys with the notions of art and design. Designers and collectors see this kind of toys as art pieces to be carefully kept in their boxes and not to be played with. Collecting limited editions has become an everyday goal, and keeping them clean on their shelves a daily chore. Investigating the history and the meaning of designer toys may open an eye to their mysterious powers that have influenced the art world and dramatically changed the world’s attitude to toy. To gain an understanding of how designer toys succeeded in winning the hearts of millions, it is essential to delve in their history and origins. The germs of the modern designer toy concept can be traced back to as early as the post-World War II period when Ideal Novelty and Toy Company started producing the first plastic dolls (Phoenix). The remarkable feature of their production was that along with traditional toys like teddy bears and car and train models, the company’s biggest sales success were toys based on popular images. Characters of comic books, films, and television programs scored top positions in sales ratings. Later on, with the development of science fiction topic in popular culture, robots, ray guns, and flying saucers were much in demand among the general consumers. In the 1940s-1950s, a large share of commercial success was secured by the so-called mascots, or character merchandizing. Customers were charmed by certain characters that possessed an attractive personality in promoting goods or services. The achievements of commercial television and animation in the United States helped to bring those characters closer to the audience by transforming them from mere cardboard figures into talking, singing, and dancing mascots. Attracted by the character itself, consumers would purchase the product for the sake of possessing the funny toy in it. This created a certain mascot addiction among consumer society and naturally benefited the m
Sustainability of Emirates’ Current Strategy and Way of Operation Emirates Airlines is one of the largest airlines in Asia. Based in Dubai, the company is a subsidiary of the Emirates Group, a government-owned corporation. The airline operates across more than 140 destinations in six continents, with over 3600 flights every week. Emirates Airlines is the fourth-largest carrier in the world regarding the revenue passenger per kilometers flown. In terms of international passengers, it is the world’s largest airline. Therefore, Emirates Airlines is a key player in the airline industry. In addition to its vast operations, the airline is renowned for its luxury services, which set it apart from other airline competitors. This section will review the company’s vision and mission statement, as well as its business model. The evaluation aims to confirm that the company’s strategy guarantees sustainability in the end as encompassed in the Air Transport Action Group (ATAG) 2030 aviation plan. The sources that have been used in this paper were searched from credible databases such as EBSCOhost and websites that contained substantial information about the company under study. Keywords and phrases that were used include Emirates Airline, Emirates Group, sustainability, Emirates Airline’s sustainability, competitors, and conflict in the Middle East. ATAG is an international association that aims to promote sustainable development in the air transport sector by the year 2030. Sustainability has become a major concern for medium-sized and large corporations in the wake of the declining natural resources and a degraded environment. Thus, local governments and international bodies are engaging in restrictive legislation that is aimed at nudging corporations to shift toward sustainable practices. Sustainability is a multifaceted concept that touches on economic, social, and environmental aspects. Sustainability in the social context implies that a business is equipped to address the current and future problems of its customers, as well as other people who are impacted by its existence. Therefore, according to Epstein and Buhovac, social sustainability encompasses the areas of societal equity, community development, health equity, and social responsibility among other key areas. 1 Economic sustainability (what most businesses focus on) refers to the ability of a business to meet its current resource needs in a manner that safeguards future supply. In other words, sustainability is concerned with preventing the depletion of key resources because of misuse. The World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED), as Pearce reveals, defined sustainable development as “[development that] meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs”. 2 This assertion is a common
I was sitting at my table, staring at the screen of my computer. Having worked for several hours, I felt like I deserved to relax a little. “Relaxing” usually implied watching videos and binge-eating until I was so exhausted, both physically and mentally, that I just got up and went to bed. In bed, after another hour of scrolling the Instagram feed, chatting with my friends or watching YouTube videos, I was finally lucky to fall asleep. This used to be my daily routine just about a year and a half ago, when I came across a book that marked a turning point in my life. I believe that huge numbers of people struggle with the problems that I used to have: “poor physical condition, bad mood and constant dissatisfaction with one’s life” (Buzza, 2017, p. 16). I also strongly believe that all this can be changed with the strategies that have helped me. It is only with hindsight I realise how much I have improved since then, all because of a book and two habits that every health expert preaches about nowadays: exercise and a healthy diet. Before I read the book, my lifestyle was far from healthy; mostly due to the lack of interest in sports and the fact that I spent almost all my time sitting. I have never been athletic or keen on healthy lifestyles. My parents tried to make me interested in sports, and as a child I did like to be active, especially when it involved playing with my friends. Like most children, I only did it when I wanted and when somebody was there to have fun with me. I never made physical activity into a regular habit, and entered my early adulthood as a typical millennial struggling with his or her sedentary lifestyle. These tendencies put millennials at greater risk of numerous health problems, such as “obesity, digital wear and strain, autoimmune diseases, and mental health disorders” (Mayo Washington Healthcare, 2018). All this was aggravated by my occupational hazards: as a computer consultant, I spend a lot of time studying or working at my desk. I was, however, content with my life; I thought that my lifestyle choices cannot cause any negative consequences at such a young age. It all changed in March of 2020, when the first lockdown began: before that, physical activity in my life was mostly walking with my friends, going to work or classes. When all my courses switched to distance education system, I was happy at first. The first two weeks were great, because I felt like I could finally spend my free time
Introduction Anticipating change in the planetary system and especially the biosphere has become a modern preoccupation. The need to know, and to know instantaneously, what is happening to different ecosystems across the globe has brought ecologists out of corners of research departments into the limelight. Mass media and the culture of open access to information has exposed environmental issues to far higher levels of scrutiny than even the most progressively minded activist would ever have dreamed of (Krebs, 1999 p. 12). Saving endangered species and protecting, the environment has now become a national pastime in many countries and of significant global institutional concern. Nevertheless, simple ‘knee-jerk’ reactions to change will not be enough to mitigate against any long-term ecological damage. There has to be a resolute effort to comprehend how ecosystems function. This can only be achieved through a solid theoretical foundation. This essay examines how ecological theory can be applied in the degradation of tropical forest ecosystems due to agriculture, and their restoration from exhausted agriculture lands. The theories that are going to be discovered in this essay will be applicable on high diversity tropical forests while the ecological system under study is terrestrial. The levels of the biological hierarchy addressed include ecosystem, community, population and individual while the ecological mechanisms affected are behavioral, physiological, and chemical. High diversity tropical forests are often deforested for conversion to agriculture. This is evident in the large areas of tropical dry forests in Central America that have been converted to cotton plantations (Aide et al., 2000 p. 32). Although it has been argued that tropical forest have low levels of nutrients and agricultural practices on a site are limited to several years, some agricultural practices have continued for years, and are eventually abandoned. This can be due to a number of reasons such as reduced productivity, economic changes or socio-political changes (Ehrlich& Ehrlich, 1992 p. 20). The mammoth question that arises from this abandonment is what the fate of these pastures becomes. The prospect of secondary forests recovering to a similar state to the original forests is almost unfathomed. In deed, research in the past has shown that numerous factors affect the restoration of forests and species constituents after abandonment of agriculture. The rate of recovery lies between two extremes. The first scenario consists of forests that have been subjected to slash and burn agriculture covering a small area. In this case, the rate of recovery is usually high. The other extreme is that of sites that have suffered extreme soil degradation and frequent fires. In this latter case, the conditions inhibit the recovery of the original forest and can lead to a different ecosystem (Brown & Lugo, 1990 p. 100). Ecological restoration is, thus, a challenging task. Nevertheless, owing to
In 1940s urban and suburban dwellers in United States of America were undergoing difficult times. This is because at this period, urbanization was rapidly taking shape, due to the movement of people from rural areas to the urban in search of good life. This was initiated by the development of the steam power in the cities, which were used in industries. Thus, people relocated from rural areas to the urban in search of jobs in these industries. The unprecedented movement of the people from the rural to urban surmounted a lot pressure on the limited urban natural resources. The result, thus, were the birth of problems that threatened to destroy US, during the America civil war. The urban population thus landed in the hands of exploitative employers. The employers were the politicians and the wealthy members of the society. Given the difficult situation these people faced, they were left with no other option other than to complain in the local newspapers. As seen with the Rochester mechanics, they are complaining about infringement of their rights by the employer. In this case the employer goes on to curtail their wages on basis of falling prices of the commodities consumed, in this case the flour. This act of the Rochester employer clearly demonstrate how the employers used to misuse the employees, it was not the employer will to see the employees welfare improves, but rather to deteriorate it. The employers were also depicted by the employees as dictators. Though the employer claim the allegations made by the employee we not true, the employer on his defense goes on to contradict himself as he confirms the allegation, he also challenges the dissatisfied employees to seek employment elsewhere. This clearly demonstrate the environment which the poor in urban were exposed to, was that of Master and slave, where employees were supposed to take whatever the employer deemed fitted them. Another problem the urban poor were undergoing and especially the employees, was lack of freedom of expression. This is because any form of direct confrontation with the employer could lead to loss of the job, given that they badly needed to keep their jobs so as to cope with difficult life in urban. Therefore, to keep their fight alive in demanding of their rights, they used the newspapers to deliver their message. However, this does not go well with the employer since he claims that mechanic S was jealous. The life of poor in urban as demonstrated was in the hands of their employer. There was high risk of employees’ life due to the poor working environment since they were exposed to in the factories. As seen in the letter written by the daughter as a reply to the father, she stated that her health has been spared. This was because she had witnessed her fellow workers in the mill perish due to poor working conditions. To cement this observation, there was a female worker who slipped on the icy floor, broke her
Executive Summary With increasing competition between firms due to globalization, the success of any organization today heavily depends on how the organization relates with its customers and publics. Such relationships define how the public will treat the organization and its products. Ethics and social responsibility of companies and organizations has been a subject of interest in the recent past. The rise in knowledge of consumer rights and consumer protection rights by the law has been the major cause for the establishment of public relations departments charged with managing relationship between a company and its employees, a company and its customers and a company and its neighbors. These departments concentrate on protecting the image of the company through formulating measures and procedures to be implemented. Such procedures include following ethical practices. This paper seeks to establish business code ethics of Nike Inc. Nike Inc has had its image change from time to time with changes in its corporate social responsibility programs. The company has seen the worst in terms of acute public criticism for its unfair trade practices. The chief defense companies in such situation provide as the cause of such occurrence is because of information difference between the company and the public with the company claiming that the public is misinformed or does not have sufficient information about company operations. This paper will establish the relationship between Nike Inc and its employees, Nike and its customers and Nike and its publics and competitors. A major analysis of Nike’s code of ethics for employees, customers and other publics will be provided by the paper. A collection of past ethical praises and complains from Nike’s customers, employees and its business rivals will be provided. The paper will also strive to ascertain the degree of truth in such allegations through researching on the ways that the public relations department handled such issues. Introduction Nike Inc rose from a simple partnership between two people to be one of the world’s biggest brands. This success has attracted a lot of attention and focus on its business strategies. Despite its glamorous reputation, Nike, like many of the world’s big brands, has had to fight a lot of critics accusing them of unjust business practices. These criticisms may or may not hold any truth but they definitely have had an impact on the reputation of the company and how the company and its products have been perceived in the market. Before a perfect understanding of the business ethics of Nike is established, it is imperative to establish a general understanding of ethics and corporate social responsibility in the society today. Today, many organizations seek to be on the good side of their publics. This pressure to conform to the rules of business practices emerges from the current consumer awareness on their rights and also the rights of people living in areas where a business is located. Ethical regulations are increasing by the day with business losing mos