### social organization:

Business
* All businesses are important to a vital, growing economy.
* Encompasses the business and finance world.
* Every business consumer of manufactured products, and many businesses are in manufacturing.
* Many businesses adopt domain names that correspond to their trade names or trademarks
  - also recycle corrugated boxes and packaging
* Many businesses are reliant on growing markets, which include increased consumers
  - subject to severe loss because of natural hazards
  - believe that consumers are simply sheep
  - claim to pay attention to employee relations
  - find that casual dress boosts employee morale and productivity
  - generate small volumes of certain types of hazardous waste
* Many businesses have an employee who has bullied others
  - employees that work from home a couple of days a week or even full time
  - scholarships for dependents of their employees
  - keep items on hand that can be used to manufacture methamphetamine
  - match gifts made by their employees to approved or qualified charities
  - measure the success of communication activities by their immediate impact on sales
  - now rely on the Internet as a primary or even sole carrier of information
  - offer loans or educational allowances to employees and their families
  - provide benefits to society as a whole
  - rely on adding the proper amount of moisture to indoor air
  - spend enormous amounts of money on advertising, hoping to catch someone's eye
  - still rely on traditional methods of accounting and inventory
  - take the name of their owner or founder
  - target families because the family unit consumes more
* Many businesses try to avoid classifying workers as employees for a variety of reasons
  - keep prices low in order to attract and retain customers
* Many businesses use census data for demographic information, which affects consumers
  - chemicals as sales products, in processing and as cleaning agents
  - computers to sell lists of their customers to other, similar businesses
  - intranets for their internal communications
  - the Internet as an effective means of marketing
  - voice messaging systems to speed up the flow of information between employees
  - utilize large amounts of natural gas for heating or manufacturing processes
* Most businesses are more concerned about profit margins than human rights
  - attempt to quantify their costs by using budgets
  - depend on computers to perform day to day functions
  - experience cycles of good times and bad times, growth and retraction
  - fail after the owner dies, gets disabled, or retires
  - focus on sales growth and reducing costs as the tools that influence profitability
  - generate wastes as a part of their everyday operations
* Most businesses have a direct correlation to the personality of the person who owns it
  - an automatic system to detect viruses and illegal content
  - insurance that covers damage to stores and buildings
  - market research on consumer satisfaction
  - one or two key individuals who create the environment for success
  - only temporary facilities for storing hazardous wastes
  - very strict punishment for employees destroying co-workers' work
  - hire bodies for particular jobs rather than people to help build a future
  - keep electronic records
  - now depend heavily on computers and electronic means of communication and commerce
  - only register trademarks within the states in which they do most of their business
  - plan to grow over time
  - provide their employees with health insurance coverage
  - rely heavily on information systems to run their business
* Most businesses rely on computers to perform crucial tasks
  - phone systems, which can also be affected by disasters
  - report earnings using the accrual principle of accounting
  - start as family-owned, but successful ones often become too big for a family to run
  - tend to grow quickly or they never get off the ground
* Most businesses use a 'firewall' to prevent hackers from accessing their systems
  - the Internet for business-related functions
* Some businesses are corporations
  - created to get more money for the owner of the business
  - finance start-up costs through private investors
* Some businesses have more zeroes at the end of their bills and their income
  - problems with employee theft that largely relate to inadequate controls
  - young people sign a form when they buy spray paint
* Some businesses make and sell products which pose potential hazards
  - use of equipment to transmit and receive data
  - now say that no one can smoke cigarettes in any of their offices
  - offer financial incentives to people who attend wellness programs
  - require their employees to wear a uniform or a suit
  - show a relationship to weather on specific days in the week or on public holidays
* Some businesses use different banks to separate accounts
  - differentiation as a competitive advantage
  - dumpsters for recycling collection
  - lie detectors to assess worker loyalty
  - the Internet to support their users via the web, e-mail and newsgroups
  - videotape their employees in the every day performance of their jobs
* affects social change and is influenced by it.
* also have responsibility for the safety of their products
  - rely on the Internet as a primary source of communication
  - save time and money and can keep customers happy
  - transform resources into money
* always look at a person's personality.
* are about groups of workers with shared goals
  - an important group of telecoms consumers
  - both users and producers
  - commercial, industrial, or professional dealings
  - complex entities
  - customers and suppliers to governments
  - dependent on the exchange of information through computers
  - ethical to the extent that they act in their own self-interest
  - exchange organizations created to make money
  - in business to make money
  - just groups of people
  - organic entities that evolve around the customer rather than a business plan
  - regulated to prevent pollution and to keep their own carbon emissions low
* are responsible for paying for their hazardous waste disposal
  - what they sell and how they promote their products
* are the biggest users of loanable funds
  - end users of the public education system
  - intermediary through which they can be taxed
  - largest consumers of computer services products
  - source of a community's ability to change, innovate and adapt
* brings customers.
* broad term that covers many different career paths.
* can file and pay taxes electronically
  - function as individual proprietorships, partnerships, joint ventures, etc
* can only provide jobs if they stay in business and make a profit
  - survive and grow if they are competitive
* can reduce costs by having people telecommute
  - their use of hazardous materials and generation of hazardous waste
* carries out repair services
* cognitive activity.
* comes to towns.
* command vast resources and are the dominant engine of growth in the world today.
* compete to make money by serving consumers.
* comprise people.
* count numbers.
* covers services.
* create jobs and wealth
  - oppression and governments create prosperity
  - wealth through the efforts of man
* creates experience
  - new jobs
  - opportunity
* depend on aviation as the fastest way to move both people and goods
  - upon the movement of freight as much as the movement of people
* determines performance.
* develops creative designs
* directories, where the common name calls up contact information, products or stock quotes.
* do have a role in education.
* drives almost every economy
  - our economy and that of the world
* earn profits by promoting their goods.
* employ and pay people to work
  - economists to forecast sales and economic conditions
* employs workers.
* exist to generate goods and services for individuals or other businesses.
* exist to make and keep a profit
  - money and a profit
  - money, and educational institutions exist to educate people
* experiences sales.
* finds operations.
* fixed reproducible tangible capital includes capital owned by nonprofit institutions.
* focuses on approaches
  - people as shareholders, customers or employees
* follows distinct patterns
* game of strategy.
* generally pay more in taxes than the cost of services they require.
* generic term covering a variety of topics and abilities.
* gets results.
* goes through lifetimes
  - stages
* grows over time.
* has a key role in sustainability - for better for worse.
* has a role in meeting other societal needs as well
  - to play in achieving a good society
  - strong influence on society and community
  - culture
  - dependency
  - girls
  - growth capital
  - locations
  - owners
  - skills
  - strategies
* have a key role to play in bringing e-commerce to developing countries
  - surprising amount in common with living organisms
  - departments and personnel that specialize in particular functions
* have difficulty maintaining a workforce without adequate places for workers to live
  - affordable places for workers to live
  - management games that simulate parts of the economy
  - many different types of systems
  - wives and husbands working more than one job
* helps readers.
* hires people because it needs the services they perform
  - veterans
* includes backgrounds.
* increase their profits and productivity, which can create jobs.
* increases advantage
  - consumption
  - employment
* increasingly rely on the stability and security of their computer networks and systems.
* involves in production
  - more than just creating wealth for some people and providing jobs
  - politicians
* is about business, making money, making profits for the shareholders
  - products, solutions, and services
  - the application of knowledge
  - acting
  - aims
* is an activity to provide goods or services at a profit
  - open system dependent on the environment for inputs
  - based on relationships
* is business and capitalism is capitalism
  - competition part of business
  - the Web is the Web
  - when it comes to money
* is business, and people run their businesses in many ways
  - politics is politics
  - whether it's a public or private company
  - characterized by what economists call ease of entry and exit
  - commercial organizations
* is concerned with the environment outside the workplace
  - quality of our workforce
* is conducted in a global economy, which has led to increased competition
  - social context that has a human rights dimension
  - entertainment
  - essentially an equal trade between a seller and a buyer
  - for businesses which provide products or services to the dentist or dental industry
  - in the business of selling a product or service
  - just people working with people
* is located in big cities
  - skyscrapers
  - motivated usually by profit
* is one of the games of life
  - ruling forces in the modern world
  - other people's money
  - people, and people do business with the people they like and trust
  - sectors
* is the backbone of economy of all advanced countries
  - contributor to governments
* is the economic engine of the world
  - that drives our economy
* is the exchange of goods and services
  - medium through which most of the necessities of life are provided to everyone
  - opiate of the American people
  - quality of relationships
  - single greatest force in all of the world
  - strongest, most influential institution on the Planet today
  - thus one type of relationship between people
  - used for organisation
  - viewed as an important segment of the society
* is what drives the economy
  - most people do with most of their lives
* know the difference between borrowing to consume and borrowing to invest.
* large consumer of climatic information.
* like to do business with people they know.
* lose millions every year through retail theft, the legal word for shoplifting.
* major actor in building bridges between nations and people
  - source of political monies
* make a profit by selling products that satisfy the needs of consumers
  - money by responding to the desires of their customers
  - profits by having, total revenues that exceed total costs
* makes choices
  - differences
  - faith effort
  - good faith effort
  - growth strategies
* management function.
* meets characteristics
* move through cycles of producing and selling goods and services.
* multifaceted discipline.
* needs mathematicians.
* network of communication against a background of relationships.
* occasionally employ historians to manage their records and archives.
* often have trading relationships with their debtors
  - involves meeting new people
  - purchase insurance that indemnifies their organization and people
* operate with the joint goals of productivity and social responsibility.
* owned by women constitute one of the fastest growing sectors of the economy
  - represent one of the fastest growing sectors of the nation's economy
* participates in markets.
* pay income taxes on their profits
  - more when poor children grow up to be less educated, less productive workers
  - people to administer their various information networks
* pays workers.
* planning A business plan guide for management decisions.
* plays an important role in technology and school reform.
* process, and success result of doing that process well.
* processes defines how a business operates.
* produce more when the price of output increases.
* produces materials
  - quality products
* provides opportunity
* reaches certain levels
  - maturity levels
* reengineering, changes a business process to improve speed, service and quality.
* relies on consultants
  - food safety consultants
* rely on economists to interpret the impact of a changing economy on business decisions
  - trademarks to differentiate and identify their products or services
* requires care
  - proof
* save money because their employees are more productive and committed.
* sells products.
* shows growth
  - impressive growth
* staple part of the social order.
* succeed only when the people within the organization succeed at their individual job.
* succession of logical decisions.
* takes advantage.
* tends to be conducted in suits, worn by both men and women.
* thrive as part of the overall social system by serving the needs of the system
  - in healthy communities
* tos create jobs.
* tos provide design services
* typically mitigate risk by reducing the probability, the consequences or both.
* use INK to access information and to file government forms electronically
  - materials, water, utilities, and create waste
  - rechargeable batteries in bar code readers, portable printers and cell phones
  - the Internet to provide access to complex databases, such as financial databases
* uses chemicals
  - computer software
  - techniques
* usually care more about money than animals
  - invest heavily in the early years of an economic expansion
* work with people who have names and job titles.
* worldwide keep investing in technology despite economic uncertainty.
+ Administrator: Internet :: Occupations
  * Administrators' are people who organize things like businesses. All businesses have administrators. They make decisions, organize the people who work there and make sure that things are working alright and there are no problems.
+ Competition, Competitive: Everyday life
  * Businesses often say that they sell things at 'competitive prices'. This means that their prices are lower than those of other businesses which sell similar things.
+ Keynesian economics: Economic theories
  * Keynes said capitalism was a good economic system. In a capitalism system, people earn money from their work. Businesses employ and pay people to work. Then people can spend their money on things they want. Other people work and make things to buy. Sometimes the capitalism system has problems. People lose their work. People cannot work and cannot spend money.
+ Mildred Pierce, Story: 1945 movies :: Film noir :: American crime movies :: Women's movies :: United States National Film Registry movies :: Movies based on books :: English language movies
  * Her husband leaves her for dead-common Mrs. Beedlehoff. Mildred has two little girls. Mildred must take care of her kids alone by secretly slinging hash. She is a good cook. She opens a restaurant. Business is great. She gets rich. Mildred gives Veda everything she wants. Mildred starts to date a playboy named Monty. He is spoiled, too. He constantly asks Mildred for money.
  * Some businesses are created to get more money for the owner of the business. Other businesses are created to give a service without getting more money. They just deliver the service and get 'some' money.
  * Businesses can be big or small. For example, one person can open a small barber-shop. A big business, like Microsoft,  employs thousands of people all over the world.