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Problems with Employees

be obeyed unquestioningly. This approach is short sighted and results in an autocratic style of management. The autocrat may be s...

Understanding Homelessness

responsibility and realism require it" (Hambrick et al, 1998, p. 28). II. HOMELESSNESS AS A SOCIAL WELFARE PROBLEM Various...

A Corporation's Adoption of Internet Technology

the level of competency -- that will exist at each individual location. It can be argued that computer design is only as technolo...

Examining Business Ethics

favorable opinion and thereby preserve the market capitalization available to them through stock market activity. Positive ...

Why Socrates 'Did' Philosophy According to J.S. Mill

In four pages John Stuart Mill's views on why philosophy was 'done' by Socrates are examined in a consideration of the ancient Gre...

Why Pharmaceutical Companies Focus On A Disease

potential to make it through to the next step, the Phase 1 human testing trials (Masia, 2008). This is a very healthy small group...

Jared Diamond: “Collapse”

that Diamond discusses are the Anasazi and the Maya. "Anasazi" is the name given to various groups of Native Americans living in t...

Soil Salinity in the Imperial Valley

and wildlife in various ways. Plants obtain water through osmosis, a process "which is controlled by the relative level of salts i...

Politics and The True Effects of Air Pollution

support many of their assumptions. For example, one study reported in Immunotherapy Weekly claims that children do suffer decrease...

THE SEPARATION OF STRATEGY AND BUSINESS OPERATIONS

Discusses the disconnect between business operations and organizational strategy, why it occurs, and what can be done to rectify i...

Elder Abuse: What It Is, Why It Occurs and How to Prevent It

or she does)" (Elder abuse and neglect, 2007). Abuse may also take the form of financial exploitation, when the caregiver steals f...

Mummification Practices in Ancient Egypt

the heat. Since its the culture most often thought of in this connection, well explore the ancient Egyptian method of mummificatio...

Federal Reserve, Inflation, and Interest Rates

In four pages this paper examines the last quarter of 1995 in a consideration of how and why the Federal Reserve increased interes...

Policing, Ethics and Deviant Behavior

When it comes to applying ethical standards to policing, its not enough to simply use ones own life as a guide, because it is poss...

US Intelligence After WWII

principles were rationalized due to the assumptions made about the nature of the Cold War and, also, literature suggests that thes...

Outlining a House of Lords' Appeal

In six pages a case that failed to launch a successful appeal, the 1987 Chapman & Another v CPS Computer Group PLC case, is ar...

Gates and Jobs and Hewlett and Packard

he met his soon to be arch rivals, Bill Hewlett and David Packard. Bill attended MIT part time after a stint at Stanford ( "Agilen...

E-Commerce Failures

to place a grocery order online and have it delivered to his home in the metropolitan areas in which Webvan operated. In the days...

DOE and its Illegal Actions

The United States Department of Energy, in its attempt to prop us a uranium enrichment company that was failing, arranged for enri...

Main Points of Barberis' Article Concerning Psychological Influences on the Causes and Continuation of the Financial Crisis

The salient points from an article by Nicholas Barberis titled Psychology and the Financial Crisis of 2007-2008 are summarized. Th...

Russian Standard - Vodka and Banking

Functional brand attributes which were communicated effectively to the customers incorporated these heritage aspects along with qu...

CASE STUDY ANALYSIS: MERGERS DON’T ALWAYS LEAD TO CULTURE CLASHES

points out that, in the case of dress code, a hybrid code was adapted that took into account MBNAs formal dress code and BoAs more...

History Topics

Standard Oil of California negotiated a contract with the King of Saudi Arabia that granted the company the exclusive concession t...

Outsourcing and HBOS

change banks, the cost in terms of time and effort on the part of the customer and the general homogenous service offerings result...

HSBC and Its’ Growth Strategy

grown to its current size and strategies which are supported that growth as well as issues such as why there is a head office loca...

The Sub Prime Lending Crisis; Why It Has Happened and the Impact on Banks

an important purpose allowing many borrowers access to funds to help them make purchases which would otherwise be impossible for t...

Implementing TQM In a Banks' Real Estate Department

know what they change is going to be. line with any other type of strategy, TQM is only made up of components that may facilitate ...

The Merger of Lloyds TSB with the Royal Bank of Scotland

decision left the bank very vulnerable. The bank was near collapse following the events of the recent credit crunch, wit...

Why Competition is Good for The Laurentian Bank of Canada

possible. With a seeming goal of excellence, Laurentian does remarkably well, even in the current climate. Some relatively recent...

Using the Concept of Otherness to Explore Suffering

Suffering takes place in many contexts; the writer uses the concept of otherness to look at how and why suffering takes place, use...