Technology specifically the use of computers has changed the way by which human beings communicate you can communicate with anyone across the globe instantly. It has changed the means of education where students and teachers meet virtually online through distance learning. It has also changed the form of doing business...
Introduction Microanalysis and Microvaluation of the Stock Market The components of market analysis; microvaluation analysis; valuation using the earnings multiplier approach; Estimating expected earnings per share; and finally Estimating the stock earnings multiplier are essential in the microanalysis and microvaluation of the stock market. The Components of Market Analysis In...
Introduction The business environment is one of the most dynamic and versatile in the world. Following the bankruptcy of many mortgage lenders in the U.S, there has been panic in the mortgage sector triggering liquidation of housing loans provided as collateral. The extent to which the credit crunch struck has...
Introduction There are two categories of economic growth that has been defined by scholars and policy makers. The first category is termed as actual growth, which is the ratio between yearly addition in national input and that of actual output expressed as a percentage. A good illustration of actual economic...
Introduction King Lear is a tragedy play that has been hailed as one of the great works of Shakespeare. The play has been modified in many ways with different famous actors playing the role of King Lear. Its plot revolves around the life of an aging king of England who...
Introduction The term intercultural exchange applies to the activity of attracting language learners in mutual or reciprocal action and cooperative project work with associates from different cultures and share diverse ethical beliefs through the use of communication instruments such as e-mail, video conferencing and discussion forums. The goals intended to...
Introduction Entrepreneurship is setting enterprises that generate income. Social entrepreneurship is setting up social enterprises that help the society. It involves social entrepreneurs that help the society solve its issues. With their ambitiousness, social entrepreneurs persistently tackle the issues affecting the society using new ideas. This paper examines social entrepreneurship...
Introduction Globalization is a supporting, edifying and ideological configuration in order to build an utterly material process. However, within the financial perspective globalization refers to product market and labor distribution respectively (Rybiński, p. 1). This essay seeks to analyze the benefits of globalization on financial markets. The benefits of globalization...
Introduction A budget deficit is a situation where there is excessive government expenditure than the available funds for expenditure or savings. The U.S government has been realizing budget deficits each year that have seen the public debt soar. It is important that a government spend within its means to avoid...
The recent global economic crisis affected the economies of various countries in a tremendous way. In economic terms, it is impossible to think of a country whose economy was ton affected by the financial meltdown. Turkey is one of the countries whose economies were not spared by the crisis. Its...
Introduction Administrator George Wiley and a bunch of County Commissioners who total to seven members are managing South County. The office of Management and budget (OMB) is in charge of preparing a budget. This budget is used in the county for various development activities and Mike Ketchum heads the department....
Since the end of the Second World War, there have been major developments in the European countries. Some of the crucial and notable developments are the up come of the Euro. This currency is ever increasing in its rating and has grown to surpass the dollar. Most of the European...
In the majority of computer systems, the applications and data reside within a local computer. The conventional method of software delivery is whereby a consumer purchases software on a disk or downloads it over the internet then installs it on a local computer. In recent years a new computing model...
Introduction Information Systems refer to systems designed to use computers as an aid to planning and providing direction in business and organization operations. Management Information Systems are used to transform data obtained from day to day operations into information that can be used to support decision making. Information Systems are...
Introduction Fire departments are stations set up by the government, whose main tasks are to provide protection and education to the citizens concerning fires and their hazards. Usually, the government does this by allocating specific areas of jurisdiction where a certain fire department is commissioned to serve under. The Fire...
The hopes and fears of the society are both presented in the power of politics. In the context of new information and technologies, the power of the internet is intensely reimaging the political process. In democratic societies, the internet played a crucial role in the shaping of politics and the...
Introduction Many organizations are created to perform certain and specific functions. Basically, an organization is a system that is composed of interrelated units working in union with each other in order to realize the organizational goals and those of people involved in the organization. Management becomes an important part of...
Introduction Description of the pilot course Nowadays education plays a very important role in human life. With the help of education, people become able to get proper work, earn money, and achieve all those professional and personal goals set. Due to such a significant role of education, it becomes urgent...
Abstract The purpose of this study is to evaluate different multinational companies; two based in USA and one from Japan. The study will focus on each companys profile, scope of operation and its marketing strategy. This will help in understanding differences in the company strategies and their similarities in particular...
Abstract The international money transfer system has been derailed by various financial crimes like tax evasion and money laundering. This paper will focus on money laundering as an abuse to international money transfer. Money laundering is the illegal act of financial transfer in which there is disguise of identity, source,...
Introduction The rapid change in technology that is taking effect is very critical to the learning environment. In essence, the existing knowledge is undergoing rapid obsolescence and on the other hand, population is increasing at a very fast rate such that education systems available are facing a great challenge. This...
Introduction Who created the computer? This is a question that will not have a simple answer. The real answer is, many people have contributed to the history of this device, but the computer can be defined as the machine which is made up of many parts and each part has...
A society filled with good morals, no criminals or crime itself, a community full of justice is all that the world society covets most. From Utilitarian and Kantian arguments, death penalty is the only judgment that will see a society with no grave evils like murder. Death penalty/euthanasia/capital punishment or...
The vote is one of the most basic rights of political participation Votes are very essential in influencing the election of leaders, and Canada just like other countries offers its citizens the right to vote and vie for any legislative office of their choice. Each vote is very important especially...
Introduction The stiff competition which has engulfed the business arena calls for equivalent strong marketing strategies in order for companies to thrive in the market. The recent economic downturn has negatively affected the operations of many companies. In addition, cultural, political and economic factors have continued to play a significant...
Introduction Multinational companies are faced with numerous business risks compared to firms operating on a domestic scale (Mockler 2002, p. 65). One of the risks that these firms face relates to foreign exchange risks. Foreign exchange risk arises from the fact that different currencies are used in the firm’s process...
Critique of Porter’s Diamond Model Michael Porter uses this model to explain that nations can generate new highly- developed-factor-endowments amongst which are the strong base of knowledge. He employed a diamond-shaped diagram as the framework within which he illustrated the determinants of (state) advantage. The model has its side of...
Strong children – strong community It is not a secret that our future depends on our children: if our children would be happy and realize their mission and purpose of life, understand what is wrong and what is right, feel their role as a part of a society, it means...
Introduction Economic activities across the world occur following people’s pursuit for environmental development that would yield better living standards and higher quality of life. In the realm of such economic activities and the natural environment, lies the interplay of many interactions due to resources drawn from the same environment. In...
Introduction Too big to fail is a book that highly analyzes the global financial crisis of 2007 to 2009. The book correctly outlines the major activities that happened before and during the inward explosion of the economy worldwide in 2007 and 2008. Activities that happened in the meeting rooms of...
Introduction IMF stands for International Monetary Fund. It’s an international monetary body comprising of member of different states which came together in order to synchronize and meet their monetary economic demands. IMF like other monetary bodies such as World Bank plays vital roles in not only stabilizing monetary base among...
Executive Summary The quality of customer service plays a significant role in every profit-making business. It not only determines the ability (or lack) of a firm to attract and maintain its clients but also influences the bottom line of the firm. How can a firm retain its customers? How can...
Introduction Turkey is among the most robust and fast-growing economies in the world. It thrives greatly on foreign investments. Being the target of both European and United States investors, as well as some investors across from the Middle East, it offers the right place for investments (Douglass & O’ Neil,...
Introduction Social change refers to the changes in the social structure or the alteration of the social structure (Jordan and Pile). The social structure in this case refers to the social relationships within a group of individuals or within the society. Social change is considered as the modification of the...
Introduction Viable fish species have not been spared by the fluctuations that have marred the marine ecosystem. Both anthropogenic and natural interferences have led to their decline though efforts are being made to preserve them. Some of the most common aquarium fishes include catfish, cyprinids, bichirs, characins, redfish, Coraciiformes, cichlids,...
Welfare of Personnel The upholding of the welfare of employees in the company is a very crucial element of organizational success. In its provision of high-quality learning of the English language, English should strive to make sure that the employees’ rights are upheld. As a human resource manager, it will...
Introduction Financing in the elections especially in the campaign process is becoming a perennial aspect of the political system in the US, long centered on the enduring issues of high campaign costs due to increased costs of operations and economic growth which is increasing the inflation (Coleman and Paul, p.757)....
Introduction Stress comes from unknown sources and occurs naturally to many people. Stress has also been identified as a surviving universal element, in the sense that species that don’t adapt well to stress don’t live through generations, and those that do, survive and evolve into the plant and animal kingdoms...
Introduction In our daily lives, we do a lot of actions that we sometimes do not realize having done them. Most important the reasons behind doing the actions are uncertain. Positive and negative reinforcements dictate our action together with our coherent thoughts in many occasions. Operant Condition Theory is an...
Classical conditioning is an automatic way of learning where a stimulus acquires the capability to evoke a response that was formally evoked by another stimulus. It was among the first studies to be carried out by Ivan Pavlov within the behavior system. During this learning, it was noticed that one...
Introduction There is a clear cur difference between a group and a team. The two terms are often implied to mean the same although they are quite distinct from each other. Whereas a group refers to a pool of individuals who join hands to perform a particular task, a team...
Introduction Business process management involves managing all activities of an organization supporting the expectation of customers. It promotes efficiency and effectiveness of business, focusing on continuous improvement. Process breakthrough method is a business process that ensures that an organization moves from one level to another every time, it involves processes...
Introduction Business ethics and conduct is professional ethics involving business ethical principles and molar that should be applied by both individuals and organizations. Business ethics examines individual molar conduct and ethical problems that arise in a business setup. Business ethics and code of conduct is a normative discipline with corporate...
Introduction The United States had the greatest influence towards Latin America in the early 1970s. The Latin American countries include Brazil, Bolivia, Venezuela, Peru, Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Cuba. These are some of the countries which the United States had the greatest influence in terms of economic growth and...
Introduction There are various kinds of one- off payments which are paid in families, businesses and so on. In 2010 there was an agreement made on one off payments to salaried workers under clause 7of Australian wages Act. According to this clause all white collar workers had a right to...
Introduction The U.S Department of Health and Human Services in their NIH Publication prefers to measure obesity using Body Mass Index (BMI); a practicable approach based on height and weight calculation. Using BMI an obese person is defined as one whose BMI is equal to or above 30. This accumulation...
Introduction This paper explores the major business functions in this information age. The rate at which information is moving into this society has revolutionized different sectors of the economy. The business operations and functionalities have been swept away by the internet capabilities and major online services available over the internet....
Introduction Human resource development is regarded as one of the key aspects of keeping the employees qualified. In fact, the topic is extensively regarded in various business media, and the helpful strategies that are highlighted in media are closely linked with improving communication strategies between management and employees. The aim...
Introduction Jean Piaget is one of the most influential theorists on child development. Cognitions refer to the mental processes through which people can learn and utilize what has been learned in solving problems for a long time many people strongly believe that cognition influences the ability of different people to...
The death penalty/capital punishment, involves the cold blooded termination of human life. It is usually done without the proper approval of the convict for a crime committed in the name of justice. The crimes that carry this particular sentence are called ‘capital crimes’ (mainly involving murder). In the recent past,...
Introduction The main objective of public administration is to foster government functionality by advancing management and government policies. Alternatively, public administration integrates aspects of management of public programs. It focuses on government policy organization and the behavior of public officers. Pioneer academics postulated and advocated for four basic public administration...
In the past, it was confused that Nations, Countries and States were the same entity. However dismal the difference might be, it is important that the three definitions be used in their rightful contexts. Though these terms have been used interchangeably, a State is a political entity that is self-governed....
Introduction In 1996, the Howard government was overwhelmely elected on the campaign pledge of upgrading the Australian-USA alliance. Few could have imagined the extent to which its promises would be realized. After eleven years in office, Australia’s Howard government had significantly intensified the alliance (Kelton 2008, p.1) and by 2007,...
Constitution A constitution defines a set of laws that govern a specific group of people. A constitution governs the basic laws of government in any state. The body of laws and rules that define how government works is what constitutes a constitution. A constitution would then define the structures, procedures,...
Introduction Recently, many organizations have been coming up. They have been offering different job opportunities to people. These organizations have different types of culture, communication and management styles. The workers have to adapt to these styles in order to fit better in the organization. This paper discusses different types of...
Introduction The World Trade Organization (WTO) is an international organization that manages trade relationships and international trade among all its member nations. It was formed in January 1995 and it establishes rules and policies that member nations should follow. The rules reduce trade barriers amongst member nations and create a...
Trade between the US and India has increased since India gained Independence in 1947. Right after independence, during the early 1950s and 1960s, the US and India had been big trading partners. About a third of India’s imports came from United States (Martin). Nonetheless, trade between the two countries decreased...
Executive summary When looking for a potential market for an investor, there are various considerations that one ought to make to be certain that his or her products or services will get a ready market in the target country. Some of these factors include the demographic structure of the country,...
One of the major uses of money is that it is a standard of deferred payments. This implies that based on the legal acceptance of money, it is used to settle debts. Federal Reserve Bank has adopted the electronic payment systems in the form of credit cards and debit cards...
Introduction The World financial crisis of 2007-2010 is considered to be the strongest collapse since the Great Depression. It started in the US and gradually grasped the national economies throughout the World. The following factors are considered to be the reasons for the World crisis: US monetary policy; Huge disbalance...
Introduction Globalization has allowed different countries and regions to operate in an integrated manner through the formation of communication and trade networks across different parts of the world making it easy for people to conduct business across cultural, economic, political, and trade boundaries. Most countries are now able to trade...
Introduction This paper is based on the article “Mexican president condemns Arizona immigrant law”, appearing in the Houston chronicles of April 26, 2010. The article was written on a reaction speech by President Felipe Calderon on the Arizona immigrant law. The President and other political leaders from Mexico view the...
Abstract Consumer behavior and needs have become integral in the marketing and development of mobile phones and applications. This has led marketers and manufacturers to do profound research on consumer needs and interests when buying cell phones and their applications. Lately, a cell phone bubble is being experienced. Smart applications...
Introduction A country is said to have unemployment if there are people of working age who are willing and able to work under the prevailing economic conditions but they cannot find opportunities. The level of unemployment of a country varies depending on the prevailing economic conditions. For instance, during the...
Ethics refer to social system behavior. Every society has standards or codes that individuals are expected to follow. Individuals who follow the code are said to be ethical. Consequently, due to diverse ethical codes conflicts are inevitable because the parties have different moral rules. Ethical issues are diverse in a...
Introduction Overview of the Organization Verizon Wireless Corporation is a U.S. based mobile phone Company that was formed in 2000.The company has an approximately 93 million subscribers. Being headquarted in Basking ridge, Verizon wireless serves high number of customers leading to a generation of high revenue. The successful expansion of...
Introduction Nonprofit organizations refer to those businesses which operate under strict rules that restrict distribution of profit to its shareholders (Modia & Mishraa 2010). According to this organization, the term profit refers to any excess of revenues over the expenditure (Ramírez 2010). Businesses which belong to nonprofit organizations are organized...
Islamic Finance is peculiar in its basic principles and norms on which it is grounded. In this respect the harmful effect of the world economic crisis touched upon it is different a bit in contrast to Western-style finance. It is no surprise, however, where the main controversial factor lies when...
Alice walker’s works have often been acclaimed by literary critics as pieces of literature that visualize the problems of woman folk.” Everyday use”, published in1973, is considered as a major work of Alice walker, and the author describes the story of the wrangled relation between a mother and her two...
Introduction Ethics refers to a code of conduct, rules, norms, and troubles established by people in business organizations. On the other hand, International business refers to a situation where people do business worldwide. Corporate culture plays a significant role in modeling business ethics as well as shaping organizational behavior. How...
Introduction Performance management is a crucial constituent of any business management system. The current rate of increase in competition and organizational changes calls for organizations to implement performance management so as to ensure that their employees work towards improving the competitive edge of the organization as well as offering efficient...
According to SGV (2009), the Western Water Corporation is one of the leading companies in Victoria specializing in provision of water and sewage services. The company covers an area of about 3000 square kilometers and offers its services to more than 140,000 people. As it has been revealed, Western Water...
Introduction The lack of sustained development on world trade liberalisation has influenced the increasing attention that regional free trade agreements (FTAs) continue to receive. New Zealand is a small economy and as a result, one of its major objectives is to become a more vigorous player in the international economy...
HIV stands for human immunodeficiency virus. The virus infects and survives only in humans and can also be traced in fresh blood of humans outside the body. Immune-deficiency is lack of natural ability to protect the body against diseases or infections. The virus attacks white blood cells which protect the...
In the past, patients did not care about the actions of the physicians on them whenever they visited them. This is referred to as paternalism where the patient’s health care officers did not require any opinion from the patients. Today things have changed and there have to be discussions between...
Introduction The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (2) estimated that 15.3 percent of Americans were uninsured in 2007, or 45.7 million Americans. President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden have proposed a plan to address the need to increase medical coverage and access to care for many of...
Employers are struggling to find alternatives to contain or control the rising health care costs. Approaches that have been adopted include increased co pays, decreased benefits, and higher deductibles. Another approach to address the costs of health care is the implementation of health promotion or worksite wellness programs. It is...
Introduction Over the last century, increased numbers of cancer cases have been reported in the world. Cancers are the diseases in which uncontrolled growth and division of abnormal cells occur and possess the ability to invade other tissues. In malignant cancers or tumours, the cells metastasize to other body organs...
Internet is an essential part of present life. People use Internet for different purposes like entertainment, job search, looking for some information and communication. Using modern technologies in class is one of the main aspects on that every teacher should work towards. Internet helps the teachers to be organized. Being...
An effective teacher is one who maximizes the achievements of students by working in accordance with an explicit set of principles that have order, coherence, and relevance in a particular instructional context. Education is an important part of human life. Nowadays people try to get a good education as it...
The knowledge of reading and writing is referred to as literacy which implies that an individual is conversant with the theories of initial reading and writing. In this case, reading is mostly taught through comprehension while writing is taught through composition writing. From a broad perspective, literacy scrutinizes the use...
Introduction Before we can go ahead to identify or choose three scenes or conventions contained in the movie which have been adopted from the novel that seems or portray a different picture of what is the actual representation in the book, it will be imperative for us to, first of...
Market needs and Market Growth Marketing is very important to any organization that wants to thrive, It is used as a tool by the organization to relate to its customers; this is done with the basic aim of the organization deriving benefit from it. This work is focused on the...
Introduction GE introduced a number of changes that saw it increase its revenues substantially from the early 1980s when John Welch entered the leadership as the CEO, to the late 1990s (1999) when he was approaching retirement. Managerial as well as organizational changes in the company saw it hit the...
This paper aims to state, compare and contrast the thesis of two closely related pieces of classical works: My Wood by E. M. Forster, and Who Owns the Mountains by Henry van Dyke. Besides, the paper will discuss the in-depth content of both essays. Property ownership is the state of...
Health care reform is a term used to talk about the alteration or creation of health policy that will, in the end, affect the delivery of health care services to a given population. This reform aims to increase the number of health specialists serving consumers, decrease costs for accessing health...
Introduction Plastic Surgery Literally, most people assume that plastic surgery is the process of using synthetic material on one’s body part. This is because they relate the term plastic with the actual process of surgery (Donnelly 25). Ideally this assumption is not true because the term emanated from a Greek...
Introduction The paper critically evaluates the issue of banning smoking in public places. The paper puts forward arguments that try to support and justify why smoking in public places should be prohibited by law. At the same time, an opposing view (why smoking in a public place should not be...
Introduction Most companies in the world of capitalism always want more. They want more profit, more shareholder value, and more market share, among others. The realizations of these objectives have been attained through the successful initiation, development and management of marketing in most instances. Indeed, the effective development and management...
Introduction Factors causing the employee’s dissatisfaction For customers to perform very well in an organization, employees must be satisfied in their jobs. Job satisfaction enhances the performance of employees in every organization and it also motivates the employees in their work. There are many factors which are causing employee’s dissatisfaction,...
Introduction Proposition According to the research (Yasbek, 2004) concerning work-life balance and the correlation between the productivity met by the employees, stress has combated their work life leading to low productivity or even less. Upon noticing this trend, issues and questions on what ways can be met in order to...
Introduction An organization is defined as a “social arrangement that works towards achieving common goals, controls its functions and performance and has a boundary separating it from the surrounding.” (Prasad, 2007, p. 3) Organizations develop their codes of conduct and discipline which stipulate the working relationship between members. This paper...
Introduction Client data is one of the most important information in the context of a commercial organization. For the systematic approach towards the finalization of all the deals and other aspects of client’s process one should carefully enlist all the client data in proper files. This can be very useful...
Introduction The changes and demands of the workplace are very important to be dealt with to affect the lives of the workers positively. This also increases the employees’ productivity and they are challenged to work in a very smart and effective way. The employees are striving to attain a balance...
One key job of a leader is to promote collective effort in the organization; the leader should ensure there is an organizational culture in a company. This will have an impact on the building, influencing, and changing people’s attitudes. The collective effort in any company, is an essential tool for...
Introduction Every human setting in the world has been under guidance of the universally accepted codes of conduct. These codes of conduct are based upon the human relations upon exchange of ideas and properties that exemplify a business. Before the establishment of many companies and institutions in the world of...
Overview Toyota Motor Corporation is the largest manufacturer of automobile. It manufactures different model of automobiles which are differently branded. The Corporation is headquartered in Japan. This paper examines the current micro and macro-environment and the human resource needs on its strategy. Current Micro-Economic Environment Some of the Toyota Motor...
Scope of the Case There are various ways of explaining the concept of a safety case. However, a safety case may be formally defined as “A documented body of evidence that provides a convincing and valid argument that a system is adequately safe for a given application in a given...
Executive Summary Demand for frequent, flexible and efficient airline services by business travelers has made it possible for full-service airlines to operate despite the emergence of low-cost carriers. One of the full-service airline companies that have managed to continue with its operations is Kamuga Airlines located in California. The company...