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In the Business section, you can find material dedicated to all things business. This section collects data on the activities of the various companies operating in markets all over the world.
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Dispensers of California
1. The profit plan will help Hynes and the investors know if the business is gaining as they planned. If not, then this may give them a signal that problems exist so they should take appropriate actions. The profit plan, if reasonable, can motivate them to reach their goals and objectives. 2. (1) dr Cash 80,000.00 dr Patent 120,000.00 cr Capital Stock 200,000.00 (2) dr Incorporation Cost 2,500.00 cr Cash 2,500.00 (3) dr Equipment 85,000.00
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Dispensers of California Journal Entries
Journal entries: 1. In return for signing his patent over to the new company, which was to be called Dispensers of the California, Inc., Hynes would receive 60 percent of the company's capital stock. For their part, the investors would contribute $80,000 cash for a 40 percent interest in the company. Dr: Cash 80,000.00 Dr: Patent 120,000.00 Cr: Capital Stock 200,000.00 2. Incorporation costs, $2,500. Dr: Incorporation Cost 2,500.00 Cr: Cash 2,500.00 3. Equipment to
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Disperate Impact
Disparate Treatment Turner v. Gonzales, 421 F.3d 688 (8th Cir. August 30, 2005) Jane Turner was a FBI Special Agent who filed an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) complaint alleging sex discrimination in June of 1998. She felt that her male peers and subordinates did not treat her with the respect she deserved for the grade she held. In April of 1999, five days after filing a complaint, Turner’s immediate supervisor gave her an out of
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Dispute in Workplace
In November of 2004, Washington DC enacted a law to prevent the transport of hazardous materials (HAZMAT) through the District of Columbia. The HAZMAT referred to in this bill consists of various chemicals in numerous of forms. If used improperly they could indeed pose a threat to the public, but the chemicals are necessary to the health and well being of the general public. These chemicals are used to purify water, heat homes, generate electricity,
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Dispute Resoloution and Its Growing Role in U.S. Business
Conflict is unavoidable. In the world in which we live, competition is a driving force that creates and destroys markets, allows businesses to flourish, and others to fall by the wayside, and grants consumers the ability to decide which entities in business will survive, and which will burn out, as their natural life cycle draws to a close. With competition being such a large part of what fuels the fire, progressing our modern business world;
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Dispute Resolution
Dispute resolution is a term that refers to a number of processes that can be used to resolve a conflict, dispute or claim. The dispute resolution processes are Conciliation, Arbitration, Grievance procedures, negotiation, meditation, common law action and business/division closure. These are available to all stakeholders. Negotiation, Meditation and Arbitration are the three dispute processes that will be analyzed. Negotiation is a discussion between two or more disputants who are trying to work out a
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Dispute Resolution Technique Paper
Dispute Resolution Technique Paper August 22, 2005 Dispute Resolution Technique Paper This document will address conflict system techniques and the theory of how they work within organizations. The article will then identify how each technique fits in the systematic structure of the organization. The challenges, costs, and benefits are then covered. Improvements realized through implementing these techniques are the final discussion. Conflict management techniques are beneficial to organization and improve their performance, relationships, and
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Dispute Summary
Dispute Summary There was a dispute at US Airways, between a US Airways employee, and his supervisor. The supervisor had written up the employee several times for what he had regarded as unprofessional behavior, and unacceptable customer service. The employee had several customer complaints against him, and a few employee complaints. The employee was a very knowledgeable individual, and utterly efficient in his job duties. The problem was with his behavior and his personality. He
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Disruptive Innovation and Business Models
Project 2: Disruptive Innovation and Business Models For this project I would like to examine the electronics industry, and specifically the television, to examine how the LCD flat screen TV has been a disruptive innovation and the impact it has had on the business models for companies that produce televisions. For years and years the viewing public endured the Cathode Ray Tube (CRT-TV) television experience. Especially those of us in my age bracket (mid-40’s) who
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Disscuss the Importance of Training and Developing the Sales Force?
DISSCUSS THE IMPORTANCE OF TRAINING AND DEVELOPING THE SALES FORCE? 1.1 INTRODUCTION According to Dr Breeze, 2004 good training is the beginning, not the end. Many new employees come equipped with most of the knowledge and skills to start work. Others may require extensive training and development before getting ready to make much of a contribution to the organization. A majority, however, will at one time or another require some type of training or development
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Dissimilarity and Perceive Relative Deprivation
Dissimilarity and Perceive Relative Deprivation Status inequality in a group is a cause of decrease in similarity between the group members. The larger of status gap, the larger dissimilarity felt by the group members, especially for the low-status group. And this will lead the member to feel deprived from their group. According to the relative deprivation theory, individuals are adversely influenced when they believe themselves to be socially or economically deprived compared to the other
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Distance Learning Pitch for High Ranking officials and Ceo
Business, Other Year 3 Hi, Imagine you have a meeting with the CEO and other high-ranking officers of a company that invests in distance learning start-ups. Your objective is to obtain a loan for a distance learning company that you would like to start. Fortunately, you have a mentor to whom you can turn for help. Using a business-like tone and format, compose a letter that would be suitable to send as an email to
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Distinction Between Company and Partnership
Company The word 'Company' is an amalgamation of the Latin word 'Com' meaning "with or together" and 'Pains' meaning "bread". Originally, it referred to a group of persons who took their meals together. A company is nothing but a group of persons who have come together or who have contributed money for some common person and who have incorporated themselves into a distinct legal entity in the form of a company for that purpose.
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Distribution of Mattel
Retail Channel Producer Mattel was one of the first to utilize independent monitoring of its manufacturing facilities and make findings available to the public. Informationweek.com stated that “Mattel can meet demand because it spent the last few years paying a lot of attention to software and processes that simplify its supply chain, cut costs, shorten cycle times, and bring more science to the art of meeting customer demand.” With headquarters in El Segundo, California,
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Distribution Strategy
Senior managers of most of the companies involved in moving goods or services from suppliers to end users would agree: Their distribution channels are outdated and unwieldy, serving neither customers nor channel partners as well as they should. In a few cases, distribution channels are streamlined and satisfying for all participants. In some cases, technology has improved things dramatically. But in most scenarios, distribution channels, taken as a whole, seem more like a repository of
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Distributive Negotiation Vs. Integrative Negotiation
Negotiations come in two forms- distributive outcomes and integrative arguments. Distributive outcomes, also called, "win-lose" bargaining, is a competitive negotiation strategy that is used to decide how to distribute a fixed resource (i.e. money) between two negotiators so that the more one gets, the less the other gets. In distributive bargaining, each party tries to secure the most benefit for themselves, without regard for the other side's outcome (Roy J.L, David M.S, and John W.
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Distriutive Tactics
The negotiation anchoring was initiated by Ms. Grant for a price of $2.0/lb as their first offer along with providing the number of available customers in the campus (30,000). Even though the bid response price was stated as $7.94/lb (Including delivery cost of 0.80/lb) Mr. Grant did not honor the bid price and instead provided their competitor price. Overall during the negotiation I understood that Mr. Grant was building an advantageous situation to push me
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Diversification
CORPORATE DIVERSIFICATION What is Diversification? Ansoff (1965): Diversification represents the entry of the firm into new markets with new products. Kamien & Schwartz (1975): Diversification is the extent to which firms classified in one industry produce goods classified in another. Ramanujam & Varadarajan (1989): Diversification is defined as the entry of a firm or business unit into new lines of activity, either by processes of internal business development or acquisition... Diversification and Corporate Strategy A
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Diversification Has Changed Managerial Interaction with the Workforce
DIVERSIFICATION HAS CHANGED MANAGERIAL INTERACTION WITH THE WORKFORCE Abstract The diversification of the American Workforce has changed the way managers interact with employees. This diversification is due to tighter labor markets, increased immigration, and women entering the workforce. Cultural factors, not present before, have caused managers to develop new methods of tasking, motivating, and educating these diverse employees. Essentially these new methods have been a change in interpersonal behavior, the way a manager acts and
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Diversification Within American Organizations
Diversification within American Organizations The United States has the most diverse and multicultural population ever known to man. The symbolic metaphor “the melting pot,” strongly states that the major problem organizations face in American society is a diverse personnel with different economical status, beliefs, and cultural background; because of this, operating an organization in American society is a very complex task. For many years, researchers struggled with the concept of finding the perfect organizational structure
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Diversity
Diversity America’s workforce is continuously changing. Businesses today hire and retain culturally diverse employees to compete in the globalize market. Companies are developing ways to tap into and capitalize upon the talents of their workforces. They are discovering how to value the diversity of their workforces and the potential that diversity brings in flexibility, ingenuity and problem solving are helping them achieve their goals. Diversity can be differences in age, gender, ethnicity, and religion. Having
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Diversity
Diversity In today’s business world, diversity in the workplace is a very important topic. The significance of this subject increases proportionately as the workforce and community become more and more diverse in age, religion, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and socio-economic status. In an ideal world, everyone would be treated equally, but unfortunately this is not the case even when it comes to getting a job, advancing ones career, or even just being treated fairly in
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Diversity
Diversity Diversity refers to the presence of individual human characteristics that make people different from one another. Some of these individual human characteristics are demographic differences, such as age, gender, sexual-orientation, race, ethnicity, and religion. Diversity and demographic differences can impact individual behavior by creating discrimination, stereotypes and prejudices in the workplace. In my opinion the differences that impact individual behavior the most are age, gender, sexual-orientation, race, and ethnicity. Age People's ages in the
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Diversity
Introduction Diversity relates to gender, age, language, ethnicity, cultural background, disability, sexual orientation or religious belief. Diversity also refers to the myriad ways we are different in other respects such as educational level, job function, socio-economic background, personality profile, geographic location, marital status and whether or not one has family. I have taken the opportunity to explain my perception of age, gender, personality and ethnic types of diversity and demographic characteristics and differences. Age Characteristics
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Diversity
Diversity has taken center stage in today’s workplace. Diversity is “the condition of being composed of distinct or unlike elements or qualities especially : the inclusion of diverse people (as people of different races or cultures) in a group or organization”.( Merriam-Webster online dictionary) The diversity of any organization can affect the way people operate within a business. As diversity becomes more prominent in the workplace the impact on individual behaviors is also affected. A
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Diversity
Diversity 1 RUNNING HEAD: DIVERSITY Diversity Paper Shae Lewis June 24, 2006 Diversity 2 Diversity Paper This paper will discuss four types of diversity which has an impact on individual behavior. These four types of demographic characteristics are ethnicity, gender, geographical differences, and personality traits. Ethnicity is a subgroup within a culture. It is also defined as an ethnic quality or affiliation resulting from racial or cultural ties. (Smith 1987). Ethnicity can also be a
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Diversity
Diversity Diversity Diversity can be defined as a situation that includes representation of multiple and ideally all groups within a prescribed environment, such as a workplace (University of Maryland, 2000). The success of an organization depends on the workforce of the organization. A workforce made up of diverse individuals from different backgrounds can bring the best talent to an organization. There are many types of diversity and demographic characteristics and each one has an impact
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Diversity
Abraham Lincoln once said, “The strongest bond of human sympathy outside the family relation should be one uniting working people of all nations and tongues and kindreds.” For an organization to work well it has to have a diversity of people, good communication with all the employees, and to be organized in a way that is effective and efficient to function properly. I currently work at the Turlock Junior High School (TJHS). It is an
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Diversity
Introduction Companies in the 21st century are facing fierce competition, economic and global challengers. In the midst of challengers organisations should have distinctive competences to resist it. Survival depends on the maintenance of market share by having good image, cost leadership, sound technical or service superioty, committed employees and speed of market. Organisations success depends on how well the use of resource are utilised in achieving the core competences. Human assets are becoming the most
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Diversity
Diversity 1 RUNNING HEAD: DIVERSITY Diversity Paper Shae Lewis June 24, 2006 Diversity 2 Diversity Paper This paper will discuss four types of diversity which has an impact on individual behavior. These four types of demographic characteristics are ethnicity, gender, geographical differences, and personality traits. Ethnicity is a subgroup within a culture. It is also defined as an ethnic quality or affiliation resulting from racial or cultural ties. (Smith 1987). Ethnicity can also be a
Rating:Essay Length: 1,170 Words / 5 PagesSubmitted: January 29, 2010