Alternative Dispute Resolution Essays and Term Papers
217 Essays on Alternative Dispute Resolution. Documents 51 - 75
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Team Dynamics and Conflict Resolution
Team Dynamics and Conflict Resolution in Work Teams Teams are groups of people who work together to achieve a common goal (Learning Team Handbook, p 310). Workplace teams are increasing as businesses find the yield of team productivity and creativity exceeds individual productivity/creativity. To promulgate productive teams, businesses have had to identify common threads for successful teams. Businesses have identified the dynamics and needs of successful teams. Seven tasks must be included in consideration of
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Foster Care: A Positive Alternative
Foster Care: A Positive Alternative Many People have heard of foster care and have developed an opinion from non-factual stories or much altered stories about the system. Foster care has had a bad name placed on its shoulders because the majority of the stories told are the ones that went awry; when in all reality there are very few cases of foster care in which the children are in a detrimental environment. There are problems
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Strategic Alternatives Available to the Organization
Strategic Alternatives Available to the Organization First, we want Nike to play a role in effecting positive, systemic change in working conditions within our industries. If our efforts lead to a workplace oasis -- one solitary and shining example in a desert of poor conditions -- then we’ve not succeeded. Even if that single shining example were to exist (and we’re not claiming it does), we’ve learned that positive changes won’t last unless the landscape
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Boeing Ethical Resolution
Boeing is the world’s leading aerospace company and the largest manufacturer of commercial jetliners and military aircraft combined. Boeing is a major service provider to NASA and operates the Space Shuttle and International Space Station. Boeing has customers in 90 countries around the world and is one of the largest U.S. exporters in terms of sales. Boeing employs over 150,000 people across the United States and 70 countries making it one of the most diverse
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The Cost of Gasoline Versus the Cost of Alternatives
The Cost of Gasoline versus the Cost of Alternatives Kimberly Nunnery May 1, 2006 Dr. Rosemary Carlson FIN 660 Executive Summary Due to the recent rise in the price of gasoline, more resources than ever have been allocated to the research and development of alternative fuel sources, with emphasis on replacing the modern automobile with one that either does not run on gasoline or uses very little of it. This rise gas prices places
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A Dispute on the Popular Beliefs Of
The popular belief of warfare in Pre-Colonial Africa is that of mere tribal wars, a sort of random, "bow and arrow" battle. The accepted view of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade is based on the concept that Europeans bribed, initiated wars, and captured African civilians, all for the sake of the slave trade. In his book, "Warfare in Atlantic Africa, 1500-1800", John K. Thornton challenges both of these interpretations. In fact, the author systematically describes in
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Team Dynamics & Conflict Resolution
Team Dynamics & Conflict Resolution Teams have always proven to be beneficial no matter whether it is in the workplace, athletic field, school, or even a group of friends trying to build a deck. One man working alone may eventually succeed in his goal, but multiple people working together will be more efficient and productive, coming to success more quickly and possibly with a better result. There is power in numbers. When you put people
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Lotus Rental Car’s - Alternative Fuel Vehicles
Lotus Rental Car’s - Alternative Fuel Vehicles COMM 215 LMH Instructor 6 December 2004 Alternative Fuel Vehicles As a quick statement prior to beginning this assignment I thoroughly enjoyed researching this topic. It has been of personal interest to me for years. I have, in the past (as far back as the 1970’s), invested my personal time researching designs and building prototypes, which utilize alternative fuels for vehicle propulsion and various mechanical motion applications with
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An Approach to Alternative Fuel Vehicle Rentals
An Approach to Alternative Fuel Vehicle Rentals. As one of the leading car rental companies, Lotus car rental is in a position to take advantage of a great opportunity. This is an opportunity to be one of the first car rental companies to provide our consumers with alternative options to fuel-powered vehicles, and to rise above the competition. Adding alternative fuel vehicles to our car rental fleet will increase our car rental turnover and improve
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Environmental Benefits of Alternatively Fueled Cars
Environmental Benefits of Alternatively Fueled Cars Between one-third and one-half of emissions in the United States comes from automobiles. Americans rely upon gasoline powered cars for their daily transportation needs, but this need is causing many problems. Carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, and hydrocarbons are three types of pollution with a severe effect on the environment. All three of these come from auto emissions. Another problem is that our oil reserves are running out. Many estimates
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Lester Electronics Financing Alternative Benchmarking
Lester Electronics Financing Alternative Benchmarking The team researched six companies with similar issues facing Lester Electronics to determine some benchmarking references for Bernard Lester. The six companies researched were: Apollo Health Street/Zavata-Appendix A, AT&T/BellSouth-Appendix B, Safeway-Vons Merger-Appendix C, Oracle-PeopleSoft-Appendix D, Boeing / Mc Donnell Douglas-Appendix E, May Company / Federated-Appendix F. This paper will provide some key concepts that will be compared and contrasted to help Mr. Lester make a determination on how to handle
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Lawrence Sports Alternate Benchmarking
Running head: LAWRENCE SPORTS ALTERNATE BENCHMARKING Lawrence Sports Alternate Benchmarking University of Phoenix MBA 550 – Resource Optimization Robert Armbrust, B.S., MBA Online Facilitator February 25, 3008 Introduction In this paper, the learner will be able to identify best practices in working capital management in a given industry that impact financial, economic, and global environments on resource optimization. Working capital strategies to prepare for long-term opportunities, the purpose of cash budgeting, cash flow analysis, the
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Alternative to Incarceration
December 5, 2001 Alternatives to incarceration Ever since the first prison opened in the United States in 1790, incarceration has been the center of the nation’s criminal justice system. Over this 200 year period many creative alternatives to incarceration have been tried, and many at a much lower cost than imprisonment. It wasn’t until the late 1980’s when our criminal justice systems across the country began experiencing a problem with overcrowding of facilities. This problem
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Alternative Energy and Hybrid Cars
Alternative Energy and Hybrid Cars This is a time of crisis. The American public, and the entire world for that matter, is at a crossroads. The humans that inhabit the planet called Earth have gradually over the last hundred years destroyed the environment through the use of fossil fuels. According to Christopher Flavin, the use of fossil fuels has caused “ impoverished lakes and estuaries, degraded forests, and millions of damaged human lungs.” (Flavin et
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Alternative Forms of Generating Electrical Energy: Wind, Solar and Fuel Cell Power
The societal demands for electrical energy have drastically increased in the past number of years. The sharp escalation of fuel consumption caused the demand for fossil fuels, which generate electrical energy, to increase as well. Almost 80% of domestic electricity use is used for space and water heating. To reduce the amount of energy produced by fossil fuels, the amount of electricity used must be lessened, and other renewable methods of electrical energy generation must
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Alternative Energy
Introduction To combat global warming and the other problems associated with fossil fuels, the world must switch to renewable energy sources like sunlight, wind, and biomass. All renewable energy technologies are not appropriate to all applications or locations, however. As with conventional energy production, there are environmental issues to be considered. This paper identifies some of the key environmental impacts associated with renewable technologies and suggests appropriate responses to them. A study by the Union
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Organizational Ethics Issue Resolution
Introduction Organizational ethics is important to maintain for any company. Many organizations will outline their code of ethics for employees to have an understanding of the type of behavior that the company expects at all times. In some situations, a company will fall under the guidelines of a specific governing body. This is the case with Foot Solutions. Foot Solutions is a hybrid of a retail location and a Pedorthic facility. Pedorthics is the practice
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Conflict Management and Resolution for Teams
Conflict Management and Resolution for Teams When a group of individuals with varying experiences, thought processes and expectations work together as a team, conflict is inevitable. While many people see conflict as a sign of failure, teams can potentially use conflict as an asset. Understanding conflict dynamics and cultural approaches to conflict management help teams to distill key points vital to a successful and productive resolution of team conflict. John Dewey (1934, p. 207) once
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Team Dynamics and Conflict Resolution
Team Dynamics and Conflict Resolution Section 1 Team Dynamics Let us start this discussion into team dynamics with some definitions. Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary defines dynamic as a pattern or process of change, growth, or activity. It also defines team as a number people associated in work or activity. So it leads that teamwork should be the interaction of individuals for a common purpose and committed to success for all members. The concept and use of
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Strategies for Conflict Resolution
Strategies for Conflict Resolution Strategies for Conflict Resolution “The only job where you start at the top is digging a hole.” - Anonymous Unresolved conflicts among family, friends, teammates, coworkers, and classmates will have us all digging out of a hole. Disagreements are a part of life; no matter what happens in our daily being, everyone faces some type of conflict. However, very few people enjoy the confrontation that conflicts bring. Unanswered conflicts can spell
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Team Dynamics and Conflict Resolution
Team Dynamics and Conflict Resolution Our world today is extremely diverse. America, especially, is a great example of diversity in our world as it is a conglomeration of people of different races, religions, backgrounds, personalities, educational experiences, and learning styles. These huge assortments of different types of people come together each day in different areas of life. American schools encompass a great variety of different people, which helps children to learn at an early age
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Reflection on Alternative Assessments
Reflection on Alternative Assessments Traditional and alternative assessments share some key elements, yet differ as well. All assessments, whether given as a test after a unit or alternative, should be measurable and be reliable and valid by having clear criteria to measure the learning targets. Traditional and alternative assessments generally differ in timing, feedback, student's involvement, and how the teacher uses the information though. The time in which traditional assessments such as after the unit
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Organizational Ethics Issue Resolution
Organizational Ethics Issue Resolution Business ethics in the workplace is about prioritizing moral values for the workplace and ensuring behaviors are aligned with those values. Perhaps too often, business ethics is portrayed as a matter of resolving conflicts in which one option appears to be the clear choice. For example, case studies are often presented in which an employee is faced with whether or not to lie, steal, cheat, abuse another, break terms of a
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An Alternative for Prison
America's prisons have been called "graduate schools for crime." It stands to reason: Take a group of people, strip them of possessions and privacy, expose them to constant threats of violence, overcrowd their cell- block, deprive them of meaningful work, and the result is an embittered underclass more intent on getting even with society than contributing to it. Prisons take the nonviolent offender and make him live by violence. They take the nonviolent offender and
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Conflict Resolution
The organization that I will focus on in this analysis is a supplier of oilfield equipment. This particular location houses the manufacturing facility, the engineering department, and the administrative departments of the organization. The company is in the middle of a project tasked with performing a major upgrade to its machining tools and related software. This obviously involves some significant growing pains as the new equipment is brought online. The result is an almost
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