Resources When implementing a global strategy, it is necessary to determine the company’s resources available for international expansion, taking into account the competitive advantage that it may have. For example, a company has particular patents or brands that can be used in international expansion. Only then should the company define...
Introduction Numerous studies indicate that the current business world requires a manager with a proper understanding of the organization’s needs, thus prompting it to succeed. Administrators play a critical role as they are tasked with monitoring and managing everything from human resources to budgets. The type of leadership present usually...
Amazon is a leader in the field of sales of mass-demand goods through the system of Internet services. Established in 1994, it remains a leader in its market and influences the behavior of hundreds of companies at a lower level. The creator of this great company was Joseph Bezos, who...
Summary Amazon is the world’s biggest online retailer that sells a wide range of products. It is recognized as the top retailer globally and is one of the most inventive online stores. Business information systems (BIS) offer information that businesses may utilize to govern themselves more efficiently and effectively, generally...
Ice cream maker Ben & Jerry’s Homamade Holdings Inc. is based in the United States. The business was founded in 1977, and parent firm Unilever bought it in 2000. Although it began as a small company, it now has operations around the world. The firm makes more than 50 distinct...
Introduction Resilience and sustainability are the key factors for the success of a company or an organization. Resilience is the ability of a company to survive change, while sustainability is the ability of an organization to continue with its roles without abating its value. Over time many companies and organizations...
Executive Summary Business ethics is concerned with people and companies’ shared beliefs, principles, and ideals. Corporate executives must maintain and embody good moral standards to help build the desired corporate culture. Leaders with high ethical standards go beyond simply managing their employees; they also motivate and encourage their followers through...
Introduction The expansion of global markets has compelled supply chain firms to spend more on development and manufacturing to fulfill their customers’ demands. As a result, businesses are becoming deemed responsible for the ecological, economic, and social repercussions of their activities and vendors. Sustainable supply chain management, which is focused...
Introduction Generally, the main focus of business organizations is to achieve optimal performance in the industry. However, sometimes it is a challenge for managers to promote and create a working environment that facilitates and increase the ability of employees to deliver the best services for their employers. In the present,...
Introduction Violence in healthcare is a pervasive issue affecting healthcare providers worldwide, with human trafficking being a specific form often overlooked. Healthcare professionals, particularly nurses, are uniquely positioned to identify and respond to human trafficking. The indicators of human trafficking can be physical, behavioral, or psychological, with cultural and language...
Introduction A firm’s budget is an essential tool for managing and coordinating its financial resources. Conversely, budgeting pertains to the synchronization of both monetary and non-monetary planning to achieve the objectives of the organization. The basis of the budgeting process in healthcare institutions is grounded upon the coordination of financial...
Challenge Description The study’s main difficulty is resistance to new ideas and change in a collaborative environment. The current situation’s changes and technology advancements have forced firms to adapt to new processes as a means of expansion. Once a corporation understands the benefits of change, it is up to that...
Introduction Feminism is a movement that promotes women’s empowerment through a series of interconnected concepts and philosophies. They could pertain to social, economic, or political issues. Feminism as a social movement has evolved at various points in human history. Feminist ideology and theory centers on the fundamental concerns of sex...
Iron Deficiency Anemia The common type of anemia includes iron deficiency anemia, in which the body does not produce enough healthy red blood cells. Throughout the body, oxygen is distributed through red blood cells. As the name suggests, iron deficiency anemia is caused by a lack of iron in the...
Introduction The pandemic has changed quite a few aspects of people’s lives globally, causing a series of permutations that have shifted the dynamics of relationships in a range of areas. However, the employment setting remains the sector that has suffered the greatest and the most powerful set of changes. Among...
The book «Pride and Prejudice» by Jane Austen was written in 1813 and told the story of the life of a young girl, Elizabeth Bennet. This book describes in detail the development and formation of the main character, especially her character. Much attention is paid to how the main character...
Abstract High Blood Pressure and Heart Disease as a Result of Stress is a study on the links between stress, high blood pressure, and heart disease. It examines the physiological effects of chronic stress on individuals, with a particular focus on how it can contribute to hypertension and cardiovascular issues....
Market segmentation refers to the practice of dividing a consumer market into smaller subgroups that share certain characteristics. It is an application of market research which seeks to break down the market into segments to better understand the needs and wants of each subgroup. A business can then customize products...
Introduction Patients who want to avoid suffering may request to end their lives through assisted dying. Assisted death is controversial and illegal in several nations globally. Interestingly, the Canadian government allowed assisted suicide in 2016 through a program known as Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD). MAiD has been in effect...
Introduction As technology advances, almost every healthcare facility has an Electronic Health Record (EHR). This is a computerized system that stores patient records such as medical history, past medications, and next of kin. To make decisions, the health care facilities have to analyze the stored information. This is possible through...
Introduction Emotional balance entails understanding and controlling one’s emotions in a calm, wise and sincere manner. It is an aspect of leadership skills that allows one to find ways to manage their emotions and impulses even in stressful situations. While anger is a normal human emotion, it can ruin the...
Introduction Organisational leadership always requires investing a lot of effort in order to control every process in a project. In addition, this kind of activity has no free time, because it is impossible to stand on one place, there is always a need to be one step ahead in terms...
The steps of the exploration stage of Hill’s cognitive-experiential dream model are the following: In the first step, the client retells the dream to the therapist in first-person, using the present tense, and the therapist takes notes about thoughts and feelings from the dream. It is ideal if the dream...
Gulliver’s Travels were published in the year 1726 and this work was controversial in more ways than one. Lemuel Gulliver was a man who belonged to a middle-class family in England. The novel is based around this middle-class family man in England. He was a very honest man but made...
Merit System principles were incorporated in the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 with a desire to create competent, political, and efficient public administration. Actually, the merit system is the consequence of reform movements that were carried out forcefully in the USA in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The motive...
Islam recognizes the concept of Islam and the state in a likely manner of the modern concept. In Islam din means the religion and daula means the state. The modern concept of state though does not originate the modern concept; it is deeply rooted in the concept of state of...
People Express People Express was an airline that operated from the 1970s to the 1980s when it was sold to Continental Anilines. The company’s leadership and vision are targeted at making every employee serve at several stakeholder capacities. Indeed, individuals had to buy company stocks before becoming part of People...
The Meditech company is a major player in the technology and medical product industry which provides hospitals and medical institutes with supplies, materials as well as technology for surgical procedures, and tools for aiding preparing of patients for surgery as well as helping them recover from operative procedures. The company...
It was determined that while the demand for the new products increased dramatically in the market, just after their launch, it tended to steady out in the succeeding weeks, coming down to levels where the company could easily satisfy all the orders coming in for the new products. This helped...
The hierarchy of the Meditech management is such that it is headed by the VP of operations, who leads the plant managers and the director of materials management from the procurement side of the business, and the director of planning and distribution from the supply side of the business. The...
The novel shows a gradual decline of the narrator’s mental state. She reaches the point of complete insanity when she tears down the yellow paper at the end. Having done so, she begins to think that she is the woman who has just been freed from the wall.More Information Charlotte...
The narrator of The Yellow Wallpaper loses her mind following months of confinement in the rented mansion. She tears down the wallpaper and goes completely insane, as her husband John faints at the sight of it. More Information Toward the end of The Yellow Wallpaper, the narrator’s diary entries change...
The protagonist of The Yellow Wallpaper spends a summer in a former nursery in a mansion. Her husband, a physician, confines her in the place. It is a part of a rest cure for “temporary nervous depression” after childbirth. This treatment drives her insane. Nothing and nobody seems to relax...
The narrator finds the yellow color of the wallpaper disturbing and revolting. She doesn’t like the erratic patterns and the fact that the wallpaper is peeling off. She claims it’s the worst paper she has seen in her life. More Information The narrator’s first impression of the wallpaper is quite...
Irony plays a crucial role in the story by Charlotte Perkins Gillman. It emphasizes how the course of treatment chosen by the narrator’s husband only worsens her condition. It also increases the reader’s engagement and facilitates sympathy for the main character. More Information The narrator is the main character of...
Mr. Darcy first attempts to propose to Elizabeth in Hunsford Parsonage. He met her there while she was visiting the newly-wed Collins family. Darcy caught Elisabeth entirely by surprise. Thus, the girl rejects this proposal for many reasons. More Information Elizabeth leaves for Kent to visit Charlotte and her husband,...
Mr. Darcy makes the first proposal to Elizabeth when she visits her friend Charlotte and Mr. Collins. Elizabeth rejects the proposition since she found out that Mr. Darcy had ruined Jane Bennet and Mr. Bingley’s marriage. More Information Elizabeth Bennet is the second of five daughters of Mr. and Mrs....
Pride and Prejudice is one of Jane Austen’s most popular novels. It became classic English literature, attracting more readers every year. However, Jane Eyre and Little Women are books written in the same literary period. They fit a similar genre and tackle similar themes. More Information Many readers struggle with...
All living organisms share a standard set of characteristics. Reproduction helps to preserve and increase the number of species of a certain type. Under particular conditions, new plants appear from seeds and offsprings in animals. The growth and development of organism traits occur on the basis of inheritance or genetic...
Contrastive distribution is a relationship between two different elements in phonology, in which the substitution of a component with another leads to changes in semantic meaning. In other words, if two sounds in a language in the same contexts produce different meanings, it is a contrastive distribution. For instance, the...
Examining the show House M.D. from a literary perspective has provided me with a more in-depth understanding of a hospital’s life. This aspect is helpful as nursing is firmly connected to communicate with patients and their families. Thus, although on many occasions, the main character did not serve as a...
The episode “Merry Little Christmas” of the well-known TV show House M.D. perfectly summarizes the struggle that the main character’s colleagues go through due to their dilemma. It can be argued that part of the House’s appeal as a character is his self-esteem. Additionally, he is a brilliant doctor, which...
The type of the industry where first and second movers are engaged in influences greatly the risks and rewards that they are faced with. The potential rewards that motivate the companies to take the second-mover approach do not always turn it to be successful. Below are some possible risks and...
Shield volcano is a type of volcano that is completely made up of liquid lava. The flow is very large in size and resembles a warrior’s shield when laid on the ground. The formation of a shield volcano emerges from the flow of lava with low-viscosity, which increases the size...
ESL learners need to be taught about the concept of minimal pairs since, being new to the language, ESL students are likely to confuse or conflate the words that only have one minor difference between them. Thus, the use of an exercise that could shed light on the difference between...
As a nurse manager at an emergency department, I frequently face cases when discussing an issue with employees that may lead to the appearance of misleading information and conflict situations. The concept of the faulty recall of a shared experience was described in an experiment performed by Loftus and Zanni...
The first area recommended for Ryanair’s consideration is the pricing model for its services. The company has been successful in establishing the reputation of a phenomenally cost-efficient service by offering ticket prices 80 to 90 percent lower than those of their competitors. This was initially achieved through the removal of...
Both sexism and racism are heinous concepts that poison relationships between people belonging to different ethnic and racial backgrounds. However, their existence cannot be ignored; otherwise, the problem is aggravated to an even greater extent. DuBois, Baldwin, and De Beauvoir provide all-embracive scrutiny of the identified concepts and detail a...
As identified previously, a financial statement is essential to include in a business plan so that investors understand the needs of a start-up company in terms of both future and present costs. Usually, a cash flow statement is included in a business plan for considering how cash flow can affect...
There are three basic pricing strategies, including cost-based pricing, value-based pricing, and competition-based practice. The primary benefit of a cost-based pricing strategy is simple calculations involved in determining the final price per unit. Additionally, the method ensures the profits for the business since the minimum price is the marginal cost....
Levi Strauss is indeed a well known brand in jeans throughout the world for many years now. But with the spread of globalization the level of competition has indeed goes up. Liberalization in economies around the world has opened up newer vistas of trade. Levi Strauss has been catering the...
The payback method has been criticized by financial experts and academicians as unsophisticated and theoretically incorrect because it ignores the time value of money, ignores cash flows beyond the payback period, and is inconsistent with the owner’s goal of maximizing wealth. In small and large firms, where the payback method...
The accounting rate of return (ARR) appraisal method is also known as the return on investment (ROI) or return on assets (ROA) method. It is calculated by dividing a project’s average accounting profits by its average investment. The average profits figure is found by adding up the profits for each...
In designing a website, frames refer to the usage of the compound and independently convenient segments of a web presence. Frames can be used to produce good web page designs, which form the most important unavoidable part of the page layouts. It divides the entire screen into different areas to...
Understanding why GMOs are dangerous for health is of particular importance and interest to scientists and the public. Genetically modified food is derived from genetically modified organisms (GMOs) – plants, animals, or microorganisms. Genetically modified organisms acquire some new properties due to the transfer into the genome of individual genes...
People generally use different forms of information in their day-to-day life. Their accessibility to information through digital media is also gaining much importance in various fields like office, library, and industries. In developing a system, it should be kept in mind that it is designed to satisfy the needs of...
The Hanover Bates Chemical Corporation is a leading manufacturer and distributor of chemicals that are employed in the chemical plating industry. The company has its main operation in manufacturing and production of the chemicals while a sales division handles the sales for the company. The chemicals that are manufactured at...
In the first century BC, the Greek traveler Strabo used the term Tanis from the geographer Artemidorus who lived in 100 BC and spoke Tanis as a great city – polis male. This is the first mention of the city. By 100 AD, the area of the city and its...
Art is something seen to be very essential to human development, for instance, in the case of Christo’s Running Fence, which had an impact on the society surrounding that fence. This can be evident to the early men and women who actually lived in the caves of Spain and southern...
In the book “Organizational Culture and Leadership,” Schein states that long-term growth is influenced by and dependent upon external adaptations and balance between needs and demands of the stakeholders. The author underlines that “all organizations are sociotechnical systems in which the manner of external adaptation and the solution of internal...
Every country of the world is being operated in a certain way or method. In the language of the law, this method is called the Legal system. Australia is a common law country. All the laws of Australia are developed from the Common Law and various case decisions. The origin...
When applying Porter’s five forces to analyse the Internet, one can understand the potential of this technology and the many benefits it provides to its users, including businesses that use it to improve their information management. The competitive rivalry element in regards to the Internet is not applicable since this...
Nowadays, many employers start using the biometric attendance system. With its help, they manage to be aware of who and when entered particular rooms. This technology is especially useful for those organizations that provide employees with different access levels, which means that some of them are not allowed to enter...
Hospitality promotes good relations between people through love and kindness. It is a virtue that drives one to meet another person’s needs without necessarily having blood relations between them. It also seeks to strengthen social bonds among friends as well as strangers through human understanding. Hospitality enables people to welcome...
Ducati’s decision to diversify its products with the exclusive online sale of new motorcycle models is the penetration of the company to the new information age. It is certainly a starting point of the new strategy. The company should take some specific actions to sustain its lead in e-business and...
The Mediterranean Sea is completely surrounded by land, having a surface of 2.9 million square kilometres; the depth of the sea reaches 1430 meters. The territory of the Mediterranean Basin stretches from northern Italy to Morocco and from Jordan to Portugal; the location of the basin is considered to be...
Business ethics govern all ethical issues, ethical problems and morals related to business dealings. Honesty, truthfulness and fair dealings are important in all businesses. There should be certain rules made for such ethical issues and should be addressed in detail so that every business entrepreneur must be aware of them...
World war two created a bipolar international system that quickly replaced the numerous superpowers that existed prior to that war. The two major victors of this war were the United States and the Soviet Union. These two countries continued to enjoy their status as superpowers until 1989 when the Soviet...
“New Frontier” was a slogan used by John F. Kennedy urge to Americans to support him during the presidential election in the United States in 1960. Previously, he used this slogan to lure people to vote for him and later during his acceptance speech as a democratic nominee to Democratic...
One of the first chapters that an economics student will have to learn is probably the theory of demand and supply. Considering all the theories of economics that have evolved over the years, this theory of demand and supply must is one of the most fundamental. Like all other commodities...
Kant’s independence model urges that religion and science are two independent discourses of a dualistic system. Kant urges that knowledge is anchored on in two separate causalities. There is the practical and theoretical knowledge. The practical knowledge involves the human capacity to start a sequence of events that cannot be...
The concept of poverty is widely discussed in our society. Despite progress in food-producing and favorable social policy, poverty can still be found in the most developed countries. In 2005, there were 37 million, or over 12.6% of the U.S. population was poor. The fastest-growing segment of the poverty population...
John Rawls developed a unique theory of justice and ethics based on liberalism and fair equal opportunities. The subject matter of the theory is the ‘basic structure’ of society, the point of the theory is to provide a set of principles which regulate the ‘basic structure’ such that the terms...
The advantages of the European Union lie mainly in providing the smaller European states a formidable platform to compete economically with the United States and other rising economic powers. For example, “in terms of shares of world GDP and trade, the EU and USA are highly competitive.” The second advantage...
Interpersonal therapy (IPT) for bulimia nervosa is a type of individual psychotherapy. The 15-20 sessions last 50 minutes each and are given over the period of four to five months. Three stages are involved. In the first stage, which takes three to four sessions, the patient is introduced to the...
Lawrence Kohlberg’s contribution to psychology cannot be underestimated. His development of Jean Piaget’s theory gives an insight to the world of ethics within the business world. In his theory, he specifies six stages that can be classified into three major categories. The categories include the pre-conventional level, the conventional level...
The process of research can be conducted by using basic or applied research methods. Both have distinguished characteristics and are used in different situations. Basic research is a form of research that is conducted out of a person’s inquisitiveness or interest about a particular phenomenon, and the intention is to...
The Harley Davidson company focuses mainly on the marketing mix, mainly the four P’s in the marketing arena for being the market leader in flying colors. Product The product is given utmost importance. The product is made available to the consumers in a unique color. Based on R&D programs and...
Nokia, although in the first position as the world’s leading mobile company in product sales plans to launch new techniques in order to maintain the position and maintain the market compared to the competitors. Venture into the innovations already explored by other firms proves to be a hilly path for...
Beyond any kind of economic activity, a failure or success that characterizes a given tourism destination shall greatly hinge upon the ability of such a destination to provide to its visitors an environment that is both secure and safe. Seeing that tourism is an industry with a global reach, and...
It is of great importance to note that, the factors that contribute to the changes of demand either interplay in a way or are independent. In this case, the sharp rise in prices of houses in certain areas of Melbourne can be attributed to the low rate of supply of...
A customs union is a type of intergovernmental agreement involving a particular region composed of a free trade area. Within the region, the countries involved eliminate or reduce the tariff and non-tariff barriers. The involved countries establish a common external trade policy. The main purpose of establishing a custom union...
Different countries in the world have different currencies that are used in the exchange of goods and services. The value of goods and services in a country depends on the currency used. However, economists have come up with a measure that attaches the same value to a commodity irrespective of...
Brand mantra is another critical element of the functioning of any company and its positioning in the market. Usually, it is an articulation of the essence of a firm presented in several words to explain the core values and contribute to the creation of a particular image among clients. For...
The term “Deep Ecology” is a part of Ecological philosophy that considers all human kinds as a basic element in this environment. This philosophy gives the idea that all living beings have an equal right to live and flourish in the environment. This philosophy was introduced by a Norwegian philosopher...
Intuition-based decision-making is still a very important aspect of management policies as its core is the outcome of some condition-based approach that relies on experience as well as expertise. As the reality behind the success of DSS is that of the quality of evidence base that has got its relevance...
The church is the place of worship for Christians. Christian beliefs are based on faith which hopes for better things and trust in the power of God for sustenance. Congregations meet for prayers to seek divine interventions to the problems. The Physical Security of the church as a place where...
Contingent workers are employees who work for a firm or a temporary basis and are normally contracted for a fixed duration of time or a specific project. A number of companies have resorted to using this kind of work force due to the advantages attributed to them. The most important...
A number of businesses have given different definitions of marketing. This is because marketing is a wide topic that cannot be fully captured from a single perspective. Gattorna has advanced that “marketing is the social process by which individuals and groups obtain what they need and want through creating and...
As stated by Bocij et al, in 2005, LG Electronics partnered with Oracle and LG CNS on a five-year project to develop, design, test, and implement a new management platform that utilizes a single global instance of Oracle E-Business Suite R12. LG Electronics had an in-house enterprise resource planning (ERP)...
RSA or Rivest-Shamir-Adleman is one of the initial public-key cryptosystems, which are used to secure data transfer. In systems with asynchronous encryption, there are two keys: the public key, which is transmitted in clear form over the communication channel, and the private key, which is used to encrypt messages on...
Navajo code talkers are communication operators using natural language code for verbal data transmission. The most systematic preparations were made during the First and Second World Wars by Native American radio cryptographers, which is known in connection with the removal of the secrecy bar in 1968. They used the unknowingness...
The question of whether the health program they are investing in is effective is an essential matter for most stakeholders. They might not know much about statistics and different types of analysis, so it is imperative to be able to demonstrate them the results in a simple and convincing way....
The play has been identified to be an exceptionally accurate method of identifying the needs of children who suffer from both physical and psychological disabilities. This is mainly because of its ability to engage the child on a more personal level to a point where his or her inherent characteristics...
The social connection through the social networking services that include Twitter and Facebook, among others, has increasingly become a very integral and popular part of communication in contemporary society within Australia. Young individuals are the most enthusiastic users, and currently, they spend more time on the Internet than the actual...
Natural disasters are those disasters that are caused by nature. This includes floods, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, landslides, sinkholes, storms, hurricanes, typhoons, tornados, blizzards, avalanches among others. Scientists have therefore identified some mechanisms to predict these disasters. Scientists have advised that hurricanes, tornados, and cyclones can be predicted using meteorological and...
The Book of Job is probably one of the first theological severe discussions on the well-known philosophical problem of explaining the existence of suffering in the face of an omnipotent and merciful God. In the book, after hearing about the loss of his family, house, and cattle, Job falls to...
The blueprint developed by Homeland Security Enterprises stipulates the department’s vision, its guiding principles, and two focus areas for a secure cyber future. The focus areas are exhaustively supported by four goals each. The first area of focus concentrates on cyber ecosystems vital to America while the second area concentrates...
Plutarch emphasizes Alexander’s natural gift for leadership. Indeed, he ascended the throne as early as at the age of twenty-one. Moreover, the political situation in Macedon was highly unstable at that time. However, Alexander did not listen to older advisers and made his own decisions as to Macedon’s external policy....
The consideration of the balance and business portfolio by Boston consulting group (BCG)/growth/share matrix in terms of market share and market growth that form the two fundamental dimensions of Boston consulting group (BCG)/growth/share matrix. This is because “the BCG matrix method is based on product life cycle theory that can...