technology (IT) in the world of business process improvement can take many forms. From an automation standpoint‚ no one knows more about the subject than the IT professionals within an organization. From the business unit perspective‚ no one knows more than the department professionals. The article selected for this analysis is titled "Whose is Process Improvement Anyway?" by Meridith Levinson. It describes two separate organizations that utilize IT in their business process improvement strategies
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The article chosen to summarize technology and workplace stress highlights "information technology and the role it is playing in reshaping organizations" and will emphasize three main points: a) the impacts of workplace stress in the information age; b) the emotional affects from stress and how it spreads throughout an organization; and c) the affects on an individuals immune system due to stress. Technology has become increasingly prevalent in organizations and in our daily lives. Since technology
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1. Globalization and International Business What is globalization? Globalization refers to the widening set of interdependent relationships among people from different parts of a world that is divided into nations. The term also refers to the integration of world economies through the reduction of barriers to the movement of trade‚ capital‚ technology‚ and people. Throughout history‚ human contacts over ever-wider geographic areas have expanded the variety of available resources‚ products‚ services
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(2010). The Business Case for Corporate Social Responsibility: A Review of Concepts‚ Research and Practice. International Journal of Management Reviews‚ Blackwell Publishing Ltd and British Academy of Management‚ pp. 88-105 In “The Pyramid of Corporate Social Responsibility: toward the Moral Management of Organizational Stakeholders”‚ Archie B. Carroll focuses on studying the nature of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and explains its component parts. He structures his article by first creating
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Outsourcing Many companies outsource to different countries to pay lower labor costs‚ avoid paying benefits‚ and avoid bureaucratic policies in United States. In a Bloomberg Business Week article entitled “Outsourcing: A Passage out of India”‚ in this article John Helyar describes the increase of outsourcing facilities in Latin America and Europe. Companies are now offshoring a wide range of white collar services‚ including IT‚ payroll‚ finance‚ and accounting. One of the advantages is keeping
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„Strategy as Simple Rules“ by Kathleen Eisenhardt and Donald Sull A) Article Summary Basically the article describes how and why companies like Yahoo‚ AOL or Enron use simple rules in rapidly moving markets. In the past companies were able to apply complex strategies due to a simple business landscape and stable markets‚ but nowadays most markets are not stable any more. Markets are fast moving and so complex themselves that companies are forced to react and to simplify their strategies.
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Economics for business by David Begg and Damian ward (3rd edition) chapters 1-8 Chapter 1: Economics for business. 1.1; What is economics? Economics is the social science that analyzes the production‚ the distribution and consumption of goods and services. It studies how individuals‚ firms‚ governments and economies deal with the problem of infinite wants and finite resources. Factors of production are the resources needed to make goods and services‚: land‚ labor‚ capital and enterprise. - Land
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Coursework Header Sheet198058-165 | | Course | BUSI1314: Business Ethics | Course School/Level | BU/UG | Coursework | Portfolio | Assessment Weight | 40.00% | Tutor | W Vandekerckhove | Submission Deadline | 05/11/2012 | Coursework is receipted on the understanding that it is the student ’s own work and that it has not‚ in whole or part‚ been presented elsewhere for assessment. Where material has been used from other sources it has been properly acknowledged in
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A reaction paper for the article: TROPICAL CYCLONES ‘LIKELY TO INTENSIFY’ According to the article‚ Tropical cyclones hitting East Asia have grown increasingly fierce in the past 30 years and are likely to intensify further with global warming. Noticeable increases of greenhouse gases over the globe could influence rising sea surface temperature and change large-scale atmospheric circulation in the Western North Pacific‚ which could enhance the intensity of tropical cyclones hitting land over
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International Business Chapter 1 Globalizing business What is global business International business (IB): (1) a business (firm) that engages in international (cross border) economic activities and/or (2) the action of doing business abroad. Multinational enterprise (MNE): A firm that engages in foreign direct investment (FDI) Foreign direct investment: investmen in‚ controling‚ and managing value-added activities in other countries Global business: Global business includes both (1) international
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