in fact‚ risen significantly over the decade from 50.9% in 2003 to 58.1% in 2013 (Ministry of Manpower‚ 2013). As a result‚ dual-income families have now gradually replaced the Parsonian family structure. However‚ although gender perceptions of the public sphere have altered‚ those within the private sphere have not. Until today‚ women are still seen as being solely responsible for domestic work. This traditional gender role ideology - reinforced and supported by the state’s ‘normal’ family ideology
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The rise and fall of Enron is a company that was lead to its own demise by it’s own leadership and ill business decisions. The motivational theories explained from the readings of Organization Behavior can correlate with the failure of Enron’s internal organization. Even though a company may appear to display successful business practices‚ the influence of leadership through management can ultimately lead the company to fail. Enron’s code of ethics prided itself on four key values; respect‚ integrity
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The question‚ "What is public relations?" is extremely difficult to define‚ and has concerned many public relations practitioners and scholars alike. Ask anybody‚ and more than likely the answers will be different. Public Relations (PR) deals with a broad range of attitudes and methods‚ therefore‚ it is not easily defined. Many communication scholars agree that definitions are inherently rhetorical and that the formations of definitions are social processes that shape reality. Since definitions play
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Enron’s Questionable Transactions 1. Which segment of its operations got Enron into difficulties? * The fact that Kopper was appointed to Fastow and he was an employee at Enron was the first thing that got them into trouble. Another reason was that over 11 million was invested and it ended up not being invested at all. I believe these two situations ended up being the start of Enron’s problems. Enron also was not reporting the revenue for service correctly and his stock was paid by
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When Jeff Skilling took the major energy company Enron over‚ he contributed to the hiring and development of an entire corporation with a crooked staff whom were corrupt all the way from the bottom employees to the top executives. Top executives “cooked the books” through a certain structured finance including accounting ambiguities‚ special purpose entities‚ and poor financial reporting. They were able to hide billions of dollars in debt from failed deals and projects. CFO‚ Andrew Fastow and other
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Reflection essay We are first year students from Faculty Science of University of Malaya. On regarding to Ethnics Relation studies we were asked to do a group assignment consist of 10 members with different ethnics. The assignment is about any ethnics in Malaysia. So‚ we decided to do research about Chitty communities in Gajah Berang‚ Malacca. On the second week‚ we started to do group discussions and meetings among ourselves on what aspect to be focused on. After few discussions‚ we decided to
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am detailThe ENRON Scandal is considered to be one of the most notorious within American history-White Collar By misrepresenting earnings reports while continuing to enjoy the revenue provided by the investors not privy to the true financial condition of ENRON‚ the executives of ENRON embezzled funds funneling in from investments while reporting fraudulent earnings to those investors; this not only proliferated more investments from current stockholders‚ but also attracted new investors desiring
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Australian Defence Force Academy-- Public Relations Campaign Introduction: The Australian Defence Force Academy (ADFA) is a tri-service institution providing military and tertiary academic education for junior officers of the Australian Defense Force (ADF) (http://www.defence.gov.au/adfa/). ADFA has undertaken many public relations strategies to raise awareness of the opportunities it offers to young Australians. These include placing information on HSC study sites such as HSC Online (www.hsc
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Enron is a company that specializes in energy and power industry. They provide gas‚ oil‚ and electrical services worldwide. These comprise wholesale services‚ retail energy services‚ broadband services‚ and transportation services. They have reported revenues of $100.789billion‚ $40.112billion‚ and $31.260 billion for the years 2000‚ 1999‚ and 1998 respectively. This is a growth of 151.3% from year 1999 to 2000 and 28.3% from 1998 to 1999. This is unparalleled in the relatively stable energy business
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Enron Questionable Transactions Question 1 The question which segment of its operations got Enron into difficulties is simple to answer‚ everything. Almost every all segments of their operation were improper. First of all‚ they practice unethical and dishonest practices which victimized workers‚ consumers‚ taxpayers and stockholders. Enron created partnerships within their own organization which led to them creating new financial instruments‚ called SPE’s (special purpose entities) which was
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