MGS32015E Global Human Resource Management Spring 2012 MANAGING A GLOBAL TEAM: GREG JAMES AT SUN MICROSYSTEMS‚ INC. Overview of SUN Microsystems Inc. Sun Microsystems I nc. (SUN) provided companies with complete information technology (IT) solutions that included hardware‚ software‚ storage and services. One of Sun ’ s competitive strategies had been to form global teams in order to provide excellent and prompt support to its client at any hour of the day. Greg James is the global
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LEAD – Managing a Global Team: Sun Microsystems – 9/16/2010 Situation * HS Holdings (HSH)‚ enterprise customer with online banking‚ had servers go down * Sun’s CS team didn’t respond‚ servers stayed down for 2 hours‚ cost HS Holdings thousands * HSH has $300k/yr premium contract for 24/7 service: potentially violated by outage‚ threatening suit * Flow of crisis * Praveen D. got call from HSH‚ pages on-call after-hours US manager 3x‚ MISTAKE: used weekday number not weekend
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Connection A microsystem is represented as the first environmental an individual encounters‚ for example a child’s family‚ teachers‚ and friends at school. Relationships in this system are bi-directional. In the book Readings on the Development of Children‚ authors Mary Gauvain & Michael Cole explains Urie Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Theory further into detail. The chapter “Ecological Models of Human Development” the authors explain that a child’s reaction to the people in their microsystem will affect
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it can run on any operating system for example Windows‚ Linux‚ and Apple Macintosh. We know it when were student as “Write Once read many” which is mean you can write one code of program and can run on any system. He has been working in Sun Microsystems since 1984. James Gosling and group of programmers from Sun Company have been working to develop java and several soft-wares‚ but these soft-wares are now top secret for marketing competition. I was aware by this invention and inventor referred
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researchers and/or theorists include – A Durie‚ M Durie‚ D A Huata‚ R Pere‚ T Reedy‚ L Smith‚ K Tangaere‚ R Walker. Examples of international early childhood education researchers and/or theorists include but are not limited to – John Bowlby‚ Urie Bronfenbrenner‚ Jerome Bruner‚ Erik Erikson‚ John Flavell‚ James Fowler‚ Howard Gardner‚ Eli Gingsberg‚ Daniel Goleman‚ Roger Gould‚ Carl Jung‚ Elizabeth Kubler-Ross‚ Daniel Levinson‚ Abraham Maslow‚ Barbara Rogoff‚ Robert Selman‚ Donald Super‚ Lev Vygotsky
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Introduction All the world’s famous entrepreneurs have some things in common such as passion‚ innovativeness‚ Proactiveness and risk taking behavior. But there is always a unique attribute that distinguish them from the rest of the world. This attribute can either be in their behavior or character or the way they work. They believe in themselves and in their ideas. They have the courage to take risk to make their dreams come true and to attain their goals. Only then they become successful as well
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UNIX versus Windows Compare and Contrast Analysis of Solaris 10 and Windows 2003 Team "A" University of Phoenix Online POS 420 Introduction to UNIX Carlie VanWilligen February 20‚ 2007 Compare and contrast of operating systems There are many operating systems in use today. There are basically three types of operating systems Windows‚ Macintosh‚ and UNIX/Linux. In this paper we are going to compare and contrast Solaris and Windows Server 2003. Solaris is part of the UNIX family and
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Working from Home: It’s in the Details The benefits include lower costs and greater productivity‚ but figuring out how to communicate with off-site employees is crucial Traffic surrounding Microsoft headquarters in Redmond‚ Wash.‚ has become so congested that Washington State Governor Chris Gregoire nearly missed a 9 a.m. speech at the company’s main campus one recent morning. Roads leading to the software maker simply weren’t designed to handle the 35‚000 commuters who report for work there
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Introduction about Linux Linux is an operating system that was initially created as a hobby by a young student‚ Linus Torvalds‚ at the University of Helsinki in Finland. Linus had an interest in Minix‚ a small UNIX system‚ and decided to develop a system that exceeded the Minix standards. He began his work in 1991 when he released version 0.02 and worked steadily until 1994 when version 1.0 of the Linux Kernel was released. Linux is developed and released under the GNU General Public License and
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Green computing can be thought of as an environmentally conscious effort to make long-term computing sustainable by using energy efficient methods. The goals of green computing are similar to those of green chemistry‚ which try to minimize hazardous material use‚ maximize efficiency and enhance recyclability. Yet all this extra effort put into designs has a negative impact on system throughput. Therefore the question is posed‚ is the extra overhead involved in designing superior data centers‚ optimizing
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