A Summary of the case “Coping with Financial and ethical Risks at American International Group (AIG)” Background American International Group‚ Inc. is a company whose operation began back in 1919. It was established back then by Cornelius Vander Starr as an insurance agency in Shanghai‚ China. AIG left china in 1949 after Starr had established himself as the westerner the sell insurance to the Chinese people. AIG headquarters then shifted from china to New York City‚ which is still
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INDIVIDUALS A group can range in size from two members to thousands of members. Very small collectives‚ such as dyads (two members) and triads (three members) are groups‚ but so are very large collections of people‚ such as mobs‚ crowds‚ and congregations (Simmel‚ 1902). On average‚ however‚ most groups tend to be relatively small in size‚ ranging from two to seven members. One researcher ( J. James‚ 1953)‚ after counting the number of people in 7405 informal‚ spontaneously formed groups found in
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Groups can be defined by either informal groups‚ or formal groups. Formal groups A formal group is set by an official authority or leader designed to complete a specific task or purpose and is strictly regulated by the organisations rules and practices. In a formal group responsibility of an outcome of a task is set usually to the leader‚ discipline and reward is mainly handed down to the leader via the organisation. A formal group is coordinated by activities shared between a number of people
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Paper Written by Mr. RAHUL P. MORE ABSTRACT Self Help Groups : Catalyst for Women Empowerment (The Paper to be presented at 60th All India Commerce Conference at Hyderabad from 27th December 2007 to 29th December 2007) `Self-help’ may be defined as a process‚ group or organization comprising people coming together or sharing an experience or problem‚ with a view to individual and/ or mutual benefit. As empowerment commonly means `becoming powerful’‚ self-help may thus be viewed as one
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influence others) Energetic (high activity level) Persistent Self-confident Tolerant of stress Willing to assume responsibility Clever (intelligent) Conceptually skilled Creative Diplomatic and tactful Fluent in speaking Knowledgeable about group task Organised (administrative ability) Persuasive Socially skilled McCall and Lombardo (1983) researched both success and failure identified four primary traits by which leaders could succeed or ’derail’: Emotional stability and composure:
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Using material from item A and elsewhere‚ assess the view that factors and processes within the school are the main cause of differences in the educational achievement of different social groups It is apparent that most of the studies carried out by numerous sociologist came to the same assumption that middle class pupils tend to do alot better than working class in terms of educational achievement. Pupils from middle class backgrounds tend to pass more academic exams‚ stay on for further education
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1. What is Groupon and how does it work? What is Groupon’s market? What does this company do and how does it make money? Groupon is an online coupon that allows a customer who subscribes from Groupon.com to purchase or buy a definite service from a local business at a flat discount rate from 50 % to 90 %. A new Groupon is to be sent to the online subscribers each day and it has to be purchased before the specified time limit and it should have a minimum number if the buyers are decided before the
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INTRODUCTION Capital Mortgage Insurance Corporation (CMI) sells insurance to lenders protecting against mortgage default losses. They are a wholly owned subsidiary of Northwest Equipment Corporation. Following their acquisition in 1978‚ CMI’s goal has been to rebuild their business and diversify their services. Mortgage insurance is used to protect mortgage lenders (ie originators and/or underwriters) by transferring mortgage risk‚ and notably tail risk‚ from lenders to insurers. Insurers by their
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Identify and briefly explain reasons why people from some ethnic minorities seem to have a higher participation rate in religion than other social groups. Being at an ethnic minority can cause people to turn towards religion for many reasons. One being that religion holds the community together and keeps the poorer people involved with society. Davie suggests that religion helps maintain tradition‚ cohesion and community solidarity. Some religions even use their place of worship as community centres
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