Week 5 Block 2 – Reading 5 Looking Inside For Competitive Advantage Jay Barney 1 Introduction • Focus has been placed on the relationship between the firm’s environmental opportunities and threats‚ and the firm’s strengths and weaknesses (SWOT analysis ). • Michael Porter’s work on the ‘five forces model’ helps understand the importance of external threats and opportunities. • Barney emphasizes the competitive implications of the firm’s internal strengths and weaknesses. To Barney the SW should
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Case 5-60 1. The solution Doug proposes is not ethical. Although maintaining the current plant-wide rate is probably not illegal‚ its continuation has one purpose: to extract profits from government business. Doug knows the plant-wide rate is not accurately assigning overhead costs to various jobs and is willing to alter the assignments on an “unofficial basis” for purposes of bidding on private-sector jobs. Fundamentally‚ ethical behavior is concerned with choosing right over wrong. To knowingly
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21/03/2013 Debt & Equity Capital • Capital: Long term funds of a firm Topic 10 part 1 Share valuation Based on slides prepared By Alex Proimos‚ John Wiley & Son Debt & Equity Capital • Debt Capital: Long term borrowing incurred by the firm (loans‚ bonds etc). • Equity Capital: Long term funds provided by the firm’s shareholders (preference and ordinary). Can be raised internally (retained earnings) or externally (selling of shares). The market for shares Basic facts
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From DNA to Traits: Mutations‚ Gene Expression and Viruses I. Flow of information from DNA to RNA to proteins A. DNA a. What is DNA? b. What is a gene? c. What shape does a DNA molecule have? d. Who discovered the structure of DNA? e. DNA molecule i) DNA is a chain of ___________________. ii) What are the 3 parts of a nucleotide? iii) Every nucleotide is identical except for its base. What are the 4 kinds of bases? iv) In what way do bases pair together and what do
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Week 5- CNDV 5322 Based on Mike’s behaviors and lack of professionalism and work ethic‚ Justin can tell that Mike is not performing his ethical duties. As the ACA Code of Ethics (2005) states‚ Justin should first attempt to resolve the issue informally with his colleague (ACA‚ 2005‚ p.19). Confronting another counselor about unethical behavior may be difficult and cause feelings of discomfort for both counselors involved. This is an ethical responsibility and may be the only action needed to resolve
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Week 5 Discussion 1 I chose to talk about the growing compensation inequity between executive management and the average employee threatens to destabilize organizational and morale and societal justice. I think that it is dissappointing when it comes to how much an executive managers’ salary is versus what the average employees’ salary is. I get that some people should be paid well if they are the owners of the company or if they are the person that has developed the company but other than that
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University of Phoenix Material Tools and Decision Making for Ongoing Performance Management Scenario Worksheet As a group‚ select one scenario that is most applicable to your chosen organization type and complete the worksheet. This worksheet will provide the foundation for completing the Tools and Decision Making for Ongoing Performance Management Presentation. Scenarios ABC organization has noticed an increase in patients who have acquired infections while receiving care and service
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constant output rate. Scheduling consistently arranges the same quantity of goods for production based on the total demand for the goods. 4. Make-to-order – companies that used this strategy produce goods after receiving an order from the customer. 5. Make-to-stock – goods are produced before customers place orders. This strategy typically allows manufacturers to produce goods in long production runs‚ taking advantage of production efficiencies. A master production schedule determines the exact number
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Week Five Exercise Assignment Financial Ratios 1. Liquidity ratios. Edison‚ Stagg‚ and Thornton have the following financial information at the close of business on July 10: Edison Stagg Thornton Cash $6‚000 $5‚000 $4‚000 Short-term investments 3‚000 2‚500 2‚000 Accounts receivable 2‚000 2‚500 3‚000 Inventory 1‚000 2‚500 4‚000 Prepaid expenses 800 800 800 Accounts payable 200 200 200 Notes payable: short-term 3‚100 3‚100 3‚100 Accrued payables 300 300 300 Long-term
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outlooks‚ roles and selection as described in the text are not communicated. The use of business processes in my company are more dictated from senior management than a cross functional approach. Processes are more departmental developed with questions and answers coming from only departmental employees. The concept of Business Process Management (BPM) is constrained to only a few managers rather than a cross functional approach. The ideas of using process training models as related to capability
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