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- 281: The Arrival Of The Internet
- ... we have only heard of the Internet recently, in the last decade or so, it has been around for the past 40 years. The Internet has a variety of uses today. It is used by business, schools, and households. In order to make the following pages understandable some computer jargon needs to be addressed. The Internet has many different names. It is often referred to as "the Net," "information superhighway" and ... provide information to their customers. If one wanted to get information about M&M's candy, all you would have to do is go to www.M-Ms.com. In addition to obtaining information about business over the Internet, one can also purchase products and goods over the Internet using a credit card. Everything from insurance, flowers, CDs, to groceries can be purchased on the Web. Every year commerce on the Internet is doubling, even tripling. Jupiter Communications predicts online shopping revenue to hit $6 billion for 1998 and to increase 50 percent per year through 2001.(Consol, 25) This new way of business makes it easy for people to purchase items without ever leaving their homes. Perishable goods such as groceries are being ordered over the Internet. A customer can order online and those items are shipped ...
- 282: The History and Development of Computers
- ... just six weeks with Hollerith's machine. In addition to their speed, the punch cards served as a storage method for data and they helped reduce errors. Hollerith brought his punch card reader into the business world, founding Tabulating Machine Company in 1896, later to become International Business Machines (IBM) in 1924. Both business and government used punch cards for data processing until the 1960's. In the ensuing years, several engineers made other significant advances. Vannevar Bush, developed a calculator for solving differential equations in 1931. The ...
- 283: A Role of Ethics and Social Responsibilities in Management.
- ... it could have roused ethical issues. Those issues concern fairness, justice, rightness or wrongness; as a result it can only be resolved according to ethical standards. Setting the ethical standards for the way of doing business in corporation is primarily task of management. Corporations have to maintain the same standards as an individual person and, in addition, corporations, as organizational units, have their own social responsibilities toward customers, employees and society. However, any business should keep it's original purpose of functioning - making profit. Balancing the traditional standards of profitability and burden of social responsibilities is not an easy task. In recent years it has been a trend of ... law. However, there are some complications in enforcing it. The law affects and is affected by social forces and prevailing ethical standards. "Although the law can codify societies ethical ____________________________________________________ ____________________ Alhemoud, Ali " Management Ethics is Smart Business." values, ethical decision making transcends the law in that 1) the law deals with actions not with thoughts, and therefore it does not (and cannot) codify all ethical requirements; and 2) an individual or ...
- 284: Fair Labor Act Of 1938
- ... family in Darby, Penn., christened a newborn daughter Nira to honor it. 5 As an early step of the NRA, Roosevelt promulgated a President's Reemployment Agreement "to raise wages, create employment, and thus restore business." Employers signed more than 2.3 million agreements, covering 16.3 million employees. Signers agreed to a workweek between 35 and 40 hours and a minimum wage of $12 to $15 a week and undertook ... under 16 years of age. Employers who signed the agreement displayed a "badge of honor," a blue eagle over the motto "We do our part." Patriotic Americans were expected to buy only from "Blue Eagle" business concerns.6 In the meantime, various industries developed more complete codes. The Cotton Textile Code was the first of these and one of the most important. It provided for a 40-hour workweek, set a ... wage was slightly over $4 a week.23 One advocate, Commissioner of Labor Statistics Isador Lubin, explained to the joint Senate-House committee that during depressions the ability to overwork employees, rather than efficiency, determined business success. The economy, he reported, had deteriorated to the chaotic stage where employers with high standards were forced by cut-throat competition to exploit labor in order to survive. "The outstanding feature of the ...
- 285: Business 2
- Improving personal communications is very important to today in the fast moving world. The communication process is very important, it is estmated that 80 percent of messages get deport For better results replace You statements with I statements. ...
- 286: Dell Computer Corporation
- Dell Computer Corporation The marketing concept that has proven to be the most successful for the Dell Computer Corporation also happens to be their business. The differentiated marketing: different buyers, different strategies. The bold-concept – direct customer contact – has made Dell one of the most successful companies of the 1990s. Through its pioneering direct business model, Dell Computer Corporation offers in-person relationships with corporate and institutional customers; telephone and Internet purchasing (the latter now averaging $14 million per day); customized computer systems; phone and on-line technical support; and ... an extensive selection of peripheral hardware and computing software through its DellWare program. Nearly two-thirds of Dell’s sales are to large corporations, government agencies and educational institutions. Dell also serves medium and small business and home-PC users. Dell’s award-winning customer service, industry-leading growth and financial performance continue to differentiate the company from competitors. At the heart of that performance is Dell’s unique direct- ...
- 287: Warner-Lambert
- ... process medicinal component into finished pharmaceuticals for human or veterinary use. Pharmaceutical preparations comprise ethical brand name and over-the-counter drugs and generic substances. The three main divisions of W-L are Consumer Healthcare business, Confectionery business and Pharmaceutical business. Warner-Lambert Sales: Warner-Lambert’s sales achievements in the US, for 1997, are as follows: Pharmaceutical sales in the US increased 84% to $2,170 million. This increase was attributable to successful launch ...
- 288: ... she came to the United States to work at Yale University’s School of Medicine. McCullough’s first novel was Tim. Tim is a novel about the love between Mary Horton, a middle-aged, strict business executive, and Tim Melville, a retarded twenty-five year old hired by Miss Horton to do her gardening. The couple’s relationship slowly evolves into love in defiance of society’s views. The novel brought ...
- 289: Bureacracy In Japan
- ... hold the highest executive power, being the prime ministership, and the cabinet. The LDP's one party rule has shaped the Japanese political economy by creating very close ties between the political, bureaucratic, and industrial/business structure. This has been done through the auspices of institutions such as Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF), Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) and the Keirietsu/Ziabatsu (or other such interest groups ... to dissatisfied groups (i.e. "pork barrel" politics) and the creation of very close personal and financial linkages between government and industry served as the driving force in creating a unique Japanese political economy where business and politics became essentially indistinguishable. Politicians and the bureaucracy were considered to be the most politically influential forces in Japan. However, there was more emphasis on the politicians, especially among the LDP members. In the private sector, the LDP provided special benefits in return for consistent political support. For example, there was extensive reemployment of senior bureaucrats in big business and politics after their retirement. These people are called the amakudari ("decent from heaven"). They deepened the communication between the government and the private sector, giving the private sector a way to manipulate the ...
- 290: Affirmative Action
- ... start with the idea that since affirmative action evolved from the civil rights movement, its aim is to protect certain minority groups as well as women. I think that the idea is used in a business context because there are other discriminatory laws in place to protect outside of work. I can remember from past schooling that there was a Supreme Court case that a white male sued a school institution ... by the government. This is why I want to know this. The second and less serious reason that I want a stance on affirmative action is because it makes good conversation at tea parties and business gatherings. My research began when I caught the last two minutes of a television program aired on TLC. During that last two minutes I heard a brief testimony of a white American man that was ... could not find that much information about the opposition of affirmative action, I knew that I had too go to the library. While I was down at Metro, I found only one library book about business ethics, which had only a short chapter about affirmative action. I knew that wasn’t enough, so I went to the Jefferson County library where I found a book about the end of affirmative ...
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