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- 641: Affirmative Action: Why It Should Go
- Affirmative Action: Why It Should Go After the United States Congress passed the Civil Rights Act in 1964, it became apparent that certain business traditions, such as seniority status and aptitude tests, prevented total equality in employment. Then President, Lyndon B. Johnson, decided something needed to be done to remedy these flaws. On September 24, 1965, he issued Executive ... intents and purposes, discrimination, and it is a law that our government strictly enforces. Affirmative Action is not only unfair for the working man, it is extremely discriminatory toward the executive, as well. The average business executive has one goal in mind, and that is to maximize profits. To reach his goal, this executive would naturally hire the most competent man or woman for the job, whether they are white or any other race. Why would a business man intentionally cause his business to lose money by hiring a poorly qualified worker? Most businesses would not. With this in mind, it seems unnecessary to employ any policy that would cause him to ...
- 642: Ethical Values and The Classroom
- ... and the businesses and colleges that will be receiving them after graduation. Jessica Young reports in The Orange County Register that Edison High in Huntington Beach has instigated a program called the Center for International Business and Communication Studies or CIBACS (B2). The program is designed so students can apply curriculum to the business world. Teams of students are matched with firms and given a real life problem such as winning a bid to supply parts from a local supplier directly to a business in a foreign domain. This presentation would include language skills, social studies, communication skills, some history and a lot of initiative. Programs like these give the students a broader perspective of business than the ...
- 643: American Prohibition
- ... five percent of smuggled liquor was hindered from coming into the country through the 1920s. Additionally, the illegal liquor industry was under the control of organized gangs, which subdued most authorities. Many bootleggers shielded their business by bribing the authorities, namely federal agents and persons of high political status (Bowen 160). As a result of the lack of enforcement of the Prohibition Act and the creation of an illegal industry, an ... legally available, the public turned to criminals who readily took on the bootlegging industry and supplied them with liquor. On account of the industry being so profitable, more gangsters became involved in the money-making business. Criminal groups readily organized around the steady source of income provided by laws against victimless crimes such as alcohol consumption. As a result of the money involved in the bootlegging industry, there was much rival ... The most powerful and infamous bootlegger, by far, was Al Capone, operating out of Chicago. One of the most gruesome and remembered gangland murders of all time occurred on Valentine’s Day, 1929. Because of business differences, Capone ordered hit man Jack McGurn plot the murder of Bugs Moran and the O’Banion/Weiss gang, which Moran had recently taken control of. McGurn staged a delivery of alcohol to Moran’ ...
- 644: Who Can Stop Credit Card Abuse
- ... abuse. Despite the measures taken by the officials, statistics prove that the number is increasing everyday. Today, Visa and Master card occupy an important place in the credit card marketplace but the pioneer in the business remains to be Diners Club. In 1949, as the luncheon tables were cleared at the Major s Cabin Grill, a popular New York restaurant of the period whose location next door of the Empire State ... was then a considerable asset, three men sat huddled over a prime table off to one side . In their excitement, they called over Major, the proprietor and asked him how much he would pay for business that he would not ordinarily get. Without flinching, Major replied "7 percent" , number that established a major industry (Lewis, 1990). ` Those three men were Alfred Bloomingdale, Frank Mc Namara and Ralph Snyder. They conceived a ... was an inconceivable growth of credit card production. Prior to World War I, few hotels, oil companies and department stores issued credit cards. Then in 1931 the airline companies introduced the credit cards in their business (Lewis, 1990). The evolution and the expansion of the card went lide the speed of light. The most important step was the introduction of the credit card to the Internet in the 90 s. ...
- 645: Albert Einstein
- ... in the small town of Ulm, in Southern Germany. His parents, Hermann and Pauline, were Jewish. His father was an electrician whom also was interested in electrical inventions. However he was very unsuccessful in his business, and as soon as Albert was born, the family moved to Munich. As a child Einstein was very lonely and shy. He preferred to play with himself in the parks and the woods. He first ... traveled through the countryside. He visited museums and art galleries, attended concerts and lectures, and most of all, Einstein read books and more books. But his good times didn’t last long. The electrical engineering business his father had started , had encountered one setback after another. The young researcher was told to forget his "philosophical nonsense" and settle down to a "practical" life of self-support. Albert could not imagine himself ... in the small town of Ulm, in Southern Germany. His parents, Hermann and Pauline, were Jewish. His father was an electrician whom also was interested in electrical inventions. However he was very unsuccessful in his business, and as soon as Albert was born, the family moved to Munich. As a child Einstein was very lonely and shy. He preferred to play with himself in the parks and the woods. He ...
- 646: Good Public Relations
- Good Public Relations Good public relations is key to the success of any business. A company must strive to make itself stand out in its particular field. The media can be a very effective public relations tool if it is used right. A twenty first century company is not ... to give them as much attention as possible. There is another side to this story though. The media reports on subjects that are considered newsworthy. This includes stories that not only could be beneficial to business, but they also report on subjects that put companies in a negative light. This is where the hate relationship comes in. Negative publicity is the last thing that any company wants, and it causes them ... of good public relations and advertising campaigns, most North Americans believe that the world’s best coffee comes from Columbia." If the public believes your product or service is exciting, they will give you their business. How do you go about getting publicity for your company? The answer is a public relations firm. A P.R. firm makes sure that news of your product, or what ever it may be, ...
- 647: Affirmative Action
- ... primarily control affirmative action. So that means, for example, if your neighborhood is 60% women and 40% men, 50% White, 25% Hispanic, 20% Black, and 5% Asian, then what affirmative action requires is that your business should reflect that in your work force. Naturally as demographics change so do the goals. Let’s say you in a business you have 75% Whites, 15% Blacks, and 10% Hispanic, with no Asians. Well, your goal then should be to increase the amount of Hispanics, Blacks and Asians. Likewise, if your community were predominantly white then ... action was America’s first honest attempt at solving a problem it had chose to ignore. Even today, many women are overlooked and pushed aside because of their gender. Many of the big wigs in business today feel that a woman is inferior to a man’s intelligence of work skill trades. They believe that a woman can simply not handle the physical or mental stress of that comes with ...
- 648: Walmart And Why It Is Good For
- Walmart and Why It is Good for American Business Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer ... it brings competition to other competitors and it drives out the weak businesses that were only hindering the growth of their local economy. Wal-Mart is an effective catalyst for change. Its expansion leads other business competitors to retool their own operations and become more competitive, thus increasing and feeding the economy. Some of these anti-Wal-Mart communities have led to the denial of building permits for Wal-Mart in ... Despite some of these communities vain efforts to stop them, Wal-Mart has been expanding rapidly over the last decade. However, some retailers are using Wal-Mart s arrival as an impetus to improve their business and become more competitive. These retailers are the ones that will have a better chance of survival. Some have even come to the realization that they, not Wal-Mart, might be the problem. Retailers ...
- 649: Ethics/Child Labor
- ... care about is making a dollar. The saying, „when in Rome, do as the Romans do,” means in this case that if child labor is acceptable in that culture than do it. When you do business, in another country you must play by their rules, and if you don’t like it than maybe you shouldn’t go there. If child labor isn’t acceptable to your business, or you are concerned about your companies image, you must tread carefully. If you did the right ethical thing in these countries, according to your standards, it would mean increasing their wages and benefits drastically ... of these. The world is a global marketplace, so every country should be aware or participate in abolishing child labor. Since everybody undoubtedly will feel the impact of it’s results. 9 If your a business already there, all that you can do is follow your own company guidelines and their government policy. What you might find ethically wrong may be perfectly legal there. If you mess up and get ...
- 650: Resources On Internet
- ... research project. RESEARCH SITES http://www.umuc.edu/library/ols.html University College Library Services http://www.bedfordbooks.com/rd/index.html Diana Hacker, Research and Documentation in the Electronic Age http://www.businesswire.com Business Wire electronically disseminates full-text news releases for public and investor relations professionals to news media, online services and databases, the Internet, and the investment community. http://www-sci.lib.uci.edu/HSG/Ref.html ... www.americancomm.org/ American Communication Association. Communications law, including First Amendment issues; communication studies, including organizational, management, and intercultural communication; Internet resources. http://lcweb.loc.gov/ Library of Congress http://www.hbs.edu/dor Harvard Business School Search engine available to search among the documents in the Division of Research. http://search.amcity.com/baltimore Baltimore Business Journal, weekly publication on business news in Baltimore area. http://www.umuc.edu/library/evaluate.html Evaluating Internet Resources GUIDES TO ONLINE COLLOBORATION http://uclink.berkeley.edu:1607/11/NN/D.Richards_Peer_Editing ...
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