eferences

Coffman, J. (2003) Lessons in evaluating communication campaigns: five case studies.Cambridge: Harvard Family research Project. etrieved November 24, 2008 http://www.mediaevaluationproject.org/HFP2.pdf

Crisis management. etrieved November 24, 2008 from Management Help

http://www.managementhelp.org/crisis/crisis.htm

Marketing esearch. etrieved November 24, 2008 from Quick MBA

http://www.quickmba.com/marketing/research/

Stephens, S. (2008). American Corporate identity. Collins Design

Issue and Opportunity Identification

Issue

Opportunity

eference to Specific

Course Concept

Include citation)

Concept

Poor employee motivation

Create and enhance motivational techniques policies which will motivate the employees into becoming a strategic resource" (Stephens, 57)

Human esources policies

Lack of communication at various levels

Start internal communication campaign element of the marketing campaign meant to reach the target audience through all the possible communication means" (Coffman, 15)

Communication campaign

Unclear results of research campaign

New and better research campaign

While it may involve market research, marketing research is a more general systematic process that can be applied to a variety of marketing problems." (Marketing research)

Marketing research

Future policy unclear

Define organization identity and goal the values and beliefs that define the organization" (Stephens, 25)

Corporate identity

No…...

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References

Coffman, J. (2003) Lessons in evaluating communication campaigns: five case studies.Cambridge: Harvard Family research Project. Retrieved November 24, 2008 http://www.mediaevaluationproject.org/HFRP2.pdf

Crisis management. Retrieved November 24, 2008 from Management Help

 http://www.managementhelp.org/crisis/crisis.htm 

Marketing Research. Retrieved November 24, 2008 from Quick MBA

According to the "stakeholder" theory, the business manager serves multiple masters. Who are these masters, and what are their demands? hareholders demand protection of, and a fair return on, their investment. Customers demand delivery of promised goods and services for value received. Employees demand a safe working environment, fair compensation, and honest communication. enior management demands adherence to direction and policies. "One's personal belief system demands truth to one's self, and our community's demand that we abide by established laws (Lester Electronics). Herein lies the potential for conflicting interests and personal pain" (chuster & mith, 1994).
End-tate Vision

The joint company of Lester Electronics and hang-Wa Electronics maximizes the value of the company and the shareholder wealth.

Gap Analysis

Two independent companies are merging in order to create a stronger company. With a vision of maximizing shareholders wealth there is a multitude of opportunities. As separate entities, they have developed their own financial…...

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Shang-Wa's long-term debt is 48 times higher than LEI which the interest on this debt may be considered a cost of doing business. However, if it is too high and cannot be repaid, it is a liability. This liability could lead to liquidation if it is not monitored (Lester Electronics). "At its crudest level, debt represents something that must be repaid; it is the result of borrowing money. When corporations borrow, they promise to make regularly scheduled interest payments and to repay the original amount borrowed" (Ross-Westerfield-Jaffe, 2004, Chapter 14, p.389).

Conclusion

Lester Electronics and Shang-Wa Electronics are conducting a merger. They need to assess the financial situation of each other. The final combined company has the opportunity to maximize its wealth as well as the wealth of the future stockholders. After the strategic goals and objectives are established, a financial plan describing each of the activities, resources, equipment and materials t0hat are needed to achieve these objectives, as well as the timeframes involved will be needed. Shang-Wa Electronics has more total debt and long-term debt compared to Lester Electronics while having less net income. Lester Electronics will have the opportunity to evaluate different methods to balance this ratio like leasing equipment vice purchasing.

End-State Vision

The primary goal for the management team at iordan Manufacturing is to solve the existent problem, and through the strategies developed and implemented, ensure that it does not occur again in the future. In other words, they desire to increase employees' on the job satisfaction and reduce as such the turnover rates, which materialize in increased costs. The future goals of the plastics manufacturing company could be best described with the aid of a realistic vision statement. This could be formulated as follows:

iordan Manufacturing is committed to maintaining its leading position onto the plastics industry by presenting their customers with high quality products, delivered by highly specialized and trained employees. The organization is also determined to make a difference in the environment by using the latest technological appliances which preserve the health of the surrounding environment. We are also proud of the healthy and pleasant environment we have created…...

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2008, Gap Analysis, Marketing Teacher,   Ast accessed on September 16, 2008http://www.marketingteacher.com/Lessons/lesson_gap_analysis.html .

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HSMS Gap Analysis and Hazard Identification Risk Assessments
Description of APM Terminals

Legal Environment

Review of the Health and Safety Management System

Description

Gap Analysis

Hazard Identification

Physical Hazards

Health and Welfare Hazards

Risk Assessment

Physical Hazard -- Working at Height - Scaffolding

Health & Welfare Hazard -- Noise

Action Plans

Action Plan 1 - Management System

Action Plan 2 -- Hazards and Risks

Barbour Checklist: BS OHSAS 18001 Audit Checklist

Occupational health and safety management has numerous benefits for business, not only an employer's duty of care, a legal and moral obligation but also critical part of business equal in importance to other business functions like finance, marketing and production. When health and safety is embedded as part of business, results would be, good company image and reputation, better employee motivation and morale, improved efficiency and ultimately increased profitability.

The implementation of a sound health, safety and environment (HSE) management system provide an effective framework to minimize or prevent accidents and ill health.

The aim of this…...

Thus, there is lack of internal communication within the departments and overall organization must be improved.
The top management must work out precise goals within the systematic shift of the company approach, roles and functions for each department, and regular cross-section discussions or meeting to update each department on the actions of the others, find out points of improvement and at the next round table to present the results how these issues were dealt with.

Organization culture

Stakeholder Perspectives/Ethical Dilemmas

When setting out goals and vision, the company management must single out existing ethical conflicts and possible conflict areas which can occur within the company transformation process. The reason for this is to in advance settle possible points of misunderstanding.

Stakeholder Perspectives

Stakeholder Groups

The Interests, ights, and Values of Each Group

Employees of middle management level

Their interests include profitable operations of the company as their payments are correlated with high profits. They have the rights to…...

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References

1) Available at Available at http://www.lynco.com/12prin.htmlhttp://www.lynco.com/12prin.html.

Intersect Gap Analysis

Gap Pesti and SWOT Analysis
SCOPE

In this section, I am doing a PESTI and SWOT analysis of GAP Inc. The goal of a PESTI and SWOT analysis is to evaluate the performance of a firm by using their financial statements[footnoteef:1]. In a PESTI and SWOT analysis you can determine the value of a firm by looking at its profitability and its growth. I will be using SWOT analysis and cash flow analysis to assess GAP's performance. After analyzing GAP I will forecast the next ten years based on our findings. [1: AmCham, eal Economy-Egypt. (Source: MoFT, January 2003 and Central Egyptian BankCEB, February 2002).]

I can either look at SWOT for GAP over several years to determine the success of the firm or I can compare the SWOT of GAP to other firms in the same industry. These SWOTs allow us to relate the financial numbers to the business reality. Looking at…...

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References

1. AmCham, Real Economy-Egypt. (Source: MoFT, January 2003 and Central Egyptian BankCEB, February 2002).

2. Al-Ahram Weekly Online: "Inadequate Remedies," April 5-11, 2001, issue 528, Mona ElFiqi.

3. Al-Ahram Weekly Online: "Stalling in Troubled Waters," November 15-21, 2001, issue

650, Mona El-Fiqi.

The American Eagle Outfitters is another important competitor of the Gap. This company focuses on online selling, but has also decided to increase the number of traditional stores it owns.
Competition from potential new entrants to the industry

The threat of new entrants is quite reduced in the U.S. clothing industry. This is because success in this industry depends on several important factors. In this case, it is important to be able to provide a large number of similar stores in the proximity of the buyer because this is an important factor that affects customers' purchasing decision. The location of the retail stores is also very important. Some people consider that online clothing retailers are in the position of threatening the big players in this industry. However, this is not exactly the case. This is because most customers prefers to study the clothes they want to purchase. Another important market entry…...

Gap is a major American retailer of casual apparel. This industry is mature, and highly fragmented. As such, the Gap and its competitors each have a relatively small market share. There are over 400 significant industry players (Global Industry Analysts, 2010). There are some generalizations, however, that can be made with respect to this market and Gap's position within the casual apparel market.
Overall, the casual apparel market in the United States is worth an estimated $195.6 billion as of 2007, with an annual growth rate of 3% (Business ire, 2008). Given the economic slowdown, it is reasonable to assume that growth has stagnated since that point in time, so that the market is roughly the same size today as it was three years ago. The Gap's annual sales are approximately $14.195 billion (MSN Moneycentral, 2010), but 21% of that revenue is from outside North America. This leaves North American sales…...

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Global Industry Analysts. (2010). Global branded apparel industry. Global Industry Analysts. Retrieved October 21, 2010 from  http://www.reportlinker.com/p090549/World-Branded-Apparel-Market.html 

MSN Moneycentral. (2010). The Gap, Inc. MSN Moneycentral. Retrieved October 21, 2010 from  http://moneycentral.msn.com/investor/invsub/results/hilite.asp?Symbol=GPS 

Townsend, M. (2010). Gap's sales growth to come from markets outside the U.S., CEO Murphy says. Bloomberg. Retrieved October 21, 2010 from  http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-10-14/gap-s-sales-growth-to-come-from-markets-outside-the-u-s-ceo-murphy-says.html 

Yahoo! Finance. (2010). Industry: Apparel stores. Yahoo! Retrieved October 21, 2010 from  http://finance.yahoo.com/q/in?s=GPS

SCS initiative analysis has been talked about in detail. The main aim or purpose of this in-depth analysis is to explain in a better way the questions regarding the design, theoretical grounds, dynamics and the coverage of the supply security chain etc. Following are the kind of questions that have been tried to answer in this paper:
To what extent does the SCS initiative covers the security areas, human resource security, facility and cargo etc.

Among the phases in security management such as: recovery that is done from incidents of crime, crime detection and the prevention of crime, which ones are covered by the SCS initiatives and to what limit?

To the SCS initiative exactly what kind of supply chain actors are associated?

In what way are the improvement cycle steps (that are consistent) such as: planning, doing, checking and acting taken into consideration by the SCS initiatives?

With the SCS initiatives how exactly…...

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Bonner, R.C. (2004). Securing the Global Supply Chain: Customs-Trade Partnership against Terrorism (C-TPAT) Strategic Plan. U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

Hintsa J., Ahokas J., Mannisto T., Sahlstedt J. (2010). CEN Supply Chain Security (SCS): Feasibility study. Cross-border Research Association, Lausanne, Switzerland

Beyond that, there is little evidence of clusterization either domestically or in the global market
The sugar industry is in decline. However, there remain a few opportunities. The first major opportunity is the growth in China. One of the true growth markets in the sugar world, China is increasing in affluence and increasing its consumption of sugar-laden estern foods. The Chinese market increased by two-thirds in just six years, from 2000 to 2006, and still lags estern sugar consumption levels. Another opportunity, albeit farther out in terms of time frame, is the U.S. market. To enter this market will involve the Australian government breaking down the trade barriers that U.S. sugar producers have erected. There are more threats. The first major threat is the growth of India and other producers. India is poised to become the world's largest sugar producer, and will have a significant impact on prices worldwide. Another…...

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Works Cited

CSR Profile and Information from Australian Stock Exchange, available online at  http://www.asx.com.au/asx/research/CompanyInfoSearchResults.jsp?searchBy=asxCode&allinfo=on&asxCode=CSR#details 

CSR Profile and Information also sourced from CSR, available online at  http://www.csr.com.au 

CSR Information and Ratios from FinAnalysis, available online at  http://www.aspecthuntley.com.au.ezproxy-f.deakin.edu.au/af/company/mainview?ASXCode=CSR 

Industry profile from IBISWorld, January 2008. [Online] Available at: Deakin Library.

2010
Description of Industry

Gap, Inc. is one of the most leading American forte apparel retailers who foundation is centered in San Francisco, California. It trades things like the casual apparels, decorations, and other products that are personal for men, women and children. The merchandises of Gap, Inc. comprise of khakis, T-shirts, boxers, denim, casual wear, and others. The trade is done in the New York Stock Exchange which goes up under the symbol GPS. The brands that signified reasonable stylishness and just about everyone-from well-known celebrities to usual American families had a pair of Gap clothing somewhere in their closet. Many people had to have the latest pair of khakis or a cardigan from Gap. Gap, Inc. maintains an unusually large number of various brands, specifically Gap, Forth & Towne, Piperlime, Old Navy, banana republic, and others. All of these various businesses are purchased by a business in different times.…...

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Works Cited

Loham, Annette. "Gap Inc. 2010 Is the Turnaround Strategy Working." Long Beach: California State University, 2010.

Gap: Early Childhood Intervention and the Development of the Disabled Child
Children with special needs include those who have disabilities, developmental delays, are gifted/talented, and are at risk of future developmental problems. Early intervention consists of the provision of services for such children and their families for the purpose of lessening the effects of their condition. Early intervention may focus on the child alone or on the child and the family together. Early intervention programs may be center-based, home-based, hospital-based, or a combination. Early intervention may begin at any time between birth and school age; however, there are many reasons for it to begin as early as possible. Early Intervention is the key to achieving the most positive outcome in aiding the disabled child to develop as normally as possible.

There are three primary reasons for intervening early with an exceptional child: to enhance the child's development, to provide support and…...

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Bayley, N. (1970) "Development of mental abilities." In P.H. Mussen (ed) Carmichael's manual of child psychology, 1, New York: Wiley.

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Cooper, J.H. An Early Childhood Special Education Primer. Chapel Hill, NC: Technical Assistance Development System (TADS), 1981.

gap, problem, purpose, Q's, method, design, and analysis?
According to Hickman (et al.) in the 2008 article "The differential developmental pathways of high school dropouts and graduates" from the Journal of Educational esearch, the concern about the gap in achievement between high school graduates and non-graduates has long been a concern of educators and educational policy-makers alike. The peer-reviewed study posed two essential research questions to address the problem of low high school retention rates: first, do differences in the educational development of high school graduates and dropouts exist early on in their elementary school careers and secondly, if differences do exist, "where in time and across which variables do these differences occur" (Hickman et al. 2008: 2). The study attempts to address a 'research gap' in the existing literature regarding the focus on the secondary school careers of high school graduates. Focusing on the problems students encounter in high…...

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Reference

Hickman (et al. 2008). The differential developmental pathways of high school dropouts and graduates. Journal of Educational Research

First Response:

Nachmias and Nachmias (2008) indicate that the quasi-experimental design allows researchers the opportunity to use intact comparison groups and "straight forward comparative statistical analyses" to explore variables and their correlations. In an effort to better understand the continuing and persistent social problem of high school dropouts, Hickman, Bartholomew, and Mathwig (2005) conducted a quasi-experiment contrast group design with purposive random sampling to explore the differential developmental pathways of high school graduates and those who drop out. Hickman, et al., (2008) focus their research on the development process over an extended period of time, attempting to locate "markedly different" patterns related to academic performance and experiences in the educational

World is Flat" is taken from a metaphorical point-of-view to highlight the development and advancement of technology in the world. The author, Thomas Friedman, asserts that the world has become flatter because technology together with other factors has turned the world into a smaller place. The author describes the manner in which technology has made the world become more competitive and elucidates what is necessary to compete in this new world that is deemed flat. For instance, Friedman offers a description of how manufacturing firms have relocated the location of their plants to international areas to make the most of cheaper labor and raw materials.
This is towards objective of coming up with products that are cost-effective and more competitive in the marketplace. This particular aspect of outsourcing has disseminated into the service industry also. Friedman describes various instances where tax returns of companies in the United States are accounted…...

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Caldwell, J. (2005). Book Report On The World Is Flat. Retrieved 17 October 2015 from:  http://www.workforceincubator.org/Portals/0/flat_world.pdf 

Friedman, T. L. (2005). The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century. New York: Picador

Griedsom, T. S. (2007). Book Review. The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century. Association for Financial Counseling and Planning Education. Retrieved 17 October 2015 from:  https://afcpe.org/assets/pdf/12-book-review-world-is-flat-volume-18-issue-2.pdf 

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Stiglitz
Analysis of the Price of Inequality

In the year 2013, issues of socioeconomic inequality are perhaps as pressing and problematic as they have ever been. This is the assertion at the crux of Joseph E. Stiglitz text, The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future (ISBN-13: 9780393345063). Released in 2012 by .. Norton & Company publishers, the 560-page text is a timely and compelling contribution to the current public discourse on our need for greater economic equality in the United States.

Understanding the orientation of the text at the center of this analysis requires a more complete understanding of its author, the economist, Columbia professor and winner of 2001's Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. According to his self-composed biography at the Memorial Foundation site, Stiglitz (2001) was born in Gary Indian in 1943. By his own report, his interests as a young student would lead him to become…...

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Chinni, D. (2012). 'The Price of Inequality' and 'The Betrayal of the American Dream.' Jefferson Institute.

Columbia University. (2013). Curriculum Vitae-Stiglitz. Gsb.columbia.edu.

Edsall, T.B. (2012). Separate and Unequal. The New York Times.

Stiglitz, J.E. (2001). Biographical. The Nobel Foundation.