Month: January 2019

Ford Motor Company is one of the major players in the global automobile industry. It is a U.S. based multinational company of Dearborn, Michigan. It has expanded in the six continents of the world that includes, North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, Latin America and Middle East Africa and in the Caribbean regions (Ford Motor Company-website. 2010). The company is operating in all the major countries of these continents “with about 198,000 employees and about 90 plants worldwide” (Ford Motor Company-Annual Report. 2009). Currently, it has a subsidiary called Ford Credit. This subsidiary concentrates on the financial services sector and primarily provides automobile loans to the Ford customers. Besides, it is also engaged in the issuance of commercial papers and debt instruments. The company holds four global brands of the automobiles: Ford, Volvo, Mercury and Lincoln. Earlier, it had two more automobile brands units named Jaguar Land Rover and Aston Martin that have been sold to Tata Motors and a joint venture company respectively.

The environmental scanning is the function of strategic management which analyzes the external functioning that directly affects the organization. The Environmental scanning is to scan the changes that are occurring in the environment and in order to monitor and identify those changes which include the new trends that result in causing the effect over the organization. Additionally, the environmental scanning with internal organization analysis include strengths, weaknesses, vision and mission that can further assist management the formulation of the strategic plans in order to gain control which may have significant affect. The Coffee shop Starbuck is the one which is dependent upon the leader’s and employee’s ability to adapt the rapid transformation to the external environment (Kooning. Karin, 2008).

The key contribution of workforce in the process of planning at Starbucks is conducting the environmental scanning. This scanning helps Starbuck business planning for the coming three to four years. The overreaching goal of the environmental scanning at Starbuck is the identification of the work force gaps and the prioritization of the actions which will ensure the meets of the organization talent needs.

1. Create a brief job description for a position within the company you research that you would like to fill.
2. Discuss ways that goal setting could be used to motivate your performance after you fill the position.
3. Analyze your own reactions to stressful situations and discuss the steps you could take to manage the stress associated with your new position.
4. Imagining yourself in the position you have described, discuss how you would address nonverbal and cultural barriers to communication.

Though Intelligence & Law Enforcement: Countering Transnational Threats to the U.S. was published in ’01, much of it remains relevant today. After reading this and the other assigned material for this week, please discuss what challenges you anticipate for U.S. law enforcement intelligence from both domestic and international threats against homeland security?

The titled “Hotel Rwanda” was a play that represented a true story that happened in Rwanda (Africa) couple of decades ago. Hotel Rwanda is a movie that reflected the true event of ethnic conflict, between two rival communities, the Hutu and the Tutsi. These two tribal groups were the major ethical composition in the country at the time of the conflict. In this regard, there existed a simmering enmity between the once happy and united communities, which flared up in a span of four months, leading to death, displacement, rape, and similar crimes against humanity. The enmity began with scrambling for the available resources, before deteriorating into a rivalry base furthered by a desire to control the resources. Needless to state, this enmity was fuelled in part by bad leadership that triggered strong hatred between the two communities leading to the eventual full scale ethnic cleansing[i].

 

[i] Jimgoldenstein, “Hotel Rwanda”, you tube video, 01:32:04, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIKalriiK8w (accessed 2009).

 

Assume your 28-year-old male patient has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder. His family physician has prescribed lithium. For this discussion:
Explain what neurotransmission may be causing the bipolar disorder.
Describe how lithium can help this patient.
Create a dialogue in which you, the psychologist, explain to the patient what is happening to him in terms he can understand. Use the article you located in the Studies activity to aid in your explanation.

Developing a pre-negotiation objective is very crucial in determining the outcome of the contract agreement and success. While developing pre-negotiation objectives is a significant step in contract formation, it often requires thorough evaluation of appropriate factors. Pre-negotiation objectives will identify the negotiation position of the Old Dominion University, department of Biology. This element assists the procurement officer in determining fair and reasonable prices of a water purification system. The results of the procurement officer’s analysis of the bidder’s proposal determine the pre-negotiation objectives. The analysis takes incorporates field-pricing aid, independent price histories and cost estimates of the department, and audit account and nominal analysis.

Present an argument from the perspective of a person or homogeneous group who opposes interracial relationships, sex and/or marriage. You may choose a character from a movie, a book or from your life’s experience. Make sure that you introduce your character/person and movie/story or life experience that you are choosing in the first paragraph of your essay.

The concept of (Corporate Governance) is one of the newest and the most important concepts that began to touch one of the most important forms of enterprise in the current time which is the corporation. The importance of this subject we note that there is a global race to establish the theories and laws of governance to be the compatible with the characteristics of globalization on one side and compatible with the characteristics of the organizing country on the other side. The concept of governance has become the foundation stone for the expansion of privatization and attraction of investments, and that made different countries to work on the issuance of reports of all forms of practices of governance.Also, World Bank and other international organizations took part to promote conferences and seminars on corporate governance systems and practices at the global level.

The article titled Less-healthy eating behaviors have a greater association with a high level of sugar-sweetened beverage consumption among rural adults than among urban adults discuses a cross sectional study using data on 1,878 adult participants (urban_734 and rural_1,144), in the Texas region of the United States. The purpose was to assess the consumption of sugar sweetened beverages (SSB) in adults and compare and contrast the findings between rural and urban adults. The data included “demographic characteristics, eating behaviors (SSB consumption, frequency of fast-food meals, frequency of breakfast meals, and daily fruit and vegetable intake), and household food insecurity”. The findings showed that SSB were significantly increased in rural adults over the urban adults. The multivariable logistic regression models indicated a correlation between the consumption of greater than 3 can/glasses of SSB and “rural living environment, poverty level income, frequent consumption of fast food, infrequent breakfast meals, low fruit and vegetable intake, and household food insecurity”.