(20 points) MGMT 303 Week 6 Case Study Case Study This week, you will be playing the role of a senior manager whose business is growing and is considering bringing on additional staff. However, the HR manager has suggested hiring potential employees on a temp-to-perm basis. Many organizations are recruiting permanent employees using this policy. Read the case: “The Temptations of Temping.” See the case toward the end of Chapter 14. After reading the case, answer Questions 1, 2, and 3.
Coast4Life Inc.-Strategic Analysis and Recommendations To: Board of Directors, Coast4Life Inc. From: Pat Brown, Financial Controller Date: January 25, 2013 Introduction: The purpose of this report is to analyze Coast4Life’s current business situation and opportunities and to recommend alternatives in order to meet the board of directors’ mandate that Coast4Life remain profitable during the downturn. This report includes an analysis of alternatives and recommendations on strategic issues. Major Issue: To remain profitable during the downturn * Should Coast4Life divest the Fraser dry dock? * Should Coast4Life target more profitable market segment? * Should Coast4Life register its ships in Liberia and hire unskilled crew and hospitality workers from underdeveloped countries for low wages?
Britain’s strategic motives in Africa centred on thwarting the growth of rival European powers as well as securing its interests in Africa. However there was a clear symbiotic relationship between strategic and economic concerns, during the expansion period. One of the first incidents in Africa where this was made manifest was when Britain invaded Egypt in 1882. The Suez Canal was of major strategic importance as it allowed ships to access the empires ‘Jewel in the crown’ India faster, through the red sea instead on going around Africa, as well as faster transportation of Arab oil. The canal was also of economic significance as historian Simon Smith reminds us that ‘80% of the Suez traffic was British, and13% of Britain’s trade passed through the canal’ , this is due to most of Britain’s trade with India passing through the Suez.
▪ Implemented the 24-Hour Rule, effective December 2002, requiring sea carriers and non-vessel operating common carriers to provide a detailed description of container contents bound for the U.S. 24 hours before a container is loaded on a vessel. Private, public sector, and international partnerships ▪ Established Customs Trade Partnership Against Terrorism, currently with more than 7,000 members, to work with the trade industry to emphasize a seamless security conscious environment throughout the entire commercial process. C-TPAT is the largest federal government public/private partnership in U.S. history. ▪ Established the Container Security Initiative (CSI) to target, and with our foreign counterparts, screen containers, prior to the container being laded on ships destined for the United States. To date 19 countries have committed to participation in CSI, and there are 37 ports within those countries in various stages of CSI implementation.
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The total grant award is $250,000 and the grant period for these resources is July1, 2009 through October 31, 2010. An orientation session was held for these programs and more than 140 people attended. This project was in response to North Carolina’s need to get people back to work and to the call from Governor Beverly Perdue that the NC Community Colleges undertake her JobsNOW initiative, the community colleges and the NC Department of Commerce joined together to develop and fund “12 in 6”. This program is designed to train North Carolinians in needed job skills within 6 months and help rebuild North Carolina’s economy. A Director of Admissions was hired at HCC.
Rochelle Phillips has to prepare a report to the management on the new production process she had been testing at Duro Industries. Duro was facing increased competition from foreign firms and there were fundamental ways in which brick companies managed their production process. Foreign firms were using vector drives in moving products through the process. The CEO of Duro wanted Rochelle to evaluate the feasibility of undertaking this new approach. Rochelle decided to compare two plants for 50 days, Memphis plant-which will have the vector drive and Birmingham plant-which will use the existing system and prepare a report.
Business Research Applications David Barthalow RES/320- Foundations of Research November 27, 2011 Jennifer Burns Business Research Applications Research is compiled using different methods within the customer service department for a leading Fortune 500 shipping company. Research is compiled using different outsourced and engineering departments within the company. The goal for each research team is to compile data that will enhance the productivity within the workplace for each representative and improve the metric systems for the department. Another form of research for the department arranged Focus session meetings with a skip level administrator. The goal for each meeting is to compile
The following is the topic for this week's team assignment: The Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) signed into law in July 2002 was intended to improve the accuracy of the financial statements prepared by publicly held companies. Carefully read the summary of this Act. A. Discuss how this law is likely to affects issues of : Audit committees of public company boards of directors Increased the workload and the integrity of these officials has fired some officials and made it a more rigorous job to pursue because of the seriousness of the day to day operations The act created the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board to police the accounting profession and set auditing standards. It shored up the role of the audit committee, making it
TO: Traci Goldeman, Manager, Atwood and Allen Consulting FROM: Yvette Calderon, Market Research Assistant DATE: February 17, 2014 SUBJECT: Employment Law Compliance Plan The task to which I am assigned is to make the employment law compliance plan for Lonnie Pete. He is opening a limousine service in Austin, Texas. In the first year of the business, the number of employees the company is planning to have is 25. Employment law compliance plan would help the organization to avoid any unlawful activates. Employment laws are very much important for all type of business.