As Sainsbury's have a hierarchical structure they are most likely to lose a lot of money because for the marketing and research and development departments to carry out their functions they would need funding from the finance department. For this information to get to the finance department a lot of time would have been wasted and also for the finance department to reply to them, all this would cost them a lot of money. Advantages of Sainsbury's is that the power they have would be successful for the business as when work is being done the communication of the workers together when given commands from the manager and having to work better for the manager to impress them in order for more work to be done and at a more well-organized rate then if there was no pressure from the manager. Disadvantages would be that the workers would start to get stressed from having to complete the workload at too fast a pace for them to work at all times that they will start to work less and dislike there job and some days may not want to work as they are stressed to do work which is too much for them to cope as they are trying too hard to impress, this could lead to employees wanting to quit their job. Advantages are that when having to complete work set out by the manager to the employees it can be done efficiently so that the manager will be able to assess the employee and they could get a promotion to a higher part of their job.
1. From your understanding of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, explain how you feel it may negatively affect America’s stock exchanges. The higher than expected costs for many public companies caused some companies to abandon their public status. The costs of SOX compliance negatively affect companies, markets, investors, and economic growth. Fewer companies are willing to enter the market because of the SOX requirements that make going public too costly.
Threat of New Entrants: (“The high quality labor intensive creative and technological excellence, was difficult to scale due to scarce talent in marketplace and conflicting client needs”, p.1, para 2). From the above statement, it would be fair to infer that in the digital marketing industry (particularly in case of HUGE), economies of scale is nonexistent. Hence, there is no cost advantage that comes with volume. There are however a few barriers to entry for new entrants because of the “network effects”. (“JetBlue put Huge on the map and increased its credibility as a partner for larger business issues”, p.6, para 3).
NT2640 Unit 2 Assignment 1 1. What organization has been given the responsibility for assigning protocol numbers? * Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) 2. Determine the protocol numbers for the protocol names: Protocol | Number | IPv4 | 4 | IPv6 | 41 | TCP | 6 | UDP | 17 | ICMP | 1 | VRRP | 112 | IPSEC ESP | 50 | L2TP | 115 | OSPF | 89 | EIGRP | 88 | 3. Determine the correct ICMP type based on the description provided: ICMP Message Description | Type | Code | Echo | 8 | | Echo Reply | 0 | | Time Exceeded | 11 | | Port Unreachable | 3 | 3 | Fragmentation Needed | 3 | 4 | 4.
'International aid brings both benefits and problems for a country trying to develop its economy' with the aid of named examples evaluate this view. (30 marks) International aid can bring many problems to a country in need of development, this is usually through the ill-use, ill-deployment and abuse of International aid by both the donor countries and the recipient countries. However, effective aid brings more benefits to developing countries than problems is the aid is properly allocated to the area most in need and the aid is not ties so that it benefits the donor. International aid can bring problems to a developing country as it can be an obstacle to development and can provide other problems put forward by the political right. Aid can become an obstacle to development because of the tied nature of much aid, which benefits the donor country more than the recipient, in economic terms.
Using a leisure market of your choice, discuss the extent to which it may be considered to be an oligopoly. An oligopoly is a market that is dominated by a few firms who have a high concentration ratio. Oligopolies frequently maintain their positon of dominance in a market because it is too costly for potential firms to enter the market. This is called barrier to entry, and due to this they can earn supernormal profits (see figure) as they can protect themselves from competition in the long run. For the cinema market building something which can seat enough people with the right equipment (e.g.
BAIT Case Analysis I Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd Issues: External Issue: There appeared an overall depression in traveling industry since 2001. On the one hand, the outside business climate has become perilously changeable. In addition, customers tended to book more at the last minute, putting the company to a disadvantage position due to the mis-prediction of customer resources and an average 15% commission given to agents. On the other hand, the economic downturn also impacted the travel industry. Internal Issue: There is a misalignment of IT Strategy and the whole business strategy in RCCL.
On the other hand there that middle class of poor that knows nothing about the system or doesn’t have the resources to get a good lawyer they are screwed completely ruin your life and affecting some people around you. Several contemporary concerns impacting criminal justice professionals are, stress, finances, the economy, their family and friends, health and job security. I say stress because so many things can stress a person out this line of work. It can be the hours of the job, the clients, the court cases, etc. Finances can be a major worry especially if your budget is tight and so is your money.
* It improves the relationship between Barilla and its customers by increased supply chain transparency and helps to build trust. Weakness of JITD for Barilla * Internal Business issues with sales force. Barilla’s sales force feared the risk of losing their job and another problem was that, they got incentives based on sales number which would not be possible in JITD. * Information about JITD was not clear enough
Due to giving companies outsourcing opportunities, these companies will fire their staff because staff overseas will work for cheaper and sometimes even better. Also even though Symcor provides companies with 24/7 customer service, sometimes the speaking skills for people around the world is sub-par and will result in a communication barrier.