Question 1c Environmental Scan The labor market of the Pacific Northwest indicates a high unemployment rate, and therefore difficult environment for individuals to find new jobs. There tends to be a consistent supply of qualified individuals in the urban markets of Seattle and Spokane, however it is difficult to recruit these college-educated individuals into entry-level positions in a retail environment. Retail stores tend to have a reputation of requiring long hours of work, including weekends and holidays, with little compensation. It is difficult to hire individuals that are willing to start in an entry-level position and work their way up over the years into managerial positions. Tanglewood prefers to promote from within, allowing the managerial employees to grow with the company, already experienced with the social and cultural environment.
Research Paper Word Count: 1274 How successful can a company become before it is an economic danger for our country? That is the question a lot of Americans have begun to ask about the massive super store Wal-Mart. In a struggling American economy Wal-Mart thrives while smaller companies struggle and some even go bankrupt. There is always going to be companies that make it while others don’t, but when do American citizens need to step in and draw the line when one mega company like Wal-Mart becomes too powerful? With Wal-Mart using materials from other countries while its growing and expanding everyday it knocks out smaller businesses everywhere, which in turn hurts the economy and is literally a growing Monopoly in America, which we cannot
taxpayers about $193 per household per year (Stein 2011). My family along with many others are having a hard enough time paying for their own bills and what not let alone someone else's. As long as foreigners are encouraged by our actions to ignore our immigration laws, we will forever be hard pressed to defend our borders. And, not only will America’s most vulnerable workers (minimum-wage) suffer from unfair competition against illegal aliens for jobs, but that competition will become even harsher because of the newly legalized workers competing for jobs from employers who precisely hire only legal workers (Martin 2011). Many argue that they are an economic benefit.
Situation: You are the General Sales Manager for Bentley Business Systems (1287 Main Street, Wolf Point, MT 58904), a supplier of automation equipment in the Northwest United States. In today’s mail, you receive the following request letter from Jean Parchman, Assistant General Manager, Acres of Bargains, 508 Woodbine Avenue, Filmore, SD 57503. December 9, 2002 Dear Sales Manager: I received our monthly bill from Bentley and noticed a $400 service charge for services rendered on October 1 due to a printer malfunction. Since we have a service contract with Bentley, yet we are not apparently covered by it, I would like to request a cancellation of our service contract. Also, please deduct the $400 service charge from moneys we have paid thus far on the contract.
Coney Island was an escape and a business opportunity for a multitude of people. John F. Kasson’s Amusing the Millions, proves that Coney Island reflected the emerging urban industrial society, the social structure was an extreme opposite to that of the city, and the dramatic change in culture that Coney Island enhanced. The drastic comparison of Central Park to Coney Island shows how much the two have affected America, one way more extremely than the other. The civil war left millions with nothing which lead to millions working harder than ever to get the economic conditions back to normal. The creators of Coney Island worked very hard to give the perfect experience to all of their customers.
The unemployment was on the rise, and the job market was declining at a high rate. This was going on before he got in the White House. I feel like it is up to the owners' to stay or leave. Companies are taking their businesses overseas to have employees work for lower salaries, paying lower tax rates, better tax credit, or to have more money in the their pockets. Some businesses feel like they are not making money here in the United States.
Government Debt Looking back into a normal day in an American life, you think that it would be easy and concise. Well think again. As growing up in the United States for all of my life I have seen in the past twenty years the decrease of the super nation. This is a nation to which the government has put us into so much debt that my grandchildren’s grandchildren want see the end of it. Our government has borrowed, used, and selfishly contained surplus from the modern day American for so many years, that our country is in the brinks of one day collapsing all around us.
Immigration policy needs to be carefully evaluated by the United States government (Friedman, 2010). Immigrants have become very vital in the workforce in areas such as construction, restaurants, technology and health care. Immigrants have been known to start businesses than non-immigrants, which contribute to the economy by creating jobs. The United States once saw a need for immigrants; however, once times began to change, immigrants were pushed to the side to ensure that American citizens would be able to maintain jobs. Currently, the population is not seeing the increase as it once did.
These businesses were so large and employed so many people but with that being done, it was very difficult for a mass of workers to come together and fight for higher wages and better social benefits. Nowadays, big manufactures are not easily achievable when it comes to ordinary citizens trying to start one, but that is because the mass of Americans are shut out. Not being able to inherent the means of manufacture, us citizens are compelled into making a living by
I feel the movement is effective because more and more people are joining the movement which will make them one big strong unit which will make some awareness out to the world. I do so sympathize with the Occupy Wall Street movement because it is not just a few people suffering because of the crisis but more like 99 percent of us are. I think It plays a crucial roles in many people’s life because as we are facing, the economy is in a bad state where a lot of us are losing our jobs and cause of that a lot of us are not being able to pay up our daily expenses. Not just unemployment but also the housing crisis were a lot of people are not being able to pay the rent or mortgage. It is sad how the poor are getting poor and the middle class are barely holding on to their class and how the rich keep getting richer.