If not, how should it be revised? Kaiser did not have a justified employment policy at the time (1974) that this incident took place. Since then they have updated their policies and their website states in their Code of Conduct that “diversity of our employees is a tremendous asset” and we “do not tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind” (Kaiser Aluminum, 2014). It appears that Kaiser Aluminum is attempting to correct the sins of their past and that they have revised their employment policy. However, I conducted some more research on a career website and found that Kaiser employee’s average rating on their company was only a 3.7 out of 10 points.
He goes on to say in the second misperception, “college graduates are finding it harder to get good jobs with liberal arts degrees”, but “the recession has no differentiated among major fields of study in its impact” (192). Ungar believes students who focus on one particular field of study do not learn necessities such as writing and literary texts, and this puts them at a disadvantage when compared to a liberal arts graduate. While long-standing jobs, such as doctors and lawyers, will not become extinct soon, liberal arts graduates have a better chance of employment in most areas. 95% of employers surveyed would give hiring preference to graduates with skills to contribute in the workplace. 74% would recommend a liberal arts education to a young person they know today, so they will be prepared for success in today’s global economy.
The provocative photos he selected for American Apparel’s ad campaigns grabbed people’s attention – not always in a positive way. The very way the company had chosen to go public indicated much about the CEO’s refusal to conform to tradition; in the summer 2007 American Apparel would merge with the special purpose acquisition company, Endeavor Acquisition Corp. In addition, the company’s commitment to paying high wages and generous benefits to it’s mostly immigrant workforce, and its “Made in USA” stance, might not appeal to Wall Street investors who believed that an adequate return on investment took priority over political correctness. Should Dov Charney allow these Wall Street financiers to step into the American Apparel sandbox to play? What changes would American Apparel need to make once it became a publicly traded company?
Students Should Not be above the Law The article by John Silber, former president of Boston University, argues that many college students shouldn’t be able to get away with some felonies they might have committed. Even though John Silber wasn’t a reporter for any type of newspaper or magazine, he makes a great point over a well written article. In the beginning of the article he compares two court systems that were used in the medieval time in which is a great way to start this article. With this information in mind, the reader can be able to compare the court system of today to the systems of the past. I’m not sure if he was trying to get the college students to be his primary audience, or if he was trying to inform other educators about the discipline of college students.
Global branding in the 1980s was influenced by a famous 1983 Harvard Business Review article, "The Globalization of Markets." The article argued that companies should leverage the "economics of simplicity" and sell standardized products around the globe. The benefits were lower costs and consistent customer communications. This approach didn’t last long, because consumers of most companies had trouble relating to the generic products and communications that resulted from companies least common denominator thinking. Executives therefore rushed to fashion hybrid strategies, companies would centralize production, research and technology, but localize marketing, distribution and PR to accommodate cultural and geographic differences.
Hannah Dickinson Mr. Thomason ENGL 1020-116 15 September 2014 Analysis of Charles Murray’s “What’s Wrong With Vocational School?” Charles Murray is writing to The Wall Street Journal, which is a huge and very diverse audience to whom to present such a controversial argument. The point Murray is trying to make is that vocational schools are more effective and logical courses of action for young people entering the job market than is the conventional 4-year-university track. In championing the cause of vocational schools over college, Murray uses logos, appeals to authority, though his tone makes him come across as a little condescending. This may almost damage his argument overall. Murray’s argument is persuasive through his use of logos, nod to the opposition, and solution for the problem he introduces, among other methods to make his argument appear valid to his audience.
PHI103: Informal Logic (GSK1212F) Instructor Phillip Bence Racism in Corporate America April 23, 2012 Anyone who believes that racism does not exist in the U.S. today is clearly out of touch with reality. Examples of racism are apparent in many different areas of life, particularly in corporate America’s hiring and promotion practices. Corporate hiring and promotion tendencies are clearly racially disproportionate. It is no coincidence that the CEO’s, COO’s and CFO’s of many of America’s major corporations, Fortune 500 companies and successful business are not people of color. Racially-motivated hiring and promotion decisions by supervisors, managers, directors and HR personnel have almost replaced decisions to hire or promote based
The business school was always trying to find ways to increase enrollment in the EMBA. Considering that Washington University is a fairly large university it struck Prof Kouvelis as odd that there wasn’t a greater interest in the EMBA program from within the WU community, especially the faculty. In a nutshell, the problem that kept Prof Kouvelis puzzled was- how could Olin Business School increase interest and more importantly enrollment in the EMBA program by the faculty members across various schools at Washington University? It was in this context that when one of the teams in class 34 in the EMBA program approached him for guidance for a project idea for their Innovation project that the Professor considered it a reasonable opportunity and asked Team e-cubed to try to come with an answer for his problem. The ACE Framework Assess: Team e-cubed started with an internal exercise to understand the context of the problem.
The more than 30-year search for a relationship between corporate social performance (CSP) and corporate financial performance (CFP) has not brought much consistent proof of any clear motive for corporations to get involved in CSR. This could have fed the hope for society that companies really were willing to do well for society. According to Margolis and Walsh (2001), the lack of clear proof is due to a nonexisting theoretical foundation of the empirically revealed relations between CSP and CFP. The questionable quality of the performed research was also mentioned by Margolis and Walsh. They reviewed all kinds of possible studies on relationships between CSP and CFP.
Why My Former Employees Still Work for Me. Harvard Business Review, January-February 1994. Reprint #94112). People may have doubted that he’d be able to be a successful business man, seeing as he became the CEO right after graduating Harvard Business College, but Ricardo proved them wrong. In 2003, he led the company to an annual turnover of 212 million dollars (Semler, R. (2004).