Executive Summary AT&T and T-Mobile have announced a potential merger. This deal is worth over $39 Billion and would ultimately merge the number two wireless provider in the United States with the fourth largest provider. There are many different concerns about this potential merger. The main issue on hand is that this merger would potentially create a duopoly making consumers have less options in choosing cell phone providers and plans. This merger has several different interest groups waiting for results.
Current Ethical Issue in Business Learning Danielle Christine University of Phoenix Ethics in Management PHL 323 Laila Dabbagh Lambdin February 23, 2009 Current Ethical Issue in Business Learning Identify the ground rules manifested in the situation as well as which ethics theories apply. Circuit City is the nations 2nd largest retailer of consumer electronics, entertainment software and personal computers. On November 3, 2008, Circuit City announced that they would layoff and close 17% of it’s workforce by the end of the year. Due primarily to weakened economic environment and its potential impact on the timing of the overall sales of the companies inventory, cost and expenses. As a result of the companies deteriorating
The second characteristic is virtualization. Cloud computing will provide uninterrupted service through online availability 24/7. The around the clock availability by the hosting provider is beneficial to company needs. The third characteristic is pay-as-you-go. Riordan Manufacturing will never have to pay for service it is not using.
The cost minimisation strategy employed by British airways during the recession proved to be an influential choice. It forced BA to be sensitive and cautious about cost and the passengers' volume has been cut down in terms of business and tour travellers. The industry competition is getting fiercer as by the joining of the lower cost airliners which indicates BA has to master the value creation process, or the value chain, with business perspective and cautious. In addition, the cares on the stakeholders in each stage of the business should be paid attention to, or it may leads to the negative impact to BA such as the staff strike took place in January 2007, which gives BA's brand image a big shock. These cuts the company has to make resulted in employee dissatisfaction.
Verizon iPhone Personal Hotspot settings (Image: TechCrunch) Verizon got fined a measley $1.25M today for blocking access to tethering apps, mostly on the Android platform. That doesn’t apply to most iOS users (currently), however. That’s because this ruling – for now – only affects LTE 4G devices. With the next-generation iPhone, which will be launched in mid-September, heavily rumored to be the first iPhone to include LTE access, this will affect those choosing to go with Verizon Wireless for their fancy new iPhone. The ruling asserts that Verizon must not charge an additional fee for tethering on its devices so long as they aren’t on the grandfathered unlimited data plans.
| Customers | Customers can stop buying products displaying the john Lewis logo, word of mouth means that john Lewis can be seriously damaged by customer shifts. They have a huge influence on the aims and objectives of john Lewis. However john Lewis may feel that it has sufficiently strong, brand loyalty to ignore customer input. | Employees | Employee can make john Lewis alter their aims and objectives to include staff needs and wants, john Lewis altered their company objectives to include the working conditions of its staff, however a set time when unemployment is high, employers are in a position of greater power as employment is harder to find. | Trade union | Unions mainly focus on the treatment and pay of the employees.
This event was mistaken as riots in Libya over the oil (CBC News community reacts to Vancouver riots, 2011). These fans have now hindered the reputation of Vancouver City and now they may second guess facilitating and supporting the team in the area. Presently, the rioters are the most influential stakeholder to the team. They are causing grief among the organization and all other stakeholders. If the riot did not occur, the team would still have the support and loyalty of the other stakeholders.
The phrase ‘death chariots’ with their association of death, violence and destruction has the intended affect to fear readers of these manic, destructive young teens. It is this appeal to fear which evokes activity in the community to promote a change in society. Wowser also refers to the waste of ‘our tax dollar on a futile and ineffective effort to lower road toll by advertising’ reiterating that the law in place is not desired. This evokes hostility and a want for change in readers. Wowser adds an appeal to community service in saying it is rare ‘to find a young person who is a member of the Salvation Army’.
Throughout the article, the author says “The shoplifter creates a third choice of her own: she takes the products she has been conditioned to desire without paying for them… Shoplifting is the most effective protest against all … modern corporations” (Ex-workers Pg. 2). The purpose of this article and its use of logos is to inform the reader of the how the big corporations are cheating them out of their money and how they can “stick it” to them. Ethos, pathos, and logos are all rhetorical strategies that are used to inform and convince the reader of the continuing problem of big corporations cheating people out of their hard earned money. The logic and the papers emotional pull all contribute to the credibility of the author and what she has to say.
For example, she gives many testimonies on what people have said and it makes everything seem tremendously horrible. It changes your judgement as soon as you read it. “This manufactured crisis damaged the economy, cost us jobs, and hurt middle class families.” (Lowrey, A20). Lowrey also uses pathos, logos, and ethos to get her point across by stating facts and evidence. For example, she states that 40% of civilian federal employees went off the clock (Lowrey, A20).