Consumer Alert
.... government solutions, a dislike of government related monopolies,
labor, or business, and be in the favor of safe technology, free trade, smaller
government and lower taxes. We found that to become a member, all it would take
is $35 and a mailed in request to their office in Washington. Consumer Alert
depends on contributions from individual donors, corporations, and foundations
to protect consumer choice and competition and promote sound science. Some
basic facts about Consumer Alert are that the size of their annual budget (1988)
was $411,900. This helps to maintain their bimonthly publication, Consumer
Alerts Comments, and p .....
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Corporate Downsizing
.... During this time,
the upper management reviews all financial records in order to determine how
much is needed to be cut from salary expenditures (Moore 50). This stage is
concluded when the senior management has a detailed plan on who will be let go,
and who will remain with the company. During this stage, there is one common
mistake many companies make: lack of communication. The middle management is
usually left out of all downsizing plans. This is wrong and creates a big
mistake. Middle management should be looked upon as a valuable tool for giving
input where cuts should be made (Moore 51).
The next stage of downsiz .....
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Corporate Development During The Industrial Revolution
.... (Conlin, 425-426).
Tycoons like Andrew Carnegie, "the steel king," and John D. Rockefeller, "the
oil baron," exercised their genius in devising ways to circument competition.
Although, Carnegie inclined to be tough-fisted in business, he was not a
monopolist and disliked monopolistic trusts. John D. Rockefeller came to
dominate the oil industry. With one upward stride after another he organized
the Standard Oil Company, which was the nucleus of the great trust that was
formed. Rockefeller showed little mercy. He believed primitive savagery
prevailed in the jungle world of business, where only the fittest survived .....
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Describe The Roles Of Government In The Present Business Environment
.... and expenditure, through the annual budget. By budgeting for a
deficit or surplus, the government will contract or expand the economy. e.g If
the government needed to cut unemployment they would budget for a deficit so
more money is injected and less money is taken from the economy by less taxes
and higher expenditure raising employment.
Monetary policy can also raise the level of economic activity. It
controls the availability of money by influencing the level of interest rates.
Lowering interest rates encourages people to spend and borrow while higher
interest rates encourages people to save and not borrow. By lowering inter .....
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Accounting System Controls
.... of the sorting of the
information the company rarely sorts the source documents. Also the computer
does most of the calculations and processing so there would not be the amount of
documentation that there would be in a manual system.
· Another problem of computer systems is the fact that there can be
difficulty in determining who entered the data. In a manual system the identity
of the person entering the data can be identified possibly by the person's
handwriting. This cannot be done in a computerized system. This makes it very
difficult to determine who is responsible for errors or fraud.
· Since the computers .....
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Employee Assistance Programs
.... crime and law enforcement.
Although it is most costly at the top alcoholism/drug abuse affects
employees at every level of an organization. One company found that in the
pervious five years each worker with an alcohol/drug related problem missed 113
days of work and filed $23,000 more in medical claims than the average employee.
However, recovered alcohol/drug abusers will frequently credit their EAP for
literally saving their lives. By reclaiming highly experienced employees the
company also can recover some of their losses.
One of the most painful aspects of a human resource professional's job
is downsizing and it probably .....
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Eastern Airlines Facing Bankruptcy
.... and Dick Magurno, Eastern's senior vice president for legal
affairs. For about 20 minutes the three discussed the fourthcoming meeting
and the prospects for saving the airline. Negotiations were going to come
around for ALPA and TWU but no break from the IAM. The IAM would not budge
since Charlie Byran, head of the machinist's union, stood firm against a 20
percent wage cut.
At 7:30 the board meeting began with the discussion of the Texas Air
offer, concentrating on some of the conditions attached to the buying of the
company. More talk and hours dragged on. Finally word got out that ALPA was .....
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AT&T
.... in nearly 100 countries around the world, and does
business in about 200 countries. In the last fifteen months AT+T has split into
three separate companies. They are AT+T, a global communications company;
Lucent Technologies, a technological company; NCR Corporation, a computer
company. The new AT+T is committed to making the most of its leadership
position in the dynamic global market for communications and information
services. With 2.3 million share owners, AT+T is the most widely held stock in
the United States.
AT+T has an Environmental Responsibility and they follow through on it.
They take precautions an .....
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Role Of Government In Mixed Economies Such As Australia
.... 2) Provide a limited range of goods and services (Aust post)
3) General economic management through macro and micro economic
policies.
In 96/97 the CAD fell to $20.9bn from the $27bn blowout during 95/96. This was
largely due to a fall in domestic spending which lead to a slight rise in
national savings. Inflation remained low and fell between the RBA's 2-3% target.
This gave way to the RBA's 3 consecutive drops in interest rates to stimulate
the economy. Economic growth has stabilised between 3-4%. Although this is a
reasonable figure, a higher growth rate is required if unemployment is to fall
from the 8.6% i .....
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Economic Systems Of Different Countries
.... three major exports include
vehicles, petroleum products and natural gas. Canada's exports vastly outweigh
their imports. The balance of trade is $9,823,000,000 (more exports than
imports).
Canada's economy is a market economy based on free enterprise and the
ideology of capitalism. As a Canadian citizen you are free to buy and sell as
you please on the open market, so long as you are within the law. Since Canada
is a democratic state we are guaranteed these rights and freedoms. Canada has a
very efficient economy. We have an unemployment rate of only 9.5% and a
reasonably small inflation rate. Canada has been rated as o .....
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Economic Policy
.... developed the skills to earn a decent
wage reap the same and in many cases more benefits. For example student loans
and grants for college board and tuition fees are largely unavailable to lower
middle class families let alone middle and upper middle class people. Reducing
taxes on businesses would also allow them to invert more on new product
development and research which in many instances the federal government now
subsidizes which requires management. This government management bureaucracy
cost tax payers money and is unnecessary because free market demands and the
extra money they would save from tax cuts would motivat .....
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Economic Development In Zimbabwe
.... the transition to industrialization.
Geography
Zimbabwe is a landlocked country in the southern, sub-Saharan area of the
African continent bordered by South Africa to the South, Botswana to the West,
Mozambique to the East and Zambia to the North. With an area of 391,090 km2
Zimbabwe is only slightly larger than the state of Colorado. Harare is
Zimbabwe's capital and largest city with a population of 1,100,000. Containing
vast amounts of rare mineralogical resources and possessing a favorable growing
climate Zimbabwe's economy is drawn almost equally between the mining of
minerals ($2.2 billion) and the production of staples and .....
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