Organisation and Management – Assignment 1 This report is based on the case study titled “Thanks…Penneys”, which was written by a team of BESS students as part of their final year assignment in 2014. 1. Assess the attractiveness of the US market for Penneys, using PESTEL & Five Forces analyses. These are some of the influences that would make the US market attractive for Penneys. PESTEL Analysis Political When the Rana Plaza disaster happened on 24 April 2013, not only did Penneys provide…
Does the Public Intellectual have Intellectual Integrity? By Linda Martin Alcoff is an analysis of the function of the intellectual in an academic setting. The piece examines why public intellectuals lack academic integrity. This piece uses Foucault’s definition of intellectuals and his explanation of their functions as seen in his works. The commonality shared by the author and the audience is our experience with academic intellectuals who work towards improving their communities, whether that…
CHAPTER – 5 SUMMARY: 5.1. Conclusion: The area of the study was that whether employee’s recognition can retain employees in HBL Sialkot. And for that purpose sample of 100 employees of both genders, vary in salary, age, qualification; duration of job period and from different designation was taken from the employees of HBL Sialkot. The analysis of the results showed that organization rewards employees but some old Habibians said that they are still on the same position and are not rewarded by…
Review the story you chose and answer the following questions in complete sentences, as provided for use by Cumbria University: 1. What is the title of the text and what is the text about? The title of the text is “Man May Love” by Robert Sharp. It refers to a young patient who falls in love with a nurse while at the hospital and asks her to marry him, but the nurse makes fun of him and refuses because many patients have asked her the same question before and was also against hospital…
Personal Reflection: Management style as n Project Manager Introduction: Time for self-reflection. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, Human self-reflection is the capacity of humans to exercise introspection and the willingness to learn more about their fundamental nature, purpose and essence. Being honest to myself, I needed to admit that I do not know which management style I now practice or prefer. So back to the drawing board I went, dissecting my character - management style.…
in higher education, health services, and conflict resolution. The five basic human concerns or orientations which are discussed Kluckhohn and Strodtbeck’s Model are the main focus of their work. The five basic human concerns include: people and nature, time dimension, human nature, activity and social relations. People and Nature. Man over nature: Sees man as…
1. Explain the overall concept of Argument by Analogy using the example of the Watchmaker from the reading by Paley as a possible Argument by Analogy. An analogical argument is an inductive argument, where existing similarities are used to conclude some further similarities between two things are yet to occur. An analogical argument can be represented in the following way. This form of argument is often used in cases where one thing (X) is accepted, and another thing (Y) is not. The Watchmaker…
Peggy McIntosh wrote the paper called “White Privilege: Unpacking the invisible backpack”. The paper provides fifty examples of her take on what White Privilege is. The example that I chose to write based on is “I will feel welcomed and “normal” in the usual walks of public life, Institutional and social”. The reason I have chosen this statement was I felt I could tell my story on how I do not feel welcomed in some social places, and I feel judged and as though I am being analyzed by my…
Part e1. In 1973, Fisher Black and Myron Scholes developed the Black-Scholdes option pricing model (OPM). What assumptions underlie the OPM? Answer. There are several assumptions underlying the OPM. First, the stock underlying the call option provides no dividends or other distributions during the life of the option. Second, there are no transaction costs for buying or selling either the stock or the option. Third, the short-term, risk-free interest rate is known and is constant during the life…
In this essay, I will be evaluating an argument from both moral skepticism and ethical objectivism. For clarification purposes, I will define some of the terms which I will be using throughout this essay. The following definitions in this paragraph are taken from the third edition of Shafer-Landau’s ‘The Fundamental of Ethics’ (2015). Ethical objectivism is the view that there exists at least one objective moral standard, and that some moral claims are objectively true. In contrast, moral…