Corporatism

Management and Culture Rationale of Great Cups of Coffee Introduction The culture of an organization is the foundation to its success. According to Noe, Hollenbeck, Gerhart & Wright, culture is defined as a “community’s set of shared assumptions about how the world works and what ideals are worth striving for” (Noe, Hollenbeck, etc., 2011). The culture within corporate organizations is no different. Organizational culture, or corporate culture, is important to HR because it determines many factors within human resources management. Organizational culture is the “amalgamation of values, vision, mission, and the day-to-day aspects of communication, interaction, and operational goals that create the organizational atmosphere that pervades the way people work” (Miller, 2012). Corporate culture is defined as “the collection of beliefs, expectations and values learned and shared by corporation’s members and transmitted from one generation of employees to another” (Hunger & Wheelen, 2011). This culture defines how policies and procedures are established, how supervisors and managers manage their people and how the general atmosphere of the organization is perceived. As with a well-structured organization, if the “culture is compatible with the organization’s strategy, it is an internal strength; however, if the corporate culture is not compatible, it will become a serious weakness” (Hunger & Wheelen, 2011). Problematic Areas Corporate Culture within the Great Cups of Coffee…

Europe, America was dedicated to being neutral in this sense, but they failed to after Britain decided that the U.S. couldn't trade with its enemy. As a result of this sentiment, Britain blockaded U.S. trade to Germany in 1914. With German submarine warfare, Germany decided that it needed to somehow stop American ships from going into Britain, so they decided to sink U.S. and British ships - if they could not obtain goods, nobody could. In April of 1917, Wilson went to Congress and declared war…

that conservatives are for deregulation of the bank industry in one sense, but then accept additional regulation in the form of government bailouts. As for libertarians, Long has borrowed a phrase from Kevin Carson which directly answers why some libertarians conflate the free market and corporatism. As stated by the author the phrase vulgar libertarianism means, “... the tendency to treat the case for the free market as though it justified various unlovely features of actually existing…

business transactions and allows business decisions to be made based on favorable personal relationships with business partners or political officers. The general case of patron-clientelism is the bribing of government officials to ignore policies and laws set by the state. An example is the Xiao Tian, a former member of China’s Olympic committee. Xiao Tian was found to have accepted bribes to disrupt official Olympic games as well as illegally placing his wife in a job. The disrupted games may…

Great Depression halted this growth and stalled social reform leading to instability. Argentine government began to fluctuate between populists democratic systems and exploitive military dictatorships. This irregularity in government caused the country to experience an extreme wealth/power gap within its population. Government instability led to spikes in corruption, poverty, and lack of economic prosperity for the country. Until the recent establishment of a democratically elected government…

to eliminate the divides between the rich and the poor. In addition, fascism follows a principle entitled, social darwinism. This philosophy embodies the dogma that those who are superior will prosper and on the contrary, those who are inferior will suffer. In other words, the philosophy gives preference to those that it claims are superior in comparison to those that are poor which, according to social darwinism, should not be assisted due to their inferiority. To reflect upon the words of…

Instead, the economic system of Fascist Italy could perhaps be best described as fascist corporatism. A system which exchanged laissez-fair for a new system of economic control that benefits state interest. Although, Welk (1938, 153-154) argues that, the system of Italian corporatism actually lies somewhere in between laissez-faire capitalism and a communist command economy. Therefore, in the continued existence of capitalism it is important to consider the key entity, big business. The Role…

It is a modern version of state corporatism, which emerged in the late 19th century in authoritarian systems and had several manifestations in the first half of the 20th century. In this system, society is seen as a corporate—that is, united and hierarchical—body in which the government dominates and all sectors of society (e.g., business, the military, and labour) are required to work for the public interest as defined by the government. Lobbying Strategies and Tactics Lobbying involves…

access. This makes the issues more salient to elite political actors, of course, in exchange for generous campaign contributions. In a nation where the Supreme Court has ruled in Citizens United that political campaign contributions are free speech, those without the resources to contribute are left with no speech. The idea that interests must compete for representation seems to be culturally, a very American thing – but is also a particularly insidious form of pure capitalist thinking.…

dictator of Italy. Another striking difference between the two leaders was that Mussolini didn’t have the views on race that Hitler did. While Mussolini believed that white Europeans to be the architects of civilization and culture, his views did not extend to hateful anti-Seminism. Another key difference between Mussolini and Hitler was how they wanted to dominate the country. Hitler's platform consisted of a "blood and soil" desire to connect with German's proud past, and focused on being…