Flat feet

A flat world is a sea of opportunities within a globally dispersed supply chain. Li & Fung defines and instructs the public how to utilize this flat world through network orchestration and competing network to network in a globally competitive economy in order to maximize the customer’s demands. This is not an easy tasks as the world is not completely flat and many stipulations cause companies in the global market to become stagnant. The following essay answers the questions of what is the flat…

Motivating employees The era we live in is rapidly changing and growing. Hundreds of new jobs are being created every day, and it is all thanks to the fast growing telecommunications and technology industries. Although tons of new jobs are being created yearly there are certain challenges that today’s managers are facing. One of them is motivating their employees to stay with the company. Fifty years ago this issue was not much of a problem, but with the rapidly changing world and economy we…

including an organizational chart The coin Laundromat business will take the structure of a company. The company structure will make use of the flat organizational structure. In the early stages of a business, the flat organizational structure is the most efficient because its chain of command is short enhancing quick decision making (Nuttal, 2004). The flat structure has a wide span of control thereby making it possible for all the subordinates to report…

“The playing field is being leveled” states Thomas Friedman in his bestselling book The world is Flat.1 What Thomas Friedman is referring to is globalization of our world with the advent of new technologies and communications. Gone are the barriers to collaboration as you can now reach out quickly and easily over waters, mountains and boarders to instantly get or send information, collaborate, or market. This leveling has occurred across many industries such as retail, communication and more…

Friedman 's “Globalization: The Super Story” is a commentary on the constant connectivity of the world today that is based on the ever growing world wide global systems, such as the global market, the various ways to communicate and interact between nations, and the invention of the world wide web or as we now known as the internet. This new system is a way to replace the previous system that was already established ever since the end of World War II, the cold war system. The cold war system was…

Citizen? Globalization can mean many things: internationalization, open borders, a process, an ideology, a phenomenon or an economist sees globalization as a step toward a fully integrated world market (Farazmand, 1999). In his book “The World Is Flat: A Brief History Of The Twenty-First Century,” Thomas L. Friedman spoke with David Rothkopf, a former Department of Commerce official, and he indicated globalization is a word used to describe the changing relationships between governments and…

connected. There are many things that have and are contributing to the making of a flatter world such as advances in transportation and overall greater wealth. However, technology is the driving force behind a flatter world. The forces that lead to a flat world Before intercontinental air travel, it was very hard for people to connect and do business because travel by sea was very slow. With the invention of planes that can take people anywhere in the world in a relatively short amount of…

“Globalization was welcomed around the world at the beginning of the 1990s. Different trade theories were used to explain benefits of free trade and market liberalization” (Hill, 11/2008). Before the end of the twentieth century, voices of discontent were starting to ascend from Asia to North America. Within this paper I will touch bases on the following areas:  Variety of trends including past and current trends that focus on the global market  Reason whether the global economy will return to…

This type of structure is common among startups due to their smaller sizes and the expertise differences among individuals. Flat organizations like every other type of structure, also have their own challenges. For example, within flat structures it is typical for informal hierarchies to be formed based upon individual’s seniority rather than importance to the company. Furthermore, accountability and reliability is increased greatly…

For this paper, I will be looking at the musical expression of the Yurok and Yaqui tribes of Native North America. There are two major types of musical expression for the Yurok, world renewal dances, and medicine songs. Both of types of music are sacred and hold a prominent place in Yurok society. For the purpose of this paper, I am going to focus on the world renewal dances because they provide interesting similarities and differences to Yaqui Deer songs. Yaqui Deer songs can be sung by…