Recycling and littering is a worldwide headache with hundreds of communities affected by this matter in question. Coupled with this dilemma, Earth inhabits seven billion souls who are roaming each region on Earth, and with only room for two billion more we are running low on our resources since it takes millions of years to recover what we utilize in twenty-four hours. Beside of running […]

Atlantic Aquaculture, Inc. Capital Budgeting with Staged Entry Question 1 A. Even though Atlantic Aquaculture already bought the land needed for 300,000 USD, its value today is 900,000 USD. We can, therefore, conclude the 900,000 USD is an opportunity cost as the land can be sold at this value. B. In this case, it is best for the company to use the option of land […]

Brands, menus and packaging. Packaging: As you can see from these two differing Big Mac packages McDonalds has had to change the appearance of its packaging in order to continue to compete with the new healthy living culture. McDonalds now puts full colour pictures of there burgers on the box, so as to give the impression that all the meat and other ingredients in the […]

Since 1970, United States of America has seen a considerable amount of immigration because of economic chaos and civil wars in Latin American countries. The fight between the government of El Salvador and leftist guerrillas in 1980 brought about 500,000 immigrants to United States. They settled primarily in California, Florida, Massachusetts, and Washington, D. C. The civil war in Nicaragua in the year 1980 drove […]

To understand the importance of organizational and national culture to a business is to look at the individual in relation to the group individuals’ level in an organization. A habit is to an individual as a culture is to a group of individuals in an organization. On this statement one cannot overemphasize the importance of culture to business. A business organization functions on the contribution […]

Organizational culture refers to “a system of shared meaning held by members [of an organization] that distinguishes [it] from other organizations” (Robbins, 2005). In other words, organizational culture is the collection of characteristics and qualities which the employees of an organizations or the organization as a whole, values and consequently seeks to preserve. Robbins 92005) put forward seven basic characteristics which make up an organizational […]

FULBRIGHTER’S INTRODUCTION TO THAILAND: ? ADVICE AND COMMENTARY Text: Scott McNabb, College of Education, The University of Iowa ? Commentary: Porntip Kanjananiyot, Executive Director,? Thailand-U. S. Educational Foundation (Fulbright) The following essay has been written to provide orientation thoughts for American scholars who are embarking on a Fulbright assignment in Thailand. I hope that it will provide insights that will help Fulbrighters to understand, appreciate, […]

Targeting companies that provide best fit for Coco’s own strategic direction and corporate culture. Determining success based on he level of post purchase retention and the integration of newly acquired personnel and intellectual capital. Cisco looks whether there is compatibility in terms of long term goals of the organization work culture and geographical proximity. 1. Q. Investigate the approach that Cisco Systems has used In […]

When we think about traveling, we don’t usually think about the “side effects” that it might have. Now, I’m going to talk about one of them that is called “culture shock” and try to connect with the experience I had abroad. Culture shock Is a subject that’s been studied for many psychologists and can be defined as a feeling of uncertainty, confusion or anxiety that […]

There are many advantages to having culturally diverse teams in the company. In their book Workforce 2020, Judy and D’Amico discuss some important statistics. They stated that in the US the number of white non-Hipics would decrease from 80 percent of the nation’s population in 1980 to only 64. 3 percent in 2020 (Judy and D’Amico, 1997). This is important for a company to know […]