We all have our own version of hometown heroes. As an entrepreneur, based in Atlanta, I could name as some of mine several local entrepreneurs blazing a trail for the rest of us — with both their company’s financial success and their leadership. One such entrepreneur is Kyle Porter, CEO of , which helps salespeople increase qualifed demos and appointments. Related:  We live in a culture […]

  Background For this week’s written assignment you are a manager at, Ad It Up, a mid-size marketing firm. Over the last five years you notice that issues relating to unethical practices seem to be on the rise. From minor issues, such as employees calling in sick when they should have used a personal/vacation day, to more serious issues, such as the inflation of hours […]

Paper 2: Development of Body Paragraphs, Part 2: Key Words and Signal Phrases Overview  This week you will be practicing strategies in writing to introduce multiple pieces of evidence into a paragraph. You will develop your body paragraphs for Paper 2 by using these strategies to include body evidence that creates a conversation about the subject. You will do this by working through comparison and contrast […]

With an eye on achieving better customer satisfaction, increasing organization effectiveness and decentralizing decision making, USM&R was reorganized into 17 NBUs and 14 Servcos. The unit managers, who were used to work within the top-down functional organization, needed to be transitioned from order-taking resources into strategists. Also, the new organization could not rely on the historic measurement system which relied on local functional measures of […]

Student Assignment for HC2121 in Trimester 1, 2010 2. How effective has Mattel been at encouraging ethical and legal conduct by its manufacturers? What changes and additions would you make to the company’s Global Manufacturing Principles? ____________________________________________________________ __ ‘Good ethics is good business and bad ethics is bad business are connected’ (Burton & Goldsby 2010). Mattel has been quite effective at encouraging ethical and legal […]

Introduction The scientists who developed the Internet probably did not realise their invention completely changed our world today. From how people communicating, connecting with social network, to how and where people work, Internet is now affecting our daily life in every dimension. Internet still and will continue change our life and behavior, according to data, nearly a third of world population are Internet user, and […]

reply1         Hi Maria It is a great post! I like how you explained the importance of organizational support and nurses’ role of  a patient advocacy. It is so true that organizational support empowers nurses to speak and act for the right of the patients. Physician’s support for the nurses to participate in the patient family meeting in order to inform on patient condition and […]

ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION APPROACHES AND THEIR APPLICATION Yona Shamir Israel Center for Negotiation and Mediation (ICNM), Israel (Assisted by Ran Kutner) SC-2003/WS/43 The designations employed and the presentation of material throughout this publication do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of UNESCO concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area or of its authorities, or concerning the […]

  Assignment Instructions Select ONE of the CBRN categories, then pick ONE particular agent from that category and based on our readings this term, place yourself in the role of a terrorist and offer your perspective of how a terrorist event could be conducted in your hometown, then provide your perspective on how to prevent such an attack and support your work by a variety of academic material […]

   I need between 120-150 words for each question 1) What have you learned from this class that will enable you to be more effective in the future in completing your Proposal and other dissertation milestones? What challenges do you see? How will you overcome these challenges? Use this information and the Milestone Guide to identify the milestones you need to accomplish during your next […]