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Chinese Communist Party Billion Dollars Worth
2,412 wordsTwo years after the death of Mao Zedong in 1976, it became apparent to many of China's leaders that economic reform was necessary. During his tenure as China's premier, Mao had encouraged social movements such as the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution, which had had as their base ideologies such as serving the people and maintaining the class struggle. By 1978 "Chinese leaders were searching for a solution to serious economic problems produced by Hua Guofeng, the man who had succeede...
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Seven Years War East India Company
2,252 words"How the British Empire tried to enforce obedience through Taxation" Any historical event with-world changing consequences will always have two sides to the story. What most Americans refer to today as the American Revolution is no different. As Americans, most of us view eighteenth-century England as a tyrannical power across the ocean, and see men like George Washington as heroes who fought against the oppressor. If history and wars were that simple, everyone would understand them, and the nee...
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Women In China Role Of Women
1,562 wordsEven since the dramatic post- 1949 changes in China regarding the role of women, China has remained paternalistic in it's attitudes and social reality. The land reform, which was intended to create a more balanced economic force in marriage, was the beginning of governmental efforts to pacify women, with no real social effect. Communist China needed to address the "woman question." Since women wanted more equality, and equality is doled out from the hands of those in power, capitalism was examin...
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Health Care Insurance Private Health Care
2,007 wordsSpecific Purpose: To persuade my audience to believe the United States should have a health care insurance program, which eliminates private health insurance. Thesis: The United States needs a national health care insurance program because the development of private health care insurance and the lack of a national plan throughout history have lead to a deficiency in proper health care for many Americans. In the United States costs for health care are being shifted to individuals instead of the g...
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Total Quality Management Amount Of Time
1,109 wordsIn today's companies, new catch phrases and ideas are being developed each and every day. One of the more popular ideas that is circulating around these days is the idea of just-in-time manufacturing. Many magazines and newspapers have documented the efforts of companies to develop and implement just-in-time processes. The question can be asked, though, what does just-in-time mean? How does a company implement just-in-time processes, and what are the results of implementation? Just-in-time manuf...
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Federal Reserve Board Stock Market Crash
1,613 wordsThe Great Depression is probably one of the most misunderstood events in American history. It is routinely cited as proof that unregulated capitalism is bad, and that only a massive welfare state, huge amounts of economic regulation, and other interventions, can save capitalism from itself. Among the many myths surrounding the Great Depression are that Herbert Hoover was a laissez faire president and that FDR brought us out of the depression. What caused the Great Depression? To get a handle on ...
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College Athletics Held Accountable
1,684 wordsThe current institutional structure of intercollegiate athletics is attempting to maximize educational quality and athletic excellence simultaneously. Each of which will inevitably impinge on one another. Universities claim that their athletes are amateurs who are attending college for academic achievement and play sports in their free time. This is an impossible task for anybody. Higher education has entered the arena of big business with its athletic programs and with it many problems have eme...
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The Tang Law Code Of China And Japan
1,517 wordsDuring times of great political change, dynasties in both Japan and China were dealing with issues regarding stability within the state and maintaining power throughout their respective realms. In order to solidify and centralize their states, the leaders of these dynasties introduced ideas of governing and ruling in order to successfully form and maintain a united empire. In China this was done through the Tang Law Code and in Japan the Seventeen Article Constitution. Although both documents sh...
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Total Quality Management Customer Satisfaction
1,078 words... has role of statistical and quantitative methods (5) Recognises the different contexts of Japan and America." He goes further in saying, " the weaknesses of Deming's model are (1) Action plan and methodological principles are sometimes vague, (2) the approach to leadership and motivation is seen by some as idiosyncratic, (3) does not treat situations that are political or coercive." My personal opinion is that the work of Deming was extremely important to the success of TQM, and his model of...
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Benefits Of Tqm And Iso Quality Standards
1,335 wordsSince the establishment of ISO 9000 international quality management standards in 1987, many companies in the world have implemented the system. The number of ISO 9000 certificates awarded grew by nearly 27 % in 1999 compare to 1998, demonstrating the impact of ISOs quality management standards on business activities worldwide. These are among the findings revealed by the ninth cycle of The ISO Survey, which updates the ISO 9000 certification picture to the end of 1999. The survey shows that twe...
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Human Resources Management Organizational Culture
1,560 words... nd more respected. Furthermore, they can greatly contribute to improving quality and reduction of costs. As Spence Laschinger et al. (2001) mention in their study, working in an environment favoring empowerment has many positive impacts. Firstly, nurses feel more satisfied with their work and secondly they are more committed to the organization. Meyer and Allen (1991) distinguished three types of organizational commitment, affective, continuance and normative commitment. The one we are refer...
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Wal Mart Amp Amp
1,109 wordsQuestion # 1 In Customer Intimacy and Other Value Disciplines, Treacy and Wiersema highlight three distinct "paths" or strategies to market leadership. They include operational excellence, customer intimacy, and product leadership. This paper will highlight how Wal-Mart has successfully implemented the operational excellence strategy, as well as consider future initiatives within this strategy that Wal-Mart can still incorporate. The discussion will than focus on the customer intimacy strategy a...
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Taking Place R Amp
1,640 words... ions are answered and concern is shown for employees (Hirschhorn & Gilmore, 1992). It is also very important that top management be very honest and open about the reasons that the downsizing is taking place (Hirschhorn & Gilmore, 1992). This will help to avoid much of the distrust that will normally come from finding out that jobs are about to be lost (Hirschhorn & Gilmore, 1992). If the company can communicate its vision and surviving employees see the personal control that they...
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B C E Century B C
1,550 wordsTime Keepers Celestial bodies - the sun, moon, planets, and stars - have provided us a reference for measuring the passage of time throughout human existence. Ancient civilizations like: China, India, Babylon, and Greece relied upon the apparent motion of these bodies through the sky to record and determine seasons, months, and years. We know little about the details of timekeeping in prehistoric eras. However, records and artifacts usually uncover that in every culture, people were preoccupied ...
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Balanced Scorecard Learning And Growth Perspective
986 wordsBalanced Scorecard (Learning and Growth Perspective) It is known that examining old measures is a part of strategy for a manager. Measurements are very important for evaluating performance. But, as a rule, managers rarely think of measurements. Taking it into account, new strategies and processes have been introduced. They help to improve a situation without examining old and new measures of performance. The measures have been organized into an effective measurement system: the balanced scorecar...
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Board Of Directors Ethical Dilemma
1,790 wordsThe paper is devoted to the discussion of the issue if corporations should be responsible to shareholders, stakeholders, or both. As these issues often become essential for the companies it is necessary to base their evaluation on the real environment with the application of the appropriate theories Should corporations be responsible to shareholders, stakeholders or both? A summary of the ethical dilemma In any environment, especially in public sector corporations, it is necessary to make the bu...
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Running Head White Evaluation Of Theories And Frameworks
1,607 wordsRunning head: WHITE PAPER EVALUATION OF THEORIES AND FRAMEWORKS FOR MANAGING ORGANIZATIONAL INFORMATION AND INTELLECTUAL ASSETS White Paper Evaluation of Theories and Frameworks for Managing Organizational Information and Intellectual Assets White Paper Evaluation of Theories and Frameworks for Managing Organizational Information and Intellectual Assets Executive Summary The present paper emphasizes on the growing importance of information and intellectual assets for the companies and the necess...
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Prentice Hall Public Sector
2,581 wordsOrganizational Social Work Organizations are socially constructed phenomena. A crucial task for organizational research and evaluation is to analyze how and why people construct organizations rather than other social forms. In this paper, we will elaborate on the recent public-sector reforms in US and how they can be interpreted and evaluated as attempts at constructing organizations. Social service entities that could formerly be described as agents or arenas have been transformed into 'more co...
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Mandatory Safe Nurse To Patient Ratios
1,962 wordsMandatory Safe Nurse to Patient Ratios There is a constant conflict within the medical community regarding appropriate nurse to patient ratios. (Tieman, 10) By this moment, California has been the first state to pass the Safe Staffing Law (A. B. 394) mandating minimum ratios was enacted in October 1999 in response to legislators' concerns that quality of patient care is jeopardized because of staffing changes implemented in response to managed care. Now, the whole country may learn from the Cali...
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Five Year Plan Labor Movement
1,532 words... wishes found themselves in prison or in exile. Impeachment proceedings removed opposition from the Supreme Court. A malleable Senate and Chamber of Deputies soon gagged the few members who dared to criticize the presidency. Intervention in the provinces removed governors or legislators opposed to Peron. The universities and schools quickly lost their independence; students and faculty either acquiesced or Left Argentina. Radio stations and newspapers became government propaganda outlets. Sec...
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