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» Economy and Money Essays and Papers
Power Is Money; Money Is Power
<view this essay>.... usually a very wealthy man. Wealth paves the road to a good education. If
the presidential candidate is rich, he either inherited it or was educated
enough to make it.
OJ Simpson's trial is another example of money changing everything. If
OJ Simpson had not been a retired professional football player, then the trial
would have been completely different. Because OJ was rich, he was able to
afford a very good team of lawyers. An average person would have had much less
of a chance at being found innocent, especially considering the weight of the
evidence. Supported by his money OJ's case became a media event.
When OJ had the trial, there was no way it .....
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Implementing Employee Assistance Programs
<view this essay>.... employees" (4). EAPs are needed so that the work environment is safe and productivity is as high as possible. This benefits the employees as well as the employers. The process of creating and implementing EAPs will be discussed.
It is important to define who the troubled employee is, how the EAPs are to be structured, and how it is that the troubled employee is helped through the structured programs. As those three areas are discussed, some of the statistics that make these EAPs necessary, or at the very least, helpful, will be looked at also.
The Troubled Employee
Many of us have seen Gus – he’s the one who believes that in order to ease the hang .....
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NAFTA
<view this essay>.... order to better understand , the most important goals of the treaty need to be discussed. The first major goal was to reduce barriers to trade such as tariffs, licensing and quotas. This was accomplished by decreasing or removing import/export tariffs from all three countries and allowing trade goods to flow to all of the treaty members without restriction as long as the goods met the standards as outlined in the treaty. Another goal was to improve working conditions in North America. It was proposed that by increasing trade and a set of standards that working conditions would improve through increased wages and newer safer facilities. Creati .....
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Corporate Downsizing
<view this essay>.... can have many reasons behind it and cannot be
avoided at times, there are simple measures a company can take to make the
process easier on the laid-off employees and those who survive with the company.
- STAGES OF DOWNSIZING -
The downsizing process can generally be broken down into three distinct
stages. The first stage is called the diagnostic stage. In this stage,
management staff pulls together and determines the amount of costs and expenses
that need to be reduced, and how much can come out of layoffs (Moore 49). This
stage usually takes about two to three months to complete. During this time,
the upper management reviews all financial records i .....
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Business Leadership
<view this essay>.... cannot be adequately captured in these external manifestations (Cashman). Leadership should be, must be, something deeper, more fundamental.
Thus, the pertinent question is, what is leadership? True leadership in business today is not as much about control and command as it is about service (Yow). A leader is one who can: look into the future and identify a challenging yet attainable goal; articulate this goal and the actions required to achieve it; and inspire others to share and commit their energies to attain the vision.
Keys to successful leadership in business are (Gardner):
Aiming High
Involving Others
Challenge the Status Quo
Lead by E .....
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The Automobile Tax
<view this essay>.... eight years. This would make the tax even more difficult to collect. The members feel that getting rid of the tax and slightly raising property taxes could greatly reduce this collection problem.
Not only would this idea reduce collection problems, but it would also save Dallas residents money on their taxes. Saving money isn’t the key issue that members are focusing on though. The issue at hand that the city council members are focusing on is one of equity.
This new raise in property taxes will help Texans to save money and also to help reduce the problems created by the collection of automobile taxes. I definitely believe the people are all going to be in .....
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Budget 97
<view this essay>.... particularly the unemployed, will soon
reap the rewards of 40 months of strict financial management. With the Federal
deficit dropping over the last few years, the Liberals feel that they can
balance the budget in the next two years. This is important because it will
allow the government to halt their foreign borrowing to finance the deficit.
This greatly helps the credibility of Canada and puts the country's destiny back
into domestic palms. With this said, Martin announced no new tax increases,
although the raise in the Pension Plan could be considered a hidden tax increase.
Martin announced no new spending cuts in this budget although cuts made .....
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DuPont: An Investment Analysis
<view this essay>.... DuPont in 1802 in a small Delaware town. E.I. du Pont was a student of Antoine Lavoisier, the father of modern chemistry, and when he came to America he brought some of the new ideas about the manufacturing of consistently reliable gun powder. His product ignited when it was supposed to, in a manner consistent with expectations. This was greatly appreciated by the citizens of the growing nation, including Thomas Jefferson, who wrote thanking du Pont for the quality of his powder, which was being used to clear the land at Monticello. Many other heroes of early America owed their success, and their lives, to the dependable quality of DuPont's first produc .....
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