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Drugs And Their Effects On Business
<view this essay>.... violates the rights of employees, and rehabilitation programs.
Drug abuse causes many serious problems that could have been
avoided if the user wasn't on drugs. The problem of drug abuse has its
worse effects when the persons using drugs are responsible for millions of
dollars in equipment, money, or lives. Workers on drugs are not alert and
uncoordinated. Uncoordinated workers on an assembly line have a higher
percentage of error than their sober counterparts making for defective
parts and merchandise which will be returned by irate customers. This will
cost a company in worthless merchandise and unhappy customers who most
likely will not use their pro .....
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Consumer Alert
<view this essay>.... Alert's mission is to
inform the public about the consumer benefits of competitive enterprise and to
expose the flawed economic, scientific and risk data that underlie certain
public policies. Now, Consumer Alert is the home to the spare time of over
6,000 volunteers. Each of these volunteers donate their valuable time to
Consumer Alert for the sole reason of upholding high ethics within the American
marketplace. Anyone can become a member. The only qualification is that the
individual have a distinct and strong faith in competitive enterprise, a healthy
skepticism of government solutions, a dislike of government related monopolies,
labor, or business, .....
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Advanced Export Marketing
<view this essay>.... They advise the government on international
developments and on the international implications on the domestic policies.
There is alot of help out there for exporters but new programs should be
introduced and old programs should be updated. I will introduce a new program
where anybody can apply for help in exporting which will be called " A FOOT
AHEAD "(A.F.A.). A.F.A. will be fully examined and explained in the following
report and Iwill also show some very interesting improvements to the existing
government exporting program called P.E.M.D.
A FOOT AHEAD (A.F.A)
There are many problems facing Canadian companies in gaining export
competiven .....
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New Financial And Statistical Measures To Monitor The Success Of GE
<view this essay>.... recently wrote that "the hottest trend in business in 1995
-- and the one that hit closest to home -- is the rush toward breaking up multi-
business companies and spinning off their components, under the theory that
their size and diversity inhibited their competitiveness ... breaking up is the
right answer for some big companies ... for us it is the wrong answer.²1 For us
the new trend is the entrance into the service industry. The question must then
be: is this the right answer?
GE is expecting to increase its revenue by the year 2000 to $120 billion
compared with $58 billion in 1990. In other words, if the forecast proves to be
correct, it will obtain .....
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Postal Service As A Monopoly
<view this essay>.... for the past twenty years and if it is in the best interest of the economy for the United States Postal Service to continue as a monopoly.
The first time there was talk of privatizing the Postal Service was in 1979 when the Postal Service was losing vast amounts of money in the long run. But since the Postal Service is a necessity for America, the government had to subsidize the service in order for it to continue in operation. In 1979 the United States Postal Service had a cash flow of $22.5 Billion and was additionally receiving $176 million from investing(United States, Intro.). Even with this added revenue the Postal Service was still greatly under f .....
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The North American Free Trade Agreement
<view this essay>.... 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. Creating an expanded and safe market for exports/im .....
Number of words: 1916 | Number of pages: 7 |
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The North American Free Trade Agreement
<view this essay>.... to ensure that the United States retains its status as a world power in the global economy. One vital catalyst to help promote growth and neutralize the massive account deficit and foreign debts is . NAFTA, for short, is one positive effort that not surprisingly, has met with the opposition of many. In light of this opposition, it is evident that NAFTA is accomplishing its primary goals and encouraging the growth of the American economy.
NAFTA negotiations began on June 11, 1990 when former President George Bush and Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gurtari met to discuss the possibility of revising current trade policies. The thing that set the NAFTA apart .....
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The Essence Of Empowerment
<view this essay>.... effective implementation,
the role of the organization, and incentives to achieve and sustain actuation.
Employee empowerment, in its most basic definition, is effective
delegation. The new twist that upper management has been trying desperately to
achieve, is to involve the lowest level of employees in the decision-making
process while making them responsible for the results of their decisions. There
have been many documented examples of anxiety, mistrust and complacency in
employees when this wave of "new-and-improved, successful management
strategies" have been suddenly thrown upon them. Change of any kind will
usually inspire resistance, especially .....
Number of words: 1499 | Number of pages: 6 |
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