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Topic 577 Best Strategy

weloved — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 06:07:03 +0100

Some people think that the best business strategy is to find competent people and delegate as much decision rights as possible. Other people support the claim that a company should manage employees to achieve its primary objective, maximization profits. The issue is a controversial one but a closer examination reveals that companies need to control employees to maximize shareholders�� value. Read | Write

Topic 412 Centralization - Apogee Company

tovrkumar — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 05:49:45 +0100

In this argument the author concludes that the Apogee Company should close down field offices and conduct all its operations from a single, centralized location because the company had been more profitable in the past when all its operations were in one location. For a couple of reasons, this argument is not very convincing. Read | Write

Topic 418 Workers And Management.

tovrkumar — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:04:45 +0100

In this editorial, the author concluded that workers have no emotion to the management issues. To justify this conclusion, the author should reason why so? However, careful scrutiny of the evidence reveals that it provides little credible support for the author�s conclusion (in several critical respects). Read | Write

Topic 681 Personal Interviews

weloved — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 22:52:49 +0100

Some people think that potential employees should be evaluated based on objective information, so personal interviews are not necessary since it is too subjective. Other people support the claim that personal interviews are more effective way to judge candidates�� qualification for the job. The issue is a controversial one but a closer examination reveals that companies should depend on personal interviews to find better employees. Read | Write

Topic 418 Managerial Issues

weloved — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 20:15:11 +0100

In this newsletter, the writer concludes that the general belief that employees are not interested in management issues is not true at least nowadays. To substantiate the conclusion, the writer points out that a recent survey exhibits that 79% of survey respondents are highly interested in management issues, such as corporate restructuring and redesign of benefit programs. However, there are several problematic points that need to be clarified before we agree with the conclusion driven from the argument. Read | Write

Topic 114 Family Is The Deciding Factor In The Conditioning Of A Human

Manpreet — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 19:33:58 +0100

As someone very rightly said " mother is the first teacher for a child" and I would not hesitate to add that the home is the first classroom.When a baby is born it is the family which gives it a sense of belonging and warmth.As a child it learns everything from the mother and family as a whole.the siblings serve as the playmates and the baby learns the values of patience,teamspirit and respect for others.The family values are learnt and incorporated sub consciously in the mind and heart. In future these values would help the child make a decision when overcome with a problem. A family which has a happy and encouraging environment will produce a self confident and a inquisitive child. Read | Write

Topic 449 The Avia Airlines

harsh1234 — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 11:28:52 +0100

The author concludes that,"avia airlines does not need to recheck the baggage handling procedure to maintain or increase the number of avia's passengers". The author bases his conclusion on the insufficient premises such as-on average, only 9 out of 1000 passengers of avia airlines are unsatisfied with the companies baggage handling service. The author assumes several aspects. a few include: Read | Write

Topic 114 Family Influence Us Deeply.

Tonychao — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 07:19:19 +0100

When a man grows up, his family are always around him. He can get lots of advice from his parents. And his brothers or sisters can play with him in his childhood and help him deal with learning problems when he goes to school. His family will influence him from day to night. Read | Write

Topic 142 Independent

Sharkga — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 04:31:11 +0100

The purpose of universitties and colleges is not just for teachers' research and students' training to be technian. However, the priority of unites of school is not equal, I disagree with that at universities and colleges, sport and social activities are just as important as classes and libraries and should receive equal finicial support. There are several reasons for this statement. Read | Write

Topic 543 Processeing Plant Argument

tezkrishna — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 23:00:25 +0100

The argumet states that inspection of meat-processing plants frequently would be helpful in reducing the incidence of stomach and intestinal infections throughout the country can be cut by half and consumers of Excel meat procesing plants should be safe from inspection as it has shown more improvement in eliminating bacterial contamination than any other site. Stated in the way the argument fails to mention several key factors on the basis of which it could be evaluated. The conclusion of the argument relies on assumptions for which there is no clear evidence. Hence the argument is weak, unconvincing and has several flaws. Read | Write

Topic 10 Successful Life

TetsuFeb4 — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:41:21 +0100

Some people think that successful life would relate to certain amount of money, so many people try to buy a number of lottery tickets to hope to achieve a big money luckily. My thought is little different from this, so I need to declare what success is for me. If I can define success means the satisfaction of one�fs life, it would be approaching from one�fs hard work. My stance is there are no spaces for luck when people succeed. Read | Write

Topic 688 Emails From Employees Issue Essay

zsmit3 — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:35:05 +0100

Most companies, both in the private and public sectors, include email groups within their email systems, which allow employees assigned to various units within the organization to communicate to all employees within the unit. At least in the organizations in which I have worked, these email groups have included an all employee email list that all in the organization could access. Employee access to this all inclusive email group is both convenient and efficient, e.g., allowing departing employees to bid adieu to colleagues, to inform all staff when congratulations or condolences are in order and the like. Read | Write

Topic 657 Archaelogical Treasures Issue Essay

zsmit3 — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:17:40 +0100

For countries with a history of colonialism during which its people and resources have been exploited by European or other nations of the developed world, a reluctance to part with archeological treasures is understandable. These treasures, whether the ancient pyramids of the Pharaohs of Egypt, the remains of the first temple or earliest humanoids, or manuscripts of the Hittite civilization, represent the culture and heritage of a nation, but also a potential source of economic prosperity. Archeological finds can turn a country into a destination for the visiting world public as well as archeological scholars. Read | Write

Topic 581 Focus On Task Not Result Issue Essay

zsmit3 — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:12:11 +0100

This statement provides good professional and personal advice, in that an ability to detach one's self from outcomes can make the highs in our personal and professional lives less high and the lows less emotionally challenging. In other words, one is able to maintain their equilibrium in all circumstances (both the peaks and the valleys) if one follows this advice. Read | Write

Topic 808 TV Station Business Manager Argument Essay

zsmit3 — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:00:00 +0100

A decision to restore the time devoted to weather and local news to its former level is one that should be made with more careful consideration of evidence, data and viewer feedback by the business manager of the television station. The business manager's recommendations are based on certain implicit assumptions that due to a lack of supporting information cannot be proved. There are any number of plausible explanations for the decline in viewers and advertising sales; some would strengthen the business manager’s argument and others would undermine it. As indicated by the following discussion, data such as viewer preferences for consumption of other local, weather and national new services; the ratings for the late-night news program and the programming offered by competing stations during the same time is needed to analyze the decline in viewers and advertising . Read | Write

Topic 469 Scientists Working Hours Argument Essay

zsmit3 — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:49:25 +0100

The article posits that scientists due to the excessive hours they must work to advance their careers require good and affordable all day child care, and further that career advancement requirements be modified to allow scientists with preschool children to spend more time with them. The argument provides no details regarding the type of scientists it references (e.g., gene researchers, biologists, medical researchers, nuclear physicists, astronomers) nor the reasons why advancement requires 60 to 80 hour work weeks. In addition, the age of the scientists is not specified, but given the emphasis on child care, the assumption is that these are younger scientists with families comprised of young children. Read | Write

Topic 445 Fern Valley Argument Essay

zsmit3 — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:45:05 +0100

In order to correct a decline in both enrollment and admissions applications due to student dissatisfaction with teaching and library resources and re-gain the university's status as the most prestigious university in the area, the financial planning office of Fern Valley University recommends that the University initiate a fund-raising campaign among alumni to add new courses on a broader range of subjects and increase the size of library facilities. The argument is based on at least two questionable assumptions: the first being that the results of an undefined survey of students identifying the causes of student disaffection with the university are accurate; and secondly that the quality of instruction in the new courses will be better than that of existing courses. Read | Write

Topic 419 Consumer Retail Spending Argument Essay

zsmit3 — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:21:49 +0100

The argument and its conclusions are based on the uncertain premise that middle-aged consumers, a demographic segment that is growing at a faster rate than younger consumers, will maintain their proportionally higher retail spending pattern at department stores relative to younger consumers. However, the underlying reasoning excludes certain factors that seriously undermine the strength of the argument: the fixed-income of older, post-retirement consumers, and the phenomenal increase in the use of e-commerce for retail purchases. Read | Write

Topic 190 National Curriculum Issue Essay

zsmit3 — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:15:26 +0100

Nations should not require that all students study the same national curriculum. Such a policy change assumes that given the same material, all children learn the same and as a corollary all teachers are capable of teaching the same material in the same way. In addition to neglecting differences in learning and teaching styles, it would also inhibit creativity and contribute to a lowering of standards in public education systems. The uniformity would also lend itself to governmental meddling in curriculum. If every teacher is forced to teach a certain text, the government need only change that text to misinform an entire generation. Lastly, a standardized curriculum would also adversely affect students who come from lower income families, families with little formal education as they might not have the resources to supplement the educational resources available at public schools. Read | Write

Topic 562 Enterprise Process Issue Essay

zsmit3 — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:10:07 +0100

The statement suggests that the process by which a business or enterprise produces the thing it provides –a good or a service– is more important than the good or service. As a consumer, I would agree with this statement, but only to the extent improvements to the process by which the good or service is produced or provided increases the quality of the good or service and reduces the price of the good or service. Reducing production costs through process changes that eliminate waste is a basic tenet of mass production; one need only recall Henry Ford’s ground-breaking assembly line for the Model T, or refer to Frederick Winslow Taylor’s “Principles of Scientific Management” to confirm this. Assuming there is demand for a particular good, a well-paid, skilled work-force and a reliable, stably-priced supply chain –essentially all the ingredients that contributed to Ford’s success with the production of the Model T– such savings can translate into higher output levels and lower consumer prices. Equally important is the quality of the product; for any savings realized from the purchase of an efficiently-produced good that consistently malfunctions or just plain does not work are eaten up by repair or service costs. Read | Write