BUSINESS SUSTAINABILITY AND SOCIETY REPORT 11   Running head: BUSINESS SUSTAINABILITY AND SOCIETY REPORT 1           BUSINESS SUSTAINABILITY AND SOCIETY REPORT Name University Name Date   Introduction Business sustainability is also called corporate sustainability and entails the principles of management that are used by managers to attain long-term survival of the business. Business sustainability ensures that all the stakeholders are actively involved when making critical decisions in a business enterprise. Environmental factors that are considered include social, technological, economic, environmental, and ecological. Management plays an essential role in ensuring that business sustainability is achieved. Triple Bottom Line is a tool that that is adopted by the managers to drive the tenets of corporate sustainability. BTL is used to measure three aspects of business success: social, ecological and economic which can be rephrased as “people, planet, and profit” (Slaper & Hall, 2011). There are various aspects of corporate sustainability that can be analyzed through BTL model; customer care, corporate governance, supply chain management, and public relations are some of the elements that TBL measures (Hubbard, 2009). Environmental…

CENTRALIZED BUDGETING 5   Running head: CENTRALIZED BUDGETING 1                 Debate: Centralized Budgeting Name Institution                           Debate: Centralized Budgeting Introduction In any department, budget planning is crucial because it directs the activities of a department or agency. This write-up will seek different positions on whether the budget authority should be granted across multiple levels in a criminal justice organization or centralized by a separate city or government unit. The position will support decentralization of budget planning, while the counter-argument will be in support of centralization. Part 1: Position Budget authority should be granted across multiple levels in a criminal justice competition. The reasons for supporting the decentralization of budget planning include: Reduced bureaucracy Involvement of multiple agencies in budget controls, planning, and allocation of funds helps in reduction in bureaucracy, which reduces the time spent in decision-making. Besides, members in the agency can have the motivation because they feel involved. The decline in bureaucracy ensures that the allocation of funds take…

Budgeting 2   Running Head: Budgeting 1             Title Name of the student Institution Affiliation Course               Budgeting for Financial Control, Management, and Planning Financial control is the system of tracing organisation resources through proper monitoring and measurement. These controls are there as a way to track reporting accuracy to prevent and eliminate fraud, thereby, protecting the organisation’s resources (CIO Whitepapers Review, n.d.). The financial control purpose of budgeting is used to determine the input required to get a specific amount of output. For example, if an organisation targets output of $10 million in revenues, it has to determine the number of activities or resources needed. There are three main models of budgeting. The first is incremental which uses the figures of the previous year to either add or subtract a certain percentage to get the budget of the current year. Then there is the activity-based budgeting which is a model that determines the inputs required to achieve the target set by an organisation. Zero-based budgeting is the most…

Burlington Industries v. Ellerth Citation Burlington Industries v. Ellerth was a case ruled on June 26th, 1998 by the US Supreme Court. The court under the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which forbids discrimination at work based on gender. Under the act, employers are responsible for employees who sexually harass their subordinates. Fact The case involved a female salesperson –Kimberly Ellerth- who worked for Burlington Industries. Between 1993 and 1994, Kimberly alleged that her immediate supervisor made repeated sexual remarks and gestures to her and that was offensive. She however never actually reported her supervisor and later on got a promotion. Kimberly was forced to quit her job due to her manager’s offensive comments referring to her legs, breast, and buttocks. Issue Kimberly filed a lawsuit and hence Burlington was granted a summary judgment by the federal district court. Despite the fact that the court believed the actions of Kimberly’s immediate supervisor created a hostile working environment for Ellerth, it, however, held that their employer -Burlington Industries- was not aware of the supervisor’s actions. The federal district court noted Kimberly failed…

BUSINESS MODELS 4   Running head: BUSINESS MODELS 1     Business Analytics Methods and Models Student’s Name Institutional Affiliation                             Business Analytics Methods and Models Descriptive Data are various methods and models within business analytics and involves the process of reducing data and summarizing historical data to make an essential decision in the organization. Descriptive data are used merely to provide summaries about some samples and the measures. For example, companies can use this to analyze their sales projection within a specified period (Bell, 2018). Descriptive data is used to present raw data in a more meaningful and visible way. There are four types of descriptive data, and they include; frequency measure, a measure of central tendency, a rule of variation, position measure. Predictive data involves the process of “extracting data” from a set of data to determine the patterns and future trends and outcomes. It can be used by businesses analyzing their current marketing strategies to identify the trends and results in terms of sales…

Honest and Open Questions Part I What feelings arose for you while you were watching Melissa Moody’s story, an excerpt from the documentary film Happy? Name the emotions and the segment of the story that evoked them As I watched Melissa Moody’s story, an excerpt from the documentary film Happy, I got feelings of anger and disgust. I felt bitter, irritated, mad, vengeful, disliked her sister-in-law, horrified, and uncomfortable with her situation. I felt like she should have avenged against her sister-in-law and remained uncomfortable with her situation and the events that led to her situation. I was disturbed with her sister-in-law’s actions, horrified, frustrated, infuriated, and more so disliked her and Melisa’s husband. The story segments that evoke these emotional feelings began when a truck ran over her as she visited relatives in Texas. The accident disfigured her face leading to 30 reconstructive surgeries. The accident caused vision impairment. There is a scene in the documentary (accident scene) where the audience can see Melissa treading over a muddy road showing where she had an argument with her sister-in-law who…

Below is the focused operational budget for the upcoming year in the Krona Hospital KRONA HOSPITAL OPERATING BUDGET FOR 20XX Revenues the upcoming year’s operational budget Inpatient $ 25,000,000 $ 27,500,000.0 Outpatient 15,000,000 17250000 Emergency Room 10,000,000 10,000,000 Laboratory 5,000,000 5,000,000 Pharmacy 1,500,000 1575000 Home Health and Hospice 1,500,000 1725000   Ambulance Services 950,000 950,000   Substance Abuse 250,000 250,000   Other 850,000 850,000 Subtotal $ 60,050,000 $ 65,100,000.00 Less Chartiy Care 18,000,000 18,000,001 Net Revenues $ 42,050,000 $ 47,099,999 Expenses   Payroll (including nursing salaries) $ 12,500,000 $ 13,750,000.0   Benefits 3,000,000 $ 3,300,000.0   Contract Labor 100,000 100,000   Insurance 300,000 300,000   General Services (laundry, security, etc) 3,000,000 3,000,000   Depreciation 1,500,000 1,500,000   Interest Expense 300,000 300,000   Professional Services 10,000,000 10,000,000 Total Operating Expenses $ 30,700,000 $ 32,250,000                 Net Income $ 11,350,000 $ 14,849,999     There are several ways to increase the revenue the hospital is gaining. One of the methods is to increase the charges over the patients. Increasing the charges by a certain rate…

Discussion Questions Optimism and how it relates to coping with stress by individuals. Learned optimism is a concept in positive psychology through which joy and optimism can establish. It involves consciously challenging any form of negative self-talk. Generally, learned optimism entails developing the ability to view and perceive the world from a positive angle. It enables individuals to replace negative thoughts with positive ones to become more optimistic. Learned optimism is associated with several benefits, including improving the mechanism for copying by individuals. Learned optimism allows an individual to encounter less stress and enables them to manage with is better. They tend to develop more resilience and recover from adversity more quickly than being overwhelmed by adverse events. Learned optimism enhances positive changes that assist people in improving their lives. Studies indicate that there is a positive relationship between coping flexibility and learned optimism. This is because optimistic people exhibit approach-oriented coping, which allows them to cope with stress more flexibly than pessimistic people. Therefore, learned optimism promotes flexible coping by directing people to focus on positive aspects of their…

Exploring Case Studies Related to Discrimination   Quong Wing employed two white waitresses in his restaurant and was found guilty of violating the Saskatchewan law to prohibit white women from working for chinamen in 1912. However, Quong Wing challenged the law asserting that it was not within its jurisdiction province. The outcome is that he lost the case, and an appeal was denied with the court declaring that Saskatchewan acted based on its rights (“Quong-wing v. The King – SCC cases (Lexum),” 2012). Consequently, the court discovered that Saskatchewan had working conditions legislated from white girls and women within its power. The minority group that was being discriminated against is the Chinese in Canadian society. Defining legislatures for who one can work for seems rather odd since they are not forced to provide labor. The implication is that segregation was termed as the community’s norm when owning from facts that the women were not moved, and Quong Wing was denied an appeal. The case occurred on Quong Wing occurred in 1914. Fred Christie case In the case of Fred Christie…

The Mainstream Publishing Pitfalls For a long time, especially in the “bad old days,” self-publishing was considered unprofessional, selfish, and massively associated with low-quality writers. Unfortunately, this mentality still exists; however, the emergence of the internet has gradually eliminated this narrative. At the same time, with the increase in the number of writers, more and more writers are now opting to self-publish their work. In fact, this content publishing method has proven to be more beneficial and less exhausting for writers. Slowly, writers are leaving mainstream publishing for the newly found and accepted haven; self-publishing. To understand the reason for the “exodus,” we will account for some of the pitfalls associated with mainstream publishing. They include; Time-consuming If you are new in the writing business, it very difficult to find a publishing company. It might take years before you get signed by a publishing company. If you lucky enough to be accepted by the “big boys” in the game, it might take even a year before the paperwork to contract you is complete. Afterward, it might take at least two…