Inside Job Essay - Jozef Wright Nichols (2010) states that Documentary films “mount an effort to convince, persuade, or predispose us to a particular point of view of the world we have in common.” (p.104) The film Inside Job, (Ferguson, 2011) examines the recent global collapse of the world’s finance markets. What position do the filmmakers take on this issue and how do they develop and illustrate their argument to the audience? Your answer must include comment and analysis on its structure. It
film industry is probably the most relevant example in this sense, with some notable crisis inspired films including Inside Job (2010), Capitalism: A Love Story (2009), Up In the Air (2009), Collapse (2009), Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010) or Too Big to Fail, 2011 (Dietz, 2011). 2. Inside Job and social justice Inside Job is a 2010 documentary film directed by Charles Ferguson and narrated by Matt Damon, in which the focus falls on the effort to explain how the crisis was generated through
RADIOLOGICAL, AND NUCLEAR WEAPONS: THE NEXT FACE OF TERRORSM A Master Thesis (Draft) Submitted to the Faculty of American Public University by Brock A. Lindsey Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts July 2015 American Public University Charles Town, WV The reality that countries like North Korea, Iran, and Iraq are working on ballistic missiles. And that terrorists who fly no national flag are trying to acquire chemical and biological weapons. -George J. Tenet, June 14, 2001 I. Introduction
dimensions in a specific operating environment. The performance differences between strategic groups are the focus for much of this research, but mobility between groups and the structural dimensions of industries have also received attention (Ferguson et al., 2000; Leask and Parker, 2006; Porter, 1980; Reger and Huff, 1993). As such strategic group research has developed as a central research theme in strategic management. One of the most notable aspects of strategic groups research is that it
2011038674 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 ISBN 10: 0-13-283487-1 ISBN 13: 978-0-13-283487-2 Brief Contents Preface xxii 1 2 Introduction 1 What Is Organizational Behavior? 3 The Individual 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Diversity in Organizations 39 Attitudes and Job Satisfaction 69 Emotions and Moods 97 Personality and Values 131 Perception and Individual Decision Making 165 Motivation Concepts 201 Motivation: From Concepts to Applications 239 3 The Group 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Foundations of Group Behavior
industry lobby, forecasts that employment in the “ITenabled services” industry in India will grow from 770,000 in 2004 to 2 million in 2008 (“The Remote Future,” 2004). Yet, employees and trade unions in Western nations are expressing concerns about job losses resulting from offshore outsourcing. The U.S. federal government and the majority of individual states are already considering laws that would prevent government agencies from contracting their services out to foreign firms (Schroeder, 2004)
Michael Adas for the American Historical Association TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS PHILADELPHIA Temple University Press 1601 North Broad Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122 www.temple.edu/tempress Copyright © 2010 by Temple University All rights reserved Published 2010 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Essays on twentieth century history / edited by Michael Peter Adas for the American Historical Association. p. cm.—(Critical perspectives on the past) Includes bibliographical
professionalism, and longtime interest in providing quality instructional materials for today’s and tomorrow’s business managers and IS leaders. Carol V. Brown Daniel W. DeHayes Jeffrey A. Hoffer E. Wainright Martin William C. Perkins October 2010 xix This page intentionally left blank CHAPTER 1 Managing IT in a Digital World The utilization of information technology (IT) has become pervasive. Businesses not only have information systems (IS) that connect frontline employees
the Googleplex, forty minutes south of San Francisco. There Brin and Page developed a work environment practically unprecedented. See the following Information Box for some examples of this culture that was designed to cultivate strong loyalty and job satisfaction and to foster a creative, playful environment where Google’s employees, mostly young and single, would be willing to spend their waking hours. By early 2001, Google was recording 100 million searches per day. It was also entering the
deals spiralled upwards, outright acquisition of biotechs became a feasible alternative for cash-rich pharmas, driving further industry consolidation. failure of a crucial product, Pfizer was undergoing a strategic overhaul with the loss of 10,000 jobs. An intriguing response to environmental change was adopted by Roche, which positioned itself as operating an ‘integrated health care’ business model. Roche was the global leader in diagnostics and the strategic vision was to move from seller of instruments