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As a leading Committee member in my community, our focus and agenda are to create awareness on why it important to vote in local elections.
Made out of residents in our local community, mothers, teachers, small business owners and neighbors we noticed a pattern where most community members don’t see the importance and urgency in participating in elections taking place in their local community. Regardless of who their candidate of choice is and what they represent, the voter turnout remains low.
In our efforts since creating our organization, we work on creating awareness of the topics that local community members care about, striving to show how their vote matters when it comes to creating change or establishing an idea they can relate to. Our efforts include phone-calls, flyers and posters, door-knocking, local community meetings, and social media ads and discussion forums.
We aim these efforts towards local business owners, families with children, and low wage employees in the community. These groups overall as many of us and others are consumed with their day to day activities and tasks to the point where they are not able to follow and be informed of new initiatives that are proposed, issues that may help or hurt them down the line, or issues that could help them achieve better quality of life. From data collected the low turnout is caused by not seeing any positive outcomes out of local elections, and not being in the loop and dedicate the time to know and understand what is happening. Our efforts create a topic for discussion for all so by the time it is time to vote they are part of the solutions and participate in it.
To fund such a project, we are in direct contact with local city officials and state officials where they can allocate funds towards helping us create such awareness through community meetings and ads, but the funds allocated are not enough to fund our cause fully. Residents also can donate to our efforts, with their time and money, and so accordingly and we appreciate all their contributions. Above all, we encourage our residents to contribute their time by discussing our agenda and local issues with their friends and neighbors and spread the word.
To achieve higher funding opportunities, we are turning to non-profits organizations across the country such as “non-profit vote”, “common America”, “Let America Vote” and more (Bustle.com, 2020). Such institutions assist local communities in reaching voting engagement in their community.
As mentioned above, the essence of the problem where the community has had low turnout in elections had been sourced mainly to a disconnect between local officials and the raising issues, to the day to day families and businesses that are the core of the community. While the issues on hand had the most impact on such individuals, they were least consulted or given a voice fo.
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Social enterprise for afp conference session two finalJeff Stern
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Enterprise Online Fundraising Plan and ResearchRebecca Higman
Enterprise Community Partners (a nonprofit national leader in investment capital and development services for affordable housing and community revitalization) spent some time wondering how to up their online fundraising results, and a whole lot more time acting.
The deck includes research topics, creating donor profiles and personas and six strategies to online outreach.
This presentation was first shared at the Network for Good and Maryland Nonprofits "ePhilanthropy 101: Effective & Inexpensive Fundraising in a Downturn" program on March 27, 2009.
Presentation made by Cormac Russell ABCD Institute faculty memeber, and ABCD Global Consulting at University of Limerick. May 2009. visit: www.abcdglobal.ie email cormac@nurturedevelopment.ie
We’re all looking to meet our “special someone(s)”— that audience segment who believes in our advocacy goals and is willing to take action on our behalf.
Yet, with the rise of social media and technology, there are more ways than ever to connect with your audiences online. Here is how to build a content strategy and meet people where they are:
-- Own Who You Are
-- Dress For Success
-- Make Every Interaction Count
See the latest of what is going on in the Tabor community in this February edition of the newsletter.
- A Personal Note from Nate Miles
- Doing Better by Washington Students
- Leslie Jones and Alexis Oliver are Recognized
- Regional Contracting Forum Success
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Enterprise Online Fundraising Plan and ResearchRebecca Higman
Enterprise Community Partners (a nonprofit national leader in investment capital and development services for affordable housing and community revitalization) spent some time wondering how to up their online fundraising results, and a whole lot more time acting.
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We’re all looking to meet our “special someone(s)”— that audience segment who believes in our advocacy goals and is willing to take action on our behalf.
Yet, with the rise of social media and technology, there are more ways than ever to connect with your audiences online. Here is how to build a content strategy and meet people where they are:
-- Own Who You Are
-- Dress For Success
-- Make Every Interaction Count
See the latest of what is going on in the Tabor community in this February edition of the newsletter.
- A Personal Note from Nate Miles
- Doing Better by Washington Students
- Leslie Jones and Alexis Oliver are Recognized
- Regional Contracting Forum Success
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Paul is a 31-year-old man who was recently arrested for shooting a store manager during a robbery. He has a history of aggression and violating the law, including burglary, robbery, assault, and numerous drug charges. He is a high school dropout and has never been able to hold a job. When he first meets someone, he can come across as engaging, funny, and charming. He has been in numerous relationships; however, in those relationships he was emotionally detached and parasitic, as well as verbally and physically abusive. He has a volatile temperament and no sense of obligation or responsibility to anyone. His crimes often display a complete lack of empathy for his victims.
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consistent with the so-called performative approach in social studies (K,apchan, 1995; Schechner, 2002; Warren 2001). According to this approach, to perform is to carry something into effect; hence, intercultural communication can be viewed as a process of carrying meaning, or cultural identity, as such, into effect.
When we speak of performativity or performance in intercultural communi cation, we must remember that "performance is the manifestation of performa tivity. This is to say, performativity refers to the reiterative process of becoming, while performance refers to the materialization of that process-the individual acts by human players in the world" (Warren, 2001: 106; boldface added)
The performative approach suggests that intercultural communication is per formed, like music. There are a variety of verbal and nonverbal elements (notes), with which people create various language games (music). Some games are quite simple (a routine greeting), while others are more complex (business negotia tions). In all cases, though, meanings are performed; that is, they are created and re-created in the process of interaction. People perform various activities repeat edly, and through repetition these movements become symbolic resources making up cultural identity. In intercultural interactions, to use Nietzsche's expression, "the deed is everything" (quoted in Butler, 1990: 25).
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Communication as Drama. When people communicate with one another, they try to reach their goals by using various language means. Every act of com munication is a performance whereby people lace each other (either literally or in a mediated fashion, such as via the telephone or the Internet) and, as if on stage, present themselves-their very identities-dramatically to each other.
The theatrical or dramaturgical metaphor for communication does not sug
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Introduction to the Organization
Type of organization
Description of and information about the organization (e.g., review Web sites, press, and published documents)
Number of employees or key members
The opportunities that were initially identified or issues the organization faces
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The differences between mandatory, aspirational, principle and virtue ethics are paramount to ethical practice. The comprehension and implementation of the spheres of each allow for adhesion to policy and a sense of professionalism.
"General Principles, as opposed to Ethical Standards, are aspirational in nature. Their intent is to guide and inspire psychologists toward the very highest ethical ideals of the profession. General Principles, in contrast to Ethical Standards, do not represent obligations and should not form the basis for imposing sanctions. Relying upon General Principles for either of these reasons distorts both their meaning and purpose". (American Psychological Association, 2017)
The literature and the doctrine parameters cause uncertainty due to the conflictual environment and obligations. Questions of conflict about perceptual tension, as an example in
Professional ethics in interdisciplinary collaboratives: Zeal, paternalism, and mandated reporting
(2006) are between an attorney's zeal or client autonomy within the judicial system relationships in contrast to the Social Services scope of interests of humanity and social justice. Since the adaption of roles and environments tend to adjust, concern if responsibility sways in the contention of the differences. Social services render a larger and more diverse "moral community" and their sustainability stemming from virtue. The judicial system attends to the political policy and rules governing lawful adherence versus deviance. Another spectrum is mandatory reporting obligations which are said to be more profound when ethics pursue and in the collaboration still clash. An issue is an act of ethics versus the 'command' according to an agency (Anderson, Barenberg, & Tremblay, 2006. p. 663).
The differences between principle ethics and virtue ethics
The general principles of the APA are considered aspirational. Simultaneously, therapists, psychologists, and psychiatrists, and similar social services are mandated in the ethical codes of conduct to act in the betterment and safety of others, especially those deemed incompetent or incapacitated to do so.
The difference between principle ethics and virtue ethics splits by social normative and subjectivity. Social normative are more definite by culture but still universal and often mandatory. For instance, law-abiding and humane acts from avoiding reckless driving, speeding, or operating under the influence of obligatory care of the elderly, a child, or the disability are mandatory. Virtue ethics are less objective and more diverse to demographics and ethnography. Like integrity, it is a matter of right and wrong based on habits, behaviors rooted in one's upbringing. For example, seeing someone drop money instead of keeping it is returned to the person seen dropping it. Another.
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4) What are some of the ways that human resource managers operating in local government agencies (i.e. municipal, county, school districts, and so forth) are addressing the skills shortages caused by massive generational retirements in the public sector?
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Data mining can be explained as the method to interpret information and hypothesis from large knowledge and data collections like databases or data warehouses.
Data mining popularity is increasing rapidly right now in the world. It is slowly becoming one of the most desired fields of work in the world right now. Data plays a
very big role in developing and shaping a business. It is because of Data mining that an organization comes to know more about what the market has demand for and
what their customers prefer and what they absolutely dislike. Data mining has proven to be extremely helpful in making valuable and important business decisions.
As described in the article” Business data mining — a machine learning perspective”, data mining has become an integral part of business development (Bose &
Mahapatra, 2001). Data mining has several applications in different fields of life. It is used in the field of finance, television industry, education, retail industry, and
telecommunication industry. Data mining is very valuable in the field of finance. Data mining help in data analysis to find a result in loan prediction. It gives an analysis
of the customer’s credit history and fraud detection (Valcheva, n.d.). It also assists in determining the previous money laundering trends and deduces a conclusion
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12.1 Innovation as a Tool for Global Growth
LEARNING OBJECTIVE
Identify three types of innovation that can fuel global growth.
Over 93 percent of global executives rate innovation as a key driver of organic global growth. More importantly, research
shows that around 85 percent of a company's productivity gains are related to R&D and other innovation-related
investments.
Innovation is the commercialization of new invention. However, many innovations do not necessarily build on new
inventions. An invention is a new concept or product that derives from ideas or from scientific research. Innovation, on the
other hand, is the combination of new or existing ideas to create something desired by customers, viable in the
marketplace, and possible with technology (see Figure 12.1).
Figure 12.1Primary components of innovation
The inputs used to innovate could be new inventions or they could be old ideas. For example, Henry Ford didn't invent the
automobile. Karl Benz from Germany did. However, Ford combined scientific management concepts with the automobile
production process to build automobiles more efficiently (Figure 12.2). This innovation built on existing inventions to
usher in a new industry with the scale to meet demand.
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Figure 12.2Innovation in the auto industryCarl Benz of Mercedes Benz invented the automobile (left). Henry Ford of Ford
Motor Company innovated by combining ideas on assembly lines with car production (right).
Most global managers struggle to get people in their companies to innovate. So far, no one has created a formula or model
that reliably leads companies to increased innovation. Some management approaches are helpful, but none is perfect. As
Dr. Brian Junling Li, vice president of Alibaba Group, puts it, “Innovation doesn't come from organized plans. It comes
from our preparedness to deal with the uncertainty of the future.” To understand how global companies can effectively
deal with the uncertainties of the future, we first need to examine the different types of innovation in which companies can
invest.
Three Kinds of Innovation
Different types of innovation have different implications for company growth. Based on those implications, we can
organize innovations into three types: those that improve performance, those that enhance efficiency, and those that create
a market.
Performance-improving innovations replace old products with upgraded models. Often, the improvements in these models
are consistent worldwide. Performance-improving innovations keep a company growing because they provide .
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Learning Objectives
After reading this chapter, you should be able to do the following:
• Identify strategy concepts, including the components of organizational strategy; generic strategies; diversi-
fication, integration, and implementation strategies; and blue ocean strategy.
• Describe the use of strategies for large, multiunit organizations, including the use of the Boston Consult-
ing Group matrix to discern strategic implications from the analysis of existing operations, and the use of
product/market expansion strategies and diversification strategies for organizational growth.
• Discuss tactical issues that are relevant to pursuing participation in a managed-care network.
• Delineate the factors that influence the selection of a strategy by an organization.
• Explain how operational plans support strategic plans, and describe how operational plans are developed.
Section 6.1Strategy Concepts
Introduction
After developing a set of objectives for the time period covered by the strategic plan, the strat-
egy necessary for accomplishing those objectives must be formulated. First, planners must
design an overall strategy, and then define the operating details of that strategy as it relates
to providing services, promoting operations, determining locations, and increasing revenue
sources. This chapter introduces the concept of strategy, and describes strategy elements,
approaches to strategy development, and how operational plans support strategic plans.
6.1 Strategy Concepts
The word strategy has been used in a number of ways over the years and especially so in
the context of business. As we discussed in Chapter 2, strategy means leadership and may
be defined as the course of action taken by an organization to achieve its objectives. It is a
description first in general terms and then, in increasingly greater detail, of the activities
the organization will undertake to meet its goals and fulfill its ongoing mission. Strategy
is the catalyst or dynamic element of managing that enables a company to accomplish its
objectives.
Strategy development is both a science and an art, a product of both logic and creativity. The
scientific aspect deals with assembling and allocating the resources necessary to achieve
an organization’s objectives with emphasis on matching organizational strengths with envi-
ronmental opportunities, while working within cost and time constraints. The art of strat-
egy is mainly concerned with the effective use of resources, including motivating people to
make the strategy work, while being sensitive to the environmental forces that may affect
the organization’s performance and maintaining the ability to adapt the HCO to these chang-
ing conditions.
Components of Organizational Strategy
The focus of strategy varies by the planning level: the organizat.
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known not to take the awareness as pressing issues that demand high consideration for the process of protecting and enhancing the security to be
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Guided Response:
Review your classmates’ posts and choose two posts to respond to.
If you choose a peer that selected the same student as you, address the following prompts:
· Discuss how your plans are similar and how they differ.
· Do you think you and your chosen peer have similar or different teaching styles? Explain.
· Do you think you and your chosen peer could team teach? Explain.
If you choose a peer that selected a different student than you, address the following prompts:
· Share what you appreciated about their plan and suggest at least one additional way to build a relationship with that student.
· Do you think you and your chosen peer have similar or different teaching styles? Explain.
· Do you think you and your chosen peer could team teach? Explain.
BRITTNEY’S POST:
I would work to have a relationship with Olivia just like I would work to have a relationship with any one of my students. I would start every morning by asking her how she is as she comes through door, ask her at some point throughout the day how she is doing, and ask how everyone’s day went at the end of the day. I would also make a point on Mondays to ask everyone what they did over the weekend and Fridays what everyone’s plans are for the weekend. Talking about a child’s day and/or weekend is a great way to build a connection with my students, as well as making it clear that they can talk to me if they need to, and speaking to them with respect, not like they are below you. In addition, it would help to talk about your weekend plans and your day as well. I think each of my strategies will make a positive impact on building a relationship with my students because each one has everything to do with them learning to trust, talk to, and respect me as well.
A few suggestions I would give Olivia’s parents to further build this bond is to suggest one on one time after school a couple times a week or a monthly recap with all the students. One on one time with Olivia would consist of Olivia being able to talk about whatever she wants with homework help and additional tutoring if needed. A monthly recap would consist of one hour a month where the student and their parents can come in for cookies and discuss anything they want. Such as, critiques on my teaching skills/methods, suggestions on material/activities, or just anything I can improve on as an educator. I think it is important to develop a relationship with every child because children do not want to learn from someone they do not like or who does not like them. Rita Pierson, who discusses how she, her parents, and maternal grandparents were educators and the value and importance of human connection. Pierson discusses how everyone is affected by a teacher or an adult at some point in their life. She then goes on to discuss how a teacher said “They don’t pay me to like the kids. They pay me to teach a lesson. The k.
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Respond to one peer in this Discussion Forum. Read the challenging behavior scenario they have created and use the Developmental Discipline guidance strategy to problem solve. You must include the following in your response: child’s name, how you will approach the child, possible reminder or private sign, describe how you provide time and space, an example of self-talk that can help the child problem solve, and a choice you can offer the child. Additionally, can you use humor to defuse the situation? If so, how? If not, why?
My post:
Collaborative problem solving is one of the guidance strategies to address challenging behaviors. This strategy is based on the notion that a child does not just behave undesirably. There must be a reason for such behavior. Thus, understanding why the child is having a challenging behavior is the start towards addressing this behavior (Schaubman, Stetson, & Plog, 2011). The focus is on building skills like problem-solving, flexibility, and frustration tolerance rather than motivation the child to behave better. Surprisingly, children with challenging behaviors do not lack the will to behave in a desired manner. Simply, they do not have the skills necessary to behave in a desired manner. This information is vital to addressing challenging behaviors among children in the future. This would be achieved through identifying the challenging behaviors, skills needed to address the behaviors, and partnering with the child to build these needed skills (
Kaiser & Sklar Rasminsky, 2017
). This strategy would help address Olivia’s disruptive behavior, impulsivity and addressing peers negatively. Reward and punishment may not work on Olivia. Thus, Olivia needs to develop skills to address her behaviors (Schaubman et al., 2011). One of the skills to develop is social skills to enable her to control her impulsivity, connect with others, and relate with her peers positively. Apart from this strategy, time-out or time-away would address Olivia’s challenging behaviors. A scenario portraying Olivia’s challenging behavior is her inability to wait for her turn during a group activity. She is always blurting out answers before her turn arrives. How can this be solved?
References
Kaiser, B., & Sklar Rasminsky, J. (2017). Chapter 9: Guidance. In
Challenging behavior in young children: Understanding, preventing, and responding effectively
(4th ed.). Pearson Education.
Schaubman, A., Stetson, E., & Plog, A. (2011). Reducing teacher stress by implementing collaborative problem solving in a school setting.
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Needs Statement and Management Plan
As a leading Committee member in my community, our focus
and agenda are to create awareness on why it important to vote
in local elections.
Made out of residents in our local community, mothers,
teachers, small business owners and neighbors we noticed a
pattern where most community members don’t see the
importance and urgency in participating in elections taking
place in their local community. Regardless of who their
candidate of choice is and what they represent, the voter turnout
remains low.
In our efforts since creating our organization, we work on
creating awareness of the topics that local community members
care about, striving to show how their vote matters when it
comes to creating change or establishing an idea they can relate
to. Our efforts include phone-calls, flyers and posters, door-
knocking, local community meetings, and social media ads and
discussion forums.
We aim these efforts towards local business owners, families
with children, and low wage employees in the community.
These groups overall as many of us and others are consumed
with their day to day activities and tasks to the point where they
are not able to follow and be informed of new initiatives that
are proposed, issues that may help or hurt them down the line,
or issues that could help them achieve better quality of life.
From data collected the low turnout is caused by not seeing any
positive outcomes out of local elections, and not being in the
2. loop and dedicate the time to know and understand what is
happening. Our efforts create a topic for discussion for all so by
the time it is time to vote they are part of the solutions and
participate in it.
To fund such a project, we are in direct contact with local city
officials and state officials where they can allocate funds
towards helping us create such awareness through community
meetings and ads, but the funds allocated are not enough to fund
our cause fully. Residents also can donate to our efforts, with
their time and money, and so accordingly and we appreciate all
their contributions. Above all, we encourage our residents to
contribute their time by discussing our agenda and local issues
with their friends and neighbors and spread the word.
To achieve higher funding opportunities, we are turning to non-
profits organizations across the country such as “non-profit
vote”, “common America”, “Let America Vote” and more
(Bustle.com, 2020). Such institutions assist local communities
in reaching voting engagement in their community.
As mentioned above, the essence of the problem where the
community has had low turnout in elections had been sourced
mainly to a disconnect between local officials and the raising
issues, to the day to day families and businesses that are the
core of the community. While the issues on hand had the most
impact on such individuals, they were least consulted or given a
voice for their opinion on the issue. Out of lack of time for the
same and frustration for many, voting turnout has decreased.
In my efforts as a leader in our local community movement we
are focused, and committed to focusing on the following areas:
· weekly community meetings led by community members such
as business owners, parents, teachers and such where they can
raise a topic of concern or area for improvement. Such a
meeting creates a topic for discussion not only during the
meeting but in other forums outside as well, up to creating and
adapting new laws and legislations. As a leader, I’m responsible
for my team to talk to local members about attending such a
meeting, finding a member to lead it, advertise it, and follow
3. through on all technical arrangements.
· As a result of such meeting, a leader we have created a plan
where topics and issues of concerns are discussed with one of
the above-mentioned groups by phone or canvassing. Members
will knock on doors, visit businesses and make calls to local
community members to discuss these issues, and let them know
of the ways they can participate and make their voice heard. A
possible outcome from such visits can range from participating
in a local community meeting, talking to a friend about the
ongoing issues, voting and more.
· Last but not least, advertising. Social media ads, local posters,
and signage in a non-partisan and friendly manner that promotes
the issues community members care about, upcoming elections,
advancing and opening new voting locations and community
meetings where members can learn more, influence others and
be inspired.
Community members that previously weren’t engaged in local
issues and were influenced by our efforts to participate in
voting and more community affairs have become active in their
community and thanked us for helping them become more aware
of their community's most urgent needs. They now serve as
ambassadors and role models for the community and create
more active voters and a united community that works to
improve their lives and for those around them.
As a manager, I 'm responsible to develop the daily, weekly and
monthly focus and agenda that surrounds our objective in
getting more residents to participate in the upcoming election
cycle through engagement. I will work with my staff to review
the streets and businesses we will be visiting the upcoming
week, the phone calls we have completed so far and the
feedback we received in these calls. We consider the
suggestions and feedback we receive to implement more change
in our process to achieve better results and connections with our
community. I work alongside engaged community members to
ensure a weekly community meeting takes place where various
community members will deliver remarks and open table
4. discussion.
Our goal is to achieve a 50% voter turnout increase by the next
election cycle. We are determined and sure that are efforts will
deliver us even greater results.
References:
O'Neal-McElrath, T. (2013). Winning Grants Step by Step. The
Complete Workbook for Planning, Developing, and Writing
Successful Proposals. 4th edition. Jossey-Bass. San Francisco,
CA.
8 Voting Rights Organizations To Know Before The 2020
Elections Roll Around. Retrieved from:
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know-before-the-2020-elections-roll-around-13156367
BUS500 Principled Leadership & Ethics
Case Study #3 Preparation
Golden Rule
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Case Study: When the Golden Rule Yields No Gold
Michael Zigarelli Messiah College [email protected]
Gary Page Page & Associates, LLC [email protected]
ABSTRACT: Zach Jordan (a real person but not his real name),
the owner of a small business in
5. Connecticut, may not be able to compete any longer in the
spring manufacturing industry. Overseas
competition has put him at a significant cost disadvantage, and
the losses continue to mount year
after year. At the same time, he’s deeply committed to care for
his handful of employees — people
who are dependent on him and who he considers “family.” Now
at a crossroads, he faces an
apparent dilemma: (1) gamble $200,000 on rent to extend the
jobs of his employee family or (2)
liquidate the business while it’s still worth something, sending
his employees to the unemployment
line during a bad economy. There may be other, more attractive
options and identifying them and
selecting from among them is largely what this case is about.
Framed from a Christian worldview, the
case comes down to this: In an intensely competitive
environment, how can we faithfully serve
employee needs while effectively stewarding the business?
The Case
Zach Jordan sat at his desk seeking the high road. It had been
his approach from day one.
Now, though, on day 10,001, that road was obscure. Or perhaps
6. this time there were two or three
high roads. Metaphors aside, this much was apparent: If he sold
his ailing company, several people —
good people whom he had embraced as family over the years —
would lose their jobs in a bad
economy. But if he didn’t sell and if business didn’t improve,
he could lose hundreds of thousands
of dollars in rent.
He looked at the pictures adorning the walls, pictures of his
three girls, pictures of his
employees, a photo of him doing his magic act (Zach’s favorite
hobby) for mesmerized school
children. Zach had a zest for life and an authentic love for
everyone around him.
Throughout his career, his priorities made that abundantly clear.
Zach had often worked
from home during his 30s and 40s, sacrificing business growth
so that he could help raise his girls.
He had adopted a “Golden Rule” approach to management,
paternalistically caring for his
employees’ needs, maintaining integrity in every deal, insisting
on quality, respect, and timely
delivery for every customer, treating all of his stakeholders as
he would want to be treated.
7. The fruit of that management style was a fiercely loyal
workforce — hardly any turnover in
twenty years of business — as well as an equally loyal customer
base. One of Zach’s eleven employees
summed it up well: “Zach’s the glue that holds everything
together around here. And he’s a great
boss, too. He treats us better than anyone’s ever treated us in
our other jobs. I’ll give you an
example: In good times and in bad, he’s always given a big
Christmas bonus. One time he even had
to borrow the money to do it!”
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There was financial fruit as well — lots of profit, at least
through the first ten years. His New
England Spring Company (NES) in Connecticut earned a great
return throughout the 1980s. But
8. international competition and a sputtering economy began to
take their toll, and in the 1990s, many
of Zach’s customers began to import their springs, primarily
from manufacturers in Asia whose costs
were a fraction of Zach’s. Profit evaporated and eventually
turned to losses. The past five years had
been particularly difficult, almost all of which culminated in red
ink (see Exhibit 1 for NES financial
information).
As he wiped some dust from the photo of the NES family
celebrating an employee’s birthday
(Zach commemorated every employee birthday with a card and a
$30 check), in walked his two
invited guests for the day. Steve, his accountant and longtime
friend, and Charles, a professor (now
emeritus), from Zach’s business school days. This was a
bittersweet occasion. Zach embraced each
but then had to share with the professor his reason for the
invitation: He needed advice about
whether to sell his beloved company.
Zach closed the door. “Thanks so much for coming, you guys. I
really appreciate your
willingness to give me some candid advice.”
9. His expression turned somber, as did his tone. Zach looked
squarely at the septuagenarian
professor and repented: “Charles, this place is bleeding, and it
has been for years. I’m seriously
thinking about getting out rather than signing off on another
two-year, $200,000 lease for the
building. Steve tells me I can get at least $750,000 for the
customers, the inventory, the receivables,
and the equipment, but the problem is this: with my financials,
nobody is going to buy the business
itself. So if I sell, it has to be by parceling it off. But then NES
won’t exist anymore and my people
would lose their jobs. And in this economy, they’re not going to
find jobs anytime soon, certainly not
much beyond minimum wage. I could take a chance and try to
keep it afloat, but I’m on the verge of
losing my biggest account to India – twenty percent of my
business! If that happens, I probably
couldn’t survive more than two months, and the selling price of
the business would drop a whole lot
more. But even if I keep this account, there’s no guarantee that
things are going to turn around. I just
can’t compete with Asia’s dollar-an-hour labor.”
That was a lot of information in sixty seconds, but Charles
10. zeroed in on what he considered a
critical issue. “What’s the chance of losing that account?”
“Probably about 50/50 next year,” Zach replied. “Maybe even
60/40. India’s come out with a
stainless steel spring that weighs fifty percent more than ours —
much better quality — for the same
price, and my customer is genuinely considering making the
switch.”
“And can you get back the lease money if the business fails?”
“No. I’m on the hook for that regardless,” Zach sighed.
“I’ve told you this before, pal,” his accountant gently offered.
“You’ve gotta get out. Either
that or cut your sevenfigure salary.”
Zach smiled at the welcome levity — and the irony. Two years
ago he had cut his own pay to
$31,000, less than what some of his employees were earning.
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“Funny you should mention that,” Zach returned with a grin.
“The SEC is stopping by this
afternoon. I thought I’d give ‘em your card.”
“Remind me, my friend,” Charles interjected with a chuckle,
“what your product line looks
like. And tell me how you’ve been pursuing new business
lately.”
“We manufacture and sell several types of springs,” Zach
began, “everything from specialty
stainless steel springs to springs for navy jets and helicopters to
common springs you’d find in a
hardware store. And over the years, I’ve tried to grow the
business through a combination of in-
house sales reps and advertising in the standard industry
newspapers, both in print and on the web.
Quite frankly, though, it’s been years since either approach has
paid off, so I’ve recently dropped
them. Bids are so tight that a sales rep’s five percent
commission required me to bid at my cost to
remain competitive. I was taking jobs just to cover overhead!
And the hundred grand I dropped in
advertising over the past decade has returned almost no
business. So basically, I’m left with no sales
12. force and essentially no advertising.”
“Sounds like you could use some fresh ideas,” the professor
observed thoughtfully. He was
often brilliant, Zach thought, but now he was simply stating the
obvious.
“That would be nice.” Zach was eager for a few hot tips from
the good doctor, but he knew
those were probably a few days off. “And there might actually
be some new business out there. But
my ‘fresh idea’ file is freshly depleted. I’ve also thought about
re-tooling as an option — you know,
create other products that might have a niche — but I’d need
about a quarter-million for equipment,
even used equipment, and I have no customer list for whatever
that new product would be.”
“Let me give the marketing piece some thought,” Charles
replied with characteristic
circumspection. “But in the meantime, tell me just how bad
things are financially. Do you have some
income statements handy?”
Zach buzzed his secretary. “Mandy, can you please bring me the
binder of financials?”
Mandy, as always, responded promptly, smiling at the
13. gentlemen on her way out. As she closed the
door, Zach shared with his guests that Mandy, his secretary for
twenty years, was recently widowed,
having psychological problems from the loss and in critical
need of the health insurance benefits he
provides. “My other office gal,” he explained, shaking his head,
“has a disabled husband and is the
sole support for a family of five. And the guy who runs the
plant has four kids, two of them getting
ready for college. If he lost his job at age fifty, I don’t know
what he’d do.”
The professor nodded; the accountant flipped pages in the
binder. “It’s not terrible,” Steve
said as he opened the books for Charles, “but it’s not
sustainable either. We’ve been losing money
for years. Costs are inching up, mostly because of health care,
workers’ comp, and raw material
prices. Salaries are exactly at market — anywhere from $10 to
$26 an hour. But we’ve cut everything
else to the bare bones. And as far as sales goes, we’ve been flat
for a long time, and we have no
expectation for new sources of revenue.”
Charles adjusted his glasses as he reviewed the statements. His
grimace told Zach that there
14. was no quick fix forthcoming.
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“I’m telling ya, Zach, cut and run,” Steve recommended,
preempting the professor’s analysis.
“I know you care about these people, but they’re big boys and
girls now. They can take care of
themselves. Believe me, they’ll be fine.”
Zach didn’t know whether to be irritated at or grateful for the
counsel. Maybe Steve’s was the
only rational response, but Steve was also ignoring the fact that
Zach didn’t want to sell out his
employees. Irritation trumped gratitude for the moment.
“Would you be ‘fine’ if your income were cut in half and if you
lost your health insurance?”
Zach retorted softly but firmly. “Would your family be ‘fine’? I
know you’re looking out for me,
15. Steve, but I simply can’t operate that way.”
“All right,” his accountant back-peddled with a shrug. “So
spend $175,000 to give them six
months’ severance. And spend another twenty-five grand to
maintain their health benefits. Will that
help you to sleep at night?”
Zach pondered the idea, but it seemed a bit excessive. “I’m
getting too old for this kind of
stress,” he said leaning back in his chair and rubbing his eyes.
“I’m 62 now Charles, which I know
sounds like a spring chicken to you. But the spring business is
taking all the spring out of this spring
chicken.”
Deep down, Zach desperately wanted his company to bounce
back. But that seemed unlikely
without some bold new strategy. And he wasn’t sure he had
either the energy to pursue it or the
gumption to roll the dice on another $200,000 lease. “Cut and
run” seemed like a logical course of
action, but what about his people? This “Golden Rule” spring
manufacturer recoiled at the thought
of repaying their loyalty with a trip to the unemployment line.
16. BUS399-01 Management Leadership
Case Study #2
5 | P a g e
New England Spring Company
Income Statements ($ in thousands)
2012 2011 2010 2009 2008
Sales $ 1,211 $ 1,282 $ 1,256 $ 1,294 $ 1,308
Cost of Sales
Materials 403 396 375 349 353
Production wages 390 375 362 395 399
Overhead & other 51 135 65 49 84
Total Cost of Sales 844 906 802 793 836
Gross Margin 367 376 454 501 472
Operating Expenses
Rent 100 100 100 100 100
Admin salaries 66 98 145 152 168
Employee benefits 63 59 52 49 44
17. Office & supplies 32 42 38 42 31
Utilities & phone 52 57 54 51 49
Depreciation 46 46 46 58 61
Other & miscellaneous 22 18 26 47 26
Total operating expenses 381 420 461 499 479
Net Income (Loss) $ (14) $ (44) $ (7) $ 2 $ (7)
New England Spring Company
Balance Sheets ($ in thousands)
Assets 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008
Current assets
Cash $ 98 $ 142 $ 121 $ 92 $ 119
Accounts receivable 22 19 27 38 41
Inventories 98 106 89 95 42
Other 3 6 4 9 12
Total current assets 221 273 241 234 214
Fixed assets (net of depreciation) 382 416 462 508 566
Total Assets $ 603 $ 689 $ 703 $ 742 $ 780
18. Liabilities & Equity
Current liabilities $ 284 $ 356 $ 326 $ 294 $ 314
Long-term debt - - - 64 84
Common stock 300 300 300 300 300
Retained earnings 19 33 77 84 82
Total Liabilities & Equity $ 603 $ 689 $ 703 $ 742 $ 780
BUS500 Principled Leadership & Ethics
Case Study #3 Preparation Document
Golden Rule Case
Read the Christian Business Faculty Association case study
(When the Golden Rule Yields No Gold) posted on Moodle and
answer the following questions (the text boxes will expand as
you type in your responses). You should focus on leadership
traits, especially as they relate to the specific circumstances
noted in the case. Post your completed document to the
appropriate Moodle portal prior to the due date and time. Please
bring a copy of your document to class on the due date to be use
for our in-class discussion.
1. What are the business issues at stake in the case study?
a.
2. What are the Christian and ethical issues at stake in the case?
a.
3. Where the business and Christian issues intersect? Where do
19. they conflict?
a.
4. What would you do if you were Zach? Explain your
reasoning.
a.
5. If you were an employee of the company, what would you
expect Zach to do?
a.
6. What do you think that Jesus would do? What scripture
supports your conclusion?
a.