.... careers. While playing on my High School Freshmen Soccer Team, I have been a witness to the necessity of being able to work with my fellow peers. If we did not work well together we would not have had a winning season. As well as playing soccer, I played saxophone in my eighth grade band. We all had to work together to be able to perform efficiently in the many concerts we consummated. Coming in after school for practices and smaller practices during the school day all helped us to unite and play music. This skill will enable me to work with other people, no matter what my personal feelings for them may be. Being able to use technology will be a profound advantage when I b ....

.... unity versus diversity, fostering innovation, and Global sensitivity. Now, I don't dispute that these are challenges that we as human resource managers are going to face in the upcoming years but I think that the technology revolution, AIDS, downsizing or outsourcing, and sexual harassment are going to be bigger challenges. The first item that senior human resource managers felt a challenge was pay equity. Specifically, high executive compensation compared to the wages paid to regular employees. It will be a challenge to manage the whole compensation process. The consensus of the group was that executive pay would have to move back to a more equitable di ....

.... income that they have to purchase items with. There was also concern by Yardeni for the "uncertain profit picture of cyclical and industrial stocks in the next quarter or two ahead". Yardeni also believes that the short term will be rough on "companies pricing power and profit "margins" because of the current disinflationary trends. He is also concerned with the continuing job losses because of downsizing, right sizing, and mergers. He believes that these things will "take their toll on employment and consumer purchasing power." In spite of all these short-term woes that we're faced with, Yardeni is still quite optimistic about our economic future. He recently ....

.... talents are valuable, rare, difficult to imitate and organize, an organization can achieve a sustained competitive advantage. In order to "compete through people", an organization has to be able to do a good job of managing their human capital: the knowledge, skills, and capabilities that add value to the organizations. Managers must develop strategies for identifying, recruiting, and hiring the best talent available. Develop these individuals in ways that are specific to the needs of their individual firms, encourage them to generate new ideas while familiarizing them with the company strategies, invite information sharing, and rewarding collaboration and team wor ....

.... own store when he grew older. Lazarus was in his early twenties when he left the Army. He didn't want to go to college and knew only one thing: "I wanted to work and I wanted to make money." Because of his ambitiousness and hard work ethics, Charles decided to go into retailing. It was his father's example as well as his years spent in the bicycle shop that gave him much of his business training. II. The History of Toys "R" Us During the post war years of the late forties and early fifties, Charles Lazarus anticipated the baby boom because many soldiers were being discharged from the Army and were beginning to start families. In 1948, he borrowed $2,00 ....

.... should be equal as a country should produce enough for itself to buy with itÕs given income (we must also consider imports and exports). From this perspective National Income statistics should therefore give at least an idea of the standard of living in a country. This is why this statistic is widely used in the USA and Japan. However, there are some criticisms of National Income statistics. The first major criticism is that of accuracy due to difficulties in the measurement. E.g. Second hand deals go unregistered. The second criticism which is linked to this is that sales in the black economy will also go unregistered even though they may have significant effects (bo ....

.... has devised a widely cited poverty index that reflects the different consumption requirements of families depending on their size and composition, on the sex and age of the family head, and on weather they live in rural or urban areas. Based on past surveys, the designers of the poverty index determined that families of three or more person spend approximately one-third of their income on food. Thus, the poverty level for these families was, therefore, set at three times the cost of the economy food plan. For smaller families and persons living alone, the cost of the economy food plan was multiplied by higher factors in order to compensate for the larger fixed expenses ....

.... about the changes brought by the factory system. In the past, they had taken great pride in their handicraft skills, and now machines did most of the work, and they were reduced from the status of craft workers to common laborers. The were also replaced by workers who would accept lower wages. The Industrial Revolution meant degradation rather than progress. As the factory system grew, many workers began to form labor unions to protect their interests. The first union to hold regular meetings and collect dues was organized by Philadelphia shoemakers in 1792. Soon after, carpenters and leather workers in Boston and printers in New York also organized unions. Labor's tactics ....