Midterm Question#1

MNC'svare complex organizations however they dominate the worldwide market.Knowing the background and nature of MNC's,answer the ff.question.









1.Question#1:Identify the benifits and disadvantages of MNC"s









Answer:Benifits of MNC







1.gaining a strong fothold into the international market



2.low cost locations



3.cheaper labor costs



4.cheaper raw materials and distribution costs



5.taking advantage of the many tax breaks offered by foreign countries



6.access to new technologies and methods



7.Availability of government grants.







Disadvantages







1.trade restrictions imposed at the government-level



2.taxes or tariff imposed on imports from other countries



3.Limited quantities(quotas) of imports



4.Effective management of globally dispersed organization



5.loss of jobs



6.loss of tax revenue



7.flexibility of operation is redused in a foreign political system and thus causes



instability.



8.competitive advantages of multinationals over domestic firms.







2.Question#2.Identify one MNC company and describe its operation.







Answer:MANPOWER INC.,first multinational corporation to receive licence to provide permanent employment services in Vietnam.Manpower inc..delivers one stop employment services solution to Vietnam creating job prospect, increased flexibility and effeciency.They are looking to set a new standard ia Asia employment services industry and they intend to become the recruitment partner of choice for those working in Asia's most dynamic emerging economy.Manpower Inc. is a world leader in the employment services industry, creating and delivering services that enable its clients to win in the changing world of work.The focus of Manpower work is on raising their totl workplace, enabling clients to concentrate on thier core business activities.







3.Question#3.Describe how the parent control/coordinates with its subsidaries in other countries or region.







Answer:Parent company that owns enough voting stock is another form to control management and operations by influencing or electing its board of directors.In a parent company, a company such as the one above starts up another corporation(subsidiary corporation).The reason is to limit the liability of share holders.If parent own several subsidiaries,and one of them gets into difficulty,it can closer down without upsetting the operations of the other subsidiaries.Selling one operation as a subsidiary is also easier because it is financially self-contained.Individuals own shares .In Parent>Parent owns shares in each subsidiary.Parent company tends to control its subsidiaries that do not sell goods to local markets in which goods are made.





4. Question#4:How is IT maximize or used by this MNC?





Answer:It helps to understand the relationship between networks and performance in foreign investment.Provide information that contribute to reaching objectives.





5Question#5.What were the weaknesses/problems encountered by this MNC from its environment and global set-up?





Answer: Weaknesses or problems encountered by this MNC from its environment and global set up is there is restriction of their trade at the government level ,effective management of globally dispersed organization .

References:www.reuters.com

http://www.investorsworld.com/

wiki answer.com

Prelim Question#4

1.Question#1.List down the ethics for computer usage.

Answer:Ethics importance,1.logical Malleability.2.tranformation factor.3.invisivility factor.
Social right and the computer.
1.right to the computer access.
2.right to the computer skills.
3.right to coputer specialist.
4.right to computer decision making.

Right to Info.

1.right to privacy.
2.right to accuracy.
3.right to property.
4.right to access.



2.What common forms of ethics violations happen in the internet and the organization.



Answer:common forms of violation happen in the internet is the video scandal.
And in the organization during working hour they use for personal leisure.

3.How does ethics affect the decision making of managers.

Answer:ethics affect the decision making of the managers it depends on their organization if thier employees doing right or wrong.





4.Cite a company which experience legal or social conflicts of pre-need insurance companies

Answer:CAP Plan Holders.

a.Describe briefly the nature of the problem.

The problem is Cap has stopped payments apparantly because bad investment had depleted its 25billion trust fund.And therse a forum parents were taking about plan holders whose children were forced to stop schooling. A 19 year old Francis Pobocan,a third year Mass Com student at The Centro Escolar Uneversity, and a CAP scholar said two semester ago he received a notice and penalties from the school when CAP failed to pay his tution, when family is complained,CAP sent a check which bounced.

b.How this resolved.

Legal action was being pursued in various fronts and urged the plan holders to stick together,despite the worsening economic situation in the country.

c.Who are affected.

the childrens and the parents

d what were the damages

the money that they invest them for the tutuion to their children for college and the reputation of said company

Prelim Question#3

1.Question#1.Identify and describe information system(IS) used in each level.









Answer:Refers to a system of people,data records activities that process the data and information in an organization, and it includes the organizations manual and automated process.used to store data records in a computer system and automates some of the information proccessing activities in the organization.




The Operational Level make use (TPS)Transaction Processing System.

Knowledge level information system they are in financial planning
Higher level-knowledge level information system.

Management level-budgetting system,cost analysis production mix

2.How do this IS help the employees and manegers achieve their objective.









Answer:Information system help the employees and managers by making of their works become easier and faster.They can make thier own jobs well done and properly successful.

3.Question #3.Cite a local or national company that makes use of these IS and identify the benifits and drawbacks/lapse of these IS.

Answer:

Prelim Question#2

1.Question#1:Discuss the pro's and con's of each model

Answer:Pro's are advantages or good things about a certain things.
Con's are dis-advantages or bad things.

sources of action are often seen in terms of pro's/con's reasons for and against are considered to clarify which is the most appropriete decesion.For example:if you were looking into a buying one house over another, you might make a list of pros and cons to weigh out the good and the bad and help you decide.

2.Cite a company that uses any of this model.Describe breifly how this chosen model affect the entire company.

Answer:Knowledge System Corporation.They use two models.Become established as one fundamental tecniques of oriented analysis.That marked the true beggining of use cases meteoric rise in popularity.Individual class level where state modeling provides an important technique of dynamic behavior specification.Use cases provide a great many benifits.One of this is can form the foundation on which to specify end timing requirements of real time application.

3.Question#3.Evaluate how an environment affects the organization and its management.
Discuss the pros and cons of not responding to the demands of the environment.

Answer:
Pros and cons of not responding to the demands of the environment, there is a possible that they can't make appropriet decision interms of sources of action, to let them decide or choose the right one.

Prelim Question#1

1.Question#1.How do you perceive information as a resource of a company

Answer: I can perceive information as a resource of a company by pretending as a customer to the target company,or just working them so that I can learn strategies from them to be compared if it is good or not.

2.Question#2.Cite a company its nature.Describe how the information from its invironment improves its management and business as a whole.

Answer:Un Habitat China Real State Chamber of commerse are looking to join Habitat business award.This award aims to recognize and publisize outstanding achievements contributing to sustainability,innovation,affordability.From this criteria people can have an idea to make this habitat business be success.