Intercultural competencies Introduction Intercultural competencies are attributes, skills, and knowledge that are vital in culturally diverse environments. Intercultural competencies can be used in the workplace or during an international experience. Nike is a company whose headquarters are located in America. Nike is engaged in the designs, development, manufacturing, advertising, and sales of accessories, equipment, footwear, clothes, and services. Nike organization operates globally in many countries. Nike is divided into many sub-divisional sections, and they are all involved in similar tasks but are in different areas in the company. Many teams, for example, are responsible for departments such as women’s and men’s athletes. These departments are broken down by different sport categories, and each region has various departments. Nike operates in all seven continents since the year two thousand and ten, and there was the creation of subdivisions to track the productivity of each different region. Different reports from these various departments help Nike to view its strengths and weaknesses. Therefore, the company will be able to come up with decisions that will help the company grow. Communication in an organization…

Waste laws and regulations The EPA poses regulations on the households, manufacturing solid, industrial, and hazardous waste beneath the resource conservation and recovery act. Which main objective and theme are protecting the people from risks of waste disposal and then the maintenance of energy or natural resources through recycling or recovery, reduction or elimination of waste and cleaning up of residue that happens to have spilled, leaked or happens to be disposed of improperly (Bergeson, 2016). Hazardous waste The resource conservation and recovery act develops a program or a system used for controlling dangerous waste on timely basis generation until its ultimate disposal Hazardous waste storage, treatment, recycling and disposal To its maximum potential, the EPA has tried the level best in establishing hazardous waste regulation that creates a balance on the conservation of resources with the surety of protecting the human surrounding and health. Most hazardous waste can be recycled efficiently and safely, with others being treated and disposed of in incinerators and landfills. Recycling of the waste is beneficial to the environment and human beings, inclusive of the…

WATER TECHNOLOGY BWT (Best Water Technology) is a manufacturing company in Austria that makes water treatment systems for a wide range of fields; home, commercial and industrial; using various technologies; fuel cell membranes, decarbonization, ion exchange fibers, and many others. The company has a jug with a filter that is more economical compared to other bottled mineral water. In Germany, water is the number one beverage product. The company is trying to meet market demand by providing a quality and economical product. The jug water filter uses magnesium technology. This technology does not filter out magnesium in water, thus improving the mineral content in the water and the taste of the water. The product actively competes bottled mineral water in the market. The table jug water filter is environmentally friendly, and only the filter is replaced. There is a business case to market the water filter enabling the consumer to know about their product. There is much information required that is missing in their business case to develop the BWT jug water filter in my country. The type of water…

Global Manufacturing and Asia Humans and environment interaction has both costs and benefits. Industrialization and urbanization are mostly associated with adverse implications on climate. While economies, such as China, continue to advance industrialization, locals face pollution-related adversities. Today, failure to address the negative impacts of human activity on the environment contributes to the widespread public health problems, droughts, and floods. Humans release numerous toxic substances to air, soil, and water, which cause chronic illnesses. Environmental pollution affects people from all backgrounds. For instance, in China, approximately 4000 deaths every day are associated with air pollution (“Air pollution in China,” 2015). Additionally, Water pollution leads to infections, such as cholera and typhoid (Galvani, Bauch, Anand, Singer & Levin, 2016). Similarly, soil pollutants, including lead, are risk factors for certain types of cancer, such as leukemia. Lead exposure to young children also affects their central nervous system, as well as brain development.  Hence, human interaction with the environment is causing public health burdens, as well as high mortality. Human activity is the major cause of global warming. Industries, factories, and auto-motives emit…

Lean Manufacturing and “Blue Ocean” Ideas.   Lean Philosophy. Samsung, founded in 1938 by Lee Byung-Chull, is an electronics company. The company has its headquarters in South Korea, but it operates globally with assembly plants in more than 80 countries. In the smartphone market, Samsung is the second largest manufacturer and seller of smartphones. This paper will discuss the Lean Philosophy concerning Samsung as a phone manufacturing organisation. According to an article by Fortunly, Samsung has a market share of 31.13% as of July 2019(Dautovic 2019). However, the sale of its flagship device Samsung S10 sold way less than Samsung had expected (Scott 2019). This loss is due to the overcrowding of the sale of flagship devices (Cecere et al. 2015) from brands such as Apple, Huawei, Oppo, Oneplus, Vivo, and even LG. As a result, the brand introduced a series of budget phones. However, these phones labelled as budget phones in countries such as in the USA, are costly in third world countries, especially those in Africa. Therefore, the company can increase sales in these countries by using the…

Recommendation regarding whether to Relocate ABCs manufacturing Operations to China             On the social and ethical responsibility that the board of directors of ABC Company has is the need for a logical response to the issues that the company has at hand. One of the issues is the ability to maintain the employees and to resolve the unrest by the union of workers in the reading area. The union is guided by the labor law and therefore the workers have to be considered in this quest to solve this employee unrest and dispute. The board ought to be able to uphold their ethical responsibility, they should be able to conduct this process in a manner that upholds the ethical standards of this company as guided by section 406 of the Sarbanes Oxley Act (United States Congress 2002). It is only evident of the sacrifice that is made by the employees over the years. Given that our employees have been working with the company for over 20 years. The integrity of the company ought to show in this kind of instance. The…

INDUSTRIAL MANUFACTURING OF VITAMIN B2 Introduction Vitamin B2, also called Riboflavin, is an essential part of human and animal diets. Primarily, the vitamin serves as the precursor for flavoenzymes – flavin mononucleotide (FMN) and flavin adenine dinucleotide (FAD) – which are central in redox reactions. Storhas and Metz (2013) explain that these enzymes are generally referred to as flavins, and they participate centrally in the metabolism of critical chemicals in the biological system, such as carbohydrates, fats, ketone bodies, and proteins. Other functions of riboflavin include participation in the metabolism of other vitamins like vitamins A, B3 and B6, recycling of glutathione and homocysteine metabolism. The vitamin is categorized among essential nutrients. Essential nutrients are the ones that the body cannot naturally produce and, therefore, must be supplied in the diet. From the assertion, it is clear that the vitamin cannot be synthesized in the body, and an individual must, therefore, make efforts to supply it by taking diets rich in it (Storhas & Metz, 2013). For this reason, thus, the industrial manufacture of the vitamin becomes appropriate. Its production…

Supply Chain for Tea Manufacturing Problem: Management of complex supply chain in the tea factory. Alternative: Engagement of third party distributors. Rationale: Third-party distributors will reduce the workload of the firm and the supply chain will be managed efficiently. Answer 2 Problem: Contrasting and comparing the challenges of Fteh and bottled Goteh. The main problem is the decrease in glass bottles in the factory. Alternative: The firm should allow third-party distributors should manage the supply chain and increase the production of glass bottles. Rationale: The firm will be having enough glass bottles in the factory in case there are unreturned glass bottles from wholesalers and retailers. There will be no production stoppage. In the beverage industry, there are two types of packaging; Return Glass Bottle (RGB) and one-way product (OWP). Both Fteh and Goteh have some products that are packed in a glass bottle. The company faces a challenge in managing the glass bottles. Forward buying and errors in forecasting may result in a decrease in glass bottles in the factory. The company will be requiring the bottles in the…

Bridge Materials and Manufacturing Methods in the US Introduction Approximately 600,000 bridges have been established in both water ways, dry land depressions and other types of roads in United States. Various bridges use complex designs of constructions such as arches, cables or triangular shaped filled trusses to connect the road space between towers or columns. Nevertheless the work horse of any highway bridge system is comparatively modest and cheap solid beam balance. Also termed as Girder Bridge a beam bridge is used to cover a maximum distance of 76 meters. If the distance is longer several girder bridges may be connected in a series to cover that distance, commonly known as continuous span (Xiang, et al, pg. 973). Girder Bridge A girder bridge is composed of a horizontal slab which has some supporters at the both ends. The other objects are elevated vertically in order to support the support the columns which have less weight compared to arch’s. The world’s longest bridge known as pontchartrian causeway in Louisiana is made from pairs of continuous series of simple beams. The bridge…

Post A: Free Trade Zone in the US In the US, FTZs (free-trade zones) are known as foreign-trade zones where they offer customs-related benefits and exemptions from local as well as state inventory taxes. American government runs about 293 FTZs in its 50 states. Products considered dangerous to the general public, such as tobacco products, alcohol, and firearms, are not permitted into FTZs. Also, the selling of foreign commodities is not permitted within an FTZ. Texas, South Carolina, and Louisiana run the most famous FTZs within the US, which are determined on the basis manufacturing or production of exports per year. Texas City runs an FTZ (#199) according to the FTZ (Foreign Trade Zone) Act. In this trade zone, every form of merchandise may be kept without incurring any custom duties as well as other ad valorem taxes. The Texas FTZ has the mission of providing the local petrochemical companies and other businesses that engage in international business with a competitive worldwide marketing advantage that encourages the growth of their services and promotes the local, state, as well as national…