Transforming Leadership In Collegiate Admissions

The 21st century has seen the consequences of short-term leadership strategies, and the results have left little certainty, making long-term planning challenging. However, without a globally oriented, long-term, ethical strategy, some closed systems fail to adapt to feedback, risking failure. Universities face this challenge, and long-term planning is particularly troublesome for university admissions departments. To overcome these challenges and build on identified strengths, these departments must undergo self-evaluation and reconsider their leadership decision-making processes. In this study, we assess the operations and needs for stronger decision-making for our service learning partner, a public universitys admissions departments. Based on the identified needs, we offer suggestions for ethical decision-making in public collegiate admission offices. We identify needs through SWOT analysis involving an exploration of admissions offices decision-making challenges. Their strengths and weaknesses as well as the opportunities and threats are explained in the context of internal obstacles and external barriers, respectively. Then we establish a framework for understanding their ethical paradigm. We frame their challenges in the context of the bounds of human capacity for rational and psychological decision-making as well as the influence of politics, a capitalistic society, and technological innovations. From the analysis, we present transformational suggestions based on decision-making strategies that practically address the current leadership decisions faced by the higher education admissions office

Intercultural Human Resource Management: South Korea And The United States

The southern region of the United States has been recruiting South Korean firms to locate their manufacturing operations there.  Alabama and Georgia have been successful in recruiting Hyundai and Kia to build automotive manufacturing plants, and in attracting first and second-tier suppliers as well, providing an estimated 4,000 jobs to the area.  The mix of foreign and domestic employees and diverse human resource practices presents both opportunities and challenges.  As indicated by Hofstede (1991), management practices and values differ from country to country due to each nation’s unique culture and traditions.  Hofstede (1991, 2001) provides a framework for examining the cultural differences between South Korea and the United States.   Additionally, Hargittay and Kleiner (2005) posit that the cultural norms in Korea have been heavily influenced by Confucianism, while in the United States people have been influenced by the Protestant work ethic.  These cultural differences impact the following organizational behavior and human resource management issues: leadership styles, organizational structure, organizational communication, recruitment and hiring practices, job security, and performance appraisal

TineLok Business Case

TineLok is a one product company with a “cutting edge” product with unlimited target markets, not just in the United States, but throughout the world. Yet, what appears to be a simple enough product and company has evolved into a never ending spiral of corporate structures and owners. A brief history of the development of the product and then a longer history of the company’s formation, development, changes, and current situation are provided. There are strategic management, target market, corporate structure changes and potential growth issues that form the basics of the major question, “where do we go from here?

Marketing Tourism In The Galapagos Islands: Ecotourism Or Greenwashing?

Tourism accounts for approximately 7.5% - 15% of the world’s total employment and is the world’s most important service industry.  In heavily frequented tourist destinations such as the Galapagos Islands in Ecuador, the importance is even higher.  International travel is projected to double by 2020 with over 1.5 billion people traveling throughout the world.  Within the tourism industry, ecotourism is the fastest growing sector, growing from 10 to 30 percent a year.  While exact definitions of ecotourism vary, ecotourism is defined by the International Tourism Society (TIES) as “responsible travel to natural areas that conserves the environment and improves the welfare of local people.”  A subset of sustainable tourism, ecotourism has a natural area focus, which benefits the environment and communities visited, fosters environmental and cultural understanding, appreciation and awareness.  Because there is no universally adopted certification program for ecotourism, tourism operators may market their operations as “ecotourism” while in reality they are “greenwashing.”  Greenwashers are dishonest tourism operators who embrace ecotourism as a new selling angle.  To greenwash is to promote ecotourism while effectively doing the opposite.  The Galapagos Islands is a popular destination for ecotourism. Beginning in the late 1960’s, the Galapagos tourism industry started with about 1,000 tourists per year and has boomed to 148,000 tourists in 2006.  This has caused several problems:  growing human population, introduction of alien and invasive species, and unwanted by-products from tourism.  As a result, in 2007, the Galapagos Islands were placed on UNESCO’s list of World Heritage Sites in Danger.  Because of the unique biodiversity of the Galapagos Islands, and the increase in tourism and its negative consequences, the Galapagos Islands presents an excellent example for a case study in marketing of ecotourism.  Using the criteria established by the Mohonk Agreement for responsible ecotourism, this paper examines the websites of ecotourism operators in the Galapagos Islands to determine the extent to which they are “ecotours” or “greenwashed tours.”   The implications for conservation of the islands and responsible marketing are discussed

Answering the Cybersecurity Issues: Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability

Protecting the flow of sensitive information processed on computers is a challenge facing cybersecurity professionals. This proof of concept uses universal encryption of all data in transit with no hands-on management. This revolutionary process secures data in a virtually unbreakable system protecting the flow of data unlike any system available

Post-Quantum Security: CoreVUE Breaks Through PKI A Look at an Emerging Technology in Cybersecurity

Existing methods of encryption and key exchange are seeing their effectiveness reduced as quantum algorithms are released. This research and resulting proof of concept has created technology simplifying the protection of data in transit using a revolutionary post-quantum encryption key management system that eliminates the need for PKI