Office Article Reviews Samples For Students

Max Weber, Bureaucracy

Thesis: The main focus for Weber in this article was to convey concrete ideas about the office and the office management in all the jurisdictional areas. He has also enlightened the reader with the old and the modern ways of holding office and office duties. Weber lays stress on following rules and laws in the office. He also calls holding an office as an occupation towards which an employee shall be inclined to order to survive.
“ There is the principle of fixed and official jurisdictional areas, which are genrally ordered by rules, that is , by laws or administrative ...

The article entitled, “Live@Edu grows, evolves into Office 365 for Education, leapfrogs Google Apps for Education,” by Christopher Dawson.

In 2011, Microsoft Corporation; the largest software developing corporation in the world launched “office 365 software” that has unique and advanced features and applications for students, teachers and educational systems. Dawson, points out that Microsoft Corporation had organized a cloud computing campaign called “we are all in” before launching office 365 software in the market. However, most people did not believe that the plan was going to work, but the introduction of office 356 has proved them wrong. The author articulates that office 365 provides students with a powerful platform for sharing information, ideas, opinions, and educational researchers; an idea that ...

Human Resource Management

This article, written by Lisa Rein and William Branigin from the Washington Post, discusses a potentially severe lack of management in the supervision of work-from-home employees whose job is to review patent applications. The individual who broke the story let the Post know that the office “tolerates” employee abuses, later citing that the department often turned their heads in the face of these time and attendance issues when productivity was high. The culture in this office is a very relaxed one, mostly because managers and supervisors very rarely interact with their employees. This inevitably leads to a relaxed feeling of time and ...

Summary

Educational Performance and Persistence of Bereaved College Students is a research which was conducted by Heather Servaty-Seib in conjunction with Lou Ann Hamilton. Whereas Heather is an assistant professor of education at the prestigious Purdue University, Hamilton is a senior student counselor attached to the office of the Dean of Students in the same institution. Their research was fully sponsored by Purdue Research Foundation Summer Grant. As university employees, they are people who are in close contact with university students. As a lecturer and counselor, Heather and Hamilton have a deeper understanding of the behavior of these students since they interact with them ...

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Unicor is a critical part of the Bureau of Prison’s painstaking endeavors to reduce the number of offender reentries in prison. Unicor is the trade name given to Federal Prison Industries, or FPI. Its mission is to provide training pertaining to job skills to the maximum number of inmates in the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Provision of this training allows inmates to find jobs when they leave prison, and that curtails the chances of habitual relapse into crime. This, in turn, brings down the cost of corrections which have risen considerably over time.
Unicor works ...

1. Collaborative tools:
More often than not, the information technology department of an organization will not seek the views of other employees when introducing new office tools. They instead impose new office tools within the organization. Such organizations need to be aware that Software user experience varies between employees. Be it Skype, MS Communicator or Lotus project, for software to be effective, the users (employees) should be involved in selection processes. Only when their views on software’s anticipation of their needs, ease of use, content and effectiveness are sought, will communication be flexible. It would be a tremendous ...

Human life is sacred. The teaching about life is similar in its application in both religious perspectives as well as in nursing perspective. Just as the way religions such as Catholic Church view the aspect of human dignity, so is the way nursing profession view it. This discussion will focus on some of the major key principles of Catholic Social teachings and their application in nursing practice.

Dignity of a human person

According to the Catholic Church teachings, human life is sacred, meaning that it5 has been sanctified and should be given the respect it deserves. Their teachings also argue that human dignity depicts ...

Bowman grimly starts his article by referring to Staples Inc. current’s situation as a “familiar predicament”. He explains that the company remains profitable, but also states that the office-supply retail isn’t as prevailing as it once was. There has been a number of merges, namely Office Depot and Office Max’s case in 2013, which suggests that this is the latest strategy to somehow save the business.
Not a single favorable prediction is ahead of the company, as Bowman continues describing the maneuvers Staples has tried implementing. After its acquisition of Office Depot for 44% of the ...

White collar crimes are financially motivated and non-violent crimes majorly committed by people of high social status. The term “white collar crime” was coined in 1939 by Edwin Sutherland in his speech to the American Sociological Society.White collar crimes are difficult to detect and prosecute. Perpetrators employ highly sophisticated methods to commit crimes and hide the heinous activities through a chain of complex financial transactions. Punishment for these crimes involve: incarceration, restitution, community service, probation, criminal forfeiture, fines or disgorgement.

Bernie Madoff's $50 Billion Ponzi Scheme-Forbes Magazine

This prominent investor was involved in a Ponzi investment scam with the Madoff’s Hedge Fund. A Ponzi scheme is a fraudulent ...

The Effect of Medicare and Medicaid on the Social Work Field

Introduction
The American society is at the cusp of transformative change. With Baby Boomers of the sixties now reaching retirement age, the proportion of older people in society is going to increase. A smaller base of working population will have to support a larger slab of older people. As a result, existing frameworks of social security, Medicare and Medicaid would prove inadequate. New ways and means need to be explored to sustain the concept of an equitable and caring society that has been built in the USA. In this context, it is essential to explore the effect of the changing ...

The children bureau is an act that was to be established in the department of labor. The publication had the description of what the creation of the children bureau and how it will execute its services and also the resources it requires in its implementation and achievement of its objectives (Government printing office, p. 1). The bureau was meant to investigate and report to the department of labor all matters pertaining to children welfare and life among all the classes of the people of the United States with its focus more on infant mortality, birth rate, orphanage, juvenile courts, ...

The paper will examine the international organized crime in trafficking food and drinks. In the last year in a joint operation of Europol and Interpol much of the potential hazardous drink and food was seized in various countries. It is the crime that has not been in the center of attention, but nonetheless plays a very important role in the health and security of the worlds’ population.
The issue, the problem represents in the world has been stated by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (n.d.) since the organized groups has been active in the production and ...

In the article Chicago Schools’ Financial Controls Assailed in Report, Caroline Porter discusses how mismanagement and inefficiencies are draining the cash strapped Chicago Public Schools (CPS). This is evidenced by the financial report that had been released for the fiscal year 2013. According to the Chicago Board of Education’s oversight office, there were a number of deficiencies in internal controls and a number of cases of detrimental employee misconduct. In a particular instance, the report showed how a former technological worker had been suspected of embezzling more than $400000 from the schools. Consequently, Porter set out to identify the failure of management ...

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Article Synopsis: Lawmakers consider bill to bolster state tourism

The state of Washington is on the way to revitalizing its tourism industry that shows little growth ever since the elimination of state tourism office in 2011. The corresponding bill which is now making its way through the Senate would support necessary marketing and promotion of the Washington state as an attractive tourist destination (Baumann).
Currently Washington is the only state with no state-funded tourism office. This leaves near 155,000 people employed in the tourism industry with no financial support of their promotional activities. Back in 2011 the state allocated $3.8 ...

Judicial independence has been argued to be an abstract that can never be achieved. Legal jurists claim that the judiciary can never be independent of control of the executive, or the legislature provided that the justices are appointed by the politicians. The view is held across the judicial and political spectrum. As a consequence, twenty-one states in the United States of America have opted to elected justices of the Supreme Court. The election of the justices of the Supreme Court is can be contracted to the appointive system where the judges were appointed by the governor in the individual states. ...

The fourth chapter of the book: Introduction to Homeland security: Principles of All-Hazards Response, is interesting in that it deals with homeland security. Homeland security is a general term used to refer to the efforts by the U.S. to avert terrorist attacks within its borders, minimize its susceptibility to terrorism and reduce the damage resulting from the attacks which do occur. This concept emerged as a consequence of the reorganization of several US government institutions in 2003 to establish the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS). This reorganization was informed by the September 11, 2001 attacks; with the goal of ...

Article Review

Article 1
Banas, Colin A, Erskine, Alistair R, Sun, Shumei and Retchin, SheldonM. Phase Implementation of Electronic Health Records Through an Office of Clinical Transformation. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 2011; 18: 721-725.

Article Synopsis

This article is a case report that delves into the implementation of electronic health records. While electronic health records present various benefits to the health care system such as improved patient outcomes and cost savings, their uptake and diffusion through the healthcare sector has been rather slow and limited. Therefore, this article presents information on the phased implementation of electronic health records by examining a ...

Jim Madison exemplifies situational leadership style. In situational leadership, the leaders’ depend on various situation aspects. When making decision, the leader does not just use a single style. Factors affecting situational decisions comprise of followers motivation and capabilities. In turn, this is affected by factors within a certain situation. Another factor affecting the behavior of a leader is the relationship between followers and the leader. The perception of the leader towards a certain follower affects what they do rather than the situation truth. The perception of the leader on themselves together with other factors as well modifies the behavior of the leader.
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Edwards, J.T. (2009). Undergraduate Students’ Perceptions and Preferences of Computer‐mediated Communication with Faculty. American Communication Journal, 11(1). Retrieved November 11, 2010, from Tarleton State University in Stephenville database.

According to previously conducted studies, it has been proved that students prefer technological means, such as e-mail, to meeting their professors personally during working hours. The purpose of this study by Jennifer T. Edwards is to understand attitude of undergraduate students to communication with their professors during VOHs (Virtual office hours) using instant messaging software.

The study was conducted in a rural-town mid-sized institution in central Texas, which has slightly ...

Assignment 1: Charter of Privileges Granted by William Penn

What did the first article guarantee for the inhabitants of the province? What did it accomplish?
The first article guaranteed to the inhabitants of the province the freedom of faith, freedom to choose whichever denomination, one preferred as well as entitled representatives of any such denomination to be equally eligible for occupying offices, both executive and legislative. However, the very wording of the Charter is a little bit tricky in relation to religion, because having in mind the condition of believing in the Only Almighty God that was stipulated by Penn in the Charter one can conclude that diversification ...

Management and Control of Overtime Costs

Management and Control of Overtime Costs

Summary

The paper is based on the review of peer article “Management and Control of Overtime Costs” that has been written by Thomas P. DiNapoli in 2012. Thomas P. DiNapoli (2012) in the article made an attempted to analyze the effectiveness and control system of overtime costs of HHC’s (New York City Health and Hospital Corporation) employees. For the attainment of this purpose, the researcher audited the organization from 1st January 2006 to 31st December 2009.

Background

DiNapoli analyzed the overtime payments of 2009 of 54 employees of HHC. The research presents the salaries ...

Steele, Anne. "Bumble Bee Recalls Tuna for Possible Contamination." Wall Street Journal 17 March 2016. file:///C:/Users/Kingston%20University/Downloads/Bumble%20Bee%20Recalls%20Tuna%20for%20Possible%20Contamination%20-%20WSJ.pdf.
1 Bumble Bee Tuna Recall Can

Problem

Situation
It has been reported that some cans of tuna contain containments that are unsafe for most people and need to be recalled.

Results

Bumble Bee Foods, LLC reported today that it is intentionally reviewing 3 particular UPC codes of canned Chunk Light fish because of procedure deviations that happened in a co-pack office not claimed or worked by Bumble Bee. These deviations were a piece of the business ...

Intergovernmental support is a driving variable under the urban development model discussed by Savitch and Kantor (2002) that “provides the finance and infrastructure that are also essential for development,” mainly through intergovernmental support agreements entered by the Secretary of any federal executive department with a state or local government (Procurement Generally, 2006):

Simply put, intergovernmental support is granted by the federal government, through one of its executive departments, to a state or local government for the purpose of providing finance and infrastructure essential for development. An article from the Department of Veterans Affairs – Office of Public and Intergovernmental Affairs (DVA-OPIA, ...

CBO.GOV

Summary
H.R 308 is a bill introduced into the 114th Congress on March 01, 2015 by Congressman Trent Franks. The aim of the bill is to prohibit gambling on property near Glendale, Arizona owned by the Tohono O’odham Nation and held in trust by the United States. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that should the Bill be passed into law, the Tohono O’odham Nation would pursue litigation. Should the federal government have to pay compensation, it might have to pay in excess of $1billion. The CBO has based its estimate of the likely compensation on the fact ...

In today’s information age, more and more details about people’s personal and professional lives are available than ever before. To that end, many people have concerns about how that might affect their lives and futures; how much do we want others to know about us? In Erin Moriarty’s “Did the Internet Kill Privacy?”, the journalist discusses the dangers and pitfalls of having personal information about yourself online, and how it affects one’s academic and work lives. Meanwhile, Rhonda Savage’s “Facebook: Fired Up or Just Fired?” takes a more even-handed approach to the Internet, showing both ...

The Current State of Research on New Methods and Technologies for the Safety and Reliability of Assessment of Propellants, Explosives and Pyrotechnics1

Abstract

Materials with high energy have in the past and are still in use for both intensive military and civil purposes. Research and studies have been conducted recently to try establishing and inventing new materials likely to have enhanced high performance and that are less sensitive to heat and shock as compared to existing materials. In future military applications have a threshold to be adjusted to. This paper is mainly focusing on the on the advancements, possible formulations of ...

The story is about the Mexican immigrant family travel “the circuit” of crop harvesting jobs around California. The story reflects the extreme poverty and poor living conditions which the immigrant’s family was experiencing. The oldest son narrates the story explaining the disappointments they pass throughout to the hard work, constant movement, and seasonality of the job as well as the children having to skip school to work.
The theme of the story is the survival of the immigrant family in a foreign land. Use of imagery paints the theme. The speaker describes the structures and life in a dramatic ...

Every country in the world has undergone a gradual metamorphosis to arrive at their current status. China is not an exception. In the past millenniums, several dynasties ruled China and introduced distinct social-political changes, which had interesting succession dramas. These social and political struggles had two main competing interests; the quest for absolute power by the rulers and the people’s quest for affluence and equality. The Kangxi’s valedictory edict of 1717 provides a glimpse of this struggle. He lists some of his accomplishments in public service including sound financial policies that he initiated. Kangxi ruled as the emperor of ...

The August 28, 2013 news article in the New York Times namely “Iran Slows Its Gathering of Uranium, Report Says” explains of the new position taken by Iran of slowing down the process of gathering Uranium which could be easily and swiftly converted into fuel for nuclear bombs. In this article, Broad discusses the first report made by international nuclear inspectors since the new president of Iran; Mr Rouhani took office. The international atomic energy agency has detailed in its quarterly report, the plans by Iran to expand the installation of a new generation of unconventional equipment for uranium purification; ...

Based on the story of Sally Helgesen, identify the dominant style of leadership and justify them.

Sally Helgensen uses an authentic style of leadership. This is leadership where stakeholders in an organization are given chances to air their views and are listed at all the times. This kind of style does emphasize on the employees need as a priority followed by financial need for the company. This is expressed in the case of sally when she was preparing speeches for the CEO of the fortune 500 companies where she involved herself in office politics but sees herself as an outsider looking at an concedes herself an observer.
Sally interviews as a writer helped her learn how ...

In the world of business, telecommuting or working from home has always been a popular choice for employees who find it convenient and often more productive than sitting in a cubicle all day along. Indeed, studies have shown that the average productivity of employees increases by around 15 percent when they are working from home as compared to when they work from the office. However, not everyone seems to be happy with this state of affairs the article being reviewed for this paper shows. The article, which is titled Why Won't Yahoo! Let Employees Work From Home? Is about a leaked memo ...

Article Review

The article has been written in order to find out the ethical procedures and systems adapted by organizations in developed nations and to determine whether one of the important factors responsible for explaining discrepancies in the ethical policies in various nations is culture. For this purpose, the writers carried out an extensive research which spans 2700 organizations across 24 nations and spanning across 35 diverse industries. The writers carried out a survey of these various companies over six diverse fields like governance, environment, human rights, ethical concerns, stakeholder problems and favourable services and products (Scholtens & Dam, 2007).
In order ...

Article Review:

Effect of Community-Based Clinical Teaching Programs on Student Confidence
Synopsis
Current clinical dentistry must deal with not only continually expanding clinical techniques, but also many administrative challenges needed to properly run a dental office. To address this, the traditional teaching model of developing clinical experience with a variety of techniques needs to expand to include holistic management skills necessary to also run an office. It makes sense that a teaching program should include both. Community-based clinical teaching in a representative environment allows a student to gain experience in not just the clinical techniques necessary, but gaining experience in the practical environment as ...

Reading about the Philippine president’s State of the Nation Address or SONA will make people realize especially the international community that the Philippines and its leader is serious about cutting down the abuse of authority of its government officials. One thing that I am very much interested with in relation to my area of interest is Politics and prevailing common policies. The state of the nation address is like a general status report of the president to its people regarding the things that the government has accomplished within the year of office as well as future initiatives. In the ...

HANDLING CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS IN THE SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT

According to Rous, Myers and Stricklin (2007), transition has a significant effect on the growth and development of children with special needs. Transition is described as the movement from one environment to another. Transition takes place through out our human life, it can be a change of location from one town to another or one school to another and it can also be a stage in life like from childhood through the teenage years and subsequent youth phase and finally to adulthood. Children with special needs have to be helped and monitored through out these transitions through prior planning and constant monitoring ...

Gregory P Levine is a distinguished scholar for his masterly work in analyzing the historical events in Japan. He wrote an article “Switching Sites and Identities: The Founder's Statue at the Buddhist Temple Korin'in” which he describes a Japanese portrait statue made during the seventeenth century. The statue displays the monk Shokei Jofu that is found the Zen Buddhist temple Korin’in in Kyoto. The statue had inscriptions, which are significant for historical analysis by those of interest. Levine based his interest on the inscriptions and the order of temples site with the portrait as he carried out his research. He ...