Human Resource Management Book Reviews Samples For Students

Introduction

The jungle was written in the year 1906 by an American journalist and novelist by the name Upton Sinclair. The author wrote this novel to be able to portray the lives that immigrants lived in the United States especially Chicago and other similar industrialized cities .Most of his readers were mainly concerned with his exposure to especially health violations and unsanitary practices that had for a long time been in the American meat packing industry. This was during the 20th century when he did this investigation for a socialist newspaper. The book also tries to depict about the working ...

Starting from 1920 RCA had been an electronic giant produced radios, and later, televisions, located in Philadelphia, a city of Camden. Aiming at profit maximization the company moved the parts of operating process several times inside of the US, and then abroad seeking for cheap workforce.

The major reason for moving a significant part of RCA operations is that the company intended to save labor costs by hiring people in rural areas, poor, young, uneducated, single, female and immigrants. Another fact that gives the evidence of this tendency is that RCA moved its plants several times during seventy years of its ...

“The Jungle” is a novel by Upton Sinclair, an American Socialist with the intention to address the plight of meat packers in the hands of the beef trust. The setting of the novel is in Chicago; a town where Upton traveled while he was just twenty-six years old with the grand vision to help in sensitizing and pushing for better working conditions of the meat workers. The meat industry seemed to weave together all the misfortunes experienced by all other workers in the American society in the early 1900s.
Upton's novel The Jungle was first published in 1906 and became a ...

Presidencies Derailed Why University Leaders Fail and How to Prevent It by Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, Gerald B. Kauvar, E. Grady Bogue

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Presidencies Derailed Why University Leaders Fail and How to Prevent It by Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, Gerald B. Kauvar, E. Grady Bogue

Introduction

“Presidencies Derailed” is a book about why college presidencies collapse. While it is not the only book on the subject, it comes at a time when college presidents are failing. During 2009 and 2010, presidents of fifty universities, schools, colleges, and educational intuitions either resigned or fired. Presidencies Derailed examines sixteen such derailments and presents six ...

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The book by Irwin (2009) Derailed: Five Lessons Learned from Catastrophic Failures of Leadership is wonderful leadership and management guidebook. It answers the paradox question that every leader in the 21st century is seeking an answer to, how to avoid a downfall after ushering a company into unimaginable heights of success. Though this question is hard and tricky to answer, Irwin used history of outstanding CEOs that have over the years fallen prey into the sucking abyss of derailment. As a result, their actions cost them a position in a company that in most cases were the founders. Not only ...

The Triangle Book by David von Drehle’s is an account of March 25, 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist factory in New York fire tragedy and its aftermath. This book gives a fitting description of social history. The company was the largest blouse factory in New York back then, and it had a hundred and forty six workers dead of whom the greatest percentage were women and a few male workers involved. This successful company belonged to Isaac Harris and Max Blank. It was the custom of these employers to check on the bags of their employee before they left the company. Von Drehle ...

The book by James Hunter addresses fundamental principles needed for leadership. It is emphasized that to lead is never becoming the boss. Servant leadership is a robust, an innovative concept which may have a significant influence in the restaurant performance. As a servant leader in a restaurant, it is feasible to turn from boss and manager to mentor and coach. This helps in determining the mission, standards, values and accountability within the premise. Servant leaders never take a vote or take a poll regarding critical leadership fundamentals. Servant leader can always turn the restaurant structure upside down, provided the critical leadership fundamentals are in place. ...

An industrialist, a trend setter, entrepreneur, all these define one personality- Henry Ford. Starting off with a single car manufacturing, he went on to develop a completely new concept that would become world famous pattern of manufacturing in the longer run. He also had a trace of philanthropic element in him and aimed at improving the working conditions and overall life style of the workers involved in different industrial processes.
Henry Ford was born in the year 1863 in Michigan. His family had a descendance of farming and agricultural background. His personal inclinations did not show compatibility with the agricultural work and he ...

Demographic changes in Canada have set some basic parameters. The demographic composition of the labour force is the only way for Canada to project in the future, demographers can accurately predict life expectancy, population growth, birth rate, age distribution and other related trends. Age, education attainment and cultural diversity are trends that require attention. Canada’s economic and social changes are influenced by demographic trends. Particularly, population aging has a significant implications for job opportunities, organizational structure, work values and pensions. The aging of the baby boom in Canada has significantly altered the demographic shape and social structure due to ...

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Failure at Workplace: Designing and Applying Public Relations
I work a business which requires a very well developed public relations. Our company provides consultancy service to small and medium sized entrepreneurs (SMEs). The most important problem that many SMEs have is the quality of their stuff. Mostly, high school graduates are assigned as managers in the SMEs and it makes it harder for our company to explain things to them because they do not have any technical skills at the beginning. We may need to help them in many fields from legal issues to some technical issues in finance. The ...

The reasons why I believe the workers acted as they did were because they had always in the previous management had the freedom of being able to communicate with the top management without having to request for permission. The new management brought new rules in that the employees had to follow protocol when communicating with them. This they felt as unfair treatment and they wanted to show that they have knowledge that could be able to help them punish and slow down the operations of the company.
I disapprove with the way the employees took the matters into ...

In Chapter 2, Evaluation of Job Demands, the author discusses the various forces and factors that go into determining just how physically demanding a job can be. This is done in order to evaluate the proper ergonomic precautions that must be made in a given job environment. The author defines the long-term effects of physical demands on a worker as work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WRMSDs), and how jobs are analyzed in order to prevent them as effectively as possible. When performing job analysis, data (both quantitative and qualitative) is gathered about the job itself, then processed through a number of decision rules that lead ...

Undocumented, Indispensable by Anna Quindlen, presents a detailed discussion about the undocumented workers living in USA and their condition related to their acceptance as people in the nation. The writer argues about the fact that there is a large chunk of population which is deprived of the facilities and rights of normal citizens however they are regular taxpayers and even pay for the social security funds. It is not only about the taxpaying and being denied for the normal rights, however the writers explains that this results in denial of the human rights to people who are defined as illegal immigrants.
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Fletcher, Bill, and Fernando Gapasin. Solidarity divided: the crisis in organized labor and a new
path toward social justice. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008.

In Bill Fletcher's book Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor and a New Path Toward Social Justice, the authors delve into the intricacies of the US labor trade union movement. Today, the struggle for labor and union rights is ongoing and extremely complex; the authors examine the various issues that are causing the complexity and advocate for a greater sense of social justice. The purpose for writing this book is to win the war for ...

Book Review: Stayin’ Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class

Book Review: Stayin’ Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class

Jefferson Cowie is a Labor historian and a professor of Industrial Labor Relations at the Cornell University (Jefferson Cowie). Cowie’s book Stayin’ Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class is a classic explanation of the manner in which the 1970s’ legislative and fiscal mayhems in the United Stated affected the life of the common American (Cowie 2010). He recalls the circumstances of the era to remind the reader of the cultural changes that took place due to the 1970s’ labor liberalization, which was a ...

Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle is a piercing look at the experience of new immigrants in the United States at the turn of the twentieth century. Of particular interest is the detail with which Sinclair analyzes the ins and outs of the meatpacking industry in Chicago – not just the hygiene (or lack thereof) but the overall corruption in the system. The book’s events also highlight the horrors of working at a wage that becomes a form of slavery, as workers can barely afford to survive on them, but since all of the other employers in the same industry pay the same ...

Storch, Randi. Red Chicago: American communism at its grassroots, 1928-35. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007.

Randi Storch's 2007 book Red Chicago: American Communism at its Grassroots details the subversive movement in Chicago at the time, when there was a vast upswing of Communist thought stemming from the worker's revolts of the time. The American Communist Party had a substantial presence there, and the book describes their struggle for relevancy and to have an effect on the outcomes of political action at the time. The book attempts to reconcile the thought processes of these people with two very different, contradictory ideas: "one of an organization that celebrated Soviet leaders, co-opted Soviet symbols, and embraced revolutionary Marxist-Leninist ideology, ...

Book Review - Making a New Deal

Lizbeth Cohen's book Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939 tells the story of those people in Chicago during the 1920s and 1930s who labored in factories and manual labor positions. The book starts off with the 1919 wave of strikes that occurred among labor forces and continues through the next two decades, showing the ways in which the Depression and the New Deal affected industrial workers in Chicago. A durable union movement was created from the ashes of these economic hard times, with workers throughout the city coming together to support each other. According to Cohen, "this ...

Introduction

This book takes a look at the overall picture of labor in America and how different workers reacted towards the conditions that they were working in. The book also looks at the origin of our current labor system and what developed it. It also covers the history of labor in America and how we have managed to reach the current labor system. In the book we also get to know what changed labor in the United States of America. It looks at both the positive developments and negative developments/changes. It also shows the people who influenced many of the major ...

The Flivver King: A Story of Ford-America is a book by Upton Sinclair. It is a historical fiction that elaborates the story of American inventor and industrialist Henry Ford and his company's interaction with a fictitious character Abner Shutt and his family. Abner and a majority of his children end up working for Ford in different capacities (Sinclair, 1937).
The book is set against the backdrop of a fast-industrializing America in the early 19th century at a time when labor rights were not as expansive as they are at the moment. It follows the story of the growth of ...

Introduction

In her book entitled The China Price: The True Cost of Chinese Competitive Advantage, Harney discussed about the impact of the rapid industrialization in China. She pointed out how the industrialization and economic progress transformed the country to what people would consider as the world’s factory, yet, the author argued that this progress resulted in adverse consequences. Accordingly, the book talks about important elements that relate to the country’s geography.
a. Migrant Workers Issue
One of the factors that was discussed by Harney in her book is the issue of migrant workers. According to the author, there ...

Book report; The jungle and business

Setting of the novel “The Jungle” published by Upton Sinclair in 1900s is in Chicago and revolves around the industry of meat production in the town. The industry seemed to represent the social difficulties of all the Americans living in poverty. Upton was only twenty-six years old when he moved to Chicago in his bid to participate in exposing the evils in the meat industry (Sparknotes.com).
Upton's book The Jungle was initially published in early 1900s and turned into a real sensation for American book readers. From one viewpoint, it depicted the incredible practices of meatpacking industry overwhelming at ...

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The actor used the words to refer to the reaction that the public had after he published his novel. The nation reacted in horror. The president at the time ordered an immediate investigation in the meat industry. However, he privately informed the author that he had no love for the socialist polemic, at the end of the novel. The words used by the author describe the activities that took place after the publishing of the book. Two months after publication of the book, the country created two legislations. These include the pure food and drug act and the meat ...

The book is a result of the study by physician Seth Holmes on the impact of immigration on health. The book examines immigrant labor and reveals that immigrant workers experience unfair labor practices like strenuous jobs, long working hours and poor working conditions which affect their health. Holmes holds that the importation of immigrant workers has been propagated by the beneficiaries and unfairly utilizes manpower obtained from other countries till the people are unable to work, and then they are sent back to their homes (Holmes, 16). He focuses on Mexican immigrant workers and looks at the impact that ...

This acclaimed book by Steven Shaer significantly takes an in depth look through the various effective ways and methods of employee improvement. It also gives a step by step approach to managing and evaluating employee performance. If the performance of the employees cannot be improved, the author simply recommends firing them. It brings out the challenge of managers and their specific role in highlighting underperforming employees to ensuring they are productive to the organization. Finally, the book discusses several management theories and their application to human resource management within an organization.
When evaluating employee performance it is very essential ...

And People that Make Our Clothes

The paper is a book review of Where Am I Wearing?, a book written by Kelsey Timmerman. The book describes the adventures Timmerman had when he decided to travel to all the factories that had made his clothes. Timmerman describes how he went to Honduras to see where his T-shirt was made, to Bangladesh to see where his underwear was made (23), to Cambodia to see where his jeans were made (107), to China to see where his flip-flops were made (163), and finally to Perry, New York in the United States to see where his shorts were made (226). He ...

Analysis of Contemporary Business Tendencies

Introduction
In his book “The World is Flat” Thomas Friedman addressed issues of contemporary global business environment and its latest changes over the past thirty years. The author analyzed the history of global business development applying the term “flat” to the world as a space for business operating and the term “flattener” for the factors influencing global business changes (Friedman, 2005).
The current paper is devoted to the critical analysis of three chapters of the book. Three factors making impact on business development are reviewed using material from the second chapter of the book. An analysis of practical ...

This paper describes the social movements that Blacks participated in during the period from 1900 to date. It tackles the ways in which the movements can be described as one long civil rights movement, and also how were they distinct movements. The paper further assesses their goals and the manner in which they have effected change in the United States. The paper also points out prominent civil rights activists that played an important role in spearheading the civil rights movements.
Most of the black social movements from 1900 to date have basically been fighting against racism. The 20th Century ...

Introduction

Labor and Monopoly Capital by Braveman is a book that is written on the sociology of work division in the modern world. First six chapters of the book discuss the nature of labor and management. Braveman starts off with defining labor, which is not instinctual as it is adopted by men out of purpose and consciousness (Braverman 46). Labor is based on the use of mechanical and technical tools as well as physical and mental energy. In capitalist market, the definition changes and labor is used to reproduce the power that elite hold in three ways. Firstly, by providing ‘ ...

Book Review

The Book is basically detailed in defining the two different perspectives of two different cultures in medical sense of being. The first culture is about US biomedicine and how the medication affects people as well as how it can be used as a form of social control. The other perspective includes the Hmong perspective which is entirely about spiritual causes and other causes that are not related to biomedical performances or the concept of biomedical healing. The book is excellent in terms of how it defines the distant gap between the two cultures and uses Lia, a Hmong child, as a bridge ...

Introduction

The book explores the chronical destitute and unequality within the American population. Seth Rockman is a revolutionary and Early U.S history specialist focusing on capitalism and slavery in America’s social and economic development. He has researched on histories of labor, race and social welfare. Particularly, he has focused on aspects that have been vital making America the wealthiest, egalitarian and free society in the western world. The scenario revolves around a fast developing and scrappy border of Baltimore city to 1840s. The book focuses on people who labored during early capitalist revolution and negligence in economic and industrial expansion success. ...

“Abolishing Performance Appraisals" Book Review

"Abolishing Performance Appraisals" by Tom Coens and Mary Jenkins is both a challenging and thought-provoking book focusing on one of the premises of Human Resources Management. The effectiveness of performance appraisals is brought into question with the authors terming it as a “tool of patriarchy” at the workplace. The book shows why performance appraisal, as a practice in management, should be done away with and provide the steps on what can be done instead. It also cites several detailed case studies of firms or corporations that have effectively abolished the employee performance appraisal in their operations. The book is tailored for all ...

In A People's History of the United States, Zinn devotes chapter 13 to socialist movements during the early 1900's. Is this justified or is he overstating the impact of the socialist movement?
Socialist movements gained tract in the turn of the century, and many workers were keen getting a fair share of their efforts from the employers. Also, people demanded more from the government, pushing for the protection of the old, sick and poor through programs that would reach out to the people. The formation of the National Civic Federation by Ralph Easley spelled doom and hard times for ...

This paper has analyzed the problem of what impact does leadership have on quality. The scope of this work involves the specific work in the book called Leadership for quality by an author Juran J.M. It has reviewed various concepts by the author.

The approach to this problem has involved analyzing three functions of businesses, planning control and improvement in quality. Also, an analysis has been made in the work force part in order to get an idea of the factors that will lead to their improvement in quality.

The results in this analysis are that quality can be ...

The American black market tells a lot about our nation’s character, and it is not a pretty story either. In the United States, corn and soybeans rank with marijuana as one of the country’s biggest cash crops. Health conscious Americans devour berries, lettuce and other produce without realizing that they are handpicked by illegal immigrants who quite frankly live like feudal serfs. Of course, black markets are not something new in the United States, but there has been an explosion of black markets in America in the past 30 years. In his book, “Reefer Madness,” Eric Schlosser correctly asserts ...

The main theme for the book entitled “The Spirit Level: Why equal societies almost always do better” was about how inequality can affect even those who are not well off. This information is vital for someone in the planning profession because the economy and the labor force affects the job outlook as well as the other important factors in a certain area. The book was well written and was done with extensive years of research, not focusing on only one country, but doing a case study on many. When it comes to someone from the planning profession, it is important that ...

Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle is a fictional story illustrating the lives of immigrants in the United States. It depicts the struggle between the rich and the poor which was ever growing in the industrial town of Chicago. It showed the plight of immigrant workers that were desperately trying to achieve the American dream which they had heard before leaving their native countries. “The Jungle” acts as a social political documentary of the American industrial growth by offering a peak Chicago meatpacking industry that was linked to corruption and dishonest practices in the early 20th century.
The key character of this ...

1. How did the Cold War emerge after W.W.II? How did the U.S.S.R. and the U.S. view actions such as the Berlin Blockade and a policy stance such as the Truman Doctrine differently?
First off, after WW2, the U.S emerged as the sole superpower, mostly because of its nuclear bomb capacity. In addition, the Soviet Union had millions of citizens and was in no position to engage in any new militaristic operations. At that time, the US and the Soviet Union were uneasy allies, because of their mutual fear of the Nazi influence. Their partnership was “born of a ...

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Introduction. How to Win Friends and Influence People, by Dale Carnegie, is a book that has really stood the test of time. Initially written in the year 1936, the revised edition that is under review here is from 1981, copyrighted by Donna Carnegie (Mrs. Dale Carnegie). The book belongs to the genre of Self Improvement and talks about the basic principles that need to be followed to understand people that we deal with in our daily lives and excel in winning them. It is a book that educates people on becoming ...

The issues in the network society have attracted enormous attention in the recent times. Rather than totalizing coeval working experience, the book “Work’s Intimacy” written by Melissa Gregg focuses on the ramifications and contradictions of professionals that hold a mid-rank, formerly defined as the white-collar workers. Mobile and online technologies have a great impact on the work, life and social relations of the people, especially professionals. After examining 26 professionals from four organizations, namely, education, telecommunications, government and broadcasting in Brisbane, Australia for three years, Gregg’s book bridges the gap in the existing literature on digital labor. In ...

1. This books at the basic norm in the office and how people behave in the office . It follows the character of Bartleby and all his workmates. Societal norms are what the author looks at when he takes us through the working a New York law office . The office has people who have been thee working for a longtime. The fact that they are long serving shows that they follow the ways things operate in the society.

The fact that Bartleby being a new lawyer had an impeccable record showed that it was not a must for you to follow society norm to ...

The play Anna in the tropics is written by Cuban – American writer Nilo Cruz. The action in the play revolves around an ageing cigar factory owned by Santiago a man in his late fifties of Cuban origin. The workers in the factory are majorly relatives of Santiago with Cheche, the supervisor being Santiago’s half brother. The lives of the characters in the play are intertwined with the action in the story Anna Karelina and most characters find their mirror in the story. The plot kicks off with the arrival of a new lector in the factory welcomed by Ofelia, Santiago’ ...

The book “The Grapes of Wrath” written by John Steinbeck and originally published in the year 1939 is one of the unique literary works in the genre of history. The book dates back to the period of Great Depression in America, which started in the year 1929 due to the crash of the stock market and lasted until the beginning of the Second World War . The period saw drought and high winds affecting several parts of the country, especially the Midwest region of America, including the Oklahoma state. Several residents of the state of Oklahoma moved to other places ...

What Is Your Attitude Being a Manager?

A manager in any field is deemed to have all the required attributes of being a manager. The manager is responsible for planning and then directing the duties allocated to individuals. They are expected to act in an effective manner through coordinated monitoring the work done and carrying out the necessary and sufficient correction of the failed actions. This is done when it is deemed necessary. Ideally, the management posts fit the individuals who have supervisory abilities. In most areas, the managers are expected to have the proceedings in the organization or firm that they are allocated the responsibilities. That ...

(An Application of the Seven Major Sources of Economic Progress)

Authors: William Seyfried & Rollins College

- Article Summary
The article ‘Employment Intensity of Economic Growth’ seeks to examine the relationship between economic growth, as measured by the GDP, and employment levels, with the main focus being on the margin countries of Europe known as PIIGS (Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain). It pertains to research done between 1999 and 2012 to study unemployment growth rates and GDP after the financial crisis proved that the peripheral countries were in a dire financial state.
The financial crunch immensely reduced the availability of financing, and hence ...

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“The Hot Zone” written by Richard Preston is a non-fiction English book published by Anchor in 1995. It contains 420 pages and based on Richard Preston article “Crisis in the Hot Zone.” It is a thriller that deals with the source and occurrences relating to viral hemorrhagic fever especially Ebola viruses and Marburg viruses. The filo viruses, Ebola Virus called EBOV, Sudan Virus called SUDV, Marburg Virus called MARV and Ravn Virus called RAVV are the agents of level four of Biosafety. They are enormously hazardous to humans due to being very contagious and with an extraordinary casualty rate. There is ...

Peter Block defines leadership as an act of stewardship where an individual commits to doing good for the sake of the community. This symbolic idea redefines the term leadership by ensuring that leadership is a form of partnership and commitment to improving a greater society and calls this act stewardship. In addition, leaders can be involved in building the economy by seeking teamwork from the people surrounding. This act is contrary to the mainstream idea of a leadership that defines it as singular and one with power and authority over the people. Thus, Peter Block asserts that leadership should be grounded to ...

Book Review - A Shopkeeper's Millennium: Society and Revivals in Rochester, New York, 1815-1837

In A Shopkeeper's Millennium: Society and Revivals in Rochester, New York, 1815-1837, Paul E. Johnson explores the Rochester revival of 1830 and 1831, noting the social institution of religion as it played into society and culture in 19th century American, particularly in western New York State. The height of the Second Great Awakening and the Great Revival of 1831 are explored in depth, as Johnson creates vivid connections between the industrial capitalistic endeavors that were cropping up that that time and the rise of religion and the revival as an institution. Johnson's thesis in the work is that the ...

Human Resource Development (HRD) is a function that helps employees develop their abilities and skill sets to suit the job requisite and to enhance the growth within the organization. It includes training, mentoring, coaching, succession planning among others. HRD focuses on the development of the superior workforce for the organizations to achieve their goals in service to their customers. While planning to attain these requirements at its best, in the past, the leaders of the organizations have looked at the employees as a channel to attain the established targets. Their focus was on giving strength to these channels in all the ...

In Ellen Baker's book On Strike and On Film: Mexican American Families and Blacklisted Filmmakers in Cold War America, the author discusses attributes of racial and gender inequality that existed within the 1950s, as well as leftist attempts to combat these developments. During the 1951 miner's strike of Hanover, New Mexico, union leaders collaborated between blacklisted Hollywood filmmakers to create a film called Salt of the Earth, a controversial yet highly effective film that provided a filmic representation of leftist desire and calls for equality, for both women and minorities. Baker provides a detailed account of the circumstances leading up to the creation ...

Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History

“We are what we eat; in the modern, western world, we are made more and, more into what we eat, whenever forces we have no control over persuade us that our consumption and our identity are linked ( Mintz, 1985, 211).”
In his book, Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History, Sidney. W. Mintz takes a historical and anthropological approach to the production and consumption of sugar and in the process explains the place of sugar in the human food chain and how capitalism and market forces changed the status of sugar from a luxury item into ...

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Nurse Ratched position within the establishment is machine like in many aspects, especially in the way she wants the ward run, and the actions she takes in making things run in a line. She desires order, and complete power over the situation, which is evident din her manipulation of the staff to do her bidding. Her effectiveness at getting people to do her bidding is machine-like. Her selection of staff to run the ward is indicative of her ruthlessness, where she places black attendants with deep resentment over the white race. Thus, while the white patients should benefit ...

1. How does the public see the nursing profession and nurses?

In the public's eye, it seems as though nurses are invisible, seeing the job as a supplementary and unskilled profession that does more wrong than right. The authors detail a 'problem narrative' that takes place in the media, one wherein the problems of nurse shortage, staff rations and problems with patients are the norm rather than the exception when it comes to learning about nurses. "This 'problem' narrative is not balanced in the media by a 'practice' narrative that would help the public understand what it ...

Elizabeth Clerk-Lewis in her book narrates the experiences and lives of African American in Washington and how women worked for wealthy white families. This writer has given detailed and reliable information regarding the African American racism, since a grandmother was part of the great migration of the African American, and she could give an oral history regarding the migration. This has enabled her to publish a book with first-hand information that is not biased. Over the last few decades, the essential meaning of gender and sex had been transformed to mean something different apart from its actual meaning. Racial discrimination was ...

Summary : Managing business ethicsLinda K. Trevino & Katherine A. Nelson. Wiley; 5th edition

Chapter 4 – Addressing individuals’ common ethical problems

Ethical issue when people work together (privacy, discrimination, sexual harassment or simply how people get along. Key is fairness meaning equity, reciprocity, impartiality
- Equitable is when something is divided between 2 people according to the worth & inputs of the 2 individuals. Most people think it’s unfair when 2 people have performed the same duty but receive a different share of the reward
- Reciprocity: “if you do this for me I’ll do this for you”. Most ppl think it’s unfair if ...

Section I: Selection of Business

Economics is a social science concerned with decision making along with money making. Macroeconomics is concerned with the general problems of the whole economy as inflation, unemployment and growth. To start any business, the tools of economics are very important. I had chalked out a few prospective business plans for starting my own commercial activity. There was a lot of dilemma in the beginning, the plans were so many but the feasibility had to be worked out. I arrived at two options first, to open a café and second to open a fitness studio. Both the café and fitness were in great demand. Since ...

Book review

Finland is recognized by various organizations the most successful in the area of ​​school education. The main slogan of "Finnish dream" is an equal access to quality education. The main principles are the state's monopoly on schools, individual approach to student, and the prestige of the teaching profession. Finland in recent years has consistently been ranked as the country with the highest level of secondary education. Fifteen year Finnish students are significantly ahead of the students in other countries, showing a significant advantage in the natural sciences. It has been estimated, they are about 50-60 points ahead of the average ...

Book Review No One Would Listen: A True Financial Thriller

Summary of the Book
Harry Markopolos introduces the book to the reader on the accounted date of December 11, 2008. December 11, 2008 was a crucial day Bernie Madoff was arrested. Madoff was arrested for creating and running a Ponzi scheme. The Ponzi scheme was the largest in history of United States. Markopolos makes sure that the reader comprehends the revelations by incorporating a short story of a man in a plane. The man is shocked by the streaming exposures on the CNBC. The man reveals to his wife that they have lost millions of dollars they had invested with Madoff. However, the ...

Executive Summary

Pettis observes the trade imbalance in the countries' balance of payments. Some developed countries have a large amount of debt because they import much more than they export while some other developed countries have large surpluses in their balance of payments. This trade imbalance in the balance of payments is not sustainable according to him. While China continues to make massive investments by using the advantage of cheap labor in the country and Japan continues fighting against stagnation, U.S. and Europe has important problems of producing and growing. In a world like that all the countries are facing structural problems and ...

Introduction Culture and Leadership in New Zealand

Introduction
Culture has a great influence on leadership according to various researches that have been conducted. According to Hewison (2006), leadership characteristics are deep rooted in the unique context of each culture. There has been no generally accepted definition of leadership, but majority definitions focus on values, beliefs, attitudes, behavior across cultures and influence that people hold in leadership position hold. Cross cultural research have identified what constitute leadership and the behaviors across cultures. It has also been also identified the various theories used in description of leadership. Leadership in most of the cultures across the globe is dependent ...