Career Literature Reviews Samples For Students

Everybody has something innate that is endowed upon a person without compensation and voluntarily. According to Richard and David, every person is endowed with a calling that help them to fulfill a unique purpose in this world. For me, there are various gifts that rejuvenate my determination and shape up means to achieve my goals in future. Such gifts include a gift of singing, a gift of storytelling and a gift of cooking. I realized that storytelling is my gift when my cousins and my neighbor’s kids started to beg me to tell them bed time stories especially about adventures. Whenever, I am telling ...

Question 1

The ethical dilemma in this scenario requires Derek to decide on whether to inform the smaller company about the extended use of the software. This would mean risking losing his job. On the other hand he can neglect the fact that the smaller firm is the rightful owner, and hence enjoy the benefits of being promoted at the larger firm (Winston and Edelbach, 2014).

Question 2

Derek has an investment in this scenario. He is faced by two compromising decisions, both of which will have a profound effect on his career. This means that the ethical dilemma will have an effect on ...

- Persuasive Communications - Educating themselves on the subject at hand - Learning the arguments both for and against their position - Being able to discern valid from invalid information and data - Learning how to communicate with those opposed to your position - Expository Communication - Compared to my Future Self Paper and Presentation, I have learned quite a few things that have changed my life plan. - I have learned just how difficult it is to actually compete in the marketplace for a career - I have determined that I should ...

Education

Abstract Minority students that can be targeted for retention programs include students from the African-American, Hispanic, Native American, Filipino and Hawaiian ethnicities. The issues that need to be addressed in order to retain minority students in higher education nursing programs include more academic preparation, more support from faculty, and the availability of health the insurance. The wrong perceptions about nurses start as young as Kindergarten and last through elementary and high school. Long term solutions to the retention problem can start when nursing associations and university departments need to reach out to local school districts by offering help ...

Executive summary

, defines studying abroad as an undertaking by a student in a learning institution to study in another country for a definite period. Studying abroad involves learning cultures, languages, and socioeconomic as well as political systems of the host country. Through this lifelong learning experience, students acquire dynamic skills including problem solving, decision making, interpersonal, cross-cultural understanding, as well as self-reliance capabilities that are sort after by many potential employers. This, therefore, implies that study abroad programs are imperative in enabling a graduate secure a lucrative job, especially in a multi-cultural working environment. In addition, studying abroad enables an individual have a worldview, which can influence his ...

2. Literature review The phrase Quality of work life (QWL) according to Stephen and Dhanapal (2011); Bagtasos (2011), originates back in 19th century labor conference at Arden House, Columbia University. Stephen and Dhanapal states that people use the term to refer to the well-being of organization employees. Nevertheless, Normala (2010) uses business perspective to define QWL as employee satisfaction and their work related behaviors. Stephen and Dhanapal indicates that QWL also affects employees in the way they response to their work in terms of job performance, job effort, organization identification, job involvement, job satisfaction, personal alienation, intention to ...

Tony Morrison, born Chloe Anthony Wofford, is a celebrated African American author. Born in 1931 in Lorain Ohio, she showed a proclivity for literature. Despite this, she studied humanities instead of literature at both Cornell University and Howard University . After this, she began a distinguished academic career, eventually working for Yale, Scribner, and many other distinguished establishments. Eventually she became one of the most memorable writers in American history. When Morrison was born, she was the second of four children. Her parents were working-class minorities; it was likely nobody assumed she was grow up to be one of the ...

Personal Statement: Increasing Research Profile

Personal Statement: Increasing Research Profile Excellent research informs on an individual’s career, and therefore dictates their success. Ensuring that people in various industries are aware of one’s efforts, which regards the eligibility of their research to get to the academic committee, is crucial for building their work and develop new opportunities in future. Several people have a vague perception that good work sells without exertion of any efforts (McGill-Franzen & Allington, 2010 p. 50). However, developing and a stable professional profile would automatically increase the impact of an individual’s work, facilitating for its credibility in larger audiences ( ...

The American Dream lured wave after wave of immigration, primarily from Europe, in the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century. This dream taught that if you came to America and worked hard enough, you would succeed. There was enough room, enough of a market, enough hope, and enough freedom for everyone who came to the United States to do well. This dream enticed so many people to come to the country from overseas that the government decided to put quotas in place to limit the number of immigrants from each country in the years before World ...

Introduction

Professional setting: Nursing manager A nurse manager has the responsibility of the clinical and administrative functions of a nursing unit. In my case, I am in charge of the intensive care unit section. There are many challenges that face the sector in specific and the nursing industry in general. The most acute case in this sector is the shortage of nurses. This paper will provide a literature review on the subject through research by use of peer review journals. It will also use bibliographic databases to prove its facts. The concepts of search include the acute and growing nursing ...

Article Reviews

Strategic HRM Practices and Their Impact on Company Performance in Chinese Enterprises Summary

In the article Strategic HRM practices and their impact on company performance in Chinese enterprises, Akhtar, Ding, & Ge (2008) “examined the factorial validity of strategic human resource management practices and their effects on company performance” (Akhtar et al., p. 15) by sampling 465 Chinese organizations. They conducted a study using the best practices approach in order to determine the influence of HRM practices on company performance “in the context of Chinese enterprises using a large sample” (Akhtar et al., p. 16). The best practices approach included “internal ...

Introduction

Canada is a developed country whose economy resembles that of the United States of America. Canada is a high-technology industrial economy, generating trillions of dollars in annual revenues. The country’s living standards and economic systems are very similar to the US, having economic sectors that complement its manufacturing, mining and service industries . Canada, along with the United States and Mexico, signed the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in 1994 which opened trade and economic integration among the three participating countries . Ever since the NAFTA happened, Canada experienced a very dramatic increase in trade with the United States. This increased ...

INTO PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE

Every profession entails a certain degree of competence, expertise and professionalism for a professional to cope with and attain in order for this professional to be considered “competent” and “professional” in the practice of his profession. This level of competence and professionalism may be associated or correlated to the professional’s academic preparation, years of professional experience and degree of technical competence and expertise in carrying out skills necessary in the practice of the profession. In the nursing profession, the levels of competence and professional expertise can be summarized sequentially in the following stages: novice, advanced beginner, competent, proficient, and expert ( ...

A job is generally defined as a piece of work or labor, especially if it a specific task handled by an individual as part of a routine in ones occupation, for an agreed price. A good job is in many ways described depending on one’s own background, economists for example define good jobs as those, which pay a reasonable minimum and include pension benefits as well as healthcare. In today’s world, altering of the good and bad jobs picture occurs in three ways. Firstly, the business press, including other scholars, has opposed the notion known to many that a good job ...

Introduction

The Australian construction industry has been for the past few years encountered many challenges starting from the economic restrictions construction industry. Many construction companies that aim at flourishing in this industry have claimed to encounter a similar problem through inefficiency. Inefficiency has been noted in all areas of the company’s activities that vary from inefficiency in business processes, supply chain, communication channels. All these forms of inefficiency incur huge costs on the Australian construction companies. Achieving efficiency remains one of the major goals of the Australian companies in that the most efficient companies receive huge benefits. Efficiency within a company ...

Psychological contract’: An Introduction

In 1960 Argyris gave the concept of the ‘psychological contract’. However, this concept got remarkable popularity amongst various researchers relating to organizational management. During the 1990’s the global economy witnessed an economic recession that caused major restructuring, mergers and acquisition in various organizations. Such changes also led to a new approach towards the organizations, employers and the workers. The concept of the psychological contract assisted in explaining these changes and, the renewed focus amongst employees and employers (Van den Brande, 1999).

The early definitions of psychological contract created expectations from the both the individual and the organizations. In 1989 ...

The society creates the various gender roles and as a result, with time, these roles are viewed as the appropriate behavior of a person. Learning and life experiences help develop gender roles. The idea of femininity and masculinity not only prevails in the present times but also in the Victorian era. Although gender construction can be defined by biological factors, a larger convection believes that gender is socially constructed. Therefore, gender is a social construct as the society is responsible for determining what characterizes a particular sex and the subjects act by those characteristics. Feminism refers to the nature ...

Introduction

Risk assessment tools are employed for the purposes of identifying and managing the people at risk of certain tendencies that may be harmful to them. Some risk assessment tools have been developed as a consequence of determining the behaviors of individuals and their propensities to cause harm or disrupt the peace in certain jurisdictions. In the recent past, more than a hundred and twenty risks assessment researchers have established tools. Their validity and viability have been proven in dealing with psychiatric cases across various societies. The two articles chosen for this study focus on various dimensions of the assessment, yet all ...

Introduction

The participation of girls in athletics tapers off as they transition into teenage hood and as they become young women. The rate at which female teens stop participating in athletics is much higher as compared to male teens. TrueSport (2014) reported that the number of female high school athletes is about 17 times greater than that of female athletes in colleges. This shows a great decline in young girls’ participation in athletics during adolescence. Women’s Sports Foundation (2011) found out that by the age of seven, the number of girls who have quit athletics and sports generally far surpasses ...

Literature review

The relationship established between the teachers and the students in of paramount importance in the success of any learning institution (Mujis & Reynold, 2010). The teacher plays a significant role in the establishment of this productive working environment that will make the students perform in the best way. Mujis and Reynold say that efficient management of a classroom entails proper discipline, sufficient motivation of students and class preparedness among others. They say that the success of any teacher is dependent on classroom training, organization and management as they help in planning hence preventing potential problems. Strategies on arranging physical space, using good ...

International Marketing

Abstract Music plays an unchallenging positive role on the mental patents. Not only the advance researches have proved its importance, but also the evidence of music treatment were found in the ancient times histories. Music is the part of every tradition for many years and nobody can deny its importance. Today, the role of music repetition has proved a way of treatment for the mental patients for the therapy and disorder purposes. The researches of the neurophysiological have described the demonstrational impacts of music not only the patients but also useful for the basic emotional system of the ...

Literature Review

LITERATURE REVIEW INTRODUCTION Literature review involves a review of the secondary research literature to strengthen the theoretical concepts related to research and the insights provided by past researchers in the area. This section provides a detailed view of existing research literature on the topics related to the perceptions of employees on informal training practices and its possible impact on the job satisfaction. The literature review chapter develops the assessment of the information and research-based literature that was developed in the past that will guide the development of the research literature in the future. The section also provides a reference to ...

Introduction

Staff turnover is vital for a hospitality organization, especially when the organizations aim at a high-quality service. The focus of the hospitality business must be to provide outstanding service that will give a memorable experience to the guests. For offering such experience, trained and happy people are required. A high rate of employee turnover has negative and immediate effect on the organization.Hospitality industry is a labor intensive industry, requiring a variety of skills, knowledge and attitudes, and levels of competency. The labor turnover rate in the hospitality industry is observed as higher than other segments. Many positions are available in the hospitality organizations ranging ...

Introduction

Education is one of the most intrinsic components in any society. The determination of success in social life is dependent on the level of education. The American society is one of the many societies that determine success by a college degree. In the US, parents and a number of people value the essence of education and encourage their kids to pursue formal education in order to be successful in life. The connection between college education and success in the American society cannot be overemphasized. In a competitive world, education is perceived to be the only equalizer in the mainstream society. Although a college ...

Publication

What publishing company published the book? How reputable is it and how do you know? What are their review policies? Reception What (peer) reviews can you find? Where? What is the general consensus? Who has cited this article, and in what kind of publication?

Who is the author and what is their academic background?

Where are they working now (and at what capacity/rank)? What else have they published (recently?), and how much is actually related to the topic of this article? Explain the title. Does it really fit the thesis statement, or is there any shifting or gapping? What kind of shift/gap/miss and how ...

On October 27, 1932, Sylvia Plath was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1932. Her father was a professor at Boston University and her mother was a student there. Sylvia’s father died when she was a child and this loss was said to have influenced her writing in later years. She was dedicated to writing, began keeping a journal as a child, and began submitting her poetry to magazines when she was in high school. Remarkably, Sylvia graduated summa cum laude from Smith College even though she had attempted suicide at least once and suffered from depression during her college years. Sylvia moved to ...

Faustino Sarmiento was born in the early 1811 to become one of the greatest Argentine Latin America writers. Sarmiento was a political leader as well as a renowned writer of the late 18th century. Ideally, he burned the line cutting between writing and politics to create a blend of two forces and humanitarian values. Apart from major literary contributions, Sarmiento was also the seventh president of Argentina (Buckley, 24). He had a variety of achievements in the education areas, as well as modernization angles. These, he was able to achieve through his intellect and activist nature tied into a prolific writer. One of the ...

good evening what i need done is literature on bullying with 2 reference and the reference put on separate paper also i need 4 lesson plans on bullying on 1 page each im figuring in total with everything about 9 pages the lesson plans is how can i tie the lesson plan into career development basically what they will learn from the lesson plan

INTRODUCTION & DEFINATION OF BULLYING

Bullying often begins in the early years and can take many forms. It is estimated that one in seven children in the years between Kindergarten and eighth grade is either a bully, a victim or both. . The way that plays ...

Literature Review: Family Educational Developmental Context in Adolescents

According to Steinberg 2011, Educational achievement is the overall academic performance of children or learners in relation to their Grade Point Average (GPA). Learners take their courses in bits known as units which are spread over a given period of time. To ascertain a learner’s educational achievement, the average of these courses taken in sessions is calculated. In other words, educational achievement is a long process that encompasses various stages of cognitive and social development of a child. A good educational achievement of a child requires a cohesive relationship between his or her internal and external environments. If in any case something goes wrong ...

While people believe that it is the responsibility of the child to excel academically, parents always want their children to be the best in academics. They always do their best to ensure that they children’s academic needs are met without any compromise. This heavy investment calls for a strict supervision and tagging of high targets for these children. However, whenever these targets are not met, a lot of psychological and behavioral problems that may have adverse effects on the affected children. Even though parents try their best to ensure their children excel, they still face psychological and behavioral challenges among ...

Analysis: Out of the Dust

Abstract Karen Hesse's book Out of the Dust takes an unconventional approach to fiction, depicting the events of a full-length novel in a number of free verse poems. The tale of a family of farmers attempting to survive the Dust Bowl, Hesse's work is fascinating in its minimalism and heartbreaking in its focus. Hesse's free verse prose lends a childlike sense of simplicity and wonder to these heavy themes, showing just how dramatic these conditions can affect a child of that age; the result is an intelligent and thoughtful book on life in the Dust Bowl. Karen Hesse's book Out of the ...

Social media is the means of interactions among individuals through which they develop, share and exchange ideas and information in virtue networks and families. As it continues getting popular, it has become a reliable way of connecting with customers as well as fans in various companies. Therefore, it is an extremely significant tool for marketing. Social media has had extensive impact to marketing in the sports industry. There are various reasons that make it crucial and paramount requirement in the sports industry. Most teams and sports leagues have taken the idea keenly and have implemented it as a method to connect ...

Introduction

Ernest Hemingway is a well-known American writer of famous poems and short stories. He is the first son and second born child of Dr. Ed and Grace Hemingway. He began writing pieces of art at the age of seventeen as a newspaper writer and became an ambulance volunteer under the Italian army. Eventually, he returns to the United States to continue his career and became a war correspondent. He was sent back to Europe for an assignment to cover the Greek Revolution. He then won the 1954 Noble Prize in literature. Ernest's mother, who has a talent in music, wished his son would ...

Washington Irving is an author and editor of numerous fictional works and short stories. His fictional works, biographies, historical writings and short stories made him achieve international fame. Before his death in 1859 Irving was the United States ambassador to Spain and he used his position to promote international copyright law. Irving is a scholar for he studied law; however he was not an exceptional student, and he barely passed the bar. His writing career began by writing periodicals, whimsical journals and letters. Irving has many writings in his literary career. His works include The Legend of The Sleepy Hollow, ...

The pivotal role that research plays in healthcare delivery cannot be understated. In this regard, it is apposite that health care professionals are equipped with knowledge of how to scrutinize research articles in a bid to ensure that researches are done accurately and properly. This statement emphasizes the need for decently carried out researches; a decency that can only be ascertained if information presented by researchers after carrying our researches are carefully critiqued. The paper presents a critique of an article by Eley, Eley, and Roger-Clark (n.d) through careful analysis of the sections of the article

Title of article

The essence of a research paper ...

What are the effects of sleep deprivation for paramedics?

Hypothesis HY 1---WORK QUALITY DECREASES WITH SLEEP DEPRIVATION1 HY2---THE QUALITY OF SOCIAL ACTIVITIES DECREASES WITH SLEEP DEPRIVATION Although many individual EMTs attempt to cope with the effects of sleep deprivation by withdrawing from their personal lives or reducing the time spent at work-studies show that neither of these coping mechanisms are effective. While this is a problem that confronts shift workers everywhere it is dramatically brought home to EMT workers who sometimes have to respond to situations where the patient causes an accident because they themselves were sleep deprived. In Effects of Sleep Deprivation on Firefighters ...

In 2001, John Irving was holding forth at a Q&A at the 92nd Street Y in New York City, and one of the questions had to do with the degree to which Irving’s fiction is autobiographical. After all, if you look at just about all of his novels, the main character has a father who is either completely absent, handicapped, or just incompetent; the setting includes a New England prep school, Toronto, or Vienna (or a combination of the three); the main character has an interest in wrestling; and the plot and themes of the novel have a connection to sexual boundaries. ...

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

The book The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne (2006) tells the story of a nine-year old boy Bruno who comes from a very wealthy German family. He lived in a big and beautiful house in Berlin with his father who worked for the military; his mother who took care of their home; and his sister Gretel whom he considered a hopeless case. He came home from school one day to learn that he and his family were moving to some place far away, which devastated him because it would mean that he would have to leave school, his three ...

Abstract

The main core of this work keenly and thoroughly addresses the issue of E-recruitment, which currently has replaced the physical recruitment. Top level management despite its act of embracing change and its prevailing aspects has really faced great challenge, thereby becoming to some bothersome due to managing complexities. Apart from the efficient operations made easier through E-recruitment and minimization of costs contrary to the past, where colossal sums of money went into maintaining and sustaining recruitment exercise, the problems affecting it have to be well handled if the business world is at any cost to benefit from it. The ...