Essays on Appelbaum

Newspaper Articles on Policy Issues

Immigration Eid, T. A. (2017, January 14). Trump poised to reform America's failed immigration policies. Retrieved January 27, 2017, from http://www.denverpost.com/2017/01/14/trump-poised-to-reform-americas-failed-immigration-policies/

Abortion

McGinley, L., & Goldstein, A. (2017, January 23). Trump reverses abortion-related U.S. policy, bans funding to international health groups - The Washington Post. Retrieved January 27, 2017, from https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2017/01/23/trump-reverses-abortion-related-policy-to-ban-funding-to-international-health-groups/

Tax

Shear, M., Appelbaum, B., & Rappeport, A. (2017, January 26). White House Sows Confusion About Plan for a 20% Import Tax - The New York Times. Retrieved January 27, 2017, from https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/26/us/politics/mexico-wall-tax-trump.html

Federal legislation

Newly Signed Federal Law One of the bills that was recently passed by the House and the Senate and ...

The supply chain management tends to integrate the customers’ logistic requirements, the distributor and the supplier of a particular business entity into a single cohesive system. It is basically a collection of the individual physical entities, for instance, the plants where goods are manufactured, the centers of distribution, retail outlets, the conveyances, personnel and information, all the entities are linked together through the consumption of goods and services. Most of the organizations including the Walmart stores value the supply chain management because it tends to decrease time and also the final costs incurred by the customers in the purchase ...

Session

HRIS is a system of acquiring, storing, manipulating, analyzing, retrieving and distributing the organization's human resource information. It does not only include software and hardware in its functioning, but it also includes data, procedures, policies, forms and people. Its primary purpose is to deliver services which are in the form of timely and accurate information. Governments, non-profit organizations, and business in the world rely on the Human resource information systems which aid in the process of sharing information, re-engineering efforts and downsizing. The HRIS assist the human resource professionals in achieving various human resource objectives. The paper will discuss ...

It is a well-known fact in today’s modern world that gender inequality is prevalent in almost all aspects of social life, whether in the smallest unit of society, such as the family, or in the broad expanse of the global community, impacting the life circumstances of each and every human being today, especially women. It is increasingly becoming apparent that the unfair practice of gender inequality is incongruently counter-productive in a globalized economic scenario. Despite decades of initiatives to resolve this problematic social issue, the problem still remains. In the earliest days of humankind more than a hundred ...

Introduction

The need for change in any environment, individual or organizational, cannot be overemphasized because of the critical role that change creates in these situations. However, individuals are said to be change agents that enable organizations to change a transformation that creates a positive culture, bottom line and public image (Burke 2013). In this assessment, the paper discusses a change theory applicable to the article by Kimberly King, “Leading Through Change.” It makes a critical review of the article based on the theory and then gives a personal perspective on how to implement change.

Change models or theories (John Kotler’s Change Model)

Companies go through change as a ...

Essay synopsis

Introduction to Management Introduction The management challenges are those problems with that the manager and administration make hard struggles to come up with the solutions. Most of the field experts and research studies have found that most business problems and challenges are usually derived from the lack of communication or unorganized communication (Njomo 38). Drucker (17, 18) has stated in his book that the management challenges are not new but they have been remained a part of the organisations and business from decades. Some of the major challenges include technology, leadership, creativity, innovation and competitive advantage. These challenges are ...

Structural functionalism is one of the sociological theories that sociologists use to attempt to explain how social institutions exists so as to meet the needs of the individuals and the society. This theory views the society as having structures that exists to function as collective units to meet the needs of the society. It has its origin from Emile Durkheim who was concerned why the societies tend to be relatively stable over time. He suggested that societies remain cohesive over a long time because individuals work together guided by shared values, common symbols and system of exchange. This is ...

[Date: mm/dd/yyyy] The penalty rate incorporates the rate of pay that is granted to the employees for the services that are being provided under difficult conditions or unusual timeframe. The penalty rate is provided when employees work during weekends, overtime, night shifts, early morning shifts or public holidays. The penalty rate has been reduced as a strategic decision to increase jobs by means of providing opportunities to the new employees rather than dividing work within the existing employees (Daly, 2014). The current paper enlightens the dynamics of the penalty rate that tend to justify the penalty rate and analyzes ...

Management Challenges Facing People with Disabilities (PWD)

Introduction The management challenges are those problems with that the manager and administration make hard struggles to come up with the solutions. Most of the field experts and research studies have found that these problems and challenges are usually derived from the lack of communication or unorganized communication (Njomo 38). The management and administrative manager of People with Disabilities (PWD) is also sniggled in these types of issues and problems. Therefore, the report is aimed to analyze the management challenges of PWD and to provide the path for the resolution of these challenges in the context of managerial concepts ...

Introduction

The importance of this critical analysis can be understood from various perspectives. If a performance appraisal is given to the employees, it enhances opening of the communication lines between the supervisors and the employees. In addition, it will be possible for the employees to understand the expectations in the organization. Moreover, through a comprehensive performance system, it will be possible for the improvement areas to be cited followed by definition of mechanisms through which the changes may be enhanced. Besides offering a critical analysis and evaluation, this article provides the guidelines through which the organization can be able to develop an employee ...