Essays on Arndt

Smoking, drinking, overeating and accumulating stressors are behaviors that become pronounced in adulthood though they trace their origins to a much younger age probably around the teenage years. These behaviors do not just crop up out of the blues. They start and develop over a period. The various theories and theorists in this context are keen on pointing out the psychosocial nature of an individual. They show how the actions and expectations of a person conflict with those of society and how that could therefore lead to various behaviors in adulthood. The theories in contexts have their different ways ...

The prevalence of global competition has resulted in the vast opportunities for vendors to incorporate mergers and acquisition. It has resulted in the formation of suppliers that are able to meet the global challenges by means of their volume of supply and efficiency. It has also resulted in the increased buying power of suppliers due to their consolidation and they are considered as a significant entity in the value chain of a company. The consolidation of vendors has decreased the bargaining power of the company because the vendors have become competitive and efficient, and they have also become able ...

Gross Domestic Product

In this document, readers will be presented with the concept of macroeconomic and its involvement in the development of a gross domestic product. Macroeconomics deals with the routine, arrangement, performance, and management of an economy. It includes national, provincial, and international economies. The most important measure of economic activity in a country is the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The GDP of any country can be improved by increasing its disbursement, production, and profit. To measure the GDP of any country, one needs a consequential aggregation of all categories of manufactured produced. The territory's manufactured products are the crossing result ...

Country Economics: A Case Study of Malawi

Basic Facts and Information on Malawi Malawi, initially called Nyasaland, is a landlocked sub-Saharan developing country located in the South Eastern part of the Continental Africa, bordering Tanzania to the northeast, Mozambique to the east and Zambia to the northwest with a capital at Lilongwe. It is primarily an agricultural country but this is mainly done on small scale basis and, coupled with its warm and hot climate, it is considered as among the least developed and poorest countries in the world according to the latest World Bank and IMF figures (Chin, 2010). Moreover, with a population density of ...

Improving Self-Esteem with Positive Self-Talk, Affirmations, and Journaling

Jane Doe Introduction Too often the phrase “think positive” gets thrown around in most self-help groups and literature involving improving one’s sense of self, but the statement is one that should not be taken lightly. Many problems that are faced by people struggling with various mental illnesses stem from the negative internal dialogue further aggravating the chemical imbalances that may exist or be dormant. Whether the individual be a believer of holistic therapy or empirically proven medical therapies, the proof of positive self-talk, daily affirmations and journaling about one’s experience has been shown to transform one’s ...

External validity

Experimental research is a rigorous process that is significantly used in the testing of the cause and the effects of relationships of variables. The experimental research involves a plethora of processes that include testing research hypothesis, measuring and description of variables, designing and interpretation of research. The findings obtained in the experiment help in the drawing of conclusion, and are categorized into internal validity (the cogent conclusion) and external validity (the generalized inference). The external validity of research findings is an indispensable facet of any psychological research that should, by all means, be tested through replication before any generalized conclusion is ...

Introduction

Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary (MEEI) is a non- profit organization which for the past decades has had problems in its evaluation on the way the cost are being evaluated and appropriated to patients. The system that was being employed in the hospital was insinuated to be ineffective in the sense that it did not put into consideration all the necessary measures that are required before allocating costs. According to the executive director, Mr. Charles wood, there is a need to change the traditional method used in evaluating the costs and instead embrace the new method. Central to his thoughts, the ...

The success of any organization in general and business organizations in particular depends on the efficiency of the management. The management plays a significant role in establishing strategies and policies, as well as implementation of such policies and strategies to ensure successive growth of the organization. McDonald is one such organization where the management or rather the leadership has played a significant role to turn around the company and making it more profitable as compared to its performance previously. This essay will limit itself to the study of performance of McDonald in terms of planning, organizing, leading as well as controlling ...