Essays on At Work

It is apparent that finding happiness at work is a mirage for many people. Many people work not because they enjoy or are happy with the work they are doing but because there are bills that have to be paid. However, Joanne Gordon’s introduction to “Be happy at work” focuses on how people can enjoy their work and be happy. She centers her issues on women and work happiness as the major topic of her text. According to Joan, women are happy at work when they like these aspects about their work; purpose, people and processes. She supports her ...

- Based on how you think most people in your department or organization would respond to the 12 questions used as a "Measuring Stick", what scores (high, medium, low) would you anticipate on the various questions? Why?

For this study, Costco Wholesale Corporation is selected for answering the measuring stick questions. The questions’ responses will depict Costco Wholesale Corporation employees’ satisfaction level with the workplace and will discuss those factors, which are helpful for employees’ satisfaction.

1. Do I know what is expected of me at work?

If the question is stated for understanding ...

Personal experience with discrimination

Social and cultural diversity across the world affects how individuals are perceived and handled in different social settings. It is the quality of different cultures as opposed to monoculture across the global world. Even though the United States has made an outstanding effort to curb discrimination, traces of these acts still exist specially in the New York City (Belmont, 2011). This paper reflects my own personal experience both at my home town in New York City and abroad, regarding personal biasness and discrimination that I have experienced in different social settings upon factors such as race, gender, religion, socioeconomic ...

Question 1: Ethical Management:

Issue of ethics is something that has been spoken of and debated possibly since the advent of mankind and philosophy itself. The developments in the modern management world especially over the last decade have sparked off numerous discussions and debates on Ethical Management and legality. What is legal need not necessarily be ethical always. The economic crisis of 2008-2009 which deeply impacted the American economy and had in a way impacted global economy and several economies still continue to reel under its effect almost half a decade later is a classic example of what could happen if ethics were to be ...

‘Health and Safety legislation imposes an unnecessary financial burden on business’

Employment sectors in the United Kingdom have been subjected to numerous rules in recent times that seek to decrease the occurrence of grievous injuries in the work environment. The implementation of proper health and safety regulations has been made mandatory in order to secure the wellbeing and safety of the workers. Sensible rules that ensure workplace safety are always welcomed by the employers. But the present safety and health legislation has begun to ...

The Importance of Pay in Employee Motivation: Discrepancies between What People Say and What They Do? by Sara L. Rynes, Berry Gerhart, and Kathleen A. Minette

Thesis Statement

This paper states that there are many motivators for workers and the most important one is money paid to the workers. The articles in the human resources journals prepared for mostly for human resources professionals claim that the money paid to the workers as a motivator is exaggerated and other motivators also should be taken into account. This paper claims that the HR professionals underestimate the power of the money paid to ...

- Staples Case

Many organizations with many units have increasingly moved from the traditional way of doing business and adopted rather non-traditional ways. This is due to the emerging issues which continue to change with the global trends in business. For instance, ‘Longs Drugs Company’ in the field of pharmaceuticals used to allow its managers to make products in accordance with the market served. However, this company has proved to be among the global pacesetters in business by having a more centralized decision making rather than decentralized. This allows it to adapt to changing trends. The drivers of this ...

Introduction

Advancing in the global economy implies adjusting to increased competition, which requires higher productivity. Yet, increased productivity occurs when the occupational environment offers safe and pleasant working conditions. Contrarily, working environment highly exposed to occupational risks and hazard that may cause accidents, illness and even death lose their competitiveness at the cause of absenteeism, employees’ insurance expenditures orpotential trials (Stranks, 2005).

Statistics conducted by International Labour Organization (ILO), the World Health Organization (WHO) and United Nations (UN) agree in their estimations that there are 279 million occupational accidents and 160 million diseases associated with the working ...

Executive Summary

Macau is a very attractive gaming destination in the Asia Pacific region, just across the border for Hong Kong. This city attracts a large number of tourists and international visitors. It has also seen a rapid growth in establishment of large gaming companies, ever since liberalization for gaming operators in 2002. This must have actually spurred economic growth, and boosted SMEs, which are the economic growth power engines. However, unfortunately this is not the case, primarily because of the intense pressure on manpower, which is contributing to labour turnover in Macau, so much that, almost 30% of the SMEs are facing closure ...

Introduction

This chapter gives an analysis of the results of the study to derive insights on why insider threats remains to be one of the leading and challenging security issues to deal with. The results of the study present a vague picture of what motivates insider threats in private organizations. The questions of why, what and how will be answered with references to the data obtained from the study. This section also demonstrates the actions taken by organizations and tries to link it with theoretical frameworks and pool of knowledge developed by earlier scholars.

Analysis

The belief that insider threats ...

Please Do Not Just Do What I Tell You, Do What Needs to Be Done (Bob Nelson)

The book by Bob Nelson thrives to give morale to employees and educate them on the best ways they could be successive in the places of work. This book is like a handbook designed for employees who seem to be frustrated at their places of work. This book educates the employees of four critical issues: reasons as to why employees should always seek initiative; why the employees should seek to do more at work that is required of them; giving a tip to the employees on the benefits of volunteering at work; most importantly how to develop, plan and implement good ...

Sound Wave Electricals is an Australian based electrical equipment retailer operating 68 stores with 3,500 employees. With such a huge work force and expansive business operations, the company is bound to have several challenges in the management of its workforce. One of these challenges is Low Task Control. Low Task Control refers to often stressing situations where one is expected to complete a given task and achieve objectives in which they have very little control over (Hicks & McSherry, 2006). It also implies lack of control to the very factors influencing the expected outcomes. Low task control is most stressing when ...

Answer 1

A servant leader is more concerned about team interests and commitment by focusing on need fulfillment of group members and organizational objectives. In addition, the roles of a servant leader and business / IT analyst are diverse in nature because an analyst provides a holistic picture of entire organization by evaluating employee performance and company achievements with that of individual and organizational weaknesses. A recent business conflict situation was about the implementation of Microsoft SharePoint 2013 system that involved the migration from existing IBM Lotus Notes. The employees had concerns about computability and convenience; therefore, they ...

Organizational identification can be defined as the significance of the organization in the individual’s self-concept. It is the adoption of identity by either the person in the context or by others. Organizations regulate and control members’ identity in different ways. One of this way is by conceive control where members watch and control each other’s actions. Another way through which organization regulate and control members’ identity is by setting up some rules and procedures to govern the identification. Also, member’s identity can be regulated through the setting up of strong organizational values. Organization identification is a legitimate organizational ...

Representing the helm of a global enterprise proves no easy feat, particularly in the highly competitive and dauntingly complex world of the airline industry. Yet Richard Branson has managed to become viewed as a cool guy, who is down-to-earth, sensible and unpretentious as well as effectively leading the company Virgin into a hopeful future. A cogent understanding of the intensity and difficulty required to run an airline is noteworthy at the outset of this essay. In an article appearing in the Harvard Business Review, Anderson (2014) describes the treacherous terrain of management ...

I had the opportunity to interview Mrs. Taylor Cole, a Licensed Certified Social Worker - Clinical (LCSW-C). I met Taylor through her spouse who works at my job place. Her husband and I began talking about Social work and he mentioned that his wife is licensed and had opened up her own business. Taylor has her own private practice in Maryland. Her business is in support of children who have or had involvement in foster care. As CEO of her own company, Taylor is responsible for providing therapy to clients, billing, and tech support. Taylor is responsible for both the ...

A Comparison between UK and India

Abstract

Stress has been part of human life ever since the beginning of mankind. Initially, people stressed themselves out hunting for food, finding places to rest, and inexplicability of natural phenomena. With the globalisation of industries and the presence of multinational companies all over the world, organizations may need to consider adopting certain policies to match up to other similar organizations. Stress in organisations has become a major issue in the UK and most organisations now have policies and procedures to help employees avoid this and interventions are often in place to support them. It is not known whether ...

The simple fact that so many women have used male pseudonyms to find a publisher shows the differences that gender forces on writers. Mary Ann Evans chose to write under the name of George Eliot, and Louisa May Alcott wrote as A.M. Barnard, at least when she was writing her dark short stories. Lest you think that this is an eccentric oddity of the 19th century, it is instructive to remember that a publisher told Joanne Rowling that boys would enjoy reading about Harry Potter more if she published it as a more masculine J.K. While both women and men appear comfortable ...

Sexism and Classism were seen majorly in the communist China during the period lasting from the year 1949 to the year 1979. Sexism which refers to discrimination and prejudices that is not based on race but on the sex of the individual. This usually is channeled towards the female sex due to some ancient cultural, religious or social beliefs. This can surprisingly be seen till date in our present day society. Classism on the other hand refers to this same practice but with the tendency of being based on the race and ...

People services Inc. whose foundation is providing quality services to its customers. Its employees are the key to efficient and productive services. Hence, conduct of employees is taken very seriously in the company. The employees have to be loyal, efficient and productive. The case study is of an employee whose performance fluctuated. At first, the employee known as Maryam had an outstanding performance. A hardworking employee. She came to work early. She did her work very efficient in doing her work. The management of the organization praised her for her good work. She was above average in her performance ...

Introduction

The article relates to interactions between the managements and employees within organizations. As such, the purpose of the article is to establish and ascertain a model that establishes the influences of organizational justice as regards employee productivity. The article further explores the effectiveness of the mediation character played by managerial obligation as well as the interaction between leaders and employees concerning managerial integrity and the human resource performance.

Accordingly, the article presupposes that an actual or perceived unfairness of the managerial staff in work places by the employees can have a direct negative effect on the employee productivity. This ...

Communication is a fragile, delicate process we often take for granted. In many cases, we do not even realize we are communicating. Most of us believe to communicate we must speak, but this is untrue. We are technically communicating all the time. Verbally, nonverbally, through our movements, and even when we are still, everything that we do communicates something to those around us. The communication process is so complex is can often begin to cause problems for us and those we communicate with. One of the most common places communication problems occur is in the workplace. Superiors and subordinates sometimes ...

Emotions are some of the individual behaviors that can be termed as inevitable at workplace. Emotion can be defined as any strong personal feeling that can’t be easily hidden. A workplace carries a diversified range of persons as workers, employers. Due to this diversity, it is a common happening that emotional makeup will also vary; as a result. As much as some people will feel a bit comfortable expressing al their emotions in the workplace, some will feel a bit shy or secretive to share such emotions at the workplace (Brillinger, 2003). These secrecy or shyness can be attributed to the failure of the ...

Introduction

Human resource management deals with people as resources of an organization. There have been concerns on the control imposed by the managers on the employees of an organization. Because of the powers accrued to them, human resource managers are often viewed as the power hungry. Either way, the department is mandatory any organization and is important for organizing the people in the organization.

Question 1

Human resource management fundamentally constitutes the management of people within the organization. As such, people tend to assume that human resource controls employees. Primarily, the functions of human resource are the motivation of employees and impacting ...

The critical importance of morality in leadership lays not in the highest standard of behavior it can set; but in the disastrous outcomes it can prevent, or at least, help prevent. The problem, however, is in the relativistic environment it has to deal with. Relativism has no standard, other than the standard of the individual. And, in the corporate world, that standard often rests in the position of power. Anyone in power has the official incentive to impose personal standards (“individualistic morality”) upon others. That, however, does not mean that a morality based on personal standards is morality at ...

According to Maslow, human needs are hierarchical; this means that there are particular needs that must be fulfilled first before considering the next. One’s need highly influences his or her motivation towards work. When one is motivated to work, the productivity of the company will go up. Money is the only way an employer can motivate the employees. When the workers are well paid, the money discussion will get away from the table. Instead of discussing money, the employees will dig deep into work increasing the productivity of the company. Money and incentives are, however, not the only ...

There are many injuries that occur as a result of accidents or violence. Workplace accident is an example of an injury cause. Workplace accident refers to any accident that occurs in the cause of a person’s work. An example of a workplace accident is a third degree burns obtained when a conveyor belt explodes during startup causing a fire in the asphalt plant part of a company. Statistics have indicated that more than 27 million working days are lost almost each year due to third degree burns at work.

This proves that these incidents have serious repercussions.Health and safety executive (HSE) aims at reducing the ...

- What was the topic for your presentation at the BCC Health Fair? (We had the topic for food and nutrition)

a. Was it difficult for you to speak to others to relay information? Answer – It was not difficult for me to speak to other to relay information as the BCC Health Fair was about something that I am passionate about and have my distinctive views on the subject of health, which I relayed at the fair with ease. b. What surprised you about the fair, in general? Answer – One of the attendees demonstrated ...

The labor market has become competitive on the highly skilled and qualified employees. Additionally, there are many companies that are entering the market each day attracting employees who are already working for other companies. For a company to compete, attract and retain qualified and efficient work force it has to compensate them for their labor and the contribution to the company (Bryant, et al., 2013). Moreover, the company has to compensate the employees for an exceptional work. This will make the employees feel motivated and they are appreciated for their work by the firm. In addition to compensation, the employees ...

This paper seeks to discuss about social memory and more particular childhood memories. Secondly, this paper will discuss the uses of childhood memory such as psychological interpretation. Lastly, this paper will discuss at length on the ways in which childhood and social memory influence of future well-being.

Human beings are complex beings. As people and what defines us is the diversity of the things that make us think in a certain way, those that make us do what we do and especially those that make believe certain things and live our lives in a certain way. We all were children at a ...

That accidents happen in the workplace because of negligible acts by the company and its employees is without a doubt. However, sometimes accidents are purely unpredictable and can happen even in the most careful of setups. Research has indicated that fatigue is one of the main causes of catastrophes that occur in the workplace. When an individual is fatigued, they are more likely to cause injuries because their thinking ability is considerably reduced. It results from the lack of sleep or too much workload. Fatigue makes an employee vulnerable to dangerous injuries around the office (Biddle, 2009). Research has indicated ...

a. The study framework used in this study was clearly identified as Lee et al., (2004) model of impaired sleep. This model provides that sleep loss or poor quality of sleep is as a result of inadequate sleep or disruption of sleep. It also provides that secondary factors that may also affect sleep include lifestyle situations and health-related problems.

b. The discussion used in the framework aims to link the concept of sleep loss and the increase of a person’s inability to perform various duties. The article cites various key areas affected by loss of sleep. The framework focuses on ...

How do you think your top two "Strategic Processing Styles" and your "Strategic Pattern" affect your communications and decision making at work?

After reviewing the TRIZ formula for Strategic Processing Styles (SPS), I found that the two SPS that best describe me are the Reactive Simulator (RS) and the Relational Innovator (RI) (Ungvari, n.d.). The prevailing attributes of the RS are initiative, accountability, opportunity identification, influencing others through sensitivity, change, decision making, solicit input and information sharing (Ungvari, n.d.). Acknowledging these characteristics of the RS, in can recognize myself in these attributes that define both my communications and decision making at work. As such, I am bold and take initiative for actions that have a high risk potential but also a valuable opportunity ...

While many people might not realize that there is a current shortage of nurses in the division’s workforce, it has actually been an increasing problem throughout many different countries in the world. According to the article The New Nursing Shortage, Ramachandran (2014) states, “the recent recession made it more difficult for entry-level nurses to find work, as more experienced nurses put off retirement and stayed in the job force.” This is likely not only happening within the United States, but also with other countries throughout the world as well. Many people are working right past the general retirement ...

Ethics is a part of philosophy that tries to examine the morality of action and behavior in the society. Codes of ethics are geared towards creating professionalism in the workplace. They make sure the work standards are not compromised in any way, and we differentiate what is right from wrong. Furthermore, they make sure the relationships at the workplace are maintained at the professional level and everyone conducts themselves responsibly. They also make sure the organization meets its promises to the client (both the writer and the reader) by running an efficient organization which plays by the rules. In case ...

Stress is a form of reaction that someone experiences that disturbs a person’s psychological condition. Stressful situation causes different reaction such as lack of appetite, feeling upset, trauma and inability to conduct daily activities as usual. In addition, long-term stress can affect the mental health of an individual (Jeanne 9). However, different individuals have different ways of dealing with stress at home, school or even at the workplace. This paper looks at how an individual can manage stress in an MBA course. In addition, I will apply my life experience as an example to vividly show how stress can be ...

What was the client’s business problems? How does your solution help solve the problem?

The Department of Managed Health Care (DMHC) had the problem of providing affordable healthcare to people with disabilities. For this reason, the organization issued RPF for the purpose of ensuring that all residents with disabilities benefit from outreach programs on healthcare. The organization had the problem of ensuring that all people with disabilities received proper healthcare. The solutions provide the processes and procedures that would help the organization provide healthcare that suits the needs of all people with disabilities. The guideline provides a focus on the actions DMHC should take to develop a healthcare system that is efficient and straight forward ...

Introduction

Social media have been gaining a lot of popularity and importance these days and has the power to influence the activities and the branding of an organization. The increased use of social media by employees has reaped benefits for employees as well as posed potential risks in few cases. An appropriate social media policy should help America West in setting up control mechanisms to make the best possible use of social media for the operational success of the company.

Social media policy is quite important as it shall provide a vision to the organization and its employees on the usage of ...

1) Nursing calls for individual endurance, attention and commitment towards the career. The requirements for nursing do not only call for a career choice, but also a personal attitude towards the profession with the aim of aiding the sick. This calls for our attention towards those in need of help around us, far and way beyond. Following the nature of the job and having been in the healthcare system for over 12 years, I believe this will be the best profession for me to venture in, both as a professional path and an educational path for exploration.

My desire to be a nurse ...

My name is Sandra Romero. I am forty four years old. I am an immigrant from the Philippines. Though I currently live and work in the United States, I only came here some years ago. I am a single mother of three wonder full boys. My first born is eight years old. My second born is five years old and finally my third born is three years old. All the three attend school at the Wilshire Preparatory School. I landed in the United States three years ago when my third born son was still new born. Over the years, ...

Introduction

People working across different organizations, spend huge amount of time and significant part of life at workplace. This increases their expectations from the employers and it is essential that employers keep their workforce satisfied and happy in order to achieve efficiency in job performed by employees. Motivation is one the major factor that govern various aspects related with why people perform their jobs and what is driving factor that determine their overall behavior. A satisfied employee benefited the organization not by performing their job with full efficiency but also by reducing their absenteeism, encouraging co-workers and creating healthy environment ...

Google Inc Organizational Culture There has been a significant growth of Google since Sergey Brin and Larry Page set-up the first few workstations. It is now a giant in information and internet based services and was recently estimated to be more than $145 billion in value (Schein, 2010). Google has a base camp which is based in Mountain View, Calif. There are excellent facilities that are offered by this and what you can discover here can be listed as:• several boutique stations where representatives can accumulate to consume free sustenance and have discussions• snack rooms loaded with goodies extending from connection to ...

WORKER STRESS AND BURNOUT

Worker stress and burnout are a state of physical, mental and emotional exhaustion that occurs when an employee feels overwhelmed with his duties and responsibilities at work, disabling him to live up to expectations. As stressors continue to place demands on him, he begins to lose the motivation that made him take on the position in the first place (Gryna, 2004).

Although stress is a prerequisite of burnout, burnout does not necessarily result from too much stress. For burnout to come about, psychological involvement is necessary. An employee can live with stress and even enjoy it sometimes, but there will ...

Analysis of World Wildlife Fund (WWF)

The organization’s set up should always be working within the mission in which it’s established. This will enable the organization delivers and be objective. The mission of the organization should be believed in by all the staff members; hence the results will be delivered. World Wildlife Fund (WWF) operates in a wide range of activities which go beyond conservation. The organization is a nonprofit institution that has been in operation for the last 50 years, making it a leader in the wildlife conservation industry.

The organization do have operations in 100 countries and have the support of over 1.2 million ...

An office worker had a record of frequent absence. He used all his vacation and sick leave days and frequently requested additional leave without pay. His supervisor and co-workers expressed great frustration because his absenteeism caused bottlenecks in paperwork, created low morale in the office, and required others to do his work in addition to their own. On the other hand, he felt he was entitled to take his earned time and additional time off without pay. Was he right?

The office worker is wrong is manifesting a behavior of frequent absenteeism. As an employee he is expected to be governed ...

Benson, Lisa and Mokhtari, Manouchehr 2011, ‘Parental employment, shared parent -child activities and childhood activities’, J Fam Econ, vol. 32, no. 5 pp. 233-234.

Summary:

The main point of discussion in this article is the impact of parental participation on the child’s health. This discussion is based on percentile body mass index toll of measurement. (pBMI).This index investigates the role of parents in the growth of their children. An axiom that parental care is reserved for mothers only is insufficient. Father’s contribution in parental care indicates positive impact.

This study indicates that time spent at work by parents influences a child’s health. Joint involvement in decision-making by parents positively affects child’s health as it reduces disagreements According to a study by ...

Summary

This paper will clearly show the connection between personal responsibility and college success. It will discuss the requirements and strategies that need to be followed in order to succeed in college life as well as maintain a better life in other schedules. This involves balancing responsibilities at work and maintaining effective relations with family members. It brings out the positive aspects acquired in college life that help to shape the livelihood of people in the society. Issues like proper time management, help in shaping the life of a human being and make them responsible people.

Personal Responsibility and College Success

Personal responsibility refers to the act ...

Introduction

We live in a complex world and as human beings require a deeper understanding of the world around it. We learn from about the existence of the world and also learn from it. This in turn affects our daily way of life and our activities. A paradigm is defined as a pattern or a way of interpreting information. It is a unique description of thoughts and concepts including distinct sensory information. The work paradigm describes the way we are designed to operate in the work area and the adaption of different paradigm shifts (Fineman pg 12). The following essay describes my personal work paradigm ...

Abstract

Operant conditioning is a form of learning where behaviors for individuals are modified by their consequences. Different occupations are associated with different behaviors. It is extremely fundamental to understand the difference between various situations and how they may be resolved. Following the uniqueness of various occupations there are solutions that are outlined to solve issues as they arise in different situations. Depending on the problem either Positive or Negative Reinforcement, Positive and Negative Punishment, Shaping, Extinction, Generalization, or Discrimination may be undertaken as a solution.

In most cases, related behaviors will attract similar solutions. Since different problems may be intertwined, they ...

Ethical situations require that businesses make choices out of competing interests. It is in the best interests of businessmen to foster virtue oriented ethical mindset. The paper will explore various ethical virtues in business field. The paper proposes the argument that the development if a universal law governing business ethics is difficult. Realization of ethics thus depends on the virtues of the practitioners in the areas of businesses. Still, the paper fosters the argument that ethics is individual born, and depends mostly on how individuals respond to situations.

The exact meaning of ethics is hard to capture. What is “ ...

Business – Ethics in Observation Scenarios

- Would you hit print, make about 80 copies, and put them in everyone’s mailboxes, or even just leave them stacked in a couple of convenient locations? That would get the information out and right into the gossip chains pretty quickly. But is this ethical? On the other hand, if you don’t send out the information, is it ethical to let other workers go about their days with inaccurate assumptions about pay practices at the firm? By quitting and not sharing the information, did this worker commit and ethics issue?

Ethics has mostly been about making the right ...

Diagnostic Tools

Mammography is a diagnostic test used for examining breasts with low-energy X-rays to detect breast cancer early. The mammogram uses ionizing radiation and creates images, which are then analyzed by radiologists to detect abnormal tissue growth. If a woman tests positive for breast cancer, the image will display microcalcifications or characteristic masses. However, the effectiveness of mammography is often disputed through clinical trials.

According to Gøtzsche and Nielsen (2009), the application of mammography reduces breast cancer mortality by 15 percent, but it also results in 30 percent increases in overdiagnosis and overtreatment. The sensitivity of mammographic readings has not been ...

1.0 Introduction

This article is about discrimination and how it impacts organizations and society at large. The aim of the paper is to provide a broad perspective on discrimination and what organizations should do to avoid the negative impacts of discrimination at the work places. Discrimination is when individuals or an individual is treated unfairly than others because of their age, race, nationality, religion or belief, sexual orientation among other ground. The article therefore will focus on forms of discrimination, why discrimination is a problem in both organizations and society, impact of discrimination to organizations and society, role of organizations in avoiding discriminations ...

Alienation in the Workplace

- Why and to what extend should organizations be concerned with alienation in the workplace?

The workplace is where a lot of people, presumably, from different departments in an organization especially if we are talking about the workplace of a large corporation, collaborate to work on areas they are responsible for. Teamwork is an essential part of a highly productive workplace and workplace alienation according to Marx’s Alienation of Labor Theory, is one of the major hindrances to employee and corporate productivity .

- What is meant by the expression “alienation at work”; what are its main causes among employees and ...

Alienation

Alienation is a condition under social relationships characterized by low degree of the same values and high degree of isolation of individuals ((Trinca and Fox, 2004). It is separation of an individual from the rest of the people either in a community or working environment. The three main causes of alienation includes; powerlessness, meaninglessness, and self-estrangement. Powerlessness is lack of control over the work activities, lack of autonomy, and lack of autonomy. Meaningless is lack of understanding or sense of contribution to a larger purpose.Looking from broader perspective there are three factors that affect alienation; individual factors for instance personality, values, belief, ...

Research involves the systematic process of investigating and the study of events and circumstances in order to establish a fact or obtain a conclusion. Each of the managerial dimension is important in the promotion of an effective research because it creates a structural framework that will establish research outcomes to answer from one research question to another in order to obtain a valid conclusion. The decision making process of the researcher tends to become more accurate and specific owing to a targeted area of study to focus on with a clearly defined strategic planning in order. With the application of the various managerial dimensions, the ...

The survival of the modern economy depends on a neverending stream of consumption. This is why cars do not last as long as they used to, it is why the cost of a new television is not significantly higher than the cost of television repair, and it is why restaurants continue to proliferate across the map, hopping from retail corner to retail corner to chase families down before they can get home and cook their own meals. This trend began in the wake of the Great Depression; while it was largely the mobilization of industry for World War II that brought ...

Garley, Matt, Slade, Benjamin and Marina Terkourafi. “Hwaet! LOL! Common Formulaic Functions in Beowulf.” Proceedings from the Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Association 45 (1): 111-126.

This paper identifies six different formulaic functions that appear both in modern blogs and in Old English poetry. These six are discourse-structuring, filler, gnomic, epithetic, tonic and acronymic. The commonality of these linguistic features is interesting given the amount of time that has passed between the two genres. This shows that the purpose of communication has remained constant, at least in these areas.

Godfrey, J.E. “Beowulf as Martial Epic.” Unpublished dissertation, Texas Tech University, 2011. http://repositories.tdl.org/ttu-ir/handle/2346/19379

This dissertation focuses on the similarities between Beowulf and other epics of war. The conventions of this type of epic are discussed, as well as the rhetorical devices that the martial epic typically encompasses. This is ...

Question 1: You are tasked with completing a coaching discussion with Linus Carver. How would you go about this discussion?

Before starting a discussion with Linus Carver, I need to ascertain objectives which need to be fulfilled from the discussion. The meeting may be started by appreciating the fact that he is handling the department extremely well by coming out with wonderful product designs and is an asset to the company. However, there are some behavioral fallacies which have been observed in the manner Carver handles his team. Carver solely handles a department and does not allow others to voice their ideas and opinions which make his team extremely frustrated. He improvises on the ideas given by his staff and presents ...

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

With the passage of time, companies have enhanced their product offerings. Many of the products now are directly targeted towards the younger generation which leaves the older consumers with less motivation. In order to change such perception of the older consumers, the Amazon Kindle Fire HD is aimed towards such market segment. In order to persuade the older consumers regarding the product, marketing communication mix would be used. Such a plan would help in promoting the brand in the older consumers due to its facilities i.e. convenient storage, portability and versatility. In order to persuade the older consumers to purchase ...