Essays on Bad News

1. Routine Message: I was quite comfortable with Konrad Yakabuski’s assessment of our health care system. That is, until his last paragraph, where he states, “Younger doctors, motivated by more noble goals than money, seem to get this” (Doctors Don’t Get It: Health Care is a Team Game, Aug. 18). I am a 66-year-old family doctor with almost 40 years of practice under my belt. Fortunately, I really don’t need the money. I resent the implication that “older” doctors are less “noble” than younger ones. Most doctors were not looking for a personal boost to their ...

Asia pacific company, just like any corporate body, at the time is facing financial constraints. The economic times are hectic and therefore the company management has to ensure that the depreciating economy does not take a toll on the operations of the company. Therefore, to come up with a quick solution, the top management under the company COO holds a meeting. The meeting settles on having the company employees’ salaries being cut by 10% and get the company to improve sales by 10%. The global management committee therefore left the announcements of the new developments to John Saxon who ...

Scenario 1: Teaching a newly diagnosed type II diabetic patient the importance of monitoring his/her blood glucose level.

This scenario will require applying connectivism theory of learning to help the patient effectively comprehend the importance of monitoring blood glucose level in the body. Connectivism theory is relevant in this scenario since it requires that the patient needs knowledge to assimilate the importance of monitoring his or her blood glucose level. The patient has to be active and learn as the process of learning is carried on. James states that, “Nurturing and maintaining connections is needed to facilitate continual learning” (2013). The theory makes learning contextual as the patient has to connect the information he has concerning ...

Things happen…Indeed, they do happen when you are not waiting for them. And the worst is that bad things happen to you when you are not waiting for them at all, when you are disarmed, they like stab you into your back with a knife, like a traitor…the next feeling is devastation, despair and darkness. These three ‘Ds’ overwhelm you like a big wave and it seems that the world has collapses. Not so long ago I’ve had these very feelings – my world stopped functioning for me. Its engines broke down and the whole system of ‘worldbuiling’ collapsed – ...

The Name of the School

Research Question Has the introduction in Australia of a continuous statutory-backed disclosure policy and subsequent amendments led to an increase in reporting of economic events experienced by firms? This is to verify that the legislation has relevance for firms.

Relationship of Proposed Study to Prior Research

The implementation of Australia's statutory-backed continuous disclosure policy is meant to make corporate behavior more transparent to stockholders. Under the disclosure regime, an Australian Stock Exchange-listed issuer is required to release material information about the company as soon as it becomes aware of it. The Australian Stock Exchange takes firsthand responsibility for regulating and monitoring itself. Statutory sanctions provide a regime ...

Introduction

Epistemic contextualism had recently emerged as hotly debated and controversial topic among many philosophers. Contextualism elaborates a collection of philosophical views suggesting that utterance, action, or expression can only be understood with respect to the context they occur. The scope of the context subject has provided the hub for the controversial argument to many philosophers. This is because “context” does not certainly refer to elements of the putative focus of knowledge or objective condition but rather the elements of the knowledge attributor’s psychology. In other words, some philosophers like Conee believes that what is deemed to vary is the ...

When palliative care was first introduced in healthcare, the focus of care delivery was exclusively on cancer patients and their families, but it eventually expanded to other types of terminal illness (Zimmermann et al., 2008). At the moment, the World Health Organization (WHO, 2014) defines palliative care as a multidisciplinary approach to healthcare for patients that are diagnosed with life-threatening conditions. A different definition describes palliative care as an intervention aiming to mitigate suffering instead of curing an illness (Becker, 2008). All definitions agree that the purpose of palliative care is to provide relief from pain, enhance the quality of ...

2. Rater errors refer to the errors that occur in a systematic manner when judging or appraising a person (Deb, 2006). Some of these errors are discussed as below. Halo effect: This refers to the tendency to allow one or more job characteristics of an employee to over shadow other aspects. This happens when the strongest positive or negative characteristic of the employee is used to generalize the overall performance of the individual.

Central tendency: This error happens when the managers consider all employees to be average in their performance and over look the individual characteristics and overlook the actual ...

Introduction

A raisin in the sun cannot be complete without the influence of people who are outside of the Younger family. Every character that is introduced ion different scenes in the book has a fundamental part to play in how the different themes are developed. They make the themes in the book have a real effect, and the audience can tell that the themes are universal concepts that happened to the people in the society. The book reverberates around an African American family that struggles to have their mark in a world that is full of atrocities and adversaries that threaten their very ...

In 1861, the United States faced division between the North and South. The territories split because of a difference of opinions. The South or the Confederates lost the Civil War for many reasons. Although the South lost the war many historians “extols the gallantry of Confederate soldiers and insists that they had not forfeited their honor in losing to a vastly superior foe” (Janney, 6). However, there are many factors that contributed to the loss. The reasons include limited amounts of money, weapons, food, soldiers, and leadership styles and policies. While the North won the war, the performance of the South ...

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Abstract

This paper explores the roles of groups and group thinking. It includes subject areas such as groups in school as well as groups outside of school that have the ‘mob mentality’ approach to subjects. An example of this kind of mob would be the Occupy Wall Street movement, or sports team fans. Groups are a commonplace event amongst societies. It is especially apparent in a school setting where people work on projects together. An experience where I encountered a negative group member was a member in one of my school groups who didn’t want to do his ...

A question arises whether the media is biased against liberals. The answer is yes. Another question comes around whether the media has biased news over conservatives. The answer will be yes. Many would think these questions and answers aren’t interesting at all, due to its probability of searching evidence-anecdotal or to provide evidence of media bias as one stripe or another(Dellavigna and Kaplan 1187--1234). The interesting and instructive part of studying media biases is inherent or structural biases present in journalism. However, the professional working in media is through television. The word bias is used as a ...

A question arises whether the media is biased against liberals. The answer is yes. Another question comes around whether the media has biased news over conservatives. The answer will be yes. Many would think these questions and answers aren’t interesting at all, due to its probability of searching evidence-anecdotal or to provide evidence of media bias as one stripe or another(Dellavigna and Kaplan 1187--1234). The interesting and instructive part of studying media biases is inherent or structural biases present in journalism. However, the professional working in media is through television. The word bias is used as a ...

Response Letter

First of all I want to thank for the great effort you have taken in sitting down and penning this letter down. You have managed to note down your honest feelings and beliefs about the functioning and management of the company and personally being a huge believer in the freedom of expression, I must commend you on that. Moving on to the real issue, I am of the opinion that as much as you are accurate in some of your assertions about the company’s undertakings and the management style, there are conspicuous instances where you are inaccurate. I ...

16-Oct-13

What is a bad News? At managerial level there are some decisions that need daring and courage. Sometime these decisions become challenges for a manager of an organization. For example, as Moller (1999) states that these challenges may be of any types; completion of projects on time, dealing with headstrong employees, hiring and firing employees. One of the biggest challenges that a manager often faces in an organizational is to deliver a bad news to its employees. Bad news: We are going to fire Mr. Mark Twin by this week. For me, as a manger, delivering this bad news is worst ...

Three questions I might ask.

- Whether trust can diminish the impact bad news has on a company - The most critical corporate reputation factors. - The impact of trust on the profit margin of the business.

Question one.

Concerning whether trust can diminish the impact bad news has on accompany, I expect Edelman to say yes. This is because when customers have complete trust in a given company, then the impact of bad news is not likely to affect the company because a smaller percentage might agree with such news.

Question 2

Concerning question two about the most critical corporate reputation factors, I expect Edelman to mention quality. ...

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 ...

Communication: Article Review

“A Better Way to Deliver Bad News” by Jean-François Manzoni

Good communication does not always mean sharing good news. One of the most challenging jobs of a manager is to tell someone that they need to perform better at work. Dispensing criticism to improve the work of employees is one of the most important parts of a manager’s responsibilities. A manager’s performance depends on the work quality of his or her team members. Manzoni (2002) has written a very helpful paper on how managers can do a better job of communicating with employees as well as make the job of ...

Some readers think that the book of Job has a happy ending and is consequently affirmative in tone. Some readers think that the ending does not compensate for the physical and mental suffering of Job, consequently the book is anything but affirmative in tone.

Often times we hear the phrase, “the patience of Job,” or “being tried as job.” Whenever I hear, I feel righteous indignation. Job’s saga is surreal and there is no record that anyone has ever been tried or suffered as much as he. After analyzing Job’s story, I have concluded that it has an ...

The poem “A Subaltern’s Love Song” by John Betjeman is a very sweet poem that tells a story. Inside the poem is a mystery about love and who is in charge, the man or the woman. It’s the type of poem that makes a person smile when you read it. The author uses ‘ambiguity’ to make the mystery. The reader isn’t quite sure which meaning some of the words have. For instance I think the “subaltern” (which means “a person holding a subordinate position”) is the young man saying the poem. Although the young woman is the victor in the tennis game ...

Part 1

The use of a dog as a buffer by the by the adviser was not a good idea. This is because it only acts to distance herself from a flunking undergraduate and this robs the undergraduate a sense of belonging. It would look that the professor was using the dog as a buffer to guard herself from possible antagonism from flunking undergraduates. However, her experience over the years where she may have received bad news in the past should teach her the right way to interact with students while delivering bad news. There is a common understanding that a leader must be able to communicate clearly and ...

Business Continuity Plan to be Implemented

Dear All,

XYZ Co. has always taken pride in its employees who strive to attain the highest levels of excellence everyday in every part of their job. Today, we are faced with a challenging situation that will test our courage, dedication and integrity. Last night, a major fire broke out at the office premises of our New York headquarters. The cause of the fire has not been confirmed by the fire department as yet and we will be keeping you updated as we receive further news of the investigation.

Thankfully, the fire occurred during a time when the office was closed and ...

Abstract

This paper will examine the business ethics in the corporate world. This will be achieved through the comparison of two articles in business ethics. The first article is Principles and Practices for Corporate Responsibility that was the first issue of the Business Ethics Quarterly (BEQ). It analyzes how to operate these business ethics principles in diverse cultural settings and under various conditions. The second article is Business and Marketing Ethics: Good News and Bad News analyzes the development of journal articles related to business ethics and marketing ethics. Specifically, it focuses on articles from the Business Ethics Quarterly. ...