Essays on Benefiting

Healthcare organizations face a big problem now when it comes to nurse staffing and scheduling. There appears a big scarcity problem in the number of nurses when assigned per patient. Researches done during the past decades have established the importance of having enough nursing staff or registered nurse staffing as they play a huge role in achieving positive patient outcomes, safety, and satisfaction. This means an adequate nurse to patient ratio promotes reduction in patient mortality, enhances outcomes, and improves nurse satisfaction when it comes to their work. For instance, one study pointed out that for every patient assigned ...

According to the American Association of Nursing (AACN), nursing is a professional field that entails the process of caring, supporting, and organizing health abilities, preventing ailment and harm, easing pain by diagnosing and management of people response, and supporting for the care of persons, families, societies, and populations. In the United States, for one to qualify as a nurse, he or she needs to complete an associate degree (ADN), a baccalaureate degree (BSN), or diploma program after which they are allowed to be seated for and pass the National Council Licensure Examination for Registered Nurses (NCLEX-RN). Excelling in the ...

Strategic Account Management

Introduction Rapid technological advancement and ongoing globalization brought both advantages and disadvantages for the businesses. It became easier to reach the customers all over the world without moving the assets to the foreign market, but at the same time, the businesses have to become more flexible, adaptable, and innovative to attract and retain customers. As the barriers for entrance were lowered in a lot of fields, the competition increased drastically. Consequently, many companies are searching for the new strategies to attain organizational goals. In the modern business environment, a lot of businesses try to obtain competitive advantage and attain ...

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Evaluation of School’s Vision and Learning The educational establishment has a traditional vision of learning, believing that the school has to comply with the requirements of the national program. Specifically, the school concentrates primary attention on the process of learning, the academic productivity of students, and their behavioral patterns inside the school. Also, it is considered that children’s performance has to match the nationally established requirements for certain subjects and the teachers as well as management do not go beyond these frames. The development of school’s vision is conducted through the provision of the course material, ...

Business

Stakeholders Stakeholders are people or organizations who have an interest in or are affected by any policy or action of an organization. Stakeholders have a number of key characteristics. They may be characterized by their interest or stake in the company. They may also have the potential to contribute to the successful conduct of business for an organization. They can further be characterized by the decision making power they have on the activities of the company (Schmeer, 1999). Stakeholders in the case of PharmaCare are discussed in following paragraphs. Shareholders. The shareholders in PharmaCare would be interested in profits, ...

Outsourcing of Low-Paid Jobs to Developing Countries

With the increased globalization, a large number of multinational firms that are located in developed countries are turning to developing countries to establish firms and carry out a number of their business activities. This practice has for a long time been referred to as outsourcing, which simply implies the transfer of a few aspects of an organisation’s business activities to another firm that has been established in another nation. According to the law of international relations, there is no undertaking that involves two nations, which will lead to an equal effect on the countries considering that one of ...

Introduction

Characterized by an impressive history and dynamic foreign relations focused on controlling the resources of this area, Gulf region is an interesting case study for understanding the international relations (IR) theories. This essay aims to identify how IR theories explain the situation in Gulf countries and to decipher the Arab Spring and its foreign relations.

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Gulf countries have built a self-constructed image of being different because of their common Islamic religion, shared same history, common language and experiences (Gelvin 2). Shimko (37) observes that collective egoism is enrooted in the belief that the members of certain groups are better than ...

Multinational organisations present serious challenges in complying with international and domestic ethical norms. Particularly, multinational organisations currently experience various complications in assuming full responsibility of their actions to the society and environment. The manner in which an organisation can effectively foster a culture of ethical code in all its countries of operations, how to education employees on the importance of complying with the set regulations, and the most effective means of meeting the intricate legal and compliance obligations are some of the main challenges that face most multinational organisation. Even though all these challenges are independent, the solution to these ...

What You Can Learn from Starbucks http://www.inc.com/resources/marketing/articles/20050401/starbucks.html

Starbucks is an experienced company that serves good quality coffee, and besides this it delivers great customer service, from which managers have only but to learn, as Adam Hanft, the writer of the article “What Can You Learn from Starbucks” observes after analyzing the setting and the environment that Starbuck creates for its clients. The author of this article provides some useful customer service related advices based on his own Starbucks experience and he encourages managers to use them or to go visit the nearest Starbucks whenever they need to ...

Introduction

The second take is much different from the first take draft for one main reason. In the first draft, my interpretations of the picture were based in what I could see and how I could interpret the appearance of the photograph. By this I mean that the first draft was influence by my own perspectives of the photograph and what it represents. I did not have the advantage of having the information regarding the background of the work or the artist, and therefore embedding these factors into the interpretation. For instance, the aspects of color in the photograph meant ...

In order to get a clear picture of how Plato would respond to this dilemma, it is important to establish the facts about this case. A woman named Lisa Krawchuk qualified for welfare assistance because of her low income. The welfare authorities required her to report any changes in her income for the period that she received the benefits. She agreed to that condition, reported an increase in her income after her husband got a part-time job and the welfare office reduced her payments accordingly. Lisa failed to report that she was benefiting from a student loan and the welfare office withdrew ...

Distributive and Interest Based Bargaining

Distributive bargaining also known as the zero sum bargaining, is a bargaining strategy which is highly competitive. It is mostly used to help people decide how to distribute fixed resources such as money. The parties in this strategy assume that the resources are fixed and in low supply, hence, the more one gets, the less the other party gets. Interest-based bargaining also known as integrative bargaining is a strategy in negotiation in which the parties look for mutually benefiting solution to all parties. In this strategy, the parties involved both end up benefiting, hence, a ‘win-win’ situation. When distributive negotiation is ...

Introduction

Many people have no idea of what they expect to achieve after retirement when asked about their retirement plans. The government’s policies about retirement do not cater for the well-being of retirees creating a lot of worry for the life after employment. The increasing number of employees demanding cover by government pension programs and the current decline in the retirement income levels contributes to the change of the American pension landscape (Heiland and Li, 2012). The United States of America developed labor laws during the time when the country’s economy was independent and self-contained. The main aim of ...

Positive

Gaming is an industry created by legal gambling activities and includes lotteries, poker, slot machines, horse racing and other table games. According to Baird, Yepez, and Fairey (2011), supporters of gaming argue that it has psychological benefits. It gives people the opportunity to exercise control and it is also a way to relieve stress. Supporters claim that gaming is just like any other form of entertainment such as watching a movie. According to an article by the American gaming Association (2014), gaming has created employment opportunities and generated huge returns as tax revenue for the government. In 2002, 350,000 ...

The buying and selling of human organs is among the many contemporary issues that have garnered both media and public attention in recent years. Civilians, medical professionals, and governments have had diverging opinions regarding the trade. Trafficking human organs occurs in three distinct methods. The most common occurrence is when victims agree to sell organs (either formally or informally), but are not paid or are paid less than the promised amount. In other cases, traffickers deceive or force victims to give up their organs; in the final instance, the organs are removed without the victim’s knowledge. Trading human ...

Proposal

Introduction a. Social media have turned the world into a global village. The vast internet connections across the world has enabled for quick transfer of information from one part of the world to the other regardless of the locations. b. Social media play a major role in all aspects of modern businesses. Communications have been turned into interactive dialogues among individuals, communities and organizations resulting to reliable propagation of information (San Antonio, 2011). c. Web-based and mobile-based technologies and other multiple forms of internet connections have had a major impact on businesses. Organizations based on the latest technologies have ...

NAFTA is an acronym for the American Free Trade Agreement, which came into being on January 1, 1994 United States; Canada and Mexico entered into an agreement. The coming up of these three counties created the world's largest free trade area. This group at present links 450 million people and producing $17 trillion goods and services. Since its inception, NAFTA has led to improved free trade which has resulted in an increase in wealth and competitiveness and thus delivering real benefits to the families, workers, farmers and many more categories of individuals within the society. The creation of ...

AN EXPLORATORY ANALYSIS OF SENATE BILL 863

Requirements for the Masters in Public Policy and Administration Degree The thesis of is approved by __________________________________

Chairperson

ABSTRACT California’s (CA) legislature has passed a series of Workers Compensation (WC) reforms during the past 15 years; the most recent, Senate Bill (SB) 863 passed on August 21, 2012. SB 863 was introduced and presented to the California public as a reform bill that would ensure better coverage and easier medical access for workers injured on the job. SB 899 passed during the early 2000s was shown to be better for California’s workers, than SB863. ...

Among the many contemporary issues that have garnered both media and public attention is the trade in human organs. Civilians, professions, and governments have had diverging opinions regarding the trade and most believe that the trade should be legalized. Noteworthy, it is important to indicate that trading in human organs has become prevalent and has had far-reaching effects, both negative and positive, on the society. Remarkably, trafficking in human organs takes three distinct forms. The most common case is where victims formally/informally agree to sell organs, but are cheated since they are not paid or are paid less than ...

English

My major is economics. Economics is a long debated topic as it is treated as both a social science as well as science. Economics is called as social science when it studies behaviour of groups, organizations and individuals where they can manage the use of scarce resources to produce some valuable thing. It's important to understand that economics isn't future telling. If we will consider an economic model to a point to predict future, then we will definitely fail. The meaning of economics is to establish the better source for growth. My thesis statement is just one line, I don’t ...

Introduction

Mother to Mother Initiative is a community based women empowerment organization that will target poor single mothers and other vulnerable women. The organizational activities will be run and coordinated by professional women willing to volunteer their time to help their vulnerable counterparts. The concept of Mother to Mother is based on the reality that only a woman who is a mother can understand the length to which another mother can go to, to provide for her children. It is therefore easier for a woman empathize with poor, abused, disabled, unemployed or depressed women who are still struggling to fend for their families. ...

Introduction

Going by the history of Qatar, Kuwait and Bahrain, there is evidence that the rulers, either the colonizers or the local leaders leaned on one side in terms of policies and leadership that they imposed on the Bedouin and the urban merchants. As it will be discussed below, the rulers in Bahrain, Qatar and Kuwait, put in place policies that eventually improved the comfort of the Bedouin such that they changed most of their nomadic activities to adopt dwelling in places that they received the support by the powers in place. The urban merchants did not benefit from this ...

Product Placement in Movies

Abstract Conventional advertising methods are considered intrusive, annoying even and people are trying to avoid them using various methods, zapping being one of them, which implies that they are not as effective as the marketing managers conceptualized them, because the targeted audience is not totally exposed to their messages. Moreover, because people are exposed daily to a multitude of commercials under the same advertising strategies, they tend not to differentiate one message from another. For these disadvantages of the conventional advertising, the product placement offers an alternative, proposing another way of advertising, integrating brand promotion in movies, which diminishes ...

Affirmative Action also known as employment equality in Canada and positive discrimination in United Kingdom is a policy that considers various factors that aim at benefiting underrepresented groups in society. The global Affirmative Action policy considers factors such as gender, nation of origin, religion, colour, and race in ensuring that the interests of all groups are adequately represented in various sectors including the education sector, business sector, and employment opportunities. The concept gained relevancy in 1960s as a mean of addressing gender and racial discrimination in hiring and training processes. In 1967, the concept Affirmative Action expanded focusing on historical gender ...

Apart from outsourcing services that were once provided by community businesses, non-local large companies may displace more entrepreneurial small firms. Illustrations of the large companies that non-locally owned include the extensive retail chain stores. It is rather evident that the big business owners as well as those of the wealthy classes by themselves play tremendous roles in developing the local economies based on the adjacent topologies. However, even with the subjective matters, it is considered that their practices coupled with tactics in getting such great amounts of power are mostly unfair and unjust. Through demeaning others, the companies continue ...

Affirmative action: Text review

Affirmative action has been a topic that has attracted heated debates in the government for many decades. The debates about affirmative action actually started in the 18th century and many researchers and authors have undertaken projects in the field. This essay compares the texts from three authors regarding the issue and discusses the similarities in the three texts: “When affirmative action was white” by Katznelson; “People power and politics” by Roberto Satow; and “What the social classes owe each other” by Sumner William. In the book “When affirmative action was white”, Katznelson seeks to offer a wider historical justification for ...

Introduction

Marijuana, also known by different other names in different parts of world, is a plant that contains majorly tetrahydrocannabinol, a psychoactive chemical and several other molecular substances or cannabinoides. Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) is found in leaves, flowers and buds of this plant. Marijuana is produced at a large scale in some Asian countries but it is found in different parts of the world. This is one of most commonly used drugs around the globe. This paper intends to discuss marijuana, its uses, misuses, medical value and several other related aspects.

History

Marijuana is being used by human beings since time immemorial. We find its ...

Abstract

This article aims at analyzing the political economy of communications and the consciousness of industry approach. It further examines the US class structure and its control of income and wealth using Domhofff’s framework to discuss how Big Media and Big Business make use of the government to promote and shape all the relevant public policies which promote all their short-term interest. - Jhally’s Argument about the Purposes of Media Today in Maintaining Shared Ideological Consensus in the General Public

Introduction

The political economy perspective is of much importance in the structure and process of communication. A great ...

Situation 1

In competitive markets, the government must ensure that the goods and services that consumers demand are produced efficiently. There are many types of market failure and in situation one, the type of market failure is a negative externality. According to Frank (2011), externalities are benefits or costs that arise from an economic transaction received by parties not involved in the transaction, and they can be either positive or negative. In situation one, there is a negative externality because the cost of producing the cement sifters produces wastes that is released into the river that runs alongside the plant thereby polluting the ...

Sales Promotion

The sales promotion strategy for Pepsi Caribbean Twist implies an integrated approach on promotional actions and tools used for advertising this Pepsi product. In the sales promotion campaign, there will be applied sales princes, discounts, coupons, contests, sweepstakes, trade shows as direct advertising strategy, which will be promoted through various channels, with emphasis on social media, but also print, radio and television. There should be applied, as stated earlier, an integrated approach, which means that all the instruments should be combined and each one should mention the other promotional actions and instruments. For instance, the sale price and discounts ...

Introduction

“Children with Special Health Care Needs” (2005) article summarizes the findings of a research developed in Los Angeles County that investigated the children with special health care needs (SHCNs) in the period 2002 – 2003 and the challenges related to their health conditions. A series of interesting findings were reported in this article. In Los Angeles County, in 2002 – 2003, there were 15% of children that required SHCNs, with different racial, ethnical, cultural or income levels. Actually, these categories were found to determine the children’s access to the appropriate treatment. As such, the study found that for Latino population or ...

- Introduction One of the controversial debates that have dominated US economics and politics is the disadvantages of having large corporations such as Wal-Mart. Many have argued that corporate firms such as Wal-Mart create unfavorable competition for small businesses. However, the fact remains that millions of Americans today shop at Wal-Mart due to a couple of factors. Some of the factors include the fact that prices of goods and services at Wal-Mart are greatly subsidized compared to other small businesses. In addition, unlike other small firms Wal-Mart provides quality services and is also a source of employment for millions of ...

‘1950s is the period that is referred to as the age of affluence. During the period, affluence meant that a family was well off as compared to other groups in terms of income.’1 The age was characterized by high income and huge spending by the United States citizens. The age had several impacts. This research will discuss what led to the age of affluence, the promises of the period and the impact that the age had on the lives of the people. During the age, United States had just got out of the great depression and it was ...

Introduction

Workforce diversity has turn out to be a vital concern in business especially during this twenty first century. Diversity in labor has emerged due the flow of information that has resulted individuals containing different experiences and perspectives. The managerial team has to behave in a way to accommodate this diversity in addition to many other positive behaviors to increase productivity. The government as a business identity is therefore supposed to put up a labor force that will reveal the prosperous diversity of its country. The US government has not been blind in this and in order to maintain high quality production several actions ...

Introduction

I, Pencil is an interesting and captivating story by Leonard Read. The story is of timeless significance as it outlines the manufacturing processes that people tend to neglect. The story as narrated by the author is intended to explain the invisible hand that harmonizes all the individual’s activities to benefit the society as a whole. The I, Pencil story depicts the whole process of manufacturing the pencil, from the natural resources to the product, pencil. It also demonstrates that no single individual can make an item without the involvement of other people and other resources. This paper focuses on ...

Concept of Community

Introduction In recent years, organizations that are of benefit to the community have been on the increase, which has been attributed to the different advantages that organizations have over others (Gardener & Fitzpatrick, 2003). These organizations are firmly based on the visions and goals that have been set by communities; thus benefiting the community in the long run. The organizations are considered to be of benefit to the community because they involve members of the community in their general planning and management (Diamond, 2001). Also, this helps to move the communities towards change that the people within the communities ...

Introduction

The immigrant question in the United States of America still poses a fundamental challenge that government has to grapple with. Indeed, in response to the challenges, Congress has proposed a finely tuned and drafted bill that if approved and enacted into law would at least tackle the immigration concerns in relation to students studying in America having arrived in the land of opportunities at an age below sixteen years. The bill proposed by among others, Senator Durbin was introduced in the two houses in March 2009. It would allow granting of undocumented students legal status under two caveats, that is, the ...

Executive Summary

This case study focuses on identifying fraudulent issues taking place in the given four situation of Forensic Accounting. It identifies the issue on hand for every situation and goes further to discuss the in details the presence of elements such as coercion, collusion, and concealment. Nevertheless, the paper utilizes the fraud triangle to explain how the fraudulent acts are committed. The conclusion for each situation discusses the possible ways of addressing the issues being identified.

Introduction

Fraud have been on rise in forensic Accounting creating path for more investigations in order to identify ways in which these frauds arise and ...

Introduction

Conflict is the practice by which two or more individuals or groups with contradictory opinions are involved in behavior seeking to get benefit and/or harm the other party. Though conflict is frequently seen as adverse, some kinds of conflict, in definite settings, may have constructive results. Conflict management comprises of applying strategies to bind the negative features of conflict and to intensify positive features at a level equivalent or greater than where the conflict is happening. Moreover, the objective of conflict management is to improve learning. Conflict has been shown to increase group results when managed correctly. In ...

New York City is not only one of the largest cities in the United States but also in the world. In addition to this, the city is a major economic hub. Based on these two premises, industrial relations in New York are significant importance to the whole world. However, the scope shall be limited to the City’s policy on disciplinary and grievances processes especially among employees. This policy is enshrined in the New York State Civil Service Law and serves to uphold the city’s relentless commitment to upholding a work place culture that ensures a mutually benefiting relationship between employers ...

In “The Right Not to Vote, “Sandra Travis Edwards explains “the second time I decided not to vote was a little later. I had finally gotten settled in the town which is still my home, and I had time to get to know the community well enough” (Skwire & Wiener 362). In particular, Edwards bring out the idea that voting is a vital tool that the electorate should use if at all they are going to realize change within their societies. One thing that is important to understand is that voting is a democratic right that every eligible voter should exercise so that ...

Organizational theories date back to the era when human beings first stated engaging in commercial activities. Despite this fact, these theories are still relevant in the present day economic environment though modern day theorists are working on either advancing them or formulating new ones. These theories are specifically directed at the organizational management because they are decision-making tools. However, it must be mentioned that neither of these theories is conclusive when applied singularly because each of the theories have weaknesses. This thesis shall briefly look at the classical, neoclassical, human resource, organizational cultural reforms and organizational environment theories. The ...

Abstract

Kuwait is a Middle East Country that was started in the eighteenth century by the Banj tribe members. It was known as Guraine, but was later changed to Kuwait by the tribe of Utbah. Kuwait was in war with Iraq when the US developed interest in the country. This research paper will endeavor in describing the history of Kuwait and how the US came to offer assistance. It will also strive to uncover the history of Kuwait-American Foundation (KAF) and show their relationship today. Kuwait was established in the early eighteenth century by the tribe of Banj Utbah tribe ...

Financial appraisal

Advance payment is usually required by suppliers of goods with an aim of ensuring that the buyers of the goods actually pay for the goods when they are delivered. In addition, advance payment ensures that the individuals who have ordered the goods do not fail to receive the goods when supplied. However, there is a possibility that the suppliers may not be able to supply the goods and this can lead to loss of cash to the individual buying the goods. Advance payments are usually made to suppliers who are known to the business. These suppliers should be trustworthy and ...

Introduction

The Hotel Holiday Inn Camden Lock is one of the modern hotels in London. It is a very a well-liked four star hotel located right at the centre of stylish Camden Town. Based on its location, most marketers assert that it investors have many opportunities to invest in various sectors. Location among other factors plays a very crucial role in the performance of any business investment, (Books, 2010). The Hotel Inn Camden Lock is located at a very strategic site where various economic activities are available. Such activities include; tourism, well developed transport system, as well as a good number of various kinds of ...