Essays on Boss

The case study on Salt Lake City, the Olympics, and Bribery manifested a complex scenario, which demands a critical valuation. The case involved the perceived default by professional heads of the Salt Lake City Olympic Committee (SLCOC) and members from the International Olympic Committee (IOC), who have the full understanding of the ethical and legal stipulations of their work. The analysis of the case requires exclusive consideration of all facets ranging from the activities, circumstances that led to the occurrences, the individuals involved and the required rules as well as the regulations governing the corporates. Therefore, the analysis would Continue reading...

1). First give a brief description of the character with enough detail for me to understandthe character in context (10 points).
Dr. Meredith Grey from Grey’s Anatomy (2005)
Dr. Meredith Grey is the main character in Grey’s Anatomy which is aired on ABC channel. Meredith is the daughter of Ellis Grey, who was a renowned General Surgeon. Ellis worked at Seattle Grey Hospital where Meredith spent most of her childhood because her mother was always very busy doing surgeries. When Meredith was five years old, her parents got divorce, because her father (Thatcher) came to know about Continue reading...

Abstract

The purpose of this research was to determine the effects of stress among workers. A sample of 100 workers was used in the research and this included both sexes. Stress is generally a psychological problem that interferes with the stability of the mind of an individual. Interviews were carried out among the 100 workers where they were asked of how stress affected their performance at work. Not all workers were reached out to be interviewed. Therefore, use of questionnaires was employed in the exercise. According to the results it was found out that stress had negative effects on the Continue reading...

Chip Mazey is a vice president of the group. During a meeting with him, in a working situation or social meeting, I would pinpoint a number of issues that we feel the officer needs to work on. A particular aspect that the manager needs to work on would be on how he relates with his employees. Respect for employees is a trait that is missing in Chip’s style of administration. Chip's style of administration started right after he was promoted to the vice president's position and his ego took a grip on him. The manager is so full Continue reading...

Many critiques of the modern day working culture have argued that the employment and bureaucracy found in the modern business organization is a form of today’s slavery. They are of the opinion that employee’s constant supervision and the lingering threat of being sacked makes them act or work not because they feel motivated, but because of the fear of unemployment. The classical school of thought believed that employees of an organization would work maximally if provided with the optimal condition of the working environment. This school of thought ignored to a greater extent the notion of human Continue reading...

Movie analysis - "Wolf of Wall Street" (2013)
Movies are a great form of entertainment to which many people are accustomed to. They can even lead to some kind of addiction but keeping in mind that they are also very educative. The knowledge can be positive to the viewer and can also instill, to a certain level, some negative behavior/actions/thinking. That is, however, not important in this paper. The matter at hand is that movies can be analyzed from various perspectives and as for this case; the movie “Wolf of Wall Street,” the social psychological perspective will be applied. Continue reading...

Essay 1

“What are the moral responsibilities of managers?”
Among the great debates of the contemporary capitalism is essentially whether or not the concept of morality matters in the business world. Managers or business owners have numerous responsibilities including moral responsibilities as well as legal responsibilities such as paying taxes. Moral responsibilities might be personal, which means that each person in a corporation is responsible for doing what is correct, or the communal responsibilities that involve all the individuals. It is worth mentioning that company culture frequently dictates the significance of the moral duties in the organization (Stikeman, 2000). For this Continue reading...

Introduction

The practice of acknowledging, understanding, accepting, celebrating and valuing differences among people as regards ethnicity, class, age, gender, sexual orientation, physical and mental prowess, race and religion is referred as diversity (Green, López, Wysocki and Kepner, 2013). In the current global scenario with the driving forces of globalization like the advent of technologies, communication, internet, transportation and transnational companies having diminished boundaries, the work place environment has grown extremely diverse with people of various cultures, backgrounds and beliefs fraternizing with each other every day on account of work and business. The demography in USA has gone through a Continue reading...

The setting of the novel is in a small law office on the Wall Street. The focus of the narrative is more on the personality of one employee, Bartleby. The author tells the story through a narrator. The authors use of a narrator in the novel ensures that the reader gets as close as possible to Bartleby. This approach enables the reader to perceive everything through the senses of main character’s employer thereby identifying with the feelings of the narrator. This approach evokes the emotions of the reader in a way that the reader feels duty-bound to try Continue reading...

Communication in Nursing

The basic communication elements are (1) the sender, (2) the channel, (3) the receiver, and (4) the message. All of those elements need to be unambiguous to achieve effective communication, which means that the sender must send a clear message to the receiver through an appropriate channel. Effective communication is critical in healthcare because it affects patient safety, treatment outcomes, conflict resolution, and job satisfaction. However, various factors other than the basic communication elements affect the quality of communication in healthcare. Those factors include the organisational structure, leadership and management styles, organisational culture, staff motivation, and the organisational goals.

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Identity thief is a crime comedy movie directed by Seth Gordon and officially released in 2013 (McCarthy, 2013). The movie essentially focuses on a man whose identity was stolen by a woman. Upon stealing the identity of the man, the woman takes advantage of the man’s financial access to fund her sprees and extravagant lifestyle. Later in the movie, the man goes on the hunt for the woman who stole his identity that had cost him his reputation and financial stance of his family. This movie has since received both positive comments and negative criticisms, furthermore; the movie Continue reading...

Reflection 1: Reflect on the relevance for management practice of Lukes’ three dimensional model of power. Illustrate your points with suitable examples.
According to Lukes, there are three fundamental faces of power. Each face of power offer something different to the individual who is trying to attain that power, and people in different positions use the different faces of power differently to ensure that they retain control within their own personal sphere. The first face of power is what happens when someone wins an argument. For instance, if a parent wins an argument against their child, they have the Continue reading...

Introduction

The Devil Wears Prada is a story which focuses on the lives of career women and the kind of power influences they adapt in order to climb higher up the ladder. In this case, the storyline is simple and revolves around the life and career decisions of the main protagonist, Andrea who has just completed her college education and is aspiring to become a journalist. Despite having the skills, she lands up in a job as a second assistant to the editor of a magazine. The female lead, accepted the offer for this job as she thought that after Continue reading...

The U.S.’s adaptation of The Office is a popular series that features many bosses trying to lead a group of workers. Throughout the series, each boss employs a series of supervisory techniques in order to accomplish this. Some of the techniques are successful, while others fail miserably. While some leaders on the show are more traditional and others try to step out of the mold, they all experiment until they find their comfort zone. Toward the end of the series, Andy Bernard becomes the boss, using a series of disconnected supervisory techniques in hopes of gaining the respect Continue reading...

People often feel that individuality is a necessity for self-determination and individual success. This is a decision that we often make in our daily lives, decisions to try to live by our own selves. According to Cho Hae-joang in there are in exception in people’s lives, situations that occur by nature of our lives. There are also those that we develop as a way trying to cope up with others. Cho believes that we all have our own unique interest and that is why we yearn for change, change that he replicates with the transition from Colonial-Modern to Continue reading...

“Customer service is a critical element of services marketing. In services companies, customer-contact employees serve as the face of the company to the consumer. Therefore, it is reasonable for these companies to mandate that customer-contact employees act “happy” when they are on the job as this is what they are hired to do”.
Rather than saying that customer service employees should act happy because the management requires them to be, it would have been better to motivate the employees to be empathetic. Internal marketing means the services company must keep their employees to be motivated to be customer oriented. Continue reading...

Leadership can be defined as the process in which a person influences others socially, and can help and support others in achieving a common goal or objective. Leadership is a necessary requirement in an organization since it enables organizations to achieve its goals. In order to achieve the goals, leaders should provide motivation, inspire their employees, and provide direction to their team members. As indicated by John, “a leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way” (Gardner, 1996).
Efficient leadership is beneficial to an organization in enabling it to achieve stability and success. Continue reading...

Is the Federal Reserve Good For Business?

Federal Reserve System is the main banking unit of the United States. It was enacted under the Federal Reserve act in 1993.Its establishment was influenced by the need to address financial shocks in 1907. It is the central bank of United States whose role includes the supervision of commercial banks, government’s bank, and formulation of monetary policies and lender of last resort.

The main point of discussion is the role played by federal system in the United States economy. According to Daniel Indiviglio, Federal Reserve is the backbone of United States economy and why the economy has withstands Continue reading...

This essay roughly discuss the term Code of Ethical conduct in a business union. Most specifically this paper is indented to discuss the code of ethical conduct of the Coca Cola company. Ethics is a very difficult term to define. This essay also stresses on the issues that deeply influenced to form the ethical conduct. Furthermore, this essay discusses about the unethical concerns that occur in the Coca Cola company. According to (Chopra, 2004), the customs and the way of life of the community affect company ethics. Today, emphasis is on consumers who choose if business behavior are ethical Continue reading...

Ethical dilemmas do not have a direct response as one progress with the career. The exception to this is when the ethical dilemma involves the breaking of the law or profession regulation. Ethical dilemmas are entail situations of moral conflict and transgression between parties. In these kinds of situations, one has to choose a creative alternative to end the constant strive (Linzer 37).
In this issue, the ethical dilemma entails an overly dependent boss who takes all the credit from the worker. All the work that the group does credit goes to the boss and the manager. Sometimes the Continue reading...

Women from the Lake of Scented Souls is a movie produced and directed by Xei Fei. The movie revolves around two families separated by deep divides of economic disparity. This is obvious  in the movie where the family of Huanhuan is on one side of economic hierarchy the poor one, and that of the main character, Xiang is on the other side of economic hierarchy, the prosperous one. The movie puts great emphasis on the sad plight of Chinese women under a male dominated society characterized by a feudal ethical code.
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Description of Wheatley’s Essay

Margaret Wheatley’s Essay “Innovation Means Relying on Everyone’s Creativity” has two central points guiding a wealth of practical knowledge on organizational leadership gained through her experiences. The first is that organizations act in the same way as living organism. The whole of the organization can be seen as a species that will change according to alterations to environmental conditions. The second part of her thesis is “People only support what they create” (Wheatley, 2001). This means that in order to get support for new policies or changes to the organization, everyone within the organization must play a Continue reading...

The aim of this essay is to present you with an experience which has contributed to my growing mature and realizing my aging. There are lots of events and incidents in life along with people who one meets that play a major role in one’s evolution of personality. The experience I have chosen to describe is my relationship with my first boss at my first job as a college student. It is an experience which opened up the path in front of me and made me realize that life ought to be taken seriously if one wishes to Continue reading...

Impact on employees and employer’s contribution

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Abstract
Bullying is prevalent in schools, colleges and even in work places. The problem is all-pervading and affects productivity at work places. This paper tries to understand the debilitating effects work place bullying, specifically managerial level harassment. It is a known fact that employees suffer mentally and physically due to stress of working under bullying bosses. Various levels of research indicate that the managerial bulling goes undocumented, as employers do not consider it as a serious threat to the organization. In addition, there are no laws to protect the employees from Continue reading...

Article review

Introduction
The article “A Facebook ‘friend’ request from the boss: Too close for comfort?” by Peluchette, Karl, and Fertig (2013) discusses what might be the employees’ reactions and responses to Facebook friend requests from their supervisors and/or bosses. The authors’ are interested in the employees’ viewpoints rather than their supervisors’/bosses’. They base their arguments on the issues of self-presentation, leader-member exchange (LMX), and developmental networks.

Summary

The first issue the authors discuss is the change of Facebook users from young adults to the older generation, businesses, and organizations. Their argument is that the original intended Facebook use has changed Continue reading...

Delegating authority is a very complex decision that has to be taken by managers. In this case Mary made a decision to delegate authority to John Links. Mary’s decision was based upon Link’s position as Senior Research Analyst at the company. Her decision to appoint John Link as her temporary replacement was a good decision overall. Link was able to manage her department effectively but at the expense of his own work. This suggests that John Link was unable to multi-task and while performing Mary’s duties he ignored his own work.
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The reading under review is “License to Ill” which talks about the effects of corporate social responsibility and the chief executive officer moral identity on corporate social irresponsibility. According to the study of chief executives, bosses who are known for their history of doing good deeds are more likely to take part in nefarious acts (Ormiston & Elaine 861). Most leaders feel that they have the right to act badly as they already have moral “credit”. Chief executives who have a good record in social responsibility, in the corporate world, have higher chances of thinking that they can behave in Continue reading...

This is a question that films like Raging Bull and The Godfather Part 1 attempt to answer. These films feature "bad" boys who resort to socially unapproved and criminal behavior and still seem to get away with it. In a world where societies make the rules, perhaps their appeal lies in their ability to bend and break those rules. Nevertheless, there are reasons why they seem so untouchable—reasons that have to do with their immediate context, their thinking and their values. This paper will attempt to analyze those reasons.
The film Raging Bull (1980) is arguably a film Continue reading...

Introduction3

1.1 Purpose of Report..3
1.2 Outline Structure3
2.1 A structured reflection based on Kolb’s Learning Cycle..4
2.2 Peer Review6
3.1 Discussion of the significance of Organizational culture upon the employees with reference to organizational structure.7
3.2 Peer Review.10
4.1 Workforce Planning Presentation..10
4.2 Peer Review.12
5.1 Conclusion13
5.2 Future Plans.13

References .14

Managing People and Organizations
Introduction
Throughout this course, the class has presented with several vital information that will help to progress in the workplace and beyond. The information that has sustained in the following development of my career path is Kolb’s Learning Cycle. The world is constantly Continue reading...

A message to Garcia is a relatively long narration whose historical context is a time when there was tension between Spain and the United States of America. During the military uprising, it was necessary to make contact with Garcia for the purpose of passing information to him. Garcia was one of the rebel commanders that the concerned parties wanted to approach as a means of initiating cease-fire. The whole story therefore surrounds the mystery of the combat and the troubles that the rebels faced.
Hubbard had a mission that compelled him to write this book. His mission was to Continue reading...

Harriet Tubman is most famously known for being an African-American abolitionist during the Civil War. She was a slave who escaped to freedom, spending the rest of her life helping others escape as she did. Tubman risked her life innumerable times for a cause she believed would make the world a better, more equal place. She was considered a civil rights activist and was even a spy for the Union during the American Civil War. Though her activism during slavery and the Civil War were an important part of Tubman’s life and America’s history, the rest of Continue reading...

The objective of this compensation plan consists of an outline of the compensation package for the professor and the HRIS specialist of XUZ University. The compensation plan is developed in a way that will be appropriate for both posts and it will be also according to the efficiency and qualification of the professor and HRIS specialist. The compensation plan will focus that teacher will be paid according to their performance and their performance will be evaluate after getting assessment by the principal, vice-principal, and their children while HRIS specialist will be paid according to its skills, expertise, degree, and Continue reading...

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The drama, “Death of a Salesman”, written by Arthur Miller has been claimed as the “first true American tragedy.” It narrates the story of Willy, an American salesman, who lives in the myth that people are very fond of him, and he is indispensable at the organization he works for. His illusion continues through the play, and when he dies ultimately by crashing his car by himself, he still believed that his son Biff would do excellently in life. The story starts when Willy returns home from a failed sales trip, and complains to his wife Linda, that Continue reading...

Final Topic Paper – “I am Bartleby”

In light of the professor’s and group comments, I have made several changes to the paper. First, I removed all explicit mentions of schizophrenia in the work, as that would be ahistorical, and made arguments about Bartleby’s mental condition more even-handed. Most substantially, I have included more work throughout the text of the paper exploring Bartleby’s motivations for his actions throughout the story, focusing somewhat more on his frustration with the futility of capitalist society and its emphasis on hierarchical work structures. I have also completely changed the final paragraph to make it more of a Continue reading...

The major ethical dilemma for the company is that it is trying to figure out whether to outsource the company’s telecommunication department, or whether to continue producing the telecommunication requirements themselves. The analysis prepared by an assistant controller of the company has failed to reflect some of the fixed costs amounting to $300,000 per annum. The chief financial officer is aware of this, and her fiancé is the head of the telecommunication department. The dilemma to her is to whether to give the correct analysis to her boss. The addition of $300,000 in the analysis is Continue reading...

3 Comparing Characters in Three Short Stories

Introduction

The Bridegroom is a collection of 12 short stories written by Chinese American writer Ha Jin. The collection depicts the life of contemporary China. Almost all the stories in the collection are set in the last half of the 20th century in the city of Muji in China. The stories have been set after the Cultural Revolution and China’s movement towards capitalism. All these stories have been set on the background of the great cultural and economic changes in China. The cultural and economic transition was a significant phenomenon in China. Continue reading...

One of the hardest decisions to make is whether to confront one’s boss or supervisor. Confronting the supervisors has various pros and cons. the following is some of the scenarios when one may confront his or her boss and the repercussions.
One may confront his or her boss when the boss violates the code of conduct such as sexual harassment that attracts lawful suits. Consider a boss who seeks sexual favors for either promotion or salary increase or any other favors. Such a boss may constantly harass an employee something that can lead to family problems. In addition Continue reading...

Google is a result of collaborative efforts of Sergey Brian and Larry Page; they were the students of PhD at the Stanford University. This bright idea hit them during the education, to develop a worldwide search engine, which could be used and deployed worldwide. The page ranking algorithm developed by Brian and Larry was rated as the most intelligent software as it could cater any content throughout web and could tell the importance of the pages as well. The mechanism deployed behind the Google search engine was that it uses page ranking algorithm in connection with back-linking of data. Continue reading...

Following the American Psychological Association’s Guidelines

The book, “Nickel and Dime” by Gary Soto is once again proof that the author knows how to weave seemingly pointless stories together in order to prove something greater. The novel is a highlight reel of America’s consumerist tendencies, pack mentality, and how we force those we believe do not belong to the sidelines even when they so desperately want to be a part of what we are building. Many of the characters included in the novel appear to be criminals on the surface, desperate for what may not be theirs for the taking. Society paints them in Continue reading...

Organization Behavior

Background
According to Fleury (2011), privatization of the oil companies in Latin America is one of the most discussed topics in management. Petrobras is a semi-public oil company in Brazil with its headquarters in Rio de Janeiro. Historians have narrated that even though there are differences in the cultural aspect of the Latin American countries, their histories can be narrated as one in terms of politics and privatization. Revolutions and independent movements in the early 17th century resulted to the increase in foreign debt and the rise of nationalism among the people.
In early 1930s, Latin American countries governance Continue reading...