Essays on Canteen

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Strategic Plan3 Program Description.5 Leadership Challenges..6 Ethical Implications..7

Engaging communities and building constituencies.7

Budgeting, financing, and human resources.8 Performance management & Health Informatics..9

Appendix 1 SWOT Analysis10

Appendix 2 SMART Objectives..11 Appendix 3 Budget..13 References15 Introduction In the past decade, chronic lifestyle diseases such as type 2 diabetes, heart/cardiovascular disease and stroke have increased exponentially in the state of Minnesota. Sedentary lifestyle and poor diet has led to an increase in obesity which in turn has led to an increase in heart disease and stroke. Most adults in Minnesota have poor lifestyle which has increased their risk to heart disease and stroke. As per the Minnesota department of health, ...

Introduction

When we consider the sector of professional services, the greatest firm is PricewaterhouseCoopers. It is listed in stock as PwC and is operational in about 157 nations around the globe. The year of establishment of the Company is 1998. It so happened that the two Companies, Price Waterhouse, established in 1854, and Coopers and Lybrand, established in 1849, decided to merge and thus the Company was formed. The numbers of offices that function under the Company name are about 756. The total number of staffs employed by the Company reaches to about 208100. The purpose served by the Company ...

Introduction

Even as it is commonly perceived that Servant Leadership style (Greenleaf, 1977) is a mere derivative of Transformational Leadership style (Burns 1978; Bass 1985), the differences in them can highly impact the organizational outcomes. For example, the transformational leaders principally focus on the sustenance and development of the organization, and in the process, they rely upon their charismatic abilities (Bass, 1960) to align the followers’ individual goals with organizational goals (Yukl, 1998). This leadership defends its perspective with the argument that organization is above anything, since without the existence of organization, followers would not have existed or got any ...

Introduction

Foods in school, office, and hospital canteen, as well as in fast food chains and restaurants, and on other places that serve food to the public must be prepared with proper sanitation. The establishments must also adhere to the guidelines made by the authorities regarding food safety to avoid the spread of foodborne illnesses. This is because foodborne infection poses a serious threat and risks to the population in general. In fact, there are estimated 350,000 cases of foodborne-related illnesses in the United States, and nearly 5000 of them faced an unfortunate death (Nyachuba, 2010). Note that the ...

The preceding report has yielded the following findings:

Asda is one of the largest retailers in the British market. Asda is willing to liquidate its flaws in order to ensure customer satisfaction and increase consumer base connection to the brand. Improvements manifest themselves through an increase in the number of stores and the enhancement of the quality of services provided, including the online ordering of home delivery, email sending, and club cards.

Improvements are expected to convert customer satisfaction into stable repurchase behavior.

Asda is taking great pains to generate new ideas stimulating the happiness of consumers following their purchase experience. With readiness to change and openness to new ideas in mind, the company will most likely be ...

THE FINANCE FUNCTION

Overview of key tasks of the finance function The finance function has the overall duty of managing the organization’s finances in order to achieve the organization’s goals. The finance function is responsible for working capital management that involves the management of cash, receivables, inventory and accounts payable. The finance function ensures that the organization maintains a desirable level of working capital. It is also in charge of identifying viable investments that can increase the organization’s value. In addition, the finance function allocates the organization’s resources to various departments or products depending on their needs as ...

Study Programme

The activity of policy making mostly involves research analysis and synthesis of information in order to bring out sound and acceptable solutions. This should also include evaluation opportunities by involving relevant stakeholders, For example, the people who will have policy responsibilities or implementers should be consulted in the policy development. Participatory policy making, as a general approach, facilitates inclusion through consultative or participative means of individuals or groups in the development of policy. This allows for transparency, accountability and participation of all stakeholders. Creating the right conditions and putting up the necessary structures enable participatory policy making that raises ...

Introduction

Many thinkers and scientists have proposed models and theories about how people learn; they are called learning theories. The learning theories are classified as behaviourism, cognitivism, constructivism, humanism and design-based. Behaviorism is based on the supposition that learning occurs for an organism through interactions with the environment. Behaviouristic school assumes that an organism always responds to a stimulus and the ‘responses’ are depends on the nature of the stimulus, i.e. rewarding or pain giving. Here, the learner is considered as a system that has the capability to respond to a stimulus and the learner is passive. The definition that emerged from the ...

In “Mother Courage and Her Children”, Bertolt Brecht gives a clear image of two commonnesses — pace and was. Play’s action takes place between 1624 and 1634. In the beginning, Mother Courage is self-confident and full of strength. Her work is to sell different things to soldiers: from drinks to ammunition. Also, Courage’s children help her doing that. She has two sons — Eilif and Feyos —and a daughter — Kattrin. Gradually, the heroine loses everything. Her sons become soldiers and then die. Her daughter is killed when she tries to wake citizens of Halle that are threatened with Catholics’ troops. At ...

Part 1: Profile of USAID

USAID is an acronym that stands for United States Agency for International Development. It is a non-profit organization that carries out interventions in hard hit areas, primarily in third world developing countries. It is a federal agency of the government of the United States of America primarily tasked with delivering civilian foreign aid. - Areas of Interest USAID has interest in many areas around the globe. Firstly, it is important to identify the areas of operational interest for the organization. USAID seeks to help overseas people who are struggling to live a better life, live in the reins of democracy ...

While noticing university students in a cafeteria for about 2 hours, a number of different behaviors were figured out. The cafeteria had a separate corner where the food was being served by four men who were attending to student requirements in a quite fast paced fashion. There were approximately 12-15 benches and tables at the right of this place where the corridor was crowded at several different points during the observation period. At one corner of the corridor, there was a banner reading out ‘November Elections 2013’. It had a table and two chairs in front of it. That particular spot was surrounded by markers, ...

Psychology

Problem Statement: Parents are concerned about their children’s health because junk foods are available in school canteens. What can be done to solve the problem?

Description of the Problem Solving Method:

Flowcharting is used as the problem solving method for the problem statement above. The reason for this decision is that a flowchart is an excellent pictorial representation of the flows that results to particular outcomes. Some of the most common types of flowcharting symbols that was used for the problem above are boxes, diamonds, circles/ovals, arrows, and so on. Generally, boxes are used for processes/action steps; diamonds for decisions; circles/ovals as connectors; ...

Introduction

Achieving goals is and should be a constant part of life. Without goals, an individual would be rendered stagnant for as long as he decides not to create one. A goal is what makes a person’s life go forward. There are literally a lot of saying about goals but the saying about goals that struck me the most was the one that says “a man without goals is a man without dreams.” Ever since I heard this line, I have started to create goals for myself. One of the most common dilemmas of people, every one of which most likely have a goal in ...

Hotel on the Corner of bitter and sweet is a famous historical fictitious story written by Jamie Ford. This book talks about friendship, love and devotion between a Chinese boy Henry Lee and a Japanese American girl Keiko Okaba. Henry Lee is forced by the father to embrace the Chinese heritage by putting on a button like the one Fords father used to put on written“ I am Chinese“. He wears it in school and this makes him bullied and mistreated in school by the American students. The character I have chosen to analyze is Henry Lee who is the protagonist in the ...