Essays on Carlson

Healthcare has been experiencing tremendous transformations in the recent past, and this can be attributed to the changing health needs of the people. To adapt to these changes, the models of care delivery, care services, and even the personnel, have changed as well. Also, there is an increasing need to provide patient-centered and culturally sensitive care, as cultural diversity continues to pose a challenge to the delivery of holistic care. One approach of delivering care services is by focusing on a family, identifying the specific health needs of such families, and developing plans of treatment that are focused on ...

I. Environment Scan: Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities & Threats Currently, Google is an Internet company which has gone well beyond search business (Edelman & Eisenmann, 2011). Against a stated philosophy of "It is best to do one thing really, really well," Google has diversified core business, i.e. search and paid listings, into a broad range of product and service offerings cutting across numerous industries and business activities. Notably, Google has diversified from search business into communication applications, productivity applications and computing operating systems (Edelman & Eisenmann). This expansion mandates an environment scan of Google's to be not only limited to search business but ...

Innovation

Executive summary Business organizations have implemented and embraced different organizational strategies that have contributed positively to the performance, and general business productivity. Product innovation strategy has been one of the strategies used to improve product performance and increase sales within an organization. Innovation models are important features of a successful organization. Advanced technology has led to the use of improved business strategies in increasing productivity and performance. Business organizations have embraced different changes in the social and technological aspect to provide products and services suitable for customers. Multiple innovation models may be incorporated into the business strategy to provide ...

Introduction and Background

The demand for creativity and innovation at the workplace is common for managers and business executives. Innovation and creativity are common tenets of the business strategies adopted by many corporations. Organizations also used innovation and creativity as the element through which they acquire a competitive advantage. Scholars such as Mann and Chan (2011, p.1) find that the concepts of innovation and creativity have gained enjoyed a lot of interest in the recent past. The interest in the concepts has resulted from a shift in how they are perceived. Mann and Chan (2011, p.1) report that the concept of creativity ...

CONTENTS 1. Part I - Occupational Health and Safety Law 3 1.1. The UK Approach to Regulating Occupational Health and Safety 4 1.1.1. The Role of Legislation (Civil, Criminal and Administrative), other sources of law and recommendations 4 1.1.2. The Role of Law Enforcement and Specialized Agency 6 1.1.3. The Role of Courts 7 1.2. Comparison between the UK and the Brazilian approaches to OSH regulation 8 2. Part II – Management and its Impact on OSH 8 2.1. Administrative approach to management 9 2.2. Scientific management 9 2.3. Behavioral approach to management 10 2.4. Co-operative social systems approach 11 ...

The purpose of the paper is to answer the questions of the case study after having the analysis of the case study “Midwestern: Contemporary Art”. The case consists of two parts Part (A) and Part (B). Part (A) contains five questions and part B contains three questions. The paper answers all eight questions in sequential manners.

Part A

Conflicts are the part of the workplace and common in multiple organizations. There are two major types of conflicts include cognitive/task-related conflicts and affective/person-oriented conflicts. Cognitive/task-related conflicts deal with the differences in thoughts, ideas, and opinions. However, affective/person-oriented conflicts include the sense of ...

Abstract

In 2009, the US government slashed Medicare reimbursements pushing over two-thirds of health care providers into losses. Medicare reimbursements are expected to increase in the future albeit more slowly than the rise in the cost of providing quality health care. The challenge for BSA is to be able to align its costs in a way that they are able to deliver quality health care at a much lower cost. The key is to measure both the cost and the outcomes of the health care. There is need to establish an accurate system of measuring costs, as well as to ...

For many centuries women had to struggle to make a place for themselves in society. Some have become successful but many are still mistreated by their families as well as their society. On 5 September 1995, Hilary Clinton made a speech during the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, China to a mixed audience. The purpose of her speech was to encourage people to see that women contribute to the success of society and that any violation of a woman’s right should be regarded as a human rights violation. During the conference, “Hillary Rodham Clinton ...

MEMORANDUM

Introduction: The RICO Criminal Defense Practice The RICO Act is very significant considering the prevalent infiltration of organized crimes in trade and commerce which remarkably eroded the stability of the national economy by influencing legitimate businesses and labor unions. Organized crimes have become global and the same becomes a threat to national economy and even corrupt and subvert the democratic process in the United States. The RICO Act helps in preventing organized crimes involved in racketeering from infiltrating legitimate organizations that are involved in the interstate and foreign commerce. With its wider scope of criminalizing the offenders, the growing ...

Marcus Simpson

Columbia Southern University Abstract This research studies various evidences that support the beneficial effect of sports on youth. These beneficial effects of sports can be an enriching experience for those who are not born into a favorable environment. It also promotes good eating habits and lifestyle in children. Any sport helps to keep the child physically active. 60 minutes of moderate to vigorous physical activity is recommended for children aged 5-17 years, so as to remain physically fit. It also helps to reduce body fat and prevents cardiovascular and metabolic diseases. A total of 30 original studies on the ...

Sports is viewed as a good thing for youth. It offers a number of health and social benefits. It helps control negative behavior and promotes team spirit. These beneficial effects of sports can be an enriching experience for those who are not born into a favorable environment. It also promotes good eating habits and lifestyle in children. Though sports present certain safety risk that prevents parents from encouraging children to take up sports; by taking precautions, most of the danger associated with sports can be prevented. The paper review various research evidences that support the beneficial effect of sports ...

Providing Trained Behavioral Personnel

1.0 Executive Summary The success of an organization relies significantly on the type of human resources it utilizes. Talented human resources tend to improve the service delivery in health care organizations. Moreover, unlike other institutions, health care organizations require sensitive recruitments due to sensitive nature of their services (Rynes & Cable, 2003). However, staff recruitment is a challenging task, particularly when it comes to making decisions regarding the most suitable candidates. If the recruitment is poorly conducted, an organization may end up hiring wrong and unqualified personnel (Carlson et al., 2002). Turnover problem is another consequence of inappropriate hiring, which ...

Members who were interviewed for the environmental assessment as stakeholders include current nurses, ambulance drivers, call center drivers and other additional staff who were hired to assist with the extra work. Members of the TCLT who were interviewed include the CFO and marketing director, the intern consultant, the CEO of Allied Homecare and Premier Transport, the Executive Administrator and the project manager. The stakeholders are well conversant with the hospice care services, and the members of the TCLT are vested in the business, and they are experienced in the health care industry, having worked in other departments. Below are ...

Thesis: Modern Biotechnology can be harnessed to improve the global economic welfare in such fields as agricultural production, improvement of production processes and biomedical research.

Introduction

Biotechnology, in its simplest form, can be defined as the type of technologies that are based on biology. In its umbrella meaning, the term refers to the use of cellular and molecular innovations to solve such world problems like food security, development of treatment for illnesses and conducting research with an aim of improving manufacturing processes. Sometimes, biotechnology is used to provide solutions like replacement of energy that is produced using processes that push ...

Tesla Motors Inc. is American energy storage and the automotive company that designs, manufactures and sells electric vehicle powertrain components and battery products. Tesla Motors is also a public company that trades on the NASDAQ stock exchange under the symbol TSLA (Carlson & Robertson, 2014). Tesla Motors company manufactures home and office battery charging equipment and has also installed a network of high-powered Superchargers across North America, Asia, and Europe. The company also operates a destination charging program where shops and restaurants among other venues are offered fast chargers for their customers. The market structure in which Tesla Motors competes ...

WGU

A. Table of Contents Professional Resume – presents my clinical knowledge, skills, experience, and philosophy to potential employers Executive Summary – provides an overview of the contents of the portfolio Professional Reference Questionnaire – presents the objective and subjective evaluation of my key behaviors and clinical performance by one of my professional references Importance of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) – discusses the need to develop knowledge and skills in quality leadership in order to improve the quality and safety of patient care and promote holistic, patient-centered care

Copy of IHI certificate of completion – serves to validate my completion of the IHI Organizational Systems and Quality Leadership course

Evidence-based Practice – summarizes an evidence-based research project on hand hygiene Applied Leadership – summarizes my ...

Introduction

With the various changes witnessed in the society’s demographic structure and delivery of the healthcare services, the nursing profession is largely recognizing the importance of the family in regard to the wellbeing as well as the health of individuals and families. Essentially, nursing practice involves caring for individuals as well as families whereby this requires nurses to have the relevant skills and knowledge to enable them work with families and foster healthy choices among individuals and families (Carlson & Carlson, 2014). As such, in order to establish healthy and collaborative relationships and foster the involvement of families in their ...

A healthier town and campus

Introduction Community-based interventions that promote active living are promising approaches in overweight and obesity prevention among campus and town residents. Media plays a significant role in ensuring success of these community-based interventions as it enlightens individuals on the importance of adopting healthy lifestyles to reduce overweight and obesity cases. Regular physical activity is important in improving health and as well reduces the risk for overweight and obesity, but students who live further away from recreational facilities become less active and are in danger of being overweight that those that live closer to such facilities. Therefore, it is essential to ...

There are some companies whose products and service, impacts the global lifestyle in a significant manner, and for this reason, becomes part of the consumer’s everyday life. There are very few brands that connect with consumers on a personal level and on a daily level. Google has been part of the consumer’s life at all times, the mission of Google is to organize the world’s information and make it collectively accessible and useful in an effective manner (Company Overview, 2016). The impact of Google is remarkable that, the name of the company is used as a ...

Language and Identity

Languages are viewed as universal abstract systems that are considered as independent and self-sustainable such that they can be extracted from an individual. The implication is that, whereas the language systems are of the individuals, they can be extracted and studied independently of the users for clearer insight. Individual plays no role in shaping the language systems as they are independent of the users. However, they can manipulate them to communicate and express themselves as they deem fit. Identity is a significant component of a language; it refers to the ay an individual perceives his or her relationship to ...

Executive Summary

Facebook is a company and an online social networking service that is based in Menlo Park, California. It first was launched in 2004 by its founder, Mark Zuckerberg along with some of his classmates in Harvard University. The initial membership of the site was limited to Harvard University students, and then spread among ivy league students, and later on to the rest of the world (Carlson, 2010). The number of views to the site reached 1 trillion in 2011, and became the world’s second-greatest accessed site after Google (Fernandes, 2011). The analyses performed in this paper resulted in ...

Introduction

Tesla Motors Company is an American company that designs, manufactures, and sells electric cars as well as components of electric vehicle powertrains. Tesla Motors is also a public company that trades on the NASDAQ stock exchange using the symbol TSLA. The stock exchange of the company has been recently rising tremendously. In the year 2014 the stock of the motor company rose up to nearly 70% and in the last 12 months, the figure incredibly rose up to 618%. Tesla Motor Company was founded in California's Silicon Valley and was incorporated in July 2003 by two individuals, namely Eberhard ...

Following the recession in 2008 UK interest rates were cut to try and boost the economic growth for the country. According to Fender, (2012), lowering of interest rates in an economy has several effects to the economy of the country concerned and this is why the British Central Bank lowered the interest rates hoping for positive effects to the economy. As expected, the action by the central bank has resulted in some economic impacts to the economy of the country (Pettinger). In theory, lowering the interest rates, Ceteri Paribas, results in higher economic growth levels. However, there are other ...

Domestic violence refers to a situation where a spouse uses a particular pattern of emotional, physical, sexual abuse, financial depravation or a combination of these behaviors to control or threaten the other. Although this form of abuse is directed to one of the partners in a relationship, children also become victims because they stop feeling safe and secure. The children also stop seeing their home as a place where they can find refuge and support whenever they feel threatened by the outside world. Accordingly, violent experiences have profound impact on the life of the children as well as their ...

The continental landscape features are reflected with analogous features on the ocean basins. Plains, Plateaus, volcanic cones, rolling hills, mountains, and valleys are found underwater in the oceans just like on land. However, research reveals that the largest mountains found beneath ocean waters are higher as compared to those on the continent. Also, the plains found under water are more extensive and flatter than those on the dry land.

The Shape of the Land

The ocean basins can be referred to that surface of the Earth that extends towards the sea from the margins of the continent. Ocean basins are usually submerged in the ...

Introduction

Management style is defined as the ways in which a firm manages the pertinent work activities, as well as, employees. An effective management style is one which enables a manager to manage employees and the working environment in the direction to achieve organizational goals (Robbins, 2005). Organizational successes and failures are utterly depended on applied management style. There are different types of management styles that lead businesses to either grow or fail. This study compares and contrasts the two business tycoons’ management styles, i.e., Google and Yahoo.

Compare and Contrast of Google & Yahoo Management Styles

Google was formed in 1998 by Larry Paige and Sergey Brin. Its ...

An ideal image of a person is a combination of self-perception and the perspective of others who know him. Self-perception is not an objective process. It’s often distorted by the result of motivated cognition. This omission results in blind spots. Self-perception is biased by “motives such as the desire to maintain a positive self-concept; the desire to confirm one’s existing self-views, and the desire to enhance oneself” . Accuracy in self-knowledge is a topic of research for psychologists. The narrative psychologist believe that objective self-knowledge is not possible . Narrative Psychologists argue that people attach meanings to objects and ...

At a time when the corporate financial sector was faced with issues of malfeasance, Sarbanes-Oxley Act was enacted in a bid to restore the confidence of the public in corporate financial statements. Before this period, the public disclosures had suffered massive misappropriations characterized by inaccuracy, and inadvertent unreliability. It thus became essential for the government to act so that there would be a proper end to the rising cases of accounting fraud (Lee et al. 733-74). Many stakeholders in the industry had become part of a broad scheme that thrived in the unaccountable corporate segments that spewed fraudulent activities ...

There are some companies whose product and service, impacts the global lifestyle in a significant manner, and for this reason, becomes part of the consumer’s everyday life. There are very few brands that connect with consumers on a personal level on a daily level. Google has been part of the consumer’s life at all times, the mission of Google is to organize the world’s information and make it collectively accessible and useful in an effective manner (Company Overview, 2016). The impact of Google is such that, the name of the company is used as a reference ...