Essays on Collaboration

What Can the Two Managers Do To Raise Company Morale?

Employee morale can break or build the success of a company. Effective managers and supervisors should monitor the morale of the employees closely. The two managers should find a way of resolving their differences and enlist creative and simple approaches to strengthen employee morale. They should also make the employees feel that the company values their work. Furthermore, the managers should establish a healthy workplace relationship with the employees. Employees should know that the managers care about them and are willing to help them solve their problems. The two managers should find a way of honoring each employee and ...

Collaboration Systems at Isuzu Australia Limited

Isuzu Australia Limited (IAL), according to Bidgoli, markets and distributes Isuzu trucks in Australia (2014). Initially they generated and passed information manually; which took a lot of time, human resource and material resources. To deal with this, IAL contracted IBM which provided Workplace Web content Management and WebSphere Portal. This software has “enterprise web portals that help companies deliver a highly-personalized, social experience for their customers” (IBM Australia, 2008). The dual management system offered several features that improved the interaction between IAL and their business partners. The feature include instant messaging platform for quick relay of information, the portals ...

Introduction

In this assignment we will discuss the application of statistics and probability theory to a real world problem. The discussed topic is unethical behavior of business students at Rocky University. The problems of global financial crisis of 2008-2009 have demonstrated many cases of unethical behavior of financial managers, Wall Street executives and other corporate stuff. It was assumed that the reasons of such behavior may stem from the fact that cheating is the one of major problems among business students. The researchers reported a very high percentage of cheaters among business students compared to non-business students: approximately 86% of ...

Section 1 - The Use of Conflict Resolution Styles

This section is aimed at using five forms of conflict resolution styles. These include accommodating, avoiding, collaborative, competing and compromising. To manage conflict among four team members of a group, five different paragraphs are produced highlighting a specific conflict resolution style used for negotiation during discussion . This is done in the following manner:

Use of Accommodating Style

Based on this conflict resolution style, all the group members should be convinced to cooperate with each other instead of following an assertive approach. They must be convinced to preserve relationship with one another since they are academically required to work together, as a team, for ...

Introduction

Cyber Software, Inc. is a medium-size company that specializes in producing cyber protection software products. After a recent hacker attack the owner and CEO of the corporation Joseph Jackson felt a pressing need of changing the way the company is operating in order to help customers secure information with the help of innovative technological solutions. The envisaged changes are going to be discussed in the following mini management plan. The plan starts with a brief analysis of the company’s management history followed by the development of new vision and mission statements, based on the new targets Cyber Software, ...

Hip-Hop is considered to be of the largest and the most popular cultures in the whole world. It took its roots in the 70s and had undergone a long way before gaining its popularity and becoming one of the most influential cultures. Afrika Bambaataa, DJ Herc and Grandmaster Flash are known as the founding fathers of hip-hop music. Their talent and dedication to what they were doing definitely brought hip-hop on a new level. All in all, it is essential to learn their history in order to understand the process of the development of hip-hop culture. Surprisingly, but it ...

AN ANALYSIS OF THE SUPPLY CHAIN FOR BOTTLED WATER

A supply chain is the link or network formed among different firms, producing, processing or distributing a certain product. This chain specifically covers the steps it takes to get a good product or service from the suppliers to the consumers. The management of a supply chain is an important process for many industries. Supply chains involve a series of companies. The series involves manufacturers, suppliers, and retailers. The effective management of supply chains and logistics gives companies the potential to reduce costs and to increase market share (Christopher 1999). The traditional supply chain also known as the open-loop supply ...

Nurses play many roles in the delivery of patient care. One important nursing role is case management. However, consumers will not be able to optimize the health benefits of services from case managers if they do not understand this role and how to access related services. For this reason, access to information about case managers is paramount especially on the internet which has become a primary source of information for many consumers. However, it is important to appraise such information about case managers to determine the accuracy and ensure that patients have realistic expectations. The purpose of this paper ...

Go To 2040 Managerial Effectiveness Six Plan Process

The Steps In the first step, there is clear demarcation that the plan should be based on the region's expectations about the future. Ideally, the plan describes the desired social systems, governance structure, and future environment as well as the local economy. In the second step, there are understanding of existing conditions that include complex planning topics as well as strategies that help to address the balance between infill and redevelopment. As well, there is a clear status on the recommendations that should be addressed in the plan. In the third step, there is a critical evaluation of potential ...

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Pathophysiology and Aetiology

Acute renal failure or ARF means any abnormality with the function of kidneys. Kidney performs multiple functions thus ARF is also termed as acute renal injury (ARI). Now medicine and healthcare have advanced to a higher level integrated with different drug therapies and dialysis treatments though the mortality rate with such condition is still high; that is 50% of kidney patients and up to 85% of patients with other co-morbidities (Doenges, Moorhouse & Murr, 2014). The Pathophysiology of ARF includes a rapid fall in Glomerular Filtration Rate (GFR) ...

Communication

Communication At work, employees frequently encounter certain problems that interfere with convenient conditions. Therefore, they should be able to address the issues with the management to prevent undesired consequences. Moreover, a supervisor can consider the working environment to be convenient and productive. However, the case “In the Vapor” shows that specific management approaches can disturb collaboration. Considering Linda’s situation, it is essential to inform the supervisor about her concerns and offer several suggestions to convince the management. A possible memorandum to Thomas Hale aims to express Linda’s concerns about approaches that cost great efforts (Appendix).

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Abstract

The importance of social media websites is constantly increasing. Now they play a significant role in the daily life of every individual. Businesses are also involved in the social media, as these websites represent many opportunities for them, such as advertising, promotion, customer relations, receiving feedback, and etc. Due to the significant importance and time consuming of social networks, there appeared many issues related to them, e.g. the use of social media websites in the workplace, work productivity, and changes in the employer and employee relations. Nowadays employers face many issues with the use of such websites by their ...

Interprofessional collaboration has been one of the growing trends within the health care sector lately. It involves interdependence of the different health care professionals such as nurses, physicians, laboratory staff, and even patients. The complexity of the patient-care concerns that need to be tackled by these professionals can be efficiently and effectively addressed through appropriate collaboration among the professionals. However, the various evidenced provided by different researches on the benefits of collaboration are yet to be seen and applied in the activities in health care institutions (Porter-O’Grady, 2011). As mentioned, nurses are one of the stakeholders who are ...

Interesting points learned and Interesting Questions generated from the Social Business by Design on Chapter Eleven and Twelve

This paper herein presents an exhaustive summary chapter eleven and twelve of the managerial text, The Social Business by Design, co-authored by Hinchcliffe and Kim in the year 2012. In an overview, chapter eleven has dwelled on an in-depth exploration of the origin of social media and its incorporation in business setups and organizations and the major functions of workforce collaboration. Chapter twelve on the other hand extensively discusses social business supporting capabilities and how organizations can effectively manage social platforms and media for the benefit of the organization as compared to traditional conventional approaches. Below are the three ...

Scientific methods in social science are important and the play a vital role in the scientific research method. Scientist believes in gathering information through experiments, interviewing and other means and analyzing the information unbiased. Sociological research is a means of getting the information regarding different phenomenon by the application of scientific means. It is important because social hypotheses can be proved true or wrong by use of scientific methods. Again, scientific research follows a given a specific plan, either qualitative or quantitative with an aim of defining a cause of something or the relationship between different variables. Critical thinking ...

Agile , which means “the quality of being agile, readiness for motion, mibleness activity, dexterity in motion” is an alternative to conventional project management providing solution for light and fast software development required by business community, especially with rapidly developing Internet and mobile software areas (Abrahamsson et al. 7-17). Agile movement in software development possesses four core values. First, close relationship in a team of developers is much more important than processes and tools. Second, the most important goal for software developers is regularly release tested and improved software. Third, the emphasis is put on cooperative relationships between developers and ...

Technical communication in workers’ health and safety training

Introduction Technical communications encompasses an array of means used to convey scientific or technical information, that is, the information that has both the qualitative and quantitative aspects as shown by Mehler, Romary and Gibbon, D. (2012). As such, the mobile team division involved in this type of communication is quite diverse with such variations as age, profession, education level, gender as well as experience among other diversities. For instance, the mobile division team will include labor union officers, nurses, safety specialists, health officers and communication and information technology technicians. Therefore, the pre training will have to address the diversity ...

Vision Statement of JASSM

The vision of the Joint Air-to- Surface Standoff Missile program is to create a collaborative working environment through the appreciation of the human resource and the strengths of the workforce. It is keeping an entrepreneurial culture and environment which steams on new plans and dealings which eliminating the bureaucracies in carrying a project. It is based on giving people a sense of confidence through continually given opportunities of working with the program and owning the project wholly which ensures collaboration between the various department and professions. It is to foster the alliance throughout the period of the project and ...

The New Public Service: Critical Analysis

Denhardt and Denhardt authored a book entitled “the New Public Service: Serving, not Steering” which was reprinted in 2007. This book explores a new concept for governing citizens and is principally aimed at such organizations. The concepts involved with the “New Public Service” embody certain core elements. The authors present, explain, and clarify that “public servants do not deliver customer service; they deliver democracy” (2007) through the deeds performed utilizing those concepts. The authors explain how, in theory, the principles of the New Public Service are more beneficial to the public; the citizens. By comparing and contrasting the Old ...

Health policy combines action, plans and decisions to achieve certain health care improvements. The goals of the health care policies are referred by the World Health organization as a vision for the future, building consensus, informing people and outlining the priorities for the short and medium term. Many historical policies have been implemented in the United States, but still the health care expenses are rising from year to year and had in the last year 2015 reached 17.5% of GDP (United States Census Bureau, n.d.). The paper will examine one of the most important health policies Medicaid. The social ...

The nine principles of creative leadership represent the practical guideline for its further implementation on the leadership position. The creativeness itself is not only the given characteristic of the person, but also a feature which can be achieved by a group of teammates in the appropriate conditions. The most significant principles of creative leadership, to my mind, are: everyone has creative potential, can learn to be more creative, creativity thrives in diversity and loves collaboration. The concept that only the certain group of individuals or specific people can be creative is wrongful in its roots. Each and every person ...

Introduction

Current Problem: A third of the total world population does not have access to proper medication, which has resulted in increased mortality rates. In parts such as Africa and Asia, half of the population lacks access to essential medications. Area of Focus: This paper will focus on the role of pharmaceutical companies in developing a solution to the issue of lack of essential medicine to 30% of the world’s population.

Thesis statement

The paper examines the key demographics about access to medication and analyses the various strategies that pharmaceutical companies can use to ensure that the one-third of the world’ ...

Continued access to proper health care and health care facilities have always been the aim of patients and even the governance of a region or nation. However, there seem to be more concerns in the field of medicine where access to better medical relations between the patients and the medical professionals have become an important factor. Patient-and family-centered care is one of the strategies in the recent times which have been identified as one of the core competencies in the field of medicine (Zlotnik, 2014). Patient-and family-centered care between the professionals and the patients is an approach to the ...

The provision of quality health care is one of the most important goals of health care organizations and institutions. Quality health care refers to the ability of an institution to deliver health care services to patients and populations with high outcomes for health. The most common health concern that affects the quality improvement of a health institution’s ability to properly deliver quality health care is the existence of faulty systems and process. However, another concern for health institutions is the growing concern when it comes to the stressors experienced by health care professionals especially those who belong in ...

Briefing Note on Information Sharing

Issue: Counterterrorism Information Sharing Role of Information Sharing Since 9/11 The importance of sharing intelligence information related to terrorism among the various law enforcement agencies and the federal security machinery cannot be overemphasized. There various roles that information sharing plays in detecting and preventing terrorism activities. Firstly, terrorist attacks take place in a community setting. It is the duty of local, state and community based responders as well law enforcement officials to initiate the first response team. Information sharing is necessary ensure timely response. Timely response is essential in mitigating the impact and reducing the number of causalities from ...

Infectious Diseases: Tuberculosis

Introduction Tuberculosis (TB) is a top infectious disease worldwide (World Health Organization, 2015). TB affects primarily the lungs and may spread to other parts of the body. 9.6 million cases of TB were recorded in 2014 and 1.5 million of these ended in death (WHO, 2015). It is one of the oldest known human diseases and is still prevalent in some countries like the Philippines. In the Philippines, this disease ranks number 6 in the leading cause of death (Ong, 2012). The Philippines is at number nine in the top 22 high-burden tuberculosis countries worldwide according to the WHO ...

Structural parts of the Job-Specific Orientation Plan

Hiring the employees Preparation of the employees’ pre-arrival to the warehouse organization Introduction of the employee to the first day of one’s professional experience in the warehouse organization Professional orientation of the employee in ones’ department Conducting the monitoring of the success and professional engagement of the employee Procedures, which should be conducted as the employee is hired In the scope of this Job-Specific Orientation Plan for the warehouse organization, it is essential to outline five critical steps, which involve the major aspects of human resource management and encompass employment and gaining the continuous feedback from the senior ...

The current business ecosystem shows unprecedented pace in organizational development, change and management. The case for rapidly growing local startups and/or entrepreneurial projects into major, market controlling companies has become increasingly a characteristic feature of knowledge-intensive economy. This development in organizational development is most notable in e-commerce enterprises. Born online, online retail companies grow into international brands of physical national presence in new markets. From a strategic management perspective, such rapid expansion and growth in to international markets, on- and offline, has been accompanied by challenges. For current purposes, main focus is laid on organizational structure considerations and implications. ...

Introduction

Globalization has become an increasingly encompassing phenomenon in people’s lives today. Most significantly, globalization has bridged geographical spaces, so that in any context, there seem to be people from different backgrounds; people with different skills and experiences (Chuang, 2013). This is diversity. But it is not just about a situation that has come to be so that we have no choice but to deal with it. Rather, studies have showed that diversity has various benefits for individuals and ultimately the organization (discussed below).

Personal Growth

Taking this class, I was aware of these facts and I felt it important to ...

Literature review reflects the emergence of different approaches to the interaction between school and family. The essence of this approach lies in the understanding of the main objectives of the school work with parents. It can help to create conditions for the actualization of the educational potential of families and effectively resolve the existing problems in family education. The researchers specified the theoretical approaches to the planning, organization and implementation of interaction between school and family in the process of education. Analysis of important problems in the work of teachers, psychologists and sociologists confirms the issues of psycho-pedagogical work ...

Negotiating is a communication process in which parties discuss issues, offers, or problems and attempt to reach a solution, resolution or another certain outcome. Negotiations occur every day, in life and in business, formally and informally. Negotiations occurring in everyday life take varying courses due to several factors such as the style of negotiation being employed, the stakes involved in the conflict issue, the strategies adopted by the negotiators and the mediators among others. There are different negotiation strategies and styles, such as positional bargaining, positional bargaining, principled negotiations (integrative negotiations), competing, collaborating, compromising, avoiding and accommodating and so ...

According to the World Health Organization (2014), one of the most important public health issue globally is patient safety. Surveys have shown that approximately one out of ten patients are harmed while receiving hospital care and treatment in developed countries. On the other hand, heath care infections are more common in developing countries than developed countries with seven in 100 for the former and ten in 100 for the latter. The increasing number of individuals affected by hospital related infections and harms led to the recognition for the need to improve patient safety. Some of the concerns when it ...

Abstract

Susan Wheelan is one of the most outstanding human resources consultant, author and speaker, who ubiquitously utilizes her skills, expertise and knowledge to offer competent advice on effective team formation and building to companies all over the globe. Her Creating Effective Teams: A guide for Members and Leaders serves as a comprehensive manual, guiding project managers and other organizational leaders in building effective teams, and maintain their efficiency during the project lifecycle (Cokins, 2009). In particular, Wheelan emphasizes that the group people attains the highest degree of efficiency, when it works together as a team. The work of Wheelman ...

The company’s performance research and analysis show that the merger that has recently occurred between the two companies has a number of challenges for the staff. It is a well-known fact that prior to the event, the companies saw each other as the greatest competitors in the health care industry, and thus the merger itself should be seen as a great achievement and a means of development. Therefore, the leader team of the newly established syndicate welcomes any initiative directed towards promoting collaboration and better understanding of both sides.

Potential Challenges

Recent findings reveal that both sides of the merger ...

Abstract

This proposal examines the possibility of using Lego Serious Play (LSP) as an aid to enhancing career development training programmes. To this end, the proposal evaluates and examines the means through which the Taiwanese educational system can be enhanced and enriched by this. The paper identifies that the best way of doing this is to utilise a case study to examine two scenarios to identify the importance and criticality of using LSP to promote teaching and learning experience in career development. This will include the examination of a case where career development is taught in Taiwan using traditional generally ...

Lara,

I have personally gained massively from B100 since it have completely changed my perception on issues to do with the business since it covers a wide range of life basics that gear someone towards prosperity either business wise, or in a normal life situation. In reference to your point, sharing of ideas through discussions and analyzing each and everyone’s point properly is important for progress. Moreover, it has made me get conversant with a variety of elements in connection with the business marketing, history and even accounting. It is not easy to get it right; team collaboration has ...

Abstract

First, the essay discusses the importance of culture and provides different definitions of culture, revolving around the idea that culture is ‘how things are done around here’. There are a large number of different models and theories that describe organisational culture; however the focuses on the theories of Schneider, Handy and Hofstede. The Schneider’s model has four quadrants, with two dichotomies, first is the organisation’s orientation towards current performance vs. future opportunities, and second is orientation towards people vs. process. Similarly, Handy's theory describes four main types of organisational culture; however, the division is based on the ...

Playing has a pivotal role in the lives of children and adults. There has been significant research on how play influences the lives of the people. This paper focus on the importance of playing, a reflection of a two-hour activity, and response to “Play is more than fun” and “the creativity crisis.” In most cases, rarely would adults go out to play regularly except for occasional times in what most people call entertainment. I was not aware that play, however, simple it may be, has effects on the emotions and the overall health of an individual significantly. Play enhances ...

A group composed of two to thousands of individuals which aims to achieve a common goal is termed as an organization. The behavior, principles, standards, philosophies, customs, language and practices of a particular organization is termed as organizational culture. Studies have identified four characteristics that comprise cultures in organizations namely: power, bureaucracy, achievement and innovation, and support (Butts, n.d.). Organizational ethics is referred to as the ability of an organization to accurately give definition to its mission and vision. Organizational ethics involves procedures, results, and character along with culture and trust. It also involves identification of different values that ...

Millenials is a term used to describe a section of the population born between the years 1981 and 2000. Currently, these group of individuals is aged between 16 and 36. Other terms used to describe this generation are Generation Y, The Peter Pang Generation, Generation WE, and The Boomerang Generation. Some of the distinct characteristics that define individuals in this generation are social media connection, collaboration, and achievement. Generation Y is well-defined by their social media connection. Having been born in the social media age, they use Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and other social media sites to get and share ...

In this essay, I will discuss my experience with an acute mental health service user which occurred while I was on clinical placement in this care setting. Medication concordance in major depression is an important part of illness management and will be the emphasis of this paper. First will be a discussion of the service user’s profile including her background, history, and social status which aims to generate an understanding of the factors contributing to non-concordance. Consistent with the Code of Conduct of the Nursing and Midwifery Council (2015), care will be taken to uphold the privacy of ...

Digital media is fast gaining its stronghold on businesses because of its popularity nowadays. Many companies communicate with their stakeholders in the business and get the attention of the customers through the digital media. This situation is especially true during a crisis period when the sale of their products is low. Public relations officers and other communication executives struggle to craft messages addressed to the customers to maintain their standing in the social media. In return, the stakeholders respond to these messages and an active flow of communication emerges between the organizations and the customers. In fact, video sharing ...

Personal Statement: Increasing Research Profile

Personal Statement: Increasing Research Profile Excellent research informs on an individual’s career, and therefore dictates their success. Ensuring that people in various industries are aware of one’s efforts, which regards the eligibility of their research to get to the academic committee, is crucial for building their work and develop new opportunities in future. Several people have a vague perception that good work sells without exertion of any efforts (McGill-Franzen & Allington, 2010 p. 50). However, developing and a stable professional profile would automatically increase the impact of an individual’s work, facilitating for its credibility in larger audiences ( ...

Strengths of AT & T

AT&T organization offer a wide range of products to the public, over time the organization has diversified and divided in to specialized companies including; AT&T bell laboratories; AT&T consumer products; AT&T international; AT&T network systems; AT&T technology systems. Some of these products include home phones, wireless, U-verse and directives. This works to their advantage because usually most people would like to find all they want at a definite place. Having variety of products also enables the company to gain profit from all the products. The diversity of products also offers security to the company in that if one company ...

Introduction

Contemporary healthcare systems the world over are increasingly being presented with challenging and tumultuous times such that, these outcomes are most likely to be embraced by workers in the nursing profession as the new normal. In today’s hectic healthcare industry environment, nursing leaders play a critical role in enabling nursing teams professionally and ethically dispense assigned responsibilities as much as these responsibilities seem to increase exponentially. Nurses and more so, nursing leaders have to exhibit high degrees of professional as well as personal accountability even in situations abound with growing stressors that can potentially diminish their leadership capabilities. ...

Making a Decision

Introduction Several research findings suggest that the United States is experiencing a shortage of doctors, not only at present but possibly in the future as well. It is stated that at least thirty three states have assessed the number of physicians they need at present and in the future. Despite the numbers in the doctor workforce improving faster than the increase in population, there is evidence that the numbers of specialists is decreasing, and these include the gastroenterologist, hematologist, surgeons for cardiovascular diseases, and specialized physicians for communicable diseases. In addition, some states in the country are far behind ...

Abstract:

This report is written for Australian’s universities to explain some possible advantages and disadvantages of adopting joint research in postgraduate program and give some tactics for the university department to do better in the application of the new requirements. The report displays two advantages of higher motivation and comprehension: learning to collaborate and a disadvantage of wasting time. Although the advantages of cooperative learning have been mentioned and proved by large amount of articles and researches, there are essential components that are necessary in order to make cooperative learning effective.

Introduction

In the Australia’s universities, most subjects acquire ...

Report on Collaborative Research for Postgraduate Students

Abstract The report seeks to highlight the advantages and disadvantages of collaboration in research. The advantages include flexibility, achievement of positive research outcomes and improved access to resources required for research activity: The disadvantages include the risk of liability and the pressure of establishing efficient communication systems. The report recommends for the department to come up with best approaches to collaborative research.

Introduction

Many new researchers often have the fear of collaboration when doing research. It stems from naivety and the fear that they would have nothing to contribute to the collaboration. It has, however, been proved that collaboration is ...

In the 21st century the importance of considering the problem of cultural diversity in the context of different human activities increases. Nurses provide people with high quality medical care not only within the national boarders but within the complex system of the global society. Globalization poses a significant challenge to nurses whose services are crucial in order to save the lives of their patients. Transcultural nursing is an essential part of healthcare today because nurses need to appreciate cultural differences to provide personal individualized care. The professional competence of nurses depends on understanding cultural diversity, beliefs and other factors ...

Introduction

Supply chain management (SCM) pertains to the process of managing the general flow of goods and services. In a real life setting, SCM is more focused on the management of the flow of raw materials, especially in industries where the output (i.e. final) products tend to be more complex and sophisticated and where a wide range of supplier or provider firms’ (i.e. business partners) are necessary. A good example would be the case of automobile manufacturing. Automobile manufacturers, in order to come up with their final products which obviously would be the automobiles, have to work with other firms, ...

Interview with an Ethical Leader

Interview with an Ethical Leader

Introduction

In order to successfully manage a modern organization it is important to be a good leader and to choose the right leadership style that is most suitable for the given situation. There are several leadership styles. Some of them are considered to better for the current conditions, some of them worth. But there is no single recipe how to manage the company in the best way. Therefore good leaders should be able to analyze the situation in the company, internal and external factors influencing it, and identify the correct approach to leading it. What ...

I concur with the idea that ways in which adult learn is different from the ways in which children learn, especially the notion that experience provides the basis for adult learning activities. This notion is also being supported by the study conducted by the Colorado Christian University (CCU). In its study, the CCU found out that whereas adults challenge new information, children implicitly accept it. It also found out that adults learn best by challenging new ideas, comparing them to life lessons and preconceived notions, thereby sealing the new information into their minds (CUU, 2011). I also agree with ...

Background of the Problem

The departments of Boldflash face mounting challenges due to technical communications were one of the leading causes of the distress from rapid sales growth, restructuring of the division itself. The wide array of products and the quick pace of innovative product development had all amplified the challenges to effective communication amongst division teams and also with suppliers, associates, and clienteles. The areas of concern are the problems encountered in the day to day operations of the division, and they involve the following:

Unproductive conflict between the functional departments

Inability to get new products quickly to the market No formatting requirements for the documentation prepared by ...

ASSIGNMENT OF UNIT 42 EMPLOYABILITY Skills

LO1 Responsibilities and Performance LO 1: 1.1 Own Responsibilities and Performance Objectives Responsibilities of a manager, in this case operations manager, are drawn from a range of sources including job description, mission statement, legal duties, and others (Hinkin, 2011). The mission statement conveys the core values and goals of the organisation. It is the duty and responsibility of the employee to uphold the values and goal included in the mission statement. As the name suggests, operations manager is responsible for the routine management of hotel operations. This blanket definition implies that, the operations manager will set policies, track productivity, ...

Communication and Collaboration

Communication and Collaboration

Introduction

International Gadget’s research and development’s (R&D) creation of a new product they believe will revolutionize its globally positioned industry challenges the new team of technical communicators successfully developing and initiating a strategic option directly disseminating the news to specific audiences at primary levels within the corporation. As an integrated process, the communication plan directly affects all the multiple thousands of stakeholders and the potential investment in R&D creating this new product means communicating the process to all stakeholders through effective communication practices (Bradley, 2003). Doing so sets the momentum for collaboration needed for the ...

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Introduction

Burnside and Machiraju (2013, p. 1) states that the European Commission initiated consultative meetings with regards to possibly widening the coverage of the “European Union Merger Regulations (EUMR) to “non-controlling minority shareholdings.” The conference was simultaneous to the decision of the United Kingdom’s Competition Commission ordering Ryanair to reduce its Aer Lingus shareholdings from close to 30 per cent to 5 per cent. The recent ruling of the UK commission is indicative of the position that rigid policies obstructing EU commerce and trade regulators from intervening in transactions engaging the sale of minority shareholdings ...

Introduction

The purpose of this paper is to present a community health project to promote healthy lifestyles in the community through reducing risks associated with the chronic health diseases. According to the Healthy People 2020, maintenance of healthy lifestyle is associated with the healthy habits of eating. The objectives put forward by the Healthy People 2020 mainly aim at the efforts that are required for modification of diet by understanding individual behaviors through which life-threatening conditions including diabetes and obesity can be controlled. In this regard, the major health issue is the prevalence of obesity among children. It seems necessary ...

Background information

Nursing is one of the key professions in the nation that needs thorough monitoring from the authority through the career’s regulatory bodies. Lack of effective staff communication in the career is causing problems since it has led to poor planning in various health institutions in the nation, especially in the ER rooms. The transfer of critical information and the accountability for the care of the patient from practitioner to another is an important aspect of communication in the healthcare. Therefore, the critical transfer point is usually referred to handoff. For instance, 43% of patients in Miami express their ...

Overview

There are several program learning outcomes for a Masters of Art in Education. By achieving these outcomes, the program prepares the graduates for the dynamic world of education with a diverse set of skills.

PLO 1: Instructional Planning for Learner Development

This learning outcome is recognition of the influence of different factors in the learning of an individual. Some of the implicated factors include the social factors, cognitive abilities, linguistic factors, physical patterns, and the emotional development of the learner. It is imperative that a teacher understands the influence of these factors on the learning process when planning for the approaches to instructions. This learning outcome ...

Literature Review on the topic of Disaster and Emergency Management Systems

Disasters are the regular companions of the mankind. They bring losses and devastation, ruin crops and take people’s lives. The list of cities that have been destroyed is endless and reminds people of the fact that nature is forever with us. Nevertheless, man’s activity and ambitions seem to have no boundaries. Such catastrophes as Chernobyl, the explosions on the Piper Alpha, and other numerous fires are the results of human negligence. The one thing is certain: disasters are likely to happen but where and when is the question. Thus, disaster and emergency management in the form of ...