Essays on Commission

Summary of Article Macy & holder

Complainant, V.

Eric Holder,

Attorney General, (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives),

Agency.

Short Description of the Case The complainant was denied employment by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in the Walnut Creek Lab despite having the required qualifications. She was interviewed by the director of Walnut Creek Lab. The director told her that she would be hired after the lab conducts some background checks. At this time, Macy (complainant) was presenting herself as a man. However, as the process of background check was going on, she started her transition from male to female. She called her prospective ...

The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) is an independent body which was formed with the intent to develop and improve the generally accepted accounting principles in the United States (Financial, 2017). The financial accounting guidelines and reporting standards promulgated by this body are aimed at protecting the interest of the public, as per order by the Securities and Exchange Commission. The FASB has a role in protecting the public interest, thus it shares a collective mission with with the FAF and the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB). These agencies have a mission “to establish and improve financial accounting and ...

Overview

The paper will present a case study of the terrorist attack on the United States – US on 9th September 2001. The terrorist attack will be analyzed in the area of upcoming events, actual attacks and its consequences. The primary perpetrators of the attack were members of the terrorist group al-Qaida. The goals of 19 affiliated men from different countries were attacks on the American symbols. The targets chosen include the capitol White House, World Trade Center and Pentagon. A tactic used was plane hijacking and the larger issues at stake went beyond the domestic politics into the international politics, ...

This discussion is a review of the protected health information (PHI) regulatory requirement as advanced by the state of Florida, the federal government’s HHS, and the Joint Commission (TJC). I believe that this regulatory measure stemmed out of HIPAA (1996) requirement that facilities restructure their electronic exchange, security, and privacy initiatives concerning PHI. The HHS, therefore, would direct, through Sections 261-264, that hospitals publicize their adherence procedures pertaining these issues. The following is an analysis of these three entities. The state of Florida, through Statute 456.057, advice that hospitals treat PHIs with the respect they deserve. Here, such ...

Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is the largest country in the Middle East. Saudi Arabia takes the leading position among the countries when it comes to oil production, gas reserves, and petrochemical industry. Saudi Arabia is a rich country with many types of raw materials, that means there are many oilrigs, plants, and refineries, which involve a lot of workforce and contractors. Safety is the prime requirement for every self-respecting company in Saudi Arabia. Safety issue does not include any type of compromises. Safety issue at the enterprise is a set of organizational and technical measures aimed at preventing accidents ...

InstaCart Financial Feasibility

License: InstaCart will obtain a license to engage in food delivery business from Brent council at £52 per annum. Furniture: InstaCart will spend £15,000 on office furniture and fittings. InstaCart being a service business does not have any other capital expenditure.

Marketing: InstaCart will spend £20,000 on pre-launch marketing promotion and 5% of total revenue on on-going marketing efforts.

Revenue: InstaCart will charge customers £1 per mile. Each rider is expected to cover 30 miles per hour. InstaCart will hire 20 riders working 40 hours a week. InstaCart projects revenue to increase by 10% every month for the first year of operations. In addition, InstaCart will earn 10% commission from hotels. Riders will earn a commission ...

Culture: Multicultural Issues in Corrections

Question One Correctional officers must strive to build rapport with inmates from all backgrounds while remaining neutral to all backgrounds. I would create rapport with inmates from diverse cultures by providing innovative and bold leadership through cross-cultural knowledge and advocacy, respect, and empathy for various cultural perspectives. Furthermore, I would incorporate conceptions of cultural diversity to improve the spirit and harmony at the correctional facilities. I would try to learn some of their cultural practices and values so as to know how to deal with them based on their cultural inclinations (“National Commission on Correctional,” n.d). Yes, cultural competence ...

The most important part in any legislation is observation of human rights. The core organization that monitors human rights violation is the United Nation. The importance of human rights had accelerated during post war period of the 20th century. A great leap forward in recognition of human rights took place at that period. To look back into the history, in 1944 the representatives of four major powers met at Dumbarton Oaks, Washington DC when the burning issue was oppression and genocide executed towards people of certain nationalities such as Jewish race in Europe and prisoners of war in Asia ...

Discuss the positives and negatives of corporate culture in the competitiveness of a firm. Relate how firms should deal with different corporate cultures in mergers and acquisitions. According to Wheelen and Hunger (2015), "corporate culture fulfills several important functions in an organization. It conveys a sense of identity for employees and helps generate employee commitment to something greater than them. It adds to the stability of the organization as a social system and serves as a frame of reference for employees to use to make sense of organizational activities as well as a guide for appropriate behavior." One of ...

Question 1

1.1 In her taxonomy, Joh (2005) describes private policing as law enforcement activities offered through agencies owned and controlled by private individuals. That said, unlike their public counterparts, private police officers concentrate on property loss, preventive techniques, private justice, and safeguarding personal interests. As such, these entities mainly operate as parallel entities, each focusing on their individual duties in law enforcement. This taxonomy is both useful and an excellent beginning in the categorization of various forms of private policing as explained below. On the one hand, some of the existing classifications include publicly contracted, protective, intelligence, and corporate security ...

Abstract

This brief essay studied the uninsured and the health care disparities they face. Essential Affordable Care Act provisions and their effects were studied. Critical factors affecting the health care of the uninsured were identified; these included race, ethnicity, income, socioeconomic status, culture, language and income. Several research studies concluded that while access to health care has improved, the quality of this care has not improved for the uninsured. Although the number of uninsured has been reduced dramatically since 2010, insurance costs continue to increase significantly. Failure of states to expand Medicaid benefits has limited uninsured patients’ health care options. ...

There is the need for healthcare facilities and the professionals working in such facilities to be aware of the safety and quality issues which affect the wellbeing of patients. The core objective of such a move is to ensure that patients are able to emerge with desirable outcomes and that possible readmission cases, high morbidity and high mortality cases are reduced. In this regard, therefore, it is essential that hospitals take into account the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) measures which will oversee an improvement in the safety and quality of services which patients receive ...

Abstract

In response to the stiff competition being experienced in virtually all industries, one of the strategies that organizations can execute to boost their competitive advantage is promoting diversity in the workplace. This paper examines some of the ways firms can ensure equal employment as required by the relevant federal government agencies discussed in, “Providing Equal Employment Opportunity and Safe Workplace,” which is the third chapter of the book, Fundamentals of Human Resources Management, by Noe, Hollenbeck, Gerhart, and Wright (2013). It also relates the issues addressed in the chapter to the article, “Workplace Diversity: A Social-Ecological Framework and Policy ...

Cardillo Travel Systems

The Cardillo Travel Systems case shows the way the management cooked up the books only to be caught later. This essay will attempt to answer some questions on this case. False Representation to External Auditors: The executives at Cardillo Travel Systems were aware it needed to maintain a minimum of $3 million of stockholder’s equity threshold established by the court outstanding against the organization. (Ritterburg, 2012). This was the reason that shaped their intent to falsify the organization’s books to misrepresent facts before investors and creditors. The issue started with the accountants at Cardillo making an improper ...

“If it has ‘science’ in its name, it ain’t (Minnick).” Those words were said to this writer by the smartest person he ever knew personally, a man with PhDs in Mathematics and Physics, a true scientist. He went on to explain that science, if it is science, can be reduced to mathematics and then can predict. “Science can generate electricity or flatten cities,” he said. The problem, of course, is that whenever one deals with the “soft sciences,” political science or economics (the dismal science) or sociology or history or any of the disciplines that are housed in ...

Introduction

The SOX (Sarbanes-Oxley) Act was enacted in 2002 by the Congress of U.S. As President Bush signed the Act, he characterized the law as the most far-reaching reformations of business practices in America business practices since the reign of Franklin Delano Roosevelt." The motive of the legislation was to protect investors and the public in general, from fraudulent practices and accounting errors in business. The bill also aimed to better the corporate disclosures' accuracy. The Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) of the U.S. is in charge of the act, publishing rules and setting compliance deadlines on requirements. The Act ...

Statistics is an essential element of comparison in the public service delivery. It creates the avenue to pit one service against the other in a bid to understand the effectiveness of different services within a particular work environment or department. As a result, one can know the details about provision of services to the public and the level of efficiency. Accessing data from the federal government about the operation and services of government departments is important in helping concerned citizens understand the speed with which services are rendered. The report focuses on the Department of Justice to examine various ...

The frustrations surrounding the access to the sandy beaches along the California shores had become a big issue to many beachgoers. The experience of locked gates or privately preserved areas became a major hindrance to public access to the beach. It is within the rights of every person to enjoy public facilities without any impediment. However, there has been a growing trend of private owners demarcating the beach areas with fences or restrictive access to the detriment of the public. There had been deliberate attempts by the affluent property owners along the coast to frustrate the public and deny ...

Whole Foods Company was founded by John Mackey and his ex-girlfriend after they were loaned 45000 US dollars to start up a small business in natural foods. Their first business together, SaferWay, was successful. This enabled them to expand and partner with Clarksville Natural Grocery to create Whole Foods Market. This was the first natural whole food store and was large enough to employ 19 workers. In the 1980s, the store ventured into a plan to buy off small stores that were in the business of selling off natural, organic and healthy foods. The stores that were acquired included ...

The U.S Securities and Exchange Commission refers to the United States’ agency that is tasked to enforce the securities laws, policies and guidelines, including the country’s stock and options exchange activities. It is the objective of this agency to “ protect investors, maintain fair, orderly and efficient markets, and facilitate capital formation” (U.S, 2017). One of the main roles of the SEC is to ensure that investors who turn into the securities exchange market are protected and activities that are geared towards capital and investment formation are sustained for economic growth.

The Creation of the PCAOB

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) was ...

In order to get the commission for each employ we first have to generate a database and its tables. CREATE TABLE Employee( EmpNumber int not null, EmpFirstName varchar(100) not null, EmpLastName varchar(100) not null, CommissionRate decimal(3,2) not null, YrlySalary int not null, DepartmentID int, JobID int, PRIMARY KEY (EmpNumber), FOREIGN KEY (DepartmentID) references Department(DepartmentID), FOREIGN KEY (JobID) references Job(JobID) ).

CREATE TABLE Job( JobID int not null, JobDescription varchar(400) not null, PRIMARY KEY (JobID) )

CREATE TABLE Department( DepartmentID int not null, DepartmentDescription varchar(400) not null, PRIMARY KEY(DepartmentID) ) CREATE TABLE Invoice (InvNumber int not null, InvDate date, EmpNumber int, InvAmount int not null, PRIMARY KEY (InvNumber), FOREIGN ...

Part 1: Active Shooters

There has been an increase in the number of shootings in hospitals as well as other institutions around the country (Hospital Employee Health, 2013). The increase in these cases has made institutions to start preparing their employees on how to react if such a shooting occurred in their organization. There are similarities in some of the hospital shooting cases. In St. Vincent’s Hospital, the shooting was unpredictable and could not be prevented. This was similar to the case of the Western Psychiatric Institute shooting in Pittsburgh (Thomas, 2012). The Joint Commission agrees that there has been an increase ...

Introduction

Every US citizen has a right not to have their privacy unreasonably intruded into according to the Fourth Amendment to the US Constitution. Moreover, under this Amendment, search warrants shall not be issued to law enforcement officers unless there is probable cause that particularly describes the specific place that the police needs to search or the things subject to seizure. In the state of Florida, for example, the requirements of a search warrant are provided under Chapter 933 and include the existence of probable cause, search for only the property specified in the warrant, supported by an affirmation or ...

Introduction

Over the last two decades, the Internet has become an important aspect of global communication, and with the continued to advance advancement of IT during this period; the internet has become an important communication tool. Moreover, the fast growth of the internet has been buoyed by the increasing recognition of freedom of speech across the world. However, it is the potential impacts of the unregulated internet that have necessitated calls to regulate the Internet under public international law. Currently, there is no clear legal framework under international law that governs the regulation of the internet. At the local or ...

Introduction

In the United States, some bodies have been formed with the aim of preventing consumer and investor exploitation. These bodies are aimed at providing financial protection to the citizens. Some special laws such as Usury laws have also been formed to protect the citizens from exploitation. These bodies include the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), the Office of the Comptroller of Currency, the Security Exchange Commission and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) (Mckay & Seale, 2000).

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and its purpose

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) is an independent public corporation based in the United States. It was formed in the year 1933 ...

As one of the few industries that has actually positively affected the U.S. economy over the last decade, the high tech sector has been a focus of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s (EEOC) efforts to expand diversity in recruiting. According to an EEOC report as a result of the high tech’s successes, having a more diverse high tech workforce is essentially to sustaining health economic growth (EEOC, 2016). However, the EEOC has found that tech companies have been failing at the task of creating a diverse work force despite the existence of a relatively broad and diverse ...

At common law, a felony murder was defined as the unlawful killing of a human being while in the commission of a felony crimes (LaFave). However, the modern concept of felony murder has widely been interpreted to mean an unlawful killing that occurred in the commission of only a certain type of felony crime, or acts that are deemed, by the totality of circumstances, to be inherently dangerous (LaFave). Under the federal criminal code, a person is guilty of felony murder if in “preparation of, or attempt to perpetrate, any” robbery (LII). Robbery, under the federal criminal code, is ...

What are some of the ideal structures that are currently in use today? Conduct a web search on four types of departments. Choose one department that is very large (more than 1000 sworn police officers); choose one that is considered large sized (more than 150 but less than 1000); choose a medium sized department (between 50 to 149 sworn officers) and finally a small department (less than 50 sworn officers). Go to each department’s website and find their Year-end Report. If one doesn’t exist for the department you choose, try to find another agency in the same ...

Challenges faced by MCOs regarding price variations and ways of overcoming these challenges

Challenges Utilization management acts as one of the most complex financial balancing act that managed care organizations (MCOs) try to utilize in an effort to manage health care costs and create value for future health care services (Bailit & Sennett, 1992). However, managing cost through utilization management concept creates price variations that pose major challenges to MCOs. One of the major challenges faced by MCOs regarding price variation is its diverse nature. The use of utilization management in MCOs has gained a lot of demand making it difficult to make a general conclusion on certain variations. Price variations linked to ...

Problem Statement

The objective of this paper is to present a report on the marketing questions raised by the founder of Celtic Chocolate Company Limited. Mr. Ronald Begg founded Celtic Chocolate Company Limited under which he engineered a new product called Milk Mate. The new product is basically a milk modifier. Milk Mate was introduced into a market largely controlled by large companies, such as Nestle with a market share of 50%, Hersey with a market share of 20%, Cadbury at 10%, and the remaining 20% shared by other smaller players in the region.

Generation of Alternatives

The introduction of the new product into ...

What is a 'Ponzi Scheme', how it Works and How does it Collapse?

A Ponzi scheme represents a fraudulent investment trick where the promoter pays return on investment to previous investors from the money invested by new investors instead of the money earned through profit or gain. Customers are promised to receive higher investment returns, compared to market averages, with no risk at all since they will be paid from the money provided by new clients. This investment scam requires an ample flow of clientele for powering the whole fraudulent system. A Ponzi scheme comes into existence when the promoter is able to cllect initial investment funds from a person. This scheme ...

An Investigation of the Impact of Sky Scanner on the Travel Choice of Chinese Customers

Introduction: There is an increasing demand, among consumers for competitive, and easy to access travel solutions. More specifically, online applications offer comparison of travel options, and low rates to travelers, in a do-it-yourself travel economy that has moved away from using formal travel agencies, and instead moved toward self-sufficiency supported through web sites that over agent-like services. One such service, is Sky Scanner, however, the embattled company has suffered from a large amount of negative publicity, and has struggled to adequately serve the target market. The following study, therefore, seeks to consider the impact, or potential impact, of Sky ...

An Overview of the Standard-Setting Industry And Its History

Introduction Accounting Standards have been in existence since the beginning of the recorded history. Some of these standards were set up by rulers or reigning kings. However, as the world developed, States started coming up with bodies aimed at controlling the quality and standards of products and services in the accounting sector. In the ancient world, the man used to come up with standards with a desire of harmonizing his activities with important changes in the environment. Some standards were also set in response to a rise in needs in the society. The standard setting body in America was ...

Project 1: Quality Measurement and Assessment

Introduction This QI project looks into improving healthcare outcomes by reducing crowding in my hospital’s emergency department (ED) setting. This QI issue considers adequate staffing and staff education as the necessary drivers towards enhanced patient flow, thus reduced ED crowding. The initiative serves as an encouragement for the facility to grow and develop its staffing and educational requirements for nurses. The idea here is that skilled and adequately staffed nurses can reduce ED crowding, thus advancing care quality and patient outcomes. My hospital recognizes patients and the staffing unit as essential elements in healthcare service delivery. The facility ...

Question and Answer- Criminal Justice

Question and Answer- Criminal Justice Q. 1 The main similarity between mens rea and actus reus regarding their roles is that both elements are ways through the criminal law ensures that only guilty actions or conduct and minds or intention can secure the safe legal conviction of accused persons. Moreover, they both play the role of making the role of the prosecution and defense easier when proving the commission of a crime. The difference is that while mens rea plays the role of helping the court know the accused’s intent at the material time, actus reus plays the ...

Introduction

A report following a global study of 44,000 people in the tourism sector by TripBarometer Connected Traveller report states that China is among the few top ten nations with connected travellers and categorises 49% of the Asians as connected travellers as most of them use a PC or mobile for booking trips . TravelBurma App targets the Chinese travellers, local business travellers, and other foreign travellers in the age group of 21-50 years. As Myanmar is a business district unit, people often prefer travelling there than any other part of China. During the year 2015, more than 4.68 million ...

Question 3

The pros of the sole proprietorship involve the simplicity in the decision making process as well as low organizational and the operational expenses. The key drawback involves the unlimited liability to the owner of the firm where he can lose all his personal properties as well as capital in case the firm incurs any losses.

Question 4

A limited partnership tends to allow some of the partners so as to limit their liability. Under this type of the arrangement one or more of the partners are the designated general partners tend to have the unlimited liability for the debts of the ...

This project educates personnel on preventing and mitigating cases of hospital-acquired infections in the facility. The issue drew the attention of the QI department after a patient succumbed to an untreatable CRE infection in a recent incident. Upon an investigation, the department determined that HAIs had become an issue worth addressing given obvious causes such as lack of communication, supervision, and improper hand hygiene policies (Barnett, 2015). The data and tools used to make decisions on project implementation include adequate surveillance systems aimed at monitoring and improving relations at field level. Some of the set QI milestones include educating ...

Part 1.

Ancient civilizations are famous for their innovations and fast technology development, specifically, when talking about the Ancient Egypt and Rome. The base line of my dissertation concerns the required innovations in the financial industry, thus in this paper I will refer to the innovative management approaches in the Ancient Egypt. However, prior to analyzing their methods and approaches it is important to take into account the fact that religion was dominant over civil authorities in the Ancient times. Therefore, most of their laws and management decisions were also based on the religious norms or dictated by the priests. “The ...

Introduction

The title of the brochure selected for this particular report is Speak Up: Anesthesia and Sedation published in 2015 with an intention of highlighting key issues associated with the administering of anesthetics and sedatives. The brochure seeks to provide patients, intending to go for surgical procedures, with information on the usage of anesthetics and sedatives, which are common in the health care system during surgical procedures. The Joint Commission (2015) indicates that health workers in the United States alone administer approximately 40 million anesthetics annually. The figure may be higher depending on the number of patients intending to go ...

10 K Assignments 10 K Assignments: AMREP Corporation

Introduction: Description Of The Company

AMREP Corporation is headquartered in Princeton, New Jersey in the United States. The company was founded in 1961 as AMREP (American Realty and Petroleum Corporation). As a publicly traded firm, AMREP complies with SEC’s (Security Exchange Commission) requirements by submitting the required material and financial information. The company is listed on the NYSE (New York Stock Exchange), and it primarily engages in two major business segments, which include media services and real estate (Alexander, 2016). The company carries out its real estate business in Rio Rancho and some areas of ...

The First Amendment to the US Constitution provides that Congress shall make no law that restricts freedom of expression or of the press. Such wording restricts state power as a greater and a lesser degree compared to what it could do in this regard if the wording used in the literal sense. The said formulation limits the power of the state to a greater extent in the sense that it applies not only to Congress but to all branches of the federal government, all branches of state governments and local authorities. The wording in question, limit state power to ...

Introduction

One could hardly imagine a resident of the developed country who has never delved into such aspect of popular culture as sport – either by buying a soccer ticket, buying exactly the same sneakers model David Beckham was wearing in that Adidas commercial, following the Olympics on TV or hunting some rare baseball cards. In the modern world, sport activities have become extremely different from the leisure games they used to be as they were invented. In the recent decades, significant societal, economic, political and cultural transformations turned sport not just into a socially meaningful phenomenon but rather in an ...

Overview

Discrimination has a lasting effect on employees who are on its receiving end. One who experiences discrimination at their workplace develops feelings of being vulnerable and in many cases loses interest in their work and career development. Such employees end up suing their organisations to fight for their rights. This causes a lot of unwarranted expenses to the organisation when it actually can be avoided. Discrimination at workplaces is often brought about by differences in race, sexuality, religion, age, sex and national origin. Other minor forms of discrimination include employee's limitation regarding their physical ability or educational level. Such ...

The Impact of the Guaranteed Price Policy on the European Sugar Market

Sugar industry is one of the most dynamic in the structure of the food industry and plays a significant role in the economies of several countries. The European Union leads the five largest importers of sugar. Sugar production in the EU is expected to grow by 10% in the 2017/18 season. The production may reach 18.3 million tons, but still will be lower than the record 2014/15 season (19.4 million tons). Sugar production growth is expected in France (up to 5.5 million tons) and the UK (up to 1.4 million tons). However, despite the increase in production, the EU ...

Introduction

BMW Group is one of the most successful automotive companies in the world and is a considered a brand leader in the premium market segment in the United States. Despite competitive pressures within the market segments and among the low and mid-priced automotive, BMW’s vehicle volume sales continued to increase by 5.2% in 2015, thanks to the normalization of the global economy. Its revenues also increased by 14.6% and reached $92.2 billion while its net income reached $6.4 billion, a 10% increased from the previous year (BMW Group, 2016). As per location, Germany accounted for 42.6% of the ...

Summary of the Case Analysis

The case “Amazon’s Big Data Strategy” highlights the strategy implemented by the leading e-commerce company Amazon, which showed remarkable performance over the past two decades. Amazon was established by Jeffrey Bezos in the year 1994 and it started off as an online bookstore only. Today, it has diversified into a number of categories and National Retail Federation ranked Amazon among the top ten retailers in the US. Similarly, its subsidiary Zappos is also on the top ten list, which Amazon bought off in 2009 in a deal worth $1.2 bn. However, the case primarily focuses on the Amazon's ...

Introduction

Over the last few decades, there have been several changes in the roles of audit companies notably due to challenges that have affected the ethics and integrity of the institution of auditing. Traditionally, audit companies are mandated with the responsibility of analysing the financial systems, financial records as well as the compliance of companies’ financial reporting procedures with the specific national regulations. The effectiveness of audit companies in implementing these duties is extremely important in the public trust in business organizations around the world. Local and international investors rely on the accuracy of audit reports produced by audit companies ...

A) According to U.S. EEOC (para 2-5), hostile work environment is a situation in the workplace where an employee finds it hard to work due to harassment from other workers in the workplace. This is usually severe and pervasive. Harassment can be in the form of bullying, fondling, and the use of offensive language and remarks. Sexual harassment refers to bullying in the workplace in relation to an individual’s sex. It mostly affects female employees whereby they are coerced to have sexual relations with their colleagues in the work place. Sexual harassment takes the form of physical or ...

I. Introduction A corporation is a common type of business organization in which its owners have the ability to use it as a separate, and distinct legal entity. One of the primary differences between a corporation and other types of business organizations, such as a sole proprietorship or general partnership, is that a duly formed corporation is, legally a person. Moreover, under the law, a corporation is a legal person who the owners, in essence, can control and direct to carry out a range of activities. To be sure, corporations are deemed to have a personality or personhood, including ...

There has been increasing awareness of the role of waste in the production of greenhouse gas emissions and its impacts on climate change. Diminishing natural resources has led to the recognition that what is discarded as waste has the potential to be reused as resources. Governmental legislation on prohibiting toxic materials and prevention and control of the volume of waste has helped in decreasing adverse environmental effects. There is a growing public awareness about waste prevention and its beneficial effects. The society has to replace the linear model of extract-produce-consume-dispose to closed Loop's approach of resource recovery and waste ...

Gap in Care Quality during the Discharge Process for Care Coordination for Patients with Chronic Illnesses

Patients in the United States who experience long-term illnesses may change from one health care setting to another. They might move from home to a hospital, to an assisted living facility, or to other types of residential care. The coordination of care for patients with chronic illnesses is reliant on the abilities of health care providers to interact effectively in order to provide optimum outcomes (NTCC, 2010). In order to determine the best possible option for the patient, care coordinators must accurately assess the patient’s condition, reach a consensus on prognosis, evaluate possible resources, and develop and initiate ...

Introduction

Gender equality is one of the most controversial and complicated issues that have plagued human societies for many years. In fact, the issue regarding gender equality has been an age-old problem that have prevailed even in the contemporary society. The problem in gender equality lies on the concept of equality itself, primarily because the concept of equality is too broad to be explicitly defined. The case of Stella Bliss, for example, is a manifestation that the concept of equality is subjective and depends on the prevailing perception on equality. According to the merits of the case, Stella Bliss, a ...

Q. 1: The article discusses the role of a sales manager in the relationship selling process. This is achieving by exploring the five critical components that entail management of the relationship selling process. The performance of a salesperson is examined in the article based on the perspective of the manager and the salesperson. Role perceptions and motivation are termed as the key elements in management of salespersons in an organization. The recruitment and selection of a sales force in an organization is investigated in one section of the article where the objectives of sales training and various training techniques ...

Often abbreviated as SOX, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act was signed by the U.S. Congress into law in 2002 (U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, 2013). The Act was designed to restore public confidence in corporate financial reporting and to initiate reforms in protecting investors from the possibilities of accounting fraud (U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission [SEC], 2013). Congress also enacted SOX 2002 to improve the accuracy of corporate financial disclosures as well as shield the public from bookkeeping inaccuracies (SEC, 2013). According to Jahmani and Dowling (2008), the SOX 2002 was intended to not only advance the accuracy and reliability of ...

Introduction

Firms in different industries across Australia operate in varying market structures including oligopoly, monopoly, and monopolistic markets. Monopoly firms include Telstra, a telecommunications company that has over the years proved to be the dominant supplier of the internet and mobile services. Grocery supermarkets including Aldi, Woolworths, and Coles operate in oligopoly structures where they have dominance over smaller grocery retailers. Firms operating in the monopolistic structure include restaurants and hairdressing shops where firms aim at expanding their market share through product differentiation. The paper, therefore, uses examples drawn from Australian markets to discuss various market structures.

Oligopoly market structure in Australia

The grocery retail ...

While sustainable development means meeting the needs of the present and future generations, and a focus on prevention of environmental degradation, several factors influence the attainment of these goals, specifically culture and organizations. Sustainable development as a concept first appeared in the Brundtland Report of the World Commission on Economic Development (Buchanan 29). The Brundtland Commission was established in 1985 to address environmental problems due to economic development. Atmospheric pollution, climate change and global warming, accumulated wetlands, decreased freshwater quality, topsoil degradation, endangered species of animals and fishes, and forest degradation were environmental concerns discussed in the Brundtland Commission ( ...

Businesses may deal with a variety of issues that are associated with human rights. It might be beneficial financially to ignore some of these issues in favor of profit, but there are further ethical, moral, and legal considerations to be made.

Thesis

Whilst Australian businesses may have issues with the complexity of human rights laws and concepts, they have a moral and ethical obligation to protect the human rights of the stakeholders in the company.

Argument 1

Human rights issues affect everyone in the company, and can help to increase morale as well as offer protection to those engaging with the company. ...

Introduction

One of the most common strategies of criminal defense attorneys when representing a defendant who has an unusual condition such as a mental abnormality, is to argue either that regardless of their actions, they are nevertheless not responsible for the crime or that they never had the capacity to commit a crime. The reason that criminal defense attorneys can make these arguments is that criminal law recognizes a number of unique situations where otherwise criminal conduct should not be subjected to a determination of guilt and the offender should be exempted from the crime (LaFave, 2000). These arguments, which ...

Introduction

Proper respect for human rights is one of global concerns that should not be neglected by for-profit organizations which usually prefer to deal with numbers turning a blind eye to external and internal problems related to human relations. Moreover, there are good grounds to hypothesize that being responsible for addressing human rights issues may be beneficial for private companies. Fair policies and humanitarian activities may contribute to improved care for employees and therefore increase their productiveness. Companies will not hang behind competitors in terms of positive image if human rights issues are properly addressed. Last of all, companies that ...