Essays on Considerations.

The topic of this article applies to my professional life in distinct ways. As a worker in a medical facility, the issue of the role of bioethics and business ethics is applicable in the manner of delivering service to patients. Aspects addressed in this article as the topic indicates directly influence the way I work as one who attends to the needs of patients in a medical facility. In a medical facility, unlike in another type of organization, one is supposed to deal with clients at an individual level. While other organizations tend to deal with clients in groups, it ...

The importance of accounting analysis was emphasized in the Chapter 3. The authors stated that disclosures of the financial statements are made on the basement of accounting analysis. Also, they noted that understanding of accounting information collected helps use the financial information more effectively.

Chapter 3 of the book highlights three important concepts namely: factors influencing the quality of financial reports based on accounting analysis, the drivers of accounting choices, and incentives of the managers that should be considered when making the financial reports. According to Sarbanes-Oxley Act, CEO, CFO, Board of Directors ...

Abstract

The main objective of this dissertation is to explore the impact of technology on places where people eat. In order to encounter, the impact of technology Yoko sizzler has been chosen. The interview-based questionnaires were distributed among 100 customers who were available at Yoko Sizzlers. Therefore, the gathered data is based on 100 responses, which includes both males and females. Technology has an immense impact on restaurants and hospitality industry; it has been encountered through several researches, and this research is another effort to contribute in prior work. It has been encountered that technology advancement plays an ...

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This paper present the literature review related to the change in organizational culture and innovation. The paper describes the critical aspect of organizational change in culture. To evaluate the understanding of the cultural models different researches has been included and studied intensively. For better understanding the literature from the organizational behaviour, organizational culture and behaviour, human psychology, human resource, and Industry best practices, some business professionals who are expert in their field are also a part of this research. To widen the understanding of organizational culture and also how it may affect on innovation and creativity the research is conducted ...

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This study analyzes the benefits and challenges of implementing an electronic medical system in both hospital and clinic environments. The overall research problem addressed in this study is determining how to effectively manage and communicate expectations associated with perceived benefits and challenges derived from a new install of an electronic medical record. The purpose of this study is to analyze perceptions associated with both the benefits and challenges derived from installing an electronic medical record system. This problem is relevant to many such as those who ...

The income statement refers to a system that operates the activities and operations of a company or organization and seeks to give a detailed report and evaluation on its performance during a certain year. The statement provides the details of the expenditure and income of the company for the financial year. Where the sales revenue exceeds the costs, there is production of a profit; where there is the occurrence of the reverse, losses results. As such, the statement acts as a profit and loss account. Elemental components of the income statement include the profit considerations, presentation formats, the details, depreciation and profits, ...

Research plays a crucial role in the field of nursing in an attempt to alleviate suffering, improve care and advance the well-being of patients. Research is a source of new information on how nursing should be improved. This pamphlet seeks to inform nursing graduate students on the guidelines and procedures that protect research participants.

In nursing research, ethics guides moral judgment and standards of conduct. When conducting nursing research, participants must ensure they conform to the principles of nursing (Bush, 2005). Importantly, they have to uphold the principle of non-maleficence to ...

Abstract

The pace by which information flows cross organizational boundaries is rapidly increasing. Individuals and groups in organizational contexts are exchanging more information across different – often isolated – platforms. Against a backdrop of conventional information management, present business ecosystem mandates more systematic management of information and hence holistic systems. This paper highlights how management information systems have come to be increasingly adopted. Initially rejected as of little relevance to companies' operations and strategy, information systems have shown more enhancements as to necessitate adoption. Therefore, management information systems have been widely adopted in many industries, most notably supply chain, environment stewardship ...

The problem of identity theft has become a popular crime in the United States and other countries in the last decade. More individuals are losing their personal information because of cyber criminals who source the innocent victim’s social security number, bank account numbers, names, and credit card numbers. This personal information is then used for different reasons. But, despite the number of reasons for engaging in identity theft, it is the victims who suffer the consequences as they lose their identity in a number of ways. This growing white collar crime is popular among criminals who seek to use the ...

As part of British Petroleum’s (BP) communicated organizational culture, the concern for people, communities and environment was encrypted in its mission statement, defining its most significant organizational value. The focus on people, communities and environment define ethical considerations, which were, in theory, supported by BP. However, in practice, other aspects prevailed in the decision making process regarding Macondo well drillings. As Elaine M Brown (240) indicates in “The Deepwater Horizon Disaster” article, the investigations on the Gulf of Mexico explosion indicated that in the decision making process for the drilling operations, the organization considered “time, money, productivity, ad ...

One of the most important network design considerations for an organization network is the selection of the network operating system. The Network operating system shapes the entire network and determines the operation of the network. The choices available for the proposed network at Ocper Inc. are few and provide sophisticated features, relatively easy setup and administration and high reliability.

For Ocper Inc., the Microsoft Windows NT operating system is the most ideal network operating system. The operating system offers some services that are rarely offered by the other network ...

Abstract

The essay involves a study of the threats against Aviation Security and the issues and solutions proposed for the current trends in airport development and security measures followed in civil aviation.

Introduction

Aviation security is a crucial issue and refers to the protection of passengers, cargo, staff and aircraft from crime, malicious harm, accidental incidents and other threats. There are more than 50, 000 airports in the world and the number is anticipated to grow. Aviation plays a key role in the national economy and is an essential part of the global lives. Why would one say that? Well, large numbers of traffic, ...

Globalization brings about the needs of global companies to operate more efficiently with the aim to gain competitive advantages and to face the contemporary issues and challenges in the contemporary world. A critical factor in optimizing organizational efficient operations of these companies is the IHRM (Guest et al., 2000a; Guest et al., 2000b). The HRM operations helps in developing and motivating the workforce of the companies to improve skills, knowledge, and the modernization required for the companies to vie with ...

This research identifies public relations as an essential element for nations. Under public relations, the study identifies Jordan as a potential region of study. This research identifies various avenues of image management during crises in Jordan. The study of Jordan and its practices of public relations, especially image management involve different stages. First, the study provides an overview of public relations and image management to foster the understanding of the topic. Image management is all about maintaining the reputation of a ...

Introduction

The achievement gap in formal schooling between African American children and other groups is stark. This has proven consistent over time (Coleman, et al, 1966), across jurisdictions (Clotfelter, Ladd & Vigdor, 2009; Bailey & Dziko, 2008), and throughout the K-12 system (The National Center for Education Statistics, 2014). Improving these issues is an obvious direction forward. Yet, the obstacles are numerous and multifaceted (Sanacore, 2004). Relative to the public domain, the school system is often targeted for a lack of understanding in relation to educating young African Americans of low socio-economic status. The curriculum is long been criticized for being de-contextualized to ...

Investigation of the United Nations (UNESCO) World Heritage Convention

Over the Temple of Preah Vihear ABSTRACT

The research in this scholastic investigation intended verifying if the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage Convention practices indeed contributed to the conflict already occurring between Thailand and Cambodia over contested border and who has sovereignty over the ancient Temple of Preah Vihear and found the existing literature more than ample proving this. With public, legal, and academic reports, the actions of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee proves it irresponsibly and with direct circumvention of its own protocols inappropriately named Cambodia with inscription on its Heritage ...

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This paper discusses one of the prevalent ethical issues in our present criminal justice system which is police planting evidence on the suspect. The planting of evidence on a suspect or profiling of innocent people is considered police misconduct. The driving force for the police to commit such crime is due to corruption. During police investigations, the police abuse their power by fabricating or planting of evidence to obtain false conviction by taking money in exchange for favors. Police resort to corruption, engage in other illegal means to earn income and break departmental policies due ...

Slide 1: Introduction

The report discusses about Corporate social responsibility by analyzing the CSR strategy adapted by Tesco. The report would consider the CSR strategy from four perspective; Environmental considerations, Ethical leadership, Sustainable consideration and Laws and regulatory considerations.

Slide 2: CSR Strategy - Tesco

Environmental considerations Tesco has taken different steps to manage its environment. It has been highly focusing on reducing the carbon emission. The company has been involved in different projects related to reducing carbon emission. Moreover, it has been highly involved in creating awareness among not only suppliers but among consumers as well to reduce the usage of carbon. Because of its efforts ...

Introduction

When the history of mankind is carefully considered, there are some aspects that come to mind. One of these is that man is a social creature and has always endeared to be in a kind of community. This necessitated the need for leadership practices so that the people can have a sense of guidance or responsibility. Just like many other aspects of the human life, leadership has been greatly affected by the technological advances. More so, the academic leadership has been greatly affected by the online programs. However, there are some online leadership programs which seem to have withstood the storm of ...

Introduction

The legal structure of a business has a huge influence on the managerial/regulatory requirements and other strategic variables, which in turn impacts the bottom line. A proper choice of the legal structure must take into consideration capitalization, profit and loss allocation, applicable tax regimes, compensation, ownership restrictions, desired managerial control, setup and running costs and the expected future of the business (Hertz, Beasley, & White, 2009). Unfortunately, many business owners fail to appreciate the strategic importance of the legal structure or are simply unable to reconcile the determinant variables. This in turn forces owners to work under restrictive or costly form, ...

Data mining refers to the computational process useful for the discovery of large sets of data, which employs methods on knowledge for artificial intelligence, statistics analysis, machine learning and database systems. The data mining process aims at extracting information from a set of data to transform it into a clearly understandable form that is useful for further analysis. Apart from the raw analysis move, the process involves database and data management processes, data pre-processing, model and interface considerations, interestingness metrics, considerations for complexities, post processing for obtained structures, visualization, as well as online updating (Frand, 2013).

On the other hand, data ...

Executive Summary

There are set of standards and policies that guide how people behave in the places of work. These form workplace or business ethics. The ethical viewpoints include utilitarian view, deontology ethics, virtue ethics and intuitionism. From the case in accounting department, there are various considerations in the analysis of the case. This paper looks at the viewpoints mentioned and analyze them in relation to the case where Mr. Jones is reported to be developing a workplace relationship with Ms. Smith.

Introduction

Ethics in the workplace can be defined as the guidelines and policies that benchmark how the members of the organization ...

Vershinina, N., & Rodionova, Y. (2011). Methodological issues in studying hidden populations operating in informal economy. The International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 31(11), 697-716. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/01443331111177887.

In this article, Vershinina and Rodionova discusses the issues involve when studying hidden populations particularly those who illegally run a business in the United Kingdom. The authors take a look at the different issues that require careful attention before starting to engage in doing research within such communities. Vershina and Rodionova used a semi-structured interview of 20 illegal self-employed Ukrainians working in a construction site in London. Through a semi-structured interview, the authors were able to demonstrate the issues that confront these 20 Ukrainians and the limited use of some common methods of research with respect to ethnic minority entrepreneurship. A liaison officer was ...

Wounds, whether due to lacerations or incisions, disrupt the integrity of the skin as the body’s first line of defense against infections. Blood vessels are similarly injured resulting in bleeding and significant bleeding if large blood vessels are involved. Hence, wounds must be managed promptly to promote hemostasis, prevent infection, maintain normal body function, and achieve the best cosmetic results (Pfenninger & Fowler, 2010). The method of wound closure is an important consideration as certain methods are better suited for specific types of wounds. There are various procedures employed in closing wounds, namely suturing, skin stapling, taping, ...

Annotated Bibliography

Gilbert, S.F., and S. Brauckmann. "Fertilization Narratives in the art of Gustav Klimt, Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo: Repression, Domination and Eros among Cells." Leonardo 44, no. 3, 2011: 221-227.

The abovementioned source is a journal article and is written by Scott F. Gilbert. The author uses various books written by different writers in this article. This article presents a study of fertilization narratives and connects them with social and political ideas. The author describes how Gustav Klimt used fertilization theory to describe repression by governments. This article is very useful for students of art, political science and sociology. The ...

Morality can be defined in different ways. Some of the definitions are dependent on several factors. Philosophy is a broad subject that involves the study of different aspects of life, and non-life factors too. Philosophy even becomes more interesting and intriguing when involves the lives of human being directly. This is because it includes the perceptions of different things that people would take normally under normal situations. However, philosophy brings everything into light, though in a rare manner.

As opposed to descriptive efforts of ethics, it is also meant to describe what ethical behavior entails alongside providing reasons to be ethical. ...

Instant Coffee Industry in UK:

Coffee is considered as one of the well-renowned beverages in the world. According to research by Mintel in 2012, the retail market of UK reached 1 billion pounds for the first time (H&CNews 2014). The people living in UK consume about 2.8 kg of coffee every year (IBIS 2014). However, people do not consume much coffee in UK as they do in other European countries like France and Germany. The coffee market of UK is of only 33% of German and 50% of French coffee market (H&CNews 2014).

The coffee market in UK is mainly dominated by ...

Introduction

Purchasing and supply management plays an important role in operations of companies because other functions of the companies depend on the procurement function. In this paper a number of issues will be considered including the role of supply management in the operational process, the strategies of negotiating prices, budgeting supplies, materials, and service, outsourcing procurement function, and the best supply management practices with examples. Supply management is one of the core functions of the company. The information presented below will attempt to justify the importance of supply management function.

Question 1

Purchasing and supply management is an important part of the operational ...

EVALUATION OF WOOD GROUP EXISTING STRATEGIES - AN OIL AND GAS SUPPORT/SERVICES COMPANY BASED IN SCOTLAND THAT OPERATES IN SOME 50 COUNTRIES

Executive summary

Wood Group Engineering Wood group is an autonomous supplier of pivoting tool services and clients who are in demand of the energy of oil and gas markets. The services the GTS provides include industrial designing, architecture, obtainment and construction. They also provide office operations and support, updates, optimization and overhauls of gas and steam turbines, pumps, compressors and other many services. Their strategy and goals work on ensuring that they are a global leader in their callings, hence ...

This research was supported in part by a grant from the Sample Grant Program.

Abstract

Experts have opined that while conducting human experimentation, certain norms be followed that are accepted by the medical profession. These norms which are called the ethics of medical research(Tikveel, 1949)⁠, have created a clear divide between routine medical practice and medical research. The role of medical research ethics is to provide a reference point that will help a researcher find answers to ethical questions that might arise while doing medical research(Beauchamp, 2008)⁠. Keywords: Ethics, Medical Ethics, practice, answers, medical research

- Ethical considerations for research project ...

Introduction

This paper has a sole aim to connect the features of a good training program in relation to other factors like the returns on investment and budgetary considerations in a profit maximizing business. The paper presents that a good training is conscious of the budget, the returns and has its focus on improving productivity and output of the employee base. Through researching on existing literature, this paper will aim to get a better clarification and understanding of the impact good training has on both the employee benefits and the company’s long run agenda.

Budgetary Considerations

Training bears various considerable influences on the finances of the ...

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“Geospatial data, GIS data or geodata has explicit geographic positioning information included within it, such as a road network from a GIS, or a geo-referenced satellite image.” (1) Geospatial term specifies two things – ‘Geo’ and ‘Spatial’. Geographical factors, is combined with spatial management, to create a geospatial data. These are almost three dimensional, and have much better information factor than a normal map.

A geospatial data is developed ...

Question 1: Kuhn does not think that scientific theory choice is determined solely by evidence. Why not? Why can’t evidence force theory change, and what other considerations get involved?

Scientific theory choice is determined by several factors rather than just the presence or absence of evidence. These factors that determine the choice of a theory are according to Kuhn, an influence of the community of scientists rather than a decision of a single scientist. Kuhn argues that in the presence of two theories that do explain a similar scenario, the choice of the more virtuous theory is down to a group of practitioners designing several weighting preferences upon which the virtuous theory can be decided. The strength of evidence is not in this case considered as a factor of choice of a theory. According to ...

In the debate regarding Genetically Modified Foods, ethical concerns and scientific uncertainties have played different roles in the US and the European Union. While the regulatory and rule-making system in the US is centralized, the regulatory system in the EU is decentralized. However, rule enforcement among regulatory agencies of continental European states is more centralized. The European Union’s precautionary principle when it comes to avoiding technologies used in the production of genetically modified foods, particularly when the long-term consequences culture, health and the environment are unknown, is preferable. This traditional rule helps European Unions to exercise safety until ...

A healthy office environment is the main motivational factor behind both the workers and customers excitement to work in a business enterprise. A healthy office environment refers to a state where the working environment is up to the standards that does not infringe on the public well-being. The standards ensure that any office environment puts into account that the public health, safety at work, food hygiene, noise is to the minimal, the lighting systems are okay and the waste is properly disposed. The system also ensures that any possible environmental pollution is minimized and engages itself in the planting of trees, ...

Introduction

The basic pillars on which any organization stands are the information security management policies adopted by the organizations and their levels. The system may be built on chaos if the basic parameters of security are not clearly defined. Medium-sized organizations are a major part of global economic activity but the normal information security standards are not feasible for these organizations since they are mainly developed for large organizations. This results in a growing risk for sensitive data security breaches. Thus, there is significant need to combat these security threats. Some of the problems related to security and their solutions are given ...

Ethical considerations have become a cardinal consideration in making business decisions. Indeed, ethical principles have become a supplement to law and regulations, which company executives must take into account. While debate abounds as to what is ethical and what is unethical, some social scientists have argued that this is beside the point and a trite discussion. However, the business community recognizes the crucial need to define the criteria by which decisions have to be made into their typology for examinational purposes. It is a conundrum to define with certainty what entails ethical behavior. Many scholars have come up with their own definitions, but ...

Work Integrated Learning Experiences’ Reflection

Learning experiences provides insights to the practicality of what we learn in class through practicing the lessons and watching other employees do the same. In that respect, work integrated learning experiences expose us to new ways of doing things on a daily basis as well as an opportunity to reflect on how work place practices conforms or differs with the lessons learnt.. In addition, we are able to reflect on the impact that the practices have on us as well as the impact we have on our work places. Further, the reflection helps us identify what could have been done ...

Ethical and social responsibilities of organizations revolve around discretionary, ethical as well as legal and economic expectations that society places on businesses. Notably, ethics, in this regard generally pertains to perceived duty that a business should adhere to faithfully. As an ethical requirement, businesses should strictly adopt and follow all the stated business and otherwise compelling laws and avoid activities that undermine the welfare of its stakeholders including investors, consumers, and employees while pursuing profit. Competent leaders should understand intertwining of the success of their organizations with broader ethical as well as social issues. This enables them to lead the ...

Social Responsibility: The case of Bank of America’s Expansion

Introduction

With the emergence of the global world, businesses the world over have been compelled to offer competitive services. In the same strain, the protectionist systems adopted by countries have since been replaced by open market concepts that necessarily encourage capital flight and cross border investments. In addition, it has become easier for businesses to engage in capital borrowing at the international level. It is on this premise that this paper seeks to recommend for the Bank of America’s expansion into the international financial arena and more specifically to the BRICS nations which have been confirmed as having colossal ...

There are different user needs that should be considered while undertaking project design. There are different needs for different users. The needs of the users are the parameters and the dimensions along which the different needs of the users may be found to vary. Different users have varying needs, thus, need considerations along these lines.

Physical characteristics

Physical characteristics are the features that describe the outward features of users. These features include the size of the hands of different users, the eyesight, color of the interface and the ease at which the desktop icons can be manipulated. If the user interface ...

A study performed by researchers from the University of Texas and Pennsylvania State University sought to test the effects that race has on children’s perceptions on occupations. The study, conducted by Dr. Rebecca S. Bigler, Dr. Lynn S. Liben, and Cara J. Averhart used ninety-two African American children as subjects from the Midwest, with about half the subjects being from a lower socio-economic level. Children were interviewed regarding their perceptions of 39 professions. 27 occupations were well-known, such as Janitor or Airline pilot, a further 12 professions involved made-up jobs. The children were shown pictures of the new jobs being ...

Background

Malaysia is widely regarded for its fascinating cultural diversity. The country’s multi-ethnic society is predominantly Muslim and its official language is Malaysian ((The BBC, 2013). English is commonly used in instructional settings such as public schools as well as in the corporate and the wider business environment. There are multiple other ethnic languages used by respective ethnic groups in the country. Consequently, the language barrier between this country and the UK is quite significant. According to the BBC (2013), the country’s popularity in global tourism has enlightened and continues to influence its cultures. Accordingly, language and other ...

The marketing department is an extremely significant department in any organization. Its significance is based on various elements that any organization has to consider and extend massive respect unto these elements. One of the main factors that may make the marketing department outstanding is the availability of the relevant information. This means that the various parties involved will manage to operate with all factors available for a common goal of excellence of the organization.

Therefore, it is highly advisable for any manager to get the right marketing information in the organization that will assist him or her to build a strategic ...

It has come to my attention that the bunch of toys produced this month does not meet the required standards. After the quality assurance team ran the usual quality tests on the new bunch of goods, we realized that the goods do not meet the required standards. Among the sub-standard goods is a large shipment of toys meant for the elementary school children that was to be transported to South America at the end of the week before the opening of the schools. The amount of lead in the whistles is slightly above the required amount for children below seven ...

Contract refers to the agreement of having a lawful element entered through voluntary actions between two or more parties. These parties may be individuals, groups, states among other groups. The parties have an intention of creating one or more legal obligations among or between them. There are elements in every contract that must be respected by all parties involved in the formulation of the contract. The law of contract stipulates respect for all principles in an agreement. Since the contract is not embedded to one party, honoring the stipulations for the contract is a core requirement. This means that all parties ...

Introduction

Defining Concepts

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) represents “A firm’s sense of responsibility towards the community and environment, (both ecological and social) in which it operates and draws resources and sustenance from. Firms express this citizenship through their waste and pollution reduction processes, by contributing to the educational and social programs and by earning adequate returns on the employed resources” (Business Dictionary).

This definition identifies the companies’ role in sustaining CSR initiatives and their contributions to the welfare of the community. Frederick, Davis and Post define the companies’ sense of responsibility and their interventions in the society’s ...

ARTICLE SYNOPSIS

The article considers the impact of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act to business, especially from an ethical dimension. The author of the article notes that the Act has changed businesses making businesses dialogue about ethics. The article argues that without such ethical considerations, businesses cannot regain consumer and employee confidence. It proposes three practices from which a business can benefit from in compliance to the Act and also to recuperate customer and employee confidence in business. The three practices are fostering a culture of ethics, making decisions based on ethics, and encouraging employee feedback.

In order to foster a culture of ethics, the article ...

- Important things to consider in new product development and why is it necessary to evaluate the new product idea at each stage of development.

New product development is an important process requiring an understanding of the target market, identification of user needs and the product usage context. Consideration of such user-driven factors is what often makes or breaks a product launch especially for small and new businesses. Larger companies on the other hand have already established markets and thus their main consideration is the product’s desirability, feasibility and cost effectiveness (Kotler & Keller, 2009). The new product must ...

An organization is an entity involving various activities and responsibilities. A clear and elaborate mode of control is required in the organization in order to meet its set goals or objectives. This will depend on the organizational structure adopted. The challenge is to establish an organization structure that fits the organization's operations. A combination of self managed, and outsourcing organization structure is one of the many organization structures. It forms a matrix form organization structure, that subdivides organization into several sections in terms of branches, departments or functions. The importance or pros of this structure is that, every functional ...

This study provides a critical analysis on the changing notion of comfort standards in building systems through a critique of Cole, Robinson, Brown and O’Shea’s (2008) “Re-Contextualizing the Notion of Comfort”. Diverse climate conditions across several locations around the world highly characterize standards of comfort met through the construction of residential and commercial buildings, thus the understanding that people derive comfort based on the normal weather conditions in their respective locales. Various standards for buildings –where people use spaces for habitation or work, ensure comfortable living in accordance to distinct climate conditions. Climate change, in this case, ...

Chapter 1

1. Some of the factors that affect investors’ interests in foreign investment are the region of the world, the maturity of the hotel industry in that region, and the varied real estate and capital markets throughout the world. Among these, the first two are the ones most related to the host country.

2. Hotels are considered high-risk international investments because unlike the products of manufacturing companies, unsold hotel rooms cannot be stored for later use. In addition, real estate and construction costs constantly increase. Still, other risks include natural disasters, political instability, terrorist activities, fluctuations in exchange rate, and ...

The article ‘Dark Side of Everest Awaits Climbers,’ by Brian Handwerk has its key focus on an ethical dilemma that has to face a climber at some point in the act of climbing the famous Mount Everest. This is the world’s tallest mountain. It is not easy to reach the top of the mountain. At the same time, all climbers who go beyond the height of 8000 meters have to face the difficulty of insufficient oxygen as well as several other health complications. On the other hand, reaching the summit of the Everest marks one of the ...

What are some workplace stressors associated with teamwork?

The potential of a team at workplace gets affected by stressors, as result the productivity level declines. Few of the commonly found stressors include ambiguous targets set by the manager, no support from team members, hard deadlines set by team leader, uneven distribution of workload among the members, being underrated, low involvement in decision making, displeasure with the assigned job tasks, late sitting because other members of the team are working, pressure from peers, interdependency of tasks within team, bullying and disruption from team members (Lawrence and Theodore ,1993).

How might the team help or hinder an individual in dealing ...

It is well known that man is a social creature. In so doing, there are some aspects of culture that come in through his life. One of these aspects is religion. There are three main monotheistic religions in the world; Christianity, Islam and Judaism. Below is a discussion of these religions and the manner in which they interrelate with each other, with greater focus lying in the manner in which Christianity relates to the rest.

Contemporary Issues

Origin and Historical Account of Interactions

The term Christianity is derived from the Greek word Kristos, which is used by the Christians in Greek to translate ...

Given a description of business pressures in the digital firm requiring information systems solutions, describe the evolution, the current state, and the trends in information technology and solutions that address those pressures from a functional perspective.

About fifteen years ago, there was a distinct line that separated organizations from its partners, suppliers, and customers (Laudon & Laudon, 2006). There were also distinct lines that separated an organization’s various divisions such as finance, production, manufacturing, and the human resources department. As such, organizations weren’t expected to make any information available to parties outside of the organization. However, in today’s business ...

Ethical considerations hold the key to effective and meaningful recovery of a patient from all his/her illness with dignity. Failure to adhere to these ethical practices by the medical practitioners and therapists will not only throw away peoples trust on them, but also create a legal tussle between the two groups, further worsening the situation. In light of the two professional settings (Psychiatric Hospital and Children Psychotherapy), ethical boundary considerations resonates around two crucial parameters; informed consent and Confidentiality (Pope, & Vasquez, 2011). In deed, these are the key to mutual respect and understanding between the doctor and the patient.

In ...

Westjet Airlines was created based on the idea of low cost model that was already practiced by Southwest Airlines. During its startup, the company identified how attractive the opportunities in the air travel industry were. One of the attractive opportunities was the need for cheap air travel options. After a thorough research, the company realized that it could offer low cost air travel services, with a mission of providing extra-ordinary environment for flying. In this industry, the company’s critical success factors are the employees, the customers, and the logistics. Described hereunder is the industry analysis with specific consideration of Social ...

Publication manual of the American Psychological Association. 5th ed. Washington, DC.: American Psychological Association, 2001.

This is a guide of indispensable use to researchers, teachers and students in a range of disciplines including business, nursing, psychology, sociology, among others. The manual sets the detailed requirements for researching and preparing the annotated bibliography. It discusses the specific rules for grammar usage and gives instructions on preparing publications from the abstract to the reference list.

Gibaldi, Joseph. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. 7th ed. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2009.

Gibaldi has provided a research guide that encompasses all the aspects in writing research paper from the selection of the topic to the submission of the paper. It gives a detailed procedure of citations and format and at the same time offers excellent advice on ...

Question 1. Why should Starbucks, Kraft, and Nestle create "ethical supply chains”?

The concept of ethical supply chain has grown more and more popular in the recent years. Ethical in this case should not be confused with legally right, since ethical considerations go far beyond legislation or business relations. Ethical behaviour is usually linked to social responsibility of the companies, which is embedded into their strategy and operations. In businesses related to the global sourcing of inputs, ethical behaviour largely depends on the fair trade concepts, which promote supporting suppliers in the poor countries in order to improve their productivity and enhance competitiveness (Barrar, and Gervais). Since supply chain is in ...