Essays on Dilemma

The Intangible Cost of Conflict

Conflict is an inevitable circumstance in today’s society. People vary in many perspectives such that the possibility of failing to reach an agreement is high. Organizations are not exceptional from the other institutional frameworks within the society. Business corporations, non-profit organizations, profit organizations, and even governments all succumb to conflict because of the varied nature of the people who run them. Conflicts exist at all levels within the organizations, and it has cost implications. The cost of conflict is often intangible such that it is not easy to determine the implications in terms ...

Elephant management dilemma refers to the ethical problem of how the humans should act on the overpopulation of the elephants in the wildlife reserves. It is an ethical dilemma proposed by Ian Whyte in which the intervention of the humans is also in questioned. Elephant population is growing due to the management and regulation of the wildlife reserves. However, the growth of the elephant population also increase the dangers for other organisms in the reserves such as the destruction of their habitat especially the woodlands (Wray, 2004). According to Ian Whyte, managing a reserve for biodiversity and managing for ...

Susan was a human resource manager at Concreos, a software company. She joined the company soon after she had finished college and had been working with them for over a decade. When she joined Concreos, it was a startup with 15 employees. In the decade she had been with them, the company had grown leaps and bounds and now employed 250 employees. When she joined the company, she was the only woman and since the number of employees was really low, it did not really matter to her. As the company grew and they needed to hire new people, her department grew bigger ...

The Kyoto Protocol is a meaningful course of action intended to reduce the global greenhouse effect, and because of continuous discussions by world nations, it has evolved to a realistic and adaptable piece of documentation. The Kyoto protocol simply requires the 35 developed nations that accept to ratify the agreement, to cut greenhouse emissions by a given percentage using emission levels during 1990 a baseline. Different countries have different limits, for example; the US was required of 7% while Japan 6% from 2008 to 2012 (Baron, 2012). It mainly sided towards developed countries are more industrialized therefore, behold the capacity to produce the ...

Marketing department is, usually, faced with the dilemma of whether to concentrate on the profit margin of the company or provide social responsibility. Moreover, it is always difficult to satisfy the whole segments of the market. This is because the department has to concentrate on a certain segment/area of the market that is viable for the business. At the same time ignoring others that are not considered profitable to the firm although they are essential to human needs. Additionally the marketing department is faced with a tough choice of whether to promote social responsibility. (On the contrary the social responsibility doesn’ ...

Caffeine is one of the stimulants used around the world with disagreements on who should be using it as it is one of the main ingredients of energy drinks. Whenever people consume such energy drinks to keep alerting they forget to consider the other caffeinated foods that they had already ingested as tea and sodas. Studies have shown that caffeine has adverse side effects on kids making them anxious, sleepless and bedwetting. The substance may also lead to seriously accelerated heart beats, irritability, excitability, restlessness, concentration lapses, dizziness, headaches, abdominal pain and dehydration (The Editor).

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Ericsson, Stephanie. "The Ways We Lie." Trans. ArrayBack to the Lake: A Reader for Writers (Second Edition). 2nd ed. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2011. 336-343. Print. In her essay, “The Way We Lie,” Stephanie Ericsson states a well-known fact that everyone lies, while she also argues that every lie is not essentially bad, but accepting lies turn them into a “cultural cancer” and lead to severe consequences. With structure and style of writing, Ericsson supports her claim by appealing to logos, pathos and ethos, namely: she appeals to the logos by describing historical events and facts to provide ...

Oneida Community is an 1848 community that had diverse ideologies on the return of Jesus. John Humphrey Noyes is the founder of the community and believed that he possessed divine authority over the Oneida Community, which was directly given to him by God. This belief got support from the public, hence allowing him to rule the people of the community (Foster, 2009 p 35). It was controversial to abide by the rule that entitled Noyes the duty of giving birth to a child to serve as a birth control strategy.

The other major controversial issue was the mutual criticism policy where a member ...

In the 1996 article from The Atlantic magazine, “Throwing Like a Girl,” James Fallows discusses how there are no genetic and/or physical predispositions because of which women throw a ball “wrong.” According to Fallows, both men and women can learn to throw a ball, it all depends on how they learn to throw, and since women spend less time in throwing activities, they might not know how to throw a ball properly. From this it can be concluded that Fallow’s article is generally directed toward both men and women who are old enough to throw a ball, but more specifically, his audience is ...

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.

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