Essays on Enablers

Critique of a Quantitative Research Article

The critique of a research project is the objective and critical evaluation of the content of a research report for its scientific merit as well as application to practice. It entails asking questions about whether every step in the research process meets the set standards (LoBiondo-Wood & Haber, 2014). This paper will critique the research report by Caicedo (2014) entitled “Families with special needs children: Family health, functioning, and care burden.” It will examine the strengths and weaknesses of the study, identify the enablers and barriers to the project, discuss the expected outcomes of the project, and evaluate the overall ...

International Crime

Introduction Human trafficking is the use of force or coercion to transfer, harbor, or otherwise recruit persons against their will to perform acts that may or may not be illegal in nature. It is a vile practice that robs human beings of their free will and degrades them in ways that are unimaginable to any thinking being. Unfortunately, it is also one of the most lucrative and easy practices that those who make a living exploiting others can imagine. While method and practices have been set into place across international borders to keep better tabs on such a horrific ...

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The ever-increasing demand for health care services and the decreasing workforce number has made it possible to recognize the services of nursing practitioners. NP’s are individuals licensed under Australian law to conduct advanced assessment of patients, prescribe medications, order diagnostic tests, and as well refer the patients to other health care practitioners. The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Council (ANMC, 2006) requires NP’s to undertake further training to gain accreditation for a minimum of three years after being registered. The work of a NP also includes working in a collaborative capacity and a wide range of other health professionals to achieve positive ...

On November 20th, 22014, President Obama addressed the nation and announced he was going to sign an executive order that would drastically change the US immigration laws. On November 21, 2014, President Obama signed his executive order in Las Vegas. I plan to use this political activity as my news story because it deals with both substantial legal and ethical issues. The legal issue deals with the Separation of Powers. The foundation of our system of government is laid out in the U.S. Constitution. In the first three Articles of the Constitution, the founders established 3 separate but ...

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The growing accessibility of the global market opened up unlimited opportunities for multinational organizations. However, such expanding market requires more knowledge base that the organizations normally have access to, and yet hampered due to factors essentially within the organization (Ang & Massingham, 2007; Szulanski, 1996). Shared assumptions, values, and norms must be in place to provide a sustainable source of internal motivation towards KM execution (Zheng, Yang, & McLean, 2010). A growing number of scholars considered organizational culture as he critical factor that supports or hampers the effective and efficient transfer and sharing of knowledge between units in the organization (Koenig, ...

Executive Summary

China is a very attractive gaming destination in the Asia Pacific region. This city attracts a large number of tourists and international visitors. It has also seen a rapid growth in the establishment of large gaming companies, ever since liberalization for gaming operators in 2002. This must have actually spurred economic growth, and boosted SMEs, which are the economic growth power engines. This paper explores the role of SMEs in an emerging economies, the role of manpower in SMEs, as well as understanding the key success factors of the SMEs in China.

Introduction

SMEs are the growth engines for any economy in the ...

Several efforts of the American government aimed at containing the rising cost of health care produced, inter alia, the side effect that consisted in the complication and sometimes limitation of access to health care in a convenient and timely manner. How can the quality health care be provided in the United States at lower costs and in a way that is widely and conveniently affordable to everyone? According to Harrison (2013), in the first half of the twentieth century, charitable donations to hospitals “fell below the amounts needed to keep them in operation due in part to the stock market ...

The tea party is a political movement in the United States that is mainly concerned for advocating reductions in federal budget and the national debt. Such reductions are proposed on grounds of minimizing taxes and the government spending. The movement perpetuates moral authority in that is evident in the history of the United States. The tea party has been perceived as conservative, populist and partly libertarian from different quarters. It has a history since 2009 of supporting some political personalities while it is also known to have been involved in sponsoring political protests. The tea party joined the political arena in ...

Adequate physical activity has been shown to benefit older adults by reducing the risks for age-related physical degeneration including osteoporosis, arthritis, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancer and a higher likelihood of falling (Tiedemann et al., 2011; Ewald et al., 2009). Exercise also helps alleviate depression (Lee et al., 2013). However, a sedentary lifestyle has increasingly become the norm among older adults. Inadequate physical activity is defined as engaging in moderate-intensity exercise for a duration that is less than the recommended 2.5 hours per week or failing to do moderate exercise for 30 minutes on most days of the week (Jancey et al., 2008; ...

Adequate physical activity has been shown to benefit older adults by reducing the risks for age-related physical degeneration including osteoporosis, arthritis, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancer and a higher likelihood of falling (Tiedemann et al., 2011; Ewald et al., 2009). However, a sedentary lifestyle has increasingly become the norm among older adults. Inadequate physical activity is defined as engaging in moderate-intensity exercise for a duration that is less than the recommended 2.5 hours per week or failing to do moderate exercise for 30 minutes on most days of the week (Jancey et al., 2008; Sims et al., 2010). In Australia about 49-63% of ...

Management of capital has become complex given the operating environment that prevails in today’s workplace. This is even dicey when dealing with the human capital. Human capital has all the characteristics associated with human beings; dynamism, creativity, competitive, organic, among others. It is for this reason that human capital management in the present context and in near future continues and will continue to show different trends. This paper shall discuss the human capital management trends and the impact of the global trends on the proposed human capital management strategy and the general role of the future human capital ...

Precision Medicine According to Christensen

Precision Medicine according to Christensen is basically a disruptive solution for healthcare, which means that provision of care for diseases whose causes are understood can precisely be diagnosed and can therefore be treated with predictably effective rules-based therapies. In this case, genomics play a major role. Collectively, Precision medicine is characterized by three fundamental features: the ability to detect casual factors, an understanding of what actually causes a disease and the ability to treat root causes of the diseases effectively (Carey 50).

Specific Technology-Based Enablers of Precision Medicine

Precisely, there are three Technological Enablers that are defined by Christensen that are brought about by innovation: from computers, photography, ...

Largely, due to its regulatory framework, cottage-industry structure and dysfunctional compensation, the healthcare sector has dejectedly underinvested in ICT. Without these essential tools and technologies, many healthcare providers do not have the capacity to transform the expanding stream of therapeutic and diagnostic advances in medical science into affordable and high quality healthcare especially in the care of the chronically ill. Technologies that enable predictable effective therapy and precise diagnosis are those that have the capacity and full potential to transform healthcare through disruption. Christensen argues that there are two key technological enablers of disruptive innovation in healthcare. One ...

Management of Diabetes Mellitus Type 2

Argumentative essay Management of Diabetes Mellitus Type 2

Introduction

Diabetes mellitus is one of the most common chronic conditions, affecting about 7% of the Australian population (Lamoureux et al., 2012). Many of the lifestyle habits and choices of people today – obesity, sedentary lifestyle, cigarette smoking, and hyperlipidemia, and low-fiber diet – are modifiable risk factors for diabetes (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 2013). Environmental and social determinants for diabetes include family history, ethnic background, highly stressful lifestyle, low socio-economic conditions, adverse childhood experiences, and malnutrition in early childhood (Raphael et al., 2010). The management of diabetes includes, apart ...

During my steep learning curve in the United States of America, I have learnt as it is said that “Many hands make work easier” even before I came across many other expressions pressing upon the importance of teamwork. After reading “Senior Leadership Teams” (Wageman, Nunes, Burruss, & Hackman, 2008), I realized that there is much more to a team building process than actually perceived of. The tasks that senior leadership teams are assigned are not mere walk in the parks like school assignments but actually important event handling which involves investment and return, therefore challenging their already acclaimed leader statuses. These ...

Introduction

The current paper relates topical issue of implementation of European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM) for business excellence. For the purposes of this paper there was du Telecom chosen. Du Telecom is a telecommunications company located in UAE. Recently, the Company faced the issues related customers satisfaction and necessity to improve quality of the services provided. There was an assessment of criteria provided for the Company; benefits of implementing EFQM were outlined together with possible problems connected with implementation of the Model. Also, EFQM was compared to other business excellence models. Appropriate recommendations were developed on the basement of the ...

SUMMARY

The article talks about two very important concepts that are gaining increasing importance day by day; the Total Quality Management (TQM) and the Management of Environment (EM). The idea is to design the products while keeping in view the related environmental concerns. Organizations are now determined to make environment friendly products because the customers are very skeptical and they evaluate the organization on the basis of its CSR. Both the concepts are now widely used in every step of production in order to be more cost effective and competitive. These two concepts run in parallel to each other so ...

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What I like about Senior Leadership Teams is that it provides practical and detailed insights on the factors that comprise an effective senior leadership team. It further provides rationalization on the organization’s need and purpose for a senior leadership team and how it impacts organizational performance and efficiency. Through a ten-year study conducted on the world’s 100+ top leadership teams, the authors were able provide analysis on the many challenges entailed in the development of a senior team. Also, the authors were able to provide a roadmap toward achieving a successful team. The authors suggest that there are six elements that make ...

Ruth Wageman, Debra A. Nunes, James A. Burruss and J. Richard Hackman together produced a brilliant piece of work in the form of book “Senior Leadership Teams: What it takes to make them great”. The team of authors worked together for 9 years and studied 120 teams of great leaders from various renowned organizations. The book provides a deep insight on various aspects related with the formation and management of senior leadership teams and teaches to get best out of them successfully.

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The book is one of its kinds which focus on challenges faced by top management in forming and leading ...

What did you like about the Senior Leadership Teams?

The book Senior Leadership Teams enables the leader to learn the six basic elements that enable an individual become successful senior leader. In addition, the book gives the difference between generic leader and a senior leaderMoreover, this topic is more applicable to leaders who take themselves as more senior than others but are in the same level. It elaborates on the importance of workplace teamwork.

What struck you as interesting?

The most likable thing about this topic is that it gives a description on how senior leadership team should be created and how senior leaders should operate in order to maintain high productivity in an organization. ...

The book “Senior Leadership Teams; what it takes to make them great” is an excellent example of research work done by a group of authors. The book provides a great guidance on management of brilliant work force and to get best out of them. The book is a result of research work which was carried on 120 best performing teams from the top organizations.

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The book provides a deep insight on the process how CEOs of top organizations successfully formed team of great leaders. The most interesting thing about the book is that it covers all the aspects related to the formation of ...

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Mobile Virtual Network Operator(s) (MVNO) are mobile service providers who do not have their own radio spectrum frequencies that are licensed and they also don’t have all the necessary infrastructures required to offer or provide telephone services. However, there are many opportunities that are coupled with the existence of Mobile Virtue Network Operators for instance to the telecom as well as non-telecom companies Labordere, (2009). These companies are given an opportunity to take part as participants in mobile sectors. Incoming players in this arena have all the opportunities of extracting much from their present clients by adding ...

There are several key points to be made in comparing and contrasting the protagonists in Speak and Inexcusable. Perhaps the most fundamental difference can be ascribed to viewpoint, to the relative perspectives of the two protagonists and of the reader. Both stories deal with a highly controversial issue. The crime of rape, which many in our society seek to obscure and trivialize by reducing it to a matter of opinion, is met head-on and addressed compellingly in both books. These two stories raise questions not only about sexual predation, but about the nature of denial and self-delusion and the influence, both ...