Essays on Final Decision

Joseph L Badaracco’s article “The Discipline of Building Character” discusses three cases in the workplace setting when the manager’s are called upon to take difficult decisions. The decisions that they take involves something beyond the moral dilemmas which makes the decision making difficult. They are faced with two right courses of actions out of which they must decide on one. In making these decisions, they are called upon to minimize or eliminate conflicts with their values or character, with the organization and with the society. In other words, the moments of the decision making are identified as ‘ ...

End-of-life care refers to the provision of care to patients with incurable terminal illnesses and patients who are in a permanent vegetative state, and that type of care is one of the most commonly debated ethical issues in contemporary health care for two reasons. First, because of the development and advancement of medical techniques and technologies, physicians and nurses are now able to prolong the patients’ lives, but those interventions do not always improve the patients’ quality of life or maintain their human dignity (Cherry & Jacob, 2016). Second, the human population is aging, so the prevalence of terminal illnesses ...

Interview on Ethical Dilemma

Interview on Ethical Dilemma

Interview summary with Hospital Administrator –Shirley

1- Please describe your philosophy and views on the national right-to-die battle of Terry Schiavo? Shirley, the hospital administrator, indicated that the national right to die categorically displays the conditions that one can ask to die. One requires no control over their lives especially in situations like that of Terri. Terri was in pain and to make it worse she was not able to communicate (Khan, 2006).

Shirley agreed that United States Congress intervention was appropriate. Shirley indicated that the attention the case got would be good for the public to understand their rights. 3- ...

Managing Organizations & Leading People

Introduction In the current business environment, leadership is considered to go beyond the “manager” title. Leadership is seen to be about whom the employees ate following. Today’s leaders highly influence the behavior of others hence the leaders must be able to show a good example and must have the ability of effectively motivation others to follow them and work harder for the fulfillment of organizational goals (Warner, 2012). This is because human resource is considered as the most vital asset currently and their management is what determines the success of a firm. Effective management of human resource requires ...

Factors that Influence Purchasing Relationship in Automobile Industry of China

Introduction The USA, Western Europe, and Japan markets for the automobiles are almost stagnating causing an increased attention and concern to the world automotive industry. They have turned their interest in China market for cars. This is associated with the fast growing economy in China unlike that of European nations and the USA. The Chinese market for cars is indeed the turning point for all auto companies. The environment is conducive to start production in China to supply the potential markets and then export from there to other world markets. This literature will focus on the purchasing relationship in ...

Decision making is often a difficult task in many organizations. There are two types of decisions: analytical and intuitive. Intuitive decision making involves the accumulation of information by the person in charge of decision making. The decision maker can be biased with his values and is left with the task to make the decision alone (Nutt & Wilson, 2010). The final decision can be weak and often rejected by others since it might lack persuasive logic. Analytical decision making involves sharing of values. The decision moves from individual to strategic and finally portfolio. The decision involves stages and evaluation of ...

The revival of the Clayton Spa in Italy revolves around decisions to do with initial costs as well as welfare considerations for the long-serving employees. Additionally, the managers appear to be keen on long term profitability and not short-term considerations ("report on Clayton Industries case Peter Arnell, country manager for Italy"). Both decisions possess merits and demerits in varying measures and their success depend partly on the efficiency and partly on the due diligence of its execution. The ultimate decision by Peter Arnell will involve finding a balance between the two options he is exposed to and investing sparingly ...

Question 1: What alternatives should Barney Rubble consider when addressing the problem?

The process of selecting a supplier is crucial for any business because the final decision has a direct and substantial impact on quality and expenditure (Cheraghi et al., 2011). As such, Mr. Rubble should consider each supplier critically to ensure that Pacific Healthcare gets the best deal regarding quality and price. According to Cheraghi et al. (2011), the most important factors to consider when selecting a supplier are quality, delivery, price, and repair service respectively. However, the Pacific Healthcare supply strategy emphasizes on quality and services more than the cost implications of the supplier choice. Therefore, Mr. Rubble should ...

Introduction

Pacific World Singapore Pvt. Ltd, human resource function, continuous to be critical department and remains as the core staff in ensuring successful accomplishment of its mission. Operating in tourism and hospitality sector, Pacific World Singapore Pvt. Ltd has many employees from different regions and culture making its strongest team of tourism and catering attendants. The employees consist of 1800 travel agencies, and countless incoming agencies along other technical and other operations employees. Pacific World Singapore Pvt. Ltd deals with diverse culture and different category of clients from all over the world. The success of the company is highly depended ...

Introduction

Decision-making is a process of selecting a logical choice from among the available alternatives. It is a process where one is supposed to consider the weights of each alternative, be able to forecast the benefits and consequences of each alternative. Among the available alternatives, one is supposed to choose an option that he/she deems best for that specific situation. Decision making in the criminal justice involves a focus on many important aspects of criminal justice, in some cases, the decision-making process may involve one individual or group executive. In-group supervisory process some people come together to analyze the situation ...

Recommendations

The employers of organization have developed clear information of what may be regarded as misconduct. When a worker does what is not within the expected or right rules then the practice is deemed as a misconduct. In the case, Mr. Click did not break any stipulated laws as he has the right to teach his class in the manner that he feels fit. His misconduct can be said to be therefore unintentional, but it caused some intentional damage to his student. As a leader, he should have acted professionally by handling the situation before it got out of hand. ...

The problem seems to be that children do not have a say in the decisions that are made in regards to their healthcare. By this I mean, children under the age of 16 cannot make their own decisions, or final decision for that matter, about their health without their parents having the final say in whether or not they agree with such decisions. For example: If a child up, until the age of 16, has been suffering with symptoms that show they may have a psychiatric problem that needs immediate attention, the doctors and the child’s parents can ...

Personal Research on a Life Decision

This essay deals with the topic of personal research in making a life decision. The main goal of this essay is to reveal all the aspects concerning the topic. A life decision, which is described, is buying a new car. In order to achieve this goal successfully, all the questions regarding the topic were carefully analyzed and answered. First of all, when I had to buy a new car I kept in my mind that it would not be an easy decision. It was hard to choose because it was necessary to think over various aspects before making the ...

Introduction

A labor relationship between parties is regulated by the contract. Any disputes regarding the terms of the contract may be settled in the Court. The Courts established common law rules determining the rights and duties of the employer and employee. Nevertheless, the employment conditions were often unsafe and harmful, hours of work long and wages low. The government started passing laws to combat exploitation of employees by employers. In 1900s government started establishing minimum employment standards, which became the basis for modern labor standards legislation. While the government was taking legislative actions, employees started forming trade associations to increase ...