Essays on Incumbent

Introduction

Our company, here in referred to as Greene’s LLC, is suing Jennifer Lawson, a former employee for breaching a confidentiality agreement signed during the course of her employment and subsequently breached after being dismissed from the company. Jennifer Lawson has subsequently countersued Greene’s LLC for wrongful termination. The substance of the matter is that Jennifer Lawson was summarily dismissed from the company by the HR officer Lisa Peele. Lawson subsequently went on to seek employment from a competitor, Howell Jewelry World, a competitor to Greene’s LLC. The bone of contention for our company is that in ...

Abstract

The job task analysis helps in determining the job contents by means of the responsibilities and duties that are required to be carried out in order to perform the work related activities. It helps in determining the significance and criticality of the tasks in accordance with the identified job tasks. It also helps in determining the extent of efforts and skills that are required to carry out the work related activities in an effective manner. The current paper enlightens the task analysis of a Customer Experience Specialist from Airbnb Incorporation. The identified tasks are discussed in accordance with their ...

Analysis of How Uber Changes the Way World Moves

Executive Summary ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3 Analysis of the Uber’s Business Model ----------------------------------------------------------- 3

The Revenue-Generation Model of Uber ------------------------------------------------ 5 Value Propositions -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7 Uber and the Decision-Making Process ----------------------------------------------------------- 8

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Executive Summary Generally functioning in connecting passengers and cab drivers in the shortest amount of time possible, Uber is considered by many to be one of the most groundbreaking innovations of this era where advanced technology is the primary key to serve people in the most efficient way possible. Making a big name in less than a decade, many still question the methodology employed by Uber for it ...

Introduction

Cultural memories, as well as cultural identity, are two closely related phenomena that are part of every cultural setting in the world, are assimilated amongst generations in unique ways. Cultural memory entails the elements (Stowe, 1982); both physical and virtual those are passed down generations and are a way of giving historical meanings or origins of certain cultures. Literary publications, such as Uncle Tom’s Cabin, sought to change how cultural memory and cultural identity were perceived, regarding the African American culture. Therefore, cultural memories occur in different forms. For example, an individual from a given culture may have ...

There is a need to create the position of a Clinical Applications Specialist within the hospital. This need comes with the increasing incorporation of information systems in clinical settings. Therefore, the Applications specialist will focus on training employees on how to handle new and emerging health systems. The position is a full time entry level role. The specialist will work with physicians and the nursing staff to offer guidance, support, and training on system-focused medical procedures within the organization. The ideal candidate should have the ability to work overtime, if need be, and possess a proven record as a ...

Position Paper

Introduction The United States’ health care system has for a long time been operated and owned by the private sector. In fact, about fifty-eight percent of the community hospitals are accredited to the non-governmental organizations. An average of about 60-65 percent is accounted for from programs such as the Veterans Health Administration, Medicare, Children’s Health Insurance Program and Medicare. This has ensured a smooth functioning of the healthcare system especially when it is compared to the systems of different countries. According to the Migration Health Annual Report (2004), from the Institute of Medicine, it is evident that despite ...

The name of the business will be “Mr. Sheeda.” It is a fictitious comic character that, and the name is of this character. This name has been used to form unique associations with the business name. The name has its origin from one of the workers working at a Desi Restaurant. Mr. Sheeda is a unique name and is not used by any other business corporation operating in New York State. It will be checked from the “Division of Corporations, State Records, and UCC.” This division is a subset of Department of States of the State New York. It ...

Today, the role of Human Resource Manager has termed as an essential activity that enhances productivity and development of the company. The human resource management involves the practice of hiring and enhancing the employees to make them more valuable and profitable to the organization. It is the responsible of the human resource management for conducting employee relations, hiring, and enhance development and benefits for all employees in the organization. As a human resources manager, I understand it is my duty to direct all the activities of workers in the company. In this report, I will develop, analyze and explain ...

On a particular issue of importance to Canadians, do the media present a range of viewpoints or political positions or do they reinforce and reproduce dominant ideologies? Media play a major role in informing the general public of the current affairs entailing the issues that may directly or indirectly have effects on their daily lives (Carney 2008, p.18). In both the western and eastern world, mass media are recognized as the primary source of news, entertainment, advertisement, sports and recreation in general, and the education channel that aim to reach a large number of audiences. Media are deemed as ...

Incumbency and Re-election

Incumbency and Re-election The election is a process in which individuals use to choose leaders to hold public office. In any democratic society, the election is the only process that people use to exercise their democratic rights. In the political election, an incumbent is an individual holding an office. Always associated with elections are the incumbent leaders who have to use the democratic space to ensure they are re-elected. The re-elections come with its advantages and disadvantages to individual holding offices. The incumbents are always in positions that worry them because they are likely not to be re-elected, or ...

Interview Questions

Introduction Aspects that relates to human and capital utilization are of great importance to the success of any organization. An organization’s Leadership and management comes in handy when dealing with such since the two provides a sense of direction and involvement to all that are involved in an organization. Leadership is particularly important as it makes it possible for an organization to accomplish tasks through people. Leadership essentially involves the process of influencing others to understand and agree about what needs to be done and how to do it and the process of facilitating individual and collective individuals ...

Strategic case analysis creates an interpretation of real world experiences that can be used to differentiate strategic management. Complex problems are created within the business environment. Integrative techniques of management can be used to analyze issues with a great degree of accuracy. In this analysis, established firms will be evaluated in terms of their ability to address inherent business problems. The requirements of evaluating alternatives for contemporary marketing and operations decision making can be used to create better standards of operation throughout the research and business management process (Dess et al., 2010). In this analysis of Apple, the success ...

Introduction

There have been cases of corporate scandals in the recent past including the Enron, Tyco, WorldCom, and Global Crossing to name a few. These scandals fueled concerns regarding the financial reporting standards not only in the USA but also in economies where the financial markets tumbled as a consequence of the news of such scandals becoming public. These scandals arose because of weaknesses in internal controls and lack of independence by external auditors. For instance in the Enron, case, the external audit firm known as Arthur Andersen was criticized for lack of independence both in fact and appearance. The ...

Job Requirements Matrix

Job to be filled The position to be filled is that of a Hotel Manager. Therefore, the focus of the remainder of this discussion is about the position of a Hotel Manager.

Job Analysis Method.

Job analysis has been defined as the process of obtaining key information about a job by determining the tasks, duties, and activities (Bohlander and Snell, 2010). Job analysis methods has been described as techniques employed for gathering relevant information needed to effectively carry out job analysis. There are various job analysis methods. According to Grobler (2006), job analysis methods which are frequently employed are questionnaires, interviews, observations, ...

Introduction

Patty Murray is the incumbent senior Senator of the United States for Washington State. She was born on October 11th, 1950. She has been a senator since January 5th, 1992 to date. She is a vocal member of the Democratic Party. She broke the record by being the first female senator in Washington. She is currently serving her fifth term, expected to end in 2016. However, she announced that she will run for the sixth term in 2016 (Brunner 2014). She has previously been known for her advocacy of children issues and investment in education. During her terms since ...

Zimbabwe is one of the countries in Africa where ethnicity has been rampant. The country comprises of Ndebele and Shona as the popular communities among other small ones. In February 1980, Robert Mugabe became the countries Prime Minister establishing the first African rule in Zimbabwe. While assuming the office, Mugabe promised to exercise inclusive leadership (Jung, 1965). However, he later changed to become a harsh leader who has made the nation to live in terror of frequent political violence. He has made political atmosphere in Zimbabwe hard to bear. According to (Zolberg 15), many people in West Africa have ...

a) Greece is situated in the southern part of Balkans and together with Italy forms one of the two prolonged southernmost capes of Europe. Its geographical position is further complicated with the fact that the country incorporates several thousand islands scattered throughout the Aegean and Adriatic Sea as well as the Mediterranean all of which wash Greece from the South and both from the east and the West. For the purposes of this paper is it vital to emphasize that the fact that Greece is one of the several southernmost points in Europe led to the fact that Greek ...

Immunizations

Immunizations There are numerous needs that can be addressed in the focus area of immunizations. This process builds on the needs addressed in the first paper while addressing multidimensional needs and expectations of community endeavors. In this analysis, Erie County will be identified within the context of specific focus areas and program strategies. HP 2020 objectives are also used and can describe results for the key intended population. Intervention and related programming can be used to achieve variegated objectives. Several key aspects of the program and the parties involved with executing them will be explored. These aspects contribute to ...

Introduction

The President of the U.S. holds the powers of the executive branch, acts as the armed forces’ commander-in-chief and head of state. The President is also responsible for enforcing and implementing the laws written by the Congress and, appoints the federal agency leadership, including the Cabinet (The White House N.pag). Despite holding these vast formal powers, there are several constitutional legal restricts, balances and checks, the incumbent President usually finds as mentioned by the former President Harry S. Truman, that “the powers of the president mostly amount to getting people to do what they ought to do without him ...

Industry and Company Strategy Analysis: Google Inc. in US internet service industry

The internet has greatly transformed a ubiquitous application almost in all facets of business and life generally thus the U.S internet service providers industry. This paper is about the analysis of the U.S internet industry and the strategy of Google Inc. which is one of the U.S internet industry. The analysis follows an overview of the market size growth from the past five years to the next five years of the future, the main drivers of the growth, industry cycle stage, concentration level, major competitors, market shares, demand determinants and profitability drivers. The porters five framework analysis can be ...

Learning Activity 1 – Naked Wines

Porter’s Five Forces is a business analysis tool that allows business managers and owners to assess various business strategies based on the inherent level of competitive rivalry in a market or industry. This analytical tool has five important components, each of which will be discussed below in relation to Naked Wines’ potential business strategy to conquer its target market. For the threat of new entry, the most important consideration for Naked Wine would be the specialist knowledge and other edges and advantages that the incumbent industry players have which may hamper its efforts to gain a decent share ...

Ethnicity and culture play an important role in the composition of families and parenting styles which differ from culture to culture. This paper examines the differences in parenting styles between Western and Chinese cultures and why those differences exist. China’s Confucian-based cultural beliefs and its One-Child policy have both impacted on Chinese parenting styles and for Chinese parents, the way they raise their children has changed dramatically. Chinese parents place high value on independence and self- confidence and were less concerned about obedience as qualities desirable in a child. In Chinese culture, the role of the mother has ...

2004 Presidential Ads John Kerry International Man of Mystery was an advertisement taken out by the Republican Party against the Democratic nominee John Kerry in the 2004 Presidential elections. The advertisement focused on the idea that John Kerry is a man of mystery and makes claims without providing facts and his source. The advertisement was successful in communicating an essential message about John Kerry’s personality in a satirical tone that many American related. Old Tricks was an advertisement taken out by the Democratic Party against the Republican Presidential Candidate and the incumbent American President George W. Bush. The ...

6C1-KCN Audit Plan

Business and Industry Conditions Keystone Computer Network (KCN) provides sales and services of microcomputers, software and hardware networking to customers. The industry in which the firm operates is considered as sensitive to the economic environment and highly competitive in nature, with competitors larger than KCN itself. The long-term strategic success of KCN is dependent on the retention and ability to attract qualified and competent information technology (IT) professionals. The annual growth for IT products in the next three years regarding expenditures is anticipated to be 6 percent.

Planning Meetings

The purpose of this section is to indicate the established meetings with ...

Abstract

The 1956 US Presidential election in was a similar contest to the former contest in the year 1952 and pitted Republican Dwight Eisenhower and Democrat’s Adlai Stevenson. Republican’s Dwight Eisenhower beat Stevenson in a similar manner to the year 1952. This happened despite the intense speculation in the winter of the previous year the incumbent Dwight Eisenhower would not run owing to his failing health. His failing health emerged as a campaign issue in the electioneering period and was used by the opponents to fight him. The year 1956 was also the year that television commercials were used a great deal ...

Introduction

Remember the Titans is a movie centered on group development. It is about a Virginia football team that fell under the direct effects of racial conquests. In essence, the school was composed of a team that was characterized by those whites and blacks. In this regard, a new coach for the team was in cooperated into the management of the affairs that was pertinent to the affairs of people. Mr. Boone was a black coach who was appointed to replace the incumbent white coach. However, his leadership in the school team could not yield the expected results from the fact that, some members of ...

Dear Hiring Manager:

My name is and I have extensive experience Customer Service Orientation. I have come to know that there is a position vacant in your organization for “Client Date Coordinator” and I would like to render my services for the same position. I want to join It’s Just Lunch (IJL), a specialized dating service for busy professionals. The company arranged hundreds of thousands of dating and meetings from their commencement in the year 1991. They provide fun proactive approach to the personal life of its consumers as the company is in the business to arrange ...

The relevant question here is why incumbent officials continue to get reelected even after they have been accused of potential crimes, unethical behavior or immoral behavior? The answer includes, but is not limited to, candidate centered campaigns, complacency with corrupt officials, and the ability of entrenched elected officials to scare off the strongest and best challengers from even entering the race.

First, campaigns have become candidate centered, instead of issues centered. Voters place too much emphasis on whether they like a candidate, or how they feel about a candidate. They like the way they look, the way they talk or ...

Question One: Public Budgeting

The budgeting process goes through different stages. It goes through five strands namely the decision making, revenues, processes, balance and implementation. In all these process, Rubin asserts that the chief tension would often be between public accountability and public acceptability. While public accountability refers to the implementation of the budget through expenditure as agreed in the budget, public acceptability refers to the concept of incurring expenditure as per the wishes of the people, that is, the taxpayers. However, the budget process is complex and complicated making the interface between public acceptability and public accountability uneasy. It is on that ...

Strategy is the method through which an organization or an individual will conduct his actions in order to achieve the desired results. Organizations employ unique strategies in order to beat their competitor and also in order to gain competitive advantage. In most cases companies normally keep their strategies as a secret that is known to a few individuals who are responsible for implementing the strategy (Burke 2011, p.45). Strategies are normally kept as a secret because if an organization’s strategy is known by a competitor, the competitor may commence employing measures to counter the effectiveness of the strategy thus the business may ...

The Texas House of Representatives refers to the 150 member lower house of the Texas Legislature that converges at the Texas Capital in Austin (Maxwell, Earnest, and Adolfo 113). The members are elected from single-member districts distributed across the state. An average district consists of about 150,000 people. The house elections are held every two years during the first Tuesday that comes after the first Monday in November. The incumbent has no term limits The Texas senate refers to the upper house of the 31 member state legislature that also converges at the Texas State Capitol in ...

1. Introduction

The incumbent for the At Large Position 2 Houston City Council cannot run for reelection. She has reached the charter limit of three 2-year terms. This gives Jenifer Rose Pool a good opportunity to run in an open election with no incumbent in the race. Her chances for a win are better (as is true for everyone in general) because she won’t be running against an incumbent. In an open election that is city wide public exposure is a key strategy for voters to “get to know” Jenifer. Paul Wellstone’s campaign in Minnesota is a good strategic model (Wellstone.org, 2011).

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1. Overview of Topic This paper aims at discussing the question of the sovereignty of the British Parliamentary system based on the outcome of Jackson v. Attorney General 2005.According the constitutional provisions of the British legislative system there lacks a clear line between the extent of interference between the House of Lords and that of the House of Commons. The ruling of Jackson v. Attorney General 2005 supports this hypothesis based on the structure of arguments presented by the Jury in giving the verdict of this case. This paper intends to use the outcome of this case to determine ...

Complaining about Congress is almost a pastime in the United States, yet incumbents nearly always win re-election when they run. Congressional incumbents have several advantages and disadvantages when running for election, however, the advantages clearly outweigh the disadvantages as incumbents are very successful in running for re-election. Overall, it seems that the high rate of re-election for Congressional incumbents is a good thing. Over 90% of incumbents running for re-election are re-elected (347). Obviously there are many advantages to running as an incumbent. Several of these advantages stem from their name recognition and experience as a politician. Often, incumbents win re-election ...

Business Management Decision

Interoffice Memo Sandwich Blitz, Inc. needs to grow and expand its operations to other areas. Therefore, it will be a better idea if a new position can be created to coordinate with the location managers. Creating the new position between the CEO and the location managers will help a great deal as we will be able to delegate daily operations duties to the Daily Operations Manager. As a result, we will have more time to concentrate on the strategic issues regarding the Company. The decision on either to fill the new position from within or outside the organization is somehow a difficult ...

The article ‘Discontent Swells as President of Algeria Seeks a Fourth Term’ seeks to give the perception of the Algerians about the intention of the incumbent president’s, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, intention to run for the fourth time. Abdelaziz has ruled the country for the last 15 years and, his intention to run again despite his ill health is drawing mixed reactions. While some support him for playing a major role in ending the civil war of the 1990s, others feel that it is time for new and fresh leadership. Additionally, reports of violent protests have also been received, especially the one ...

Constitutional differences between presidential and parliamentary systems are well known, however, the practical effects of these different constitutional arrangements have not received much attention. This article compares presidential and parliamentary systems. These systems are the most popular kinds of democratic governments. They have both common and different features. In both presidential and parliamentary systems, the chief executive person can be impeached from the position by the legislature only that the process is different. The most prominent difference is the way election is done and the debate style. This article gives two best examples of these democratic systems: the United ...

Mayhew; Congress: The Electoral Connection. 1974

What does Mayhew assume is the number one goal of Members of Congress (MCs)? According to Mayhew, members of the congress of the United States of America are primarily motivated by their behavior to seek reelection. The pursuit of reelection greatly affects the way the make decisions and formulate public policy. Mayhew links the motivation of members of the congress to institutional and political structure and it has widespread applicability in the legislative world. Pursuit of reelection hinders the performance of the members of the congress. They seek to influence federal spending in their areas of jurisdiction, ...

The business environment is a constantly changing environment where new business ventures erupt with new ideologies. These new businesses might either flop or remain relevant to the industry with their new ideologies and economies of scope. When these firms remain relevant to the latter, their implications to the new firms, therefore, are either to embrace the changes or fight them through the old existing strategies. Technological advancements are the most dynamic economic ventures. New businesses and business ideas are constantly developed in the industry to ensure that new inventions are made to satisfy the constant needs of the customers. However, ...

The Central Intelligence Agency was established courtesy of the National Security Act in 1947. The agency has by large retained its structure and form until the recent changes introduced in 2004 courtesy of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act. However, by and large, the agency has often remained with one primary mandate. This entails the collection of intelligence for the consumption of policymakers in the United States of America. This role calls for a higher threshold of ethics and moral conduct given the sensitivity of the function in question. It is imperative to appreciate the fact that intelligence forms ...

Introduction

Video-on-Demand (VOD) is essentially a system that allows the consumers to select and watch video content or TV shows on demand. This is a modern video streaming technology where internet downloading merges with pay-per-view programming. Netflix is an online subscription-based Digital Video Disk (DVD) rental company. Reed Hastings established this company with a vision to offer a home movie service, which would essentially do a better job satisfying the clients than the old-style retail rental model (Lüsted, 6). The company entered the movie industry with a disruptive technology of providing online video rental whereas the incumbent competitors such as Blockbuster were providing retail ...

Executive summary

The pharmaceutical industry has been target of vast antitrust actions emanating from both the government enforcement agencies to private plaintiffs. Competition further falls within the diverse aspects that deter the performance of organizations and firms operating within the pharmaceutical industry. The study holds into account the various notions that are attached to minimizing, averting competition from oversees or local enterprises and turning the competition to more dynamic entities to achieve the organizational objectives through emphasizing and reflecting on the significant role of human resource management. The study offers diverse and rich strategic approaches that can be enacted by ...

- Introduction Project management is practiced by organization to achieve to temporary goal associated with the completion of the underlying project (Meredith & Mantel, 2012). The concept can be further elaborated as project management refers to manage and complete an assigned task to achieve unique outcomes with given resources, (Lewis, 2002). The project is developed and undertaken to achieve the goal of expansion in the company’s product by producing larger touring motorcycles with larger motors to cater new markets abroad. Aligning with proposed strategies to the management for producing larger motorcycles, the paper presented below will solely consider ...

In this paper, the company chosen is the Citibank which is headquartered in New York State of United States. The following permanent position is New York based and does not require travel all the time.

Available Position: Business Analyst

Job Description and Key Responsibilities The selected candidate will be required to remain within a special team in New York and will be required to report directly to the Business Manager. The team is widely known to be a ‘think tank unit’ which provides direct support to senior managers in case of their strategic initiatives. The incumbent will be expected to become a key member of ...

Strategic Context

Charlie Crist is the representative candidate of Democratic, who is vying for Florida governorship in 2014 gubernatorial elections. He had political backgrounds since he had served as a governor from the year 2007 to 2011, as a Republican representative. However, in the year 2010, he abandoned the Republican Part to vie as an independent for the U.S. Senate. Unfortunately, he lost the race to his opponent Marco Rubio. After two years later, in the year 2012, Crist endorsed and back up President Barack Obama, who was contending for the presidency with Democrat Party. Therefore, Crist shifted his gears and announced to ...

The state of North Carolina had one senate seat up for contention in the 2014 mid-term election. From the onset, the race proved to be very hotly contested. The main two contestants were Kay Hagan, the Democratic incumbent who was standing for re-election and her Republican challenger Thom Tillis. During the campaign trail, preliminary polls showed that the main two candidates were tied neck to neck. North Carolina is a very dynamic state political wise as evidenced by the fact that during the 2008 election, the state majorly voted for Barrack Obama while in the 2012 election, the state went ...

Introduction

Economy experiences macroeconomic fluctuations over time that affects economic growth. The aggregate output, consumption, investment, net export, and employment may tend to grow over time but then drop suddenly. Economists continue to discern the current condition of the economy and where it is heading so that they can effectively deal with future economic events. Macroeconomic fluctuations mainly involve changes that occur in the demand-side of the economy, which determine the gross domestic product. GDP= C+I+G+NX Gross domestic product is never constant, but change due to many reasons like changes in government policies mainly in ...

Organization structure

Introduction All organizations consist of positions that have to be staffed. Job analysis then is the procedure or the model through which management or an entrepreneur determines the duties and specifications of these positions thus understanding the requirements of the people to be employed. Job analysis produces information that used for writing job descriptions - a list of what the job entails, and job specifications. This begs the question: What are these job analysis methods? Job analysis information can be gathered in many ways. One consideration is who is to conduct this analysis. Frequently, a member of the HR staff ...

Introduction

The presence of power signifies authority over a given territorial regime. Government plays a significant role over its citizens at any given time, the US government is divided into two; the national and state government, this is due to the presence and sovereignty of the constitution (Stuart, 5). This paper aims at evaluating the range of responsibilities and power that the state government has over its citizens. The citizens are obliged to owe unlimited obedience and respect to the state government, this is due to the scope of responsibilities that it exercises over its citizens. The state government of the US ...

Introduction

It’s been over two decades that the agenda of the deregulation was adopted across nations, yet till this day regulation of the telecommunications sector continues to pose challenges. Only a few countries has been able to work out viable models of regulation of this sector while many countries still have public owned telecommunication systems (Grote, 2006). What remains a challenge in bringing about effective competition is the cost and economies of scale of incumbent networks. Hence empirical evidence shows no clear trends of changes in incentives vis-à-vis changes in the regulations on the sector. The US telecommunication sector ...

The race for governor and senate is tighter in Minnesota than expected. Traditionally, Minnesota has been a democratic state. In the 2010 primaries, the incumbent democratic governor Mark Dayton won a very closely contested race with the republican Tom Emmer. The deciding margin was only 0.42% of the total votes cast. Mark Dayton is vying again for governor and this time he is running against the republican Jeff Johnson and the independent Hannah Nicollet. The senate race is also heating up with democrat Al Franken against republican Mike McFadden. In 2010, the incumbent Al Franken defeated republican Norm Coleman with ...

Introduction

Georgia is a state located on the South East of the United States. The state was founded in 1732 as the thirteenth British Colony and derives its name from King George II of England (Worldmark Encyclopedia of the States. 2007). The state entered the union in 1778. Georgia is one of the biggest states in the United States south and its importance to the south has often been equated to the importance of New York to the North East. Atlanta is the biggest city in Georgia and is, in fact, the capital of the state (Worldmark Encyclopedia of the States. ...

McConnell versus Grimes for United States Senate

- Introduction When most Americans think about election time, they often refer to the Presidential election that occurs every four years. However, the outcomes of the United States midterm election most often affect Americans on an individual level compared to the outcomes of the Presidential race. Midterm elections are held every two years after the four-year Presidential election has occurred. Virtually all United States Congress, including the House of Representatives and Senate, have seats up for grabs, and at least three-fourths of our 50 states will hold gubernatorial elections as well (Pfiffner and Davidson 254). It should ...

[University] Compared with other western democracies, the United States has a far larger number of political officials at the top of the national bureaucracy. Why is this the case? What are the implications of large numbers of political appointees for good governance? One of the plausible explanations why the number of political positions has grown in number is because American democracy is still a work in progress. As much as possible, elected leaders would like to fill the gaps by creating positions for every administrative function. As observed by Kettl, “In civil service systems, each position is identified in ...

“What political forces are involved in the Presidential election?” – The Party System In order to best understand the political forces involved in a presidential election, it is necessary to delve into the intricacies of the American political party system, and how these forces interrelate. Political parties essentially exist as a means to an end for politicians, who use them as a vehicle to advance their own agendas; parties are not created in a vacuum, but instead happen as a result of these politicians’ drives and goals (Aldrich 4). The primary parties involved in American presidential elections are the Democratic and Republican parties, effectively creating a ...

Conferences in the Ethical Issues Inherent In Any Engineering Product Design

Abstract No one can deny the fact that technology has been the principle contributor to mankind’s immense development. It is, therefore, permissible to assert that the people who make these technological developments possible should be given all the credits for the level in which humanity is presently. These are the people that work day and night, studying sciences, its applications, and several other things. They make decisions about the products that are needed to improve the lives of man. In order for these product decisions to be made Engineers are always first saddled with the task of ...

Elitism from perspective of pluralism and behavioralism

Elitism theory assumes that the country is run by a ruling class that has the social and economic weight, the knowledge and experience, and the power to make decisions and set policy and this is preferred because the public is not capable of making decisions about policy. Pluralism faults elitism theory for ignoring the impact of interest groups and institutional influence on power. Dahl recognized the dilemma of a society run by elitist from a pluralism point of view; elitists remove the incentive for people with the least power to undertake political activity. Pluralism states that citizens do have an indirect impact ...

Unlike the three previous election years, 2004 was different in the focus of the main political parties was on foreign affairs. 2004 pitted the incumbent president George W. Bush against the Senator John Kelly. I thought the commercials for this election year focused on the strengths and convictions of the respective candidates. This was very commendable because the ads sold the best sides of the candidates to the populace. In a way the candidates did not fight fair during the election. For instance, when he was not selling himself as a capable commander-in-chief, he was portraying his opponent as an inept ...

- Analyze the events and consequences that led to the situation described in the bank sector and Credit Suisse Group in particular in the 90’s? Answer: Credit Suisse was the leading financial services company in Zurich. It provided a variety of financial services to private small or medium sized customers. During the 90’s everything in the industry was running smoothly and so were banks. During that times cost to income ratios were very low. IT outsourcing was a much needed discipline due to the growing needs of the organization within and outside. Consequently banks did not realize how ...

Introduction

The concept of the welfare state has enlarged the arena of the responsibilities of the government. It is the duty of the state to cater to the problems and difficulties of its citizens. Special care has to be taken for the low income group, the disabled, the aged and the children. The onus of providing means of earning for every able bodied citizen lies on the state. In the failure of which, the state should provide allowances for those who are involuntarily unemployed. The ways and means through which the state ensures the well being of its citizens, especially ...