Essays on Informality

Decision Making in Leadership

Leadership can be best described as the power relationship that exists between leaders and followers. It is the leaders of an organization that helps the organization to succeed and survive in a world where hundreds and thousands of companies emerge every year (What is Leadership?, 2016). Effective leadership and effective leaders are one of the biggest driving forces for the long-term sustainability of any organization. A leader with strong decision making abilities, by nature is a very sincere, hard-working and modest person. These are some of the credos that can be easily noticed while having a one to one ...

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Every country exhibits two kinds of economy, these are the formal and informal economy. However, the formal sector is the most important for every country. It's what determines the country’s position of development as well as growth. Formal economy is made up of all the sectors of the economy that can be taxed. The formal jobs which contribute towards the growth and development of the country and are taxed to make up this kind of the economy. They include companies, industries, big businesses and some medium-sized and small corporations. So long as they pay taxes, the business no ...

With America as an ongoing melting pot of the world, the various languages that develop here are also always evolving. There are many different languages. As a result of the various cultures and even various types of media, language are also evolving. English is exemplary for this evolution. Many different types of English have developed over time. Some of the most prominent forms that I use in my life are proper English, English for friends and family, and English for texting and social media. Each one is used for different interactions, to convey separate relationships and attachments. They each carry ...

Computer science continues to develop and permeate a number of disciplines and matters in society. It has had both positive and negative consequences. However, there is a general opinion that the approach in computer science must not only consider matters of convenience. Some of the oldest societal practices need to be protected and safeguarded against erosion. These include matters of courtesy, social interactions and the concept of neighborliness. This paper shall discuss the impact of social networks on social relationships. There are conflicting debates on whether social networks have a positive or negative impact on both the nature and quality of social ...

Abstract

Public administration involves the performance of administrative justice and adjudication process which are the powers that are inherent to the office of a public administrator. In carrying out this administrative function, the law requires that due process should be observed in all administrative adjudication procedures. Other than this rule, administrators are given the discretionary power on how they may carry out the investigation process in order to help them perform their adjudicatory functions more efficiently. This paper will discuss about the essence of due process and hearing in public administration and to differentiate the rule making procedure and adjudicatory procedure ...

Max Weber in his social theory elaborated without clarity four main types of rationality. It was his position that rationality existed in four main variants; formal, substantive, practical and theoretical. According to Weber, rationality sufficed for purposes of rationalizing society into the modern form it has assumed. Rationalization, in the precepts laid by Weber, would occasion the shape and trajectory the society assumed and gave society its capitalistic character. Weber was cardinal on the consequences of rationality. He asserted that formal rationality was perhaps responsible in larger measures to the ethic bases that would lead to capitalism. However, an ...

Competition

People of Canada at work place compete against each other. As a result, people embrace creativity and they are concern about artists. (Hooker 99). They choose to invest in projects which have got real customers and they manage their businesses in a competent manner. These people compete for power and various positions at the work place. Moreover, it is known that creativity and other input resources are always not enough. (Hofstede 80). Therefore, the market should be improved as well as finances and efficiency in operation. This will provide cultural environment in Canada that is reach. In order to reach many ...

Benjamin Franklin, in many ways, represented the essential American character that the newly founded nation was to acquire over the succeeding centuries. From the epoch-making years of the American War of Independence marked by an all-pervading sense of great destiny that awaited us, emerged great personalities like George Washington, the astute general and irresistible leader of men, Thomas Jefferson, a man of over-riding principles and grand concepts, John Quincy Adams, sagacious strategist and many others who together gave voice to the collective aspirations of the thirteen colonies who threw off the yoke of British domination. If they were all building ...

Gary Althen in the article “American values and assumptions” defines culture as a collection of values and assumptions, which together influence life perception of a group of people (Althen, Doran, and Szmania ). This definition implies that people, who belong to the same culture often share similar values and assumptions. People, who come from different cultural backgrounds, however, tend to have different views on life and share other values. These differences often becomes the foundation for intercultural conflicts and misunderstandings. Althen, Davis, and Levine in their works describe cultural differences from diverse perspectives, however, they manage to capture the particular cultural traits, ...