Essays on Irregularity

Abstract

The current human capital task force constitutes of an increased number of female workers. What is notable is that as much as the female workers are playing a part in the development of their countries and their selves, certain conditions in the workplace seem to weigh a toll on their family lives. In this sense, fertility issues come into play, and it is often attributed to the erratic working conditions that female workers are subjected. This is a concerning trend given that irregularities that arise from their work patterns may limit their chances of becoming parents this is as ...

Facts about the Case

The scenario involves sales personnel Jim Snelling who works at Spectro Electronics. He joined the company in 1992 working as a vice president for Global Strategy and Operations. Spectro Electronics is a supply chain manager and distributor of electronic components to the manufacturers. The company has an annual turnover of $6 billion and a projected turnover of $10 billion in the next three years. It has a global presence operating in more than 40 countries. The supply chain is organized into various regional operational hubs. The sales personnel source for bids from manufacturers and in turn source for suppliers ...

The Importance of Pay in Employee Motivation: Discrepancies between What People Say and What They Do? by Sara L. Rynes, Berry Gerhart, and Kathleen A. Minette

Thesis Statement

This paper states that there are many motivators for workers and the most important one is money paid to the workers. The articles in the human resources journals prepared for mostly for human resources professionals claim that the money paid to the workers as a motivator is exaggerated and other motivators also should be taken into account. This paper claims that the HR professionals underestimate the power of the money paid to ...

This study discusses risky sexual behaviors among adults. Further, the study tries to establish other factors, both personal and non-personal, and their link to risky sexual behavior. The purpose of the study was to investigate the changes that occur over time within individual variations in irregularity of condom use and sexual encounters under the influence of alcohol. This has been necessitated because of the numerous and lasting consequences of risky sexual behaviors such as unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted infections. Previous research on this topic has involved the use of cross-sectional studies, which has limited the examination of changes ...

Introduction

Tesco dishonored its fiduciary obligations to the creditors and shareholders after giving false financial information. Ideally, the company overstated its profit by £250 million after manipulating the deals it had struck with a number of its suppliers. The accounting fraud resulted in the deterioration of the company’s reputation and a drop in its share price. As a result of this fraud, Tesco’s Chairman, Mr. Richard Broadbent resigned. In addition, eight senior executives were suspended. The company invited an external auditor, the UK Financial Conduct Authority to initiate an official investigation into the fraud. Apart from the external auditor, Tesco conducted ...

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of learning a new language with new characters, in particular Chinese characters, in other words, how do second language adult students acquire knowledge about orthographic characters of a new language system. While past research has shown that adult learners with no previous Chinese exposure learn more effectively by receiving explicit instructions of orthographic rules (Taft & Chung, 1999; Dunlap, Perfetti, Liu & Wu). This study focuses particularly in the semantic rules. Our results support previous results in that those learners who were given explicit instructions of semantic rules did learn more effectively the ...

Psoriasis and Inflammatory Bowel Disease are two of the most prevalent types of immune disorders. Being diseases of the immune system, both diseases have similarities and, of course, striking differences. Reviewing both of their pathophysiology, incidences of occurrence and maladaptive responses may help us understand how these two immune disorders manifest their symptoms and affect the human body. Psoriasis is considered as the most prevalent autoimmune disorder, particularly the psoriasis vulgaris type (Krueger and Bowcock, 2005). Additionally, the prevalence of psoriasis considerably varies worldwide (Langley, Krueger, and Griffiths, 2005). In USA, an estimated 2% of the population is ...

Introduction

The cases where children are mostly considered to be incurring massive conditions of behavioral dysfunction is often noted as somewhat problematic not only for the parents but for their school handlers as well. This is why when such problems arise, it is highly important for such young ones to be given attention to. Their cases should not be neglected nor be set aside as somewhat normal as doing so might make the scenario rather more complicated in the long run. In this discussion, a presentation of how a case of ADHD in a child is to be resolved through specific intervention approaches ...

Introduction:

Baroque art and literature are important characteristics of the human being and personify beauty in several ways. There have been several artists who came out with various beautiful works such as Michelangelo, Bernini from Italy as well as French ones such as Fragonard and Boucher although the latter correspond more to the classical period. In ‘The Theatrical Illusion’, the author discusses several terms as length and one can observe a certain sense of exuberance in the works of Bernini for example whilst the portrayals of Michelangelo especially in his 'Pieta‘ series conveys a sense of contrast between the pain of suffering ...

Following the American Psychological Association’s Guidelines

Failure at Workplace: Designing and Applying Public Relations I work a business which requires a very well developed public relations. Our company provides consultancy service to small and medium sized entrepreneurs (SMEs). The most important problem that many SMEs have is the quality of their stuff. Mostly, high school graduates are assigned as managers in the SMEs and it makes it harder for our company to explain things to them because they do not have any technical skills at the beginning. We may need to help them in many fields from legal issues to some technical issues in finance. The ...

Following the American Psychological Association’s Guidelines

Why Do We Need Innovation for a Business? Every process in which humans are involved might be a subject of an innovation case. The most discriminating power of human being from other creatures is being rational or thinking. We develop processes to provide a more comfortable environment for ourselves. We need innovation in our daily lives to create better opportunities for ourselves. Considering a company as an organization which has stable processes, it is possible to have some problems or dead ends that you might have hard time. Even sometimes, you do not realize some problems which might cause a failure in ...

Issues for Healthcare Organizations

Lesson 3:1- Antitrust Lesson 3:2 - Health Information Management Lesson 3:3 - Fraud, Abuse, and Corporate Compliance Abstract This document contains answers to lessons 3 units 1, 2, 3 pertaining to Issues for Healthcare Organizations. Unit 1 explores antitrust management; unit 2 - Health Information Management and unit 3 Fraud, Abuse, and Corporate Compliance. Issues for Healthcare Organizations Lesson 3:1- Antitrust

Question 1: Antitrust regulations - Sherman and Clayton Acts

- Mergers, consolidations and acquisition components of Sherman and Clayton antitrust acts like any other corporate legal intervention endorses regulations regarding purchasing; selling, dividing and combining with other companies that offer different ...