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Digital Opportunity Trust is an international organization with headquarters in Canada. The main area of expertise of the organization is providing youth-oriented educational services worldwide, especially in developing countries of Asia and Africa. In order to provide its services, the Trust has organized a system of DOT Interns recruited among young residents of the developing counties for the purpose of effective and time-savvy distance education. The Trust has established valued and long-lasting relations with governmental institutions, educational facilities and volunteering organizations, and education of the Ethiopian society is one of the declared priorities of DOT (Hargreaves, p.37). ...

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Enter Name of University Introduction The goal of the scholarly article, “Barriers to Emiratization and the Role of Policy Design and The Institutional Environment in Determining the Effectiveness of Emiratization” is to come to understand the overall effectiveness of the Emiratization policy since it has been implemented for over twenty years, but it has endured many challenges because the workforce has faced a significant shortage. The problem is that the United Arab Emirates adopted a liberal immigration policy which allowed many foreign workers into their country while experiencing a work shortage. The policy continued to rely on foreign workers ...

Slavery was a part of the American culture for almost a whole decade (1776-1865), and during that time, many people had to suffer inhumanly for the only solid reason of being a bit different from someone else. There is no way of wiping the past from the memories of those who have struggled, which means that the terror of slavery will always be a part of the human history. As the experience shows, world history is far from being pretty. It has presented its evils so many times that merely counting them would take ages. Every major society, every ...

(the author’s name) (the institutional affiliation) Although the countries worldwide have been dealing with poverty issues for several decades this problem is still urgent. Even the international commitment to the problem has not lead to substantial progress in reducing poverty levels. As regards the United States, the recent statistics in poverty rate reveals 14.8% of the poor population amounting to 46.7 million (Bray & Schommer-Aikins, 2016, p. 579). Poverty is associated with individuals’ inability to sustain basic amenities which include decent access to adequate resources: food, clean water, housing, clothing, health services, and safety. Such deficiencies restrict human freedom ...

Q. 1. A. To calculate nominal, real, and GDP deflator, the following equations were used. Nominal (NGDP = Quantity (year) X Price (year), while real GDP) can be expressed as (RGDP = Nominal / Deflator), and GDP deflator can be expressed as (GDPD = Nominal / Real GDP X 100%). Therefore; (See Table 1.) B. For multiple items, calculating CPI requires a weighed average of the commodity price. In this sense, the prices of listed items were calculated as (Average = Bread price +TV Sets + etc. / 5) for each year. After which, the CPI was calculated using the equation (CPI of Multi ...

As much as there has been the creation of employment opportunities massively generated by the oil industry in the Middle East and North African nations, there are still significant disparities on the level of women participation in the labor force as noted by Massoud and Moghadam (53). These disparities have been attributed to various factors, but the most outstanding reasons have remained to be two-fold; first, the traditional gender paradigm characterized by patriarchy play a significant role accompanied by occupational segregation which is mainly defined by disparities in the income level. This thesis paper explores the validity of the ...

Having a job is very important to many individuals, especially because of the difficult economic times that we are living in today. At the same time, though, another reason why getting an efficient job can be difficult, is because of the state of the economy as well. As Donald Trump mentioned during his debate with Hillary Clinton recently, American’s economy is a bubble at the moment, and one slip could end up causing a recession, like what has happened in 2008. However, it is also important to mention that as the years have gone by, the economy continues ...

Wage structure is an important aspect of the strategic management practice that affects the productivity in an organization. The human resource management team is tasked with the role of ensuring that different roles are adequately compensated and that the employees have a clear, well-defined promotion structure. There is a need for the organization to assess the demand and supply and the interaction of the market forces in the labor market. In so doing, they can determine the right compensation for a particular position. This paper will assess the lines of segmentation in MENA region, causes, and their consistency with ...

As the nursing executive of a general hospital with more than 1,000 beds, I need to address the nursing shortage in the emergency department. Currently, there are 19 full-time nurses working in the emergency department. That number proved to be sufficient to effectively address approximately 80% of all admissions, but it will be necessary to increase the number of full-time nurses and staff retention rates need to increase in order to further improve care delivery in the department and reduce job burnout rates. According to Buchan and Aiken (2008), the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) identified ...

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Introduction

Public policy is a crucial aspect of social and political structure and it paramount in making decisions and choice by those in power because public policies has a significant impact towards the public’s daily life. On the other hand, policies encompass loopholes created by conditions that are either overlooked by the policy-makers or caused by the changing trends in social and political environment. This is when the importance of analysis and evaluation of public policies becomes important in ensuring that the implemented policies will effectively serve its intended purpose. Normally, elected political leaders have ...

Investing In Saudi Arabia Market

Investing in Saudi Arabia market Introduction The Saudi Arabia economy has for long been driven by the performance of the oil market. The entire economy has also been primarily managed by the government leaving little room for the private sector. The existence of many government bureaucracies has also in the past hindered the development of the private sector. The strict Islamic culture has also been a challenge for the operation of the business from the open economies. The period 2003 to 2013 marked one of the largest oil booms in the history of the country. The oil prices in ...

Abstract

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabian (KSA) has been experiencing dramatic shift and transformation from the simple migrant lifestyle that was pretty synonymous to the KSA society to the current day contemporary lifestyle. The labor market KSA has been heavily reliant on foreign workforce. The expatriate workforce in KSA constitutes two-thirds of the total Saudi Arabian employee base. According to report that was presented by the Saudi Arabia Monetary Agency (SAMA) in the 2008, the expatriate population in the Saudi Arabian private sector constitute to more than 88 % of the total workforce of KSA. The increasing degree of unemployment among ...

The current event that will be analyzed in this discussion is the news article entitled “Women, Southerners Most Likely to Earn Minimum Wage” (Soergel, n.p.). The news article offers various important information about the economic significance of having an equal labor treatment. Meaning, not all workers are able to experience some benefits like what others do. Primarily, the news article’s objective is to inform readers about the likelihood of some individuals to earn less than what other employees earn. Additionally, the article wants to persuade the readers in relation to the effects of education towards the future employment ...

In most cases, people have come to the conclusion that migration is a recent phenomenon which is otherwise not the case as it has been a feature that has been prominent in the existence of humans for several centuries now. Human beings have constantly migrated both as individuals and also as groups for purposes of seeking freedom from conflict, escaping poverty, as well as, hunger, finding new employments and other economic opportunities, fleeing from political repression and even religious intolerance. It is in this regard that the following article will present a discussion on the history of international migration, ...

The knowledge in economics encompasses a wide array of topics that involve different economic activities, such as the ones that influence the government in carrying out regulations on gasoline prices as well as imposing a price floor in relation to the minimum wage. In this discussion, different economic scenarios will be presented along with the possible outcomes of each. In addition to the provided situations about the price ceiling for gasoline and price floor for minimum wages, other economic events will be presented, such as the possible gains and losses of international trade and the possible outcome once the ...

The recent Brexit vote has brought about a number if tensions associated with membership in the European Union and a common European economic area. It has also put into serious question the European Project started in the post-World War II era. Please argue for or against Britain being a member of the European Union. Be sure to cover five broad areas of disagreement economics (Benefits/ Costs), political (Benefits/ Costs), Labor market (who wins? Who lose), social (costs/ benefits), and issue ofan identify? Britain a second-largest economy after Germany is a member of the European Union, has taken up a ...

Social Exclusion

Social exclusion is referred to the public refusal of individual member if their lifestyle does not meet the regular societal attitudes or if they fail to maintain normal social interaction without necessary material resources and education. Social exclusion is a concept that is used in many parts of the world for the labeling of modern forms of social deprivation and a decline in the margins of society. Social exclusion means non-acceptance of an individual or group of people from the social environment. This may be based on race, ethnicity, language, culture, religion, sex, age, social class, disability, and economic ...

Question/Problem Definition

In a global and competitive world of corporation, each organization aims to acquire a significant share of market and earn lucrative profits from loyal customers. On the contrary, the customers want products and services from organizations that ensure their quality at least possible price. In order to produce and deliver a quality product and/or service to the customers, it is important to have an in-depth customer orientation and standardization in production processes. The two aspects need a strong synchronization with the organizational culture and strategic decision-making. Organizations need to sustain a strong compliance with quality guidelines and factors that ...

Problem Statement

There are a number of reasons, defined by the ethical as well as the economic and the political scenes, for the non-diminishing interest in addressing the gap between the rich and the poor. "The rich get richer and the poor get poorer" is an aphorism, which outlines the major views on economic inequality and the criticism, seen in academic and business literature, towards the philosophy of free market and capitalism in general. One of the principal works, laying the foundation for the discussion, is the work by Thomas Piketty, Capital in the Twenty-First Century (2014), who places the idea ...

Question/Problem Definition

Equal pay is one of the most pertinent issues in labor laws and regulation. Most governments across the globe have institutionalized legislation that aim to safeguard their citizens and ensure that they are well compensated for their talents regardless of their origin, race, gender and other distinguishing characteristics. However, this is not usually the case. In spite of having such laws, the labor market especially the private sector is far from realizing and implementing equal pay. The state is even worse in developing countries where most women employees do not earn even half as much as their male counterparts ...

Introduction/Problem Statement

Despite much hullabaloo on women's equality and empowerment, it is not yet ascertained that the fairer sex is considered as equal when it comes to employment. Four decades after the enactment of Equal Pay Act, research finds that the salary of female bosses runs 35 percent short of their male colleagues. Statistics galore revealing the wage differential across occupations and industries. By contrast, critics on the 'right' opine that the pay gap is just a 'myth' as women deserve to get paid less because they work in less demanding jobs than male counterparts. Obviously, the issue carries much heft ...

Immigration Reform in the U.S.: A View Through the

Introduction to Ethics and Social Responsibility Immigration Reform in the U.S.: A View Through the

Introduction

The United States of America, a country so poetically nicknamed to be “a melting pot” of cultures, has always been a more than desirable destination for the immigrants from all over the world. However, as the “times of economic uncertainty and social transformation have complicated American ideas about national and racial identity and have raised moral dilemmas concerning America’s obligations to immigrants from neighboring countries” (Duncan, 2007), the current U.S. immigration policy has started ...

Introduction

Economic performance is an important aspect that every country needs to consider if it intends to monitor its progress development-wise. Conducting this performance reviews involves reviewing the Gross domestic product values that a country registers every year and formulates a trend upon which certain conclusions can be drawn. The information obtained from this process is very reliable which means that decisions can be made based on this. Therefore, the essence of this paper is to apply various macroeconomic concepts to the economy of Singapore. From the information, it is possible to extract significant information such as unemployment rate in ...

Since the dawn of our civilization, human beings have been trying to find the best conditions for them to live and prosper. In this context, the phenomenon of migration enters the people’s life as a life-long companion of the homo sapiens. Nowadays, as thousands of years earlier, people still care about the place they live to be comfortable and safe. If these requirements are not satisfied, naturally, people seek to find something more suitable. Therefore, migration is a process, which roots deep in the subconscious. Nevertheless, the wish to move to another place as all the other basic ...

Globalization is defined as a social, economic, and political process that makes it easier for people, goods, ideas and capital to travel around the world at an unprecedented pace. Globalization makes the world look and feel much smaller. It can be also described as a process of complex interconnections between various societies, cultures, individuals and institutions that happens worldwide. Though globalization itself is not absolutely new and novel, its rapid development is mostly associated with the introduction of new modern technologies. Very often globalization is considered to be a modern or very contemporary phenomenon, and is associated mostly with ...

Introduction

Brazil is one of the fascinating developing economies, which economic and social progress over the period of 2003-2014 lifted over 29 million people from extreme poverty. Based on the World Bank (2015) statistics, the inequality rate in the country fell by 11% with the income level of the poorest 40% of the population rose by as much as 7.1% over the same period. At the same time, global financial crisis and political instability in the country over the past few years have had its negative impact on the economy as a whole, reflecting stagnation in inequality reduction and deterioration ...

Question 1.

As the production will increase, the supply curve will shift to the right, therefore the equilibrium price will decrease, (Figure 1): Figure 1. The increase in production on the mango market Thus, as the quantity of production has increased by 30 % from Q0 to Q1, the supply curve shifts from S0 to S1 and the equilibrium price decreases from P0 to P1.

Question 2.

In agriculture, the term bumper harvest means the unusually high production of a crop. Though some politicians might claim that this benefits the farmers, actually that is not exactly so. Firstly, with the increased production the ...

Paul Fryes discusses how the American politicians ignore the problems of the Black people as one of the largest disadvantaged groups in the world and how the Black people cannot create a response to the ignorant politicians by developing a political strategy as a group of all Black voters. As known, political parties give attention to the groups providing a financial contribution to their campaigns, the size of voters in the group, and loyalty of voters in the group. The main aim is to collect the highest possible financial support and collect most of the votes for politicians. The ...

Introduction

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there are more than 322 million people residing in the United States and nearly 4.70 percent of those who are capable of working are unemployed as of May 2016 (2016). This unemployment rate may not be alarming since 4.70 percent is a small number, but when converted, this small percentage accounts for more than 10 million unemployed individuals. Unemployment is among the alarming issues in the society and that should not be ignored. For instance, its relevance in the society makes a country's economy suffer. Unemployment causes the national output to be ...

Ageing of the general population including a greater proportion of the labor force is a global phenomenon (Kulik et al. 930). Due to the magnitude of the phenomenon, employers as well as the employees should be concerned with matters retirement. This is despite the fact that there has been a notable improvement of life expectancy both at birth and at the age of sixty years. However, this observation may differ worldwide with regard to development. Along with the ageing phenomenon, the retirement of the “baby boom generation” has affected the global labor market. Therefore, the significant increase in longevity ...

Introduction

The general outcomes of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) labor market have remained lower despite the region recording a positive economic growth. The improvements in the MENA labor markets experienced in the last one decade are negligible. Many factors influence the success of labor markets in the world. Factors such as the rate of unemployment, occupational choice and sector allocation, participation rates in different economic activities, and wages are important indicators of the economic position and success of a labor market. However, the MENA labor market continues facing economic segmentations because of the poor wage structure and ...

Introduction

In recent years, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region has taken a considerable change in terms of women's employment. However, while admirable changes are taken to bridge the gender wage gap, women in the labor sector remain to be at a disadvantage. It was observed that a majority of the MENA countries has sensibly capitalized in providing better education to women, yet most of these states have not tapped fully into the women’s labor force for improved economic growth. This demonstrates the gender-based discrimination that generally hinders women in the MENA region to impart their potential ...

Introduction

The MENA Countries are the countries in the Middle East and the North Africa. Many of these countries are in the process of developing and some are less developed than others. As emerging economies, these countries are still spending the effort to develop their labor markets and human resources. Considering that the number of youth in the population is an advantage for economic development, the MENA Countries seem to have an advantageous position; however, before making this comment, one needs to analyze the labor markets in these countries. The basic statistics about unemployment exhibits volatility, and the unemployment rate ...

The summary of ‘America can be a full-employment economy once again’ article

The article focuses on the lack of full employment among the people in the United States as the main cause of poverty. It shows the connection between employment and the economy. When the levels of unemployment are too high, the economy becomes poor because the purchasing power of the people is low. Some factors that have led firms to hire few employees include high rates of taxation and unfavorable government policies. According to the article, the labor market has reduced the number of employees, which has created a big challenge because individuals need jobs to earn a living (Komlos ...

Preece (2013) gives a global definition of lifelong education as a learning concept that encompasses the formal, informal, and non-formal platforms throughout the life of an individual with an aim of obtaining maximum personal, professional, or social development through the acquisition of skills, attitudes, and knowledge. The lifelong education status is the USA is admirable. For the last few decades, America has enjoyed a steady growth in the availability of platforms where citizens can improve their knowledge and skills (Bosworth, 2007). The rise in the education attainment level in the US has contributed to the improvement of lifelong learning ...

Literature Review

Abstract Nowadays attracting and retaining professional and skilled staff has become a challenge for many companies. Many organizations experience significant turnover that adds complications to their business activity. Providing employees with the rewards of different kinds helps companies to deal with this problem, assists with retaining talent, and reduces expenses for hiring. The rewards offered by the organizations can be of different kinds and serve various goals. Rewards can be financial and non-financial, extrinsic and intrinsic. Management of these rewards differs from company to company and is usually designed to serve the certain goals of the organizations. One more ...

Introduction

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there are more than 322 million people residing in the United States and nearly 4.70 percent of those who are capable of working are unemployed as of May 2016 (2016). This unemployment rate may not be alarming since 4.70 percent is such a small number, but when converted, this small percentage accounts for more than 10 million unemployed individuals. Unemployment is among the alarming issues in the society and that should not be ignored. For instance, its relevance in the society makes a country's economy suffer. Unemployment causes the national output to ...

Introduction

Challenges faced in terms of demography, provide Canada rationale to rely heavily on immigrants. The proportion of aging people in the total population of Canada is to increase, which coupled with the impact of shrinking population, is at the bottom of the gap between demand and supply of labor at the local level (Brown and Foot, 2015). However, immigration under the strong impact of growing trends of globalization comes in as an appropriate solution to this issue and ensures its contribution to the Canadian economy into various dimensions.

A Solution to Demographic Challenges

As discussed above, Canada is faced with severing demographic challenges threatening ...

American Labor Market Overview and Trends

Labor market is one of the most important parts of any national economy, and USA is not an exception. The US Labor market has few significant trends that show how it was developed in the past and how it will be looks like in future. Unemployment rate analysis, job growth rate, and income analysis – these are the major sectors of Labor market that could represent its general overview. First of all, the unemployment rate should be analyzed. If we look on past two decades as for analyzed period, we will definitely see two major period of US Labor market ...

The sociological discourse of the 21st century persists on the topic of gender and gender roles, as ascribed by the society for decades, which continue to connect women to the domestic sphere, in a submissive manner, and men to the public sphere, in a dominant manner. In the current modern society, men and women are represented in both the domestic and the public sphere due to social changes that encouraged women participation in the labor work and men’s involvement in the private sphere (Duffy 113). Nevertheless, there are still proves that women continue to be associated with the ...

Questions: The US Government

Questions: The US Government

Question One

The US chain of command does not provide a clear structure of control over bureaucracies. Some government agencies such as Internal Revenue Collection enjoy a substantial level of autonomy than other bureaucracies. The functions of a certain body have much say on the level of oversight control needed. Often, for impartiality and efficiency, it is important that a body is left alone to dispense its duties, and the defining line between demand for accountability and over interference is important. The principle of separations of powers is especially difficult to reconcile with the need to hold ...

The Evolution of Economics, Economic Systems and Politics

The science of economics, starting with Adam Smith –the father of economics, is the total efforts for developing an understanding of the economic behaviors of the humans. The science of economics follows a development path in defining the economics. The first definition of the economics was based on the household management. Members of family specialize in completing some specific tasks. The specialization relies on the genders' traditional functions. This definition was developed by the philosophers in the ancient times before the Dark Age in Europe. Adam Smith developed this definition by creating a theoretical economic system which has the ...

The safety shoe brands make their decision on how to produce comparatively less costly, and they make a decision of moving their production to the other countries. The main reason for this decision is the relatively cheaper labor costs in some developing countries like China. Subsequently, the safety shoe companies are transformed into trading businesses in their countries. Outsourcing the production of the shoes will influence the following agents in the economy: 1-Workers who were working in the shoe production factory in the countries of origin, 2-The other workers, 3-The demanders of the safety shoes, 4-The safety shoes companies' ...

Consumer’s choice is the ability of a given person or simply the buyer of a given good or service to determine what to use or purchase concerning products and services (Mankiw, 2014). There are several reasons behind any consumption habit by an individual. These include the prices of a given commodity, the level of income of the consumer and the utility as well as the technology at hand that characterizes the dynamics notable in the individual’s mode of purchase and use of a given commodity (Mankiw, 2014). According to Taylor& Greenlaw (2014), change in the prices of ...

Both China and the USA are some of the biggest contributors to the global market. Both economies produce large quantities of good that are shipped globally. Since bulk production requires a lot of labor, and the prevailing poverty rates among the citizens, children start to work in the dangerous environments of the labor market. The safety and workers right as well as the employment standards are irrelevant when it comes to the means of eking a living. Consequently, children have joined the labor market to eke a living, denying themselves an opportunity to pursue education and develop a higher ...

China and India’s Economy as a Neoclassical Growth Model.

It should be noted that the standard one-sector neoclassical growth model cannot be used to explain the macroeconomic variables of India and China. The model, however, provides the theoretical framework that aids in examining how the two economies’ digress from the standard model and in this way point out the market structure, organizations, and other variables that may have led to this digress (Huisken 239). An important variable that may help us understand this deviation and explain the differences in the growth of the two economies is the investment interest rates. India may have high level of investments but ...

The neoclassical growth model also known as the Solow-Swan model was put forward to explain long-term economic growth and development by examining economic variables such as accumulation of capital, growth of labor and advancement of technological processes. This model can be used to provide theoretical framework which will aid in explaining and comparing the economic growth of China and India. The model stresses out on the manner in which examine and interpret data. For example, China’s high level of investment should not be directly interpreted as steady economic growth (Huisken 238). This is because economic growth in the ...

Introduction

It is imperative to note that productivity growth is an aspect that is often used by economists to gauge the performance of an economy. In evaluating the living standards of a country in the long-term, the efficiency with which capital and labor are combined has a significant role to play. However, it is worth noting that productivity alone cannot be relied on to measure the performance of an economy as it is inefficient. The concept has made most analysts to focus on other features such as labor productivity, a figure that is often arrived at by dividing the total ...

(Comparative Analysis on Canadian Market and US Market)

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Analysis 2 Communism and Capitalism Approaches 2 Corporate Governance 3 The Trade Union and Political Alignment 4 Collective Bargaining Approach 5 The Gini Coefficient Impact 5 Job Exportation Effect 6 Union Contribution Effect 6 Transparency in Union Operations 8 Conclusion 8 Recommendation 9

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Introduction Are unions still relevant today in Canadian labor market? This is one of the fundamental questions at the heart of the Canadian workforce. Apparently, it has been highly speculated that the Canadian workforce, especially among the young workers, does not see the need for strong trade unions. ...

Abstract

Given the importance of human resource economics to address labor utilization together with its implications for the greater economy, the accumulation of human capital is one of the major related topics. Human capital collection greatly drives the instrumental economic considerations such as unemployment, employment turnover, and the functions of both the labor unions and government policies. Unlike most of the resources that depreciate with time, investment in human capital increases in appreciation and continually exploits the available resources. Although it may consume time, it ensures effective use of qualities and skills while enhancing other resources. The human resource plays ...

The twenty first century has already seen a rapid technoligization of practically every aspect of life. Indeed, it could not but affect the labor force. The question is: in what way has it done so? Firstly and foremostly, apart from obvious computerization, we can speak of robots being introduced in the labor force environment. There are two facets of this process – the positive one and the negative one. As for the first, robots have taken on the most difficult and in certain cases most dangerous work. As for the second, it may be justly maintained that robots have endangered ...

(1A). The shortage of talent in the global labor market has affected the employers' job filing efficiency. According to the report on global talent shortages, the number of employers having trouble in filling jobs due to this problem is on the rise. For instance, the percentage increased from 36 % in 2014 to 38 % in 2015.This year saw the highest percentage increase in lack of global talent since the 2008 recession. In Japan, where the problem is most severe, statistics show that t6his problem has persisted since the end of the recession. Some of the regions in the world also ...

Industrial gloves

Introduction The healthcare sector is one of the most fundamental sectors to a country’s economy. Many investors are looking to invest in the sector due the increased demand of health care services across the globe. Qatar has experienced a vast growth in its population which has failed to match the expansion of the country’s health care facilities. The government has made major amendments to its regulations which are aimed at encouraging foreign investors to invest in the country, most especially in the health care sector. The government is also paying a lot of attention to quality assurance ...

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Abstract Technological development is an integral part of the modern world’s life. It is difficult to imagine the existence without computers, cell phones, and other devices nowadays. It brings many positive features to the humans’ lives, such as facilitating of many types of labor, allowing easy communication between family members and friends that live far away from each other, enhancing many business processes (e.g. supply chains, distribution of information, client servicing). However, new technologies also bring a number of problems to people. One of the most significant issues is its influence upon the labor market and unemployment rates. ...

Scientific Management of Higher Education Changes

This approach to change employs several models such as rational thinking, strategic planning, adaptive learn, and organizational change among others (Kezar, 2014). This view perceives organizations (in this case, HIEs) as purposeful, dynamic, and adaptive institutions. Change is inherent, resulting from internal structures and decisions. As such, leaders and managers become critical in the transformation process. Globalization trends challenge educators to become innovative and creative in shaping college graduates for today’s labor market. Leaders in HE need to engage internal stakeholders in formulating strategies aimed at improving the graduate turnover of colleges and universities regarding quality and quantity. ...

Individual Reaction to the Advent of Artificial Intelligence

Introduction Through advancements in science and technology, human beings have managed to create machines that work more or less in the same way as the human brain, performing tasks like mathematical calculations and language translations. This is what has come to be known as Artificial intelligence (AI) which is the kind of intelligence that machines exhibit when certain manipulations and programming is done to them. Some of these machines like the IBM computer, Watson, are capable of mimicking or performing certain cognitive functions that are normally associated with the human brain only. Artificial intelligence research thus deals with problems ...

Internal Analysis of McDonald’s Corp.

Introduction McDonald’s is the biggest chain of hamburger fasts food cafes around the world with over 50 million consumers. The corporation was started in 1940 by two brothers in San Bernardino, California (McDonald’s. com, 2016). Today, McDonald's is the leader in global food service retail with around 35,000 locations in more than 100 nations. However, most of its worldwide restaurants are owned and operated by independent local business people. Additionally, the alignment strength in McDonald’s is its franchisees and suppliers. This system has been the reason for the long-term success of the corporation. In the ...

Introduction – Immigration Crisis and Socio-Economic Development in Netherlands

Being part of the European Union, it was natural for The Netherlands to be impacted by the immigration crisis which had hit almost entire Europe. On one hand the administration of the country had to develop and implement strategies aimed at addressing the immigration crisis . Initially, the country had resorted to sealing the borders to prevent the influx of refugees . However, with international attention on the crisis - especially highlighted by the capsizing of boats carrying refugees in the Mediterranean Sea the nation had to resort to finally accepting immigrants into the nation. Needless to state that this move ...

Introduction

The Canadian labor market is abundant with skilled and qualified workers, and hence, the country’s labor market is becoming increasingly competitive. In this context, it is necessary for the government to ensure that all these candidates are employed and getting paid fairly. However, it is identified that Canada’s unemployment rate soared high during the recent recession and it has not yet recovered completely. Since Canada is a well-developed country, it is particularly important for the Canadian federal government to analyze the short-term as well as long-term costs of high unemployment rate to the country’s economy. This ...

Introductory Remarks

The USA has always prided itself on being a byword for the land of opportunities any person can enjoy. Such optimism may end where the issue of the minimum wage starts, as employees find themselves constrained by a salary ceiling. Forced into low-income groups of earners, there is nothing they can do except resort to aid or social programs to meet their individual or family needs. The situation round the use of aid has come to reach an alarming point judging by the scope of the issue. Employees representing fast food, home care, childcare, and part-time college faculty sectors ...