Essays on Lewin

Integrating a Corporate Social Responsibility for Starbucks

Tilt (2016) explains that Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) involves sustainable management and conduct of a business where it is ethical and socially acceptable, economically supportive and profitable. It is an umbrella concept which encompasses environmental and stakeholder management by upholding good societal performance. For Starbucks to grow into a sustainable organization, a change initiative should be undertaken against its traditional management approach. The organization needs to embrace CSR for it to become a sustainable organization. According to Tilt (2016), there are, however, intra-organization challenges which significantly affect the implementation of the change initiative. To address this issue and the ...

Introduction

The study was carried out to determine the leadership competencies and the strategic vision which is essential for management which concerns a change in the complex healthcare organizations. Certain nations such as Switzerland do not have the leadership skills required in the nursing sector. The adapted program to solve the satiation was the “Royal College of Nursing (RCN) Clinical Leadership Programme.” The purpose of adopting it was to ensure that it would support that program. The study was supposed to determine the best methods that would be used in the process of the formation of the vision. The vision ...

Lewin came up with a three-stage model that is quite essential in the nursing practice. The model involves three stages: unfreezing, changing and refreezing. The main goal of the unfreezing stage is to create awareness on how the prevailing level of acceptability is impeding the effectiveness of service delivery in the organization. Examination of the previous processes, behaviors, organizational structures, and ways of thinking is significant in showing everyone how necessary change is. Lewin states that after people have been enlightened on the need for change, then the organization can transition into the new state of being. This is ...

Sanofi is a leading pharmaceutical company based in the United States. Having been in the drug production industry, it has over the years been rising and making sales globally through its transformative management they have employed in running of its affairs. Technology in this organization has brought about a more personalized customer experience as marketers bring only the relevant information to customers. They thus choose only the details of the product that they need and discard the rest (Sanchez, Macada, Sagardoy, 2014). Once information is directed to a consumer, this makes them feel special as the company addresses them ...

Discussion Question

Discussion Question 1

Professional socialization involves the interaction between health providers and their colleagues and the interaction between the health provider and the patient, family, groups, or communities. In the healthcare workplace, professional socialization occurs through nurses working together in a specific department to ensure total and quality delivery of care that ensures positive outcomes. Nurses help one another solve health care problems, assist each other during shifts, and share knowledge and skills about on how to deliver quality care. On the other hand, professional socialization between nurses and patients occur when both have close relationships. The Orlando’s ...

Introduction

On June 23, 2016, UK held a referendum in which 52% of the voters chose to leave the European Union (EU) against 48% who chose to stay (Taub, 2016). The Brexit presents a massive change. Without a doubt, the Brexit will strongly influence how project managers will run their projects. Hillary and Allen (2016) observe that all sectors and organization will have to review the risks and opportunities that will emanate from Brexit. Unfortunately, project managers, like everyone else, have limited information that would help them to assess the risks and opportunities associated with the Brexit. Notwithstanding the lack ...

The main emphasis of Gestalt theories is that the whole is always greater than the sum of its parts. The whole refers to the wholeness of once perception. Perception may mean a totally different thing if it is considered in parts. Gestalt Psychology is a school of psychology that was founded in the 20th century. The school provided psychological theories that are the basis for modern day perception psychology. Gestalt is a German word and refers to how things are put together or placed. It is often translated into English as “form” or “shape” or “pattern” or “configuration”, which ...

Introduction

The Marriot International and Renaissance Long Beach Hotel has come under fire after the hotel received a lawsuit from two women over alleged sexual harassment claims. Luz Cuevas and Teresa Evangelista allege that different employees working for the hotel sexually harassed them on more than one occasion and that female workers from the Latin region have on several occasions been the targets for physical, emotional, verbal and sexual harassment by senior employees at the Marriot Hotel. The two women filing the lawsuit against the hotel are Luz Cuevas and Teresa Evangelista who work at the hotel as an on-call ...

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to examine and evaluate the sustainable event management of the Montreux Jazz Company. Conversely, the paper aims at giving a prompt and deceive report on the corporate social responsibility in line with the Montreux Jazz Company. The analysis raise the relevant questions on whether the event examined and evaluated is viable and sustainable using the government policy and the existing theoretical concepts. Furthermore, the analysis is examined using deceive concept on the design and methodology so as to come up with a critical discourse in the line with sustainable event management. The selection ...

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Introduction

Change is a process that impacts all organizations. As observed by management expert, Kurt Lewin, “group life is never without change, merely differences in the amount and type of change exist” (Burnes, 2004, p. 981). Most change initiatives, however, fails because of the tendency of people to resist change. People, according to management experts, fear change and so they tend to revert back to old ideas and practices even if the change is for the better. This tendency of the individuals to resist change affects the organization as a whole. Also, the longer the ...

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Internal Environment6 Critical Evaluation.7 Dutch Model Problem Solving 8 Goal-Setting Theory in the Retraining Program..11

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Consultancy Role.13 Conclusion13 Reference List..15 Hai Di Lao Hot Pot Strategy Background Hai Di Lao Hot Pot is a chain of restaurants established in Cihina in 1994 and is now spread across China, South Korea, Singapore and the USA (Haidilao 2016). As the name suggests, its specialty is the Chinese Sichuan hot pot, a dish in which the ingredients are assembled together and are cooked in a hot pot at the table of the diner. The humble beginnings, ...

Making the decision to obtain a college degree can be quite overwhelming and requires a lot of commitment. However, the general consensus is that the concept of social class in America today is largely determined by the level of education one acquires in life. This aspect can significantly influence one’s destiny and life chances in such a society. For instance, a college degree is becoming more crucial for a person’s career development. Nevertheless, even if the choice to acquire this level is driven by financial or personal preference, it can have extreme outcomes on the line of ...

Organization Change

Analysis

When it comes to globalization, the impacts are often looked at in terms of corporations and businesses. However, the scope of the globalization and the change management involved goes quite far beyond that. Just as one example, globalization and its effect on higher education is massive. There are a couple of major theories and trends and some of them are rather different in nature. For example, there is what is as the convergence thesis. This thesis explains and asserts that there is a shift towards homogenization. In other words, there is an attempted fusing of multiple cultures and ...

How does context influence employment relations issues for HR practitioners in local government?

Human resource management is managing people as they work in organizations. The Human Resource Department plays a very significant role in an organization. This is so because it caters to the most important resource – people. The department is responsible for the selection and retention of employees who will help achieve the goals of an organization. This selection is crucial as this would predict the kind of workforce an organization would have. Once potentials are seen as congruent to what the organization needs, employees are considered potential assets and are retained in the organization. The role of the Human Resource ...

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Health History and Physical Examination

A 50 years old American Male comes to the hospital with angina-like symptoms. Subjective Data Demographic data: There exists a risk of cardiovascular ailments or malfunctioning. The patient is an IT professional with long sitting schedules.

Reason for care: The patient was admitted to the emergency ward due to the severity of the pain 6 days back.

Present illness: Currently facing chest congestion with breath shortness and exertion, with heavy perspiration, recommended cardiac catheterization. Perception of health: Patient is an educated, independent and sincere individual who thinks that he is healthy and with several precautions he will overcome the current situation. He is little worried about his excessive ...

Abstract

The growing demand for the competitive specialists justifies the particular attention and concern to the Malaysian students’ reading comprehension skills from the Malaysian authorities. The introduction of teaching the Malaysian core school subjects in the English language (Yassin et al., 2009) provided the continual attempts and experiments to define the most efficient way to decrease achievement gaps in the reading of Malaysian pupils. Starting from the 5th grade, students extend their vocabulary through reading (Zubairi & Sarudin, 2009). The following research proposes the method of using “Reading Cues’ as scaffolding answering the closed or WH-questions to improve the performance of ...

INTRODUCING EMERGENCY SEVERITY INDEX (ESI) FOR BETTER PATIENT OUTCOME

Introducing Emergency Severity Index (ESI) for Better Patient Outcome Introduction to ESI The core objective of various triage tools across the emergency department attributes to the systematic prioritization of the patients in accordance with the severity of their clinical conditions in the context of determining the period until which the patient might wait in the emergency department before his/her evaluation by the healthcare professionals (Gilboy et al., 2011). The nurse professional after executing a focused assessment of the patient determines the waiting time and accordingly provides a triage acuity level of the patient in the emergency department. The patient ...

This model of change introduction and management is concerned with three different steps which the managers of an organization should take special care of. This model is based on three different stages namely unfreezing, changing and refreezing steps which are explained in detail for shifting from manual accounting activities to an automated or online accounting system . The first phase or stage in Lewin’s 3-Step Model concerns “unfreezing” of old way of thinking and behaviour about manual accounting system before any change is introduced. Unfreezing must be done because managers who have been using manual accounting system for more ...

The Brady Health Center is a neighborhood medical facility that serves a large population of African Americans and Latino Americans. The Diabetic Clinic center serves 2679 patients of which 80% are Blacks. The Hospital Management has noted a low adherence rate to diabetes self-care recommendations among the African American population. As a result, I, the nurse manager, the hospital administration and staff members are planning to implement a Diabetes Self-Management Education (DSME) program in collaboration with the American Diabetes Association that aims at improving patient knowledge and self-care skills.

Change Theory

As the modification manager, I intend to utilize Lippitt’s ...

Planned change in Hospital Center Unit

Healthcare facilities are some of the important industries in society. It is worth noting that healthcare facilities play a key role in the lives of human beings. For many years, shortage of staff has been a major problem that affects health care facilities. Shortage of nurses in health care facilities lead to increase in mortality rates, poor working environment, increases stress among nurses, increase in infections, and poor patient outcome. MedStar Washington Hospital Center is one of the facilities that focus on exceptional patient heath care. The Hospital Center is faced with a critical problem at the intensive surgical ...

Abstract

Kurt Lewin, the father of social psychology, developed the change theory of nursing which is a three stage change model that necessitates the rejection and replacement of all prior learning. The stages in the model consist of unfreezing, change and refreezing. The change theory consists of three concepts which include driving and restraining forces and equilibrium. The driving forces ideally push a patient towards a particular direction hence facilitating change. The restraining force, on the other hand, tries to hinder the desired change by pushing the patient away from the driving forces in the opposite direction. The restraining forces' ...

Introduction

The University of Washington has tended to turn into a commercial institution rather than it being an institution that takes heed to improve the status of the institution rather through education. This has been due to the fact that the school has tended to prefer students from outside the state because they pay more in terms of their tuition as compared to the counterparts who are from the state. However, this issue may not be as wrong as it is deemed. This essay will lay down the various factors that seem to support their move and those that may ...

Introduction

Organizations refer to entities or enterprises with distinct goals and aspirations, which operate within strict definitions or boundaries (Senior, 2002). In this perspective, organizational change is a phenomenon that occurs in every organization with a wide operation base. However, the magnitude of change is dependent on the size of the organization or the complexity of operations that the company or an organization engages in, either in products or customers. Moreover, organizational change can also be planned by the organization or unplanned. Unplanned organizational change is a result of external and internal forces that lead to the change of operations ...

Change is a crucial component of an individual’s or a company’s success. This is due to the fact that the institution must always be ready to embrace the shift in the environment that surrounds it. Change helps the institution to be able to adapt to the shift in how the company or the institution’s customer preferences. With all this is mind, it is clear that Sea Treasures have to be able to embrace the various changes that come its way. The company will always tend to adapt various models in order to make the change happen. ...

The critical care units of hospitals treat frequently treat patients by administering oxygen via the insertion of tubes into tracheostomies, the nose, or the mouth; nosocomial infections may result, leading to ventilator-associated pneumonia, or VAP (CDC.gov, 2015). The infection is not generally associated with non-sterile techniques during insertion, but rather from tube contamination. The nosocomial infection is most often diagnosed in intensive care departments and research has been directed toward identifying methods of oral care as a means of prevention. Comparisons of the effectiveness of sodium bicarbonate swabs with that of chlorhexidine swabs have been made and the hospital ...

QI: Personality Clash

Business and social environments outline the complexity of relationships which are built between individuals, groups and event organizations, and governments. The reality shows that globalization and technological development place numerous pressures on these environments and affect the ways interpersonal relationships are built. Indeed, when it comes to the analysis of the globalization and its influence on the society, it is a common knowledge that internationalization of businesses and personal mobility became common among the majority of the nations. That said, academic and business literature has been giving a lot of attention to such issues as diversity, internationalization, technology impact ...

Executive Summary

This paper discusses KFC, also referred to as Kentucky Fried Chicken. Specifically, the paper examines how the company is proposing certain changes in its menu offerings and the removal of antibiotics from its chicken. The paper looks at these proposed changes through the Lewin model and describes the challenges that the company will face both internally and externally in terms of these changes actually remaining given the context of the company being that of serving home-style cuisine.

Recommendation

The paper makes recommendations of how the company can effectively make sure that it does not falter on the proposed changes in ...

Change in organizations is inevitable. It is because of the evolving state and emerging issues in the industry. Both leaders and workers should be prepared for the change to enable them win a competitive edge (By, Burnes& Oswick, 2011, p. 5). However, change management has experienced many obstacles. In this paper, concepts of leading change will be analyzed with the help of the provided article. Moreover, critical analysis of the article, which is the strengths and weakness of the article, will be discussed. Finally, a personal critical analysis of the change models will be carried out. There are several ...

Change management is an approach that ensures that changes are smoothly and thoroughly implemented to achieve benefits in the end. According to the article leading through change by Kimberly King, various critical points assist one in developing change management skills in an organization. First, communication should be done upwards and not sideways or downwards. As a manager who is focusing on introducing change in any organization, one should emphasize on communicating with those above in position. It will enable one to understand more and get enough information, which will help to introduce change downwards and sideways (Upchurch, 2016, p. ...

Millennials include all those people that were born between 1982 and 2000. It is also known as the digital generation and the first internet generation. For last many years, the debate has been continued about the characteristics, attitude, behaviour and nature of new generation or Millennials (Dauria, 2015). In the same field, the debate has emerged among the researchers that New Generation or Millennials are not very much interested in news as compared to those who born and grew in the pre-internet or digital age. The concerns began when the data finding suggested that the underlying generation is not ...

Managing Change

Introduction Organizational change has become a significant feature in today’s business environment. According to Burke (2008), the need for change and the demand for organizations to adapt and modify their operations have intensified. In fact, the most prevalent challenge in many organizations has been the need to cope with the rapid change. In a recent study conducted by leadershipIQ.com, a failure to manage the organizational change is one of the top reasons for termination of jobs for many managers (Murphy 2015, para 1). This failure is attributed to the managers’ inability to motivate employees, especially by not articulating ...

Introduction/ Thesis

Ethanol is the main ingredient in alcohol. It is also the ingredient that makes a person drunk and can be found in grapes and grains after they have been fermented and their sugars digested by yeasts. The ethanol in alcohol can have a number of powerful effects on a person’s mind and body. The use of alcohol can lower inhibitions by reducing shyness allowing them to act more freely, this can result in them doing things that they later regret. This paper will argue that despite the negative cogitations that surround alcohol consumption that there are positive benefits ...

Management

The three stage change model of Lewin suggests that the management of the business must access the changes in the operations of the business quickly and start to implement these changes as early as possible to make sure that the business performs well. The change in the organization is not an easy process. Therefore, Lewin suggests that at the first level, the management must educate the employees about the needs of the changing and unfreeze them from the current business processes. For example, if there is any technological change expected in the future, then the management can educate their ...

Introduction

The present report delves into the expansion of Carrefour, a leading multinational retailer in the world, into the United Kingdom retail market. The first part of the report describes both the micro and macro environmental factors, which this multinational retailer ought to take into consideration to reduce its risk of failure in the UK market. The second section explains how the UK government policies on mergers and acquisitions can have an impact on Carrefour’s growth strategies in the United Kingdom. The third part elucidates how Carrefour’s management can utilize Kurt Lewin change model of unfreezing, change, and ...

Management by Objective

Management by Objective The case in point involves one of the largest American multinational retail corporations Wall Mart. The company operates a chain of hypermarkets and discount department stores and actively develops e-commerce. Upon decision of new CEO, whose goal is a sustainable organization, it has should start to change. The initial step was to integrate the Corporate Social Responsibility Program. In the current paper change management process will be developed and described for effective implementation of this program. First of all, let us define Social Responsibility concept and its realization in business. According to business sources being socially ...

A) Most recent researches have revealed that the once widely held belief that men are naturally more intelligent and competent than women, especially when it comes to numeric and computational ability, has no genetic evidence to prove it. It is true that traditionally boys always scored better than girls on mathematics tests, but this has more to do with the fact that the boys had better access than girls of their age to quality education. As a result, this difference in the level and extent of information and instruction that both genders had access to, affected their performance later ...

Organizations that move ahead to change have competitive edge as change ability develops the core competency of improving every aspect of business performance (Anderson & Anderson, 2010). There are different models that organizations use to bring successful change.

Lewin’s Unfreez-Change-Freez Framework

First framework is the Lewin’s change management model that the organizations use to bring change. It was developed in 1950s by Kurt Lewin. He identified that most of the individuals are inclined to work within specific safety zones. He indicated important phases of change process, such as unfreezing, moving, and refreezing. Unfreez refers to the creation of motivation and readiness to ...

Working in the anesthesia department can be a relatively arduous task when dilapidated tools are the only ones available, such tools are few, and a lot of innovation has to be done for the department to remain efficient and effective in a medical environment that is constantly changing with the changing trends and approaches to surgery. The state of affairs is not made any better when the personnel available for the anesthesiologist's role are few and demoralized, regardless of how much their remuneration is at the end of the day. In this article, the challenge of having few trained ...

There exist an increasing number of patients with nosocomial infections at the PICU in my facility. According to Peleg and Hooper (2010), nosocomial infections are hospital acquired conditions caused by various clinical factors. Patients that suffer from nosocomial infections are those under admission of other reasons. Such individuals should not have displayed signs of active infections before admission. Thus, nosocomial conditions happen up to 48 hours after admission and 72 hours upon discharge (Peleg & Hooper, 2010). This essay concentrates on nosocomial infections contracted by patients in acute care hospitals. It focuses on the prevention of various kinds of diseases ...