Essays on Right Decision

Addiction can have devastating consequences on families. Many people become so caught up in the whirlwind of hard drugs that they lose touch with reality and begin to forget the person they used to be. They make decisions based on the drugs instead of using common sense, and people tend to get very hurt, and in many cases, they die. People will do anything for money, including committing crimes, and those crimes can end up leading them to jail or other criminal punishment. In Anthony’s Intervention episode, his addiction has a significant affect on all aspects of his ...

Given the strategic nature of the situation, it is undoubtedly a hard decision to make. Firstly, in order to make an informed decision, it is important to identify and understand the ethical dilemma. Secondly, it is essential to consider the dilemma in the light of various ethical lenses, in order to decide the best approach. The following sections include an explanation of the ethical dilemma and application of three ethical models to the situation.

Ethical Dilemma

On the other hand, if I were honest with the employee, I would be foregoing my professional obligation. As a result, the employee will be ...

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Updyke A&P Sammy quits his job because of the way his boss treats a particular group of customers. Do you fee Sammy made the right decision? Why or why not? In my opinion Sammy made the right decision. In the story Sammy is a cashier who is watching as three young girls in bikinis enter the store to shop. The girls while not dressed properly for the store in the 1960’s are doing nothing wrong. They are not being obnoxious or rude. In fact, the only people that could be considered rude are the male workers that are ...

Jenni Lake is a young woman of 17 years who is suffering from cancer. She would wish to love a normal and healthy life, but the cancer has taken all her happiness. Even though she does not show any negative thing about her condition, she must be suffering a lot inside her heart. Suffering from brain tumor at her age is no joke, given that she has her entire life ahead of her. She has not even enjoyed a quarter of her life, but she has suffered too much. Her ethical dilemma comes in after realizing that she is ...

World War II was the central event of the 20th century. It involved all the major continents of the world. World War II is considered as the most difficult war in the history of humankind as it killed thousands of people. America played a significant role in World War II. To highlight America’s role in the war, the paper discusses the involvement of America in the war, the challenges faced by the government and people during the war, and the issues it faced after the war. World War II cannot only be regarded as the supreme armed forces ...

Prenatal Testing and Screening

Prenatal testing and screening have raised the number of ethical issues related to diagnostic testing in relation to special circumstances of pregnancy. The concerns related to the diagnostic testing involve greater ethical concerns for the parents with disabilities that need to be effectively addressed. It is debated that the prenatal diagnosis in contemporary society has enhanced the testing process to make right decisions about the pregnancy. However, there are number of concerns that evolve within our society concerning the cultural, religious and other social pressures. In the case of people with disabilities it is argued that the people often ...

Introduction

The report is intended to conduct the critical analysis of the management decision making process to identify and explore the sources of the information and data for the decision making and what tools and techniques can be used by the management to make decisions. For this purpose, the report is going to analyze the issues in the context of the case of WM Pressings Company and OIL project. WM Pressing Company is a company that manufactures pressed steel and parts of aluminum for the companies exist in the automotive industry. The company has faced the poor quality performance as ...

Personal Research on a Life Decision

This essay deals with the topic of personal research in making a life decision. The main goal of this essay is to reveal all the aspects concerning the topic. A life decision, which is described, is buying a new car. In order to achieve this goal successfully, all the questions regarding the topic were carefully analyzed and answered. First of all, when I had to buy a new car I kept in my mind that it would not be an easy decision. It was hard to choose because it was necessary to think over various aspects before making the ...

A Literary Analysis

Ernest Hemingway’s short story “Hills Like White Elephants” takes place at a train station in Spain on a very hot summer day. The two main characters, the American and Jig, the girl, are travelling by train because the girl is going to get an operation. They are waiting for the next train that will take them to Madrid, the location of the operation, and they have forty minutes waiting until it gets there. The operation is likely an abortion, and the American is pushing for it while Jig is concerned and hesitant to go through with it. During ...

Thinking big and taking control of most of the space on the board is the key to win the GO game. The game rightly typifies the Chinese strategy of taking control of most of the market segment across the world. Unlike, GO that requires a broad long-term thinking, Chess concentrates on a single point. In other words, Chess teaches the importance of short-term alternative thinking skills. Also, the game of GO has the advantage of flexible thinking; flexibility is always advantageous for a world player like China that believes in understanding the local situations before exploring new opportunities. The ...

A common quote goes “Education is the key to success” which holds true. Currently, more emphasis is being placed on strategies and methods that enhance the impact of comprehensive knowledge to students. Recent research has shown that students lack the coherent and critical skills needed to take education seriously. Dr. Martin Luther King stated that the function of education is to teach a student to think intensively and critically. He further went on to state that the true goal of education is to build students with intelligence and character. Dr. King meant that giving students advice and problems that would ...

Introduction

The air transportation industry plays the key role in life of American people. The commercial airline system provides the Americans with the opportunity to attend negotiations or conferences on the other continents and travel to the desirable destinations when embarking on holidays and traveling with business visits. This innovative system is available for twenty-four hours seven days a week. Apart from carrying passengers, different cargoes can be transported all over the world. In most cases this industry is targeted to meet exclusively the commercial goals. With the rapid development of globalization and business relations, the establishment of cooperation has become ...

Change: The Expected and The Unexpected

It has been said time and again that nothing in this world is constant, except for change. Change is not a question of “if it will happen” but “when it will happen”. We are all up for changes at different points in our lives, and it really is futile to resist change. Instead, we should equip ourselves with the right tools such that we can deal with the changes in our lives, when they happen. Sometimes we are given a heads up; thus, enabling us to prepare ourselves. However, sometimes change comes to us by surprise. And because we ...

Introduction

An ethical dilemma can be a common occurrence during work as s nurse and often involves the taking of quick decisions in difficult situations. A recent situation in which I was involved in focused on a patient’s decision to remove his life support machine and die a peaceful death, something which was confirmed by his family. This clashed with my personal beliefs as I am against euthanasia and any form of assisted dying so together with my medical team I was faced with an ethical dilemma of whether to proceed with the patient’s request.

Discussion

The patient in question was suffering ...

NPV

NPV (the net present value) is used to calculate, and analyze how much is a project is useful also to find out the difference between the present value of cash inflows and the present value of cash outflows. Also, we should know that the NPV analysis is sensitive when we calculate the future cash inflows for the project's revenues. Simply the NPV method shows whether we should undertake a project or reject it; it is useful to make decisions and it is easy to use. According to the primary investment rule, if the NPV is positive that means the project ...

Introduction

Investment and return are the two flip sides of the same coin. There are certain pre-requisites that are essential for the investment purpose, and it would be used on the basis of analysis. There is tradeoff finds among the risk and return approach of an investment, and the most effective investor is the one who has the ability to manage the investment in a well organized and perfect manner (Davies and Servigny, p.34). Making of portfolio and diversification is one of the most important aspects from the viewpoint of investment purpose, and investors are delivering their best to maintain their ...

Executive Summary

This work has to be written consecutively and logically in order to consider and to take into account all features and decisions of the problems and to comprehend the overall situation. I intend to define the main problem of the case, its issues and describe it. When the problems will be defined, and the description will be finished, I am going to analyze the financial performance of the business using the financial data of the case. This part of the paper is the largest and has a very important meaning for decision-making. Financial and numerical data describes precisely the ...

Business Ethics 2

Q1. Differentiate the concepts of morality and social ethics. Morality: Morals and values have become, or it has created the spine of today’s modern society, every individual’s conscience and religion, and morality refers to the code of conduct, which is adopted within an environment, a set of rules which directs an individual towards right or wrong (Padilla, 2004). For example murder is a crime, it is immoral, but murder in a battlefield is ethical or permissible. Social Ethics: Social ethics are moral principles that one way or the other shows the collective knowledge, practice or experience and culture ...

Fundamental principles of decision-making and management

The process of decision making is fundamental in any organization. This is more so for those in management positions who have to ensure that they solve issues and plan for the future in order to achieve the organization goals and objectives. The decision making process is fundamental and provides foundation to organization management teams. There are many principles that guide mangers when they are making crucial decisions in regards to the organization. One of the principles of decision making and management is assigning priorities. In an organization not everything has the same importance. It is, therefore, crucial to prioritize ...

Introduction

Onboarding can be referred as a process of orienting, interviewing, and successfully integrating newly hired employees into a company’s culture. In reference to Bradt et al. (2011) onboarding strategies provide speedy track to constructive, productive work and strengthened employee relations. Bradt et al. (2011) further argues that orientation of new employees begins before employees’ start date and it is usually extended through for the first six months of employment. Notably, onboarding is a continuous and comprehensive process that extends for a long duration of time rather than a day event. According to Erling (2011) when onboarding new employees, choice, communication and actions make ...

Literature Review

This paper gives a literature review on the steps which should be taken by international students in managing their nutritional needs. There has been an influx of international students in the Australian universities (Government of South Australia, 2011). Given that most of these students come from different countries with diverse cultural backgrounds, it becomes inevitable that they have to face a lot of challenges in the course of their studies in this nation. One of the major challenges faced is diet. This means that when they come here, they find a new diet which may be unique to them. However, this leaves ...

Plato and Descartes are some of the greatest classical philosophers who made imminent contributions in the field of philosophy. For a very long time, it has been extremely difficult to define a good life. While many people in the contemporary society believe that a good life is signified by the possession of quality education, happy family, good house and luxurious cars, these scholars had a different take. This paper gives a critical and in-depth comparison of their ideas on a good life. Descartes proposed the importance of reason as a source of knowledge. He aid that an individual can only attain a good life if he ...

Having been involved in several cases, Daniel Groll’s intention to provide a lasting solution to this problem intensified. His intentions are to develop a model for understanding disagreements in a clinical setting. Groll at providing insight into what doctors can and cannot plausibly be said to know regarding what’s best for their patients. Groll deals with this by developing taxonomy of clinical disagreements. Groll’s secondary aim is to show that Robert M. Veatch’s theory on what on what clinicians can and cannot about their patients’ well-being is overly skeptical and limits the role. In the article, Groll presents a ...

What I liked about the book

A part from being so informative, Judgment in Managerial Decision Making by Max. H. Bazerman, is a very interesting book. This is why many people, besides recommending it to others, regard it as a must read. However, when I was reading it, I was captivated by the following concepts: First, it was so interesting to learn that many people fail to make well thought decisions due to their personality. As Max argues, they fail in realizing their aims due to bias. Their attitudes heavily influence their stand on various problems that need to be resolved. Moreover, many people, in their ...

Article: “Evidence-Based Management”

In the article “Evidence-Based Management” Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert I. Sutton give an overview of the main principles of their own newly-established management method of efficient decision-making – evidence-based management. Dwelling on the importance of making the right decision for managers, the authors emphasize the obvious at first sight, yet not fully researched and not always considered, step towards this tough process that every manager faces on a daily basis – before the actual decision-making, a good manager is required to study the issues inside out and only after the evidence of a real benefit of this decision for a company can be presented and ...

The primary care providers have the key responsibility of maintaining and providing first contact medical services to all the patients and it is expected that they are responsible for the overall ordination of medical services. The emergency Department is responsible to handle cases in the first contact if they are referred and require emergency attention which is available 24 x 7 and is only a one-time service and may not provide a continuous support like the primary care provider team. There is a specialty care Department is then which cannot be a first contact and is only used for patients in cases where ...

Abstract

The paper intends to present a detailed evaluation of traditional strategic thinking models and extended strategic thinking models. The paper also presents a comparative analysis of both models and further discusses how Fluor is using strategic thinking models and developing strategic advantages over its competitors. Strategic or competitive advantages help Fluor in differentiating its products and services from the competitors in same industry. The paper will provide detailed description of use of extended strategic thinking models to fully utilize resources and assets.

Fluor Conventional Strategic Planning and Strategic Intent Thinking

Thesis Statement: this paper discusses analyzing limitations associated with traditional strategic thinking models and also provides detailed comparison and ...

"The Road Not Taken" In My Own Life

When I was a child, I had a friend named Henry; we were best friends, and nearly inseparable. One day after class, however, he told me that he had stolen the teacher's edition of our book from her while she was not looking; he had it in his backpack. He told me that, if we looked at it tonight, we could copy all the answers and get an A on our assignments for the rest of the class. I knew that Henry stealing the book was wrong, but I also knew that Henry ...

Reflection Paper

While doing this quiz, I realized that these are my values now but they will most likely change later in life. I am only 22 so I am guessing everything will change when I get older. The first half I found easy to complete but as the numbers got higher it got harder for me to figure out what was more important to me. The most important value to me was having good health, because if you don't have good health then what do you have? If you have good health then you are not limited to what you ...