Essays on Steps

Introduction The desire for beauty led individuals into mutilating their bodies, a practice that was carried out by many different cultures of the world. Examples of some of the practices are plastic surgery, tattooing, circumcision, but none compares to the pain and effort that accompanied foot binding, which was practiced by the ancient Chinese. Dorothy, In Every day a lotus, indicates that the culture of foot binding began in China in the tenth century during the reign of the Tang dynasty. The culture lasted for a long period which is approximated to be around 1000 years. The Tang dynasty had ...

Currently the market has a need for portable water de-ionization units that can be rented or purchased.

Market requirements for leases includes excellent service levels as the cost of down time for an industry is far greater than the actual cost of product. Hydro World is providing the market with a variety of water purification system options from purchasing to production volume to purity. The largest chunk of potential customers requiring our services and products are small companies 70%, large companies 28%, and individuals accounting for the 2%.

Product and Service Description

Prominent trend in modern industries is outsourcing where chief financial officers conclude that it would be cheaper for another body to produce for them products and services. ...

Q 1- Current event

Locate a recent news item (less than one month old) that deals with an issue of Data Security. Summarize the data security incident and then state what principle(s) of data security was violated or ignored. Include a link to the news item. (http://blog.alertsec.com/2011/03/new-data-breach-incident-at-leicester-city-council/) Data Security: Data security is very important as it ensures that data of a given company or institution is protected against the deliberate or accidental access of data by unauthorized people. Breaching of data security can bring a company or an institution down to its knees. Care should therefore be taken to ensure that data security is taken ...

Traditional approach allows the management to devise the way to perform a task. It is applied where adequate information of performing a task is readily available. It is also suitable for a task which requires less creativity on part of the worker. The weakness of the approach is that, it negates the ability of workers to built on their experience and improve the process of carrying out their duties. The processual approach allows workers to built on their experience and improve the performance of their duties. It is mainly applied in situations which the internal and external environment is in a constant ...

Assignment One of interpersonal managerial roles developed by Mintzberg is the role of a figurehead, an individual who holds a majorly ceremonial role and carries out tasks like signing legal documents and greeting visitors. The figurehead holds no real decision making powers and can be exemplified by a ceremonial non executive director in an organization. Leadership is another of the roles, and it involves carrying out of all the conventional management roles of directing, controlling and staffing. An example of this role is a chief executive officer who is in an overall supervisory position and directs all the operations of an ...

Discussion Question #1

The recent trend of making the news more entertaining only serves to dilute the importance and relevance of the actual important news stories. The peppering of puff pieces with real news detracts from the impact when a real news story hits. More time is spent on human interest stories than the actual news sometimes, and therefore people will pay more attention to that. The role of news to educate viewers can get sabotaged by the need to keep people feeling better and entertained. While the news may be seen as ‘sad,’ there is no need to force happy stories down ...

Introduction

The market is very competitive today, and it is important for all organizations to ensure that their employees are motivated and determined to work together for success as they are the backbone of any company. It is not only the management of an organization that needs to be productive and well organized for a successful and smooth running, but the employees at the grass-root level also play a very important role as they are the pillars that support the production and produce the output. Therefore it is a necessity to create such an environment within the organization where the workers are safe, ...

Innovation refers to the overall ability in application of creative solutions in given problems. This process acts as an effective application in the management of change in a given organization. The various unique approaches in adaptation of the philosophy and nuances in relation to change facilitate in a great way change management. Initially, after the change has been successfully effected, there is a tendency of resistance to the overall change. This is because many individuals have fear for the unknown. The fact that change and all that accompanies it is an inevitable phenomenon is an issue many individuals especially in the corporate ...

IT Report – Electronic Stock Control System Risk Management INTRODUCTION

In this scenario, a charity is selling donated goods through a variety of locations, assessing their value through an “expert” and often making changes to the inventory as they see fit. The charity wants to set up an electronic stock control system and sell their donated goods through e-commerce in order to increase their revenue. There are many risks that must be assessed, each of which carries a varied level of importance and significance. Once those risks are assessed, steps must be taken through proper risk management to avoid as much liability ...

Q. 1: Nature of the information security breach at ChoicePoint and how this adversely affected the organization

Management information system

ChoicePoint is a leading corporation that deals with the risk-management and fraud prevention data. The information security breach was that of the unauthorized people who pretended to be legitimate customers and hacked the system. They got access to personal data and that of more than 145000 other people. They use vague identities and managed to pass the customer authentication and verification without being noticed.

Q. 2: Actions taken by both ChoicePoint and the "authorities" to address the crisis

ChoicePoint became aware of the problem in November 2004. Some accounts in Los Angeles were processing not as expected. It decided contact Los Angeles Police Department and were advised not to expose the ...

INTRODUCTION

In the world of web design, there are two primary methods of building web pages and links that are utilized – tables and frames. With tables, the entire web page is a single HTML document that displays everything that will be seen by the visitor when they go to a web page. Frames, on the other hand, are a bit more complicated, carrying multiple components and tables on a single page, providing a complex viewing experience for the visitor.

At first glance, it may seem that frames are the better way to go – you can do more interesting things with framing in web pages, and ...

Introduction

The term Artificial Intelligence (AI) refers to a technology whereby intelligent agents are studied and created (Poole and Mackworth 9). In this case an intelligent agent is a structure that senses its surroundings and acts in such a manner as to maximise its chances of success. The origin of AI was in 1956 where John McCarthy described it as a science of creating thinking machines (intelligent machines). The technology comprises of eight different areas that are currently researched on and are wide in their own rights. The fields are: expert systems; decision support and planning; speech recognition; natural language processing; computer aided instruction; ...

Question One

Jenkins’ discussion of global convergence and pop cosmopolitanism, focuses on the idea of the world’s youth seeking to be a part of a wider, global community. He first discusses the concept of internet phenomena by introducing the ‘Bert Is Evil’ franchise, created by a Filipino high school student: “[he] created a Photoshop collage of Sesame Street’s Bert interacting with terrorist leader, Osama Bin Laden.” (Jenkins 114) As a result of posting this image and various other similar ones to his homepage, the student found his work being utilised by terrorist, anti-American forces. Undoubtedly, the student did not intend to assist the terrorist ...

Marketing Segmentation

Marketing Strategy: 7 Steps to Market Segmentation by Otilia Otlacan

The article was written by Otlacan and she starts by defining marketing segmentation as a complex process that starts with two phases; with the first one being the identification of markets that are broad and large and segmenting the markets so as to be able to select the target markets that are appropriate in developing marketing mixes. The article argues that although marketing segmentation is increasingly becoming a buzz word, very few people understand the mechanics behind it and most businesses end up failing as a result of this. Thus, it is ...

Outline

Collective bargaining seeks to solve all types of conflicts between workers and management, and amongst workers themselves. The aspect of collective bargaining is preferred by the employer in order to avoid paying individual attention to every workers complain. It is easier for the management to deal with workers as a group than dealing with individual worker. On the part of the workers they can easily convince the management to consider their demands when they are organized in a group.

The paper focuses on the bargaining process by identifying its advantage, forms of collective bargaining and the steps of collective bargaining. There ...

Question one

I am inclined to agree with the argument and the perception accorded in the answer provided. Family members have mainstream possession in 80-90% of all businesses in the U.S. alone. Actually, family companies are the fastest emergent section of the U.S. economy. Whereas family companies are precious financial sources to their proprietors, workers, and prospect cohorts, the development of family businesses as well has a noteworthy consequence on the nation's overall financial system. These businesses employ roughly 70-80% of the population with turnovers consisting of over about 55% of the GDP (Geisst, 2010). Above 33.3% of New York Stock Exchange ...

In the modern world, women have become a very important part of the social, economic and political life in addition to the strong family positions that a woman holds in the society. This has been attributed to the efforts put towards the recognition of the women, their important activities and the great role they play in all aspects of the society. This began in the 1970s in the west, and soon became worldwide phenomena. The modern woman can therefore be recognized within her own society and beyond (Keber, 1998).

Despite these achievements, I myself as a woman have undergone through various challenges and ...

Introduction

The term value analysis (VA) refers to a procedure that involves an orderly analysis and evaluation on an already existing product design so as to balance out the function of the product required by the customer. In balancing out, the customers’ requirements are satisfied at the lowest cost in accordance to the required reliability and specified performance (Rich and Mathias 2). Value engineering (VE) is used when developing new products and it is a term that is used when carrying out a value analysis at the concept development, design, and prototype stages of a product (Rich and Mathias 2). However, both terms ...

1)How does your organization gather and apply customer input to its new product or service development efforts? Is this process effective? Why or why not? How might it be improved? (1page)(2 reference)

My organization uses customer interviews to evaluate the outcomes of a customer interaction. We take them through every step of the process and figure out how the customer feels about a particular step. Whatever steps we see need improvement, we take steps to shape them according to the customer’s wishes, bearing in mind their particular needs and requirements. We only interview customers, and not retailers and ...

The global climate has been deteriorating as the years go by. The climate change has adverse effects on agriculture, ecosystems, human settlements and water resources. It affects rainfall patterns, temperature changes and rising sea levels. The principle causes of climate change are caused by emission of carbon dioxide. The gas acts as an insulator or blanket trapping the sun’s energy and causing the earth to be hot. The Copenhagen summit was held in 2009 by a several countries including USA and China who are the largest emitters of greenhouse gas. Key issues emerged in the conference. The countries produced ...

In business and project ventures of any kind, risk is a constant – an unkillable phantom that seeks to strike down any and all projects that one is working on. No matter how much of a sure thing it may seem to be, there is always a risk that is seeking to completely derail one’s hard work. There is, however, a solution that can help minimize the chance of something going wrong, thus saving investors incredible amounts of money in potential foibles that can delay or halt the progress of a project – that solution is risk management.

Risk management is one of the most ...

Introduction

The article “Employee Engagement: The Key to Improving Performance” by Solomon Markos & M. Sandhya Sridevi touches upon the issue of implementing new managerial means of improving the company’s performance, namely the employee engagement concept. The authors claim, that this approach towards Human Resources Management is one of the most prosperous methods of working with the labor force and increasing its overall efficiency. This in the long term allows the company not only to operate more cost-effectively but also obtain a strong competitive advantage over the rivals and increase the profits. The construct is considered to be broader than its ...

The new proposed business is about empowering the women to a new level than the one they are already in. In this case we ask who the next level woman is. She is a woman who always looks ahead and is ready to adjust to what is needed to achieve their goal. For this woman making things happen will not scare them off. Most women will let circumstances such as the economy hold them from making a move to improve their business. Some will let the business fall apart instead of fixing what went wrong that way they will continue to prosper. ...

1. This case study outlines a meticulous, multifaceted process that Standard Life utilizes in order to find the best candidates for this incredibly competitive job. The human resources management strategy they are implementing in this process is highly selective and aims for the best of the best, knowing that highly qualified individuals will desire to work for them. While they do send out information to all universities to let everyone know about their job opportunities, they only send out HR staff to career fairs at 25 of the most well-regarded universities, showcasing their search for excellent. Next, they have to ...

In the case of the request for a second meeting between Shirley and Jeannie, with Kelly supervising, I believe it is quite necessary to do this, especially after the events of the first meeting. Despite the fact that it would be quite tense to go through for all parties involved, it would foster a much better work relationship between everybody if another meeting was attempted, this time with a greater attempt at fostering amity with Shirley and Jeannie. Obviously, there are some incredible discrepancies between how Shirley should be doing her job and how Jeannie feels she should be doing her job, ...

Introduction

A manager is an individual responsible in running an organization. A manager plans, coordinates and direct the activities of the organization. This is achieved through monitoring the actions of workers and probably advising them to rectify their actions when necessary. The manager can direct workers directly or else delegate the responsibility to junior staff. Though a manager may delegate some of the responsibilities, he/she must have adequate knowledge of the work done. It is better for a manager to concentrate on learning and developing better ways of managing workers than learning how all activities of a job are done.

In many ...

Skin Biopsy

More often than not, a skin sample may appear to be abnormal with regards to the fact that the skin has changed color, shape, or appearance. The change in skin color, shape, or general appearance can be due to skin cancer, fungal infection, psoriasis or any other infection of the skin. To confirm the actual cause of such abnormality on the skin, dermatologists usually recommend a skin biopsy, which involves the removal of part of the skin for use in the histological examination or any other relevant tests. The word biopsy is derived from Greek words ‘bios’ meaning ‘life’ and ‘ ...

Whether or not you believe your company can do no wrong, you should always plan for the worst – this is where risk management comes in. (Roche, 2010) In the world of risk management, there are many different ways of doing it among all different disciplines. Regardless of the field in which you are working, an effective risk management process is necessary in order to effectively weigh whether or not you can release a certain product, or carry forward with a particular plan of action, without taking too much of a chance that you or your customers (not to mention your shareholders or ...

Initiating and agreeing on a strategic planning process

For strategic management to be effective, the key decision makers have to be involved. It would be company to involve people from three organizational levels. This is the top management, middle management and the technical department of the frontline staff. The top management is involved in communications within the organization and outsiders. They are also quick to perceive where there are mismatches between the organization and the environment. They are able to see the threats and opportunities in the external environment. More importantly they control the resources of the company and planning with them makes things easier (Bryson, 2004).

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Government leaders and managers of public agencies and non-profit organization face various difficult challenges (Bryson, 2004). One of these challenges is the dizzying number of events and trends that has affect the United States for the last two decades. Also there are other several problems that affect the government and non-profit organizations (Farnum, 2004). The aging and diversification of population is also another example of challenges that has a lot of impacts. Most ominously, there has been a dramatic decline in social capital in the past few decades in the USA. Citizens of the affected countries are not happy with these ...

Abstract

It goes without say that the fight against terrorism has been taken a notch higher by the US forces. Major works are being done towards the upholding of a strong and reputable tactical response to terrorism by the various agencies and most notably by the New York Police Department. Through the richness of information that the various websites (particularly the agencies’ websites) offer, one is left with more answers than questions and amazement on the beauty of their structure and organization. The fact that these agencies have continually worked in synchrony with each other is highly commendable as it can be emulated ...

Studying for exams should not be equated to reading as reading comes long before. One has to have read really well if he or she is to have fairly easy y time while studying for an examination. Studying for an exam is more of revising than reading; hence good study methods, time management skills, discussion methods, critical thinking and good memory skills are very handy. This paper has attempted to discuss steps on how one can effectively and efficiently study for exams. The discussion has been effected by evaluation of revision strategies that can be utilized to ...

Introduction

West Park Services is a ranching organization that has about 30,000 animals and about 500 employees. The employees are in different categories and they enjoy different privileges depending on their level of employment in the organization. The employees’ categories range from farm attendants, Support staff, Administrators, Managers and the Chief Executive officer. For a very long period of time, operations in the firm have been manual. This has led to low level of production as the firm cannot compete effectively with other competitors who have their operations computerized.

One of the major challenges facing the firm is security. Farm animals ...

Introduction:

A team or a group comprises a group of people that are linked with a mutual and familiar purpose. Teams are usually appropriate when conducting tasks of high complexity and may have a lot of inter-dependent subtasks. A group does not automatically constitute a team. The teams usually have members with skills that are complimentary and they generate synergy which allows every member to maximize or minimize his/her strengths. The members of the team need to study on how to help each other and also help other members to realize their true potential and how to create an environment that will allow every member ...

Green technology is a relatively new term. It is defined as a system or a mode of technology that incorporates new and innovative materials and methods to create more environmentally friendly and sustainable products. The major emphasis o green technology is to change the daily habits of society and move towards more efficient and effective ways of doing this that is environmental friendly. Basically, green technology focuses on house holds cleaning products, waste management, energy saving measures as well as long-term benefits of the changed attitudes to production and consumption (United Nations Environment Program 2006). Sustainability of green technology is key to ...

Part I

Original DNA Strand:

3’-TACCCTTTAGTAGCCACT-5’

Transcription (base sequence of RNA):

5’-UTGGGUUUTCUTCGGTGU-3’

Translation (amino acid sequence):

3’-TACCCTTTAGTAGCCACT-5’

What is the significance of the first and last codons?

Explanation: The first and last codons are very essential in that they dictate and command the direction of the transcription and synthesis of mRNA from the 5’ end towards the 3’ ends. Additionally, the first and last codons act like terminal points where protein synthesis begins and where it actually ends hence these codons actually determine the size of the animo acids produced which determine the type of and size of protein synthesized (Hartl, 2011).

What meaning do these codons have for protein synthesis?

Explanation: These codons are ...

To the extent that we all need to brand ourselves as part of a career strategy, how do you plan to solve the branding and differentiation problem?

In order to take the most rational steps on one’s career ladder, some preparation should be made. Undoubtedly, Alan A. Andolsen in his article ‘Six Steps to Your Succesful Career Path’ provides readers with very useful pieces of advice which are most likely to lead a person to success when choosing a career. I personally absolutely agree with the fact that the only true way to great heights may be found after the appropriate self-assessment and defining your place in desirable career hierarchy. What is more, networking may serve one a perfect tool for differentiation of the most coveted job as ...

Definition of Six Sigma

Six Sigma is a methodology of managing performance of processes. It does not only include improvement of projects but also all the steps which help in improving its success.

The steps involve:

Can be most successful if the leadership has a commitment to the philosophy and methodology that it entails. At each operational level, Process owners should be identified. They will be charged with the responsibility of tracking their group performance and hence determining the actions to be taken when some sort of improvement is needed. Some training should also be done to the Process owners so that they ...

Abstract

The purpose of our experiment was to visualize the effect of light intensity on oxygen production. In the capacity of a test subject we used algal cultures. For these researches we used the Winkler method of titration. Our experiment results showed that there is an effect of light intensity on oxygen production. Our research has a great significance for agriculture, biochemistry and biophysics.

Introduction

Photosynthesis is the metabolic process by which plants trap solar energy, convert it to chemical energy, and store it in the bonds of organic nutrient molecules, such as glucose. Nearly all types of plants and algae, as well ...

Introduction

Goals are crucial aspects in the life of human beings as they generate a sense of direction towards realization of set objectives. However these set goals are never perfect and need constant reviewing and evaluation for purposes of adjustment depending on emerging circumstances or situations, hence set goals ought to be flexible enough to accommodate change.

Human beings posses the unique attribute, that enable them to conjure in their minds events that aren’t happening and didn’t happen in the past. This attribute is what is referred to as the practice of visualization. This practice majorly focuses on events ...

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Abstract

This paper presents an ...

Executive summary

Sustainable development has been defined by the World Commission on Environment as development that meets the needs of a generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. (OECD, 1987)

In this age and era, the world is faced with many challenges including economic crises, global warming, poor health and loss of diversity. Sustainable development is thus employed to reconcile human developments and the earth’s ecological systems. Public policy all over the world and especially in Canada has been centered on sustainable development and environmentally centered decision making. Sustainable development is thus centered on ensuring ...

As the words denote, air rights refers to the unused space above all properties. Air rights are seen as a form of developmental rights in real estates. On the other hand, real estates refer to the legal process involving land and all the activities done with an aim of developing the land. This involves the erection of buildings, drilling wells, putting up fences and will also include all other improvements on the land. Such improvements are done on a fixed location. In real estate, there are laws that regulate the activities done on the land. These include all the regulations and ...

The first strategic option that Ford is pursuing to increase its profitability is to close down older plants in order realign production and sales. This would help to reduce the number of vehicles that are produced per year since the company is currently producing more than the demand for the vehicles is available, leading to reduced prices. The older plants are not as efficient as the new plants, and ...

The case provides some background information about Monsanto which is the world’s largest seed company with annual sales of $11.7 billion. The case tackles the general environment of the company which includes the technological, global, and political legal dimensions. The task environment, comprising of the customers and customers is also addressed as well as the means the company is using to balance the needs of the stakeholders and the environment. The company faces big challenges in developing and introducing GM seeds; these concerns center on the potential harmful effects of the GM seeds on the environment and the ...