Essays on Success

Many people are unaware that they are a living magnet. They attract everything around them. This includes people, ideas, lifestyles, and other circumstances (Evans, 2006, p. 26). “I absolutely think that happiness is a choice. One of the most potent forces in human psychology is the power of habit. Do something, think something, and often enough it will become the only thing you can do or think. Choose to be unhappy and soon that’s all you will be. Live in a swamp and you’ll grow webbed feet” (Evans, 2005). This famous quote by Nicholas Evans explains that ...

1. The Five Guys’ philosophy employed targets the welfare of their customers to realize higher sales and large profit margins. This philosophy “we figure our best salesman is our customer”, has enabled the enterprise rake in profits. Their believe and focus is laid on treating their customers well with quality products a factor that makes them sell out their name. They ensure they offer to quality products to their customers at prices determined from the sale of the ingredients. Customers retain their good relations due to offering of quality products at prices worth the quality of the goods a ...

Business

This course is quite hands on as far as tangible, practical, academic and career success are concerned. It has been very instrumental in my development in both academics as well as my future demographics. It has equipped me with the ability to formulate a realistic working plan, come up with tangible success strategies and self-evaluation strategies that are bias free and enable me to assess myself with high degrees of honesty and sincerity. I am now equipped with adequate reading skills and writing skills, which are pivotal for my academic success as well as the necessary academic etiquette necessary ...

In his argument about the film “American Splendor,” Hight (2007) seems to propose that adaptation of the comic into a film overcame most of the challenges and barriers that face such an attempt. In order to prove that Hight brought about this argument, there is a need to look into arguments by other writers with regard to adaptation of comics into films. This paper does so by looking at arguments by two film analysts. It will first look at the challenges associated with adapting a comic into a film. With this background, the paper will then look at ...

Personal Statement

I have chosen biology as my field of study, in order to facilitate my career objective to be an entrepreneur in the field of medical services – specifically in-vitro-fertilization (IVF) and sperm banking. This Bachelor of Sciences degree in biology will provide me with the necessary qualification and background to establish myself as a laboratory director in any of the countries I have short-listed as possible locations to start my own business. Most of those are either in South America (Argentina, Chile, and Colombia) or in Eastern Europe (Bulgaria, Romania, and Russia). As Russia is my home country, that could ...

In order to be a professional accountant, one needs ethics. Throughout history, accounting has partially reflected morals practice in the world of business. A successful accounting profession requires ethical knowledge and skills. The knowledge and skills helps the accountant to differentiate between right and wrong and build a personal fortitude to make the right decisions.

By keeping in mind ethical factors, accountants can easily manifest peer pressure. Accountants who practice high ethical standards, never focus on short term goals like keeping up revenue goals or satisfying investors, instead, they focus on the long term goals. This helps the company ...

Alexander, S. (2012). “Creating Excellent Relationships That Can Lead to Marriage”. Marriage Transformation LLC. Retrieved from 8th October, 2013

The work seeks to evaluate the path towards the realization of healthy marriages. This is with respect to the eventual turn of events under the marriage union. Apparently, the marriage, as a union, is challenged by a set of difficulties in terms of the sustainability and the eventual success of a significant number of marriages. The author seeks to commence a comparison between the contributors of successful unions against the promoters of the failed unions. ...

Summary

This paper will clearly show the connection between personal responsibility and college success. It will discuss the requirements and strategies that need to be followed in order to succeed in college life as well as maintain a better life in other schedules. This involves balancing responsibilities at work and maintaining effective relations with family members. It brings out the positive aspects acquired in college life that help to shape the livelihood of people in the society. Issues like proper time management, help in shaping the life of a human being and make them responsible people.

Personal Responsibility and ...

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, ends by describing a “something commensurate to his (humanity’s) capacity for wonder.” (Fitzgerald, 189) Taking place in the 20th Century, there was a trend in American culture and as a result literature to explore the human need and capacity to dream for something more, something greater than current circumstance. That “something commensurate” appears necessary for a man’s happiness while at the same time is capable of leading to his downfall and misery. The United States at the time that The Great Gatsby takes place was drowning in unprecedented wealth. (BBC). ...

INTRODUCTION

The objective of this study is to evaluate the impact of effective leadership of the overall growth and development of the organization. To do so, the study focuses upon defining leadership along with its importance within an organization. In addition, the benefits that are provided to an organization have also been taken into consideration. In the end, the impact of effective leadership on the overall growth and development of the organization have been taken into consideration. All the information provided regarding the importance of leadership, and its impact on the overall growth along with the development of the ...

Abstract

This paper will consider over the historical period of The Twenties. This paper will reveal questions and answer reflecting this time. This paper will be addressing the critical questions.

Main Body

The Harlem Renaissance was the historical period from 1920 to 1930. This was movement because it was the time the blacks’ growth in the form of literature, art, and music. The four primary members of this moment caused the movement toward this period. There were countless people and events that make this era historical. One of the initial members was Laughton Hughes who was an author. Another was Bessie Smith ...

- Contract Terms and Conditions

Our organization may opt to use the RFP as the ideal document for binding the contract between us and the contractor or possibly draw up separate document that will serve as the contract. Either way, contract condition and ...

Part 1

EMBARKATION OF THE PILGRIMS by Robert W. Weir The painting shows the pilgrims who were on the deck of the speedwell ship in the July 22, 1620 where they went to search for their religious freedom. The artist is trying to show how the group was grieved and thinking about what they were about to do. The painting depicts the feeling of graveness because the group was not certain about what they were going to do, but they were hopeful God could protect them. This was depicted by the message “God with Us” on the upper left of the ...

Introduction:

- The major point is that during the early stage of emergence of commercial and imperial activities Britain was not privileged to be amongst the beneficiaries due to the fact that Portuguese doing exemplary good. - Britain was forced to watch as Asia and Portuguese made it through Europe and brought back the desired goods for the wealthy people in the continent. - Portuguese caravels dealt with exotic goods such as silks and spices that got a remarkable sale in Europe making Britain to envy the success. This success is contributed by the fact that the goods got into ...

The NBA championship is the main basketball championship in the United States. The championship is divided into two sections, the West and East coast conferences, where teams from both sections compete to become the ultimate champions. From research and simple logic, it can be deduced that the team with the least losses in the season eventually go on to win the championship in the playoffs. However, the number of losses, or wins, that a team has does not solely determine the win, since the final games determine the eventual winner. However, the record that a team has indicates the ...

Negotiation is an extremely critical element to determine once ability to communicate accordingly. It is a form of dialogue between people with an intention to reach an understanding over an issue. At most instances, individuals may not understand the negotiation skills they got until they engage in a form of dialogue where a conclusion is needed. However, people may have some idea of their negotiation skills which they may show through filling a questionnaire. This has been a platform through which I unveiled my negotiation skills. One of the major elements that sustain healthy negotiations is sincerity and trustworthiness ...

- How is searching in a specific database, such as Ashford’s library, different from searching in Bing, Google, or Yahoo?

Searching in an online library is different from searching using search engines in that the results returned by online libraries consist mostly of scholarly sources, such as engines include both scholarly and non-scholarly sources. In other words, the results returned by search engines include a wider variety of content, which can include websites, blogs, wikis, and others. As such, it is possible for search engine results to include the same content returned by online libraries but online libraries will not return all of the results returned by search engines. Still, another ...

Teaching English language to people in different countries that are non-native speakers entails a lot of duties and responsibilities. An English teacher should apply the principles of motivation in most, if not all, aspects of language learning acquisition . There is a need for proper preparation/planning, execution, assessment/evaluation, and re-evaluation of students’ learning. Primarily, a teacher should look at, not only his /her role and perspective teaching the subject, but also consider the personal viewpoints and motivation of young learners. Thus, questions arise as to: Why is motivation important in the classroom? Why do students have different types of motivation? ...

1. Human performance technology is characterized by the four principles given as focus on results, taking a system view, creating value for the individual or organization and establishing partnerships with clients and other professionals. Essentially, HPT begins with the analysis of the desired results and then moves backwards towards determination of behaviors that guide the achievements of such results. Similarly, HPT explores the differences in leadership in terms of the degree of fluency. Just the same way people exhibit different leadership practices in different degree, HPT treats leadership fluency as it would treat any other kind of fluency. As ...

Debatably, personal responsibility is as one’s ability to wholly take care of oneself by means of treating oneself with respect, keeping healthy, keeping a sound mind and managing one's emotions. Personal responsibility is basically taking responsibility for one's actions and accepting the consequences that come along. It is the overall conscious that one has to willingly accept the importance of every individual and standards that are established in the society. It could also mean that individuals do not have to blame others or other factors outside themselves for failure to meet their expected goals and standards. In education, ...

Decision making process is a fundamental element and a central function in the health care industry for efficiency in delivery of medical products and services. It is basically the process of determining of the best choice to be made in order to attain the set objectives of health care entity. This process demands for influence, necessary behavioral skills and leadership for a successful implementation to take place.

Patient autonomy vs. beneficence is the critical ethical dilemma in the health care industry as discussed previously that prompt the management to formulated possible solution. The solution will enable the decision making ...

In determining the appropriate leadership model that best suits me, I have to define what leadership means to me first. To me, leadership is a process; it is the process through which an individual’s authority is exercised. As a leader exercises that authority, it is highly likely that he/she will exhibit some leadership style. The leadership style is recognizable from the way the leader caries out his/her functions and through the manner in which the leader behaves. According to research, there are four most common leadership styles, and this includes: authoritarian, paternalistic, democratic and laisez-faire leadership ...

- Summary

In the article “Children Need to Play, Not Compete” written by Jessica Statsky, she stated that competitive sports can cause psychological and physical dangers to children brought about by injuries and the fear of losing the game.

Statsky stated that organized sports activities for children between the ages of six and twelve children have become too competitive that the spirit of play have disappeared and sports have been considered as a job where children as tasked to win (2). It was emphasized that winning, which is the primary goal for every professional athlete should not be made ...

Marketing can be understood as a process of putting tools for communicating about the value of any products or services available to the potential customers, for the main purpose of selling these products or services. Marketing as a component in business is therefore critical for attracting customers. Business and management authors have put forward some definitions of marketing. According to investors.about.com, marketing is a set activities with strategies, which result in making the products get noticed and also satisfy the potential customers and at the same time making profits for the producing companies for these products. According to this ...

Education

Introduction

Child development is a crucial process that considers different nuances. In the process of development, a child faces a variety of issues that require constant motivation and guidance. Ideally, the life of a child revolves around motivation and achievements. Motivation in child development refers to the act of arousing a person or a being into appropriate actions with a goal that is desirable in mind. In the child, several actions and goals lay in the future. Learning becomes a vital aspect in this case. Motivation, therefore, dwells upon appropriating critical desires to perform an action. Motivation can either ...

1. Business networking is simply the relationship a particular firm or business has and maintains with other firms or businesses.

This has been identified to be an important factor in the success of any business, as it opens businesses to more prospective customers and wider participation in a market. Mazzarol (2003) stated that small firms, having recognized the importance of alliances spend a lot of time to maintain and strengthen the relationships. This was a result of a study conducted among ICT firms in Australia. Likewise, in a review of how networking has contributed to innovation in the United ...

Mergers and acquisitions are some of the most common forms of business strategies. It is usually used to expand the economic performance of one company. At this point, the manufacturer of hard candies chooses to acquire the manufacturer of soft candies. Before the acquisition, it is always advisable to carry out a research on the kind of partnership that the two businesses are willing to operate. Since there are various department in the company a concrete and reliable research would be needed to ensure outstanding information is gathered for the business partnership. All departments represent different roles in the ...

Introduction

Entrepreneurs have to develop favourable business environments in order to succeed in their undertakings. Developing a favourable environment refers to the process of ensuring continuity of business activities while gaining a competitive advantage. Business environment include conditions that influence the proper functioning of an organization. These conditions include institutional, political, legal, and economic conditions. Further, business environment can be discussed in two perspectives. These include internal and external business environment. This paper seeks to discuss business environment and how the business surrounding is at large. Business Environment

The success of a business entity is influenced by both ...

Question 1

The external environment greatly affects the operation of the Wall Mart. One of the external environments that have a significant impact on the business is the economic conditions. This is because the economy attributes to the expansion of the business. If the interest rates are high, it becomes extremely impossible for the business people to borrow from the banks resulting to expensive capital to borrow.

Favorable taxation rates determine whether expansion of the business. This is because if the taxation rates are favorable, it encourages hiring and the growth of the business which will later result to the expansion ...

The robotic arm moved from side to side, as if waving hello. My friend Tim was running some final tests before the MATE ROV competition, which he had been working towards with his team for months. Together they built a submarine Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) and I had the incredible opportunity to participate! The goal of the competition itself, every year, is to complete a series of tasks underwater and in a limited amount of time. Each year, though, has a general theme that is applied to the competition, such as “fixing the BP oil spill” or “detecting sunken ...

Bombardier Inc. is a global manufacturer of transportation and communication equipments. The company is based in Canada and produces railcars, jet boats, and snowmobiles. In order to compete in a global market and achieve economies of scale, Bombardier has standardized its products and marketing strategies (Bombardier, 2013). Its customers demand for different kinds of products and this has motivated the company into producing products that are customized for the global market. Therefore, the company is pursuing a strategy of establishing top to bottom design and production facilities in various regions in order to better serve for global demands. However, ...

Effective communication tools are important for students to grasp while still undergoing their tenure in school. The way teachers communicate and interact with their students helps students build confidence on different ways they can communicate. Teachers are seen as leaders in the eyes of their students; thus, comprehensive teaching techniques improve communication and understanding within the class. The need to understand and be understood in class is a vital component. Engaging students is, therefore, a brilliant skill that teachers have to master. This paper seeks to discuss the importance of effective communication skills between teachers and scholars.

Students must ...

The Perfect Forms

Plato’s theory of perfect forms was meant to solve several problems. Among the problems the theory was supposed to solve were: how could human beings have a fulfilling and happy life in a world where they can lose everything they are attached to, and how the world would be both permanent and dynamic. Plato split existence into two; the material and transcendent realm of forms in order to solve these problems. Plato argues that the forms are transcendent in that they only exist in space and time, they are pure to mean they are separated ...

Introduction

Conflict management refers to the act of enhancing works that diminish the unconstructive aspects of conflict and promote the constructive aspects of it. The whole process aims at improving efficacy in organizational set ups. Conflicts can be managed using five different responses, which are usually founded on two facets; assertiveness and cooperativeness (Eunson, 2012). These responses include forcing, avoiding, compromising, accommodating and collaborating. This paper seeks to explore on each of these responses to conflict and provide a scenario where they can be best applied.

Responses to conflict

Forcing

Forcing is one of the responses that can be used in conflict management. ...

For the purpose of accomplishing the task of this report, we have chosen, Mid Atlantic Diabetic Medical Centre. Diabetes is a major issue in countries and specifically in the United States, where the number stands staggeringly high at 25.8 million patients, which amounts to approximately 8% of the total population. The number of Type 2 diabetes still continues to increase at a staggeringly high rate. The most alarming factor is that around 79 million people are at a pre-diabetes stage which means they are at a very high risk of having diabetes in the near future. Apart from this, ...

Perseverance can be considered to be a most crucial element for success in every sphere of life (Frank et al. 2005). Frank et al. (2005) refers to perseverance as carrying on efforts unto success without being halted by opposing forces. When it comes to study, perseverance means continuing studying without being stopped by failure in exams or complications that come with study. The student’s ability to stick to their goals with hard work and effort that is required has a lot to do with accomplishments than to getting to a highly ranked university. Arguably, children can not learn ...

Upon returning from school, my son immediately rushed towards me sobbing. His tears scared me off making me run my hands all around his body in the search of a bleeding wound. Alas! Instead of a bruise, I found his test scores. To my amazement, these tears were not because of failing the course, but because of not scoring the highest. Wiping off his tears, I smiled at him telling him that success and intelligence is not always measured by scores. It is the effort, the dreams and the hard work which counts because grades do not reflect a ...

For teachers to be successful in their teaching, teachers need to have pedagogical content knowledge of the subject that are teaching (Gess-Newsome, Lederman & Association for the Education of Teachers in Science, 2001). According to study done by Shulman’s teachers need to have deep understanding of the subject matter that they teach their students and these knowledge are divided into two categories; structure of knowledge and practical knowledge. Structure knowledge includes both the principals and theories of a particular subject. While on the other hand, practical knowledge involves the calculation and the composition that constitute a certain discipline. Both ...

Decades before even Columbus discovered the New World, Zheng He, a Chinese explorer had already made a number of successful voyages (Little 469). Zheng He, was a devoted Muslim and a eunuch, and among the most successful commanders of his time. Within a short time between 1405 and 1433, Zheng He led at least seven successful expeditions. This is one of his greatest accomplishments that Zheng He is celebrated for.

Zheng he was a man of huge physique (Littel 469). Given the situation at the time, it is amazing how he was able to lead the largest ever maritime ...

1. Please identify and describe the 5 conflict handling modes as set forth in the Thomas-Kilman Conflict Mode Instrument. In doing so be sure to set forth under what circumstances each might be appropriately used and the potential ramifications of using them too often or too little.

The Thomas-Kilman Conflict Mode Instrument is used to judge how well someone responds to the presence or possibility of conflict. The five conflict handling modes of the Thomas-Kilman Instrument work around two chief attributes: cooperativeness and assertiveness - in essence, all of the modes deal directly with how hard an ...

In the study of psychology, there are five broad dimensions used to describe personality of individuals. These include; extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism and openness to experience (Srivastava, 2013). These factors have a variety of other aspects and characteristics acquired from a study of traits evident in individuals’ descriptions of themselves and other people around them.

The first factor is Extraversion; a term used to describe an individual trait of being in touch with the ...

The management of conferences is as important as the management of any other initiative being undertaken by an organization. Conferences are short term program platforms that are carried out by organizations because their focus is on consultations or exchange of information or discussion, especially those dealing with a formal agenda. They identify the basic personality clusters that take part in a program or project including the contributors, the collaborators, the communicators and those who may challenge the aims and objectives of an initiative.

At the same time, conferences can be used to enhance the effectiveness of programs set for ...

Performance measures are vital in addressing the issues that are attributed to the success of organizations. This necessitates for deployment of a performance measurement procedure, which provides the relevant information required for basing decisions regarding the course an organization should follow to achieve its set goals. Organizations that have been established depend mainly on the turnout of the clients for their existence and success in the industry. It is therefore, of great importance to have a measure that is oriented towards evaluating the outcome of the activities undertaken by the organization. The outcome based performance measure is a tool ...

Before the 1400’s the European had not gained much interest in exploring the world. However, there was an explosion of exploration by the Europeans beginning in the 1400s towards the early 1600s. There exist a number of reasons for this new movement, ranging from economic reasons to technological advances. This paper aims at exploring the motives that inspired the European to explore and the factors that explained their success during that period in history. There are four main motives that inspired European exploration, which include the search for wealth, the discovery of trade roots, a desire to spread ...

Councilman Kraft James who is also the chairman of the judicial and legislative investigations committee has been a frustrated man since 2008. His frustrations accrue to lack of progress in Baltimore despite the many attempts, numerous meetings and set legislature (Tim par3).Tim Wheeler, an environmental reporter in Chesapeake bay, uses Kraft’s James frustrations to describe the real situation in the city. The city has officially been declared as ‘harbor impaired’ by the US Environmental Protection Agency.

If you have not been around the city’s waterfront lately, then you would not know what I’m talking about. ...

In recent years, there has been an increased interest in the study of high school retention in the United States. A high school diploma is a basic indicator of educational attainment, yet graduation rates have remained flat for decades. When the U.S. Department of Education’s data is compared to the data provided on census information, the numbers do not compare. The Common Core of Data (CCD), which is the information used by the U.S. Department of Education (USDEC), does not account for student who are repeating the 9th grade. It follows students from the 9th – 12th grade, but ...

Daniel Mitchell is the founder of the source a company started by selling computer parts to maintenance companies. He believes that in order for the company to be successful a business either had to be huge or it had to be a niche. His entrepreneurial mind chose a relatively high margin niche market. Mitchell started his company by negotiating a three month rent free deal on premises then trading on supplier’s credit and borrowing on his credit cards to fill the gaps when necessary. Mitchell had no capital he started by trading and getting supplier credit then reinvesting ...

Choosing a career in a rapid developing era like ours is a serious challenge to face. Surely, there are a lot of business areas that are very popular and profitable nowadays – for instance, Information Technology, Banking, Manufacturing and so on. We have become a generation of consumerism and every day each of us buy more and more products and property. It results in a growing fear to lose all this, and of course the main personal value – health, as today’s business environment requires a lot of energy and hard work. Undoubtedly, more people try to insure their private ...

The Mountain Madness challenge is a good rewards system that uses teamwork, bonding, and enjoyment to accomplish results. Depending on one's perception of what "your attitude determines your altitude" is, outcome varies a lot. Following are problems found in the case and possible solutions to solve the issues.

1. Negative attitude towards company efforts. Thinking negatively about the outcome without even trying often results to failed efforts or not even having the chance to carry out the goal. In Lena's case, she focused on "what could get wrong" instead of thinking of ways to overcome her challenges. She reacted ...

Quality management is a necessary function in any organization for the improvement in efficiency of organizational processes. Through quality management systems, a firm is able to attain good customer satisfaction, improved value in the supply chain, increased performance, and improved employee morale in customer awareness & satisfaction. According to Owlia (1997, pp. 527-543), during the quality management systems implementation phase, firms experience challenges, which at times may lead to failure in implementation of otherwise good systems. As a result, the organization is unable to reap the maximum benefits from the proposed improvements in organizational processes. The management has to look ...

Choosing a proper and successful lifetime career path is not an easy task to accomplish. Curriculum Vitae is considered to be the first step while starting any career – only in case you can make a prominent CV self-presentation demonstrating appropriate skills and abilities, as well as experience, you have a chance to acquire a perfect career of your dream. Considering all this, I decided to take a Curriculum plus unit as a means to enhance and develop my resume as well as realize my personal and professional skills, work on them and improve them in the process of studying.

I consider myself to be a ...

ECG is a rapid growing firm for IT, supply chain management, customer management and strategic consulting. In this regard, it is mandatory for the firm to have a proper code of conduct which is well defined that covers ethical and other compliance matters. As we desire to obtain responsible commercial prosperity, we will have to equilibrate these principles against each other, evermore mindful of our promise to the customers to forever achieve responsible commercial success. A proper code of conduct for the ECG firm includes three business gifts and six uses of company, client and supplier resources. These areas ...

Risk Planning

This is a proactive and systematic process of detailed recognition and programming required to minimize the anticipated risk in a project. It involves the project management and implementation of appropriate approaches to mitigate, control and prevent risk .For example: In order to start a new product category certain essential types of risks are kept under special consideration like; financial, legal, environmental, strategic, operational, marketing, production and advertising challenges. Strategic planning is needs to be done to cope up with all these mentioned types of risks and challenges to make new product development a successful venture.

Risk Assessment

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Introduction

It is the nature of human beings to live in communities which are commanded by leaders. Usually people endeavor to become great and admired leaders to their subjects. Scholars have attempted to suggest how to become good leaders in each era of existence. Machiavelli is among the educated people who have put forward suggestions on how to become great leaders. He suggested the methods of becoming a powerful prince through many illustrations and a narration of Kings who lived in the past. Lao Tzu on the other hand suggested different methods of becoming great leaders. The writings of ...

Education Standards in the State of Florida

It is no secret that good teachers are important. However, the meaning of teacher competition has transformed throughout the nation. The Educator’s Accomplished Practices has to be demonstrated in the state of Florida, and this is why the teaching practices and programs are being transformed by teachers/educators. Instead of perpetrating an outdated model and seeking to codify statewide expectations, a standards-based model was elected in the state. Although there are several education standards-based documents that are followed in the state of Florida, three documents that have been analyzed and will be discussed here are:

1. Florida Early Learning ...

Personal strengths are individual internal characteristics that can be referred to as the assets that enable one to live a healthy successful life. They are the core competencies that describe the individual’s innate capacity to accomplish his/her dreams. However, most of the people are unable to identify their specific strengths. Research has shown that unless one is able to point out their strengths, they may not attain their full potential as far as succeeding in life is concerned. To help in the identification of personal interest, several individuals have embarked on programs that enable people to ...

Kenneth Cole is well knows not only for his successful business but also for his numerous social advertisements. Among these is the advertisement titled “Wake up call” which came out on the break of the century. This is truly a work of modern art that not only effectively uses marketing strategies, but also makes one think and ponder over the idea portrayed. This advertisement is especially successful because it is depicted on an everyday object; uses play of words and at the same times gives clear facts about the situation at hand.

You can no longer surprise anyone with ...

1. Definition of the problem

Human Resource (HR) is one of the important intangible factors which contribute to long term achievements of a company; however HR professionals (HRPs) lack the ability to devise and apply successful course of action in line with vision and mission of an organization. The world of business is extremely active where marketplace changes rapidly, today’s updates are tomorrow’s outdates which has turned the role of HRM towards Strategic HRM (SHRM) consequently the role of HRPs to be more strategic than before.

2. Summary of the previous investigations

The ...

PART 1

In my own words, I explain sociocultural theory as the theory that the things around individuals (notably social factors) influence their cognition. Lev Vygotsky, the proponent of sociocultural theory, stated that development in every individual’s culture occur in two levels: on the social and the individual level (1978). Individuals (especially children, in consonance to Vygotsky’s emphasis) such as parents, mentors, peers and the like can affect people’s cognition (Vygotsky, 1978). In highlighting the influence of society to individual development, James Lantolf reiterated Vygotsky’s “zone of proximal development”, which is the variance of an ...

Balanced scorecard is a performance measurement tool, which allows companies to monitor the achievement of the company strategy and organizational goals. Unlike most of performance measurement systems that narrowly focus on financial performance indicators, balanced scorecard gives a holistic picture of the company performance by evaluating it from 4 perspectives: customer perspective, business process perspective, learning and growth perspective, and financial perspective (Niven, 2008).

Customer perspective is central for most organizations, as customer satisfaction is the greatest determinant of company success. This part of the balanced scorecard measures how well the company manages to add value for their customers. ...