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Personality in an organization best defines organizational culture. Culture involves values, assumptions, artifacts and norms of diverse people who associate with the organization. Since organizations comprise of many people from different backgrounds and cultures, the unity created through belonging to the same organization makes them sense the culture of the organization. Therefore, the culture of an organization is seen as a system that drives the people in an organization. At Starbuck, the organization culture remains one of the critical things for managing the company operations. The company culture in this company starts with the top-level management down the line ...

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a medical condition that can never be completely healed, as the virus will remain in the organism despite treatment. Furthermore, HIV can lead to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), which is the most advanced phase of HIV infection (Eramova, Matic & Munz, 2007). This chronic disease reached its peak in the mid-eighties, when an AIDS epidemic spread across United State and many other nations, causing the death of many individuals carrying this virus (Centers of Disease Control and Prevention, 2016). The virus continues to spread, increasing the number of people living with AIDS, which reached up ...

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Healthcare professionals work in the community and members of the community have diverse cultures. There are practices that are acceptable in different cultures and those that are not. It is important for a healthcare professional to be aware of the cultural factors of healthcare professionals so that they can remain respectful of the consumer’s culture as they provide their services. Furthermore, according to Lie, Lee-Rey, Gomez, Bereknyei & Braddock (2011) it helps improve patient outcomes. Description of the relevance and relationship between culture/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and cultural competence: Cultural competence is the awareness that a person possesses about different ...

Breast cancer is identified as the most common cancer among women in the world (Chlebowski, Chen, Anderson, Rohan, Aragaki, Paskett, and Prentice, 2013). The prevalence rates have increased in the recent past, a trend associated with lifestyle attributes such as improper diets and lack of exercise. In as much as genetics play a contributory role in the development of breast cancer, a significant part is associated with these changes. An interesting aspect is that the ailment affects women differently in relation to differences in racial and ethnic considerations. In this regard, Asian women are the least affected group in ...

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Ergonomics is a field of applied science that focuses on arranging and designing equipment used by people in a manner that will result in optimized efficiency and safety. The emergence of humanistic management theories has created an emphasis on developing work environments that recognize employee values and needs. One such aspect of these theories is the concept of ergonomics, which recognizes the need for a safe work environment in achieving efficiency and organizational goals. The environment studied in this simulation is a simple workshop that has a computer desk, server, conveyor belt, office chair and two computer monitors. The ...

For hundreds of years, silk industry flourished in China and the process of silk cultivation and weaving became an integral part of the Chinese society. Even today, many fashion designers from all over the world still covet silk fabrics because of its smooth and soft texture; the fibers are either plain white or tinted with various colors depending on the customer’s preferences. The traditional Chinese silk consists of many patterns mostly based on abstract designs such as Chinese knots, flowers, dragons, and other imagery based from the Chinese mythology and nature. Silk is a type of fiber originating ...

On Feb 5, 2016, a judge in a California Court sentenced Dr. Hsiu Tseng to life in prison for 30 years for the involuntary murder of her patients who totalled 3 in number. Her patients had according to the District Attorney overdosed on the prescriptions that she wrote. When Dr. Tseng joined Rowland Clinic in California in 2007, little did she know that it would be the last place she would ever practice in her professison. On her short-lived career at Rowland Clinic, she wrote prescriptions for more than 27,000 patients. This translated to about 25 patients in ...

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Question 1 The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) defines sexual harassment as an activity that is performed by an individual to harass another person because of the victim’s sex. Harassment mainly includes unwelcome sexual advances or sexual harassment, physical or verbal harassment related to sex and request for sexual favors. According to the EEOC, workplace harassment is conduct that includes physical, verbal or visual harassment related to a person’s sex ("Sexual Harassment", 2016). Workplace harassment may also be related to the religion, creed, national origin, marital status, color or age of the victim. Workplace harassment includes ...

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Management of companies requires a multiplicity of skills. This is so because the entrance of new management styles by new managers in a company may lead to instability in the employees and consequently affecting the company’s business. Bryan (2006) shares the same sentiments by noting that new managers need to be highly cautious of the new environment and learn the ropes of the workforce so as to deal with the different employee needs and cater for the diverse egos. The case of Jan Van der Werde and other employees in this company is no different to the usual employees’ behavior ...