Essays on Undermining

Financial desperation is among the main factors that drive individuals, mostly women, to venture into prostitution as a way of making ends meet. The moral dilemma depicted by the woman who is deserted by her husband, friends, and relatives and has a little kid to feed generates the need for research into the moral and ethical issues involved in such scenario under different frameworks. There exist various groups that have called for tougher legislations focused on protecting cash trapped women who are going out there to support their families. However, there is a need to provide such women with ...

Throughout history, Bollywood films have illustrated a representation of women in India in various forms. Arguably, it is certain that Bollywood films comprise of gender-based stereotypes. The female characters, situations, and plots concerning women in Indian films have been steered by stereotypical ideologies. Across the globe, extensive research had indicated that Indian films top the list of undermining women. Moreover, a sample survey established that Indian females, for an extended period of time, have portrayed females in sexualized roles. It is well-known that the notion of objectifying women on the screen has been a conspicuous issue that the films ...

During the last eight years the European financial crisis that started in 2008 has presumably proved to be the biggest challenge the European community faced for decades. Economic turmoil that hit the most such countries as Greece, Spain, Portugal, Ireland, Cyprus was even more accentuated by the fact that most European countries have common currency – euro. Therefore, in the light of this last circumstance, debt crisis would have been not so strong if it touched only one or two countries. However, shared currency and, therefore, closely intertwined financial systems add up to the domino effect happening in the European ...

Introduction

Karen Warren coined the term “Ecofeminism” in explaining the logic of domination where the notion of people’s control over nature as a whole is wrong and for the same reason that the subordination of women to the will of men is also wrong. According to argument, feminists should object to the idea domination because subordination of women and domination over nature both represents the logic of domination. On the other hand, the asserted claim of twin domination encompasses several issues. In this discussion, Warren’s logic of domination and the concept of ecofeminism will be examined by explaining ...

Voice and its role in the understanding of an organizational issue or organizational practice.

Introduction Voice is a major part of the communication process. The voice used affects the way an individual processes information. There are many different aspects of voice such as tone, and pitch(Scherer & Sander 2005). The following essay discusses the impact that using voice on employees possesses and the ways I which voice aids our understanding of the organizational practice and organizational issue.

Voice is defined as an active attempt to air out dissatisfaction and search for ways to resolve the dissatisfaction and advice changes (Bryant, 2006). It is when employees or consumers inform the high level of issues ...

Regulation of Social Media Use

The current rise of social media has seen both positive and adverse impacts on organizations. For example, it enhances communication in firms. In the context of law enforcement agencies, it fosters the handling of crime matters. Besides, the transmission of information is also improved when information is conveyed via Facebook and Twitter (Information Management Journal, 2014). Most of the law enforcement organizations have a Facebook page that is primarily used for posting various events of the respective agency. Research shows that there is an increment in the misuse of social media. For instance, employees usually post confidential information on ...

An overview of the topic.

In the recent past, power and politics at the office place is becoming popular at an alarming rate. Office politics are played to help the executives and managers to attain an added advantage for a cause they support. For a long period, the term, “office politics” has been having a negative connotation because it is highly linked to strategies used persons to seek advantage at the expense of others. On the other hand, it can be said that good “office politics” serves to help an organization achieve its objective and goals through effective networking and stakeholder management (Hickey & Mohan, ...

The novel The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander and Michelle McCool is another outstanding addition to the already rich literature on racism, specifically that which targets African Americans. From the years of slavery until today, it is safe to say that although there are observable changes regarding the issue, they were only minimal. Proof to this is the number of cases that have been committed against African Americans, with 1,134 deaths involving police officers in 2015. Despite America’s claims that racism doesn’t exist anymore, with the country’s president a black American himself, and Oprah ...

The rise of social media has had both positive impacts as well as adverse effects in organizations. For instance, it fosters communication in organizations especially when information is conveyed via social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter. Besides, the transfer of information is fast to the intended audience through the use of the agency’s Facebook page (Quinn, 2016). However, there is a skyrocketing misuse of social media by employees from different organizations. Workers of various agencies around the world often misuse confidential information. Furthermore, there are high chances of misinterpreting of the firms’ views through the use ...

Introduction

Education is essential in fostering cognitive and moral developments in a learner. In fact, Churchill (103) argues that learning institutions ought to base their curriculum on the betterment of student’s knowledge by fostering ethical values such as equality, fairness, lack of discrimination and respect for culture. However, residential schools threatened the development of this conservative ideology through the establishments of their education systems. They fostered not only cultural discrimination but also student abuse. According to the Canadian Journal of Nursing Research, the establishment of these institutions was based on two core objectives, which included the isolation of young ...