...Schulz Devry University Cultural Diversity in the Professions SOCS350 William Tutol January 10, 2014 Importance of Understanding Culture Diversity in the Workplace In business today it is important to have a diverse group of employees in the workplace. Our textbook defines diversity as real or perceived differences among people in race, ethnicity, sex, age, physical and mental ability, sexual orientation, religion, work and family status, weight and appearance, and other identity-based attributes that affect their interactions and relationships (Bell, 2012, p. 5). It is very important to understand the cultural, ethnical, and gender differences by professionals and management in the workforce in this day and age. If an organization develops a reputation for valuing all types of employees, it will become known as an employer of choice, in which workers from all backgrounds feel they have the opportunity to work, grow, and be treated fairly (Bell, 2012, p. 4). By being diverse in its employees, a business has a better opportunity for new ideas and growth potential and less likely to be stymied. Despite extraordinary corporate and media attention paid to diversity in the past thirty years, discrimination, inequality, and exclusion persist in organizations (Bell, 2012, p. 4). As discussed this week in class, when the department head turned down the Jamaican friend for the position, even though he seemed better qualified, it showed stereotyping and prejudices can have a negative...
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...STAFFING AT WAL-MART Staffing at Wal-mart Christopher Rogers Grand Canyon University AMP-34 Human Resources 8/15/10 Staffing at Wal-Mart Title VII is an amendment to the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Discrimination was abundant prior to the amendment. Discrimination was not just limited to race but was becoming clear that gender was as well. As time went on several additions to the act was also incorporated. Discrimination against pregnant women, handicapped people, race, religion just to name a few was a common practice. Title VII was the beginning of many changes to combat discrimination. The government established Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to enforce the anti-discrimination laws. They were allowed to levy fines and other penalties to those employers that discriminated against the protected groups. The EEOC also established a training and information program to assist employers to avoid discriminating. Basically Title VII was to ensure that everyone had the same opportunity regardless of gender, race, handicapped, or any of the other protected groups. At Wal-mart gender equality is still an issue.” Statistics show that females lag behind men in almost all categories. From 1996 to 2001 Wal-Mart had a 50% increase in employment yet, the number of women during the same period declined from 67% to 64%”. (Mark 2003) The Dukes vs., Wal-mart discrimination suit filed in 2000 is still pending. “The case started in 2000, when a 54-year-old Wal-Mart worker...
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...in the media, particularly in journalism. BBC journalist, Oscar Williams, states that the struggles ethnic writers and women have to deal with greatly contrasts the success white men experience and further proves that Britain seeks to allow white men to thrive in areas multiculturalism and women do not get the chance to (par 6-7). Women and minorities alike are subjected to unfair treatment in print media despite their experience in relation to a white man. Such instances could involve white men ranking higher than women and minorities in the same field, even if they have equal experience in comparison to a white man. Inequality should not be present in a work force meant to be impartial and uniting; however, such is not the case in British media where whites appear to be more important than minorities. Additionally, multicultural teens do not have positive role models to look up to. Since the 1960s, youths in Britain have been in search of an identity, and with the media...
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...By definition, media bias means, “Media bias is the bias or perceived bias of journalists and news producers within the mass media in the selection of events and stories that are reported and how they are covered.” There are several types of sources, such as technology and articles, that is efficient at spreading information through media. However, society is negatively affected when media portrays bias and non-credible information through technology and published articles. There have been several resources on the problem regarding wage gaps due to ethnicity and genders. In the article, It’s Time We Talked About the Ethnicity Pay Gap, Sadiq Khan uses her personal experiences to prove that blacks and women have a more difficult time trying to...
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...attention to this issue as law-enforcement agencies across the United States have faced allegations of racial profiling. In the 1990s, the politics generated by accounts of racially biased policing placed heightened pressure on law-enforcement agencies. However, to date, few studies have explored whether the increased social and political scrutiny placed on police organizations influenced or changed their general pattern of enforcement among black and white citizens. Using data in the search and citation file from the North Carolina Highway Traffic Study, this research specifically examined whether the politics generated by the media coverage of racial profiling and racial profiling legislation in North Carolina influenced the search practices of officers of the North Carolina State Highway Patrol’s drug interdiction team. The findings suggest that media accounts and the passage of new legislation were particularly powerful influences, which thereby reduced racial disparity in searches. Declines in the use of consent searches and an increased probability of finding contraband also were influenced by the politics of racial profiling. * This article is part of a larger project on racial profiling funded by the National Institute of Justice (#99-MU-CX-0022). The points of view expressed in this article are those of the authors and do not...
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...of sociology is the inevitable social inequality in the society. When talk about inequality, sociologists usually link stratifying institutions which label people into social categories such as the educational system and the formal labor market. The three articles discussed below explore the different faces of inequality in society. These articles are Incarceration and Stratification (2010), The Mark of Criminal Record (2003) and The Black-White Test Score Gap (2004). The overarching theme that will be pointed out below is inequality face by black people in the United States. These articles show inequalities face by black people in three different landscapes: incarceration cells, employment, and education. This paper included the role of media in the proliferation of racial inequality between white and black people. Lastly, this paper also presented the missing gaps on literature and how should we address the problem of racial inequality. Summary Inequality is present in incarceration cells. Wakefield and Uggen (2010) claimed that incarceration became a powerful “engine of social inequality that plays a massive and racialized part in the contemporary stratification system” (Wakefield and Uggen, 2010, p. 388). The study conducted by Wakefield and Uggen (2010) covers the scope of imprisonment and the process of selection into prison. The authors then proceed by giving the implications of incarceration in different aspects of their lives such as education, labor market, health...
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...America is a very competitive country, they always have to be number one in everything they do. During the twelve year space race, if the Soviet Union would have been the first to put a man on the moon, then America would have had to retaliate by spending more money, doing endless research on going to Mars and possibly starting a settlement. The space race would descend, but America would never settle being in second place for long. “President Kennedy was convinced that with a strong commitment of a free people, America could get there first. He appealed to the spirit of adventure, to patriotic pride, and to the cause of freedom. America responded with one of the greatest mobilizations of resources and manpower in U.S. history.”1 The love for...
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...military's crackdown against workers. During the 1891 Chilean Civil War, Tilley and a small contingent of sailors and marines defended the American consulate in Santiago, Chile. Commanding the gunship USS Newport in the Spanish–American War, he captured two Spanish Navy ships. After the war Tilley was promoted to captain and became the acting governor of Tutuila and Manua, present-day American Samoa, where he set legal and administrative precedents for the new territory. Tilley's successor, Captain Uriel Sebree, praised his "great ability, kindness, tact and sound common sense". He was promoted to rear admiral after almost 41 years of naval service, but died within a month from pneumonia. (Full article...) Recently featured: The Boat Race 1993 Christ lag in Todes Banden, BWV 4 Winnipeg Archive By email More featured articles... Did you know... A sketch of Santi Sergio e Bacco in the Roman Forum A sketch of Santi Sergio e Bacco in the Roman Forum ... that contrary to popular belief, Ss. Sergio e Bacco al Foro Romano (pictured) may not have been destroyed so that Charles V could pass through the Arch of Septimius Severus? ... that "Long Way to Go" received criticism for its sample of "I Have a Dream"? ... that Keenu Gill became vice-captain of the Hong Kong women's national cricket team at the age of 17? ... that the obsolete constellation Telescopium Herschelii commemorated Herschel's discovery of Uranus? ... that Speak Life is considered the debut album of Sev Statik, even...
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...Economics and Human Biology 11 (2013) 134–147 Contents lists available at SciVerse ScienceDirect Economics and Human Biology journal homepage: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/ehb Fast food prices, obesity, and the minimum wage Chad Cotti a, Nathan Tefft b,* a b Department of Economics, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, Oshkosh, WI 54901, USA Department of Economics, Bates College, Lewiston, ME 04240, USA A R T I C L E I N F O A B S T R A C T Article history: Received 1 August 2011 Received in revised form 22 March 2012 Accepted 9 April 2012 Available online 15 April 2012 Recent proposals argue that a fast food tax may be an effective policy lever for reducing population weight. Although there is growing evidence for a negative association between fast food prices and weight among adolescents, less is known about adults. That any measured relationship to date is causal is unclear because there has been no attempt to separate variation in prices on the demand side from that on the supply side. We argue that the minimum wage is an exogenous source of variation in fast food prices, conditional on income and employment. In two-stage least-squares analyses, we find little evidence that fast food price changes affect adult BMI or obesity prevalence. Results are robust to including controls for area and time fixed effects, area time trends, demographic characteristics, substitute prices, numbers of establishments and employment in related industries...
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...Research Roman Friedrich Matthew Le Merle Florian Gröne Alex Koster Measuring Industry Digitization Leaders and Laggards in the Digital Economy Use your smartphone to scan the QR code on the cover of this Perspective, and you will be taken to the CMT Foresight home page on Booz.com. Contact Information Beirut Bahjat El-Darwiche Partner +961-1-985-655 bahjat.eldarwiche@booz.com Berlin Dr. Florian Gröne Principal +49-30-88705-844 florian.groene@booz.com Delhi Ashish Sharma Principal +91-124-4998705 ashish.sharma2@booz.com Dubai Karim Sabbagh Senior Partner +971-4-390-0260 karim.sabbagh@booz.com Düsseldorf/Stockholm Dr. Roman Friedrich Partner +49-211-3890-165 roman.friedrich@booz.com London/Düsseldorf Dr. Michael Peterson Partner +44-20-7393-3310 michael.peterson@booz.com New York Philip Minasian Principal +1-212-551-6098 philip.minasian@booz.com Paris Pierre Péladeau Partner +33-1-44-34-3074 pierre.peladeau@booz.com San Francisco Matthew Le Merle Partner +1-415-994-4320 matthew.lemerle@booz.com São Paulo Ivan de Souza Senior Partner +55-11-5501-6368 ivan.desouza@booz.com Shanghai Andrew Cainey Partner +86-21-2327-9800 andrew.cainey@booz.com Sydney Vanessa Wallace Partner +61-2-9321-1906 vanessa.wallace@booz.com Zurich Alex Koster Principal +41-43-268-2133 alex.koster@booz.com Birger Maekelburger and Florian Stürmer also contributed to this Research. Booz & Company EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The pace of digitization is picking up rapidly, as consumers, companies...
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...The veterinary canine blood market is currently valued at approximately $40 million ($34-48 million), but if the potential of the market and the potential for medical benefit were fully realized, the canine blood and blood replacement market is $400 million ($314-$469 million). This potential market is based on the figure of 12 million dogs suffering blood loss annually, 30% (3.6 million dogs) of which could benefit from blood replacement. Figures given in the case indicate that only 2.5% of those 12 million dogs (the “critical cases”) are actually transfused with four units of blood, each. An additional 3.51 million dogs stand to benefit from blood or blood product transfusion, resulting in a net potential market of at least 3.87 million units of blood or blood replacement product. Naturally, neither every dog, nor every pet owner, nor every veterinarian will achieve 100% of the potential consumption. Biopure, with a production capacity of only 300,000 units of Oxyglobin, cannot satisfy the total potential market, but the potential market instructs not only the marketing plan but also the pricing strategy for Oxyglobin. Based on market research including willing-to-pay surveys of both veterinarians and pet owners, and based on the full potential of the market, a veterinarian (wholesale) price of $200 per unit is recommended (retail, or billed, price of $400). The market for Oxyglobin based on Biopure market research is 138,353 units. Revenue from this model would be $27.7 million...
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...group, Fatalistic: Inmates, elderly, terminally ill, hopelessness Anomic: Anyone who cant deal with chaos, such as stock market crash or 1929-Insecurity Anomie: When society’s norms are questions, much social change, Society is rapidly changing Institutions are weakened, family, religion. Gender norms are questioned; values and belief systems are questioned Theory of structural functionalism 1 If a structure exists in society its because its functional, the social structure exists because it works Social structures: anything external to people that has ways of affecting us, like religions, schools, Any pattern of social organization external to people that has a way of influencing us. Example: Family Peers Media Religion School Exams Laws Marriage 3. This theory explains that society s a large social system with inter relation parts, all working together for a reason 4. If something in society...
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...Inc. Introduction: Google was started as a research project by two Stanford PhD students named Sergey Brin and Larry page. They registered the domain name google.com in the year 1997 and in September 1998, it became a privately owned incorporate Google Inc. With its extensive research on search algorithms and use of state of the art technology, Google successfully established its brand name in internet search engines market. By the year 2004, Google came up covering over 75% of US web search market. Though Google is a dominating player in internet searching market, it has to compete with its rivals in this field where there is no long time entry barrier. Google can expand / change its business model to survive in this best search engine race. SWOT Analysis: Strengths: • Google – Already number one search engine has established a brand name, in which its users trust. It’s dependable, reliable and fast. • Google needs very little end user marketing as the name itself is getting word by mouth publicity. • Google has a simple interface and it gives comprehensive results without confusing its users. • Google has low operation cost as it uses low cost UNIX web servers for indexing millions of web pages across internet. • Google has hired PhDs who are continuously working hard in order to enhance search algorithms and make searching faster, efficient and relevant. • By 2003, Google has already powered over 75% of the 300 million searches conducted daily in the U.S. and 300 million...
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...JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY HYDERABAD M. TECH (REAL TIME SYSTEMS) COURSE STRUCTURE AND SYLLABUS I YEAR I SEMESTER Code Group Subject L P Credits Advanced Computer Architecture 3 0 3 Advanced Micro Controllers 3 0 3 Fundamentals of Real Time Systems 3 0 3 Design & Development of Real Time Systems 3 0 3 Elective -I Digital Control Systems Distributed Operating Systems Cloud Computing 3 0 3 Elective -II Digital Systems Design Fault Tolerant Systems Advanced Computer Networks 3 0 3 Lab Micro Processors and Programming Languages Lab 0 3 2 Seminar - - 2 Total Credits (6 Theory + 1 Lab.) 22 JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY HYDERABAD MASTER OF TECHNOLOGY (REAL TIME SYSTEMS) I SEMESTER ADVANCED COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE UNIT I Concept of instruction format and instruction set of a computer, types of operands and operations; addressing modes; processor organization, register organization and stack organization; instruction cycle; basic details of Pentium processor and power PC processor, RISC and CISC instruction set. UNIT II Memory devices; Semiconductor and ferrite core memory, main memory, cache memory, associative memory organization; concept of virtual memory; memory organization and mapping; partitioning, demand paging, segmentation; magnetic disk organization, introduction to magnetic tape and CDROM. UNIT III IO Devices, Programmed IO, interrupt driver IO, DMA IO modules, IO addressing; IO channel...
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...while helping my other son with his homework, and maybe check an email or two, and look up a recipe…well that about sums up the idea hectic life style for most people. What I’m actually doing is a series of tasks one at a time and switching constantly between them. The problem with serial tasking is that it leads to lower quality and less productivity. The rice came out a little overcooked, I think I might have sent the wrong email to the wrong person, and we’re still working on the homework. If concentrating on one thing at a time, I would have had a better chance to do more tasks correctly. Technology’s influence on us is greater than ever before; we are ever connected by cell phones, laptops, television. We spend time checking social media and emails on these devices. This is true in adults over thirty who often grew up without these devices as children. The use of technological devices is even more prevalent in the younger generations, We all go through it, there is too much to do and not enough time to do it. Our days are like this more often than not. I’m a single mother of two young boys; I always find myself picking...
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