...Four Functions of Management Management is both an art and a science, which requires mastery of a variety of skills in order to achieve organizational goals. Management has four basic functions. They are: planning, organizing, leading and controlling (Office of Entrepreneurial Education, 2006). There are some differences of opinion as to whether this is the complete landscape regarding the functions of management. Carter McNamara, in discussing these functions, acknowledges that there are other schools of thought that expand on leading to include employee empowerment, visioning, and other issues (McNamara, 1997-2008). For purposes of this paper, the traditional functions of planning, organizing, leading, and controlling will be discussed in the context of how it relates to my organization – a plastic bottle manufacturer. Planning Planning, as a function of management, involves four separate categories. The first, Strategic Planning, involves long term planning and strategies for three to five years. The second, Operational Planning, involves the day-to-day planning necessary to achieve organizational goals. The third, Tactical Planning, is a plan involving the manner in which a plan is accomplished, where, when, what, and by whom it will be accomplished. The fourth is Budget Planning, which is a determination as to how the financial resources will be allocated and spent. At the plastic bottle manufacturing plant, the company has a Strategic Plan that lays out...
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...courses such as English or Science really help students develop the communicating and critical thinking skills needed to get a good job in today’s society. Another argument is the belief that only certain people should go to college, while others believe that everybody should go to college. Two prime examples of these opinions are the opinions of Sanford Ungar and Charles Murray. Ungar believes that everyone should go to college and receive some form of liberal arts degree, while Charles Murray believes that only students in to 90 percentile should go to college. Both men agree that a liberal arts degree is a great thing, but their opinions on when it should be taught and who it should be taught too are very different. While Murray’s points are somewhat accurate I believe that Ungar’s ideas are more persuasive because he recommends that everybody gets a liberal arts degree helping increase the amount of people with the critical thinking and communication skills businesses are looking for. Sanford Ungar wrote the essay 7 Major Misperceptions About the Liberal Arts. In this essay Ungar describes the benefits of getting a liberal arts degree. In misperception 2, Ungar states how even though people believe the notion of “who wants to hire someone with an irrelevant degree?” most businesses actually prefer students to have liberal arts degrees. The businesses want this because they know liberal arts schools mainly focuses on the key factors that they look for. For example, 89%...
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...Alexandrea Winieckie Mr. Greenup English 101 8 January 2013 Diagnostic Essay English 101 is a requirement in order to graduate from SFCC, if we are pursuing a career field that does not require English why are we required to take it then? English 101 will help our success in other classes while in college and, our career. If English was completed all four years of high school, what necessary will we get out if it doing it once more in college; will it apply to our career, writing skills, or do we simply tolerate it to not obtain anything? English 101 is required for most schools but what essentially is being obtained, for most of us we haven’t utilized proper writing skills since high school. In many classes papers are part of the requirement to pass that specific class with English 101 to diagnose our current writing skills, we will be able to become stronger writers and, become familiar with different writing structures for essays. In the end altogether English 101 will better increase our knowledge of different parts of the essay, themes, punctuation, and the mechanics. Many careers don’t involve English although it is a very important skill to have for the future. Not everyone has the passion to want to become a publisher although while taking English 101 you might have had the passion for something else and, realize that English is something that you enjoy more. It may not be the most liked course but unlike any other class you may take in your college career...
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...people who were slave owners all recognized this fault. Leaders such as Jefferson, Adams, Madison, Monroe, and Washington all understood that slavery was an evil, but in their eyes, it was a necessary evil in order to continue their economic statue. The profit-making institution was too strong of a social and political machine to abolish it. Owning a slave during the era of the Revolution and after, established a slave owner to be of the wealthy upper class in society. Because of slavery these land owners had plantations that flourished with crops. Crops that could be sold for a profit under free labor. Slaves were looked at as an investment and as property. Some developed significant relationships with their masters, such as Ben Lee did with Washington. However not all slaves were treated so nicely. Many were wiped, beaten, and worked to death. They were separated from their families and sold to other owners as if they were an inanimate object being...
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...In “A Modest Proposal” Jonathan Swift appeals to his readers with sarcasm, and outlandish ideas concerning the problem of hunger that Ireland was facing. Swift appeals to his readers with many rhetorical devices throughout the entire short story. The tone in this essay is both, academic and intelligent. The readers get the sense that the solution to the problems that the inhabitants of Ireland are facing will be logical, well-informed, and completely reasonable. However what the reader gets instead is an maniacal amount of information on the benefits of eating children. All while suggesting that doing so will provide a substantial food supply as well as economic relief (because there will be fewer mouths to feed). Since it is comprehensible that the essay is becoming more ironic, it is the last thing that any reasonable person would have thought. One of the quotes in the essay that help illustrate the irony in this essay is, “I...
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...go to college, the United States economy would suffer. Pharinet states that if we tell everyone to pursue a college degree, then we decrease the workforce that keeps the U.S. functioning properly. Allowing everyone to attain a college education would possibly destroy the lower class of America because no one with a college degree would want to become a housemaid, janitor or even a garbage collector. A major part of the U.S. workforce would disappear and as mentioned above, the menial jobs will not be filled. As a result, the economy would suffer from high inflation because every American would want a higher pay which will lead to the increase of prices of the goods due to people having more money. Majority of Americans should have...
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...Stephanie Thompson Eng101 Spring 2014 Essay 3 Describing a process Going through a federal security checkpoint is no fun at all. Terrorist and criminals have taken what little fun there was out of it. Unfortunately, the entire traveling public has to suffer. There use to be a time when families were able to walk one another right up to an aircraft. The good old days right? It took only a couple of people to ruin it for everyone.... Now a days people are susceptible to pat downs, accessible property searches, and vehicle searches based solely on the fact that they are traveling by means of public transportation. The world we live in is forever changing and it doesn't seem to be changing for the good. When going through a federal security checkpoint have you ever been confused about the process? In this essay I will give history on how the federal security checkpoint came about. Following, I will detail my expertise on the topic. Lastly, I will guide you through the process of getting through a federal security checkpoint successfully. The Transportation Security Administration was created as a response to the September 11, 2001, attacks. On September 11, 2001, 19 militants associated with the Islamic extremist group al-Qaeda hijacked four airliners and carried out suicide attacks against targets within the United States. Two of the planes were flown into the towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, a third plane...
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...Zack Buckway Mrs. Finder English 1010 15 October 2014 Higher Education. A Split Decision Universities extend back centuries and have played a huge role in expanding the minds of its attendants. Universities like Oxford or Cambridge were established near to as early as the 1100s, but they were not sanctioned until deemed by a Pope or King soon after. While this great honor of recognition brought a good rep with it, it also came with a price to the masters and their apprentices. Although the system today is quite modernized and is commonly available to all, scholars of the highest degree were the only participants, save it be the masters, of such study in the early days of college. This is also due to the fact that the general population was illiterate. Time passed on and shortly thereafter, universities were beginning to spread like wildfire throughout the nations and the ability to attend such institutions passed down to those who were wealthy or intelligent enough to be accepted. Masters with their students were the leaders of such centers, and they were free to delve into any subject they wished until the desire to become recognized grew. Recognition esteemed them to be great but at such a cost that they studied theology more intently than the liberal arts in order for them to catch the Pope’s eye. Fortunate for education, it progressed far passed theology to explore into the depths of science, reasoning, and technology which came much later in time. Fast forward a...
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...Playstation two it was time to eat. As my search for food was coming to an end I came across a bag of potatoes. So using the cooking skills that I have acquired in my many years I decided to make french-fries. As I cut my potatoes I started to think about Michael Pollan’s essay “Playing God in the Garden”. This essay is about the creation of “genetically engineered” potatoes that produce their own insecticide right inside their leaves. I began to wonder if the potatoes on my plate were the same “New Leaf” potatoes that Pollan talked about. I started to change my mind about eating the fries that I had already melted cheese on but they looked to good to give to my roommate so I continued thinking while eating. The government does not require New Leaf potatoes to be labeled in stores so it must mean they feel it will have no harm on people. One of the many reasons that government exists is to look over the wealth fare of its citizens. Think of some of the things that a company must put on their products, labels on alcohol and cigarettes tell the dangers that come from using them, and all foods packages must have the ingredients printed on them. The government also sets up programs like family first to help people in need. Even in high school a person needs four years of gym. Peter Drucker touches this subject in his essay “The Age of Social Transformation” as he talks about a changing society. The government made the decision that using the knowledge that Monsanto found was the right thing...
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...income to charity in 2014, a percentage which has not changed significantly in decades, regardless of the strength of the economy.” This is a deplorable amount considering the US has one of the highest disposable incomes per citizen. In Peter Singer’s essays “Famine, Affluence, and Morality” and “The Singer Solution to World Poverty” he makes the argument that people are morally obligated to help someone as long as they are not put in a morally compromising position. Singer’s argument is valid because people have the means to help others they just feel like they have to keep up with the latest trends. If people were to donate a portion of the money they spent on luxuries each month then the amount of suffering people who are not able to provide for themselves would dissipate....
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...Virtues” the people of the United States still believe in doing what they feel is necessary. No matter how much time passes and how society changes the American dream and the backbone of our society and culture remains very much the same, as seen through our belief in freedom and human rights and our views on what is right and wrong. In the case of Thomas Jefferson’s “The autobiography” and Martin Luther King Jr.’s speech “I Have a Dream” both men were working towards the same goal, equality and human rights. Despite that the documents are nearly 200 years apart from one another their goal and hope for the future was the same. Both men wanted to better America and bring it out of a time of prejudice and inequality, whether it be separating from England or ending segregation. Jefferson’s autobiography spoke of the declaration of independence and the colonies goal in creating a free and prosperous nation. Martin Luther King speaks about the end of segregation and the hope that “one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.” Both Jefferson and Martin Luther King had a dream in which America would be a nation where everyone has human rights and is treated equally. Today, both men’s actions have greatly changed the society in which we live in, from having human rights to treating everyone equally and...
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...HOW TO WRITE A LITERARY ANALYSIS ESSAY The purpose of a literary analysis essay is to carefully examine and sometimes evaluate a work of literature or an aspect of a work of literature. As with any analysis, this requires you to break the subject down into its component parts. Examining the different elements of a piece of literature is not an end in itself but rather a process to help you better appreciate and understand the work of literature as a whole. For instance, an analysis of a poem might deal with the different types of images in a poem or with the relationship between the form and content of the work. If you were to analyze (discuss and explain) a play, you might analyze the relationship between a subplot and the main plot, or you might analyze the character flaw of the tragic hero by tracing how it is revealed through the acts of the play. Analyzing a short story might include identifying a particular theme (like the difficulty of making the transition from adolescence to adulthood) and showing how the writer suggests that theme through the point of view from which the story is told; or you might also explain how the main character‟s attitude toward women is revealed through his dialogue and/or actions. REMEMBER: Writing is the sharpened, focused expression of thought and study. As you develop your writing skills, you will also improve your perceptions and increase your critical abilities. Writing ultimately boils down to the development of an idea....
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...For over two hundred years the American Dream, or national ethos of the United Sates, revolved around a set of ideals put forward in the Declaration of Independence which declares that all Americans are equal and have the right to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” For immigrants arriving on these shores, regardless of social class or circumstance of birth, it was a given of the time that prosperity, success, and upward social mobility for all (excluding slavers) was obtainable and could be achieved through honest, hard work. Today that dream is not dead, although recently there has been a death of soaring rhetoric and a paucity of hope. So while the American Dream may at the moment be on life support and in critical condition,...
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...How can we improve our study habits? Everyone has the experience students, starting from kindergarten to high school or university. For most people, it’s not hard to become a student, but becoming a student who has great grades is not easy. You must want to know what causing this difference. The answer is good study habits. In the process of schooling, many students actually don’t have good study habits. If you want to have a good score, the good study habits can help you more likely to achieve your goals. Improving our study habits can occur in three stages: developing learning habits, using four study skills and understanding the benefits of good habits. First of all, students should develop a way of learning. In fact, most of them don't realize that they don’t have completed good study habits. The article “Why ‘good’ study habit may be bad for learning” (2010) talks, "Clear a quiet work space. Stick to a homework schedule. Set goals. Set boundaries. Do not bribe." But this approach to home studying may be the result of "sketchy education research" and, as such, completely wrong.” This article shows us that our traditional sense of learning habit is not correct. Consequently, you might ask what good study habits are. The good study habits including setting a regular time to study that fits in with the student's family schedule; removing distractions; gathering necessary supplies; recording assignments in an assignment book or on a calendar; note-taking and organizing for a...
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...File Management POS355 May 30, 2012 File Management When implementing a networked information system that will support thousands of users, it is important to consider which files will need restricted access, and which will be open to all users. The purpose of this essay will explore how a Unix system configured to support five thousand users is able to allow only four thousand nine hundred ninety of those users access to a single file. Unix File Access Control Although Unix has evolved over the years, even the most up to date system relies quite heavily upon the originally introduced file access scheme found in the very early versions of Unix. The core of this functionality essentially states that there are three possible permissions any user can have with a single file: read, write, and execute. Permissions for each of these actions are stored with the file’s inode and granted for three groups: the file owner, member’s of the file’s group; and everyone else. All of these permissions are identified in the first nine bits of the file’s twelve protection bits. The last three bits of the file’s protection bits indicate special behavior. The first two bits tell Unix whether to duplicate the permissions granted for the file owner, or file group, upon execution, respectively. The third bit represents a sticky bit that was originally used in early versions of Unix, but has since been decommissioned. This permission essentially told the operating system whether to keep...
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