...In critical thinking it is vital to understand that Critical thinking requires a person to understand and identify factors involved in their information gathering and decision making processes to gain an understanding of how to make good decision in a business world. Also when talking about critical thinking, some people can consider themselves optimistic but, it can affect or alter the critical thinking process in the business world. When being Optimistic in any business that requires critical thinking, an optimistic manger or person will, generally try to find something positive in everything that crosses their path. An optimistic person is also the first to say that everything will work out in due time. An optimistic person also believes they can find the some good in most people and that everyone has some type of good in them. In today’s reality, most people are optimists to some point. An optimistic person tends to think that no matter what happens their problems will work it-self out. Being an optimist person makes it very hard to make clear decisions because; an optimistic person only sees the good and pushes the bad to the side. Optimistic people also tend to think the people they deal with everyday would be telling the truth and, would not try and deceive them in order to get what they want. This in the long run could prove to be very critical simply because; you will have people doing what it takes to get their way and therefore, an optimistic person could easily be...
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...Critical Thinking Application Critical thinking happens in all aspects of life. We have thought about the importance of thinking and how it may impact our lives and future. When people actively apply critical thinking skills, they develop better ideas and make fewer mistakes. As a supervisor of the Endoscopy Dept, I have twenty employees who work under me. I will explain an issue that came up and how I went about solving the problem. Some areas that will be discussed are how did I frame the problem, how did I make a decision, and evaluating the decision. ‘Critical Thinking’ is thinking that is purposeful and directed. We must teach our employees to become more conscious of how we think and how others think (Ambrose, 2010). Framing the Problem The problem that came up was in the Endoscopy Department I have a person who comes in at 745 and he is responsible for getting patients from on the floor and brings them down to the department in a timely fashion. He also is in charge of keeping the floors clean in the procedure room daily, as well as the Outpatient check in area. Several nursing staff came to me and stated that whenever they ask him to go up and get a patient he gets an attitude. Now, we all understand that it should be a team effort in everything we do at work to get things accomplished. The nursing staff also reported to me that he would do certain things at certain times to not have to transport patients. For example, if he has a patient that is having a...
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...Essay #2: Critical Response of an Image 15% of final grade 3-4 pages, double-spaced Far from being a passive mirror of society, advertising is an effective and pervasive medium of influence and persuasion, and its influence is cumulative, often subtle, and primarily unconscious [….] It is both creator and perpetuator of the dominant attitudes, values, and ideology of the culture, the social norms and myths by which most people govern their behavior. At the very least, advertising helps to create a climate in which certain attitudes and values flourish and others are not reflected at all. (Kilbourne 120-21) As Jean Kilbourne notes in her article “’In Your Face . . . All Over the Place’: Advertising Is Our Environment,” advertising serves as a form of mediation that not only presents us with products and information, but also influences our behavior, our beliefs, and our choices. For this assignment, you will work to understand the messages advertisements send by analyzing an advertisement of your choice, keeping in mind the ploys that advertisers use to manipulate and exploit consumers. The important question here, as Kilbourne says, is not ‘Does this ad sell the product?,’ but rather ‘What else does this ad sell?’. For this assignment, you will select one advertisement from a newspaper, magazine, or website that contains graphics and written text and analyze it according to the criteria that follow. Your reading of the assigned essays for this unit, our class discussion...
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...MGT 350 Critical Thinking Critical thinking is a very important in life, but probably more is it important than in the workplace. Inside the workplace can be hectic, and it can be easy for a person to be overwhelmed. There are assignments to complete, deadlines to be met, coworkers and management that have to be consulted with regarding strategies. With all these things going on inside the workplace, a person can easily lose focus which is why critical thinking is very important when inside the workplace. When a person is can properly critical think they are more likely to be to make calculated decisions, instead of making a rational choice a person thinks the problem through and considers the pro’s and the cons. In the social working field a person has to always have to be in my thinking because I work with the public and that can be a very stressful situation. I am case manager for “The Center for Family Resources,” which is a nonprofit organization that helps families with children under the age of 18 with rent assistance, food assistance, transitional housing, and G.E.D. programs. It is a stressful environment because we’re dealing with families who are desperate for...
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...Swot Analysis SWOT Analysis | | | | | | | | Strengths/Weaknesses for | | | | | | | | LOW END SEGMENT | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | STEP 2 | | STEP 3 | | STEP 4 | (Ranking: Customer Experience) | Crtical Success Factors | | Weighting | | Your Company | Company A | Company B | Company C | PRICE | | 53% | | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | AGE | | 24% | X | 1 | 3 | 4 | 2 | IDEAL POSITION | | 16% | | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | RELIABILITY | | 7% | | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | | STEP 5 | (Ranking: Competitive Standing) | | Your Company | Company A | Company B | Company C | | 1.59 | 1.06 | 1.06 | 0.53 | = | 0.24 | 0.72 | 0.96 | 0.48 | | 0.32 | 0.16 | 0.32 | 0.32 | | 0.07 | 0.14 | 0.14 | 0.07 | | 2.22 | 2.08 | 2.48 | 1.4 | | | | | | | | | | | Our company, Baldwin, ranks in 3rd in meeting the costumer’s buying criteria. Company C and Company A are ahead of us, while Company B is last. We will address this issue by bettering our prices, age, ideal position and reliability for Low-End segment. Lowering our cost of the products, investing in research and development, upgrading technology and reliability are some of the many ways in remedying our rank in the costumer’s buying criteria. Once we earn rank 1 in the costumer’s buying criteria, we will maintain this position by always being a step ahead of our competitors. Some of the many ways are investing in marketing and offering better prices. We can further improve our strengths...
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...1. Briefly compare and contrast the four techniques for analyzing the costs and benefits of a proposed system. What do you see as particular strengths and weakness of each method? The four techniques are break-even analysis, payback, cash-flow analysis, and present value analysis. All these techniques provide straightforward ways of yielding information to decision markers around the worthiness of a proposed system (Kendall & Kendall, 2014, p. 66). Break-even analysis is useful when a business is growing and volume is a key variable in costs. It can also determine how long it will take for the benefits of the system to pay back the costs of developing it. One disadvantage of break-even analysis is that benefits are assumed to remain the same, regardless of which system is in place (Kendall & Kendall, 2014, p. 67). Payback period is the length of time required to recover the cost of an investment. The payback period of a given investment or project is an important determinant of whether to undertake the position or project, as longer payback periods are typically not desirable for investment positions. There are two main problems with the payback period method: 1. It ignores any benefits that occur after the payback period and, therefore, does not measure profitability. 2. It ignores the time value of money. Because of these reasons, other methods of capital budgeting, like net present value, internal rate of return or discounted cash flow, are generally preferred...
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...Over the course of American history few things have captured Americans’ hearts and imaginations the way that the Apollo moon missions have. Neil Armstrong’s famous quote, “That’s one small step for a man. One giant leap for mankind”, is as synonymous with American culture as apple pie or baseball. Armstrong’s moonwalk was the pride of his home country and fascinated people across the globe. This was not the only event from the lunar missions to seize the world’s collective attention. On April 11, 1970 NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) launched the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission, also known as Odyssey (Journey Through the Galaxy). About two and a half days after take-off Apollo 13 experienced an explosion to an oxygen tank which then led to many systems’ failure and put the lives of the crew on board in danger (Dumoulin). The other famous quote from these lunar missions was born when Jack Swigert, the command module pilot, radioed in to report, “Houston, we’ve had a problem here.” (Dumoulin). While these two incidents made heroes out of men, the less talked about discoveries made from the Apollo missions are truly remarkable. Scientists were able to study information gathered and form new theories on how and what formed the moon. In addition to that, the technologies involved in getting men to the moon and allowing them to explore led to innovations used here on Earth. During the early 1960’s America was locked in a bitter cold war with the Soviet Union...
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...Richard J. Meadows Bellevue University MBA 626, T303, Operations Management Field Exercise 20 May 2012 Overview Kinetic Concepts, Incorporated (KCI) headquarters is located in San Antonio, Texas. They have been in business since 1976 and have operations in the United States, Austria, Germany, United Kingdom, Denmark, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Sweden, Italy and Canada with a total of 2,106 employees world wide. Kinetic Concepts developed therapeutic healing systems that address conditions such as skin breakdowns, circulatory problems and pulmonary complications with immobility. They are the international leader in providing specialized hospital equipment to speed recovery in immobilized patients. KCI has state of the art products ranging from surfaces that help burned skin heal, machines that speed wound recovery and mattresses that turn patients automatically. They have worked on well known patients like Christopher Reeves and Boris Yeltsin. Interview Date and Location The interview and visit was conducted on Friday, 20 April 2012, 0900 – 1500 hours with Mr. Adams, District Sales and Government Contracts Manager located in Seattle, Washington. During my visit Mr. Adams introduced me to his staff, gave me a tour of their facility, set up and performed operations from the call center to the maintenance and cleaning of their products when returned to the company. I was even treated...
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...Background (2.1&2.2) This article aims at a manufacturing industrial company called Huawei that is located in central China. This medium-sized company has 50 workers and 4 production lines working day and night. It is quite a young company which was established in 2008, but the annual output value accounts for 200 million RMB that stands out in central China. The most attractive point is the extensive trainings for employees which is one of the best practices. This perspective highlights the efficiency of labour forces that directly promote productivity. The employees in the manufacturing department can get 2 opportunities to be sent to training institutions every year, and the longest training lasts for 3 months. The new individuals can also have the training courses from the beginning. All the training fees are covered by the company and it offers the salary for employees when they are in the training period. However, the turnover of employees is quite high and the leaving people caused much loss for the company. The aim of this article is to investigate in Huawei’s turnover problem and give a proposal based on data collections that attract major stakeholders’ attention to make some changes. The highly turnover of employees will have bad influence of the strategic management and thus affect the company’s long-term good performance. Research methods and data sources (1.1&1.2) It is necessary to make a research which showing the valid and reliable information before...
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...Assignment 1. COURSE .MSc in HRM (P/T), 20015 MODULE: Leading, Managing and Developing People TUTOR: DR JOANNE COLLIER Critically evaluate, in your organisation, the impact of two HR interventions of your choice on engagement, commitment, motivation or job satisfaction. WRITER. MR Muhammad Ahmed RAJA ST.ID:100018073 Introduction Diversity and Empowerment have been selected for this critical evaluation reporting in the Kandore Pvt Ltd. The reason these interventions have been selected is that these are the most important issues of modern times along with other important HR issues of employee’s motivation and commitment. Due to the global migration of population from developing countries to more Developed Countries of Europe, America and Middle East dealing with issues like diversity and empowerment is present time an important role of HR professional not only in national SME & Large organisation but also in global multinational 0rganization as well. Keeping in mind the nature of the issues and purpose of the report. Kandore Pvt Ltd has been selected, where the write has worked for more than 7 years and felt that these were the most important issues being ignore by the top management of the Kandore . During this employment with the organisation, the writer has felt that Kandore continuously ignored these elements of human resources, which if dealt professionally would have, not only benefitted the organisation in managing its human resource...
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...Academia.edu Log InSign Up We're trying Google Ads to subsidize server costs. If you are logged in, you won't see ads. Hover to learn more. pdf An Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Public Financial Management Syste… 8 Pages An Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Public Financial Management System being used by Government Departments in Zimbabwe. (2000 – 2011) Uploaded by Donnelie Muzividzi Files 1 of 2 Views 3,402 connect to download READ PAPER Academia.edu An Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Public Financial Management System being used by Government Departments in Zimbabwe. (2000 – 2011) Download Research Journal of Finance and Accountingwww.iiste.org ISSN 2222-1697 (Paper) ISSN 2222-2847 (Online)Vol.4, No.4, 201320exodus from the public sector and from Zimbabwe impacted negatively on the effectiveness of PFMS andaccountability systems, threatening day to day operations from the reform.Some human resources existed but not adequate in numbers and quality to perform some critical functions andoptimal utilization largely due to lack of working facilities.The shortfall has been found to have two dimensions: the technical dimension and the governance dimension. Onthe technical dimension, the effectiveness of the PFMS has been reduced due to failure to maintain the systemand inability to cope with number of digits due to hyper inflation. On the governance dimension, some existingregulations and procedures were not followed...
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...CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS Ms. Majabeen Khaled Hossain Program Director Institute of Hazrat Mohammad ( SAW) House no: 22, Road no: 27, Block K Banani, Dhaka 1213, Bangladesh Phone: +880 2 8816478, 8860206 Fax: +880 2 8812679 E-mail: ihmsaw@gmail.com Table Of Contents SL. No 1. 2 3 4 5 Topic Introduction Defining Civilization Islamic History Why a chash of civilizations Theories negating the existence of a threat Page No 3 5 5 6 9 6 Islamic Threat : Myth or Reality 10 7. Summary 15 8. Bibliography & Works Cited 15 Page 2 of 16 FANTASY OR INEVITABLE Civilization covers a wide variety of essential elements which are required to constitute a civilization with its development, refinement and improvement. The elements are not only available but exist in abundance within most of the regions around the world. Those only need to be searched or explored and benefits drawn to the utmost in order to gradually establish a civilization by using our body and mind bestowed by the Creator as the best of all the creations on earth. It takes time to attain any level of civilization in any country or region. It is a slow process which grows with the extent of time given to it and the amount of efforts made on it. There is hardly any standard parameter by which to judge the level or the measure of civilization attained except their standings as projected at the world stage in terms of progress and development. When a civilization develops in...
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...MP A R Munich Personal RePEc Archive Strategic Marketing. A literature review on definitions, concepts and boundaries Jorge Mongay Autonomous University of Barcelona, SBS Swiss Business School 2006 Online at https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/41840/ MPRA Paper No. 41840, posted 9. October 2012 20:07 UTC WORKING PAPER. JM-A1-2006 STRATEGIC MARKETING: A LITERATURE REVIEW ON DEFINITIONS, CONCEPTS AND BOUNDARIES. Dr. Jorge Mongay Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) & SBS Swiss Business School 1 WORKING PAPER. JM-A1-2006 Summary 1. Definitions of strategic marketing 2. Aspects of Strategic Marketing 3. Factors in Strategic Marketing 4. Elements of Marketing Strategy 5. Intersections with others disciplines 5.1. Intersection between Strategic Marketing and Marketing Tactics 5.2. Intersection between Strategic Marketing and Corporate Strategy 5.3. How does it Strategic Marketing fit into Corporate Strategy? 6. Final conclusions of the paper 7. References 2 WORKING PAPER. JM-A1-2006 1. STRATEGIC MARKETING AND ITS DEFINITIONS Although most authors speak about some parts of Strategic Marketing, here is included a list of definitions of the term. Some authors appear in different years ( for example, Jain), It is understand that they have added new comments or redefined the term after the years. The table and the definitions have been ordered by year of publication. Author Year Definition Drucker ...
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