...College, Graduate School Tagum City In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Master in Public Administration OWEN S LIMOS May 2016 CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION Rationale Not many new research mention the lives of the firefighters. Hero, a word we all associate with accolades of praise upon an individual who has done a selfless or exemplary act. A word defined by dictionary standards as: A person noted for feats of courage or nobility of purpose, especially one who has risked or sacrificed his or her life. Heroes range from policemen and school teachers to parents and firefighters. Few other professions meet the criteria of hero more than firefighter. Not only do they spend countless hours away from their family, but they put their lives on the line each and every day.(Cross,2014) Those who decide to become Firefighters are special kind of people, and are considered to be among the bravest. Whenever there are disasters, explosions, fires, Accidents, calamities, they are there to help. Firefighters enter structures where people are running away from, saving lives while risking their own. The firefighters today not only fight fires, but function as paramedics as well. Firefighters go into rigorous training, there is a dreadfully long list of skills they need to have. They must have these skills: mental alertness, self-discipline, courage, mechanical aptitude, endurance, strength, and decision making skills. It is a career...
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...Employee Retention Executive Leadership BY: Michael D. Jackson Assistant Fire Chief Department of the Air Force Mercury NV An applied research paper submitted to the National Fire Academy as part of the Executive Fire Officer Program March 1999 2 ABSTRACT Over the last five years (1993-1998), twenty-one members of the Range Complex Fire Department (RCFD) have left for various reasons. The problem is that because of a reduced personnel budget the department has not been allowed to replace all of the members that have left. The ensuing reduction in staffing has resulted in a fire station closure and a reduction in customer service. Operationally this reduction has resulted in increased response times, reductions of vehicle staffing and increases in overtime. The purpose of this paper was to identify why personnel were leaving the department and to suggest ways to improve employee retention. Descriptive and evaluative research methods were utilized to answer the following research questions: 1. 2. 3. Why have members left the Range Complex Fire Department? In general, why do employees leave the fire organizations they work for? What does the upper management team of the RCFD believe are the reasons personnel are leaving the department? 4. What retention programs are used by other federal fire departments? To identify why employees were leaving the RCFD nine interviews were conducted with former employees that had left the department in the last five years. A literature...
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...A++PAPER;http://www.homeworkproviders.com/shop/law-531-week-5/ LAW 531 WEEK 5 Complete the Discrimination Scenario Simulation involving a discrimination issue at the workplace and associated legal issues. Then write an essay paper discussing the following scenarios: Discrimination Scenarios You have no more than 1,500 words to provide substantive answers to the following questions: 1) A black firefighter alleges that each time he is transferred from one fire station to another, he must take his bed with him, on orders of the fire chief. The chief defends on the basis that it is a legitimate decision, because white firefighters would not want to sleep in the same bed in which a black firefighter slept. Is this illegal under Title VII? Explain your answer. (This was a real case from Georgia). 2) An Employer had only one promotion to give, but he was torn between giving it to the single female and the male employee, who had a family. The employer thought the male employee most needed the job and could best use the money. He finally decided to give the promotion to the male and told the female he gave it to the male because he was a “family man and needed the money.” If the female employee sues, will she win? (This is also a real case.) 3) A female employee has an operation on her breast and when she returns to work, a male employee “jokingly” asks to see the scar. Is this actionable sexual harassment? (This is also a real case). Dillion v. Jogbra ...
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...MG420 DL Labor Relations Research Assignment (Your name) (Date of submission) Instructor’s Name 1. Define the term “collective bargaining” and list and describe four issues that are mandatory components of a collective bargaining agreement. Tips for success: • Have a clear Introduction, Body, and Conclusion for each question. • If I ask you to define something, please do not give me something from a dictionary. Be more creative than that. • Make sure you follow the MLA formatting style. You should be familiar with this by now. Note: I prefer, so I required, the use of parenthetical citations (I hate to have to scroll to see your references) • Make sure your source is credible. For example, do not give me anything you saw at Wikipedia.org – Wikipedia is a free-for-all site. Anyone can publish there, but these sources are not credible. • Make sure you discuss the relevance and/or applicability (to the question) of the source material you are using (and citing) in support of your offering. Paraphrasing or summarizing is always a nice touch. Here's an example from a previous student's paper: "The May 2010 issue of EPSU (http://www.something.something) discusses the plight of French firefighters who took action to try to get the government to declare their jobs as dangerous and to agree to special retirement agreements. At the time of the writing of this article, the firefighters and the government were preparing...
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...The Civil Rights Act of 1991 – How Does its Changes Affect the Workplace MMT 107-Human Resource Management APA Formatted Research Paper By: Anthony Barrera Submitted to: Mae Hicks Jones, Instructor 11/30/2012 Abstract The purpose of this research paper is to show what changes came from the passing of the Civil Rights Act of 1991. Topics that will be mentioned are topics that have to do with unlawful practices in the workplace, for example, discrimination against employee’s physical appearance, orientation, or disability, but also one’s own emotional and personal beliefs. This paper will mention three topics that the Civil Rights Act of 1991 will prohibit in the workplace which are discrimination, inequality, and harassment. Each topic contains sub topics that will explain more in detail each of the three main points. Research of these topics is helped by internet sources, as well as, textbooks. Authors like Chuck Williams, Nickels G. Williams, James McHugh, Susan M. McHugh, Robert L. Mathis, John H. Jackson and sources from www.eeoc.gov and the Encyclopedia of Business. The sources indicate what laws where placed by the United States government and what changes is brought to the workplace and employees. Also, authors indicate what rights employees have with the new laws placed and how they can be protected. Conclusion will recap how employees are protected by the amendment and rights they are provided by the government for a pleasant work environment, free from harassment...
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...is critical for the students’ acquirement on why we have jobs. Being able to identify them in their local, state and national government status is important as students advance in their future understanding on how they are chosen for their position. By teaching this lesson plan my students’ will gain knowledge on what a community worker means to them and how our society is dependent on the help of our community neighbors and workers, local, state and national. Component 4: Research 1. http://ritter.tea.state.tx.us/rules/tac/chapter110/ch110a.html 2. http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/lessons/ 3. http://www.ncte.org/lessons 4. http://www.greatschools.org/students/academic-skills/162-the-state-of-civic-education-teaching-the-citizens-of-tomorrow.gs I am competent in teaching this lesson unit to students. Incorporating this topic in the classroom would benefit children as they go through school and through their daily living. The research that I started with was the Texas TEKS, which allowed me to align me lesson with the state standards in which I am suppose to be teaching. Without first choosing a TEKS, I could not prepare my lesson plan activities because I needed to make sure that my activities came after the TEKS and not before. Once I decided that I wanted to base my objective around community awareness, I went to the NCTE website to see if there were any specific words or language arts ideas that I could incorporate...
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...Personal Impact Paper Bernard R. Bossert Jr. NUR 427 October 4, 2014 Professor Beard Personal Impact Paper According to The Center for Managing Chronic Disease at the University of Michigan (2011) website, chronic disease can be defined as any medical condition in which the treatment expectation is one of control, rather than cure. The website further states that up to 70% (1.7 million) of deaths in the United States can be attributed to chronic disease. This statistic is not limited to the United States. The World Health Organization (2014) website states chronic disease accounts for 60% of all deaths worldwide, and half of those deaths occurred in people under the age of 70. The diagnosis of a chronic disease impacts a person in multiple ways, bringing with it new feelings, fears, questions, and lifestyle adjustments. This paper will explore some of these issues involving a person who is living with a chronic disease. For this paper, I chose to explore the chronic disease of asthma and the impact it can have on a person. I chose asthma because I personally live with it every day and know firsthand the effects it can have on a person, thus I can examine how this disease has personally impacted myself. As an emergency department nurse, I have treated many patients with asthma and have seen how this same disease can affect different people in different ways. The conversations I have had with those that also suffer from asthma have opened my eyes to new ways to cope with...
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...PERSONALITY AND JOB SATISFACTION: AN INVESTIGATION OF CENTRAL WISCONSIN FIREFIGHTERS Interactions Between Personality and Various Factors at a Local Fire Department By Jennifer S. Skibba A Research Paper Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Master of Science Degree With a Major in Applied Psychology Approved: 4 Semester Credits Dr. James Tan, Investigation Advisor The Graduate College University of Wisconsin-Stout May, 2002 The Graduate School University of Wisconsin-Stout Menomonie, WI 54751 Abstract (Writer) Skibba (Last Name) Jennifer (First) S. (Initial) Personality and Job Satisfaction: An Investigation of (Title) Central Wisconsin Firefighters Applied Psychology (Graduate Major) Dr. James Tan (Research Advisor) May, 2002 (Month/Year) 108 (No.of Pages) American Psychological Association (APA) Publication Manual 4th Edition (Name of Style Manual Used in this Study) The purpose of the present investigation is to evaluate how personality and job satisfaction affect job performance in employees at a Central Wisconsin fire department. Through a process of conducting assessments and gaining access to performance evaluations completed at the department, interactions between the variables was seen. The main effects found were that Factor C (Emotional Stability) and Factor F (Liveliness) of Cattell’s 16 PF had positive correlations with job performance, while Factor H (Social Boldness) had a negative relationship...
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...Affirmative Action Jackie Carter COM/220 May 18, 2011 Staci Weaver CheckPoint - Introduction and Conclusion Are affirmative action policies and programs still necessary in this day and age, even if it creates reverse discrimination? One of the country’s top debated issues is affirmative action. Affirmative Action came about when President John F. Kennedy signed Executive Order 10925 that created the President’s Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity whose purpose was to ensure all employees are treated fairly, without regard to race, creed, color, or national origin (Elliott & Ewoh, 2000). Since its inception, Affirmative Action program and policies have taken on a life of their own. Affirmative action is a term that refers to mandatory and voluntary programs intended to affirm the civil rights of designated classes of individuals. Affirmative action or Executive Order 11246 (EO11246) was created, after the civil rights movement, by the federal courts to ensure companies were not using discriminatory hiring practices. Affirmative action is similar but different from equal opportunity. Equal opportunity is an attempt to avoid discrimination by applying the performance related criteria to all applicants, in other words, each individual should be given the same treatment as all other individuals. Unequal treatment of minority groups is considered discriminatory and illegal. This process ignores the past history of discrimination of an employer and also...
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...Personal Impact Paper University of Phoenix Health and Chronic Disease Management NUR/427 Professor Gina Stephens May 19, 2014 Personal Impact Paper I will be discussing in this paper Parkinson Disease, and the impact it has on the patient as well as the patient’s family. I will be talking about how the patient first found out about the disease and how the disease has impact the patient personal, social, and financial life. Parkinson’s disease is a type of movement disorder, it is a progressive, chronic disease that affect the nervous system. Parkinson’s disease is the second most common neurodegenerative condition in the United States. It is more prevalent in males than in females. Onset of the disease is 50 -60 years of age, onset earlier than that is referred to as early onset of Parkinson’s disease. There is no cure at the moment for Parkinson’s disease but medication can help alleviate symptoms. According the National Parkinson’s Foundation approximately 60,000 Americans are diagnosed with the disease each year. An estimated seven to ten million people are living with this disease worldwide (Oberdorf, Schmidt, & Schmidt, 2010). The patient I will be discussing on this paper is a 43 year old male. I will call him Tom, to protect his privacy. Tom was first diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease when he was 40 years old, his symptoms though started when he was 39 year of age. Tom was a healthy, athletic, strong individual. Tom was married with two kids, when he was diagnosed...
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...Abstract In this paper, I will explain what CrossFit Training is and what the benefits are compared to a typical exercise program of isolated muscular training combined with a cardio workout. I will also examine the impacts that CrossFit Training has had on college athletes and athletic teams as a whole at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford (UPB). I will look into what teams have the most athletes with experience with CrossFit training, how many UPB athletes have used it on their own time or during the offseason, and the general feeling towards CrossFit Training and its effectiveness in improving fitness. Introduction In the physical fitness realm, there are many different kinds of exercise programs. There are programs that focus on dancing, ones that focus on stretching, and ones that focus on core strength and conditioning. CrossFit Training is an example of a core strength and conditioning program. It was developed to enhance an individual’s overall ability to complete physical tasks by incorporating many different forms of exercise, from gymnastics to weightlifting (Glassman, 2002). CrossFit Training is different from the popularly accepted idea of a workout because it’s not just situps, curls, leg press, and a half an hour of cardio. CrossFit is all about combining movements and shorter, high intensity cardiovascular sessions (Glassman, 2002). For every long distance effort, a CrossFit athlete will do five or six at a short distance. This is implemented...
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...POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER | | | What the causes and effects of this disorder. The treatments. There are two articles added after I wrote the paper. | | Sue Aman | | | Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) a delays stress reaction to a prior incident. This delayed reaction is often the result of one or more unsolved issues concerning the incident. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is something that I personally worry about because I am currently involved with the EMS (Emergency Medical System). Currently I volunteer through the ambulance core and going to school to get my EMT (Emergency Medical Technician) certification. They have taught us about Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Yes anyone can get and go thought Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. But it is found most common in the medical field and the military. As far as the EMS stand point. A stressful, events are sometimes psychologically overwhelming. Some symptoms will include depression, startling reactions, flashbacks, phenomena and dissociative. Episodes even can experience amnesia of the event. Critical incident stress management (CISM), this is a form of treatment that I would be provided by the base. It is developed to address acute stress. It’s a theoretically is used to confront the response to critical incident and defuse it. Critical incident stress management is basically refers to a debriefing for personal that was on the scene of the incident...
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...Administration Capstone MMPA 6910, Section 2 Instructor Anne Hacker February 21, 2010 Table of Contents The City of Miami……....……………………..………………………………………………….1 The City of Miami vs. Gates Case………………………………………………………………..2 The retirement systems………………………...………………………………………………….2 The Research Question………..…………………………………………………………………..4 Stakeholders…………………………………...…………………………………………………..5 Ethical Issues…………………………..….………………………………………………………8 Data Gathering Methods….……………………………………………………………………..10 Data Analysis…….……………..………………………………………………………………..12 Conclusions and Recommendations.…………………………………………………………….13 Annotated Bibliography………………………………………………………………………… Pension costs draining Miami In 1896, the City of Miami (the “City”) became the first city to be incorporated in Miami-Dade County. It is the largest of 35 local municipalities within the County; has an estimated population of 404,048 people; and has a land area of 35 square miles (US Census Bureau, 2006). Miami employs 3,408 full-time positions and several hundred part-time positions (Miami, 2010, p.73). The City of Miami has three single-employer defined benefit pension plans: The City of Miami Firefighters’ and Police Officers’ Retirement Trust (FIPO); the City of Miami General Employees’ Retirement Trust (GESE); and the City of Miami Elected Officers’ Retirement Trust (EORT). With the exception of the EORT, participants in the FIPO and GESE pensions are required to contribute minimum percentages...
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...TermPaperWarehouse.com - Free Term Papers, Essays and Research Documents The Research Paper Factory * Join * Search * Browse * Saved Papers ------------------------------------------------- Top of Form Bottom of Form * Home Page » * Business and Management Innovation at Timberland: Thinking Outside the Shoe Box Case Analysis In: Business and Management Innovation at Timberland: Thinking Outside the Shoe Box Case Analysis INNOVATION AT [pic]: Thinking Outside the Shoe Box CASE ANALYSIS I. Problem What uniting mechanism can Timberland Company administer to achieve the fullest potential of appropriate product design and process given the existing disparity between the In-line teams and Invention Factory? II. Objectives a. To ensure that the manufactured product is to be positively responded by the consumers. b. To provide sufficient focus to ensure the best use of resources without restricting innovation. c. To guarantee that there is always the presence of balance with regards to fashion and functionality in all Timberland products. d. To resolve the lack of wholesale and interest of Invention Factory ideas as they are integrated to the mainstream of Timberland. e. To improve the relationship between Invention Factory and In-line teams. III. Areas of Consideration REMOTE ENVIRONMENT Demographic – Timberland’s present organization of In-line teams that are...
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...he events of 9/11 were huge. The body of evidence that the administration, or other agencies within the US government, were involved is also huge. The problem with summarizing the information is that the scale of the operation and its cover-up are so vast. Finding smoking guns is like picking up litter on a field. It's hard to move in a straight line. That makes it hard to create a simple narrative. My personal questioning of the events of 9/11 began a few years later, when my sister went to a 9/11 conference and brought back books, DVDs, and enthusiasm. I watched the DVDs and became especially fascinated with one clip where the North Tower appeared to be literally erupting as it fell. One streamer caught my eye because I was able to follow its trajectory. I did some simple measurements right on the TV screen and estimated that the horizontal ejection velocity of that stream of debris was around 60 mi/hr. These ejections of material were from high in the building. How could heavy steel members be thrown sideways so fast when even the downward collapse had not picked up very much speed? This did not seem to me to be consistent with a purely gravitational collapse. I was hooked. I started using some video analysis tools I use in my teaching to analyze the motions of various ejecta and the buildings themselves. Several videos of the collapse of both towers show waves of horizontal mass ejections that race down the faces of the buildings, nearly keeping pace with material falling...
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