...Airlines, including the organization’s philosophy, mission, vision, values, and structure, an analysis of the relationship between the design and Southwest Airlines and its organizational culture, and the effects of organizational culture on Southwest Airlines workforce will be reviewed. An evaluation of the effects of change within Southwest Airlines will also be discussed. Description of Southwest Airlines Southwest Airlines is an airline that provides many services in different destinations around the United States. Southwest Airlines believes in being devoted to each of the communities that they serve by having their employees, customers, neighbors being a part of a loving family. Southwest philosophy is that happy employee’s equal happy customers and happy customers keep Southwest flying. They believe in providing a one of kind culture within their organization that means...
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...Case Study AP2530 March 23, 2015 Case Study Hypertension Hi my name is and I will be your nurse today. I see that you have been diagnosed with hypertension and I would like to help you understand your diagnosis. Your body is a delicate piece of machinery that works on what is called a negative feedback system. Your body has many checks and balances that keep everything within certain levels. To put this in terms that I think you might understand, when your body needs energy it sends signals that tell you to eat. That is why your stomach starts growling. If your body is low on fluids it sends signals to your brain telling you to drink something. Well the same process happens with blood pressure signals. They are sent from receptor’s that monitor in your body to your control center, which is your brain that make changes needed to keep things at normal levels or homeostatic. Your brain sends instruction to set in motion changes in your blood pressure by your receptors to take action to raise or lower your blood pressure. This is done by the messages telling the blood vessels to widen or narrow and your heart to speed up or slow down. To lower your blood pressure, the vessels get wide and the heart slows. The trouble is if your blood vessels are always going to be widened and your heart is always slowed stress is placed on them. It is like a garden hose that is always left on with the sprayer closed, eventual the hose becomes weak. The same thing happens to your blood...
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...gain, but research shows this isn’t the case," says Joy Dubost, PhD, RD, spokesperson for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. In fact, potatoes ranked number one on the famous satiety index, which was published in the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition in 1995. During the low-carb years, they fell out of favor, but lately there’s been a renewed interest in studying their effect on diet and weight loss. After all, even though a potato is carb-heavy, it is a vegetable—one medium spud contains 168 calories with 5 grams of protein and 3 grams of fiber. Some experts argue that they are particularly satisfying because of they contain resistant starch—complex starch molecules that we can’t digest. Apples and Pears With a satisfying crunch—or in the case of certain softer varieties, a sweet, juicy bite—pears provide a lot of bang for your buck (the dollar kind and nutritional kind). For less than $1 and around 100 calories, you get between 4 and 6 grams of appetite-suppressing fiber, plus lots of antioxidants. A recent study from Washington State University suggests that Granny Smiths are the most beneficial for our gut bacteria due to their high content of non-digestible compounds, including dietary fiber. Researchers believe that re-establishing a healthy balance of bacteria in the colon stabilizes metabolic processes, helping to increase satiety and reduce inflammation, which has been associated with chronic health problems like heart disease and diabetes. Almonds If you’re...
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...of overall happiness or life-satisfaction on productivity. However, there is a lot of research on the relationship between job satisfaction and work performance. Job satisfaction is quite highly correlated with overall happiness, and can be looked at as one of its main components. Hence the results of the available research data are at least suggestive in this discussion. The Human Relations movement, of Elton Mayo and others, believed that job satisfaction had beneficial effects, including increased work performance (Argyle, 1988). Let us consider whether this is in fact the case. Do satisfied workers really work harder? If they do, is it because they are satisfied or vice versa? Measuring job satisfaction How can job satisfaction be measured? The most widely used measure is a very simple one. Overall job satisfaction can be assessed by simple questions such as `Choose one of the followin 2 Do happy workers work harder? following statements which best tells how well you like your job: I hate it, I dislike it, I do not like...
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...Reduce the Risk Background Heart disease has been around for a long period of time but without the resources and technology we have today it was not identified. To be more specific according to an article by Carmen Chai during the 1960 the doctors were still getting the idea of what was the meaning of heart disease. They had no idea what caused it or how to treat it. Heart disease is the main cause of death between men and women. More than 600,000 million Americans die annually by heart disease. According to Centers for Disease Control and Preventions this represents almost 25% of all U.S deaths. Lipitor is a prescription drug that reduces the risk of chest pain, stroke, heart attack, or certain heart and blood vessel problems. This advertisement for Lipitor portrays the sense of authority, credibility and reasoning. Credibility describe the ad...
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...Diet Living a healthy, happy, productive life is a growing concern among Americans today; both young and old alike. According to the Medical News Today, the top three leading causes of death among Americans are heart disease, cancer, and stroke. (Medical News Today: Saturday April 15, 2006) Sadly, the cause, prevention and cure for cancer remains largely unknown. However, the first and third of these fatal diseases are both highly preventable. The roots of this prevention stem from making knowledgeable, health conscientious choices about the foods we consume on a daily basis. A twenty three year study was conducted by the World Health Organization from 1990 – 2013. The study suggests that by the year 2020, the heart disease and stroke mortality rate will enhance by a rate of 78% in woman and as much as 106% in men. The same study also concludes that by adhering to a “Mediterranean” diet, increasing ones intake of anti-oxidants, vitamins, potassium, and calcium, the probability of falling victim to these devastating diseases can be greatly reduced. Clearly a dedicated effort put forth to eating well promotes numerous advantages. Advantages which include a stronger, healthier heart, a more toxin free body, and a better functioning immune system; ultimately resulting in a longer and happier life! First and foremost, eating a healthy balanced diet promotes heart health and is key to protecting the heart against the onset of Heart Disease. Heart disease is caused by the...
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...children hit high school. I would like to attempt to persuade you that the elementary level of “who likes whom,” and the middle school level of “who is going out with whom,” are not simply innocent and cute stages of life through which everyone must go. As informed Christians professing to glorify the Lord in all things, we need to see if any of this behavior brings glory to God and evaluate the effects of it on our kids. A brief look at the teen dating model and its consequences will show that it is the world’s model, not Christ’s, that we are so accustomed to. Dating is more for a boy and a girl than just spending time together. It’s a lifestyle that involves attitudes and values. It’s a heart thing! Matthew 22:37 says, “And He said to him, ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with...
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...online Knowledge Zone; a national programme of world-class events; innovative professional development, such as the annual Marketing Leaders Programme; and extensive on-and-offline networking opportunities. www.marketing-society.org.uk Foreword | Marketing Excellence 2 | Foreword By Roisin Donnelly, President of The Marketing Society What is marketing excellence? Marketing excellence can drive breakthrough business results for the short and long term. Marketing excellence requires great strategic thinking, great creative thinking and perfect execution. But how do we assess marketing excellence? First we choose brilliant industry judges who are all experienced and successful practitioners of excellence and we ask them to pick out the cases which they see as remarkable. We ask them to look for two key qualities from our winners: creativity and effectiveness. But marketing continuously changes and evolves, as consumers become more sophisticated and demanding and the media for communicating with them ever more diverse. So the standards for marketing excellence change and in turn become more demanding. We believe that The Marketing Society...
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...Big Buck Big Pharma Case Study Big Bucks, Big Pharma pulls back the curtain on the multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical industry to expose the insidious ways that illness is used, manipulated and in some instances created, for capital gain. Using excerpts from drug company advertisements as well as news reports on the pharmaceutical industry, the documentary raised important questions and presents options for the consumer empowerment. The film examines how direct-to-consumer advertising of medications is a fairly recent innovation that has led to a sharp increase in the sales of prescription drugs. Americans are encouraged to “ask your doctor” for name brand drugs numerous times throughout the day. Doctor’s report that sometimes patients will request a medication they have seen advertised without even knowing what condition or symptoms it is meant to treat. Advertisements in fact provide very little information about prescription drugs. Instead, the drugs are emotionally branded by associating their names with images of happy people, living fulfilling lives, in beautiful settings. Other pharmaceutical advertisements present normal aspects of life as serious medical conditions, leading healthy people to believe that they need unnecessary, and potentially harmful, and prescriptions. Throughout the case study there were several different section: Branding Drugs, Swimming in Pills, Disease Mongering, No Free Lunch, and A Healthier Prescription. In the section Branding Drugs...
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...to read up the treatment for some slight ailment. I got down the book and read all I came to read; and then, in an unthinking moment, I idly turned the leaves and began to study diseases, generally. I forgot which was the first, and before I had glanced half down the list of "premonitory symptoms", I was sure that I had got it. I sat for a while frozen with horror; and then in despair Г again turned over the pages. I came to typhoid fever — read the symptoms — discovered that I had typhoid fever— began to get interested in my case, and so started alphabetically. Cholera I had, with severe complications; and diphtheria I seemed to have been bom with. I looked through the twenty-six letters, and the only disease I had not got was housemaid's knee. I sat and thought what an interesting case I must be from a medical point of view. Students would have no need to "walk the hospitals" if they had me. I was a hospital in myself. All they need do would be to walk round me, and, after that, take their diploma. Then I wondered how long I had to live. I tried to examine myself. I felt my pulse. I could not at first feel any pulse at all. Then, all of a sudden, it seemed to start off. I pulled out my watch and timed it. I made it a hundred and forty-seven to the minute. I tried to feel my heart. I could not feel my heart. It had stopped beating. I patted myself all over my front, from what I call my waist up to my head but I could not feel or hear anything. I tried to look at my tongue. I stuck...
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...In today’s modern age and time, many people has the belief that a good education was the key to success in life, and that only through education and education alone will they achieve such ‘success’. Indeed, I must agree with the majority that by having good education, which is in terms of getting Aces in your studies and topping in your classes, they may be ways to help you in achieving success in life. As to many people, success may be symbolized as getting a highly paid job, earning a high salary, driving in a big flashy car and living in a posh house. All of these are materials, which can be easily attained when you are very well educated as jobs will then came knocking to your door instead. However, this might not be true all the time as there may also be other exceptional cases when sometimes even if you have received good education while studying overseas, you might not get a well-paid job. This is for the reason that, the skills you have picked up overseas may not be applicable and useful in getting you the job you want in Singapore. Thus, in this case, a good education may not definitely be the way to success in life. Other than this, a good education is also not the only path to success. You will also need a spank of luck and chances to strike occasionally to make it to success. That explains why there are successful people with low academic results being published on newspaper, as they are the ones who believe in their own efforts and know how to grab hold of...
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...suppression, and unpleasantness between partners – a point that remains concealed from the outside world. “The Story of an Hour” is a story about a married couple. The story begins with the wife hearing the news of the death of her husband. The news, instead of sending her into a shock, sends her into a state of excitement. Her excitement remains concealed from the people around her, who assume that she is under great shock. However, her excitement does not last too long, and she again faces news. This time, the news arrives with the arrival of her husband in front of her. Unable to control her feelings of sadness, she falls and dies on the spot. The paper takes into account multiple readings of various authors, compares their stance, and studies their views of the story. The paper establishes the point that time is running very quickly, and the story also revolves around the importance of time. It concludes with the outcome that if married couples trust each other, interconnect well, and resolve their problems, instead of thinking evil of each other, their relation is likely to remain flourishing. “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin The background of “The Story of an Hour” sets its foundations on the moralities of marriage. Marriage is a respected commitment that consists of a social arrangement, aimed at forming the foundation of a family. This makes it a uniquely beneficial institution to the society and offers the partners a platform to create interpersonal...
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...service within the state of Texas had to fight for 3 years against 3 other airlines in the area for rights. After a judgment by the Texas Supreme Court in 1970, Southwest was cleared to take the air. Southwest lives by their mission statement of its dedication to the highest quality of customer service to be delivered with a sense of warmth, friendliness, individual pride and company spirit (Southwest.com). With the idea of good customer service will make you money, Southwest Airlines is by far the most profitable airline even in this trying time. Southwest’s Culture Happy Employees=Happy Customers At Southwest, they believe that a happy employee equal happy customers. They strive to make every customer experience a great one and by doing this they know the employees play a huge role in customer satisfaction. The core of their being consists of having a warrior spirit, leading with a servant’s heart and having a fun-luving attitude. These three components are what Southwest Airlines work hard daily to keep alive. In an interview, Southwest chief executive Greg Kelly stated that” From our earliest days there was an understanding that people were the most important, and we needed to work really hard to get the best people we could and get people who had a passion to serve others” (Helsing, 2006). They have a committee set up just for culture events. Employees are given...
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...The Spark Study Mindy Bacon. Clark Community College The Spark Study Americans have increasingly become sedentary, non-active people. This results in obesity, an alarming rise in type two diabetes, attention deficit problems, heart disease, and chronic depression in both adults and now is an epidemic in children. This book explains why physical activity especially aerobic activity is crucial to the way our brains learn, affect mood, depression, stress and attention. In Chapter one of “Spark, The Revolutionary New Science Of Exercise And The Brain”, shows how exercise improves brain functioning. A revolutionary case study was performed in a school district outside of Chicago. Naperville Central High School in Illinois transformed nineteen thousand students into very healthy and fit students with only 3 percent overweight versus 30 percent overweight nationally (Ratey & Hagerman, 2008). The students are also among the smartest in the nation. In 1999 Naperville’s eighth graders took an international standards test: Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS). Asian countries have out performed United States of American students in math and science for many years. As stated in the New York Times, most Asian countries score well, almost half of the students score in the top, while only 7 percent of U. S. students do (Ratey & Hagerman, 2008). The children from Naperville, Illinois took the TIMSS and astonished the world. They scored...
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...CHAPTER 2 REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE AND STUDIES Foreign literature This chapter presents the review of related literature and studies for both foreign and local underlying the framework of the study. Synthesis was also created based from the gathered information and facts in literature and studies. These studies will also the researchers and readers to understand their study more. This will give greater information about how laughter slows down aging. According to Adams (2005) Laughter is a healing activity. Laughter operates on at least three different levels. They are the biophysical, the biochemical, and the bioenergetic levels. At the biophysical level, laughter also moves lymph and oxygenates your organs. Laughter moves lymph fluid around your body simply by the convulsions you experience during the process of laughing; so it boosts immune system function and helps clear out old, dead waste products from organs and tissues. Remember that your lymph system doesn't have a separate pump; your body needs to move around to properly circulate lymph fluid so that your immune system can carry out its natural functions. Laughter is a great way to support that. Secondly, laughter increases oxygenation of your body at both the cellular and organ level. By laughing, you intake vast amounts of oxygen in huge gulps, and you repeat this process in a sort of temporary hyperventilation session. This is the natural result of laughter, and if you watch someone laugh, you...
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