...Introduction Food habits and culture are people’s learned behaviors refer to why and how people eat, with whom they eat, and which foods they eat. Therefore, many people will have many different ways in which they use food. Factors like geography, religion, society, and economy are basic aspects that influence our food habits and culture. Once we understand these factors, we can answer the question: why do you choose one cuisine rather than the others? Geographical Factors In old days, ancestors cultivated the crops base on local, natural resources, which affected their eating habits greatly. Climate, precipitation, soil quality, and topography are four geographical factors that influence our food habits deeply. First of all, climate affects the crop’s growing season, which is shorter in hot climate and longer in cold climate. When the growing season is shorter, people will have more crop cycles, which means the quantity of food is possibly larger. People tend to have enough food to satisfy their physical needs, and they may have extra food to satisfy higher needs, such as social needs, belongingness, status, and self-realization. Climate also affects the types of foods in different regions. For example, mango can only be planted in hot regions, and cabbage is preferred in cold regions. People usually find out that food in hot regions can be more various than food in cold regions. (Hughes, 2011). Secondly, precipitation affects the major food production. In dry and hot areas...
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...Change and Culture Niccolo Machiavelli once said, “There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.” It is how well your organization manages change that impacts the success of the business. Change affects all areas of business- formal and informal groups, work culture and climate, and organizational design. The organization is accountable to all stakeholders, most importantly their clients. The organizational culture influences services as perceived by those clients. This paper will consider a case study where the middle manager in a health care organization has merged with a previous competitor. Up until now, employees saw the competition as an enemy that provided a poor quality of care. The new corporation, however, has in place several inpatient and outpatient services that the organization does not. This paper will address the impact of the sale on the culture of the new combined organization. It will also address how the middle manager can ensure that the combined staff will work together to provide quality care without taking on a competitive stance. Lastly, it will describe what the organization will look like in terms of systems and shape. The primary interest in mergers and acquisitions is to create or exploit synergies (Dalton, n.d.) Unfortunately most mergers and acquisitions fail because there is too much focus on finances while...
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...recent merging of Healthcare International and Care Alliance Health Systems, the management teams of both medical facilities has come together to write a memo on the merger and the effect that it will have within our new organization. Our organization will now be called Care Alliance International Systems. This memo will discuss how the merger will affect our organizational culture (on products and services), how organizational behavior affects overall quality, and how organizational behavior affects competition and human relations. In addition to that, this memo will review how job design, work processes, and performance expectations effect our organization. Lastly, this memo will discuss how the management team will ensure the success of the new Care Alliance International systems. Organizational Culture: Care Alliance Health Systems is dedicated to providing a healthy culture within our facilities so that we may maintain our spirit of excellence with our customer service. There are several impacts of organizational culture on products and services that includes all of the following: company culture, talent, and service excellence. The culture of an organization consists of shared values and beliefs established by an organization’s leaders and managers, then communicated and reinforced through multiple...
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...Miami School District Negotiation MGT 445 August 30, 2011 Miami School District Negotiation When children move to a new school, it not only affects the children. It affects their families, the community, and the school. The school boundaries in Miami must be redrawn to concentrate on overcrowding. Experts are choosing and evaluating these boundaries. The affected stakeholders are experiencing concerns. One must first identify the stakeholders and their concerns before he or she can establish each of the concerns. Choosing a strategy for negotiation and reviewing the ethics and culture effects will ensure that the negotiation approach is applicable for the circumstances. In this paper the subject to analyze is a negotiation strategy that favors the board’s requirement to redraw school boundaries, identification of the stakeholders and how culture, and ethics affect the strategy. Stakeholders To originate an efficient negotiation strategy, one must identify the stakeholders and stakeholders concerns. The stakeholders in the Miami School District project are the students, parents, teachers, and school staff, and the community. The students are primary stakeholders because students who change schools will encounter a new teachers, campus, and classmates. Students will depart from the comfort of familiarity. The parents will experience the effects of a new environment for their children, and a different location of the new school. Teachers and staff will experience class...
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...1. In this course we have discussed the factors that have lead to the growth of the global economy and therefore the rise in global marketing. Discuss drivers and how they have assisted the development of the global wine market. How do the macro environments (political, legal/regulatory, cultural, and economic) influence the ability of the wine industry to grow within a given country? . There have been many factors that have led to the growth in the global economy. Some drivers that have been discussed in this course so far are: peace following WWII, the global support of GATT & the WTO, along with major improvements in information technologies and communications. But as the world revolutionized so did world trade and the global wine industry. Innovations where born, and communication between countries became easier which streamlined the distribution process a global market for the wine industry began. The demand for wine also increased worldwide as World War II came to a close. We learned in Chapter 1 that global commerce thrives during times of peace. An increase in the demand for wine during the postwar era coupled with new innovations that enabled wine to travel further distance without going bad, allowed “New World” producers to step up and compete with “Old World” traditional wine makers. This in turn caused new regulations and “standards” (of which we learned about in chapter 2) in order to protect their own domestic wine industry. ...
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...board and the school board told them that they will come up with a plan and decide on a negotiation strategy to address everyone’s concerns. In this paper, I will discuss the negotiation strategy, the stakeholder’s concerns, and explain how ethics and culture affect my decision. Stakeholders To form an effective negotiation strategy, we must first identify all the stakeholders. The stakeholders that are involved in this negotiation strategy are the school board members, parents, and the students. The school board members are affected by the decision because they must even out the classrooms and make sure each school is not overcrowded. The parents concern about the changes because it may increase their travel time if they have to take their children to a different school, their property value may go up and the social effects on their children may be disturbed. The students’ affect on the decision will have to go to a different school, may not have their friends at the new school, and may not get to do the same extra curriculum activities as their old school. Negotiation Strategy To improve the problem, the Miami School District plan on using the win-win strategy. The plan is to show the parents the advantages of rezoning the school and how their children will receive more help...
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...context (Poole, 2008). It is a method of not only sharing a message but also information. At Starbucks organizational communication is a fully developed and practiced concept. Leadership Style Leadership style found in an organization with regard to communication plays an important role. The leadership style of Starbucks helps in the determination of how effective the communication being given will be. The leadership style chosen for Starbucks can affect the environment of the business as well as how well the employees produce. Discussed below is the effect leadership style has on organizational communication for Starbucks. Autocratic: this leadership style is one where the leaders “assume positions of intellectual and behavioral superiority in groups. They make the decisions, give the orders, and generally control all activities” (Robbins & Judge, 2011). This leadership style will affect Starbucks in a broader manner. This company is one that works towards improvement and quality through innovation and improvement. The autocratic leadership style would cause communication gaps that Starbucks would need to address as well as affect the organizations ability to reach the goals it has. Democratic: democratic leaders “have more faith in the group than authoritarian leaders do and consequently try to involve members in making decisions” (Robbins & Judge, 2011). This leadership style would have a positive effect on the work environment within the organization. The democratic...
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...starting by explaining how McDonald deals with external and internal factors . There are three factors for the success of McDonalds globalization - this is mutual contact between all parts of the franchisees in the world , were we keep a good quality of decision exchange , self-understanding and keeping a good quality of contact among the among the people in the world . The variety of difference between the cultures of the people , is the other factor . last one is ethics , set of principles of correct behavior towards people . This shows us how McDonald uses the factors for successful business in the world . The internal factors of McDonalds activities include political factors , competitors and consumers in their country . The external factors of McDonalds are those in which it has to examine the full criteria: political environment , legal environment , sociocultural environment , demographic situation of country . Competitors: Wendy's , Burger King and Hardees are the main competitors of McDonalds . McDonalds always . competition is very high in this market for managing the competition McDonalds maintain as good product quality and services . Mainly the food...
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... but also affect their families, their municipal, and the school itself. The stakeholders are very concerning, because of high volume of compliant from student guardian. Choose a strategy the bargain and reevaluating the ethics and culture effective is very relevant for the circumstances. This paper will explain the detail of the negotiation strategy that largesse the boards provisions to redraw school boundaries, identity of the stakeholders, and how it affect our ethics and culture strategy. Miami School District must identify the stakeholder concerns regarding the changes. The school project is the students, teachers, families, staff, and the community. The school main stakeholders in this case are mainly the student themself, because of changes made them fall apart from having new instructor, campus, and classmates. Changes will affect not only the student of being depart from their comfort of family but parents will experience of new environment for their children. The teachers and staff will experience class less because of redistribution of students. The community also will experience the effect of whether or not the location will have students in the school district. Quality of education is the number one main concern for the stakeholder towards schools. “To discourse this concern, the Miami School District can refer to studies such as Project STAR (Student Teacher Achievement Ratio) whereas negatively raising the student-to-teacher ratio affects the quality of education...
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...Week Four Discussion Question A A) What are ways that medical error affects health care delivery? How can principles of quality be used to identify, correct, and prevent errors? Medical errors can adversely affect a medical facility. A large number of publicly reported errors can result in a negative reputation for the organization. Medical errors are costly. It costs a large amount of money to settle disputes of medical errors. It can also affect the moral of the organization. Those involved in the error feel unable to function with confidence and staff will not trust the policy and procedures of the organization. Quality improvements are a never ending evolution. It is important that a health care organization not get comfortable in their quality policy and procedures. In order to decrease errors it is important to identify the errors that are occurring. These errors can be great or small. Reporting all errors in comfortable procedural manner will only improve the quality of care in an organization. If errors are not reported or downplayed there will not be the true reflection of what is going on, thus improvements will not occur. The staff must feel safe about reporting errors and understand that there will not be negative punishments for their report, but rewards for letting management know. Quality improves when they are all called to the attention of administrative staff. Ways to identify errors is to know the patients, know the staff,...
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...University of Phoenix Material Consumption and Mass Media Worksheet 1. Respond to all questions with academic paragraphs of at least 50 words. State your point of view and explain it thoroughly. • What is conspicuous consumption? How does conspicuous consumption influence purchasing decisions? Think about a high-priced item that you have bought or would like to buy. To what extent does conspicuous consumption affect your decision? Conspicuous consumption is the lavish spending of unnecessary items, intended to show off wealth. This type of consumption influences decisions through media advertising, as well as our cultural values and societal pressure to conform. I bought a Michael Kors bag for myself a couple years ago, and I blame it all on conspicuous consumption. I would have been just fine with any other generic brand, but felt that I finally deserved a quality, name brand bag, which I could show off to my friends and family. I still use it, and it has been one of the best purchases I’ve ever made. • What is conspicuous leisure? Examples of conspicuous leisure are abundant on television. In what ways are leisure activities informed by social and economic class? Provide an example of a popular leisure activity. What assumptions can you make about the participants of the activity? Conspicuous leisure is just like conspicuous consumption, except it is defined for leisure activities, such as vacations or other activities. It can cost a lot of extra...
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...Pixar Case Study 1. How does Pixar use strategic management? Strategic management consists of the analyses, decisions and actions an organization undertakes in order to create and sustain competitive advantage” (Dess, Lumpkin, Eisner, & McNamara, 2014). Strategic management focuses on the entire organization and is used by Pixar by putting their ideas to reality. They use strategic planning to create valuable products for their audience. Through computer animation and cooperation between employees in the organization Pixar creates unique characters and stories that relates with their audiences and it how they have created their competitive advantage. Pixar’s competitive advantages are their employees and technologies, which is how the company can compete and how they have reached success. Their vision, mission and strategic objectives are the foundation of the way they work, and they make decision based on their external and internal environment and then take action to create a story and characters that will be remembered. Pixar’s innovative ideas, decisions and actions have created their success. What they want is create quality stories that last with each generation. So they have used that idea to direct the organization towards overall goals and objectives. Pixar leaders/managers include their stakeholders in the decision making, which created a culture that shares knowledge and information. Their long term perspective to move the hearts and minds of family audiences...
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...Paper In nursing, we care for patients from a variety of cultures and backgrounds. This diversity is dependent on location, population, and nursing specialty and may change at any point. In order to properly provide culturally competent care, we must be educated about the individual culture needs and limitations. It's also important to be mentally open to looking beyond our personal norms to care for patients with unique cultural backgrounds and beliefs. As a dialysis nurse, we are seeing the effects of chronic kidney disease affecting a larger, more diverse population of patients. Patients are going into renal failure earlier, family dynamics are uniquely affected, and patients from all walks of life are affected. The paper will look at dialysis at Fresenius Medical Care in St Louis Missouri located in The Hill neighborhood. It will define cultural competency, identify the different cultures served, discuss how the standards of culture competency are being met and what areas are not, and discuss nursing care delivery and possible solutions for areas lacking in cultural competency. Culturally Competent Care at Fresenius Dialysis Centers It is imperative as health care providers that we not only care for a verity of people with different health conditions, but also from different backgrounds. We are given the task of caring for the physical and mental wellbeing of patients. Acknowledging and working with culture differences can help a patient feel safe and it shows the...
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...Product Quality Design Achievement 1 Product Quality Design Achievement: Evaluating Quality Approaches Term Paper by Will Pith PMAN 639 – Project Quality Management Professor University June 24, 2010 Product Quality Design Achievement Table of Contents 2 What is Product Quality................................................................................................................................ 4 Implementing Product Quality: Total Quality Management ........................................................................ 5 Implementing Product Quality: Core Competencies .................................................................................... 8 Implementing Measures to Improve Quality - Wolverhampton .................................................................. 19 Conclusion .................................................................................................................................................. 19 References ................................................................................................................................................... 20 Product Quality Design Achievement Introduction Product quality design can be an amorphous concept, even when it is thoroughly explained, with an abundance of examples. Part of the difficulty is the various arenas in which product quality is required. Construction, automobile manufacturing, and information systems 3 are just a couple of areas...
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...Current Health Care Issues Paper Tiara Johnson HCS/545 September 17, 2012 Shawna Butler Current Health Care Issues Paper Introduction Know for its reputation in the field of research and medical technology, the United States give the impression that its health care system has some gold standards or status on the international scale. While thousand of Americans are medical issues that affects the health care arena. These issues have results in a gap in quality of care, allegations of fraud, cultural issues, patient abuse, or neglect. A recent research has show the number of patients victims in the health care arena is considerable such kinds of new laws should be contemplated. Heath system in many countries is influenced by social and economic structure that determines the quality of care provided to each individual. According to Lambert, almost every poll showed that a majority of American are insured and appear to be happy with their health insurance to a large extent, “The bill still passed”. This paper analyzes how quality of care is affected by organizational, culture, structure, governance, and social responsibility. Health news situation Brook Dale hospital, a hospital located in Brooklyn, New York, has been the subject of media scandal in November 2007. The scandal began when a hold man, black, 70 years old came to the emergency room alone for a pathology dominated by: dull pain near the navel or the upper abdomen (right ileac fossa), loss of appetite, vomiting...
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