...person belongings. When the decision is made whether to layoff or terminate an employee some managers have not been properly trained to have the unfortunate discussion with the employee that must take place to explain the company’s overall decision. Keep in mind that the aftermath of employee terminations and layoffs also effect the surviving employees. Companies need to acknowledge that the individuals still employed may be left feeling fearful of losing their jobs and that it is important to explain the reasons for the layoffs or terminations companywide with compassion and transparency. Companies also need to remember that they have to follow and respect the law when terminating and laying off employees. Our team agrees that the problem presented in the article, “Mismanaged layoffs can go ‘horribly wrong’,” is the lack of proper management training provided by the organization and proper preparation when it comes to employee layoffs or termination. All organizations as well as management at one time or another will be or have been faced with hard decision to amplify based on what they see or recognized as the best interest for their organization and the employees that are staying on the team. Laying off employees is a very difficult task for any manager but understanding how the layoff process works will better prepare managers for the layoff process within the organization regardless of the extent of the situation. The impact on a mismanaged layoff can be negative to...
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...Background on Methods The majority of the literature referenced here on poverty-related issues is the primary research data sets. Included are studies and findings that surface through research of literature on specific reviews of the specified issues. The assessment of the methods of analysis used in the referenced research was rooted in peer reviews, frequency of citations, and perceived quality. For the purposes of this summary, the methods were not re-analyzed or tested. The research addressed here is focused on findings within the context of the United States. The analysis of the causes of poverty as well as research on issues that impact income, earnings and poverty can be considered determinants of poverty. The issue of employment and life experiences that put people at risk of not working or not working enough to prevent entry into poverty is strength of the economy and quality of wages. Introduction The scale and conditions of poverty make it one of the most pressing social issues facing the nation. According to the 2007 Population Report prepared by the US Census Bureau, over 36 million people in the United States are living in poverty and 54 million are at severe risk of falling into poverty.1 “The annual rate of entry into poverty for the total population of the United States has been estimated at roughly three percent per year”.2 Poverty will touch the majority of Americans at some point during adulthood. It is estimated that, on average, 60 percent of...
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...You Can Make a Difference by Volunteering There are many different ways you can make a difference by volunteering; however, where to start can sometimes be difficult, because there are many people in need. Below I will provide some example and past experiences on where and how to volunteer, so that you too can make a difference by volunteering. Here are couple different genres of volunteering, youth, homeless, seniors, and your community. There are at least 400 organizations across the valley of the sun that focus on raising money, providing food, shelter, and assistance for the homeless, youth, senior citizens and even for your community. Sometimes it is hard to find time or even selfish reasons get in our way from volunteering, but not only does volunteering makes the person you’re helping feel good, it also makes the person volunteering Feel good about themselves. And you know that at least for day you are making a difference in someone’s life. One of the genres of volunteering is for youth. We as young adults owe it to our younger generation to make sure that have the same kinds of opportunities that we have or had. After all they are our future. On Saturday April 5, I was privileged to participate in Mesa Harley Davidson’s 15 annual Torch Run for youth Special Olympics of Arizona. The event was a success and we raised over $5,000 dollars to help support the cause. Here are a few places where you can make a difference. Boys and Girls Club. There are 11 Boys and Girls...
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...PUBLIC ISSUES AND PERSONAL PROBLEMS Most of the time, we don’t think of problems we go through as social issues, but when we compare ourselves to others we can see that many of the everyday problems of average people occur on a larger basis in our country. Some are easier to spot such as unemployment, even though it affects each person laid off once the rates get to a certain point it is obvious that the rates are due to economical factors not the characteristics of each individual (Mills 1). I have found that a problem that is becoming more evident in our daily life is a growing use of dangerous supplements in teenage athletes. When I was thirteen I started in my first school sport. I became a runner. I fell in love with the sport. As I grew older it was something that dominated my life on and off the mat. I often found myself in class wishing I were running. Naturally as I became older I also became more a competitive athlete, as did the rest of my friends that ran or played any high school sport for that matter. Talk of being a competitor at state championships or who was favored at the next match often filled the hallways. Generally this competition appeared a good thing to me. I was a better athlete because of that competition. Being a runner I often heard people talk about “why would you do that to your body?” referring to dropping weight. At first the idea seemed absurd. The conversations with others about what supplements I was taking or not taking took place almost...
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...Recently I encountered a problem within my school amongst a peer of mine. The issue is my Capstone Project that was not going the way I would have expected. Here I have waited almost two years to reach this point and for it to go other than perfect is not an option. The problem is that I am a very intrapersonal person and working alone has always been important for my success. The Capstone Project is a team project that is 11 weeks long, that involves many on and off campus meetings. Two of the three partners that I have pretty much have the same or better personality traits and work ethics that I have. But, then there’s the final partner of this team that is the complete opposite of our personalities and work ethics. This partner really procrastinates on everything they do. So one day this partner consented to doing a part of the project that was extremely time sensitive. My ideas and plans of working with this team have changed considerably over the last 3 weeks. The dreams of having an awesome project are slowly ebbing away. But over the last few days I decided to not let this situation over our team project to ruin the outcome of this project. I have decided to work through and work harder to help my other partners complete this Capstone Project with as much finesse as possible. All things happen for a reason and I will not show any anger over things that have happened. The future will only get better. So for I and my partners let be creative so we finish...
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...Problems hospitals under Ghana’s national health insurance scheme face hospitals under the Ghana’s National Health Insurance policy faces several problems following its induction. The aim is to delve the assessment of hospital administration under the scheme in regards to compensation, claims and delivery time. This study involves key hospital administrators from accredited hospitals under the National Health Insurance Scheme. The mode of selection of these hospitals administrators is two districts each from five selected regions In Ghana. The districts that will be considered will be one less endowed and one well to do with from each of the selected regions. The mode of data collection will be personal interview with hospital administrators, managers of pharmacy, procurement, accounts and insurance scheme department. Data analysis will be based on prominent themes that will come up during interviews. The framework approach to qualitative data analysis will be used, grouping and incorporating themes that will come up during the interview. Findings with problems confronting hospital administration includes delays of cash flows from the insurance authority; capacity of the scheme insufficient to procure essential drug and other consumables; inability to take initiatives; inadequate human resource; and limited spaces in the hospital to cope with increasing number of service users. The National Health Insurance Scheme has brought many challenges to the organizational and service...
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...Strategies for Applying Creativity to Problems and Issues Stacy Fraunhoffer Critical and Creative Thinking Randall Vicks There are several strategies we can use for applying creativity to problems and issues concerning the topic. Our topic is from last week regarding a Chinese man who thinks he has the right to sue his wife because she failed to inform him of plastic surgery that she had done prior to them meeting. He says that he has been misled because he thought his children would have her beautiful genes. He is suing her because she had ugly children. I would begin by taking the novel approach to encourage the readers to research each side of the story so they had all the facts. Then I would also improve on what the writer originally had said. I would also devise or modify any new information that I may come across. Strategies for promoting curiosity in this story can be done several ways. I believe the best way would be the novel approach. Doing things by taking the novel approach seems to be very effective and that is because it is done in a new and different way. The other strategies which are devising or modifying a process or system, inventing a new product or service, finding new uses for existing things, improving things, and inventing or redefining a concept also work well. You need to have enough information to effectively deal with the problem and to see it from all aspects. These various methods can be used for producing ideas to eliminate the bias...
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...Management issues that caused JetBlue’s problems: JetBlue managers did call in off-duty agents, but with the amount of passengers calling they could not assist everyone in a timely manner. Most of the agents were working from home, with the amount of calls coming in the system could not accommodate the agents. The bumped the system up to 950 agents but could not go further without degrading the performance of the system (Rainer & Turban, 2009). There definitely was the need for third party customer service representatives to be put in place. Even if they were not knowledgeable of the JetBlue systems, they could handle the influx of calls and ensure the passengers would be able to reach the correct department. JetBlue was in the process of making their web-site more user friendly, but it was not up and ready at the time of the February storm (What Really Happened at JetBlue, 2007). Technical issues that caused JetBlue’s problems: The next issue that plagued the airline was they had no ability to record lost baggage. Because of the lack of IT at JetBlue there were many customers left hanging and nowhere to go for answers. From what I read the main issue for IT was the ability for the JetBlue passengers to rebook their flights. The only way for them to obtain a new flight was to call the reservation line. In many instances they were on hold for over an hour, and that was if they could get through at all (Rainer & Turban, 2009). I would have contacted the IT department...
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...An Issue vs. A Problem: The Kudler Fine Foods Store Kudler Fine Foods is a local upscale specialty food store with three locations (La Jolla, Del Mar and Encinita) located in fashionable shopping centers in the San Diego metropolitan area. The stores are stocked with the very best domestic and imported foodstuffs and divided into different departments (Kudler Intranet). It was founded by Kathy Kudler, a Marketing VP of a large contractor at the time, in 1998. As many small businesses, the operation of such an enterprise is full of day to day issues and problems that need to be resolved properly and efficiently in order to keep the operation going. An issue is defined as “a topic of interest or discussion, an important subject requiring a decision” while a problem is defined as “something or someone that is difficult to deal with” (Collins Essential English Dictionary, 2nd Edition, 2006). As a small and growing business, Kudler Fine Foods has intrinsic issues that, if left unattended, can turn into problems at any given time. By evaluating the Weaknesses section of the 2003 Strategic Plan of Kudler Fine Foods SWOT (Strengths-Weaknesses-Opportunities-Threats) analysis, a set of issues that need to be discussed can be defined. Due to the nature of the business, a one-stop place that offers the best domestic and imported food stuff, Kudler Fine Foods deals with perishable food that needs to be rotated out of the inventory (12%) on a 2 or 3 day basis in order to ensure the customer...
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...Ethical issue, as stated by Ferrell et al (2008) is “simply a situation, a problem, or even an opportunity that requires thought, discussion, or investigation to make a decision” (p. 60) whether it is right or wrong, ethical or unethical. Ethical issues results from the conflicts among individuals’ personal moral philosophies and values, the values and culture of their organizations and their society. Especially in the business environment, the ethical conflicts appear more normal when the benefit of one organization is the loss or suffering of the others. Ethical issues include many problems, situations or opportunities, however, within this context, I would like to discuss on the following three issues. First ethical issue relates to the environmental protection that becomes the most concerned today, especially in countries with high speed of industrialization and urbanization like Vietnam. Pollution is caused from dust, raw sewage, toxic chemicals, fertilizers and pesticides, industrial waste… from factories and transportation vehicles that are damaging the living environment. In a latest report by the United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP), Vietnam stands 6th among the cities having highest level of pollution when dust is as 2 to 3 times higher than normal level. Some rivers in Vietnam are now being called as “black rivers” instead of their own names as the water is being so polluted with bad smell that no fish can exist after years they are being filtered by waste...
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...to complete. Traveling around the world is possible in modern world. In the past, you need to apply to Visa. Now, more and more governments offer tourist Visa to foreign. You can enter any country easily. However; this also lowers the safety inspection. It may cause some problems, such as terrorist activities. The situation has two. One is that the foreigners go to other countries and do threaten there. Another one is the local people force tourists to pay money or put them in danger. The local people just want to show something scared to government so they scarified the tourists. For example, it happened in the tourist district of Kuta, Bali, Indonesia, on 12 October 2012. The attack was claimed as the deadliest act of terrorism in the history of Indonesia according to the current police general. 202 people were killed, including 88 Australian, 38 Indonesian and 5 Swedish citizens. About 240 people were injured. (Amy Zalman, Ph.D., 2002) This was caused by a violent Islamist group. They caused another bombing in 2005. When this happened, it made the market of tourism in Indonesia go down sharply, not only affected one area but also whole Indonesia. This is an unexpected situation but a really big issue in Asia Pacific. It happened in many countries. Another example is Manila hostage crisis which happened on August 23, 2010. A Filipino hijacked a tourist bus carrying tourists from Hong Kong, in an attempt to get his job back. This case is a little bit different. After this...
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...WHY I WANT TO PURSUE A CARRER AS A NURSE. I want to become a nurse because I like being able to help those who are in need and try to improve what is probably been a bad day for them. I was born and raised in Cameroon, where poverty is very evident. Throughout my life, I have seen all different kings of people in poverty, may it be infants, children, elderly people and even disabled people. Everyday I would see people on the streets begging others for money just so they could treat their ailing relatives. Whenever I saw them, I felt so weak. I wanted to help them, yet I did not know how since I was just a child. It wasn’t until I moved here in the United States that I realized health care is truly the right path for me. Moving here made me realized how other countries like Cameroon are in great need of health services. It made me more aware of the situation and now that I am older, I know that I could do my part in those in needs in all over the world and Africa especially. Seeing the poverty and lack of good health care gave me more than the desire to become a nurse, it gave me the passion and determination to achieve that carreer. I believe that passion and determination are important elements in becoming a nurse which I posses all skills Once I stared researching a career in nursing I realized that there were a lot more types of nurses than I had originally thought. This confused me because there was a nurse for almost everything! Then I finally decided...
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...ASSIGNMENT TOPIC THE UN SYSTEM OF HUMAN RIGHTS: A CRITICAL EXAMINATION. There are a number of human rights provisions in the charter of the United nations, Article 1 includes in the purposes of the organization the promotion and encouragement of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language or religion. Article 13(1) notes that the general Assembly shall initiate studies and make recommendation regarding the realization of human rights for all, while Article 55 provides that the United Nation shall promote universal respect for and observance of human rights, in a significant provision Article 56 states that: all members pledge themselves to take joint and separate action in co-operation with the organization for the achievement of the purposes set forth in article 55 . The United Nations officially became an institution with the ratification of the UN Charter on October 24, 1945. From then on, it quickly became an active international body. On January 10, 1946, the first General Assembly met at Westminster, London. There were 51 nations represented at this first meeting. One week later, on January 17, the Security Council first met, also in London. The following week, on January 24, the General Assembly adopted its first resolution, focusing on peaceful uses of atomic energy and the elimination of weapons of mass destruction. February 1 of that year saw the appointment of the first Secretary-General, Trygve Lie...
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...University of Phoenix Material Ethical Worksheet Sample Incident Review |What is the ethical issue or problem? Identify the issue succinctly. | |The moral agent is a criminal defense attorney. The attorney knows of another criminal defense attorney who is an alcoholic and | |ignores his client obligations. What should the moral agent do? | |What are the most important facts? Which facts have the most bearing on the ethical decision presented? Include any important | |potential economic, social, or political pressures, and exclude inconsequential facts. | |The attorney often appears in court intoxicated. He ignores his cases and does not file appropriate motions before deadlines | |expire. His clients, who are court-appointed, usually end up with convictions and heavy sentences due to his incompetence. In | |trial, he is unprepared and unprofessional. Defendants have complained. Defense attorneys, prosecutors, and judges are aware of his| |incompetence and have done nothing. The attorney’s disbarment would likely cause drastic economic consequences for the attorney. If| |the moral agent is responsible for his disbarment, the moral agent may face the social stigma and pressure of being labeled a | |snitch. With emphasis on stiffer penalties for defendants, there is political...
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...How effectively did Elizabeth and her government deal with the problems they faced in the later years of her reign? Towards the end of Elizabeth’s reign she dealt less with problems of marriage and succession but more to do with rebellions that challenged her and her privy council’s rule, and financial and social issues. However her relationship with parliament was an issue throughout her entire reign. Elizabeth was somewhat effective when dealing with the social problems that occurred at the end of her reign. Elizabeth tried to prevent poor harvests which would gravely damage the economy and her popularity in the public with the ‘Book of Orders’ which attempted to prevent any poor harvests. This was ineffective in preventing the awful harvests in 1586-87 and in 1594-96. This led to riots in 1595. However, Elizabeth was then very effective in dealing with the riots as a consequence. In 1598 she passed a Poor Law act, which required all parishes to appoint overseers of the poor and provide relief, this also increased employment rates. This therefore increased her popularity and her relationship with parliament. Whilst Elizabeth was effective in dealing with the negative consequences involving the daily lives of her people, she as less effective at managing the financial problems, such as balancing her relationship with parliament to grant her subsidies and money spent during warfare. Elizabeth was less effective in dealing with finance. Due to the squashing of the rebellion...
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