...Analyzing a Major Issue Justin Francis Professor Nelson Psy110 2/5/2015 If you consider affirmative action for its intentional purposes than Affirmative Action is very just, its purpose being to equalize the education and economic gap between minorities and whites. Although it is not a perfect method to achieving equality in this country, it is essential to accept it for why it’s been put into place and that it is all part of a process. Of course affirmative action is far from perfect and has a fair deal of problems, like promoting reverse discrimination while backing up negative stereotypes. I researched all of these aspects while pondering the question “is affirmative action still needed in today’s society?” In this paper I will be explaining what affirmative action is.The history behind affirmative action like how it all unfolded, who made it, and the history as to why it is in effect now. I will also list some pros and cons of affirmative action, how the United States could better affirmative action for the future and finally a conclusion, which is my opinion on the topic. But what exactly is affirmative action? Born of the civil rights movement three decades ago, affirmative action calls for minorities and women to be given special consideration in employment and education acceptance decisions. Universities with affirmative action policies generally set goals to increase diversity. Affirmative action decisions are generally not supposed to be based on quotas, nor...
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...Major Ethical Issues in Business An ethical issue is a problem or a situation that requires an individual, group or organization to choose among several actions that must be evaluated as right or wrong, ethical or unethical. The ethical issues in business are in most cases abusive or intimidating behavior. examples are like lying, conflicts of interest, bribery, discrimination and sexual harassment among others. They are each discussed briefly below. 1. Lying Lying can broadly be defined as lack of integrity, incomplete disclosure and unwillingness to tell the truth. There are three types of lying, one of which is joking without malice. The other two types can become very troublesome, for example commission lying and omission lying. The causes of lying are complex and relate to both individual and organizational pressures. Commission lying is when you create a perception or belief by words that intentionally deceive the receiver of the message. For example, lying about being at work, expense reports or carrying out assignments. It involves intentionally creating “noise” within communication that knowingly confuses or deceives the communicator. Lying by commission can also be of complex forms, procedures, contacts, words that are spelled the same but with different meanings or better still refuting the truth by telling a false statement. These forms are very common especially in commercial advertising, where for instance, saying that the product is homemade yet in real sense...
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...MAJOR ISSUES AND TRENDS IN OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT I. COMPUTER AIDED MANUFACTURING/COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN * It is the use of computer software to control machine tools and related machinery in the manufacturing of workpieces. * It also refers to the use of a computer to assist in all operations of a manufacturing plant, including planning, management, transportation and storage. * Its primary purpose is to create a faster production process and components and tooling with more precise dimensions and material consistency, which in some cases, uses only the required amount of raw material (thus minimizing waste), while simultaneously reducing energy consumption. * It is a subsequent computer-aided process after computer-aided design (CAD) and sometimes computer-aided engineering (CAE), as the model generated in CAD and verified in CAE can be input into CAM software, which then controls the machine tool CAD / Computer-Aided Design Computer-aided design (CAD) is the use of computer programs to create two- or three-dimensional (2D or 3D) graphical representations of physical objects. CAD software may be specialized for specific applications. CAD is widely used for computer animation and special effects in movies, advertising, and other applications where the graphic design itself is the finished product. CAD is also used to design physical products in a wide range of industries, where the software performs calculations for determining an optimum shape...
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...12 Introduction to Micro And Macro Economics | Major Issues in Pakistan Economy: A Statistical Overview | | | | | Table of Contents Page Historical Background of Pakistan...............................................................................3 An Overview of Current Situation in Pakistan.............................................................5 Major Issues in Pakistan: .............................................................................................7 Illiteracy.............................................................................................................7 Poverty..............................................................................................................12 Corruption.........................................................................................................15 Overpopulation and Population Health.............................................................18 Unemployment..................................................................................................22 Inflation.............................................................................................................26 Energy crisis......................................................................................................30 Political instability............................................................................................33 Conclusion and Recommendations............
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...The major issues & challanges faced by HR Manager are: Health & Welfare, retirement, change management, compensation, Employee rewards, HR effectiveness measurement, HR technology selection & implementation, industrial relations, Leadership development, Learning and development, Legal/Regulatory compliance, M&A integration/restructuring, Organizational effectiveness, Outsourcing, Staffing: mobility of employees, Recruitment and availability of skilled local labour, retention and succession planning. Health & Welfare of the employees is a big challenge. If health of the employees of an organization is sound, they are able to perform well. Change Management represent a particular challenge for personnel management staff, as this expertise has generally not been a consistent area of focus for training and development of HR professionals. An intensified focus on training may be needed to develop added competencies to deal with change management. Leadership development also proves to be a big challenge HR professionals continue to wrestle with understanding the best ways to keep people in the pipeline and develop leaders for future succession planning. HR professionals are expected to provide the essential frameworks, processes, tools and points of view needed for the selection and development of future leaders. Across the globe leadership development has been identified as a critical strategic initiative in ensuring that the right employees are retained...
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...A Analyzing a Major Issue: Bullying Starts at Home Week 8 Assignment 2 Submission Alexandria DeAngelo June 15, 2014 People argue that bullying starts in the home, but what if it’s bigger than that? Some cultures are known for their hierarchy of the family model. The man is at the head of the family; he and his sons are of the most importance, and the mother and children are secondary. This type of hierarchy often leads to bullying that begins in the home, and leaks out into the community, sometimes even an entire culture. What evidence the literature available to date demonstrates ethnic groups, or culturally identified customs that promote bullying behaviors in men? When someone thinks of bullying, a typical image that comes to mind is a school hallway, a bigger kid throwing a smaller kid into a locker, and some belittling phrases. However, bullying can occur in many different forms, and on different levels of severity. In some cultures, men are taught growing up that they are dominant over females. “Many have debated the definition of culture. Overall, most agree with the definition that culture is an acquired and transmitted pattern of shared meaning, feeling, and behavior that constitutes a distinctive human group” (Ayman & Korabik, 2010). As these young boys grow up, become husbands and fathers, these men begin to treat their wives poorly, often bullying them verbally, mentally, or even physically. This bullying can lead to violence. When young children...
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...ABC Primetime Special Saturday 3rd March, 2007. Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls It started as a dream, and manifested itself into reality-the birth of The Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy in South Africa. The Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls-South Africa is a boarding school for grades seven through twelve. “This is a school for leaders,” says Oprah. “A school for powerful girls who will use their power in service to their nation and to our world.” The academy staff distributed 5,500 applications and 3,500 girls responded. However, the Primetime special highlighted six extraordinary girls: Thando, Lesego, Megan & Sade, Zodwa, Ziphozonke, and Maltase. Thando is a 13-year-old with a dazzling personality. She believes South Africa should have a woman president because “women can multi-task. Thando’s inspiration comes from her grandmother. Thando’s grandmother works as a maid for a white family. Her mother is unemployed, so her grandmother is the one that pays for Thando’s schooling. Thando is grateful to her grandmother. She inspires to me as generous and as kind as her grandmother. Excellent in Mathematics, 13-year-old Lesego, possess great leadership qualities. She teaches a poetry class after school. Lesego lives with her dad in a house where the ceiling is caving from rain and there is no indoor plumbing. Her mother left her at the age of four. This neglect angers Lesego and she remains upset with her mother. Lesego states her mother...
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...Major Health Issues in the United States Today Presentation By: Team C Bianka Noble, Sandi Cerutti, Heather Bane, Gloria Ponce, and Leticia Rojas HCS/212 Paul Dereadt January 20th, 2014 Introduction Three major health conditions that is widespread in the United States today: • Heart Disease • Kidney Disease • Cancer • Kidney disease is the 8th leading cause of death in the United States. • More than 20 million adults age 20 or older in the U.S. have kidney disease and most don't know it. • Diabetes and high blood pressure are the two leading causes of kidney disease. Kidney Disease High blood pressure, especially when left untreated, can damage kidneys and lead to chronic kidney disease. High Blood Pressure • The National Kidney Foundation (NKF) has divided chronic kidney disease into five stages to create a guideline to identify and treat each level of kidney disease. The first four stages focus on ways to preserve kidney function for as long as possible. While the final stage 5 which is kidney failure reviews treatment choices. Chronic Kidney Disease Kidney disease is on the rise. Affects more than 10 percent of people worldwide. Between 2000 and 2008 Kidney Disease has double in the Unites States with people over 65 years of age. Due to increasing rate of obesity and diabetes researchers are founding increasing kidney disease with 1 in 25 adults between the ages of 20 and 29. World Wide Killer ...
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...1. What are the major issues in this case? What should Elizabeth Ryan do? The major issues of the case are employee dissatisfaction, hygiene, employee conflict, poor management, interpersonal relations and customer dissatisfaction. It can be clearly seen from the major issues why this particular clinic is not doing well. Elizabeth Ryan needs to change and organize the clinic operations. The management structure is not well defined, the first thing Elizabeth Ryan in management change should do is to define and properly state the formal chain of command between different levels of authority, for example based on experience the senior and junior technicians role can be established. She needs to revamp the clinic’s marketing strategies and start advertising its services. Running a brand solely on word to mouth marketing is not effective as well as efficient. One of the difficult responsibility she needs to deal with is her problem employee Moore, which is leading to productivity issue, morale problems, poor quality of treatment and customer dissatisfaction, which is turning out to be the most pressing issue of all and it is also clear that it will be impossible to go ahead with other changes until this one is dealt with. Elizabeth Ryan will have to raise her employee Gulford’s morale, as she is the one who is handling all the heavy workload. By resolving the employee conflict above, she can improve the work environment and raise the clinic’s performance and ultimately customer...
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...FROM: David Spencer SUBJECT: Acquisition I am delighted to announce that InterClean, Inc. has officially acquired EnviroTech, one of our major domestic competitors in the corporate market. With this acquisition, InterClean has taken a giant step in achieving domestic market dominance in the sanitation industry. More than that, the service expertise that comes with EnviroTech dovetails perfectly with our new strategic direction. With that expertise and InterClean’s resources, we fully expect to reach our sales goals for the next year, which should increase profitability by 40 percent. This is exciting news, indeed. Over the next four months, we will be working to merge about 60 EnviroTech sales staff and operations specialists into the InterClean structure. This will roughly coincide with the launching of our major media blitz to announce our new service focus. I hope you’ll join me in welcoming the EnviroTech staff into the InterClean family. I expect all management personnel to begin integration efforts immediately. MARCH 8, 2005 MEMORANDUM*** TO: Tom Jennings, Janet Durham FROM: Sam Waters SUBJECT: Compliance Issues My staff and I have been working on identifying a broad set of compliance issues, knowledge of which will be essential in a solutions-based selling market. For 10 of the major markets InterClean serves or would like to serve, we looked at the environmental regulations and local sanitation standards and found numerous technical specifics that...
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...1, What are the key strategic issues that Avery needs to consider? What are his options? Avery got a few options regarding key strategic issues he needs to consider. He could grow the company and enter into other segments of the business. This segment would be the plastics containers that would have potential. Other option is whether to acquire Continental Can Canada or not. The company generates $400 million in sales per year and it is the largest manufacturer in the Canadian region. That does not seem a whole lot. However, Continental’s USA business has estimated revenues of $1.3 billion which would double the size of Crown’s domestic operations. Also, Continental’s European operations generated estimated sales of $1.5 billion. Potential bidders for the acquisition are the major competitors of CCS. Avery is concerned about both options because they both have pros and cons. Entering the plastic can business segment would have the following pros: • Entering a new business segment, great for diversification • Decreasing shipping cost because of lighter weight • Made of natural resources • Plastic material can easily be formed/shaped Entering the plastic business segment would have the following cons: • Unknown business territory, no experience • Carbonation leaks after 4 month – major issue • Cannot be fully recycled Acquiring Continental Can Canada would have the following pros: • Double in size domestically, increase market share rapidly • Plastic container line...
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...• The biggest problem faced by any SAARC country is poverty. Poverty has a wide spectrum of causes which vary from country to country. Issues like Naxalism in India, Civil wars in Sri Lanka, Terrorism in Pakistan have a direct link to poverty. Illiteracy and ignorance have resulted in an unbridled rise in population in many under developed nations. This is one of the alarming problems faced by the world considering its impact on global food and commodity market. The impact is so severe that, India which once was an exporter of food grains became an importer. The literacy rate of a country is dependent on socio-economic status of the people. This problem can be viewed from the other side in a different way. Though the land under cultivation in India is more than that of China, Indian agriculture can't feed its own people, while the Chinese could feed themselves. 60% people in India rely on agriculture directly, but its contribution towards GDP is just around 20% to 30% .Lack of implementation of modern technology in the field of agriculture, fragmented land holdings, low irrigation potential, unviable returns etc can be shown as the causes here. Considering the GDP as the bench mark for development of a country, India registered a growth rate around 9% only after globalization in 1991. This clearly indicates that market based economy with minimum regulations encourage entrepreneurship. Survival of small scale and micro level industries is one of the key aspects in the success...
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...geopolitically speaking, representing a major hub when it comes to political interactions, commercial alliances, diplomatic communication and socio-cultural connections. The appellation of United States of Europe can highlight the crucial importance of these nations and the impact of its cooperation and interactions at the international level. In July 13th 2008, Nicolas Sarkozy had triggered a process that led to the Union for the Mediterranean that became today a huge union between countries all around the world, over and above the Mediterranean Sea, attesting of the tremendous magnitude of its geopolitical power. To me, the major objective of this Union should be conducted by a real long-term geopolitical, economic and socio-cultural strategy aiming the promotion of the economical integration and democratic reforms among and between Euro-Mediterranean nations. Since this geopolitical area is highly characterized by an ambient heterogeneity, between North Nations and South Nations in one hand, between wealthy powers, and more underprivileged countries on the other hand, economical and socio-cultural disparities between different geopolitical regions seems to me that they represent the 1st major problem and geopolitical challenge. Indeed, this inevitable battle for a homogeneous united geopolitical area can be a capital step that will lead us to a troubleshooting at various and numerous levels. I also think that this approach can solve two issues that seems crucial to me. 1)...
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...“Does this Milkshake Taste Funny?” Major Issues and Players The major players in this case study are George Stein and Paul Burnham with regards to their employment at Eastern Dairy. The major issues at play relate to poor business planning, improper management, lack of ethics (decisions made by George and Paul) and social responsibility (the possible health issues of related to the contaminated products). Analysis of the Issues and Players In this case, there are several instances of poor management including but not limited to: lack of proper training, accountability and adherence to manufacturing industry standards, etc. A company as large as Eastern dairy should have a manager on site and more than 4 employees for the night shift, especially given how critical the night shift is in meeting production needs. The so‐called “leader” of the group, Paul is worried about going home early and the cost impact to the company if product needs are not met for one night. Paul’s decision to ignore the issue puts George in an extremely difficult situation. Another problem to note is the management in many corporations today. All too often, employees have self‐serving motives and conflicts of interest that essentially stems from culture of the organization and how it operates. When George initially brings the issue to Paul, we learn quickly from Paul’s demeanor that he had encountered the problem in the past and had seen the maggots several...
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