...problems, there was an increase in the number of complaints by customers and an increase in mistakes made by the employees. The performance of the organization therefore deteriorated. Symptoms & Causes of Deterioration of Performance: Symptoms & Causes of Deterioration of Performance Cultural factors Communication factors Staff performance: personality and organizational fit Job design and role ambiguity Espoused and enacted values Power hierarchy & decision making process Stress, absenteeism, high staff turnover and job satisfaction Major issues in the case: Major issues in the case Organizational change inadequately managed. The differences in the newly merged workforce with dissimilar profiles had not been addressed. Following this, Becker did not employ a communication strategy that supported the dissimilarity between management and employees and their different cultures. The unclear decision making process and power hierarchy. Lack of proper analysis of the chances of success of the strategy of empowerment. Lack of proper coordination within the management...
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...Counter-productive New Age Feminism Luis Miguel G. Foronda English 23: Writing Across the Disciplines Melissa Anne Penaflor September 3, 2015 Feminism has played a vital role in improving the quality of life of women and its significance can be seen in the classic waves of feminism. The first wave of feminism was successful in establishing political equality among males and females with women’s suffrage being one of the milestones of that movement. It was through this movement that women and men were seen as political equals. The second wave deals more on establishing the sexual rights of women; its aim was to de-sexualize and de-objectify women and treat them as more than domesticated human beings (DuBois, 1971). But with the rise of the modern age comes the age of New Feminism, a feminism where a woman’s point of view is being emphasized (Sommers, 1994). Since the New Feminism puts an emphasis on the woman, modern feminists often disregard the standpoint of men, putting to naught the objective of Old Feminism, which is equality. Modern feminists have even reached a point of quarreling with women who don’t share their own viewpoint of feminism. The problem presents itself here because the rise of New Wave feminism is cultivating a culture of counter-productivity due to its sexist, ironic nature and its nature of anti-equality. But this idea of counter-productivity is not shared among these feminists, which is why it is important that we hear their side as well. Modern feminism...
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...and contrast this for ‘The House’ and ‘The New House’. I believe that the poem ‘The New House’ by Edward Thomas is about a person, most likely the poet due to the first person narrative that has moved into a new house. However, we can see from the language used in the poem that he does not like the house, and it constantly disappoints him. Robert Minhinnick’s poem ‘The House’, is, in my opinion, about a man in the loft of his home trying to fix the electrics, realising that the house owns him, rather than vice versa as you’d expect. Both of these poems certainly do not portray happiness through their meanings, and rather give the houses negative connotations. I believe this would have a shock effect on the reader, who would expect poems about people’s houses to have a happy theme. The structure of ‘The House’ is that of five stanzas all of equal length and line length, which I believe represents the tediousness of the house, which is obviously a word associated with something of ‘perfect happiness’. In addition to this, the poem also shows lots of links to conflict, using language that has connotations to war, such as ‘warfare’ and ‘territory’. This is no different in the structure of the poem, and it could be said that the identical stanzas represents the electricity off and on, and similarly to this, the poems rough iambic pentameter is rough like the houses electricity flow. I believe that it’d be difficult for a reader to understand the significance of this poems structure...
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...“The Blacklist” In season full of mediocre (or worse) new shows, NBC's The Blacklist has been a nice surprise. When I saw the pilot, I thought it had no business being as rock-solid as it was, but I wrote off the show's long-term prospects because I didn't think James Spader was enough to carry the show on a weekly basis, and the ongoing story about Red and Elizabeth seemed pretty obvious. However, after catching up on the series this past weekend and watching Monday's "General Ludd," I realized that I was only partially correct. Spader is mostly up to the challenge as The Blacklist's centerpiece, and the ongoing story is pretty obvious, but the show has done quite a bit of legwork to keep it compelling in the first eight weeks. Although it's likely that the plum post-Voice time period gives The Blacklist most of its ratings juice, I'm no longer shocked that it's the season's biggest hit. Here's why. 1. A good balance of procedural stories and ongoing mysteries I've had a few discussions with friends lately about what it means to be a broadcast drama in 2013. One of the takeaways has been that, more often than not, when people think of a broadcast drama, they tend to focus on shows that are almost exclusively procedural, relegating the obviously "great" examples like The Good Wife or Scandal to a small group of outliers that are more often compared to "great" cable shows. And while I love the kind of intense serialized stories those series can tell, shows like The Blacklist prove...
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...2. Identify at least three (3) "bad ways to break the bad news" in physician-patient communication. In your answer identify ways to handle this situation better. Communicating bad news is an essential skill for physicians and anybody directly involved with the care of patients. Even do, many of them find it challenging to convey bad information, especially when this involves life-threatening or terminal illnesses. Some may feel inadequately prepared or inexperienced. Others fear the news will be distressing and adversely affect the patient, family, or the therapeutic relationship. Deliver the bad news is always difficult; nevertheless, doctors have to find the proper way off doing it. According to (Kastenbaum, 2009, box 4-2 pp 118) the following are clear examples of “bad ways to break the bad news" in physician-patient communication. * Give the bad news right away and get it over with. * Give all facts at one time. * Impress patients and family with medical knowledge. * Tell the diagnosis, and then move on. * Make sure you have broken through denial. * Stretch the truth if necessary to cheer up the patient. * Make it clear that there is nothing more to do for the patient. I clearly remember after my father had his brain surgery, we saw many health care providers. His primary doctor would always say he was doing better, even though his health continued deteriorating. The neurosurgeon would use fancy medical terminology to describe the tumor’s...
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...8. Use sources 10, 11 and 12 and your own knowledge ‘The New Deal failed to revive the US economy’ Explain your answer, using Sources 10, 11 and 12 and your own knowledge of the issues relating to this controversy. It is thoroughly debated whether the New Deal did actually provide the momentum to boost the US out of the depression, or whether it was merely coincidental factors such as WWII which provided the real recovery. Johnson insists that the New Deal was in fact counterproductive and hampered the economy and that it was WWII that masked the New Deals failure and helped reboot the economy. This view is rebuffed by Jenkins and Shakes who believe that the New Deal, although far from being perfect provided the stability for recovery to occur and thus kick-started the economy. Johnson overall picture of the supposed New Deal recovery was that is was ‘slow and feeble’ with its impact being virtually non-existence or in fact stunting growth. This is reinforced by Shlaes, ‘NRA was so inflexible they frightened away capital and discouraged employers from hiring workers’. With Johnson stating the only ‘good year was 1937 when unemployment being at 14.3%’ though rising again to 20% in 1938. Throughout the 30s the levels of unemployment never dropped below 10% and that it was only when ‘America on the brink of war’ that unemployment passed below 5% and production levels ‘finally passes 1929 levels for good’. In Johnson view it was WWII which eradicated unemployment and ramped up...
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...health insurance, which is the main source of coverage for most Americans. According to the Center of Disease Control, approximately 58% of Americans have private health insurance. The primary public programs are Medicare, a federal social insurance program for seniors and certain disabled individuals and Medicaid, also referred to as Medical. These two are funded jointly by the federal government and states but managed at the state level, which covers certain very low income children and their families. Health advocacy companies initiated to become visible to assist patients muddle through the complexities of the healthcare system (Wikipedia, 2014). In 2010 President Obama signed into law the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. This Act includes individual mandate that every American must have medical insurance or pay a fine at tax time (Obama Care Facts, 2014). Before the enhancement of medical expense insurance, patients were presumed to pay health care costs out of their own pockets, which is known as the fee-for-service professional standard. Hospital and medical expense policies were introduced during the first half of the 20th century. During the 1920s, individual hospitals began offering services to individuals on a pre-paid base, eventually leading to the development of Blue Cross organizations. The predecessors of today's Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs) originated beginning in 1929, through the 1930s and on during World War II and beyond (Thinking...
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...NEW RESTRICTIONS In life, people pass through different phases. They are born into a family, and then they grow up and reach puberty. After puberty, they are considered adults. At this time, the sociological burden becomes heavier and new responsibilities are added to a person’s burden. Graduating from a good university, finding a job, getting married and having children are some of these expectations. Most people consider these expectations especially having children reasonable and a source of happiness. However, it is my opinion that children are far away from being the ultimate bliss in our lives; on the contrary, they bring about more responsibilities and restrictions. Some people claim that children bring happiness and meaning to one’s life. But people also have aims, pleasures and hobbies that contribute to their happiness. Therefore, we do not need children to achieve happiness. Also, in my opinion, children are a burden for the family. Once you give birth to babies, you must do everything to raise them. You must pay for new clothes, nannies, expensive schools, etc. Since you spend all your money on your children, you do not have enough financial resources to do something for yourself. Children restrict the parents. Since you are always busy with your kids and their problems, you do not have enough time to be with your friends or to do things that give pleasure to you. For instance, you cannot always go out with your spouse or you cannot...
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...Discrete Structure To be submitted to: Mr. Roger Intong Faculty BITE DEPARTMENT CATHERINE PIANO BSIT2 DESIGN * ------------------------------------------------- Device type: * Tablet * ------------------------------------------------- OS: * Windows (8) * ------------------------------------------------- Dimensions: * 11.97 x 7.46 x 0.39 inches (304 x 189.4 x 9.9 mm) * Weight: * 26.46 oz (750 g) the average is 17.4 oz (496 g) DISPLAY * ------------------------------------------------- Physical size: * 11.6 inches * ------------------------------------------------- Resolution: * 1366 x 768 pixels * ------------------------------------------------- Pixel density: * 135 ppi * ------------------------------------------------- Technology: * LCD * ------------------------------------------------- Colors: * 16 777 216 * ------------------------------------------------- Touchscreen: * Multi-touch * Features: * Light sensor MULTIMEDIA * ------------------------------------------------- Music player: * Filter by: * Album, Artist * Features: * Album art cover, Background playback * Speakers: * Stereo speakers TECHNOLOGY * Data: * LTE, HSPA (unspecified) OTHER FEATURES * ------------------------------------------------- Sensors: * Accelerometer * Voice recording ...
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...The Surprising Way Teenagers Make Friends | Parenting - Yahoo Shine 11/19/13 5:52 AM Home Mail News Sports Finance Weather Games Groups Answers Screen Flickr Mobile Sign In More Mail Search Shine Search Web The Surprising Way Teenagers Make Friends By Elise Solé, Shine Staff | Parenting – 4 hours ago Watch a classic teen movie like “The Breakfast Club” or “Mean Girls,” and you may think you have high school life figured out: Kids make friends based on what group they identify with, be it the jocks, the cheerleaders, the geeks, the weirdos, or some other clique. However, a new study of 3,000 students published Saturday by Michigan State University smashes stereotypes about the way teens pair off in school. “People want to believe that high school kids are making friends based on what clique they identify with, but that’s not completely true,” Kenneth Frank, PhD, a professor at Michigan State University's College of Education, tells Yahoo Shine. “People may rely on these stereotypes as a reference point to make sense of how high school kids operate: however, the classes students take are also an important indicator of who they’ll be friends with." Universal Studios The study found that kids will seek out like-minded people within the pool of peers they have access to. In other words, if your child loves playing musical instruments, he won’t necessarily make an effort to meet musical kids from other classes, but if there’s...
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...human history, especially the past one hundred years or so, people these days are spending more time relying on technology to solve various types of problems. Does the ability of humans to think for themselves really deteriorate as they rely more and more on technology? Admittedly, the improvement of technology and its concomitant contribution to a more convenient daily life does to certain extent obviate the necessity of many traditional tasks, subtly affecting the humans’ ability of thinking. Nevertheless, as a whole effect in general, technology progress improves working efficiency and labor safety, and frees humans from low-level repeated physical work to high-level decision-making intellectual work. In addition, technology proposes brand-new problems as well which challenges the humans’ thinking ability to an even unexpected extent. It is true that in many situations, the requirement for thinking seems less demanding than before due to the development of technology as the “brains” of computers have replaced humans’ role in many tasks. For instance, students no longer need think hard to solve involving algebraic equations as calculators could do the job for them; engineers do not have to worry about the side effect of modifying their design drawings at one place as in the past due to the modern CAD software’s smart updates...
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...increase production. Moving to a larger factory in China would allow Burkinshaw plc to produce 4 million more units. It also lowers unit costs from 100 in the UK factory to only 60 in China. Introducing new technology instead of making handmade products would result in Burkinshaw being able to produce more. Due to economies to this would result in the lowering of unit costs. As a result the business may become more profitable. Originally making an operating profit of -50 million, in 2010 profit is predicted to significantly increase to 175 million following the move. Therefore this suggests Andrew would achieve his objectives so the move would be a success. Although the potential move has upset the UK unions it could be argued that the new technology is a necessary compromise in order to cut costs and increase profitability. The handmade products were suffering from falling sales compared to competitors and were said to have an ‘old fashioned’ image. Their competitors were also producing the products cheaper. Therefore moving to a more technological based production in China allowed costs to be cut significantly. The machinery decreased unit costs significantly and the workers in China only required half the amount of pay per hour as the workers in the UK factory. This meant the product would be produced cheaper, solving the...
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...First Draft New Media is Shaping Our Lives In the contemporary world, the importance of new media in people’s lives can never be dısregarded. Everybody should realize that new media has been affecting today’s world. This is mainly because; new media types help people at various issues. However, some people believe that new media is not preferable and ıt has a lot of drawback, some others believe that new media is useful and preferable. Even ıf mostly argue that. New media is not beneficial for individuals; in fact; new media is fundamental for today’s human-beings. In terms of education, business and socialization. The most prominent benefit of new media is education. This is because; todays chıldren benefit from new media types. Thanks to new media such as the ınternet, chıldren who use this kind of facilities might learn more effectively. Therefore, lecturers tend to educate chıldren with the help of new media. In addition, children need to learn new media types since since ıf they want to be successful in today’s world, children have to be knowledgeable about new media. They have to know, how to use computer systems or being knowledgeable about new technological devices. In addition, ıt is significant for university students. This is mainly because, a score of university prefer to use new media types. For this reason some of the universities disturbing laptops and tablets. Thanks...
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...International News on the Internet: Why more is less Chris Paterson This study examines the intersection of news agency political economy and cyberspace information exchange between 2001 and 2006 in an effort to determine if online news has corrected – or replicated – the inequities and limitations of the international journalism provided by ‘traditional media’. Through comparisons of content at major online news sites and the output of major news wholesalers, this research is the first to demonstrate that the international news most online users consult is that of just two news agencies. This research finds an online news environment with little real information diversity – a situation at odds with a decade and a half of fervour for the democratizing potential of new media. Keywords: News agencies, online journalism, Reuters, associated press, news sources, international news New media have often been deemed inherently democratizing and liberating, offering the prospect of freeing us all from a long standing dependence on a few powerful information providers and the “mainstream” discourse they offer. McNair (2003) hailed recent internet evolution and its infinite possibilities for horizontal communication, the demystification and deprofessionalization of journalism, and endless information choice, suggesting that the chaos of the contemporary communications environment may lay to rest concerns about the power of traditional media monoliths upholding the status...
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