...1. What theories from this chapter are revealed through the case? One theory is the LMX relationship which focuses on the quality of the exchange relationship that develops between leader’s and followers. Impressions management is a follower’s effect to protect a favorable image to gain an immediate benefit or improve a long-term relationship with the leader. The performance-driven motive is the followers genuine attempt to seek information from the leader that will help improve work performance. The associates at W. L. Gore knows that they have hands on innovation and discourses bureaucratic red tape by involving those closest to a project in decision making. They also own some percent of the company, and there are no chains of command, no predetermined channels of communication. 2. How did Gore’s sponsors program facilitate the creation of high quality relationships among leaders, sponsors, and associates? By using fairness to each other and everyone they come in contact with, the freedom to encourage, to help and to allow other associates to grow in knowledge, the skill and scope of responsibility. The ability to make their own commitments and keep them. They also built trust, loyalty, honestly, support, and respect between the sponsor and the associates. The sponsor also tracks the new associate’s progress, offers help, and encouragement, points out weakness and suggest ways to correct them and concentrates on how the associate might better exploit his or her strengths...
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...In today’s society there are constant changes. Especially in healthcare, there are always emerging illnesses that arise along with governmental changes. When identifying drivers that affect healthcare, there are many factors that come to mind. However, the drivers that I felt played a major role were costs along with the changes of the values of the business. A cost is the most effective driver that will most likely cause healthcare organizations to merge. As with any organization, finances will always be an important factor. Most industries today as a whole are faced with a variety of obstacles in achieving business goals or remaining profitable. Along with costs comes profitability. Profitability is defined as being the primary goal of all businesses. If profitability is not present, a business will not survive. Likewise in healthcare, if profitability is not present, hospitals, medical centers and various providers will not be able to remain in business. Profitability is enough of a challenge under normal circumstances, but especially so during fragile economic times. Uncertain revenue streams and rising costs have many healthcare organizations understandably apprehensive. In older years, hospitals were typically the only place for treatment. However, in current times, medical clinics are constantly emerging almost daily. There has been the founding of clinics, urgent cares and emergency centers that have come into place taking on the roles of some of the hospital systems...
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...customers worldwide. Background of the issue: How long has it been occurring and other relevant historical data (costs, impacts, and implications to the organization)? Toyota was basically organized the same way it was half-a-century ago when it first began selling cars in the United States. None of its operations are functionally integrated – and all report back to Japan. It’s a caricature of a chimneyed company with vertical structures and no coordination (Taylor, 2010). While Toyota’s structure may have suited them when they were a much smaller company a generation ago, it no longer does. It’s presence in the U.S. has grown significantly and its regional engineers and executives have endured frustrating amounts of bureaucratic red tape and time-consuming sign-offs and approvals from Japanese executives during all stages of developing products (Ayapana, 2011). Furthermore, if there were specifications that needed to be changed, there was little contact in updating Japan which made things all the more frustrating. Operating in a globally centralized way may generate greater economies of scale, tighter operational control, and greater consistency. However, the...
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...Victoria Typpi SOC-102 October 2, 2014 Dulce Medina Bureaucracy “Groups, people who think of themselves as belonging together and who interact with one another, are the essence of life in society,” (Henslin, 2013, p. 126). Groups are an important part of everyone’s well-being because they provide people with a sense of belonging. They also help shape who we are and there are two main types of groups. The first group, primary groups, include family and friends who provide intimate, face-to-face interaction, which give us an identity, a feeling of who we are (Henslin, 2013). After primary groups come secondary groups, which are much larger and more anonymous while being formal and impersonal (Henslin, 2013). An example of secondary groups are students and professors at a school. Since secondary are so impersonal, they usually break down into primary groups like how students form friendships within schools. Within society is a specialized group called a Bureaucracy, which is an organization which has become dominate in social life. There are five main characteristics of a bureaucracy and one organization that contains bureaucracy is the military. The first characteristic of a bureaucracy contains “clear levels, with assignments flowing downward and accountability flowing upward,” (Henslin, 2013, p. 133). Within each level the level above will assign responsibilities to the level below it and the level below are accountable for fulfilling those assignments assigned to them...
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...Introduction Corruption can be defined as a spiritual or moral deviation from an ideal. Corruption comes in different styles and that includes bribery and funds embezzlement. Corruption has been the number one menace in many countries of the world. It impacts countries in many ways, impacting economy and development in a negative way. Corruption tends to raise the cost of government and may lower the rate of infrastructure growth. Most importantly, corruption has a negative impact on capitalism and foreign investment in that; it changes the environment which in turns affects decisions and actions. Corruption causes discriminatory treatment along tribal, ethnic, race and class. It also impacts in decision making process. Multinational corporations (MNCs) may be unable to compete in certain countries due to dishonesty by government officials, dependent upon a system of graft and bribery to approve and facilitate permits and various company operations. Corruption may be at the highest levels of government, where government decisions regarding military equipment, civilian aircraft, infrastructure or broad policy decisions about industrial subsidies are made, based upon favoritism rather than ethical weighing of facts. Corruption may involve elected officials and politicians as well as nonelected officials. Corruption may be voluntary and petty, for instance, paying to expedite a building permit. It may be extorted, in which a licensing officer holds up a building permit until...
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...Effects of Corruption in Multinational Corporation’s [Student name] [Professor’s name] [Course title] [Date] Introduction Corruption can be defined as a spiritual or moral deviation from an ideal. Corruption come in different styles and that include bribery and funds embezzlement. Corruption has been the number one menace in many countries of the world. It impacts countries in many ways, impacting economy and development in a negative way. Corruption tends to raise the cost of government and may lower the rate of infrastructure growth. Most importantly, corruption has a negative impact on capitalism and foreign investment in that; it changes the environment which in turns affects decisions and actions. Corruption causes discriminatory treatment along tribal, ethnic, race and class. It also impacts in decision making process. Multinational corporations (MNCs) may be unable to compete in certain countries due to dishonesty by government officials, dependent upon a system of graft and bribery to approve and facilitate permits and various company operations. Corruption may be at the highest levels of government, where government decisions regarding military equipment, civilian aircraft, infrastructure or broad policy decisions about industrial subsidies are made, based upon favoritism rather than ethical weighing of facts. Corruption may involve elected officials and politicians as well as nonelected officials. Corruption may be voluntary and petty, for instance, paying...
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...Watergate Written for Submission to Term Paper Warehouse Author Note: This paper was prepared for HIST 101 Type Classes Abstract The “Watergate Scandal” was a very important event that occurred in American history that occurred on 17 June 1972. This event surrounded the FBI, CIA, Democratic and Republican parties, and the resignation of the President of the United States of America. 69 top government officials were charged with crimes such as perjury, conspiracy, obstruction of justice, illegal campaigning, wiretapping, and even burglary. The nature of the activities behind the event-raised flags in areas never considered before and forced a lot of dedicated US citizens to lose faith in their government. Many of the details about this crime that happened over 40 years ago have since surfaced and have been brought into the light. Although, the main reason why it even occurred at all is still a mystery. The outcomes behind this mystery are as numerous as the stars in the sky. The Watergate Scandal When did it happen? On 17 June 1972, 5 men were arrested for burglarizing the Watergate offices of the Democratic National Committee in Washington D.C. The five men were Bernard L. Barker, Virgilio R. Gonzales, James W. McCord, Eugenio R. Martinez, and Frank A. Sturgis. All five of these men were known to be Anti-Castro supporters, and to have worked with the C.I.A before in their lives. At the time of the break-in, Deep Throat was the Associate Director of...
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...and welcome to this BLOSSOM learning module. I’ve been a teacher of mathematics at Concord-Carlisle High School in Massachusetts for the past 10 years. In previous incarnations I was a geophysicist in the petroleum industry in Colorado and worked in Environmental Law in Vermont. I have always been interested in the history of mathematical thinking and the development of mathematical concepts, and make a point to emphasize contributions from both Western and non-Western civilizations. This learning module teaches students about the history of the Pythagorean theorem, along with proofs and applications. Feel free to use your own motivational ideas and tailor it to your students! This lesson is geared toward high school Geometry student that have completed a year of Algebra. The video portion is about thirty minutes, and with breaks could be completed in 50 minutes. (You may consider completing over two classes, particularly if you want to allow more time for activities or do some of the enrichment material). These activities could be done individually, in pairs, or groups, I think 2 or 3 students is optimal. The materials required for the activities include scissors, tape, string and markers. Calculators are optional. This lesson addresses the national standards of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics and the Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning, specifically: • • • Analyze characteristics and properties of two- and three-dimensional geometric shapes and...
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...Wild Fruit Flies Bred With Scarlet Fruit Flies Introduction: Drosophila melanogaster is the scientific name for fruit flies. The flies are widely used today for genetics, physiology, and life history evolution. Since it is easy to care for, has 4 pairs of chromosomes, breeds quickly, and lays many eggs, the fruity fly is used for numerous studies. In this lab, fruit flies are to be examined to study heredity. With each new generation, probability, protein synthesis, and the principles of DNA, are all able to be seen within this experiment. For this lab, wild fruit flies will be bred with scarlet fruit flies. The trait to be examined in this lab is the eye color. Wild fruit fly's’ eye color (red) is a dominant trait. The scarlet fruit flies have scarlet eyes, and it is a recessive trait. Fruit flies are very small, but their eyes are complex. They have compound eyes. One eye contains hundreds of light-sensing units called ommatidia. Each ommatidia has a lens and a set of light-receptor...
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...History of the UFC Ultimate Fighting Championship, a.k.a, UFC, is a very high intensity/somewhat dangerous sport, that has taken the entertainment world by storm. In this paper article, I will be talking about how this intense sport started, and I will be talking about the type of skills/martial arts that the competitors are highly trained in. Back in the mid 90,s is when this sport was not known by many, but had an underground fight club, meaning people signed up to fight in a cage with next to no rules. An anything goes match. (Bonandar,2013.) You can't accuse the early promotors of the UFC of failing to think big, in addition to extreme ideas like putting electric fences around the ring they fight in, or having live alligators swimming around in motes around the ring. Luckily, the doctors of the UFC were more practical in their thinking of how much harm this could cause the fighters. The UFC were "underground" until 1996, when a tape of one fight reached the desk of Arizona Senator and boxing fan, John McCain. He was not happy about what he saw on this tape he famously called it"Human Cockfighting"-John McCain. McCain sent letters to 50 states protesting against the sport and it worked. The UFC was practically shut down. (Bonandar,2013.) Until one of the entertainments most lucritive business deals were made. Casino billionaire brothers, Frank and Lorenzo Fertitta bought the UFC for 2 million dollars in 2001. In three years, they were 34 million in the red. They got...
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...“Why California is Not a Good Place to do Business” When this country broke away from Great Britain on July 4, 1776 it was from then on known as, “The land of the free and the home of the brave”, but moreover was a place where entrepreneurs could come and make a life for themselves without being oppressed, also known as the ‘American Dream.’ For hundreds of years this country has lived up to the standards of what the ‘American Dream’ conveys, but as we move further into the 21st century the businessman is becoming increasingly more oppressed, especially in California. Since the 90’s, Business’s have deemed California as the least best place to do business and have since started moving out at an increasing rate for a variety of reasons including, rising taxes, litigation costs, and regulations. The rest of this research paper will go through those three main causes of why “California is Not a good Place to do Business,” as well as what effect it has on the people. (And when done reading ask yourself if you would start up a business in California.) Cause: Taxes Its common sense that to improve the health and profitability of a business certain measures must be taken, for instance doing the math on what kind of taxes the business is subject too depending on the state of establishment. According to CalTax.org, “California is the third worst state business tax climate in the nation!” Broken down California has the highest sales tax, gasoline tax, and personal income tax in the...
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...based on investment promotion, redistributive policies and higher levels of education”. For that Lula solicited his ministers for tax-reform proposals and fiscal incentives that could boost capital investments, mostly in infrastructure, to achieve growth rates of 5% per year. During his first term Lula reduced poverty and income inequality. Lula´s cash-transfer programs reduced the number of poor people significantly and brought down the Gini coefficient of income inequality to its lowest level in recent history. Lula maintained a policy of price and exchange rate stability, increased government savings, paid off the balance owed to the IMF and managed to reduce interest rates steadily. In order to grow like China and India, Brazil would have to tackle “the Brazil cost”: * To reduce the size and importance of the informal sector * Correct some macroeconomics deficiencies (e.g the high real interest rate and a high government debt to GDP ratio) * Reduce red tape * Improve the quality of public services (e.g education, justice and security) * Develop new infrastructure In 2006 Brazil was the sixth-largest country by area and the eighth-largest economy in the world. It had a population of 186 million people, making it the fifth most-populous country in the world. Brazil was also one of the most unequal countries in the world; it had a Gini coefficient of 0.56 in 2005 the worst in South America and one of...
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...History of nursing I entered nursing initial to have a reliable means of income. Nursing at the time was is large demand and I felt as though this was my way of insuring success. I completed my LPN in a technical education center and graduated feeling less than prepared for the requirements that were to come. I soon took a job were I did home visits and found myself becoming more compassionate for the patients that I would see. My ideals changed and I had a feeling of duty to the welfare of my impoverished patients. There were days that I would have to piece together 4X4 gauze with tape to create kurlex. I began collecting and dispersing supplies from others who donated their supply once they completed their treatment. This created a sense of gratitude and loyalty between both my patient and myself. As I continue to move along in my career goals I have maintained a sense of loyalty to this ideal. This is an ideal that my grandmother tried to convey to me from the beginning of my journey, as she to was a nurse even after she retired. Now, for the first time I have been required to read the history of nursing. Reading these stories has opened my eyes as to what nursing was and the pains it took to get to were it is today. I had no idea that nursing was ever looked at as a role for those who could do no better with their lives. Nor did I realize how passionate and committed these people were. Clara Barton, although not a nurse, developed a key organization, which...
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...Film Critique / The Sixth Sense For my final project, I decided to critique and analyze various features of the movie, The Sixth Sense. I will use a structural approach to examine the film’s edifice and explain how the productions of scenes and shots tell the overall story (Goodykoontz & Jacobs, 2011). I will demonstrate how the genre and the rating of the movie do not appropriately fit its criteria, and how the motion picture evaluation system failed by revealing horrific scenes to teens by assigning the PG-13 rating. In addition to that, I will illuminate inconsistent and unexplained actions with continuity glitches throughout the movie. Regardless of its mistakes, the film became a great success, because the plot of the movie allowed the audience to explore a different side of life after death and the grief that comes with it. Ultimately, the movie The Sixth Sense can be perceived as a therapy, because it gives us tools on how to deal with fear and helps us learn about the ways on how to come with terms of loss. It also explains the importance of communication between a doctor and the patient, a husband and a wife, a mother and a son, and of course, between our society and ourselves. Two unalike families contribute to the story’s plot. Two separate lives of Cole (played by Haley Joel Osment) and his mother Lynn (played by Toni Collette), and a psychologist Malcolm Crowe (Bruce Willis) with his wife Anna (played by Olivia Williams). The story begins with an ordinary psychologist...
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...change; with the drive to outperform and succeed as their major objectives. The organizational structure of the company has also transformed to be more competitive in a critical juncture in thecompany’s history. Apple is going through major restructuring to regain controlof its operations and finances in order to stay competitive on the global market. This paper will describe the organizational culture and structure of Apple (www.fundinguniverse).Organizational CultureThe culture of Apple was based on an ideal that self-motivated individuals willwork harder if they do not have a boss micromanaging every action. The unique structure of Apple had allowed it to grow and react more quickly to changes than its competitors. The reason for the quick responsiveness is simple; it is much easier to get a project started if there are only a few people to obtain approvalfrom. Apple initially grew fast, because decisions were made at the lowest possible level. Corporate headquarters made policy and oversaw all activities, but the local employees made the day-to-day decisions on the ground in countries all over the world. This type of top-down philosophy allowed for quick responsivenessand resolutions to situations without involving the corporate headquarters, thus avoiding corporate red tape (Mc Shane and Travglione, 2005, pp...
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