...America's great transition from a feudalistic to an Industrialized society was spurred by an economic growth of the 19th century. The changes in American society as well as American business practices would be vast .The perspective of our Sociological founding Father Max Weber and his analysis of another change in American Society; his view points on modernity, the rise of capitalism as well as Bureaucracy make tangible points to set the stage for a crisis in America that takes in 2008. Weber predicted that in a crisis Bureaucracy will only fail if there is mismanagement, incompetence and/or abuse of its organizational system. He predicted to fix a system that has went array one would have to balance the effects of Bureaucracy to the peoples needs/desires for capitalistic gain. Karl Emil “Max” Weber was born in Prussia in the mid-1800's. Max Weber, (2006) German sociologist. (n.d.). Retrieved October 10, 2015. During this era, the Industrial revolution was in full swing brushing off the ideals of a traditional economy and embracing the new ideas of Modernity. Weber was not unaffected by these ideas and described the emergence of modernity, through the rise of capitalism. Weber noted that the this new economic system yielded old leadership he described as the charismatic, Authoritative and Traditional leadership. He outlined that Capitalism would bring a prosperity the likes people have never experienced. The positive affects of Capitalism he noted were an increased knowledge...
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...Horacek English 1001 26 October 2014 America’s Future Workforce Thomas L. Friedman’s selection entitled “The Untouchables”, from his 2005 best seller, The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century, advises that every young American worker should begin to assume that they are competing against every young Chinese, Indian, and Brazilian for a job. For years, people worked where their parents worked, or wherever major corporations, government bureaucracies, or unions were available to them. Factors such as the advancement in technology, the idea of globalization becoming more relevant, today’s aging workforce, and postsecondary education becoming mandatory for any type of sustainable job will shape our country’s future workforce. Fifty years ago, no one could predict the technology we have today. Now, due to the speed of our technological change, we can foresee machines continuing to substitute human labor. This supports the idea that America’s future workforce will rely more on education than manual skill. The best jobs will be found at the hands of America’s brains. If not, the jobs will seek others who can fulfill the tasks. With that said, these jobs will replace the employees in charge of making these “sophisticated products” with machines that can do the same thing. This eliminates the manufacturing jobs, and replaces them with the development and marketing of such products(Judy and D’Amico 313). Adding to what the authors of “Work and Workers of the...
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...organization they work for because otherwise these same managers would leave it and so dispossess it of their skills and competence which, so they think, are badly needed to set it afloat again. Objective and Targeted Audience Jackall’s detailed sociological study of the managerial world is not written for a particular target group. As Jackall has clarified throughout a recent interview,1 his study is “part of a larger project. This is a long-term examination of the social, institutional, cultural, moral, and epistemological foundations of modern American society (Interview, p. 8).” If one wants to nominate an audience as the target group of the first edition, then it is perhaps identified best by the answer to the question: “How does bureaucracy shape moral consciousness?” (Interview, p. 1). This question,...
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...The United States department of labor is the department that oversees my job. It regulates the amount of work hours before I am due a break, and or a lunch break. They also regulate the amount of minimum wage for jobs in the United States. The United States department of labors also constitutes what is considered overtime and the wage we receive. The Department of Labor fosters and promotes the welfare of the job seekers, wage earners, and retirees of the United States by improving their working conditions, advancing their opportunities for profitable employment, protecting their retirement and health care benefits, helping employers find workers, strengthening free collective bargaining, and tracking changes in employment, prices, and other national economic measurements. In carrying out this mission, the department administers a variety of federal labor laws including those that guarantee workers’ rights to safe and healthful working conditions; a minimum hourly wage and overtime pay; freedom from employment discrimination; unemployment insurance; and other income support. ("United States Department Of Labor", 2012). United States Department of Labor’s mission is: To foster, promote, and develop the welfare of the wage earners, job seekers, and retirees of the United States; improve working conditions; advance opportunities for profitable employment; and assure work-related benefits and rights. ("United States Department Of Labor", 2012). The Federal Communications...
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...and action towards meeting the patient’s emotional and spiritual needs. The facility’s design must take into the consideration the three components of the individual. It needs to allow easy access for the patient, provide privacy and protection, and promote complete wellness for the individual. Technology is important as health care advances into the future. It can provide better access to education to the patient, timely service enabling quicker treatment and increased time available to address the emotional and spiritual needs of the patient, and better diagnostic and interventional treatments to treat both mind and body. Healing environments in hospitals are challenged by cynicism and spirituality, business and economics, and the bureaucracy and leadership in hospitals. Cynicism infects the health care workplace as some people don’t believe that creating a healing environment improves the patient outcome or don’t feel that is important aspect of the health care model (Chapman, 2007). The idea of incorporating spirituality poses a conflict in the way health care professionals sometimes think. In the past we were taught...
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...their time in order to perform well in school, and to receive a good score on the entrance examinations (jobshadow.com). “You have to stand out. In order to get into medical school, one has to show dedication and commitment” (Telleria, Juan, interview, October 12, 2011). The problems do not stop at medical school because everyone will be taking general classes to become a doctor (jobshadow.com). It is up to the individual to be responsible for finding out information about radiology because of the lack of exposure to the material (jobshadow.com). On top of that, one must also perform above the majority of the students at the medical school to become a radiologist (jobshadow.com). Once one completes their residency, then they must decide what to do with their skills in the radiology field (Stewart). For example, one may choose to specialize in pediatric radiology, neuroradiology, or...
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...Citizen’s dividends, unconditional monthly grants, or free money to everyone. This is what a universal basic income (UBI) has been called in other names. The notion of a universal basic income has been literally everywhere for a very long period, at least since the aftermath of the world war I. A UBI is an income given without any strings attached to every adult and child (or in some version, only citizens) to provide at least an adequate level of resources. A basic income guarantees each citizen an income sufficient to meet his or her basic needs. The money would be given even regardless of whether the recipients are in the jobs or not. Strikingly for UBI, it is not mean-testing benefits, meaning that no family stuck in poverty traps where benefit withdrawal erodes any increase in earning. Yet, there are many critics of a universal basic income, the most common one is the cost objection. It argues that the cost of providing everyone with an adequate income floor, beneath which no one would fall us out of reach for governments and public finance. Other critics pointed out at some deficiencies that the incentives for people to work would be somewhat eliminated. Yet, what many critics seem to not recognize is that many objections is usually based on inadequate and misleading information, and that the current system of welfare is being implemented obsoletely and ineffectively. In this paper, first, I will demonstrate reasons why the idea of a universal basic income, in terms of...
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...War on Poverty Begun officially in 1964, the War on Poverty was an ambitious governmental effort to address the problem of persistent poverty in the United States. Over the next decade, the federal government—in conjunction with state and local governments, nonprofit organizations, and grassroots groups—created a new institutional base for antipoverty and civil rights action and, in the process, highlighted growing racial and ideological tensions in American politics and society. Marked by moments of controversy and consensus, the War on Poverty defined a new era for American liberalism and added new layers to the American welfare state. Legislatively, the first two years were the most active. Between President Lyndon Johnson’s State of the Union address in 1964 and the liberal setbacks suffered in the congressional elections of 1966, the Johnson administration pushed through an unprecedented amount of antipoverty legislation. The Economic Opportunity Act (1964) provided the basis for the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO), the Job Corps, Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA), Upward Bound, Head Start, Legal Services, the Neighborhood Youth Corps, the Community Action Program (CAP), the college Work-Study program, Neighborhood Development Centers, small business loan programs, rural programs, migrant worker programs, remedial education projects, local health care centers, and others. The antipoverty effort, however, did not stop there. It encompassed a range of Great Society...
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...our house in Miami. No more waiting for the flood waters to die down before returning to our beds.’“ (p. 12 ll. 5-10) The family is forced to leave Haiti because of Aline’s father’s involvement in anti-government meetings and in perpetuation of these, death threats from a powerful man of the government (p.16). Aline though is not aware of this from the beginning, and feels sad, that she has to leave her home and friends behind. Especially she feels hurt that she cannot say goodbye to her friends (p. 13). This is an example of Alines small-girl innocence, which she upholds throughout the story. As a reader it is not very hard to see through the story and figure out what is happening, but Aline herself is in the beginning more or less oblivious of the real situation, only tagging along to her parents, and doing what she is told and referencing it to the reader with a profound straightforwardness. But Alines exhibited innocence and childishness also makes the language of the short story more or less untrustworthy. Sentences like this “All we do is watch television all day. No other type of recreation.”(p. 15 ll. 27-28) where the choice of words gives the...
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...Ronald Reagan led a American to comeback nothing short of extraordinary. He made easy what critics said would be impossible, and that he would “fail disastrously,” (Elliot). His leadership qualities transformed a struggling U.S. economy into a pinnacle of growth which led to decades of prosperity following his efforts. He restored a neglected U.S. military and bridged our alliances, leading in the eventual defeat and fall of the Soviet Union, without war or violence of any kind. It was evident that his conflict resolution skills were impeccable as he got America out of the Cold War. Overall, he restored America’s hopes, revived our spirit, and strengthened our faith. First above all else, Reagan united America. He never...
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...subsidiaries engage in the production, distribution, marketing, and sale of cement, ready-mix concrete, and related materials. Its strategy includes focusing on cement and concrete products, diversifying globally to cushion against volatility in local markets, developing efficient production and distribution processes, using IT to increase flexibility, improve customer satisfaction, and reduce bureaucracy and excess staffing, and providing training and education for employees. Its state-of-the-art Tepeaca facility supplies one fifth of the Mexican market and may be the lowest-cost cement producer in the world, with operating costs of $25 per ton, roughly $10 lower than the industry average, and emissions far lower than legal requirements. In 1992 Cemex purchased Spain’s two largest cement companies, reviewed their operations thoroughly, invested in facilities, and reduced the workforce dramatically, such as by consolidating 19 offices into one. With continued diversification in the 1990s, Cemex has operations in 22 countries. It is also Latin America’s biggest corporate debtor, with over $4 billion in debt. Although it was a laggard in IT usage through the 1980s, Cemex is now widely recognized as a company that uses IT extensively and views IT as an integral part of its long-term strategy. Lorenzo Zambrano, a Stanford MBA whose family owned a third of the stock, became its CEO at age 41 in 1985. In 1987 he hired an information...
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...America’s Political Parties Crystal Ann Smith Leah Raby POL110: United States Government 03/17/2014 Politics The two major political parties in the United States today are the Democratic and the Republican parties. They share the meaning to the way the political and presidential system should be run but are how different are they? One of the main differences between the two is that Democrats are Liberals and Republicans are Conservative but how is there a homeostasis between the two and why is there no real middle ground? The following information will explain in depth the differences between the liberals and conservatives as well as the campaign process in maintaining the two and the reason why there is only a two-party system. History and Current State The Democratic Party can be traced back to before America’s independence from Britain and is the oldest political party that has existed. It was formed in 1792 under Thomas Jefferson and established under the presidency of Andrew Jackson in the 1830’s but democracy has come a long way from that. Now the democrat party’s philosophy is labeled as the Liberal in which the supporters focus on ideas of liberty and equality and support current issues such as free and fair elections, civil rights, freedom of the press, freedom of religion, free trade and private property.( McGowan, 2007) The Republican Party is the second oldest political party in the United States and was first established with Abraham Lincoln in...
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...Poor housing can be a cause of some of the health problems that they come across and the government and bureaucracies only make things that much more difficult when they try to keep these families from using their care/support. Chapter 9 is about the public education that the children receive and they are not always able to participate in classes to their full potential because of health problems, which goes back to the health issues discussed in the previous chapter. The government institutions that prevent the families from utilizing their care are also in a way debilitating the kids learning because the students lose motivation, lower their expectations, and oftentimes drop out. Chapter 10 is a bit more of an optimistic chapter in the book as it shows the positive sides of this “part of the world”. These are some of the “success stories” that can...
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...In recent years, the United States political system has become more and more of a running joke on the world stage. When we compare our leaders and elections to what the founding fathers envisioned, we find that almost every safe guard they put into place has been overturned or a loophole has been found allowing corruption to bypass it. It’s hard to think that the founding father could have imagined the tools big money politicians use today: Media that reaches billions of people a day and can completely shape the opinion a viewer has on a candidate in seconds, lobbyists that use corporate funds to gain the support of a politician through forms of legal bribery, and giant temples of bureaucracy where nobody can do anything and nobody is responsible. To end this tirade of rulers that don’t represent the people, to end the fact that the candidate with the most money wins the most campaigns, we must seek a political system that does not allow for the corrupting force of greed. If we are to be governed by our fellow men, those few should be a noble few, uncorrupt and willing to put aside personal interests for the national good....
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...organization they work for because otherwise these same managers would leave it and so dispossess it of their skills and competence which, so they think, are badly needed to set it afloat again. Objective and Targeted Audience Jackall’s detailed sociological study of the managerial world is not written for a particular target group. As Jackall has clarified throughout a recent interview,1 his study is “part of a larger project. This is a long-term examination of the social, institutional, cultural, moral, and epistemological foundations of modern American society (Interview, p. 8).” If one wants to nominate an audience as the target group of the first edition, then it is perhaps identified best by the answer to the question: “How does bureaucracy shape moral consciousness?” (Interview, p. 1). This question, however, seems to...
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