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Peer Interview and Reflection The targeted peer student for this interview works in a manufacturing firm. The interviewee indicated that the firm was embracing the most appropriate human resource (HR) practices to achieve its business objectives. The leaders at the company focused on the best concepts to mentor and guide their followers. Teams and individuals in the company worked hard in order to achieve the best goals (Maddock, 2012). The lessons gained from the interview can be replicated elsewhere to deliver the best outcomes. The Interview: Essence and Findings The purpose of this interview was to explore the major aspects of high-performance organizations (HPOs). The implementation of appropriate Human Resource Development (HRD) practices is something that has the potential to promote the level of performance. The interview was critical towards analyzing the major approaches and practices that can be embraced by human resource (HR) departments to produce the best results. Different management theories support the importance of effective HR practices towards developing high-performance organizations (Akdemir, Erdem, & Polat, 2010). Several findings were obtained from this interview. For instance, the interview indicated clearly that the firm believed in the business value of human resource development (HRD). The management used the best inputs and resources to empower the workers. The best thoughts and practices were also outlined for the employees. HRD remained a critical concept towards empowering and supporting the changing needs of different employees (Maddock, 2012). The respondent also indicated that he was working in a high-performing company. According to the interviewee, the leaders presented their experiences, concepts, and creativities in order to transform the performance of the firm (Lawler, 2005). The ultimate goal was to improve the level of performance. The respondent believed that the approaches used by the firm’s HR department were critical towards achieving the best goals. The interviewee indicated that the organization focused on its performance and profitability. These aspects were used to measure its effectiveness. Value in the firm was created using various activities and functions that can satisfy the needs of different stakeholders (Akdemir et al., 2010). Different individuals were also required to present their views and opinions to implement the best practices. Such aspects made it possible for the company to achieve its business goals. The company also uses a powerful approach to be
Introduction In the article “Marketing Myopia,” Levitt addresses some of the significant reasons as to why some major companies undergo seasoned growth. For many years, a lot of companies have experienced rough times in learning the truth about how to handle the aspect of marketing (Levitt, 2008). According to the article, their focus has mostly involved the continuous establishment of sophisticated products without taking note of the declining growth. Theodore Levitt argues that most of the companies have experienced the marketing myopia aspect and that the growth industry is nonexistent. The contemporary business perspective notes that business objective isolation is one of the vital factors considered by leading business investors that consistently facilitate the decline (Levitt, 2008). The article presents an insightful argument that the top management in most of the industries focuses their resources and concentration on the enhancement of their existing products more compared to consumers. Analysis The article proves that modern companies, which undergo a sustained growth ought to change their business objectives and marketing strategies (Levitt, 2008). This is through the involvement of elements that ensures widening of the business scope and focusing on the efforts to satisfy the desires and needs of potential clients. Theodore Levitt identifies a significant number of the major companies that once enjoyed steady growth, but did not consider identifying and exploiting growth opportunities as a result of technological advancement (Levitt, 2008). The modern industry has grown and blended with technological advances in the marketing field since it facilitates industry growth or ensures that the products are improved. Most of today’s businesses, which operate in the competitive market, have managed to establish approaches to help guide in marketing requirements to meet consumer demands. Marketing as opposed to the concept Levitt addresses has conjured up simple but complex ideas including promotional ideas, manipulation measures, and high-pressure approaches to counter the heightening competition. Levitt uses significant examples in illustrating similar cases, such as the railroad industry, which was once considered as the most reliable and efficient mode of transport and had drastically declined the level of competition in the transport industry (Levitt, 2008). He further explains the companies which opt for consumer-based centric measures compared to the aspects of research, development, and mass production (Levitt, 2008). In essence, Theodore Levitt uses the a
Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is one of the major health promotion agencies in the United States. The agency started to operate in Atlanta as a relatively small office. Its opening was on the 1 st of July 1946 and its main purpose was to fight malaria and prevent it from spreading around the country. Today CDC works twenty four hours a day without days off. The agency’s mission is to promote health of the nation and to identify and fight security and safety threats of foreign and domestic origins (Mission, Role and Pledge, 2014). CDC is focused on saving lives and protecting the people of the United States of America. CDC is determined not only to stop the existing diseases from spreading on the territory of USA, but also preventing them from penetrating the country. CDC improves health of the nation addressing threats that may cause disabilities and morbidity, promoting healthy behaviors and nutrition, utilizing scientific innovations and technologies in the process of research and coping with the health issues. CDC also trains and prepares healthcare leaders and professionals to take care of the health pulse of the American people in the future. The website of CDC provides a lot of information for various topics. CDC is integrated into the business, cultural, social and scientific life of the country. CDC posts news about the latest and most advanced research, informs about job opportunities and trainings, grants, finding and contracts. Besides, the website provides detailed information about the diseases and infections that is available through the search option. This way CDC is useful for patients, healthcare students and professionals. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) are younger than CDC; they started functioning on the 30 th of July of 1965. CMS represents two programs called Medicare and Medicaid. CMS is mainly orientated at the providing of health insurance to its clients. The agency covers over a hundred million people in total. Medicaid program is focused on covering children, their caretakers, and parents. Medicaid works with low-income families as well; it provides health insurance to non-elderly caretakers with disabilities and pregnant women. The threshold of Medicaid minimum guidelines are established by the federal government, the coverage also can be expanded by the states based on their individual solutions (By Population, n. d.). Medicare program focuses on covering elderly citizens. Medicare targets indivi
Notepad++ is a free editor that can be used to create, save, and edit HTML files. A user can open it by clicking on the “Start” button. Then it is necessary to select the Accessories folder and select Notepad++. Another option is to click on the “Start” button and type the word “notepad++” into the search box and click on the notepad icon in the results. Once the application is open, one can type HTML code in it and save it. To save the file, one should select “File” and “Save as” in the main menu of the application. The file should be named “index.htm,” and the encoding should be set to UTF-8. If users want to check the correctness of HTML files, they could go to http://validator.w3.org/ and have the files validated automatically online. In case the users want to check the files offline, they can download an application called CSE HTML Validator from https://www.htmlvalidator.c
Introduction Mark Zuckerberg was born on May 14, 1984, in White Plains, New York. He is arguably one of the most successful young entrepreneurs in the world. He is the current chairperson and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of social networking site Facebook. Zuckerberg has made a mark for himself on the global business arena as a strategic entrepreneur (Thau par. 2). Zuckerberg co-founded Facebook in 2004 with his five college friends at Harvard University. Although Mark did not finish his college education, he has managed to establish himself as one of the most influential people in the world. Statistics show that Facebook has reached more than one billion users. Through Facebook, Zuckerberg has made life better because keeping in touch with friends and family is much easier now. Zuckerberg is a world changer who identified a gap in a society and provided people with an opportunity to have a better experience of life (Brown par. 4). In 2007, the success of Facebook enlisted Zuckerberg in history books as the world’s youngest billionaire (Thau par. 2). Statistics indicate that Zuckerberg has an estimated net worth of $28.5 billion. This research paper will discuss the success story of Mark Zuckerberg and the way he has made life easier for people across the globe. Discussion Over the last decade, the entrepreneurial skills of Mark Zuckerberg have been a source of inspiration to billions of people across the world. Many people wonder how he developed the concept of Facebook and managed to become a billionaire within a short period (Brown par. 6). Entrepreneurs across the world can learn many valuable lessons from the approach that Zuckerberg used to build Facebook into a successful business. In his road to success, Zuckerberg has been involved in a legal battle over the ownership of the social networking site (Thau par. 4). The five friends who helped Zuckerberg to create Facebook wanted a share of the company as compensation for their efforts. However, this did not dampen the entrepreneurial spirit of Zuckerberg because he had a mission to fulfill (Brown par. 7). One of the reasons why Zuckerberg managed to make Facebook a successful business was his passion for technology. He believed that it is very hard for an entrepreneur to fail if he or she has a passion for their work. Zuckerberg was very passionate about technology when he decided to create Facebook. He had a strong desire to improve the quality of life through technology (Walter par. 2). His passion for technology has helped him to create Facebook into a successful global business. Zuckerberg has shown that passion helps an entrepreneur to have the will to learn new things, take risks, and hold on to his or her dream. Passionate entrepreneurs do not give up on their dreams every time they fail or endure a challenge (Walter par. 3).
During the first half of the year 1994, Britain and the U.S. focused their air forces and navy in England in preparation for an assault on Hitler. At the same time, the Western Allies were mobilizing their resources and preparing their army for the attack. They had planned to combine their capabilities in order to benefit from the union. Before the attack, the Allied forces took an overview of their opponent defense resources and bombed German’s possible modes of transporting troops such as railways and attacked industries in preparation for the war (Bentley, 2008, p. 1). When the Allies landed in Normandy, the critical occurrence of World War II unfolded. The fate of Europe was now on the hands of the Allies. The invasion of Normandy was and still is the first successful operation in America over the years. Despite the fact that German had employed quite a large number of men, the defeat inflicted on them was one of the largest since the First World War. Basically, the campaigns had caused German to lose its position. The attack on Normandy helped the Soviet Union greatly since it was facing a lot of defense from the German forces. The Allied forces did not have adequate resources but they had enough to sustain them through the attack. The Allies also enjoyed dominance in troop numbers as well as military equipment which enabled them conquer the advantages of the good landscape that the Germans had. The intelligence of the Allies helped them put more efforts which facilitated their success, something that they were not even expecting due to superiority that German had. The encoding capabilities of the German communication by the Allies were of big help in exposing German’s plans especially on counterattack enabling the Allies to strategize on how to counter the attack (Philips, 2004, p.1). Air operations by the Allied forces had important contributions in the attack through prohibition of all German communication means. This move prevented the accessibility of attack supplies and support and back up by the Germans making them easy to attack. Although the Allied forces were not expecting much from the protective vehicles, the air activity from these vehicles helped a lot in restraining German units as well as preventing resources accessibility. The Allied forces never lost hope and the spirit to keep on trying the invasion operation despite the fact that they had lost heavily in the initial phase of the operation and the increase in the number of casualties (Toufe, 2004, p.1). German leaders had failed in responding to the early attack in time with the communication difficulties caused by the Allied forces worsening the German’s situation. The local German commanders lacked the required qualities and resources to undertake the task of attacking a more powerful enemy defense. The Allied commanders too had their own misunderstandings but this did destroy their efforts in attacking German because they chose to work together and put their disputes aside. On the other hand, local German leaders were being c
While oppressive ideals, and those that propagate them, often try to spread the idea that it is hopeless to resist, there is a reason to act out. Hope, Solnit asserts, is a gift that one does not need to surrender, and a power that an individual does not need to throw away (Solnit 4). Hope is an act of defiance, and while resistance alone is not sufficient reason to hope (Solnit 3), there are good reasons for the sustenance of hope. This paper will seek to review the current LGBTQ social justice movement, aimed towards elimination of systemic discrimination, and test if Solnit’s assertion that the grounds for hope lie in the records and recollections of the past is credible. The Lesbian, Gay, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) movement is a social movement that advocates for the LGBTQ people in society. These movements seek to dispel discrimination based on a heteronormative world-view and may include a focus on equal rights, self-help, self-acceptance, or outright liberation. Solnit posits that contemporary time is one of transformation and nightmares, and thus a full engagement would require the perception of both (Solnit 5). This statement holds for the LGBTQ movements, which, throughout their lifetimes, have had profound wins, but also faced significant drawbacks. For this study, the scope of the review will be limited to rights and freedoms as provided by legally-binding statutes, including Supreme Court rulings, executive orders, constitutional amendments, and Legislative Acts. Initially, following a provision in the American Psychiatric Association, homosexuality had been listed as a mental condition under sociopathic personality disturbance. However, with the contemporary levels of acceptance and inclusivity, this has been disproven and was reflected in the diagnostic manual of the same organization later. Further, homosexual individuals had been barred from working within the federal government, as a security risk (Solnit 7). These levels of systemic and occupational discrimination do still exist in modern times, and Solnit addresses this reality by stating that having hope does not mean denying uncomfortable truths, but rather confronting them by remembering that which has been achieved instead. The LGBTQ social movement has made significant achievements. These are conceptualized in different forms, including the all-out protests and riots following the police raid on Stonewall Inn. These raids towards a gay bar birthed the cultural phenomenon that is now the pride march. Further, the development of non-profit legal institutions fo
Introduction Real Irish Republican Army (RIRA) is a terrorist organization from the Republic of Ireland in Great Britain. It was founded in 1997 after differences emerged in the Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA) (Derkins 17). It is led by a council consisting of seven members. Differences in the PIRA emerged after certain leaders voted in support of a ceasefire. A section of the leaders agreed to support diplomatic peace negotiations, which was against the group’s philosophy (Derkins 20). Those against the decision left the group and formed a clandestine faction that they named RIRA. Its members focused on fighting the British soldiers and preventing the division of Ireland into two parts (Horgan 82). RIRA resisted the division of the Republic of Ireland in order to create Northern Ireland. However, their attempts failed in 1999 when two articles of Ireland’s constitution were amended in order to facilitate the creation of Northern Ireland (Derkins 22). Although the group failed in its attempt to stop this from happening, it continues to be a huge stumbling block to peace initiatives in the country. RIRA uses terrorist strategies such as bombings, gun attacks, and detonation of grenades to fight their opponents. Its main targets are the British soldiers and security agencies in Northern Ireland (Derkins 34). RIRA has taken responsibility for numerous bomb attacks that have occurred in England and Northern Ireland in recent years (Derkins 39). The group’s main tactic involves altering development by destroying investments and businesses that support the economies of its opponents (Horgan 100). Ideology, philosophy, and areas of operations The mission of RIRA is to protect the sovereignty of the Republic of Ireland (English 209). The group’s main motivation is a desire to see a united and peaceful country whose citizens are not being oppressed by anyone. The United Kingdom and the United States of America classify RIRA as a terrorist group. The reason for this is that it achieves its goals and perpetuates its ideologies through violence. The group has, on several occasions, been found guilty of engaging in bomb attacks, armed robberies, assassinations, and kidnappings, among others (Horgan 106). Occasionally, the faction uses the aforementioned means to fight for the rights of the Irish people. RIRA believes that the sovereignty of the Irish people is highly compromised by the presence of British soldiers in Northern Ireland (English 220). It believes that the soldiers work closely with police officers and religious leaders to gain support and sympathy from people. This kind of displeasure by RIRA is often expressed by targeting civilians in their bomb attacks, as witnessed in the 1998 attack in Omagh. Studies show that the attack killed 29 people and injured several others (Derkins
Chronological story telling is traditional for films’ narration; however, a row of films especially those ones of science-fiction genre demonstrates a different approach to this principle. For example, such famous and successful films as Pulp Fiction by Quentin Tarantino, Out of Sight by Steven Soderbergh and Back to the Future by Robert Zemeckis present a different approach to the story order of their plots. The experiment with chronology of their narration presented a special case of success of unconventional vision in film creation. Talking about the entire premise of the above mentioned films, it should be stated that it is based on a principle: “where the viewer sees some intrigue there the director meets success”. To illustrate this idea, an example of Out of Sight can be taken into consideration. The film belongs to the genre of crime films; however, this fact does not diminish its success with regular allusions to a sporadic narration. The viewer is kept in an expectation of constant revelation of new facts connected to the main characters. In the case of this film, it becomes evident that unconventional approaches to narration can be especially successful for intriguing the public. Furthermore, if the three above mentioned films followed traditional narrative format, they would be different, and would definitely lose their appeal and inimitable face. To prove this the example of Back to the Future may be considered. This science-fiction adventure film is acclaimed as a classic of this genre, and this significant achievement is mainly connected to its arrangement (Leo par.18). Unless the viewer is not intrigued by all the allusions to the past and future, everything seen in the movie turns into no more than some usual science fiction which infests our screens for decades. More than this, there is a doubt about the possibility of these films to exist in case they were not accomplished in an unusual narrative style. To see this, the example of Pulp Fiction can be considered. Actually, everything done by Quentin Tarantino has a very uncongenial approach, and if this inimitable approach is not applied, there may arise many doubts about the very existence of these films. Pulp Fiction is a very unusual film, and its unusual narration concept is one of the film’s best solutions (Stone par. 23). Besides, one more important solution applied in those films is presenting some important information before the moment the main characters appear in the film. Such solution endows the viewer with a sense of power over the film. In addition, when the events and information discussed by the characters, but withheld from the viewer until later are happening, it feels very exciting. All in all, unusual conceptions of film narration may present a strong foundation for the film’s success. The example of this phenomenon can be seen in the ca