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TransDigm Case Study In January 2017, TransDigm, a US leading original equipment manufacturer of aerospace components, became the focus of a critical report that accused the corporation of “potential waste, fraud, and abuse.” Indeed, for years, the company has been a success, as evidenced by its revenue and non-GAAP EBIDTA compound annual growth rates of 20% and 24%, respectively. Thirteen years after its founding, in 1993, the company went public, and by 2017, its stock price had increased tenfold. Yet, the report read that impressive numbers and figures were concealing the reality of losing organic growth. Allegedly, TransDigm was hiking the process to make up for the losses but found itself in trouble when President Trump expressed the intention to reduce expenses on defense aviation procurement. This paper critically appraises TransDigm’s value creation model and gives recommendations for overcoming current challenges. Value Creation From the very beginning, TransDigm’s business model has been built upon the so-called “value-focused strategy” principles. They had a unifying goal of offering the corporation’s shareholders “private equity-like returns with the liquidity of a public market.” Products have always been central to Transdigms’s value-creating strategy. Ninety percent of all sales are proprietary designs, which means that the company owns and protects its blueprints. As of 2016, TransDigm had a diversified market presence split almost evenly between the commercial aviation aftermarket (37%), defense aviation (30%), and commercial original equipment manufacturing (OEM) aftermarket (29%). Product pricing is built upon the value-based strategy, or, in other words, the consumer’s perceived value of the product. As one of the three main value drivers, product development is not solely achieved through new designs. In fact, TransDigm is quite aggressively buying new businesses whose total count now amounts to around 1,200. However, not all projects and business operations are equal because the corporation is always looking for ways to drive down the expenses. At the same time, by acquiring multiple businesses in the same industry sector, TransDigm is becoming a monopoly in charge of setting prices and ramping its revenues. Acquisition Plan Sustainability One of TransDigm’s most significant business decisions was its acquisition of Arkwin in 2013 for $268 million. The question arises as to whether this acquisition is sustainable, given that it was done through debt. Debt financing is pretty common in the business world and not inherently negative or positive. In TransDigm’s case, Arkwin’s acquisition meant taking a step toward even greater leverage in the aviation sector due to the company’s size. Moreover, Arkwin’s sales and EBIT figures showed overall profitability, which, in the future, promised sustained cash flows and, hence, debt repayment. Another argument in support of the acquisition is the acquired corporation’s flawless reputation and lack of publicity regarding the new ownership. This implies that
The Purpose of the Research This research seeks to find out the effect of organizational culture on employee performance and customer retention. Specifically, the investigation will be narrowed down to the UN organization where the researcher will examine the agency’s prevailing cultural values before assessing whether they have any significant impact not only on its workers but also on its client retention levels. Owing to the sensitive task of maintaining global tranquility and togetherness bestowed to this organization, examining the prevailing cultural values, for instance, uprightness, answerability, lucidity, and knowledge-sharing via the Intra-net will help to reveal their underlying impact of the UN employees’ performance and client retention. In other words, the UN’s organizational culture entails the strict observance of fairness, unbiased geographic representation, and proficiency (Clarke, n.d). It enhances these organizational values through the establishment of effective and realistic strategies and administrative mechanisms that seek to foster its competitiveness. Hence, the topic under study is important since it will enhance the understanding of organizational culture factors unique to the UN in addition to revealing whether such elements influence the performance of the agency’s employees and/or whether they (factors) are effective in facilitating client retention. The topic will also shed light on what constitutes an organizational culture. The topic is also important to me. Firstly, having secured an undergraduate degree in marketing, I have developed a passion for topics that touch on organizational behavior. As a result, I am interested in subjects that seek to find out the possibility of relationships between an organization’s behavioral elements and employee performance or client retention. The current research will be a revelation to me since it focuses on the impact that the UN’s organizational culture has on the mentioned aspects. Also, having secured an internship in an organization that did not have a well-founded institutional culture aroused my desire to pursue this subject, owing to the negative impact that such a workstation had on my performance. In addition to being less productive, I thought about quitting even before my internship period was over. Being less motivated by such an organization also affected my relationship with clients, a situation that might have interfered with their loyalty to the institution. Consequently, the current topic will be important to me because I will get the chance to determine the link between organizational culture, employee performance, and client retention. The Role of My Skills and Access to Data in Solving the Problem The Research
Introduction Among the concerns of teachers, students, and parents in learning is the mastering of spelling. Being a good speller is a primary characteristic of a literate person, and it is an essential trait for the current world. Consequently, students need to be taught this vital mechanism effectively. Above all other writing mechanisms, argues Putman (2017), the society prioritizes the phenomenon of correct spelling. Regrettably, making a document go beyond minor spelling errors is considered an aspect of incompetence and ignorance. All educators, the k-3 included, need to be knowledgeable in terms of teaching spelling. This research, therefore, questions the ability of educationists in terms of instilling the technique in the classroom. Teachers’ Knowledge of Spelling Generalizations, Development, and Instruction The traditional way of teaching considered the aspect of the organization of the English system. In the 20th century, reveals Putman (2017), the spelling curriculum was a system determined by the understanding of the fact that spelling was highly irregular. As a result, students could not use the previously learned words to come up with the spelling of new ones. For students to be effective in writing, the determining factor was based on the conceptualization of the spelling. Therefore, the belief made educators apply rote memorization mechanisms to help students understand correct spelling from a list of assigned words. Besides, pupils were supposed to utilize textbooks that emphasized the retention of common irregular symbols and sounds (Fresch, 2007). These isolated learning and irregular spelling systems have for long governed researchers and teachers in instilling the ability to spell in students. Teachers’ ability to understand spelling generalizations, instructions and development was based on these traditional mechanisms of reading English words. Consequently, English spelling has been logically understood, predictable, and rule-based (Putman, 2017). The author reveals that close to 84 percent of English words occur predictably (Putman, 2017). Teachers’ primary way of enhancing spelling generalization, development, and construction occurred through an emphasis on the mind-holding address. Educators discovered this method to be ineffective because most students still strived to get most words assigned to them rightfully. This forced these professionals to spend more hours online to get materials that would supplement their teaching resources. It is through this study that the aspect of teaching becoming a rocket science appeared. Teacher’s Self-Efficacy Academic English is complex, and therefore, expert teachers’ strives are directed on their potential to teach. Moats (2020) opinionates that the art of training reading is a rocked science. English is a multifaceted subject, and therefore, careful planning for instructions is mandatory for scholars to become fluent spellers, writers, and even readers. Since it affects all other academic achievements associated with
The development of a thought-through disaster management plan is essential to proper and immediate response in emergency situations. Human lives and safety depend on the disaster management cycle, which is improved and facilitated under the Healthy People 2020 objectives (Stanhope & Lancaster, 2016). Nurses play a pivotal role in addressing disasters, both human-made and natural, since they are professionally trained to respond quickly and competently to the health challenges imposed by an emergency. In a scenario of an earthquake, nursing staff must be aware of the stages of disaster management and disaster preparedness in particular. An earthquake is a natural disaster that might induce significant material and health damage by its destructing forces. In managing earthquake cases, nurses should follow the four stages of disaster management, namely prevention, preparedness, response, and recovery (Stanhope & Lancaster, 2016). However, preparedness predetermines the effectiveness of all the consecutive stages in the cycle. The essential steps of nursing disaster preparedness include personal preparedness, professional preparedness, and community preparedness. According to Stanhope and Lancaster (2016), the personal preparedness of nurses is a stepping stone of disaster management since the ability of healthcare professionals to preserve their safety and functioning helps save the lives of the community. Professional preparedness entails the knowledge, awareness, and practical skills necessary to ensure the safe evacuation of people in an earthquake and provide competent and timely health care through triage and proper management. Finally, community preparedness also depends on the competencies of nurses since it includes healthcare-informed response planning and coordination of all involved stakeholders (Stanhope & Lancaster, 2016). Thus, preparedness is an essential element in the disaster management cycle, the role of nurses in which is crucial. In summation, nurses’ preparedness to respond to a disaster predetermines the success of the rescuing operations and the well-being and survival rate of the victims. In the case of an earthquake, nurses must ensure personal preparedness, professional preparedness, and community preparedness. These steps will allow for proper planning of response to emergency and smooth implementation of the planned rescuing and healthcare procedures aimed to save people’s lives. Reference Stanhope, M., & Lancaster, J. (2016). Public health nursing: Population-centered health care in the community (9 th ed.). Elsevier Mosby.
Nowadays the process of the caregivers’ socialization became a common topic of debate and discussion among various scholars and those who work in the health administration field. Therefore, it would be relevant to speak on the issue of the influence of the caregivers’ socialization on the improvement of the socialization skills and their impact on patients’ health. Another subject under discussion here is, also, whether or not such reforms are useful and effective. It is a known fact that caregivers are likely to try their best to perform their duties in taking care of the patients. The caregivers are trying to spend all their time with the patients while forgetting about their own social needs. That is why the scientists in the field of health administration are really concerned about the special social attention which should be given to the caregivers. They motivate the necessity of such caregivers’ socialization by the assumption that if the caregivers’ health would be good, then it would serve as the best guarantee that they would have enough vigor to provide the patients with the proper care. With the view to maintain and support the caregivers’ health and the process of their socialization, there was implemented the self–care reform concept. It is a proven fact that the self – care for the caregivers is an important procedure that demands that the caregivers take care of themselves as well as of their patients. According to Mary Heisick, the MSW and the current president of the Harbor – South Bay – Orange County Chapter, the self – care is one of the most important “elements of positive and productive caregiving” (Heisick, 2001, p.
The organizational change at AKU is a complicated process, which will require working with the entire management team and will take substantial time and effort of the employees at all levels of power. To introduce a product that has not been manufactured before, the company will have to re-arrange the workforce and to re-think its production process, while at the same time focusing on the cultural, ethical and corporate social responsibility (CSR) implications of such change. The main areas of concern for this project are the restructuring of the workforce, the need for new training, and environmental considerations associated with the new production line. Restructuring the Workforce As noted in the previous assignment, one of the implications for the introduction of the new product line will be the need to introduce new layers and departments into the AKU’s currently flat organizational structure. This is justified by the increase in the overall number of workers, as well as by the separation of duties. It would be costly and unnecessary to involve all the current employees in the new production line; hence, the introduction of a more complex organizational structure would allow distributing the new duties around some employees without affecting the rest of the workforce. However, the introduction of the new production line still allows implementing major changes to the structure of the company, which could help to increase the effectiveness in all business lines. Cultural and Ethical Issues To address the cultural and ethical issues, outlined in the previous assignment, it is crucial to make sure that the new structure promotes good communication and improves organizational climate, which in turn can increase employees’ job satisfaction (Noordin et al. 2010). For AKU, the best organizational structure involves four separate layers. The first layer consists of teams of production workers. Introducing team structure would help with the induction of new employees into the companies, as well as with training of the entire workforce. Teamwork is one of the core factors that promote good organizational climate and job satisfaction (Noordin et al. 2010); thus, it can be used to reduce the employees’ negative feelings about the organizational change and ease the adjustment to the new structure. On the second level, each group should be managed by a supervisor. Supervisors are effective leaders as they are most involved with the work of the team. A good supervisor will learn about each team member quickly and will determine the best way of distributing tasks around the team without causing stress or confusion. Moreover, a supervisor could help to solve any conflicts arising between the workers, which can be caused by the introduction of new people into the teams. Next, the teams should be allocated to different departments by their responsibilities and area of work. Dividing the company into several departments would ensure a smooth in
Introduction Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a psychological disorder that involves the progressive destruction of brain cells and reduction in the proper functioning of the brain (Altman, 2000). Alzheimer’s disease is a type of dementia that is characterized by degeneration of brain functions such as memory, speech, and comprehension. It affects people at a young age but signs and symptoms appear in old age. The first sign of the disease is memory deterioration, which is characterized by memory loss and poor concentration (Altman, 2000). The disease is difficult to diagnose because its early signs can be easily confused with the effects of aging. On the other hand, early symptoms of the disease can also be observed in other conditions such as depression, fatigue, continued use of certain medications, and grief. Alzheimer’s disease usually results in death due to the lack of a cure. Even though certain medications are used, they only slow down the development of the disease and reduce the severity of symptoms. The pattern of AD’s development is different in individuals. However, its symptoms and effects are similar. Causes The main cause of AD has not yet identified. However, scientists have presented four main hypotheses to explain the causes. These include genetics, cholinergic hypotheses, tau hypotheses, and amyloid hypotheses. Genetics and physiological contributions Scientists have linked genetic inheritance to AD. According to scientists, three types of
Both articles speculate on the origin of civilization. Begley explained the African and African American scholars’ perspective of civilization. According to Begley, Civilization originated from Africa. To support this observation, it was argued that the Pythagorean Theorem, pi concept, geometric formulas, screw and the lever originated from Egypt and not Greece as many intellectuals believe. Western scholars dismissed all African achievements that they did not dispute. These include the sophisticated social, economic governance in the West Africa. Others argued that Egypt’s inhabitants were not originally Africans. Bernal (Professor at Cornell University) studied Hebrew antiquity, which led him to studying Greece as well. From his work, Bernal’s described classists as racists and anti-Semites. There is a feeling that acknowledging African contribution would impure Greece society. Thus, all the accounts that shaped Aegean civilizations were upheld. From Aryan model, Greek Civilization begun when Indo-European speakers interacted with the pre-Hellenes. Bernal proved explicitly that civilization came from Africa and not from Greece. For example, he traced linguistic words and utterance of Egyptian origin with some of the words being closely associated with Egyptian culture. There are some modern historians who surmise that Bernal’s etymologies could be plausible, but insist that the influence would be due to interactions from trade. Therefore, both articles argue that Afro centrists such as Euclid, Homer, Socrates and Cleopatra came from African Origin. Begley further expounded that Greece civilization have its cultural roots from acrostic cultures (Egyptian and Phoenician) (Begley 1). What is of fact from the two articles is that Greek civilization came about as a result of contact between the Indo-European Language and cultural influence from Egyptian and Semitic languages. However, all the information pointing out to the Greek civilization as having come out of the Afrocentric culture is only an overview. There is a vast amount of concrete evidence yet uncovered and unexplored regarding the Greek civilization. Further more, the results and conclusion of investigations carried out by historians such as Bernal proved extraordinary conclusions, bringing about contradictions such that their work could not be easily acknowledged (Begley 1). Greek civilization was as an influence of the interaction of the Indo-European language, Egyptian and Phoenicians. For example, Bernal cited many of Greek words, which are of Egyptian origin. Some of those words are accepted widely in the current Indo-European etymologies. More so, the interactions during trade influenced their cultural conduct. Diop affirmed the interaction in his work the African origin of civilization . The Senegalese man traced Egyptian influence from the prehistoric periods, such as Cecrops, and s
Why are people so interested in knowing all about disasters? Being a part of the dark tourism, the disaster tourism attracts more and more curious people. Perhaps, they want to get the reliable information from primary sources seeing everything with their eyes without intermediaries. The gawking is a usual reaction as people are drawn to look at the unusual and dangerous accidents (Rucińska and Lechowicz 18). Likewise, one can notice how slow the traffic is, when the accident occurs on the road. It happens not because people need to go around, but because they all want to see what actually happened. At the same time, they are happy to learn that they are safe. Besides, plenty of people become less susceptible getting used to the constant news of violence and tragedy transmitted through media. Perhaps, people believe that if a disaster occurred in a specific location, it would not happen there again. Some people just love to be in a place of the disaster as it gives them adrenaline. Those, who are engaged in the emergency tourism are likely to try their luck visiting the area of the incident immediately after the disaster like in the case of the Katrina hurricane or the Kobe earthquake (Kendle par. 5). All in all, the curiosity is inherent to human nature, in particular, the curiosity to suffering and the various tragic events. However, it is better to remember that such disasters can wait each of us. It is better to wait until the news will go from the first pages of news as well as listen to the wishes of the local population, at least because everyone has the right to the quiet experience of grief and recovery. Works Cited Kendle, Amanda. “Disaster Tourism: How Soon Is Too Soon After a Nat