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Covert Rehearsal I would like to practice a new conversation about work issues with my colleagues from another department. The discussion might occur in the cafeteria at lunch. When I stand close to those who are already talking, it is apparent that I can hear their conversation. I can join the conversation at any time, especially if my statement makes the conversation more interesting. This could be a remark, a well-posed question, or a nice compliment. For instance, I can use prepared phrases such as “Sorry, I do not quite understand what you mean?”, “I have been in this area for a long time, but I have not heard such an interesting opinion.” It is better to plan such a conversation because it helps introduce something to talk about at the next meeting or stay current with updates and bring new information to other colleagues (André et al., 2017). The physical surroundings, including tables, food, and large surface affect positively as long as while eating, the human body is relaxing, and a person feels safe. Covert Practice I start the conversation with the phrase: “Well, how is your week going? Busy with projects?” A colleague from another department replies: “They are busier than usual because we are now working on improving technologies and introducing new devices into the team’s work.” Next, I can say, “Sounds interesting. I did not know you were managing this as well. What exactly are you doing?” This beginning of the conversation makes it clear that I do not know what precisely this employee is doing. Nevertheless, this way, I can start a conversation about his or her tasks and the team’s work. If the person turns out to be talkative, perhaps they will describe in detail what another department deals with, and I will have something to talk about at the next meeting. Meanwhile, if a person remains uncommunicative, then I can talk about my work experience. During the conversation, I can ask: “I think I didn’t quite get the last thought. Could you explain again?” I will show that I am involved in the discussion and contribute to an equal dialogue. It is essential to stay calm, trying to control adventitious movements, including tapping a foot or playing with my hair. One of the variations of surroundings is the large and light cafeteria in the organization, in which during lunchtime, there is a possibility to meet colleagues from other departments. Reflection Before starting to speak, I collected my thoughts and tried to calm myself down. I counted to ten, breathing slowly and deeply. First, I had to relax and manage my feelings and dispose of doubts and other negative thoughts. I had to convince myself that there is nothing strange ab
Abstract The issues of promotion are generally regarded from the view point of marketing activity. The fact is that, the promotion may be either Agency assisted, or self-arranged. The advantages and disadvantages of both variants are obvious, and the current paper is aimed to discuss both variants. The interviews, arranged with the representatives of Terry Richardson’s agency revealed, that both variants may be either successful, or failing. Originally, it depends only on fantasy and creativity of the person, who wishes to promote the goods or services. As for the proportion, it is approximately 70% vs. 30%. Nevertheless, 30% of those who prefer self-promotion tactics appear to be among the most successful dealers. Introduction As marketing science reveals, Promotion is one of the “4P’s” in the marketing success (price, product, promotion, and place). These 4P’s shape the marketing mix, and it is claimed, that this mix depends only on the amount of each component. The elements of promotion, in its turn, are the following:   * Personal Selling   * Sales Promotion   * Public Relations   * Direct Mail   * Trade Fairs and Exhibitions   * Advertising   * Sponsorship (Davies, 2006) Originally, promotion represents the different elements of marketing communication, that is, the communication of information concerning the product with the aim of creating a positive customer response. Self-promotion tactics First of all, it is necessary to mention, that self promotion is generally selected for various reasons. These reasons may vary from the most banal – shortage of the finances to use the services of an agency till the most creative – the wish to express own fantasy and creativity. The fact is that, self-promotion is generally selected by the people, who “sell their brains”, as they need to impress with the creativity, and the way of thinking the potential employer. On the other hand, if the company selects the self-promotion technique, it means, that this company needs to impress the potential customers, and get distinguished among the numbers of the companies with similar services. The central aim of the original self-promotion is the showing up, thriving and interrelation with the employer or customer. Promotion helps to put the company or the employee forward, and it is the part of having (or starting) the successful business. The successful business, in its turn, provides the sustainability of the entrepreneur. Originally, self-promotion is the self care of the business, and one can not be the successful businessperson, if he or she does not take care of the business. The fact is that, the authenticity and originality is the solid basis of effectual and successful self-promotion. The reason of this feature is in the fact, that originality emphasizes the ability to attract customers/employers, and extraordinarity of the cognition process, that is highly respected nowadays. Original self-promotion strategy is based on the premise, that the person/company has the unique value or feature that may be offered. (Seringhaus, 2007) The examples of successful self-promotio
Introduction Food is a basic need and one has to take it to live. Different types of food provide us with different nutrients that are essential in our bodies when taken in the right proportions and over the right duration. Some of the nutrients include protein, carbohydrates, minerals, vitamins, water, and lipids, which play different roles in the body. There are various aspects that influence our choices of food some of which do not really depend on the nutrients accrued to the foods, for example, culture and religion, environmental conditions, social affiliations, health, the identity associated with the food, cost, and flavor. A nutritious diet should always be adequate, moderate, balanced, and diverse (Drummond and Brefere, 2009). My 3- day Food intake (Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday) Monday      Tuesday               Wednesday Tea         Milk                  Milk      Doughnuts   Bread plus margarine  Biscuits  Rice        Spaghetti             Maize     Beans       Meat                  Beans     Fries       Pizza                 Meat      Meat        Vegetables            Fish      Vegetables  Mango                 Fries     Orange      Fish                  Avocado   Avocado     Peanut                Juice      From my table above, beans and meat were the main sources of proteins on Monday, fish, and milk on Tuesday while milk, meat, and beans provided proteins on Wednesday. Doughnuts and rice offered carbohydrates on Monday, bread, and spaghetti on Tuesday while rice, maize, and biscuits offered carbohydrates on Wednesday. Avocado and fries were the sources of lipids on Monday and Wednesday while peanut and pizza provided lipids on Tuesday. My Food Intake In Comparison with Dietary Reference Intakes (DRI) According to Grosvenor and Smolin (2009), a healthy diet provides the right number of calories by balancing the number of carbohydrates, proteins, fat, vitamins, minerals, and water. It should include whole grains, fruits, and vegetables for the provision of fibers, the right quantity of fat, sugar, and minerals. From my diet, it is clear that my food was high in calories and fats
Renaissance art period Renaissance is an art period which originated from Italy between the thirteenth and the fourteenth century. Some people refer to it as a rebirth of art. In Italy, some artists and scholars had a self-made belief that they were rekindling the achievements and morals previously exhibited by the Roman culture. The renaissance era was around 1280-1400 (Earnshaw, 2010). Giovanni and his counterpart Petrarch are some of the known painters of the era. They were so keen on identifying language structures to communicate key messages. The Roman Empire broke down because the style was not showing any progress for quite long. The artists in the early period relied mainly on the patrons who sustained them with the money they got. The paintings of the time alongside the artwork were presented mythically and also depicted the religious aspect. Such paintings were acquired through artistic developments that used imaginary lines to create moderate views of things. The distance between the paintings and the viewers was not an essential element in renaissance art. The information found in the style was deep and with natural details. Real information was used in the renaissance period to show reality. Images of humans were used as a natural entity to make the reality deeper. There was a different administration strategy used during the period which was centralized in the city-states rather than capitalism. The presence of the monarchial administration helped most merchants to come up, something that led to the development of the economy in Italy as a country. Such growth in the economy supported both public and private projects of arts. On the eve of the renaissance era, three great artists sprang up and changed the general view of the period by developing interesting artistic elements. Michelangelo greatly contributed to the birth and development of the period. He was later joined by Leonardo da Vinci who came up with the use of real nature at a tender age. Raphaelo, a charming youngster later came up though he had a short life in the art industry because he died at the age of 37. By then the renaissance period was characterized by the use of human internal features (Earnshaw, 2010). The artists focused on studies that dealt with how to improve previous artwork and methods of making them appealing to the eye. This was between the 14 th and 15 th century where all the paintings had a symbolic meaning. By then the renaissance style had gone
The Blu-ray and HD DVD discs work on the same technology, that is, the blue laser diode technology. The HD-DVD simply entailed putting together two discs in order have a single double-layered disc, hence doubling the storage capacity. This technology was economical as it had backward compatibility with the original DVD, hence, it did not require an overhaul of the machinery used to create the original DVD discs. The Blu-Ray disc technology, on the other hand, was based on a complete redesign of the disc as it applied the blue laser’s ability to read minute spots on discs. Technological flaws and managerial strategies soon led to the discontinuation of the HD-DVD while the Blu-Ray disc has caught on. The first flaw associated with the HD-DVD was disc capacity, whereas the HD-DVD disc had a maximum capacity of 15GB per side, the Blu-Ray disc has a maximum capacity of 25GB per side, hence, the memory limitation was obviously a factor that led to the discontinuation of the HD-DVD. Secondly, The HD-DVD makers, Toshiba Company, failed to understand the application context of the consumers and movie studios- these users required higher capacity discs so that they could fit all media files movies onto one disc, rather than an alternative that was cheap but meant media files, especially videos, had to be separated on a number of discs. The third factor for the Blu-Ray dominance resulted from the requirement that HD-DVDs could be manufactured on old DVD manufacturing machinery, a factor which worked against them. The company this could provide a cheap alternative, however, they failed to recognize that the marketplace had considerably changed with improvements in communication tools, this meant that old technology was slowly being replaced by new ones. Adoption of new technologies was occurring at a tremendous pace and this meant that mass production of Blu-Ray discs could still drive down the production costs considerably to make them a cheaper alternative. Fourth, Sony’s strategic collaborations and acquisitions ensured that its technology superseded that of Toshiba. The firm’s acquisition and establishment of entertainment’s biggest names such as Columbia, Tri-Start, MGM Studios, Sony Pictures and Sony Television, ensured that Sony had a platform on which to apply or implement its Blu-Ray technology. The formation of the Blu-Ray Disc Association (BDA) is also another strategic management approach that Sony has successfully used to promote its technology. Sony’s BDA members was well represented by an remarkable list of supporters such as Disney, Dell, HP, Hitachi, LG Electronics, Panasonic, Mitsubishi, Pioneer, Philips, Samsung, TDK, Thomson, Vivendi Universal and Electronic Arts. The long list of supporters ensured that Blu-Ray discs had a well-established promotion team to market it. The evidence of the success of Sony strategy began to show in the early 2007, for example, by late 2007, 154 Blu-ray titles were on the Australian market alone, compared to 47 titles in HD-DVD. As HD-DVD sales plummeted, consumers stopped buying them, fearing that this format would not be supported in future DVD pl
VRINE Certification Effective use of the resources of a company is critical to the enhancement of its profitability. The key resources being utilized for current operations at the Prince Edward Island Preserves Company are its diverse products. The company offers a wide range of products that range from preservatives, vinegar, honey, tea and mustard. All these products are repackaged. Evaluation of the resources using VRINE model shows that these resources allow the company to meet its market demands and protects it from the uncertainties of the market. Some of the products such as strawberry jam occupy approximately fifty percent of total demand for the jam product in the entire market. For the company to meet this demand, it is planning to introduce more varieties of the product to diversify the preferences of their customers (Beamish, 2003). The products produced by the company can also be classified as rare since the jam products it produces surpasses the quality of any jam product produced anywhere else. This is due to its high fruit content and the champagne or liquor touch. This makes the resource scarce relative to demand. Due to the uniqueness of the products, other competitors who produce the same products find it difficult to imitate the products or substitute it with other products that give out the same benefits. The company is also able to exploit the resource. The resources of the company are therefore, VRINE-certified for competitive advantage (Barney, 1995). The Prince Edward Island Preserves Company has been increasing the competitive edge of its resources through increasing the fruit content and adding champagne, whisky and liquor into the jam products. This makes their products unique hence increasing their demand. The company has also increased the appeal to its products by giving out a gift package consisting of different products. SWOT Analysis The company has a mixture of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. Its strengths are shown through its unique production techniques that make its products to be of high demand among the diverse customers. This has made the company to enjoy outstanding rates of growth as the sales increase substantially every year for the six years it has been in operation. The company’s weaknesses may be seen in the ever increasing prices of its products. As much as it has not affected the sales yet, it is dangerous for the future of the company. The opportunity that the founder of the company realized was that the company could actually present the strawberries in Prince Edward Island as a food product that would meet the world-class standards. One of the threats that the company faces is the possibility of losing quality staff due to its seasonality in terms of employment. Some employees, including those in management positions, worked for the company only on a seasonal basis. High rates of employee turnover are detrime
The poems “A fine, A private Place” by Diane Ackerman and “Play-by-Play” by Joan Murray are both concerned with the theme of female sexuality. “A Fine, A Private Place” utilizes the third person narrative voice to express the memories of a woman who fondly remembers a lovemaking experience she had with an unidentified male lover by the shores of an unidentified ocean/sea. However, the woman reminiscing was at first none the wiser about her lover’s intentions – he had to ask twice before she could understand the nature of his request and intensions (first stanza), and before she realized his manhood was hard: an indication of lovemaking desire. However, the subsequent lovemaking experience as reflected from the woman’s voice was mutually consented, and the lovers made love intensely and with deep feelings for each other. In “Play-by-Play”, the omniscient narrator poses rhetorical questions as the narrator watches a group of men playing softball and analyses the secrete sexual thoughts and desires of the women nearby(both old and young), as they secretly admire the men’s bodies and reflect on the men’s sexual appeal. The two poems suggest that female sexuality can be, and is, as expressive as male sexuality. In “A Fine, A private Place”, the female voice expresses the desires and thoughts of a woman during and after a lovemaking experience. These reminisces convey the idea that the female partner is not a passive player during the act of lovemaking, but is an equal partner with emotions and desires too, which have to be fulfilled and catered for in the entire lovemaking process. The male player remains unnamed and unidentified – ironically, the last line of stanza three has the woman wondering who the man was, yet the woman is able to make love to a point of female climax and complete satisfaction. In the last line of stanza four, the woman reaches her climax as her loins roar and she pants in climactic excitement. The fact that the woman is able to be expressive sexually with a m
In 2008, the annual consumption of Saudi Arabia cement was 30 million tones, this figure rose by a 6.7 million margin through the year 2009 to give an annual consumption of 36.7 million tones. This increase in consumption saw the Saudi Arabia cement industry grow by 22% in 2009. Both of these facts are indications of quite a strong performance by the industry in the year 2009 (BMG Financial Group, 2010, 1). The cement industry in Saudi Arabia serves the central region, the eastern region and the western region. During 2009, the central region favored the industry since demand driven construction activities in this region saw local consumption of cement grow by a robust 40%. The eastern region significantly influenced by global trends and did not significantly promote growth in the industry due to the global slowdown. Still in the same year, the western region had its mega construction activities delayed and thus denying the industry a good year. Problems in the cement industry in Saudi Arabia are arising from over capacity and new entrants into the industry should be aware of these. In 2009, cement over supply in Saudi Arabia was estimated at about 2 million tones. Given that, it is illegal to export cement from Saudi Arabia this excess cement the strategy has been to re-direct it into the local market. The implications of this redirection generally mean that industries have to deal with falling prices of cement and reduced revenues (BMG Financial Group, 2010, 1). According to the TAWADUL –Saudi Stock Exchange- stock reports on June 6, 2010 at 15:54:59 the value of the cement index was 3769.50, which is a 1.07% increase (Saudi Stock Exchange, 2010). This value places it sixth in the overall index standings, which is a good indicator that the cement industry is large and very vibrant in Saudi Arabia. Some of the major players in the Saudi Cement industry include; Arabian Cement, Yamama Cement, Qassim Cement, Yanbu Cement, Saudi Cement, Eastern Cement, Southern Cement and Tabuk Cement. The following graphs show some facts of Tadawul investment details Figure 1: Showing Tadawul all Share Index Figure 2: Showing Saudi Arabia’s Tadawul all-stock Saudi cement industry according to market analysts has been demand driven, with an oversupply of the products to meet the demand. According to BMG financial group, (2010) the performance of cement industry in Saudi is reporting annual growth for 2009 vis-à-vis 2008 with reference to cement tonnage capacity. Annual revenue margins posted for this two years is indicative of this. The cement products have posted an annual growth of about 22%. In terms of geographical coverage operations, domestic consumption especially in the central region has had relatively impressive records in amounts handled as well as how the industry has grown. Based on how the cement-based projects in 2009 have perf
From willful ignorance to harmful intent, there may be various causes for medical negligence and malpractice. Distinguishing the two terms is possible by investigating healthcare professionals’ intent when administering or refusing to assign care to clients (Samanta & Samanta, 2015). Negligence occurs in “circumstances where a health-care practitioner or organization [has] failed to take reasonable care,” defined by an unplanned carelessness in the healthcare setting (Samanta & Samanta, 2015, p. 92). Thus, the central issue of medical negligence is its unexpectedness, which may stem from the healthcare staff’s inexperience, overworked state, or lack of environmental awareness under demanding conditions. However, no staff member may intend to harm a client directly. As such, investigating three different lawsuits may allow outlining methods of reducing the number of negligence cases within the US healthcare system by highlighting acute and relevant preventive measures. Doing so may present the possibility of further bettering the quality of healthcare received by patients through the reduction of medical errors. The most lethal outcome of medical negligence is the patient’s death. A legal case in Orange City, Iowa, investigated the demise of a woman from anaphylactic shock due to “an allergic reaction to the contrast dye given to her for the [CT] scan” (Gruber-Miller, 2018). As such, the first preventive measure for facilities to counter similar cases would be to have extensive information regarding clients’ allergies readily available for practitioners. Following this, healthcare professionals should educate themselves regarding the appropriate pre-procedure check-ups. These two steps tackle the occurred event’s central issue, which is a lack of “foreseeability of harm” (Samanta & Samanta, 2015, p. 94). Finally, the facility should schedule training for all staff, regardless of their position, on ways to respond to patients who are nearing lethal conditions. This last step should counter inexperience