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Introduction Background information The hospitality sector is one of the most lucrative economic sectors in the world. The industry has undergone exponential growth over the past decades. A large number of investors have ventured into the industry in an effort to exploit the prevailing market potential. The Australian hospitality industry plays a fundamental role in the country’s economic growth. For example, the industry has been a source of employment for over 500,000 employees. The industry is comprised of hotels, bars, and restaurants. Firms operating in the industry have implemented a number of changes such as diversifying their product portfolio in their quest to align their operations with the prevailing economic, demographic, and social situations. Most of the industry players deal with provision of beverage, accommodation, and food products. Despite its attractiveness, the industry is experiencing a myriad of challenges. Some of these challenges relate to an increment in the intensity of competition, change in consumer behaviours, labour shortages, and the regulatory environment. These changes have arisen from the high rate of globalisation and economic changes. For example, the recent global economic crisis led to a significant decline in occupancy ration. On the other hand, the intensity of competition might lead to a decline in the level of profitability. These forces show that the industry is very volatile. Despite these pressures, the industry players have an obligation to satisfy their customers and at the same time maximise their profitability. This assertion underscores the importance of the industry players adopting effective strategic management practices in order to cultivate their competitiveness (El-garaihy 224). One of the aspects that the firm should take into account relates to quality of service. Currently, service quality is a key determinant on the extent to which an organisation nurtures a strong customer relationship. Therefore, it is imperative for service-oriented firms such as hotels and restaurants to consider differentiating their operations based on quality. However, this goal can only be achieved if hotel and restaurants’ management teams understand the customers’ needs. Service quality is subject to the implemented processes, outcomes, and interaction between a firm’s employees and its clientele. Aim and scope This report illustrates how Hotel Windsor, which operates in Australia, can improve the quality of its services. The report assesses the various issues that the hotel’s management team should incorporate in its strategic management practices. Literature review Company profile Hotel Windsor, which is owned by the Halim Group, is one of the largest hotels in Australia. The hotel is strategically located at Spring Street in Melbourne, Australia. The firm has undergone remarkable growth since its inception in 1884. Some of the notable changes include the purchasing of the “building by the state government in 1977 and its subsequent lease to the Oberoi Group in 1980, which undertook major restorations and refurbishment of the hotel, which re-established the hotel’s
During his time of ministry, Jesus taught many teachings through parables, proverbs, and wise sayings to his 12 disciples and the crowds that followed him wherever he went. Unlike the prophets who came before him, Jesus taught with authority (Mathew 7:29). He forgave sinners, cleansed the unclean, and performed many miracles that baffled the Pharisees and the teachers of the law. Like the prophets before him, he came with God’s divine message and purpose, to fulfill the word. Many people including Jesus’ disciples returned to him secretly to learn the deeper meaning of his parables. Even though he eluded the Kingdom of God to things familiar to them, they could not still understand him. The core of Jesus’ teachings was on the fact that God love us and that we should love each other just as he has demonstrated his love to us.Many of other Jesus’teachings gave strength to this core teaching of love. When Jesus’ disciples asked himof the greatest commandment, he answered them by saying, “love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul and with all you mind and with all your strength,” (Mathew 22:37 KJV). There are many instances where Jesus talked about love. First was at the mountainside. He said, Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy.But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for hemaketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same?And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? Do not even the publicans so? (Mathew 5:43-48). In this teaching on the mountain, Jesus strengthened the word of God,as was his purpose for teaching. By telling the people to love their enemies, Jesus was showing them the example of God’s love to us, which we should extend to our enemies. When the time of Jesus’ death came, as was prophesied, he still spoke to his disciples about loving each as he had loved them, “A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.” (John 13:34). During the time of Moses, offering of burnt sacrifices was done to appease God. The priests at the temple performed this noble task every time the wrath of God befell the nation. It was awayof cleansing the people. According to Jesus, love was greater that burnt sac
The discussed paper is devoted to the problems of organizational behavior and other factors impacting performance. Wefald, Smith, Gopalan, and Downey (2017) are interested in the evaluation of distinctiveness of workplace vigor and the impact it might have on organizations. For this reason, they utilize the Luthan’s five criteria for determining a construct as a unique which are theoretical grounding, validity measured, unique to organizational behavior, state-like, and positive impact on satisfaction and performance (Wefald et al., 2017). To conduct their study, investigators engaged 693 employees from 56 restaurants to investigate the effect of vigor on positive organizational behaviors (Wefald et al., 2017). In the course of the investigation, the authors conclude that there is a positive correlation between the investigated phenomena as there is the appearance of positive shifts in employees and tendencies towards the improved effectiveness and outcomes. Regarding the selected issue, the article can be considered an important source that delves into one of the critical aspects of companies’ functioning which is a workplace behavior. The researchers try to outline approaches that can be used to achieve better results and evaluate their effectiveness in driving positive change (Wefald et al., 2017). Accepting the fact that it is one of the main tasks of an effective manager, the paper can be considered a credible source of knowledge that can help to acquire an improved understanding of how vigor can workplace vigor can be utilized as a positive organizational construct that contributes to the achievement of outlined goals. The increased relevance of the information presented by the authors can also be evidenced by the existence of multiple options for its application to the work of the public sector. In the majority of cases, the positive results in the given segment are associated with the high levels of satisfaction and work engagement (Wefald et al., 2017). For this reason, organizations belonging to this sphere should strive for the achievement of high workplace vigor levels as one of the key factors that will boost performance and help to attain success. At the same time, it will help to improve the attitudes of employees to their duties and reconsider their perspectives on the ways how to cope with the existing tasks. For this reason, the discussed issues are relevant for
Although fear is something that most people consider a natural thing, claiming that only fools don’t fear a thing, there are a number of fears called phobias that are taken as psychological deviations by the scientists and doctors. In such cases, the faster the patient is cured, the sooner the society gets rid of another maniac-to-come. The most obvious but not necessarily the most correct decision, it is still the prior one for most people in the modern society. Cassie Harper never thought that her journey to the Solomon Islands would end at the psychologist’s. “I am a programmer. I understand that this is not the very profession that a twenty-seven-year old blonde is supposed to have, but this is how the things went for me. If only you could imagine all those scornful looks that men used to cast at me as I only began working! But times changed, and they finally understood that this is something they should take for granted.” Cassie stopped. It was understood that she had difficulties with explaining the nuances about her past. Whenever it was hard or not, it still was something she was used to and now deprived off. Indeed, the life that she has abandoned now is something dreamy for a young lady of thirty, with all the prospects of a brilliant future ahead, and with the years to live for happiness and future adventures that might take her to whenever she wanted. However, there could be something that a professional doctor could suggest her. But first… The trip to the islands seemed to her a great idea. Without thinking much of what she should take with her, or where the trip would take her, Cassie had bought the tickets and soon was flying away to the islands where the world would be different for her, where the people will seem not the way she used to see them, and where she would experience the new traditions and customs that she had never heard of. The next few days were bliss, though getting accustomed to the new environment did take some time. She went to every single attraction that could be found there for the tourists hungry for impressions, and nothing could stop her from diving in the sea or trying the new national dish in the local café. Then it was all about the fire. Was it really the malfunction of the appliances? Or did someone left a cigar burning in te hotel while Cassie was sleeping in her bed, all tired after the yesterday’s looking for another set of impressions? Hardly anyone knows the answer to this question. Anyway, the hotel was set on fire, and, though Cassie managed to get out of the burning house and stay alive. Her face got terrible burns. She was taken to
Ethical principles provided by ARN in the documents related to the nursing practice The activity of the Association of Rehabilitation Nurses (ARN) is based on the range of the documents (including the code of ethics for nurses) developed by the American Nurses Association which are general for different types of the nursing services. However, ARN improved the general variant of the code with references to the peculiarities of the rehabilitation nurses practice. The main task of nurses is to provide the effective care participating in the definite interactions with the patients. Thus, the fact of the nurses’ frequent communication with patients results in the necessity of solving a number of ethical issues. To reduce the negative effects of the ethical challenges for nurses and to follow the interests of the patients, it is significant to use the principles fixed in the Position Statement of ARN on the Ethical Issues. The first asp
Introduction The achievements in the field of healthcare and medicine cannot be ignored. Many helpful discoveries are being made to advance the possibility of treating such serious health problems and genetic disorders like Down’s syndrome, Huntington’s disease, and diabetes. Representatives of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) aim to ensure the safety and effectiveness of drugs marketed for a particular country (U.S Food and Drug Administration, 2018). The Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) is the primary center for taking responsibility for new pharmaceutical discoveries. Diabetes is a disorder that plagues millions of people around the globe. Though genetics is a central risk factor for developing diabetes, such aspects as the environment and the chosen lifestyle have to be considered. This paper aims to discuss FDA recommendations, the role of money in health care, and the significance of family involvement in diagnosing and treating diabetes along with the laboratory studies and tests currently available and new perspectives that can improve public understanding of the disease. Discussion of the Guidelines and Reasons Behind the FDA Regulations for Introducing New Pharmaceutical Agents (Policy) The FDA supports the idea of innovation and progress in the production of new biological products. The CDER tests discoveries for new opportunities for people to be treated, to relieve pain, and to avoid harmful genetic mutations (Lagassé et al., 2017). The process of introducing new drugs consists of several stages. First, it is necessary to classify new molecular entities in terms of FDA goals (administrative or therapeutic). This decision helps determine if a chosen drug is innovative in terms of its chemical composition. Second, the organization checks all moieties as parts of these drugs in terms of their chemical composition and determines if some of them have already been approved (U.S Food and Drug Administration, 2018). To complete this step, it is necessary to evaluate the entire drug development process, starting from laboratory discoveries and ending with safety monitoring. Finally, the Public Health Service Act must be complied with to make sure that all federal standards have been followed. Recently introduced drugs include opdivo to deal with lung and liver problems and glucagon to counter the action of insulin. Discussion of the Role that Money and Grants Play in Scientific Advances and the Economics of Health Care The question about the worth of new therapeutic agents and their cost troubles many people. During the last several years, the number of Americans with diabetes has dramatically increased from 25 million to 29 million (Lopez, Macomson, Ektare, Patel, & Botteman, 20
America has gone through many wars, from the War of Independence to World War II, the Vietnam War, and numerous episodes of US military presence in Afghanistan, Iraq, or Syria. Traditionally, war milestones are presented in chronological order. Historians try to understand what led to the war, how events unfolded, and how large numbers of casualties could have been avoided. However, the new APD approach proposes to consider what consequences wars brought for the states that participated in them. The APD approach analyzes the American wars regarding how they influenced or even drove American Political Development. This paper argues that, in terms of APD, the American wars gave an impetus for the development of the US fundamental pillars of its statehood and that many significant mass societal improvements evolved as the results of changes stimulated by the need to extract at least small positive benefits from wars. I intend to present a series of examples to prove this point. First, it is necessary to provide examples of when the war gave impetus to the development of socio-cultural processes aimed at improving the political and economic situation. I will do my analysis with the APD approach, which tries to track US politics and the government’s philosophical and historical roots and analyze the overall nature of political development and evolution. In his article “Wars and American Politics,” David Mayhew (474) argues that there were at least five major wars faced by the US which determined its fate as a progressive state: the War of 1812, the War with Mexico, the Civil War, the World War I, and the World War II. According to the scholar, these wars created “windows that are opened by problems” (Mayhew 473). In other words, these wars gave an impetus for the further development of the state. According to Mayhew (475), the War of 1812 was the first important milestone that brought about historical change. In particular, this war brought three important innovations – the emergence of the Second Bank of the United States established by Congress, the introduction of the high new protective tariff, and some internal improvements of transportation facilities. The Second Bank was created as the reaction to “near-bankruptcy, currency disorder, and debt brought on by the war,” and the tariff was established “to shield American industries nourished during the war, notably cotton textiles that in peacetime became vulnerable to British competition” (Mayhew 476). This war also led to the creation of the Canadian state and the end of Native Indians’ aspirations for an independent state. The scholar presents a comprehensive list of other achievements that can be attributed to the war, which is viewed as a large-scale revolution in the traditional views, norms, and rules according to which the state functions. For example, the author claims that the War with Mexico led to the expansion of the United States to the Southwest, to the bo
In this paper, the moral dilemma of policeman Dale is going to be described and discussed with the help of the guidelines for moral behavior determination as presented by Pollock (2013). Dale has seen his co-worker (Don) smoking marijuana and confronted him. Don has been working in the department for 19 years while Dale is a new worker (3 months of service). Don demands that Dale keeps silent, and blackmails him, promising that he can “make things difficult” for Dale. The immediate dilemma for Dale consists in that of reporting or not reporting the situation. Other dilemmas are connected to the facts and concepts described below. The discussion attempts to make use of the idea of moral pluralism, and the result appears to be corresponding to ethical formalism and utilitarianism. Given the fact that the moral pluralism presupposes interpreting and using all the possible ethical systems, it seems to be an acceptable outcome (Pollock, 2013, p. 45). To identify all the facts of the situation, it is necessary to mention the properties of marijuana. Marijuana is a relatively safe drug: it does not cause physical addiction, and the effects can be limited to the feelings of euphoria and relaxation (Encyclopædia Britannica, 2014). Naturally, the drug also causes problems with coordination, but it appears that Don was not on duty. In other words, his actions most certainly did not endanger public safety. However, the law is not always concerned with public safety (Pollock, 2013, p. 2). In the case of drug use, the law demands moral behavior; smoking marijuana is illegal because it is immoral. It should be pointed out that the specifics of marijuana have another implication: first-time offenders who use a soft drug are a special case that allows decriminalization (Pollock, 2013, p. 15). Still, when the drug is used by a person who belongs to law enforcement, the situation appears more immoral since the actions of this person do not correspond to his duty as a public servant. In other words, Dale is most likely to consider the actions of Don immoral. In a way, Don is discrediting his organization, and, therefore, it cannot be said that his actions have no effect on other people. The issue of their illegality is not controversial: Dale might vote for the legalization of recreational marijuana use in Stoned County, but his job and duty consists in enforcing the law (Pollock, 2013, p. 4). For the time being, the law states that marijuana cannot be used for recreational purposes. Dale can only ignore a law if it is immoral, but there is nothing immoral in prohibiting the use of a mind-altering substance. Another unethical action of Don consists in the blackmailing attempt. The threat might have made Dale choose to keep silent if, for example, he had a sick child
Introduction Regal Entertainment Group is considered to be the American chain in the theater industry development of the country. It is a powerful corporation dealing with strong movie leaders of US cinematography. Regal Entertainment Group operates based on a diversification Ownership structure; the senior management is under the impact of easy changes through its consistent structure. Strategic development of the organization is concentrated on the motion picture industrial growth and opportunities consolidation through the construction of new theatres and existing base expansion with the involvement of new technologies. Analytical analysis results Analytical analysis of organization strategic management demonstrates the central mission directed at continuous improvement of business operations at the lowest risk. Financial support is reached through BGG Matrix usage; this opportunity is closely connected with the current market growth of the organization leading to financial prosperity. Regal Entertainment Group settles internal financial operations through the following basic issues: ticket sales, admissions, and business cooperation with other representatives of the theatre industry. It is necessary to underline the fact that organizational growth is stimulated by market share and position on the market. The expansion of business segments is reached through industry consolidating based on building new theatres, cooperating with other strong trends, and improving the quality of the service. The creation of joint ventures appeared to be an important step made to the industrial progress; the organization is to develop its strategies by technological involvement for market segments increase. The development of competitive planning is to be connected with the analytical analysis of the organization’s principal competitors, such as AMC, Cinemark, and Carmike, which faced the problem of demographic challenges. The opportunity to adapt to innovational, technological, and market changes makes the organization take a leadership position among the competitors taking into account the fact that the weak economic climate on the international level affecting the cinema industry. The maintenance of leadership position and increase of competitiveness is to be reached through the threats and weaknesses analysis of the competitors, being caused by new entrants, substitutes, buyers, and suppliers in the form of distributive agencies controlling the release of the company’s films. The central strategy to be involved in the organization’s management planning is aimed at opening new beneficial chains of products promotion and consumers; attraction. (Thompson and Martin, 2005). Strategic Issues Ra