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The leadership vision is transformative and adaptive to ensure that hospitals and healthcare systems are sustainable in the rapidly changing landscape of healthcare delivery. As such, nurse leaders must continuously develop their competencies in order to thrive in such an environment. The leadership vision reflects collaborative processes, boundary spanning in practices, and talent transformation to meet new demands and account for the shortage of nurses and specialists. This presentation covers the leadership vision nursing informatics issue of nurse shortage. It is observed that the US healthcare system continues to run in a rapidly challenging and fragmented environment, which is becoming even more complex due to ongoing healthcare reforms and market dynamics. Hence, healthcare management and delivery have changed significantly. Nurse leaders must learn to leverage expertise across different settings as they strive to develop new collaborative groups to integrate knowledge, anticipate and offer solutions to nursing challenges while providing efficient, high-quality, compassionate care to all stakeholders. Leadership vision based on promoting enhanced nurse collaboration, supporting talent transformation among nurses, boundary spanning, and resource stewardship among others can advance service delivery. These visions are based on the transformational leadership (Curtis, de Vries, & Sheerin, 2011). Nursing informatics, which is the science and practice of integrating nursing, its expertise, and knowledge with the management of information and communication technologies to enhance healthcare delivery, is relatively a new field and care practice. As such, it experiences a shortage of nurses – a problem that is widespread in the US. The noted nursing shortage generally affects the quality of care negatively. Nursing informatics is generally regarded as a new field of specialization for nurse graduates. In the recent past, it has gained widespread recognition as healthcare facilities rush to implement HITECH (Cooper & Hamer, 2012). However, few graduates are available to fill up these positions. Healthcare facilities have created new positions such as Chief N
Outline Leadership qualities are important in that, they create a chance for the leaders to evaluate the effectiveness of any suggestion proposed to them by the members of the team they are leading. Research indicates that, ideas cannot flow without control in any organization. It is therefore important for a leader to have a heart that is good in order to deal compassionately and be fair with people. It is also important for a leader to be God-fearing in order to be guided by Holy Spirit therefore, avoiding hurting the feelings of others. Teamwork is also very important especially if it has undergone all the stages of development because it enables the leader even to delegate some of the roles to the subordinates with a high level of trust. The following is a brief of some of my personal experiences that have enabled discovery of areas of strength and weaknesses in regard to leadership. Introduction I was a very active member in our local church when the youth patron announced that the group was in dire need of a new leader. I was almost sure that I would be chosen since I was very active and could organize the rest of the members in the absence of our patron. Votes were cast and I emerged as the winner which to my surprise was unopposed and I immediately started to work as most of the projects were halfway while others were just proposals. I strongly believed that I could lead because those projects were very important hence worth the effort. One of the experiences was very successful where funds were needed to complete a building that was to be used as a hall for church meetings. A successful leadership experience According to (Dubinsky, 1995), leaders are supposed to be hardworking, getting actively involved in whatever they are leading other than just sitting back and waiting for things to happen. Therefore, I called upon youth group members and asked them to get into three different groups where I was not involved in choosing who is to get into what group. We then brainstormed to get tasks for each group with group 1 getting the task of raising funds by organizing a concert where they would charge all attendants of the concert. Group 2 was supposed to bake small cakes which would be sold to the congregation after church services all through the month while Group three would sell notebooks to the congregation before bible study services through that month. I also went ahead to give out some money to help prepare for the three tasks and since
Summary: Introduction The dynamics of the current business environment have continued to complicate how business operations are conducted throughout the world. Marketing strategies, which are part of the most significant component of any business, have consistently changed from one industry to the other, and sometimes introducing a new product is a marketing strategy in itself (Gunelius 2007). On the whole, variation in the marketing and sales processes calls for special attention to be accorded to the different strategies chosen for use in the sales and marketing, especially monitoring their scope of performance of new products (Thompson, 2003). Thompson (2003) agrees that the marketing function has been under insurmountable pressure to take the leading role for business returns, yet measures to track marketing strategies have been increasingly rendered limited by marketing metrics and measurements practices that portend some difficulty in arriving at choices or understanding their role. This paper aims to explore a potential new product, Chocolate, in Northern Foods Company. For the sake of this paper, the chocolate brand is Chocolate Milky, which is a fast-moving consumer good (FMCG). With this product in a postmodern society, the paper aims to explore its likely performance in the market, brand measurement, arguments for its marketability and potential risks when it is launched among others. This product will be targeting United Kingdom residents. Lifestyle Theory and Consumerism Lifestyle Theory is arguably a widely recognized holistic approach in deciphering how a product like Chocolate Milky or service can reach potential consumers. This theory evaluates markets based on social sciences concerning (or in exclusivity from) other factors such as age, sex and race. This theory is, on the whole, premised upon the fact that, oftentimes, people who are socially similar and have the same attitude tend to consume the same way or things. For instance, in the developed world like the UK, where people have similar social attitudes consumption of new and trendy products seems fashionable. This will work well for Chocolate Milky as it targets the ‘’consumer society’’ of the entire United Kingdom. This is because the culture of consumerism takes a bigger toll in such places as the UK—where every person might want to taste the new Chocolate Milky in our case study (Thompson, 2003). Indeed, it is increasingly clear that consumer in the modern world is exposed to several choices which come in several dimensions (Howgwill 1998). This is anchored on the fact that we live in a postmodern world and therefore the attempt at building a culture of consumers being the drivers of decisions and processes that manufacturers and distributors engage in society cannot be ignored (Philip, 2006). Thus branding and its measurement will take centre stage for Chocolate Milky. Arikan (2009) notes that one of the escalating habits nowadays is that with the arrival of convenience stores, people spend much of their shopping in supermarkets and sometimes the choice of goods is based on how popular a brand is and not its value. Therefore, branding will be seen
Philosophers and film theorists have to posit arguments on the effect of media on the viewer and society as a whole. The arguments revolve around the phenomenon that the media, in particular film and video, exerts influence on society through the visual aspect of the cinema (Debord). In contrast, however, Mark has demonstrated that the non-visual aspect of the films and other forms of media have a significant role in influencing the viewer. This discussion, therefore, explores the concept of spectacle as explained by Guy Debord, and Laura mark’s concept of Haptic visualization to explain the extent to which paying attention to the senses of film in filmmaking can successfully break the regime of spectacle, and shows how film can still become a meaningful and mobilizing media for the viewers. The essay borrows from the arguments of Laura Marks’ “The Skin of the Film” and Guy Debord’s “The Society of the Spectable, and uses the films, “The World” by Jia Zhangke and “The Scent of the Green Papaya” by Tran Anh Hung as illustrations on uses of senses in film. To conceive the extent to which paying attention to the senses of film in filmmaking can successfully break the regime of spectacle, it is essential to understand the concept of the spectacle itself. The Society of the Spectacle The concept of spectacle is associated with Guy Debord who represented it in his literature, “The Society of the Spectacle”. He explores the advancement of the contemporary society in which real existence has been substituted by its representation; everything “that was once directly lived has become mere representation” (Debord). It is a social connection among people that is arbitrated by the power of images. The social action, in this respect, is characterized by the action of objects so that they influence the producer as opposed to the producer ruling them. The concept explains a system that is a convergence of the media, high-level capitalism, and governments that are pro-media and capitalism. The “spectacle is the inverted image of society in which relations between commodities have supplanted relations between people, in which passive identification with the spectacle supplants genuine activity” (Debord). The argument of spectacle aims to give a realization to the viewer who has been tamed by the power of the spectacular visual images “through radical action in the form of the construction of situations” which ” bring a revolutionary reordering of life, politics, and art” (Debord). Utilizing détournement t
Martin Luther King, Jr. was a leader of the movement fighting for the African-American rights. He was also an accomplished orator. In 1963, Luther delivered one of his most famous speeches at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C. The I Have a Dream Speech did not gain fame in vain. It caught the attention of the world not because it was about African-American rights. It went down in history as one of the best speeches ever delivered. It did not only make the world recognize that all mankind is equal but also drew the attention of everyone to its quality of content (Ralph 35). After listening to the speech, I go straight to analyze its effectiveness without dwelling on the main content. Watching a video of the speech, I made several observations which include the following facts. The setting is historical, and the audience is eager and agitated and composed of both blacks and whites, though the blacks are prevailing in number. The success of the speech of Dr. King can be attributed to the use of various literary techniques. They are used in the speech to capture the attention of the audience. Repetition is used throughout the speech to put an emphasis on the main idea of the message. The repetition is presented in the form of anaphora. Anaphora is a term used to show that the words are repeated at the beginning of adjacent clauses. The phrase “I have a dream ” is repeated eight times. Alliteration is another stylistic device that is used in the speech. It refers to the repetition of consonant sounds in the words in a sentences; for example, we can trace the use of this technique in the following instances, “In a sense we have come to our nation’s capital to cash a check” and “We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. No, no…”. The repetition and the emphasis of the letter “c” in the first sentence and letter “n” in the second excites the audience because of the musicality it brings out when it is uttered. Luther also uses allusion in his speech. He cites two bookends to achieve this effect. One of them is an old Negro Spiritual, “free at last! free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last”. The other alludes are made to the Gettysburg Address made by an American President in the words, “Five score years ago…”. Assonance refers to the repetition of vowel sounds. The next example presents the use of assonance in the words. “We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline”. Alliteration and assonance are also used in classical poetry. The two devices bring musicality to the speech which Luther’s audience enjoys. Hyperbole is used by Luther to create some sort of exaggeration that stretches the imagination of his audience concerning the following part of the speech, “And when this happens, when we allow free
Tourism Services The national organization that promotes tourism in Switzerland is called Swiss National Tourist Office. Its official website . This website was designed in order to attract tourists from all around the world to see the beautiful mountain landscapes and visit amazing ski resorts of the country. The website has a section called “Sustainability,” where all the eco-friendly innovations employed in Davos and in Switzerland resort facilities are described. Among the above-mentioned facilities and services, there are solar and wind power stations, solar powered boats and other types of vehicles (“Sustainability” par. 1). Required Visas Switzerland is one of the members of the European Union, and its territory is included into the Schengen area. There are several types of visa required for the Canadian residents willing to travel to Switzerland. Tourism visa is given to the individuals visiting Switzerland for leisure; to obtain this visa, one must include the accommodation information for every night they will spend in Schengen zone (Schengen Visa Switzerland 2). The so-called visitors’ visa is for the individuals meeting their family members, who live in Switzerland (Schengen Visa Switzerland 2). This kind of visa requires an invitation from the person, whom the traveler intends to visit in Switzerland. There is also a business visa, which is given to the people going to Switzerland to attend a fair or a conference, meet with business partners, etc. (Schengen Visa Switzerland 2). If one desires to find employment in Switzerland during their stay, they will require a work permit, which the visitor also needs to apply for. Tourism Education There are a number of things that one must know before going to Switzerland. First of all, it is a rather small country. It is possible to travel from its southern to its northern borders in under three hours by train. Switzerland’s rail transportation system and public transport connections are excellent; therefore, a tourist will not have any problems moving around. Hiring a car would be pointless. In case of visiting several cities in a row, it s recommended that a traveler should plan their trip so that it could end in Zurich, because this city has the airport that provides the best fly out options. Another very important thing to know about Switzerland is that there are four different national languages, three of them (French, German and Italian) being very popular (“Visiting Switzerland: 10 Things to Know before You Travel” 3). This occurs due to the fact that Switzerland borders France, Germany and Italy; as a result, many citizens adopted the neighbors’ languages. Three star hotels in Switzerland provide the services equal to those at five star hotels in other countries (“Visiting Switzerland: 10 Things to Know before You Travel” 6). Euro is the official currency in Switzerland, but Francs are preferred in the local markets, so it would be handy to have both currencies in cash (“Visiting Switzerland: 10 Things to Know before
In the “Gabal” section, there are many echoes of the “Adham” section, but the most interesting for me is the one when Zaqlut appeared in the Al Hamdan to punish the rebels. At that moment, the poet told about Adham’s family when the father got to know about an act of fratricide (Mahfouz 107). This story refreshed memory about the most dangerous and unforgivable sin in the alley and warned that something no less terrible could happen again. Mahfouz added several illustrative descriptions like “the circle of light” and the “park of the darkness,” which provoked “glowering, menacing, and terrifying” feelings (107). It seems the author wanted to underline the significance of the event and the importance of human emotions. Mahfouz used a death-like metaphor for the silence in which the Al Hamdan people found themselves (107). This echo enhanced fear and trembling, specifying the inevitability of sins in life. Work Cited Mahfouz, Naguib. Children of the Alley . Translated by Peter Theroux, Anchor Books, 1996.
Background The meaning of diversification has been given in different ways. The dictionary meanings of the diversification are (Trellis 2005) “to give variety to, or to vary” or “to extend business activities into disparate fields,” or “to distribute investments in order to average the risk of loss.” Each of these meanings provides a separate rationale for diversification, if properly applied and relevant to the situation. Business Diversification Hunter, John and Hickman (1997) states that “[i]n the corporate arena, diversification usually refers to companies pursuing several unrelated lines of business. The ultimate diversified firms have subsidiaries in dozens of completely unrelated areas”. In finance, diversification is a risk management technique, related to hedging, that mixes a wide variety of investments within a portfolio. “Because the fluctuations of a single security have less impact on a diverse portfolio, diversification minimizes the risk from any one investment” (Wikipedia 2008). In the market level, diversification is a form of growth marketing strategy for a company. Balaji (2008) provides that “It seeks to increase profitability through greater sales volume obtained from new products and new markets. Diversification can occur either at the business unit or at the corporate level. At the business unit level, it is most likely to expand into a new segment of an industry in which the business is already in. At the corporate level, it is generally entering a promising business outside of the scope of the existing business unit”. Strategies The strategies of diversification can include internal development of new products or markets, spread the financial risks in several investments, acquisition of a firm, alliance with a complementary company, licensing of new technologies, and distributing or importing a products line manufactured by another firm. Generally, the final strategy of the diversification contains an arrangement of these options. Diversification Steps For diversifying, anyone may maintain these steps (Social Entrepreneurs 2007): Result Diversification can reduce as well as increase risks at any level of business Practical Diversification Question # 01 An innovation organization is growing rapidly. Because the company has reached its maximum potential in its current domain, the CEO wants to expand into new domains. The CEO wants to pursue diversification. What advice can the CEO give? Answer # 01 Background Although it is clear that the company has reached its maximum potential in its current domain, there is no assurance that the company will be successful in its new domains. Even new domains may not be successful as the key business and affect on the key business future achievement. It is not so easy to make right and fruitful decision in the initial stage of a business; even it is a new domain of a successful business. The CEO must be faced some difficult decision making and challenges. So, the CEO must be aware about the core decisions of new domain. Difficult Decisions to Expand the New Domain Organization design is a major task of managers (Simpson 1994). Some of the difficult design decisions
Currently, only the largest corporations in the United States provide their employees with the paid maternity leave and with the opportunities to use the proposed on-site child care. Furthermore, the cases of providing paternity leaves are still few in comparison with the situation in such European countries as Sweden, Germany, and Iceland, where the number of provided paternity leaves is almost equal to the number of maternity leaves (Shaw, 2013, p. 352). Challenges associated with maintaining the work-and-life balance are usually experienced by employees who have or plan to have children. As a result, these employees often face the necessity of choosing between the happiness of having a child and their career because of being deprived of opportunities to achieve the balance in planning their personal and professional life (Feierabend & Staffelbach, 2015; Shaw, 2013). From this point, it is necessary to discuss the approaches followed in the U.S. companies in order to guarantee the work-and-life balance for their employees in terms of proposing policies on the maternity leave and care for children. The Work-And-Life Balance The balance that is usually desired to be achieved by employees in the U.S. companies is associated with avoiding the necessity to choose between the family life and career progress. Thus, a young employee is oriented to have flexible work hours, he expects that the company can use the advantageous telecommuting systems, and he expects that the company will provide paid sick leaves even if the maternity leaves are not mentioned in the firm’s policy. In this case, it is possible to expect the ideal balance between the employee’s career and family life. However, only few large U.S. organizations and the minority of small businesses can provide an employee with conditions necessary for maintaining the desired work-and-life balance (Shaw, 2013, p. 351). As a result, it is possible to claim that the approaches followed by modern U.S. organizations cannot be discussed as appropriate to achieve the discussed balance, and they are not attractive for many employees who need to choose between their families and careers. The main reason is that modern corporations focus on increasing their employees’ productivity and decreasing the operations’ costs (Pyper, 2006; Shaw, 2013). As a consequence, companies are not interested in providing employees with flexible hours and paid long leaves. Employers are also not interested in spending costs on organizing on-site child care services or integrating innovative systems for communication with employees (Feierabend & Staffelbach, 20