ShantanuT01/DACTYL-Pretraining huggingface dataset:
Introduction As a human resource manager, I am faced with a lot of management challenges. These challenges include resource mismanagement, time mismanagement, and staff management among others. As the manager, I have to tackle each challenge skillfully to avoid negative effects to the company. Proper management is the key to success in any company. Management of available resources and time has positive results. This is important to ensure achievement of company’s mission and vision. This paper will look at the challenges facing the management such as resource mismanagement and time mismanagement. It will also focus on the causes of these challenges and how to tackle them. Mismanagement of Resources Mismanagement of resources is one big problem that I have been facing in my company. In every business there is need to manage the available resources to avoid incurring losses or collapse of the business. Employees tend to mismanage the resources allocated to them for different tasks that will not benefit the company. They tend to use the money for their gains leaving the company needs unattended. This may lead to a company losing its resources. As the manager, to avoid and eliminate this problem in the company I have emphasized the need to always account for the resources allocated to employees. Use of receipts and invoices for all transactions made is crucial to ensure money is not lost. I also suggest buying of an accounting soft ware that will give reports on how money has been spent. All employees should be trained on the importance of accounting for cash flow in the company (Ireland, Hitt and Hoskisson, 2005). Employees have talents that are important resource in the company. Management of talents in a company is also important for the firm’s success. It is the responsibility of the manager to ensure the talents in a company are well managed and used maximally for the good of the company. This ensures specialization of employees to the duties they are well at and this result in high level productivity. All employees have different talents, which are important for the success of the company. Specialization and division of labor ensures that the talents are well managed for they are important resources in a company. Mismanagement of this talents lead to lack of high quality services and products thus a company does not succeed in a competitive market (Ireland, Hitt and Hoskisson, 2005). Time Mismanagement Time management is an important aspect for a company to succeed. This has been a problem in my company where employees do not commit themselves during the working hours and so many tasks are kept pending. For a company to succeed, time is an important resource that needs to be managed properly. Time should be used properly for productivity. It is one of the resources that once lost cannot be recovered thus th
I believe that everybody can be happy. I do not mean that I blame people who are unhappy for their unhappiness. However, I do blame myself if I am unhappy. I know that I can choose to be happy. Not everybody knows this. You have to know that you control how you feel and how you react to everything around you to be in control. It is like the rules about sin in the Catholic Church. To sin, you have to know that what you do is a sin. You have to do it willingly and it has to actually be a sin. So, kicking dirt on the sidewalk will never actually be a sin. But happiness is even more under your control because it is you that decides what makes you happy. What makes you happy is the first thing you have to find out. If you do not know what will make you happy then you can never have it. It is a value system and you decide what is valuable. Now it would be silly or stupid to pick something that you can never have or never do or never be to make you happy. Maybe that would mean that you like being unhappy. There are people like that. Now another important thing is how you take things that happen. I was told as a young child to control how I express my emotions, especially anger. I was taught that I should positively express my anger. I was never much good at that. But nobody told me that I could choose how to feel. I do not mean that I never get angry or never get sad. I just do not stay that way. I make sure that I look at it and decide it is not worth being sad or angry about. It was one thing that happened that changed me, and I will never forget it. I had a really good friend who had a really nice mp3 player. I could not afford one. I was much younger then and MP3 players were very expensive. My friend left it at my house and I did not call and tell him he left it. In fact, when he asked I lied and said I had not seen it. The next week he had another one, but not as nice to replace it. I wanted to tell him he left his at my house, but I just couldn’t. I would listen to it at night and never say anything about it. I was ashamed and worried that he would know I took it. I started to avoid him because I felt so guilty. Finally, after school one day, I ran up and I gave it back and told him what I did. He said I could have it. I said no I could not take it. Then he said that I must have wanted it very very much to have done that, and it never made him that happy, so I should have it. I asked him why he was not even angry, and I learned from him that people, especially friends and family really do not want to hurt each other. They are just reacting to their own pain or need. He said he talked to his Dad, who is a counselor, and he said that I felt bad, because I did not have enough money to buy the MP3 player. If I felt so bad that I would take it and hurt my friend, then I must feel really bad. So he said he could not be hurt when I never intended to hurt him. The player really was not important to him, and he really was glad when I tried to give it back because we co
Introduction While working for a company or organization, it is essential for all people to know their rights and especially status as it influences wages and other important aspects of the job. When Uber and Lyft, two major ridesharing companies, characterized their drivers not as employees but as independent contractors, the drivers started arguing that they are, in fact, employees. The purpose of this paper is to explain the difference between an independent contractor and employee and list the factors that determine whether an individual is one or the other. Also, the possible reasons why the drivers want to be characterized as employees will be provided. Differences Between Employees and Independent Contractors There is a list of differences that helps to determine whether a person is an independent contractor or an employee. The first one is that independent contractors are like business owners. They may have many clients and a business name, while employees work for a company and have to report to their chief. The second difference is that independent contractors submit bills for their work instead of working for a certain wage. Another factor is that independent contractors, unlike employees, are the ones who determine their working hours. Also, a manager or a client cannot influence the way independent contractors work and treat them as employees. Another important difference is that the organization pays taxes for its employees, while the independent contractors have to do it themselves. Finally, it is financially profitable for the organization to hire an independent contractor as it does not need to provide benefits like retirement plans, stock options, and health insurance. Also, while employees get some legal protections like workers’ compensation, anti-discrimination, and unemployment, independent contractors may just have some have basic insurance requirements. Factors That Determine Worker’s Status In order to
Rheumatoid Arthritis is considered to be a chronic disorder resulting in inflammation and possible destruction of such organs as skin and lungs. This disease leads to a completely disabling and painful state; it can be the reason for the complete loss of mobility. It is a progressive disease and can lead to serious consequences such as joint destruction and complete disability. It is considered to be a chronic disorder and its causes and symptoms have been thoroughly tested throughout whole its history. Rheumatoid Arthritis begins to progress in the following three stages:   * Synovial lining swelling (it usually causes warmth and sharp pain, redness and joint swelling);   * Cells growth (this stage usually leads to the thickening of the synovium and cells division);   * The release of enzymes by the inflamed cells. This stage is the most dangerous while it results in the joint’s loss of shape, causes more pain, and can lead to complete disability to move. Rheumatoid Arthritis is also a systemic disease and it means that it can easily damage all other human organs. In some cases, chronic inflammation ca
Introduction Humanity structure has changed in the most geographical location of the world. People have been intermingling over time for various reasons. Most of them are to sustain their livelihood. Movements of people from one location to another have never stopped and by now the world has seen different cultures of people, all originating from totally different ethnic groups of humanity. It is because of these particular migratory behaviors and their positive impact on the aboriginal societies that prompt this paper to explain the multicultural matrix in the United States of America and its importance. Provide new techniques Working technicality is a mandatory requirement the human race should have. People in a society are very important in that they provide this kind of technicality to accomplish particular complex and sensitive tasks. In the United States of America, immigrants from all over the world played a significant role in providing intellectual techniques in many activities. Simpson, 2000 expresses that Chilean expertise came to California to mine gold rush. They had the perfect techniques to do the work. Also, Japanese experts that introduced a complex form of irrigation for fruits and other horticultural crops that helped to increase foo
Like many other countries around the globe, Vietnam has in recent years integrated with the global economic infrastructure on an increasing scale. Being a regional neighbor and a country that shares many similarities with Vietnam, including geography, culture, among other aspects, South Korea has become a strategic economic partner of Vietnam. The strategic economical capacity of South Korea to Vietnam has especially been helpful because of her ties with major global economies like the United States. In this sense, it is possible for Vietnam to Integrate with other economies through South Korea. Still, a range of parameters including South Koreas’ policies and interests, among others, have also encouraged the establishment of economic and trade relations between South Korea and Vietnam. These two countries (Vietnam and South Korea) therefore complement each other in many ways, even as they continually build increasing economic and trade relations. The complementarities between South Korea and Vietnam have helped these two countries to boost trade relations; which have grown significantly over the years. Complementarities between South Korea and Vietnam can be seen in the analysis of their history, their geographical location, policy interests among other areas. These complementarities have even been galvanized further by the entry of Vietnam into the ASEAN regional trading block and the WTO. Background Information Many economies in the Asian region have been continually soaring over the past years (Achsani 3). Countries like South Korea, China and Malaysia among others have drawn economic benefits, as their economies have adapted the concept of an open economy (Achsani 3). The so-called Asian tigers have therefore emerged from expanding economies that have been propelled by external investments and therefore, an increase in their capacities to export (Yul 81). As South Korea and other Asian economies have been benefiting from foreign investments, communist policies in Vietnam, which have existed until the 90’s, and the embargo of western powers like the United States in the same period, have seen the Vietnamese economy lag (Yul 81). With the 1990’s policy reforms however, Vietnam embarked on a process of integrating with other world economies as its economy opened up to foreign investments (Yul 81). Policy changes that are favorable for economic growth and foreign investments have facilitated Vietnam’s economic integration with its regional neighbors and the global economy in general. A trend that has been growing over the years has been an integration of regional economies through trade agreements among other policies that have been precisely designed to bring benefits to economies bound by such agreements (Achsani 2). There has been the European Union, the ASEAN, and ECOWAS
Introduction A number of issues can be blamed for deteriorated system safety, including methods of construction, the procedures employed for managing safety, and conditions such as weather, as well as site-based conditions (Seo and Hyun, 2008). Harold and Moriarty note that system safety involves the application of managerial and technical skills into the system to achieve such safety (1990). The nature of hazards and severity depends with the type of the project. For instance, one of the most hazardous categories is the construction industry (Sai, Chun and Vivian, 2010). According to the authors, FMEA (“Failure Modes and Effects Analysis) can be utilized in the industry for the purpose of identifying “potential failure modes, and their causes and effects” on the performance of the system in engineering management (Sai, Chun and Vivian, 2010). Another method that can be helpful in construction is TOPSIS for safety evaluation (Liaudanskiene, Leonas and Aleksejus, 2009) It is an approach to risk management that seeks to identify hazards, analyze them and apply remedial controls in managing them in a system based model. System based approach to a problem or weakness benefits from synergic advantage which presumes that a whole is more than the sum of its parts. As such, interaction among sub-systems, inputs, human factor and the operational environment must be based on secure integration and coexistence. Systems must be developed in ways that they risks – both predictable and unforeseen can be managed in time to prevent bodily harm and loss of resources. This paper discusses the issue of hazards and how it can be analyzed. In analyzing, the paper considers the causes of hazards, the severity of them, as well as the likelihood of their occurrence. Research Questions   * What are the causes of hazards in the industry?   * How can the likelihood of occurrence of and the severity of hazards be assessed and determined? Background Evolution of troublesome situation as a result of complex systems that are either difficult or impossible to handle by man has necessitated the application of ideologies of system safety (Rasmussen, Pejtersen, & Goodstein, 1994). It is important to make sure that there is dependability for systems so as to be able to deliver services reliably (Avizienis et al. 2004; cited in Uzunov and Thong, 2008). In addition, there is need for systems to incorporate issues of security, safety as well As be real-time in nature (Uzunov and Thong, 2008). System comprises of a number of components that work in a coordinated fashion to achieve a common identified goal. Interaction of system’s components goes beyond their interaction to include its operational environment and human factor according to NASA. A system takes in demand/input process them and final
Introduction For the majority of human history, the approach towards the relationship between Humanity and Nature was perceived through the lens of binary interactions. Each was viewed as an independent entity, and many historical texts and analyses perceived either one without considering the other, and completely ignoring the connection between them. Moore identifies it as the Cartesian Dualism Model, where nature is perceived as a set of objects and resources to be used by society (Moore, 2015a: 34). This kind of view works very well in a capitalist model of the world economy, as capitalism is largely based around extracting resources and accumulation of wealth. As Moore stated in “The Four Cheap’s,” capitalism derives profit from getting one or more of these for free – be that either labor or resources (Moore, 2015b: 110). Expropriation of nature without any thought of restoring or spending it sparingly is the face of modern global capitalism nowadays. It brought upon many crises, ranging from global warming to inevitable dwindling of crucial resources like oil and drinking water (Klare, 2012: 21). Deforestation, pollution, corruption of the environment – these are not only the traits of the existence of the human race but also traits brought upon by the emergence of capitalism (Moore, 2015c: 175). The purpose of this paper is to perceive historical change through the lens of these four realms: Nature, Technology, Capitalism, and Society, to outline and understand interactions between them and understand the nature of the crises occurring on Earth today. NATURE AS A WEB OF LIFE Criticism of the Cartesian Dualism Model and the formation of new Green Thought began in the 1970s, with political ecology, ecological economics, systems ecology, resource conservation, and other concepts starting to appear and playing a bigger role in our society (Moore, 2015a: 34). The emergence of the new concept called the Oikeios. This framework describes nature
Introduction The consumer protection policy refers to the stipulated mechanism which gives the consumer the freedom to shop and enjoy various products within their establishments. For instance, the European Union (EU) policy and regulation offers freedom to customers or consumers linked to the European Community to operate freely and shop anywhere and to enjoy protection and price advantage and the supply of quality goods to them. Vulnerable consumers refer to those that are exposed to unfair pricing systems, low quality products, limited consumer rights, inadequate access to information and the repression of speech. Vulnerable consumers may include normal buyers, organizations or individuals who are exposed to unfair consumer practices from the supplier, dealers, government or the representative unions. According to the Consumer Protection Strategy of 2007 to 2013, the primary role of consumer protection is to enhance equal classes of protection and security within the EU. It also facilitates a rich integrated domestic market. According to the EU, the objective of a good customer protection approach includes the ability to empower the consumer through the creation of a transparent market which can supply the consumer with a wide spectrum of options in terms of quality of prices of commodities. It is also the objective of the policy to safeguard the consumer from all risks and threats. The Consumer Policy Strategy focuses on different priority areas that include favorable consumer protection policy, fair oversight of consumer market and state consumer policies, facilitating consumer policy through the establishment of market regulation tools and placing of customers at the helm of other EU policies. The strategic policy is expected to inform and educate the consumers thro
A product of justifications stemming from the Cold War and anti-communism sentiments, the Vietnam War became the benchmark by which American military limitations can be measured. All military conflicts are costly. Most importantly, lives are lost and of those who survive, many are forever altered physically, mentally and emotionally. Great amounts of money are spent on military actions which accrue a debt that must be paid over time, sometimes over many generations. The National Debt rises which acts a as drain on the economy and takes away monies that could have been spent on domestic endeavors. The U.S., because of its involvement in ‘nation building’ that began in Korea and continued during the Vietnam era and is in full effect today, has lost political credibility throughout the international community. The most evident and memorable political fallout during the Vietnam War was student protestors who, through great sacrifice and courage, were instrumental in ending U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia. The hard lesson learned, seemingly, from America’s involvement in Vietnam was that possessing an overwhelming military force does not guarantee victory. Though three million enemies were killed compared to 58,000 on the American side, the ‘big dog’ in the fight eventually had to run home with its tail between its legs, beaten and humiliated. Thanks to the unprecedented media covering the truth of the war, the U.S. rapidly lost credibility worldwide including within the borders of its own country. Support for Nixon’s Vietnam policy dropped sharply in 1970 when he authorized the bombing of enemy strongholds in neighboring Laos and Cambodia. This did disrupt communist supply lines but was seen as a broadening of a war that was growing increasingly unpopular (Robinson, 2007). The extensive bombing campaigns and numerous offensives caused massive amounts of destruction on the Vietnamese and their property which only served to alienate the indigenous community. It galvanized the enemy and opponents of the war in both Vietnam and America and led many to question the ethics of the campaigns (Olney, 1990: 80-85). The limitations of Ame