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Kmart is a global shopping store that is considered one of the most popular and trusted brands in the United States, founded by Sebastian S. Kresge. Often referred to as K-Mart, it is the third-largest discount store behind Target and Wal-Mart. In efforts to remain competitive, it is vital to continue to work on its competitive strategy while placing emphasis on the needs of the business to improve its overall bottom line. Kmart claims (2012) “that their overall workforce is highly diverse and reflect the communities it serves and that thirty-two percent of its workforce represents multicultural minorities” (Sears Holding p. 1). Additionally, Kmart is patronized by multicultural shoppers, and Kmart believes (2012) that “multicultural shoppers in the United States represent 1.2 trillion dollars in joint purchasing power” (Sears Holding, p. 1). Customer service training that is delivered via a computer-based learning management system may provide Kmart with well-versed employees that understand how to deliver customer service, which then provides Kmart an advantage over competitors. Needs Analysis Kmart uses automation to maintain inventories, to process sales, lay-a-ways, returns, and to record employee time and attendance. Because employees are already familiar with computers, customer service training via the computer-based learning management system may be the optimal method for customer service training. Kmart’s primary objective is not only to retain its customer base but also to acquire new customers and increase its revenues. Kmart should not only continue to train employees to provide superior customer service as part of employee professional development but also improve the training to be self-paced, multi-leveled, and include incentives for completing different levels of training. Organizational Analysis Team Analysis Task Analysis Analyzing tasks is a critical part of an organization. This typically involves the break-down of the job duties and responsibilities as it relates to the policy and procedure and what is required to improve performance in efforts to gain better results. Kmart places a huge emphasis on customer service. There are various ways to improve customer service based on past and present data, growth, patterns, and feedback from customers. Kmart utilizes simulations and real-life scenarios via Webinar training for each employee. Customer service associate is one of the most important positions within Kmart. Because consumers are more likely to interact with customer service associates, this area is a critical piece to success in their role. Interaction can be over the phone or face to face. In order to be able to do this, one must be outgoing, pleasant, and friendly are some of the characteristics that Kmart desires individuals to possess, in addition to being personable as well as displaying good communication and listening skills. These skills are vital in any position within Kmart. Kmart takes steps to train and develop each associate, utilizing delivery methods that are beneficial to the prospective role. The ultimate goal is to develop associates who display
Introduction As seen in the article Diet for a Warmer Planet” by Julia Whitty, climate change and the global carbon footprint left by humanity has become a significant issue due to the adverse effects it has had on the planet’s ecosystem. Based on this Whitney indicates that change can be put into action on the individual level through resource consumption reduction which if done in sufficient numbers should lessen humanity’s carbon footprint and thus would help to resolve the current problem of adverse climate change. One problem that people tend to overlook in terms of wasteful resource utilization is the sheer amount of paper bills they receive in the mail on a yearly basis. Such a method of billing ultimately becomes wasteful due to the inherent costs related to printing, creating the paper and envelopes and having them delivered all of which utilize resources which would be better suited elsewhere. Cause and Effect The inherent cause of the problem is the fact that corporations are still under the assumption that people should receive paper billing instead of seeking an alternative solution to gain money from consumers for products sold or services rendered. The effect is that people are quite literally deluged by several envelopes on a monthly basis all of which tend to be utilized only once to pay a bill and then are subsequently tossed away. Research One alternative that some companies have attempted to utilize in order to limit wasteful resource spending has been to shift to a paperless billing system wherein bills are sent to a consumers email address instead of their physical address which helps to limit the amount of resources wasted in getting a bill to a customer. It must be noted though that not all customers have email address and as such this solution still lacks a degree of effectiveness. Proposed Plan for Resolving the Issue This paper proposes that communities should advocate with local companies to institute methods of paperless billing for people within the local community. This can come in the form of either sending the bill to a person’s email account, sending them a text message indicating the account number and the amount of money to be paid or even placing a call to individuals in order to inform them of when to make their payments. Cost and Benefit The cost of such a plan which involves companies having to hire more workers and put into place automatic billing systems to send emails and text bills is offset by the inherent benefits of reducing the sheer amount of paper used on a yearly basis by the company’s billing department. Not only would this method help to reduce carbon footpri
The book by Vedantam explores the peculiarities of people’s brain and the way they act. The author notes that a lot of features of character are determined by people’s unconscious minds. Individuals make decisions based on their unconsciousness, and these decisions shape numerous spheres of people’s life. Healthcare is one of the most important spheres where people’s behavior can have numerous outcomes. In the first place, the author explains the idea which is in the core of the system of healthcare. Thus, it is stated that people’s unconscious brain makes them save themselves as well as others (Vedantam, 2010). In other words, people long for saving somebody else, and this is one of the basic principles of healthcare in any society. Admittedly, healthcare is the sphere where people save other people’s lives. Importantly, a human’s life is highly valued. For me, it was sometimes a big question of why other people wanted to save lives. The author reveals a plausible explanation to that question. People simply need to feel they can save others. Perhaps, this helps them feel they are stronger than nature itself, or they simply feel they become more complete. It is also important that the author mentions an important principle. People are more eager to help those they know about. The example of saving a dog is very suggestive (Vedantam, 2010). This principle is important for healthcare as well. Thus, healthcare professionals are often blamed for being rather indifferent to patients’ personal needs, and they are often inconsiderate. It is noteworthy that those people are saving lives, and they have to focus on their fight against death so that they may be a bit indifferent. However, nurses can be more understanding and empathetic. This is quite easy as a person is eager to save somebody he/she knows well. I believe both the patient and the nurse have to be aware of this principle. They should move towards each other telling stories about themselves. They will be able to build trust. People unconscious mind makes people closer when they know each other. At the same time, it is clear that people are still hostages of certain prejudice. The author explains that people’s unconscious mind makes them behave in specific ways. Thus, a nurse can feel somewhat hostile to a patient who has a different cultural background or vice versa. People’s unconscious mind makes them divide everybody into groups and be hostile to some of these groups. Nevertheless, any hostility can be avoided or, at least, minimized if there is diversity among healthcare professionals. People having similar unconscious minds can be more trustful to each other. This principle should become one of the strategies in the development of the healthcare system. In conclusion, I would like to note that the book has helped me understand that there are some laws people can never break as this is their nature. Nonetheless, I believe it is possible to become a better person and build a better society if people are aware of those laws and principles. Unconscious mind shapes our behavior, but we can be ready to use this. I
Introduction Regulation of companies and businesses is necessary in any country to ensure that there is order in the formation, operation and termination of such companies. Just like any other country, Kuwait has Laws that regulate the companies in the country which is contained in different articles of the Kuwait Company Law Act. Kuwait allows different types of businesses among them being businesses With Limited Liability (WLL) and Kuwait Shareholding Companies (KSC). These companies are governed by different processes and procedures as per The Civil Code Law of 1980, The Commercial Companies Law of 1960 and The Commercial Code Law of 1981. The Commercial Law of Kuwait deals with all business activities ranging from contracts, trademarks, competition and bankruptcy among others. The basic Laws of operating a business in Kuwait are similar for all businesses where all Kuwaiti nationals are allowed to operate businesses as long as they are above the age of twenty-one years and are not legally restricted from operating the business. The rules however vary when it comes to foreigners where they are only allowed to operate their businesses in partnership with Kuwaiti citizens where such citizens own not less than fifty one percent of the total business capital. Foreign companies wishing to operate their businesses in the country are only allowed to do so through Kuwaiti agents and not under their own names or business branches. This means that foreign companies can only operate their businesses in Kuwait under Limited Liability, Closed or Public joint stock agreements, Joint Venture agreements or by appointing Local Commercial Agencies or individual Kuwaiti agents (Campbell & Netzer, 2009, pp. 274) Businesses with Limited Liability (WLL) With Limited Liability companies are also known as Limited Liability Companies and they provide limited liability to their owners who can be corporate bodies or natural persons as stipulated in the Company Law Act. Limited liability in this case means that the liability of the owners of the business is only applied to them depending on the level of equity or capital they have contributed to the company and cannot be extended to their personal property or capital. The amount of equity held by the company is contained in the Memorandum of Association and the company books. With Limited Liability companies have a restricted membership with the maximum being thirty people and the minimum being two people. In Kuwait, the husband and wife are considered as one person meaning that they cannot own a Limited Liability company on their own. WLL are not allowed to operate business relating to insurance, banking and management of portfolios. In order to form a WLL Company in Kuwait, the following procedures are followed: An application is made and presented to the Director of Companies and Insurance whose office lies under the Ministry of Commerce and Industry together with a standard form containing information such as the names
Nowadays, the integration of children whose native language is other than English is a common phenomenon at the majority of schools across the United States. Continuously increasing percentages of such students enrolled in US schools is one of the modern educational trends without regard to the location of the state. However, it is inseparable from one of the most significant challenges – the necessity to implement programs designed specifically for children who are not proficient in the English language to meet their educational needs and address the issues potentially related to increased language diversification. To cope with them, schools introduce bilingual and ESL programs, but they vary in types and effectiveness. Therefore, it is critical to select these programs based on the specificities of the student population. Before making recommendations regarding the implementation of a particular bilingual and ESL program in the school, it is essential to recall different types of these initiatives. They are divided into bilingual (early-exit, late-exit, and two-way) and ESL (pull-out, class period, and resource center) programs (Rennie, 1993). The early-exit bilingual program is based on the early transitioning to all-English in-class communication and instruction. In other words, the stress is laid on using the English language always when in class during early and middle-elementary grades (Fase, Jaspaert, & Kroon, 2013). Late-exit program is very similar to the one described above with the only difference – the transition to the English language is a more lengthy process that is completed when students are in the sixth grade (Scanlan & Lopez, 2015). Finally, the foundation of the two-way bilingual programs is striving to maintain the 50-50 balance between the majority and minority languages when explaining instructions and coping with in-class activities (Murphy, 2013; Rennie, 1993). As for ESL pull-out programs, they are based on pulling minority students out of the mainstream classroom to provide them with class instruction in English as a second language (Zacarian & Haynes, 2014). ESL resource center is closely connected to the traditional pull-out programs with the only difference – students from different classes are pulled together in one environment to receive instructions in English (Rennie, 1993). ESL class period is associated with instructing minority students in English regularly (Honigsfeld & Dove, 2012). In addition to bilingual and ESL programs, there are as well other initiatives designed for satisfying language diversity needs. They are divided into content-based programs based on the adaptation of English in response to the level of minority students’ proficiency accompanied by gestures and visual aids for enhancing the understanding of instructions when communicating during c
Introduction The 21st century has been characterized by an emphasis on democracy and an upholding of the principle of equality which holds that selection is on a basis of merit. Equality of opportunity has been pursued with the view of ensuring equal opportunity to all the members of the society. Despite this emphasis on equality, today’s world continues to be plagued by many social inequalities among people. Wilkinson (2005, p.51) suggests that social inequality is positively related to social vices such as homicide and racism and inevitably fosters social instability. With this recognition, many governments have sought ways to reduce social inequality in their respective countries. Many political systems have been formulated in a bid to overcome social inequalities with the aim being to eliminate social inequalities by distributing resources in an equitable manner among the members of the society. Considering the significance that the issue of social inequality holds for the well being of the society, it makes sense to explore the subject of social inequality and highlight its causes. This paper shall set out to report on Social Inequality: causes and consequences. This shall be in a bid to provide a better appreciation of the issue thereby leading to an enhanced understanding of social inequality and how it affects the society. Causes of Social Inequality While the 21 st century has witnessed an increase in the access to education for most people, education still remains to be a cause for inequality. This is because the quality of the education offered depends on the context of the school or class. The reason for this is that different schools will therefore offer different qualities of education for varied reasons. Duru-Bellat (2004, p.47) reveals that school have unequal effectiveness especially in countries where there is no minimum level of quality guaranteed. Another effect of education is that it influences a person’s social capital. Social capital is defined as “a person’s potential to activate and effectively mobilize a network of social connection on mutual recognition of proximity” (OECD, 2001, p.2). Social capital can be uses as private goods by an individual to achieve certain goals. An individual can use his/her accumulated social capital to from this social capital. This inequality is linked by social proximities where people cluster themselves into groups based on some common property. Careers and jobs have also become a source of status distinction among peop
In the production process, there can be a case when the demand of the product equals its supply. This market situation is called equilibrium, and it is considered a perfect condition of the intersection of demand and supply curves ( What are supply and demand curves? n.d.). Any change in supply or demand may lead to the new equilibrium price, and companies should think over their further actions ( Lesson summary: Market equilibrium, disequilibrium, and changes in equilibrium, n.d.). For example, unnecessary reductions in prices can lead to a profit decrease. Therefore, it is more appropriate to wait for the natural changes caused by external factors in the market to avoid a decrease in profit. At the same time, supply or demand may become dominant. In case of supply overweighs demand, a company may slow down the production process and lower the prices, which leads to an increase in customers’ purchases ( Supply and demand shocks, n.d.). In the opposite case, when a company cannot supply as many goods as buyers’ needs, the appropriate strategy is to raise the price to decrease the demand ( Reading: What is demand?, n.d.). Meanwhile, a company should find ways to boost its production to be able to provide the market with a sufficient amount of product. There are certain measures that a company can take to control its production. First of all, it is necessary to make sure that the product will be in demand in the market and that it will be sold. Secondly, a business owner needs to decide how much of the product it is possible to supply to the buyers. As price is one of the decisive factors in the company’s overall success, the business owner needs to determine it wisely to receive as much profit as possible. For example, companies producing high-demand products may raise their price (Dowell, n.d.). Such changes may be abrupt, and they can bring significant profit to the business owner. In conclusion, it is important to emphasize that reaching equilibrium is a complicated task that requires proper analysis and planning. A company may regulate its demand by raising or decreasing prices, conducting preliminary market analysis, or boosting production. However, taken at the wrong time, such measures may lead to negative changes. Therefore, it is important to think over these measures carefully and the current market situat
The study seeks to build on research on immigration-homicide relationship by using race and ethnicity disaggregated population data on homicide offending from California (Feldmeyer, 2009). Conclusions from previous research include the following results. First, the studies focus mostly on homicide victimization due to unavailability of data. Second, the research on this topic is scarce and involves data from one source. Third, the studies show that immigrant concentrations had negative effects on homicide victimization rates in totality, and lastly, the studies were ambiguous on homicide victimization on all the ethnic and racial groups. The main objective of this study was to extend research on previous studies to contribute empirically on the literature of immigration-homicide in four main ways. First, it could be done by focusing on homicide offending rather than on victimization. Secondly, it is possible to arbitrate on competing positions which include the effects of immigration on homicide whether it has race or ethnic-specific and neutral effects, and whether it is violence-reducing or violence-generating (Feldmeyer, 2009). Thirdly, it would be better to extend research on extant immigration-homicide by using census places as a new and untapped unit of ecological analysis. Lastly, to develop the research is possible by using data provided in the year 1999-2001 to reflect the association between homicide rates and contemporary immigration rates. The null hypothesis for the study was that there were no significant effects of immigration on Black and Latino homicide victimization
In economics and business researches, the price elasticity of demand (PED) is an elasticity that calculates the origin and extent of the relations between modifications in quantity commanded of a good and modifies in its price. The paper goes into solemn features into the techniques and outlines of multifaceted research of the response of the automobile market to alter in automobile production features, comprising produce price, cost of use, and presentation. For obvious causes, the details of this research are beyond the range of this paper. Rather, it is worked to condense the consequences of this paper to a more essential shape, so that the price elasticity of demand for the automobile can be researched. Reduced to the simplest form, there is the following: % change in demand = (a × P) + (b ÷ wgt) + (c × MPG ÷ (gas price)) + d where:   * P = price of the car   * wgt = weight of the car, in kg   * MPG = rated EPA fuel economy, in miles per gallon   * gas price = price of habitual gasoline Now, the coefficients for this equation are the purpose of the automobile model. Below are strictures for the Ford Escort and the Ford Taurus: Note: The takings terms used for deriving the over coefficients were $35,000 for the Escort and $60,000 for the Taurus: Equation Coefficients              a         b      c         d    Ford escort  -2.52E-4  889.2  0.0708    1.46 Ford Taurus  -1.06E-4  594.4  approx 0  1.69  The values of the various terms for the two vehicles are as follows: Baseline Assumptions for Terms              Price   Weight  MPG   Gas Price Ford escort  11,000  1050    25.0  4         Ford Taurus  20,000  1440    17.6  4          Note: The takings terms used for deriving the over coefficients were $35,000 for the Escort and $60,000 for the Taurus. If the Ford Motor Company desires to decrease its account and introduces sheer price reductions, it recovers sales on a provisional, not an enduring, basis. Customers, perceiving a barter, buy tomorrow’s requirements today. Sales, in effect, are stolen from the prospect. Sales get bigger and, then, in the next time phase, they fall lower trend. This fleeting auctions reply to a linked price refuse in an established production market is a short-run price elasticity which is required to be illustrious from the long-run price elastic retort of demand during the stage of market diffusion. The principle matter then is whether the flow in ostensible arranges and computers, statements tools, and semiconductors in the first two months of 2007 is a short run or a long run price elastic retort. If the automobile market is drenched, then it will establish to be a short-run price elastic answer. Sales will be a shape the future and transactions will fall underneath a slow general growth trend in pending districts. This will be a calamity for the production and high-tech stakeholders. Industry participants and investors have adap