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What is Boyer’s organizational objective for this change effort? Philip Boyer is the president and CEO of Celeritas, Inc. The primary organizational objective of Boyer is to re-organize the teamwork in the company to enhance revenues and growth. Celeritas, once being a leading company in the enterprise network optimization industry, faces the problem of a rapid loss of income and lowered growth. The company seems to have insufficient capacity to remain its competitiveness among other companies. It is also important to note that Celeritas, Inc. has entered a new sphere of cloud computing. Cloud computing is one of the most developing areas nowadays. It provides services for virtual storage of data that can be accessed by all members of the company easily and quickly. Celeritas, Inc. does not have good indices in this aspect too. Even more, it is the last among the six largest organizations that are engaged in the sphere. Consequently, Philip Boyer is not satisfied with such performance. CEO believes a company is facing problems such as low morale among employees, improper cooperation, and high turnover of employees. According to Boyer, these are the most urgent issues that should be addressed as soon as possible. However, the central aim of Philip Boyer is to promote the successful impetus for the company’s further growth in the industry. That is why Boyer invites the organizational consultant Carla Reese to work with his team of Senior Vice Presidents. The primary objective of Reese is to evaluate the situation within the team and promote any necessary changes. These changes should become a starting point for the company’s improvement. In contrast, what do you think should have been the organizational objective? In my opinion, Boyer’s intentions are positive for the company. He believes that there is a need to promote the teamwork on various levels of the enterprise. He tells Reese that he is ready to implement all necessary changes to create a good working environment. Nevertheless, I consider that Boyer’s plans for change should be broader. The first thing to evaluate is that Celeritas, Inc. has entered a new highly competitive sphere of cloud computing. It is stated that the company is the worst among other leaders in the area. Philip Boyer must conduct a profound analysis of the company’s potential competitiveness in the area. It is also necessary to find primary reasons for loss of growth. Boyer makes assumptions without any investigations of issues. Such an approach to defining objective is unacceptable for the successful development of the company. Thus, the initial organizational objectives should concern the examination of the current state of the business and the implementation of better strategic planning. Also, I find that Boyer should have shifted the priorities. He is eager to change work in the company as soon as possible to increase growth. The priority should be to implement a successful change management strategy with an emphasis on teamwork. Critique the performance of Boyer and Reese using the change management process model. Boyer and Reese fail t
Introduction Often connoting to proletarian struggle, a communist revolution was an active platform that brought about a paradigm shift from capitalism to socialism orientation in East Asia. Therefore, it is relevant to examine the events that were a catalyst for the communist revolution, which resulted in societal reconstruction and the remodeling of the ideological orientation. This reflective essay attempts to examine the historical significance of communist revolutions within East Asia, with reference to North Korea and China. In addition, the paper reassesses the outcomes as well as the content of these revolutions. Historical Significance of Communist Revolutions in China and North Korea North Korea and Chinese revolutions have inspired the desire for similar events in other societies that are considered backward. According to Ebrey and Walthall (2013), “Chinese revolution has shown the path for social construction, in its essence, throughout the world.” 1 Moreover, the successes of the Mao Tsetung-led revolution have resulted in the global acceptance of his thoughts and ideologies on social reconstruction. For instance, Mao’s ideologies motivated the Koreanization orientation characterized by progressive Marxist-Leninist principles. At the moment, it is difficult to mention communism while neglecting the consequences of the Chinese and North Korean communist revolutions. For instance, later revolutionary wars in Eastern Europe, Vietnam, and Cuba were inspired by the Marxist ideologies that were integrated into the communist revolutionary wars in East Asia. Thus, Kim Sung and Mao’s ideologies applied during the revolutionary wars in East Asia have become part of communist political systems across the globe as solutions aimed at rectifying the imbalances of class struggle. For instance, Mao and Sung developed the spheres of “philosophy, political economy, scientific socialism, proletarian tactics, party organization, military science, and Herculean in efforts to create the new communist man.” 2 At present, individuals and communities who subscribe to the thoughts of socialism often find solace in the ideas that propelled and ignited communist revolutions in East Asia. Furthermore, the successes and challenges of communist revolutions in North Korea and China have led to the emergence of empiricist and scientific formations that were created with the aim of explaining problems and solutions in the society from a socio-economic development precept. Communist revolutions in East Asia were inspired by the need to counter revisionism. Therefore, without a desire for societal reconstruction from revisionism, it is possible to state that a communist revolution would not have brought a lot of positive results. In fact, if the desire to fight revisionism was not present, the reconstruction of Chinese and North Korean societies in the hands of socialists such as Mao and Sung would have lasted for less than a decade. Thus, the East Asian struggle to erase revisionism and their success through communist revolutions have
Introduction In the following paper, I have my purpose to discuss the issues related to the Kissimmee watershed in Orange County, Florida. The major inhabited localities served by the watershed are Orlando, St. Cloud, Kissimmee, Sebring, Lake Placid, Venus, Palmdale Lake Wales, Avon Park, and the Seminole Brighton Indian Reservation. Generally, the Kissimmee watershed has no momentous environmental problems; however, it does face certain difficulties in that area resulting from canalizing the Kissimmee River realized in the 1940s. Main body The Kissimmee Watershed is controlled by the following government agencies: US Army Corps of Engineers, the Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission, Water Management Districts, US Fish & Wildlife Service, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection and the Citizens of Florida. These agencies exercise their control over the use of water resources, their distribution and protective measures in order to guarantee good quality of water delivered to the consumers. When it comes to the watershed pollution threats including discharge permits issued, it is evident that there exist certain problems in this area. The main reason of these problems is the canalization of the Kissimmee River which was organized after the serious floods in the 1940s by the US government. Despite the fact that the government was guided by good intentions the results of this canalization appeared to be sad: there occurred drastic transformations in the ecosystem and wildlife. Thus, there exist certain problems with the quality of water in the river (Cunningham 59). The most significant of these problems are connected to the excess of the grade of concentration of Chlorophyll-A, Fecal Coliform, Dissolved Oxygen, Nitrogen, Phosphorus, Copper, Mercury and Benthic Macroinvertebrates Bioassessments. However, regular measures are exercised in order to diminish and cut this harm to a minimum. The other reason for such pollution problems is in the expansion of agriculture and the use of harmful chemical joints in it. Speaking about the citizen-based groups at work in this watershed, it should be mentioned that they are many. They include the Okeechobee Soil and Water Conservation District, United Waterfowlers – Florida, Inc., Polk County Natural Resources, City Of Orlando – Florida Lake watch, Lake Okeechobee Lakewatch Rainfall Monitoring Program, Highlands County Lakes Association, Evergladesvillage.Net, Eagle Eye Incorporated – Walker Memorial Junior Academy, Adopt-A-Lake, Friends of the Wekiva Inc, and South Florida Ecosystem Resto
Introduction Ethics is an issue that pervades making of decision in all sectors of business whether finance, production, marketing, or distribution. Customer relation too is affected by ethical issues in an organisation. Institutions use strategic planning to focus on significant issues that they whish to accomplish in the future. These could be short term or long term. Good management based on ethical standards is essential for perfect running of businesses. Failure to do this leads to clashes with consumers and regulatory watchdogs in the industry. There is also negative publicity from other stakeholders. It is therefore important for businesses to develop management systems that obey ethical standard (Dale, 2003, p. 157). Business ethics entails determining business moves that are right or wrong and freely choosing to opt for the right one(s). This normally presents a challenge since business decisions are normally not a clear white or black situation like, ‘should people steal?’ Decisions sometimes involve unclear circumstances that are not quite defined (Patricia, 2004, p.77). Critical thinking is therefore necessary in concluding whether decision made are ethical or obey the moral standards that are acceptable in business. This could be in technology where it may be questionable whether certain technological advancements are ethical or not. Critical thinking about ethics in electronic surveillance Electronic surveillance is one area in which technology has developed significantly over the years. This has been incorporated in business for various reasons such as for security purposes and monitoring of employees’ behavior in work settings. Examples of areas in which electronic surveillance is used include airport scanners that use “backscatter technology” for imaging producing images that see through clothes and show body contours. The Japanese National Police Agency employ a face recognition software which identifies criminals from a database of previously captured images on surveillance video. In Canada a researcher developed a portable system which tracks people’s eye movements while viewing billboards, televisions, and generally electronic screens. There are casinos in Macau that use face the recognition software to identify people who cheat in games. In the above cases, critical thinking about moral issues relating to privacy, laws and security is of significance in decision making. It entails weighing of the pros and cons of using the devices in the context in which they are used. On the beneficial side, the devices are entirely used for security purposes. Questions of privacy and self worth however are come into limelight on moral ethical grounds. In airports, the threat of terrorism has made security personnel to be more vigilant in exercising their duties and that is inclusive of body searches. The attempt bombing of a plane in Detroit over last year’s charismas eve is an ideal example of the reality the threat. To guarantee the safety of airline passenge
Introduction The relationship between doctors and pharmaceutical industries is prone to conflicts. An analysis of their relationship reveals that doctors are likely to compromise ethics in their profession because of being influence by pharmaceutical companies. Influence of Doctors by Pharmaceutical Industry According to Paul A. Komesaroff, a director and Ethics Convener at the Royal Australasian College of Physicians and Ian H. Kerridge, who is a lecturer in Clinical Ethics, there is a great concern that doctors and pharmaceutical industry may experience conflicts because of common interests. They both work to help the patients in recovery from sickness. Doctors are more concerned with patient’s welfare while pharmaceutical industry is more concerned with making money from manufacturing of drugs. Pharmaceutical companies depend on doctors to make sales of their drugs by frequent prescriptions of their drugs to the patients (Komesaroff & Kerridge, 2002). According to Nancy Crigger and William Jewell from College Hill Department of Nursing USA, there are two disadvantages of advertising pharmaceutical drugs: “It influences health care abilities to make decisions in patient’s best interests and may result in compromised patient care; secondly, trust in health care professionals may be eroded” (Crigger et al. , 2009, p. 647). This means that the doctors may make a given prescriptions to their patients so as to maintain the relationship with the pharmaceutical companies and this is quite unethical. The influence can be caused by mutual relationship the doctor might be having with the pharmaceutical company, the benefits from the company or the prices of the company’s drugs. Causes of such Influence Most pharmaceutical companies support financially the development of new drugs and clinical research. Millions of dollars are used in such a manner by the pharmaceutical companies. This may cause an influence to the doctors to use the company’s drugs which support research (Komesaroff & Kerridge, 2002). The more a doctor gets pharmaceutical representatives the more he/she is likely to have more of their drugs than from other companies who have no drug promotions (Komesaroff & Kerridge, 2002). US research have shown that pharmaceutical companies spend about US$3 billion to advertise and about US$5 billion to pay sales representatives (Komesaroff & Kerridge, 2002). The act of giving gifts such as books to medical students and interns is another cause of influence as they may have to use what they have been given. They get used to a particular pharmace
Analyze in detail the different aspects of the family dynamics challenge in the Izat Raja family. Provide specific examples to illustrate the relationships between various members of the family As well as every family that sets up a business, Izat Raja’s family had to face a series of family dynamics challenges. First of all, one might point out the problem of the family emotional intelligence that the Izat Raja experienced at a certain point. Whereas the man showed high emotional intelligence capacity in his relations with Waleed, he proved to be relatively incompetent in managing his family feelings towards his son. Moreover, decision making became rather ineffective when Izat made up his mind to employ his old friend, Rizvi. In this case, he made critical mistakes performing the wrong evaluation of the family needs and the reinvestment for growth (Poza, 2009). In addition, the principal challenge that Izat faced was that his entrepreneurship was not initially a family business. In the beginning, he did not have any relatives that could assist him in policy-making, which influenced his managerial manner as he got used to relying on his abilities. Relying on the boundary theory, analyze in detail how Raja Garage Ltd. manages its family – business identities, and identify the type of family business Raja Garage Ltd is In the framework of the boundary theory, Izat Raja’s family business can be referred to as the type with integrated family business identities. In other words, contractual governance is mainly substituted by relational governance (Poza, 2009). In the meantime, it is critical to note that the only reason why Izat Raja’s business ca
Introduction Monsters have gone a long journey in literature, have become more complex, and finding new ways of scaring readers out of their wits. However, a substantial number of these antagonists borrow from their predecessors, the case of the Other Mother from “Coraline” as the logical evolution of Count Orlok from “Nosferatu” being the case in point. Both Count Orlok and Other Mother act as prime antagonists to the story. The main feature that makes them both scary is how they assimilate to the people around them. Both Count Orlok and the Other Mother possess the ability to mimic normal people but still are have more powers than these people, yet the disturbing relatability of Beldam’s motives and the terrifying goal of haunting the spirits of her victims makes the Other Mother a far more terrifying creature. Main body Orlok posses as a nobleman, so Hutter is not even suspicious in the first place. Only when he reads the Book of Vampires he starts to suspect Orlok was a vampire. This ability to blend with regular people is what makes the monsters terrifying in the first place. The Other Mother tricks children into making bargains in which they put their soul at stake, which is quite similar to the idea of a deal with a devil. The victim of Beldam that Coraline encounters points to the Other Mother’s power to possess souls quite unambiguously: “Flee, while there’s still air in your lungs and blood in your veins… flee while you still have your mind and your soul” (87). In addition, the difference in the ultimate goals of each character sets them miles apart from each other. Count Orlok is frightening in his insatiable lust for blood, yet the fact that the Other Mother selects specifically children as her target makes her character much more insipid and terrifying. Therefore, as the main antagonist, the Other Mother seems far more sinister and frightening than Count Orlok. Where Orlok represents an evil but blind force, the Other Mother is cunning and calculating in her pursuit of children’s souls. It should also be borne in mind that Count Orlok also does not have the benefit of being a relatively new character such as the Other Mother. Having been a long-established character in the pantheon of literature monsters, he has lost the sense of unpredictability and the unknown threat. Nonetheless, Count Orlok still remains a scary entity due to the The end goal of each character also separates Count Orlok from the Other Mother, making the former surprisingly less petrifying. Count Orlok’s ultimate objective is disgusting to an average reader, yet the concept of vampirism in its basic representation of drinking a victim’s blo
Generally, there are two distinct ways in which students can use a computer and their applications in the classroom. They can either learn from computers or learn with computers. Learning from computers is the idea of using special-purpose applications to enhance learning. The most commonly used applications are spreadsheets, databases, and word processing applications. In addition to the database, spreadsheet, and office automation applications, various other special-purpose applications can exist in a school district. They include computer-based instruction programs, computer-assisted instruction, and an integrated learning system. These programs play a very important role in bringing understanding of topics and concepts that are otherwise hard for students to grasp (Anderson, 2003). They also can be used by the students to do personal studies and the introduction of new topics in class. The integrated learning system is a software program that serves the purpose of delivering content material during instruction. It requires special hardware for its functioning and these hardware programs are usually very expensive but worth it in the end. It guarantees success but after a long period of exposure to the students. It also requires special training for its installation, operation, and maintenance. Therefore within a school, the teachers are required to familiarize themselves with the software especially mathematics, science, and language teachers. This is because the software focuses basically on teaching the basics of learning such as numeracy and literacy skills. Despite this, the software could be used regardless of the absence of the subject instructor. This means that there can be a special expert in the school who is trained to operate the program. The software also contributes to effective management and administration of the academic work in the school. It has an integrated assessment and evaluation system which can make it easy for the administration to be able to note progress with individual students. To develop the application it requires a collective effort from parties that need to be involved. Teachers of course play the role of providing the content to be used in the application and then it becomes the duty of software developers to come up with the complete software that suits the need of the school administration and the students. These applications are important in completing administrative duties within a school. They play a big role in the decision-making process since they make it easier for data to be analyzed. The use of spreadsheets in the administration of a school for instance helps in the organization of records such as financial records, and fee statements of the students. From such a data presentation, a decision can easily be made by the administration on a means to make t