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The more companies develop and become successful the complex their operations and virtual organizations become. The interconnectedness of these organizations promotes success in a company; in contrast, it may result in delays and discontent hence lack of successes in the hierarchical components that work together to achieve a common objective. Success factors are the inputs to the control system that contribute explicitly or ultimately to the company’s triumph. In the present multicultural society and consumer-focused approach to business, it would be required to make the matrix form effective. These factors comprise of the leader, the team, the nature of the project being undertaken, the organization involved, and the external surrounding, including the administrative and socioeconomic conditions influencing their activities. It is necessary to determine what the administration deems as ‘successes’ before embarking on any objective-setting (Daughtrey, 2001 pp. 27). A leader takes part in instinctively influencing the success of a group and works closely with the workforce. There will be alterations in an organization when a leader is brave and skillful enough to grasp dealing opportunities, which can advance the functioning of the group. With appropriate knowledge, all the factors of performance will be easily administered. A manager who integrates all the multicultural outlooks and ideologies of workers and customers will effectively bring prosperity to the organization. The workers are thus able to find pleasure in performing duties that they do not want (Adair, 2009, pp. 56). In order to increase efficiency and monetary success, leaders must adopt these characteristics in order to create individuals and recognize profits. Martin Luther king is one of these leaders who received praise for his leadership qualities, and the population felt that they contributed to the success. Mahatma Gandhi is another example of a leader whose actions spoke louder than words. The leader must ensure that the dexterity and competencies of each worker are recognized to guarantee appropriate distribution of errands. This promotes reciprocated approval and esteem of the group dynamics involved in the supervision process. It is necessary to employ proficient talents with assorted specialties to achieve different viewpoints. This secures the effectiveness of employees even if the head is not nearby. The employees must be allowed to have a complete understanding of the operations of the business (Jackson & Madsen, 2005). This creates confidence among the staff and the leaders and upholds the input of the workforce in channeling decisions. Strategies to ensure continued success of the organization, for example, documenting measures, are necessary; hence endorsement or discharge of any employee does not shape the implementation of the group’s activities. List of References Adair, J 2007, develop your leadership skills , Philad
The problem of slavery in the United States is a complex set of socio-economic, socio-political, civil-legal, racial issues, the roots of which go deep into American history. The video published by Annenberg Learner (2019) describes the confrontation development between the North and the South, investigating the human side of historical changes. The main points highlighted in the lecture are focused on the socio-economic differences between the two systems, the actual life of slaves, and methods of blacks’ rebellion. To begin with, it is worth noting that the two regions constituting a union, in fact, were not that culturally and ideologically different. The American society of the 1860s remained, with scarce exceptions, deeply racist. The North, in this respect, perhaps even ahead of the South, where whites at least did not shy away from living with their black slaves under the same roof. Slavery in the North was abolished not for religious and moral, but for economic reasons. Because of the climate, such labor-intensive sectors of agriculture as rice growing, cotton growing, tobacco growing, where slave labor had the most significant effect, simply did not develop. The way the slaves’ liberation was carried out says a lot about the northern society, the degree of its infection with xenophobia. Moreover, the North and the South shared economic interests since both aspired to develop western territories, the construction of railways. The South also used northern ships to conquer new markets. However, as pointed out in the video, the Northerners did criticize southern slavery for its cruelty and barbarism, depicting horrifying stories of black people suffering from the rules of institutions in which they found themselves, at the same time having the same desires and dreams as other Americans. Furthermore, the second point concerns the life of slaves and how it used to be perceived in the South as opposed to the ideas shared in the North in this regard. Southerners justified the slavery system primarily by claiming that blacks were much happier and safer. Moreover, the slave owners ridiculed and condemned the capitalist way of life of the northerners, considering a free worker much more powerless than the people of color. The main argument in favor of this position was that slaves free
Introduction “Advocacy is the heart and soul of nursing,” ( Wood 2010, p. 5). This statement was advanced by the director of practice in Texas Nurses Association to highlight the importance of advocacy in nursing. Today, nurses practice advocacy at different levels of specialization. Indeed, Wood (2010) explains that, “Whether calling attention to a potential medication error, helping the rest of the health care team to hear a patient’s voice or shaping policy by speaking from first-hand experience, advocating for patients comes naturally to today’s nurses” (p. 5). Indeed, almost as a natural instinct for nurses, they have improved their patient’s welfare and improved the profile of the profession through advocacy and its antecedents. By emphasizing the relationship between advocacy and patient autonomy, this paper discusses advocacy as part of the nursing role. This analysis is used as a background understanding of the continuum of advocacy (within the confines of the nursing practice) and the limitations, advantages and opportunities that exist for advocacy. Further emphasis is given to explain the actual and potential costs of advocacy on personal and professional levels. These analyses will be undertaken within the Australian context and therefore, the guidance provided by the ANMC (regarding advocacy in the nursing practice) will be explored. Finally, the relationship between advocacy and the law will be established. Relationship between Advocacy and Patient Autonomy There is a potential conflict between patient autonomy and advocacy. Boundary violations and boundary crossings are just a few examples of possible conflicts that define the relationship between advocacy and patient autonomy. For example, nurses may become too involved in a patient’s personal life, thereby brewing conflict in the profession. Such circumstances may prompt nurses to make decisions for the patient, thereby infringing on a patient’s right to autonomy. Negarandeh (2006) explains that, ideally, nurses need to protect patients’ right to autonomy and refrain from infringing on the same. However, the overwhelming and intimidating atmosphere in the healthcare environment often prevents the realization of ideal outcomes from patient-nurse relationships. Through advocacy, nurses are required to be their patients’ advocate by helping them do what they are unable to do (Hyland 2002). For example, patients may have the knowledge and ability to make their decisions but they may not know how to navigate the fragmented nature of healthcare systems. Advocates are required to help them in this regard. The main role of the advocate is therefore to ensure that holistic care is given to the patient by ensuring that the patient gets the right level of care, in the right environment, and at the right time (Funnell 2008, p. 35). The boundaries to be observed between patient autonomy and advocacy can be defined by the core competencies and responsibilities expected of advocates. The role of advocates should always be to educate the clients, provide them with emotional support, provide them with language translation services (whe
Introduction The article under consideration is “Editorial: Gendering change: The next step” written by Benschop, Y., Mills, J. H., Mills, A., and Tienari, J. in 2012 and presented in the Gender, Work and Organization magazine. The world has already entered the era of gender equality and balance and continues to go ahead reaching the aim of living in the biased free society. Still, the situations of the gender discrimination at the work place still occur. The world society should work on the problem on order to change the situation. Nevertheless, it is possible to predict that choosing the way of the organizational change the gender inequities should be considered with the purpose to refer to those inequities and balance the situation in the organization. There are a lot of different social theories aimed at helping the society to apply the problems and make sure that the situation is corrected and the problems will not occur in the future. The main idea of this article is to consider the article under discussion and apply the following sociological perspectives to it, symbolic interactionism, functionalism, and conflict theory. Article Summary The main idea of the article is to consider the gender equity as the part of the organizational change. However, the authors of the article state that many scholars remain skeptical about the possibility of this change. The organizations are the part of the society which still remains gendered. To conduct effective strategies and intervention in the organization, it is important to remain focused and the gender change does not occur as the primary issue. Dwelling upon gender, change and discursivity Benschop, Mills, Mills, and Tienari state that to make sure that the organization has balanced attitude to gender roles, the “transformative approaches [should] go even further and aim at changing gender as a structure, changing everyday organizational routines and interactions so that they stop (re)producing gender inequalities” (p. 3). The authors are sure that to attempt to create the gender equality at the organization, the strategy of paradox should be applied to. Thus, using the activities aimed at organizational change for gender unity particular social movements are to be divided. The gender issues in age and healthcare are also to be reconsidered which appears to be harder. Applying Social Concepts and Theories There are at least three main concepts which are to be considered within this article, symbolic interactionism, functionalism, and conflict theory. Applying the symbolic interactionism concept to the article, it should be stated that it perfectly fits the discussion. As it has already been mentioned in the article, the organization is the part of the society and it follows the principles and considerations which occur in the society. The concept of symbolic interactionism is exactly about the relation between all the objects in the society and creating the interaction between all the individuals. Thus, applying this theory t
Health care organizations are obligated to not only provide sufficient health care service but also to plan in anticipation for the future. Thus it is very important for any hospital or health care organization to have a clue about the quality and quantity of patients they expect to serve in order to provide them with the most appropriate health care. One of the most important tools to estimate the quality and quantity of patients for a hospital involves knowing the biographic data of the area they serve. As such hospitals have to continually work hand in hand with the relevant authorities while updating their demographic data. I will give a brief biographic data about Williamsburg city where Ms. Karen Barry, the manager of Laboratory Department in Sentara hospital, works. Williamsburg’s Sentara Medical Center mainly serves patients living in Williamsburg city. This is an independent city located on the Virginia Peninsula in the Hampton Roads metropolitan area of Virginia Williamsburg (Sentara, 2011). The city is bordered by James City County and York County (City official site, 2011). Williamsburg city has a population of 12,729. Since 2000, the city has maintained a constant population growth rate of 6.1 percent. The percentage of males in the city is 44.3% while that of females is 55.7%. The median age of residents is 22.6 years. Persons under the age of 5 years constitute 6.8% of the population; persons between 5 to 18 years old make up another 14.4%, and persons above 65 years old constitutes 16.4% of the population. In terms of ethnicity, about 79.8% of the population in the city is made up of the whites, 13.1% African Americans, 0.3% American Indian and Alaska Natives,4.9% Asians, 0.1% Native Hawaiians and Other Pacific Islanders, and 3.6% Hispanics/ Latinos. Other important data that would assist the health care organization in determining the services distribution is that the city’s land area is 8.54 miles square, with about 1333 persons per square mile (U.S Census, 2009). Karen Bray is currently a Laboratory manager at the Williamsburg’s Sentara Medical Center. At the beginning of her Education path she failed to secure an admission to pursue her studies in Organic Chemistry. Undeterred, she joined a 12 month training Lab. Assistant program (SLA) in a general hospital where she worked for 18 years as a Laboratory Technician. Thereafter, Karen decided reapply for admission for a course in Organic Chemistry and this time, she was successful. Upon graduating with a bachelor degree in Organic Chemistry, Karen decided to join the Public Health graduate program in Eastern Virginia Medical School. In 1999, she obtained her master in Public Health. Twice, she applied for a management position and twice, her application was declined. Nonetheless, she kept working hard to improve her management skills by getting exposed to the different departments in the hospital, other than within the confines of the laboratory. In 2004, Karen secured her current position at the Williamsburg’s Sentara Medical Center. She supervises about 100 employees in three different locations. They have about 200
Methadone is a pain reliever used when non-narcotic pain relievers fail to work well. The drug is popularly used to relief pain experienced by heroin addicts when they stop taking heroin (AHFS, 2009). Methadone clinics are clinics licensed to issue methadone to heroin addicts who are trying to stop their addiction to heroin. As already noted above, methadone is a dual-purpose drug; only addicts trying to recover from heroin addiction are issued methadone from methadone clinics. There are special instructions given at the methadone clinics on how the drug is to be used. Methadone has side effects and without following instructions given, one is likely to be seriously affected by the side effects (Manson & Schoenstadt, 2009). Needle Exchange Programs are arrangements which facilitate the exchanging of used needles for needles which are sterile. The programs are voluntary and injection drugs users are offered sterile needles upon presenting used ones (AMFAR, 2012). Purpose and Effectiveness Methadone is in the category of opiate medication, and its working mechanism is through altering the way pain receptors in the body detect pain. When methadone is used to help in heroin addiction treatment, the drug is used as a substitute for heroin but does detoxify in contrast to heroin (AHFS, 2009). Methadone clinics are dedicated to help heroin addicts overcome heroin addiction. They do so by closely monitoring the progress of addicts under their programs. Methadone clinics, therefore, provide an effective way of stopping heroin addiction and thus these clinics are highly effective (Manson & Schoenstadt, 2009). The Needle Exchange Program was established with a purpose of dropping the chances of spreading infections among injection drug users. It has been estimated that these programs alongside other HIV prevention methods have led to a reduction in HIV transmission by 80 percent among injection drugs users (AMFAR, 2012). Legality Methadone is legally accepted as a special pain reliever, and also as a medication to assist in fighting heroin addiction. Methadone clinics are equally legally recognized and licensed in fighting heroin addiction. The Needle Exchange Programs have been legally recognized since the 1980s. In the US, there are 186 cities in which these programs are run (AMFAR, 2012). These programs are effective because it has been shown that injection drug use significantly contributes to HIV infection. These programs also offer prevention and care services that are meant to help injection drug users decrease their vulnerability to being infected with HIV (CDC, 2005). It is therefore correct to argue that these programs are effective.
Overview Introducing changes into education system is not an easy task, since it involves not only the reconsideration to the role of technology in the learning process, but also a complete reassessment of the coordination between the work of different departments, changes in the process of information sharing and, most importantly, changes in the curriculum. Despite the threats that the reconsideration of the information management strategy in the UAE Academy involved, the introduction of innovational principles will be quite welcome within the academic setting, since it will allow for improving the quality of communication within the departments. After taking a closer look at the key stages of the Academy evolution, one will see that the given change is the next logical step in the Academy progress. The UAE Academy has a long and proud history of academic thought evolution. Founded by in 1989, and providing ample opportunities for people to acquire the information and skills that will help them enroll in any college easily, the Academy has been providing its services in tutoring ever since. However, the UAE Academy is known not only as the center for students to acquire the skills that will help them be accepted into ca college; in addition, the courses offered by the UAE Academy encourage both professional and personal evolution of its visitors. In other words, the UAE Academy offers students the chance to become lifelong learners and evolve both spiritually and intellectually (UAE Academy, 2013). Moreover, the Academy claims that even the most underrepresented students will be able to become a college material. Like any other organization, the UAE Academy has a very basic structure, including a leader (Dr. Abdullah Abonamah, CEO and the President of the establishment, his assistant, Dr. Subaran Roy, and the heads of departments, which are accountable and subordinate to the leader (UAE Academy, 2013a). The chart below shows the method of roles and responsibilities distribution within the organization: Work structure (n. d.). It is remarkable that the organization is split into three key parts, i.e., the company CEO and the management, the departments of Public Relations, Marketing and Finance headed by the Technical Manager, and the departments dedicated to training and consulting the newly accepted members. The responsibilities are delegated from the company CEO to his assistant, and both are entitled to provide the Technical Manager with instructions regarding the actions to be taken. The Technical Manager, in his turn, provides his subordinates with tasks and supervises them. The physical plant layout of the organization is provided below: The physical plant layout. Problem Definition Despite the fact that the UAE Academy has achieved impressive success over the course of its development, in the XXI century, with the advent of new technologies, it has become increasingly difficult to provide information security within the organization. Because of the dated system of informat
Causes of Childhood obesity A number of factors can be blamed for the occurrence of obesity in children; there is no one single thing that can be blamed on an individual; however in most cases, the condition appear when two or more such factors play their role, the following are the main factors: Lifestyle adopted by modern children : Modern foods, mostly junk foods are freely available for children; this has resulted to a changed eating habits to such foods that increasing the rate of child obesity. On the other hand, children are now engaging more in in-house games using computers, video games, and television, they do not have the chance to exercise their body and muscles, and this increases their chances of being obese since they do not burn calories they have consumed. Genetic and hormonal: Children’s genetic and hormonal factors influences how bodies accumulate fats on the body; where some people have the tendency of accumulating more fat than other peoples accumulate. When child has a higher tendency of fat accumulation, then chances of becoming obese are high. Familial and nutritional : Closely related to genetic factors, some families have the tendency of accumulating more fat than others accumulate, as much as this may be from biological making, it has been influenced greatly by the behavior within a family. Obesity can be seen to run down a family, because of diet and nutritional issues in the family setting. If a family engages in inappropriate eating habits, then children in the family are likely to suffer from obesity. Psychological and physiological factors : Children as they grow develop some food likings, when they have the cash to buy the foods, then they are likely to eat junk that might cause a higher consumption of fats causing obesity. Solutions to childhood obesity It is better to prevent than cure, obesity can be prevented in the county through the intervention of policy makers, parents and other stakeholders. To address the issue of obesity in the society, a county’s health department has the role of enforcing rules and regulations as well as creating awareness to the people on how they