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Introduction The researcher has been appointed to head a local division of health care management organization and will analyze the role of a diverse work team. The research will address the importance of a multicultural work team by justifying the rationale. The research also analyzes the impact of multicultural team conflicts and how to reduce them using a corporate culture that fits the entire culture (Levis, 2000). Importance of a diverse work team According to (Lorimar, 2001), if diverse work teams are properly managed, they outperform work teams that are homogeneous or diverse work teams that are not managed. Diverse work teams attract a greater pool of ideas through interaction that brings better solutions. Workplace Diversity in this sense refers to how in all aspects persons differ including organizational characteristics. Members contribute individual views as well as value-sets from different parts of the world. This represents a wide range of mental models necessary for complex problem’s solving as well as completing a particular task. Members in diverse teamwork have the capacity to see problems from various perspectives that consequently provide a sophisticated understanding of particular problems leading to solutions of high quality (Mark, 2000) found that, multicultural management provides a key to success in the current global economy and this has not failed to accelerate in the medical field. In a multicultural group, individuals have unique beliefs and norms as well as values including observable behaviors. In general, teams that are multicultural portray effectiveness in solving tasks where creativity and innovation are required. The members have a capacity to generate more as well as better ideas and chances of them being influenced by their status quo thinking or that of their colleagues are limited. This way of thinking also called mob psychology inhibits members from being independent in their decision-making. Disadvantages of multicultural diversity in teams (Stefano, 2003) argued that, although the benefits of diversity in team building are obviously more than its potential problems, team development is not always successful. A few team members sometimes mistrust their colleagues if their behavi
Introduction An economist in the 1960s by the name Philip Kotler developed a theory of evaluating the efficiency and benefits of products referred to as the three levels of product theory. This theory simply evaluates the benefits of any product or offer from general to specific and unique qualities of a specific product. Kotler’s main objective in developing this theory was to improve the way producers marketed their products this was to be achieved by expounding and clarifying the meaning of marketing. Before Kotler’s work, marketing was viewed as barely the physical process that resulted to the transfer of goods and services from producers to consumers (Answers 1997, pp1). His expounded definition of marketing included the satisfying aspect that the goods contain and all actions that marketers engage in. He also recognized a more complex process that involves the emotions of both the marketers and the consumers. This is in accordance with what I quoted earlier i.e. the theory looks at something from general to specific facts. He defined marketing as “a social process by which individuals and groups obtain what they need and want through creating and exchanging products and value with others” (Five Products Level, 2005. pp1). According to Kotler, products have no value it’s their benefits that makes them valuable. For instance, a desktop computer or a bed has no value but the value is in the services, entertainment and comfort, they offer (MMC learning, 2009, pp1). Kotler’s theory can also be used by consumers when choosing between two offers as in the case of this essay. His theory will help compare two offers an IKEA TROMSÖ Loft bed frames with desk top and a Monash Sport (Caulfield) Gym Membership (plus Group Fitness membership). Kotler’s theory is discussed in details below Kotler’s theory His theory suggests that any product should be view from three levels i.e. the core product level, the actual product level, and the augmented level (Learn marketing 2010, pp 1-3). Core product level This level represents actual direct benefits of any product in other words it represents the services offered rather than the product itself. It is an intangible part of any product but it’s the main reason why people buy things. As we had seen earlier this is also what gives products their value considering our two offers they
Introduction Jürgen Habermas’ theory of public sphere is a successful theoretical ground since he stipulated that the emergence of the new civic society in the eighteenth century was caused by the growing number of literate people, availability of literature, and new type of critical press, hence the new kind of public sphere was born. According to Habermas new judgments require informed debate, whereas debate on drugs suffers lack of that. Curran and Seaton in their book ‘Power Without Responsibility : The Press, Broadcasting, and New Media in Britain’ question the connection between the public’s undermining confidence in media and the Conservative party. Media impacts people’s minds differently: print, Internet, radio news programs, though every one of it can shape the opinions the way it is necessary for the government or certain private individuals. The point of this paper is to investigate the public on drugs within British media. Namely, this report will elaborate on the political, mass media, and third parties’ perspective on drugs in Britain. Also, the purpose of this report will be critically analyzing the relation between public opinion and media and if the ‘media bias’ is only an individual journalist’s personal perspective rather than distorting the truth. British Media Nature and Its Effects on Public Opinion The public opinion and mass media opinion are slightly different. This slightness is a result of profound work of media to persuade people in whatever it is necessary. The difference in media and public opinion can be achieved only via certain percentage of public having unshakeable conviction despite Internet, TV news, radios, and print claims. Unfortunately, British media has been misrepresenting the drugs. If we should take media in print, it is important to state that print is the most available version of mass media to any person able to read; which is more than ninety percent of population in Great Britain. In order to describe the work of newspapers, magazines, etc. on drug representation it is possible to say that about every single source gave out exaggerated and inaccurate information. This, of course, misguides public on actual issues of drug abuse and medical drug use in the country. Moreover, this is the tendency that has been observed for about forty years of print media existence. The foremost problem that resulted from ill informed way in which mass media reported on drugs was and is the myth that journalists are likely to write and hence pass on to the public. Of course, this is how all media kinds work, although it is important to understand that drug issues in the country is closely connected to political issues, therefore have to be taken more broadly rather than hysterically or sensationally. Frequently, newspapers force people to make wrong conclusion out of the read stories. For example, the article “Mephedrone” in the Sun newspaper drew a wide response of concerned public to outlaw mephedrone, whereas any daily substance’s misuse can bring harm, of cou
Industrial background Peet’s Coffee and Tea is a restaurant with international operations across the world. With its headquarters located in California, the business has a chain of coffee houses located at various parts of the world. The restaurant business deals in a range of products consisting of diversified coffee and tea beverages. Problem statement Following the recent business evaluation, there has been a need to establish strategies that will propel the company towards success. In this regard, the following strategies will be included in the company’s marketing proposal. New marketing strategies According to Ataman, Harald and Carl, Peet’s Coffee and Tea restaurant requires new marketing strategies that are effective in a food and beverage industry (866). The use of a suite of services and loyalty programs among others is deemed an effective marketing strategy. Suites of services Customer-friendly suite of services includes installation of free internet services inside the restaurant. When customers access free Wi-Fi internet connections, they would be happy to spend time and enjoy coffee and tea for hours. This means that free internet connection requires installation of electrical cables near the coffee tables for laptop connectivity. Another form of a suite of services includes book live entertainment, where customers engage in poetry reading and other forms of readings that complement relaxation. People who prefer taking coffee and tea do so for purposes of relaxation. Suites of services offer an ambient environment that promotes relaxation mood in a coffee and tea restaurant. Moreover, the suite of services may be viewed by customers as value additional services. This strategy will promote sales once regular customers invite their friends to see the difference (Ataman, Harald and Carl 869). Loyalty programs Loyalty programs are considered as incentive programs for loyal customers (Ataman, Harald and Carl 871). In this respect, Peet’s Coffee and Tea restaurant will use punch cards redeemable for free coffee drinks and snacks after every 10 th cup of coffee at any of the business restaurants. In this regard, the loyalty program is deemed to encourage more loyal customers to visit the restaurants and enjoy free drinks. This program increases sales volume and promotes
Internal Analysis The following sections break down the strengths and weaknesses of ConocoPhillips. In addition, there are the TOWS and VRIO frameworks that discuss the strategic opportunities available for the company. The discussion also provides an outlook of the competitiveness of the enterprise and the sources of its competitiveness. The discussion concentrates on the company’s Alaska operations, with the key discussion points being the ability of the company to deal with its current challenges and achieve growth in size and profitability in the future. Strengths The company has a big brand name and a strong market position in its production of natural gas and viscous oil. These two factors help the company increase its earnings whenever the market environment is right. Continued growth of the business relies on the two factors, in addition to others highlighted below. Significant investments in production happen in Alaska, which offers the company great influence in economic policy making in the state (Cama, 2014). ConocoPhillips Alaska has used its position as a major employer and investor in the state to lobby for favorable fiscal terms from the state government. The company is dominant in the oil and gas industry in the state and has used its dominance to increase the state subsidies provided to the industry. The company explained that subsidizing the industry would lead to more jobs that are permanent and a reduction in unemployment rates in Alaska (DeMarban, 2015). The company has invested in technologies, such as drones to help it respond to environmental challenges and cut costs (Koroknowski, 2013). Developments that the company is making are also highlights of its organization, investment, and partnership strengths. It has a capable supply chain partnership with construction firms and financial institutions. It also relies on its network of the ConocoPhillips parent company. These connections provide the company with the necessary capital, infrastructure, and human resources that are required for expansion and sustenance of the business. Through its network, the company is also able to find a market for its produce within and outside the state. Weaknesses Accusations of pollution abound as the company continues to develop its production facilities. Oil is a non-renewable energy source, which is also a pollutant. The company enjoys considerable acceptance by stakeholders in Alaska, but the nature of its business is an inherent weakness in regards to environmental sustainability. However, the biggest concern for the company is its current investments that are yet to begin production. If anything goes wrong, then the company will have to incur capital losses. Moreover, its
Over the globe, millions of people have various pictures inked on their bodies. These pictures might have a meaningful sense for a person or be just a tattoo made in youth. Indeed, people celebrate the fact of having the tattoo, meeting at international tattoo conventions. These are events in which people gather and bring themselves together through tattoo art. As in Foucault’s works, tattoo conventions also help people become closer to heterotopic space (Bennaso & Stagi, 2021). Foucault defined heterotopia as spaces in society that are unlike other spaces. These are places where the erosion of people’s minds, available time, and history happens. Therefore, the tattoo space might refer to the concept of heterotopic spaces, and it is interesting to examine how the tattoo convention is seen through the prism of Foucault’s vision. Foucault’s first principle of heterotopia defines it as a place of crisis or deviation. Multiple sources prove that Foucault noted heterotopia as the concept that inclines from the commonly accepted standard (Bennaso & Stagi, 2021). In addition, some people might not approve of wearing tattoos; some members of society can misunderstand people with inked pictures on their bodies. Moreover, some psychological theories refer to tattoos as mental issues of a person. Indeed, the place of deviation becomes a consolation for millions of people who strive to transform their mindse
Warmley House Gardens are situated in the eastern part of Bristol area, in the southern part of Warmley village. Warmley House is one of the most popular tourist attractions in this area. Its history dates back to the 1760s. At this time Warmley villa was built by William Champion. This site is the only remaining of industrial buildings and parking areas. The Warmley Gardens is significant area of archeological remains. This garden is unique and might be called ‘bright example of industrialized gardens’. William Champion used it during the process of brass manufacturing. The water was supplied to a 13 acres lake. Warmley Gardens contained a number of unusual features. For instance, the Statue of Neptune, erected in the middle of the lake, was made out of industrial waste of copper production. Grotto and chequered walled garden were also conducted from this material. This garden was designed in rococo style. Michael Conan in his book ‘Bourgeois and aristocratic cultural encounter in garden art, 1550-1850 ’ points out: ‘ It was so overwhelming and so challenging to the dominant idea of garden design that it is the perfect illustration of an aesthetic independent of the prevailing aristocratic ideology’ (Conan and Oaks 2002, p.144). Warmley Gardens attract archeologists, as they want to find out the detailed information about its past activities. For the first time, excavations were undertaken there in 1986. In 2006 emergency excavations were carried out. As a result of it ‘ a number of exposed industrial features and artifacts, including slag bricks, clinker, refractory material and zinc-rich deposits’ were found (Dungworth and White 2007, p.4). Lansdown battlefield is another place of interest that is worth mentioning. This battlefield has attractive landscape, it should be mentioned that nothing has changed there since 1643. One may even feel the spirit of the battle. Battlefield is located in 6 km to the northwest of Bath. Researcher Jane Bingham states that: ‘The battle represented a desperate attempt by the Royalists to seize control of Bath, which was held by the Parliamentarians’ (Bingham 2012, p. 52). This battle is interesting for extreme military tactics that was used by Royalists. The royalists’ cavalry attacked in the centre and infantry on the wings. The archeological excavations were undertaken there in 1985. The received finds helped a lot in discovering the course of the battle. Warmley Gardens and Lansdowne Battlefield are not the only notable sights located in the North East of England. Dyrham is another wonderful place to enjoy. It is situated eight miles north of Bath on the western edge of the Costwold escarpment. It
African continent was one of the richest lands in the world accumulating vast natural resources and fertile lands. In the vastness of the African continent, with a maximum spread from east to west of about 4,600 miles, and a distance of over 5,000 miles between its northern and southern extremities, an area now inhabited by perhaps 400 million people of diverse cultures and languages, it is impossible to speak of any one common way of life for its many inhabitants before the coming of Europeans. It is possible to say that Europeans were responsible for under-development of Africa brining the institution of slavery and social and political changes which ruined local communities and limit their freedom. First Europeans, Greeks, Romans, and other Mediterranean peoples came to Africa as traders, settlers, and conquerors to intrude their cultural patterns among African mores as early as the last 1,000 years before the beginning of the Christian era. Furthermore, well before this period there certainly were long centuries of intercourse between the peoples inhabiting the northern. The process of African state formation, of course, was not limited to areas having commercial and other relationships with the Muslim worlds of North Africa and southwestern Asia. “Most African states were the product of an indigenous evolution” (Brathwite 1988, p. 45). For example, the highly centralized polities of Bunyoro and Buganda, located to the north of Lake Victoria, were the result of migrations, beginning in about the sixteenth century, of Lwo-speaking peoples originating in the territories around the banks of the Nile in the southern Sudan. The two states evolved efficiently structured forms of government, with their rulers, the mukama in Bunyoro and the kabaka in Buganda, ultimately presiding over societies which many observers have compared to the feudal systems of Europe (Brett 1873). When Europeans came to Africa, Africans were economically independent and socially stable. Europeans began to rule parts of Africa long before the hectic years of the scramble for the territorial control of the continent beginning in the 1880s. In the last quarter of the eighteenth century, several developing currents of European endeavor emerged to fundamentally alter the balance of relationships between Africa and Europe (Axelson 1967; Lewis, 2000). They included the humanitarian reaction to the inhuman excesses of slavery and the slave trade; the beginnings of a new European territorial expansion into Africa, as well as the extension of previously existing contacts; the awakening stimulus within Christianity, which led to an interest in the evangelizing of nonEuropeans. The European nations, especially Britain and France, gradually increased their involv
Overview Rocket Enterprise is an information technologies and services consultancy offering IT solutions to small and medium size companies. The company’s current business prospects are bringing in large profit margins, and the management is considering implementing an office automation system to cover their head office. This is expected to be accomplished within a tight budget of $5,000. Andrews proposes a setup that “includes one server, four workstations, one high quality printer preferably of laser type, multiple email addresses, basic low security, and internet access and all the necessary auxiliary components (18). Proposed configuration Rocket Enterprise has outsourced this project to Datanet Consultants to implement the office automation system. Datanet Consultants propose the following requirements to implement the office automation system. Component                 Specification                                                                                                                                                                Use                                                                                                                                                                                                 Number required  Price ($) Light weight server       HP Proliant Microserver, RAID 0,1, 8GB RAM, maximum 4 LFF pluggable SATA HDD                                                                                                 Provide network services to network clients. Local area network manager functions.
Introduction The Venezuelan financial system has been ruled by government policy since the 1970s. The iron and petroleum industries were nationalized in 1974–75, and the electrical generating industry was also a state enterprise. The government ruled the salt and match productions; set the prices of pharmaceuticals, petroleum manufactured goods, milk, meat, and other customer productions and services; and ruled leases. The terms of Andean Pact membership also obliged the government to keep a tight rein on strange trade and foreign investment. Expansion policy from the 1950s up to the late 1970s made accent upon import replacement, industrialization, and foreign investment. A new strategy, inducted in 1979 and invented in detail in the sixth nationwide development strategy (1981–85), was determined to eradicate price regulations and decrease protectionism. The government also aimed to decrease Venezuela’s reliance on oil by industrial diversification, to make a bigger accent on farming, and to dedicate greater powers to social expansion, chiefly home building, education, public services, and health care systems. The financial disaster of the early 1980s originated the partial rejection of the innovative regulation. The financial alteration strategy chased the inflation decrease, restriction of imports, and restriction of government expenditure was proclaimed in 1983, and additional severity means were entailed in 1984. In late 1986, the Lusinchi government proclaimed a three-year plan to encourage financial system growth by the means of government spending. Economic development The petroleum sector leads Venezuela’s diverse financial system, in accordance to approximately a third of GDP, around 80% of exports, and more than half of state incomes. The country’s key petroleum storages are established around and beneath Lake Maracaibo, the Gulf of Venezuela, and in the Orinoco River basin, where the country’s greatest deposit is situated. Venezuela’s economic modification strategy started in 1989, concentrated on changing the state from a conventionally state-ruled, oil-oriented economy, to a more market-directed, expanded, and export-familiarized economy. Nevertheless, the financial disaster persevered and the government presumed straightforward control over the banking structure. Much of the liquidity originated from the maintenance of the economic sphere was immersed up by the Central Bank. The government verified its obligation to selling off state ventures. The Bolivar was in free-fall previous to the government-proclaimed substituted regulation policy. In 1996, the Caldera government assumed an economic stabilization strategy with the assistance of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The essential aim of the strategy was to decrease inflation by keeping a leftover in merged community sector finances. The strategy also promoted a real increase in the non-oil economy. Shortfall decrease by the means of fiscal regulations was also described as a goal. The government augmented allover sales taxes, advanced tax administration, and augmented fuel charges. The program also claimed for t