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Defining total quality management   * TQM emphasizes on the entire company quality management strategies   * TQM incorporates the entire commodities attributes and the physical characteristics capable of meeting the affirmed customer requirements.   * For ADNOC, TQM means designing and implementing corporate culture supporting continuous enhancement of the organization courses of action   * TQM implies acting appropriately to generate improved products and services which satisfy the needs of customers. Total Quality Management refers to the combination of strategically designed management approaches of an organisation centred on quality and the comprehensive participation of all organisation members with an aim of providing long-term success (Deros et al., 2009). In fact, total quality management is the practice of managing the whole organization processes to achieve quality. For instance, total quality management entails the conformity to the requirements including continuous improvement, employee empowerment and quality circles. Acting appropriately through Total Quality Management TQM requires an organization to act appropriately. The clients needs can hardly be met without successful accomplishment and proper management of the available resources. Thus, TQM helps organizations to act perfectly in the first instance. Synopsis of TQM   * TQM covers corporate processes that ensure the production of improved commodities   * The objectives of TQM are achieved by ensuring total customer satisfaction   * Customer satisfaction materializes from constant improvement of the organizational processes including the employees welfare and operations   * Given its significance, most organizations particularly those situated in the UAE have implemented TQM technique in its totality   * ADNOC is amongst the UAE corporations committed to the application of TQM in most business processes Despite the implementation of TQM, the utilization of the TQM technique has remained shaky, undermined, and underutilised in several UAE corporations (Deros et al., 2009). However, TQM ensures systems improvement and the enhancement of the key stakeholders requirements including customers and suppliers. TQM aims at enhancing quality through doing the right thing. TQM: Really a simple process From study literature on TQM, the approaches used in total quality management appear incorporate simple processes. Any organization that is deemed successful in implementing TQM has decisive such as inputs, resources, controls, and processes that generate the desired outputs. Such parameters make up TQM. The company overview and TQM   * Abu Dhabi National OIL Company is amongst the reputed companies in the global oil industry   * The company reports constant business achievements emerging from quality management practices   * ADNOC is successful given its emphasis on TQM practices in all the undertaken business processes   * ADNOC TQM focuses on constant improvement of its products, services, customer
Abortion issue A decision-making process in nursing could involve many colleagues whose contributions are analyzed to arrive at a solution. The current issue in my healthcare facility is abortion. The MORAL model could be used to evaluate the issue by following the five components of the model. Massaging the dilemma This is the first stage of the MORAL model, whereby nurses should understand the various aspects about an issue. For example, a nurse needs to know why a patient would want to have an abortion. Upon reviewing the aspects, a nurse may want to know the current health status of the patient (Butts & Rich, 2012). Outline the options Here, the nurse may highlight the options available. The main reason for evaluating the options is to select the best alternative that could be used instead of abortion (Butts & Rich, 2012). Resolve the dilemma This stage involves resolving the dilemma associated with the issue. For example, abortion could lead to death and infertility in women. It would be essential to look at all the possible outcomes of abortion (Butts & Rich, 2012). Act by applying the chosen option During this stage, the nurse solves the issue using the selected option. The selected option should bring more benefits than harm to the patient. For instance, the patient might be advised to continue carrying the fetus (Butts & Rich, 2012). Look back and evaluate This is the last stage of the model, and it involves evaluating the outcomes of the chosen option. Evaluation of the option of the current issue would require assessing the progress of the pregnancy (Butts & Rich, 2012). Reference Butts, J. B., & Rich, K. (2012). Nursing ethics: Across the curriculum and into practice . Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett Publishers.
Owing to the felt need that students in management classrooms are increasingly becoming disoriented by the large number of “core theories” they are expected to cover and the ensuing frustration that comes with the lack of a single, comprehensive theory to drive the learning agenda forward, the article by Anderson (2007) builds on a conceptual toolbox metaphor to present a well-structured exploration aimed at assisting students to understand why each of the many theories is important and worth learning. The author takes note of the fact that although a limited number of management learners may appreciate the challenges inherent in using a huge multiplicity of theoretical frameworks and perspectives, many others find it disturbing and confusing having to deal with all these theories, hence the need to explain their importance in a way that students could understand. Specifically, the author uses the students own judgments about the core motivation theories in the management sphere of work motivation to demonstrate that each theoretical framework “individually explains what motivates a considerable number of students at work and that, collectively, the motivation theories cover a great range of the topic of motivation than students are likely to otherwise realize or appreciate” (Anderson 2007, p. 760). The author grounds his solution of the problem on the allegory of teaching as building a conceptual toolbox, which stresses the importance for students to accumulate and study a complex and extensive allay of ideas, concepts, and theoretical perspectives, rather than attempting to selectively appreciate and study only those perspectives that appear valid to them due to widespread attention from scholars and practitioners. In this context, students should desist from the tendency of dismissing and ignoring theories that do not match their expectations and experiences and instead adopt the perspective that every theoretical framework repre
Most adolescence-onset mental disorders persist well into adulthood. Health promotion is a core competency of the Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) role to prevent unhealthy behaviors, which start in puberty and increase the disease burden later in life (Das et al., 2016). In youth, poor mental health is linked to adverse outcomes such as fights, juvenile delinquency, and suicide (Das et al., 2016). Related interventions are designed to target specific groups and at-risk individuals across different settings, including schools. Most recently, suicide prevention is delivered digitally in addition to a face-to-face format (King, Arango, & Ewell, 2018). In this paper, a proposed mental health initiative to meet the challenges of at-risk youth is discussed using the PDSA model and related evidence-based strategies based on IHI indicators included. Development of a Health Promotion Program The at-risk groups for youth suicide prevention interventions are school/college youth and adolescents. According to Das et al. (2016), the suicide rate in the 15-19 age bracket is high, at 9.1%. Thus, adolescent mental health stands out as an unmet need that requires integrated strategies to reduce the incidence of adverse outcomes and access barriers. Caregivers, including APRNs, are called upon to extend their scope of practice to care for pediatric and youth mental health challenges (van Cleve, Hawkins-Walsh, & Shafer, 2013). Therefore, at the community level, effective, evidence-based programs should be developed and implemented to improve their outcomes. At the national level, policy analysis is required to describe the problem, identify solutions, and determine appropriate courses of action (Teitelbaum & Wilensky, 2018). The approach could result in modifications of laws against substance abuse, a critical risk fa
Media has always been the tool for capturing reality, yet the presentation thereof has never been accurate, especially in movies. It is very easy to see Hollywood as a money-grabbing machine that is trying to cash in on people’s fears and prejudices. The latest foray into attempting at explaining the basics of the Arab culture to the American citizens, Tyrant falls flat as such, being a hypocritical redesign of the traditional clichés and stereotypes related to Arab people. On the one hand, Tyrant can be viewed as an attempt to make a fresh start and to open a new page of relationships between the Arab and the American cultures. With an update of the setting to the present days and the shift to the identification of the traditions of the target culture, the series seems a rather promising start. However, some of the tropes that the moviemakers use to portray the characters, including both positive and negative ones, applaud to the existing prejudices about the Arab people and the Arab culture. For example, the series is oozing with the idea that Arab people are intrinsically cruel: I’m curious. What twisted path brought a pathetic Western whore to think that she could come to my county and dictate to me her perverted misinterpretations of the Koran? Did your parents not love you enough? Is that why you lay with murders? Is that why you stood by while the people of this house were slaughtered? So you could sleep in their bed and call it your own? ( Tyrant 2015) There is a slim argument that the citation above subverts the typical representation of an Arab person, as the lead character goes against the traditional patterns of the expected behavior by stressing the pointlessness of violence. However, the very fact that the issues regarding the outrageous behavior and traditions are brought up needs to be acknowledged as a nod in the direction of an Arab stereotype. True, some of the Arab traditions, especially the ones rooted in the ancient concept of gender and social relationships, are imperfect and are most likely to be viewed as bizarre in modern society (Kymlicka & Pföstl, 2014). There is no fault in bringing these issues up; however, the series does nothing to address the issues that they raise, resorting to merely pointing out the societal and cultural problems instead of suggesting the ways to correct them. The lack of emotional stability is also somehow attributed to Arab people as an intrinsically negative feature, which is especially evident in the series mentioned above. For instance, at one point of the conflict development, Molly tells Barry: I forgot to tell you, Barry, how badly you’ve destroyed me, how badly you’ve damaged our family, and that you’re a horrible person. Since
Introduction In many nations where there have been conflicts between communities living together, the term reconciliation has shiftthe ed from primarily dominating the religious contexts to its utilization in political and socio-psychological debates. Increased use of the term reconciliation in these debates is attributed to the alteration of nature, and the approaches of settling warfare disbud during the post-cold war period (Rouhana, 2007). Throughout this era, many internal conflicts within many nations have been ended. Consequently, many groups of people are able to live peacefully within one political unit of administration. Wars between various communities in different nations cannot “be brought to a halt through diplomatic agreements and arrangements alone because the conflicting groups have to live together in their general post-war conflict-oriented environment” (Kelman, 2008, p.3). It is necessary for relationships of such communities to be transformed to build the spirit of tolerance. This paper provides a definition of reconciliation from the perspectives of psychology. Besides, it describes psychology’s attempts to facilitate reconciliathe tion with Indigenous Australians from 1990-2012. It also provides a description of the ways in which the author, as a future professional, can reconcile indigenous Australians. Defining Reconciliation The need to foster peaceful coexistence between two warring communities underlines the significance of peace and reconciliation commissions formed in the nations where various communities have been in conflicts in the past. According to the Australian Psychological Society (2013), reconciliation is defined as “building relationships and understanding between indigenous Australians and the wider community for the benefit of all” (Para.1). With regard to this definition, reconciliation is the process of rebuilding relationships that have been deployed in the past. Since the discipline of psychology is interested in how people develop behaviors and how such behaviors are codified to inform people’s decisions to engage in certain actions, reconciliation is an important aspect of psychology. Reconciliation is the process through which two parties caught up in conflicts end a relationship characterized by enmity in substitution for a relationship fostering good will together with peaceful coexistence. These two parties may be nations, individuals, or even communities. According to Cordoni and Palagi (2008), the process of reconciliation initiates when two parties in conflicts make a decision to confess acts of dishonesty or destruction done on either party (p.298). Shnabel and Nadler (2008) add, “the greatest wounds in human history, the greatest injustices, have not happened through the acts of some individual perpetrators, but rather through the institutions, systems, philosophies, cultures, religions, and governments of humankind” (p.117) in real life situ
Outline Homelessness has been a major problem in Skid Row which is a congested small section in LA. Skid Row was previously a very attractive town and most people yearned to spend some time in the hotels. Economy was quite stable and peace reigned in that small town. However, tables overturned when industries in which Skid Row residents worked were relocated to other areas leaving them in poverty. Living standards also rose, making the jobless Skid Row residents unable to cater for housing and other basic needs and finally going to live in Skid Row’s streets. Measures have and are still being implemented so as to alleviate as well as bring the fateful situation to and end. Introduction According to (Wallace, 1965), Skid row, which is a small area situated in Los Angeles, has been faced with problems as a large number of its residents have become homeless. However, this was not the situation some decades ago as Skid Row was known to host very prominent people because of its cool environment. During those times, there was a large portion left for farming activities, where Skid Row residents secured jobs. There were also factories in which produce from those fields were processed as well as railway line to transport the produce to factories and later to the market. Those factories as well as railways provided employment to Skid Row’s residents and since laborers could not afford a luxurious life, cheap salons, theaters and hotels were put up to cater for them. However, in mid twentieth century, the situation changed as agricultural as well as industrial jobs were shifted elsewhere leaving Skid Row’s residents in trouble. Problems Being Faced With the Increase in the Number of Homeless According to (MacDonald, 2007), lack of employment made life in Skid Row unbearable as many would not meet their basic needs as the living standards continued to rise. This consequently led to homelessness of most of Skid Row residents which is the situation until now. The number of homeless people is rising as the city receives massive developments leaving the poor in the streets. The high standards of living accompanying the developments are unaffordable to Skid Row’s people as they can hardly pay for the high costs being charged for residential houses leave alone the cost of food and shelter. Large numbers of homeless people have been found to move to Skid Row’s streets where they sleep hungry on bare floors. Due to congestion and littering in Skid row’s streets, some leaders have sought to remove the homeless from the streets, sending them to certain fields situated in the nearby desert. Some have been confined in cam
This paper responds to a directive by the newly elected governor to discontinue all the educational and vocational programs for the inmates serving their term in the prison. It examines the possible tougher inmate programs which could be implemented in place of the correctional and rehabilitation programs in place. It also examines the offices and institutions which can provide support to provision of educational and vocational programs as a way of empowering and improving the skills of prisoners. Finally, it reviews the success of these programs and policies. Response to the governor In my response to the governor, I will request for more time to allow the prison management to review its educational and vocational programs in consultation with the experts, the state prisons department, and other relevant authorities. The prison needs to fulfill all the purposes of incarceration, which are retribution, deterrence, incapacitation as well as rehabilitation. By eliminating the educational and vocational training programs in the institution, the prison will be violating the prisoners’ rights provided for in the Literacy, Educational and Rehabilitation Act (H. R. 4752). This would also mean that the purpose of the prison will be partially achi
Achieving advancement through peaceful marches as acts of legitimate protest has become a recurring way of drawing attention to acute sociopolitical issues pivotal for America’s Black Community. The civil rights movement in the USA has relied on both, adequate leadership and broad citizen participation. Thus, two of the most attended demonstrations, the Million Man March and the March on Washington, play a crucial role in determining the current standing of many citizens. From the abolition of slavery in the 19th century to mass incarceration in the 21st, Black Americans remain one of America’s most disadvantaged social groups. The Million Man March in 1995 aimed to draw the attention of politicians to the economic strife of many citizens, as well as institute a sense of personal responsibility in those participating (Marable, 2018). Additionally, leader Louis Farrakhan, building upon the idea of “blackness as an identity,” presented an ideology of atonement laced with religion, which the masses accepted (Marable, 2018, p. 1). Therefore, while the Million Man March became a political standoff between Black Americans and in-office politicians, it also became a symbol of the unification of the Black Movement around a somewhat new idea. Predating Farrakhan’s march, the Martin Luther King’s 1963 demonstration was one of the most significant events in the history of the civil rights movement. However, while the leaders of the March on Washington aimed to eradicate discriminatory practices, such as Jim Crow laws and the forbidding of interracial marriage, Farrakhan was focused on the demonstration, rather than its results (Simon, 2017). Thus, the Million Man March became a standalone event with no inherently obvious continuation, whose success is changing Black American’s circumstances is debatable, but the effect of which on people’s self-identification is evident (Marable, 2018). Thus, the two events differ in comparison, as the March on Washington effectively affected politics to revoke specific discriminatory laws, while the Million Man March merely attempted to build upon Black Americans’ shared ideology. While the two marches hold an essential place in the civil rights movement, each of them achieved vastly different goals in varying circumstances. Based upon the success of previous demonstrations, the Million Man March successfully brought Black Americans together to a single goal. Recognizing its place in the history of America’s black citizens, despite its refusal to build upon the achieved spirit of commonality further, is essential to the history of the civil rights movement.
The notion of feminism is characterized by the development of the peculiarities of its definition according to the aspects of the phenomenon’s waves. Thus, historians and sociologists still argue on this point, and they are inclined to determine two, three or even four main waves of feminism. According to the majority of opinions, the second wave of feminism began in the 1960s and lasted till the 1990s. During this long period, women changed their opinions on the gender inequality and stated their different rights and freedoms. That is why today the second wave of feminism is associated with the women’s liberty in relation to such concepts as sexuality, family, and equality. The Sweden poet and director Lukas Moodysson also emphasized the feminists’ ideas in his two movies which are known for the English-speaking audience as Show Me Love (1998) and Together (2000). The main female characters of these movies are the women who want to feel their freedom of feelings, expressions, emotions, and attitudes, and who can make decisions without references to the traditional norms and customs only because of the fact they are women. Thus, their intentions to acquire and realize their personal freedom in spite of the traditional social visions reflect the main tendencies of the second wave of feminism. If the feminists of the first wave concentrated on their legal rights and freedoms, the feminists of the second wave accentuated their roles in the society as individuals who are equal with men in their expression of the definite personal feelings and emotions and in their free attitude to relationships in family and to the sex. From this point, the feminists of the second wave began to discuss the feeling of love as the multidimensional phenomenon which cannot be regulated by any social visions of the questions, but only by the personal attitude. Thus, in his Together , Lukas Moodysson concentrates on the depiction of a woman with the variety of her feelings which are based on the feeling of love. This love can be parental or sexual, reflect the attitudes to the husband or relatives, to the children and friends. In this case, women in Together try to state their freedom to feel and express those emotions they want to focus on without concentrating on their gender. These women are seeking for their personal and emotional image. Thus, Anna discovers that she is a lesbian, and she does not want to hide this fact as she does not want to hide her body under the clothes which is too tight for her. There is an interesting situation when Anna argues that she can behave as it is comfortable for her, and it is her right to decide to wear or not the clothes in order to hide her nakedness (“Together”). This discussion between the members of the commune Tillsammans can be considered as the metaphor which accentuates the women’s desire to express themselves without