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Grievance handling procedure in an organization A grievance in an organization may emanate from poor working conditions, poor management policies, or from violation of organizational policies. In this report, the grievance is bad relations with managers. An organization must identify all possible causes of bad relations with managers and take appropriate action. The procedure for handling the grievance includes the following stages:   * The organization should acknowledge the presence of bad relations with managers. This process requires impartial assessment of the situation without any favors.   * Take quick action to avoid detrimental outcomes of unresolved grievances. It is important to gather facts about causes and potential outcomes of bad relations with managers.   * Gather facts about bad relations with managers. Data collection must be sufficient and effective to cover the problem totally. Keep records for future usages.   * Identify the real cause of bad relations with managers by examining the gathered facts. Accordingly, an organization must adopt appropriate interventions to avoid the spread of the problem.   * An organization must act and make decisions based on facts after identifying causes of bad relations with managers. All identified causes of the problem must be evaluated carefully. The organization should develop an effective problem handling procedure and inform its employees about it. Responsible managers must take appropriate actions and decide on favorable outcomes for both parties.   * The manager must implement the decision fast, evaluate its outcomes on the affected employees and managers, and determine its overall impacts in the entire organization. A reliable grievance handling procedure ensures a favorable working environment because employees can handle their problems effectively. In addition, an organization can develop policies and procedures that cater for all employees (Employee Grievance – Effective Ways of Handling Grievance, 2013). Grievance implementation in an organization A grievance implementation procedure presents a method of solving problems in an organization (Honeyman, 2003). The implementation steps of solving bad relations with managers may include the following approaches.   * Employees should submit the grievance about bad relations with managers to their immediate supervisors.   * The affected parties must discuss the problem and suggest possible solutions.   * If an employee fails to get a satisfactory outcome, then the matter may be escalated to a committee that handles problems in the organization. The committee must review, deliberate, gather facts and recommend appropriate solutions.   * Still, if there are not suitable outcomes, then the matter may proceed for arbitration. This should be the final stage in resolving the
Introduction The purpose of this paper is to determine whether political enquiry should be viewed as a science rather than a concept. To better understand the term political enquiry, a definition of politics is necessary. Politics is defined as a concept that has its roots in law, history, philosophy, economics, psychology, economics and sociology which are all social science fields. Some scholars have defined politics as the concept of acquiring and developing knowledge to understand the functions of the government and the society at large. Politics is also the interaction of people and their ideas so as to provide a focus that will be used to understand how values and resources are allocated on the different state levels of a country. It also relates to the philosophical, theoretical and institutional issues that are related to governance. There are different scholarly views on whether politics and political enquiry are a scientific concept or not. Several theories have shown that these two concepts lack a crucial pillar that would enable them to be viewed as a scientific concept. This crucial pillar has been identified to be the appropriate meaning and definition of political enquiry and politics which many scholars in the field have failed to develop. There have been difficulties in coming up with the correct analysis for the explanation and understanding of politics and how its affects value judgements. The failure to understand that value judgement is important in political enquiry has made the concept to be deemed non scientific. Science is viewed by most scholars to be value free as it is made of impartial, neutral and autonomous aspects which lack in politics and political enquiry. The lack of these aspects makes it difficult to view politics as a science. Interpretivism is correct to say that political enquiry is NOT a science The idea of impartiality, neutrality and autonomy has made it difficult for political enquiry to be viewed as a science. Impartiality makes it difficult for political enquiry to be viewed as a science because it does not have any provisions for morality and socialism which are fundamental aspects of political enquiry (Lacey 2005, p.24). Politics, political science and theory are mostly based on societal and moral conventions that make up the human cognitive process. Requiring politics to abandon these aspects will mean that politics will loose its influential aspect. For politics to be viewed as a science it has to be neutral in nature and not incorporate the views of others in explaining its components. Since politics incorporates socialism and moralistic dimensions, it is impossible for the research information to remain neutral (Leftwich 2004, p.2). Concepts such as the influence of power and authority in politics are mos
Fake news is flooding the modern media space; they are a significant factor in the distribution of the media and can mislead buyers on the Internet space. Phony information is stylistically designed not to arouse suspicion but is entirely or partially unreliable. It is essential to understand that fake news threatens the consumer. In today’s digital society, facts are of less value than the emotions and reactions of people caused by them. This means that the subjective emotions, assessments, reactions, and personal beliefs look more significant than the objective facts and phenomena. Under these conditions, an accurate description of products loses its actual value, but there is a lot of false information about the product attributed to fake news. The correlation between the degree of security and the legal regulation of cyberspace remains one of the most urgent issues today. In my opinion, government authorities should have primary responsibility for managing fake news and its consequences. It is necessary to actively develop legislation regulating relations in cyberspace since fake news can threaten human health. In the best case, consumers will lose money by buying a product with these properties (such as LeanSpa products); in the worst case, consumers can seriously harm their health. For example, scientists have proved that the benefits of teas for weight loss are fake news; their consumption can lead to ulcers (Petcu, 2018). Therefore, government authorities’ control of the information space is an inevitable necessity to protect the health of citizens, which is one of the mandatory elements of the rule of law. Fake news poses a real threat to the safety of people’s health and their lives in the long term. Therefore, it is unethical for a company to allow it to run on a controversial website and promote untested scientific data. After all, in this way, the company puts its revenue and money in general above the well-being of its customers and deceives the consumer, which is unethical. Reference Petcu, B. (2018). Fake news and financial markets: A 21st-century twist on market manipulation. American University Business Law Review, 7 (2), 297-325.
Rapid growth of population in Kelowna city has become both a challenge and an opportunity to develop a smart transit plan for the region to make transport efficient. The city of Kelowna in Okanagan is the highest growing City in British Columbia, the population is expected to increase by 50 percent in the next two decades. This growth has called for the improvement of the transport system in the city of Kelowna to accommodate the growing population by implementing the Smart Transit Plan that is planned to come into effect by 2035. Students will be the main benefiters of the federal and provincial project that will be funded at a cost of $2.3. Even though the City and Kelowna transit have previously revised the bus routes, the demand for transport services is still high especially from the growing number of students and other passengers in the city who use the transport system on a daily basis (Welch and Sauder para. 3). Kelowna transit system provides conventional transit services and also provides transport for the disabled. The service, known as HandyDART, has 4900 registered users. The UBCO students and staff are the main markets for Kelowna Regional Transit System and because their population is growing rapidly, the improvement of the transit system will provide appropriate transit services. Even though there have been many queues in bus stops and delays in time due to the increased population of students, Kelowna transit system has done a good job for it has been transporting students to the campus after making changes in the transit system to accommodate the students by introducing the students UPass. This pass enables students to have unlimited access to transport services in a period of one year for only $90. Improvement of the Kelowna Transit system will further improve transport services for these students. The aims of improving the transpor
This essay shows that the relationship between romanticism and realism arts. It shows how realism originated as a reaction to romanticism. In addition, the paper also highlights issues of the time and influences of the later works on the art world. Art has provided new genres in history based on the prevailing social conditions in society. The trend has continued today among people interested in the field of arts. From the past, there are romanticism and realism genres that exist to explain events of the two periods. These two genres refer to similar subjects in human society, but adopt different views in portraying their subjects. Therefore, it is necessary to understand the relationship between romanticism and realism. Romanticism presented a perfect world with supernatural power, whereas realism originated from reality in which characters and settings were elements of the real world. Romanticism gained recognition in the middle of the 18 th century. This genre of literature explored the unknown, and it did not adopt rational approaches to literature. Instead, it presented the world as a perfect and strange place in which there was no imperfection. Romantic Movement reacted to changes that the Industrial Revolution had brought as people began to explore the unknown in society. Romanticism aimed to establish the unknown truth. Romanticism presented the world as an ideal place in which the hero had all the desirable positive qualities. Conversely, the villain possessed undesired negative traits. This genre adopted the use of metaphorical elements in order to present the unknown. In other words, nothing was obvious, and people had to explore further in order to understand the true meaning of an event. Romanticism literature had thrilling and mysterious elements. These features of romanticism dominated literary works of the time. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte is a good example of romantic art. Emily uses the Earnshaw family, especially Heathcliff and Catherine as the epitome nature (Eagleton, 2005). These characters do not observe ideals of the society, but rather acted based on influences of their passions. Conversely, Thrushcross Grange represents the culture of the society at the time. Realism reached its peak towards the end 18 th century and extended to the early 19 th century. This form of art focused on reality rather than fantasy of the romanticism. In this regard, realism was a reaction to romanticism. Realism presented events of the society as they happened in reality. This form of art did not capture any extraordinary events, and it did not rely on a glorified language, but rather used simple language in representing events. Artists of realism based their works on obvious concepts of life. Therefore, realist writers did not embellish their works in order to hide gory themes in society, and in most circumstances, they did not present happy solutions to their readers. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert reflects the tru
An expository text debates a knowledge founded on accurate information. The writing style is flawless and brief while constructing a final dispute. The instances of expository texts contain mostly text projects for institute and college scholars, driving guidelines, cooking advice, and the courses with specific descriptions. Expository text displays the facts to a person, which are basic and unassuming. In this essay, it will be discussed how to comprehend and recognize the expository text. It is necessary to be able to differentiate between expository and narrative text and to evaluate the importance of it (Williams, Pollini, Nubla-King, & Snyder, 2014). When a person reads a fictional book, it is regularly written in a narrative text. This kind of typescript expresses a line of the plot and generally applies a lot of sentiments. The contrast to this kind of theme is the expository text that serves to deliver factual information in a way that is instructive and persistent. The expository text is fact-founded with the determination of revealing the actuality by the means of a dependable resource. The factual and thoughtful expository text will emphasize on enlightening and instructing the person who reads it. Other descriptors of explanation are unblemished, summarizing, and systematized inscription. The expository text achieves its purpose rapidly and proficiently (Daniels & Bizar, 2005). To better understand the purpose of an expo
The Bank of Thailand was promulgated on 16 th April 1942, and started operations on the same year. According to the BOT’s Act B.E. 2485, the objective of the bank was to develop a strong monetary and fiscal policies through printing, issuing out and regulating flow of banknotes and other security documents; promoting the stability of monetary strategy together with formulating money policies; managing the assets of the BOT; providing banking facilities to the government as well as acting as the registrar for the government bonds; it was also involved in provision of banking facilities to the financial institutions; establishing or supporting the payment system establishment; supervising and examining the financial institutions; managing the foreign exchange rate of the country in relation to the foreign exchange system together with managing the assets in the currency reserve with regard to the Currency Act; and finally controlling the foreign exchange with regard to the exchange control act (Monetary and Capital Markets and Asia and Pacific Departments, 2008). Over the years, the bank’s operations have evolved with the current money environment and several changes have be effected in its operations, for instance an amendment on the Bank’s act. B.E.2485 was made, aimed at emphasizing on BOT’S social responsibility which was targeted on creating a mechanism in guarding against the economic crisis. In addition the amendment was entitled to setting up a process of decision making that would ensure good governance as well as transparency in the organization, increasing public knowledge concerning its operations. The Bank of Thailand introduced the unremunerated reserve requirement (URR) on 18 December 2006 after the country’s economy largely suffered on economic instability, particularly at the time when demand or consumer consumption was minimal pushing the economy to relay on the robust export growth. This was attributed to the “short-time capital inflows” as well as “one-way speculation” which was observed on the Thai baht which contributed to its excessive volatility. As a result, the URR was provided to deal with this situation by determining how the Thailand bank conducts its services. Consequently, the URR measures resulted to reduction of pleasure of the baht speculation and have ensured that the stability and movement of baht goes in line with the regional currency. However, the BOT realized that URR measure had unfavorable effects on the financial costs of those businesses that needed to raise their funds from foreign investors in Thailand, hence reduced the measure over a period of time (Gyntelberg et al, 2009). However, after consideration of the changes in the environmental and other related factors, the BOT decided to resume the URR mea
A few of the well-known plots of Greek and, subsequently, Roman myths involve the references to specific political concerns, for example, when one party strives against another for the throne. Such mythological concept did not appear occasionally, but rather it was a lesson, conveyed through the story to the hearers of the myth. The literary sources have always been an easy source for reshaping and served as a convenient platform for spreading contemporary political opinions. However, there were numerous reasons for the introduction of such political subtext into the fabric of the mythological narrative, and this research intends to address some of them, citing authoritative sources. Most of the known literary sources of Ancient Greece belong to the Archaic. The period when myths were transformed from oral to written stories and eventually took on their final form, and the Classical Period, when Greek tragedians and historians have reached the peak of their creativity, leaving various written sources, some of which have survived until the present day 1 . At least three of the most famous literary masterpieces of antiquity, Homer’s “Iliad” and “Odyssey,” and Hesiod’s “Theogony” belong to the archaic period of Greek history. All of them include instances of political opposition, both real and allegoric. For example, the Iliad shows the confrontation between men, manifesting in a war between Troy and Greece, and gods, illustrated by examples of Poseidon opposing Apollo, with an allegoric meaning of water standing against fire, et cetera. The rulers of Troy represent the opposing qualities, as well: Priam is shown as a kind and compassionate but weak ruler who is unable to override the decisions of the corrupted council and his own son, Paris. At the same time, Paris is seen not as a single villain of the story, but more of an egoistic and self-centered youth, who puts his desires above everything else, and who is corrupted enough to bribe the council of Troy to confront the decisions of his father. Homer is the first teller of the ancient myth about the Trojan war to both attract sympathy for the Trojans and warn against the flaws of such a government. Indeed, the rulers of Troy in the Iliad are seen as the main source of trouble from the human point of view, without regard to the will of gods
The case study involves Cannon Associates, which is a sales firm located in Richmond. Rick James is the sales manager who has been in the company for a number of years. His responsibilities involve managing 16 sales associates working on different regions, as well as inside sales representatives. The employed sales representative’s ages range from 20 to around sixty years. The sales manager has been hiring sales representatives who are young as he believes they have a high potential, motivated and goal oriented. Looking at his career, he got the job while young and inexperienced salesperson, which may be reason, believes in hiring young sales representatives. His opinion is that with training and mentorship, this group of young people will lead the company future. Rick frustration Despite Rick’s efforts to help the company grow despite the age difference between the workers, there has been a gap between the young salesmen and the old sales representatives. This situation has been a serious threat in the running of the company. The older sales representatives claim that the young salesmen are not quick to learn and do not want to accept their failures. The young sales complain that the older generation looks down upon them and do not trust their work ethics. The internal complains in the company has become so remorseful that he spends most of time solving the disputes between the two groups. This is a situation which can lead to loss of accounts. A customer call confirms his situation is worsening. The customer says she has seen the tension created in sales personnel. Rick needs an immediate action so that he can save the firm from impending disaster. Taking action after n
Introduction Business research may be defined as a process of obtaining detailed information that will be beneficial in maximizing business profit. In practice, business research helps organizations determine sustainable and demandable products, services, and strategies for business growth. Business research has the same stages as any research process. First of all, scholars select the problem or theme for research. It should be sustainable, practical, relatively significant, succinct, and ethically acceptable. The second step in the in-depth review of literature related to the defined problem. Scholars subsequently develop a hypothesis, prepare the design of research, develop the plan of observation, and collect essential data. Researchers analyze gathered information to confirm or reject the hypothesis and develop the report to describe the conducted research. This work represents the review of ten scholar articles that contain the researches in the sphere of retailing. The study of customer satisfaction and loyalty, inner store practices and their influence on consumers, and the market situation is currently time-sensitive and actual. Nowadays, people have a substantial choice of low-scale and large-scale retail stores, and the investigation of factors that influence customer preferences are essential for successful operation. The articles were chosen due to their detailed and substantial investigations that will help to examine the methods of business research in detail. The purpose of this paper is to identify all stages of research in reviewed articles and compare the studies for the understanding of business research process principles. Summary of Reviewed Articles Customer Satisfaction and Preferences As retail chain stores gained popularity among people in recent years, a substantial number of scholars currently pay attention to this sector of business to examine it from various perspectives. Rana, Osman, and Islam (2014) conducted research to investigate the main factors of customer satisfaction with retail chain stores located in Bangladesh. For the study, the consumers of three large retail chain stores were interviewed, and their feedback was thoroughly analyzed. The study detected that customer satisfaction indicates the store’s level of quality. To meet consumers’ expectations, owners and managers focus on four fundamental elements – product quality, pricing policies, responsiveness, and physical design (Rana, Osman, & Islam, 2014). Moreover, responsiveness and product quality were indicated as the most significant factors of customer satisfaction. The work considers highly beneficial as its results contribute to the substantial growth of the retail chain store sector. The connection between customer satisfaction and loyalty was investigated by Biscaia, Rosa, Moura e Sá, and Sarrico (2017). In their work, authors collected data with the help of a survey “based on the European Customer Satisfaction Index (ECSI) model” that was applied to the customers of one sports retail store in Portugal (Biscaia, Rosa, Moura