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The concept of servant leadership is hailed due to its regard for human functioning. In this approach, the manager assumes a collaborative attitude. The guiding principle is that of participative leadership. A three step approach guided by foundation, feedback and friction is recommended (Anit & Maayan, 2006). In foundation, the manager sets the standards through training his team on required behaviours and skills in leadership. Employees are trained in leadership skills, active listening, character development and constructive discipline. Once this is done, gaps are identified and in this step the manager is also a leader using the same approach. In the friction level, goals that are measurable are set and behaviour changes are measured. This is accomplished using a Continuous Improvement Panel, which is a tool that ensures individual behaviour is improved until it becomes the desired behaviour. It is also recommended that the manager in such a case develops the virtues of empathy, healing of one’s inner self and of others and also awareness of both self and general awareness. He must be able to conceptualize or create a personal vision beyond day to day realities. Above all, he needs to be a good steward and committed to the growth of people. Spears (2005) asserts that the manager must be able to listen to others and have foresight. In general, any manager who wants to assume this model must instill, in his employees and to himself, the principle that leadership is cooperative and collaborative. The manager must teach the concept of desire to serve first and encourage trust, listening and ethical use of power. The manager can use this approach to maintain status quo and stress on long established goals and principles of his organization. On the other hand, transformational leadership has its stress on identification of needed change, creating a vision among the employees through inspiration and executing the change with full support and commitment of the employees. The best approach is to inject enthusiasm and energy into everything he cares about and thus luring people to work towards his vision (Tim & Barbara, 2007). The steps involved include first developing a vision. The manager stresses on features and benefits of his vision and gets proposals. A plan is then created and followers sought once the idea has been well articulated. The manager must lead by example and accept some failures. In this step, recognize those who take charge to help you. The manager then focuses on motivating the organization, taking feedback and inspiring everyone to work towards achieving the organization’s goal. The final but continuous step is to celebrate small and big victories that come along in the implementation of your goals as the manager. The manager can use several channels like newsletters, meetings a
LensCrafters is a global company that specializes in prescription eyewear and sunglasses. It has more than ninety stores in California alone, making it the largest optical outlet in the U.S. The company is one of the subsidiaries of Luxottica, the Italian company that is the world’s biggest eyewear provider.It was founded in the year 1983. Lens Crafters CBP LensCrafters Customer Benefit Design is configured to provide convenience in the access of eye examination, a wide range of frames and lenses from which to choose from in accordance with a customer’s design preference at a competitive price, as well as a guarantee of ninety days that is unconditional. The company offers the most luxurious and fashionable eyewear. The three key characteristics of LensCrafters at this level are service delivery, system design and service encounter design. Service Delivery LensCrafters delivers quality service through a couple of strategies. They have a one-year Eyewear Protection Plan that offers repair and replacement of all eyewear purchased within one year. The repair and replacement are only offered in the event of an accidental damageor the normal wear and tear. The kind of eyeglasses one wears say a lot about them. For that reason, LensCrafters providesa wide variety of frames that complement a person’s style, while at the same time fitting their lifestyle (Diamond 6). System Design LensCrafters offers a digital measurement system that ensures that their customers get glasses that are specifically crafted for them. This saves customers of the trouble involved in going through a variety of lenses and frames in search of the one that is fitting and desired. The eyewear design at LensCrafters offers has unique features such as the Virtual Mirror that enables one to take digital images. Service Encounter Design The company’s Customer Benefit Design also includes service encounter designs that are fashioned to cater for the customers with special lifestyles. For instance, the Ray-Ban design is a special modification to suit customers that live an active and vigorous lifestyle. The design includes a memory metal material fitted on the spectacles to force the frame into its design shape whenever it encounters pressure of any kind. Lens Crafters’ Strategy LensCrafters’ survival strategies involve meeting their clients’ requirements quickly and consistently. For many years now, the company has managed to offer customers the desired eyewear within about one hour. This gives their customers the impression that the company understands that they operate in tight schedules. This drives a purchasing decision, especially those who do not have the time to shop around. The company has also diversified
Introduction The recruitment of foreign nurses remains a controversial issue in the United States’ hospitals. The current rise in numbers of patient and a decline in the number of qualified professional nurses in the United States have created a necessity to hire nurses from foreign countries. In addition, lack of trained personnel in public health nursing has also created the need to recruit foreign nurses (Cherry & Jacob, 2008). It has been forecasted that, by the year 2020, there will be an acute shortage of nurses in the United States. This situation has made the United States government and private health providers establish an immediate short-term intervention measure of recruiting foreign nurses to resolve the issue before it gets out of control (Ellis & Hartley, 2004). The U.S. government and private hospitals have taken steps to address the shortage. This was achieved by recruiting foreign nurses irrespective of their country of origin for as long as the nurses meet the federal recruitment requirements. For a foreigner to qualify for recruitment as a nurse in US, one must satisfy the stipulated federal requirements and abide by the rules and regulations of the American Organization of Nurses Executives (AONE). Cultural and ethical considerations must be taken into account by the recruitment agency or firm (Brown & Brown, 2011). The terms and duration of service must be put into consideration. In most cases, companies hire foreign educated nurses for the duration of two to three years. They are hired on a contract that can be renewed upon expiry (Hammaker & Tomlinson, 2011). History of Recruitment of Foreign Nurses in the U.S The policy on recruitment of foreign nurses in the United States hospitals has been in existence for the last fifty years. The US has been hiring nurses from India, Nigeria, and Philippines among many other countries in the world. The recruitment of foreign nurses has been prevalent since the number of patients in the US hospitals has been escalating persistently over the years (Hammaker & Tomlinson, 2011). In the year 1995, approximately ten thousand nurses from foreign countries received licenses as registered nurses in the United States. In the year 1990, the number of firms that brought foreign educated nurses was high due to the high demand of nurses. By the year 2007, the United States was experiencing a shortage of nurses. On the other hand, the mortality rate in the U.S. hospitals during this period was on the rise. The federal government processed of Visa to foreign nurses so as to offer a temporary respite. During this period, numerous nurses from Philippine were hired, and this led to an increase in the number of Filipino nurse immigrants in the US (Feldman & Alexander, 2012). This situation made almost every U.S. hospital have at least one Filipino nurse. The reduction of availability of Visa supply by the United State government has currently led to shortage of nurses in the U.S. hospitals. Howev
Nowadays, there is not a single person left in this world who has not heard about fast food. At the pace of modern life, people often do not have time to dine fully, and then fast food comes to the rescue. A famous folklorist Margaret Visser explains this phenomenon in her article “The Ritual of Fast Food.” According to her , preordained rules, high common standards, and a family-oriented approach create the whole culture of dining out, which is now an essential part of the world’s daily life. However, the non-chain restaurant industry is flourishing, in part due to people making the conscious choice not to visit fast food places. This essay will analyze the culture of the Surf Club Restaurant in Miami, Florida, to determine its attractions. The name “Surf Club Restaurant” does not immediately evoke a particular image in most people’s minds when they hear it. However, it implies that the restaurant tries to follow the theme of the previous century when organizations similar to the one in its name were the most active. The location’s interior confirms this idea, starting with its generally semi-modern interior that diverges from the classical style without embracing modernity fully and ending with its peculiar water glasses that are available at every table. The restaurant offers a familiar environment to those old enough to remember the fifties and lets younger people experience it. In doing this, it comforts the former and excites the latter at the same time. The food uses a similar approach, attempting to replicate traditional Continental cuisine and bring the customers into the period’s atmosphere. However, it has been adapted for better suitability to modern palates by the renowned chef Thomas Keller. He added a unique touch by having some dishes be finished at the customer’s table, which lets them appreciate the food. A long list of various wines and other beverages is available to complement the experience and make it unique. The prices are much higher than they would be at a fast food location, but the Surf Club Restaurant is getting customers consistently. This tendency proves that customers are willing to pay more to avoid the fast-food experience. Fast food businesses and restaurants such as the one just described relying on different categories of customers. Some people appreciate regional and expertly prepared food, which one cannot get at a fast food location. The food there is standardized and made as similar as possible to avoid straining the often-inexperienced kitchen staff. Others want a relaxed and classy environment for their meetings, whether for work or personal life. Fast food places tend to be busy and have customers move through them quickly, leaving little time for a relaxed conversation. However, the Surf Club Restaurant aims to provide its customers with the best possible experience. To obtain it, people are willing to go out of their way to find lo
In order to survive in the present-day highly competitive and fast-paced business world, companies have to be flexible and quick in adopting new technologies and strategies for further modernization. The globalized market has become largely reliant on IT landscape, which enables organizations to achieve a competitive benefit through agility, scalability, server consolidation, cost optimization, and innovation. The primary objective of any company is to minimize expenses using the available resources in the most efficient way possible. This and a lot of other goals can be obtained with the help of virtualization. (Chowdhury & Boutaba, 2010). If defined in the most general terms, virtualization is an introduction of software abstraction layer (which is called virtual machine monitor or a hypervisor) in-between the physical platform and the operating system. It is now applied in testing, training, production, and other kinds of environments in order to extend independent virtual resources (Metzler, 2011). Besides the demands advanced by the world of IT, virtualization is implemented with a view to economy as it helps reduce power consumption and air conditioning needs of a company. Moreover, it does not require additional space which is always associated with growth (Chowdhury & Boutaba, 2010). If we sum up the major benefits that a company may receive through virtualization, they will run as follows:  1. It helps save energy thereby supporting environment-friendliness. As it has already been mentioned, virtualization saves money spent on electricity and thus contributes to resolving ecological problems (Truong, 2010).  2. It ensures consolidation, which means that fewer physical platforms are required to combine all the workloads. This leads to optimization of hardware, which becomes capable of supporting a number of various environments (Metzler, 2011).  3. It makes server provisioning faster, which guarantees instantaneous capacity of business units on request (Metzler, 2011).  4. It releases from the necessity to stick to one server vendor. Since virtualization abstracts from physical platforms, the company becomes more flexible in choosing equipment (Truong, 2010).  5. It improves recovery from faults. A disaster recovery system is independent from hardware that can be easily replaced when failover is required (Truong, 2010).  6. It increases uptime. The ability to switch from one server to another, which allows immediate recovery from system outages, also ensures continuity (Truong, 2010).  7. It provides isolation of applications, which improves utilization of resources and thereby minimizes server waste (Metzler, 2011).  8. It prolongs life of old applications. Virtualization allows encapsulating applications together with the environment that supports them (Metzler, 2011).  9. It helps join the cloud. Virtualization provides you with storage of an infinite capacity (Truong, 2010). However, even knowing all the advantages
Introduction The title of the film “God Grew Tired of Us” is rather succinctly used by the film maker in order to help audiences understand the plight of the 3 main characters in the movie and how it relates to the greater theme of the plight of people throughout Africa and the Third World. Poverty, as the movie shows, is one of the causes of global conflicts wherein countries, states and various groups continue to fight over increasingly decreasingly resources as people all around them starve to death. It is due to this that it can be assumed that the main reason the film was created was to help create sufficient impetus so as to enact changes to prevent poverty and war through concerted global action. Examining the Movie The movie itself shows a rather strange form of symbolism wherein two contrasts are given to audiences, the first being a world of starvation, pain, hopeless and nothingness as shown by the plight of the 3 boys as they escape from Ethiopia and one filled with intensity, food, abundance and opportunity symbolized by America. It is through this unique contrast that audiences get an understanding on how grossly lopsided the world truly is wherein it can be seen in two extremes namely extreme poverty and extreme wealth, poverty and starvation, and finally opportunity and hopelessness. It is only after realizing these extremes from watching the film that people begin to understand that with these lopsided concentrations currently pervading global society wouldn’t it be a rather simple process of merely sharing the wealth in order to help other people throughout the world? While this question is suggested in numerous themes and instances in the story such as the decision of the boys to help those left behind in the refugee camp on Kakuma a solution is never truly presented by the movie itself. It could be assumed that a possible solution is left to the viewers that the reason why the film was even made in the first place was to have them understand the problems facing numerous individuals in countries around the world and let them make their own decisions as to what must be done. Understanding the Journey of the 3 Boys What must be understood is that the journey undertaken by the 3 boys in the story in unique due to the mere fact that it chronicles lives placed under turmoil in such a succinct manner that audiences cannot help but be concerned about the boys through the film. Death and destruction seems to pervade the various environments the boys go through yet they continue to march forward inextricably drawn towards the potential for a peaceful life somewhere. The film shows how people become fast friends as a result of hardship, that families are created not as a result of blood but joint experiences and suffering and that in the end hoping and acting on a better life will actually bring about such a life in the end. Conclusion The message of the movie is clear; people are suffering around the world due to a lack in resources while there are countries around the world rich enough to help. As such what is needed is a concerted effort in order to ensure that people in places affected by war and starvation are given the
Introduction The trauma faced by the American people and the country itself by the September 121 terrorist attacks have not only had serious repercussions internationally but also seen internal changes within the United States society as the legal changes have affected the basic civil liberties of the people and their constitutional rights. (Stephens 4)In a very short period of time, both the government security and intelligence personnel have been given sweeping powers not only to spy on the citizens of the country without any proof of a crime, but also keep secret proceedings which were done openly in the past, and to implement actions like racial profiling, detentions without any criminal charges. The government agents can carry out clandestine searches and wiretaps without credible reason, to check people’s internet and library use, and to collect the private report. Main body The terrorist strikes of 9/11 together with the possible danger of future attacks have created a huge challenge not only to the government but to the constitution and the civil rights of the American people. The government considers civil liberties as security hazards that necessitate tough administrative action. Restrictions on civil liberties are a result of security procedures. These actions violate the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution: “ The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue” (Fourth Amendment, US Constitution). American History shows that when dangers increase, liberties contract– particularly in wartime. Internal intelligence actions -the secret compilation of information by a government on its own people and legal residents have constantly created a severe threat to personal freedom and rights and also to the constitutional government. Dangers to civil liberties are inbuilt in the very character spying on local population. This is because intelligence obviously functions in secret and, thus, it is very difficult to put intelligence activities under checks and balances, which the founding founders though as essential to prevent abuses of power. When President George Bush defended his action he cited the Article II of the US Constitution. He said: “ the constitutional authority to protect our country. Article II of the Constitution gives me that responsibility and the authority necessary to fulfill it.” (Bush, 2005) However this is not as direct as the president may make sound and above all according to the oath taken by the president he has the supreme responsibility to the Constitution. In the base of President George W Bush the responsibility is being taken too far. The Bush government believes that through restricting the civil liberties the government will be able to protect its people, however history proves otherwise. During the Second World War United states witnessed a dark period when immigrants of Japanese origin were interned. This lack of trust buy the white majority on its immigrant population is therefore not new as today Arabs and Muslims ar
Introduction Take a walk a long a clothe line street or shopping malls and you are bound to encounter numerous of super-cute and fashionable clothes. But have you ever imagined the people behind these admirable products? Its fashion designers’ brilliance that makes the products you see on the clothing lines. Other than clothes, they design other things like shoes, caps, swimsuits, jewelry and a whole range of designer products. Although different designers have different styles, it must be acknowledged that the passion behind such creativity is the same for all. In fact, fashion designers are not merely artists, but creators who toil with good and crude ideas everyday, to come up with fresh products (Jones 21). For them to keep up with expectations of the market and maintain sustainable and fresh ideas, they look for inspiration (Miron 3). Such inspirations can come from their backgrounds (e.g. culture, politics, education, affinity with the past artworks, and their socio-economic level). Notably, fashion is a cycle, i.e. trends that were so popular in the past years often come back with redesigned style (Miron 23). This indicates how designers highly depend on past designs to come up with what becomes a fashion hit in the contemporary world. This paper analyzes two contemporary designers: one international designer, Marc Jacobs and the renowned Canadian designer, Judy Cornish. The analyses involve how their backgrounds influenced their success in the design industry. Marc Jacobs Early Life and Schooling Marc Jacobs is an internationally acclaimed American fashion designer, recognized for his scintillating design works at Marc Jacobs and Marc by Marc Jacobs , where he is the lead designer (The Vogue 1). He is also the Creative director of Louis Vuitton , a giant and internationally acclaimed French-based design house (The Vogue 1). Born in 1963 in New York, Marc went to the prestigious school of arts, The New York High School and later went on to join The University of Art and Design, Parsons , to further his career in design (The Vogue 2). Marc’s environment at young age influenced his passion for art and design in a big way. His early life was spent in a humble background at Teaneck, New Jersey, together with his mother and two younger siblings. Marc got employed at a tender age of 15 as a stock boy in a clothing boutique in the City of New York, where his passion for fashion design developed (Trebay 2). The desire to pursue fashion design as a career was boosted when he was admitted at The New School and later at Parsons , The University of Art and Design, where he later won numerous awards as a budding professional designer. That is, in 1984, he was awarded “Perry Ellis Gold Thimble Award”, an