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Hospital’s Mission An organization cannot be effective in its duties and objective if it does not have a well-defined mission. A mission therefore guides the actions and activities of an organization as well as providing standards for the organization (Daft, 2009). As a major and a developed organization children hospital of Los Angeles has a mission statement that directs its operations. The hospitals mission statement is not only important to the hospital and but also to the people and state. Children are the future generation and therefore taking care of their health needs is investing in the future. The Los Angeles children hospital noted this fact and set “creating hope and building a healthier futures” as their mission. This mission statement is an all-inclusive mission since it covers the guiding principles of the hospital as an organization and an institution and in addition, it provides the hospitals objectives. The children hospital of Los Angeles mission gives its main role as creation of hope through provision of quality healthcare services. This role then defines the goals and objectives that every stakeholder in the hospital should achieve for the hospital to achieve its main mission. This role also requires that the hospital should be competent and for that reason, the hospital should have the latest technologies, knowledge and staff. This makes the hospital to define its next sub-mission as to be a leading pediatric research institution. After combining the two sub-missions, the children hospital of Los Angeles then forms its main mission statement as building of a healthier future. A healthier future is not only important to the hospital but also to the entire community and this proves the importance of the hospitals mission (Daft, 2009). Importance of the mission Human beings work better under guidelines and therefore the mission states the necessary guidelines and standards that guide staff within an organization (Daft, 2009). In addition to providing guidelines, the mission also provides the hospital with goals and objectives that it needs to achieve within a set timeframe. Life is not without limits and therefore the hospital has its own limits and boundaries on its operation and activities. The hospital’s mission therefore defines the scope within which the hospital should operate and the hospital staff knows what is expected of them. Services provided Finally, from the mission statement, the hospital has a role to play in the society and therefore the statement reminds the hospital management that the hospital has a duty to the society. The main duty of the hospital according to the mission is to ensure a healthy future generation by providing quality healthcare. The children’s hospital of Los Angeles provides variety of services that are in line with the hospitals mission. The hospital therefore offer both inpatient and outpatient healthcare services whereby it provides specialized treatment and treatment of minor problems. In addition to this, the hospital offer surgical services to all children with cases that require surgery. The hospital mainly deals with the treatment of the common c
Introduction First aid is a significant issue in educational facilities that should be addressed and considered. Often, many students encounter situations in which they may require first aid. This paper describes the selected topic and presents its key definitions. It explains the current state of the issue and highlights the significance of the problem. The report also features a research question and a research problem. To support the presented claims, a literature review is provided as well. Finally, the paper presents a concept map related to first aid in schools. Research Topic The topic presented in this paper is first aid in schools. Hirca (2018) reports that, unfortunately, many students receive significant injuries in educational facilities. Some of them occur during experimental activities, such as science, athletics, and outdoor classes (Wendy et al., 2018; Schneider, Meeteer, Nolan, & Campbell, 2017). It is vital to note that experiments and the implementation of innovative approaches to learning are vital for positive student outcomes, which means that injuries should not prevent teachers from using active learning techniques (Hirca, 2018). However, it is crucial to provide students with first aid; educators should have enough knowledge and skills to perform necessary urgent interventions. Sharma (2017) reports that first aid is the application of emergency treatment to an injured individual that does not involve complex medical equipment. Pellegrino et al. (2017) add that first aid should be grounded clinically and supported technically but, in reality, can often be considered a natural human response to an emergency. School staff should be able to address students’ injuries timely and have the necessary capacities to implement appropriate first aid measures. Unfortunately, evidence reveals that many teachers, administrators, students, and parents cannot support students in case of an emergency. Various studies by Hirca (2018), De Buck et al. (2015), Pandey et al. (2017), Baginska, Rodakowska, Milewski,, Wilczynska-Borawska, and Kierklo (2016), and Keleş, Yildirim, and Aydin (2015) show that educators may be not competent to provide first aid. Thus, it is evident that several interventions are needed to eliminate the possibility for poor health outcomes among students due to inappropriate or untimely first aid measures. They should address ineffective school policies related to the issue. Research Question The research question that can be outlined is: Is there a relationship between schools’ first aid policies and the welfare of learners and educators? An independent variable is schools’ first aid policies; a depende
Introduction The racial progress that America achieved as a result of the 2008 Presidential elections was a long way coming. It had always been known that the American society, based on its racial diversity, would one day shake off the shackles of negative racism and put in office a president of a different race other than a white (Kenski et al. 5). For African Americans, the march of Barack Obama towards the American presidency was the culmination of a long journey that started in the farmlands of the South during times of slavery. Even after the North had abolished slavery, the South still held on to it for as long as possible. However, the abolition of slavery only meant social justice and without a right to political representation and voting rights, racial liberties still eluded African Americans (Kenski et al. 7). The civil rights movement of the 1960s sought to ensure that, among other things, the right to political representation was guaranteed to all persons of colour in America. It was only through political representation that America’s endemic racial shortcomings could be dealt with. The idea behind the clamour for racial equality was for the nation to put equality measures into action so as to ensure that all Americans have equal opportunities (Dwyer et al. 223). Prior to the candidature of Obama, many persons of colour had entered and successfully secured elective positions in various sections of American representation. Many had vied for and won state legislatures, local councils, state governorship, state senate, US congress, and even the US senate. Still, none had made a serious presidential bid that had gotten off the ground. Few such as civil rights activist Jesse Jackson had tried but failed to go anywhere past the primaries (Kenski et al. 15). This paper examines how racial undertones and outright racism influenced the election of Barack Obama into office. The paper examines Obama’s ascent to the presidency on the basis of a variety of topics. To begin with, the more general aspects of American presidential politics are observed, before narrowing down to the specifics that president Obama’s election represented. The issues that this paper brings out include white prejudice, racial stereotyping, the Bradley effect, racial cooperation, and national progress among others. American Presidential elections The American presidential system is truly a marvel when it comes to political leadership and the governance of a vast democracy (Polsby et al. 89). The founding fathers, in their wisdom, had realised that in order for
Introduction Dietrich Mateschitz, the founder of Red Bull Company, has experienced enormous success over the year, since his entry in the beverage industry. Dietrich knew the competitive nature of the industry, with giants like the Coca-Cola Company. However, with proper planning and management, he has made his products known globally. Body Relating to Porter’s new market entrants model, Dietrich has ventured into the media industry. His plan is to advertise his products globally and increase revenue through market expansion. However, his entry into media is not yet profitable, but he envisions success in the future. This may be viewed as a threat to other companies; therefore, he must be creative in order to beat competitors. His main objective is to venture in media. The article indicates that Red Bull sold at least 4.2 billion cans last year, meaning the target buyers have a high-purchasing power. This has led to the company amassing great revenue. The superior quality of the product makes Red Bull the product of choice, since many buyers opt for it from other drinks. Red Bull Company has a great supplying capacity, since it supplies its products globally. The company sold over of 4.2 billion cans with its various markets all over the globe. With careful planning of Dietrich, Red Bull’s markets are still expanding through proper advertising strategies. Dietrich’s entry into media demonstrates Porter’s competitive model of product and technology development. With the development of media technology, Dietrich will increase revenue, when their venture in media begins to bear fruits. Consequently, markets will also expand through various advertising methods. Dietrich’s company has a number of competitors that produce similar products such as the Coca-Cola Company. The competition is high between Red Bull and these established firms. Dietrich has overcome such competition by producing high-quality products, favored by an increasing trend of buyers. Conclusion Dietrich has used his skills in planning to expand his company globally. Moreover, through his careful planning, he managed to venture into media. His strategy was to advertise his products. Additionally, this venture will also increase the company’s annual revenue, when it becomes profitable.
Abstract In the article Culture, leadership, and power: the keys to organizational change, Ronald W. Clement (1994) argues that organizational culture factors directly in the success or failure of major change efforts. By analyzing three major corporations – General Motors, IBM and Sears – Clement (1994) points to the importance of culture, specifically systems of rule within companies, and how it affects attempts to implement major restructuring or change efforts. Introduction Ronald W. Clement’s (1994) article Culture, leadership, and power: the keys to organizational change, discusses the role of power in organizational culture in major change efforts. Clement argues that for change efforts to succeed, they “must consider three key features of organizational life: the firm’s culture, the leadership of the change effort, and the existing network of power” (Clement 1994). Clement (1994) examines three large companies – IBM, Sears, and General Motors – with a specific focus on the importance of leadership in change efforts, specifically, that “top management…must lead the change effort” (Clement 1994). Clement’s (1994) analysis distinguishes slightly between IBM, Sears and General Motors, arguing that the power relationships of the top management teams at IBM and General Motors may be too entrenched to facilitate the level of transformation needed to turn the businesses around. Clement’s (1994) advice remains the same across all the firms’ situations in the realm of leadership itself, however; Clement firmly believes that leadership “cannot be delegated” to external parties and must “lead by example” to inspire stakeholder buy-in (Clement 1994). Discussion Clement’s (1994) focus on leadership highlights some obvious yet oft-forgotten principles of any successful change management effort – “Top management needs to demonstrate visible and consistent support for change” (Clement 1994). Essentially, top management cannot simply talk about team building; it needs to actively participate in team building to provide a working model of expected behaviors for employees. Top management also needs to demonstrate the validity of the change effort directly, through quantifiable results such as “profits, productivity, or quality of work-life” (Clement 1994). Leadership styles also contribute directly to a successful change effort. Positive leaders who employ training, delegation and incentives typically motivate change efforts more efficiently, while punitive employers may shut down change efforts before they even begin (Clark n.d). Clement’s (1994) article elucidates two fine points on the nature of power in business, namely, that power can be construed as an emotional and therefore qualitative variable, which explains why it often does not factor in the discussion of any organization’s culture. In Clement’s (1994) words, “excluding power as a topic of discussion also assured the general public (espec
Introduction In today’s world aggression is overwhelmingly present in the life of every one of us. Many times we do not feel its presence due to its form. Likewise in today’s media world, aggression is very much present. In fact, many authors go on so far to say that it has became an integral part of the human life since the beginning of the twentieth century (Akert et al., 4). If we are to define aggression in psychology, as well as other social and behavioral sciences, we will refer to a certain behavior between members of the same species that is intended to cause pain or harm (Akert et al., 6). This definition is taken from one of the best books in the field of social psychology, and yet it fails to explain two key terms; what does it mean by “harm” and “pain”? When we hear that someone behaved aggressively, there is one picture in our head: person had just either beaten up someone or vulgarly offended. But forms of agression varies and some of them are more subtle. Many times we think that we cause harm and pain only when we attack physically people or when they became the object of our offensive verbal expressions. The essay that we are going to analyse here, “Perfect Aggression”, has as primary intention to show that aggression is more than that. in the lines and pages to come we will try to critically evaluate its objective and the target audience it wants to address. The power of the media has well been noted and spoken about. The printing press was one of the major innovations of the ninetieth century. In the pages to come we will analyse the topic & genre that the essay addresses, the target market, and previous publications, a sort of literary review. Topic and genre The topic is one of extremely importance. Aggression is an act that opens the door to a multitude of other problems on the personal or societal level. It is the trampoline that makes a person “jump” to other actions, most of them being classified as criminal actions. But aggression is also considered to be an action that influences other people. There have been many studies regarding the effects that the wide demonstration and reporting of violence and aggression in the media has had on the public audience that follows those media. As a genre, aggression within the media is categorized as violence, being that physical or verbal. Within this genre there are subcategories, or sub genres, of individual or family crimes, offensive behavior against somebody, physical attack on another, etc. the newspapers are full of these kind of reporting. The kind of essay we are analyzing here is not a report on an act of violence, or an act of aggression in general. It can be categorized more as itself a kind of demonstrative analysis of the subject. True, its topi
The terms “jail” and “prison” refer to two different correctional facilities even though many people use them interchangeably. These two facilities have the same goals and objectives but differ in the means that they use to achieve them. They both fall under the correctional facilities umbrella and offer different services that are meant to help offenders reform. However, many differences distinguish them. These include their mode of operation, the size of facilities, the source of funding and the length of sentence for offenders. First, a jail is a place where people who are under lawful detention are apprehended while a prison is a place where convicted people are confined (Doak, 1999, p.29). Therefore, jails are for people who are awaiting trial for various crimes and misdemeanors while prisons are for people who have been convicted for committing crime (Doak, 1999, p.29). In most cases, jail sentences last for less than one year. On the other hand, the length of a prison sentence is much longer than a jail sentence and may be even for a lifetime. Once convicted, a felon may serve a sentence that may range from a few months to several years. Secondly, jails and prisons differ in the number of amenities they offer. Jails have fewer amenities compared to prisons because they confine offenders for short periods of time (Doak, 1999, p.30). Examples of amenities provided for people in jail include food, safety, clothing and housing. Some jails offer additional amenities such as work release programs and vocational services to help offenders deal with personal problems such as drug and substance abuse. In contrast, prisons offer a greater variety of amenities to offenders. These amenities include work release programs, recreation, vocational training, entertainment facilities, housing, food and clothing (Doak, 1999, p.30). These amenities are important because most inmates spend a greater portion of their life in prison. Thirdly, prisons and jails differ in their source of funding. Jails often have limited funding because they are managed by counties and cities while prisons have more funding because they are managed by the state or federal government (Kelly, 1999, p.35). Jails have fewer and smaller facilities and can only hold a limited number of people. Prisons have larger facilities and confine more people because they receive more funding. A prison holds more people than a jail does and the prisoners are grouped based on the type of crime they were convicted for (Kelly, 1999, p.35). This is measure is undertaken as a safety precaution because some prisoners are extremely dangerous. Fourthly, the facilities found in prisons are larger and more tightly secured unlike in jails where facilities are smaller and less tightly secured (Kelly, 1999, p.38). In countries that allow capital punishment, prisons have facilities to perform capital punishment in addition to special housing facilities for these prisoners. In contrast, jails lack capital punishment facilities and prisoners are not segregated as they are in prisons. Prisons are tight
When it comes to discussing the discursive significance of photography, it is important to understand that, as a representational art-medium, it emerged because of the pace of a technological progress having assumed clearly defined exponential subtleties. In its turn, this presupposes that the art of photography is not only being technologically intense, but that this art’s conceptual legitimacy reflects the perceptual/cognitive sophistication of those who are expected to appreciate it. This, of course, challenges the conventional paradigm of art, as a ‘thing in itself’. Apparently, the rise of photography implies that the very notion of aesthetics cannot be thought of outside of what appears to be the discursively predetermined manner, in which intellectually advanced individuals tend to perceive the surrounding socio-cultural reality. The validity of this suggestion can be illustrated in regards to a number of photos, which now enjoy a certain ‘cult’ status. For example, even though that the 1930 photograph Pepper by Edward Weston depicts a rather commonplace vegetable, which people get to consume regularly, the photo’s object can be described as anything but ordinarily looking. One of the reasons for this is that there is a strong sexual appeal to it. Nevertheless, in order for just about anyone to confirm the validity of this suggestion, and consequently to be able to appreciate the artwork in question, he or she needs to be cognitively attuned with what happened to be the 20 th century’s probably most important discourse – the discourse of sexuality. Alexander Rodchenko’s 1925 photograph Man on the Ladder , can also be referred to, as such confirm the legitimacy of the idea that every historical era defines the measure of the affiliated artwork’s aesthetic appeal. As it can be well seen in this photo, the author used a rather unusual viewpoint, while taking it. In its turn, this reflected the fact that during the course of the 20 th century’s initial phase, the classical conventions of physics have been thoroughly revised, due to the emergence of the Theory of Relativity. This, of course, created objective preconditions for photographers to consider it fully appropriate to strive to exploit people’s anxieties, in regards this theory’s discursive implications. The invention of digital photography provided photographers with a yet additional instrument of ensuring that potential spectators would be intrigued, while exposed to the digitally mastered photographic artworks, such as combining a few different images into a single one, in order to emphasize the sheer intensity of the action depicted. The 1995 photographic collage Self-Destruction by Chen Chieh-Jen exemplifies this statement perfectly well. Apparently, while creating the earlier mentioned collage, Chieh-Jen was perfectly aware of what accounts for the essence of contemporary people’s aesthetic longings – such as their taste for savoring the graphic details of death. Essentially the same can be said about what accounts for the discursively defined aesthetic appeal of the photographic images of those people who jumped out of the Twin