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Introduction and Overview Product marketing is a complex phenomenon that requires a good understanding on the concepts of the product and subject consumer segments. The phenomenon incorporates a wide range of elements that comprise the product, consumer preferences, marketing environment, and the society. By using theories like symbolic interactionism and looking glass self; marketers develop products that are in line with consumer preferences. Symbolic interactionism focus on the society and self in development of a meaning that objects have on individuals based on social interactions and personal interpretations. Consequently, looking glass self is a theory, which explains that people derive the significance of a product using the perspectives of others and individual interpretations. Smart marketers follow the concepts of the theories in designing products that are successful in the market. Therefore, the essay examines how marketers use the theories of ‘symbolic interactionism’ and ‘looking glass self’ to get consumers purchase their products, create self-identity, and highlight the social value of their product offerings. The Theories Used and the Examples The theories used in the essay are ‘symbolic interactionism’ and ‘looking glass self’. During the process of product design and promotion, the theories play an integral part in creation of a product image and identify before the potential consumers in the target market. The theories not only help the marketers identify the preferences of the clients, but also facilitate conversion of these preferences and expectations into finished products. Presently, several potential clients in the society value their money and equate the quality of products with their attached monetary value. Lamb, Hair, and McDaniel (2009) elucidate that marketers need to design products that match client demands and expectations. Apple Company is very practical in the use of the theory of looking glass self in marketing its products. Furthermore, MacDonald Company uses the theory of symbolic interactionism to promote the identity of its products before its prospective clients. The Theories of Symbolic Interactionism and Looking Glass Self Symbolic interactionism is a theory, which explains that people define the meaning of objects using the perspectives developed through interactions with others around them. The theory uses society and people as its main premises. In asserting the essence of the society and interaction in image development, the theory highlights that an isolation of the individual and the environment is not possible. According to Reynolds and Herman-Kinney (2003), the theory states that individuals need to interact with others in the society so that they develop the image of an object. After the interactions with others in the society, the individuals then ascribe the meaning of an object or product using a process of interpretation. The theory of looking glass self explains that individuals develop the meaning of objects or products using the perspectives of others around them. The theory states that people look at the acti
The United States of America created its constitution in the year 1787 during the Philadelphia convention. The constitution was ratified in 1789 by eleven states. The Americans declared independence on 4 th July 1776 which enabled them to raise an army under the command of George Washington. The Philadelphia convention of 1787 was the one under which the Southern and Northern States reached a compromise concerning the status of the black slaves. This was done to enable effective distribution of taxes, as well as the apportionment of the members of the United States. The New Jersey and Virginia states presented their plans in view of the constitution convention. The Virginia plan stated that every state should had representation in the government, member who would be the representatives of the population. This plan could give Virginia more representation in the congress since it was the most populated state. The New Jersey plan, on the other hand, proposed that states should be represented by two representatives from each state. However, this called for great compromise to solve this conflict. The nationalists were soon called the federalists. New Jersey proposed for a purely federal state with equal representation for every state. The controversies that emerged were regarding the bill of rights and slavery. Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson showed their ideological differences in regard to the nature of the government favored. As far as Hamilton was concerned, his following was majorly composed of urbanites with interests in seaports while Jefferson’s following advocated for the rights of the rural population and the interest of the southern people. There was an internal competition within the independent America with some factions struggling to have a federalist state, while others were looking for a national state. Hamilton who was a staunch supporter of the central government view argued that it was only through a central government that the citizens could get the economic empowerment. He further asserted that Americans needed credit for commercial activities for the purpose of developing their government. Thomas Jefferson on the other hand supported a decentralized agrarian republic. He recognized the central government, but argued that it should not be so powerful in other respects. Jefferson thoughts were more inclined towards freedom while Hamilton thought in terms of order. The United States required both views of these two great philosophers in order to develop economically. When Jefferson was appointed the secretary of state, a new interpretation of the constitution began. Jefferson supported the introduction and improvement of the state rights, while Hamilton was mainly concerned with the national rights of people. It is important to note that the word slave does not appear in the constitution. However, the constitution provided ample protection for it. The famous three-fifths clause gave the south extra representation in the house. The federal government was given the power to sup
Summary Technological advancement is one of the phenomena taking shape globally. It is considered the best mechanism for speeding up Workflow in an organization. Healthcare systems worldwide have been criticized for failing to meet community needs, especially during the pandemic, as was witnessed recently. Health practitioners spend too much time on paperwork as patients wait in long queues. These and other challenges necessitated the innovation of Electronic Medical Records (EMR). The system can integrate paperwork containing patient information into software-based services or components and share data through the individual end-user’s organizational structure. Leo Pediatric Center (LPC) is one of the facilities, which have recently approved the implementation of EMR to help fast-track its operations. The project is in line with its short-term and long-term strategy to minimize carbon footprint and promote the ongoing green initiative. It can give patients the ability to self-service and ensure their information is secure. Once the EMR project goes live, all the center teams, including clients, will extract data, visualize care, and prevent time wastage by avoiding unnecessary visits. Introduction To compete successfully in modern markets, organizations should embrace and explore opportunities resulting from new technologies. Care delivery, patient safety, and health providers are vital in ensuring sustainable health facilities. As such, improvement at the LPC will ensure challenges associated with documentation, communication, and evaluation are mitigated to pave the way for effective operations. Ambulatory care will be cost-effective, enabling more patients to access the service. Assessment and research will tremendously improve, enhancing the adoption of better methods and innovations. Quality of health care is assured, making life expectancy possible to increase (Scott et al., 2018). Therefore, to ensure these objects are successful, the adoption of EMR should be based on continuous quality improvement. In this paper, the implementation of EMR at LPC is discussed in detail by highlighting the project design from planning and analysis, implementation and testing, and staff and customers’ preparation to “go li
Today, the status of healthcare as a right or a privilege belongs to highly debatable topics. As is stated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights created by the UN, healthcare is recognized as the basic human right that should be guaranteed to all people without regard to their race, age, and financial situation (“Health care issues,” 2018). Personally, I agree with this position and support the opinion concerning the role of healthcare as a human right due to the importance of health services and the outcomes of improving access to them. Speaking about human rights, we usually mean the aspects of life or needs to be met in order to guarantee at least the basic level of well-being. Healthcare belongs to such needs since without an opportunity to get timely and high-quality medical services, the human society would not be able to develop since all attention would be paid to physical survival. If healthcare is considered a privilege, it means that any citizen should make specific efforts to become eligible to medical services, which does not align with the principle of equality (“Health care issues,” 2018). For instance, the need to buy insurance plans to get help involves significant difficulties since some people’s income levels are very low due to different factors. As for me, all citizens should have the right to healthcare since they contribute to the country’s economic development and growth. Finally, access to necessary healthcare services is among the key factors related to the quality of life and demonstrating the degree to which citizens are protected. The willingness to recognize healthcare as a right can lead to positive consequences such as increases in access to basic medical services (see Fig.1). Importantly, the latter can improve the health of the nation, which is particularly important when it comes to low-income populations. In a long-term perspective, these changes can increase workforce productivity, thus facilitating further economic development. Fig.1. Health for all (WHO, 2017).
Introduction Quality planning is highly attributed to identification of organizational customers, both internal and external. Planning of quality serves as a successful driver for an organization to acquire its intended end results. The business community has already identified the key factors that lead to achievement of clearly defined organizational objectives, owing to the current competitive business situation. Organizational failure often occurs due to lack of appropriate identification of internal and in addition to target customers. A number of factors are considered vital in quality planning within an organization. First, a company’s products and services that it offers to its clients determine the nature of organizational value, performance, and productivity. Essential competitive advantage is gained by production of competitive and easy to market products brands or services. Secondly, customers are the main center of sales for a company, since their inadequacy would spell organizational discontinuity or poor market scope. Thus, it is very vital for a company to be able to identify its long sustained clientele as well as target ones through the application of appropriate Customer relationship management strategies. Quality planning affects organizations by attraction of more clientele, Sustainability improvement in addition to performance, productivity, and company value. Corporate social responsibility and competitive advantage also experience also experience a marvelous boost as a result of efficient quality planning application within an organization (Alexander and Harris 87). The discussion in this report is aimed at analyzing quality planning within ADDC in regard to customer identification. The establishment of both internal en external clients of the organization is also deemed crucial, in relation to their needs and benefits. It will also provide an insight on benefits customer identification on project quality improvement. Abu Dhabi Distribution Company (ADDC) Abu Dhabi is one of the largest water and electricity chain companies based in the United Arab Emirates. The company’s operations are mainly governed by ADWEA (Abu Dhabi Water and Electricity Authority) in their water and electricity distribution affairs. This company serves a wide area, both in the country and outside the country, especially in the UAE. Among other products and services, the main products are electricity and water, while the main activities are the distribution of these products
Abstract I must pay glowing tribute to the work of Burian et al (2010) as far as the abstract of this research is concerned. This is because I drew a lot of inspiration from the said authors in matters to with the methodology I used. Thus, in adopting the specific methodology of Burian et al, I chose in principle to align research questions to the research design. The specific point of my evaluation of the methodology is in application in the cases of Riordan Manufacturing, Benedek Medical Technologies, Inc., Haynes Medical Distribution, LLC and Loehr Equipment Company. Burian et al (2010) points out that even though the order of the research is thought to be direct, a researcher’s attempt becomes repetitive (p. 46). Therefore aligning research questions to the research derives its importance to its purpose. The methodology seeks to make interventions of qualitative and quantitative research, as the two methodologies are crucial in determining accurate results. It is important however to mention the fact that a one sided approach cannot guarantee reliable results however empirical. A combination of these two aspects gives value to the research. In following the explanation above, the methodology used in this research will target the various companies using a varied approach to aligning quantitative and qualitative designs to address the research problem. Thus in explaining the two approaches, Burian et al( 2010) noted that the latter helps the researcher to come to terms with the strategies used to market the company’s products thereby exploring approaches and later using the findings to answer the outlined hypotheses. The quantitative approach tries to find out the cause and effect theory i.e. what can be observed by manipulating variables (p. 46). In addition, ethical issues during the research are to be considered, as every process must follow professional ethical standards. The importance and characteristics of effective questions and hypotheses and how to design a research question. One of the key characteristics of an effective research is that which is founded on a well-constituted literature and experiential knowledge of the problem at hand. This means that the literature is relevant throughout the research process for the reason of finding new knowledge that would answer the research questions (Van den Akker et al in press). In addition, carrying out a design based research involves going out to the scope of the study and having firsthand experience of the problem itself so as to ascertain the researc
The article studies the presence of male and female images in sports films. The research addresses three problems: the utilizing of traditional gender behavior in sports films; the reaction of the intended audience to the film: and the implication of sexuality of athletes. The categories regarding sex, behavior, image, and role were formulated. Each category had corresponding coded characteristics. The results revealed that male athletes are depicted in dominating positions. At the same time, ladies in sport are shown with the focus on their beauty and sexuality. As for the athletes’ characteristics, they are more male despite the person’s gender.
Article Description This article describes how the Tarrant County SWIFT court program in Texas has functioned to keep repeat offenders out of the jail system by using short, consistent sanctions to ensure that probationers do not violate their sentence conditions. Unlike traditional probation systems that allow offenders to engage in repeat violations of their sentence conditions before having their probation revoked, the SWIFT program focuses on prompt, attention-getting punishment to change the behaviors of repeat offenders while at the same time keeping them out of prison. For example, “when a SWIFT offender violates a technical condition of probation, such as missing a scheduled meeting, he or she is immediately sent before a judge and often receives a quick punishment, such as a weekend in jail” (Mitchell par. 10). Such a short, consistent form of punishment not only reinforces good behavior among repeat offenders, but also serves as an effective alternative to traditional systems that revolve around probation, revocation, and then prison (Mitchell par. 16). From the article, it is clear that the SWIFT program functions at the same level with another probation program known as HOPE, though the former serves more repeat offenders and is funded at a much lower cost than the latter (Mitchell par. 12-13). Overall, there are many benefits associated with the SWIFT program, with available statistics demonstrating that  1. fewer SWIFT participants have had their probation revoked for technical reasons compared with the county’s regular probation system and statewide figures,  2. more SWIFT participants have stopped violating the conditions of their probation because they know they will get caught and go to jail, and  3. fewer financial resources have been used to supervise offenders in the SWIFT program compared to what is used to house offenders in Texas prisons (Mitchell par. 18-20). Additional Insights This article provides useful insights into how probation officers and other stakeholders in the criminal justice system can use short, consistent sanctions not only to reinforce positive behavior change among repeat offenders, but also to keep them out of prison. The article highlights that the traditional probation’s orientation of allowing offenders to engage in repeat violations of their sentence conditions before having their probation revoked is no longer attractive as it reinforces a prison culture that is costly to maintain, not mentioning that it does not always contribute to positive behavior change among offenders. It is evident from the article that repeat offenders are more willing to change their behaviors and reform when they have prior knowledge that they risk being swiftly and consistently exposed to sanctions as long as they continue to violate their probation or sentence conditions. Consequently, it can be argued that the swiftness and con
As it can be seen from the case study, the medical instruments company faced a problem of implementation of the new software among its employees. The software, Executive Information System, seemed to work well for the limited number of users, namely the top management and the solution developers. EIS was marked by a robust functionality, compliance with the key business requirements and engaging user-friendly interface. But in a month the software began to falter which was reflected in slow response to mass online requests, often inadequate information in the produced reports and problems with the users log in. The EIS sponsor decided to hire a quality specialist Scott Daniels who was to solve the existing problems develop a plan to avoid them for the future. However, the specific underlying causes of software problems are not specified suggestions can still be made. The key technical matter of concern could be the weak back-end support of the EIS software. The system may have been elaborately developed but, for instance, the data used in the system could be placed on weak servers (be it cloud-based or internal company servers). The software could have problems with optimization. The hardware capacity in the company could also be insufficient for fast running of the EIS. Moreover, is obvious that the employees did not get any training on how to use the system properly. The employees would apply the method of trial-and-errors and fail to arrive at any solution, thus, creating extra problems for the EIS tech support department. Nowadays it becomes crucial for the company to ensure the training of its personnel, training becomes an “investment – in your employee’s success, your ultimate success, and your organization’s ability to meet and exceed business expectations” (Fina, 2009, p. 63). Among the key factors of the i
Marketing Assessment: Lush Cosmetics In the industry of cosmetic products, the majority of companies have a particular target audience which mostly includes women of different ages, occupations, and cultural values. The company Lush Cosmetics, however, produces advertisements and goods that actively oppose the idea of female and male markets being separated in product selection and usage. Therefore, its analysis may reveal which details of the brand positioning statement contribute to this idea and whether they are effective in attracting a specific target audience. The 5Cs’ of Lush Cosmetics begin with customers – the company offers a variety of cosmetic and hygiene products that are considered essential by the majority of people. For example, shampoos and shower gels, as well as soaps, are bought by people on a monthly basis. Other items such as face cleansing products may be bought more or less frequently depending on the customer’s needs. As a company, Lush satisfies then needs of customers in providing a wide variety of personal hygiene products. However, the competition in the industry is extremely high if one includes all types of hygiene companies (Komatsu Cipriani S3536). The main competitors are “green cosmetics” firms such as the Body Shop that offers cruelty-free, vegetarian products,