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Introduction MedTrack is an organization based in the United States of America. The company deals majorly in designing, developing, and marketing information technology solutions to hospitals to assist in keeping better records on its assets. The technology also assists hospitals to keep better track of their drugs in the store. The introduction of advanced technology will further make the hospitals work more efficiently and effectively by saving time and resources. The company management strives to offer better products than its competitors who range from small start-up businesses to big organizations. This paper will focus on risks that MedTrack will face during its growth in the market. Analysis One of the risks that MedTrack faces is market risk. Market risk is the risk of losses that arises from the inconsistency of market prices. As the company grows, there are potential losses that amount due to market risks. MedTrack has invested billions of dollars with the aim of attracting more clients and securing a larger market share. To secure and maintain its market share, MedTrack had laid down both short term and long term objectives for customer satisfaction. The specific market objectives that MedTrack has set are to save the lives of patients in hospitals. All businesses are prone to losses from their investments. Losses experienced by businesses arise from inflation in commodity prices or a decline in the purchasing power of potential clients. The overall performance of the financial market has a great impact on the economy. Another risk the company is likely to face in the market is a competitive risk. Competitive risk is the probability of losses incurred from the decline in the competitiveness of a firm within the market. Market competitiveness is a situation where the buyers or the sellers do not have the potential to influence current market prices. MedTrack aims to achieve the bargaining power of customers. The company targets mid-sized hospitals that have the potential to invest with them by purchasing their products. The main strategy of the company to avert competitive risk is by providing quality services to its potential clients compared to other competitors. Through this practice, MedTrack shall secure a better market share because it intends to satisfy the needs of its customers by providing after-sales services. The major challenge the company faces is the f
Introduction An organization is classified as a group of individuals or people brought together by a specified role. As noted by Maguire (2003), an organization is also understood to be a social arrangement of individuals geared towards the dispensation of specific tasks in order to achieve a specified goal. An organization is governed by a specified managerial structure which defines the relationship existing between positions, functions and units; and also delegate responsibilities and roles. Since organizations exist in specified environments, they are often affected by the forces of these environments. This paper examines how the conceptualization of what is an organization in a specific police department may influence the deliverables of the department. The paper examines the inputs of an organization to personnel behaviour such as willingness to change among other issues related to worker’s behaviour. The paper revolves on the issue of community policing and how it can be used to improve the deliverables of the police departments. The Traditional Thinking Officers Community policing involves forging partnership between the community and the police force in combating crimes in the community. Due to the increased population in the area and limited number of police officers, it becomes difficult for the police force to discharge their duties effectively. However, there are problems that are involved in the implementation process of community policing. One of such problems lies with the community which thinks that the responsibilities of ensuring that security and order is maintained are bequeathed to the police officers. The community thinks that the police officers are paid from the public coffers to ensure that they are safe. Another problem of the community policing is lack of cooperation on the side of the community (Wilson, 2006). Communities view the police officers as enemies and thus shying away from any opportunity that would see them working together with the police force. This is mostly caused by history of cruelty to the communities propagated by the police officers. In some countries, police officers are known to be brutal and thus, people fear working closely with them. The association between the police and the community, therefore, is not welcomed as members of the community fear being segregated from the community as officers are. It is widely known that people who engage in community policing become the target of criminals in the community as a cover up strategy to hide their criminal activities thus inflicting fear to those who engage in community policing (Wilson, 2006). In as much as the community poses the greatest problems to community policing, police
Introduction Companies are identifying and implementing new technologies to communicate with their customers. One of these technologies is social media. Emirates Airline has embraced the benefits of social media platforms in an attempt to deal with increased competition (Emirates, 2015). This discussion gives a detailed analysis of Emirates Airline’s mobile and online presence. Emirates Airline: Social Media Strategies Emirates Airlines is a leading player in the global aviation industry ( Emirates Airline takes mobile strategy to new heights, 2016). The number of passengers traveling from one place to another has increased significantly within the past decade. Emirates Airline focuses on the best approaches to create awareness, guide clients, and educate its stakeholders. The airline company has partnered with Havas Media to come up with a powerful mobile platform. The name of this platform is Millennial Media. This platform is characterized by creative solutions aimed at addressing the needs of the targeted travelers. The mobile-based initiative showcases the luxurious and unique amenities offered by the company. The traveler can sample several engaging videos ( Emirates Airline takes mobile strategy to new heights, 2016). The platform informs the clients about the company’s products and services. This social media platform explains why Emirates Airlines successfully communicates with its targeted market. The information makes it easier for customers to make the best decisions. The company has gone further to drive conversations using social media. This strategy has played a positive role in generating the required engagement on different platforms such as Instagram. The firm achieves this objective through the use of two branded hashtags. These include #EmiratesAirline and #HelloTomorrow (Shrivastava, 2016). The hashtags have made Emirates Airlines one of the top aviation companies in the globe. The initiative encouraged more people to use the company’s services especially after it acquired the Airbus A380. The hashtags encourage more people to talk about the firm’s superior offerings. The company supports its brand using a positive tone, beautiful images, and superior services. This strategy resonates with every targeted customer across the globe. The use of the hashtags is critical towards ensuring that the intended content reaches the right people (Shrivastava, 2016). This strategy has made it easier for Emirates Airlines to attract many clients. When the target market is informed about the existing services using these hashtags, it becomes possible for the company to achieve its business goals. Emirates Airline has gone further to improve its online presence. This new avenue for exposure addresses the changing needs of targeted customers. In 2015, the aviation giant extended its customer service on Twitter. The ultimate goal was for the firm “to provide 24-hour support” (Emirates Airline, 2015, para. 1). The airline has gone further to provide timely support in both English and Arabic languages. Such channel
Introduction The performance of employees is very critical in contemporary society. Organizations want to ensure that they get value from their employees. As a result, there have been different management tools used to gauge the performance of the workers. One of the tools is the 360-feedback assessment; an evaluation system in which employees are appraised by their supervisors, their peers, and subordinates through a feedback process. The application of the assessment tool ensures a comprehensive appraisal of an i
Some of the women’s characters like being motherly are innate, while others are developed due to a woman’s various roles in society. Different authors and film writers illustrate these roles in literary works and films respectively based on the experiences that the writers. Some writers highlight traits such as heroism, compassion, aggression, and protectiveness while others focus on negative traits such as infidelity. Okaru in The Fourty-Seven Ronin Story and the film The 47 Ronin , Annie Oakley in the book The Autobiography of Buffalo Bill and the film The American Experience , and Marian Starett in the book and film by the title Shane, are examples of such characters. This paper discusses each of these characters as depicted in the various literary works in which they are discussed as well as films. The paper explores each character individually by looking into similarities and differences, as portrayed in films and books that feature them, as well as similarities and differences of the characters when they are compared to each other. In addition, the paper focuses on the role that women play to hold society together and their innate caring and protective nature as displayed by all the aforementioned characters. Conflict is a common theme that is evident in all the works explored in this paper. In the book The Fourty-Seven Ronin Story by John Allyn , in which Okaru is a character, Mitford sets the story in Japan during the Genroku Ako incident, a time when the leader, Asano Takumi-no-Kami, dies in the hands of a rival, Kira. The Samurai who are referred to as the Ronin, which means leaderless samurai (Allyn 7), take it upon themselves to avenge their leader, even if it means giving up their own lives. In the Autobiography of buffalo bill written by William Cody, in which Annie Oakley is a character, the events in the book happen during the American Civil War period. In the book Shane written by Jack Schaefer in which Marian Starrett is a character, there is conflict between the protagonist, Shane, and another character, Fletcher, over a farm where Shane is an employee. In the book The Fourty-Seven Ronin Story, Okaru plays the role of a servant, a geisha who works at a pleasure house known as the Flying Crane. She is hard working. Evidence of this assertion lies in the fact that she has an apprentice (Allyn 41). However, in the film The 47 Ronin, as directed by Carl Rinsch, this trait differently comes out differently by making Okaru seem more of a prisoner and a damsel in distress than a servant. The book also illustrates the role of women as confidants and enables the reader to see her sense of loyalty, which is an admirable trait especially with regard to the type of role she is given. For instance, Oishi confides in her and yet she does not give him up. The accusations of her being a spy drive her to attempting suicide
Introduction Advertising is a marketing initiative associated with communicating with the customers to inform, persuade, and remind them of specific products and services. In contemporary society, organizations have invested large capital shares in this effort to outperform their competitors. Some of the leading multinational companies in the world have successfully participated in advertising (Nelson-Field, 2020). This paper explores three advertisements such as Nike’s “Colin Kaepernick,” Kentucky Fried Chicken “FCK,” and CocaCola’s 2014 FIFA World Cup campaign. Nike “Colin Kaepernick” campaign 2018 Nike released one of the most contentious marketing campaigns in its history of advertising. It starred Colin Kaepernick, a player in the National Football League who gained attention in 2018. Its message was delivered via TV and print media presenting a phrase on the Nike slogan “Believe in something, even if it means sacrificing everything. Just Do It” (Kim et al., 2020). Immediately after the advertisement was released, a number of people reacted by posting pictures on social media platforms informing others to boycott the company. Following the release of the advertisement, a number of people reacted by posting pictures and videos of themselves burning Nike’s products on social media platforms while also urging others to boycott the company. Figure 1. Nike’s Colin Kaepernick poster, 2018. Web Figure 1 shows Nike’s official representation of the Colin Kaepernick advertisement. The advertisement above contains linguistic messages which refer to the captions or other written texts. The linguistic message embedded in this poster is “Believe in something. Even if it means sacrificing everything” (Kim et al., 2020). These texts inspire the viewer by promoting passion, motivation, and persistence. Denoted meanings refer to the visible elements in the image. At first glance, one can see a man’s face with an intense and straightforward gaze. Due to his dark skin tone and afro-hairstyle, one can presume his ethnic background (Kim et al., 2020). Lastly, the Swoosh logo is engraved in the image to confirm that it is a Nike advertisement. The man’s gaze is straightforward, which signifies honesty and determination since the viewer presumes that he is focused on his objective. The image is also black and white t
The power distance index (PDI) reflects “the extent to which the less powerful members of organizations and institutions (like the family) accept and expect that power is distributed unequally” (Hofstede, 2011, p. 9). A high PDI implies that there is a clearly established hierarchy in a country, while a low PDI signifies that the society undertakes attempts to distribute power among its members. First of all, when entering a market in another, a marketing manager should remember that it is essential to adapt the goods or services produced by a company to the habits and traditions of another culture (de Mooij, & Hofstede, 2010). As it has already been mentioned, countries with large PDI are characterized by strong hierarchy, and, hence, powerful leadership. Therefore, a marketing manager should find a way to ensure the influential actors that the suggested products or services would improve the public image of a leader through bringing benefits to the entire community, family, or company. A marketing manager should also be concerned with the acknowledgment of a leaders status. Since the ruler is the most influential figure in the nations with high PDI, the managerial personnel of the new-coming firm should admit that the thoughts and ideas of the local leader are of great importance. Companies that come from outside should not explicitly oppose the central power and show disrespect to the people at the top of the hierarchy. Undoubtedly, the newcomer might try to bypass this authority, but it would be wrong to contempt it or treat it as equal. Another essential poin
Introduction Some people burry their heads in the sand and pretend they are not seeing the evils consuming their societies. However, literature presents all evils through various means and makes sure everybody knows what is happening next door. This has led to bans and even imprisonment of writers and human rights activists to stop them from broadcasting the evils tearing the fabrics of their societies. Persepolis is a novel written by Marjane Satrapi and has generated a lot of controversies that have seen most schools in Chicago pull it down from being a study book. Background Marjane Satrapi was born and raised in the Arab world and is now a renowned English writer. She witnessed the tribulations most Muslims went through during the Islamic revolution and was motivated to express her feelings through writing. Her major concern was the way women and young girls were mistreated during the war and the serious consequences the war had on them (Satrapi 2004). Today, she vividly recalls what her society went through and prays that this should never have happened. Persepolis is a novel about a young girl who struggles in a war society. This is a graphical story that describes tribulations related to religion and politics that left the Arab land void of its rich natural heritage (Satrapi 2004). The author uses simple graphics to ensure children understand their world through plain illustrations to express what happens around them. Controversy This book was commissioned by the Chicago Public Schools Association to be used by the seventh grade students and later became a subject of debate due to its contents. Therefore, it was immediately pulled down from schools’ curriculums causing major uproars from various quarters. School authorities and education instructors have expressed their dissatisfaction with the contents in this book and this they argue is the reason it was pulled down (Ahmed-Ullah 2013). However, not everyone was happy with this decision and some students and publishing stakeholders threatened to hold public demonstrations to protest this directive. This is an evaluation of the perspectives held by different groups regarding the appropriateness of the book as a seventh grade curriculum tool. Proponents This book has faced various criticisms since its publication due to the contents and themes covered by the author. The author’s work met a hostile reaction regarding cultural and religious viewpoints of various stakeholders. According to Time Magazine this book was banned from all public forums in most Arab countries including the United Arab Emirates, Lebanon and Iran (Wettli 2013). Most Muslim leaders argued that it focused on blaspheming Islam which was against their teachings. Religious groups all over the world consider blasphemy a sin beyond forgiveness since it amounts to ridiculing their supreme beings. Therefore, they argue that the book is not fit since it ridicules and pre
Knowledge management system is a cluster of technologies that aid the collection, arrangement, transmission and circulation of knowledge in an organisation. Some aspects of systems and technology that relate to knowledge management include intranets, data warehouses and data mining tools, applications for brainstorming and help desk, push technologies, workflow systems, document management systems and information retrieval engines (Maier 2004). First, intranets offer a perfect avenue for circulation of information. Nevertheless, most organisations present too much information on the intranet, thus creating data accumulation, which makes it hard for both employees and managers to access information swiftly. This incidence has attracted attention from scholars. While some academicians propose that organisations should convey their entire knowledge to the intranet, others are of the contrary opinion (Tsui 2005). These scholars feel that the intranet should be separated into the webserver and the technological infrastructure. This separation can boost the pace of integration for application developers and enhance access to data for various clusters of knowledge personnel. These proponents of intranet separation argue that imposing all knowledge assets onto the webserver cannot be compared with letting users obtain the entire business knowledge, via a web browser. Second, document management systems act as stores of crucial company records and are thus central stores of explicit information (Schwartz et al. 2000). Besides, document management systems are useful instruments for crafting and processing intricate documents (Wiggins, 2000). These systems thrive in controlling the course of document formation, processing and evaluation. A number of organisations are using document management to manage enterprise knowledge (Davis et al. 2005). Nevertheless, most users never take part in intricate document formation directly and thus, do not obtain sufficient value from these systems because they never take time to learn how they should be used. While most organisations do not use document management systems in knowledge management systems, they act as essential knowledge silos that should be incorporated into the business knowledge network. Third, most organisations use technology to retrieve information comprising legacy matter (Tsui 2005). Such technology can either be in the form of intranet services or business repositories. Dealers of information retrieval continue to add aspects like natural language inquiries and relevancy ranks, which augments the rate and accuracy of finding data, in order to gratify the wants of informat
Hurricane Katrina influenced American society not only as a natural disaster but also as a crisis that accentuated the status of African Americans in the United States. In September 2005, mass media were overflowed with information about the dead people found at the Convention Center and the Superdome in New Orleans and about the associated violence and murders (“ Cops”; Thevenot A08). These reports and articles are important to be examined in order to state how the situation could reflect attitudes to African Americans in the country. From the perspective of the social order, to live as an African American in the United States, and New Orleans in particular can mean risks of becoming a victim of violence, rape, and even murders because of chaos, inabilities to control situations, and aggression of community members. The media reports accentuated terrifying assaults caused to people at the Convention Center and the Superdome, and this approach emphasized stereotypes and biases associated with African Americans’ behaviors and principles of living in their community ( “ Cops”; Thevenot A08 ). Although there was no strict evidence to support comments in media, officials and the public easily accepted the idea that Hurricane Katrina could cause chaos and anarchy in New Orleans, leading to crimes because of stereotypical views that people living there could behave in that way. This aspect was accentuated from the perspective of media representation, and newspapers contributed to developing views that cruelty could be typical of citizens of New Orleans. Thus, being an African American in the twenty-first century still means overcoming prejudice and discrimination regarding ethnicity and abilities to follow the rules, and these views are common for the early twentieth century. Referring to the political lenses, it is possible to examine how African Americans’ experiences reflect experiences of this racial group in other regions of the world. According to Carr, the international press used an opportunity to exaggerate the situation and stigmatize people from New Orleans (C5). It is possible to assume that the reason was to emphasize that the situation in their countries was different. Still, real experiences of black people in other countries can be more challenging because they live in large and developed communities in the United States, and although racism and discrimination are observed in hidden or active forms, these people have more rights and freedoms there than in other countries because of forming their community. From the perspective of socioeconomic status, it is possible to state that there are class problems in the United States, and the infective work of police, the government, and other officials after Hurricane Katrina was a result of poor planning and negligence