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After watching the slides on entrepreneurial thinking, my understanding of it has changed dramatically. I realized that entrepreneurial thinking is a comprehensive concept; it includes many components in addition to the ability to plan a business strategy properly. For example, entrepreneurial thinking is the ability to derive value from any situation, even the worst for the entrepreneur. It is also the ability to quickly find the right connections, resources, and opportunities at any stage of one’s business. Another misconception I had was that to have an entrepreneurial mindset, one has to be very prudent. An entrepreneur does not tremble over every penny; for him, money is a tool to accomplish things in life. In addition, I have learned that it is essential to develop entrepreneurial thinking, even for people who do not want to run a particular business. Even if a person does not set up their own business, this way of thinking allows them to understand that they can overcome any difficulties through perseverance and resilience. An inclusive organizational culture is understood here as a reflective one, encourages mutual understanding and acceptance of diversity, and uses multidisciplinary approaches better to understand life situations and social problems in pluralistic societies. It is about innovative social services, with their particular know-how that emerges through consultation and coordinated action, guided by a spirit of openness and diversity. Thus, we will develop an inclusive culture by introducing training materials and activities that focus on education in an inclusive corporate environment. We will learn how to behave appropriately in the workplace with different social categories of people. To develop an entrepreneurial culture, it is necessary to perceive it as a multi-level system in the context of its essential elements. We will develop an entrepreneurial culture through independent, innovative practice and the improvement of an entrepreneurial mindset based on qualifications and intuition. I believe that the key barrier to innovation in a company is the resource barrier. To implement innovations, companies need to specifically allocate resources for their development, implementation, and diffusion in the marketplace. These resources can be derived from internal and external to the company. The idea of the innovation, its accompanying technology, and its cost-effectiveness directly impact the ability to raise funds. The more promising the innovation is, the more resources can be raised to implement it. The mor
Numerous research studies have been undertaken from the time that the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) was first discovered, but effective treatments for the virus that causes AIDS so far remains elusive. As such, there is need for researchers to adopt new strategies for future research in HIV if they hope to break the deadlock (Agrawal et al, 2006). In the absence of an effective cure, many researchers are now concentrating on coming up with ways to initiate behavioral change and communication among the most vulnerable members of society (Agrawal et al, 2006). According to the authors, the ABC (abstinence, be faithful, and condoms) have been advanced in many countries as attention shifts from the laboratories to the field, but the strategy needs to be fine-tuned to ensure adherence. In terms of current development of an effective vaccine to prevent the virus from spreading, Agrawal et al (2006) notes that “neither envelope-based vaccines designed to elicit neutralizing antibodies nor DNA and vector-based vaccines designed to prime and boost cell-mediated immunity have shown efficacy in field trials” (p. 207). The authors therefore are in agreement that future research paradigms focusing on HIV should lay much focus on developing an efficacious vaccine to curtail further spread of the virus. The observations of Agrawal et al (2006) are supported by Weiss (2008), who argues that future research should target the well-defined steps in viral entry if researchers are interested in finding a breakthrough in the development of a promising therapeutic and prophylactic strategy to cure HIV. In addition, Weiss (2008) suggests that future research in HIV should be involved in finding alternatives through which the HIV-1 variants with resistant mutations can be successfully eliminated. This observation is elicited by the concern that although we currently have many antiviral drug regimens to ameliorate the suffering and anguish caused by AIDS, the virus itself keeps mutating and hence difficult to treat.
This research systematically looks at HRM practices and organisational behaviours at Sonoco with aims of identifying current conditions, evaluating practices, providing new designs, and ways of implementing best HRM practices. The company must restructure its HRM strategies in order to promote new initiatives, meet various functions of HRM such as talent management and support of Sonoco growth strategies, and reduce function’s cost by 20 percent or $2.8 million. Sonoco is a multinational packaging firm that has over 100 years since its inception at Hartville, South Carolina with a capital of $6000. Sonoco has consumer and industrial packaging as its main business categories. Between 1980 and 1990, the company achieved tremendous success. However, in the 1990s, Sonoco experienced challenges due to global issues. These factors resulted from the decline in the US manufacturing export economy due to Asian financial crisis of 1997 and 1998. Globalisation created operational challenges and business opportunities to Sonoco. Sonoco was a highly leveraged company because of its many plants. Therefore, any slight change had severe financial impacts. For instance, between 1995 and 1995, sales fell by six percent (from $2.7 billion to $2.5 billion). In the same period, the net income increased by 14 percent. Still, Sonoco stock prices fell, which resulted into heavy pressure of restoring shareholders’ value. Diagnosis Sonoco HRM Situation Sonoco HRM practices have been highly fragmented. The corporate HR roles are still traditional in which every HR manager focuses on its own initiatives. The HR did not link individual goals and business initiatives. Instead, performance and appraisal systems focused on individuals’ benefits rather than the company’s performance. The compensation system depended on the general manager (GM) who used it to favour their employees. In fact, the company lost revenues from these diverse compensation systems. Analysis Cindy Hartley’s Objectives for Changes at Sonoco The role of Cindy Hartley as a senior vice president of HR was to introduce new HRM policies that would change performance management, compensation, development, and succession planning. The aim of this project is to reduce cost, enhance accountability on talent management, and define the role of HRM in supporting strategic business objectives. The HRM roles have changed to strategic human resource management (SHRM) and strategic human resource development (SHRD) within a global context (Yorks, 2004; Barney and Griffin, 1992; Vaiman, Scullion and Collings, 2012; Scullion and Starkey, 2000; Becker, 1994). Based on a resource-based theory, the HR manager can use human res
Literature is often used as a means to express grievances notably of national character. In Palestine, this has been carried out fully by Mahmoud Darwish. Indeed, as many people throughout history have been subjugated to a stronger group, the Palestinians have been so to the Israelis. The Palestinians believe that they have been forced to become second-class citizens in their native lands. The famous poet Mahmud Darwish (1942-2008), being one of them, has been exploring themes related to this situation in his poetry. He is Palestine’s foremost national poet. Mahmud Darwish is considered as one of the leading Palestinian poets of the twentieth century to transmit his personal experience, to which many Palestinians can identify themselves. His personal experiences had greatly affected him and were the catalysts for his poetic imagination and voice. Darwish, through his personal experiences, felt cut off from the entirety of the Arab world and as if he was a second-class citizen in a Jewish state. He felt as if he had to fight to maintain his Palestinian identity. His personal experience that overlapped with the experiences of so many Palestinians owed him the qualification of a “national poet”. Darwish is a Palestinian poet who was born in 1942, Birwa, Palestine (now Israel). He was the son of a farmer His family fled Israel’s war of independence in 1948 and spent a year as refugees in Lebanon, before returning to Israel. Their original village had been destroyed and replaced by a Jewish settlement, so the family settled in a new village nearby, in Galilee. Darwish’s formerly wealthy father was forced to work in a quarry to support the large family. Darwish married twice. His first was to Rana Kabbani. Darwish had led the typical life of many Palestinians of the 1940’s- exile. He had been moving from country to country. His life had been spent between Egypt, Lebanon, USSR, and France. He was the editor of the newspaper Al-Ittihad, but then he moved to USSR, in 1971, for one year of study. He worked after that in Egypt for another newspaper called Al-Ahram, and in Beirut, Lebanon as an editor of the Journal “Palestinian Issues” (qtd. in Darwish, par.1). He had also been living intermittently in Paris until 1996 (qtd. in Tristam, 6), when he was allowed to go back to his homeland (qtd. in Hadid, par.11). Besides his journalistic activities, Darwish had political affiliations which reflected the socio-political strife in his native land, Palestine. He was a member of the Executive Committee of the Palestinian Liberation Organization PLO (qtd. in Darwish, par. 1). The organization is, until now, the major liberation movement in Palestine. Political commitment was also the backbone of Darwish’s literary activity. On a highly symbolic note, in July 2007, just one year before his death, Darwish had read some of his ideologically laden poetry in Haifa, Israel (Hadid, p.1). The context was the breakout of
General electric is a company that operates in more than 100 countries offering services in technology and financial sectors. It has more than quarter a million employees who have endeavored in delivering solutions diverse solutions in transportation, finance, home, building, health and energy amongst others. Over the years General electric has adhered to strong values dictated by its core values and governance that have always taken in account its customers, employees, share holders and the environment it trades in. Due to its global presence, General electric human resources function has adopted a corporate social responsibility programs that have utilized technology and have produced positive results in increasing employee involvement, boosting shareholder’s value and encouraging environment conservation (Nina, 2008). General electric electronically publishes many features and articles, newsletters and magazines that can be accessed through their website and free online subscriptions and downloads i.e. General electric publishes an annual GE citizenship report that is updated on their website and expounds the corporate social responsibility activities within a given year. The report revolves around capacity building, climate change, sustainable health care and energy. The company effectively utilizes television and video in its corporate social responsibility plan this involves countless television advertisements that aired daily by television channels around the world and tens of videos available on the General electric website i.e. the “want to change the world video” that encourages other stake holders to combine efforts with General electric in changing the world while making use of resources available from the company, the video is available on the website. Audio teleconferencing is major part of General electric’s social corporate strategy in educating, informing and receiving feed back from its primary and secondary stake holders since the company strives to ensure its products are reliable and safe. General electric organizes audio teleconferencing forums whereby concerned stake holders give views and feedback on the products impact on environment and personal health i.e. the company used audio teleconferencing in getting views, suggestions and feedback while conducting its research towards reducti
Reducing energy usage Figure1. Energy consumption in three days. Figure 2. Different energy use in three days. Day  Gas  Petroleum  Coal 1    60   40         0    2    70   30         10   3    90   10         0     Figure 3. Purpose of the energy in three days. Energy     Day 1                Day 2                   Day 3              Gas        Lighting & Lighting  Heating & Recreational  Heating & Lighting Coal       –                    Heating                 –                  Petroleum  Lighting             Lighting                Lighting            Energy source, Reduction and efficiency Gas is the major source of energy in my country with a contribution of about thirty nine percent of the total energy consumed. Coal provides thirty three percent of total electric energy which is more or less the same as gas (Baidya, 1984). Other energy sources include nuclear and renewable energy by twenty one and three percent respectively. The development of the national grid led to a switch to electric power as the main source of energy. hydroelectric power and Wind power are yet to be utilized. Wind power is under development and could be the next appropriate source of power for the country since it has low pollution level which makes it more desirable than the above mentioned sources (Torleif et al., 1998). I have had frequent visits to various power plants and have gained immense knowledge regarding power generation. I have also read vastly on the topic of energy. In addition, I have participated in a statistical data collection on energy usage from various neighborhoods in collaboration with various research company. I have therefore been able to garner more knowledge regarding energy usage by many citizens countrywide. Although I don’t participate in these exercises more often, I have had the advantage to access the websites of these research companies. This opened an opportunity to be abreast with information about my country. For effective usage of energy, I would contact a utility person to do insulation around my home. He/she would install insulating materials on the wall, floor and ceiling. I would also adopt the usage of gas furnaces and stoves. I would reduce water use in the house by saving warm water for reuse instead of pouring down the sink or bath tab. I would reuse packaging materials hence reducing house hold waste. In addition, I would purchase appliances with inbuilt energy savers. Hindrances to Policy enforcement There is greater hindrance to energy prospects by the government. Negative policies and laws imposed by the government have led to a lag in developmental projects such as wind power and petroleum search (Torleif et al., 1998). Lack of a corporate and financial structure that would aid in such development is also another hindrance. Political goodwill has declined halting some of the major energy projects (Ballard &Fullerton, 1992). Legal frameworks are also difficult to work with since non -go
Lome Fuller (1862-1928) was born in Chicago and became famous for her serpentine dance which she accidentally invented during the rehearsal of a play called “Quack MD” in 1889. She began her career on stage as a child actress getting her education as an actress. Although the play “Quack MD” failed, Fuller’s dancing was so successful that she abandoned the career of an actress and performed as a skirt dancer in her twenties. In 1892 she moved to Paris to try her luck there. She performed at the Folies Bergeres, a place known for its circus-style acts, and became a celebrity there. She visited the United States occasionally, but never stayed for a long period of time. Fuller recalls that she invented her serpentine dance during her rehearsal for the part in the play (Fuller 43). She tried to create a hypnotic effect for her character in front of the mirror. Thus, she wore a long silk skirt and began to wave her arms holding the ends of it. The cloth caught the light of the sun coming through the window and, thus, a special effect was created on which Fuller based her famous serpentine dance. Fuller mainly used the skirt dance as a basis for her performance. Still, she was a pioneer of the modern dance and did not have any specific role models. Although she had only several dance lessons in her life, she could mysteriously operate with fabric, shaping it into different figures and sculptures, and this skill made her famous. She never injured herself in dance because of its simplicity. Still, the light effects she created for her performances and the skills in playing with fabric made her popular. She learned to operate with lamps to achieve the desired effect while she swirled her skirt on stage. Fuller was one of the first performers who used electric stage lighting which is common nowadays. Although she never reached the desired popularity in the United States, she had many followers. Even when Fuller came to Paris, she met there a young woman who copied her style, and she had to prove herself as the original creator of the serpentine dance. It was the reason why she had to perform the first two nights under the different name there. Still, her dance images were astonishing and created a sensation in Paris. In her dance, she used optical illusions and changes of color created by proper lighting. During her dancing, her body almost disappeared in the array of light and change of colors. Some reviews admitted that her success was in power to perform thrilling metamorphosis and merge with the hint of supernatural. It was admitted that Fuller did not look like a star or a glamour girl. She did not have any training and had no natural grace. Still, the metamorphoses of her dance appeared to be a perfect synesthesia (Brandstetter 65). It is striking how she performed on stage neve
Introduction There are many people around the world today who use the internet as a tool to promote wars and revolutions in many countries. This is a new trend that has been slowly developing over the past few decades. Today social activists readily use the internet as a tool for promoting social and political causes. As a result, we have witnessed an increase in the number of revolutions and wars in recent years, notably the blue revolution in the Arab world. Through globalization and the revolution of information technology, many groups of people have found new ways of communicating and linking together in social media to form a single powerful group that has the motive of political revolution. Political analysts call this form of revolution the netwar. The current paper is an attempt to examine the Zapatista social netwar that took place in Mexico. In this case, the paper shall attempt to examine the role of social activists in Mexico, along with the motivation of such attackers. The paper will also try to trace the development of the social netwar, in addition to providing recommendations for NTS. Role of Social Activists in Mexico In Mexico, social activists play a major role in fighting for human rights for the local people. Social activists enhance the promotion of change in the political sphere, social status of the people, and economic changes. Social activists in Mexico help the government to impose measures that would lead to change for the people. This is achieved through campaigns that may be informed of rallies, strikes and even marching in the street. The most recent form of activism in Mexico is known as the online campaign. This is enhanced through internet communication where activists sent messages on social media and call for people to fight for their rights (Arquilla & Ronfeldt, 2001). In Mexico, the political problems are solved through activism. This is where activists persuade the government to change laws through their campaigns. They also help to empower the marginalized individuals in society through campaigning for their rights. For instance, most people may feel that they have not been engaged in the economy of the country and may spearhead for the change of policies by the government. One of the latest examples of social activists was a movement known as Zapatista Liberation Movement. This group was formed to change the political situation in the country (Armstrong, 2009). Motivation of Attackers The political situation in Mexico has changed over the last two decades. This is as a result of the emerging social war which rose in 1994 through the Zapatista campaign. This was a campaign from anti-governmenta
Introduction The book Just Babies: The Origin of Good and Evil describes morality and poses arguments to justify whether moral sense is innate or learned through environmental interactions. The book is written by Paul Bloom, a development psychologist at Yale. The author argues that people should not seek the origin of moral behavior exclusively by looking at either nurture. Bloom presents that certain aspects of moral senses are innate. Even though the author offers broad coverage of the morality topic and the effective attempts to ensure that all the moral arguments are supported by substantial experimental evidence, there is a misalignment between what Bloom believes and what evidence shows. There are multiple interesting and fascinating aspects to this book. For example, Bloom supports most of his arguments with experimental evidence and evolutional theories. Bloom cites and expounds on Adam Smith and Thomas Jefferson’s views, which suggests that some components of morality are natural to humans (Bloom, 2013). The author stresses that babies have an innate moral sense. Specifically, the author mentions a study finding that infants are not born as innate racists, with any racial prejudice and ‘them versus us’ mentality developing later in life (Bloom, 2013). Some of the reservations towards the book are the way Bloom mixes some of his concepts. From the book’s title, the reader expects to see the arguments presented revolve around the topics such as babies, good, and evil. However, Bloom has spent more effort describing the general concepts of morality, which does not relate strictly to babies. The themes addressed in the review include empathy and compassion, equality and fairness, and disgust and repulsion, as illustrated in this book. Besides, the analysis will focus on the book’s general composition and establish the strengths and weaknesses by looking to what extent the author has focused on the key topics and supported his arguments. Summary In Paul Bloom’s book Just Babies , the theme of molarity is being supported by evidence. Concise arguments are presented to elaborate on whether morality is innate or not. In the first chapter of the book, the author argues that certain moral foundations cannot be acquired through learning. On the contrary, such morality foundations are products of biological evolution. The book presents different arguments demonstrating how people look at morality and moral reasoning across society. Moreover, exact comparisons are made to display the differences between conservatives and liberals. Paul also illustrates the role of the environment in encouraging either kindness or cruelty. The concepts presented in the book show the neuroscientists’ ability to look at the different parts of the brain used in moral reasoning. The book has a precise beginning, describing various contemporary moral varia