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Introduction Nowadays, after the actual mechanics behind the making of the 2008/2009 financial crisis have been revealed, it became a shared assumption among many social scientists that this crisis should be discussed within the conceptual framework of ethics. The reason for this is simple – the analysis of what had brought about this particular financial crisis and what accounted for the subtleties of its extrication points out to an undeniable fact that it was namely bankers’ endowment with the irrational sense of greed, sublimated in their preoccupation with reaching short-term economic objectives, and politicians’ strive to ensure their popularity with the voters at any cost, which created objective preconditions for the financial collapse on 2008/2009 to take place. As it was noted by Cascio and Cappelli (2009): “No single villain lurks behind this crisis, but as the story bas unfolded, a common theme has played out across the failed companies—efforts to ‘push the envelope” (p. 47). Apparently, there are good reasons to think that the financial crisis of 2008/2009 was of essentially ‘artificial’ nature because it came to be as the result of people’s blind preoccupation with making ‘easy money’, without considering what will account for the ultimate consequence of such their activity. In this paper, we will aim to explore the validity of an earlier articulated suggestion at length. Analytical part The fact that there were a number of ethical aspects to the making of the 2008/2009 financial crisis is now being recognized by more and more social scientists closely affiliated with the ‘left-wing’ agenda, as it provides them with a chance to criticize the workings of the free-market economy as ‘thing in itself’. According to them, it was named the fact that, throughout the course of the nineties, the functioning of America’s financial markets has been deregulated, which should be thought of as the actual cause of this crisis. In its turn, this type of theorization, on their part, causes these scientists to promote an idea that the 2008/2009 financial crisis came as the result of governments in most Western countries pursuing the policy of trade-liberalization, based upon the assumption that financial markets are being essentially self-regulated and that the less government meddling with economic affairs – the better. As Benatar, Gill, and Bakker had put it: “Some far-sighted political economists long argued that the financial collapse would ensue from too-rapid economic liberalization, excessive leveraging, and the use of poorly understood ﬁnancial derivatives” (p. 647). According to this line of thought, the financial crisis of 2008/2008 was bound to happen, as the result of the institutionalization of neo-liberalism as a socio-economic matrix for Western societies’ functioning. Once, the governmental officials are being removed from the process of designing socio-economic and fiscal policies, it becomes only the matter of
Many individuals consider interdisciplinary team organization an important organizational element in middle schools. An interdisciplinary team consists of a group of students and teachers. Teachers in these interdisciplinary teams represent different curriculum disciplines such as sciences, arts, social studies, special education, and languages among others. When attending to the students, these teachers share the same space, schedule, and platform (Poldizik and George 1). Overall, organizations of interdisciplinary teams allow teachers to share the responsibility of planning, teaching, instructing, and evaluating the curriculum in more than one academic sphere at the same time. Middle schools need to allocate time for Interdisciplinary teams. This is because the interdisciplinary teams are important in the teaching-learning process. These teams encourage a collaborative and supportive learning environment for students. These teams provide learners with a sense of belonging and support. The teams increase students’ sense of membership and eliminate the feeling of alienation. Students of middle school are teenagers. These teenagers highly regard the opinion of their peers. In addition, they constantly seek acceptance and approval from adults. School set-ups have large populations with disjointed instruction systems that are subject-centered. These set-ups often neglect social needs of teenagers. Students need set-ups that cater for both their individual and social needs. Therefore, interdisciplinary teams are important as they change the disjointed instructional process to one that is jointed. This helps in addressing social needs of these teenagers (Wormeli 138). Interdisciplinary teams promote social bonding as they consist of groups of teachers and students. Learners value their peers’ opinion and strive to gain acceptance from their peers. This acts as a motivation for the learners. Creating interdisciplinary teams increases academic performance, peer relations, and individual students’ image. Consequently, this positively influences performance of individual students, teachers, and schools as a whole. Teachers are responsible for ensuring good planning and organization of interdisciplinary functioning for effective functioning. They should organize teams that meet the cognitive and social requirements of the learners. Teachers organize these teams according to grade levels. However, teachers also use multiage a
Definition Operations management is a comprehensive function in an organization that ensure successful processing of goods from receipt of raw materials to delivery of final goods and services to consumers. Precisely, it aligns production efficiency and optimal use of raw materials in the creation of final goods and services that are of quality. Reflectively, it looks at the design of the output, internal processes, and internal checks to improve on the quality of the goods (Collier & Evans, 2011). Operations management in an organization focuses on ensuring efficiency in use of resources to generate quality output. Further, it ensures adequate control of internal processes which converts input to output. This results in efficiency. Finally, it focuses on effective delivery of goods to customers. Role Operations management plays a significant role in an organization. Success in operations management ensures the success of an organization. Efficient management of input to generate output ensures that an organization earns profits. Through operation management, an organization is able to manage costs efficiently. Management of internal processes ensures that the organization produces quality output consistently. This promotes customer satisfaction by ensuring the production of quality goods consistently. Further, operations management gives managers the opportunity to influence value provided to shareholders, customers, employees, investors, and the community. Apart from ensuring the provision of high quality good, operations management also assists in creating a safe working environment for the employees. It also motivates employees to focus on their skills and knowledge (Collier & Evans, 2011). Applicability Application of operations management varies from one company to another. It depends on the nature of output produced by a company. However, the ultimate goal is to ensure efficiency, cost reduction and creation of quality goods and services. At Ford company, the management focuses on ten key strategic areas. These are, design of good and services, quality management, process and capacity design, location, layout design, human resource and job designs, supply chain management , inventory, material requirement planning, intermediate short term scheduling and maintenance. These ten strategic decision making points are integral part of the operational management at the company. At the design stage, the company uses product layout for the manufacturing processes. The manufacturing plant is arranged in such a way that there is a sequential flow of work. The manufacturing area is divided into several areas these are body build, paint shop, trim lines, final line, pre-delivery area, and shipment. The production layout ensures efficiency in the internal production process thus reducing time wastage and cost. Other than product design, operation management also focuses on material management function. The company makes use of material requirement planning system to
The Joint Commission sets and reviews National Patient Safety Goals (NPSGs) for various healthcare settings, including ambulatory, home care, hospital, laboratory, and nursing centers. The aim of the Infection Prevention Goal is to reduce the risk of healthcare-associated infections (HCAIs) in various settings by maintaining and promoting hand hygiene. The NPSGs were first established in 2002, and they are updated periodically to constantly improve hand cleaning practices and reduce the rate of HCAIs. The 2021 NPSGs were reviewed in the 2020 goals, and they became effective in January 2021. The infection prevention goal emphasizes compliance with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) or the World Health Organization (WHO) hand cleaning guidelines (Joint Commission, 2020). The two agencies provide a comprehensive framework composed of evidence-based interventions for improving hand hygiene and reducing the risk of HCAIs. The HCAIs prevention standard requires healthcare facilities to conduct a frequent assessment of their compliance with the relevant guidelines through “a comprehensive program that provides a hand hygiene policy, fosters a culture of hand hygiene, monitors compliance, and provides feedback” (Joint Commission, 2020, p. 8). Adherence to these requirements can help enhance hand hygiene practices and reduce the risk of HCAIs. The rationale for this goal is the high incidence and financial burden of HCAIs in healthcare settings. Millions of people get infected when receiving care, treatment, and other health-related services. A survey on HCAIs prevalence in the U.S. clinical facilities established that about 4% of hospitalized patients had acquired an infection (Magill et al., 2018). A report by WHO (2013) indicated that HCAIs cost the American government $6.8 billion annually (as cited in Saleem et al., 2019). Consequently, the high prevalence of HCAIs and the accompanying financial burden make hand hygiene promotion a priority issue that requires more attention. Implementation of hand hygiene programs has l
Business scenario The organization has been experiencing downward trend in profitability largely as a result of poor customer engagement and declining production. The sales and marketing department is not doing better either. A company that does not sell is doomed to failure. However, understanding marketing tactics is not merely about having a good product or service. It goes beyond availing the available products to the target market. Sales administration in this organization has been growing dismal over the years. Even though marketing is mainly the role of the marketing department in an organization, it is crucial to mention that each employee has a unique part to play in order to meet the overall marketing objectives (Nancarrow, Smith, Ariss, & Enderby, 2015). Unfortunately, the sales and marketing needs of this organization have been left to employees in one department only. The customer care department and public relations office are not apparently collaborating to achieve the set objectives. The rule of the thumb is that marketing creates demand for generating sales in a business. A good marketing management strategic team should facilitate the work of sales department so that it can, at the lowest possible cost, generate positive returns for a company. The organization is currently experiencing poor marketing management skills. It is unable to deal with market data that can optimize actions and increase customers’ interest in acquiring what the company offers. Investing in marketing without having real market data at hand may easily lead to organizational failure. Hence, all the employees of the organization will be notified of a staff meeting as soon as possible. They will be requested to attend the meeting without absenting themselves hence, the meeting will be compulsory (Homisak, 2015). The meeting is expected to proceed for a period of two hours. It will be crucial for all staff members to avail themselves for the meeting due to the critical state of the organization at this moment. Drastic changes should be instituted as promptly as possible. Agenda The main reason for holding the meeting is to strategize on better sales and marketing skills for the organization and improve interdepartmental collaboration of employees. In regards to objectives, the meeting seeks to build team effort in accelerating the growth of the organization. It also aims to inculcate the organizational culture of exemplary customer experience in the services offered on a daily basis. The agenda of the meeting will entail the following elements:   * Deliberations pertaining sales tactics   * Assessment of the present sales and marketing outreach programs   * Evaluation of strategies being used by the organization to retain customers   * Development of marketing campaigns that can improve publicity of the firm   * Analysis of how social media can be incorporated in advertisi
Introduction The purpose of this paper is to expand a project on the use of onboarding, mentoring, and orientation can improve nurse retention. Information about the communication plan, risk assessment, the organization, and the human resource plan is provided. A summary of key information, including its application and challenges faced, is also given. The Communications Plan The current project stakeholders are nurses, the hospital’s administration, and patients. A new stakeholder is the hospital’s board of directors. This stakeholder is in charge of the hospital’s board of directors. Their purpose is to make important decisions for the hospital, such as employment, and keep an eye on the chief executive officer (Fuente, García-Sanchez, & Lozano, 2017). Other functions include managing the financial wellbeing of the hospital, guaranteeing the provision of quality care by the hospital, and representing the hospital in the community (Mannion et al., 2015). Therefore, in this project, the board of directors needs information regarding the problem of nurse turnover in the hospital and the need to implement a project involving onboarding, mentoring, and orientation to improve nurse retention. The messages to be communicated include the budget of the project and the commencement of the project, the progress of the project, major challenges encountered during implementation, and the outcomes of the project. This information should be provided at regular intervals based on the need and phase of the project. For example, brief communication should be made to the board once the project starts. Monthly updates concerning the progress should then be made alongside any major challenges. At the end of the project, the board requires information about project outcomes. The person responsible for communication is the chief executive officer. The recommended medium for communication is email. However, an oral presentation can be made during a face-to-face meeting. Risk Assessment Despite careful planning, there is a likelihood that a project can still run into unexpected problems or face risks. A risk is defined as any unforeseeable incident or condition that might interfere with the running of the project (Shirley, 2016). Potential risks that can get in the way of timely pr
Greetings to a member of this dynamic team! I am honored to present before you an informed view of the adequacy of the sample to be used in decision-making in the marketing plan for the company products survey. Before engaging in this challenging task, I began by asking myself the criteria for designing a marketing sample methodology and various approaches that would minimize biases and excessive assumptions in decision making as was requested. This is what I found out. In order to make a comprehensive decision in a marketing plan using a sample design, it is important to factor in the aspects of the category of employee, nature of responsibility, company goals, and action plans that are put in place. Thus, a comprehensive and all-inclusive sample plan should incorporate more than one shift of more than one employee. In a practical sense, this plan should introduce the aspect of performance of a sample space of employees within one department as a comparison of the other in another department who are subjected to the same conditions of work. To achieve this, I opine that quantitative and qualitative data should be fused to form the basis of drawing an analysis. This suggestion is informed by the need to limit biasness since qualitative analysis has tools for testing data accuracy and managing assumptions made within the reasonable limit of accuracy. In addition, I suggest that the sampling plan should be made for the two shifts in a snowball sampling criteria to minimize biasness on the side of the sampler who might have a preference for a subject in the sample space. When properly integrated, it is in order to scientifically quantify the authenticity of the process since the testing procedure and balancing of the results will yield desired results against the backdrop of a null hypothesis or an original assumption. From these facts, I strongly disagree with the sampling criterion that was used in the initial sampling plan and may not represent the true picture of the activities on the ground. To begin with, the sampling plan only considered a single employee and concentrated on only one shift despite the existence of two shifts. Besides, this sample plan was nonrepresentative of the company’s labor population as it is likely to be biased since the results generated are from a single sampling unit with a sample space of one. Moreover, an adaptation of this sample plan as authentic would compromise the aspect of comparativ
Ovid’s (Publius Ovidius Naso) Metamorphoses is a set of poems based on Greek and Roman myths that appeared in the Golden Age of Latin Literature and for centuries served as an inspiration for many writers from different countries. Metamorphoses is a complex profound work that has become a brilliant example of classical immortal literature of European civilization. In this paper I am going to compare and contrast three versions of the creation of the world: the Greek one presented in the first chapter of Ovid’s Metamorphoses and two Indian myths of the beginning of the world about Brahma and Purusha. Ovid’s myth of world creation and two Hindu myths of the origin of the world reveal that the world and the universe were created by some supreme God, different in each culture, who emerged out of chaos in Ovid’s version and out of ocean in Hindu myth about Brahma, meaning that everything was derived from emptiness. Another Indian myth states that the world was created out of the body of a sacred man Purusha sacrificed by the Gods. In diverse India several creation myths existed that explained the beginning of the world differently “ranging from familiar themes such as dismembered giants and magical eggs to the most delicately expressed doubts as to the possibility of knowledge on such a matter” (Solodow 5). It is necessary to point out that as far as the myths are concerned, they are considered to be “an essential means of posing and clarifying the questions of human existence” in ancient times (Solodow 7). Metamorphoses include fifteen chapters that concern “human beings whose bodies are changed into various new forms, into animals, trees, rocks, birds, springs, flowers, constellations, insects, reptiles, and so on” (Solodow 6). Ovid defines the book from the very beginning: “”I want to speak about bodies changed into new forms” (Ovid 30). Ovid commences with the description of the creation of the world touching every age and events that has taken place. Three variants of the origin of the world I am going to compare have both similarities
Introduction This report deals with the hypertension, a chronic medical condition suffered by million people all over the world. Hypertensives suffer from high blood pressure. This study will examine the disease prevalence level in Saudi Arabia and other countries in the world, paying attention to the various distinct groups of interest. For instance, it highlights the prevalence of hypertension among the urban population comparing it with the level of disease among the rural population. It goes further comparing the same rates between the male and female adults. In addition, the report attempts to state the problems encountered when this problem is unchecked and uninvestigated. Finally, the report gives attention to medical, political and economic solutions available today that can effectively serve to mitigate the problems associated with hypertension. Background Hypertension has become a very serious problem following its “silent” impact on its victims ( Healthy Aging ). As a matter of fact, this disease has no straight symptoms, and one may not be aware of its symptoms until it has fully advanced. Hypertension is called the “silent killer” as far as about one-third of the people suffered from it do not know about it ( Healthy Aging ).The worst is that this condition results in dangerous threats, such as heart attack, stroke and many other understated problems associated to individual’s memory ( Healthy Aging ). Consequently, it is vital for everybody to test out his and her blood pressure, if possible, yearly. To do this, one does not need to visit a doctor to check his/her blood pressure as there are simple blood measuring machines a person can buy in many supermarkets that can serve this purpose, if used correctly. While using this device, one ought to pay attention to the following. Incase the blood pressure is above 120/80 but lower or about 140/100, it can be described as moderately elevated blood pressure. This is not a grave problem in most cases; nevertheless, it can hint a condition of stress or the beginning of arterial disease. On the other hand, if the reading is over 140/100, then it indicates a severe state not caused just by stress as it serves to insinuate a possible problem with the kidneys, arteries or even brain or heart (National Heart Lung and Blood Institute par. 6). In such a case, one is required to retake the blood pressure examination paying attention to the right directions to come out with at least two precise readings. In some cases, an individual is called upon to take the readings from both of his/her arms to get judgment that is more accurate. At this point, it is important to mention that a high reading, regardless if it is taken from both arms or just from one, is a good indicator of a possible problem. “Essential hypertension” forms over 90 percent of the high blood pressure cases ( Types of High Blood Pressure, 2011). This simply means that physician has no clear knowledge of the cause. As a result, majority of holistic and medical docto