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Each individual has personal factors of control. Bandura (in Feist, & Feist, 2009) presents three main internal factors of self regulation, self-observation, judgment, and self-reaction. Self-observation is the ability to monitor personal actions, thought and behavior. Self-observation also responds to ignoring others. Self-observation goes close with judgment as only on the basis for making personal conclusions about the actions. On the basis of judgment the reaction is completed. Therefore, self-reaction is the third component of Bandura’s internal factors of self-regulation (in Feist, & Feist, 2009). These factors may be referred to different spheres of human life. Dwelling upon God’s Word and the Holy Spirit work within believers regarding self-regulation, it is possible to state that God’s Word teach people endure the limitations of the present life, judge others as one wants to be judged and react calm on the events trying to teach others behave in a pacific manner. Regarding self-observation God’s Word dwells upon constant control of one’s actions and thoughts. People have to think constantly about God and the actions they do or they are going to do. These actions should start with a Holly thought. Self-observation should be based on the fairness and desire for assisting others. All the thoughts of a person should be clear and faithful. Observing personal actions and looking at the situation from a personal perspective, people should remember that their judgments are to be based on the Holly bible. God teaches people to avoid judgment as the desire to blame others as people are unable to judge, only God has such a power. Still, judgment may have another nature. After self-observation people are sure to refer to judgment as the possibility to think and draw conclusions. Judgment from the god’s perspective should be just the thinking processes and the ability to monitor personal actions. Personal judgment is based on the personal standards which are to be related to the Holly Bible. Only those people who are able to remain calm and unbiased after self-observation can fairly judge the situation. After the judgment as the evaluation of the personal attitude to the issue people usually turn to self-reaction. It is essentially to react to the actions appropriately. Personal reaction of an individual should be based on the God’s word who rejects any aggression. The reaction of a personality should be calm and even obedient. Reacting to the personal actions, a human being should consider his/her actions from aside. God is rather passionate to people, therefore , people should also be passionate to others. Self-reaction should directly depend on the completed action and it should be based on the judgment. Having completed something important and having some time for a rest one may award him/herself. However, the judgment of the self-observation was dissatisfactory, a person should think about the actions which may correct wrong
In the world of increased marketing competition among many companies that offer similar services and products, customer experience and customer satisfaction become what makes or breaks a business on its road to success. It is especially true for service industries, such as transportation, hospitality, and other areas that cannot radically innovate their product range, thus being forced to compete in oversaturated Red Sea markets. Nowadays, many companies utilize various means of gouging customer satisfaction and experience, including surveys, scoreboards, interviews, and other methods commonly described as “touchpoints,” signifying the moments of direct interaction between the customer and the company. At the same time, many notice a significant discrepancy between scores received in touchpoint surveys versus actual customer satisfaction. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate an article by Rawson, Duncan, and Jones (2013), titled “The Truth about Customer Experience,” through the lens of the SERVQUAL customer satisfaction framework. Article Summary The article by Rawson et al. (2013) covers a plethora of examples from real life, covering companies from TV cable service to tourism, retail, and manufacturing, about customer service. At the same time, the entire article is based on several key points that frame the entire discussion. The first key point made by Rawson et al. (2013) is that most companies had learned to deliver good customer service when it came to direct company-to-person contact. The majority of employees tend to be courteous, polite, and genuinely interested in helping customers out. Nevertheless, even the best of these companies often have trouble with “churn,” which stands for customers leaving due to competition, disillusion, or moving out of the service area, among many other reasons (Rawson et al., 2013). In many cases, the growing market losses do not correspond with touchpoint service results. Rawson et al. (2013) make an argument that the touchpoint approach is inaccurate because the experience received during direct contact with the company differs from the experience during the customer’s journey. Rawson et al. (2013) describe the phenomenon of the customer’s journey as the set of experiences with the product or service outside of the company’s direct reach. These include every inconvenience, failure, subpar performance, and
Introduction In looking for the country that is best suited in manufacturing specific items that are laid out, we are going to use certain criteria known as the Porter’s Diamond Model to help us. The model that we intend to use will give a clearer idea for a manager to quickly establish his company in the market in the following fields: Dress Shoes Manufacturing, Flat Screen Production, and finally, Pharmaceutical Production. The model will give us to look into the certain aspect that will give the company strength in venturing into these fields and these aspects include chance, competitive nature of the market, demand in the market, government policy, related industry in the area, and finally, the factor conditions. Dress Shoe Company Shoes can be made by virtually anyone skilled in this area: Whether it will be a big company or a cobbler who works on his own. One of the main things that will give a company the upper hand is the factor condition. In other words, the amount of skill, the creativity of the handwork, and creativity in marketing will give one the upper hand against potential competitors. Demand for style is also a factor. Developed countries in fashion as France and Italy have a high demand for elegance. The chance factor, therefore, works well for these countries. Government policy remains relatively fair for most countries as far as shoe manufacturing is concerned. Flat Screen Television Production Unlike the shoe company, flat-screen TV production is highly dependant on technological influence. The knowledge and capital resource of companies in countries like Singapore, Malaysia, Germany, and Japan on the technological advancement of the microchip give them high levels of competition against other countries. The market is higher for developed countries thus will affect the place of manufacturing. Another factor that will make a company interesting is the presence of related industries there. Countries like Singapore have silicon technology manufacturers present thus will be of handy in venturing into this area. Pharmaceutical Medicine Production One of the biggest challenges for this industry is that one cannot freely produce any type of drug in excess. Demand has to be the focus. A balance between factor conditions like technological resources, those countries like the USA offer, and the presence of an extensive market of demand, like in Sub Saharan Africa have to be struck. Government policies in many countries highly affect production in that a lot of checks up by most governments has to be done to advance with this market. Good transportation can compensate for the demand issue leaving the USA to be one the top producers, due to the availability of the resource in terms of finance and knowledge, and infrastructure.
Introduction Hiring the right people to work with is often a challenging task. For varying reasons, employers prefer certain candidates over others. Generally, choosing to work with people who are similar to us has a good side as well as a bad side. This paper compares the effect of hiring a likable fool and that of hiring a competent jerk. To a large extent, managers hire individuals based on their level of competence or how likable they are. Fool versus Jerk: Who would you hire? While some people prefer working with individuals with a likable personality, others would rather work with knowledgeable and experienced workers, whether or not they are lovable. Arguably, some managers would not care about individuals who are great performers if such individuals are not pleased to work with (Casciaro & Lobo, 2005). While it is generally difficult to choose between competence and likability, I agree with the authors of the article that working with individuals who are lovable has greater benefits for any organization. A critical look at the article clearly shows that solid relations at the workplace can easily be formed when management focuses on employing individuals with a pleasant personality. Without a doubt, such employees are able to work very closely with one another to ensure the realization of organizational objectives. In addition, they can collaborate quite well on joint tasks (Casciaro & Lobo, 2005). Arguably, most managers will choose not to work with a competent jerk despite the fact that such a person may be an excellent performer. By and large, organizations rely on teams to be able to deliver effectively on work tasks. In order to create great teams in the workplace, it is important to have an environment where great relationships may be built and strengthened. The creation and development of such teams is, however, a big challenge if individuals can not socialize well. Undoubtedly, hiring likable individuals simplifies the process of creating teams that can facilitate the achievement of organizational goals. Working with individuals who are similar in the way that they look at issues also improves the decision-making process in organizations. While reaching an agreement in a diverse environment has its challenges, decision making is fast and easy, where employees are similar in their approach to issues. According to Casciaro and Lobo (2005), an organization will prefer a competent jerk over a likable fool for various reasons. While a fool might not be very knowledgeable, it is apparently easier to get information from him or her than getting it from a competent jerk. Typically, competent jerks might know so much, but what is known to them may not be passed to any other person in the organization because of their personality. On the contrary, a fool may be
Evolutionary explanations for morality and altruism have been developed considerably during the last several centuries to comprehend its roots and urgency 1 and prove its appropriateness, correctness, and importance in comparison to other refined applications of the emotions. 2 Morality may be defined as a kind of social obligation to authority-independent norms and moral judgments that may be imposed by a number of legally approved sanctions, 3 a byproduct of some accidental or invented faculties, 4 or, in other words, everything that people can harbor in their heads and describe in the most adequate way for them. 5 Krebs admits that all normal people may have a sense of morality that can be defined as what people may think it is. 6 This means that any kind of interpretation of morality developed by people should be appropriate for them because all these interpretations and definitions are based on the experience and knowledge of these people. Essence of Evolutionary Theory and Its Connection to Moral Behavior The evolution of morality is closely connected to the issues of human evolution and human moral development 7 that are discussed by Darwin and his followers. In fact, there are many types of writers and scholars that can use the evolutionary theory as the main explanation of morality. For example, Lawrence Kohlberg is the representative of moral psychologists who developed an idea that children should not be identified as passive receptacles of morality only because they are able to develop their own conceptions of morality and interpret the information they get from different sources regarding their knowledge of social words. 8 There are also many modern moral philosophers, such as Richard Joyce, who tries to explain the development and evolvement of moral traits and human behavior. Boehm introduces Darwin as one of the brightest evolutionary pioneers in the discussions of moral aspects of human nature. 9 Darwin did not offer the alternatives but defined human nature as something that could be blank from the beginning and could be relatively specific, with time being determined by the existing culture. 10 Human morality is a product of human evolution. Evolution helps people find out moral truth and comprehend the conditions under which they have to live and to follow the norms identified during different epochs. 11 It also helps people to comprehend the essence and boundaries of moral progress they can achieve. Social and Political Behavior in Terms of Morality Many researchers and philosophers also admit that the evolution of morality has to be defined in certain political and social terms because th
Less Than Zero is a novel by 21-year-old Bret Ellis which was written in 1985 and which rocked the literary world due to its fascinating as an also horrific depiction of the lifestyle of the degenerative and wealthy teenagers shown as being obsessed with the violent debaucheries and mood-altering drugs. In consequence, Ellis began to be looked upon as the voice of a new generation and critics started calling the book “the first MTV novel” since it was bifurcated into different scenes in the same way as the MTV channel has fragments of short videos, and also that the characters in the novel often refer to artists and songs. Songs play an important role in the novel such as the song by Elvis Costello which is the title and conjures an out of the joint world, is infused by the media, and results in the creation of chaos amongst the players in the novel. The main character in the novel is Clay, who is a young and rich college student and has recently returned to his hometown Los Angeles to spend the winter break. The novel shows most of his time being spent on activities such as going to parties and indulging in drug abuse with his friends. While in Los Angeles during this short stay he has several issues at hand. Clay has to decide whether to continue his relationship afresh with Blair, his long-time friend and while pondering over this issue, he continues to have one-night flings with male and female friends, which does not allow him to give much thought to the relationship with Blair. Clay is also portrayed as making attempts to renew his friendship with his best friend Julian who has by this time got into drug abuse and prostitution. While witnessing such drastic developments he very soon loses faith in the friends that he was engaged within the ravaging party circles and drug abuse sessions. Three main instances played a major role in the transformation of Clay as portrayed in the novel. Firstly he was very dejected at the sight of his friend Julian selling himself to a businessman to fund expenses on the excessive drugs and heroin addiction, he is disturbed by the lack of positive critical response from his friends in seeing a drug abuse film, and finally, he is very angry at seeing his friends behave shamelessly in being attracted to a 12-year-old girl who was tied naked to the poles of his friend’s bed. Clay has been portrayed in the novel as being adversely affected by the repeated bouts of abuse regarding drugs and the sexual fantasies of the people of his age group. The combined effect of such happenings leads to his being highly demoralized and the novel portrays him as leaving Los Angeles probably for good
Introduction The family is a vital social organization. Members of one family grow to develop a very close bond with each other. This makes the members seek each other’s psychological, social and economic support among other things. People in the family find comfort in each other’s company, and the separation or death of one member affects other members in adverse manners. Sally is a minor who is still undergoing emotional development. Her mother has left home to stay with Sally’s grandparents, and this has a great toll on Sally. Sally is affected by this, and she seeks to change her lifestyle. Evidently, she has started losing faith in the family institution, and she wants to move out. This gets her in to trouble with her father, her school grades starts dropping, and she starts to lose friends. Sally needs to be helped out of this situation; she needs to be guided to accept the state of things and lead a life that will not hurt her. Theories of Assessing this Conflict One of the theories that can be used to assess the conflict between Sally and bob is Family Systems Theory proposed by Dr. Bowen. This theory takes the family as a unit, and it says that people are best understood in the context of their families. He classifies the family as an emotional unit whose members share an emotional bond. A member of this unit cannot be studied in isolation; understanding one member of this unit will not be possible without considering other family members (Folberg, Milne & Salem, 2004). Bowen says that every member of a family has a role to play so as to maintain a harmonious relationship with other members. The other members will respond to each other according to the roles assigned to them. These roles are given according to the family relationship agreements. Therefore, based on this interaction, the behavior of one member of the family is shaped by the interaction with other members (Regina, 2011). The failure of one member can lead to the collapse of the whole family. Bowel comes up with some concepts that interlock to support this theory. These concepts act as a basis for understanding the relationships among family members, and each member is assigned a place in the family. When a member’s place in the family is toppled, conflicts occur (Taylor, 2002). In Bob and Sally’s case, the problem occurs since the role that Sally’s mother used to play has been left open. The father is trying hard to maintain a stable relationship with the daughter, but he is unable to fill the vacuum left by the mother. This has a great impact on Sally, and Sally feels that she no longer fits in the family; she wants to move out. Probably, the father does not know about this theory of family conflicts, and he does not understand Sally’s r
Abstract Statistics from the education sector have suggested that approximately twenty million of college students are acquiring their various degrees online, a phenomenon vastly referred to as distance learning. The e-learning curriculum has been mentioned to be the most appropriate technique. In addition, it has assisted colleges increase their enrollment to thousands of students given the reduced pressure on the resources. According to several researches carried out, the large number of college students being enrolled through the online procedure is accredited to less stress experienced by the scholars. The distance learners have been perceived to be enjoying a suitable environment of learning as opposed to the traditional classroom learners who experience high levels of stress. This stress has been explained by the investigations to have emerged from extreme burdens and pressure which have been noticed to lead to poor environments for their learning activities. Major findings supported Aragon, Ballenger and Blair’s replica of the behavioral characteristics (shyness) and disabilities (deafness) as possible factors that can impart stress to a college student attending traditional classroom lessons. There are higher dispositional, situational, and institutional encumbers that can impart a lot of stress and creating a poor environment for learning to a scholar undertaking traditional classroom studies. Introduction The different techniques of educational designs for students in learning institutions have led to the development of a gap between those enrolled through online criteria and those enrolled through the students’ physical presence within the classroom. With regard to this, several indifferences have emerged concerning the best learning environment either for the traditional classroom learners or their distance learning counterparts. This discussion emphasizes on the stress levels among the students. This paper will support the fact that college students attending traditional learning environments have significantly higher stress levels as compared to students in distance learning environments. According to Peterson (2001) college students undertaking e-learning as compared to those of traditional learning have fewer costs of movement which provides a good environment for learning. Basing on this writers perception, these students need only computers as well as connections to the internet to settle down and read. However, commuting cost
When visiting Saudi Arabia, a person is exposed to various spending decisions depending with the reason for the visit. For a tourist, the country is blessed with natural recreational features that are well manned by government agencies where a person can spend his/her money. Other than the recreational facilities, the country has a number of executive (four and five stars) hotels that offer pleasant environment where someone can enjoy his time. Depending with the amount of money that somebody want to spend, the country offers a number of recreational and accommodation facilities. The hospitality industry has a number of activities that a person can exploit; there are nightclubs, gyms, saunas and massage parlors that one can spend some money, as he/she gets entertained. If somebody is interested in business, Saudi Arabia has a well-stocked market with a combination of domestic and foreign commodities. Shopping malls offers an existing experience where shoppers are exposed to a number of commodities that they can choose. The structure of the malls is appealing to the eyes and a number of fast food joints have been strategically being positioned in the malls where someone can take a sandwich or a bugger as he/she shops. The most convenient mode of transport when in the country is to hire a taxi, with a driver who can double up as the tour guide or the one to assist explore the country. When going from one state to another, the country has, an effective, domestic air transports; it is more effective and less congested than rail transport. If someone is willing to give his money to the less fortunate in the society, there are some non-governmental institutions taking care of the less fortunate in the society like orphans, the aged and people with terminal diseases. The institutions are always willing to receive grants and advances from people of good will.