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Introduction An individual’s experience in an organization is greatly influenced by his attitude, competence, values, beliefs, and preferences. The ability of an individual to effectively communicate with others affects his job quantity and quality, job satisfaction level, and interaction with others. An individual’s intrapersonal experience is influenced by factors such as motivation, expectations, communication competences, and behavior predisposition. In most organizations, there exists great diversity among the employees. People from different races, cultures, religions, and gender work together (Shockley-Zalabak, 2011). These differences affect the relationship between an individual and the other employees. Due to these diversities, an individual must use effective communication to improve his intrapersonal experience in an organization. In this study, Dave Green individual experiences at AMX were analyzed and ways of improving them formulated based on the existing knowledge and theories. Dave Green was a new employee at AMX. Dave graduated with honors and was among the top students in the class. Even though Dave had good communication skills, he was not well experienced to lead the highly qualified workers at AMX. On one hand, Dave was highly motivated and wants to contribute towards AMX success. Dave believes that the organization expects him to be a high achiever. On the other hand, he was inexperienced and fears that his colleagues might not accept his decisions and ideas. Dave initial experience at AMX required that he develops effective interpersonal communication strategies (Shockley-Zalabak, 2011). Motivation and Job Satisfaction Motivation has a great impact on communication and interpersonal experiences. An individual’s Motivation is influenced by different factors which in turn affect an individual experience at a firm. Factors that affect motivation are expressed in theories such as
There is an assumption that our society and culture can determine the choices of individuals. However, sometimes people’s choices are based on personal considerations and moral principles shaping character’s identity. Social status, individual characteristics, and moral assets, therefore, predetermine a personal choice. Within this context, Lalami’s book Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits is an account about difficult choices made by the protagonist to achieve their own purposes. Faten, the main heroine and a determined girl, tries to challenge the host society. In the pursuit of options, opportunities, and dignity, she expresses her superiority over other people. While focusing on Faten’s identity, the heroine makes personal choices to get respect and attention in a new society. Many might believe that Faten is a very eccentric and hypocritical girl who is reluctant to accept alien culture and society. However, she makes a personal choice to wear all religious and cultural attributes of Moroccan culture to get attention and respect in Spain. Hence, Faten’s first appearance in the book allows the reader to understand the extent to which Faten is committed to her goals and faith: “She wore a gray, pilled sweater and an ankle-length denim skirt, and her hair was covered in a headscarf” (Lalami 23). While presenting Faten through the prism of Larbi’s view, the author, apparently, tries to capture the full grasp of her personality. Faten becomes a religious fanatic to resist Larbi’s position. Hence, from Amrani’s point of view, Faten is an arrogant girl who refuses to shake his hand. Being reluctant to acknowledge Faten as full-fledged personality, Larbi is determined to consider Faten “the wrong type” of people who should not communicate with his daughter (Lalami 25). As a result, the man destroys her future and dooms the main heroine to living a dissipated life. For the first time, Faten realizes that her personal freedom is limited to the choices made by other people with power and money. In the pursuit of dreams, some people can stat that Faten, a determined and rebellious girl, opposes the bureaucratic system of education in Spain, but in fact, the heroine just strives to gain recognition by promulgating Morrocan culture. The protagonist, thus, explores the limits of individual choices and concludes that education and perseverance are powerful means to opportunity, dignity, and choice. After immigrating, Faten, a pious idealist, deliberates on her personal choice to wear the hijab at the university in Morocco and the circumstances that have made her take it off in a host country. The girl wonders about Noura, her rich former friend, whom Faten convinced to wear the hijab: “Noura was probably still wearing it. She was rich; she had the luxury of having faith. But then, Faten thought, Noura also had the luxury of having no faith” (Lalami 138). While Noura’s beneficial connections protect her from wrong decisions, Faten’s socioeconomic circumstances, as well as religious learning, work against her in the world where money “give you choices” (Lalami 139). A matter of choice, therefore, was confined to t
Students, parents, and teachers remain overloaded in today’s educational system, which affects schools’ efforts in building healthy relationships with the populations they serve. The categories above are heavily influenced by information overloads and the requirement to multi-task that permeates the modern educational system (Zarra, 2013). For students, it involves excessive pressure from the school system and even parents linked with remembering large amounts of subject-specific information, performing well on tests, and engaging in dissimilar activities to succeed (Zarra, 2013). The need to develop new IT and software use competencies aside from polishing their subject-related knowledge and managing school-family interactions can create an excessive workload on teachers. For today’s parents, supporting children in their educational endeavors can be challenging due to an imperfect work-life balance and household management activities. Moreover, the recent popularization of distance learning might create additional responsibilities for parents, including controlling the student’s learning process. Schedules and culture support schools’ relationships with students and parents to a great extent. As for the schedules, the use of relational time frames enables teachers to dedicate the right amount of time to class activities without overburdening children (Zarra, 2013). With schedules developed to reflect students’ needs, the latter have the opportunity to participate in extracurricular activities, such as competitions and personal coaching, and spend enough time with their families. This strengthens teachers’ positive interactions with students while also improving teacher-parent collaboration indirectly. Regarding cultures, teachers’ acceptance of the premise that their duty does not end after the class plays a crucial role in supporting educational professionals’ trustworthiness (Zarra, 2013). In this way, positive school cultures can improve students’ and parents’ willingness to engage in collaboration. Specifically, the culture of teachers’ accountability to local communities can increase service consumers’ trust in the school system and encourage a meaningful dialogue between teachers and parents regarding strategies to improve adolescent students’ academic outcomes. Reference Zarra, E. J. (2013). Chapter 6: School culture and relationships. In Teacher-student relationships: Crossing into the emotional, physical, and sexual realms [eBook edition]. R&L Education. Web.
Butler in this article, “ Workplace Privacy: We’ll Be Watching You,” takes a look at the importance of privacy in the workplace. The author explores and takes a look at why the privacy of employees and colleagues in the health sector is critical. Privacy and confidentiality are very important aspects of human beings and many employees in the workplace usually prefer to have their private personal lives separated and this is why this subject has often led to a lot of issues and controversy (Butler 2007). Employers and colleagues are expected to maintain a boundary when dealing with each other at the workplace. Individuals are often very secretive and thus they expect that other individuals who come into direct contact with them in their workplace respect what is personal and private to them. Individuals working in the health sector are expected to be very professional and are often required to perform their duties very professionally and this is even possible for them when they are in a psychological stable state (Turnbull 2007). When details about of an individual’s private life are leaked, especially embarrassing details to the public, especially colleagues, an individual’s performance could be affected and their output in the workplace may ultimately go down (Butler 2007). Peace of mind may be taken for granted by many employers but the working environment mustn’t violate the privacy rights of employees because the outcome of this can even affect patients especially if it involves specialists like doctors. Employees usually prefer that their personal space is respected by both employers and colleagues; this is why an individual’s personal belongings, telephone conversation, mail, email, Facebook accounts, and other internet accounts, financial statements, and data which were collected in confidence must be respected by employers and colleagues (Turnbull 2007). Employers should thus keep some distance and not infringe on the privacy rights of their employees. Employers often preserve the right to go through the email and texts of their employees citing that it is important that they monitor their employee’s actions and this may sometimes lead to conflict (Turnbull 2007). Some employers such as hospitals also use surveillance systems such as CCTV cameras to spy on actions of nurses and doctors and when employees know that big brother is watching they often carry out their duties wit
Cost reduction AWS offers a lot of economic benefits to Ericsson Company by reducing its expenses. Ericsson derives operational advantages including quicker setting up of infrastructure and convenient cost effective finishing of huge computational projects (Malaher, 2009). Amazon provides a free tier which allows Amazon EC2 to get started at no charge. AWS does not include long-term commitments and up-front costs making its initialization to be easy and cost effective. Amazon cloud computing services allow Ericsson to save a lot of money by providing inexpensive plans for compute capacity consumed. Amazon allows Ericsson Company to cut the costs by cutting the Information Technology (IT) staff. By obtaining expertise outside the company, Ericsson can lay off its IT staff since its services are maintained by experts from Amazon (Mitchell & Wilson, 2008). Automated software updates Flexibility is derived from support of several operating systems, multiple instances and software. To update the software, only an internet connection is needed, and therefore a business can expand by serving more clients at a time. With this service, less malfunctioning is experienced; applications used in this platform are upgraded less frequently and are managed by Amazon. Remote access Amazon EC2 comes with a unique mobilization which allows access of services from anywhere in the world. Employees are able to conduct business over mobile devices and track their leads quickly (DCLUG, 2006). Amazon EC2 comes with a unique mobilization which allows access of services from anywhere in the world. A whole new level of opportunities is created by giving employees new professional devices, which motivates them and makes their jobs more convenient. On-demand availability Amazon Web Services give client companies on-demand access to various cloud infrastructure services. AWS charges are calculated using the resources actually consumed by the end user. AWS allows Ericsson Company to get rid of expensive hardware and the management hassles that come with owning and using them (Malaher, 2009). Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud provides quicker and more responsive services compared to internal IT systems; a client can choose between 500 Mbps and 1000 Mbps depending on the instance applied (Malaher, 2009). Scalability Amazon EC2, Amazon S3 and RightScale are designed with capability to adapt with the size and amount of data and the number of users. The systems are designed with capability of altering requests and size of instances; in essence, they are flexible. Dependability Amazon EC2, Amazon S3 and RightScale support the contemporary applications used in clouds. They have proved their ability to ensure the systems operate without disruptions. Systems are designed to avoid data loss and unnecessary code resets during execution. Amazon has applied redundant resource utilization; reliability solutions are mostly software based. Manageability Amazon EC2, Amazon S3 and Right
Fair value accounting is a method of cost reporting. It is an objective estimate of the potential market price of a commodity. The article attempts to explain the relationship between the concept of fair value accounting and the financial crisis witnessed in the United States from 2007 to date. The authors think that fair value accounting greatly contributed to the crisis. They also argue that the concept aggravated the situation (Trussel, 2009). Some challenges arise from the use of fair value accounting. While the majority of these challenges can be avoided, some are so deeply rooted in the concept itself that they may be regarded as unavoidable. Bearing these challenges in mind, we can state that the concept of fair value accounting has been viewed as being responsible for the financial crisis. Support for this school of thought tends to be in the arguments that fair value accounting contributed to the severity of the crisis and that fair value accounting increased the leverage of banks in the property markets and substantially affected the market forces. Fair value accounting aggravated the financial crisis in two ways. To begin with, it allowed banks to use the mark to market principle to their advantage. When the credit markets froze, the property markets suffered a major blow. The prices of properties held or financed by these banks went down owing to reducing demand. The banks panicked and lowered their property values trying to get rid of these properties fast. This move eventually contributed to the financial crisis. The resultant effect on the market was that of progressively falling property prices. Secondly, having faced very low property prices, many small banks were forced to declare bankruptcy. In such circumstances, potential investors became fearful and the banks ended up remaining with bad properties. Therefore, fair value accounting substantially affected the market forces. To help the economy recover from this crisis faster, there are a number of measures the Financial Accounting Standards Board can do. One is to change taxation rules (Hommedieu, 2012). The board should help the federal governments to come up with taxation rules and formulae that are balanced in nature. The tax levied on each individual tax-paying entity should be similar. The formulae used for tax calculation should be made in such a way that the percentage of income paid as tax is comparable. At the moment the high-income earners tend to have a smaller percentage of their income going to tax as compared to the small-income earners. The financial accounting board should employ multiple approaches to financial reporting. They should allow the usage of both historical cost reporting and fair value accounting. Rules such as the one that allows banks to alter the value of bad properties should be discarded. When this rule is used, a false impression is created. The financial position of the bank looks better than it actually is. The overall picture tends to portray a false improvement in the economy. This may in turn scare away potential investors. Emphasis should also be put on the individual households in
Both earthquakes and volcanic eruptions are natural disasters whose occurrences are beyond human control. Since they are caused by forces of nature, human beings can only take precautions to minimize losses arise from them. Beneath the earth’s surface there is energy build up due to the continued stress on the rocks. Moreover, energy may also build up when these rocks are deformed. When disturbed by events such as volcanic activity, a wave called seismic wave occurs. When released suddenly in the crust of the earth, this energy may cause slow to violent shaking of the earth’s surface. This shaking of the earth’s surface is called earthquake and make cause various hazards depending on the intensity of the shaking. Since the energy is mainly derived from the sustained stress and deformation of the underlying rocks, the precursor signals of earthquakes especially in seismic zones are majorly based on the careful study of the earth’s surface. These signals include any changes in the ground and water levels. Moreover, any change in the electrical conductivity of conductors is also a major indicator of earthquakes as this indicates an increased magnitude of the seismic waves. The recurrence intervals of earthquakes are difficult to map out with accuracy since the events that lead to earthquakes occur deep within the earth’s surface. One is only able to monitor the seismic activities and predict an earthquake. Volcanic eruptions are mainly characterized by release of gases, magma, and dust among other materials from the vents of volcanic mountains. These materials usually originate from the deeper layers of the earth’s surface but find their way out through vents or fissures of the volcanoes. Such eruptions are usually caused by pressure release from the mantle of the volcano. The pressure results from the circulation of the hot magma in the mantle. When released, the pressure forces magma, ash, dust and gases among other materials into the atmosphere and the surrounding areas. Even though the recurrence intervals of volcanic eruptions especially the active ones are difficult to predict, the occurrence of an eruption can be predicted by measuring the gases released by the volcanoes, ground changes and deformation and also changes in the temperatures of the waters on the crater lakes. Both earthquakes and eruptions cause loss of lives and damage of properties including roads, hospitals
Introduction The chosen subject is a website launch for a famous ocean liner that plans to transform a ship into a luxury hotel in Dubai. The ship is called Queen Elizabeth II (QE2) and observers have been waiting for its associated hotel opening for more than a decade (Dennehy, 2018). The website launch is intended to symbolize the introduction of the new establishment of the Dubai hospitality industry. The business is expected to be different from all others in the market because its owners claim it will provide a new take on luxury hospitality in Dubai through the provision of royal experience for guests who visit it (Dennehy, 2018). The chosen subject is about how the QE2 will attract new clients to buy real estate on the floating ship and encourage them to patron the five-star hotel that will be opened on it. Emphasis will be made to understand what the QE2 will bring in an industry that is believed to be saturated with similar hotels. The purpose of this report is to examine how the hotel will implement various marketing principles in its operational plans. Four marketing concepts are instrumental in understanding the chosen subject. They appear below.   * Target Marketing – Target marketing involves the customization of a marketing strategy to appeal to a specific group of customers. The customer groups may be defined by demographic variables, such as income, age, education levels, and religion (among others).   * Branding Strategies – This concept is focused on promoting a company’s position in the market. It may involve specific aspects of an organization’s brand appeal, including (but not limited to) its logo, name, or slogan. Generally, the branding strategy conveys what a company stands for.   * Product marketing – involves the process of promoting or selling a product to a specific group of people. It is an outbound concept that does not focus on an organization’s ability to produce a product, but its prowess in communicating its value to selected markets.   * Online Marketing – involves the use of virtual platforms to convey promotional materials to target markets. Environment Different environmental factors affect company operations. The most common ones include demographics, economic conditions, natural factors, technological innovation, politics/legal issues, and social influences. Three of the aforementioned factors are relevant to the operations of QE2. They include economic performance, natural factors, and political/legal issues. Economic performance is a critical environmental factor in the operations of the proposed hotel because it may affect the uptake of the products and services offered (Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2015). For example, in 2007, it delayed the launch of the luxury hotel because stakeholders did not feel it was a good time to introduce a luxury hotel when the world was experiencing a global economic meltdown (Dennehy, 2018). Similarly, when economic conditions are bad, it is difficult for QE2 to compete with other hot