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Workplace safety and compliance with OSHA regulations SMART TECH puts a particular emphasis on ensuring workplace safety. The company has worked out a consistent safety plan that targets the following objectives: ensuring housekeeping compliance that makes at least 90%, holding monthly meetings to discuss the safety problems and alternative solutions, reporting and examining all the incidents in a timely manner, involving high-qualified safety professionals, and organizing relevant audits. In order to comply with the OSHA regulations, the corporate safety strategy relies upon a series of principles. First and foremost, it considers critical to ensure consistent safety communication – otherwise stated, the company sees to the fact that all the employees are aware of the safety requirements and standards. Secondly, it is assumed important that all the employees perform their contribution to improving the safety. Thus, they are welcomed to share their vision of the situation, report the current flaws and provide alternative solutions that the management is obliged to consider. In addition, the management makes significant efforts to establish the safety recognition. In other words, it is considered crucial that employees are motivated to maintain the relevant safety and seek to improve it. Therefore, the safety principles are communicated to the employees through team talks and discussions. Moreover, a special focus is put on the timely safety reports. Thus, the company collaborates closely with external parties such as safety officers and relies upon their expert assessment (McKinnon, 2013). It should be pointed out that the company realizes that an efficient safety policy implies additional costs and reduced productivity. In the meantime, it believes that in a long-term perspective, workplace safety is likely to be beneficial as it will help to avoid turnover, maintain the employee’s loyalty and enhance their commitment. Therefore, the company admits its obligation to pay workplace compensation in case of an incident and cover the expenses for work-related injuries and illnesses. Therefore, from the financial perspective, the company regards effective safety policy as a way to reduce the cost of injuries (Hopwood & Thompson, 2006, p.45). SMART TECH Safety Training Manual General Safety   * Ensure that the floors are clean and not slippery.   * Report all t
A Japanese poet of Edo period of the 17th century, Matsuo Basho is well-known as a master of the brief and clear haiku. His The Narrow Road of the Interior is a travel tale based on the personal searching for the harmony with nature. The journey impressed Basho and led to the reflection of his experience in the poetry which shows the readers deep and beautiful world. The author uses numerous bright figures of the speech in order to express a profundity of the theme of relations between man and nature. The main theme of Basho’s haiku is the nature. The author wants to describe the human efforts in finding a harmony with a natural world. This idea is repeated in many haiku. His tale is a travel diary of the trip through Northern Japan. The complexity of the structure of The Narrow Road of the Interior emphasizes the specific manner of writing of Matsuo Basho. Another theme of his poetry is the humbleness of life. Basho teaches his students do not imitate him and be unique. Free and gentle mind is very important issue of the life in harmony. If the students strive to be like the teacher and don’t want to explore their own way the life would be boring and irrelevant. The travels allow being free into the thing’s choice. This experience is extremely important for the future. Therefore, Basho chooses the way of travelling and exploration of the new worlds, countries, cultures and wonders. All these particular experiences can inspire and help searching for the spiritual perception. Basho uses the numerous figures of speech such as symbolism, metaphor and allusion. For instance, the first line of The Narrow Road of the Interior describes the sun and moon as “eternal voyagers” and heaven and earth as “universal innkeepers” (622). The rhetorical questions are another popular approach of Basho’s work: “how long does happiness lost” (622). Writing about falling snow, Basho uses only the image of snow the readers the picture of a man who is in the middle of his journey and starting to face the beautiful nature. The snow is an allusion of his white hair that is starting to grow. Therefore, it is not just a snow that covers a half-finished bridge. This bridge is a symbol of man’s life. The haiku is always consists of three lines with 17 syllables. That is why the translation of the haiku from the Japanese is a complicated work, it is kind of challenge. However, all of them represent the same vision of the beauty and eternity of the nature. Falling flower is Basho’s poetry is a symbol of the young samurai which sudden death impressed the author. The image of camellia blossom moves from the beautiful tool of the nature to the recognizing of life’s brevity (622). Basho never uses an image of the ground of soil for his evocative allusions. Perhaps, his choice is a cause of striving to show the high ideals. The image of flower is used in order to show the life circle and its fragility. The earth for the Basho is a vessel of the pure water which maintains the ol
According to Ball and Youdell (2009), there is a hidden privatisation in public education. The authors say that “international agencies and national governments have hidden education agendas to privatise public education”. In some cases, privatisation is quite explicit in educational policies while in other cases, it is hidden. Privatisation is pursued as a solution to the shortfall in public education. In other cases, privatisation takes the form of choice, effectiveness, devolution, and accountability during policymaking. Ball and Youdell say that the policies may not be explicitly articulated in terms of privatisation. Instead, the policies may introduce techniques and values used in private schools to improve the performance of public schools. This implies that public schools are gradually being turned into businesses. Governments use privatisation as a policy tool and not as a means to give up its responsibility to manage problems within the society. There are two main forms of privatisation evident from the research work of Ball and Youdell. Endogenous and exogenous privatisation is what the two researchers use to refer to the two forms of privatisation. In the latter, public education is opened up to the private sector with aim of making profit. Participation of private sector is used to manage public education. This form is direct and explicit. The second form identified by the authors is endogenous, where ideas and techniques applied in private education are borrowed and used in public education. From their findings, privatisation does involve not only educational services and education but also policies. In relation to policies, privatisation of education can take a number of outlines, including research and consultation. Privatisation in education has changed employment conditions and labour relations. It has created a situation where teachers are employed based on performance contracts. People with no qualification in teaching can have a chance to teach on low pay. The worth of students is based on competition and the labour market. The knowledge and skills of students are perceived to be either desirable or not based on the liabilities and assets relating to their knowledge and skills. Students with high levels of academic abilities are generally easy to teach and manage. As a result, such students would be highly attractive and sought after by employers. On the contrary, the students with low academic abilities are disregarded by employers. The inequality caused by social class in education has led to the development of stereotypes. Post schools are considered to perform better than public schools due to the privileges they enjoy. However, this is only a stereotype because certain public primary schools have constantly achieved good results. Additionally, private schools are said to have liaison officers that check lesson plans on regular basis while public schools do not. There is also more pressure for teachers in private schools to keep their jobs because they are required to perform. These are just but ster
Background of ArchiMate Architecture ArchiMate is a language designed to offer information technology architects, a common language for analyzing, visualizing, and describing enterprise architectures. The language had been under development since 2002, when “the Dutch Telematica Institute” in collaboration with various government organizations, enterprises, and research institutes (Peňa and Villalobos 80) founded it. Since its inception, the language has undergone various stages of growth, and has been adopted into many industries. The company began with ArchiMate 1.0, which became an ideal tool for delivering models founded on the “The Open Group’s global standard framework for enterprise architecture” (TOGAF) (Peňa and Villalobos 80). The current version is ArchiMate 2.0, which is more in alignment with TOGAF, making it possible for businesses and IT experts to collaborate information. The language has proven ideal for a starting point “Model Driven Architecture” or (MDA) for any industry framework, since its design- and service-oriented perspective, have impeccable implementation on “Business Process Modeling Notation” (BPMN) and “Unified Modeling Language” (UML) (Iacob et al. 294). The need to develop ArchiMate arose from the realization that business practices needed an integrated approach, where information technology and business practices were in harmony and linked. However, for many business enterprises, this integration was far from reality, posing major challenges to their organization functionality (Jonkers, Lankhorst and Proper 367). This problem implied that changes within the business strategy and goals were neither effectively represented, nor managed by existing information technology. For such aspects to be represented there was need to develop enterprise architectures, to allow for the representation of core competencies, applications, products, business processes, infrastructure and any core aspects (Jonkers, Lankhorst and Proper 367). Reports on ArchiMate A critique of literature reveals that enterprise architecture is a vital instrument that can enable informed governance. This is through the creation of a relationship between concepts from the various business domains like process, strategy, information, and applications. However, such needs imply that the EA model becomes complex owing to the heterogeneous nature of these relationships. Therefore, any architecture language designed to handle EA must be integrative in nature to link these heterogeneous relationships. For this reason, to determine the effective application of enterprise architecture, it is important to analyze the architecture in term for its ability to meet desired future states. This implies that the enterprise architecture model must be coherent, be specif
The non-profit organization selected for Module 1 is Marie Stopes International (Marie Stopes) that is a leading non-profit organization based in the UK with its operations in developing countries. The organization’s objective is to help women in developing countries who do not have access to family planning. The organization provides guidance, support, and health services to women to live a better life. Its primary focus is on pregnant women or those women who are planning to start their sexual life. Furthermore, the organization undertakes research on issues related to general, sexual, and reproductive health of women. Its mission statement is “is to enable women and girls to have children by choice, not chance” (Financial Statements and Annual Report 2015 , 2016, p. 9). The vision of Marie Stopes is “a world in which every birth is wanted” (Financial Statements and Annual Report 2015 , 2016, p. 9). The overall strategy of the organization is based on its ‘Power of 10’ strategic plan. It has been reported in the organization’s annual report that its strategy is focused on increasing the capacity and channels to reach women in different locations. The strategic plan indicates that the organization establishes performance targets every year related to the improvement in its capacity, channels, client profile, clinical quality, and clinical programs. The organization’s activities are governed by a set of policies and principles that ensure that its objectives are achieved in the period. If there is any shortfall in the organization’s performance, then its strategy may be revised for the next year. The organization’s consolidated statement of financial activities for the year ended 31 December 2015 indicated that its income comprises of “donations, charitable activities, investments, and other income” ( Financial Statements and Annual Report 2015 , 2016, p. 26). On the other hand, the organization incurred “expenditure on raising funds and charitable activities” ( Financial Statements and Annual Report 2015 , 2016, p. 26). It has been argued that non-profit or government organizations can also use balanced scorecard as a strategy tool for achieving their objectives through the efficient allocation of their resources. The balanced scorecard of non-profit organizations is similar to for-profit organizations (Savkin, 2016). However, non-profit organizations use different terminologies for their customers including financial donors and recipients, and they make their strategic goals related to each customer group (Niven, 2008). Based on this distinction between the balanced scorecard of for-profit and non-profit organizations, the following objectives are drafted for Marie Stopes that can have a significant impact on its financial position. Objective
Off-balance sheet activities refer to debt financing or even an asset financing activity that is not necessarily featured in the bank’s balance sheets. In other cases, it involves leases and other subsidiary liabilities to the bank. Off-balance sheets are commitments to a bank through loans that are got through the sale of issued securities and other facilities within a bank. In real terms, off-balance-sheet activities do not form liabilities to a bank but only hold its client’s securities as trust. Off-balance sheet activities usually involve asset management activities or even brokerage services to securities for their clients by banks. This is done when customers of regular banking services diversify their activities to involve trade in securities which often includes the transfer of the deposits held in their regular deposits accounts. Since banks only hold the securities as transfers for their clients, the bank is not liable (has no liability) and therefore such stocks would not appear in their balance sheets. (Stiroh 2006). The assets will belong specifically to the clients in question while the banks will only provide management services, purchases, or other services like depository. For a bank, it cannot have a direct claim regarding these securities although they play an important role for its clients. Off-balance sheets activities do not form part of a balance sheet because are neither assets of a bank nor its liabilities. Banks, however, earn income through varied reinstatement fees that the clients ought to pay for the processing of these transactions. Like any other banking activity that does directly involves the assets of a bank, these services help a bank to earn processing fees, depository, transactional and other cha
It should be stated that the problem of homeless people is an acute social issue that should be addressed by continuous efforts and initiatives coming from both governmental institutions and society. It is important to obtain essential data from reliable sources while assessing a community’s challenges (Edelman et al., 2013). This assessment will focus on this issue within the scope of Los Angeles, California. A reliable organization that provides statistics on the problem and aims to overcome it is the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, or LAHSA. The findings of the latter will serve as a foundation for a comprehensive analysis. The crucial facts regarding the theme might be formulated as follows. According to LAHSA (2020), about 66 000 people in the city are experiencing homelessness. Then, “This year’s Count revealed that two-thirds of the unsheltered adults experiencing homelessness were homeless for the first time last year, and 59% of them cited economic hardship as the cause” (LAHSA, 2020, para. 11). What is more, LAHSA (2020) states that about 12% of homeless people are under 18, and about 30% are women. It should also be emphasized that there has been an increase in homelessness for LA if to compare with the previous year. The community of homeless people has a number of significant strengths. First, it is well-organized and managed due to the authorities’ concern and assistance. For instance, “in 2019, the rehousing system helped 22,769 people move into permanent housing” (LAHSA, 2020, para. 5). Second, the essential indicators of this community are constantly monitored and assessed – it allows cohere
What if anything could people have done differently to make the encounter less unpleasant? A business company is considered to be successful by measuring customer satisfaction. This is something a manager should never forget. Customer satisfaction is in direct relation to the company’s revenues. More satisfied customers translate into more customers. More customers subsequently mean more profits for that company. And customer satisfaction begins with the way you treat a customer. This ‘golden rule’ seemed to have been forgotten by the British Airborne representatives. What should have been done differently was the predisposition to help the client and not ‘get rid of him’. Mr. Singh should have been treated in a different way. The attendance lady should have shown her entire predisposition to help the client even though what he was requiring was out of their competencies. She could have called the marketing manager to speak directly to the client. This would have been a strong signal that the company was doing all it could to help the client. This way Mr. Singh would still be satisfied with the service offered to him from the company even though they might have not fulfilled his request. How could the boss act to avoid the repetition of this event? The first measure to be taken is to instruct all the attendance personnel to try and be more friendly and helpful to customers. They are the contact the company has with customers, thus they form a good part of the image of the company. It does not matter if the customer request is something that the company can fulfill or not. What matters is that a positive image must be formed. This image will be formed when customers see attendance personnel (along with managers) engaged in helping them fulfill their needs and desires and not being barriers. Our case with Miss Smith is the typical case of barrier formation. The wrong reaction from the manager, Parry-Green, was that he praised her mode of behaviour. She might have been correct in her reaction but not in the way she presented it. What mistake did he make in negotiation and what should he do now? Mr. Parry-Green should understand that in order to gain market share you have to give concessions. What a manager should look for is the gain in return for these concessions. Arabs and other Asian customers make up a significant part of the market due to their large family numbers. Thus, when they travel they tend to buy multiple tickets at once. The end result is that they will bring to the company a significant cash flow from their ticket purchasing if Parry-Green manages to get them to buy from his company. He should not try to damage the other compani
Tragedy is a type of drama or literature that shows the downfall or destruction of a noble or outstanding person (Miller 222). Such a character is one who possesses a character weakness known as a tragic flaw (Thompson and Bowler 934). The authors present Macbeth, for example, a brave and noble figure whose downfall is attributable to ambition. After a prediction is made that he will one day become king, Macbeth plots to murder Duncan with the consent of his wife. He kills the guards who discover Duncan’s body and becomes king. Unfortunately, the ghost of Banquo eats at Lady Macbeth’s conscience until she commits suicide. Finally, Macduff who had discovered Duncan’s body kills Macbeth and becomes king. Thompson and Bowler point out that the tragic hero, through “choice or circumstance, is caught up in a series of events that result in an inevitable disaster” (936). In such a disaster, Aristotle observed that the audience experiences emotional cleansing after identifying with what the protagonist like Macbeth goes through. In Oedipus Rex, ill-fated Oedipus kills his father and engages his mother in an incestuous relationship (Thompson and Bowler 944). Tragedy has undergone development just like other literary genres. An analysis of trends in tragedy from the time of Sophocles and Euripides to modern times is therefore important. Aristotle conceived tragedy as the imitation of imperfect men, written dramatically and aimed at arousing pity and fear in the audience so as to purge their emotions (Miller 235). His definition must have been made with the plays of Euripides and Sophocles in mind, since those plays featured men of noble but imperfect character. As far as form was concerned, Greek tragedy had what he called “language made beautiful in different ways” (Miller 238), specifically by rendering it poetically and dramatically. Tragedy underwent a remarkable transformation through the ages. As seen above, tragedy originally revolved around the case of man who fell from happiness to misery, usually to death due to an error. Through time, the determining factor and consequences of such errors evolved remarkably (Montague and Henshlaw 230). Montague and Henshlaw demonstrate this change by noting that modern tragedy for instance, moved away from errors to evil acts as determin