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Overall Merger High Level Plan The situation The overall merger plan is the integration of Southern Bank’s operations into Northern Bank’s operations. The merger is necessary to create a competitive edge. It is a reactive change that will also involve a strategic change. It is a reactive change because it is in response to the merger between Eastern Bank and Western Bank (Jick & Peiperl, 2011). The merger between the two competitors has created an external force that compels the two organizations to merge in order to remain competitive. It is a strategic change because it will involve restructuring. Northern Bank acquires Southern Bank at a cost of $1.5 billion issued in Northern Bank’s stock. It indicates that Northern Bank paid a premium of $0.3 billion to Southern Bank shareholders. Southern Bank shares had a market value of $1.2 billion (Jick & Peiperl, 2011). Southern Bank’s shareholders directly benefit from the merger in the form of stock value. However, the market value can only be retained if the operations of the two firms are integrated successfully. Northern Bank will discard components with lower ratings and integrate those with higher ratings in both firms to sustain. It will improve the combined market value of the two firms. Some of the branches will be closed down. Some of the processes may be merged. It will lead to downsizing of employees, which is the most challenging process of the change. It affects those who are laid off as well as those who are retained. Those who are retained may feel that the firm has violated their psychological contracts. It may need a strategic change to find other forms of motivating loyalty rather than job security (Jick & Peiperl, 2011). Retaining all employees may not affect customer satisfaction. However, it may reduce shareholder value. The change The approach that will be followed in the integration process is taking the best practices from each firm. They are mutually exclusive. The ratings of branches and employee work performances will be considered for retention (Jick & Peiperl, 2011). The headquarters will be merged into one with the Northern Bank headquarter being retained. One simple rule is that there will be a branch in each town. The condition does not hold when the performance of the branches in the town has a rating of 1 and the reason for the low rating is a lower number of customers. The assumption is that a performance rating of 2 can be improved and a rating of 1 is unlikely to be improved. Northern Bank appears to have better human resource management practices than Southern Bank. It will lead to the replacement of Southern Bank human resource management practices with Northern Bank practices. Southern Bank’s loan approval practices will be replaced with Northern Bank practices. The use of collateral should be an item from Southern Bank practices that should be integrated into the cha
Juvenile justice concentrates on rehabilitative work rather than on punishment measures. Conforming to the rules and aims of juvenile justice presents many challenges to agencies that operate in juvenile system. There are issues concerned with court officials’ attitude and understanding of disadvantage that play an important role in juvenile justice (Rodriguez, 2012). The major concerns faced by juvenile agencies are mental health status of juveniles, difficulties with youth charged with status offences, and management of policies for youth concerned in both child welfare systems and juvenile justice. Juveniles and Mental Health Issues In recent years, the rates of juvenile crimes have decreased (Espinosa, Sorensen, & Lopez, 2013). However, they are still rather alarming. One of the possible reasons why many children and adolescents get engaged in criminal behavior is that young people are subject to mental health issues (Espinosa et al., 2013). As research results indicate, mental health problems may be a cause of out-of-risk placement for juvenile delinquents. In their research, Liebenberg and Ungar (2014) investigate the risk levels for mental health problems in two groups of youth: one sampled from justice service, and another one sampled from mental health services. As a result of the study, researchers conclude that both groups have equal risk levels for mental disorders. However, the authors also note that levels of engagement in these two groups are different (Liebenberg & Ungar, 2014). Young people who are engaged prevalently with justice services experience a smaller degree of engagement with mental health services. Therefore, a possible way of meeting this challenge is a mental health intervention that might distract young people from the engagement in delinquent behavior. While mental health issues present a serious challenge by themselves, their combination with other adverse factors may lead to even more dramatic outcomes. For instance, the problem of neglect is rather closely related to the development of mental health difficulties (Ryan, Williams, & Courtney, 2013). According to research, adolescents who suffer from neglect are more exposed to substance abuse and mental health problems than their peers who not experience the lack of attention and care. The Prevalence of Status Offenses in the Youth Justice Systems Another problem faced by juvenile justice agencies is the persistence of so-called “status offenses” youngsters. This group consists of adolescents who break the law while being under eighteen years old, and thus, cannot be punished for their misbehavior justly. The cases that are defined as status offense include underage substance abuse, running away, truancy, and curfew violations (Cheely et al., 2012). A more serious type of status offense is failing to adhere to bailing conditions (Sprott, 2012). Researchers note that making adolescents exposed to complicated conditions at probation or bailing may lead to young people’s failure to conform to the policies as they collect more and more criminal
Introduction The onset of COVID-19 was unexpected and as a result, has led to the death of millions of people across the world. Consequently, the Australian government introduced the COVIDSafe mobile application to help control the pandemic. Its success relies on the citizens’ rational decisions in supporting the government towards containing the virus. Issue, Facts, and Context Closing of schools, businesses, medical facilities, and borders are a few impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic that have contributed to public health challenges in Australia. The government was not prepared for the pandemic; consequently, the health system cannot effectively control the current situation. The main challenge experienced in the sector is the limited distribution of Personal Protective Equipment (PPEs), medical supplies, and testing kits, critical in managing the pandemic (Hunt, 2020). Similarly, public hospitals lack enough isolation wards and Intensive Care Unit facilities to treat infected individuals. Consequently, the national government has been forced to introduce a total lockdown to reduce the pandemic’s spread and utilize the limited public health resources. However, this decision has negatively impacted the economy, and the government has opted for the COVIDSafe app meant to speed up the process of locating exposed and infected individuals. This approach’s benefit is that it helps ease restrictions and improve the economy gradually (Hunt, 2020). The only challenge is that the app’s use is voluntary, and the rate of downloading and utilizing it is low. Furthermore, not all Australians have smartphones, and some might adamantly reject the COVIDSafe app. To liberate the economy and the country, the government is exposing its citizens to more risk. It should have considered the mentioned factors before implementing the application’s use. Economic Model of Individual Decision-Making and The Use of The COVIDSafe App Citizens are at the center of the contact tracing app and therefore determine its success or failure, and the economic model of individual decision-making can be used to analyze their attitudes towards the software. According to Alvino and Franco (2017), people make decisions that earn the greatest satisfaction, and this concept is equal
Smoking is a habit developed by most people but the problem with it, just like any other drug, is addiction. Consequently, people addicted to smoking find it difficult to go for long periods without smoking. This has led to people smoking everywhere; public areas such as buses, restaurants and workplaces. For non-smokers, this habit is extremely irritating and can lead to health problems associated with passive smoke. As a result, a convenient prohibition should be implemented to place both smokers and non-smokers in a suitable position where none is bothered by the other. It is quite unethical to allow smoking to continue in workplaces at the expense of the non-smokers. This paper intends to focus on convenient policies that could be implemented at workplaces that would be favorable to both smokers and non-smokers. Renfold as a supervisor is approached by an employee who complains about the smoking habits of other employees in the workplace. The complaint raised by Darlene is that Alice and Frank smoke in their offices and the stench of cigarette smoke that remains in the air irritates her. If I were Charles Renfold I would listen to Darlene’s complaint and look at the situation objectively before taking any action. Darlene is of the opinion that she would not work on the job that is assigned to her since she needs to retrieve files from Alice’s and Frank’s office. Since the job is urgent and therefore needed in a few days time, I would request her to work on the job with the promise that I will communicate her complaints to Frank and Alice so that they may stop smoking in the office due to complaints raised by fellow colleagues. Furthermore, I will promise her that I would forward the complaint to the human resource manager so that they could formulate company rules that would favor both smokers and non-smokers within the organization without affecting employees output and morale. After my encounter with Darlene, I would then visit Alice and Frank’s office to inform them of the complaints without necessarily revealing who the complainant is so that they may not develop feelings of resentment towards Darlene. I would then make a follow up with Darlene to ensure that she begins working on the files since the report is required by top management. Afterwards I would visit the Human Resource office to
There is so much in this world that people would like to change and if it was possible, it, perhaps, would have led to the total chaos. Changing history is especially alluring, but everyone knows that if even the least important event was changed, the present would be absolutely different because sometimes something bad has to happen for the future to become better. Nevertheless, when it comes to historical events, there are a number of events which people wish to change. Taking into consideration the fact that the World War II and its appalling events are still remembered and feared of, I would really want to interfere with nature and erase from the history the day when Adolf Hitler was born; this would have entailed a number of other changes which the whole world would have been grateful for. One of the consequences which my change would have caused would be the absence of the World War II. I can appease with the war when it is caused by territorial disputes or political ones and I would never blame America for interfering with the Vietnam War only because it wanted to prevent communism from spreading over Asia (Dornbush 439). This at least can be understood. However, I still cannot appease with the idea that somebody could start slaughtering people with the purpose of making his own nation superior. Of course, the history of the United States is also stained with the country’s not always successful fight with racial discrimination, but that was a little different from Hitler’s situation. Moreover, if Hitler was never born, the world would have never known about the Holocaust. It is hard for me to decide which is more appalling, Hitler’s desire to conquer the world and his belief that German people were the only pure race or his slaughtering six million of Jewish people for their mere being Jewish (Evans 128). It is striking how the hatred which came from one person spread over the world so quickly. Surprising, but after Hitler some people started realizing that they did not like the Jewish as well. How come that these people have never known about their dislikes before? The answer is quite simple. It was Hitler who bred this dislike and hatred and his nationalistic ideas are to blame for hundreds of thousands of deaths which the World War II and the Holocaust brought. Finally, if there was no Hitler, there would perhaps be fewer instances of racial and other kinds of discrimination these days. Namely his ideas turned the world into what it is now and resulted in the decades of fight with racial, gender, age, and the like discrimination. It is namely the remains of the past which form people’s prejudices towards non-white people, women, homosexuals, etc. Hitler’s ideas made people realize differences between them. It was Hitler who made people differentiate between the Jewish and the Non-Jewish, it was Hitler who considered that women were only for pleasure and for giving birth to children, and it was Hitler who convinced the others that 90-60-90 (in cm) were the right proportions for a woman’s body. Thus, he is to blame not only for discrimination but for the deaths of those girls who wished their bodies
Canon USA Inc is a manufacturer of professional business and consumer imaging equipment and information systems. The product line includes color and black and white copiers, printers, image filing systems, facsimile machines, cameras, and lenses, camcorders, semiconductor broadcast encoders/optoelectric components and optical equipments, flatbed scanners and other industrial imaging products (Canon). The company was established in the year 1966. The stock sticker symbol of the company is ‘CAJ’. The shares of the company are quoted in the New York Stock Exchange. The current stock price is $ 50.50. The 52 week low is $ 38.44 and the 52 week highest stock price is $ 60.16. (Market Watch) The company’s accounts were audited by Ernst &Young Shin Nihon. The Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) code is 3861. The company’s financial statements contain the financial overview, consolidated statements if income consolidated balance sheet, consolidated statements of cash flow and consolidated statements of stockholders’ equity. The notes to the accounts contain significant accounting policies, foreign operations, marketable securities and investments, property, plant and equipment. Goodwill and other intangible assets, commitments and contingent liabilities and supplemental cash flow information. The company forms part of ‘Photographic Equipment and Supplies’ industry. On the basis of market capitalization the company is ranked as number one. The company paid dividends as below: Year              31.12.2007  31.12.2006  31.12.2005 Dividend $/Share  0.82        0.77        0.47        The company has only common stock and treasury stock. There are no preferred stocks issued by the company. As of 31 st December 2007, 1,261,047,782 shares of common stock including 73,640,348 American Depository Shares were outstanding. There were no bonds outstanding. The company’s profit margin for the year ending 31 st December 2007 is: $ Million. Year               31.12.2007 Operating Revenue  40,229     Net Income         4,384      Profit Margin      10.9%       Ricoh USA The company headquartered in Tokyo has 324 subsidiaries and 15 associated companies in Japan and overseas markets (Google Finance) The product line of Ricoh USA include multifunction black & white and color copiers, scanners, facsimile machines, printers, digital duplicators, high speed print engines with robust finishing capabilities and analog and digital wide-format copiers. The company was established in the year 1962. The stock ticker symbol for the company is JP: 7752. The shares of the company are quoted in the Tokyo Stock Exchange. The current market price is ¥ 1,793.00. The stock price – 52 week low is ¥ 1,395.00 and 52 week high is ¥2,950.00 (Business Week) The company’s accounts were audited by KPMG AZSA Co. Tokyo Japan. There is no information on the industry ranking for this company. The Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) code is 3672 (electronic and other electrical equipment and components, e
In its widely watched film titled Inside Out , Pixar demonstrates the science of memory and emotion. The movie employs the character of Riley, a young girl full of the blast while growing up in Minnesota to describe her subsequent struggles managing a family relocation to San Francisco. The documentary illustrates how the memory of previous events evokes strong feelings. Most people have past occasions that arouse fondest remembrances. Riley makes me recall one of the best moments in my early teenage years when we visited a family friend called John in his Florida ranch. During a short stint in Florida with my sister, we quickly had charming friends, played beach volleyball coupled with some horse rides in the evening. Moreover, Mr. John gave us a ball as a souvenir. The kind and warm reception alongside other outdoor activities during that visitation continuously linger in my recollection. The events relate to Riley’s life, who while staying in Minnesota developed great companions and become a celebrated hockey player. However, the move to a new city ruins everything, making her find difficulty in adjusting. She is confounded by the family’s decision, and in reply, her emotions become confused. From the animation, it is evident that the mind does not easily remove old information. Just like Riley, my earlier actions take time to fade. Inside Out paints how such sensations as sadness, anger, and fear make individuals uncomfortable. The film brilliantly shows the complexity of the human mind regarding memory and emotions. Riley’s action recounts on a personal level, which induces the warmest reminiscence of previous happenings. Reference Docter, P., & Carmen, R.D. (2015). Inside out [Film]. Disney.
Robert Frank was a renowned photographer in the United States and he was born in Zurich, Switzerland on 9 th of November 1924. He begun his career in photography as an apprentice where he learned his skills by observing the works of legendary photographers. Robert has in- depth knowledge in photography because he was very aggressive from the beginning of his career. In fact he visited many cities within U.S. and managed to take multiple photos but then he found himself behind the bars because some people thought he was spying on them. It is certain that he had a passion for his career and that’s why he visited many countries just for the love of photography. He was very intelligent because he took his photos without attracting attention and when he did he was smart enough to cover his intentions. In photography one needs to be cautious because in some instances photographers can be prosecuted for taking photos of sensitive places such as army barracks, and to be sincere Robert was put behind bars because he was thought to be a spy. A look at some of his images indicate that during those days photos were without color because most of his initial images are in black and white but the element of lighting and shadowing is excellent. This shows that he knew how to position himself to enhance the contrast in his photos. By then automatic cameras had not been invented hence he relied on the sun to provide lighting. If the same photos were to be taken today they would be much better because technology has made things to be easy, hence editing of photos is less tiring because it is done using computers. Robert cropped his photos accurately without loosing the intended message of the photo. Perhaps people who don’t know the history of U.S. should take a look at the works of Robert and realize that every city has its own history because one will notice that some of the objects captured in his photos are not present today. The photos imply that Americans are very conscious people because of the fashion displayed in these photos. Robert seemed to have the right connections which provided a platform to display his photos during exhibitions and he may have exchanged ideas with fellow photographers hence beginners should consult photographers who have made it in this field. Every job has its challenges and so is photography as evidenced by Robert. A photographer should then be alert while taking photos because he could be met with a lot of hostility and I think that’s why presidents all over the world have their designated photographers because studies have shown that photography can be abused. Robert employed minimal light in his photos which made them stand out from the rest. May be he was capitalizing on the element of lighting to create a light tone in his images. Most of his images have unique focus which displays his attention to detail. This element is evidenced by Rodeo (see appendix) which was taken in 1954 in New York city because one can not identify the face of the guy who is leaning on the dustbi
Introduction Death in the current world has received various perceptions and even different meanings. According to Levete (2010), death is described as a one of the many stages of human life. In the different interpretations of death, there is a section of people that believe death is the final stage in the life journey of both human beings and plants. On the other hand, there are those people who hold on to the belief that life exist after death (Levete, 2010). Medical perspective of death According to the medical understanding of death, diseases are closely linked with death. In other words, diseases are perceived as type of death that is incorporated in the lives of the living things. Although diseases may indicate the shift from life and death, they are also known to co-exist with life. Diseases have been described as death in living things, hence by dealing with them directly one will be doing away with histopathology, thus retaining the living organisms to their healthy condition (Lyng, 1990, p.144). Psychological perspective of death Although cultures may differ on perception of death, psychologically speaking death remains to be death. Death has been a concept since time in memorial, and over the years, it has been pulled in various directions until the inception of modern science. Although death is perceived as an ambiguity term, it has been defined as an event that symbolizes the passage from living to dead. This passage is said to occur in our everyday period (Kastenbaum, 2000, p. 7). Legal perception on death Tra