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Executive Summary To begin with, it is necessary to mention that disaster recovery is the set of processes, regulations, policies and rules closely linked and aimed at preparing for recovery after failure, or performing strategic innovations and procedures critical for the extreme situation after any natural or human-induced disaster. In the case of the business activity, it should be stated that the recovery process takes into account all the necessary procedures aimed at restoring the business activity and providing all the necessary strategies for successful activity on a market. Analysis and Discussion Taking into account the strong necessity of restoring the successful business activity, it should be stated that the only strategy for disaster recovery which may suit is the business continuity plan (BCP): it entails planning for resumption of applications, data, hardware, communications (such as networking) and other IT infrastructure. The BCP also entails planning for non-IT aspects of business, end touches upon the spheres of human resources, facilities crisis communication and reputation protection, and generally is the part of the general disaster recovery plan (DRP) for IT-related infrastructure recovery/continuity. (Comfort, 2004) The commonly accepted plans of the Disaster Recovery Plan are elaborated with the aim of providing the general principles of recovery, however, they should be adapted for the real situation, as the origin of a disaster, the reasons and consequences may vary essentially. Thus, the first step is the identification of the scope and boundaries of the business continuity plan. This step is intended for defining the scope of BCP. Moreover, it offers an idea on the borders of the plan, as the initial steps for recovery should be careful and accurate in order not to aggravate the consequences. Risk analysis and report on the matter of consequences and forecasts are also provided o this step. The following action that should be undertaken is the business impact analysis. Originally, the effects of a disaster on the business sphere are evaluated separately. This analysis entails the calculation of the financial losses for the organization which has already occurred, and that will occur if the services will not be restored. If the company has a complicated structure, the main concepts and principles should be provided for the upper management: first, it should coordinate the recovery process, second, there is a strong necessity in the unified strategy. It is one of the most crucial tasks during the initial stage – to convince the management in the necessity and success of the offered plan. Then each department should provide all the necessary changes to the plan for adapting it to the real circumstances within each department. The understanding of the role of the plan is rather essential; c
The movement for social action has been gaining quite a momentum over the past decade. With the rise in the levels of agency among general audiences, the importance of issues associated with environmentalism has risen, hence the increase in the popularity of Greenpeace USA, one of the largest environmentalist organizations. Located in Washington, D.C., Greenpeace has contributed to a rise in awareness about the need to preserve wildlife and unique habitats that are currently termed as endangered (Greenpeace, 2020). Helping the species that face extinction to survive and thrive, Greenpeace has been the face of the environmentalism movement. Action Plan In order to make an even greater difference in the modern world, where the role of production and, therefore, the performance of numerous industries and their negative impact on the environment, has increased, Greenpeace will need a strong action plan. Currently, the company will have to focus on building awareness in a subtle yet effective manner. For this purpose, the organization will have to utilize social media tools in order to grab the audience’s attention. In addition, the development of applications that will allow engaging citizens into the conservation of the environment, such as the tools tracking their environmental footprint, will be needed (Alam, Nilan, & Leahy, 2019; Hawken, 2007). Moreover, Greenpeace will have to attract funding by outlining its progress, including the effects made of the D-Town Farm and other Greenpeace’s projects. By raising the attention and investment of citizens, Greenpeace will be able to create more communities such as the Damascus citizens group (‘Damascus citizens for sustainability,’ n.d.). Overall, the rise in the levels of awareness is expected to occur as a result of a massive media campaign. In addition, Greenpeace may need to emphasize the necessity to address environmental issues in light of the current range of health concerns, namely, the effects of the pandemic.
The ever-increasing human population prompted the emergence of scientific methods and techniques aimed at increasing agricultural productivity. Among these techniques is the use of pesticides to control weeds and ultimately boost farm yields. However, recent studies on effects of the pesticides due to increased overreliance on modern agricultural practices reveal their various negative and risky elements on the environment, people, and other agricultural-associated hazards that cannot be ignored. As such, it is clear that the dangers posed by pesticide use outweigh their usefulness in agriculture. The general narrative on pesticide use in agriculture is the assertion that it saves labor and ensures higher crop yields. This could be factual but only in the short run: pesticides ensure crop productivity by killing weeds, and insects and controlling animal infestation (US Environment Protection Agency, 2017). However, with increased dependence and overutilization, pesticide use poses a great risk to agriculture use in the long run. According to Atwood et al. (2017), over 1.1 billion pounds of various types of pesticides are used for agricultural production in the US alone. This is an indication of high dependency whose effects are now apparent hence the need to look for alternative solutions before the situation becomes irreversible. Some of the effects include soil pollution, and reduced soil fertility due to the eradication of microorganisms; humans face the risk of induced immunotoxicity and other cancerous risks as a result of direct exposure. Furthermore, the overutilization of pesticides is the main cause of the emergence of super weeds that require toxic chemical formulas to effectively deal with them (Mitrani et al, 2018). These adversities show just how greater danger than the usefulness of pesticide use is in agriculture. Although pesticides are beneficial in the short run, the resulting long-term effects on the environment and society, in general, are worrying. The escalated use of pesticides as an artificial method of weeds and pest control poses danger to the ecosystem, public health, and workers who directly apply or work in factories that produce them. Hence, the dangers posed by pesticide use outweigh their usefulness in agriculture.
Possible Better Communication in 1994 Black Hawk Shootdown Incident Better communication does not only imply responsiveness, but absence of connotation of the messages and commands, which is the basic rule of minimum communication worked out in the military environment. Impossibility to reach consensus and establish trustful and committed relationship is explained by the inability of the Operation Provide Comfort leader to come up the responsibilities and duties imposed on the team members. In order to prevent the communication gap in future, the leader should clearly define the goals of interaction, as well as create a specific code of conduct while communicating, which an important condition for large organization of that kind. Organizational Structure and Hierarchy in the United States Air Force Command Although the mission was guided by an operational command officer, other responsibilities and duties have not been clearly identified. As a result, there was no direct connection between the leader of the team and its members. Lack of clear chains does not ensure distribution of responsibilities, rather; it prevents the leader from achieving the desirable goals. In order to realize the mission, it is purposeful to establish clear organizational network that would regulate transparent reporting. Leadership, therefore, was at the core of communication and team management problem. Overcoming Technological Shortcoming in the Incident Success of communication largely depends on efficient technological advancement. A well-organized mission should have enough financial resources for building a strong and sustainable network that will ensure consistent and dynamic accomplishment of an operation. Lack of consistency and awareness of the mission led to discouragement and irresponsible attitude to the operation. The communication gap was also predetermined by variety of channels of information transmission. Insufficient costs on surgery and fiscal climate should have been managed more properly. Social Loafing: Pitfalls of Team Management Effectiveness of team management depends largely on experience and leadership skills of the command officer who should have provided accurate information exchange and adequate distribution of responsibilities. This is of particular concern to other military stakeholders involved into the operation. In addition, the leader should have made their team members understand that commitment rather than competitiveness was a priority in the mission accomplishment. Inconsistency in Mission Creating Failure to carry out the mission consisted in the impossibility to create clear objectives. Specific emphasis should be placed on the conflict emerged between AWACS team and its co-members from F-16 division (The Tragedy and Players 1). Lack of cooperation emerged as a result of a long-term rivalry between the Air Force and the Army. In case, the mission is poorly established, the subordinates will not be encouraged to accomplish it in an accurate and efficient way. Works Cited The Tragedy and Players. 1994 Black Hawk Shoot down . PDF file. n. d. Print. pp. 1-7.
Introduction Women currently constitute a significant part of the world’s labor force and are now present in most, if not all, occupational areas. The last decades witnessed consistently “increasing numbers of women entering the workforce,” and this fact continues to reshape the social landscapes of many professional communities (Munn & Chaudhuri, 2016, p. 55). However, the mere fact of women becoming more and more critical as part of the workforce does not mean they do not encounter difficulties in the workplace caused by their gender. According to Ellemers (2014), it is far from evident that contemporary organizations view male and female employees as equally valuable. The inclusion of large numbers of women in the workforce is still a relatively recent development in historical terms, and not all social tensions associated with it have dissipated. Thus, to properly understand the challenges faced by women in their jobs, one should look into the problem from a historical perspective. Scholarly literature does that by focusing on different kinds of sexism embedded in organizational cultures as well as the difficulties encountered by female leaders, but there still are areas that mandate further research. Historical Background When speaking about women in the workplace as an issue for organizational psychology, one should be aware that it is a relatively recent problem in historical terms. Before the middle of the 20 th century, there were next to no organizational spaces where women acted as paid employees. According to Stanfors and Goldscheider (2017), while men dominated the sphere of public economy, women occupied the niche of “unpaid caring, nurture, maintenance, and also unpaid production” (p. 174). The Industrial Revolution and the corresponding demographic changes, especially the overall decrease in birth rate, created the conditions for the potential inclusion of women into the public economy. However, these changes did not immediately lead to greater female participation in the economy. Initially, society simply expected women to shift “from caring for quantities of children to improving the quality of their children” (Stanfors & Goldscheider, 2017, p. 176). As a result, before the 20 th century, women were poorly represented in the public economy, which had largely remained the exclusive domain of men. This traditional distribution of roles between man as a provider and woman as a caregiver began to crumble in the 20 th century. By that time, the technological advances had created enough positions that society would deem suitable for female workers, mostly in the services. In the early 20 th century, the development of several sectors of the economy generated new job positions, “such as sales, banking and insurance, and public administration” (Stanfors & Goldscheider, 2017, p. 192). These opportunities attracted women, as they generally offered better payment for less effort compared to domestic service or manual labor. As a consequence, women’s representation in the service sector and administration grew consistently since the late 19 th century. In 1900, only 18 percent of American women ha
Abstract Clients contribute to the development of companies significantly, especially those working in the field of hospitality. One of the questions this paper raises is whether this fact means that the customer is always right. Restaurants and hotels call clients their “guests” and strive to provide them with excellent service, retaining their loyalty. However, placing customers in such a superior position may be harmful to employees working for such businesses. This paper aims at exploring the idea that the customer is always right and providing claims that, in many cases, such an approach is inappropriate. It features current studies in the field and analyzes the impact of such policies on both clients and workers. Moreover, the report provides an alternative view on the issue, reflecting on the beneficial sides of making the customer’s desires a priority. The report concludes that it is vital for companies to ensure fair treatment to their employees while improving the quality of their services. Introduction Customers or guests are the staples of successful businesses, as they are the ones contributing to the development of companies. It is evident that customers drive revenue, and through this, businesses flourish. This fact raises the following question: Can the customer do any wrong? This question can be considered the one challenging the hospitality industry day by day. Hospitable people are expected to be forgiving and welcoming, especially when they provide hospitality services professionally. However, it is possible to say that such an approach is wrong. Wrong or inappropriate actions of staff members always have consequences, and this should be true for guests as well. Hospitality professionals are as important as guests, as all of them contribute to the development of a business. The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether the customer is always right, and what actions hospitality service workers should take when an individual is wrong. The report argues that Definition of Hospitality Service Hospitality can be described as the process of entertainment of guests or customers, which, in the case of hotels and restaurants, is a significant part of their work. The hospitality industry is composed of businesses that focus on customer service. The specific aspects the hospitality industry specializes in include food and beverages, stays, travel, and tourism. This paper focuses on the services restaurants and hotels provide because these organizations work with guests daily and may encounter challenging situations associated with hospitality often. Significance of the Guest’s Experience LaTour and Carbone (2014) report that the purpose of experience is “to create a series of sub-experiences that will ‘stick’ with the
Communication is the process of relaying information from one person to another one. For effective communication to take place there must exist the sender, message to be shared transmitting media, receiver, and feedback. Communicational is very vital because it enables sharing of information and the establishment of agreement in contentious issues in times of conflict. From the discussion of the article…it is noted that there exists a big dilemma from various scholars in determining whether a conflict should be settled through a negotiation process or coercive method. Gandhi and Martin Luther advocated the use of negotiation as the best method for resolving conflicts. This is because according to the above scholars they do not take their adversaries as their enemies but treat them as their colleagues that they have differed in certain issues. Therefore according to them if the adversaries accept to respond to the grievances then it is not necessary for engaging in nonviolent actions. (Muchinsk 1997, 598). Curle has a more professional program for managing a conflict. According to him, he believes that conflict depends on two factors. These are awareness and balance. He believes that for parties to engage in a constructive negotiation all the parties need to be educated on the consequences or impacts of the conflicts. From this point, the parties will learn the importance of engaging in a serious consultation process to establish a convenient and lasting solution. In most cases, he had noted that this is not possible at first. This is because at the beginning there exists an imbalance that is caused by one of the parties being at a higher point than the other one. In such a case that party does not see the need or reason for sitting down and negotiate. Therefore in such a case, it is important for the other party to engage in nonviolent actions such as protests so that things are do not go on as usual. This helps to bring both parties at par and all the parties now realize the importance of sitting down and negotiating to establish a concession over the disagreement. This process is referred to as confrontation and enables one party to build strength such that any power imbalance is equalized. From the confrontation stage and when the imbalances are equalized the two parties can go to the bargaining stage. At this point, the two parties sit at a table and together put their efforts to resolve the conflict. Rarely do the parties negotiate on their own but more often it requires an intervention of a third party to ca
Introduction Training has become an important part of human life. Many companies apply to training of their employees in order to increase their knowledge in the sphere, top promote their skills and to encourage them for personal development as the professionalism of the staff is a guarantee of a success of the company. Human resources are considered as one of the most important factor for the company successful development, therefore, much time and effort is devoted to the human resources in the company. However, online training has both advantages and disadvantages. On the one hand, online training due to the development of the innovative technologies allows people to increase their knowledge, improve their skills without leaning their working place. Employees are able to complete online training whenever they want that increases their interest and the desire to complete the training effectively. Time of driving to the place where training is held is also saved. Online training helps employees to become familiar with the innovative technologies which may be applied into practice in the company. However, there are a number of disadvantages which help many employees to refuse from this type of training. Online training cannot involve group practices which are usually inevitable parts of training in real life. Personal contact is really important, but people are unable to feel it while online training. Online training does not presuppose the monitoring of the progress on the regular basis which reduces the effectiveness of training and does not give the expected results. Therefore, there are two sides of online training, advantageous and disadvantageous which help the employers to make up a decision whether to refer to online or traditional training. Advantages of Online Training The main advantage of online training is that it helps train employees who are remote from the usual place of work. Such specifics of online training help all the employees to become trained, even though some of them may be on a business trip (Allison 2003). Many specific developments are based on this particular feature of the online training. Employers actively use it in order to make sure that all the employees managed to train their skills. The importance of the on time delivery of the information and acquiring of the appropriate skills in the modern condition of constant competition is important. The innovative technologies do not stand on the same place and in case staff is unable to cope with some tasks which apply more innovative knowledge the company may lose its profit. Online training is effective when all the innovative technologies are involved. The use of chart rooms, speakers and web cameras may help the employees to appear in a web room and imagine that they are in one and the same place. It is easy to communicate with other employees and a professor while teaching if training is scheduled and employees have a freedom in choosing the time when they want to train. All the employees may be involved into training at one and the same time without lengthy absence from work as different employees will complete the task a