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The United States have become a home to many cultures and nations in a rapidly developing environment and innovations. San Jose, located in California is one of the central cities of the region and is thought to be a place of several different races. It is a modernized and well developed place of opportunity and offers great potential to people. Cultural diversity can be observed all over the United States and San Jose is not an exception. More specifically, Hispanic people are a part of history and heritage of the city. The history goes back to year 1777 when San Jose became a town with a predominantly Spanish population (Regua 5). The climate and geography of San Jose makes it a unique place with benefits but also negative sides that some places do not have. Because it is located close to the San Andreas Fault, it can be said that earthquakes are somewhat common. Guadalupe River that runs through the regions is thought to be one of the main sources of water and has been significant historically, in relation to early farming. The climate is very pleasant with many days of sunshine and subtropical temperatures. The fact that it is located some distance away from the Pacific Ocean makes the climate warmer, as the cold currents do not have predominant effect on the temperature. The winters are mild with the coldest temperatures not lowering below -10 C and a summer average of 23-35 degrees (Johnson 11). Today, Hispanics make up a large group of the American people, and the culture of San Jose has become diversified by the influence and culture. The city is prosperous in many areas, as the technology is developing with the center in the Silicon Valley. In comparison to people struggling, there are many who have accomplished a lot in the corporate world, establishing the group as of middle-class and well-educated. But even in such a developed and industrialized city as San Jose there are still racism and discrimination. It is clear to see that there are problems with the introduction, implementation and assimilation of people of different cultural backgrounds. Even though discrimination has become unacceptable and frowned upon, there is no denying that it still exists, proving the need to constantly remind of its negativity and damaging effect on the people (Regua 8). San Jose is very much a modernized city and has many prospective opportunities in the progressing of the sustainable development. San Jose is involved in the social innovation and the ecological prosperity in the movement, which increases the stability of the economy and at the same time, protects the environment and social order. It is focused on establishing a plan in dealing with the climate change, the use of clean energy, an effective transpo
Brief Description of Rashid Hospital Rashid Hospital is located in Dubai and is currently considered one of the leading hospitals in the United Arab Emirates. At this hospital, the staff specializes in ambulatory care, emergency cases, and critical trauma/injuries. Rashid Hospital provides its patients with first-class care, and its ultimate goal is to educate and train the best specialists in the healthcare industry. Leadership in these areas is considered to be the core objective of the hospital’s administration. According to reviews, Rashid Hospital is identified as one of the most noticeable and reliable medical centers in the Gulf region. The most complex cases are transferred to Rashid Hospital from all over the Emirates and other countries. One of the distinctive traits of this hospital is its close collaboration with Dubai’s law enforcement agency. At Rashid Hospital, the staff is also trained to deal with emergencies at airports. Rashid Hospital offers a vast variety of medical and nonmedical services that it may provide its patients with the health care of the highest quality. The mission of Rashid Hospital is to guarantee that its clients receive the best evidence-based care, and the hospital’s staff applies a patient-based approach to the development of their treatment practices. Moreover, Rashid Hospital differs from other hospitals in the area because its employees are highly motivated to improve their professional skills and are committed to healthcare research and education. The vision of the administration revolves around the notion of excellence and the provision of specialized health care that are characteristic of patient-focused care. The organizational values of the hospital include patient safety, and evidence-based decision-making process, stable and effective patient-nurse relationships, and empowerment. The employees are also committed to creating a trustful environment and being transparent and supportive. Strategic Planning in Rashid Hospital and Its Results Interviews with employees at Rashid Hospital helped to identify several crucial aspects of the hospital’s strategic planning process. Throughout the last five years, the hospital’s administration has paid attention to some factors that helped them to effectively improve care quality and efficiently plan activities. First, it was mentioned that the employees and the administration at Rashid Hospital are trained to plan ten years into the future. The key premise for this is the fact that the healthcare environment cannot be characterized as static, and important changes may transpire annually (Persily, 2013). At Rashid Hospital, the staff is qualified to create planning scenarios. Over the last five years, they have tried to create an envisioned future. As the interviewed personnel mentioned, their envisioned future depended on several factors. First, at Rashid Hospital, everyone is interested in identifying the biggest healthcare industry changes that are about to happen within the next five to ten years. Second, the staff is required to re-evaluate the guidelines dynamically and track change
Abstract Exercising and fitness are among the most popular activities in the contemporary world. Even though many individuals are involved into them, not all are aware about the proper ways of achieving the best results in the shortest periods of time. For this paper, I conducted a research and located the studies describing some of the most effective diets and exercise types for gaining lean body mass. Main In the contemporary world exercising and being fit is gaining more popularity, especially among younger people. Millennials are focused on physical and aesthetical benefits of frequent exercises and often choose high protein diets in order to enhance the results. Both men and women are interested in gaining lean mass, developing prominent muscle and fitter bodies. This is why my wellness goal for this paper was to test the myths and realities of exercising. My objective was to gain five pounds of lean body mass by April by means of exercising and keeping to a high-protein diet. Developing a plan considering the ways to achieve my wellness goal I chose a combination of several strategies. First of all, in order to gain lean mass an individual is to exercise regularly. I compiled a training schedule which included two or three workout sessions a week, the average length of one session was one hour. The exercises I did included weight lifting, squats, and bench press. This way, my target groups of muscles were leg, chest and arm muscles. In order to enhance the results of my training sessions and speed up the development of my muscles I decided to employ special diet rich in protein. I made this decision based on the study by Brown, DiSilvestro, Babaknia and Devor (2004), which tested the effects of soy and whey protein bars on the development of lean body mass during the exercise sessions of the participants and compared the results to the data collected from the control group which had the same training program but consumed no protein bars at all. According to the study, the participants who had 33 grams of protein a day during the training period gained lean body mass, while the control group’s results showed no changes in lean body mass. Another study written by Hartman, Tang, Wilkinson, Tarnopolsky, Lawrence, Fullerton, and Phillips (2007) compared the changes of lean body mass between the groups of participants consuming soy milk, no fat fluid milk and carbohydrate sports drinks (control group) right after the training sessions and one hour after that. The research demonstrated that the group of participants keeping to fluid milk diet showed the best results. The control group demonstrated 2.3 % change in lean body mass, the group consuming soy milk showed 3.1% change and the group keeping to fluid milk diet had 3.9% body mass change (Ha
The United States of America and other members of the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) recognize foreign aid as any allocation of part of a country’s resources to another under control of its willingness to do so. This type of giving unlike lending does not require the receiving country to pay back for what is given to it. Foreign aid can take the form of a variety of resources ranging from money, expertise, and material goods food included. Majority of the countries offered foreign aid are recognized as least developed compared to the member states of the Development Assistance Committee, a delegation of about 22 countries. The US government unlike any other country is the giant initiator and giver of foreign aid a factor related to its many resources and large influence it has the World Bank, the United Nations and the International Monetary Fund. Like any form of legendary giving and receiving, foreign aid has a number of advantages and disadvantages to both the giver and the receiver. This paper highlights the positive and negative implications of foreign aid. Foreign aid of any kind is offered for the benefit of the receiving country but the donor country may equally benefit indirectly or directly in the event that it wishes to attain any of the following; establish strong influence of its culture over the receiving country, attain a framework for it to reap certain resources from the receiving country, and in the event that it wishes to create a strong military friendship. Other reasons explaining the need to offer foreign aid are related to the satisfaction of a diplomatic approval and a donor’s gratification for the receiving country’s conduct in accordance with its expectations. Most countries in Africa operate on foreign aid owing to the economic and political instability coupled with the increased occurrences of natural calamities. Foreign aid currently is offered in two perspectives either as bilateral or multilateral. Bilateral foreign aid is
Introduction The hospitality industry is mainly concerned with the provision of services. It is a dynamic and multi-cultural sector, which provides people with an opportunity to effectively spend their leisure time. Most consumers in the industry are from high and medium income level brackets (Hayes 2013). In light of this, stakeholders put emphasis on the quality of services provided. It is the role of the management to ensure that the quality of services is maintained within their organisations. They achieve this by formulating policies that are in line with the principle of remarkable service (America 2014). They also guide employees of the firms to make sure that they operate professionally while on duty. The aim of this paper is to provide information on how the principle of remarkable service operates. To achieve this, an interview will be carried out. A hotel manager will be the interviewee. A manager is best suited for the interview given their ability to influence policies concerning quality within the organisation. The Principle of Remarkable Service The quality of services offered by firms in the hospitality industry determines the success of individual businesses. Businesses operating in this sector are engaged in cut-throat competition (Hayes 2013). As such, most of them spend a lot of money in efforts to improve the quality of their services. To achieve this, players in the industry train their employees to equip them with the skills needed to offer remarkable services to customers. As such, these firms have competitive advantage over other players in the sector. Welcoming Customers into the Hotel Welcoming guests in a courteous and friendly manner is the first step towards promotion of good relations between consumers and the organisation. It det
Despite the fact that more students are likely to pursue higher education now, unlike ten years ago, the attainment of higher education credentials in Texas is still low. Out of 883, 260 public school students in 8 th grade, only 19.9% of these (175, 489) attained a certificate or degree program (National Center for Higher Education Management Systems report (NCHEMS), 2012. p. 2). Completion of education at this point is unlikely, and only slight improvements have been realized. This is likely to take a great toll on the American economy because there will be no qualified workers to compete in the global workforce (The National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education (NCPPHE), 2008). The poor higher education credential patterns have prompted the need to establish student characteristics because they may be influential factors. In comparison to the national trends in the pursuance of tertiary education, Texas is performing poorly. As a matter of fact, individuals will prefer to be enrolled in college in outside states, for example, Massachusetts, than in Texas (NCPPHE, 2008). Only one in five students that complete their eighth grade complete postsecondary education in 11 years (NCHEMS, 2012). More female students than male students enroll for postsecondary education (10% higher), but more male students than female students complete postsecondary education (NCHEMS, 2012, p. 4). Statistical reports for female progression in colleges in Texas versus the nation are 7.8% and 5.5%, respectively (NCHEMS, 2012, p. 7). Despite the fact that Texas performs well in relation to more females enrolling in higher education, the converse is the case for overall education credential as shown in the figure below. Figure obtained from NCHEMS (2012, p. 7) In Texas, enrollment in postsecondary institutions starts after 8 th grade. Enrollment can be in a private or public college/university because these are the available postsecondary institutions. A high school diploma is not essential for one to enroll in postsecondary education. In a report by the National Center for Education Statistics (2010, p. 5), Texas was among those states with the highest number of Hispanics (36-45%). Given the wide disparities between enrollment and completion of postsecondary education among the white students (majority group) and minority groups, the high population of the minority population in Texas justifies the poor performance of education in Texas (NCHEMS, 2012). Despite disparities in data over time, Texas and Florida, perform poorly in collegiate graduation rates across all races and ethnicities in comparison with the nation (NCHEMS, 2012). It is the city with the largest populati
Over the last two decades, some of the most powerful companies in Asia have been under extensive criticism and consumer pressure to do away with sweatshop labor conditions. However, labor abuse is still a common among Chinese factories exporting their products and services to European and U.S. companies. Reports by labor right groups claim that some of these companies often shortchange their workers pay, withhold their health insurance benefits and expose their workers to hazardous working environment and dangerous chemicals (Barboza 6). These reports argue that these chemicals are not only dangerous for the workers but also for the consumers. While Western consumers are worried about their children getting exposed to lead-coated Chinese toys, younger Chinese working in these factories are in far more dangerous situation. A recent study conducted in Hong Kong’s Pearl River Delta region established that over 20000 people lose their fingers in the manufacturing companies (Barboza 6-7). Labor groups in China have been pushing big multinational and local companies to act right by smuggling copies of evidences such as photographs to the international media. Big corporations which are culprits include Disney, Wal-Mart, and Del Company. These companies have regularly been accused of using child labor, forcing workers to work extremely longer hours and low wages. These reports are not doing China justice given the fact that they are still coping with last year’s recall of Chinese goods from the western market due to safety reasons, and the country’s efforts to rationalize labors laws (Barboza 7). Five faces of oppression Justice refers to the institutional conditions vital for the development and exercise of individual and organizational capacities, collective communication and corporation. In relation to this definition, injustice refers to forms of limitations, oppression, and domination. There are five different types of injustice in the society that are involved in oppression. These are distributive injustice, redistributive injustice, moral exclusion, procedural injustice, and cultural imperialism. These types of injustice assist in assessing different groups of people being oppressed (Young 39). Distributive justice takes into consideration the distribution of four types of capital. These are investment, skills, consumption and social capital. Consumption capital relates to the standard of l
Eisenhardt and Martin’s paper on Dynamic Capabilities (DC) were trying to respond to the critiques of Teece et als definition of DC, as it is might be tautological and vague by applied on different examples. In the year 1997, Teece et al. believed that dynamic capability could be understood as the extension of the Resource-based View (RBV) within the firms. Based on RBV, firms are the collections of ‘ Resource-example of Resources that may include assets, knowledge, or relationships to other firms, however, in details of those how those resources been created, won, or released. And previously, the consequence of strategy built on RBC is a strong focus on the choice of resources and not enough emphasis on they are created and built. Eisenhardt and Martin suggest that DC could be explained as a reaction and challenge (1106). Within the concept of DC, most strategies are built or created (integrated), and eventually released or canceled during the processes or routines within firms, and not fixed solutions. To a certain extent, DC is more focusing on securing and maintaining resources instead of choice and management. It is not about resources choice but more on its development, acquisition, reconfiguration, and renewal. Eisenhardt and Martin believe that DC can ‘enhance RBV’ and it is ‘at the heart of the RBV’, thus, DC is built on the RBV. According to the authors, Firm performance is based on the use of its resources, and DC is more focusing on the use of processes that help manage and adapt those resources. Eisenhardt and Martin offer a definition of DCs, which is: ‘The firm’s process that use resources – specifically the processes to integrate reconfigure, gain and release resources – to match and even create market change. Dynamic Capabilities thus are the organizational and strategic routines by which firms achieve new resource configurations as markets emerge collide, split, evolve and die’ (1107). This definition is quite similar to other authors ‘Traditional View of Dynamic capabilities and Teece et als ‘Re-conceptualization’. Eisenhardt and Martin’s concept is trying to tie the conceptualization to a certain set of specific, identifiable, organizational, and strategic processes that include: innovation, strategic decision-making, alliancing, and others which managers use to build, create and alter the set of resources available to them. This, of course, implies the and idiosyncratic nature of the issue at stake (1108). Eisenhardt and Martin proposed that the nature of the market is the key factor to influence the DC. They divided markets into ‘high-velocity’ and normal markets to explain their point. They believe that successful models are unclear and market players are ambiguous and shifting in high-velocity markets (it is very dynamic). These High-velocity markets are defined as markets in which existing knowledge and firm resources are less useful than the ability to quickly create new knowledge. They raise challenges for the Traditional view of DC, due to the different velocities of the market, the outcomes and pattern of DCs would be different. They belie
Today, the issue of Islam is widely discussed in the global community, and it had its rise after the dramatic events of 2001 in New York. Various opinions that had a direct influence on the lives of Muslim women were formed at that period. Besides, several questions about women’s position in the Middle East countries exist in the global community. The purpose of this paper is to summarize and analyze two articles within this field and investigate in which points they support or contradict each other. The article How I Came to Love the Veil discusses the position of Muslim women within the global community and the attitudes towards their appearance. Unfortunately, the common perception of women wearing a headscarf is connected to something repressive and unequal by many representatives of Western society. The author of the article briefly describes the journey that she went through towards converting to Islam and her further experience of the community’s acceptance. Yvonne Ridley was caught by the Taliban and was held captive for more than a week. The woman was released under the condition that she will study Islam and read the Koran. After being released, Yvonne kept her promise and was amazed by the knowledge that she got from the Holy book. A couple of years after the capture, the author became Muslim, which caused mixed feelings and reactions from the side of her friends and family (Ridley). It is interesting how the woman has changed her path after such a controversial event in her life. In her piece of work, Ridley talks about British people’s reactions to a woman wearing a hijab or niqab. Following the dramatic events of 9/11, the Western community started to view Muslim women as unequal members, who are oppressed by their religion and who can bring harm to society. The author of the article argues that cultural customs and issues have no connection to the writings in Koran. She suggests that through a careful understanding of the book, one can see that women in Islam are “considered equal to men in spirituality, education, and worth” (Ridley). However, Yvonne can see biased attitudes towards Muslim women, even from the representatives of Western governments. From the article, one can conclude that holding to your religious beliefs and making independent choices in terms of appearance can cause a controversial reaction from society. It is interesting to mention that How I Came to Love the Veil also makes a point about the attitude of Muslim men towards their women. The author points out a common misperception that men can be abusive or dogmatic with their wives. On the contrary, Ridley talks that Islam promotes a woman’s value, as well as her equality and dignity. The author makes a strong point about piety importance rather than the representations of the opposite aspects, like age or sexuality (Ridley). Curiously, the perception of the women who are the adherents of Islam is very controversial. Within their religion, Muslim women are respected, valued, viewed as equal, educated, and confident, which emphas