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At the present, consumers are assailed by a variety of mass produced items ranging from shoes, clothes and food to electronics, bed covers and a plethora of other products that an average consumer may need. From the perspective of Kotha, mass production on a global scale of consumer products has enabled goods to be produced more cheaply resulting in consumers getting access to an assortment of items that they otherwise would not be able to afford (Kotha 23). However, as of late there has been a trend in market production wherein aside from mass production, mass customization has been an endeavor where companies attempt to gain a market advantage over their competitors by offering product lines that enable customers to be more “unique” and thus appeals to a higher form of demand among consumers (i.e. the desire to be different) (Liu, Shah and Schroeder 681). The different types of customization encompass a variety of retail products such as shows, clothes, food, and even beauty products. Utilizing a similar strategy to their mass produced brethren, these products also utilize the same delivery systems (i.e. FedEx, UPS, etc.) and ordering mechanisms (i.e. online websites) that have become synonymous with modern day methods of product retailing (Chinnaiah and Kamarthi 292). However, it must be questioned whether this trend in product customization would actually be successful in the long run. It is based on this that this paper will utilize Amazon.com as the independent variable for examination with sites with customized applications for selling custom products will be the dependent variable. Through a comparison of price, delivery time and amount of effort needed in order to purchase a mass produced product or a customized product, it is anticipated that this paper will be able to showcase the likely success or failure of these sites and correlate it with potential the success of product customization as means of generating sales. Converse Customized Shoe versus Converse from Amazon.com The first customizable product site to be examined is Converse.com and its Hi Canvas customized shoe application. Using the shoe designer application on the site, the shoe seen above was created with an initial cost of $75, a delivery fee of $5.95 and a delivery time of 2 to 3 weeks. When it came to the information required by the site for delivery, it merely asked for the address and the shoe size needed. Overall, the process itself was actually quite easy and it can be seen that converse placed a lot of effort into ensuring that customers can easily get the type of product they want in a convenient fashion. In comparison, Amazon.com sold a show with a similar design for $54.99 with free delivery and can arrive at your home within 2 to 3 days upon ordering the product. Amazon.com also allows users to choose the shoe size and the purchasing process is just as easy when compared to Converse.com. When examining both products, it can be seen that the quality is the same yet the mass produced version sold via an online retailer is far cheaper and you can get the product faster. Truthartbeauty.com Customized Raspberry Eye balm versus Amazon.com Eye b
Abstract Companies have tended to focus a lot on philanthropy as one way of marketing themselves. This has been equated to capacity building in myriad of ways. However, the term capacity building can be viewed from various perspectives. For instance, building cooperation and coordinated minds in an organization is one form of capacity building. The latter starts from within an organization before taking the shape of social responsibility. While capacity building has several definitions and various concepts, the most outstanding feature of this organizational feature is that it enhances unity. In an organization, capacity building means bringing together all players in the organization for purposes of driving the organization from one level of operation to another. Therefore, all organizational players must agree to form one channel of development. There are various means of building capacity in the organization. One way is by developing a strong culture full of positive values, beliefs and norms to be followed by all employees. After coming up with one mind that is directed towards improving the performance of the organization, employees and other stakeholders can then focus on offering community assistance. This will then translate to community building or social responsibility. American Civil Liberty Union is a non-profit organization focused on enhancing human rights amongst the publics. However, the company may not succeed if it does not invest in capacity building in the organization. While the company has tried to its best to enhance this concept, it has not succeeded to levels that can make all proud. Therefore, there is need to change quite a number of issues for purposes of building from that front. This paper analyzes the concept of capacity building and how it has been applicable in this organization. The paper also explores some of the approaches which can help build more of capacity in the organization. Company: American Civil Liberties Union Capacity building is capable of bringing in some harmonization amongst key players of an organization. At American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the department tasked with maintaining capacity building has done significant work. As an employee in the department, I have experienced some ways of maintaining togetherness in the company, which has led to harmonization in the company. The company has faced off tumultuous times like the Financial Crisis of 2009. This company has used a number of skills in building strong capacity amongst the employees and utilization of technology. One way the company has done this is by training of organizational employees and enhancing cooperation. The company has made it as a conceptual process to develop within the company by putting a major focus on the
Mankind possesses a huge experience of alcohol abuse. For many centuries, even when people drank only wine, the detrimental influence of alcohol on the individual psyche, as well as on the morally ethical condition of the society was noted. In the past and present artistic and medical literature, and also in today’s movies the condition of alcoholic intoxication was made equivalent to madness. Concerning alcoholic addicts, different measures were taken. They were sometimes pretty cruel: the drinkers were expatriated from communities, and subjected to various bodily punishments, or even death. These harsh measures were used by the society in order to protect itself from dissemination of alcoholism that had a tendency to disrupt all rational interpersonal relations. Emphatically, such cruel measures were given up for much more humane methods of battling alcoholism, as approximately in the middle of the 19 th century it was for the first time addressed as a medical condition, which implied that different medical treatment methods were needed in order to fight this disease. However the implemented measures did not bring to desired results yet, as the dissemination of alcoholism is not decreasing, but has a tendency to rise. This can be observed from the number of alcoholic patients who have appealed to substance abuse professionals and psychiatrists in order to seek medical assistance. Besides, the majority of alcoholics do not turn for professional help. This fact is associated with high permissiveness of society towards this problem, as well as negative attitude of the population towards alcoholic therapists. Nevertheless it is quite difficult to distinguish alcoholism as a disease from ordinary inebriety. As was mentioned earlier, the problem of alcoholism in general and alcoholism as a disease is reflected in many modern art forms. One of the films that vividly portray this issue is entitled “Leaving Las Vegas”. This film is based on a cognominal novel by John O’Brien, and is believed to be autobiographical to him, as this writer was a hardcore alcoholic. The movie “Leaving Las Vegas” is actually considered to be a memorial to this author, as it appears that two weeks after the production had commenced, O’Brien had ended his life, committing a suicide
Introduction Regulation is a formal means of economic management by the government. The key goal of government regulations is to eliminate abuses and to control conduct such that all key players act in a reasonable manner. All this is aimed at enhancing the quality of life for society by ensuring that businesses do not put their own interests over the interest of the society. Without regulation, some individuals might exploit the environment and make substandard products in order to maximize their profits even if this will be detrimental to the common good. The United States government makes use of laws and regulations to protect the health and safety of its citizens. This paper will perform an analysis of the ways in which the government regulates product safety and also recommend how regulatory approaches by the NHTSA can be improved. How the Government Regulates Product Safety The government makes use of a number of agencies to regulate product safety in the country. The Consumer Product Safety Commission CPSC regulates the safety of the vast number of consumer products (Widman, 2010). The CPSC publicizes mandatory safety standards through issuing notices to the relevant industries. The government also sets the acceptable levels for toxin use. For example, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) sets a limit on the pesticide use and all agricultural products have to be below a certain pesticide tolera
Ovid was the poet who glorified love in his poem: “the main subject of the poem, if one has to specify one, is love rather than metamorphosis” (Galinsky 97). The Metamorphoses is a collection of myths about the transformation of gods and ancient heroes into animals and plants. The metamorphoses in the poem are the result of love affairs. In general, there are about two hundred transformations which are represented in two hundred myths. Love, as the key image of the poem, is the main element of being. Still, according to Ovid love is the eternal source of conflicts and is the strongest manifestation of a person, it is the essence of life and its pivot. That is why unrequited passion, death of a sweetheart, and parting are constant sources of torment in The Metamorphoses. Even gods can feel the pain of love: they are highly anthropomorphic creatures. Thereby, Ovid ridiculed gods, as long as they are attached to the same passions as people, and behave like people who are very often fooled by the laws of love. Nobody could avoid Cupids arrows. However, the grief of people in love is one of the most preferred Ovid’s subjects. Nevertheless, the author represents love not only as of the feeling which encourages gods and people to make devoted actions. For Ovid love may be a force that makes people and gods forget about moral principles and turn into a self-destructive feeling. Moreover, metamorphoses in Ovid’s poem touch not only the characters of the presented stories; they also influence faces of love. The poem depicts a distinct ascending motion from passions of Olympic Gods to devoted kinds of mortal love. Still, this advancement is twisting enough, thereby, we single out only several and the most substantial of them in this work. The story of Narcissus and Echo is almost the first step in these stairs of love philosophy. The tale presents us a story of two creatures who cannot get in touch with each other as long as Narcissus loves nobody except himself, while Echo cannot say anything besides the last words of those who speak nearby. The last fact may also symbolize love which is so strong that absorbs the one in love, makes him/her forget about everything besides his/her passion and lose his/her personality. This kind of love may turn one into a shadow of his/her affection. There is a parallel between a shadow and an echo, as long as they both devotedly follow somebody. Naturally corresponding to the functions, which her name imposes on her, Echo follows after Narcissus and becomes a symbol of those who love unreciprocated and secretly. Still, Ovid gave her the possibility to express her feelings and her feelings a
Introduction The world is quickly developing into a global environment whereby, many individuals from different cultures exist in the social setting. Instructional environments act as a very useful source of information and knowledge and are often accessed by very huge numbers of individuals and it thus becomes paramount that the type of material, pictures and languages together with symbols used in such a place be culturally sensitive and sometimes universally acceptable across other cultures. Day to day life experiences be it education, business, sports and other social activities require that individuals do interact with others and it thus becomes necessary that individuals communicate and interact effectively using culturally acceptable means (Dick, Carey & Carey 2009). Elastic delivery of educational resources come across to all audiences in a culturally acceptable manner, the advantage of using universally cultural parameters is that the specific learning needs of the learners is well catered for. Designing instructions may aim to reduce any form of tension and make certain access for multicultural learners within that population, whereas at the same time captivating the local needs of all learners who intend to access the information. According to Morris, Ross and Kemp (2001), despite the fact that many individuals refute that there exists many differences cross-culturally, the truth is that, their disagreement occurred as a result of inherent defense mechanisms that often are exhibited by human beings characterized by “us versus them” thinking. Cultural differences present themselves in many forms such as eating habits, music, speaking and it thus becomes imperative that individuals who are faced by situations that demand them to interact with individuals who come from different backgrounds carry out the appropriate research on a wide variety of cultures and his/her own cultural values and premises with an insight of steering clear of making culturally insensitive mistakes that may be considered as otherwise offensive (Pincas 2001). Instructional Setting Recently as an educator and a fountain of knowledge that I consider myself to be I decided to launch my website which will serve as a source of knowledge to individuals who are in tertiary institutions and especially collages. The website is designed to appeal to those students who wish to be educators and have a desire in the field of becoming instructors. Through this website, I have been able to interact wit
Introduction The 1960s and 1970s were a time of changes in the American society. Gone were the overly optimistic days of the 1950s and the youth of the day became focused on the social issues of the country. Self-expression became essential for most young people, and it was often reflected in their clothing. This exhibit shows some examples of this in the embroidered and patched denim clothing worn by people of the 1970s. Brief History The fashion of the 1950s was relatively strict and relied heavily on traditional ideas of gendered clothing. Men were expected to wear suits with hats, and women wore long dresses and skirts. With the exception of sub-groups, fashion was not primarily used as a source of self-expression. This is what made the fashion of the next two decades so revolutionary and iconic (Ewing 152). The youth of the 1960s rejected many of the traditional fashion choices of their predecessors. Bright colors and groundbreaking ideas dominated this decade, especially in women’s clothing. Short skirts, dresses, and various types of pants became fashionable and accepted into the mainstream women’s fashion. This decade also marks the beginning of the Hippie movement which was famous for using its clothing for self-expression. The hippie culture emerged in the mid-1960s as a counterculture response to the culture of the previous decade and the political situation of the time. The world was in the midst of the Cold War between the United States and the Eastern Bloc which brought a variety of new issues to the world (Lewis 71). The proliferation of nuclear weapons threatened the world with a nuclear war as the tension between the nations increased. Hippies opposed the culture that let the world get to this state, as well as civil rights violations, lack of environmental preservation and other negative outcomes of the conservative way of life. Their use of psychedelic drugs was reflected in the bright colors and intricate shapes used in their art and clothing. This culture grew even more in the 1970s due to the increasing opposition to the war in Vietnam and different conservative policies that were enacted at the time (Lewis 175). The fashion of this sub-group was varied with both earth-tones and psychedelic colors being common on dresses, pants, and shirts. One of the popular materials of the time was denim due to its ability to withstand a lot of outdoor activity which was common for hippies. Denim shirts and denim jeans were worn by both men and women in the sub-culture. They were often customized with embroideries and patches to decorate and at the same time reflect the views of the person. Hippies had a strong love for the environment and nature which was a common theme of the embroideries. Patterns of flowers, trees, rainbows, and variou
Introduction Job evaluation is all about the relative ranking of an individual job in relation to other jobs that exist within the group. This also refers to a technique used in the ranking of jobs in an organization. This is normally carried out on the basis of various responsibilities and duties that are assigned to the specific job or task. The results of the job evaluation process include the job being assigned a specific range of payments [1]. The range normally includes a maximum pay rate that the specific job can attract and also the minimum rate of payment that can be given to a person holding such a position. Job evaluation as a management tool has been used by employers and managers for approximately more than seventy-five years. This management tool has been used both in private and in the public sector. Basing on some generic factors, the value of each job is well defined in the job evaluation process. This paper is explaining why job evaluation is a management tool that refuses to go out of fashion. This paper explains the importance of job evaluation to employers or managers. It also shows an alternative method of designing pay grades. Main Body Job evaluation is very important to employers and managers. The reason why job evaluation as a management tool never goes out of fashion is because it plays a big role in reducing employee turnover. One of the steps involved in job evaluation is benchmarking the jobs. This is done in relation to the jobs that have been evaluated before. In this case, the benchmark jobs are those that are commonly included in salary surveys found in most organizations. In this process, the benchmark jobs of internal pay structures are related to the external structures existing in the labor market. This greatly helps in reducing employee turnover in various organizations. This is because job evaluation carried out will enable the organization’s pay grades to be at par with competitor organizations. In this case, employees will not see the need to look for greener pastures since their pay grades will be similar to what their colleagues in the same positions are paid in other organizations. This is really important to employers and managers because they will not be worried about losing employees to better-paying organizations. This generally plays a big role in stability in the organization. The job valuation process as a management tool is very important to employers. This is because; research shows that job evaluation helps in minimizing conflicts in the organization. The job evaluation process results in the various jobs in an organization being given a pay rate. This is normally clear to employees in the organization. When job evaluation is carried out in an organization, it results in fairness in terms of payment rates given to various jobs in the organization [2]. In organizations where job evaluation is not practiced, there are normally many conflicts that result between employees and employers in terms of salary rates. Employees will always claim that the management is not fair in their payment rates. Job evaluations help employers and managers to easily ex
Abstract Basically every new technology creates some negative effects in its environment, rearranging the social order it penetrates. Many of these effects are inextricably linked to ethical issues. New communication technologies normally either retrieves, amplifies, transforms, obsolesces or mixes ethical issues from the past or creates new issues to the future. This paper or study therefore presents the various ethical issues of Boston Tunnel events. This paper has been presented after survey, which was conducted on the various states of America. A survey questionnaires was given to the different American societies who included physicians, surgeons, scientists, nurses, Massachusetts Tumpike Authority, police officers, Engineers, state government and the head of the construction company.. Introduction Boston has a limited time to make sure a fatal tragedy doesn’t become a major deterrent to tourism and convention business, travel industry. The closing of the tunnel to visitors could mean added costs, coming up with an alternative transportation options, adjusting schedules and avoiding certain parts of the city. During the event at least 12 tons of concrete collapsed onto a car in a big tunnel, fatally crushing a passenger and prompting renewed scrutiny the very day. The state of the attorney general said he was making plans to treat the site as a crime scene that could lead to negligent homicide charges. The attorney general issued subpoenas to those who were involved in the design, manufacturing, testing, construction and over sight of the panels and tunnels. The tragedy that happened at around 11 pm Monday had been discussed by the government and still a major issue being addressed (William, 2003). Up to date there is fear brought by the visitors discouraging them from traveling in the area. Several doctors and nurses have also raised complaints on the ethical issues that were created by the construction and collapse of the tunnel. Among the issues included rising cost of transportation, crime, water shortage, carelessness and greediness among others (David, 1998). Lack of enough technological knowledge that led to faulty concretes from suppliers and engineering ethical issues were also raised. Research objective and propose The objective of this research is to investigate the various ethical issues that were associated with the Boston Tunnel event. A lot of lives were lost and this led to the closure of the tunnel as a means of transportation. The events caused a variety of health hazards. Diseases such as asthma, cancer, dermalises and tuberculosis were some complications that were created. It was argued that the event occurred because of the carelessness of the engineers. This paper therefore finds out exactly who is to blame and the various ethical issues