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The case study details the procedures that took place before the launch of the Challenger Space Shuttle. The author notes that NASA was under pressure from politicians and competing space agencies, which is why the management pushed for the launch despite insufficient testing and the faulty design of the O-rings. Delays due to weather conditions put more pressure on the management and the team. As a result, the O-rings did not close properly, causing an explosion of the Challenger soon after the launch. Seven astronauts were killed in the blast. The key ethical issues evident in the case were the lack of communication between managers and poor safety culture, which prevented adequate technology testing before the launch. The primary ethical issue, in this case, was the lack of a proper safety culture. It manifested in the management’s decision to launch the shuttle despite insufficient testing and the faults in the design of the O-rings. Since both of these problems increased the risk of explosion during launch, the decision of the management violated the ethical principles of public good and human well-being. Upholding these principles is among the key professional duties of engineers because failure to do so may result in terrible accidents. Besides exploding in the air, the shuttle could have fallen, harming even more people. Hence, the case illustrates the consequences of unethical decision-making in engineering. Nevertheless, there was another option of how the case could have progressed. Better decision-making from the management could have prevented the explosion from happening. For example, the management could order further testing and delay the launch until the trial has been finished. Additionally, the managers could have canceled the launch to fix the faults in the design of the shuttle, thus also avoiding the explosion. Their subordinates could have also influenced the progression of the case. For instance, drawing the attention of the higher management to the problem could have helped to resolve the failure in communication. This, in turn, could lead to a delay or cancellation of the launch. All in all, both the managers and the subordinates should have prioritized safety by insisting on further testing and design corrections. Stronger safety culture and ethical decision-making would have assisted NASA in avoiding the disaster.
Introduction Unions are legally formed to serve as the voices of all workers in New York City or entire country. They act as representatives of public and private employees in several industries in the United States. Their main aim centers on cooperative negotiations in issues related to wage increase, workers’ benefits and better working conditions for their members and addressing other issues like disputes with administration about infringement of contract conditions. Most unions in the United States are adjusted to one of two major unions, Change to Win Federation and AFL-CIO that was legally formed in 1955. These two unions represent or bargain guidelines and legislation as they represent employees in America and contribute a major part in the country’s politics (Moe 66). The paper discusses the achievements of United Federation of Teachers (UFT) and District Council (DC 37), as well as their challenges and shortcomings that are involved in their membership. United Federation of Teachers has played a huge part in addressing the rights of teachers and nurses in New York City. Since its formation in 1960s, it has solved several issues related to educational matters, such as wage increase, workers’ benefits, and currently the reduction in class sizes. They also take part in the political affairs through financing most campaign activities. Some critics have stated that American teachers’ unions undermine the performance and productivity of schools through disregarding the issues related to students, management, and parents, while serving as a voice for teachers. Some studies have reported that increase in teachers’ wages does not improve the productivity and performance of students and schools in general. DC 37 has played an important part in matters of women’s rights and equal pay among all employees in public sectors. United Federation of Teachers (UFT) Since 1960s, the management of United Federation of Teachers (UFT) has ensured that it portrays itself as union of expertise that exercises the rights and privileges of its members. UFT serves as a voice of more than 200,000 teachers, home daycare employees and nurses in New York City and consider that children are worth of secure schools, provision of social and health requirements, and appropriate instructions from the teachers and the government. In 2005, there were around 18,000 paraprofessionals and 120,000 in-serves teachers in United Federation of Teachers, together with around 55,000 retired teachers and other participants. At the end of 2007, 28,250 home daycare employees selected to be part of the union, making the sum number of members to go by the 200,000 mark (Moe 66). Achievements UFT was very active in decreasing the size of classrooms and directly intended and led to advanced teaching arrangement and system which permitted for professional association and teaching background. The union was also powerful in legalizing charter school acceptance policy to guarantee an unbia
Labor conditions of migrants in the construction sector are characterized by high levels of work-related trauma and injury, low payment, and various socio-economic issues. The report by Francois Crepeau addresses the deaths of migrants in the central Mediterranean Sea and evaluates the European Union border control analysis, migration policy, and the application of values and human rights in the European region. The report analyzes the contemporary issues regarding migrants and proposes a human-rights-based framework to address the problems surrounding them. It is based on providing search, rescue, support, and legalistic integration of working migrants, refugees, and other individuals seeking shelter in the EU with the purpose of integrating them into the EU legal framework. According to Crepeau (2015), once refugees and illegal migrants feel the protection of the law, the number of crimes committed by and towards migrants would be significantly reduced. This report has a strong moral, humanitarian, and legalistic foundation. It is based not only on various documents that make up the code of law in the EU and the UN but also on personal observations of the special reporter, who traveled across different countries in 2013-2014. However, the author does not provide enough information about the political attitudes of the general populace towards migrants. Humanitarian concerns are pointless without the goodwill of the population of the countries the migrants will reside in. As such, the attention should be focused on building a positive image of a migrant worker. As Crepeau (2015) mentioned, the EU is facing a demographic crisis as well as an employment crisis. Migrants, on the other hand, bring hard-working talent with them and can stimulate the economy. The report should be focusing on these issues as well, as the refusal to grant migrants more working rights and securities revolve around the negative perceptions of thereof by the rest of the population. Work Cited Crepeau, Francois. “Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants.” OHCHR, Web.
PowerPoint presentation templates and spreadsheets are already well established in all learning processes and workflows. They significantly help save time, assume the general process of designing presentations, and present information in an easily accessible form. However, in recent years, the topic of customized web applications for project management has been increasingly dignified. This method also has many advantages and can successfully compete with traditional tedious templates. The topic of work is especially relevant regarding the current situation when competition is rapidly growing in all fields, and clear recognition of a company is strongly required to succeed. The article on the official website of Chicago-based IT support firm MXOtech lists the distinguishing beneficial characteristics and sets this strategy apart from outdated presentations (Application Development, Software or Programs). Each business company and private organization has its way of operating, including conferring information to employees, customers, and partners. Good marketing decisions link perceptions to specific details associated with a unique label or name. These can be the overall concept, colors, catchwords, slogans, font and size of texts, style of images used, and so on. No standard template can accommodate such a well-defined and comprehensive set of characteristics. The same argument can be provided for tables and charts, which are used in varying ways by diverse companies and contain specific data. Instead of redesigning templates every time, there is a valid alternative to design a web application that can be easily customized in the most efficient and less time-consuming ways. Thus, employees will have a new opportunity for a more detailed, lasting, and remarkable design of presentations and work schedules. Customers and partners will be able to target specific features on the market and easily highlight the presence of the company and its offering. It can increase overall market awareness and greatly simplify the internal workflow due to conveniently customized applications. Reference MXOtech, Inc. Application Development, Software or Programs . Web.
The strategy that Multistate Health Corporation (MHC) strives to apply in a bid to achieve its goals is bilateral strategy. Since its initial unimpressive performance in the market, MHC devised a strategy that employs technology as its main center of focus. The hospital attempts to produce facilities that match the required technological standards and reduce the time spent before recovery. Moreover, the strategy focuses on the provision of less expensive outpatient essential services. A good implementation of the strategy increases the revenues through cost reduction, which leads to a high patient turnover. Since the external market environment that MHC is operating comprises aspects like technology, legal, political, economic, socio-cultural, and environmental, the strategy provided highly matches the environment when compared to the previous strategies. Currently, MHC uses a structure that emphasizes on the importance of its HR in the organization. Most of the policies stipulated by the organizational structure are decentralized, and hence, increase the autonomy of chief executive officers (CEOs) of various centers in making decision regarding what best suits a region. The suitability of the structure and the competitive strategy relates to the fact all the chief executive officers and human resource planning systems (HRPS) understand the issues affecting their centers, and therefore, they can easily adopt and use the strategy. However, since several activities are decentralized, the implementation of strategy and the alignment to structure constitute a challenging process. Therefore, to maximize the effectiveness of the plan, MHC needs to centralize some of the main activities that affect its performance. The current management KSA is not in line with effective implementation of the competitive strateg
Sustainable development is a discussion that has become an icon for many discussions in our world today due to the fact that there are a lot of issues mushrooming in this generation which have never been thought about. It has hence become important for everyone involved in decision-making, leadership and protection of citizenly interests to redefine the real meaning and components of sustainable development even as it is to be viewed in a relatively different and complex manner. The article “Sustainable development: Conventional versus Emergent Alternative Wisdom” by Korten provides a clear view of the main contrasts between the already existing school of thought about sustainable development and the emerging alternative of that school of thought. The conventional wisdom views sustainable development as a state in which the government is able to meet with the needs of its citizens as well as improving their living standards. However, the alternative form of wisdom views it as attainment of a position at which every citizen has access to basic facilities and necessities in an equitable manner and where there is a balance between inputs and wastes from human activities as well as having enough and sustainable resources to cater for environmental well being (Korten 1). On the other side, while the conventional school of thought considers sustainable lifestyle as a continuously improving form of lifestyle in terms of the standards of living of the citizens, it is clear that improvement of standards of living naturally result to misuse of resources and interference with the environment in such a manner that it poses a danger to the future generations, a factor that may lead to poor quality lifestyle in the future. The alternative school of thought hence views sustainable lifestyle as the form of lifestyle that allows the society to cut down on its consumption so as to reduce the effects of overexploitation of resources from the environment as well as reducing the effects of wastes from the environment through utilizing recycling methods. There has been a lot of disagreement on the actual cause of environmental degradation and how to overcome them. On one side are the conventional believers who wish to blame the problem on poverty citing that the poor are the ones who get forced into over-exploiting resources in search for their livelihood. They hence advocate for policies to be put into place so as to reduce poverty so as to ensure environmental consumption. On the other side, however, the emerging alternative believers blame inequality of resou
Introduction The realm of the U.S. Homeland Security (HS) is very intricate, which implies that the process of handling available resources and information must be arranged rationally to ensure the further attainment of key goals and objectives (Bullock, Haddow, & Coppola, 2017). The task of risk management (RM), which incorporates the assessment and prevention of internal and external threats to the nation’s well-being, therefore, requires the ability to incorporate both traditional and innovative approaches (U.S. Department of Homeland Security, 2010). The identified challenge has become especially difficult lately due to the creation of cyberspace and the emergence of numerous cyber threats (Bullock et al., 2017). The update on the RM approaches used by the HS can be deemed as a rather timely and fitting choice given the increased risk to U.S. citizens’ data. The adoption of traditional RM techniques, in turn, leads to the efficient management of physical threats such as the possibility of a terrorist attack (White, 2016). The intention to make the most efficient use possible of the available assets, including its human resources, made HS rather productive in its RM process. Nevertheless, HS needs improved strategies for meeting its capacities and fulfilling its potential. The effort to push the envelope in RM is justified by the fact that cyberattacks become increasingly more intense and persistent over the past few years (Clark & Hakim, 2016). By creating the framework that will allow HS to identify sufficient resources, one will be able to maintain state security levels at the required high level. RM Strategies Used by HS: Key Patterns The present-day RM approaches utilized by HS can be described as rather traditional and, therefore, requiring change. For example, the focus on research and development can be regarded as one of the essential advantages of the existing framework (Clark & Hakim, 2016). However, the present-day system could use significant improvements be redesigning the approach toward resource allocation and focusing on the study of threats that the contemporary virtual reality realm contains (White, 2016). The inclusion of resilience strategies helps mitigate unexpected and undiscovered risks. However, the current resilience approach lacks coherence since the HS does not use its resources to the maximum capacity due to flaws in its RM framework. For instance, the lack of HR-based elements can be deemed as one of the key oversight in creating a strong and well-structured strategy for RM. Benefits of Current RM Strategies: An Assessment To its credit, the HS has updated its RM framework recently by the latest risk factors to which the state has been exposed over the past few years. For example, interdisciplinary cooperation has been enforced extensively in the realm of the HS organizational environment (Clark & Hakim, 2016). These endeavors at creating an integrated approach and introduce the principle of resilience into the operations of HS have been quite successful so far. HS has selected several criteria for identifying s
On October 27, 2013, I have attended a school board of education meetings at ABC School. Some of the people present were the principal of the school, chairperson of the board of governors (an established legal practitioner), and two parents. There was also a representative from the District Education Office and two representatives of the local community. The two representatives from the local community were a part of public participation in the board’s decisions. Public input was rather valuable, as the individuals provided awareness through the distribution of pamphlets and organization of community meetings. They were the leaders in deciding what the school needs, in terms of facility maintenance and equipment. Also, they have used their connections to the building organizations to modify the gym and the cafeteria to fit more students and adhere to the highest safety standards. The agenda of the meeting was as follows:   * The building of a new classroom.   * The building of a new theatre.   * Student participation in co-curricular activities.   * Disciplinary and Counseling issues.   * Involving learners in community service. Board Discussion The chairperson began by pointing out how the school has been growing over the years. He accepted the fact that there was an urgent need to plan for the increasing number of new entrants in grade one. In the discussion that ensued, the board was of the opinion that the old store must be brought down and a new four-floor story building built at that location. The board felt that this would ease operations, as opposed to buying land in the neighborhood. The representative from the District Education Office also concurred with the arrangement. As to the building of a new theatre, the board discussed and proposed that a modern amphitheater was the best solution. One of the parents’ representatives proposed for the school to build an amphitheater which would also offer conference facilities. He noted that the strategic location of the school would attract organizations, as the environment in the community is serene and quiet. The chairperson of the board left the matter awaiting other suggestions. However, the board unanimously agreed on the issue of co-curricular activities. One of the parents’ representatives pointed out that the school had nurtured great talents in the past. The board agreed that apart from baseball, lawn tennis, basketball, and badminton, the school should also consider introducing other sports such as soccer, cricket, rounders, and chess, amongst a few
Introduction The birth of the music industry happened about a century ago during the time technological innovations started to appear allowing to capture, store of music, and replay the sound tracks within a retrieval system. 1 Over time, the music industry experienced and adjusted to the numerous technological advances that caused these changes. Sound technologies developed from mono to hi-fidelity stereo, recently to Dolby type surround sound track. Due to these transitions the music industry have always attempted to adapt to these technological changes caused by newer demand for greater music experience. 2 The technological progress gradually led to the appearance of music sampling – the technology of sound transforming, that changed the approach towards contemporary music and raised multiple legal, ethical, philosophical and cultural arguments and debates. Earliest forms of music production 1850 was marked as the year when sound was first recorded by a French investor and physicist Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville, a man who is also accredited with the technology that witnessed sound waves representation on paper. 3 His phonautograph technology, which happened to be one of his most cherished innovations, shaped sound re
How does Keats explore the theme of life and art in Ode on a Grecian Urn ? Find the answer here! This essay focuses on the connection with ancient art and immortality in the poem. Ode on a Grecian Urn themes, such as time, nature, and death, are also analyzed. Introduction The value of art is in its immortality. Poets and artists strive to maintain the beauty of the moment for people to enjoy it forever. In many cases, immortality closely correlates with ‘life,’ symbolizing eternity and contrasting to lifelessness. Similarly, artistic objects are compared to living ones that never age but exist beyond time and space. How is the contrast between life and art developed in Ode on a Grecian urn? In this essay, attempt to answer this question. Ode on a Grecian Urn Summary Ode on a Grecian Urn is a poem written by John Keats, one of the most renowned English poets, in 1989. In 5 stanzas, Keats focuses on an ancient Greek urn. He describes the images that are depicted there. The two scenes that the author describes in detail are the one with a couple of lovers and the one with a group of people that are gathering to perform a sacrifice. The poem was mercilessly criticized during Keats’s lifetime. Its significance was recognized only by the middle of the 19th century. Ode on a Grecian Urn Theme: Immortality In the third stanza of John Keats’s poem “Ode on Grecian Urn,” the poet addresses a tree that will never shed leaves. The description creates a paradox of lifelessness, and life is also expressed beyond the fair lady and the love and acquires a more temporal form. The symbols of eternity encapsulated in the poem repetitions of the word “forever” are also present in describing the unheard song and pipes playing endlessly. In addition, John Keats’s odes present his own existential vision through a living death of immortal lovers who surpass this paradox through the scene of sacrifice. In whole, Keats’s poem is a deep philosophical reflection on the complex conflict between life and art, symbolizing eternity, living death, and the existence of art beyond the real world, which transfers the readers to another conceptual dimension. The Contrast between Life and Art in Ode on a Grecian Urn In the poem, Keats adheres to a philosophical representation of the connection between art and life through the concept of eternity. What is the meaning of grecian urn? Why is it the central object in the poem? Time does not affect the urn because it is composed of stone, that never ages and that can resist any changes: “…happy, happy boughs! That cannot shed your leaves, nor ever bid the Spring adieu” (Keats 1, line 21-22). Keats envisions the theme of immortality in Ode on a Grecian Urn to capture the conflict between art and life because “once [the poet] has imaginatively grasped the eternal beauty of the model and the material through which the sculptor of the urn worked, the problem of their actual existence completely vanishes” (Sato 3). This relation becomes one of the central “Ode on a Grecian Urn” themes. Keats’s deviation from reality enables him to cognize the actual connection between art and life beyond time and space. His attempt to captur