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Withdrawal is a conflict solving technique that presupposes ignoring the problematic situation until somebody else fixes it. Such a strategy is mostly used “to preserve neutrality or reputation” in situations where the side that opts for it cannot win (Stackpole). Actually, this is how Joe Hunter has behaved until present; from now on, however, he finds it impossible to avoid the confrontation. He decided to do something finally, while withdrawal means doing nothing by definition, hence is no more applicable to the case under the review. Accommodation is apparently acceptable for none of the parties, as neither is ready to yield to the opponent. Although that would enable protecting the relationships, both Joe and Captain Webb are too adhering to their principles to surrender. For Joe, to admit his defeat is to whether leave the job or part with his girlfriend, none of which he would agree to do. In addition, I guess that the angrier a man grows, the less likely he is to yield. Meanwhile, Joe actually became furious in the end, which allows assuming that he will persist in his stand till the last. Winning at all costs would, of course, be the most desired option for Joe. The only problem is that the captain doubtlessly has the same intention, therefore, their interaction cannot be peaceful. If Joe opted for this technique, his first step would have to lie in identifying what exactly to see as winning. Simply a return to normal at workplace, restoring a good relationship with the captain, or maybe something else? Having answered that question, he would need to develop an action plan. Also, it would be essential for Joe to protect his girlfriend from being involved into the conflict against her will. Such a strategy as collaboration presupposes meeting the interests of all parties, which is actually guessable from its name. In the given case, that means the need for Joe to talk to Captain Webb and decide what exactly each of them wants. Thus, Joe would like to keep both the job and the girlfriend, while the captain is apparently not willing to allow for that. Such behavior is absolutely unacceptable from both legal and ethical viewpoints, for which reason justice is at Joe’s end. If he chose collaboration, he would have to discuss everything with the captain, identify his motives and decide on further actions, depending on what his boss tells. Finally, a third party intervention would apparently require consulting a labor union about how to oppose Captain Webb’s improper attitude. Joe would have to prove that his boss has given him the worst assignments and lowered his performance evaluations intentionally for a while. This would most probably be challenging, as there is only his word against the captain’s word. However, if he succeeded, the conflict would be resolved quickly and favorably. If I were Joe Hunter in the given situation, I would try collaboration first. Notably, I would talk to the captain about the exact reasons for his behavior and the consequences he is counting on. Then, I would try to persuade him to stop behaving in such
Truth is a virtue that is upheld by individuals and most societies around the globe. Telling the truth has been for ages held as a virtue and as a sign of honesty in human beings. It is a sign of respect for other people by showing them that you value their trust in you. It is important to note that telling the truth does not always bind a person to respond to every situation one is faced with. It can therefore be argued how one is supposed to respond to such situations. In this case we would ask ourselves whether it is always the best option to be honest and tell the truth or it is sometimes easier to tell lies and safe the situation of the day. This paper will generally focus on the importance of always telling the truth no matter the kind of situations we are faced with. Telling the truth can be held as always the better option. The Virtue of always telling the truth helps to build ones character as an honest person. It does not really matter whether the act of telling the truth especially in difficult situations will put you into more problems. This is because one’s mind is cleared of guilt conscience. The mind is also cleared of any contradictions and one does not have to really always remember what you said to every one (Michael, p10). This is because you will not be afraid that a certain situation will come and the answer you might give might contradict the first one. Truth does not change and if one always tells the truth you don’t have to think and twist answers to save yourself. On the other hand telling the truth is good since this might prevent more problems to be created in future either in your life or other people’s lives. Once the truth about a situation is known, it can be handled with every possible solution to either solve problems of the day or be lessons to you and other people (Jean, p13). It is always true that if one is used to telling the truth the people that you deal with will be more likely to tell the truth to you. This makes life very easy since you will also not have problems with the persons around you trying to think what is true and what is not true. You will be always a good example to the others. A person who learns to always tell the truth will also build a lot of self confidence. Being always true means no one can put you down for what you said as a form of deceit. This also makes one to be always proud of who they are. Since telling the truth clears one’s mind of guilt conscience, it follows that telling the truth reduces chances of a person being stressed. One is therefore able to always present themselves in a good manner, eat well and also improve on their physical appearance (Jean, p22). Truth also helps other individuals have confidence in you and also believe in you. This virtue assures other people that when things don’t work out as they should you will always present it as it is and this is what every one values as a bold person. Telling the truth sometimes will hurt other people (Michael, p24). In such cases one should a
Macro and Micro Frameworks Analysis and Evaluation The External Environment Technology changes have greater influences on Apple Inc operations. Changes in technology are rapid and highly unpredictable. Every year, technology product manufacturers develop improved electronic components and provide them at relatively cheaper prices. Such new electronic components have allowed technology firms to compete on innovation and prices. Today, Apple faces major competition from Samsung, Microsoft, Intel, Dell and other companies. These companies have developed innovative products at relatively cheaper prices. As a result, Apple has reacted to competition by introducing advanced versions of its existing products. Apple Inc has been able to sustain innovation in products to differentiate it from other products in the market. Economic forces In the recent years, the technology industry has become highly competitive because of changing economic situations globally. There are major companies that have dominated certain markets. Companies such as Samsung have found greater market shares in emerging economies while Apple still appeals to high-end part of the market. Today, it is easier to join the technology industry because of low entry barriers and availability of venture capitals. New small firms have increased levels of competition while suppliers of processors have increased their bargaining power. As firms with relatively cheaper products gain wider market shares, Apple has been forced to readjust its prices to allow many consumers to purchase them. Labour costs in certain markets such as China, Vietnam, Turkey, Brazil, Mexico and Hungary have surged, a situation which has forced Apple to relocate product plants to the US. Politic forces Apple sells its products mainly in developed countries with stable political environments. At the same time, the company also seeks for greater market shares in emerging economies. Some of these economies, particularly the Middle East have experienced turbulent political situations, which have affected Apple product sales. At the same time, political tension between the US and China has made China to ban “government officials from buying Apple gadgets, amid fears that America could hijack the company’s iPads and iPhones to spy on Beijing” (Rushton, 2014). This move will reduce Apple’s product purchase in China. Negative political forces, therefore, have detrimental effects on Apple’s global market share. Social factors The technology industry also faces changes in social circumstances, particularly lifestyles of consumers. These changes have forced Apple to become highly innovative to support modern lifestyle. As needs of consumers change, Apple has been able to develop products and services to
The world has gone through a wide range of inequalities that have proved their presence through the day to day activities and contacts. For ages, minority groups and people have had to endure the injustice caused by the imbalances that have classified them into different sets. These led to the rise of affirmative actions aimed at creating alertness and fighting the antique injustice suffered by these groups. Affirmative actions are measured steps taken by governments and other stakeholders towards addressing historical imbalance suffered by groups thought inferior or weak. Its origin dates back to the United States in 1961 when steps were being taken to end discrimination. However, the actions taken to achieve affirmative action have proved futile since they worsened the already bad situation. Affirmative action discriminates against qualified candidates who do not fall into an affirmative action category. Affirmative action has been noted to bar further developments and initiatives from neglected groups because their efforts are frustrated through steps that ignore their contributions and efforts in society. While the steps are aimed at ensuring that the marginalized and less fortunate in society are helped to achieve some progress towards those already advanced, they bypass the influences and efforts of those who have already achieved some status (Kareem). The world over is made of people with diverse skills, abilities, likes and talents. For instance in a family of three children, one may opt to be a doctor courtesy of the child’s liking for health-related issues. Another may choose to be a social worker due to the person’s concern for others and the public. The third child may aspire to be an engineer due to the sensational nature of machines. In this case, they will decide to take different paths due to their varied reasons, but when affirmative actions come in, they are forced to be what they never wished to. This will inevitably mean their output at work will not be a hundred per cent, hence less productivity (Messerli)). The fact that affirmative actions ignore the already advanced groups means that they will be demoralized and their needs may be ignored leading to a breakdown in morale and personal initiatives that in turn lowers productivity. Affirmative actions are known to be biased from the start for targeting a particular group of people who are normally the minority, hence ignoring the majority that constitutes the population. These actions, even though they address the less privileged in society, they forget the middle class who are torn between the victimized and the progressed groups (Messerli). The absence of policies and plans to address the plight of the upper and middle class indicates impractical favours to a few entities which amount to discri
Introduction The purpose of this paper is to describe and analyze the inequality of opportunity in the New York Stock Exchange with a goal of identifying the reasons behind the opportunity disparities between the rich and the poor in the concerned market. The research problem is that overtime the inequalities of the US are getting worse, and the gap between the lower-income earners (representing majority of the population) and the bourgeoisie are escalating nowadays, whilst a sturdy financial market like the New York Stock Exchange is turning into money-making engine for the affluent (who represent only a minority). Thus, there are sharp inequalities of opportunities offered in the stock market to the relevant segmentations of the society. This is a huge problem for the society, and it is significant for people to be aware of it because this allows bourgeoisie to have enormous control over other’s lives, destabilize the justness of political institutions, challenge the evenhandedness of fiscal system, cause living standards of majorities to fall, creating job losses, social chaos, and deterioration of law and order. Stock Markets and Inequality of Opportunity The intense class conflict created by the stock markets became apparent during the Occupy Wall Street protests (Stiglitz 12), which first started in the US, but later spread to parts of Europe as well (Stiglitz 10). The national notion of equal opportunities for all is gradually becoming a myth due to the extreme disproportionately (Stiglitz 60), and the market system is corroding the fundamental humanitarian values (Stiglitz 24). NYSE and the Rising Disparity of Opportunity The inequalities were much lesser in the 1980s because fewer multinationals controlled the economy and corporate aggression was not excessively interruptive – at present; greater austerity means top level corporate executives and bankers are charged smaller taxes, whilst the bigger burdens are imposed on people through declining public spending and higher public taxes (Piketty et al. 28). There are rising criticisms about the New York Stock Exchange and the way in which it operates and regulates the financial system; it is frequently suggested that NYSE uses mechanisms to keep cost of accessing the market higher – as a result, the corporate giants and other affluent individuals are able to access and manipulate the market freely (Turner). However, due the higher market access cost, the new entrants and the small or medium-sized businesses are barred from operating and sustaining in the market over the longer period, giving the stronger players an exclusive power to grasp greater market share. It is important to note that inequality in the US market is deteriorating persistently, and the topmost rich people (representing one percent of the population) are generating more than one million dollars annually, which is thrice as
Introduction The play Antigone exhibits the conflicts that arise due to lack of understanding on which law should take precedence between the law of the state and the law of God. This is seen on several occasions when the characters Creon, Antigone and Ismene fail to agree on whether Polyneices on death should be buried, live alone touching him. Creon who doubles up as the state categorically says the state abhors burying of the dead and even touching their remains. Antigone believes in the law of God and has a strong resolve that she has to burry her brother Polyneices even if Creon refuses. When Antigone goes for support from her sister Ismene, she only gets disappointed when she tells her that she fully supports the law of the state. Antigone strongly believes that the laws of Gods are higher than the laws of the state and that she does right by following the laws of the Gods. This essay seeks to illuminate whether the claim that the play Antigone demonstrate that there is higher law than civil law is in deed true(Walsh par. 3). Analysis of the play Antigone The play Antigone demonstrate that there is a higher law than the civil law when Antigone goes to Ismene to help her bury Polyneices and she disowns her, Antigone emphatically tells her that if burying Polyneices means disobeying civil law then she does consider her crime holy. She goes ahead and buries her brother. Nobody would dare disobey the king’s decree but Antigone does disobey this despite the impending dangers. If she had no strong belief in the Gods she wouldn’t ever dare do this. By Antigone burying her brother fully aware of having violated the civil laws, the author of Antigone expressly tells us that civil law cannot in any way take precedence over fulfilling family obligations. Therefore, the higher law overrides civil law. Antigone emphasizes that she dared break civil law because it was Gods dictate and that the law with which the world is governed are not part of Gods laws. She says Creon is strong but his strength is a weakness in itself against the unrecorded laws of God. Antigone asserts that Gods laws are, were and shall exist forever beyond man. By this she implies that Civil Laws are subject to changes which make it inferior to Gods law. Antigone was oblivious to a lot of danger and she did know this when she chose to defy civil law. She disobeyed civil law because she a strong adherent of higher Gods law that bestow upon her the right to burry her deceased brother despite what the law created by Creon stipulate. Antigone reaffirms that the law of God is higher than the laws of the king. She says king’s law is strong but comparably weaker against Gods laws and shall always be inferior to Gods law. Antigone believes and is ready to fac
The two research papers under analysis in this paper are “Student Self-Assessment in Higher Education: A Meta-Analysis”, a quantitative study by Falchikov and Boud, and “Student Self-Assessment in Higher Education: A Meta-Analysis”, a qualitative study by Sluijsmans, Dochy, and Moerkerke. Both of the works focus on self-assessment as applied in education. The self-assessment efficiency measured in the study is performed by the students and evaluated in terms of consistency and contributing factors. Scientific Principle1: Pose Significant Questions that Can Be Investigated Empirically The research by Falchikov and Boud attempts to identify which metrics serve as the factors contributing to the successful student self-evaluation and establish the difference between performance and absolute judgment. The study by Sluijsmans, Dochy, and Moerkerke focuses on the use of self-, peer, and co-assessment in higher education and the impact the employment of these forms of assessment on the academic success of the learners. Comparing the two works it is possible to notice that the second study has a broader focus, but overall, the focuses of the studies are aligned. Answering the research questions of both studies will contribute to a better understanding of the application and effects of student self-assessment, its dynamics, and moving forces. Practically, the answers to these questions will allow educators to design more effective assessment options using the best practices. Also, the question can be and is answered through observation because both studies present the review of literature looking for relevant information; that difference is that Falchikov and Boud quantitatively address the issue whereas Sluijsmans, Dochy, and Moerkerke rely on the qualitative approach. Scientific Principle 2: Link Research to Relevant Theory The theory of lifelong learning has served as the basis of the research conducted by Falchikov and Boud The authors maintain that lifelong learning is empowered by self-assessment which in turn, enables independent work (395). The second study relies on the same framework stating that the main objective of an educator is to help the learners become independent and reflective practitioners and adding that critical thinking is the basis of self-assessment (Sluijsmans, Dochy, and Moerkerke 7). Both studies are designed as reviews of literature addressing the issues of self-assessment proving that the need for lifelong learning is growing in modern society. The studies collect data relying on the previously published works to establish how the past experiences of educators reflect on the needs of the students and their academic
Vantagon Vantagon is the IT company which specializes in developing different types of software and applications. Vantagon’s completed projects include such applications as Taskflight and Semple. The company follows the principle of focusing on innovation and benefits while proposing new models and paradigms, establishing standards, and overcoming any systems’ drawbacks. The company’s staff is rather small and includes the leadership team, designers, programmers, and marketers. I take one of the leading managerial positions in the company. Preliminary Problem Statement How can the followed management style contribute to the improvement of the company’s performance and employees’ satisfaction? What strategies and approaches can be used to improve the employees’ motivation and add to their orientation to the prolonged cooperation with the company? The Description of the Organizational Problem In spite of the fact that Vantagon’s performance is rather good, and the new projects attract many clients because of their high quality, the company’s performance can be improved while paying more attention to the human resources factor and to the obvious connection between the employees’ motivation and performance. Vantagon’s managers focus much on empowering and motivating employees while responding to their job satisfaction. However, the specifics of the company’s work make the managers focus more on the strategies and perspectives of the project management and stimulation of the part-time employees’ work. The current company’s management style should be examined and evaluated in detail in order to correlate it with the requirements of the project management. It is important to evaluate the appropriateness of the followed management style for contributing to the company’s performance because the managers should also follow the modern effective strategies to stimulate the activities of their employees when they work on developing and implementing the innovative ideas. Furthermore, the company’s managers need more information on the employees’ performance, job commitment and satisfaction in order to make the right decisions while considering this or that employee. From this point, it is necessary to compare the requirements of the project management with the strategies followed in the company to motivate employees to progress. The current situation in the company supports the idea that there are many opportunities for managers to improve the employees’ performance, but it is necessary to evaluate the used approach in order to decide on the approaches to follow and reject. In this case, the employees’ motivation can be discussed as the key factor to contribute to the employees’ job satisfaction, and as a result, improved performance. Today, the company follows the right path, but the focus on the aspects of management can contribute to changing the managers and employees’ vision of cooperation. Thus, although the company tries to concentrate on the project ma