ShantanuT01/DACTYL-Pretraining huggingface dataset:
The All Employee Survey (AES) is a tool utilized by business companies, government bodies, and non-profitable organizations to estimate job satisfaction, organizational assessment, and organizational culture (“Employee census , ” n.d.). The data provided by this framework enables a rigorous HR analysis of the existing company structure, which allows improving various organizational parameters, such as turnover rates, capabilities for vertical mobility, and others. As it is possible to see in Figure 1, the AES framework is based on three major factors, such as the feelings, the behaviors, and the environment. The questionnaires grade the performance of leaders and departments depending on the overall score in each of these issues (USCB, n.d.). The purpose of this paper is to summarize the scores of an AES survey in a healthcare setting. Fig. 1. The AES framework. Summary of the Survey The survey was completed by 27 employees out of 38, achieving a 71% response rate. These numbers allow the survey to represent the majority of the healthcare center’s workers. The framework identified three major planning priorities, such as the workload (22%), coworker relationships (15%), and communications (7%). The overall questionnaire was split to judge the performance of the unit based on behaviors, environment, and feelings subgroups. The AES questionnaire evaluated numerous parameters. The behaviors subgroup included workgroup cooperation, diversity acceptance, conflict resolution, respect, and psychological safety. Supervisor-specific items included trust, reasoning, respect, and favoritism, as well as goal evaluations, support development, facilitation of life-work balance, goal setting, recognition, accountability, and the ability to directly address worker concerns. The environment subgroup was comprised of relationships and workplace characteristics. The primary items were as follows: reprisals, collaboration, civility, servant leadership index, workload, innovation, development, decisional involvement, data use, employee-driven improvement, and workplace performance. Lastly, the feelings subgroup included work engagement, disengagement, customer satisfaction, information sharing between leaders and supervisors, exhaustion, depersonalization, high burnout, reduced personal achievement, and reduced turnover intent. The unit results have proven to be exceedingly impressive. The overall scores in all three subcategories were exceeding those of the comparison rollup group by a large margin. Based on the feelings subcategory, all employees in the unit were much more engaged and satisfied with their performance when compared to the basis group. In addition, the overall turnover intent was reduced, in comparison to the last year. However, the burnout and turnover indicators remained largely similar to the basis group, showing that the work pressure did not subside. In terms of the environment, the group showed significantly better results in all parameters, when compared to the base group. However, there were no inc
Education all over the world can be called a debatable question as almost every day there appears new tendencies and trends in methodology of teaching and pedagogy, brining new ideas and ways out of the modern problematic situation concerning imperfection of the whole system and, as a result, imperfection of educational level of graduates. This very problem concerning presence or absence of need to reform modern system of education is discussed in the article “Big-city schools struggle with graduation rates” by Greg Toppo, printed in USA TODAY. To be more precise, it is entirely dedicated to two opposite opinions on current educational system and graduation rates of modern students. The author of the article, Greg Toppo, tries to understand why there appeared some substantial distinction between Christopher Swanson’s and Lawrence Mishel’s statistical data. These both researchers have analyzed graduation rates of American schools and there figures are distinguished more than on 10%. The Swanson’s findings open a rather bleak picture of overall nation’s graduation rate in the USA that is less than 70% according to his study, while lawmakers and the others go on keeping USA students globally competitive. Among 50 largest big-city school districts, there three graduating less than 40%, these are New York City – 38.9%, Baltimore – 38.5% and Detroit – 21.7% (Toppo 2006). Such situation is given in the Swanson’s study. And from the researcher’s point of view, the problem here is not in 30% of dropouts the problem is that, in fact, this figure is much higher and is be equal to about 50%. But taking into account that this research was sponsored by the company Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation promoting its own high school reform, the question arises, whether the results of the study are correct. As such low indexes of modern methodical and pedagogical systems shown by the researcher’s work make it clear that the level of education the students leaves much to be desired. And the only thing can be done to improve graduation rate is to reform the whole educational system. Especially controversial this question becomes, when most recent Mishel’s study puts the overall nation’s graduation rate of the USA at 82%. It is unknown, whose figures are truthful, but the fact is that there is no any reasons for Mishel to contest Swanson’s research, in case it would be correct. While Swanson could have some benefit making his work useful for his sponsors. To conclude, it must me mentioned, that educational system used at modern school is not perfect, but it would thing over and change thousands of times, if graduation rates just in a few cities were equal to 50% or less. The article by Greg Toppo arises before the readers two main questions:  1. Is the situation at school, really, as bad as Swanson has described?  2. If so, what must be done to correct it? As our society has no answers on both these questions, let us ask the most outstanding educational specialist of all ages. There are three of them who could know the answers: Paulo Freire, Horace Mann and John Dewey. At the fist question they three, surely could answer equally that, no
Executive Summary Being a leader is a challenging task that requires a lot of flexibility and numerous skills. A leader must be able to promote relevant values to a target population so that specific goals could be accomplished. Furthermore, a leader must encourage team members to cooperate and strive to deliver consistently effective results. Maile Carnegie, a former head of the Australian division of Google and a political leader, has designed the framework that allows promoting creativity and work-life balance, as well as balancing short- and long-term results, thus, leading to a sharp rise in the efficacy of the company’s economy. Among the characteristics that make Carnegie’s style unique, one must mention a powerful emphasis on the promotion of disruptive innovations as the basis for encouraging rapid progress. The specified aspect of the strategy is especially important in the context of the global environment where competition levels are getting increasingly high, and where making a difference is the key to developing a competitive advantage. The leadership style used by Carnegie is linked closely to the transformational framework. Inspiring people to change their current approach to decision-making and communication to a more efficient one and reducing the chance of misunderstandings and conflicts between the team members significantly, the suggested leadership style should be used as a prime example of how to motivate people properly. Therefore, Carnegie’s concept of leadership is worth incorporating into the list of strategies for managing communication and decision-making in a team. Introduction: The Art of Choosing the Right Leadership Style Thousands of words have been written about being a good leader and encouraging rapid growth (Sutton, Azimi, & Steinberg, 2016). However, most of them point to the fact that there is no precise recipe and that breaking the mold is not the only challenge that a leader must face to encourage growth and encouraging people to accept suggested values (Saleh & Khine, 2014). Nevertheless, the contemporary economic and political environment is undergoing significant changes, and Australia with its current leaders in business and politics is no exception. Maile Carnegie is one of the game-changers that have contributed to the development of the state to the greatest degree (Nott, 2017). Although it is rather difficult to put the finger on what leadership strategy she deploys, the effects are fascinating, seeing how some of the pressing issues on the Australian agenda have finally been acknowledged. By placing a very powerful emphasis on a technology-driven change, Carnegie has created the environment in which participants are encouraged to engage in the consistent acquisition of new knowledge and skills, which is crucial for promoting multiculturalism and building relationships with companies all over the world, including global leaders (Cameron, 2017). The goals of the paper, therefore, inc
Modern technology has significantly influenced various spheres of life, and forensic science is among them. Now, it is possible to use different kinds of genetic materials to identify some information that was impossible to extract a few years ago. Genomic findings are useful to detect suspects in existing databases, and a single drop of blood can be sufficient to identify a criminal’s physical characteristics. Even though these new possibilities have the potential to result in a better law enforcement system, they have provoked some issues. They include utilizing genetic material of dead individuals with or without consent of their relatives, questioning the reliability of applying genomics, and addressing ethical challenges. That is why the use of modern technology in DNA and genealogy is debatable. However, the given paper is going to show that any ethical, legal, and privacy issues are outweighed by the effectiveness of DNA and genealogy in solving cold cases. To begin with, one should explain what forensic genomics is and how it works. According to Scudder et al., forensic DNA analysis initially looked for exact matches between the found samples and suspects or information in police databases (195). Thus, it was almost impossible to find a criminal if there was little evidence. However, forensic genomics can be useful in such cases because it draws attention to informative genetic markers that are present in DNA. It refers to surfing publicly available genetic databases to identify partial matches between a questioned DNA sample and an individual. This partial match can lead police officers to a criminal who is a relative of this individual. Furthermore, these data can indicate that a questioned DNA sample belongs to a suspect’s relative. Also known as familial DNA searching, the given approach is useful in solving cold cases, and the picture by Scudder et al. reveals how familial searching works (198). Figure 1. Use of familial searching in combination with a close match in a police DNA database As has been mentioned above, the use of modern technology in DNA and genealogy is doubtful. It is so because this approach gives rise to a few potential problems that can discredit its positive outcomes. That is why the given part of the paper will comment on ethical, legal, and privacy issues that question the necessity and justifiability to allow law enforcement agencies to rely on genomics. It is possible to state that DNA testing evokes significant ethical challenges. On the one hand, forensic scientists examine samples of both dead and alive persons, and a crime scene may have genetic materials of a victim, a criminal, and other people. According to Garcia and Urbany, people leave their DNA everywhere they go, and police officers should define their identities to either exclude from or include in a suspect list. In this case, genetic testing can identify that a person has some health issues, and ethical concerns arise because this information
Plato’s parable of the cave was describing the situation of prisoners chained and made to stay in one position for a long time. A fierce fire that was burning behind them was their only source of light. The chains where designed in a way that the prisoners could see nothing else apart from their own shadows that were projected to the wall by the light from the fire. After sometime, puppets were moved in front of the fire and their shadows were projected to the wall too. The prisoner mastered puppets’ images as they appeared on the wall, they could even predict the sequence of appearance of these puppets. (Chadwick 13) One day, one of the prisoners was set free from the chains and made to turn and see the fire, as well as the puppets, which he compared with the shadows he had been seeing he had been seeing. They were very different. Later, the freed prisoner moved out forcefully of the cave and saw the real things using the light from the sun. The sun’s light was so bright and for some time he could not see anything. He even feared looking at it, until he was well adapted to the brightness. This prisoner was astounded to see how things really looked like and then difference between the objects and their shadows. While out there, he was able to see the difference between the shadows and the reflection of objects in water. He remembered his fellow prisoners who were still in the darkness and chained in the cave. He decided to go back and save them from their confusion, but he found that the prisoners had even crowned each other for being then best in predicting the sequence of the images (Gilson, 369). He could not do what they were doing and when he tried to tell them that what they were seeing was not real, they laughed at him, and accused him of destroying his eyes when he went up there. Though he pitied them, they could not buy his idea of reality, the only choice he had was to leave them. Had he insisted to liberate them, he would have paid a high price that could have included him life. The fire and the puppets in the parable were signifying the unrevealed truths about reality, and the limiting aspect of this knowledge (Chadwick 325). The limited light signifies the shallow knowledge of reality that people get from politicians. The puppets are the issues that affect the life of men. The puppets pass in front of the fire-projecting image on the wall that signifying distorted reality. As Plato saw it, people who become enlightened are the ones who should take the leadership in society, as they will lead people towards the truth. The fire and t he puppets also signifies politics, politicians and political leadership. Augustine’s Confession
Introduction Although terrorism has no universal criminal law definition, it is widely known to bring horror and deaths to countries it is exercised at. Some people deem terrorism to be a farfetched issue that is used by the government to cover their own deeds. However, there are several dismaying Islamic organizations with their agendas that this essay will talk about. The Federal Bureau of Investigation divides terrorism into two groups, “one of which is domestic terrorism and the other is transnational” (Sauter, 2005, p.53). The Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine is an Arabic military organization that had gained the name of a terrorist organization by the activities it exercises. The United States, the European Nations, Japan, and other countries have claimed the organization to be dangerous and terrorist. Their main purpose is to replace the state of Israel with an Islamic state via destruction and terror. The Militia Movement is a domestic terrorist political movement. The group is paramilitary and acts within the United States. The members became active during the middle 1990s when disagreements with political leaders took place. After that, the groups extended in number and managed to spread within the 50 states of America. They believe the federal government limits their freedoms, bearing armor in particular – the Second Amendment. The quantity of the Militia Movement is about 60,000 people. Comparison Ideology The ideology of the PIJ movement is Pan-Islamism. They believe that all the Islamic nations have to be gathered together in one theocratic state. Islamic fundamentalism is what they adhere to. They strive to go back to the fundamentals of their religious beliefs and appeal to all the Islamic nations to resort to Quran and Sunnah (Emerson, 2006). Although modern times suggest the usage of modern technologies and trends, the Islamic world seems to adhere to fundamental beliefs tightly throughout generations and nations. Moreover, the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran is considered to be a great breakthrough of Islamic fundamentalism. Anti-Zionism is what PIJ considers to be the central idea or one of the central ideas. Anti-Zionism is against Israel. The ideologies of the Militia movements are largely conspiratorial and are exercised for the sake of the community, as they believe. They believe that the democratic values presented by the United States government give them the freedom to express the citizenry’s views through violence. Moreover, some of the groups of the movement regard the government as a tyrant. They express the thought that it is illegal to limit local government rights, issue gun control, and impose taxes as this threatens the liberties of American citizens (Levitas, 2004). Organization PIJ has been established in 1981. Being initially based in Egypt, it moved to Gaza Strip from where they were exiled and settled in Lebanon. In 1989 their headquarters is based in Damascus until today. They operate in Lebanon, Syria, and Israel largely. Iran is the one to support PIJ financially together with a little share from Syria. The organization is actually a small group; however, the followers w
Introduction Majority of community members perceive teaching young children as a simple exercise, which is not the case. This perception is wrong having participated myself in such a program in California with “we care services for children”. This is a childcare center, which primarily deals with children with special needs such as Down’s syndrome and autism. In addition, the center aims to give parents the required support and resources to support the upbringing of these children. Children are born and brought up in different environments, which primarily play the role of shaping their perceptions towards different events and occurrences. When handling children one has always to ensure they meet each child’s wants as per specific times or find a way of solving their problems. Majority of caregivers take these problems as simple but to children they are very important. Observations Made and personal effects Dealing with young children is hard because at every moment their moods and needs are changing, although with dedication I realized one could always serve their needs adequately. Children have different learning styles and concentration levels, hence at all times I had to structure instructions in a way, which incited maximum attention. Majority of children react negatively when dealing with “strangers” during initial encounters however, as interaction increases they cope easily. This made me realize the importance of creating good relationships with children during first encounters, because it enhances acceptance. Children’s coping rates primarily depend on incentives provided by the tutor; hence, at some instances it is good to include activities such as singing and games during the learning to make children like one. In addition, children’s behavioral patterns depend on environments they have grown up in; this is because there were varying behavioral patterns among children I dealt with. Children have reading problems that are probably caused by language and health problems such as autism. On the other hand, these children had different perceptions about their fellow children, which on further inquiry I proved to have originated from parental stereotypes. Through the community work, one clear thing I realized is that all members of the society have a role to play in ensuring children grow up with good morals. The community-teaching program has really altered my original perception on children. Previously I thought imposing rules and fears on children was the only way of dealing with children’s needs, which is the opposite. All children should receive required attention and listening because it helps in building in them good perceptions and personalities. Children’s Needs Children as any community member need love and attention, which varies depending on their health condition and surroundings. Satisfaction of these needs dictates development of children’s personalities, behavior, and attitudes. During learning teachers should give children freedom to use their hands in manipulatin
What are the concepts of innovation and creativity? The concepts of innovation and creativity have always been of special interest to humanity. Nowadays, innovation and creativity are inseparable parts of everyday life. These two notions have become of crucial significance for the development of business in the current period. Creative people are needed everywhere as far as they are believed to bring something new to the usual life. The same is with innovations. The modern technological age changes the way of perception of success. In the modern sense, success is closely connected with innovation and creativity. According to Skogen and Sjovoll, “innovation is a word of today…the ideas and solutions are seen as innovative if they are answers to certain needs and purposes and will promote creativity in practice” (53). Many attempts have been made to define creativity. For instance, Clegg writes, “from the origins of the words themselves, innovations would seem about newness while creativity is about bringing something into being” (2). Sometimes, people use the terms “creativity” and “innovation” interchangeably. However, these concepts are not the same. Creativity is about finding new perspectives and ideas. Innovation is a process of realization (Govindarajan par. 1). Creative ideas become innovations often nowadays. It should be noted that creativity is not about making something of nothing. It is a process of combining, finding new approaches and visions. For instance, the creators of the 2014 innovation known as “hoverboard” found inspiration in the second part of the movie Back to the Future (“The 25 Best Innovations of 2014” par. 1-2). It is a kind of modern magic carpet, and the technology used may be further improved to protect buildings or pieces of art during earthquakes. The other example of innovation as a result of creativity is 3D-printer. This machine can produce everything from digital schemes. The potential of this innovation is immense. It is already used in schools in science lessons. Besides, scientists use it for the creation of printed reproductions of human organs (“The 25 Best Innovations of 2014” par. 6-7)