Motivation Article Reviews Samples For Students

1. Do you think Randy has sufficiently categorized his salespeople for motivational purposes? Why or why not? Is it practicable to provide non-financial incentives to motivate salespeople in each of the four career stage groups?

Categorization of salespeople always involves a trade-off between over-generalization and the practical applicability of these categories for HR strategy development. It is always possible to find additional sub-categories that reflect more precisely the peculiarities of the sales force of a firm or that capture individual needs of the employees. Thus, introducing a separate category for working mothers could help to address the needs of this group in a better way. However, extensive categorization would increase complexity of HR policies and would make it hard to develop and execute an HR strategy in an effective and cost-efficient way. Therefore, the decision of Randy Stuart ...

In the study conducted by authors Alex B. Van Zant and Laura J. Kray, they explored on the concept of truthfulness and honesty. In the study, the researchers stated their objective as attempting to limit the incidence by which people lie. They hypothesized that lying and deception can be averted if face-to-face interaction can instigate moral concern as with the other forms of communication. Simplifying this, the authors believed that when interaction is direct and visual, the possibility of deception will be averted. The authors’ further claims that with face-to-face interaction the players in the communication process will feel ...

Introduction

Leadership and motivation are concepts that are inherent in any achievement of desired goals. Every individual or organization with personal or corporate objectives respectively needs to apply leadership and motivation concepts. Leadership goes hand in hand with the amount of influence that a given person can impact on his followers. The ability to convince followers towards a common goal determines a leader’s performance. In my opinion, motivation is the basis for all achievements in all aspects. Leadership influences the performance of any individual or organization. In addition, it influences how parties involved in an organization’s activities are motivated towards the ...

Step Two

The article in question here discusses the risk of date rape on college and university campuses. Because protection motivation theory proposes that people have a few priorities regarding their personal health and wellness-- that people consider the potential occurrence of an event, their vulnerability to an event, self-efficacy and the effectiveness of preventative behavior-- all these things must be considered when considering implementing protection motivation theory.
This article talks about the relationships that exist between “dating activity, social competency, and type of information provided with the dependents variables of date rape related protection behavior (intent), belief, and knowledge” (Singh ...

Chapter 6 is about Goals. A goal can be defined as a desired outcome or a level of attainment for an individual. All people have goals in life and they range from performance of tasks to career goals. The desire to achieve certain goals brings about goal-directed behavior. Goal directed behavior takes note of the current situation that a person is in and the ideal state that s/he should be in, the difference between the two states is what brings about motivation. Goals can improve our performance as they allow us to direct our attention and focus on tasks to avoid any ...

Incentives in the Workplace: Is Money the Key?

INTRODUCTION
While it is true that money matters in terms of financial gain and the gloriously pursuit to excel in accrual of revenues in business, research study and professional observational critiques have shown that monetary incentives in the workplace are not the key factor which motivates people in the workplace setting. The main article of referential focus, entitled ‘Social Incentives in the Workplace’ by economist research analysts Oriana Bandiera, Iwan Barankay, and Imran Rasul of the London School of Economics conducted a study which measures worker productivity as associated with rewards. Bandiera, Barankay, and Rasul (2010) discovered some startling ...

A work environment is a social environment where human nature is at play just as it is in family life and relationships. This is the resounding message of “7 Ways to Enhance Workplace Relationships, Motivation and Productivity” by Jonathan D. Port. The author acknowledges that advice is often broken down into numbered lists in order to bound and make tangible pieces of advice. He has broken ways 7 things that managers and supervisors can focus on which will increase workforce relationships and create an environment of motivated workers where productivity is maximized.
Rather than presenting his seven points as ...

First, I understood that Antony Downs (1968) explains that bureaucracy is a pivotal element of the society in decision making. Instead of elected leaders making decisions, bureaucrats actually make the most decisions that affect the society. Antony Down (1968) also reasons that bureaucratic officials are, like all other sectors of the economy motivated by their own-self interest. In the end effective public administration policy, is a delicate balancing act that requires the understanding of people’s wishes as well as the needs of the citizens.
Second, I also became aware that it is important to be understood that there is ...

Summary

The journal A Cross-Generational Comparison of Motivational Factors in a Sales Career among Gen-X and Gen-Y College Students illustrates the factors that motivate young individuals in the sales sector to conduct their operations effectively. A critical examination and ranking of key motivational factors following the responses from 1390 college students indicates what most individuals expect while doing sales. Two categories of individuals, Generation X and Generation Y are the cases focused in the journal each representing a unique group. The priorities of each group are distinct which their age bracket mainly defines. For instance, Generation X students indicate that they find ...

According to the article, an effective fatherhood participation effort can be one of the most fulfilling factors of a child development program. Dad participation planners, father or mom participation professionals, and other employees working with family members find this manual useful in creating a fun and innovative fatherhood participation plan. A child with adoring and engaged dads and moms is a kid who in life has an amazing "head start"!
While both parents use the higher-pitched, slowed-down variation of discussing called “parentese,” dads are likely to speak in a manner that task their kid's creation of language capabilities and educate them about ...

A.H. Maslow, A Theory of Human Motivation, 1943
Thesis: In this article, Maslow discusses in depth about the basic concepts of motivation that a human mind may be subjected to and how this motivation can further affect an individual’s performance in any number of day to day activities. Maslow also discusses the use of motivation to bring out the desired performance of an individual in the administrative perspective.

“The integrated wholeness of the organism must be one of the foundation stones of the motivation theory.”(Page 114)

“The person who thinks he is hungry may actually be seeking more for comfort, or dependence, than for vitamins or proteins. Conversely, it is possible to satisfy hunger need in ...

Analyzing an Article by Sara L. Rynes, Berry Gerhart, and Kathleen A. Minette

Thesis Statement

The paper of the statement can be summarizes as following: There are varying influences on motivation of workers and money is the most important one for the workers. The journals read by the professionals claim that the money is not the most influential motivator at work place. The study by Rynes, Gerhart and Minette claims that the professionals think that money is a motivation tool however they underestimate the power of money on workers’ motivation.
The HR specialists believe the surveys to understand whether the motivators ...

Response to Post of Student 1:

I am convinced that the main paint being relayed was that at the onset, by having decided to pursue the profession in healthcare, practitioners have already manifested a genuine and innate drive or motivation to serve. Healthcare is such a challenging and dynamic endeavor that entices only those with distinct calling for the profession. As such, valance, or the perceived importance of the work is duly ingrained. Likewise, other motivational components (self-efficacy and expectancy) become motivating drives depending on the value systems and preferences of health workers. One therefore agrees that the provision of appropriate incentive systems could make the work ...

In today's society people are motivated to become educated for different reasons. Malcolm X in "Homemade Education" was a smart street hustler. However, he could not express, or communicate effectively. Malcolm X was motivated when he met a fellow inmate named Bimbi where he then took control of his inability to read and write by putting his time in prison to good use. This motivation shows that you can get anywhere in life with determination as your watchword.
Bimbi was the type of person that Malcolm X admired; he was well spoken and could take control of any conversation. Malcolm ...

ABSTRACT.

Teaching involves leadership in guiding students and taking actions that create a motivating environment. Amongst the challenges faced by teachers are facing unmotivated students and developing positive attitude towards their stay in school and success, in learning. Sometimes it becomes hard for these teachers to identify the unmotivated learners and the reasons behind their lack of motivation. Assisting an unmotivated student may not perfect the student to A+ grades but may improve on their efforts towards learning and develop positivity in attitude. As much as it is the teacher’s responsibility to motivate learners, parents and principals play a critical part ...

This article describes a study in which intrinsic motivation in students in regards to reading comprehension is studied. The study tested the idea that through presenting the students with situational interest, they would be able to create intrinsic motivation in the students, and therefore this would increase the students reading comprehension. For example, a student would do a simple lab experiment about chemical reactions and interest would be generated on this topic. The student would then read about the same types of chemical reactions. This student would then be able to form connections between the situation and the reading, and would gain ...

Motivation is broadly defined as the pulling together of efforts towards the achievement of a given goal. As such, it goes without saying that motivation is a deliberate effort aimed at achieving a given goal. As much as there are goals to be achieved, motivation is the grease that lubricates the wheels of success.

According to Anon. (n.d), there are various factors that affect motivation. These factors include the personal, environmental as well as situational factors. All these factors come in to create the motivation that an individual needs to go on with the issues of life. It is also important to ...

This paper discusses briefly the techniques to be deployed by the author to accomplish the project goals. The project is to prepare and launch the marketing campaign of the new product launched by the company. The campaign has to be prepared in four weeks time and involves lots of background preparation along with pre-launch testing. I work as the project manager and am aware about the amount of work and hours required to be invested to successful complete the campaign. The traditional method of carrot and stick or disincentive is not applicable to my situation as I want the ...

Summary

Application
I learned from reading this article that PRP (performance related pay) has a positive effect on productivity, particularly where individual performance can be evaluate and rewarded. This does support my attempt to answer my questions on the affects of pay for performance on motivation and productivity. The article provided further insights into how PRP motivates the workforce in both positive and negative ways. PRP is most effective in employment situations where it serves as an immediate financial reward to top performers. In these situations, it improves the company’s productivity in two ways; it increases the performance of ...

Article Review: Ten Key Qualities of Law Enforcement Leaders

This article claims to describe ten key qualities of leaders. Some of these qualities could be combined. For example, the sections that talk about inspiration and getting dirty hands both discuss similar qualities such as responsibility. Two other sections or qualities are similar as well. These are motivation and leaders as “a special breed.” Both sections discuss leaders as motivated risk takers. Of course, ten qualities is a nice round number, better than eight, seven, or six for an article title. Maybe this title was assigned to the author and he did the best he could fulfilling the title requirements. Maybe ...

Introduction

the government is at the forefront of fighting against prostitution without understanding the reasons that motivate citizens to engage in prostitution

Authors thesis : the C-36 bill introduced by the government is aimed exploiting prostitutes

Prostitutes are prone to human trafficking and violence from customers which necessitates the introduction of the C-36 bill; The government is committed to the elimination of sexual adverts that target school going children and the larger society; each society has moral values; human rights violation such as human trafficking and violence affects prostitutes; and that the essence of legislation is to protect the vulnerable groups against prostitution

Body of the Essay

1. 1st argument: government of Canada is in the forefront of ...

Publisher Information: Socyberty

Introduction

Employee motivation is one of the most crucial components of the success of any business or organization. Employers invest in their human resource in order to build an organization’s capacity to overcome adverse effects on its operational capacity especially with regards to periods of low business operation or absence of business opportunities. (Glassvisage; Hacker; Herubudiarto; Holt, M; Demand Media, present some major communication methods through which an organization’s executive committee can promote good business ethic and professional management of internal issues in order to promote internal relationships that form support structures necessary for overcoming an organization’ ...

Abstract

In this paper, I will cover the issues of treating patients with dual diagnosis. Dual diagnosis is a condition when patients develop two disorders, and most healthcare professionals are not able to assist those patients in treating their conditions. A literature review reveals that lack of proper regulations and specialized treatment models are considered the main causes of low recovery rates among patients with comorbid disorders. Other issues include lack of patient motivation, education, compliance with treatments, etc. The available literature mainly criticizes the contemporary situation in healthcare when it comes to treating patients with comorbid disorders, but some approaches ...

Article Review

Abstract
This paper attempts to provide a discussion on the choice of the field of study at the undergraduate level based on a research article that investigates the choice of subject and the factors affecting the choice . We discuss how student background and the motivations influence the subject choice. In doing so we have also discussed how the motivation is affected by the student’s social, economic and ethnic background. The implications of the result for policy purposes have also been discussed. We find that two issues like student’s ability and interests and the social contribution of a ...

Question 1

John Wooden’s Pyramid of Success is still applicable to the current business environment. The pyramid named loyalty, team spirit, condition and skill present in the team. These attributes are essential to today’s business environment as they help nurture the relationship between the firm and its clients. The Pyramid of Success is applicable not only to basketball where Wooden was a coach but also in our day to day live. Through Wooden, we learned that the end is always a result of our doings and misdoings. Therefore, businesses that want to prosper in the long term should not ...

Chinese Outward FDI Determinants

China's rise as a global commerce powerhouse has generated a flurry of practical partnership engagements and research. The striking GDP growth has, moreover, further spurred interest in China as a unique economic development model. Holding on to non-democratic political practices, China has managed to maintain a steady rise in international status as an economic power by embracing free market, neoliberal economic practices. The cumulative effect has focused, consequently, attention on China's inflows. That is, by focusing on China's capacity for economic growth based on macroeconomic metrics, including GDP, China has been studied largely based on her capacity for investment retention (indicative, presumably, of " ...

Article Summaries

According to Scarr and Richard, the influence of intelligence is due to genetics and environmental variables that are difficult to segregate. Psychologists often argue about the nature and the nurture of genetic variation fixes in the human behavior (Scarr and Richard 262). Some offer that genetic differences are negating to change in behavior. This belief has limitation since it fails to distinguish the environmental and the genetic sources of individual differences in behavior. In this case, one is not in a position to assess the impact of heredity in behavioral domains since all people have a gene complement expressed over development.
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The above article begins by primarily analyzing types of personality. The author of this article brings the readership to understand the distinction that exists in different personality levels. Different persons bear unique character traits. It is due to this uniqueness that the author highlights different personalities in this noble article. There are three major categories of personalities namely, extroverts, introverts and ambiverts. However, the article dwells much on extravertness and introvertness. According to the author, extroverts are sociable and tend to be closer to other individuals. Given an opportunity, they take part in a group discussion and further feel ...

Plenty of effort and attention is accorded to financial incentives. According to the writer, many people are interested in writing and reading about the topic of compensation. There are also consulting firms such as Mercer and Hewitt Associations who make money by offering advice concerning the appropriate way to design remuneration systems that motivate, retain, and attract employees. Company executives devote a lot of funds and time dealing with issues amongst the workers regarding compensation complaints. The intense devotion to getting the wage system right generates intertwined and shared beliefs of the mechanisms that motivate people in the workplace ( ...

Psychology

Studies show that odor perception is directly related to the condition and functioning of the orbitofrontal cortex. The olfactory abilities of an otherwise normal human being can be largely impaired by neurological diseases as well as brain injuries. Moreover, scientists have also found that the ability to identify smells is often closely linked to functional brain activity levels. Killgore and Associates (2007) conducted a study to showcase the effectiveness of odor detection tests in predicting susceptibility to sleep deprivation as measured through Personality Tests. This experiment sought to prove that a small olfactory test can be a good predictor of emotional and ...

Is Apple Company any better after Steve Jobs Death?

Succession in Apple Company remained a tussle among the interested potential CEOs after the death of Steve Jobs death in 2011 (Chen). The employees of the company were worried and felt hopeless as they thought everything in Apple will change including the nature of the working environment and working conditions. There was a need for a more practical CEO who will streamline everything in Apple to raise its performance. While everyone though that Apple Company was on its ways to the grave with Steve Jobs, things turned out to be a surprise. Tim Cook took up the position and began to make everything ...

Analysis of Consumer Research

This paper is devoted to the critical review of the three articles related the theory of consumer compliance. The studies offered three different approaches to the issues raised. Empirical data was obtained with the help of in-depth interviews and secondary data analysis. Such a combination of the research methods helps saving time and cost while obtaining the information required for the analysis. Samples used in each research vary significantly as well as the goals of each research. However, they allow making conclusions regarding the goals set.
The following articles were proposed for analysis: “Gaining Compliance and Losing Weight: the ...

Although many determinants are involved in business decision-making, a significant number of strong scholarly arguments confirm the idea that the main underlying aspects in this regard are motivation of the leaders and their cognitive biases (Monahan, 2000). This essay speaks about the key underlying causes of cognitive biases and poor motivation of company leaders, and speaks about potential solutions in this regard.
Cognitive bias is a systemic deviation from rational judgment, i.e. a popular cause, which compels people to think and adopt decisions in an illogical way. At the same time, the practice revealed that in some cases cognitive ...

Hard work is essential to the success of an individual. In fact, lack thereof compromises the possibilities of one’s accomplishments as it leads to mediocre performance or complete failure. In the article, What is Inspiration, David Brooks seeks to convey the essence of making an effort to achieve what one wants through hard work. He makes reference to multiple authors to enforce the credibility of his arguments. In a large section of the article, he integrates inspiration with hard work and explains how these aspects are interdependent. Specifically, a lot of dedication on the completion of a task ...

SUMMARY OF AN ARTICLE ON EDUCATION

WHAT IS THE RESEARCH QUESTION? (WHY?)
The article by Hong, Milgram, and Rowell questions the success of the students at completing their homework. Three sides involve in the homework process: teachers, parents and students. Each side has different approaches to the process. However, the person who is the most essential person in this process is the student. Therefore, a student-centered strategy might increase the success in the process of homework. Homework aims at teaching new things to the students and the paper claims that the student-centered approach gives us the best results.

IS THE PAPER A LITERATURE REVIEW OR A META-ANALYSIS?

The study is arranged as a meta-analysis. The ...

1. What is (are) the independent variables?
When dealing with procrastination, from the article, the independent variables include time, such that while a person is becoming a poor self regulator, the time they have to complete a task remains fixed and unaffected. For instance, if a university student is unable to complete an assignment in time, the time allocated will not change but the quality of work will be affected.
2. What is (are) the dependent variables?
On the other hand, there are dependant variables and these include the quality of work that somebody will deliver in the given time. ...

Presented herein is an analysis of 2 Peer Reviewed Research Articles based on how researchers understand organizational leadership and worker traits and their ethical relevance to Information Technology. It gives the summary, the analysis, and the synthesis of the articles.

Article 1

Summary
This research article is based on the effective project team leadership theory as viewed from the angle of leader traits, skills, roles, and behaviors. The research examines leadership principles from the actual work settings of organizations, specifically the dynamic projects, with an aim of discovering the actual happenings as compared to the espoused theory. The research question ...

Assignment 2

In the past decade, there has been an increase in distress, emotional turmoil, and marital issues among couples across the globe. Most couples require family planning, care, and management services to cope with stress and disputes. There has been significant amount of research on interventions to manage disputes and marital distress among couples. However, majority of the couples remain untreated and continue to suffer from marital distress. The motivational health model was perceived to be an exceptional and effective strategy in assessing married couples and their well-being. In this paper, a team of researchers statistically assessed the impact of ...

Analysis of an Article about Compensation

Business
Analysis of an Article about Compensation
Davis, DeBode, and Ketchen (2013) have articulated various management theories that have a bearing on CEO compensation. How much and in what manner to pay a CEO is arguably one of the most important decisions a Board of Directors has to make. The decision would convey strong signals to the external as well as internal environment. Competing firms and the industry would be likely to benchmark the CEO’s compensation to their own. Shareholders would be keen to assess how the CEO compensation translates to a return on their investment in the ...

Washington State University

The need for gambling disorder treatment increases due to the growth of the gaming operations in the United States of America and globally, there is a rise in recognition of clinical investigators together with the creation of awareness among the public to be able to assess gambling symptoms and its harmful consequences on the lives and overall function of gamblers. In this effort to recognize and ameliorate the symptoms of gambling, instruments were created to identify the severity of the gambling symptoms and also any changes that are reflected due to changes from treatment. In empirical research, a variety ...

Acknowledgement

I sincerely appreciate my lecturer’s effort in teaching, guiding and encouraging me in undertaking my course of study. In a special way, I appreciate my course mates and more specifically my discussion group members for the substantial support they have offered me in coming up with this original work. I would also like to sincerely thank my dear parents and other family members for supporting me both morally and financially in undertaking my studies. Finally, I thank my relatives, friends and any other person who has contributed to my studies so far.

Abstract

This research seeks to establish the ...

Before an individual opts to pursue a particular area of specialty, he or she considers various forces and elements. The factors are termed as the labor market instigators. The motivators affect the results of undergraduates’ decisions concerning different subjects. They are important to the students and in making public policies. The interests are dictated by the level of employability in the social discourse and in the proposals to direct governmental funding in support of different specializations. Davies et.al, (2013), directs its focus towards the labor market motivations in England to provide a generalized format of understanding the choice of ...

Importance and Impacts of Mentoring

Abstract
In the present paper, the impact of mentoring on students and employees has been investigated. It has been hypothesized that mentoring positively impacts their overall well-being if provided considering the specific conditions of mentees. Development Mentoring is an approach to school-based mentoring in which high school students work with junior elementary school mentees. Rhodes (2002) stated that around 50 percent peer-mentoring meetings end within initial three months. However, there is a lack of research conducted on premature meetings termination and mentors' absenteeism. Karcher study, though, makes a significant contribution to the literature does not answer the reasons for ...

Introduction of the Research

Sign languages have two noticeably distinct types of morphological structure, one is sequential, and the other is simultaneous. Other than this there are two common sign languages being used, American and Israeli. Both of the languages fall in simultaneous morphology and are very similar, but when it comes to sequential morphology they differ, and are also derivational. There are different types of inflectional morphology that are discussed briefly in the paper. This research was also done to bring in the similarities between sign language and spoken languages all along; in 1970s and 1980s which are the starting days of ...

Rationale

It is apparent that the entire healthcare system is grappling with nursing shortages-a phenomenon that is characterized by improper nurse-patient ratios. This has adamantly hampered the quality of care provided and adversely affecting patient outcomes and satisfaction. According to the American Nurses Association, proper staffing and hence patient-nurse ratios is an integral aspect in improving the quality of healthcare provided. High nurse-patient ratios means that nurse have to deal with huge numbers of patients leading to clinical errors, clinically acquired infections or premature discharges from hospital. This leads to high readmission rates and increased hospital costs due to recurrence ...

Article summary: Does servant leadership foster creativity and innovation? A multi-level mediation study of identification and prototypicality

The main goal of the multi-level study conducted by Yoshida D.T. et al. (2013) was to assess how servant leadership influences employee creativity and team innovation simultaneously. Businesses often gain their competitive advantage through employees that come up with creative, innovative ideas and work as a team to implement them. However, although these factors are highly interdependent, prior researches only focused on either creativity or innovation. No fundamental attempts were made to study how certain leadership behaviors simultaneously affect these two aspects on different levels. Former researches examined how transformational leadership or leader-member relationship influenced employee creativity. As it was ...

“Getting a Job in the Inner City” by Katherine Newman

The article “Getting a Job in the Inner City” by Katherine Newman is about how people from the inner cities motivate themselves in participating low wage jobs. The suburban places like the Long Island usually have low supply of labors so some of the job seekers benefit from a relatively high wage. However, the labor supplies in the inner urban places are very high that most of the jobs ended up with low wage. The main objective of the author is the article is to evaluate and analyze the main factors that make the people in the inner city stay in ...

Communication CA272

Questions for Discussion
- Discuss how and why a conversational approach to communication could build trust between people? Identity how and why communication may impact the development of peoples’ relationships at work. Give examples to support your answers.
The main advantage of this approach is that the employees do not feel like employees or subordinates who are being ordered to perform a task. Instead they feel that they are being asked their opinion about the job to be done and this sense of participation motivates them to perform better. This motivation in turn assures the leader that the employee ...

Why chose this article

The article focuses on the common behaviors among employees in an organization. Employees with negative attitudes destroy the reputation of co-workers and Roney has focused more on these types of employees by providing some useful tips of avoiding their pessimist behavior. In addition, this article was chosen because it uses Herzeberg’s theory of motivation. The author identifies various factors that increase the morale of employees in a workplace and promote job satisfaction despite the effort of colleagues to bring him or her down. Herzeberg’s motivation-hygiene theory describes how attitudes are connected to job satisfaction in that workers who ...

Citation

The article to be reviewed in this paper is “Human Resource Management: Employee Benefit and Compensation” by Toy McKinsley. The article expounds on the several policies touching on rewarding and remuneration of employees. This scholarly article further points out the importance of Benefit and Compensation as a discipline in the expansive Human Resources Management study. The article defines compensation and wages as different terms that determine an employee’s pay or rather what an employee takes home after committing his or her services to the organization in its quest to achieve its objectives and goals. The benefits and compensation are ...

Teenage Alcoholism

Article 1: Strandberg, A. K. & Bodin, M. C. (2011). “Alcohol-Specific Parenting within a Cluster Randomized Effectiveness Trial of a Swedish Primary Prevention Program.” Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 111 (2), 92-102.
With in mind that teenage alcoholism is to blame for some life problems that occur later in life and that parents have a significant influence on under-age drinking habits, Strandberg, A. K. & Bodin, M. C. investigated the attitudes of parents towards teenage drinking. The research was based on an ongoing trial of the effectiveness of a parental-based under-age drinking prevention program that underscores the role of parents in teenage drinking. ...

Business Ethics

Business Ethics
Business ethics refer to the just principles that serve as a guideline on the conduct and management of every business. Generally, the ethical principles that apply to an individual are likewise applicable to most businesses. Some people claimed it to be just knowing about the right and wrong practices, however, a closer examination reveals that good ethical practice in the business may differ across organizations. This paper aims to provide an examination of different point of views towards business ethics.

In an article entitled The Merits of Self-leadership, the author came up with a commentary about the ...

Bose, S. (2016). Xerox (XRX) Misses on Q1 Earnings, Split Likely in 2016. Zacks. Web. 21 July 2016.
Supriyo Bose (2016) discusses financial results of Xerox Corporation in first-quarter of 2016. Despite a little decline in earnings some years ago and a challenging macroeconomic environment, a company has improved its positions and productivity that resulted in adjusted earnings. The author informs about the current economic environment, financial result of Xerox, and provides points of view of experts on how to increase earnings.

Areas of Agreement

Supriyo Bose (2016) proclaims that Xerox has adopted a decision to provide a three-year strategic transformation program ...

The article “Conducting an Ethically Sound Internal EEO Investigation” by Christopher Lage (2012) dictates a step by step process to conducting EEO investigation using the appropriate channels. Christopher explains that the major process involves firstly gathering information to respond to the internal complaints in the organization, then creating a factual basis for defense; for instance, the affirmative defense to vicarious liability. Lastly, thoroughly assessing whether the organization’s hiring, recruitment, or promotion processes pose barriers to advancements of certain groups. Each and every aspect of an internal EEO investigation will require answers to a number of ethical questions. The ...

McKenzie-Mohr, D., & Schultz, P. W. (2014). Choosing effective behavior change tools. Social Marketing Quarterly, 20(1), 35-46.

Summary

The paper presents that most of the tools that healthcare professionals need to utilize in improving performance derive from the community-based social marketing (CBSM) approach (McKenzie-Mohr & Schultz, 2014). That approach involves five steps for consideration to improve the level of effectiveness. The process begins with the selection of the behaviors that the program will target. The objective is to select those that present a high impact to increase the probability of adoption. The next step is the identification of barriers and benefits ...

Article Summary

Article Summary
The premise of this article and the associated research study is that there is a gender gap in areas of reading and math that can, in part, be attributed to gender stereotypes. It understood that there is a significant gap between male and female performance on math assessments. What is not as significantly studied is the performance gap that exists in the area of reading. This is reported as being a surprising fact as the performance gap present in reading is far greater than the gap present in math.
According to information from the Organization for Economic ...

ARTICLE REVIEWS

The world of business is characterized by several issues that together create the business environment suitable for the players. It is essential to understand that certain factors have a huge bearing on the business frameworks that govern the global markets. Below is a review of sample international business articles;

The article attempts to unravel the misconstrued notion that new technologies like the internet have normalized the marketplace and made it a level ground for all the players. It is critical to understand the underlying disparities that have been assuming by the proponents of new technology and those who continue ...

Dweck’s article

Researchers who deal with specific research goals have made a distinct performance on performance goals which is the distinction of performance avoidance goals. The research stipulates that there is an avoidance form of performance goals that predict a low intrinsic motivation and performance with the goals often relating to a positive result in performance. The first study carried out by Dweck was intended to measure and compare the goals. This study explains the fact that the main difference in the goal ratings shows many significant differences. Studies one to three show evidence of four distinct types of goals namely, ...

Introduction

Enterprises normally have many buyers purchasing their products such that they do not get a chance to know each of them personally. In such a case the business is required to pursue a rigorously tested study concerning consumer behavior. People are definitely different, but at some point their minds tend to react in the same way, and comprehending the aspects can assist the company to formulate strategies that will make customers accept their items or services. The creative measures should be ethical to conform to the universal values of the consumer base. This article articulates a critical review of ...

According to the article, management works and effective management for that matter. Managers who set targets for their worker, provide them with incentives to motivate them and improve their performance as well as rigorously analyze the performance data and take appropriate actions. The researchers intervened in some of the poorly performing manufacturing companies and found that good management practices actually improves the performance and overall productivity of the firm. The authors believe the same can also be applied to the public companies. Incentives are an effective way of motivating employees and encouraging them to work harder and smarter. From ...