Essays on Achieve

Introduction

The purpose of this project is to outline a framework to ensure the sustainability of UK aircraft carrier. It outlines some of the challenges that face the industry. Additionally, it presents a framework which can be used to address these challenges. The project also highlights a measurement regime which can be used to assess the proposed framework. Mainstream media have repetitively documented the impact of seaway transport and their eco-efficiency concerning a sustainable future. By minimizing operation and manufacturing impacts, airbus aims at optimizing their services and product towards an eco-efficient technology to minimize their environmental impact. Throughout the ...

Discuss the reasons why a social scientist would do an exploratory study, and descriptive study. Select a research topic and show how it would be addressed through the 2 research designs. Bryman, (2015) enlightens that research designs helps in formulating adequate research methods to help a researcher to achieve the objectives of his or her research project. To this end, a social scientist is likely to select the research design to utilize in a certain project based on the unique needs of the research project in consideration. Babbie (2015) argues that exploration design is best when a research intends ...

Difference between Intrinsically Motivated and Extrinsically Motivated Individuals

A person who is intrinsically motivated is driven by his/her goals, objectives, and desires, whereas rewards apart from achievements motivate an extrinsically motivated person (Huber, 2013). Some of the extrinsic motivations include job promotion and financial gains.

How to Motivate Intrinsically Motivated and Extrinsically Motivated Persons

Motivating intrinsically motivated individuals is different from motivating extrinsically motivated individuals. In the case of extrinsically motivated individuals, I would set goals and targets for the individuals and then measure their outcomes. In the cases of the achievers, I would reward them. However, in the case of individuals who underperformed, I would engage them in training activities to ensure that they achieve ...

I interviewed TJ, a 59-year old male of Hispanic descent and a staunch believer of the Buddhist religion. The following is the transcript of the interview and the responses from my respondent and a patient a facility where I had been working at some point.

Do you think that spirituality has a significant or any influence on physical health?

TJ: Over the years, I have been raised in a family where spirituality was regarded in high value. I have never known any other way to achieve wellness and peace if spirituality is not included. For me, the association with a higher being is important especially for the mind because in any case, the ...

The average American requires a yearly movement of 57 tons of cargo to cater for all of their activities. In 2016, the freight transportation system handled nearly 16 billion tons of raw materials and consumer goods. All this movement is vital in supporting economic activities around the country. All the shipments including fresh produce, express packages among others require an extensive system comprising millions of vehicles supported by sophisticated information technology and managed by a big labor force. The USA is the largest consumer market in the world thus a need for a robust system to oversee the movement ...

It is absolutely true that goals act as blue prints to direct team members achieve goals on a timely basis. At the same time, to be realistic goals need to be set by evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of each team member. While it is true that setting goals as such may not ensure success guaranteeing collective efforts that channelize the talents of team members through efficient planning and monitoring is the key to achieving success. More importantly, setting goals help team members expand their personal capabilities to the fullest. In other words, challenging goals motivate individuals to think ...

Introduction of the Product

A Polaroid Cube is a delightful and little camera that takes the still shots as well as video. Just as the name suggest, it is a tiny tube about 35mm on the side. It can stick to any and all the magnetic surfaces and even a dinner folk. The cube can be tossed and can be taken around to take the life's precious moment in town or an adventure (Amstrong, & Kotler, 2011 p.12). However, the cube can be used any place in any circumstance to take photos and video recording. The cube comes in red, blue and red colors ...

Problem Definition

Over the past few months, it is noticed that at XYZ restaurant the number of customer visits has reduced and it has resulted in a decrease in sales revenues. Customers are the only source of income that a restaurant can have. The restaurant used to experience surplus profits, but now it hardly can meet up its costs. Reduced customer visits are a serious problem that needs to be recovered as soon as possible. The proposal aims to maximize the customer visits. The purpose is not only to retain the existing ones but also to attract the new ones. The ...

Abstract

In a multicultural context, leadership is of great significance. When a diverse workforce is working together on a task, sound leadership is required because there is no room for conflicts. Leadership provides direction and motivation to the workforce and keeps them focused on their goals. Steve Jobs has been the CEO of Apple and is regarded as an excellent leader even after his death. It was under his leadership that Apple gained success and even the employees became strategic thinkers and decision makers. A leader is powerful and possesses a charismatic persona. A true leader has a clear vision ...

Tom Rath wrote a book “Strengths Finder 2.0” to guide people in identifying their personal strengths and capabilities. The main objective of writing the book was to assist people regarding their internal strengths and ways to sharp their skills. The background for writing this book was that most of the people in the United States are not aware of their strengths and capabilities. I have read the book that is interesting and attractive for developing personal skills and knowledge. The ideas presented in the book are new, and the communication style adopted by the author is attractive. The entire ...

A magneto is small generator formed from a permanent magnet, which uses electricity to give outputs such as pulses of high voltage. A magneto has a transformer, switch and distributor, which give alternating current the direction to the plug that produces sparks. Timing in magneto is the interval in which the breaking point occurs after producing the sparks. Therefore, the purpose of magneto timing is to actualize high voltage used to produce sparks at the right time. It is achieved through the internal and external timing. Internal timing takes place mechanically on a bench. There are two adjustments in ...

Dell Company uses a functional organizational structure to enhance its functional productivity. Each department has a manager to whom all employees are answerable for the company to ensure the smooth running of all the departments. The company has also taken advantage of its structure to reap success and enhance sustainability. For instance, through specialization, the company has been in a position to maintain supplies for the changing demands for Dell electronics and accessories. The employees have enhanced their efficiency since the same tasks are performed often. However, not considering the functional organizations’ advantages to the company, it has developed ...

Background

Today, the financial industry is more regulated than any other time in the history of economic globalization. However, the lack of fundamental professional behavior, ethics, and compliance raises the important question whether the current financial sector in Australia is destined for an endemic future. The persistent fraud cases in the Australian financial industry paints an impression that behaviors are yet to change even after experiencing the global financial predicament that emanated from the US. The recent ANZ suspected interbank interest rate rigging, CBA’s CommInsure denial of compensation to legitimate claims from terminally ill patients, and the Macquarie Group ...

Business

Today’s economy entails competitive employees that can surpass the companies’ expectations in terms of output and productivity. When companies and organizations gear to strengthen their leads because of globalization, they send employees abroad for a myriad of reasons. Many multi-national companies (MNCs) deploy expatriates as a strategy to complete critical tasks such as corporate control, sharing of expertise in potential global markets, facilitation of entry into new markets and development of competencies for international management (Chew, 2004). About 80% of medium and large companies send expatriates, while 45% intend to increase the number of expatriates to achieve their ...

HR and Information Technology (HRIS)

Introduction Business undertaking involves various pitfalls such as poor organizational traditions, the big squeeze, identity crisis, and organizational failure. These pitfalls continue to be inevitable in an organization until effective HR is adopted. Research has established that the creation of consistent and sustained competitive advantage is achievable through effective HR (Pouransari, Al-Karaghouli, & Dey, 2016). Human resources must be managed well for the success of an organization. Every individual working in an organization plays a contributory role in its management. Tarawneh (2012) argued that since human resources are needed in all aspects of business operations ranging from production to marketing, ...

The social media has become one of the basic tools for interaction and where individual learn new things each day. Organizations today have embarked into using the social media as the medium for reaching their target customers and analyzing their competitor’s strengths and weaknesses. The information presented on the blog “Lessons Learned in 2016 from the #SMSports” plays a critical role in promoting the person’s professional and social growth in the sports career. Comments found in the social media and sports community's Twitter accounts teach existing and upcoming entrepreneurs new and advanced ways of growing profession. Achieving ...

Black Lives Matter

I find social activism as a modern and more effective way to create awareness about an issue or initiate a protest against one. This is because social activism promotes mass movements in societies in which it is initiated, and as such, important matters that call for everyone’s attention can be addressed with urgency and the level of importance that can bring about social change. The social activism movement: ‘Black Lives Matter’, initially originated in the U.S. and later on replicated in the U.K., is one that I am particularly interested in. Spearheaded by the African-American community, the movement ...

Introduction to Entrepreneurship

Introduction to Entrepreneurship

Introduction

The term ‘entrepreneurship’ became very popular in the 21st century when people recognized the importance of introducing major changes in the world. Today, many people abandon their career as an employee and start entrepreneurial ventures with intent to earn unlimited income and to meet their self-actualization needs. Considering the scope of entrepreneurship in supporting a country’s economic growth, governments worldwide are willing to finance potential entrepreneurial start-ups today. This paper will critically explore the scope of entrepreneurship, giving particular emphasis to the operations of small business houses.

Obviously, time and money are two important factors ...

Discuss the positives and negatives of corporate culture in the competitiveness of a firm. Relate how firms should deal with different corporate cultures in mergers and acquisitions. According to Wheelen and Hunger (2015), "corporate culture fulfills several important functions in an organization. It conveys a sense of identity for employees and helps generate employee commitment to something greater than them. It adds to the stability of the organization as a social system and serves as a frame of reference for employees to use to make sense of organizational activities as well as a guide for appropriate behavior." One of ...

Social Responsibility of Business

Introduction The belief advanced by Milton Friedman connotes that the directors of a business must engage in business actions that bring only profits to the given business shareholders. In reference to notions of business ethics, the executive management of a business corporation must earn profits for the business owners within the rules of the game. Further, about corporate social responsibility, the business management mandate is to conduct business activities in such a way that they do not commit business resources to social responsibility activities, like charity, that have the potential of reducing business profits (Watson and Prevos, 2009).

Business Ethics

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Introduction

Marriage is the central issue of the family relations. The people of different religions, status and nationality enter into marriage in order to create valuable element of the society. For significant amount of people, the marriage plays crucial role in the further establishment of the priorities for living. Hence, the marriage can not be regarded as the trivial issue due to the consequences it causes. Besides, the current state of the globalization of the society and ongoing changes of the moral values have resulted into appearance of new social institutions as same-sex marriage. In fact, there are extremely opposing ...

In the recent times the result and outcomes of health care systems, the well-being of patients and quality of health care given to populations is determined by outcome research. Public health research which often involves outcomes research sets to measure the result of different intervention methods and medical treatments that are offered to patients and populations. The study usually utilizes the basic sciences of statistical data and epidemiology with public health, clinical and policy orientation which draws from fields of psychology, sociology, economics and management sciences (Krumholz 2005). It is meant to help the stakeholders in the health sector ...

Lab Assignment

1. Business Intelligence-It refers to a technological process or tool used by business people such as managers and owners in analyzing and presenting information. The objective is to collect, prepare and examine data for better business decision making. 2. Hardware-The physical parts of the HIS, and this includes the monitors, hard disk, graphic cards and other physical components needed to run a computer system. 3. HIS architecture-This is the overall design of an HIS system, which aims to help in facilitating transfer and communication of data. 4. HIS planning-This involves the designing the strategies and procedures in carrying out ...

How can content marketing on social media channels be used in order to increase the level of customer engagement for the UK fitness industry?

Introduction Social media channels represent the new phenomenon, that has forced industries to change their attitude to marketing strategies, brand awareness, and customer engagement. The social media channels today pose certain threats to the traditional advertising, which treats the customers as a homogeneous crowd . In this extent, the social media channels are highly personalized presenting the versatile and verified social media content to the targeted audience. The marketing specialists are always in constant search of ...

Philosophy

In this paper, we are going to talk about the Leviathan, which is a treatise of an English philosopher Thomas Hobbes who was a younger contemporary of Francis Bacon. Under the influence of ideas of Bacon, Thomas Hobbes began exploring the political and religious issues of his era. Of his many treatises on state structure most important is Leviathan or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil. In addition, we are going to describe Thomas Hobbes idea of the state of nature. Also, we are going to express its influence on his idea of ‘ ...

Milton Friedman believes that in a free society we must not forget that there are two types of freedom and they should not be confused. The proper role of the government is to consider these two ways of understanding freedom - which are freedom from coercion and freedom of ‘free of cost’- and help individuals reach their objectives, interfering with each other as minimum as possible. The government should create opportunities to help people achieve their goals, knowing of course that there is no absolute freedom in society. It is important to notice that for Friedman, the society ...

Interview Questions: A Critical Review

Interview Questions: A Critical Review According to Agyei and Christopher (2016), “getting the right people in the right place at the time doing the right job is an essential element of recruitment and selection process in organizations”. Therefore, it is important for managers to design selection strategies and interview questions thoughtfully. This paper contains the review and assessment of the interview questions used by Southwood School District for their recruitment process. It further lists suggestions and corrections that can be opted for the future interview processes. Though the school improved a lot from its previous method of selection by ...

The process of promoting employees involvement in the activities of the company takes some time and involves the company undertaking some measures. The steps outlined below provide a glimpse of what the company should do to motivate its employees to become more involved with the affairs of the company.

Providing supportive leadership

Empowering the employees to be better Creative a positive working environment Encouraging teamwork to achieve faster Recognizing and rewarding their efforts since such actions motivate employees to keep up with the good work Knockout boredom to ensure that the employees stay involved focused and motivated to do their job. Eliminate ...

Integrated Learning Homework

The focus of my interview was the effect of childhood transition that takes place to a child as they move to adolescent. The psychosocial change that occurs between the childhood and adulthood and between the mortality learned by a child, as well as ethics developed by an adult as Erikson's theory suggest. Before my interview, I gathered some information on this psychosocial stage among adolescents from various sources that increase independence to an adolescent through career development, occupational, families, relationships and their personal views and beliefs. According to Erikson stages, the fifth stage that best suits the change in ...

The success of any company does not depend on the collection of individuals who work by themselves. There has to be clustering of employees into groups or teams enabling them to have the capability of achieving a certain function that could not be possible for an individual alone. The use of both teams and groups not only meets a firm’s objectives but also enables Nike to attain competitive advantage (Ivanko, 2013).

Groups

There is a difference between groups and team. A group is a set of two or more people who work together to achieve a common goal. According ...

Strategic Plan (January 2017 to December 2019)

The organization’s new strategy will outline its activities until 2019. It reflects on the organization’s opinion on some of the problems affecting the VCSE (Voluntary Community and Social Enterprise organizations) and the organization’s goal for transformation. The strategic plan pronounces the roles that the organization will assume in steering and assisting the sector in their attempt to mitigate these problems and take advantage of new openings as they occur. An increased demand for the organization’s services, as well as the harsh funding options, obliges the organization to be creative and function across sectors. In working ...

Contrasting Two Cultures with a Model of Culture

The model of culture to be used in this part of the paper is Professor Geert Hofstede’s Model of National Cultures. Professor Hofstede is famous for his study wherein he looked at how values in the workplace are influenced by particular cultures. He was a consultant working with IBM in the 1970s and 1980s, and thus he was able to observe various workplace cultures around the world (Geert Hofstede: National Culture). Originally, he came up with four dimensions of culture along which behaviors could be linked and thereafter analyzed. The original dimensions are Individualism-Collectivism, Uncertainty Avoidance, Power Distance ( ...

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Introduction The concept of Homeland Security was precipitated by the terrorist attacks of 9/11 (Shawn 2013). According to the quadrennial homeland security review (2014), the goal of homeland security department and its partners is to build a safe, secure, and resilient nation. This goal is continuously threatened by the evolving nature of terrorism and natural disastrous among other risk factors. In order to mitigate the effects of the risks and threats to the safety, security, and resilience of the nation, the (Department of Homeland Security) DHS developed the five missions to help the department and its partners achieve its ...

As a single taxpayer having a gross total income of $45,000, I fall into the 25% tax bracket. A total of $7,022 is hence, required to be payable as income tax for the year 2016 at a rate of 15.6%. The next lowest tax bracket is the 15% bracket that includes income from $9,276 to $37,650. My gross total income is hence, $7,350 away from the 15% tax bracket. A standard deduction of $6,300 is available for single filers that can reduce my gross total income to $38,700. Alternatively, itemized deductions are ...

VP Operations

As Pepsi o is the biggest player in the international beverage industry, the company has to maintain its distinct position by successfully handling the operational strategy. The operational strategy of Pepsi Co aims to meet the business needs in ten strategic decisional areas. These areas under the operational management include the design of goods and services, quality management, process and capacity design, location strategy, layout design and strategy, job design and human resources, supply chain management, inventory management, scheduling, and maintenance. The ultimate aim of the operational strategy is to maintain ad efficient response time to the fluctuations in ...

Impact of Policy Changes on Financial Stability of Commercial Banks in India

Paper Due date Abstract The study envisages financial stability of Indian Banks, especially schedule commercial banks, in the backdrop of macro-prudential policy changes. Banks are put under microscopic vision in terms of performing as commercial units while strictly adhering to the policy norms. The effect of regulatory and supervisory policy changes can be evidently seen in stressed performance of banks in the recent years, in-spite of growth in their retail portfolios. The policy changes of increased provisioning for NPAs, improvement in asset account quality, revised guidelines for Net Stable Funding Ratio, restructuring of large accounts and many more have ...

The main objective of any health care system is to provide patient care with desirable patient outcomes. Simply put, a health care system strives to promote well-being and heath status of all human beings. It is also important to note that most aspects of the healthcare focus on prevention and management of pain among patients because freedom from pain is an essential dimension of health. Additionally, pain among patients is a multidimensional phenomenon that requires a broad, integrated and a comprehensive care model (Glare et al., 2014). Many studies that have been carried out by various scholars on health ...

Introduction

While job description refers to the specific roles or duties of a given position in an organization, job specification indicates the required attributes for someone to be considered competent for a given task (Verboncu & Zeininger, 2015). HR managers utilize the two concepts (job specification and description) in attracting and evaluating potential employees and in identifying proper strategies of managing an organizational workforce. Some of the important attributes evaluated during job description include necessary goals and skills for a given position. In job specification, the human resource (HR) managers take account of individual attributes, experience, skills and training that are ...

The Nature of Managerial Work

The roles of the managers in both the private and the public sector mostly remain the same. In the public and the private sector the executives have the interpersonal roles where they interact with the subordinates in the various areas of management. As the managers in both the private and the public sector perform figurehead roles which include the ceremonies and social duties to create positive relationships with the stakeholders and the entire communities (Lau & Pavett, 1980). They play the leadership roles to motivate staff and train the junior workers to prepare them for more demanding roles in the ...

Breaking Barriers: Towards High Quality, Effective and Safe Health Care

Breaking Barriers Towards High Quality, Effective and Safe Health Care With more than 3 million in numbers, nurses comprise the largest section of health care professionals in the US. They spend a huge portion of their time to deliver healthcare services which makes them a viable force in ensuring and safety of care. A careful examination of the nurses’ capacity to support the health reform is essential, especially with the passage of laws such as the Affordable Care Act, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, among others, which aim to improve the design, financing, and delivery of health services (Sochalski ...

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Introduction Pedagogical documentation refers to the processes of keeping a record of the child’s thinking and learning development and using the information gathered to make the development process visible to the child and the family. The process enables the teacher to keep a record and improve the importance of the child’s development. The information can be collected using samples the child’s work such as images of different stages of their work in a bulletin board, and class books, among other methods. The documentation should include artifacts and evidence of progress in fields such as expected behavior, ...

Qd. One of the interviewees talks about validation and fear. Validation and fear of what and why do you think it was so important for him? The speaker speaks about validation and fear of our desired goals. Thus, when one experiences a desire for something, he usually fears the failure, thinking that his struggling will only bring him disappointment. That is the fear, which keeps the majority from doing anything about their dreams. However, by validating it is possible, one is motivated to move towards his target with even higher persistence. "Your brain says it works, it may not ...

Introduction

Brannigan foods was facing a major challenge as the soup industry had been on a continuous decline, with the market share and profitability dwindling in the last three years before 2012.Although the condensed and the ready- to-eat (RTE) soup were a staple in the USA by 2012, the concerns about health and obesity had reduced the consumption of processed foods and products with high sodium contents. The issue of reduction in the consumption of the processed food was particularly pronounced among the baby boomer generation. There was also an increasing demand for the fast, simple meals among the working ...

Introduction

Companies in different industries are adopting marketing strategies that aid them achieve uniqueness and difference from their competitors. At an age where companies experience stiff intra-industry competition, it is imperative that their marketing managers be regularly involved in the development of distinct strategies that help them acquire a comparative advantage over their competitors. The whole process of adopting unique marketing strategies to attract a certain target market is called strategic marketing. According to Wilson & Galligan (2012), strategic marketing refers to all activities undertaken by a company to differentiate itself from other players in the same industry in the marketplace. ...

Discussion Questions

Discussion Questions

In essence, businesses and institutions apply different strategies in their operations to achieve set goals and targets. Myles and Snow, as well as Porter (2008), argue that when choosing a strategy, it is important to analyze the objectives of the institution as well as the priorities. Different organizations have different goals and priorities. Institutions of Higher Learning (IHEs) change their strategies based on several factors (Rowley & Sherman, 2001). They depend on the level of competition among different IHEs within a given area. Furthermore, they change their competitive strategies based on the level of the IHE in the ...

Using Digital Media to Achieve Organizational Goals, a Walmart Case

Using Digital Media to Achieve Organizational Goals, a Walmart Case

Introduction/Synopsis

Digital media types are some of the greatest technological advancements that provide benefits to humans. They can be used in various ways that every individual is able to achieve his or her goals by using different types of digital devices, such as mobile phones and personal computers. Digital media also enables humans to access a wide range of communication to the point that geographical location is no longer an issue just to send and receive messages and information from different parts of the country and around the globe. In ...

Emotional intelligence is the ability to understand and manage one's emotions as well as emotions of people around you. The proponent of emotional intelligent Mr. Daniel Goleman brought about the five elements of emotional intelligent. The first element is self-awareness. This element requires one to know his feeling and how emotions and actions resulting from the feelings affect the people around him. Self-awareness is brought about by humbleness and realization of individual strengths and weaknesses. To foster self-awareness, you can keep a journal of your thoughts because your thoughts affect your emotions. Besides, you are required to take time ...

Introduction

Food that is subscribed to by a populace is determined by the existing culture (Aglaia and Anissa 9).The Middle East region is one of the parts of the world that is stuck in culture and food. This paper seeks to give a design of a restaurant in the following facets: Goals, facts, concepts, and needs.

Goals

The design for the restaurant and the simple programming aims to achieve the following objectives: ▪To provide proper ventilation in all the rooms of the designed restaurant that allows for freshness. ▪To create a design that allows easy movement of the employees particularly ...

INTRODUCTION

Today the modern world is dealing with a number of serious issues all across the globe, like warfare, terrorism and civil and social unrest. This is currently the case in the United States. There has always been debate and protest among the diverse people of America, but that has seemed to increase over the last few years. There has been a great deal of political and ethical based arguments that are heatedly debated, from political, religious and societal levels. Most recently some of these issues are related to police violence, racial divides, women’s rights and the recent Presidential ...

The book has a point of view that says Good is the Enemy of Great. The author had performed studies in a series of different companies that made the leap from good to great. The author moved forward and compared this successful companies with the failed ones who are not being able to make the leap. The researcher tried to identify the reason of failure and used a level 5 leadership to identify the reasons. The researchers found out the reason why the companies became great and why the companies failed by using that approaches. The book has some ...

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don’t

This management book by Jim C. Collins discusses how organizations or firms shift from being good companies to great companies. It also tackles why some companies fail to in such transition. Collins studied companies from 1965 to 1995. He filtered the companies and made sure that only those who outperformed in their industries were included. The companies that were studied were Abbott Laboratories, Fannie Mae, Circuit City, Gillete, Kroger, Kimberly-Clark, Nucor, Pitney Bowes, Philip Morris, Walgreens, and Wells Fargo. The main premise of the book was that all the companies that were studied have Level 5 leaders. Level 5 ...

There is a 100 word minimum for Part 1. For Part 2, Read the abstract below. Answer the CHALLENGE questions in detail. Your final written answers for part 2 will have a minimum of 400 words (all answers combined).

Part 1

Identify a business or sports leader who you think is highly effective, and explain why you think they are effective. Answer Apple Inc. is a good example of an effective company. Apple’s achievement emanates from its customer oriented policies which seeks to provide the customer with unique products. This explains the reason why the company enjoys an unmatched level ...

SPORTS MANAGEMENT STYLES

Like every field, the field of sports is one where participants require some form of coaching, mentoring and motivation. Leaders and managers have a strong role in the field of sports because they set out a direction for the players and channelize their dream to become reality. People who are interested in sports are those who are motivated from inside and want to stay healthy and active at the same time. Internal motivation becomes productive when it receives appreciation and there is someone who can actually show the players when and how to make the most of their abilities ...

The social disorganization theory associates the rates of delinquency with the levels of the socioeconomic conditions in any society. Continual poverty will increase delinquency especially among the lower class members of the community. It applies to the social landscape of America because of its stratified nature i.e. there has been an unequal distribution of prestige, wealth, and also power in the country (Part two- Theories of Delinquency, n.d., p. 130). The theory is more pronounced in the US than the cultural deviance theories because of the difficulty in subscribing to the behavioral demands of various social groups. In addition ...

Introduction

It is the role of every employee and the management of a firm to ensure that the firm succeeds. To make sure that a firm succeeds, there are ways through which the firm can track its performance. These ways are performance management system and the balance scorecard process. CliftonLarsonAllen is an example of a firm in the United States that uses these two methods to track its performance.

Performance Management

Performance management is the process through which all employees and their staff join hands and work together to strategize, monitor and track the performance of every employee in the firm, the ...

Q. 1. A. To calculate nominal, real, and GDP deflator, the following equations were used. Nominal (NGDP = Quantity (year) X Price (year), while real GDP) can be expressed as (RGDP = Nominal / Deflator), and GDP deflator can be expressed as (GDPD = Nominal / Real GDP X 100%). Therefore; (See Table 1.) B. For multiple items, calculating CPI requires a weighed average of the commodity price. In this sense, the prices of listed items were calculated as (Average = Bread price +TV Sets + etc. / 5) for each year. After which, the CPI was calculated using the equation (CPI of Multi ...

It is almost easy to gain weight; but losing weight could be the most hectic activity that one could engage in. There are several tips on losing weight, but it is important to stick to those that are natural. A natural process will enable one to avoid putting his or her health at risk at the expense of losing weight. There are several benefits of chopping down weight and maintaining an average, a major one being to restore health by reducing risks such as heart conditions and diabetes. The natural process will be very simple if you have everything ...

As it is widely known, health is not just about an absence of illness, but an overall physical wellbeing, as well as mental and spiritual health. To stay healthy and effectively prevent illnesses, an individual shall regularly undertake comprehensive assessments of his/her health. Apart from visiting a doctor, it is also crucial that he/she is able to assess his/her wellness himself or herself and conclude whether there is a need to take action. Reflecting on the results of my most recent health assessment, I can claim that I have a good overall wellbeing. I do not feel any specific ...

If we were to ask 100 people randomly to describe a criminal, most like they will describe the most recent experience they had of a crime or criminal. Most recent experiences could be what they read on the news on the way to work, in another word what they read or watched on the most recent media exposure they had, or it could also be a personal criminal experience they had. Some people live in neighborhoods that are dangerous so they have more experience with gangs, while others might have been robbed recently, either pickpockets or online fraud, etc. ...

Abstract

Organizational designs refer to the way the management achieve the best combination of integration and differentiation on operations. Police are one of the law enforcement agencies that operate under various organizational designs. The Boston Police Department is divided into 11 neighborhoods districts and three zones. The organizational design model in the chapter is the line and staff structure. Boston Massachusetts Police Department uses the line and structure model. Line and staff structure enable line staff to gain knowledge and skills from the staff managers. The Boston Police Department has adopted a working design. The BPD should clearly indicate the ...