Essays on Chappell

Examination of Performance Review Conflict

Examination of Performance Review Conflict Performance review conflict can create serious problems in the public sector. In reviewing an employee’s performance, the supervisor considers self-reported performance assessment, his/her observations of an employee’s work, and feedback from other supervisors and peers who had the opportunity to oversee or observe the work of the employee. However, ratings for each criterion depends, in part, on the subjective interpretation of the supervisor. Rater bias and favoritism based on gender, race, age, physical appearance or attractiveness, personality, and personal relations or interests may influence supervisor ratings. Evaluation results become the basis of ...

I watched the PGA Tour-2016 Arnold Palmer Invitational held in March at the Bay Club Hill and Lodge. The tournament was won by Jason Day from Australia, who has won five times before within the last 12 starts he has made (Golf Live TV). While he was out of his wits during the whole tournament, with problems in his swing and not being able to navigate well, Day was able to make his win by delivering his best at the end of the tournament. He made the bunker shot just as he wished and the 4-foot par putt closed ...

Immigration to England

Migration is defined as the moving of persons from one place to another. The move may be temporary or permanent, depending on the reasons involved. Migration may occur due to various reasons such as economic ones like employment and job opportunities, social ones like being closer to family members or loved ones, environmental factors like natural disasters, and political ones like wanting to escape a conflict or strife within a home country. One of the great examples of migration is the moving of Jamaicans to England. There are many reasons why Jamaicans moved to England. Jamaicans moved to England ...

Is it ethical for a Christian doctor to try and save an injured and dying psychopath who has just murdered innocent civilians in a bank robbery including the doctor’s spouse? Ethics refer to a set of philosophical principles that are used to make a moral judgment or decision in trivial situations including professions in an effort to create a sense of order. However there are situations where moral judgment becomes entangled with human emotions as well as pressure from external forces such as expectations form other people. In such instances one is said to be in an ethical ...

Amongst the biggest problems that are being recognized is the phenomenon of global warming. This is an alarming issue for the environmentalists as they believe that the sustainability, worse yet, the livability of the planet is at stake because of it. Because of the economic and industrial conditions of the planet, the climate of the earth is changing rapidly. The average temperatures that are being measured are increasing very quickly, and it is feared that in a short period of time, the temperature of the planet will rise higher than what is comfortable (Root). The problem of rising temperatures ...

Bond

When the state government or even a public agency needs to raise some money, there is always an alternative of getting to issue some bonds. A bond is usually a debt commitment that the financiers get to trade on the secondary market. The cash bond issuers usually get to gather from the shareholders and can be used for some capital expenditure schemes such as some new infrastructures. In various locations, some particular bond issues are usually subject to endorsement by supporters through a process called bond elections (Hirano et al. 91-108).

Prop

In California, a prop, also known as a ...

Institutional of Affiliation

Chun-Ping Changa and Chien-Chiang Lee research to identify whether presidential approval varies with the economic performance of a country have found out that people approve more of regimes as their economic performance is. This nonlinear relationship identifies that presidents whom the economy performs best when they are in power will receive more approval than those who the economy goes downhill. Due to the recent unemployment rates and recession and raising debts of Americans President Barack Obama popularity had been going downhill, the little unpredictability of the economy results to quick reaction from Americans than any other incident. Voters have ...

Utilitarianism and Kantianism

Utilitarianism, Virtue ethics and Kantianism are examples of normative ethics. In these theories, there are three components which characterize every action: the consequences of the action, the action itself (which also include the motive of the action), and the agent (the doer). Utilitarianism deals with the consequences of the action. On the other hand, deontological theories (Kantianism and divine command theory) are concerned with motive/action. Virtue ethics, however, is concerned with the doer/agent (Stewart, 2009). Utilitarianism and Kantianism Utilitarianism. Utilitarianism is derived from the word utility. In utilitarianism, an action is deemed right only if its outcome is to ...