Essays on Directives

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Hi, the SMART acronym is a suitable guide for goal setting at a personal and organizational level. Many individuals spend a lot of time drifting or rushing from one job and objective to another. Setting goals using the acronym makes it easier to focus one’s efforts, use resources and time productively, clarify ideas, and enhance the likelihoods of success. The SMART framework ensures that the objectives are significant and sensible, motivating and meaningful, attainable and agreed, resourced and realistic, and time-sensitive. The process of setting goals requires the buy-in of both the employees and the management for it ...

Judicial Activism of the Court of Justice of the European Union

Since the ECJ handed down the 2005 Mangold v. Helm case, there have been several criticisms provided by different scholars of the decisions it made and what they believed had various consequences for the European Union law. Essentially, the decisions made by the court involved several queries, but the main one was applicability of European Union age‐based anti‐discrimination law in situations involving the fixed‐term employment contracts. The contracts were founded on the law that permitted the fixed‐term contract with no demands for the objective reasons that justified the limitations of the employment period past the ...

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Objective: in this critical analysis, you are expected to demonstrate an understanding of public health ethics and legal issues. Also, you are required to actively engage with the subject and come up with a substantial perspective on it.

Introduction

This critical analysis will outline the main purpose of the public health ethics and legal issues for protecting and upholding public health. Public policies and social programs are some of the aspects that constitute a good public health. Also, some patients with distinct issues contribute to the wellbeing of the public health, especially in a situation of unethical event regarding health ...

There has been increasing awareness of the role of waste in the production of greenhouse gas emissions and its impacts on climate change. Diminishing natural resources has led to the recognition that what is discarded as waste has the potential to be reused as resources. Governmental legislation on prohibiting toxic materials and prevention and control of the volume of waste has helped in decreasing adverse environmental effects. There is a growing public awareness about waste prevention and its beneficial effects. The society has to replace the linear model of extract-produce-consume-dispose to closed Loop's approach of resource recovery and waste ...

The ethical issue is derived from whether doctors should have hard paternalism over patient autonomy when a decision could negatively affect the patient’s health goals. Some of the pertinent ethical facts in the case of whether Mrs. B may be taken off of life support is as followed:

Does Mrs.B have a living will and has her daughter inquired for it? If Mrs. B has a living will, some state’s jurisdiction will insist that any directions in it must not be compromised by her daughter's decisions.  Does Mrs. B's condition render the requirements necessary to prompt the ...

Description of the official

Relation to the bill Hughes demonstrated high levels of familiarity with the bill. As the author of the bill, Hughes contribution to the discussion played a positive role in understanding the legislation and allowing the meeting to run effectively.

Legislative Assistance

Caroline Harris How the issue was conveyed in the meeting I started the meeting by introducing myself to the official and explaining the purpose of the meeting. I then went ahead to describe the status of health in the U.S. and need for reforms that would allow patients access safe, quality, and cost-effective care at all times. The lack of ...

Defense acquisition process

The acquisition process is among the primary processes that constitute the defense acquisition system. It is mandated by principles and policies put in place by the Department of Defense (DOD) which offers directives to that effect. The process is event based since any program has to undergo a number of processes from the time of conception to the time of actualization. In essence, an acquisition program is defined by the Department of Defense as an effort initiated and funded with the primary aim of providing improved weapon and/or information systems that respond to the needs of the U.S Armed ...

A growing concern has been rising within public and policy domains as fundamental elements in providing safe and quality health care have been lacking. This has led to poor patient care, as well as pitiable clinical, emotional, and social outcomes. On some occasions, catastrophic events have been witnessed as reports from Health Ombudsman and Patient’s Association indicate. For example, the reports present stories from patients who have had experiences characterized with poor, inadequate and negligent care, and abuse while receiving nursing care. These reports have led stakeholders within health care to affirm there are unrecorded stories that are ...

The U.S DHHS case I chose explored the protection of confidential information for covered entities. The case falls under the HIPAA regulations as part of securing protected health information from third party access. In this case, an employee failed to observe the need for privacy when she left a message with a patient’s family member. This message detailed the patient’s treatment plan as well as medical condition. Further investigations revealed that the employee did not follow confidential communication requirements as outlined by the facility (HHS, 2016). As part of the breach resolution, the facility drafted new procedures ...

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Selling Defective Products

The first ethical dilemma that Stanton Wong faces is on the issue of selling products that are defective. If he chooses to disregard the defects, he would have knowingly participated in a disobedience of the company’s policy that requires test failures to be reported. His decision to report the problem or stay silent has profound consequences for the military service and the civilians as well. If a missile misfires, U.S. servicemen and innocent civilians could die.

Going Against The Boss

The second ethical dilemma is going against the instructions of the superior officer in the management of the company. As a ...

Hi, SMART objectives are widely utilized in creating plans for projects. Since incident management is also a goal-oriented program, SMART objectives can be adopted in planning emergency responses. Your take on using the SMART directives in the tornado scenario provides a series of planned activities that can preserve property and life. The emergency goals in a disaster should focus on prevention and mitigation. The results of the planned programs should be obtainable, centric, realistic, and valid in accordance with SMART objectives. The strategies for controlling the tornado incident should work towards reducing risk, sustaining operations, and protecting property and ...

Introduction

Leadership in the business plays a critical role in offering the direction to the organization, motivation to the workers, and in fostering internal relationship and smooth production (Adrian, 2011). The management plays the dual roles of structural and systematic directives as well as leadership roles along the socio-cultural perspectives. The roles and effective responsibilities of the directorship in the organization is critical in improving the business response and crisis management. Crisis may arise in the firm because of various reasons that can be centered in the internal enterprise operations or from the external factors associated with the industry operations ( ...

The doctrine of direct effect under the European Law is a principle that allows the EU laws, regulations directives and treaties to apply directly to the nationals of the Member States of the EU without necessarily being incorporated into the national laws through acts of legislation (Ward 74). Under this doctrine, national courts are under a strict obligation to recognize and eforce the EU laws to confer rights on the nationals of those states where their rights have been infringed by their states or state corporations (Conway 216). According to Fisher, this doctrine deals with the determination of the ...

Introduction

On the 11th of May, Nigeria topped the BBC news headlines with the headline that Nigeria had decided to raise the petrol prices in order to ease the shortages in the country. For an economist, this kind of a news headline is bound to trigger your thoughts as to why this particular nation had decided to increase the prices having in mind the fact that the country is Africa’s largest producer of oil and also it has a fair share of the international oil market. The country’s legislative arm stated that it had found it wise to ...

Heath care ethics and law are disciplines with overlapping concepts. However, each discipline has an independent parameter and distinct focus. Clinical ethics is defined as a methodology for considering the moral inferences of medical technologies, treatments, and policies with extraordinary to determine what must be done or avoided in the delivery of health care (Corning, 2009). Thus, each profession has adopted a code of ethics to regulate the conduct of its members. A code of ethics set up by a profession body, upholds a particular image in public (Mahar, 2013). On the other hand, the law is defined as ...

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Contribute to Building and Sustaining Good Societies Social Justice Nonetheless, if there is fair treatment of every citizen in the society, in which his every right is safeguarded, whether it is economic, political or social, and its laws and agencies are not oppressive, then the moral obligation is incumbent upon every citizen to recognize and obey the laws. When the government or the society has all these qualities, it has every reason, political will, and moral ascendancy to eliminate discrimination and inequality among the people. Giving justice to everyone where it is due, maintaining equal protection of ...

Introduction

A collaborative working in social and healthcare setting is very important for the defenseless individuals or patients needing due attention. There are numerous benefits associated to working collaboratively, however some of the important are the seamless evaluations for the information to a couple of experts, reformed the flow of information amid the experts, enhanced efficacy of care setup comprehensively, integrated care provision, and advanced blueprinting and commissioning care for ensuring complement attitudes to be represented by the social and healthcare establishments instead unsettling each other. However, there are as well issues linked with working collaboratively but the benefits overcome ...

Introduction

Air pollution involves the introduction of particulates and other biological molecules in the atmosphere, resulting in the death of humans, other living things and damage to other resources such as crops. It involves the interaction of different pollutants which eventually affect the environment, health, and even the climate. These pollutants are emitted almost from all economic and social activities. The most cases of air pollutants are; Sulphur Dioxide, Nitrogen Oxides, Particulate Matter, Ozone, Ammonia, Non-methane volatile organic compounds, carbon dioxide, lead, heterocyclic, chlorinated hydrocarbons, phenol and Methane amongst others. Emission of many air pollutants has decreased across Europe as ...

International management in an Asian context: Business life and management in China

Introduction Globalization has complicated the management process. As such, for one to be an effective manager, that individual needs to understand the global context of the management process. Fundamentally, one needs to appreciate the role of culture in the management process (Luthans & Doh, 2014). As such, the paper shall examine several features of the Chinese society and evaluate the ways they will affect the management process.

Discussion

Culture sensitivity is highly linked to effective management (Luthans & Doh, 2014). Considering the Chinese society, the Chinese have been socialized to believe that they are the descendants of Hun. As such, the Hun ...

International Dispute Settlement

International Dispute Settlement

Question 1.

It guaranteed the protection of all parties involved and registered by the organization. Creating shared understanding through group discussions and cooperating as a team to achieve a goal.The first advantage is the collective retaliation where two organizations have reforms to evaluate a balanced trading economy by reducing the problem of compliance imbalance. Negative consensus power is a powerful tool and is useful in the global market if the majority member in the trading agreement wishes to protect the cooperation of the minority in board decision making. It is also built on a broader and stronger basis ...

Effective communication is essential to an organization. It occurs only if the conveyed message is encoded in a manner that the intended purpose is attained. The channels of communication are also imperative in the conveyance of information from one party to another. Faulty channels are likely to act as barriers to effective communication and thus, interfere with the message. On the other hand, non-verbal communication can also hamper the interpretation of the message by the receiver. The meanings attached to non-verbal communication, signs usually vary from an area to another. It implies that the usage of a particular sign ...

1. Introduction and statement of the problem Europe and European Union are facing one of the biggest migration and refugee problems after the history. The influxes of the migrants that are fleeing from the Middle Eastern and North African countries are risking their lives to reach the old continent. The deteriorating human rights, civil war, insecurity and abuses are forcing people to risk their lives on boats and long journeys. The majority of them are coming by boat which is increasing the threat of drowning that has reached alarming rates in the recent past. Based on the United Nations ...

Undeniably, ethics is the core pillar of any organization. Business organizations that do not observe business ethics are highly prone to collapse mainly due to poor performance. Ethics entails the principles by which organizations execute their functions. Appropriate professional skills, high level of integrity, prudence, and practical management are essential for the organization’s success (Gross, Negus, and Ceng, 2000). Business managers require a high level of commitment to help them create and foster a favorable business environment necessary to maintain prudence in conducts. Also, such an environment should promote ethics and discourage fraudulent activity. However, unscrupulous managers exist ...

Introduction

Nowadays, both the public and private safety and security has been a major problem in most developing countries. We often blame the government for the lack of safety, effective police forces, as well as operational law enforcement systems that should cater the needs and security of the population. At times, even our police task forces are liable for the crimes, corruption, and the lack of leadership that the society experience under such kind of governance. A hundred percent public safety and security seemed to be unimaginable to achieve; however, with the right kind of police reforms and effective police ...

Introduction

Detering, Arnold, & Dizon (2014) describe advance directives as the documents, which an individual completes while still having the decisional capacity regarding the way treatment decisions ought to be made on his/her behalf in the event he/she losses this decisional capacity. Thus, advance directives allow an individual clarify his/her decisions regarding end-of-life care in advance. According to Thomas & Lobo (2011), advanced directives failed in achieving their goals, which are giving the ill people and their family more control over their care and ensuring that their wishes regarding the rejection of treatment were recognized, even though they were not capable of ...

Abstract

This paper puts the legal and ethical issues of physician-assisted suicide in the context of the larger debate on privacy and the right to die, which can be divided into three constituent parts: (1) a patient’s constitutionally protected right to privacy in all matters involving end-of-life treatment decisions. So long as a patient has the mental capacity to make informed consent, the government does not have a legitimate interest to override end-of-life decisions. Critical to the analysis of a patient’s refusal of life-sustaining treatment is the burden of the state to prove a patient did not have ...

Employment Law- Changes in Company Policy

Some laws and policies guide dressing and clothing in a workplace in every society. In a case of any misunderstanding between the employer and the employee, the state law should be the reference. Despite the state laws, each organization has laws which it applies to guide the workplace uniforms. Furthermore, they need to abide by the national standards and internal standards human rights. Most companies tend to strive to create a working environment that is conducive for both the workers and the customers. The dress code is one of the ways to achieve this goal because it keeps the ...

Introduction

Air pollution involves the introduction of particulates and other biological molecules into the atmosphere thereby resulting in the death of humans, other living things and damage to other resources like crops. It involves the interaction of different pollutants which eventually affect the environment, health and even the climate. These pollutants are emitted almost from all economic and social activities. The most cases of air pollutants are; Sulphur Dioxide, Nitrogen Oxides, Particulate Matter, Ozone, Ammonia, Non-methane volatile organic compounds, carbon dioxide, lead, heterocyclic, chlorinated hydrocarbons, phenol and Methane amongst others. Emission of many air pollutants has decreased across Europe as ...

Dining-in is an opportunity for members to gather at official military functions to recognize an individual’s or a unit’s achievements, to honor one or more distinguished guests or to say goodbye to the retiring members and welcome new ones. It is a “formal dinner for the participants of a wing, unit or organization” (qt. in OPNAVINST, 1). The event follows the lively pattern of dining-ins held by units during the World War II. Apart from food and beverages, the event may also include a time for entertainments after the formal program of awards and speeches. Addition to ...