Essays on Housekeeping

Introduction

One of the largest areas of the world where pastoral nomadism and irrigating agriculture had been predominant throughout the history is Central Asia. There existed a set of aspects of geography and ecology of Central Asia that influenced the emergence of pastoral nomadism and irrigation agriculture in that territory. In this paper we will attempt to explore some of the causes and effects of pastoral nomadism and irrigating agriculture in Central Asia, taking into consideration its ecological and historic settings.

Ecological reasons

First of all, let’s speak about some of ecological reasons of the appearance of pastoral nomadism and irrigating ...

Introduction

The role of the front desk is essential in every hotel. All the operations of the hotel are dependent on the front desk. The guests must have to contact the front desk in order for the accommodation. There are several responsibilities of the front desk, which includes the booking of the room, the front desk registers all the complaints of the hotel, and they reserve the booking on the phone. The financial success of every hotel is fully dependent on the services provided by the hotel and the front desk. It is essential that the front desk provides the ...

Auto repair industry is probably the most accident prone industry throughout the world and is an issue of major concern for the ILO, employees, government authorities and employers. Not only does health and safety related accidents and diseases have traumatic effects on the auto repair workers, they require owners to pay huge compensation and medical bills to the victim and penalties for OSH violations. The major health and safety hazards comprise of accidents or deaths caused by getting crushed under inadequately supported vehicles, toxic emissions from exhausts, asbestos fumes, cuts and bruises from tools, burns, eyesight damage, stress and ...

Situation

- Kim needs to arrange medical help for the female staff worker who had fallen from the chair and enquire if she could work. If she is not in working condition anymore, it is important that she is replaced by someone temporarily from Public area. - Talking to the afternoon shift supervisor and informing about the added activities and need to allocate staff for housekeeping for achieving their targets timely. - Ensuring the Level 5 rooms are ready for the group of Japanese Tourists before they arrive back from their bus tour. - Checking the performance of staff working ...

Essay

Overview The employees and staff of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel are locals. Because majority of them are inexperienced in terms of working in a five-star hotel, they mostly lack the skills, knowledge, and attitudes needed to serve customers of Ritz-Carlton hotel. On the contrary, the managerial personnel are experienced, competent, and trained, having a hotel management degree and a comprehensive five-star hotel training prior to working in Ritz-Carlton Hotel. However, they discovered that their housekeeping, kitchen, lobby, and front office personnel lack any formal education or training in their jobs. The managerial personnel hence encountered difficulties in giving them appropriate ...

Fantasy Organization

Workplace safety is paramount in every organization, and OSHA requires that there should be OSH standards that have to be complied to ensure that the work environment is safe for the employees. Companies lose millions of dollars every year due to work-related injuries and penalties due to lack of compliance with this standard (Safety and Health Add Value, 2016). The US Department of Labor formulates safety policies, requires that every company comply with those regulations. Employee safety is often a priority for every company, and it is the role of the management to ensure that attaining the safety goals ...

Improving Organization Retention: A Case Study

Introduction In any business organization, it is important to keep the employees motivated and willing to work. By extension, it is necessary to keep their morale high so that the work atmosphere becomes positive, thereby encouraging productivity and efficiency in the workplace. Because of this, there are specific theories in business and work that focus on motivating employees and making them happy and contented with regard to their work environment. This includes addressing any problems and issues in the overall work environment, identifying all factors associated with employee productivity and working around them, and improving the work atmosphere and ...

Question 1

5S is the business model that supports the improvement of working environments, concept of business and leads to increase in quality and value (i.e. the final goals of a company). 5S is the acronym of five Japanese words, such as Seiri (sort), Seiton (order), Seiso (cleanliness), Seiketsu (standardization), and Shitsuke (sustainability) (Gürel, 2013). It can be used effectively in the hotel setting. For instance, in the context of kitchen of a hotel Seiri refers to the organization of working stations and equipment. The purpose is the reduction of wastages and losses i.e. apprentice throw away the wastages in ...

Introduction

Walter Besant in his essay “The Queen’s Reign” (1897) , spoke about the changing role of women in the Victorian era which proved to be a reformatory span in terms of uplifting the social status of women and raising the sense of awareness among the people. However, the prime issue of feminism was dominant throughout the era which demanded an equal status for women along with a consideration of feminine virtues for them. The essay speaks about the various issues in which the primary issues involved the context of segregating the role of women to only housekeeping and managing ...

Thomas Nast

Thomas Nast was born in Germany in 1840, and he moved to the United States at the age of six. Initially he used to do illustrations to support his family that was going through acute financial crisis. Nast started his work as an illustrator when he was 15. At that time he was working as an illustrator for a magazine called Leslie’s Weekly New. His earning was $4 a week. In the year1862, during Civil War, he took a job of a war reporter in Harper’s Weekly Magazine.

Thomas Nast stereotypes the Irish as

unmixable in America's melting pot. 1889 For reporting the ...

Introduction:

Occupational exposure to silica crystals has long been identified and recognized in most of the industries. There are various industries that involved the silica dusts, where some are highly exposed beyond the threshold limits for the substances. The problem with the occupational exposure of workers to silica crystals are often not taken seriously be employer and employee alike. Exposure to silica in the occupational environment results to health effects such as silicosis and other related diseases. People who are working with these crystals are prone to respiratory effects as well. There is a problem in the safety and health ...

Abstract

Long-term care is rendered to people with varying levels of functional deficit. Depending on the type of the disability and the status of the wellbeing of the long-term care user, the needs vary. Some long-term care users need minimal assistance while others need maximum assistance. Long-term care is meant to help people with functional deficits to live a comfortable life as much as possible. There are various levels of long-term care options that people should select according to their needs. They include among others; nursing home, home care, home health care, assisted living facility, and community-based care settings. Each ...

America in the 1920s: Radical Social Change as a Result of Technological Innovation

Important periods in American history are remembered with nostalgia and awe by the subsequent generations. The 1920s are mainly remembered in American culture for the changing attitudes of the youth, who embraced modern ideas and embraced the technological and ideological changes at the level of the society. Thus, America faced changes of an unprecedented scale in the 1920s (Palmer, 2006). The nation’s economic social and cultural identity underwent profound transformations during this time (Palmer, 2006). Americans enjoyed economic growth, political stability, and an unprecedented transformation due to the technological advancements. Novel technologies and inventions allowed people to spend ...

Maestro ERP is a construction company that provides services to Architects, Engineering Firms, Construction Management Firms, Property Owners, among other companies within the construction fraternity. Services provided by Maestro ERP are among them project management, accounting, and estimation solutions. The company deals with projects that are below a budget of $100 million. The company can be compared with other ERP companies in the market. It shall be compared with the company called PENTA constructions. Like Maestro, PENTA deals with the services of estimation, project management, and accounting and offers solutions to the same companies offered by Maestro. Like Maestro, ...

Summary of the Paper

The ‘Municipal Housekeeping: The Impact of Women’s Suffrage on Public Education’ by Celeste Carruthers and Marianne Wanamaker is an informative paper that provides details on the extent to which women’s suffrage influences public education. From the paper, it is well evident that the reduction in the black-white gap has contributed substantially to the improved quality of black schools. The paper proposes that all these changes are as a result of major contributions by women. Today, as opposed to the past, more women exercise their voting rights thereby increasing the pivotal voter’s preferences for public education. The ...

Gene regulation involves the cellular process that aims to prevent and control the manner in which gene expression occurs. Gene regulation includes a range of mechanisms used by the cells to decrease or increase the production of specific products of the genes. Many sophisticated programs of gene expression are observed in biology that includes response to the environmental stimuli and triggering of other developmental pathways. Steps involving expression of genes can be controlled from the initiation of transcription, to processing the DNA, and to the mechanisms involved in the post translational modification of the proteins. Gene regulation is important for ...

Introduction

Home Health Plus is a new service based company. Till date the service offerings available in the retired and old age service market are limited. There are very few healthcare providers offering quality services, and there are very few products catering to the needs of the retired people. Home Health Plus plans to offer some unique products in this market. Currently, the services available for old age people are mainly provided if a person stays in an old age home or community.

Services like light housekeeping, laundry services, preparation of meals and snacks are offered at reasonable price only at old ...

1.a. The Good Housekeeping seal is a benchmark for the consumers who shop for the regular goods needed at home and are not clear and confused regarding the products quality they purchase, and if they do not how to relate the products with various brands. The consumers who are young married women in their twenties and early thirties, with young children will attend to the Seal in product advertisements as they are still learners in shopping and the seal provides them with an opportunity to experiment. Older married women would not attend to the seal in product advertisements as they ...

Collective bargaining on the performance of duties in an organization is vital for smooth running of its operation. The hotel sector is among the most important industries that require cooperation among the employees to achieve its set goals. The housekeeping employees need to cooperate with the hotel supervisors in order to achieve the sanitation standards required in the sector. In reference to the staff grievances, the former supervisor owes an explanation to both the housekeeping staff and the hotel management in general. The hotel management signed an agreement with the staff union to allow all works in the hotel, ...

1.1.) If George accepts the severance package before his pension vests he will have a viable claim against the company based on the ADEA if his employer ABC Company did not comply with the requirements under ADEA before his release as stated in the Older Workers Benefit Protection Act (OWBPA). However, if the employer has complied with the requirements set forth by law, George can no longer file a claim with ABC. This was the ruling decided in the case of Oubre v. Entergy Operations, Inc. An employee cannot waive an ADEA claim unless such waiver has satisfied with the requirements ...

Warehouse health and safety risks

In an organization, the employer and the employees are bound by the regulation that enforces the health and the safety of the working place. In it, every player in the warehouses has the responsibility and duties to take care off in prevention of the risk that may arise. The employer has the responsibility of maintaining health, safety and the welfare of the employees. This is in the provision of health and safety policies, safety equipment and training of the staffs. Talking of the employees, they have duties of ensuring the safety equipment are provided with the training on ...

Improving Organization Retention

When organizations fail in retaining their quality employees, they are often left with are under qualified and understaffed workforce that will eventually have an effect on the organization’s ability towards being competitive. Work retention is an important element in a functioning organization. It has an important relationship with the management skills in the workplace. Every organization has to implement strategies that are specifically designed to improve programs that attract employees, develop their skills, retain, and utilize their equitably, fairly, and professionally (Guerro, 2007). Any organization that wants to they keep their employees from leaving their current jobs and joining ...

GENERAL ORIENTATION TO SAFETY MANAGEMENT

Abstract Safety management within sports and health facilities are a crucial part of properly administering any area used for physical activity. The area in this case refers to the geographical zone, the facilities used and any person engaging in activity within the said locality. This paper analyses the 34 forms that are provided in Appendix B of the ACM’s Health and Fitness Facility Standards and Guidelines. Wave Health and Fitness Boston was chosen as the fitness entity on which the applicability of the 34 forms would be tested.

Introduction

In every health facility or sports environment there is a need ...

Commissioned with the tasks of managing the operations for Menard’s, I am facing various challenges that currently hinder the company’s plans of making profits and retaining employees. After a close analysis of the working environment and operation management at Menard’s, I have identified stringent problems that require immediate treatment. The main problem that stays in the way of Menard’s increasing its profits is the chaotic operations and the mismanaged resources. Improper rotation of materials, poor management for unloading and reloading operations and coordinating the shipping to Midwest generate various costly mistakes for the company. The root ...

English

Who works harder, Native born Americans or Immigrants? The debate about who works harder in this country has is an argument that never goes away. There are many ways to view this question, but most often the argument often favors immigrants. The question itself could be tricky depending on the context, but there is no doubt to the fact that immigrants work harder in the United States compared to native-born Americans. Many Americans get offended by this, but really they should not be taking offense. Native born Americans have privileges that immigrants will never have, no matter how ...

Question

Do the following actions constitute unfair labor practices during a union organizing campaign? - The charge nurse destroys authorization cards that were lying around at the nursing station. Destroying authorization cards constitutes an unfair labor practice during a union organization campaign. Authorization cards should not be destroyed under any circumstance. They give permission to the right personnel to access the designated areas. Destroying the cards is an unethical practice (Guido, 2010). The authorization cards also help the union members. If they are absent, then any person can access the areas. The consequences of this would be severe because lives ...

- Introduction - Changes in the Labor force participation rate of men and women and future trends The later half of the 20th century saw the rate of participation of women in the US labor force increasing at a commendable pace. The labor force participation rate (LFPR) of women increased from a meager 34% in 1950 to an impressive 60% in 2000. The US labor force consisted of 18million women in 1950 which increased to 66 million in 2000 showing an average annual growth rate of 2.6%. The share of women in the labor force also increased. It was ...

Warehouses are structures that serve as storage areas for goods. The Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) estimated that over 145,000 people are employed in more than 7,000 warehouses across the U.S. (OSHA, 2010). There are aspects of the warehouse environment that present health and safety hazards including layout, floors, noise, heating, housekeeping, and fire. However, proactively managing these hazards reduce the risk for injury. The warehouse must be assessed for existing health and safety risks to identify appropriate interventions.

Health and Safety Risks

The warehouse layout contributes to health and safety risks. When storage areas are not designated in a safe ...

Paper Due Date

First I would ask for a staff meeting if a regular staff meeting was not part of the standard operating procedure. Once I have the staff in for a mandatory staff meeting, if one does not currently exist, I would inform them that from now on we will be having a weekly staff meeting so that we can keep the communication lines open. Particularly for the backpackers, I would want to ensure that they are always closely following what needs to be accomplished and not having to wonder what may be the right thing to do. Once we are all together in ...

Each year an increasing number of hotels, both in the United States of America and abroad, as well as facilities and services for tourists, take one of the first places in the formation of tourist infrastructure. Accommodation is an important element of almost any tour. Often the motivation for choosing the hotel tourist is decisive. Therefore, today hospitality is one of the most promising and fastest growing industries, generating worldwide multimillion profits. Hospitality has a great potential to generate a steady income. From a business perspective, the hotel is now in production and the provision of services of commercial hospitality that offers ...

One of the fundamental concepts for high performance service in the hospitality industry is the practice of continuous improvement (King and Cichy, 2006, p. 41). Continuous improvement is a concept first applied to business by Dr. W. Edwards Deming, who was aiding in rebuilding the Japanese business structure after its defeat in World War II (Bhuiyan and Baghel, 2005). Continuous improvement, also known by the Japanese word kaizen, is a business adaption of an attitude commonly found in Japanese culture, which seeks to make sure everything runs as smoothly as possible. Continuous improvement as a business philosophy describes an approach where all ...

The Research .3

Cooking Pans: The Basic Requirements ...3 Composite Materials ..4

Nonstick Pans 4

Prioritizing High Heat Capability ..4

Conclusions 5

Introduction This research paper discusses the respective properties and qualities of cooking pans made from copper, iron, stainless steel, aluminum and composite materials, including those with non-stick (usually Teflon) interior surface coatings, to find what is the safest and best material to use for cooking food on a high heat setting, and to assess any dangers inherent in the materials discussed.

The Research

Cooking Pans: The Basic Requirements. According to Chu (2005), the purpose of the cooking pan is to efficiently impart the heat energy from ...

Introduction

Marilynne Robinson brings us a story of women in her novel, Housekeeping. Most of the characters on the novel are women. Men are not featured in this novel. Robinson sets the novel so that only women are left alone. We are told of the tedious tasks that these women had. We are introduced of Ruth and Lucille, her younger sister. They were brought up by many caretakers. Many questions sprout regarding the mystery of the many caretakers of these girls. Could it be their behavior that made them move from one caretaker to another? All these questions abound, there comes ...

In dual-career marriage, both partners have occupational careers that they pursue. These types of marriages are rare to find and differs from dual-earner marriages where only one partner has formal employment. Studies have shown that women are fond of undertaking double work, combining workplace responsibilities with domestic work. Having a dual-career marriage makes partners face a load overload while trying to cope with different strategies to improve their marriage. Couples should possess relational coping resources that include fantastic behaviors, cooperation in times of negotiation, and trust between them (Marshall, 1998). Researchers have tried to study the behavior of couples engaged in ...

Hospital Acquired Infections A hospital acquired infection is an infection that is acquired by a patient while receiving treatment in hospital. The patient was admitted in hospital for the treatment of a different disease however on being discharged it is discovered he has acquired an infection during his stay. These infections are known as nosocomial infections. Researchers released a report that stated that hospital acquired infections killed 48,000 people every year. Sepsis and Pneumonia were found to be the most common infections. The hospital discharge records of forty states were examined in the period 1998 and 2006 showing the infections cost $ ...

Abstract

As the professional consultant you hired to improve the retention issues in your casino, allow me to table my tender and painstakingly researched report of my findings concerning the deteriorating situation of your casino. According to Kotler and Armstrong (2008), it is paramount for business firms to focus on the implementation of ideal marketing strategies if they must succeed. Sir, in this report, you will find out why most of the patrons have been disappearing never to return. You will also get to know the reasons behind why this casino has been so ineffectual, full of indifferences and with ...