Essays on Management Techniques

The growth of Amazon to a global retail company is basically due in part to the management practices by its Chief Executive Office and how such practices affect the planning, control, and management of a company. Most CEOs embrace unique Organizational structures towards the operations of their companies. The organizational structure of a company is important since it outlines how various activities such as supervision, work coordination, and allocation are handled by an organization to achieve the set aims and goals. A good organizational structure creates opportunities for business growth. The Chief Executive Officer(CEO) of a company has ...

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 ...

Personal Stress Management Plan

I would like to enhance my physical and emotional well-being. I need to get more fit and tone up my body. I need to enhance my psychological wellness by restricting the measure of negative data that influences me. I will enhance my physical wellbeing by practicing each day and calculating the calories I eat. I will enhance my psychological wellness by utilizing stress management techniques consistently. I will adhere to this calendar and include extra stress management techniques and by including physical practice when I find that I have additional opportunity to work out. I will gauge my result ...

Literature review

Kaasa, S. (2015). Is Cancer Pain Control Improved by a Simple WHO Pain Analgesic Ladder Approach Combined With Tumor-Directed Treatment?.Journal of Clinical Oncology, JCO647537.

Article summary

This article takes into consideration the role that the WHO analgesic ladder plays in addressing cancer pain in palliative care patients. The authors identify that cancer pain occurs in 90% of cancer patients but only half them are under proper pain management. To this effect, therefore, there is the need for applying opioids under the WHO ladder guidelines as a way of addressing cancer pain in oncology care patients.

This is a narrative qualitative research ...

Introduction

Hypertension is among the most progressive and widespread health problems that contributes to significant negative outcomes including increased mortality as well as morbidity rates especially among the African-Americans. Typically, African-Americans usually develop the disease in their early stages of life, have higher blood pressure levels on average and experience various severe hypertension-related illnesses as compared to the other racial groups (Ferdinand, 2013). Although hypertension is untreatable, the illness can be effectively managed through the use of medications and establishing the relevant lifestyle changes. Nonetheless, management of hypertension is suboptimal among the African-Americans due to various factors such as poor ...

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Introduction The Empire State Building is an engineering and architectural feat of its time. One of the most remarkable landmarks in New York City, the Empire State Building is the tallest building that was built in the 1930s and held that position for more than 40 years until it was surpassed by the World Trade Center building in 1972. The Empire State Building was constructed as the backdrop of the Great Depression that happened right after the stock market crash of 1929. But despite the economic challenges, the builders were able to finish the construction in a ...

The process of collecting, investing and managing cash is known as cash management (Investopedia, 2010). Therefore, both corporate treasurers, and the business managers that are responsible for the entire management of cash will always seek for software that manages cash to increase efficiency and security. The efficient management of cash involves avoidance of insolvency, reduction of days in receivable accounts, selection of short-run investments, improvement of the financial performance of the company, and increasing the collection rates. All of these will help in cash managements to suit the management requirements. However, corporates are always facing some challenges regarding cash ...

Hypertension is one of the chronic illnesses whose presence within the communities in the last one decade has been significantly felt. The morbidities, mortalities and costs incurred in management and treatment are issues that have impacted on individuals, families and communities (Ferdinand, 2013). Within the US, there are significant disparities especially from a racial perspective in the cases of hypertension. As at present, it is estimated that 41% of African Americans have hypertension which is a high figure as compared to the 27% of Whites who have hypertension (Flack, Nasser & Levy, 2011). Further, up to 28% of African Americans ...

How my chosen organization compete within its business area

Toyota is a leading manufacturer of automobile in the global setting, a position that has been earned through overcoming various hurdles over the past decades. One of the primary attributes that have contributed to the company's success is its focus on effective quality management (Toussaint, 2016). Moreover, the company's success is associated with a strict management system, which is based on the different principles of operations management as will be explained in the study. By embracing the above techniques, the company has experienced tremendous growth over the recent past. Therefore, the above study seeks to account for the significance ...

The article we are to analyze is devoted to an urgent and pressing problem of global terrorism and the ways how government can prevent and preclude it. There are at least four methods that, according to the source in question, may be used in the process of fighting off terrorism. These include the following initiatives both on the part of government and general public: Computer Assisted Passenger Prescreening System (CAPPS), CAPPS 2 – a more developed and a little different system from CAPPS though the same in its essence, Secure Flight, Biometrics and Registered Traveler Program. However, the article focuses ...

I am a college student studying in the field of Occupational Safety and Health. The start of every semester is always a hectic time. I’m always juggling my career, classes, family, and friends. There are a few strategies that will help me achieve College success.

Career Goals

The most important strategy for attaining College Success is knowing your career goals and how you are planning to accomplish these goals. My first step when setting my career goals was creating a mission statement that reminded me every time why I want to be an Occupational Health and Safety Specialist. My Mission ...

The questions which most people ask or think about is how the knowledge possessed today was acquired and accumulated within the mind. In addition to this, it is not an easy task to distinguish sadness and depression, anxiety and sleep disorders. Prior to enrolling in the study unit ‘Abnormal Psychology’ it was not easy to tell how all these aspects are interrelated as without getting to understand the character attributed to each of the cognitive aspects and processes. It was easy to overlook these aspects just as random features haphazardly crossing the mind without a clearly defined course nor ...

Advanced nursing practice is recognized as an advanced level of nursing care that uses in-depth nursing knowledge and nursing expertise to meet health care needs. Unlike traditional nursing practice, advanced nursing practice involves numerous streams of activities like: analysis, knowledge synthesis, critical thinking, decision making, interpreting, evidence based practice and managerial/administrative roles. The evolution of advanced nursing practitioners happened when nurses were expected to take extra responsibility in addition to their traditional role. Due to lack of a sufficient number of doctors to attend to people in remote areas and in families, nurses were given the added responsibility to ...

Project completion time and variance for each activity

In the case of triple time estimates, the estimated completion time for each activity is computed as follows: Expected completion time = Optimistic Time+4 ×Most likely time+Pessimistic Time6

Variance for each activity is given by the following formula:

= (Pessimistic Time-Optimistic Time)6)2

Total project completion time and critical path for the project

The total project completion time and the critical path are determined by constructing a project network diagram. In this case, we use the expected activity completion times as calculated above. The network diagram below uses the activity on the node method and indicates the duration of each activity, early start and finish times, late start and finish times as well as the activity float. The ...

Situational leadership is a management style where a manager of a firm is compelled to alter his or her management techniques to suit the improvement level of the employees and other subjects under his or her authority. In this leadership approach, it the responsibility of the leader to adjust his or her usual techniques and not the subjects to adhere to his or her most likely usual and unsuitable tactics (Cassidy, Carlene, & Robert Kreitner 33). It is situational in the sense that the leader is forced to adjust the regular management styles he uses to meet unanticipated requirements of ...

Introduction

Management style is defined as the ways in which a firm manages the pertinent work activities, as well as, employees. An effective management style is one which enables a manager to manage employees and the working environment in the direction to achieve organizational goals (Robbins, 2005). Organizational successes and failures are utterly depended on applied management style. There are different types of management styles that lead businesses to either grow or fail. This study compares and contrasts the two business tycoons’ management styles, i.e., Google and Yahoo.

Compare and Contrast of Google & Yahoo Management Styles

Google was formed in 1998 by Larry Paige and Sergey Brin. Its ...

Individual Career Strategy Portfolio

Individual Career Strategy Portfolio

Owing to my current academic qualifications and overall interests, I intend to join the education career market. Specifically, I anticipate to be indulged in a human resource management career in the education sector. This is largely accredited to the fact that this field offers a wide array of job opportunities in the human resource management post. According to Omebe (2014), the goal of a HRM system in education is to develop the employees and make a contribution towards the achievement of organization goals. In this case, it is aimed at assessing the staff needs, maintaining ...

Risk, Return, and Portfolio Allocation: Why Stocks Are Less Risky Than Bonds in the Long Run

Risk, Return, and Portfolio Allocation: Why Stocks Are Less Risky Than Bonds in the Long Run

Summary of Chapter 2:

In the current article by Siegel J. J, the main idea explained is that the risk associated with the corporate bonds and the stocks is based on the market value in the future. The main focus of the article is on the lower risk levels long term investments in stocks as compared to the investments in the bonds. The techniques used in the article are analyzing the historical data and few statistical formulas such as correlation and the standard deviation. At the same ...