Essays on Opportunism

The main aim of businesses is to accomplish their mission (Ireland 34). The process of moving towards the achievement of its mission requires organisations to apply effective strategies that facilitate an effective response to the range of factors that may affect such objectives. Unforeseen factors may cause devastating impacts on the wellbeing of an organisation. In this case, therefore, utilising appropriate strategies to deal effectively with the plausible future events is necessary. Planned opportunism is the systematic process that assists in the recognition of the impending changes and assuring the opportunities that such changes may provide, thus supporting the ...

Successful planning, construction, and completion of a large scale project like the one undertaken for completing the One World Trade Center is not easy since it requires a strategic focus on the construction plans in a realistic manner. Project leaders need to give external reviewers an opportunity to have an outside view of the whole project and suggest ways that can ensure completion within the stipulated time while avoiding deviations from the initial budget. The delays experienced during the construction of the Freedom Tower create the impression of how ineffective functional operations can lead to major changes in designs ...

Governor Wilson ran full-page ads in the major California newspapers, the New York Times, and the Washington Post, to launch his anti-immigrant based re-election campaign. The ads were in the form of a letter to President Clinton, demanding that he halt illegal immigration to the State of California as well as reimburse the state for the cost of federally mandated health, education, welfare services, and the incarceration of undocumented immigrants. Remarkably, Governor Wilson was able to narrow the complex political and economic conditions besieging California. It proved to be a politically astute move. In doing so, Wilson obfuscated the ...

Making decisions when faced with ethical dilemmas is one of the pointers of a good manager. The primary thing, when confronted with such situations, is first to realize that actions have consequences. My approach when dealing with ethical dilemmas, therefore, takes into consideration the effects that my decision will have to other stakeholders in the organization such as customers, employees, and even suppliers. My approach to solving the dilemma involves the application of some steps. The first one involves evaluating the different alternatives available for solving the dilemma. This entails gauging how the possible decisions would affect the various ...

Based on the concept of legitimization, what makes organizations such as Wal-Mart and McDonald’s legitimate?

Wal-Mart and McDonalds are among the big organizations which have gone greater heights in putting their employees on public assistance. McDonalds has McResource line that advocates that the full time employees sign up for food stamps and welfare. Wal-Mart, the nation’s largest private sector employer has the largest group of Medicaid recipients. The general argument is that these organizations are bigger, richer and hence less deserving of taxpayer subsidies. However, both McDonalds and Wal-Mart are engaging in perfectly legal behavior. Though seemingly taking advantage of the taxpayer, they are operating within the law. They draw their legitimacy through ...

Personification

One of the most commonly used devices in literature is personification. Personification refers to a figure of speech where an inanimate object, an idea, or an animal gains human qualities. In this device, the portrayal of non-human objects is in such a way that they appear to possess human like ability. This device is important since it connects the personified object with the reader. Personification has the ability to improve the vividness of description of non-human objects. Another advantage is that it can help the readers to understand non-human characters and to sympathize with, and react emotionally to non-human characters. In ...

E-commerce, or electronic commerce, is the new business model that came with the Internet. It emerged as a new platform for business ventures with the aid of the newest technologies to everyone. In line with this, online auctions have also become apparent. Online buying or shopping is now the easiest way to acquire items. Online shops like eBay and Yahoo! enabled millions of bidders from around the world to join auctions. However, even if the internet revolutionized the auction world, it has brought some drawbacks such as reduced information transfer between seller and buyers. Fraud increased with the onset of ...

Social injustice is a claimed unfairness in a society, and it has divisions of rewards and burdens and also inequalities that are incidental based on humanity worldview. It involves considering the advantages and the disadvantages a group in a society has been subjected to making them unequal. It also means repressing other people’s abilities so as to be fruitful in a society that is not yours. The current debates on social injustices are racism, poverty and also discrimination and oppression. Those who practice such forms of social injustice aim at taking the opportunity of the situation to benefit themselves. Opportunism is a form of ...

Civic engagement in the public information tax bill 1041 in Colorado

Abstract This paper considers civic engagement issues in the public information tax bill 1041 proposed by senator Kefalas and his colleagues in Colorado. Civic engagement ensures public engagement through open ongoing dialogues which ensures transparency and mutual trustworthy relationships. It requires community engagement in discussions of relevant issues and policy proposals so as to ensure the public opinions, ideas and decisions need be factored into account before taking actions. Civic engagement in the formulation of tax bills ensures a strong sense of responsibility which avoids opposition from the public and empowers citizens and state as agents of positive change. If ...

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Role of Mobile devices as “Rich Sensors” 3 Emergent Theme of “Near-Real Time Data Consistency” 5 Mobile Opportunism 7 Certain Fundamental Challenges of Mobility 9 Conclusion 10 Bibliography 11

Telecommunication world is an environment that has seen magnificent changes especially over the last two decades. The changes experienced are more pronounced in mobile communication systems and improvement of related technologies. In this report, the learner takes a closer look at mobile devices, merging themes in line with mobility and identification of mobile opportunism, ...

Social Deprivation and Breakdown of the Nuclear Family

The London Riots

The riots that erupted in London in 2011 caused a paramount concern for the state of British society. Many observers pointed it directly to the global crisis. What initially began as a peaceful protest had escalated into riots and bouts of hooliganism and quickly spread in to other parts of the country (Becky, 2012). Within a period of 5 days, the violence had spread form the epicentre in Tottenham to Liverpool, Manchester and Birmingham (Daniel, 2012). As is the case with many societal problems, politicians are always quick to give analyses of the situation blaming the rival party and ...

Skills approach

1. Dr. Wood’s leadership is not fully effective because despite his possessing of the competencies required for the research, he lacks the necessary social judgment skills to effectively communicate with his assistants and associates. His relationship with the other members is strained. The project will however be successful because of the objectivity of the members towards achieving the project’s goals despite the strain of the project. 2. Dr. Wood has the problem solving skills and knowledge required for leadership of the project. However, he lacks the social judgment skills required to effectively communicate and deal with ...