Essays on Professions

The Asian American community has long been referred to as a “model minority" which is a term used to refer to non-white ethnic groups in the US and the perceived notion that they can to find success and adapt to the American way of life seamlessly. According to Yen (2), the model minority is one that has achieved economic and societal success. They can blend into the ideal conservative lifestyle that Americans hold ideal such as strong family ties and hard work. Moreover, the Asian Americans are expected to attain success in the academic field and the entrepreneurial field ...

Introduction

Engineering profession in Canada is self-regulated while in the U.S. it is state-regulated. However, there has been a long-standing debate on whether self-regulation in the engineering profession in Canada has served the public interest in a similar way as the U.S. and other state-regulated regimes. Before engineering was made a self-regulated profession in Canada, there were other professions like medicine and law which were being self-regulated. However, these self-regulated fields had been marred with numerous scandals because they were putting their interests before those of the public. They would increase the cost of professional services and engage in professional ...

Self-Regulation or State Regulation?

Abstract – This paper is about the analysis of the effectiveness of self-regulation and state regulation of the engineering profession in Canada and in the United States. Canada uses self-regulation while the United States uses state regulation. In analyzing the nature, advantages and disadvantages of both of the models of professional regulation, one could recognize that they are equally effective in regulating the engineering profession.

Keywords – engineering, professionals, self-regulation, state regulation, and licensure.

Introduction Professionals are considered as a vital part of the society. Professions such as engineering could be helpful in the society through helping in the building establishments, operating industrial processes and developing new technologies which ...

Interdisciplinary collaboration can be termed as the practice of approaching patient care from a team-based perspective. This is attributable to the major transformations observed in delivery of healthcare making it more interconnected. Following this, there is need for proper coordination between nurses, pharmacists, social workers, and other disciplines to enhance the level of care given to patients. Medical researchers have highlighted four main competency domains that touch on every aspect of caregiving from a team-based perspective to foster proper care of patients. In this light, competency domain 1 touches on the values and ethics for interprofessional practice to promote ...

The Main Features of Introverts' behavior in the social environment

As is known, introversion is one of the most common categories or indicators to measure personality traits. Introverts are people whose personality traits are very different from those of other people, who can also be called extroverts. Introverts tend to accumulate their energy and direct it to their inner world, while extroverts waste their energy on the interaction with the outside world. If an extrovert needs a constant dialogue with the people, an introvert can successfully do without it. An introvert is capable of minimal contact, which is also necessary, but it happens rarely and only in the companies ...

Introduction

A DC –9, twin-engine plane belonging to ValuJet, a fast rising Airline Company crashes into a swamp and kills everybody on board. This includes the pilots, 105 passengers, and the flight attendants. It is a terrible scene to witness such a scenario especially considering that flights are the safest mode of transport. The term safety is, however, relative when it comes to an accident where almost everybody in the plane is killed thus making it tragic (Langewiesche, 1998). Despite the tragedies that come with plane crashes, the amount of seriousness given to it at the time of occurrence is ...

The fundamental reason people join trade unions is to get the opportunity to fight against the greed of Capitalism. Left to entrepreneurs and members of the elite, everything will be turned into a tool for their personal enrichment to the detriment of the greater good in society – like welfare, workers and other stakeholders. In line with this, trade unions play a significant role in limiting Capitalist greed. In spite of this, trade unionism is declining and fewer young people are willing to join these unions in all major countries around the globe. The purpose of this letter is to ...

Very few activities are such that they give many feelings at the same time. I believe that sport is one such activity. It gives a thrill, excitement, joy, defeat, failure, sadness, distress, anticipation, and many other feelings at different points in time. Such a wide range of experience is what makes me like sports as the discourse community of my interest. I enjoy watching sports, and I would even love to be a part of some major sports. Ever since I was a child, I watched my father and my uncles watch different games. They introduced me to various ...

Trade unions, as well as industrial actions, can be dated back to the industrial revolution in the eighteenth century. Notably, labor unions are organizations that have been set up by workers in particular professions to enable them to achieve common goals. Several issues are usually addressed by the groups, including protection of the rights of the workers, improving working conditions for the workers, increasing the remuneration and benefits of the employees, and enhancing welfare among many other issues (Heckscher & Carré, 2006). In other words, trade unions exist for the sake of the workers. Members use the unions to discuss ...

Summary of Observations

I visited the ONA News Agency in Mohandeseen, Cairo, Egypt with the aim of conducting research on the labor economics at the News Agency and the various patterns of income, wages, and employment among the workers in the News Agency. The agency has different workers ranging from the Agency employees and journalists to other workers like janitors, office assistants/boys, and security boys whose terms of employment, conditions of work and the compensation and remuneration they receive for their labor differ. I was able to interview three workers in the News Agency and managed to collect valuable data from them. ...

Local nursing boards are quite crucial when it comes to handling changes across the community. Instead of ignoring the changes that arise when these boards take charge of the nursing provision, it is important to understand their role in legal and ethical issues, an aspect that can be explored through an examination of the New York Nursing Board. It provides different services to its members, an aspect that creates an important understanding of the changes that arise in such cases (NSBCN, 2016). Examples include webinars, videos, brochures, newsletters, online courses, toolkits, and publications. The services offered are based on ...

The Women’s Rights Movement arrived at its climax in 1970s and 1980s. However, there is still gender bias against women in the workplace. Discrimination is visible in many ways, including in the areas of wage equality, career progression, and leadership. Furthermore, such discrimination exists all over the world, though the capacity that such discrimination takes varies from country to country. While there has been undoubted progress in achieving gender equality over the decades, the task has not yet been completed. In her article, “The Glass Escalator: Hidden Advantages for Men in the “Female” Professions,” Christine Williams reports on ...

Collaboration implications and the nursing professions are expansive. The Code of Ethics for American Nurses Association (2001) particularly addresses the challenges of healthcare delivery system, which requires various approaches with stronger support as well as active participation in every health profession. However, communication is considered a significant ingredient of collaborations since people from various backgrounds and professions often require openness and clear communication skills as well as strategies for collaboration to occur. Various strategies have been considered effective in enhancing collaboration across healthcare environments. However, an effective procedure used in various agencies currently is known as SBAR. According to ...

Importance of Nursing Theories

Importance of Nursing Theory Nursing theory can be defined as a belief or a set of proposed procedures or policies that must be followed concerning every nursing action. It is a set of frameworks of concepts that are developed to act as a guide for nurses. The theories were created to analyze and give meaning to the practice of nursing, guide the practice and offer a platform for clinical decision making (Masters, 2011). Nursing theories were developed through the collaboration of nurses with other healthcare professionals. In most cases, nurses use a range of approaches to carry out their ...

Organic Solidarity refers to the social unit that is founded on a division of labor, thus, giving rise to interdependence among people. In addition, the culture identified above is characterized by four core attributes. These include a large population spreading out over a larger geographical area, a legal system that is based on restituting sanctions and redressing social vices by restoring a situation to the previous state, complex labor division, and a growing level of individual freedom. Gesellschaft is a further important social culture. It describes a form of association in which the interests of the individual members are ...

Abstract

This paper assesses the relationship between personal values that individuals possess and the professional code of ethics of their respective careers. A case scenario of a neuropsychologist misinterpreting the results of an assessment battery leading to inaccurate diagnosis and denial of disability is used to bring out this relationship. Through the analysis of the standards of the psychological code of conduct, the paper tries to show how personal values and professional code of conduct affect the decision making process. Some of the standards that have been covered include bases for assessment Section (9.01), interpreting of results section (9.06), and ...

Introduction

In the recent past, medical errors have been on a sharp increase whereby cases of medical negligence reported daily in our healthcare system have been on the rise. As a key pillar in the economy, there is need to address various challenges and health care errors for the well-being of our society. In addition, healthcare is growing at a rapid rate as more complex and new developments in technologies emerge that allows care healthcare professions to work remotely. This new technology and medical advancement is a new fertile ground for more errors that are likely to occur. Though many ...

Importance of Nursing Theory

Introduction Nursing, in general, refers to the nurturing and caring for a sick person. But over the years, such duties are institutionalized and carried out in a professional and scientific manner. Today, nursing has become a specific profession. Nurses are formally educated in their field and trained in the science and art of nursing, which have been developed over the years of study and research. Although, one does not need to have a background in the nursing profession in order to perform such task, caring and nurturing becomes more effective for those who are knowledgeable and experienced in nursing. ...

American nurses are guided by a code of ethics that has nine provisions. The first provision emphasizes on compassion by the nurse in carrying out their duty. The second is a nurse's commitment to serving the patient. Third in this code of ethics is the requirement that a nurse not only advocates for the patient’s health but goes further to protect it. The same provision points out the nurse’s duty to safeguard the patient’s rights. The fourth provision gives nurses authority and accountability for their practice, which makes them responsible for making the right decision in ...

The figure accurately depicts our patient care roles by a model. The various diagrams provide scenarios whereby pediatricians have been tasked with a call to action to cater for the health disadvantaged people. Patient Care Process documents are crucial importance to the healthcare practitioners for various reasons. These documents aid the health professions with the necessary knowledge needed in the collection of essential subjective information regarding the patients (Delnoij 384). These reports also help the health practitioners to craft various methodologies and plans that are patient-centered. Pharmacists’ Patient Care Process text will make the discussions regarding the Pharmacists’ Patient ...

Abstract

Fraud in the resume of job candidates is on the rise. This has been necessitated by stiff competition given that there are few jobs and many applicants. Misrepresentation of facts can have a negative impact on an organization. It can make or break it. There is a chance of an organization hiring a crook who could defraud it or steal using its facilities or name. Worse still, there is the issue of an organization’s reputation being tainted due to poor quality services or poor quality products made by its personnel. This can be nipped in the bud by ...

Individual Project

Abstract This paper evaluates the ethical aspects of the workings of the police and the moral issues surrounding the police accepting freebies in the course of performing their duties. In particular, this paper looks at the legal aspects regarding the acceptance of gratuities by the police on-duty and off-duty. Accordingly, he paper will be considering the pros and cons relating to the law enforcement officers accepting and not accepting free meals from a local restaurant. Further, the paper considers the conduct among the law enforcement officers as well as whether a higher standard of conduct should apply to them. ...

The concept of "social brain" is one of the challenging and advanced concepts of the modern neuropsychology. In addition, the "social brain", as a concept, forms a completely new approach to the study of social psychology and brain pathologies. Research and development of this concept contributes to the discovery of the social and psychological development of a person. The thematic justification of this study is important because it allows tracing the relationship between the social cognition and social behavior of a person, which is basic in the context of psychology, sociology, and neuropsychology. The development and use of the " ...

Abstract

Executive Coaching is a relatively new Human Resource Development process aimed at helping a client to reach his full potential in an organization. This process consists of preparing him to execute the responsibilities of a leader, a decision maker, change facilitator as well as guiding him to deal with the stress, maintain a work life balance and develop an ethical approach towards his work. Although the profession of an executive coach does not need a specific academic degree or practice license like the well established profession of a Psychologist, there are some distinct similarities between the two which have ...

Currently, the United States health care system is struggling with an acute shortage of health practitioners especially nurses who are the major and significant primary health providers and close allies of the patients on their journey to full recovery and enhancement of their well-being. Thus, there is a need to boost and support the effort that will increase the number of health care practitioners in the country. On the other hand, just like the rest of the world, United States is also an aging society and the general population keeps increasing. Notably, during the 21st century, persons of the ...

Chapter 2: Literature review

Introduction This chapter presents the literature review appraisal that exists and is linked to work contentment and inspiration subjects and how these issues are closely related to industrial performance. The chapter discusses the concept of motivation, job satisfaction, and project management and employee satisfaction. Organizational performance as well as its continuity largely depends on critical assets, employees and the managers' capabilities to create and sustain motivating environments of the employees and other human assets. The primary challenge that managers are faced with today is keeping their human capital such as the employees satisfied and motivated. Therefore, all managers must ...

The growing world of business and trade has resulted in the opening up of innumerable opportunities for exploration. Multinational companies have been born from all over the world therefore creating unprecedented economic growth and expansion. Many employment avenues have been created as a result including those that major in the import and export niche. In this essay, I focus on my experience as an export coordinator. I will discuss my objectives as entered into the field and the resultant skills that I got from the experience. As an export coordinator, my duties involve the sourcing for markets and customers ...

Statistics show that a large number of workers employed in office settings resort to taking time off work some time in their career owing to their schedules which tend to have damaging effects on their physique. A number of studies have highlighted the negative impacts of jobs which limit movement and also reduce the chance of exercise leading to a number of skeletal and muscular symptoms in office workers. Studies show that with furniture that has been designed to impart a higher level of comfort and also through programs that guide employees to have correct posture, muscular and skeletal ...

The Fukushima

1. I cannot be sure, but I want to believe that heroism and stoicism are still present in the society. The Fukushima 50 showed unprecedented selflessness and bravery, and stayed in the most dangerous place in order to save the lives of others. I believe that nuclear plants’ employees in other countries would take risks and stay too. But the main example that comes to my mind is the Chernobyl disaster. Some of the Soviet Union workers stayed, when the Chernobyl blast happened. They helped to clean radioactive remnants of reactor in order to give way to firemen to ...

Every high-school student has to make a very hard and stressful decision - choose his or her future career. Choosing a career is an important task, as one is to find the best match between the personality, knowledge, skills and interests. Nowadays modern world and society has hundreds professions available and presents a great range of job opportunities: business, service, science, medicine, education, arts and etc. A person may choose a profession he likes, enjoy the studies, by afterwards encounter problems when searching for a job. Because of that every aspect of the challenging decision has to be thought ...

Despite great advances in medicine like the vaccine or the external artificial heart, it is easy for forget that all it takes in one microscopic bug to unravel our entire society. This catastrophe is depicted in the 2014 film Contagion. This science fiction thriller follows the events of a global pandemic and the societal effects of a calamity of this scale. Our heroes, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to the World Health Organization (WHO) must race against the incredibly high rate of transmission. The epidemiological process is performed over the course of four months from the first day ...

Abstract

Dynamism in the modern life has necessitated for the development of professions to assist individuals to cope with life issues. The uprightness of a person cannot be achieved through normal upbringing due to life changes in the contemporary society. Life challenges require trained professionals to help others overcome them. Additionally, critical decisions in life must be guided by some principles as well as the individual personality. Therefore, the development of life coaching profession is a great achievement for the world. Children tend to encounter similar growth characteristics irrespective of the place of birth. As they grow, life conditions change ...

propaganda poster created by J. Howard Miller in 1943 to promote industriousness and feminism during World War II. One of the major themes of the piece of art is to empower women, and present revolutionary ideas for the time regarding women in the workplace. The war took men away from the labor market and opened up opportunities for women, which they gladly took. Yet the piece also makes clear that women had not made it fully in society yet as their position and power was still given to them by men. This idea displays the advantages of men, and ...

Question 1:

I realized various benefits of video conferencing in the medicine field by reading the given case study. Video conferencing is one of the greatest opportunities to the patients, especially those who demand for immediate treatments. Although the case is about stroke patients, however, the technology is in general very easy and speedy to facilitate the patients with care. The hospitals will become able to communicate with the experts and specialists to provide the healthcare service to the patients. The source of the diagnosis would not be much of care to me if I had confidence in the competency of ...

The feminist movement has been a vibrant one for the past couple of decades, not only in the United States but all across the world. There have been politically powerful and culturally influential campaigns and movements regarding women’s liberation and consciousness. The feminist movement involved several projects in the government bureaucracies, different institutions, and professions. These movements have brought about major changes in the lives of many women and their professions. Despite the acceptance of women’s equality and prominent accomplishments, the feminist movement has yet to achieve its absolute goals of gender equality (Epstein 2001). The focus ...

Nursing

2016-06-23

Introduction

This paper is devoted to the strategic development of the health care organization Banner Health Network and its readiness to change in accordance with the new needs of customers. Banner Health is a nonprofit system in the US. Twenty three hospitals together with the specialized departments are the part of the system (Official Site of the Banner Health Network, 2016). This organization provides different types of services in such states as Arizona, Colorado, Nebraska, Alaska, California, Nevada and Wyoming. The mission of the Banner Health Network is the following: “to make a difference in the lives of people ...

Abstract

This paper talks about the difference between hard and soft skills. It also aims to define soft skills as well as emphasize the importance of soft skills, particularly in the military. Regardless of one’s profession, soft skills are needed to succeed in life. In fact, in almost all aspects of an individual’s life, whether in work or in dealing with people and personal relationships, soft skills are always at play. The military organization is particularly in need of soft skills, both in an individual and organizational level. In fact, the success of a military operation could not ...

Question for Review of Organizational Behavior

Question for Review of Organizational Behavior

Introduction

Organization behavior has become a crucial aspect that determines the morale, motivation, and performance of the workforce. In this paper, we define some of the essential terms used to describe the organization behavior. They include mood, emotion, emotional intelligence and emotional labor. Also, the paper analyzes why emotional labor manifests highly in the healthcare and education professions as well as its resulting implications on the workforce.

Body

Moods can be described as less intense emotional episodes that can be expressed as a mental or an emotional state but are not directed to anything in ...

The present day healthcare system is highly fragmented; it is made up of different teams of health professions who have different education and training levels and plays specific roles in healthcare delivery process (Lancaster et al., 2015). The teams include nurses, physicians, technicians, anesthesiologists, surgeons and unlicensed assistive personnel (UAPs). Patients also have a broad range of health problems that needs to be addressed. As such, care for such patients cannot be entirely provided by one care provider. Typically, a hospitalized patient interact with several health care providers at the course of his/her stay at the hospital. Therefore, it ...

June __, 2016 (date)

Abstract Technological development is an integral part of the modern world’s life. It is difficult to imagine the existence without computers, cell phones, and other devices nowadays. It brings many positive features to the humans’ lives, such as facilitating of many types of labor, allowing easy communication between family members and friends that live far away from each other, enhancing many business processes (e.g. supply chains, distribution of information, client servicing). However, new technologies also bring a number of problems to people. One of the most significant issues is its influence upon the labor market and unemployment rates. ...

Careers in Finance

The variety of choice of the profession in the field of finance opens a lot of great opportunities for a person. In order to become successful in this area you must have not only high intellectual skills, but also creativity. I have chosen two professions for the consideration which, in my opinion, are unusual and very interesting.

Financial Analyst

Information has already become an essential product of market relations. But the acquisition of some information is only the first stage. It is important to analyze the facts and extract the necessary data. Such work is a fairly complicated process. Only a ...

Ethical dilemmas are surely inevitable components of the counseling profession. Throughout their careers counselors are facing with various complicated moral choices that unconditionally need the common sense and profound reflection. Before taking any serious decisions, every counselor should take into consideration that the same ethical standard could differently manifest itself in a variety of everyday situations. Those dilemmas are aimed to test counselor’s reserve and prove that definitive resolution will surely eventuate far beyond the office door. Of course, it is very useful to have the appropriate resources, knowledge and skills while confronting any ethical dilemma. However, more ...

Police corruption occurs when an officer uses his or her status as a police officer to obtain a wrongful gain or a benefit. It may include something as simple as accepting a free meal to something as deviant as extortion. As a police department, it is important to maintain honesty among our force and stay clear from corruption. In order to better understand this issue, I have drafted this memo to address issues of corruption including free meals, standards and civil liability.

FREE MEALS

The International Association of Chiefs of Police Law Enforcement Code of Ethics states that law enforcement officers ...

Executive Summary

Video gamers have been with the society for a while, and they are associated with certain positive implications for individuals who play them. Video games enhance social skills since they can be used as a bonding activity and people interact over the internet when playing video games. Video games also improve social confidence which improves social interactions between individuals. Learning of subjects such as mathematics can also be enhanced by playing video games. Soldiers, surgeons and pilots can also improve their performance at work by engaging in video games. Management skills such as strategic management, planning and decision making ...

Professional Interview/Profile Paper

Each person must choose the profession that best suits his or her natural abilities and inclinations. If a person gives all the power to his or her favorite work, all the energy, all the knowledge then this business will run better, the returns will be greater and he will find joy in his work. There are many professions, the main thing is not to be mistaken in their choice and dedicate this profession all his life. Everyone has their own interests, their favorite things, someone has talent, and someone capable of quickly and easily learn. Now there is a ...

Ethics is moral principles that regulate the behavior of people or an organization, depicting how to behave towards other people and the consequences of misconduct. In engineering, ethics is the study of moral issues as well as decisions that face people and organizations working in engineering departments. The engineering profession in Ontario is under the regulation of Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO) that directs what to be done and the consequences of negligence. The act determines what professional engineers are dictated to do in their profession, and its principle objective is to shield the public from incompetent, unqualified or unfit ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that exists a shortage of more than four million healthcare employees, including doctors and nurses, across the globe (Aluttis, Tewabech and, Frank 33). The developing nations are the most affected. Specifically, Emigration is one of the reasons why developing nations have a shortage of healthcare workers. Developing countries, in spite of having colleges of health sciences, often do not remunerate their healthcare workers appropriately (Crisp and Chen 950). On the other hand, remunerations that developed nations offer to doctors from underdeveloped nations are lower, especially when compared to those of physicians that born ...

Abstract

This paper covers the various ways working women manage themselves and look after their children simultaneously. It describes how working mothers handle their personal and professional lives, the impacts of such a routine on the family, especially on children’s development. When a mother is pregnant or raising toddlers, it is not possible for a lot of them to quit their jobs. In particular, the breadwinners who need to provide for their family find it extremely difficult to leave their jobs just like that. This article will demonstrate how the children get affected, both positively and negatively, when they ...

Why do different workers receive different wages?

In the economy there are many labor markets, including different professions - market of carpenters, market of engineers, market of surgeons and many others. As well as the labor force - a certain number of people willing to sell their labor on these markets. The market of every profession set its own wages - the price at which workers sell their labor to firms. What determines the price of labor? In determining the wages of any market crucially important is the next fact. Markets of all professions are linked with each other, so people can easily move from market ...

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 ...

Introduction

There exist multiple factors that influence the level of reward paid to different workers. The wage rates, just like prices of other commodities are greatly determined by the forces of demand and supply. The kind of economic significance attached to wage differentials cannot be overlooked since they have a direct influence on the distribution and allocation of economic resources. Workers with equal abilities in a competitive market receive rewards that are meant to cancel out the non-wage differences between their jobs. These differentials represent the variability and diversity of abilities of different workers both physically and mentally to contribute ...

Graduation from the high school is a critical moment for most of the students as their future professional life depends on the decision they would take at that moment. It is the time for the high school graduates to decide what they want to do in their life. They already received the basic education and now it is the moment to choose their profession. This period is the time of the hesitation for the graduate students as they have the opportunity to take a year off before the college and they need to decide whether they would take it ...

I will begin by introducing myself so that as you go along with the reading of this document, you can have my background embedded as clearly in your mind. I am a male who is married now. I started working in the year 2003 as an administrative assistance and quit the job in the year 2006. Then later in 2006, I got another job as an HR specialist in a reputed organization and since then I am committed to this job. I would say that my academic background and upbringing has helped me groom my personality in a better ...

With increased competition in marketing, healthcare providers recognize the significance of marketing in the industry. Healthcare providers are emphasizing on educating and engaging patients through marketing on their growing function as health care clients. Marketing impacts are only achieved if the right marketing strategy and channel are used. This paper analyzes the direct impact of marketing to an elderly care facility, the strategy the health care provider will use to ensure their products and services are used and finally the marketing strategy that will be effective for the organization. Marketing in health care organizations has led to various benefits ...

The nature of poverty and the reasons for its persistence related to the behavior of the individual and the state of the social system. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America by Barbara Ehrenreich shows poverty as an integral part of the capitalist system and evaluate it as a benefit for the whole community eventually led to the problematization special lifestyle in poverty. This led to a search for a cultural mechanism of depletion (displacement to the periphery) maladjusted individuals, which combine and interact with individual and social factors. However, the author believes that the poor are " ...

What do we think about when we hear the word “museum”? Actually, I cannot tell about all the people, but the first thing I think about is history. There are hundreds, thousands, millions of museums all over the world! I consider them to be places, that accumulate examples of some non-material conceptions like art, ethnology, history or science, and many other conceptions. All of them are really important for humanity. And most of them are very spiritual. Do you remember your school studying, when all the group was taken to a museum and told about its history, meaning ...

The cause of women’s suffrage changed the course of American history, it is the reason that women are allowed to vote in the United States today. The right to vote was not easily won for women. In fact, many women who had campaigned for blacks to receive the vote in the United States were left along the wayside when Congress voted to allow black men to vote but still forbade women the right to suffrage. The suffrage movement was a decade’s long battle and a tenacious often unpopular political movement that permanently altered the social and political ...

Most people in out societies discriminate other professions while associating others with prestige. One of them that people look down upon is teaching profession. However, teaching is a profession that has contributed much in educating people who later join other professions and therefore, it should earn a lot of respect and teachers should feel esteemed (Professional attitudes. 2009). The lag in professionalism should be a basis for management’s intervention and continue on the path of improvement in competency, image, conduct, performance, and industry engagement. There are some organizations that have proposed for the improvement in the professional development ...

Going to college is important because in the world today people need to have degrees in order to be able to get jobs that pay well. The market is extremely competitive and the demand has to be reached though studying and through practical experience. At the end of the day, the degree itself is irrelevant as a piece of paper, but the experience of going through college is important for people to network, meet relevant people from the industry and to seek for job opportunities and internships. Going to college makes people meet professionals from the field they would ...

Abstract

This study looks at the glass ceiling by examining three specific research questions. The questions look at the definition of the glass ceiling, its effects as well as how it can be broken. This part of the research contains a comprehensive literature review of some of the sources to be used. The literature review only includes sources from current peer-reviewed journal articles. The literature review reveals the fact that the glass ceiling is still in place in the current workplace and has various effects. The effects stem from factors such as unequal pay for the same job and lack ...