Essays on Scanlon

Evidently, there are two major organizational issues that affect the normal functioning of the Engstrom Auto Mirror Plant. After having enjoyed success for years, the firm is facing profitability crisis due to the fact that the management is redesigning its production line so as to incorporate new technology (Beer & Collins, 2008). However, the transition is not smooth. Secondly and most importantly, the issue of employee motivation has proved to be a big challenge. Having been a successful entity, employees were entitled to the Scanlon bonus program that enhanced their hourly productivity level. Since the workers had been accustomed to ...

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The choice between breastfeeding and bottle (formula) feeding appears to be one of the fundamental decisions that await both new and expectant parents. Quite a number of health bodies including World Health Organization (WHO), American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), and also the American Medical Association (AMA), all recommend breastfeeding to be the appropriate choice for infants (Andres, Cleves, Bellando, Pivik, Casey, & Badger, 2012). Breastfeeding assists defend against several chronic conditions, prevent allergies, and protect against infections. The AAP, in particular, recommends that infants be breastfed exclusively for the first six (6) months following their birth. Beyond that, breastfeeding is ...

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With the growing possibilities of work opportunities, employees have multiple jobs to choose from. One of the key influential factor to take up the decision of a job change is compensation. It motivates the employees to fulfil the expected roles and objectives assigned to them. Strategic compensation differs in such a manner that here the employee is not considered just as an overhead. The employee’s salary and related monetary benefits are directly related to the strategies that have been formulated to achieve the company’s crucial objectives that ensure the profitability and sustainability of the firm in the ...

(a) A hierarchical structure and organization by functional specialty as enunciated by Weber’s principles of modern bureaucracy are two important facets of a government organization because they both serve as control tools in the efficient delivery of basic services to the public. Hierarchy represents the classic command-and-control relationship that is a defining feature in many organizational settings, including governments. A hierarchical structure permits those in the higher rung of the hierarchy to review the conduct of activities by those in the lower rung. It serves as a control tool that assures democratic accountability or to put it bluntly, ...

Artificial intelligence is the science of imitating the human mental faculties in a computer. This is showing intelligence in the levels of understanding involved which include either the lowest-level behaviors. This level involves instinctive reactions like withholding one’s hand from a hot object while a high-level behavior basically demand specialist’s expertise like the interpretation of mass spectrograms. Robots happen to be highly intelligent but the fact remains that the aspect of reasoning on their own is not yet achieved. They have not been able to give reason on their own. The human behavior in the middle of the spectrum that ...